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LordAmeth (紫水晶殿) is a bit obsessed with Japan, and increasingly with the wider region of East/SE Asia. He finds interest in just about every period or aspect of Japanese history, from the earliest ancient clan conflicts, through the Heian period and the Genpei Wars, the complexities of clan histories and regional histories of the Sengoku period, and into the vivid cultural, political, and economic history of the Edo period, the cultural changes of the Meiji period, and the cultural issues facing Japan today.

LordAmeth (紫水晶殿) is a bit obsessed with Japan, and increasingly with the wider region of East/SE Asia. He finds interest in just about every period or aspect of Japanese history, from the earliest ancient clan conflicts, through the Heian period and the Genpei Wars, the complexities of clan histories and regional histories of the Sengoku period, and into the vivid cultural, political, and economic history of the Edo period, the cultural changes of the Meiji period, and the cultural issues facing Japan today.

He studied at Jouchi Daigaku in Tokyo for one term back in '03, and completed his MA at the School of Oriental & African Studies (U of London), writing on 17th century relations between the shogunate and Southeast Asian authorities. He then lived in [[Yokohama]] for a year, devoting the vast majority of his waking hours to improving his Japanese language skills. He is now back home in NY, working for the Japan Society and preparing for a return to grad school in the fall, this time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

He studied at Jouchi Daigaku in Tokyo for one term back in '03, and completed his MA at the School of Oriental & African Studies (U of London), writing on 17th century relations between the shogunate and Southeast Asian authorities. He then lived in [[Yokohama]] for a year, devoting the vast majority of his waking hours to improving his Japanese language skills. After some various adventures elsewhere in Japan, New York, and elsewhere, he earned a second MA, in Art History, from the University of Hawaii, and is now pursuing a PhD at UC Santa Barbara.

He was really active on Wikipedia for several years, much to the chagrin of the Shogun, but it has now been quite some time since he has done any major contributions over there. Still, if you're interested, please do feel free to check out his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LordAmeth user page] over there.

He was really active on Wikipedia for several years, much to the chagrin of the Shogun, but it has now been quite some time since he has done any major contributions over there. Still, if you're interested, please do feel free to check out his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LordAmeth user page] over there.