9/14(Tue)
-got a lot of miso-soup from my wife with letters from my kids.
-2nd HIO orientation. I got informaiton about prepartion for winter seoson.
-asked Jenni to CGIS access in the weekend and business card template of the RIJS.
-attend HIST 1026"Rise and Fall of Postwar Japan" first time.
-could use JDA again from the trouble of the user account. Sachie of the RIJS supported my issue.
- had dinner with Fuse who is a friend from middle/high school in Japan.
9/15(Wed)
-played tennis at Cambridge first time.
-ordered book slicer.
-visited the Yenching first time and rent "embracing defeat" by Dower.
-read the introduction and 1st chapter of "embracing defeat".
-met wild turkey beside my office!
9/16(Thu)
-online English lesson.
-ordered the next textbook of English.
-read 2nd chapter on "embracing defeat".
--attend HIST 1026"Rise and Fall of Postwar Japan". some difficulties to catch up their conversation. So, watched the movie of the lecture, and understood what they were talking about. It was about the methodology of history. "Do you make of the perils of doing oral history in view of the fact that neither of them really recalls having spoken what they spoke with their talked in your interview about 50 years later?", "what do you make of the state of mind?", "what kind of are there sort of threads connecting them in their time?", "what do we abandon oral history?", "these interviews show that many people learned a certain way of talking about the past which doesn't mean that they're lying.", "once you collect the bunch of them. then, you have documents that can give you some sense of context. then, you tried to piece together a story.", "at the beginning of 2nd or 3rd time of oral history, jogged their memory"...
- and I wrote a memo about the lecture below. "It was tactful that describing the "Emperor" in an unclear way at the planning. On the other hand, I didn't know that some people cheered after the emperor's broadcast in front of the palace, as mentioned in Kido Koichi’s note. I realized that there were many kinds of real consciousness of Japanese people, including disappointment toward the imperial Japanese army and emancipating from the war. I agree that it was difficult to develop the governance based on the people's will by Japanese imperial leaders, as mentioned in the Embracing Defeat. The top-down imposition of reform was a limited solution from such an actual situation. It made the basis of postwar Japan and economic development after the war. In addition, I guess it still affects passive people's attitudes."
9/17(Fri)
-online English lesson.
-started to write an application of Kaken.
-joined the online welcome event of the RIJS.
