Abstracts of the 2000 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 9–12, 2000, San Diego, CA
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Cultivation Groups and the Japanese Factory: Producing Workers, Gendering Subjects, Elyssa M. Faison
Problematizing State Power: Eugenic Legislation in Wartime Japan, Sumiko Otsubo
Juvenile Protection, Lifestyle Guidance, and the Construction of a Pedagogic Regime in Wartime Japan, David R. Ambaras
The Devil Inside: Homosexual/Homosocial Desire in Hamao Shirô’s Akuma no deshi (The Devil’s Disciple), Jeffrey Angles
New Women and Same-Sex Love: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Hiratsuka Raichô and Odake Kôkichi, Dina Lowy
Yoshiya Nobuko’s Yaneura no nishojo (Two Virgins in the Attic): Female-Female Desire and Feminism, Hiromi Tsuchiya
Law, the State, and Civil Society, Robert J. Pekkanen
Organizing for Autonomy: Lawyers and the Fruit of Fascism, 1933–1949, Darryl Flaherty
"Participatory Welfare" and the Deaf Social Movement in Japan, Karen Nakamura
The Sayama Case Revisited: A New Trajectory for Buraku Liberation Politics at Century’s End, John H. Davis, Jr.
Writing and Reading Intertwined: From Chinese to Japanese Inscription, David Lurie
From Catalogue to Image: The Kundaikan Sôchôki and the Reception of Chinese Painting in Japan from the 15th to the 17th Centuries, Yukio Lippit
The Visible Vernacular: Sawada Issai and the Status of Vernacular Chinese in Tokugawa Japan, Emanuel Pastreich
The Demon-Quelling Style in Japanese Poetic and Dramatic Theory, Paul S. Atkins
Resuscitating Metaphor: Zeami and Renga, Akiko Takeuchi
Down the Primrose Path: Narihira as Love God in Medieval Poetic Commentaries and the Noh, Susan B. Klein
Poetry in the Noh and the "Broken" Aesthetics of the Early Modern State, Thomas Looser
Changing Portraits of American Women in Postwar Japanese Women’s Magazines, Jan Bardsley
Who Defines the Image? Women Writers, Tonderu Onna and Yellow Cabs, Akiko Hirota
Nationalizing and Engendering the Problem: Asahi’s Coverage of Sexual Harassment, Hiroko Hirakawa
Media Typifications of Hip bijin in the 1990s, Laura Miller
Yokomitsu Riichi and the Science of the Nation, Gregory Golley
Creation of a National Icon: Samurai Narratives from the 1890’s, Jim Reichert
Marginal Comments: Rubi in Tsubouchi Shôyô’s Tôsei shosei katagi, David Rosenfeld
The "Integrity" of Nation and Identity in Lee Yangji’s Yuhi, Atsuko Ueda
Early Japanese Epidemics Revisited: New Evidence and Fresh Approaches, W. Wayne Farris
"Corpses Clog the River": The Kanshô Famine, 1460–1461, Carol Richmond Tsang
States of Health (Illness) in Late-Shengoku Kinai, Andrew E. Goble
Resistance to ‘Ethnification’: Korean Responses to Japanese Citizenship Policies, Chikako Kashiwazaki
Exercising Citizenship: Korean Voluntary Associations in Japanese Civil Society, Erin Aeran Chung
The Crisis of Resident Korean Intellectuals: The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan, Youngmi Lim
Grass-roots "Multiculturalism": Korean-Burakumin Interrelations in One Community, Jeffrey P. Bayliss
The Shôjo as Virtual Spectral Double: Understanding Remediation in Recent Japanese Anime and Film, Livia Monnet
Metamorphosis of the Hyper-girl, Mari Kotani
Tsushima Yuko’s Moeru Kaze (Fiery Wind): The Shôjo Takes Flight, Eve Zimmerman
Kôno Taeko’s Medusan Laugh: Bishôjo, Mary Knighton
From the Outside In and From the Inside Out: The 11th-Century Genesis of Mt. Kôya, William Londo
Fuse, Roku, Shô, Jôgô: Gifts, Rewards, and Indebtedness in Early Medieval Japan, Brian D. Ruppert
Lands to Dainichi, Horses to Hachiman, Roy Ron
Gender and Gift-Giving in Early Modern Japan, Reiko Sono
Drawing Connections: Kiso Stories and the Big Scheme of Things, Jordan Sand
