Scholarship and State in Qing-Tokugawa Relations, Jin Makabe Meritocracy in a Feudal Order: Examinations, Sino-Skepticism, and the West in Tokugawa Japan., Kiri Paramore Building A Bureaucracy: Redefinitions of Aptitude and Competence in the Construction of the Meiji Government Elite, Koichiro Matsuda
Theaters of the Book: Imagining the Kabuki Stage in Ryutei Tanehiko’s "Shohon jitate", Satoko Shimazaki The World of Erotic Illustrated Comic Fiction: Shunga and the Kibyoshi, Aki Ishigami Re-Inventing Popular Literature: The Legacy of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kamigata Popular Prose in Kusazoshi, Laura Moretti
Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: Japan and the United States, Kuniko Ashizawa China’s Growing Presence in Central-South Asia: China’s Foreign Aid to the Regions and Its Implications for the US-Japan Relations, Shino Watanabe Stability of Central Asia: An Emerging Issue for Japan-US Cooperation?, Takeshi Yuasa
Kyoto’s “New” Aristocracy: Re-negotiating Status, Rank, and Identity under the Meiji Regime, Sarah Thal Modern Kyoto and shinbutsu bunri in the Imperial Household, Hiroshi Takagi Educated Women, Enlightened City: Girls' Schools (Jokoba) and the Making of 'Modern' Kyoto, Amy Stanley Shrines, Priests, and Practitioners in modern Kyoto, John Breen
Translating the Nation: Kuroiwa Ruikô’s Serialized Fictions at the Turn of the 20th Century, Satoru Saito Translating Images: The Shirakaba School and Post Impressionism, Anri Yasuda Modernist (Mis)translations: British Modernism and the Poetics of Sagawa Chika, Hitomi Yoshio
Japan's Maritime Security Strategy, Alexandra Sakaki Facing Pandemic Risks: The Japanese Response, Kerstin Lukner From Inside Out: Japan’s International Crisis Management After the Tohoku Earthquake
, Axel P. Klein Resource Dependence as a Non-Traditional Security Threat: Japan's Rare Earth Risk Management Strategies, Kristin E. Vekasi
Tendai Shinto in the Muromachi Period: The Changing Aspects of Sanno Gongen, Satoshi Sonehara Buddhist Monks and the Heavenly and Earthly Gods in the Muromachi Period: An Examination of "Tenjin Visiting China", Masatoshi Harada Kitano Shrine and the Muromachi Bakufu in Fifteenth-Century Japan, Akiko Mieda Memorial Temples and Clan Deities in a Warlord's Religious Network, Christopher M. Mayo
The Unexpected Collectives: Experimental Assemblages and the Sogetsu Art Center, Miki Kaneda Yuasa Joji and the Topology of Soundspace, Steven C. Ridgely Nation, Language, and Very Abrasive Music, Nathaniel M. Smith The Technocultural Politics of Japanoise, David Novak
Reading the Bodies of Naichi Women in Japanese Occupied Taiwan, Anne E. Sokolsky The Meaning of Fat: Okamoto Kanoko's "Nikutai no shinkyoku" (1937), Michiko Suzuki Nationalizing the Maternal Body , Kimberly Kono The Properly Feminine Nationalist Body in the Propaganda Kamishibai of Suzuki Noriko, Sharalyn Orbaugh
Divine Punishment? Japanese Rhetorical and Practical Responses to Recent Natural Disasters, Levi McLaughlin Mobilizing Gratitude: The Tenrikyo Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps and the 3-11 Earthquake, Barbara R. Ambros Disasters and Their Message to Mankind: Different Explanations Within Kofuku no kagaku, Franz Winter From Relief to Redevelopment. Transitions in Japanese Temple Buddhism, 2011-2012, Tim Graf
Philosophizing the Murayama Statement from Japan’s Perspective, Kazuhiko Togo Of Words, Actions, and Principles: Chinese Views of the Murayama Statement, Daqing Yang In Search of the Perfect Apology: Korea’s Responses to the Murayama Statement, Youngshik D. Bong Beyond Good and Evil: A Taiwanese View on the Murayama Statement, Rwei-Ren Wu The Politics of Sorry: Japan's Apology Regime from a Comparative Perspective, Thomas U. Berger
