憂時のウォーゲーミング(The Defunct Japan Wargaming Society)
憂事を考え、有時に備える「意思決定支援・教育・研究ツールとしてのウォーゲーミング」の情報源 (Wargaming as a decision support, education, and research tool.)
2024年10月3日木曜日
速報:コネクションズ・ノース(カナダ)2025ウォーゲーミング会議開催日決定!(Breaking News: Connections North 2025 Date Announced)
2024年9月14日土曜日
Breaking News: "A Tribute to Peter Perla" Video Now Available (速報:故パーラ博士への感謝ビデオ、英コネクションズより)
Breaking News:
"A Tribute to Peter Perla"
Video Now Available!
(速報:故パーラ博士への感謝ビデオ、英コネクションズより)
2024年8月25日日曜日
速報 (Breaking News): 豪コネクションズ・ウォーゲーム会合、今年もオンライン開催!(Connections Oz Going Online Again!)
速報 (Breaking News)!
豪コネクションズ・ウォーゲーム会合、今年もオンライン開催!
(Connections Oz Going Online Again!)
The Connections Oz conference will be held
online again this year, commencing Tue 5 November and ending Thu 7 November.
https://connectionsoz.wordpress.com/
Please
consider this a call for presentations and/or ideas.
This will be the tenth year we have run the conference. So, if you have some ideas of how to celebrate, please let me know.
As a suggestion, if anyone would like to coordinate a conference dinner in
their home city for either the Thursday or Friday night, let me know and I will
publish the times and locations so locals can get together. I will aim to hold
an informal dinner on Friday 8 Nov for those in Canberra.
As usual, I
have no specific theme other than an opportunity to showcase local wargame
related projects and some selected international speakers.
Thanks again
to all those attendees who have participated in previous years. I hope you will
come back for 2024 and bring some additional connections.
Please see the registration page for
details on how to register.
https://connectionsoz.wordpress.com/registration/
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2024年8月22日木曜日
A Research Memo: Teaching Wargaming (Heigi) in or by a Novel in a Pre-War Japan
A Research Memo
Teaching Wargaming (Heigi) in or by a Novel:
Reading Sekai No Akatsuki (Dawn of the World) by Sakichi Mitsui (1939)
I came across a very rare novel. Its title is Sekai No Akatsuki (Dawn of the World). It was written by Sakichi Mitsui and published by Kaizo Sha in 1939.
Sakichi Mitsui (1893-1967) was a lawyer, Imperial Japanese Army Lt Col (infantry) and professor of tactical education at Rikugun Daigakko (the Japanese Army War College), writer, and a representative of the House of Representatives before the end of the Second World War. He may be more widely known for his involvement in the February 26 Incident (1936). He left the army due to the incident and concentrated on writing.
Mitsui wrote several books on Japan's war with the western powers but Sekai No Akatsuki is special not only because it is a novel but also because it involves and conveys his idea about and belief in the value of wargaming (heigi) by taking the form of novel in Japan before 1940. For someone like me who is interested in the history of Japanese wargaming, it is particularly useful because it is written in plain spoken Japanese and provides some sense of how older army wargaming was actually conducted.
The novel is mainly about the life of a young Japanese Imperial Army lieutenant (Ichiro Matsuda) from his mobalisation to hospitalisation after a major defeat.
The novel has six chapters, and it begins with Chapter One "Indoor Wargaming," in which Ichiro's Uncle, Lt Col Hiroshi Matsuda (seemingly modeled on the author himself), who teaches army tactics at the Army War College, teaches his two sons (Takeo (2nd year junior highshcool studnet) and Toshio (6th grade elementary school student)) strategic wargaming. The chapter dipicts scenes of providing a scenario (sotei), decision-making (kesshin), deployment (busho), battle (kessen), and adjudication (shinpan). Dice and janken (Japanse rock-paper-sissors) are used for adjudication.
Ichiro, the main charactor of the novel, appears in Chapter One in the middle of the play, and joins the game as an advisor. The conversations between Hiroshi, his two sons, Ichiro, and Hiroshi's wife involve a brief history of army wargaming in Japan, distinction between tactical wargaming and strategic wargaming, and how frequently local army troops and facilities practice wargaming, and etc.
In sum, the novel is very educational from an academic point of view. I do not have enough stamina to provide more details now, so I should stop here. But I can say that if you are interested in old Japanse wargamiong and can read spoken Japanese, you will find it useful.
BTW, I wonder if there were any old novel, not guidebook, handbook, textbook, or film, that teaches wargaming. It would be exciting to explore more.
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2024年7月25日木曜日
Notification: Connections US Wargaming Conference Proceedings Site(お知らせ:米コネクションズ・ウォーゲーミング会議過去のプロシーディングスのサイト)
NOTIFICATION
Connections US Wargaming Conference Proceedings Site
(お知らせ:米コネクションズ・ウォーゲーミング会議過去のプロシーディングスのサイト)
2024年7月1日月曜日
Connections US 2024 Wargaming Conference Personal Highlights
Connections US 2024 Wargaming Conference
Personal Highlights
- Visiting the US Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) , Army War College, for the very firt time!
- The largest ever! More than 250 participants gathered to talk and wargame.
- 8 Japanese participants, the largest number ever as well! Pleased to see this blogger's former colleagues!
- A legendary wargaming pro received the legendary award! TM, one of this blogger's wargaming mentors and the one who came to Japan to teach Matrix Games, received what he deserves.
- Defeated and briefed on why we lost in TM's Game Lab info game. Yes, lessons learned from one's defeat are even more important than those from his victory! I feel much smarter now!😅
- Finally, this blogger gave two presentations! Deception-focused wargaming and Imperial Japanese Armed Forces Educational Wargaming. Received great feedback from the audience for both. Both will hopefully be developed into a full paper or some kind of deliverable in the near future.
- May report more later if necessary.
2024年6月19日水曜日
速報:英コネクションズ・ウォーゲーミング専門家会議参加チケット販売開始(Connections UK 2024 Wargaming Conference Tickets Available!)
速報
英コネクションズ・ウォーゲーミング専門家会議参加チケット販売開始
(Connections UK 2024 Wargaming Conference Tickets Available!)
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