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Toward a "Managed Economy?" A Case Study of the Japan Spinners Association, 1927–1936, William M. Fletcher III
Government and Business Relations: Independent Actors in Negotiating the Amalgamation of the Japanese Iron and Steel Industry (1916–1934), Peter von Staden
Japanese Business Diplomacy in the Interwar Period, Masato Kimura
Bunmei Kaika to Gijutsu: Technology Transfer and the Defining of a Meiji National Identity, David Wittner
Critical Discourses on "Japanese Cinema," Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Modernity, National-Cultural Identity, and Prewar Japanese Animated Cartoons, Rei Okamoto
Kawaii Babies: Americanization in the 1950s Made-in-Japan Film Musical, Michael Raine
Unofficial History: San’yo, Bakin, and the Reanimation of the Past, Thomas E. Keirstead
Chinese Tea and the Perfect Japanese Gentleman: Ueda Akinari’s Seifusagen Dissected, Anna Beerens
A Japanese Representation of Life in China during Qing Rule, Margarita Winkel
"Russia" in the Writings of Kudo Heisuke (1734–1800) and Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825), Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Settling into Korea: The Japanese Expansion into Korea from the Russo-Japanese War to the Early Period of Annexation, Kenji Kimura
Settler Colonialism: Japanese Merchants in Korea in the 1920s, Jun Uchida
The Reverse Impact of Colonialism: Repatriation and Resettlement of Japanese Entrepreneurs after the Second World War, Jae Won Sun
Shôsetsu as Knowledge: Its Engagement with "Histories," Atsuko Ueda
Elegance, Propriety, and Power in the "Modernization" of Literary Language in Meiji Japan, Joseph Essertier
Methodological Yearnings and the Interpretive Imperative: Exploring Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo, Norma M. Field
Re-usable Solutions: Copper Mines and Water Pollution in the Early Modern Era, Patricia G. Sippel
Central Politics on the Periphery: Negotiating Toyama’s Rivers, Michael Lewis
Factories, Forests, and Floods: Building the Arakawa Drainage Canal to Save Tokyo, Roderick Wilson
Protesting the Construction of River Dams in Postwar Japan, Wilhelm Vosse
Women, Crime, and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Kabuki, Valerie L. Durham
Cross-Dressing as Crime in Edo and Tokyo, Leila Wice
Policing Men: Misdemeanors and New Masculinities, Suzanne O’Brien
A Forest for the Nation: The State, Nationalism, and the Construction of the Meiji Shrine Forest, Rosemarie Bernard
Completing Liberalism: "Free Education" in the Thought of the Freedom and Popular Rights Movement, Abagail Schweber
Yasuoka Masahiro and Character Cultivation in Taisho Japan, Roger H. Brown
Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization in Rural Japan, Christopher S. Thompson
The Attic and the Hero in Miyabe Miyuki’s Crimes of Our Neighbors, Miho Matsugu
Family Ties: Community and Individuality in Miyabe Miyuki, Amanda Seaman
Family Mysteries and the Budding Detective Nonami Asa’s The Key and The Window, Eileen Mikals-Adachi
Woman Uncovered: Pornography and Power in the Detective Fiction of Kirino Natsuo, Rebecca Copeland
Memorializing Yoshimitsu: The Yuzu nenbutsu engi emaki in Seiryoji Temple, Akira Takagishi
Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings, Melanie Trede
An Engi-e of One’s Own: Yoshiharu’s "Miniature" Hasedera engi emaki, Melissa McCormick
The Shogun in Omi: Reading Origins of Kuwanomi Temple, Karen L. Brock
Japanese Views of the Emperor and the Enemy: Competing Masculinities during WWII, Morris F. Low