Recalibrating the Classical Allusion: Named Objects in Early Seventeenth-Century Kyoto, Andrew Watsky Visual Anthologies: the Past in the Present in Early Seventeenth-Century Poem-Slip Screens, Tomoko Sakomura Warriors in the Capital: Kobori Enshu and the Cultural Salons of the Kyoto Renaissance, Morgan Pitelka
Tracing the “Conservatives in Action”: Activism, the Internet and the Spread of Xenophobia, Tomomi Yamaguchi "Racism" in the "Comfort Women" Dispute, Masami Saito “Civic Protest” Caravan Coming to Town: Hate Speech, the Internet, and the Surreal Construction of Reality, Youngmi Lim Who Are "We"?: "Our" Ethnoscape and Korean School in Kyoto, Japan, Haeng-ja Chung North-Korea-Phobia in Contemporary Japan: A Case Study of Political Attacks on Korean Ethnic Schools, Ryuta Itagaki
Okazaki Park as Kyoto's Modern Center, Alice Y. Tseng Naturalism at the International Expositions: The Ascendancy of Kyoto Artistic Style as a Global Symbol of Japan's "Civilized" Status in the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Julia Elizabeth Sapin The Shinkoten Art Exhibition as an Index of Tradition and Modernity in Meiji-era Kyoto, John Szostak Modern Kyoto's Networks for Patronizing Religion and Art, Yasuko Tsuchikane
Morito Tatsuo’s Bunka Kokka-ron:
State Power, the Citizen, and the “Nation of Culture” in the Early Postwar Era
, Peter Siegenthaler The View from the Highway: Urban Space and Civic Life in Olympic-era Tokyo, Bruce R. Suttmeier The “Civil Contract” of Photography and the 1960 Anpo Crisis, Julia Adeney Thomas
Articulating Catastrophe: Emotions and Politics in the Writings of Tanaka Shozo, Michael Facius A Question of Dependence: Environmental Collaboration Between Buuiness and Civil Society in Japan, Susanne Brucksch Wine as the Agent of Transition: The Oenophile and the Sommelier in Japanese Popular Culture, Jason C. Jones Rewriting the Rules: Waterways, Local Interest, and Regional Conflict in Northern Miyagi, 1892-1894, Christopher Craig
Japan in the Wake of Disaster: Explaining Political Immobilism
, Patricia L. Maclachlan The Work – Welfare Nexus in Post-Sisaster Japan: Deepening Social Risks or New Opportunities for a Better Work-Life Balance?, Karen Shire Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Japan’s Business Response After the Tohoku Disaster, Ulrike Schaede
In the Shade of the Cypress: Shimada Shakusô and Life through Literature in Hansen's Disease Hospitals, Kathryn M. Tanaka Posters and Politics: Red Cross Hygiene and International Health Education
in the Interwar Period, Greg DePies Peoples' Remedies or Social Poisons? -- Japanese Patent Medicines and the Unevenness of Western Medicine, Timothy M. Yang Individuated Life, Collective Death - Insuring Vitality in Modern Japan, Sean K. Callaghan
Matsumoto Michiko and the Politics of Visual Culture in 1970s Japan, Vera C. Mackie Feminist, Lesbian-Feminist, and Commercial Transfigurations of The Hite Report in Japan, James Welker Tele-Visual Teleologies of Feminist Politics: Three Films on the Japanese Women’s Liberation Movement, Setsu Shigematsu Feminist Artist Ito Tari: Performing the Invisible in Contemporary Japan, Rebecca S. Jennison
Legacies of “Co-Prosperity” in Postwar Japan’s
Extraction of Indonesian Energy
, Eric G. Dinmore Japanese Development Consultancies and Neo-Colonial Power in Southeast Asia, Aaron S. Moore Lessons from Construction Among Japanese Civil Engineers in 20th Century Asia, Ryuichi Tanigawa Imagination and Knowledge: Boken Dankichi and the Pre-War Japanese Perception of “Development”, Jin Sato From “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity” to “Southeast Asian Development”: Evolving Japanese Visions of Asia, Janis A. Mimura
