Japan

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Session 9: Homoeroticism and Modernity from Kansei to Showa

• The Boys of Kansei, Timon Screech
• Genbun'itchi and Modern Sexuality, J. Keith Vincent
• Male Homosexuality in Meiji Literature: Its Traditional Aspects and Change Through Meiji Modernization, Junko Saeki
• Seventy Years of Japanese Homosexuality?: On "Compulsory Nationality," Mark Driscoll

Session 10: Citizen Activism in Postwar Japanese History

• Compensating Minamata Disease Victims, Timothy S. George
• Reviving Imperial Ideology: Citizens' Movements from the Right, Kenneth J. Ruoff
• Remembering Lessons of World War II, Franziska Seraphim

Session 11: The (In)Significance of Cross-Currents: Poetry and Culture in 1930s Japan

• Criticism and Poetry: Kobayashi Hideo as a Poet Manqué , Hosea Hirata
• Memory and "Tradition" in Miyoshi Tatsuji's Early Poetry, Lucy Lower
• Kitasono Katue in the 1930s, John Solt

Session 12: Postwar Japanese Writers on the Margins

• Gender, Class and Nation in Morisaki Kazue's Makkura (Pitch Black), Rebecca Jennison
• Organizing the Margins: Tanigawa Gan in Kyushu and Nagano , Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
• Rethinking the Marginal: Shimao Toshio and Yaponesia, J. Philip Gabriel

Session 21: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Problematizing Classical Japanese Literature

• Feminine Ambivalence in Japanese Literature: The Case of Sei Shonagon, Linda H. Chance
• The Child's Hand-and Other Detached Body Parts in Setsuwa Literature, Michelle Li
• Literature as Sociology: Representations of the Social Fringe in Early Medieval Japanese Literature, Ivo B. Smits
• Undercover Objectives: Transvestism in Japanese Literature , Richmod Bollinger

Session 22: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Politics, Bureaucracy, and Industry in Contemporary Japan

• Designing and Testing a Model of Japanese Trade Policymaking: Japan's Role in the GATT Uruguay Round Agricultural Negotiations , Christopher C. Meyerson
• Party Competition for Power and the Impact of its Changing Contexts upon Legislative Outcomes: The Case of Japan's Electoral Reform, Takayuki Sakamoto
• Overview and Issues of Privatization in Japan: Cases of Japan Railways and NTT, Eunbong Choi

Session 28: The Ajase Complex: A Japanese Psychoanalytic Model

• A Brief Overview of the Ajase Complex, Keigo Okonogi
• Ajase and the "Diseases of Masculinity,"Muriel Jolivet
• The Ajase Family Romance, Andra Alvis

Session 29: Heterogeneous Perspectives on Education and Society in Contemporary Japan

• Towards a Multivocal Pedagogy: School Knowledge in the Elementary School Education of Buraku Children, Hiroshi Ikeda
• Media Discourses on the Distinctive Nature of Osaka, Joel Stocker
• Reproduction of Domination in the Curriculum: Representation of Korea in Japanese Middle School Textbooks, Hiromitsu Inokuchi
• Ambivalent Meanings of "Being a Mother": Identity Formations of Japanese "Sengyo-Shufu" Women in their Child-Rearing Practices, Yoko Terami

Session 30: Taisho Illiberalism

• The Nationalist Assault on Liberalism: Hiranuma Kiichiro and the Kokuhonsha in the 1920s, Christopher Szpilman
• The Political Retreat from Liberalism: The Seiyukai in the 1920s, Yukio Ito
• Illiberal Uses of Foreign Policy: The 'Obstacle' of Versailles in Taisho Politics, Frederick R. Dickinson
• The Power and Resilience of Elite Illiberalism: The Japanese Aristocracy and Universal Manhood Suffrage, Genzo Yamamoto

