Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 21 - “Crybaby Cecilia (Part 2)” (泣き虫セシリア (後)) (sometimes also translated to English as "Tearful Cecilia (Part 2)"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the connection between Cecilia's family and historical Japanese emigration.

- Books and articles:

Masterson, Daniel M., and Sayaka Funada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Millard, Thomas F. “Japanese Immigration into Korea.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 34, no. 2, 1909, pp. 183–189. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1011225. Accessed 10 Jan. 2021.

- Wikipedia page on the Japanese diaspora.

_- Sources for Japanese net migration figures: _

Japan Net Migration Rate 1950-2021. www.macrotrends.net. Retrieved 2021-01-09. 

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/net-migration

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED Economic Research: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMPOPNETMJPN

- Wikipedia article on Japan-occupied Korea.

- How the pre-Meiji Bakufu government collected taxes (and partly why it was always broke).

- A more detailed (and more positive) assessment of the economy during the Bakufu by a Japanese professor of economic history: Tamaki Toshiaki, Japanese Economic Growth During the Edo Period.

- An overview on the Edo-period social structure and economy, and how developments later on in the period created the instability that forced many workers to travel abroad.

_- Encyclopedia Britannica on the fall of the Bakufu.  _

- Writing about Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff:

Shakespeare William. Henry IV, First Part. University Society. New York: USP, 1901. Shakespeare Online. 20 Aug. 2000. Jan. 6, 2021 < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/henryiv/2kh4charactersfalstaff.html >.

- Two more sources about the Falstaff character.

- Poems used:

Watson, Frank. “#45 Fujiawara No Koremasa ‘あはれとも.’” One Hundred Leaves: a New Annotated Translation of the Hyakunin Isshu, Plum White Press, 2020, pp. 91–91.  Japanese text is referenced from this volume. The translation read in the episode is my own.

Firmage, George James, editor. “& [AND].” Complete Poems, 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1991, pp. 202, "VII who knows if the moon's."

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