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*** NOTE: Informasia will hold its first "Town Hall" for 17 August, 2026
Informasia still needs a speaker for 19 October 2026.
Please contact Patricia Yarrow at: yarrowp@gmail.com
Informasia #7, Monday, July 20, 2026
Chinami Oka & Joel Littler,
"Meiji Civil War Losers"
Join the presentation through this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6338045613
JST: Informal start at 6:30 p.m. Presentation commences at 7:00 p.m.
BST: Informal start at 10:30 a.m. Presentation commences at 11:00 a.m.
Vimeo video of the presentation: will be posted July 21, 2026
Audio: will be posted July 21, 2026
Our Speakers
Chinami Oka & Joel Littler
Abstract
Coming soon.
E-mail
Coming soon.
Recommended by Ian Ruxton
NEWS
The news is that I am focusing this summer 2026 on mastering this Informasia website.
Right now, I am combing through the current layout and updating it.
Once everything is order in a few days, I have arranged to contact the fine Support team at Strikingly, Informasia's web host.
We will discuss the correct template going forward. A reasonable fee is involved.
The current template is a long page with sections.
That must change to individual pages. No more endless scrolling!
Actually, I am excited to have reached this stage after four years.
Looks like Informasia has a community and continuity!
April 28, 2026 /Patricia Yarrow
BOOKS
Books by former Informasia lecturers. Updating goal: Display books in order of Informasia presentations, and information on the publication source. In progress as of August 2025/PY
ARTICLES
George Sioris, "The Silk and the Gold: Correcting the Course of Asian Studies", 2024
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GohZo59InVYEU3E5cPgSw4dg1WU5LxmU/view?usp=sharing
George Sioris, "The Creation of the World, Martyrdom et.al." 2025
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uzoYGXRpzM5xYEUkhcyKzdrld3EvnCiv/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105775447281122203523&rtpof=true&sd=true
*Both articles are temporarily stored on Patricia Yarrow's Shared Google Drive.
There is a way to add the document, which I will attend to soon. August 2025/PY
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Contact Us
Would you like to join Informasia's e-mail list? It is easy and there are just a few notices.
Every month, there are three short Reminders of the approaching lecture of the month, and a longer follow-up Report shortly after the meeting.
Any comments and questions are most welcome. This website is very much in progress as of August 2025. /Patricia Yarrow
Support Informasia by inviting friends to join our Zoom meetings, always on the third Monday of every month.
Check us out on Facebook for announcements of the next meeting, as an "Event".
Informasia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/307236340460985
Other Social Media (SMS) under developement. We do have a bluesky account, which is not active yet.
More thoughts on this soon.
Any suggestions, most welcome. Please send them to Patricia Yarrow at yarrowp@gmail.com
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ABOUT INFORMASIA
Informasia launch
May 2020
Chaos ruled and all compass points were lost in the onslaught of the newly arrived worldwide COVID pandemic. In April, as all university classes moved to Zoom, Patricia Yarrow was gazing blankly from her Ryogoku (Tokyo) veranda. Bereft of meeting companions, academically informative monthly lectures, and friendly discussions, inspiration struck on that spring day. “We could do this on Zoom!”
A flurry of messaging later, a core group of eight castaways met (safely on Zoom) on 25 May 2020 to toss ideas around. Alex Byrne dreamed up the name “Informasia”, and the vision began coming into focus. Our Informasia ship cast off with an stalwart crew for shores unknown. Since then, our mailing list has grown from 10 to nearly 400. Our Facebook page counts some 280 friends.
Informasia community
Thanks to all the friends and colleagues of Informasia in Japan, Asia, Singapore, Maylasia, Australia, New Zealand, throughout the UK and Europe, and the hardy east coast of the USA, our Zoom community, launched June 2020. It has grown steadily ever since. Presentations in 2022 ranged from deeply academic translations of Korea, Japan, China, to research in progress, alarming lockdowns in Shanghai, to tranquil musings on cherry blossoms and ethereal meditations on life between death, with a helping of the foreign politics between China and Japan. If lectures were flowers, our Informasia bouquet would create quite the splashy ikebana display.
The Informasia logo comes to us from designer Ritsuko Lynch, upon the recommendation of Alex Byrne. She is based in Santa Monica, California, and can be reached at: https://en.99designs.jp/profiles/2313262
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Every month's lecture includes three brief pre-meeting reminders.
New addition: The Vimeo link to the lecture presentation and discussion will be sent the day after the lecture.
A newsy follow-up Report completes the set a few days later.
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