tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post842824307774289772..comments2023-10-24T10:51:56.614-04:00Comments on Citizen of Somewhere Else: The Constructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-67443921862736395972007-07-12T21:41:00.000-04:002007-07-12T21:41:00.000-04:00Great stuff, but this talk was more a reflection o...Great stuff, but this talk was more a reflection on my Fulbright year and teaching in Japan than on any historical topicsThe Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37839658.post-19244054116200644032007-07-12T16:53:00.000-04:002007-07-12T16:53:00.000-04:00Lucynell was dressed up in a white dress that her ...<I>Lucynell was dressed up in a white dress that her mother had uprooted from a trunk and there was a <B>Panama</B> hat on her head with a bunch of red wooden cherries on the brim. </I><BR/><BR/>Did you mention, in your talk, the Panama canal? Now, if not all my rudimentary geography knowledge hasn't left me, and I trust it hasn't since the last time I congratulated myself on having acquired, after a whole lifetime of practice, the ability to actually read and understand maps, - now, Japan is one of the principal users of the canal, or even the most active user beside the US, and the country has been, I guess, involved in the reconstructions that have been done over the last decades.<BR/><BR/>Also, and I admit I googled that up, imperial Japan devised a super-powerful submarine, the I-400 (yeah, it's googled), and charged it with more or less explicit orders to destroy the Panama canal, though I'm at a loss to see how one submarine would do that, however juggernautishly big it was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com