Japan

"Laissez-Faire Colonialism": Taguchi Ukichi's Views on the Colonization of Taiwan, Michael Glen Cutler
"Cultural Rule" as a Colonial Ideology: Saito Makoto and the Government-General in 1920s Korea, Kyu Hyun Kim
An Empire for Taiwan: The Taiwan Development Corporation 1936-1946 and Japanese Imperialism Adam Schneider
Education and the Construction of a Colonial Identity in 1920s Korea Leighanne Yuh

Session 9: Reconsidering Twelfth-Century Japan: Gender, Patronage, Power

Three Wives, Three Treasures: The Buddhist Cultural Productions of Three Heian Empresses, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
Memorial Days and Family Treasures: Lineage and Gender in the Care and Veneration of Relics (Shari), Brian D. Ruppert
Manipulating the Margin: Goshirakawa and His Project of Song, Terry Kawashima

Session 10: Feminist Perspectives on Buddhist Nuns in Medieval and Early Modern Japan: Constructing Gendered Identities

Mugai Nyodai and Muso Soseki's Revival of Shomyaku-an Anne Lazrove
Princess, Nun, Artist and Poet: Negotiated Identities of Two Seventeenth-Century Women Elizabeth Lillehoj
Historicizing Gender Representations: Japanese Zen Nuns of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Joseph D. Parker

Session 11: Change and State Capabilities in Japan:Markets, Money, and Media

Corruption and Democracy in Japan, Susan J. Pharr
Structural Gaiatsu: International Financial Movements and Domestic Political Change T. J. Pempel
Deregulation and the Japanese Firm, Ulrike Schaede

Session 12: ROUNDTABLE: Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age

Session 30: New Perspectives on Medicine and Society in Premodern Japan: Part One, "Medical Bodies" in Medieval Japan (See Session 54)

The Gods, the Bad, and the Ugly: Viewing and Locating the Scrolls of Illnesses, John Teramoto
Making the Baby: Its Biological and Social Meanings in Gendered Aristocratic Society, Hitomi Tonomura
Medicine and Community in the Late Sixteenth Century: Yamashina Tokitsune's Patients in Nakajima, Andrew Goble

Session 31: Unmapped and Untranslated: Japanese Women Writers in the Nineties Language, Violence, and Projection in Ogawa Yôko's "Diving Pool", Andra Alvis Language and Allegory in Tawada Yôko's Narratives Keiko Yonaha A World in Flux: Time, Space, and Memory in Shôno Yoriko's Narrative Faye Kleeman

Session 32: Overtext: The Play of Multi-Layered Reading in Edo Texts and Images

Forbidden Play: Erotic Overtext in a Late-Edo Didactic Tale for Children, Midori Y. McKeon
Flowers as Homoerotic Overtext in Edo Art, Tan'o Yasunori
Overtext and the Anxiety of Writing: Sawada Natari's Ana okashi, Sumie Jones

Session 33: Japanese Linguistic Ideology and Socially-Situated Language Practice

What's Cooking?: An Examination of Japanese
Male Language Within Media Domains, Yoshiko Takahashi
Generation and Gender in Media Representation of Young Japanese Women's Speech, Yoshiko Matsumoto
Indexical Meanings of Honorific and Non-Honorific Expressions in Japanese, Shigeko Okamoto
Northridge Earthquake Conversation: The "Loop" Sequence in the Conversation at First Encounter, Shoichi Iwasaki

Session 54: New Perspectives on Medicine and Society in Premodern Japan: Part Two, Public Health and Society in the Tokugawa Period (See Session 30)

Where There's Smoke, There's Tobacco: The History of an Addictive Drug in Edo Japan, William Johnston
Consciousness of "Blood" in the Edo Period and Leprosy: On the Treatment of Leprosy by Venesection, Noriko Suzuki
The State and Medicine in Ezo: Hired Physicians and Jennerian Vaccination Under the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1799-1868 Brett L. Walker

Session 55: Japanese Folklore Studies: New Directions

Beyond Textual Approaches in Japanese Folk Art Studies, Akie Kawagoe
The Metamorphosis of the Kappa: Folklore to Folklorism, Michael Dylan Foster
Ijime and the Japanese Society, Takashi Lep Ariga

Session 56: Urban Politics in Japan

Japanese Cities as Laboratories of Democracy, Ted Gilman
Community Responses to the New International Migration in Japan, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
The Politics of City Image and Ethnic Relations in Japan: Kobe's Use of Chinatown, Timothy Tsu
The Citizen and the Public Sphere in Urban Japan: Barriers and Opportunities for Effective Political Participation, Jeffrey Broadbent
Fiscal Sociology and the Roots of Japan's Property Tax Revolt, Andrew Dewit and Naohiko Jinno

