Posted in Asian Studies, Music, Okinawa, Sociology on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thinking about the forms of musical genre led me, once again, to YouTube, where I ended up spending an unhealthy chunk of my day watching videos of Okinawan music - especially the contemporary stuff, which provides a case study, I think, in the importance of hybrid form and spiraling trajectories rather than clear progression. Even [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Education, Okinawa, tagged global education, higher education on October 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Courtesy of Beerkens’ Blog, an alert to a new web site / news service devoted to global higher education, University World News. (The title sounds a little tabloidish to me for some reason, but oh well, those are just my ears doing the talking… 
In any event, the idea is something like an Inside Higher [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Okinawa on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
China Airlines Jet Bursts Into Flames
This is a clip from the China Airlines B737 plane that exploded in Naha, Okinawa a few days ago. Thankfully, and miraculously, no one was seriously injured.
My parents still live in Okinawa, and I visit once every 1-2 years. I’ve taken the China Airlines flight from Taipei to Naha on [...]
Posted in Okinawa on July 13, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my favorite childhood memories was weathering typhoons while growing up in Okinawa. The howling wind, pouring rain, heating water over a steno, days off from school, of course: and then, afterward, a walk around the neighborhood to count how many trees had been felled, garbage cans tossed about, and how high the waves [...]
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