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A page from a book in Japanese with an illustration of a child's face showing the red spots of measles concentrated around the mouth and chin.

Necessary Instructions About Measles, 1824

June 9, 2022 Circulating Now

By Margaret Kaiser ~ The National Library of Medicine recently acquired a rare work on measles in Japan.  Mashin Hitsuyo  (Necessary Instructions About Measles) was

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A small mountainous island across the water.

The Tragedy and Hope of Ninoshima

March 17, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Jen Woronow. Her research explores historic and contemporary conflicts with an emphasis on examining the human side of war. Today

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Two photographs of men with head wounds.

“Human bullets,” A Russo-Japanese War Photo Album

January 13, 2022 Circulating Now

By Alexander Bay ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This essay takes a look at an album of 50

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A chart showing how transfer of evacuees were done starting with Mayer in May and ending with Fresno in October.

Wartime Incarceration of Deaf Japanese Americans

December 16, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes Selena Moon, MA, a public historian researching Japanese American mixed race history, military history, and disability history. Today she joins us to

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A report, assembled like a scrapbook, with typed pages and attached tabes, graphs, and photographs.

The First Calamity of the Nuclear Age

August 6, 2015 Circulating Now

The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this report issued in November 1945, Japanese army doctors labored to describe what they had seen and done.

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Two white men take blood from a young black youth outside a building, other black adults and youths look on.

D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea

April 7, 2015 Circulating Now

By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918–2000, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in

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