Formations of the Shinto Secular, Jason A. Josephson Between Buddhism and Self-Cultivation: The “Movement for Truth” of the Late 1930s, Micah L. Auerback Reiki and the Discursive Spaces of New Age and Spirituality in Japan, Justin Stein
The Role of Housework in Everyday Life: Another Aspect of Consumption in Modern Japan, Masayuki Tanimoto Adopting a Comparative Perspective on Japan's Consumption History, Janet E. Hunter Reviving Tradition: Patients and the Shaping of Japan's Traditional Medicines Industry, Maki Umemura Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan, Helen Macnaughtan Golf Clubbing in Japan, Angus Lockyer
Post-human bioethics – Nakazawa Shinichi’s "Baroque in the Forest" (1992), Takushi Odagiri Degendering Ecodegradation and Rethinking Ecofeminisms in the Writing of Kurihara Sadako, Sakaki Nanao, and Ishimure Michiko , Karen L. Thornber The Domestic Turn in Japanese Environmental Writing, Christine L. Marran
The Spiritual Centering of Christian Korea, Nicholas H. Harkness Future as Return: Negotiating the Past in the Development Work of a Japanese NGO, Chika Watanabe Trust in change: Temporality and affective relationships among graduates of Japanese children’s homes
, Kathryn E. Goldfarb Brave New World: The Disaster Volunteer as Society’s Inter-Temporal Train , Ryo Morimoto “Pseudo-synchronicity,” self-effacement, and the techno-semiotic scheduling of togetherness in Japanese social media, Shunsuke Nozawa
‘Japan’ and ‘Okinawa’ in Motion: With a Focus on Nikkei-Peruvian Migrants, Chikako Yamawaki Conflicted Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Tokyo and ‘Place’, Jamie Coates Migrants and the Indigenous: On the Formation of ‘Hokkaido’ as Colonial Place, Mark J. Winchester Conflict Between the Control of Mobility and Government by Settlement in Manchukuo, Asako Takano
From Nanban Fashion to Keitai Crosses: Christian Paraphernalia in Contemporary Shojo Manga, Rebecca M. Suter The Mystery of Sugar and Sweetness: French-Style Cake and Beautiful Boys in Shojo Manga, Grace Ting Collecting Knowledge: Folklore and the Database in TV Anime Narrative, Deborah Shamoon Things that Think: Girls, Objects, and Interiority in Ogawa Yoko’s Miina no koshin (Mena’s Procession), Eve K. Zimmerman
Recreating Cultural Discourse of Masculinity: Japanese Fathers Who Took Paternity Leave, Saori Yasumoto Boys of the Academie des Naifs: Performing Status, Hierarchy, and Masculinity on Reality TV, Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan Otokomae: Traditional Japanese Manliness Revisited and Romanced, Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
The Construction of Japanese Noh Theatre as a Masculine Art: an Analysis of its Traditional and Modern Discourses , Ryoko Aoki The Gendered Body in Noh Practice and Performance
, Katrina L. Moore Players, Performances and Existence of Women’s Noh:
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, Yusuke Suzumura
Masquerading Heroes: Identity Politics in Cold War Japan, Jonathan E. Abel Being Alice in Japan: Negotiating Cuteness and Autonomy , Masafumi Monden Big Bird in Japan: The Rise and Fall of Sesame Street, Alisa Freedman "Akage no An" in Japanese Girl Culture: The Translation of Anne of Green Gables, Akiko Uchiyama Rites and Passages: Anne of Green Gables Fandom in Japan, Brian R. Bergstrom