Session 31: The Heike Monogatari and its Reception

• Medieval Japan, East and West, and the Heike Monogatari , Hiroaki Yamashita
• Reception of the Heike Monogatari as Performed Narrative , Alison Tokita
• Ways of Closure: The Role of Yoritomo in the Yasaka Lineage, Heike Monogatari Yoko Sakurai
• The Narratology of Illustration: Heike Exiles and Recluses , Michael G. Watson

Session 32: ROUND TABLE: From Meiji to Heisei: Japan and the Quest for Modernity in Northeast Asia (Sponsored by NEAC)

Session 33: Configurations of Sexuality in Japanese Film of the Seventies: The Social Significance of Sexual Pleasure

• Negatively Oedipal: Matsumoto Toshio's Pessimistic Portrayal of the World of Roses, Jonathan M. Hall
• Mandala of Cultural Identity and Sexuality: Jissoji Akio's Film Mandara (1971), Paul Berry
• Cinematic Sexualities: The Two Faces of Abe Sada, Christine Marran

Session 45: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Facets of Contemporary Japanese Life

• Intimate Transnationalisms: Rethinking Gender, Space, and Time in Filipina Migration to Japan, Nobue Suzuki
• Internationalization in the Heisei Era: The JET Program After Eight Years, David McConnell
• Lifelong Learning in Tôwa-chô: A New Wave in Japanese Education, Christopher S. Thompson
• Rethinking the Practice of Mizuko Kuyo in Contemporary Japan: Interviews with Practititoners at a Buddhist Temple in Tokyo, Elaine Martin

Session 55: New Directions in Noh Studies

• The Wildwood Gate: Dialectical Style in Nonomiya, Arthur Thornhill
• The Symbiosis of Plot and Performance in Genzaimono ,Mae J. Smethurst
• Noh: Recapturing the Language of Order, J Thomas Rimer
• Recent Revivals of Noncanonical Plays on the NohStage , Gerry Yokota-Murakami

Session 56: Viewing Kara from Yamato: Receptions of "China" in Early Modern Japan

• Bringing Out the Good 'China': Imported Chinese Porcelains and their Japanese Counterparts, Nicole Rousmaniere
• 'Plain Words': Studying Vernacular Chinese at Ogyû Sorai's Ken'en Academy, Emanuel Pastreich
• Ninjô and the Affective Value of Literature at Itô Jinsai's Kogidô Academy, Lawrence E. Marceau
• Searching for the Spirit of the Sages: Baisaô and Sencha in Japan, Patricia J. Graham

Session 57: Imperial Images and their Messages in Showa Japan

• Imperial Images in Okinawa, Steve Rabson
• Mother of the Family State: Public Images of the Japanese Empress, 1926-1945, Sally A. Hastings
• Imperial Presence, Symbols, and Surrogates: The Image of the Emperor in Japan's Wartime Newsreels, Roger W. Purdy
• Imperial Radiance in the 1930's War Literature, Zeljko (Jake) Cipris

Session 58: In the Shadow of the Father: Literary "Patriarchs" and Japanese Women Writers

• The Filial Memorist and Her Amorous "Fathers": Towazugatari and the Heian Poetics of the Father-Daughter Bond, Edith Sarra
• Father-Enchi Fumiko and the Man of Her Dreams, Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi
• Needles, Knives, and Pens: Uno Chiyo and the Reconstruction of the Absent Father, Rebecca L. Copeland
• A "Literary Daughter?": Koda Aya and Patriarchy , Ann Sherif

Session 75: Japan's Leadership in Asia

• Yen for the Earth: Japan's Pro-active China Environmental Policy, Susan J. Pharr
• Abnormal State or Civilian Power: Japan's Potential Influence on Regional Security, Sheila A. Smith
• Economic Multilateralism, Japanese Style, Danny Unger
• Japan's Intellectual Contribution in Development, Anne L. Emig

Session 76: Staged Subjects, Subjected Bodies: Gender, Power, and Performance in Japanese Modern Theater and Film

