Brandon DuHIEA 112 Final Assignment *CONTENT WARNING*Picture found on an article by Chris Michael from The Guardian, “Can ‘guerrilla picnics’ end Tokyo’s 50-year war on public space?”4 min read·Mar 17, 2022----
Brandon Du3/8 DiscussionRead: Tessa Morris Suzuki, “Invisible Immigrants: Undocumented Migration and Border Controls in Early Postwar Japan”1 min read·Mar 9, 2022----
Brandon Du3/3 DiscussionConsidering the intense racial animosity that Dower outlines in his work, why do you think that the Japanese and US governments were so…1 min read·Mar 4, 2022----
Brandon Du3/1 DiscussionAre you convinced by Dower’s argument in War Without Mercy that the Japanese and Allied forces expressed a great deal of racial animosity…1 min read·Mar 2, 2022----
Brandon Du2/24 DiscussionHow does “Diary of a Housewife” complicate your understanding of the Japanese wartime experience? What does it reveal about the…1 min read·Feb 25, 2022----
Brandon Du2/22 DiscussionWhat is a spy? Do you think it is possible to be considered a “spy” as a colonial subject?1 min read·Feb 22, 2022----
Brandon DuMedium Post #2Read “The Way of Subjects” alongside “Goodbye Asia” from week 3. What has remained consistent in the justifications that each piece makes…2 min read·Feb 22, 2022--1--1
Brandon Du2/15 DiscussionWhat does Yoshida’s discussion of the way that the media’s reporting on the Nanjing Massacre downplayed its atrocities tell us about the…1 min read·Feb 15, 2022----
Brandon Du2/10 DiscussionWhy do you think mobilizing women for nation and empire-building, in particular, in the domestic sphere (the home, the family, motherhood)…1 min read·Feb 10, 2022----
Brandon Du2/3 DiscussionDiscuss the jarring contrast between Ryang’s modernity and the one depicted by Tanizaki in his novel. How do we reconcile the two?1 min read·Feb 4, 2022----