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Session 13, (Non) Consumption of Food in Japan: Past and Present
Slow – Slower – Slowest: The Slow Food Movement in Japan, Stephanie Assmann
Reifying Râmen: Gender and Food in Online Communities, Satomi Fukutomi
Vegetarian Self vs. Carnivorous Other: National Consciousness and Discourses on Food Consumption in the Tokugawa Period, Hans Martin Kramer
The Art of Not Eating: Cuisine in Early Modern Japan, Eric C. Rath
Family Formation among Japanese Stepfamilies: Struggles and Consequences of Reconstituting the ‘Standard Family’, Shinji Nozawa
Getting Married: Japanese Single Mothers’ Perspectives on (Re)marriage, Aya E. Ezawa
But He's Still my Kids' Father: Post-divorce Parenting in Contemporary Japan, Allison M. Alexy
The Japanese Paradigm of Ananda and the Old Woman in Paintings of the Buddha's Nirvana, Ikuyo Nomura
Justifying Female Rule: The Nun-Emperor Koken-Shotoku and the Transformation of Henjo nanshi Theory, Noriko Kanda
Beyond the "Spiritual" Female: Contextualizing Gender Constructs, Akiko Yoshie
When Gender, Religion, and Class Collide: Elite Women and Proud Priests in Medieval Japan, Lori Meeks
Session 30, Linguistic Strategies for Challenging Cultural Norms among Speakers of Japanese
O-nee-kotoba ‘Queen’s Speech’: Unwanted Speech Practice among Gay Men, Hideko Nornes Abe
Subversive Inscription and Novel Graphs in Japanese Girls’ Culture, Laura Miller
Women, Yelling and Swearing: Breaking Gender Roles, Orie Endo
Negotiating Cachet: Standard Japanese and Kansai Women's Linguistic Practices, Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan
Session 31, "Yattona!" or "Gotcha!"? Challenges of Translating Kyogen from Stage to Page to Stage
Challenges in Translating Kyogen Texts for the Stage: Allusion, Incantation, Onomatopoeia, Laurence R. Kominz
The Changing Texts for Kyogen Theater and the Impact on Performance: A Study of the Blind Man Plays, Carolyn Morley
Introducing Kyogen in English: Strategies for Translating Comedy for Performance, Jonah Salz
Linking Sound and Movement in Kyôgen Dance, Julie A. Iezzi
Session 32, International Norms and Domestic Politics in Japan
Ethnic Minority Policy in a One-Ethnicity Country: International Human Rights Norms and Japan’s Asylum and Citizenship Policies, Michael Strausz
Social Implications of International Law: Women's Employment and Gender Equality in Japan, Petrice R. Flowers
Building Parents of the Next Generation: International Population Policy Norms and Japanese Family Policy, Liv Coleman
Transnational Norms and Japan's Environmental ODA, Derek Hall
Session 33, Print Culture in Tokugawa Japan: Recent Research at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Play on Provinces: Isshusai Kunikazu’s Print Series Dai nippon rokujû yo shû, Quintana Heathman
Bontenkoku, the Land of Brahma: From Muromachi Tale to Ukiyo-e Print, Via Puppet Theater and Kabuki, Sarah E. Thompson
The Actor Prints of Utagawa Kunisada I and a Dating Method Based on Them, Masae Kurahashi
Patterns of Identity: Kimono Pattern Books in the Collection of the MFA, Boston, Rachel Saunders
From Intelligence Conduit to Border Bulwark: Tsushima’s Changing Defensive Role in the Nineteenth Century, Robert Hellyer
Kyushu in the Age of Maritime Empire: Military Defense and Commercial Offense in the Port City of Moji, Catherine Phipps
Nagasaki Defense Redux: Organizational Failure in the Phaeton Incident of 1808, Noell Howell Wilson
Session 55, Recalibrating Risk in a Changing Japan
Mediating Risk in Japan, Glenn D. Hook
Consuming Risk: The Governing of Risks over Livelihood in Japan, Hiroko Takeda
Risk Communication in the BSE Debate in Japan, William Bradley
Japan: Externalities, Energy and the Environment, Andrew DeWitt
Session 56, Cinema and Sensoria in Modern Japan
"Recapturing the Cinematic Sky": Sensorial Ecstasy in Japanese Wartime Cinema, Michael Raine
Mass Culture of Montage, 1929-1930, Chika Kinoshita
The Transplanted Hands: German Expressionism and the Haptic in Ozu's That Night's Wife, Daisuke Miyao
Movie Advertisements and the Formation of a New Visual Experience, Hideaki Fujiki
Doing Culture Studies in the Ohara Archives, Christopher Gerteis
The Ohara Institute and the Birth of Labor Science, Izumi Nakayama