• Japanese Theater and Colonialism: Romance and Resistance , Ayako Kano
• Karayuki-san: Representability, Contradiction, Limitation, Setsu Shigematsu
• The Shape of Freedom: The Female Body in Post-Surrender Japanese Cinema, Joanne Izbicki
• Recasting a Colonial Childhood: Self as History in Morisaki Kazue's Autobiographical Writings, Brett deBary

Session 77: The Conditions of Poetic Production and the Japanese Tradition

• The Silla Envoy Poems in the Man'yoshu, H. Mack Horton
• Minamoto Ienaga's View of the Shinkokin Era, Robert N. Huey
• The Persistence of the Personal in Late Medieval Uta ,Steven D. Carter
• Voices from the Oku: The Poetic Tradition and Sengoku Castle Women, Janet Ikeda

Session 78: Identifying and Explaining Learner's Difficulties in Japanese Language

• Learner's Difficulties in Listening Comprehension, Terumi Mizumoto and Fumiko Asari Nazikian
• Reading Comprehension and Predictive Skills, Mayumi Oka
• Reading Comprhension and Omission, Satoru Ishikawa and Yoshiko Jo
• Cue-based Analysis on Acquision of WA and GA by L2 Japanese Learners, Hideo Tomita

Session 91: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Re-exploring Japanese Religion

• A Death in the Family: Women, Property, and Graves in Medieval Japan, Hank Glassman
• Making Charisma: Creating Religious Authority in the Itinerant School, Sybil A. Thornton
• Manzan Dôhaku on Lineage Transmission: An Analysis of the Manzan oshô tômon ejo shû,Lawrence W. Gross
• The Debate over Clerical Marriage in Japanese Buddhism, 1868-1937, Richard Jaffe
• Public Representation and the Sacred in Ise Jingu's Shikinen Sengû, Rosemarie Bernard

Session 101: Theatricalities of Power: New Historicist Interventions into Japanese Drama

• A Stage for the Performance of Self, Thomas Hare
• Representing Rulers in the Noh Plays of Nobumitsu (1435-1516), Beng Choo Lim
• From Woman Warrior to Peripatetic Entertainer: The Multiple Histories of Tomoe, Steven T. Brown
• The Tsurane of "Shibaraku": Communicating the Power of Identity, Katherine Saltzman-Li

Session 102: Deregulation in Japan

• The Impact of Oil Industry Deregulation on Japan's Overall Energy Strategy, Kosuke Oyama
• The Political Dynamics of Japanese Financial Deregulation , Elizabeth Norville
• Will Deregulation Change Japanese Capitalism?: The Impact of Deregulation on Corporate Governance and Finance in J-Type Firms, Hideaki Miyajima
• Deregulation and the Interests of Large Manufacturing Firms , Mark Tilton

Session 103: Diet, Discipline, and Diagnosis: Social Hygiene in Wartime and Postwar Japan

• Taming the Colonial Body: Placing Taiwan within the Japanese Medical Empire, Ming-cheng Lo
• Good Sex, Pure Science and Ambivalent Politics, Sabine Frühstück
• Fighting Foods: Popularizing a Military Diet in Wartime Japan, Katarzyna Cwiertka
• Discipline and Practice: The Construction of "Soccer Bodies" in the Japanese Ladies Soccer League, Elise Edwards

Session 104: ROUND TABLE: Linking Japanese Visual and Literary Arts: Medieval Texts in Computerized Environments (Sponsored by the Committee on East Asian Languages)

Session 105: ROUND TABLE: Has the Language "Bubble" Burst too? The Present and Future of Japanese Language Programs

Session 126: The Meiji Quest for a National Economic Strategy and Its Legacy

• The Role of the Government in Meiji Japan, Yasukichi Yasuba
• The Matsukata Financial Reform and Industrial Policy in Meiji Japan, Steven J. Ericson
• The Meiji Government, the Rise of the Cotton Spinning Industry, and the Origins of Industrial Policy in Japan, W. Miles Fletcher III
• Takahashi Korekiyo's Fiscal Retrenchment in the Mid-1930s and its Meiji Roots, Richard J. Smethurst

