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Transpacifica is primarily written by me, Graham Webster. I'm an analyst, journalist, and consultant on East Asian politics and technology. Here, I write about East Asian politics mostly in China and Japan, the Internet and society, the environment, and contemporary art. Unavoidably, I sometimes veer off topic—even with a topic as large as the Pacific.
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
The 100-Mile Closet: Dress Locally, or Get Real?
Nate at Carrotrope introduces the 100-mile wardrobe ideal: If green-minded foodies can eat only food products from within 100 miles of their dinner table, why can’t green fasionistas wear locally-grown (organic) fiber? This seems like a nice idea. Wearing local … Continue reading
Are Pollution Stories Anti-Chinese? Sometimes, yes.
James Fallows notes, but does not really respond to, a criticism of his persistent posts on bad air quality days in China. A reader recounts the thoughts of a Chinese friend, who “pointed out that the focus on pollution before … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-14
Ozawa’s Melodrama, Japan’s Mission in the Indian Ocean, Abe’s Concessions on the Comfort Women Issue, and Wasteful Government Spending (Trans-Pacific Radio) via Japan Probe (tags: ozawaichiro sdf japan abeshinzo comfortwomen warresponsibility podcast) An unscripted summit? (Observing Japan) Style matters as … Continue reading
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New Jersey Quality Control is a Threat to Our Children!
Stephen J. Dubner, of Freakonomics fame, is also the author of a children’s book. He recently discovered a misprint in one edition and “assumed the mishap was yet another Chinese quality-control issue concerning children’s merchandise,” he writes in the New … Continue reading
Tagged China, China-U.S., United States
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links for 2007-11-13
Dalai Lama to visit Japan (Pravda.Ru) The Dalai Lama is expected to visit Japan this week, organizers said, despite China’s protests over other trips overseas by the Tibetan religious leader. But top government officials are not expected to meet … … Continue reading
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Japan’s New Foreign Policy: Step Back and Focus on Asia
Fukuda tells the Washington Post that Asia is Japan’s top responsibility, sending a signal to the United States on Japan’s expired Afghanistan refueling mission. This is also a departure from Abe and Aso’s aspiration to “Eurasian” reach. It wasn’t too … Continue reading
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Tagged Abe Shinzo, Aso Taro, China, China-Japan, China-U.S., Fukuda Yasuo, Triangle, United States
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The Transpacifica Link Feed is Back
We’ve re-introduced the link feed. Unlike before, when link posts crowded out the writing, when you visit transpacifica.net, there is now a (nearly) live feed of the links direct from the Transpacifica del.icio.us page (right). In order to keep the … Continue reading
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links for 2007-11-12
Japan: Pulling the Strings (Global Voices) Not quite as widely covered (at least in English) as the aftermath of the coalition negotiations was the story of the mediator in the deal-to-be, Yomiuri Shimbun editor-in-chief Watanabe Tsuneo (a.k.a Nabetsune) (tags: japan … Continue reading
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Migrants from Tokyo to NYC and London – Tokyo Event
This presentation came over H-Japan and may be of interest to Transpacifica readers in Tokyo. The 17th TransAsian Cultural Studies Seminar “Cultural Migrants” by Fujita Yuiko (Keio University) (Please note that presentation will be made in Japanese) Date & time: … Continue reading
Spence’s New Book: Scholarly or Not, a Borgesian Passage
Jonathan Spence has a new book centered around a late-Ming intellectual Zhang Dai. I have not read the book (nor have I seen it yet in Beijing), but the folks at Frog in a Well have critiqued the New Republic … Continue reading
Tagged Books, China, Jonathan Spence, The Past
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