Abstracts of the 1998 AAS Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 1998, Washington, DC
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- Wasting Away: The Embodiment of Female Ghosts in Japanese
Theater, Susan B. Klein
- Talking That Talk: Shikitei Samba’s Writing on
Performance, Joshua Young
- Towards a Dynamic Theater—The Performing Body in
Late Medieval Noh, Beng Choo Lim
- Redefining the Conservative Coalition: Agriculture and
Small Business in Japan, Robert W. Bullock
- Deregulation and Domestic Politics in Japan: Implications
for U.S. Trade Policy, Robert M. Uriu
- Critical Condition? Continuity and Change after the 1996
Reforms of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Paul D.
Talcott
- Putting New Wine into Old Bottles: The Effect of
Electoral Reforms on Parties, Candidates, and Campaign
Practices, Ray Christensen
- Family Authority and Female Desire in Enchi Fumiko’s
"Oni", Marilyn Bolles
- Between Fantasy and Science: Liminal Women in Abe Kobo, Christopher
Bolton
- Shono Yoriko’s Imaginative Hypertexts: Word, Other,
and Gender in the Postmodern World, Shigemi Nakagawa
- Men Dreaming About Women: Bando Tamasaburo’s Yume No
Onna, Charles Shiro Inouye
- Metabolic Figurations: The Surfaces of Subjectivity in
Kurahashi Yumiko’s "Partei", Mary A.
Knighton
- Gendered Television: Feminine Inflection of the Male Hero
in the Samurai Drama and Detective Series, Discourses of
Female Powerlessness, Isolde Standish
- Authorial Masking in the Kokinshu Preface: Ono no
Komachi and Her Gender, Catherine Youngkyung Ryu
- Working for a Place in the Mainstream: Voluntary
Organizations in Japanese Suburbs, Lynne Nakano
- Getting Mothers to Work: Women’s Labor Force
Re-Entries and Informal Employment in Japan, Wei-hsin
Yu
- Monsters and Civilization, Gerald A. Figal
- Fukurai Tomokichi: A Japanese Scholar Between Science and
Spiritism, Lisette Gebhardt
- The Nation in a Sandal: "Hard" Science and
"Soft" Culture in Prewar Japanese Ethnology, Alan
S. Christy
- Status and Feudalism in Early Modern Japan, David L.
Howell
- A Compartmented Polity: Interfacing among Corporate
Political Groups, Luke Roberts
- Freedom and Popular Rights: Tokugawa Precedents, Mark
Ravina
- Feminine Styles: The Duplicity of Gender in Heian Texts, Thomas
LaMarre
- Aesthetic Language and Moral Sentiment in Genji
monogatari, Carole Cavanaugh
- Figuring Ono no Komachi, Terry Kawashima
- Inscribing Gender in Tosa nikki, Tomiko Yoda
- Japans in Paris, 1867, Angus Lockyer
- Tradition and Modernity in Prewar Japanese Department
Stores, Noriko Aso
- Torch, Shrine, His Majesty’s Voice in the 1940 Tokyo
Olympics, Sandra Collins
- The Preface as a Guide to Shuko in Kibyoshi (Pictorial
Comic Fiction), Haruko Iwasaki
- The Pattern of Evolution of "Mitate" Imagery, Timothy
T. Clark
- Reality Plus Something: Shuko in Mid-Meiji Literary
Writing, Robert Campbell
- Of Love and the Marriage Market: Masculinity Politics and
Filipina-Japanese Intermarriages in Japan, Nobue
Suzuki
- New Body Aesthetics for Men, Laura Miller
- Would "a Real Man" Live for his Family?: Ikigai,
Gender Roles, and Masculinity in Today’s Japan, Gordon
Mathews
- New Male Identity in Japan, Tadashi Nakamura
- Challenging National Authority: Governor Ota and the U.S.