Session 127: Erotic Dimensions of The Tale of Genji

• Lady Murasaki's Erotic Entertainment: The Early Chapters of the Genji, Royall Tyler
• Kaimami Through a Woman's Eyes, Doris G. Bargen
• Anxiety of Erotic Longing and Murasaki's Miyabi , John R. Wallace

Session 128: Elections and Election Systems in Postwar Japan

• Communities and Voting in Japan, Kenji Hayao
• Political Interests and the Rise of Unaffiliated Voters in Postwar Japan, Misa Nishikawa
• Explaining Japan's 1995 Upper House Election, Toshio Nagahisa
• Rationality and Candidate Strategies in Japan's Multi-Member Districts with SNTV, Eric Browne

Session 129: The View from Modernity: Reflections on the Practice of Tokugawa Intellectual History

• The Prehistory of National Language, Yasuko Miyagawa
• From National Learning to National Literature: Modernity and the Problem of Kokugaku, Susan Burns
• Rethinking the History of the History of Tokugawa Popular Thought, Nobuhiro Katsurajima

Session 130: Making Sense of Heterogeneity in Japanese and in Sociolinguistic Theory

• Indexicality and Japanese Addressee Honorifics, Haruko Minegishi Cook
• Subversive Subordinates or Situated Language Use?: A Look at Keigo Ideology and Sociolinguistic Description, Laura Miller
• Japanese Women's Speech: Beyond Indexing Gender, Shigeko Okamoto
• Just Folks: Native Speaker Theories of Honorifics, Patricia J. Wetzel and Miyako Inoue

Session 147: Ritualizing Territories

• Sacred Space and Social Order, or Sacred Order and Social Space, Allan G. Grapard
• Malice in Buddhaland: Divine Punishment and Social Control in Medieval Japan, Fabio Rambelli
• "Not Even for a Thousand in Gold": The Politics of Secret Transmission in Medieval Tendai, Jacqueline I. Stone

Session 148: Japan and Its Security

• Japan's Peacekeeping Policy: Who Decides? L. William Henrich
• Making the Best of a Bad Reputation: A Comparison of Japanese and Russian Reassurance Strategies in East Asia, Paul Midford
• The Revision of Taiko: New Thinking and Old Obstacles , Yoshihide Soeya
• Driven by Post-Cold War Realities: The Japan-Korea-China Triangle, Victor D. Cha

Session 149: Re-Constructing Bakufu Authority in Tokugawa Japan (Sponsored by Early Modern Japan Network)

• Creating The "Ideal Lord" (Meikun) and the "Domain-Walled State," Katsumi Fukaya
• Bucking for a Promotion: Internal Motives and Formal Rationale in the Efforts to Gain a Promotion for Ikeda Tsknemasa, Shin Hori
• Central Control or Parallel Evolution - Samurai Landholding in Tokugawa Japan, John F. Morris
• Whose Village? Whose State?: Negotiating Taxes in the Tokugawa Domain in the Late Eighteenth Century, Patricia G. Sippel

Session 150: Rethinking Modern Japanese Literature: Part One: Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Retrograde or Cutting-Edge (See Session 175)

• Gendered Nostalgia and Jouissance in Izumi Kyoka , Nina Cornyetz
• Kyoka in the Age of the Novel, Tomomi Matsumura
• Class Discrimination in the Works of Izumi Kyoka: "The Blood-Tempered Sword," Wakako Taneda
• Izumi Kyoka and the Birth of Modern Sexuality, Takahito Momokawa

Session 151: Okinawa as Critical Space: Perspectives on Japan from its Periphery: Part One (See Session 174)

• Incipient Nationalism: Two Ryûkyûan Responses to Japanese Domination, Gregory Smits
• Tottering on the Edge: Okinawa as Prefecture and Colony , Alan S. Christy
• Becoming Japanese, Ichiro Tomiyama

Session 152: ROUND TABLE: New Perspectives on Advanced Japanese Language Studies in Japan

Session 162: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: World War II and its Aftermath in Japan

