Shaun O'Dwyer
@shaunodwyer.bsky.social
Professor, Kyushu University
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
More details about PRC efforts to shut down Uyghur forced labour research at Sheffield Hallam University - university correspondence shared with BBC News alleges that the *wellbeing* of a university staffer in Beijing was threatened by MSS officers.
It appears they threatened to detain the staffer.
It appears they threatened to detain the staffer.
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
More details about PRC efforts to shut down Uyghur forced labour research at Sheffield Hallam University - university correspondence shared with BBC News alleges that the *wellbeing* of a university staffer in Beijing was threatened by MSS officers.
It appears they threatened to detain the staffer.
It appears they threatened to detain the staffer.
An Australian woman has been sentenced to 6 years jail in Japan for being romance-scammed into becoming a (possibly unknowing) drug mule. She's a fool, but perhaps we should have more compassion for gullible people of a certain age who are targeted like this. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Japanese court rejects an appeal by Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A Japanese court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by an Australian woman who said she was tricked into smuggling drugs by a man she hoped to marry, allowing a six-year prison sentence issued by a lower...
www.asahi.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
An Australian woman has been sentenced to 6 years jail in Japan for being romance-scammed into becoming a (possibly unknowing) drug mule. She's a fool, but perhaps we should have more compassion for gullible people of a certain age who are targeted like this. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
One thing I'll agree with her on - the shuttering of the Maanshan nuclear power plant was a terrible mistake. Not the only instance of national geopolitical and energy policy self-harm since the Fukushima disaster.
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
One thing I'll agree with her on - the shuttering of the Maanshan nuclear power plant was a terrible mistake. Not the only instance of national geopolitical and energy policy self-harm since the Fukushima disaster.
As a foreigner living in Japan I find this international meeting of bigoted minds very depressing. I hope none of these nutters finds out my university has a whole cafeteria serving Halal meals
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As a foreigner living in Japan I find this international meeting of bigoted minds very depressing. I hope none of these nutters finds out my university has a whole cafeteria serving Halal meals
Well, if their default response to sectarian disagreement is no longer "he needs killin'" I have no complaints
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Well, if their default response to sectarian disagreement is no longer "he needs killin'" I have no complaints