This article about citation practice is brilliant and will be great for anyone teaching lit reviews at MA/PhD level. I particularly enjoyed how, every time you think you've reached the end, the author then reveals another level underneath. It's basically an academic article in Russian doll form 👏

Tonight at 8 PM ET!

Bluesky, the text-based social media platform for people who buy too many books but manage to read at least some of them.

I guess it's a straightforward method for writing on deadline, but it feels *weird* to have an ethnic Korean syndicate (with a post-WW2 namesake) existing 1000 years in the future and facing the same discrimination in a future space polity that wasn't overtly Japanese for much of its history.

More mutant pop from 1992, how could I not love it

Walter Matthau

A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American

Found an interesting vase today in a second-hand store… Curious as to why it was created, considering it has both the flag of Hawaii and what it claims is the Ryukyu Kingdom Flag (actually a flag proposed by the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands in 1954).

What do the Knight Sabers enjoy for a sweet treat? Crisis Crunchies! One of the sweet-natured themed recipes in Anime UK. (June/July 1993)

Mikopyon, the mascot of Yahiko village, Japan, is based on local rabbit-shaped mochi snacks, and has ears shaped like decorative Mizuhiki cord, and a torii gate hanging from his neck.

D&D in Japan: The big mid-90s push. The bunkobon format of the three-volume Rules Cyclopedia, localized in both text and artwork style. It sought to reclaim some of the ground lost to Lodoss and Sword World - complete with D&D in the arcades with Capcom to promote the Mystara setting.