Student Activism, White-Collar Life, and Political Maturity: Tenko in 1950s Japan, Adam P. Bronson Civil Soceity in the Making: Japanese Demobilized Soldiers in Media and Associations, Birgit Schneider Sanshin Materiality: Cultural Memory, Hybridity, and Representation in Okinawa, James E. Roberson Military Base Politics in Japan: Beyond Futenma and Okinawa, Robert J. Weiner Nishijin to MK Taxi: Ethnographic Inquiry to Zainichi Korean Entrepreneurialism in Kyoto, Japan, Sarah Kashani
The Irresistible Technology Meets the Slow-Moving Politics: The Politics and Policies Surrounding Cloud Computing in the US and Japan, Kenji E. Kushida Information Communication Technology and the Politics of Privacy in Japan and the United States, Eiji Kawabata Transparency and Democracy: Access to Information Laws in India, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom, Yuko Kasuya Regional cooperation for ICT standardization in Northeast Asia: The case of CJK-SITE, Heejin Lee Regional cooperation for ICT standardization in Northeast Asia: The case of CJK-SITE, Jooyoung Kwak
Middle Class Music? Popular Songs and the Transformation of Japan's Mass Culture Critics
, Hiromu Nagahara Cultural Diplomacy and Mass Consumerism in Modern Japan, Sang Mi Park Budding Student Middle Class: The Red Gate Student Consumption Cooperative and Student Life at Wartime Todai
, Jamyung Choi
The Flowering of Popular Kanshi Poets in the Late Edo Period, Mari Nagase “And you may contribute a verse:” early Meiji kanshi media , Matthew Fraleigh Seigai, Shiki and the Literature of Dialogue: Poetry Exchanges in Meiji Newspapers, Robert Tuck
The Yuisho of the Samurai Class in the Premodern Period: A Case Study of “the Kumagai Family Documents.”, Kiyoshi Jinno The Genealogy of the Samurai Family in Compilation of the Kaden in the Premodern Period: A Case of the Kutsuna Clan, Kana Kobayashi “Fit for Foreigners”: Interpretive Authority over the Chinese and Dutch at Nagasaki, Hansun Hsiung Legitimizing with the Past: Yuisho of Tsujudajima Fishermen and Their Narrative Strategies, Akira Shimizu
Building a Party: Candidate Selection in the Democratic Party of Japan, Daniel M. Smith The Development of DPJ Partisanship: From a Fraction to a Majority (and Back Again?), Yukio Maeda DPJ Ministerial Selection and Durability: A Long Term Perspective, Mikitaka Masuyama The Democratic Party of Japan’s New (But Failing) Grand Security Strategy: From “Reluctant Realism” to “Resentful Realism”?, Christopher W. Hughes
History of Radiation Effects on Human Bodies and Genes: Atomic Bombs to Fukushima, Tomoko Y. Steen Radiation Sickness, Popular Medical Discourse, and Social Discrimination in Early Postwar Japan, Maika Nakao The Lucky Dragon Incident, Radioactive Fallout, and the Politics of Risk Knowledge in Early Postwar Japan, Toshihiro Higuchi An Intellectual Struggle against the Bomb: The Pugwash Conferences and Japanese Scientists, 1954-1963, Akira Kurosaki
Literary Responses to Death and Funerals in Modern Japan , Michihiro Ama War Trauma, Reenactment and Recovery in Okuizumi Hikaru’s “The Stones Cry Out” , David C. Stahl Mourning the Loss of Empire and Hayashi Fumiko's "Floating Clouds" , Jonathan Glade Obasute Narratives and the Japanese Phenomenology of Loss in Old Age , Jason A. Danely
Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness – The Problem of Intention and Explanation in Nishida Kitarô's Basho (1926)., Elena Lange On the Concept of Contradiction in Marx and Nishida, William Haver Tosaka Jun and the Critique of Ideology, Robert Stolz The Logic of Dialectics in Tanabe Hajime, Takeshi Kimoto The Politics of Repentance: Tanabe Hajime’s Zangedo in Historical Perspective, Max Ward