• Gender, Sexuality and Nationalism in Japan's Colonial Encounters: The Case of Military Drafted Comfort Women, Mayumi Yamamoto
• When Japan Became the USSR: Karafuto/Sakhalin Island 1945-1948: The Transition, Mariya Sevela
• Creating Quality: The Japanese QC Movement and the Legend of W. Edwards Deming, William M. Tsutsui

Session 171: Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field

• The Anatomy of the Youngman, Joshua Mostow
• The Reception of Shunga in Contemporary Japan, Kaori Chino
• The Image of Women in Modern Japanese-Style Painting ( Nihonga): Its Political Role and Function, Shinobu Ikeda
• Demand for Love and Community of Sympathy: Nationalism and Femininity, Naoki Sakai

Session 172: Family and Reproductive Politics in Japan

• Abortion Before Birth Control: The Interest Group Politics Behind Postwar Japanese Reproduction Policy, Tiana Norgren
• A New Alliance of Pro-Choice Women and Disabled People for Reproductive Rights in Japan, Kozy K. Amemiya
• Family Size Policy in Japan: A Comparative Approach, Patricia Boling
• Relationships Between Parents and their Adult Children: Japan, Ronald R. Rindfuss and Kelly Raley

Session 173: Taken for Dead: Japan's Imperial Court, 1336-1868

• The Economics of Imperial Authority in Muromachi Kyoto , Suzanne Gay
• The Role of the Emperor and the Court within the Muromachi State, Eiketsu Henry Hirose
• The Court's "Annual Observances": From Warring States to Reunification, Lee A. Butler
• The Court and Revival of Japanese-Style Calligraphy During the Early Seventeenth Century, Lee Bruschke-Johnson

Session 174: Okinawa as Critical Space: Perspectives on Japan from Its Periphery: Part Two (See Session 151)

• Challenging and Accomodating Gendered Nationalism: Roles, Representations, and Meanings of Himeyuri, 1945-1995, Linda Angst
• Historical Authenticity and Present Creativity: Two Contested Narratives on "Okinawan Culture" in the Mass Media, Yoshinobu Ota
• The Reversion Debate and Critiques of Japanese Nationalism , Michael S. Molasky

Session 175: Rethinking Modern Japanese Literature, Part Two:Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Japan's Most Japanese Writer? (See Session 150)

• Comparative Fantasy, Susan J. Napier
• Japan in the Works of Izumi Kyoka, Nobuo Kasahara
• Fantasy, Territory of Darkness, Noriko Takakuwa
• Representing the Unrepresentable: Transparent Communication in the Work of Izumi Kyoka, Joseph Murphy

Session 194: Sacred Geography in Japanese Religious Culture:Four Representative Sites

• Creating and Replicating the Sacred Site: The Case of Chikubushima , Andrew M. Watsky
• In Search of the Dragon: Mt. Muro's Sacred Topography, Sherry Fowler
• Visualization of the Temple as Sacred Space: Zenkoji sankei mandara, Donald F. McCallum
• Hakusan at Hiraizumi and the Geopolitics of Mandate in the Eastern Provinces, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan

Session 195: Sanctuary or Purgatory?: Old Age in Japan

• The Image of Rojo or Elderly Women in Japanese Legend , Tetsuo Yamaori
• Social Support System and Family of the Japanese Elderly , Wataru Koyano
• "Till Death Do Us Part": A Comparison of Aging Couples in the United States and Japan, Ruth Campbell
• Surviving the Kobe Earthquake: Elderly Earthquake Victims Rebuild Their Lives, Diana Lynn Bethel

Session 196: Female Gaze/Male Body: Rethinking Female Desire in Oba Minako's Writings

• Once There Was a Woman : Re-visioning Gender in Poetic Writings of Oba Minako, Janice Brown
• Rewriting Sexuality and Reproduction: Oba Minako's Funakuimushi and Urashimaso, Reiko Tachibana Nemoto
• Mothers and Daughters in Oba Minako's Stories: An Unsentimental Journey Toward Reintegration, Michiko Niikuni Wilson

