永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara
@hiromunagahara.bsky.social
MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
City-walker and photo-taker
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
City-walker and photo-taker
Pinned
Introduction
digital-exhibits.libraries.mit.edu
A digital exhibit that I curated is live now!
From Samurai into Engineers marks the 150th anniversary of the graduation of MIT’s first Japanese student, Eiichirō Honma (SB 1874), and highlights the experiences of MIT's first Japanese students.
digital-exhibits.libraries.mit.edu/s/from-samur...
From Samurai into Engineers marks the 150th anniversary of the graduation of MIT’s first Japanese student, Eiichirō Honma (SB 1874), and highlights the experiences of MIT's first Japanese students.
digital-exhibits.libraries.mit.edu/s/from-samur...
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New book: Jon Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell University Press).
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Botanical Imagination | Cornell University Press
<b><i>Botanical Imagination</i> explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. </b>Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlik...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New book: Jon Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell University Press).
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/bot...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/bot...
Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
Cultural tribute or Asian stereotype? Salem roiled by dispute over city seal. - The Boston Globe
To one side, the seal contains an anachronistic, racial caricature of a 19th-century Asian merchant. To the other, it honors a progressive, cross-cultural commerce that benefited peoples a world apart...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
Me after I read the comment:
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Me after I read the comment:
私もギョプりたい。
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
私もギョプりたい。
Way too many things these days are just...beyond parody.
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Way too many things these days are just...beyond parody.
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Blair being the replacement is 😘
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Blair being the replacement is 😘
Seems like every day brings reminders of just how thoroughly NYT-brained so many US-based Prestigious Academics™️ are. Frankly depressing, even if it’s not surprising.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seems like every day brings reminders of just how thoroughly NYT-brained so many US-based Prestigious Academics™️ are. Frankly depressing, even if it’s not surprising.
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The @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision).
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision).
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I know we're all used to just taking it for granted that GOP politicians are tied up in kooky far-right church circles, and many of them are, but it's genuinely an outlier for Hegseth to be so into this particular weirdo's tiny extremist sect. He's fringe even for the religious right.
Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I know we're all used to just taking it for granted that GOP politicians are tied up in kooky far-right church circles, and many of them are, but it's genuinely an outlier for Hegseth to be so into this particular weirdo's tiny extremist sect. He's fringe even for the religious right.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.
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I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
YES WE CAN!!!!
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
YES WE CAN!!!!
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It’s extremely rich to be gaslit by actual journos that this “isn’t a real story” while the NYT constantly makes non-stories into stories (THE ENTIRE COVERAGE OF MANDANI’S)
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It’s extremely rich to be gaslit by actual journos that this “isn’t a real story” while the NYT constantly makes non-stories into stories (THE ENTIRE COVERAGE OF MANDANI’S)
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Not the main point here, but this is exactly why Tokyo (or other allies) can't take anything for granted. You and your interests are not the priority, and if this wing grows in importance, that's only more true.
doing a Straussian reading of this post, especially point 3, and it's fairly obvious that Vance is aligned with the Tucker Carlson-wing of the GOP and thinks further right groups should be part of the tent, but won't outright break with Trump's I/P policy while he's still VP
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Not the main point here, but this is exactly why Tokyo (or other allies) can't take anything for granted. You and your interests are not the priority, and if this wing grows in importance, that's only more true.
I grew up among Christians and missionaries in Japan, some of whom were intensely antagonistic to other religions, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting anywhere near “anointing” or otherwise defacing shrines and temples. Like, that would have been so obviously beyond the pale. But NYT of course…
Yeah, don't do that.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I grew up among Christians and missionaries in Japan, some of whom were intensely antagonistic to other religions, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting anywhere near “anointing” or otherwise defacing shrines and temples. Like, that would have been so obviously beyond the pale. But NYT of course…
Looking forward to getting yet another Dem fundraising text and me typing STOP in 3, 2, 1…
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Looking forward to getting yet another Dem fundraising text and me typing STOP in 3, 2, 1…
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
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JJS invites you to the following live, online event:
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
JJS invites you to the following live, online event:
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS.
Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST
Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript.
Register in advance:
unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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These guys and their fans only know how to break things. They can break a lot of things before enough people care enough to stop them, but that will happen eventually
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
These guys and their fans only know how to break things. They can break a lot of things before enough people care enough to stop them, but that will happen eventually
バーニー・サンダーズも「急進左派」なのだろうか。(笑)
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
バーニー・サンダーズも「急進左派」なのだろうか。(笑)
テレ朝さんもマムダニ=「急進左派」だそうです。「民主党左派」なら全然違和感ないのに、なんでわざわざ今回の選挙戦に関する英語の文脈ではそもそもあまり出てこなかった(というか、英語のどの訳語に当てはまるのかさえ定かではない)を「急進左派」というレッテルを貼りたがるのだろうか。恣意的なものを感じざるを得ないのですよね。
youtu.be/ErGpmFp9hhc?...
youtu.be/ErGpmFp9hhc?...
「反トランプ」民主党に勢い？NY市長選“民主社会主義”マムダニ氏が当選【報道ステーション】(2025年11月5日)
YouTube video by ANNnewsCH
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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
テレ朝さんもマムダニ=「急進左派」だそうです。「民主党左派」なら全然違和感ないのに、なんでわざわざ今回の選挙戦に関する英語の文脈ではそもそもあまり出てこなかった(というか、英語のどの訳語に当てはまるのかさえ定かではない)を「急進左派」というレッテルを貼りたがるのだろうか。恣意的なものを感じざるを得ないのですよね。
youtu.be/ErGpmFp9hhc?...
youtu.be/ErGpmFp9hhc?...
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Congratulations to my wonderful MIT neighbor and colleague @calculatedvalues.bsky.social!!!
Honored and delighted by this recognition from @thenacbs.bsky.social!
Article is open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Article is open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Congratulations to my wonderful MIT neighbor and colleague @calculatedvalues.bsky.social!!!