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Shatrunjay Mall

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Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). PhD, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Specializations include Modern Japan, Modern South Asia, and transnational Asian history. 🏳️‍🌈

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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It was wonderful to interview @mithimukherjee.bsky.social about her excellent new book, which makes several key interventions in the study of Indian anti-colonialism and modern South Asian history. Please do listen to the interview, and read the book! newbooksnetwork.com/asianism-and...
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Mithi Mukherjee, "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom" (U California Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bowdoin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Chinese language, literature, and culture. Deadline is October 1. Open area of specialization, 2-2 load, including one or two courses in Chinese each year. Must have native or near-native fluency in Mandarin and training in Chinese language pedagogy.
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Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Bowdoin College’s Asian Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Chinese language, literature and culture at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Ju...
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am excited to share that I will serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in the upcoming academic year. I look forward to offering courses covering Japanese and South Asian history during my appointment, and continuing my research!
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Jervis Forum Review 181: Mall on Nasser, “‘To Defend the Peace of Asia’” Historians of Asia are increasingly investigating modern inter-Asian ties that drew on pan-national solidarities, both during the era of Western colonialism, and following the establishment of independent nation-states on the…
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Jervis Forum Review 181: Mall on Nasser, “‘To Defend the Peace of Asia’”
Historians of Asia are increasingly investigating modern inter-Asian ties that drew on pan-national solidarities, both during the era of Western colonialism, and following the establishment of independent nation-states on the continent in the post-colonial period.[1] However, since Pan-Asianism is associated with Japanese imperialism and its defeat in World War II, post-war iterations of “Asia” have not received proportionate attention and are only just beginning to catch the interest of scholars.
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)
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Mithi Mukherjee @mithimukherjee.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I’m delighted to share that my new book "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India’s Road to Freedom" is published today. It explores the transnational history of Asianism and its role in shaping Indian anticolonialism against British rule. #AsianHistory #GlobalHistory #IndianHistory
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.bbc.com/news/videos/... This story from last week of Thai police going undercover as a lion dance troupe to catch a burglar was hilarious! It sounded to me like a story straight out of an “Adventures of Tintin” comic book!
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Watch: Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief
Wanted for multiple counts of theft, the suspect was caught outside a temple on the outskirts of Bangkok.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
After a 2.5 year hiatus, I have published a new interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! I interviewed Bo Tao about his new biography of Kagawa Toyohiko, the "Gandhi of Japan" and a major early 20th century Christian activist & intellectual. newbooksnetwork.com/cooperative-...
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Bo Tao, "Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
the best way to encourage students to resist the temptation of ChatGPT is to help them feel like real writers & take pride in their voice. I tell my students to start writing “morning pages”—three handwritten pages on anything they want to write about.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am so sad! One of my favourite actors, Patricia Routledge, who played Hyacinth Bucket in the 1990s British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances has passed away! 😭 😢
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 20/09/2025
Friends & authorities in Makkari, Hokkaido were looking for an 87yo man who went missing while foraging for mushrooms. While Fuji News was interviewing his friends, the man emerged from the woods: "Hey guys, sorry." buff.ly/VCY9EP0
Rescuers actively looking for the manFriend describes where man entered the woodsFriends turn around as man calls"I just got back"
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Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Nine years later, still one of the best NYT articles.
New York Times article with the headline “when I’m mistakenly put on an email chain, should I hit reply all asking to be removed?“ The article simply says no.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Shaker population has risen by 50%: www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...
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The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3
A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Intriguing Japanese article about non-American Allied forces in Japan during the post-war occupation of the country. South Asian troops, with origins in India, Pakistan & Nepal, were posted in Okayama prefecture from 1946 to 1948, among British Commonwealth forces. newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2...
