JAPAN

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Session 9. IMMIGRANT WORKERS IN JAPAN: HUMAN RIGHTS, LEGAL PROTECTION AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

• Legal Rights and Legislative Benefits of Foreign Workers in Japan, by Ronald C Brown
• Latin American Immigrant Community in Japan, by Keiko Yamanaka
• Documenting the Undocumented: NGOs and Foreign Workers in Japan, by Glenda S Roberts
• Protecting the Human Rights of Foreign Workers in Japan: Politics of Prostitution and Murder, by David Earl Groth

Session 10. MIMESIS AND MASS SOCIETY IN PREWAR JAPANESE REPRESENTATIONS OF SELF

• Shadowy Dragons and Doppelgangers: Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Double Jeopardy of Writing, by Gerald A Figal
• The Art of Nations: Japanese National Treasures as Self-Representation, by Noriko Aso
• Edogawa Ranpo and the Doubling of Identity: A History of the Senses, by Yoshikuni Igarashi

Session 26. FROM PRINT CULTURE TO CYBERSPACE IN MODERN JAPAN: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF NEW MEDIA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• First Impressions: Meiji Perceptions of the Cultural Impact of Moveable Type Printing, by Giles Richter
• Operators and Audience: The Transition from Amateur Radio to Broadcasting, by Deborah R Poskanzer
• Social Imagination and the Industrial Formation of Television Technologies in Japan, by Koshimizu Shin

Session 27. THE EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF JAPANESE EXPRESSIONS ON THE INTERPERSONAL EDGE

• The Development of Markers of Speaker's Stance in Clause-Final Position in Japanese: Case Studies, by Ryoko Suzuki
• Negative Questions in Japanese, by Masaru Inoue
• The Discourse Function of Desyoo/Daroo, by Polly Szatrowski
• Collocations of the Japanese Sentence-Final Particles and Their Social Meanings, by Haruko Minegishi Cook

Session 28. FROM WAKA TO SHI: POETIC PRACTICE IN JAPANESE WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POETRY

• Life's Text on the Warp of Waka: "The Kagero Diary," by Sonja Arntzen
• The Intention of Izumi Shikibu's Poetry Composition, by Sumiko Shinozuka
• Gender, Poetry and Autobiography in the Work of Yosano Akiko, by Janine Beichman
• Constructing the Female Poetic Subject: Hayashi Fumiko's "Aouma O Mitari," by Janice Brown

Session 37. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: POLITICAL ECONOMY IN JAPAN

• Business, State, and the Transformation of Labor Management Relations in Postwar Japan, by Charles M Weathers
• Public Investment and Regional Economic Development in Japan: A Re-examination of the Evidence, by Jay Marmé
• The Introduction and Diffusion of the Modern Corporation in Meiji Japan, by Azumi Ann Takata

Session 47. PRAGMATICS AND JAPANESE LANGUAGE TEACHING

• ?!Roo Sukuuru Ni Ikitai N Desu Kara, Suisenjoo O Kaite Kudasai, by Maki H Hubbard
• A Study of Discourse Markers in Japanese Conversation, by Mieko Kimura Philips
• Authentic Spoken Japanese: Not an Impossible Goal, by Virginia Marcus
• On Being PC (Pragmatically Correct), by Mutsuko Endo Hudson

Session 48. STICKS, STONES, POTS AND PLOTS: ARCHEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO JAPANESE HISTORY

• The Archeology of Kingship, by Joan R Piggott
• Wooden Tags and Noble Houses: The Household(s) of Prince Nagaya as Revealed by Mokkan, by Cornelius J Kiley
• The Archeology of the Kokubunji, by J Edward Kidder Jr
• Exotic Ceramics and Modes of Exchange in Okinawan State Development from 1100 to 1600, by Richard Pearson

Session 49. NOTIONS OF DIFFERENCE AND COMMUNITY: IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE

• Poetry of Protest from Occupied Okinawa: Arakawa Akira's The Colored Race, by Michael S Molasky
• Consuming Passions: Spectacle, Liminality, and the Commoditization of Blackness in Japan, by John G Russell
• Dismantling Japanism: The Ciphered National Self in the Works of Shimada Masahiko, by Nina Cornyetz

Session 66. NO MIRACLES HERE: THE POLITICS OF URBAN REVITALIZATION IN JAPAN

• Local Uses of National Policies: Revitalizing the Hakata Inner-City Shigeru Imasato
• Building Up Areas Through Interaction: The Formation of Regional Flow Networks in Japan Sam Steffensen
• Ineffective Urban Redevelopment Efforts in a Small Kyushu City Ted Gilman

