Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA
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- Japanese Values Reexamined, Mamoru Yamada
- Post-Bubble Work Values in Japan, Felipe
Muncada
- Secularization and Religious Values in
Japan, Mikiko Nagai
- Contemporary Japanese Values on Marriage and
Family, Tetsushi Fujimoto
- Generation Female: Transitional Feminisms in
Two Films by Masayuki Suo, Joseph C. Schaub
- Documenting the Country Family: Suzaku
by Naomi Sento, Keiko I. McDonald
- Blue vs. Red: Takeshi Kitano’s Color
Scheme, Daisuke Miyao
- "A Unerversle Favrit": Wakamatsu
Shizuko’s Translation of Little Lord Fauntleroy and its Genbun Itchi,
Antonia Brooks Saxon
- The Home of Humanity: Children, Literature,
and Anti-Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan, Mark A. Jones
- Childlike Innocence as a Literary Ideal:
Kitahara Hakushû’s Conception of Dôshin, Kirk Masden
- Miyazawa’s Mimetic Tales for the Modern
Child: The Real World for Girls and Boys, Jon Holt
- They Came to Party—Social Circles of
Noh Artists in Late Medieval Period, Beng Choo Lim
- Sengoku Daimyo and Noh, Tomoko Yoshida
- Rediscovering Zeami: Three Inventions of a
Noh Patriarch, Eric C. Rath
- Knowledge on the Bodies and the Question of
"Race/Nation": Public Health, the State and Medical Professionals in Meiji
Japan, Yuki Terazawa
- Medicalization of Race Improvement Theory
and the Female Body: Osawa Kenji and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan, Sumiko Otsubo
- The Making of the Eugenic Protection Law of
1948: Reinforcing Eugenic Policy after WWII, Yoko Matsubara
- Emigration and the Yamaguchi Rural Economy,
1885–1895, Jonathan Dresner
- Iconography of Japanese Propaganda Leaflets
During World War II, Rei Okamoto
- The Politics of Reconstructing National
Identity in Postwar Japan, Steven Benfell
- MITI and Multilateralism: The Evolution of
Japan’s Trade Policy in the GATT Regime, Amy Searight
- Representing "Others,"
Representing "Us": The Making of the Council of Foreigners Representative in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Seung-Mi Han
- Narrative Space in Heian Painting and
Writing, Tomiko Yoda
- Regimes of Seeing and the Problem of Gender
in Reading Heian Emaki, Thomas LaMarre
- Envisaging the Court Poet in the Kana
Preface to the Kokinshu, Gustav Heldt
- The Spectacle of Justice in Late Heian and
Kamakura Japan, Thomas E. Keirstead
- Childhood Reminiscence in the Work of
Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943), Marvin Marcus
- Ambivalent Memories: Yosano Akiko’s
Chronicles of Childhood, Janine Beichman
- Mari and Annu: Childhood Re-Imagined, Tomoko
Aoyama
- Shadows of Trees and Tracks in the Sand:
Inoue Yasushi’s Post-War Stories of a Taisho Childhood, J. Martin Holman
- China in the Mind of Okakura Kakuzo, Jing
He
- Reconsidering Okakura Tenshin as the
Inventor of Oriental Art History, Shigemi Inaga
- Homologies of Cultural Resistance in
Turn-of-the Century Japan and India: A Comparative Study of Okakura Kakuzo and
Abanindranath Tagore, Debashish Banerji
- The Presentation of Art as a Declaration of
National Identity: The Tenure of Okakura Kakuzo at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Anne
Nishimura Morse
- Literary Networks and Partisan Compilers:
Shunzei and the Karin’en Salon, Ivo Smits
- Reading between the Lines of Poetry: Gyokuyôshû
and the Politics of Imperial Anthologies, Stefania Burk
- A Time and a Place: Kunikida Doppo and the Furusato
