Added on December 15, 2022 Book Review Relationships Matter: Roth on H. Yumi Kim, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan Before professional medical care became widely available, mental illness was often viewed as a personal malady with social impacts. Mental […]
Added on May 20, 2021 Historical essay Ōta Chōu’s Vaccination: Medicine and Modern Girls in 1930s Japanese Painting In the midst of the 2021 COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign, the “vaccine selfie” – often a self-portrait cell-phone snapshot taken […]
Added on June 4, 2019 Historical essay The Japanese Imperial Family Invented In May 2019, as now Emperor Emeritus Akihito passed the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Emperor Naruhito, the world watched […]