Session 57: Meiji Innocents Abroad: The Kawakami European Tours (1900-1902)

Geisha, Actress, Mistress, Wife: Kawakami Sadayakko Reconsidered, Ayako Kano
Documenting the Exotic: Early European Recordings of the Kawakami Troupe, J. Scott Miller
Puccini's Madama Butterfly: The Sadayakko Connection Arthur Groos

Session 75: Technology is Useful for Japanese Language: Instruction Fact or Fiction?

Education and Technology: When is Technology Really Useful?, Anne LaVin and Shigeru Miyagawa
An Integrated Use of Computer Technology in Teaching and Learning Japanese Yoshimi Nagaya
Where is the Teacher? Videoconferencing Instruction at Towanda High School, Peter Henty
Can Technology Enhance the Japanese Language Curriculum?, Ken Ujie

Session 76: Women and Nationalism

Narratives of Reflexive Women's History: Women's Participation in War, Chizuko Ueno Feminist Rhetoric and War Mobilization of Women, Yuko Nishikawa
Feminism at War: Yamakawa Kikue (1931-1945), Beth S. Katzoff
Reproductive Politics in Modern Japan, Miho Ogino

Session 77: Exploring the Ako Incident Controversy

Reading "Revenge" in the Debate on the Ako Ronin Incident, Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Intraschool Conflicts in the Ako Ronin Controversy: The Case of the Kimon School, Barry D. Steben
Yamaga Soko and the Forty-Seven Ronin Vendetta of 1703 John Allen Tucker

Session 86: Individual Papers: Performance, Translation, Resistance, and Desire in Japanese Literature

The Narrative Figure of Shunkan in the kôwaka-bukyoku Text Iwôgashima: A Performance-Centered Reading, Todd Squires
Mori Ogai and Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro as Translators, John Timothy Wixted
Questions of Authority: Watsuji Tetsurô's Emerging Poetics of Resistance and His Role in the Shizenshugi-Shirakaba-ha Debates, Rosemary Morrison
Mixing Memory and Desire: Tanizaki and Kawabata's Mad Old Men, Sarah A. Cox
Iwano Homei's Narrative Theory Yoichi Nagashima

Session 96: The End of Literature (As We Know It)?: Perspectives on Japanese Literature in Honor of Asai Kiyoshi, Part One (See Session 119)

Women and Demons in Setsuwa, Michelle Li
Kono Taeko's "Soomu" (Mutual Dreams) and the Question of Gendered Narrative, Kathryn W. Sparling
He Stole Her Sky: Takamura Kotaro and Chieko Sho, Phyllis Birnbaum
Reflections: Enchi Fumiko and the Sequel to Onna Zaka, Eileen Mikals-Adachi
Inversion and Repetition: Representations of Women in Sakaguchi Ango's Fiction, Robert Steen

Session 97: Crime and Justice in the Tokugawa Period

Female Crime and State Punishment During the Tokugawa Period, Diana E. Wright
The Fujufuse Movement and the Bakuhan State, Peter Nosco
Punishment and Profit: Nakai Riken's Critique of Tokugawa Justice, Daniel V. Botsman
For Their Own Good: Ninsoku Yoseba in Early Modern Japan, Christian Morimoto Hermansen

Session 98: Recasting Japanese Interwar Capitalism:, Internationalization, War, and Industrial Policy

The Origins of the Licensing System in Japan, Yul Sohn
The Japanese Interwar Capitalism: The Origins of the Developmental State?, Hideaki Miyajima
Yoshisuke Ayukawa's Quest for American Captial and Technology, 1937-1941, Haruo Iguchi

Session 108: Individual Papers: Issues in the Japanese Arts

Art in the Process of Deification, Karen M. Gerhart
Metaphor, Embodied Words, and Dance: Use of Language in Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh Dance, Nanako Kurihara
Revisions and Reinterpretations of the Rishukyo Mandara Said to Have Been Introduced by Shuei, Harriet J. Hunter
Poets of the Dark, Filters of the West: Meiji Era Benshi and their Setsumei, Jeffrey A. Dym
Gender Insubordinaton in Japanese Comics (Manga) for Girls, Fusami Ogi

Session 118: The First Decade of Equal Employment Opportunities: Women, Employment, and the State in Japan: Part One, Company Practices and Equal Employment (See Session 142)