Ideal in Meiji, Stephen H. Dodd
- Scenes from the Literary Field: Pierre
Bourdieu and Japan, Mark Morris
- Toward a Semantic Characterization of
Transitive-Intransitive Pairs in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura
- Transitivity Alternations in Japanese, Chisato
Kitagawa
- Causative Constructions in Japanese and
English, Shigeru Miyagawa
- Reflexive Meaning and Result versus Action
Orientation in Japanese and English, Wesley M. Jacobsen
- Japanese Family Policy in Comparative
Perspective, Patricia Boling
- Japanese Long-Term-Care Insurance and
Welfare State Comparisons, John C. Campbell and Mikiko Eto
- A Comparative Lens on Nationality,
Citizenship, and the Japanese Welfare State, Deborah J. Milly
- Trapped in the Discourse on National
Identity: Sakaguchi Ango and the Essentializing of Japanese Culture, James Dorsey
- Sakaguchi Ango’s Individual Cult(ure), Douglas
Slaymaker
- Sakaguchi Ango’s Daraku and the Anxiety
of Culture, Robert Steen
- Sakaguchi Ango and the Cult(ure) of
Identity, Ian Smith
- Japanese Women Constructing Motherhood in
the Early 1910s: Nishikawa Fumiko and the Shin Shin Fujinkai, Ulrike Woehr
- Parenthood in Late 1910s Japanese
Intellectual and Popular Culture: The Motherhood Protection Debates Reconsidered, Sarah
Anne Frederick
- The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood in
Early Twentieth-Century Japan, Harald Fuess
- Comparing Competition Policy and Trade
Openness in Japan and Germany, Mark Tilton
- The Transformation of Competition Regime in
Japan and Germany During the Great Depression and World War II, Bai Gao
- The Tale of Two Trade Commissions:
Independent Antitrust Commissions in a Comparative Context, Michael Beeman
- The Japanese and German Models of
Capitalism: Collapse, Convergence, or Reorganization?, Steve Vogel
- Vampira Japonica: Motherhood and Sexuality
in the Plays of Terayama Shuji, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei
- Pleasures in Pain: Landscaping the Onnagata
Gender Body, Katherine Mezur
- The Aesthetics of Crones in Noh Drama, Erika
Ohara Bainbridge
- Male Construction of the Feminine in Bunraku
Love Suicide Plays, Patricia Pringle
- Yasui Kaoru: The Liberal Academic and His
Past as War Collaborator, James J. Orr
- The Tenkô of a Text: Hayashi
Fusao’s Seinen, Jeff E. Long
- Rewriting Socialist Realism: Miyamoto
Yuriko’s "The Family of Koiwai", Heather Bowen-Struyk
- War of Afterwords: Hino Ashihei’s
Paratextual Battles, David Rosenfeld
- Shifting Desires: Asian Singers on the
Japanese Popular Music Stage, Christine R. Yano
- In Dialogue with "Pop Asia":
Japan’s Consumption of "Asian" Popular Culture, Koichi Iwabuchi
- From Aesthetics to Mass Culture: Asianism in
the Age of Global Capital, Leo Ching
- Where Shinto and Sea Deities Meet: The
Palace of the Dragon King in Ancient Myths, X. Jie Yang
- The Dragon Palace, Institutional Buddhism
and Imperial Mythology in Medieval Japan, Fabio Rambelli
- Enter the Dragon Palace: Representations of
the Ryugu in Medieval Narrative Painting, Melissa McCormick
- Realms of Invention: Foreign Countries and
Imaginary Lands in Medieval Japanese Short Stories, Roberta Strippoli
- Learning Tradition: How-to Books on Spoken
Japanese for Native Speakers, Akiko Kawasaki
- Strategic Manipulation of Regional and
Standard Varieties of Japanese, Shigeko Okamoto
- Interpreting Interpretive Tradition:
Japanese Referential Predicates Then and Now, Charles J. Quinn Jr
- The Modernization of Keigo, Patricia J.
