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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The GW Okinawa Collection & Japan Resource Center is delighted to launch a book club for our patrons — and warmly invite the broader community to join as well. Our first in-person gathering will take place September 22nd, featuring a discussion of "Mina's Matchbox" accompanied by light refreshments.

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Reminder! The deadline for this survey is approaching (3/31)! Please share with your library specialists so we can help support them (and you)! 📨

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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The deadline is also approaching for our researcher survey (3/31)! Let our Library Services Team know what kind of support you need. ⬇️

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Please join the GW Okinawa Collection to discuss the shifting political landscape in Japan and its impact on Okinawa. This webinar, cohosted with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, will feature leading experts Dr. Mike Mochizuki , Dr. Fumiaki Nozoe, and Dr. Shawn Harding.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Please join the GW Okinawa Collection and Okinawa Prefectural Government for a webinar on Thursday, March 19th, 2026 at 7:00 pm (EST), "80th Anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa." Registration: gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Join the GW Okinawa Collection to commemorate this milestone.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Yet the battle was only the beginning of Okinawa's militarization. Following the end of the war, Okinawa remained under U.S. military occupation until the 1972 Okinawa Reversion, and some thirty bases and approximately 30,000 troops remain in the prefecture.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In 2025, we recognized the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. This year also marks the anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, one of the war’s most devastating campaigns, which resulted in approximately 200,000 deaths, including approximately 94,000 civilians over 82 days.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Can someone kindly explain the yellow highlight thingy to me?

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Eric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025

This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I hate North American book covers so much.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Happening now! You can still join virtually!

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We're twinning with that Ikea doormat and crazed look in our eyes.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I will add this to my recurring nightmares about filthy bathrooms. Thanks.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Tomorrow! Register to attend in-person or virtually! www.eventbrite.com/e/disability...

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

How demure. Mine is three half-drunk, flat Perriers, a lamp with no bulb, and a white noise machine.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I get to do one of those annoying "come work with me" posts. But seriously-- come work with me. GW is a great workplace! Data Services Librarian - lnkd.in/eWNHzt3H - Research Services Librarian for Business and Data - lnkd.in/eTCsZSAB -

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you are in the DC area, you don't want to miss this screening and discussion at the GW Sigur Center and East Asia National Resource Center. Please share! "Mark--A Call to Action" with Director Ron Small and Paul Bookman, Mark's father. www.eventbrite.com/e/mark-a-cal...

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What is the Japanese saying that is the equivalent of "Jinx! Knock on wood!" when you and another person say the same thing at the same time? I heard this somewhere and cannot recall it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

But I get it and I am proud of myself. I don't care how low the bar is. . .

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Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Be my colleague at the Harvard-Yenching Library! We just opened our search for the next Librarian for #JapaneseStudies, who will become a core member of our small but mighty team. As with every job, you don't need to satisfy every qualification to apply. www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/harv...

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Harvard-Yenching Library : Librarian for Japanese Studies – CEAL: Council on East Asian Libraries

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I was thinking of you and glad to see this update! (I haven't been checking Bluesky frequently).

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Have you explored library travel grants to assist with your research? University of Maryland Libraries just opened their “Awards for 20th Century Japan Research” grant, supporting travel to work with their archives on modern Japan! Deadline 1/31! For more info, see: www.lib.umd.edu/about/awards...

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...

Book cover for Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952 by Alison J. Miller. The cover has a Meiji period print of a Japanese empress in Western style dress, with the emperor sitting in a Western military-style outfit behind her and some ladies in waiting also in Western garb with big bustled skirts and large hats.

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Congratulations on completing your PhD, Dr. Louks!

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Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Join us at Japan Foundation Los Angeles on 12/4 at 7pm for "An Evening with Tomoka Shibasaki: Readings & Conversation"! 📖 Tomoka Shibasaki, Yanai Initiative Visiting Professor, will discusse her literary works, including the award-winning Spring Garden (Haru no niwa). www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

An advertisement for the East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities 2025 4-day virtual workshop hosted by the UPenn Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

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Sharon Domier @sharonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Speaking of Japan Foundation, please sign up for their digital library card and borrow ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines for free using the Libby app. Love the fact that it isn’t just English but also Japanese. www.jflalc.org/libby

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Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

So excited that the advance copies have just arrived of my book!! Will be officially out (also in full open access) December 3rd from @ucpress.bsky.social!

The author's hand picks up a copy of the book Expanding Verse from a just-opened cardboard box filled with other copies of the same book.

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Dylan Faden Fan Club @thornsperfected.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life

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Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

True. Prince Eric is kind of an idiot.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 06/11/2024

Dissent “is the intellectual steel which strengthens the self in the face of the tyrant’s weapon of induced panic.” A good time to reread Elizabeth Janeway's The Powers of the Weak—a guide to using power when you're not in charge. neglectedbooks.com?p=4586

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 04/11/2024

Are you a translator or publisher with a new translation from Japanese coming out in 2025? Consider letting RJL know via DM or our website. RJL's "New & Upcoming Japanese Fiction" list has become one of the earliest, most-comprehensive, and most findable lists online with almost 13k views in 2024.

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2024 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases

*Updated as of September 19, 2024. Titles from Japan translated into English for publication in 2024. Does not include manga, light novels, or picture books. Listed released dates listed are tentat…

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