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【戦後80年】全国的にも特異だった『占領期の岡山』「敵国は鬼のような存在だと聞いていた」2年半の占領期から見えてきたものとは【岡山】 | TBS NEWS DIG (1ページ)
今年で戦後80年になります。これまで、様々な戦争証言が伝えられてきましたが、終戦後、日本が連合国軍に占領されていた期間=「占領期」については意外と知られていません。実は、最近の研究で「岡山は全国的にも… (1ページ)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/07/2025
After much speculation, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announced the reissue of “Buckingham Nicks,” more than 50 years after the release of their only full-length album as a duo.
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After much speculation, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announce 'Buckingham Nicks' reissue
Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have announced the reissue of 1973's “Buckingham Nicks.”
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A photograph of Rash Behari Bose and his Japanese family, on his return to Japan in 1944 after passing on the baton of leadership of the Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose. I believe Rash Behari Bose’s daughter, Tetsuko, and parents-in-law Sōma Aizō and Sōma Kokko are both in the picture.
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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The success of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should have been celebrated in India, but the fact that it was largely ignored tells you how small the country has become under a bigoted "India First" government. m.thewire.in/article/comm...
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Why Did India Miss the Zohran Mamdani Story? - The Wire
Indian lack of interest in a campaign in which an American of Indian origin will possibly govern one of the most important cities in the world is part of the diminishing of Indian vision and influence...
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T. Seifman @toranosukev.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Statement by the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) requesting that the National Diet Library of Japan expand its Digital Document Delivery Service to users overseas. 👏👏👏 eajs.eu/%E5%9B%BD%E7...
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国立国会図書館「個人向けデジタル化資料送信サービス(個人送信)」の海外への開放を求める要望 - EAJS
-- For English version, please see below 私たちヨーロッパ日本研究協会(European Association for Japanese Studies, EAJS)には、欧州・北米・日本の研究者を中心に約930名が加入しており、日本研究に特化した国際学会としては世界最大の規模を有しています。私たちは、国立国会図書館が提供する「個人向けデジタル化資料送信サ...
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When it comes to employment prospects, majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperform some STEM-based counterparts, according to a recent analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted. See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ
Pope Francis waves to a large crowd of people, some of whom are waving Cuban flags or holding up their phones to take photos. Photo credit: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis died at 88, the Vatican announced Monday, ending a pontificate that sought to reshape the Roman Catholic Church into a more inclusive institution. Cardinals will now decide whether to continue his approach or restore more doctrinaire leadership. Follow live updates: nyti.ms/42RZB9n
Pope Francis waving and smiling. Text reads: "1936-2025. Pope Francis." Photo credit: Zach Gibson/The New York Times
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It was wonderful to meet Professor Prasenjit Duara and fascinating to listen to and learn from his most recent research on global environmental movements in the Mekong river valleys in China and mainland Southeast Asia.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What a disappointed professor would say to the sibling of a recalcitrant and unproductive PhD student. They haven’t written their thesis! They don’t have an argument (thesis)!
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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
DNA evidence of Tang dynasty cats www.livescience.com/animals/dome...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to attend the AAS Conference in Columbus! I’m very glad with how my panel on transnational anticolonialism in Asia came together. I am grateful to my panel chair Dr. Cindy Ewing & panel organizer Zhen Hao Liew as well as co-panelists Muhammad Suhail & Mahia Bashir.
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Emily Maple @suika.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"Danylo Yavhusishyn arrived in Japan in April 2022 as a teenage refugee from the war in Ukraine, unable to speak a word of the language and uncertain how long he would be separated from his family. This weekend, the 20-year-old will make his debut in the top division (...) of sumo wrestling"
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The Ukrainian refugee fighting to become the first European sumo grand champion
Known by his fighting moniker, Aonishiki Arata, the Ukrainian wrestler recently won promotion to sumo’s highest level in Japan
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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
Email sent to FFSP.
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Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🎉 🎉 🎉
A photo of the book Chinese Characters Across Asia by Zev Handel
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/02/2025
🚨 JUST IN: Canada DEFEATS the USA 3-2 to take home the #4Nations  Championship
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Revisiting our translations of survivor testimonies of the March 10, 1945 firebombing, and struck by this passage from the account of Morikawa Tadashi. Nicely encapsulates one argument of our book: that you can't understand the firestorm of 1945 without tracing the long shadows cast by 1923.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2025
"Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge."