The Taiwan Daily News and TAKAMATSU Toyojiro, the founder of cinema in Taiwan, Yukari Yoshihara How to Make Nationalistic Literature:
Shimata Kinji and the Russo-Japanese War in Taiwan Daily News
, Peichen Wu Taiwan Daily News and Japanese colonial policy of expansion to South East Asia --- how the figures of Koxinga and Robinson Crusoe were made instrumental to it, Yishin Wu The Massacre of the Ethnic Korean after 1923 Kanto Earthquake, as was represented in Ema’s novel, published on Taiwan Daily News, Maki Eguchi
The Eclipse of Intellectual and the Ellipse of Action: Circle Movements and Creative Industries in Japan, Toshiya Ueno What if the Female Manager of a K-On Light Music Club Read Marshall McLuhan’s "Understanding Media"?, Marc Steinberg Miku, Virtual Idol, as Platform: From Creative Industries to Collaborative Creativity, Ian Condry Redefining Japan Brand: New Strategies for the Japanese Culture Industries, Kukhee Choo
Capital’s Topology: Origin, Surface, Fold, Gavin Walker Conceptualizing Civil Society and Transformative Political Practice in Postwar Japan: The Cases of Umemoto Katsumi and Kakehashi Akihide , Viren V. Murthy Uno Kozo and the Political Ramification of the Global Crisis of Capitalism, Ken C. Kawashima Inside or Outside the World Republic: Marx in Light of Karatani Kojin - and Vice Versa , Christian Uhl
Earth to Empire: Japanese Geological Research in Manchuria, 1920-1945, Sakura Christmas Imperial Husbandry: Hunters, Herders, and Scientists in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria, C. J. Huang The Northeast Asian Nitrogen Pump: The Manchurian Soy Bean in Japan's Green Revolution, 1895-1941, Paul Kreitman Fueling Fears: Energy Scarcity, Shale Oil Development, and Japan's Imperial Enterprise in Manchuria, Victor Seow
Heian Cosmopolitanism in a Northern Song Painting of Kongque Mingwang at Ninnaji, Mimi Yiengpruksawan Why Li Jiao? : On the Reception of Tang Poetry in Heian Japan, Brian R. Steininger Poems and Things, Poems as Things: Daijoe byobu waka and Suhama, Edward Kamens Incomparable Cities: Literary Refractions of Heian-kyo and Augustan Rome, Wiebke Denecke
Yanaihara Tadao: The Case of Civic Nationalism, Ryoko Nakano Royama Masamichi and the State of Exception in the Pacific, Kenneth Mark Anderson Liberal Internationalism and its Discontents: Yabe Teiji’s New Order in the Pacific War, Jeremy A. Yellen Okochi Kazuo and Liberal Interventionism in Wartime Social Policy, Akiko Ishii
Edokko Appetites: Food and Identity in Edo Rakugo, Lorna M. Brau Why Merchants Couldn’t Sell in the Capital: Differing Themes and Humor in Kamigata and Tokyo Rakugo, Matthew W. Shores Do Ogres Speak the Osaka Dialect?: Locality, Identity and Speech in Kamigata Rakugo, Noriko Watanabe Female Storytellers in Tokyo and Osaka, Till Weingaertner
Anatomy of Ineffectuality: Revisiting the Fugusha Persona, Marvin Marcus Eccentrics, Empire, and National Identity: The Meiji Canonization of Kinsei kijinden (Eccentrics of Our Times, 1790), Patti H. Kameya Hail Our Nation’s Useless Losers: Meiji Eccentrics Vindicated, William Puck Brecher Poking Fun at Fuzukawa: Parody and the Critique of the Meiji Enlightenment, M. William Steele
Family Ties and Consequences in Challenging Times, Glenda S Roberts Wives and Husbands in a Straitened Japan, Gordon C. Mathews Changing Meanings of Work, Family, and Aging for Single Women in Japan, Lynne Nakano Re-creating Connections: Childrearing Support for Mothers of Preschoolers Living in Tokyo, Satsuki Kawano How Japanese Religious Organizations Are Attempting to Adapt to Post-Bubble Rises in Poverty and Suicide , Mary Picone