Parent Responsive Policies in Japanese Business Organizations, Tetsushi Fujimoto
The Double-Edged Sword: Japanese Women and Employment in Foreign Banks, Andrea Lanyon
The Geography of Gender in Japanese White-Collar Workplaces: Three Cases of Quasi-Professional Female Workforces, Karen Shire and Madoka Ota

Session 119: The End of Literature (As We Know It)?: Perspectives on Japanese Literature in Honor of Asai Kiyoshi, Part Two (See Session 96)

Sakaguchi Ango: Back at the Old Haunts, Joel Cohn
From Shojo to "Ladies" to "Ghosts": Problems of Female Empowerment in Manga and Animation, Susan J. Napier
Writing AIDS: The Immunological Stories of Shimada Masahiko, Sarah Jane Pradt
Interpreting the Postmodern: The Novels of Takahashi Genichiro, J. Philip Gabriel

Session 120: The Last Word: Hidden Agendas in Japanese Theatre: Secret Treaties, Actor Critiques, and Actors' Memoirs

Noh Without Zeami: The Case of the Sixteenth-Century Hachijôkadensho, Eric C. Rath
Genroku Kabuki: Critics' Collusions and the Artistic Career of Sakata Tôjûrô, Laurence R. Kominz
Jockeying for Publishing Place: Contemporary Actors' Memoirs, Jonah Salz

Session 121: Unexplored Riches: Cultural Ties Between Yi Dynasty Korea and Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the Sino-Japanese Studies Group)

Amenomori Hôshû and East Asian Cultural Relativism, Emanuel Pastreich
Ike Taiga, Kim Yusong, and Korean Landscape Painting Burglind Jungmann
Ueda Akinari's Korean Encounters Lawrence E. Marceau

Session 129: Individual Papers: Politics and Rituals in Modern Japan

Information Technology and Political Economy: Japan's Response to America's Internet Stephen J. Anderson
Building a Healthy Population Through Education in Postwar Japan, Gail Honda
A Study of Taiyo: Through Observations of the USA and Kanda Naibu's Work, Michiko Oda
The Soma Incident: Medicine, Madness, and the State in Meiji Japan, Susan Burns
Ritual Politics or State Ritual? Blurring the Japanese Constitution at Yasukuni Shrine for the Military Dead, John K. Nelson

Session 140: Pilgrimages in Early Modern Japan: High and Low

Expansion and Contraction: The Implications of Miniature Pilgrimage Routes for an Understanding of Religious Praxis in Late Tokugawa, Jane Marie Law
Marching Through the Kanto: Yoshimune's Pilgrimage to Nikko, Matthew E. Keith
Okage Mairi and Ejanaika, Reinhard Zoellner

Session 141: Politics of Culture in Postwar Japan

Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympic Arts Festival, Noriko Aso
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics and Historical Redemption Yoshikuni Igarashi
The Postwar Culture Movement in Hiroshima, Leslie Pincus
Japan Before "Post-Modernism": The Avant-garde, the Quotidian, and the Urban Spectacle in the Late Sixties, Kentaro Tomio

Session 142: The First Decade of Equal Employment Opportunities: Women, Employment, and the State in Japan: Part Two, Social Policy and Equal Employment (See Session 118)

Japan's Corporate-Centered Society and Gender Biases in Social Policy, Mari Osawa
Pinning Hopes on Angels: Encouraging Reproduction in a Low Birth-Rate Society, Glenda S. Roberts
United States Occupation of Japan and Its Class and Gender Dynamics, Mire Koikari

Session 143: Bas(e)ic Relations: U.S. Military Installations at the Boundaries of Japanese Culture

Life at the Margins/Marginalized Lives: Working Women at the Borders of Base and Off-Base Economies in Postwar Okinawa, Linda Angst
Strained Relations: Japanese Feminist Discourse on the Comfort Women and the Okinawa Rape Case, Linda E. White
The Zushi Citizens' Movement Against the Housing Project for United States Navy Personnel, Kenneth J. Ruoff
Base Fictions: Writing to Secure the Perimeter, Stephen B. Snyder

Session 149: Individual Papers: Defining Japanese National Identity

Challenging the Japanese National Narrative: Inoue Hisashi and the Reawakening of Regional Identity, Christopher Robins
Internationalization, Hometown-ism, and an Instance of Cultural Syncretism at the Hamamatsu Kite Festival, Joshua H. Roth
The Development of National Identity: The Symbolization of the Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Yuichi Tamura
The Creation of a Superior Japanese Culture: The Case of Hori Ichiro, Hideaki Matsuoka
The Construction of National/Ethnic Identity of the Korean Community in Osaka, 1920-1945, Chisato Hotta