Session 197: Nation, Empire, and Historical Memory: Re-Siting Modern Japan

• Resiting Modern Japan: Fukuzawa, Okakura, and Remembrance , Mark Anderson
• Shimazaki Tôson and National History: Awkward Memories , Michael Bourdaghs
• The Narration of Empire, The Narration of Japan, Osamu Murai

Session 198: Internationalism and Nationalism: Tensions that Shaped Early Twentieth-Century Japan

• Nationalism, Internationalism and the Yorozu Choho , 1900-1920, James L. Huffman
• The Journalist Kawakami Kiyoshi Interprets Japan's Relations with the United States: International Tones in a Nationalistic Era, William D. Hoover
• The Japan National Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the Search for International Cooperation in the Pacific, 1925-1939, Michio Yamaoka and George M. Oshiro

Session 199: The Worlds of Tokugawa Japan

• Centering the Lord's House: Ritual and Samurai Identity , Luke S. Roberts
• Reproducing Resistance: Peasant Identities and Peasant Protest, Mark Ravina
• Nihonbashi in the Eighteenth Century: A Micro-cultural Geography, Marcia A. Yonemoto
• The Outside World Inside Tokugawa Japan, Robert Eskildsen

Session 200: ROUND TABLE: Reconstructing Japanese Prehistory:New Advances in Linguistics and Anthropology

Session 216: The Concept of "Folk Song" in East Asia

• Folk Song and the "Imagined Village" in Japan , David W. Hughes
• Generating Genre: The Negotiation of Cultural Categories in Chinese Music, Susan M. C. Tuohy
• Minyo in Korea: Songs of the People and Songs for the People, Keith Howard

Session 217: Politicizing Manga: The Scope and the Limits of Contemporary Japanese Comics

• The Fallen Literature: On the Creation of the Canon of Comics, Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
• Feminine Sexuality as a Political Site: The Widened Discursive Field of Japanese Girls' Comics, Midori Matsui
• Hayao Miyazaki's Epic Comic Series: An Attempt at Interpretation , Shigemi Inaga
• Looking Back on Akira, Kojiro Miyahara

Session 218: Japanese Language Socialization of Children and Adults in Native and Non-Native Contexts

• Classroom Language and the Socialization of Interactional Style in Adult Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language, Amy Snyder Ohta
• Language Socialization through the Auxiliary -chau(- te shimau), Ryoko Suzuki
• The Socialization of Lexical Expressions of Affect in Japanese , Patricia Clancy
• Language Socialization in a Japanese Immersion School, Carl D Falsgraf

Session 219: At the Interface Between Objects and Humanistic Enquiry: The Material Culture of Ryukyu

• The System of East Asian Trade and the Formation of the Ryukyuan Kingdom, Asato Susumu
• Ryukyuan Dress as Icon: Yukata of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Robes of the Shuri Nobility and the Transmission of Cultural Forms , Amanda Mayer Stinchecum

Session 220: Urban Spaces, Distant Landscapes: Relativizing the Center in Meiji Japan

• The City Seen Inside Out: On the "Documentary" Narrative of Slum Exploration in the Meiji 20s, Motoo Kobayashi
• The City Seen from Its Provinces, Richard Torrance
• The City Seen in the Future, Kyoko Kurita

Session 231: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: New Topics in Intellectual and Cultural History

• Basho's Haikai and Lin Xiyis Explanation of the Zhuangzi, Peipei Qiu
• Andô Shôeki (1703-1762): Shizen and its Ideological Appropriations, Jacques Joly
• Religious Folk Art as an Indicator of Nationalistic-Imperialistic Aspirations Among Local Elites: Jingu Kogo Ema in Southwestern Japan, Richard W. Anderson
• Fragmentation, Will to Power, and the Overcoming of Modernity: Watsuji Tetsurô's A Study of Nietzsche (1913) and its Place in the Development of his Thought, David B. Gordon
• Kobayashi Hideo and the Configuration of an "Anti-Modern" Critical Genre, James Dorsey