On-line resources available at oisr.org, Akira Suzuki
Session 58, Power and Passion: Heian and Kamakura Patronage from Poetry to Sumo
Male Triangles of Poetry, Patronage, and Passion at the 10th-century Heian Court., Gustav Heldt
Ritual Dominance and Submission: Patronage and Courtship in the World of The Sumô Tale and its Poems, Robert Omar Khan
A Perfect Union? Emperor Fushimi, Kyôgoku Tamekane, and Their Poetic Gems, Stefania Burk
Session 65, Japanese Women: Crisis, Continuity, and Change
Gender and Political Candidacy in Japan, Alisa Gaunder
Mars and Venus, Revisited: Long Term Trends in Judgment by Sex-Differences, Daniel P. Aldrich
The National Rate of (Re)production: Women and Gendered Discourse in Japanese Policy-making, Sherry L. Martin
Mapping Gender in Contemporary Japan, Yumiko Mikanagi
Session 74, The Evolving U.S.-Japan Security Alliance: Hard vs. Soft Power Problematique
North and South Korean Views of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, Daniel Pinkston
Explaining the Evolution of Japan's Security Policy, David Arase
China Views the US-Japan Alliance, Quansheng Zhao
Session 75, "Western" Knowledge/Local Practice: Medicine and Science in Late Tokugawa Japan
In Her Father’s Footsteps: Kusumoto Ine (1827-1903) and Medical Networks in 19th Century Japan, Ellen Nakamura
The Introduction of the Linnaean System to Owari:
Ito Keisuke's Taisei Honzo Meiso (1829), Maki Fukuoka
A Village Doctor and "Western Medicine" in Early 19th Century Japan: Nanayama Jundô at Work, Susan L. Burns
Representing Learnedness in The Forty-Two Debates, Tomoko Sakomura
Description as Prescription: Looking at Tamakiwaru, an Early Kamakura Woman’s Court Diary, as a Source of Instruction, C. Miki Wheeler
Parting the Reeds of Naniwa: Courtly Advice to Women in The Nursemaid’s Letter, Christina Laffin
Mixing Messages: Classical Literature in Eighteenth-century Women's Education Books, Jamie L. Newhard
Session 77, Understanding Japanese Material/Information Culture through Television Commercials
Whiskey Culture and National Identity seen from Suntory’s Television Commercials, Yongmei Wu
The Mutual Relationship between Images in Foreign-Celebrity-Appearance Television Commercials in Japan and His/Her Cinematic Images, or How Television Viewers in Japan Stopped Accepting Them as a Symbolic of a "Focus of Admiration" and Started Accepting Them as a Farce, Takeshi Tanikawa
Non-Domestic Music in Japanese Television Commercials, Hideko Haguchi
Presenting Automobile in Television Commercials: The Issues of Viewer Perception, Noriko Yamashita
Session 94, Individuality and the Individual in Contemporary Japan
"Freeters" and Individuality in Japan's Youth Labor Market, Colin Smith
Individuals and Others in Japanese Elementary Education, Peter Cave
You Gotta Have W(h)a(t)? Idioms of Individuality in Sumo and Baseball, William W. Kelly
Japanese Individualism and "What Makes Life Worth Living", Gordon C. Mathews
Session 95, Imagining and Remembering Air Raids on Japan
Remembering Air-raids in Japan and Germany, Akiko Takenaka
Imagining Urban Catastrophe: Unno Jûza’s Air Raids on the Imperial Capital, Cary Karacas
Hot-blooded! Air Power and Future War in Japanese Children’s Media, 1915-1930, Owen Griffiths
Puzzling Painted Fans: Muromachi Contest Fiction and the Cult of the Heian Past, Randle Keller Kimbrough
Love Among the Ruins: Depictions of the Kawara-no-in in Medieval Noh Plays, Paul S. Atkins
Painting, Poetry, and Politics: Ninshi’s Court Entrance of 1190 and the Michinaga Model, Joseph T. Sorensen
Rewriting the History of Heian Calligraphy: Emperor Fushimi as Collector and Copyist, John T. Carpenter
"Exit Woman Onnagata": The New Gender Economy of Twentieth-century Kabuki Theater, Maki Isaka
Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Maps: Kabuki and the Cartographic Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japan, Jonathan Zwicker
Performing the Public Square in Late-Taisho Japan, Hoyt J. Long
Session 117, Poetry from the Edge: Rethinking Political Outsiders and Poetic Action in Japan
Superintendents of Time: Korean Émigrés and the Shape of Seasons in Man’yôshû, Jason P. Webb
All Shi Wrote?: "Men of High Purpose" and Their Chinese Poetry in Late Edo Japan, Matthew Fraleigh