Military Bases in Japan, Sheila A. Smith
- Consumer Protection and the Center-Local Relationship in
Japan, Patricia L. Maclachlan
- The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Local
Internationalization, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
- Same-Old Same Old: Center-Local Relations in Urban
Redevelopment, Theodore Gilman
- The Singularity of Ecstasy in Furui Yoshikichi’s Yoko
(1971), Hosea Hirata
- Liminal Eroticism in Three Tales by Edogawa Ranpo, Maryellen
T. Mori
- Figuring the Future: Post-War Japanese Theater, Miryam
Sas
- In Tanizaki’s Shadow: Nakagami Kenji and the World
of the Blind, Eve Zimmerman
- Japan as the Commander of the Faithful, Masaru
Tamamato
- Orients and the Orient, Stefan Tanaka
- Ottoman-Japanese Relations in the Late 19th Century, Selim
Deringil
- Japan as Political Tool in Two Ottoman Contexts: Khedival
Egypt under British Occupation and Istanbul, the Imperial
Capital, Renee Worringer
- Japan and the World of Islam, Selcuk Esenbel
- Gender and Elder Care: Social Change and the Role of the
Caregiver in Japan, Phyllis Braudy Harris and
Susan Long
- Who is Buried with Whom?: Graves as a Mirror of the
Japanese Family, Yohko Tsuji
- Conflict in the Creation and Maintenance of Communal
Identity, Scott Schnell
- Shifting Paradigms of Religion and State: Implications of
the 1997 Japanese Supreme Court Decision for Social,
Religious, and Political Change, John Nelson
- Modern Sexual Trauma in Meiji Narrative, Sharalyn
Orbaugh
- Through a Child’s Eyes: The Colonial Experience in
the Writings of Hayashi Kyoko and Yoshida Tomoko, Faye
Kleeman
- Interpreting Trauma in the Early Fiction of Kono Taeko, Gretchen
Jones
- The Pale Flame of Memory: Nuclear Holocaust and the Early
Poetry of Oba Minako, Janice Brown
- Shrine Estates and the Birth of Ise Shinto in Medieval
Japan, William M. Bodiford
- The Spiritual and Material Economics of Merit Dedication
in Japanese Zen, Griffith Foulk
- Buddhist Institutions and Economic Policy in Meiji Japan,
John S. LoBreglio
- The Economy of Salvation: Capital, Productive Practices,
and Soteriology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Fabio
Rambelli
- Between the Dead and the Innocent: Associations of the
Bereaved and Uses of "Generation" in Japanese
Memory of World War II, Franziska Seraphim
- General Charles de Gaulle and the Showa Emperor:
Referents for Sanitized Official Memories of the War in
France and Japan, Ken Ruoff
- Restoring the Ruins of Memory: Gender, Class, and
Ethnicity in Okinawan War Narratives, Linda Angst
- The Feminine, the Lyrical, and Japanese Modern Literary
Histories, Tomi Suzuki
- The Tale of Genji: Lyricism, Gender, and National
Identity, Haruo Shirane
- The Ideology of Form: Waka and the Modern Emperor-System,
Joshua Mostow
- What Every Political Economist Should Know About
Housewives: Notes from the Japanese Case, Robin
LeBlanc
- Japanese Housewives’ Political Participation: A New
Style, Tokuko Ogai
- Gender, Consumerism and Colonial Development in the
Making of Japan’s Middle Class Cosmopolitanism, Michael
A. Schneider
- Social Art History and Ukiyo-e: Where Have All the
Consumers Gone?, Allen Hockley
- Reconsidering the Genre Paradigm, Matthew P. McKelway
- Art Production and Consumption as Social Practice, Quitman
E. Phillips
- The Interfirm Relationship in Japanese Personal Computer
Industry and its Consequences, Sang-Young Han
- From Ethnic Affinity to Alienation in the Global Ecumene:
The Ethnic Encounter Between Japanese-Brazilian Return
Migrants and the Japanese, Takeyuki Tsuda
- How the Japanese State Links Nationality, Culture, Race,
and Economic Progress to Construct
"Japaneseness", Brian McVeigh
- A Transnational Industrial Policy?: Public Financing of
Japanese Foreign Direct Investment, Mireya Solis
- The Japanese Model and Capitalism Chinese Style, Dajin
Peng
- Heresy on Zenga: Zen Painting and the Modern Zen
Paradigm, Kendall H. Brown
- "Japaneseness" as a Paradigm in Art History, Ellen
P. Conant
- The National Treasure System as a Formative Paradigm in
the History of Japanese Art, Cynthea J. Bogel
- Japanese Rap Music and Fieldwork: How Do I Get Down (and
Then Get It Down on Paper)?, Ian Condry
- Sumo and Ozumo: Gaining Access and Locating the Subject, R.
Kenji Tierney
- Working Out and Working In: Negotiating
Participant-Observation in a Japanese Fitness Club, Laura
Ginsberg
- Caught in the Spin Cycle: An Anthropological Observer at
the Sites of Japanese Professional Baseball, William
W. Kelly
- The Nativist Poetry of Matsuo Taseko, Anne Walthall
- Traveling Companions: Couples on the Road Together in
Early Modern Japan, Lawrence E. Marceau
- Ema Saiko’s Kanshi Poetry: Irrelevance of
Sex/Gender Categories, Sadako Ohki
- The Life and Poetry of Otagaki Rengetsu, Roger K.
