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"Climb Mt. Niitaka!" (Niitaka yama nobore) is best known as the Japanese code signal for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Years earlier, though, it was also the rallying cry of the

Now that grades are in, I can resume my quest to find the best facial hair ever sported by Japanese Diet members. The front-runner is as clear as his handlebar

For obvious reasons, California looms large in early Japanese accounts of trans-Pacific migration and engagement with the West. What, then, did Japanese migrants from the "green archipelago" (with a rich forestry

In 1879, author Kanagaki Robun & illustrator Kobayashi Eitaku published a paean to...Ulysses S. Grant. They did so following Grant's stop in Japan as part of a post-presidency world tour.

One under appreciated outcome of American island hopping across the Pacific during WWII: a shift in the geographical literacy and consciousness of the American public. 1/ Take a listen to

Every map has a history, but few as interesting at this one. A thread on one of my favorite maps in Japan's long cartographic history: 測図劔岳周辺の「三等三角網図」 (1907) 1/ At first