Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 22 - The Eyes of Scirocco (シロッコの眼), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Scirocco's implement and corporal punishment in Zeta, the history of vending machines, and a follow-up on last week's research on Saint Miki.

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- Roman centurion's vine staff (or vitis, plural vites).

- Its descendant, the swagger stick.

- An 1869 treatise of staggering length and breadth on the history of corporal punishment:

Cooper, William M. The History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Kegan Paul (1869).

And on the Japanese Context:

Drea, Edward J. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. U. of Nebraska (2003).

- Japanese Wikipedia page on soldiers and training, including notes on Imperial Japanese Army and Navy policies on hazing.

Miller, Aaron L. Discourses of Discipline: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports. Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (available here).

Yoneyama, Shoko. The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance. Routledge (2012).

- A WW2 era US Army translation of an internal Japanese Army report on the state of discipline and morale in the army.

- Blog post republishing a Mainichi Japan article from November 2009 about the Totsuka Yacht School, and talking about the relationship between hierarchical power and violence.

- Japan Times article about corporal punishment in Japanese sports, and its interconnection with popular media including anime, as well as the attitudes among many older Japanese people that corporal punishment is an essential component of masculinity.

- Japanese page on the 軍人精神注入棒 Military Spirit Instillation Rod (or the Soldierly Spirit Injection Stick).

- Bon Appetit article on the history of vending machines, (includes images of patent drawings) and another brief history with examples of unusual vending machines.

- Description of Heron Alexandrinus’ holy-water dispensing machine (and some other miscellaneous details about the vending machine industry).

- History of the Automat (restaurant where all food was purchased from vending machines).

- Wikipedia page on vending machines (history portion is not very detailed but has useful s