Poetry and Captivity in Heike Monogatari, Terry Kawashima
Session 118, Contemporary Japanese Families: What is Changing and What is Not
The Norm of Overwork and Middle-Class Japanese Men's Involvement in their Families, Yuko Ogasawara
Perceptions of Parental Roles in Unconventional Families, Ekaterina Korobtseva
Changing Middle-class Mothers in Japan, Ayumi Sasagawa
Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ Families, Patricia G. Steinhoff
The Collection of Tokugawa Ieyasu: A Late Medieval "Empire of Things", Morgan J. Pitelka
Foreign Coins and Attitudes toward China in Medieval Japan, Ethan Segal
Unidentified Foreign Objects: A Samurai in 1860 Nagasaki, Laura Nenzi
Session 120, Individual Papers: From Text to Machine in Modern Japanese Culture
Near Nostalgia: Images of Home and the Recent Past in Miike Takashi's Osaka Films, Dylan Ellefson
The Net Idols: New Forms of Creative Employment and Neoliberal Labor Subjectivities in 1990s Japan, Gabriella Lukacs
Robot Dreams: The Formation of Self and Masculine Identity in Japanese Techno-culture, Hirofumi Katsuno
Unspoken War Memories, Un-recognized Signs, and Non-realist Representation: The Battle of Okinawa in Medoruma Shun’s "Droplets", Kyle Ikeda
Novel Fashions: Accessorizing in Natsume Soseki's Gubijinso, Anna-Marie Farrier
Session 139, The Avant-garde and the Vanguard in Japanese Proletarian Literature
Domesticity and the Proletarian Avant-garde, Heather Bowen-Struyk
The Wall Novel and the Proletarian Avant-garde, Samuel E. Perry
Noguchi Hiroshi's Aesthetics of Activism, Orna Shaughnessy
Session 140, The Politics of "Real" and "Virtual" in Japanese Culture
Must Real Soldiers Die?, Sabine Fruhstuck
The Comparative Realities of Liberty City: Japanese and American Efforts to Regulate the Grand Theft Auto Games, David Leheny
"Real" Photography as Social Critique: Beggars, Bourgeois Values, and Maimed Veterans in Postwar Japan, Julia Adeney Thomas
Real Anime: The Cultural Politics of Youth, Violence, and Sex in Japanese Cartoons, Ian R. Condry
Session 141, Roundtable: The Translation and Publication of Contemporary Japanese Literature
Session 147, Japan's China Diplomacy
The Future of Japan-China Economic Relations, Saadia M. Pekkanen
The Intensified China-Japan Security Dilemma in East Asia: The Limits of Hegemonic Stability, Xin Xu
The Future of the Sino-Japanese Energy Relationship, Kent E. Calder
Japan and China: Reluctant Rivals, T.J. Pempel
Session 156, The Power of History: Re-packaging Japan’s Modernity in the Visual Arts, 1920-1945
Teshigahara Sofu and the Cultural Politics of Modern Ikebana in the 1930s, Noriko Murai
Fauvists in the Land of Rising Sun: Critical Evaluations of "Japanist" Painting, 1934-1935, Mikiko Hirayama
Reshaping Japanese Cultural Properties: Ogawa Seiyo and "Beatification" of Buddhist Objects, Maki Kaneko
Cultural Significance of an Invisible Emperor in Sensô Sakusen Kirokuga (War Campaign Documentary Painting), Mayu Tsuruya
"[We] Humbly Request that [You] Refrain From Smoking Here": Japan's Linguistic Landscape, Patricia J. Wetzel
Shift in Number Assignment in Japanese Discourse, Seiichi Makino
Shifting Styles and Shifting Viewpoints, Fumiko Nazikian
Session 158, Minorities in Japan as seen through the Lens of Resident Koreans
Zainichi Koreans and Japanese Naturalization, Soo im Lee
Romeo and Jong-il: Queering the Korean Diaspora in Japan, Christopher D. Scott
Forging Ties with Family and Community: Films of Sai Yoichi, Noboru Tomonari
Foundations of Minority Communities: Resident Koreans in Japan, David Rands
Session 159, Rethinking the Avant-garde in Postwar Japanese Literature
The Surreal (Cho genjitsu) as Social Commitment in Postwar Japanese Novel, Yoshihiro Yasuhara
The Avant-Garde and Colonial/Postcolonial Critique in Abe Kobo’s Two Manchurian Novels, Lianying Shan
Hanada Kiyoteru’s Rhetoric of Avant-Garde Literature and the Rise of Popular Culture in the 1960s, Kumiko Sato
Session 179, The Manchurian Crisis at 75: New Interpretations
The "Manchuria Problem": Uchida Yasuya and Japanese Manchuria Policy, Rustin B. Gates
Foreign Ministry "Thought Police" and Ideological Security during the Manchurian Crisis, Erik W. Esselstrom