The Postmodern Village: Reconfiguring Rural Nagano in a Transnational Era, Karen Kelsky
The Local as Sacred: Celebrating Nagano Villages in the 1998 Olympic Games, Sandra Collins
A Borrowed Tradition: Jishû Amulets and Safe Childbirth, Sybil Anne Thornton
The Politics of Medicine in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Gregory James Smits
Diagnostic Judgements: Insanity and the Edo Period Legal System, Diana E. Wright
Kure Shuzo and the Issue of Insanity as a "National" Disease, Janice Y. Matsumura
The Outcast Shômonji and the Separation of Ritual from Theater in Medieval Noh, Eric Rath
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II: God of Commoners, "Non-Human" Outcast, and Gentleman Poet, Patricia Pringle
Phantom Women: The Disappearing Acts of Women in Contemporary Japanese Performance, Katherine Mezur
Administrative Reform: Twilight of the Developmental State? Lonny E. Carlile
The Invisible Hand and the Capitalist Developmental State, Mark Tilton
NTT and Recent Industrial Policy, Marie Anchordoguy
From Miracle to Mediocrity, Teruo Gotoda
Combating Depopulation: Creative Housing in an Akita Township, John Mock
Craft, Tongue, Community: Women’s Language Use in Promoting Local Products, Holly Ogren
Recruiting Cyber Townsmen: Town Development for the New Millennium in Regional Japan, Christopher S. Thompson
Building Symbolic Capital to Stem Amalgamation in a Tohoku Town, John W. Traphagan
A Young Girl’s Hand: Exploring the Historical Value of Kazunomiya’s Poetry, Mark H. Brewer
The Woman’s Hand that Rocks the Cradle of History and Fantasy: Arakida Reijo’s Resistance to the Woman/Native/Other, Atsuko Sakaki
Nishitani Saku: Women and Diaries in the Late Tokugawa Period, Yutaka Yabuta
Escape From Exile: Reconsidering the Diaries of Nomura Bôtô as Historical Record, Noell Howell Wilson
The Politics of Place in Okinawan Pop Music, James E. Roberson
Tourism and the Politics of Place: Re-visioning Women, US Bases and History in "kokusai-machi Koza," Linda Isako Angst
Fujiki Hayato, the Storyteller: Comedy, Practice, and the Politics of Everyday Life in Okinawa, Christopher Nelson
The Identity and Politics of Locality: Henoko, the Heliport Controversy, and the Predicament of a Social Movement in Okinawa, Masamichi S. Inoue
The Formation of Japanese Obstetrics: The "Discovery" of its Origin in the Kagawa School of Obstetrics, Hidemi Kanazu
Reinventing Disease: Leprosy in Meiji Japan, Susan L. Burns
Structures of Knowledge: Medicine and its Institutions in Japanese Colonial Culture, Barbara J. Brooks
The Range of Meanings of Fengliu in Early Chinese Texts, Richard J. Lynn
Aesthetics of Unconventionality: Fûryû in Ikkyû’s Poetry, Peipei Qiu
Fûryû Poet Yosa Buson (1716–1783), C. A. Crowley
The Transformation of Fûryû from a Courtly to a Commoner Aesthetic, Sandy Kita
Fiction and History in Mishima’s Sea of Fertility, Roy Starrs
Silvered Mansion: Women in the Historical Fiction of Nagai Michiko, Linda H. Chance
Tearing a Hole in the Wall: Ishikawa Jun’s "Anti-Historical" Fiction, Helen Weetman
Tea for Two Ages: Voices of Communion and Rejection in Inoue Yasushi’s Memoirs of the Priest Honkaku, J. Martin Holman
Creating Diversity in Japan’s High School Curriculum: The Unintended Consequences of Educational Reform, Gary DeCoker
"Education for International Understanding": A New Paradigm for Curriculum Reform? Mark E. Lincicome
Reform of Japanese Elementary Science Education: A Window on Debates about Japanese Educational Policy, Catherine C. Lewis
Choice and Competition in Japanese Education, Nancy Ukai Russell
Imagining Exile in Early Japan: The Taketori Monogatari, Jonathan Stockdale
The Tale of Genji and the Exilic Condition, Richard H. Okada