Fight! Ippatsu! "Stamina" Health Drinks and the Marketing of Masculine Ideology in Japan, James E. Roberson
What Does It Take to Be a Man? Male Dominance and Its Paradoxes in Contemporary Japan, Akiko Takeyama
"A Mirror for Men?" The Rhetorical Use of Representations of Foreign Men and Japanese Gay Men in Japanese Women’s Media, Mark McLelland
Retreat from Chûchô jijitsu: Yamaga Sokô’s Final Excursion into Metaphysics, John A. Tucker
Antiforeignism or Astronomy? Ideological Development within Late Tokugawa Nativism, Mark McNally
History as Heroic Narrative: Yamaji Aizan and the Foundations of Modern Nationalist Historiography, Barry D. Steben
Karagokoro Redefined: Nishio Kanji and the Society for History Textbook Reform, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Other Voices: Abe Kobo on Film, Christopher A. Bolton
Interface as Performance Space: Tsutsui Yasutaka’s Encounters with Electronic Media, William O. Gardner
Soseki’s Bungakuron (1907): Interdisciplinary Study for the New Century, Joseph Murphy
Poetry, Communal Re-production, and Performance, Haruo Shirane
The Tale of the Heike and Medieval Musical Discourse, David T. Bialock
Representing Performance in Woodblock Print: Nô, Jôruri, and Kabuki, Andrew Gerstle
In the Shadow of A-ko: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Japan, Joanne Cullinane
Dealing with the Unknown: Unemployment in Japan, Müge Kökten
The Creation of New Historical Memory through the Spectacle of the Nagano Olympics Opening Ceremony, Taeko Teshima
Historicizing Japanese Animation: From Gundam to Evangelion, Satomi Saito
Single Women and Delayed Marriage in Japan and Hong Kong, Lynne Nakano
Collaboration in the Back to Basho Movement: Two Linked Verse Sequences of Buson’s Yahantei School, Cheryl Crowley
Collaboration of Buson and Kito in Their Cultural Production, Toshiko Yokota
The Light Banter of Tanuki: The Tobi Hiyoro Sequence by Issa and Ippyô, Scot Hislop
The Collaborative Creation of the Illustrated Biography of Bashô the Elder, Scott Alexander Lineberger
A Study of Arita Export Wares at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, Kyoko Kinoshita
The Cultural Contradictions of an English Architect in Meiji Japan, Jonathan M. Reynolds
Meeting and Divergence: Japanese Art History Curricula in North American Universities, Monika Dix
Revealing Practice: Public Art in Contemporary Japan, Elizabeth Norman
Defining Community in Nineteenth-Century Osaka, Sakurako Handa
Teachers and Ideological Movements in Late Tokugawa Japan, Brian Platt
Peasant Elites, Infanticide, and Social Order in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Case from Chiba Prefecture, David L. Howell
Ishizaka Shoko, a Village Headman in Restoration Period Japan, M. William Steele
Furnishing the Modern Metropolitan: Moriya Nobuo’s Designs for Domestic Interiors, 1922–1927, Sarah Teasley
Hijiribashi: Spanning Time and Crossing Place, Ken Tadashi Oshima
A Literary Look at Shinjuku Station: Hub of the Daily Commute, Heart of the Dating Scene, Alisa Freedman
The Expanding Metropolis: Suburban Tokyo in Ozu Yasujirô’s I was Born, But . . . , Kota Inoue
Return of the Samurai: The Phaeton Incident of 1808 and the Remilitarization of the Samurai in Northern Kyushu, Noell Howell Wilson
Farmers as Fighting Men: The Military Function of the Peasant Class in Nineteenth-Century Coastal Defense, Miyazaki Katsunori
Defense of the Realm: Late Tokugawa Discourses on Coastal Defense, Kyu Hyun Kim
Silent Reference in Japanese Discourse, Yoshiko Matsumoto
Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku ‘I’: It’s Not Just a Pronoun, Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra Thompson
Cognitive and Interactional Motivations for Overt 1st- and 2nd-Person References in Japanese Conflict Discourse, Kimberly Jones
Power vs. Solidarity: Use of Address Terms by Japanese Professionals in the U.S., Naomi H. McGloin
The Fascist Era: Imperial Japan and the Axis Alliance in Historical Perspective, Joseph P. Sottile
Peculiar Characteristics: The Japanese Version of the "Third Path," E. Bruce Reynolds
Myth and Fascism: On the Idea of "Homogeneity" in Japan and Germany prior to 1945, Klaus Antoni
Japanese Shinto Ultra-nationalists and German Nazis: The Intellectual Dialogue, Walter Skya
Motion Picture Attendance of Children and Youth in Prewar Japan: Interactions of the Ministry of Education’s Policies and Urban Lifestyles, 1920–45, Harald Salomon
From the Empress to Miss Tokyo: Images of Women in Official Newsreels of Wartime and Occupation Japan, Hikari Hori
Transforming Policy and Practice to Match Reality: The Care and Welfare of Orphans in Japan, 1945–1960, Robert A. Fish
"Popular Buddhism" and the Efficacy of Narration, Hank Glassman
The Compassion of a Bodhisattva: Izumi Shikibu and Her Vow to Sleep with 1,000 Men, Keller Kimbrough
Embracing Suffering: The Paradoxical Buddhist Teachings of Otogizôshi, Margaret H. Childs
Music Evoking Spirits, Demons, and Gods: Short Tales in the Nara-ehon Biwa no Yurai, Steven G. Nelson
The Third Path: Redefining Tenkô, Time, and the State in Abe Kôbô’s Enomoto Buyô, Mark Gibeau
Creativity and Constraint in Amateur Manga Production, Sharalyn Orbaugh
A Triumph of Democracy? Lady Chatterley, Japanese Judges, and Obscenity, Ann Sherif
Parody Journalism of Akasegawa Genpei’s Sakura gahô, Reiko Tomii
Who Controls Whom? Patterns of Social Control in Japanese School Districts, Gesine Foljanty-Jost
Discipline and Deviance: How Methods of Discipline and Conflict Resolution Influence Youth Delinquent Behavior in Japan, Cindy Montgomery
Youth Rebellion, Conflict, and Social Reproduction of Class: Youth Deviant Behavior and Later Young Adulthood for a Selected Group of Lower-Working- and Middle-Class Youth in Japan, Robert Stuart Yoder
Desires and Anxieties: Postwar Reforms and Women’s Multiple Identities, Barbara Hamill Sato
Women against the Anti-prostitution Law of 1956, Gaye Rowley
Fashioning the People’s Princess: Japanese Women’s Magazines and the Royal Wedding of 1959, Jan Bardsley
Memories of New Japan: The 1960 Anti-Ampo Movement and the Other Michiko, Hiroko Hirakawa
"True Stories": Personal Narratives and Political Literature in Women’s Magazines, Sarah Anne Frederick
"Real Experience" in Hayama Yoshiki’s Early Works, Heather Bowen-Struyk
Literary Forms, Political Voicings: Historicizing the Work of Nakamoto Takako and Sata Ineko, Elyssa M. Faison
Empowering Language: Investing Power in Language by Compiling and Publishing Dictionaries of Indigenous Languages, Annette Skovsted Hansen
From Nihongo to Kokugo: Establishing Japanese Power in the Micronesian Islands, Kikuko Yui
Language, Respect, and the Power of Protest: Linguistic Stereotyping and People with Disabilities in Japan, Nanette Gottlieb
Kore Kara No Keigo Revisited: Honorific Language for the Twenty-first Century, Tessa Carroll
The ’94 System, Ellis Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen
Vote Division and Policy Differentiation Strategies of LDP members under SNTV/MMD in Japan, Masahiko Tatebayashi and Margaret A. McKean
