Samurai Archives Japanese History Podcast

In this episode, Chris, Nate, Travis, and guest host Alison Rapp have a roundtable discussion about the 18th annual Japan Studies Association conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii on the Hawaii Tokai International College campus. This episode is part one of three, and topics include the "soft power" of Hello Kitty, economic theories of roving bandits and their applicability to 16th century Japan, the give and take between Japan and China vis a vis Chinese museum exhibits, and more. Follow Alison Rapp on Twitter: @mnemosynekurai Presentations mentioned: Japan's Cute-Cool as Global Wink - Dr. Christine Yano, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The Politics of War Memory in Sino-Japanese Relations: Negotiating the Contents of War Exhibitions - Karl Gustafsson, Lund University. Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Roving Bandits: Are the Farmers Really Safe? - Arthur "Trey" Fleisher, Metropolitan State College of Denver. Singing Sustenance: An Ethnographic Account of Village Songs and Rural Sustenance in Kyushu, Japan - Eid-Ul