Session 160: Crossing Boundaries in Japanese Popular Culture

The "Reunion" of History and Popular Culture: Japan "Comes Out" on TV, Stephen D. Miller
Images of Unsatisfactory Women in Japanese Print Media Laura Miller
Modern Images of the Tale of Genji Scrolls, Akiko Hirota
Fanning Desires: The Place of Foreign Female
Singers in Japanese Popular Music, Christine R. Yano

Session 161: Defining the New Role of Taisho Women: Seito, the New Woman Association, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Defining Womanhood: Hiratsuka Raicho and the New Woman of Taisho Japan, Dina Lowy
Engendering Eugenics: Women's Pursuit of Anti-V.D. Marriage Restriction Law in Taisho Japan, Sumiko Otsubo
From Potentially Radical to Respectable: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Taisho Japan, Rumi Yasutake

Session 162: Japan's Evolving Multilateralism

Japan's Evolving Role in Multilateral Trade Institutions: The GATT Uruguay Round Agricultural Negotiations, Christopher C. Meyerson
From Reactive State to Cautious Leader: The Nakayama Proposal and Japan's Role in Promoting Multilateral Security Dialogues in East Asia, Paul Midford
Between Realism and Idealism in Japanese Foreign Policy: The Case of the ASEAN Regional Forum, Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Emerging Multilateral Security Dialogue in Asia-Pacific: The View from Tokyo Akiko Fukushima

Session 163: A Meiji Novelist Revisited: Mori Ogai on Screen

Said and Unsaid, Seen and Unseen-Two Sansho Dayus, Fumiko Yamamoto
Short Story into Action: Ogai's "The Dancing Girl" and Shinoda's Die Tänzerin, Keiko I. McDonald

Session 164: Class in Contemporary Japan (Sponsored by NEAC)

Reproducing Fraying Social Relations: Japanese Low-Level High Schools, David Slater
Class Differences in Educational Opoportunity in Japan, Masao Watanabe
Managing Class: Japanese High Schools at Work, Mary C. Brinton

Session 177: The World of Demons and Hells: The Premodern and Modern Images

Essentials of Rebirth in Hell, Neil Francis McMullin
The Soteriology of the Noh Theater, Soho K. Machida
The Demonization of "Other" in Medieval and Modern Japan, Haruko Wakabayashi
Hiroshima as Hell: The Bomb and Japan's Temporal Disclocation, William R. LaFleur

Session 178: Ritual Strategies: Aspects of Power and Religion in Premodern Japan

Immigrant Kinship Groups and the Construction of Japanese Kingship, Michael Como
Local Paradises and the Theater of State: Imperial Pilgrimage in Early Medieval Japan, David Moerman
Appealing in the Name of the Buddhas and the Gods: Ritual Protests in the Late Heian and Kamakura Eras, Mikael Adolphson
Fighting Words Carol Richmond Tsang

Session 179: A Public Passionately Concerned with Itself: Japan's Public Sphere in the 1960s

From Public Phones to Community Newsletters: The Localization of the Public Sphere in the 1960s, Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
Raced Bodies and the Public Sphere in Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad, Sharalyn Orbaugh
Guilty Verdict: Akasegawa Genpei and the 1000-Yen-Note Trial, Reiko Tomii
The Politics of Loss: Eto Jun and Public Discourse in the 1960s, Ann Sherif

Session 180: At the Intersection of Feminism and Queer Theory: Orienting Maleness in Modern Japanese Literature

The Body in Nakagami Kenji: Deformities, Nasty Blood, and Battered Genitals, Nina Cornyetz
What Does the Masochist See? Tanizaki's Shunkinshö and Readerly Disavowal, Margherita Long
Reading the Politics of Male Homosexuality in Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, James Keith Vincent
The Asethetic Sexology of Inagaki Taruho: Rethinking the Politics of Sublimation, Jonathan Mark Hall

Session 189: Individual Papers: Language, Performance, and Behavior in Japanese

The Social Role of Rakugo in Performing Culture Patricia Welch
Polite Language Behavior: A Comparison Between Learners and Native Speakers of Japanese, Noriko Asato
The Effectiveness of ICALI in Tutoring Japanese Connectives, Masato Kikuchi
In Search of Biwa Hôshi: Scholarship and the Biwa Traditions of Kyushu, Hugh de Ferranti

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