Top-Down Party Formation and the Ills of the Democratic Party of Japan: Problems of Organization and Policy Coherence, Ethan Scheiner
Hashimoto’s Administrative Reform and Changing Bureaucratic-Political Relations, Tomohito Shinoda
Embodying France as Political Criticism in Meiji Japan, Kevin M. Doak
Ango as Japanese Humanist, Anna Ogino
Etoranzê: The Foreign and the Familiar in Toson’s Remininiscences of France, Marvin Marcus
Yokomitsu Riichi and the Longing for Home, Doug Slaymaker
From Ideology to Policy: The Creation of Kokugo in Late Meiji Japan, Paul Clark
The Role of Kokugo in Colonial Education, Eika Tai
Contesting Literary Style in Meiji Japan: The Paratext in the Field of Cultural Production, Timothy J. Van Compernolle
The Invention of Keigo, Patricia J. Wetzel
Distorting Characters: Calligraphic Inscriptions on Japanese Ceramics, John T. Carpenter
Allusion and Audience: Intersections of Maker, Merchant, and Market in Early Edo Textile Production, Mary Dusenbury
The "Eight Views of Ômi": Idyllic Landscape Tinged with Political Sentiment? Lee Bruschke-Johnson
Dematerialization of Early Modern Japanese Art: Korin and Modernism, Toshio Watanabe
Literature of the Body: Shiina Rinzô and Postwar Fiction, Seiji Lippit
Matsui Sumako’s New Woman: The Spectacular Embodiment of "Nature" in Translation, Indra Levy
Gender and Politics of Language in Meiji Japan, Tomi Suzuki
Competing Economies of Love: Kitamura Tôkoku and Ozaki Kôyô, Kojin Karatani
Postwar Reintegration of Demobilized Japanese Military Personnel, Takuji Kimura
Dilemmas of Defeat: Japanese on Taiwan, 1945–1949, Steven Phillips
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation in Postwar Japan, Lori Watt
The Significance of the Publication of the Taishô Tripitaka in Modern Buddhist Studies, Shimoda Masahiro
Buddhist Scholarship and the Production of the Buddhist Canon in Modern Japan, Silvio Vita
Creating Eastern Buddhism: The West in the Formation and Representation of Modern Japanese Buddhism, Judith Snodgrass
The Streets of Koza: Conflict, Memory and Everyday Life, Christopher Nelson
Trains and Guillotines: Art and Direct Action in the Early 1960s, William Marotti
Memory and History: the Ethnography of Imamura Shôhei, Bill Mihalopoulos
Japanese Constitution from the Perspective of a Political Refugee: Oyama Ikuo and Chicago Shimpo in Postwar Politics, Naoyuki Umemori
Will the Real Ancestor Please Stand Up? The Social Construction of Ancestors, Kami, and Obake in Modern Japan, E. Leslie Williams
Ancestral Dreams and Well-Being in Japan, John W. Traphagan
Scattering Cremated Ashes: Alternative Destinations, Unexplored Endings, Satsuki Kawano
The Tricentennial Celebration of Tokyo: Inventing the Modern Memory of Edo, Jason G. Karlin
Architecture and Nationalism in the Imperial Capital: The Reuse of Meiji Monuments in Wartime Tokyo, Akiko Takenaka-O’Brien
An Allegory of Utopia: The 2,600th Year of Kigen Commemorations in 1940 Tokyo, Sandra Collins
Bilateralism, Regionalism, or Multilateralism? Choices and Strategies in Japan’s Foreign Trade Diplomacy, Saadia Pekkanen
The Force of Business? Multinationals as Policymakers, Patricia A. Nelson
Challenges to the US-Japan Security Bargain, Sheila A. Smith
Sentence Connection in Stories Written by Native and Non-native Japanese Writers, Mariko Masuda
Clausal Self-Repetition in Japanese Animation Description Narratives, Fumio Watanabe
Story Units in Animation Storytellings by Japanese Native and Non-native Speakers, Polly Szatrowski
Co-telling My Story: An Analysis of the Recipients’ Roles in Storytelling in Japanese Conversation, Chisato Koike