Re-periodizing a "Low Dishonest Decade": The Crisis of Democratic Imperialism in 1930s Japanese, Emer O Dwyer
Reorienting the Manchurian Incident, William Sewell
Session 180, New Rules, New Game? Political System Change in Japan and its Consequences
Reinventing the Relationship between the Prime Minister and the Party: The Case of Postal Privatization, Chao-Chi Lin
Manifest Changes in Japanese Electoral Communications? The Rise and Implications of the "Manifesto Boom", Patrick Koellner
Political Implications for the LDP of a Transformed Financial System in Japan, Jennifer Amyx
Theorizing Yôga, the "Western Painting" of Japan, Bert Winther-Tamaki
What a Long, Strange Journey: "Zen Art" in the Modern Imagination, Gregory P. Levine
What was the Shijô School called from 1811-1859, and What does this Tell Us?, Timothy T. Clark
The Coining of the Comic Genre "Giga" within Edo Print Culture, Miriam Wattles
Session 198, 1920s and 1930s Tokyo Nonsense: "Nansensu" in Japanese Modernist Literature and Film
Creating Strange Space: The Fashion for Ryôki (Curiosity-Hunting) in 1920s and 1930s Japan, Jeffrey Angles
Nonsense as a Cinematic Problem: Parody of Samurai Legends in Early Showa Film, Junji Yoshida
The Narrating Detective: Nansensu and Formulaic Inversion in Absurdist Japanese Detective Fiction, Kyoko Omori
Asahara Rokurô’s Nonsense Stories of the Daily Commute: Showing the Absurdity of Interwar Tokyo Life, Alisa Freedman
Session 199, Roundtable: Constitutional Revisionism in Japan Today: Documentation and Analysis
Session 200, The Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-century Japan
Gender and Status Anxiety in Discourses on Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century, Elizabeth A. Leicester
Camouflaging Chaos with Pleasure: Images of Entertainment Districts in the Yokohama Treaty Port, Ann Marie L. Davis
Prostitution and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Musashi, Amy Stanley
Session 201, Labor Migration to Japan: Demography and the Sense of Crisis
Beyond the Bind between Rules and Reality: Civil Society Advocacy Groups and Securing Protections for Foreign Migrants, Deborah J. Milly
Strangers and Security: The Competing Discourses of Immigration and Security in Japan, Ryoko Yamamoto
Japanese Local Governments Facing the Reality of Immigration, Atsuko Abe
Closed doors, Open Doors, Doors Wide Shut? Migration Politics in Japan, Gabriele Vogt
Are Babies a National Resource or a Family Affair? Interests, Ideologies and Outcomes in the Intimate Realm of Reproduction in 20th-century Japan, Tiana Norgren
Plotting the Future: Population, Growth and the Idea of Limits in Late Twentieth-century Japan, Scott OBryan
Eighty Million People on Four Small Islands: Population Growth and Resource Anxieties in Occupation-era Japan, Eric G. Dinmore
Logging the "Dark Valley": Japan's Forest Resources in War and Peace, William M. Tsutsui
The Dawn of Modern Publishing in Japan, Sari Kawana
Detecting Fiction: Observation, Evidence and Forensics in the Early Meiji Novel, Seth Jacobowitz
Bakumatsu Literati Women in Meiji Editions: The Strange Case of Rengetsu, Sayumi Takahashi
Kuroiwa Ruikô and the Allegories of Detective Fiction, Satoru Saito
Session 221, Gender and Law in Modern Japan
The Self-Made Woman: Gender and Class in Early 20th Century Japan, Mark Alan Jones
From Status to Gender: Changing Systems of Political Classification in Meiji Japan, 1868-1890, Marnie S. Anderson
Indentures, Sex and Rehabilitation: Prostitutes and Contract Law in Modern Japan, Holly V. Sanders
Changing Laws, Changing Ideals: The Postwar Constitution and Women's Movement in Japan, Eiko Saeki
Session 222, Individual Papers: Social Change in Modern Japan
Assimilating Christianity: The Young Men's Christian Association in Colonial Korea as Institutional, Organizational and Representational Contest, Michael I. Shapiro
Discourses on Marriage in Japanese Women’s Magazines Since 1970, Barbara Holthus
Religion, Gender, and Aging in Contemporary Japan: New Quantitative Findings, Michael K. Roemer
Reconciliation without Reparations? Redress Movements for Forced Labor in Wartime Japan, William J. Underwood
Politics of Labor Market Deregulation in Japan: A Comparative Study with the Italian Case, Hiroaki R. Watanabe