Wetzel
- Commodities and the Single Girl: Consumerism
and Its Discontents in Miyabe Miyuki’s Kasha, Amanda Seaman
- Gifts and Bribes: Gratitude and Obligation
in Tokyo Practices of Giving, Katherine Rupp
- Interaction of Research and National Policy
in Japan: A Case Study of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Monica Strauss
- Edo Through the Looking Glass: The Critique
of Late Edo Visual Culture in Endo Kokei’s Shaho Shinjutsu (New Method of
Depiction), Tomoko Onabe
- Persisting Memory/Forgetting History: The
Postwar in Japanese Culture, Harry D. Harootunian
- The 30s in the 90s?, Kojin Karatani
- Crisis Acting: Political Actors and Film
Actors After the Miracle, Eric Cazdyn
- What’s Happening to Japan?, Masao
Miyoshi
- Heaven’s Laws: Tanaka Shozo and Meiji
Constitutionalism, Timothy George
- From "Public Opinion" to
"Anti-Foreignism": Shifting Faces of Political Opposition in the Early Japanese
Diet, Jin Whi Hong
- Civic Constitutional Drafts in Early Meiji
Japan, Kyu Hyun Kim
- Living in Two Cultures: Oba Minako’s
Hybrid World, Reiko Tachibana
- My Country: Love and Hate in the Works of
Kyoko Mori and Minae Mizumura, Keiko Nakano
- Finding Difference Along a Road of Identity,
Cathy Steblyk
- Re-presenting the Trauma of Defeat: Nosaka
Akiyuki, Mishima Yukio, and Late 1960s Japan, Yoshikuni Igarashi
- Simulation and Subversion in the Everyday:
Akasegawa Genpei and the Model 1000-yen Note, William A. Marotti
- "Night and Fog in Japan": Oshima,
Anpo, and the Nouvelle Vague, Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
- What Was the "Situation" in the
Late-Sixties Mass Consumer Society?: Revolution, Liberation, and Utopia in the Quotidian, Kentaro
Tomio
- Is Social Capital Always . . . Capital?:
Civic Engagement vs. Clientelism in Japan, Susan J. Pharr
- Japan’s Maturing Civil Society and its
Interest Associations in Comparative Perspective: Japan, Korea, and the U.S. in the 1990s,
Yutaka Tsujinaka
- Civil Society in Japan, Robert J.
Pekkanen
- Politics by Association in Twentieth-Century
Japan: Lawyers
- Organizing for Influence, Darryl Flaherty
- Talent, Training and Power: The Kano House
in the Seventeenth Century, Karen M. Gerhart
- Copying from Beginning to End?: Student Life
in the Nineteenth-Century Kano School, Brenda G. Jordan
- In the Studio of Painting Study:
Transmission Practices of Tani Buncho, Frank L. Chance
- Institutionalizing Talent and the Kano
Legacy at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, 1889–1893, Victoria Weston
- New Rites of Purification? The Handling of
Political Corruption Scandals under Japanese Coalition Governments Since 1993, Verena
Blechinger
- Electoral Reform and Money Politics in
Japan, Steven Reed
- The Prosecution of Political Corruption in
Japan, the U.S., Italy, and South Korea, David T. Johnson
- Taking Up the Bow: Polity, Culture, and the
Technology of War, Karl Friday
- Innovation or Application? The Influence of
Technology on the Waging of War, Tom Conlan
- On the Cutting Edge: Warfare and Wound
Medicine in Medieval Japan, Andrew E. Goble
- Seen and Unseen: The American Diary of
Noguchi Yone, Karen Kelsky
- Erotic Transnationalism/Grotesque
Imperialism, Mark Driscoll
- Against Proper (Feminist) Subjects: Or
Questions of Pleasure and Feminist Reading Practices, Yukiko Hanawa
