JAPAN SESSIONS

Worker’s Culture as National Culture: The Worker’s Culture Movement as Labor’s Leftist Critique of Postwar Japan, Christopher Gerteis

From Confrontation to Pluralism: Takechi Tetsuji and the Contemporary Nô Theater, Miwako Tezuka

Bunka-zai no Minshu-ka: Folk Houses and the Democratization of Culture in Early Postwar Japan, Peter Siegenthaler

Writing Omniphone in Japanese, Keijiro Suga

Tawada Yōko and Writing in the Language Ditch, Doug Slaymaker

We Japanese in Japan Should Find Our Own English: Migrancy, Identity and Language(s) in Itō Hiromi’s Recent Prose, Kyoko Ōmori

Linguistically Yours: The Pursuit of the M/other Tongue in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi, Catherine Youngkyung Ryu

Exhibiting Japanese History: The Politics of Art and Architecture in the Phoenix Hall at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Lisa K. Langlois

The Ethics of Empire: Protestant Thought, Moral Culture, and Imperialism in Meiji Japan, Yosuke Nirei

The World Is Mightier than the Throne: Bucking Colonial Education Trends in Manchukuo, Andrew R. Hall

Settler-Colonialism in Manchuria and Palestine: Linking Japan and Israel in Their Colonial Contexts, John de Boer

Competing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: New Year’s Day Editorials in National Dailies, 1953–2004, Shunichi Takekawa

Co-opting Casualties in the Discourse of Heroes: "The Mother of a War God Never Weeps," James Dorsey

Bodies, Names, and the Confusion of Tragedies: Memorializing the Tokyo Air Raids, Cary Karacas

Protecting the Wounded: Japanese Disabled Veterans on the Homefront, 1937–1945, Lee Pennington

Linguistic Performance of Girl Culture in the Fiction of Yoshiya Nobuko, Sarah Anne Frederick

The Rose of Versailles and the Transformation of Shôjo Manga, Deborah M. Shamoon

Melodrama in Translation: The Staging of Wuthering Heights in Japan, Eve Zimmerman

Weeping and Wounding: Melodrama and the "Moral Occult" of Boyishness in Shônen Manga, Brian Bergstrom

Literary Approaches to Buraku Studies: Reading Nakagami Kenji, Sayuri I. Oyama

Getting in and Getting Along: Fieldwork in two Buraku Communities, Christopher Bondy

Methodological Issues in Historical Research on the Buraku Problem in Modern Japan, Jeffrey P. Bayliss

Buraku Liberation and the Law, Emily Su-lan Reber Porter

Forces Shaping Legal Education Reform in Japan, Daniel H. Foote

The Development of Japanese Law Schools: University Responses to the Law School Reform, Mayumi Saegusa

Overreacting to Governmental Guidance: Creation of a Law School in Shizuoka University, Akira Fujimoto

Mystery around the Admission Process of Japanese Law Schools, Toshikuni Murai

Professional Epidemiologists and Vital Statisticians: The Politics of Preventative Medicine in Meiji Japan, Takeshi Nagashima

Leprosy as Enemy of the State, Alexander R. Bay

Crossing the Distance between the Medical Laboratory and Practical Application Epidemiology in the Prewar Showa Era, Tomo Ichikawa

Drugs, Consumer Choice, and the Westernization of Medicine in Japan, Akihito Suzuki

"Dynamite Don!" Radical Students, Patriotic Youth, and Science Fiction Novels in the Meiji Era, Xavier Bensky

Making Heroes from Heroes: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Misogyny in Meiji Japan, Jason G. Karlin

Narratives of Struggle and Success: Superior Students, Entrance Examinations, and the Taisho Mass Media, Mark Alan Jones

The Martial, the Male, and the Media: Representing War in Japanese Children’s Magazines, 1937–1945, Owen Griffiths

Civil Society Groups and Policy-making in Contemporary Japan, Robert J. Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka, and Takafumi Ohtomo

Shaping the Japanese State: The Role of Foreigner Support Groups in Redefining Membership Rules and State Responsibilities, Apichai Shipper

Power and Contested Rationalities: Policy Collaboration in Continuing Education between an NPO and the State, Akihiro Ogawa

Cultural Proficiency: A Definition for Language Learners, Hiroaki Kawamura

Assessing Performed Culture in a Language Classroom, Mari Noda

Cultural Skills in the Context of OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview), Suwako Watanabe

Developing and Measuring Emergent Cultural Competence, Carl D. Falsgraf

Scorched Earth Diplomacy: Uchida Kōsai, Manchukuo, and Japan’s Withdrawal from the League of Nations, Rustin Gates

Rethinking Matsuoka Diplomacy, Satoshi Hattori

Point of No Return: Foreign Minister Togo, Sigint, and the Decision for War, Toshi Minohara