The Literary Politics of Exile: Fujiwara no Sanekata and the Poetics of the "Regional," Terry Kawashima
The Politics of Literary Self-Presentation: Banishment and Poetic Pilgrimage in Towazugatari, Edith Sarra
Women Doing the Write Thing: Representations of Higuchi Ichiyô and Shimizu Shikin, Leslie Winston
Becoming a Man: Gender and Genre in Shimazaki Tôson’s Spring, Michael Bourdaghs
Nitobe Inazo’s Bushidô: The Soul of Japan: The Gendering of a Nation, Michele Mason
Popular Sexological Narrative in Early Japan, Christine Marran
Japan of the Past: The Nostalgic Image of Korea in the Meiji Period, Lionel Babicz
The Experience of the Korean Community in Osaka, 1920–1945: Race Relations with Focus on the Relations between Koreans and Other "Marginalized" Populations, Chisato Hotta
Inventing Homogenous Japan: Immigration and Citizenship Policies from 1945–1960, Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
Intermarriage in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Burakumin and non-Burakumin, Ayako Mizumura
A Passion for Power: Geography and the Culture of Empire-Building in Modern Japan, Sabine Frühstück
Scientific Colonialism: Taiwan as Japan’s Medical Utopia (or Not), Ming-cheng Lo
To Mix or Not to Mix: "Blood" and the Politics of Assimilation in Imperial Japan, Jennifer Robertson
Gut-Level Colonialism: Foodways of Imperial Japan (1910–1945), Katarzyna Cwiertka
Poké-mania: Enchantments of Collecting and Training Monsters, Anne Allison
Travel/Trouble: Contemporary Japanese Travel Writing, J. Philip Gabriel
Tesuka Osamu’s Adorufu: WWII Manga as a Litmus Test for "High Art," Cris Reyns-Chikuma
Giant Robots/Distant Fathers: Size and Anxiety in Japanese Animation, Stephen B. Snyder
No Helmets in Court, No T-Shirts on Death Row: New Left Trial Support Groups in Japan, Patricia G. Steinhoff
How the Dead Speak Truth to Power: Karôshi Activism and Japanese Civil Society, Scott North
Suing for Redress: Japanese Consumer Organizations and the Courts, Patricia Maclachlan
Locating Responsibility: Disruptive Actions and Legal Solutions in the Japanese Labor Movement, Christena L. Turner
The End of the World as They Knew It: The Rhetoric of Mappô in Tendai Pure Land Buddhism, William E. Deal
Mountains and the Raigô Theme in Pure Land Painting, Candice F. Kanda
Stranger Than Paradise: Purity and Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, David (Max) Moerman
Virtual Salvation in the Twenty-First Century, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Sesshû’s True Views, Yûji Yamashita
Landscapes of Ômi: Topography and Political Imagination, Matthew P. McKelway
Landscape Prints as Media of Visual Communication, Fumikazu Kishi
Doro-e and Edo Urban Composition, Morihiro Satow
Foreign Workers, NGOs, and Local Government, Apichai W. Shipper
Integrating Internationalization in Everyday Life: The Consumer Cooperatives in Japan, Ruth M. Grubel
Local Governments and Foreign Policy in Japan, Toshiya Kitayama
Japanese International Development NGOs and the State, Kim Reimann
Postsurrender Japanese Painting: Bodies in Torment, Bert Winther-Tamaki
Prostitutes and Japanese Cinema in the Occupation Era, Joanne Izbicki
Prostitution and Japanese Journalism in the 1950s, Michael S. Molasky
Freedom and Bondage: Tamura Taijirô’s Prostitutes, Douglas Slaymaker
The Sarariimen in Prewar Japan: A Middle-Class Life? Regine Mathias
The Birth of Social Critics: New Writers for Middle-Class Readers, Kazuki Sato
Middle-Class Women’s Desires and Anxieties in Mass Magazines, Barbara Hamill Sato
Urban Life in the Capital of Money: The New Middle Class of Interwar Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes
Nakasone, Reagan, and Thatcher: Comparing Conservative Social Policies from Women’s Perspective, Yumiko Mikanagi
