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Colonialism and Modern Day Expats in Southeast Asia
by Adelle Tamblyn I was five when my father got expatriated to a coal mine in the middle of the jungle in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Moving from a cosmopolitan environment (Sydney, Australia) with a...
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Charms of Storytellers: Forgotten Memories
by Sheena Sasaki Can we be ever sure of what we remember, or what we think we remember as the truth of our nation’s history? As one of the living beings in human society, we always belong to some kind...
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Education Before Schooling: Picture Books, Stories, and Nationalism
by Sheena Sasaki When does education start? The official education may start from the enrollment of elementary school; however, education itself has begun long before. One of the educational tools for...
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Yasukuni and Nationalist Identities, Japanese and Korean
by Lilia Yamakawa In 1985, US President Ronald Reagan agreed to visit a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany to lay a wreath in honor of Germany’s war casualties. Reagan’s team of advisors did not do their...
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Education for immigrant students: A reflection of society
by Jicheol Yang Education for international students takes a role to reflect what society wants (Cage, N., 2008). Kanno (2006) analyzes four different kinds of educational institutions focusing on...
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Self-Sacrifice in UN Peacekeeping Operations
by Miyu Fujihara In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson talks that the self-sacrifice for the nation comes from the idea of disinterestedness one feels for the nation and that this is similar to...
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Census, Maps, and Museums
by Saki Miyata In Chapter 10 of Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson explains censuses, maps, and museums as institutions of power which lead colonial states to imagine their dominions. Anderson...
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