Cultural Internationalism and Japan’s Wartime Empire, Jessamyn Abel

The Novel’s Other: Detective Fiction and the Emergence of Modern Literature in the Late 1880s, Satoru Saito

The Weight of Womanhood and the Suffering Kannen Shôsetsu, Dan O’Neill

Embodying Genbun-itchi: New Theater as Exotic Spectacle, Indra Levy

Gender and Competing Notions of Literature: Realism, Modernism, and Japanese Literature in the 1900s–1910s, Tomi Suzuki

Bad Girls from Good Families: The Degenerate Meiji Schoolgirl, Melanie J. Czarnecki

So Bad She’s Good: The Masochist’s Heroine in Postwar Japan, Abe Sada, Christine Marran

Looking at Ladies’ Comics: Why Do "Bad Girls" Like to Watch? Gretchen Jones

Confessions of a Dis-eased Queen: Nakamura Usagi’s Bad Girl Addiction to Shopping, Hiroko Hirakawa

Kijin, Haikai, and Sex: Bashô School Poet Shiba Sonome, Cheryl Crowley

Resistance for the Individual: Ôshio Heihachirô and Ikuta Yorozu’s 1837 Uprisings, Jeffrey Newmark

Celebrating the Unrestrained: Kyô in Edo Poetry, Peipei Qiu

Along the Wayside: The Confucian Legacy in Writings on Eccentrics in Edo and Meiji Japan, Puck Brecher

Nanjing in Fiction: Literature and Historical Memory, David Askew

The Victim Count: Figures Don’t Lie? Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

A Neurosis of Disproportionate Action? The Nanjing Massacre and Chinese Historical Memory, Joshua A. Fogel

Authentic(ating) Voices of the Folk: Yanagita Kunio’s Criticism of Language Reform, Melek Ortabasi

The Haunted Origins of Modern Japanese Literature: The Transcription of Enchō’s Ghost Story of the Peony Lantern, Seth Jacobowitz

The Policing and Politics of Vernacular Entertainment in Early Meiji Japan, Junji Yoshida

Hentai = Modernity, Mark William Driscoll

Searching for a Bond at the Expense of Life, Yuko Katsuta

The Madness and Perversion of Yukio Mishima, Jerry S. Piven

Inverting Oedipus: Incest, Suicide, and Fratricide in Nakagami Kenji, Nina Cornyetz

The Significance of Diaries in Heian Courtier Life, Yoshida Sanae

Historical Writing and Heian Women: A Look through Eiga monogatari, Takeshi Watanabe

Kagerô nikki in the Context of Heian Kanbun and Kana Diaries, Christina Laffin

Fujiwara Tadahira’s Memory Project: The Teishinkôki, Joan R. Piggott

Revisiting Japan’s Minamata, Brett L. Walker

Nature over Nation: Tanaka Shôzô’s Fundamental River Law, Robert Stolz

Darwinism in Japan: The Birth of Ecology, Gregory Golley

Whose Fuji? Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National Symbol, Andrew Bernstein

Resisting Acceleration: Designing the Climb to Konpira, Sarah E. Thal

Takachiho in the Making of Imperial Tourism, Kenneth J. Ruoff

Revisiting the Japanese Developmental State, T. J. Pempel

The Shift from Industrial Policy to "Self-Regulation" in the Japanese Steel Industry and Its Effect on International Trade, Mark Tilton

Assessing the Role of Industrial Policy in Japan’s New Intellectual Property Agenda, Saadia M. Pekkanen

Venture Capital as Industrial Policy, Ulrike Schaede

Kitagawa Chiyo: A Forgotten Shōjo Story Writer, Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

The Feminist Magazine Nyonin Geijutsu and Its Contribution to Japanese Feminist Movement, Sreedevi Reddy

Girl Terrors (Shôjo Terô): Japan’s Cute/Pop Culture Modified for Girl Consumption, Katherine Mezur

Pragmatic Singles: Resistance and Compromise in the Lives of Unmarried Japanese Women, Tamiko Ortega Noll

Male Speakers of Japanese Women’s Language in Media: Genderized Performance and Femininty, Setsu Kawada

Is It Really a Case of Race? Lives of Mixed-Blood Children in Postwar Japan, Robert A. Fish

The Burakumin Myth of Everyday Life: The Construction of a Minoritarian Vernacular in Contemporary Japan, Rositsa Mutafchieva

Configuration of Masculinity: Kaneshiro Kazuki as a Zainichi Writer, Noboru Tomonari

Japan’s Korean Population: Origins and Destinations, David Rands

Children, Parents, and the Japanese State: Contesting "Parental Rights" in Meiji Courts, Susan L. Burns

Child Murders in the Village of Devils: Controlling the Traffic in Unwanted Children in Prewar Japan, David R. Ambaras

Poverty, Childhood, and Historical Memory in Early Industrial Japan, Tanya Sue Maus

