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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'll be chipping in on the study of Global History at Oxford U's Transnational and Global History Seminar on 1 June:

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Seibu Kodo at Kyoto University knows how to throw a party

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Very pleased to recieve a copy of Christian Goeschel’s and Daniel Hedinger’s new book on Munich 1938, an excellent example of what academic collaboration born in Kyoto can produce! @drgoeschel.bsky.social @danielhedinger.bsky.social

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Timely publication on de Valera and Irish neutrality during the Second World War by Koseki Takashi who is also celebrating his retirement from Kyoto University today

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Going to be talking about punk rock and Kyoto on 16 March as part of the Kyoto lectures series. Come join me in person or online

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Happy birthday to me. A mug for a mug.

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Discussing Orientalism and Nihonjinron via the medium of Street Fighter II knockout tournament with my students this morning

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Lunch time noise at the Les Rallizes Denudes exhibit

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Had to get the scissors and glue to make a collage for my lecture on the history of punk in Kyoto at Club Metro last night

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This little guy should have been in bed but he stayed up to find out about the Heimei Maru Incident at the ISFWWS conference @fwwsoc.bsky.social

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I’ll be speaking about the history of punk rock in Kyoto at this year’s Kyoto Experiment festival. Very pleased with the headshot they are using to advertise it kyoto-ex.jp/en/program/p...

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Feels like my birthday, just got Ito Chuta’s 5 vol Book of Ashura (1921). 500 sketches of the FWW with slipcovers. As I’m going the ISFWWS conf soon, here is his impression of the French army arriving in Salonica. I’m planning to translate all captions if I live long enough. @fwwsoc.bsky.social

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Back from a trip to Germany, picked up some good reads to tide me over till next visit

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My reading for the weekend arrived

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If anyone is in Tokyo on 29 May then please join me and a host of others more qualified than me at Sophia University to discuss the passing of Japan's Peace Preservation Law in 1925 in light of its centenary. See attached for details;

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Big thanks to Imai (cover artist and current SOB bassist) and Kanda from from the legendary band GREED for sharing their knowledge and making our book happen: SOB’s Don’t Be Swindle out now on 331/3 Japan www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... @3313books.bsky.social

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

You probably didn’t miss it but just in case, the Environmental Histories of the First World War is one of the best edited volumes I’ve read in a long time

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Got held up in customs but finally recieved a stack o books to distribute to interviewees, and a chance to remind you that myself and Ran’s book on SOB and hardcore punk in Kyoto is still out www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sobs-dont...

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Always great to see new books on the FWW coming out in Japan, particularly when one features an all star cast of contributors. Edited volume by Mori Yasuo 総力戦とは何だったの (Chilura, 2025) @fwwsoc.bsky.social

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Also got a pack of memorial band-aids from the Museum for Wounded, Sick, and Retired Soldiers in Kudanshita

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Received these interestingly shaped paperclips from the staff at the Museum for Japanese soldiers interned in Siberia and Repatriates from the Empire in Shinjuku. Not available for sale apparently.

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My only remaining claim to any street-cred is that the students at Yoshida-dorm invite me to write for their annual fresheners’ magazine. This year I’m introducing them to Zygmunt Bauman

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Anyone know what this machine for strengthening ‘weak children’ is? From Present Day Japan 1934

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The pentel energel pen, best pens by far and now getting on that late 1990s Irish trend of adding ‘Euro’ to branding to pull in the punters

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Received my advance copy of myself and Ran Zwigenberg’s book length review of S.O.B.’s Don’t be Swindle, thanks to everyone we interviewed and who helped out. Big thanks to SxOxB for putting up with us. Order here www.bloomsbury.com/ca/sobs-dont... Or just listen to the album it’d save you time!

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Finally getting around to the last volume of Hisa Masato’s 2018 manga ‘Jabberwocky 1914’ in which a race of humanoid dinosaurs are behind the First World War. Here they are planning how to get the USA into the war and spark a revolution in Russia

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

On Saturday, I'm joining a host of speakers, far more qualified than I, to discuss challenges faced by the Japanese New Left post 1970. I'll be adding my two cents on the contemporary music scene in Kyoto. Come and challenge me on my definition hardcore punk! www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/symposium/zi...

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Very fun to go on about Punk in Northern Ireland to the KAG group in Kurashiki even if I only found out at the last minute that I was supposed to give the talk in Japanese

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Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'll be in Kurashiki Tomorrow to talk about Punk in Northern Ireland if anyone is interested #punk

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