Setsuwa-bungaku Studies in the 1950s, Hiroshi Araki Arechi-ha (the “Wasteland” School) and the Japanese Poetic Circles in the 1950s, Jae-gon Suh Brocaded Memories, Nishijin (1961), Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano How to Reestablish ‘Japanese’ Philosophy: The Kyoto School in the Post-Occupation Period, Yasuo Deguchi
Challenges and Their Solutions in Counter-Disaster Measures for People with Special Needs Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, Shigeo Tatsuki The Rebuilding of Japan’s Housing Stock in the Wake of World War II, Rieko Kage Networks in Disaster: The Role of Social Capital in Recovery, Daniel P. Aldrich
Continuities and New Affinities in the Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art in the West Before and After 1990, Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak Nihonga Beside Itself: Contemporary Japanese Art’s Engagement with the Position and Meaning of a Modern Painting Tradition, Matthew Larking Little Sister, Big Girl: Tabaimo and the Gendering of Japanese Contemporary Art, Kirstin Ringelberg
The Limits of an Indispensable History: Nittsu's Company History as a Guide to the Early Modern Origins of Japan's Modern Communications, Charles A. Andrews The Great Kanto Earthquake as Seen in Shashi, Yuriko Kadokura The March Forward: The Mechanization of Shoe Production in Meiji Japan, Martha Chaiklin
Ambiguous Etiology: Licensed Prostitution, Human Rights, and Social Control, Bill Mihalopoulos The Panpan, Prostitutes on the Streets vs. Women Activists: Women as Economic Actors and Policy Makers in the Occupation
, Holly V. Sanders Disease and the Body Politic: Explaining the Epidemic of Venereal Disease in Occupied Japan, Sarah Kovner
Performing the Nation in Maedakô Hiroichirô’s Santô senkyaku (Third-Class Passengers), Kristina S. Vassil Re-imagining the idealized past in Ashikari, Jeremy R. Robinson Reading Japan in Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”, Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Challenging Media Myths: Anti-Nuclear Songs in the Post-Fukushima Era, Michele Mason Media Framing of Protesting People in the Streets: a Case Study of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis, Seongbin Hwang Cultural Framing of "Heroes" in Time of Crisis: a Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Western Media, Journalistic Practice, and Audience Response, Masato Kajimoto Linking Frames and Focusing Events: Comparing Japanese and Western Presentations of the Fukushima Incident, Steven B. Rothman Major Newspapers and Nuclear Energy Policy in Japan: Why They Supported and Are Divided Today, Shunichi Takekawa Mobilizing Bias and Constructing Risk Perception in the Japanese Nuclear Crisis, Kyle Cleveland
From Yomihon to Gôkan: Adaptation of Kyokutei Bakin’s Hakkenden
, James Reichert Signatures of the Self: The (In)Visibility of Writing in Meiji Letters, Hoyt J. Long Alternative Press: Shirakaba’s Influence on Modern Japanese Art, Erin Kelley An International of the Mind: Visuality as Solidarity in Proletarian Journals, Ann Sherif
Going Postal – Empire Building through Miniature Messages on German and Japanese Stamps, Fabian Bauwens Symbols of Exclusion: Constructing Foreigners in Japan and Korea, Erin A. Chung Contested Symbols and Negotiations of Japaneseness; Civil Society and Citizen activism surrounding Japan’s Constitution, Anthem-Flag Law, and 3/11 Disaster., Millie Creighton Re-presenting the State: the Politics of the Kokka as a National Symbol in Modern Japan , Kevin M. Doak Making Japanese Tea: Towards a Praxeology of National Symbols, Kristin Surak
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