Bridling Capitalism: Private Enterprise and State Activism in Early Meiji Japan, John Sagers

Coming to Terms: Economic Planning in the USSR and in Japan in the 1930s, Katalin Ferber

Overcoming the Modern: German Economics and Japanese Bureaucrats in Wartime Japan, Janis Mimura

Science and the Visual Imagination of Post-World War II Developmentalism, Scott O’Bryan

The Dai is Cast: Poetic Topic Formation and the Visual Field in Heian Japan, Joseph T. Sorensen

Surviving Criticism: The Role of Scholarly Ambivalence in the Sustenance of "Boring" Texts, as Seen in the Case of Tamakiwaru, a Premodern Japanese Court Memoir, C. Miki Wheeler

One Piece in the Puzzle of Embodiment: The Role of Erotics in Medieval Buddhist Setsuwa, Charlotte Eubanks

Yamauba: Japanese Mountain Witch in Literature, Folklore, and Art, Noriko T. Reider

Humor with Heart: Haikai Renga and the Ushin Tradition, Jeremy Robinson

Sacrifice in Japanese Shrine Ritual: The Transformation and Liberation of Animals through Killing and Consumption, Lisa Grumbach

The Morally Determined Malleability of Bodies in the Rokudô, Caroline R. Hirasawa

Monks Transforming into Birds: Defining the Process of Metamorphosis in the Tengu zôshi, Haruko Wakabayashi

Reverse Course or Changing Lanes? Multilateralism, Regionalism, and FTAs in Japan’s Changing Trade Strategy, Amy Searight

The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Trade Legalism, Keisuke Iida

Navigating a Two-Way Street: Global Trade Regimes and Domestic Choice of Trade Policy Instruments in Japan, 1980–2001, Megumi Naoi

The Corporate Perspective on WTO Adjudication: A Study of Japanese Strategies, Christina Davis and Yuki Shirato

Dames in Kimono: Exoticism, Japonisme, and Nationalism in Cinema, from Madame Butterfly to Ringu, Daisuke Miyao

Adapting the Modern: Images of Women in Interwar Japanese Cinema, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Popularity, Respectability, and Nationalism: A Modern Girl Film Star in Japan’s Rising Consumer Culture, Hideaki Fujiki

Theorizing Manga as Nationalism: The Discourse on the Role of Wartime Manga, Rei Okamoto

Gender Socialization and Gender Awareness in Japanese Primary Education, Peter Cave

Gendered Meanings of Everyday Practice at a Japanese Junior High School, Dawn Grimes-MacLellan

University Education and Status Attainment for Women in Japan, Mayumi Nakamura

Gender and Social Class Differences in Japanese Mothers’ Support for Children’s Schooling, Yoko Yamamoto

Bodies and Flows at Empire’s Edge: On the Modernist Aesthetics of Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi, William O. Gardner

The Surrealist Critique of Imperialism in Manchuria and the Fascination for the Native, Annika A. Culver

Stroking the Male Surface: Shônen’ai (The Love of Adolescent Boys) in the Poetics of Inagaki Taruho, Jeffrey Angles

Colonial Intimacy and Ethnic Boundary: Actualities of Interethnic Romance in Colonial Korea, Atsuko Aoki

The Moral and Spiritual Education of Japanese Youth in Colonial Korea, Nicole Cohen

Retooling Food as the State Apparatus in the 1940s: Healthy Body and "Japanese-ness," Helen J. S. Lee

The Power of Image (Reading Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh Fu), Kurt Werner Wurmli

Parsing the Power of Pain in Butô, Bruce Baird

Expression of Butoh beyond Tokyo, Tamah Nakamura

Poetic Legacy, Textual Property, and Gender in the Tosa nikki, Gustav Heldt

Of Questionable Lineage: Makura no sôshi’s Experiments with Hybrid Form and Language, Naomi Fukumori

The Oral Transmission of Literary Expertise by Women: Abutsu and the Art of Reading Genji monogatari, Christian Ratcliff

Alone above the Clouds: Gender and Rank in The Personal Poetry Contest of Eifukumon-in, Stefania Burk

The Suffering Masses: Sympathy and Representation in the Post-quake Literary World, Peter Alexander Bates

Finding Fault: Decadence, Science, and the Great Kanto Earthquake, Kerry D. Smith

Site-Specific? Location in Women’s Magazine Model Homes, 1920–30, Sarah Teasley

In the Absence of a Center: Provincializing Literary Production after the Kanto Earthquake, Hoyt Joshua Long

What’s Love Got to Do with It? "Parasite Singles," Trendy Dramas, and Post-Fordism in Contemporary Japan, Gabriella Lukacs

Girls’ Culture, Girls’ Sexuality: A View from the Shōjo Manga Industry, Jennifer Prough

Excessive Freedom: Fear and Fascination with Freeters in Contemporary Japan, Colin Scott Smith