Session 67. PRACTICE, PATRONAGE, AND POLITICS: RISSHU RENEWAL IN 13TH-CENTURY JAPAN

• The Re-establishment of New Orders of Buddhist Monks and Nuns, by Paul Groner
• The Udayana Buddha Image in Eison's Thought and Practice, by Donald F McCallum
• Bakufu Policies Towards Religious Groups in Kamakura, by Martin Collcutt
• Re-Presenting the Founder: Ninsho's Painted Life of Ganjin, by Karen L Brock

Session 68. WHAT'S "EARLY MODERN" AND "JAPANESE" ABOUT EARLY MODERN JAPAN? Part One (See Session 89)

• Mapping Early Modernity: Geographical Meditations on a Comparative Concept, by Karen Wigen
• The Prehistory of the Japanese Nation-State, by David L Howell
• Tokugawa Religion, by James Ketelaar

Session 87. VIOLENCE, EROS, AND IDENTITY IN THE FICTION OF NAKAGAMI KENJI

• Landscape in the Works of Nakagami Kenji, by Nina Cornyetz
• The Ends of the Earth: Ethnic Identity and the Asiatic Vision of Nakagami Kenji, by Faye Yuan Kleeman
• A Tale That Moans With Joy When Blood Spurts From Its Wounds: The Politics and Poetics of Eros and Violence in Three Texts by Nakagami Kenji, by Livia Monnet
• Knocking the World: Displaced Abjection in the Fiction of Nakagami Kenji, by Eve Zimmerman

Session 88. ACCESS AND AGENDA SETTING IN JAPANESE POLITICS

• Environmental Politics in Postwar Japan: Pollution Control & Environmentalism, by Keiko Tabusa
• The Politics of Product Liability: The Impact of Consumer Groups, by Patricia Maclachlan
• Are Japanese NGOs Agenda Setters? David M Potter
• Public Opinion in US-Japan Trade Negotiations: The Case of SII, by Elizabeth R Heiman-Zagorodney

Session 89. WHAT'S "EARLY MODERN" AND "JAPANESE" ABOUT EARLY MODERN JAPAN? Part Two (See Session 68) (Sponsored by Early Modern Japan Network)

• Locating Modernity in Japanese Art History, by Ikumi Kaminishi
• Universalized Women Among Classified Men: Body, Sex, and Blood, by Hitomi Tonomura
• Formulating a Theory of Women's Writing in 17th-Century Japan: Kitamura Kigin's "Ominaeshi Monogatari," by Paul Schalow

Session 99. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: CONSTRUCTING WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

• Why do Japanese Elementary School Teachers Separate Students by Sex So Often? Ayumi Miyazaki
• Girls and Boys and Their Views of Work and Their Future: From a Lower-track Japanese High School to Work, by Carol Kinney
• Domesticity and Desire: New Regimes of Japanese Consumption in a Global Economy, by Amy Borovoy
• Assigning Blame for AIDS: The Demonization of Female Sexuality in Japan, by Sarah Pradt

Session 107. NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF URBAN SOCIETY IN EDO

• Urban Lifestyles in Edo As Seen Through Textiles, by Yuko Tanaka
• Kasei Culture and Sensoji Sakariba, by Nam-lin Hur
• Studying the History of Edo: The Contribution of Archaeology, by Harunobu Kobiki
• Tour of Duty: Domainal Samurai and the "Edo Experience," by Constantine Vaporis

Session 108. THE POSTWAR JAPANESE POLITICAL ECONOMY IN DISARRAY?: CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES FROM THE 1955 REGIME

• Has Stricter Anti-Monopoly Law Made Japan a "Normal" Market Economy? by Mark Tilton
• Explaining Rice Market Liberalization in Japan, by Robert W Bullock
• What Went Wrong with the LDP?: A Critical Appraisal of the Party's Organizational Adjustments, by Kato Junko
• Socio-economic Reforms and the Waning of Opposition in Japan, by Nobuhiro Hiwatari

Session 109. JAPAN ANTHROPOLOGY BETWEEN AREA AND DISCIPLINE, Part One: ANTHROPOLOGY WITHIN JAPAN STUDIES (See Session 129)

• Math, Pots, Community, Art, and Spirit: Japan Studies and Educational Anthropology, by John Singleton
• Recovering, Uncovering, and Discovering Genders and Sexualities in Japan: Anthropological Perspectives, by Jennifer Robertson
• Rock, Scissors, Paper: Culture, Institutions, and the Japanese Economy, by Theodore C Bestor

Session 118. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: NEW READINGS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPANESE LITERATURE

