Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 4 “Emma's Decision” (エマの脱走), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on manly tears, masculinity and emotion, and defectors.

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- Articles!

"The Heike monogatari and The Japanese Warrior Ethic" Kenneth Dean Butler Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 29 (1969), pp. 93-108 Published by: Harvard-Yenching Institute https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718829

"The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation" TY P. KĀWIKA TENGAN from "Performing Indigeneity" edited by: Laura R. Graham, H. Glenn Penny Published by: University of Nebraska Press. (2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nmw6.12

"Recreating Japanese Men" SABINE FRÜHSTÜCK, ANNE WALTHALL Published by: University of California Press. (2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppdhr

"Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II" T. Fujitani Published by: University of California Press. (2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnjtg.15

"The Gender of Nationalism: Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan" Jason G. Karlin The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 41-77 Published by: The Society for Japanese Studies https://www.jstor.org/stable/4126775

"The Function of Ritual Weeping Revisited: Affective Expression and Moral Discourse" Gary L. Ebersole History of Religions, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Feb., 2000), pp. 211-246 Published by: The University of Chicago Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/3176418

"Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?" Samantha Newman

- Wikipedia pages on toxic masculinity, sensibility (aka feelings), and the Ansei Treaties.

- Dictionary.com definition of “defection.”

- Olympics controversies, by year and Wikipedia page about András Törő, one of the 1964 Olympics defectors.

- NY Times article about defectors at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

- Great article about Yuri Rastvorov and his CIA handler, Fred Kovaleski, written by Kovaleski’s son for the Washington Post.

- FBI Monograph “Soviet Defectors” - discusses commonalities among 20 defectors, plus biographical information on each of them.

- Wikipedia pages for

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