Interested in collaborations on a multidisciplinary project on multispecies and multi-life humanities? Please reach out to the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies (CIJS) at Tohoku University by email, where we have only recently launched such an initiative! Plant Knowledge in the Shadow of War Whereas others saw death in the carnage of World War I,…
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Rationed Knowledge: Culture Films and Nutritional Propaganda in Wartime Japan
How was nutritional knowledge popularized on big screens in wartime Japan?
The Healthy Exotic Taste of the Empire: A Story of Restyling Manchurian Food in Modern Japan
What is Manchurian Food? Here is a short story about what it was, and how it was restyled by zest and curiosity of nutrition scientists, urban consumers, and policymakers in prewar and wartime Japanese Empire (1930s-40s).
Grief and the Medical Humanities
Diana Novaceanu // The ultimate goal of all art is relief from suffering and the rising above it. (Gustav Mahler) One sunny day, towards the end of March, I suffered the loss of someone very dear to me. It had not been unexpected; I had the privilege to say good-bye in person. Everything medically possible…