Thomas
- Cultural Criticism/Cultural Construction and Religious
Research: The Intellectual Background of the Emergence of
Religious Research in the Meiji Period, Hidetaka
Fukasawa
- Buddhist Studies in Modern Japan, Hayashi Makoto
- From National Morality Theory to Shinto Studies, Isomae
Junichi
- From National Character to National Spirit: Prewar
Japanese Intellectuals’ View of Japaneseness, Hideaki
Matsuoka
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Consciousness of Universal
Modernity, Seiji M. Lippit
- Adaptation, Translation, Imitation, Creation: The Terms
of Modern Japanese Literary Production, Indra Levy
- Reading Premodern Texts in Modernity, Kojin Karatani
- Pharmaceutical Ecologies: Japanese Medicine and East
Asia, Andrew Goble
- Medical Exchange in Contested Lands: Pharmaceutical
Products as Cultural Capital, Brett L. Walker
- Medicine Shifting Towards Westernization in Late 18th
Century Japan? A Practitioner’s View: Evidence From
Ogino Gengai’s Patient Records, Heidrun
Reissenweber
- Singing the Orphan Blues: Misora Hibari, Cinema, and
Post-surrender Re-moralization, Joanne Izbicki
- Happy Ending?, Kenneth Mark Anderson
- The Japan That Can "Say Yes": Ishihara Shintaro
Meets Chage and Aska, Michael Bourdaghs
- Post-"kayokyoku": Japanese Popular Music Abroad
and At Home, or the Dialectics of Open Seclusion, Leo
Ching
- A Poetry of Light: Kurutta ichipeiji and Literary
Confrontation with the Image, Aaron Gerow
- Visuality and Gender in Modern Japanese Performances, Ayako
Kano
- Economies of Culture: The Taisho Bundan Dallies with the
Movies, Joseph Murphy
- With Amulets and Banners: Giving National Meaning to
Kompira Pilgrimage, Sarah Thal
- Preaching and Printing: Shifting the "Space" of
Buddhist Religious Communication, Galen Amstutz
- Fire and Earth: The Politics of Cremation in Early Meiji
Japan, Andrew Bernstein
- Buddhist Weddings and the Domestication of Buddhism in
Modern Japan, Richard Jaffe
- Korean Workers at Prewar Japanese Coal Mines: Docile or
Militant?, W. Donald Smith
- Leprosy as "Metaphor in Mishima Yukio’s Raio
no terasu and Other Works, James Raeside
- Hagiwara Sakutaro’s Return to Japan—Reading Nihon
e no kaiki , Guohe Zheng
- State Integration and Local Resistance in Meiji Japan:
The Case of Education, Brian Platt
- Taiwanese Medical Students and Doctors Under Japan’s
Kominka Movement: A Case Study of Identity Politics in
Colonial Assimilation., Ming-cheng Lo
- Causal Constructions of Disease in Japan: Bacteriology,
Beriberi, and the Military, Christian Oberlaender
- "Nature or Nurture?": Eugenic Thought of the
Botanist/Educator Yamanouchi Shigeo (1876–1973), Sumiko
Otsubo
- Unveiling the Nerve of the Nation: Neurasthenia, Public
Health, and the Building of Japan, Sabine Fruehstueck
- Reconsidering the Mingei Undo as a Colonial Discourse:
The Politics of Visualizing Asian "Popular
Art", Shigemi Inaga
- Shanghai through Colonial Eyes: Yokomitsu’s Search
for an Asian Modernity, Dennis Washburn
- Refracted Visualities and Theatrical Femaleness: Bando
Tamasaburo/Izumi Kyoka, Nina Cornyetz
- "Intercourse" and the Space of Nation-States in
Early Meiji Historiography, Christopher L. Hill
- International Terms, Alexis Eastwood
- Money, Soseki, London, Ioannis Mentzas
- Moving Hachiman to Kitayama: Yoritomo’s Construction
of Tsurugaoka Hachimanguji and its Significance to the
Establishment of his Power Base, Roy Ron
- Even Sinners Like Us: Overtures to Warrior Converts in
the Yugyo shonin engi e, Todd Brown
- Rebirth of the Warrior-King: Warrior Government and the
Powers of Buddha Relics (Busshari) in Medieval
Japan, Brian D. Ruppert
- The Fighting Servants of Buddha, Mikael Adolphson
- Political Representation and Civil Society in Meiji
Japan, Douglas Howland
- Civil Society and the Uses of France in Early Meiji
Japan, Kevin M. Doak
- Bypassing Civil Society: From the Body to the State in
Ueki Emori’s Democratic Vision, Julia Adeney
Thomas
- Kami, Shinto, and Social Change in Japan, E. Leslie
Williams
- Gender in Familial and Communal Rituals in an Urban
Japanese Community, Satsuki Kawano
- I Have a "Faith": Religion and Coping with
Parent Care in Tokyo, Brenda Robb Jenike
- Wishing for a Sudden Death: Ancestorhood and the Fear of
Senility among Elderly Japanese, J. W. Traphagan
- The Burden of Praxis: Technology versus Ideology in the
Development of Japan’s Iron Industry,
1874–1881, David G. Wittner
- The QC Revolution at NEC: Vacuum Tubes, Shewhart Charts,
and the Postwar Reconstruction, H. Andrew Robertson
- Undermining Technonationalism: Japan and the
International Space Station, Jonathan Lewis
- Drowning by Numbers: Suicide and Salvation in Medieval
Japanese Buddhism, David Moerman
- She’s Having My Baby: Buddhist Violence and the
Female Corpse, Hank Glassman
- Kicks: On the Monsters the Shitenno Trampled, Mimi
Hall Yiengpruksawan
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