- "The Fifth Look": Western
Audiences and Japanese Animation, Susan J. Napier
- Neo-Orientalism: Writing a Geisha’s
Memoirs as a White Western Man, Anne Allison
- Jinguji as Ensembles of Cultural Compromise
in Early Japan, Samuel C. Morse
- Assemblage and Appropriation: The Unstable
Ensembles of the Momoyama Period, Andrew Watsky
- Annual Airings at Kyoto’s Zen
Monasteries: Forming, Viewing, and Recording Temporary Temple Ensembles in the Edo Period,
Gregory P. Levine
- Saito Kazo’s Designs for Daily Life:
"Synthetic Art" and the Modern Japanese Interior, Gennifer Weisenfeld
- The Rhetoric of Idolatry and the Study of
Buddhist Icons, Robert Sharf
- Kasuga Daimyojin and the Sanctification of
Myoe, Karen L. Brock
- Portraits of the Founder in Shin Buddhism, James
C. Dobbins
- Icons in Eison’s Revival of Monastic
Discipline, Paul Groner
- From "Manchukuo" To Japan’s
"New Order": Bureaucratic Visions of a Totalitarian State, Janis Mimura
- An Empire of Technology: Engineers as
Visionaries and Political Actors, Daqing Yang
- Japan’s "New Deal" for Asia:
Bureaucratic Influence on Asia Policy in 1943 and Beyond, Sumio Hatano
- Traveling Home: The Poetry of Yamanoue no
Okura, Karen Thornber
- Textual Seduction and the Art of Resistance:
Silence and Eloquence in the Tamakazura Chapters, Lili Selden
- From Fratricide to Brotherly Love:
Refiguring Fraternity in Medieval Warrior Narrative, Elizabeth Oyler
- Discursive Chaos in the Age of
Modernization: The Production of National Literature in Tsubouchi Shoyo’s Shôsetsu
shinzui, Atsuko Ueda
- The Postmodern Cognitive Map in Murakami
Haruki’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Chiyoko
Kawakami
- Voices From Graves: Chu Law and Philosophy, Susan
R. Weld
- Voluntary Surrender and Confession in the
Criminal Procedures in Modern Japan: Legacy of Tang Code and its Ramifications, Hiroshi
Asako
- Controversy over Brain Death and Organ
Transplants in Japan, Nobuto Yamaguchi
- Status of Women in Japanese Law: The
Heritage of Reluctant Individualism and its Relation to Fair Employment Practices, Joanne
Baldine
- Narcissus in Taishô, John Whittier
Treat, III
- "Self Expression" and the Art of
Takehisa Yumeji, Gerald R. Marsella, Jr
- Beyond the Fetish: Masochism and East-West
Dialogue in Tanizaki’s "Fumiko no ashi", Gretchen Jones
- Hyakken’s Self-mockery and Late Taishô
Miscellany, Rachel DiNitto
- City and Country in the Mythology of Female
Sexuality: Control and Concession in Japan’s Modern Textile Factories, Elyssa M.
Faison
- A Certain Austrian Theorist of Ninjô:
National Origins and Psychoanalytic Ends in Taisho and Showa Criticism, Jonathan M.
Hall
- Imagined Feudalism and Romantic Love: Power
Relations and Female Pleasures in Mizoguchi Kenji’s The Crucified Lovers (Chikamatsu
monogatari, 1954), Chika Kinoshita
- Hosenka: Scattered Speculations on Nakagami
Kenji’s Maternal Melodrama, Anne McKnight
- Changes in the Living Arrangements of
Japanese Elderly: The Role of Demographic Factors, James M. Raymo
- Co-Residence, Health Care, and
Quality-of-Life among Older Rural Japanese, John W. Traphagan
- Does a Longer Life Mean a Healthier Life?
The Case of the Japanese Elderly, Toshiko Kaneda
- Parent Care and Shifting Family Obligations
in Urban Japan, Brenda Robb Jenike
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