Boumsoung Kim

Research Article
November 18, 2021

Seismicity within and Beyond the Empire: Japanese Seismological Investigation in Taiwan and Its Global Deployment, 1895–1909

Taking the global deployment of scientific activities in the contexts of colonies and empires into consideration...
book review
November 18, 2021

On Gregory Clancey's Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930

Although the seismicity of Japan as a natural phenomenon belongs to the realm of tectonics, perspectives from the...
book review
November 17, 2021

外邦図—帝国日本のアジア地図 [Pictures of Foreign Countries: Japanese Empire's Maps on Asia]

In Gaihözu, professional geographer Shigeru Kobayashi depicts the history of Japan's map-making activity deployed...