Kids vs. Careers?: Gender, Justice and Policies to Support Women’s Productive and Reproductive Work, Patricia Boling
Gender and Marginal Employment: The Future of the Japanese and German Employment Systems? Heidi Gottfried
Flexible Equality: Men and Women in Employment in Japan, Karen Shire
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: The Military Parity of Thirteenth-Century Japan and East Asia, Tom Conlan
With a Little Help from My Gods: The Myth of the Kamikaze and the Ideology of Japan’s Sacrality, Fabio Rambelli
The Impact of the Mongol Invasions on Imaginations of War and Identity, Haruko Wakabayashi
Charms of the Liminally Gendered Supernatural in the Twelfth-Century Court Tale, Ariake no Wakare (Partings at Dawn), Robert Omar Khan
The Configuration of Gendered Characters, Narrators, and Readers: The Heian Story, Lynne K. Miyake
Making a Habit of It? Gender Boundary Crossing in Ranma 1/2 and Kuse ni narenai yo, Susan J. Napier
Sex and the Single Cyborg: Japanese Pop Culture Experiments in Subjectivity, Sharalyn Orbaugh
Knowing Korea, Alexis Dudden
Postwar Studies of Colonial Korea, Kristine Dennehy
Power to the People: Juche and the Pacifist Scholar Yasui Kaoru, James J. Orr
Is Conquest Necessary for Massive Borrowing? A Linguistic Reappraisal of the Horserider Theory, J. Marshall Unger
The Language of the Land of Yamatô (Yamatai) and the Homeland of Proto-Japanese, Gisaburo N. Kiyose
Austronesian Languages as a Genetic Element of the Japanese Language, Osamu Sakiyama
The Japanese-Koguryôic Family of Languages and the Chinese Mainland, Christopher I. Beckwith
Searching Traces of the Past: Images of Tokyo in Dai Toyko hanjoki, Evelyn Schulz
Popularizing the Avant-Garde: Shinseinen and Tani Joji, Kyoko Omori
From Taishu to Proletariat, Tokunaga Sunao’s Taiyo no nai machi, Heather Bowen-Struyk
Japanese War Brides: Marriage and Motivations, Shizuko Suenaga
Japan’s Emerging Filipino Ethnic Community: Social Issues, Political Conflicts, and Resistance, Yolanda Alfaro
To Be or Not to Be Japanese: Legal Treatment of Overseas Chinese in Japan, Tien-shi Chen
The Hundred-Nights Tale Revisited: The Ninety-Ninth Night in Kikuchi Kan’s Play, Ono no Komachi, Catherine Youngkyung Ryu
Akiyuki and the Labor/Literature Link in the Fiction of Nakagami Kenji, Jane C. Britting
Gendered Authorship, Genderless Body: Ohara Mariko’s Cybernetic Fiction, Kumiko Sato
The Death of a Child in Tsushima Yuko’s Recent Works, Chizuko Uema
Shuten Dôji: Oni with a Righteous Tongue, Noriko T. Reider
Foreigners in Meiji Manga: Visual Images and Self-Knowledge, Keiko Suzuki
Reading Yanagawa Shun’yô’s Nasanu naka as a Newspaper Novel, Claire Cuccio
Miss Calico: A New Girl in Shinseinen, Michiko Suzuki
Literary Collectanea and the Marketing of the kindai Writer: The Case of Shimazaki Tôson, Marvin Marcus
A New Perspective for the Debate on Japanese Capitalism, Yasushi Hamada
"Nanyo" for Japan: The Total Shift in Japan’s Conception of "Nanyo" Through the 1930s to 1945, Kousuke Kawanishi
Saigusa Hiroto and the Discourses on "the Scientific" in the 1930s: Science, History, and Ideology, Hiromi Mizuno
Sagami Oyamamairi: The Role of Pilgrimage in an Early Modern Regional Communications Network, Barbara Ambros
The Making of a Meisho: The Province of Sagami as a Preferred Travel Destination in Edo Period Japan, Laura Nenz-Detto-Nenzi
Space of Representation—Representation of Space: The Case of Tokaido’s Post-Stations, Jilly Traganou
Knots, Fruits, and Spirits: Ritual Transformations of Musubi, E. Leslie Williams
Of Symbols and Cymbals: The Edofication and Modernization of Kotobuki Jishi, David L. Fish
A Cultural Analysis of Body and Place in Shinto Rituals, Satsuki Kawano