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Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula
Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
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Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
North Carolina State University announces a hiring freeze in response to federal funding issues. There it is, another step in the dismantling of higher education, barely making the news (because it’s not happening at Harvard). www.wral.com/news/educati...
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NC State hiring freeze: Faculty, staff positions on hold amid federal budget uncertainty
North Carolina State University leaders told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that the university would implement an immediate "pause on all hiring activities" in respon...
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My father passed away on February 13 last year after a heroic twenty month battle with glioblastoma. In his memory, I made a donation to the National Brain Tumor Society. Glioblastoma has no known cause and no known cure. I hope a cure will be discovered in the future. 🙏
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Google claims they removed several events from Google Calendar because maintaining their presence wasn't "sustainable"—but critics are crying foul.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
フリードリッヒ•リスト(1789年-1846年)、ドイツ人の経済学者。現在はあまり知られていないけど多くの社会や経済に影響を与えた人物。経済ナショナリズム、国家を中心にする産業化などを促した人物。イデオロギーをを超えて、明治時期の日本、20世紀のインドや中国、西洋の国々などは彼の影響を受けた。
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Friedrich List (1789-1846), a 19th century German economist, who isn’t very well-known today, but who arguably has been deeply influential. He promoted the ideas of economic nationalism and state-centric industrialization. His ideas influenced many societies across the ideological spectrum.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 11/02/2025
in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Thought-provoking piece by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the AHA magazine, Perspectives on History, on her inspiring Nonviolence Project here at UW-Madison--this is more important knowledge & training than ever for our students & the public: www.historians.org/perspectives...
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Learning Nonviolence in Action and Thought – AHA
At the Nonviolence Project, student interns design their own research projects and gain professional skills.
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simon loves books📚活字中毒の左衛門 @kant.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Starting from 20th February, the National Diet Library will allow photocopies of physical sources to be delivered as a PDF rather than by post This is thanks to a new provision in the 2021 revision to the Copyright Act www.ndl.go.jp/jp/news/fy20...
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遠隔複写サービスの複写物がPDFファイルで入手できるようになります(令和7年2月20日予定)|国立国会図書館―National Diet Library
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
To my dear friends in Japan, I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support. Arigatou gozaimasu!
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プロジェクト成立しました!お得なクラファンは2/5(水)23時59分まで!
こんにちは、サウザンブックスです。 絵本『MY LOST FREEDOM』翻訳出版クラウドファ
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This has been a thing for some time I believe.
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
母は僕が日本語の史料を読んでいることを見ていてびっくりして感動した。「高校を卒業した時全然知らない言語だったから今読んでいるのはすごい」と褒めてもらった。それを聞いて安心して誇りに思った。20代にはこの言語を習ったから20代は無駄ではなかったと実感。時々、自信を持っていない。でも諦めなく自分の能力に自信を持った方が良いかなと思う。これからも日本語の学習、または博士論文の執筆に頑張る。
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My mother was surprised/impressed when she saw me reading Japanese sources. She said that it’s amazing that I’m able to read Japanese now, since I didn’t know it when I graduated high school. This made me proud & relieved. I learned Japanese over my 20s, so my 20s weren’t a waste.
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Robert Nordström (PhD) @rnords.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
In this survey of Japanese Lower House members by the Mainichi, it is found that a majority would be willing to legalize same-sex marriage. 52% (242 members) are in favor, 24% (121) in opposition and 24% (112) didn’t answer the survey. mainichi.jp/articles/202...
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衆院議員の過半数、同性婚制度化に「賛成」 毎日新聞調査 | 毎日新聞
福岡高裁が同性婚を認めない法制度は「違憲」との判決を下したことを受け、立法府である国会はどのように対応するのか。毎日新聞は10月にあった衆院選の全候補者を対象にしたアンケートで同性婚の制度化についての賛否を尋ねており、当選した衆院議員465人に絞ると、過半数の52%にあたる242人が「賛成」と回答
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