• Thinking Beauty: Dethronement of Patriarchal Views in Mori Ogai's Gan, by Atsuko Sakaki
• Speaking the Unspeakable: Female Madness and Rebellion in Furui Yoshikichi's Yoko, by Donna Storey
• Conflicting Notions of Love in Natsume Soseki's Nowaki, by James Reichert
• Another Atomic-Bomb Literature: Oba Minako's Urashimaso, by Reiko Tachibana Nemoto

Session 127. PLAY OF LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE

• Keeping Words from Flying Away: The Obsessive Linguistics of Inoue Hisashi and Tsutsui Yasutaka, by Sumie Jones
• Fowl Play and Feral Maidens: The Rhetoric of Alterity in Japanese Women's Fiction, by Maryellen T Mori
• Tanaka Yasuo's Somewhat Crystal: Graphism in Contemporary Japanese Fiction, by Charles S Inoue
• An Aphasic Cry of Existence: Tanaka Komimasa and Hiruma Hisao, by Eiji Sekine

Session 128. SACRED AND SECULAR IN THE IKKO IKKI

• Self-Governing Villages in Sixteenth Century Japan, by Kristina Kade Troost
• The Ongoing Religious Substratum of the Ikko Ikki, by Galen D Amstutz
• Villages, Villagers and the Ikko Ikki, by Carol Richmond

Session 129. JAPAN ANTHROPOLOGY BETWEEN AREA AND DISCIPLINE, Part Two: JAPAN ANTHROPOLOGY WITHIN THE DISCIPLINE (See Session 109)

• Japan Anthropology and the Anthropology of Personhood: Exterior and Interior, by Takie Sugiyama Lebra
• Overcoming Lack: Paths for the Future in Feminist Anthropology of Japan, by Anne Allison
• Japan Anthropology and Medical Anthropology, by Margaret Lock
• Japan Anthropology and Theories of Practice, by William Kelly

Session 140. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: CULTURE AND POWER IN TOKUGAWA AND MEIJI JAPAN

• Kabuki Playwrights and the Playwriting System, by Katherine Saltzman-Li
• The Development of the Concept of Giri in Mid-Edo Samurai Thought: Sato Naokata and His Critics, by Barry D Steben
• Impediments to the Reception of Social Sciences in Early-Meiji Japan, by M Pierce Griggs
• Hideyoshi on Stage: Theatricality and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Noh Drama, by Steven T Brown

Session 147. THE LOGIC OF JAPANESE IMPERIALISM?

• Empire and National Defense: Japanese Policy in Manchuria in the Aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, by Y Tak Matsusaka
• The Politics of Empire: World War One and Japan, by Frederick R Dickinson
• Total Empire: Japan and Manchukuo, by Louise Young

Session 148. PERIODICAL VOICES: THE JOURNAL IN MEIJI-TAISHO LITERATURE

• Meiji Zasshi and the Oral Tradition, by J Scott Miller
• The Personal Voice in Meiji-Taisho Literary Journalism, by Marvin Marcus
• Meiji Journals and the Construction of the Woman Writer, by Rebecca Copeland

Session 149. LIFECOURSE AND SELF-IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

• Ikigai and Identity in Japanese Lives, by Gordon Mathews
• Private Time and Private Selves: Leisure, Lifecourse and Identity in Japan, by James E Roberson
• Shikata Ga Nai: Resignation, Control, and Self-Identity in Japan, by Susan O Long
• Durable Snapshots, Mutable Selves or is it Vice Versa, by David W Plath

Session 162. IMAGE AS INFORMATION IN BAKUMATSU JAPAN

• Reformulating Foreignness in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan, by Robert A Eskildsen
• Political Information and Satirical Prints: The Popular Image of Political Authorities in Utagawa Kuniyoshi's "Kitaina mei nanbyo ryoji," by Tetsunori Iwashita
• Foreigners in Bakumatsu Japan: Friend or Fiend? M William Steele

Session 163. TOURISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

• Performances for Gods and Tourists: Hayachine Kagura, by William Lee
• Tradition on Tape: Rakugo Storytelling and Electronic Media, by Lorie (Lorna) Brau
• Promoting Puppets: Osaka's Nose Folk Joruri Theater, by Patricia Pringle Sims
• New Noh in Old Bottles: The Takigi (Torchlit) Noh Boom, by Jonah Salz

Session 164. ROMANCING JAPAN: LOVE AND ROMANCE IN POST-1945 JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE

• Romancing Democracy: Love, Romance and Freedom in Japanese Films of the Occupation Period, by Joanne Izbicki
• Loving in Longing: Shaping Romance in Japanese Popular Song, by Christine R Yano
• Love and Romance in Japanese Films, by Tamae K Prindle

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