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Deconstructing Japanese Religion, Jun’ichi Isomae
Ato (Traces): Absence and Presence in the Discourse of "Japanese Religion", Gary L. Ebersole
Reconsidering the Notion of "The Separation of State and Religion" and Its "Western" and "Japanese" Contexts, Hiroshi Kubota
Reconsidering Medieval Buddhism Again: Reflections on Ritual and the Study of "Japanese Religion", Lucia Dolce
Sakuma Shozan’s Hegelian Proposal for Regenerating Japan, John E. Van Sant
Herbert Spencer, Meiji Japan, and American Thought, Joseph M. Henning
Men, Women, and Temperance in Meiji Japan, Rumi Yasutake
Wakon Yôsai and Japanese Modernity: A Eugenics Perspective, Sumiko Otsubo
Session 11: Space and Corporeality in Twentieth-Century Modern Japanese Literature
Broken Circuits: The Enclosed Worlds of Ogata Kamenosuke and Yi Sang, William O. Gardner
The City as Matrix and Metaphor: Mapped Bodies, Embodied Space, and Detective Fiction in Japan, Amanda Seaman
Incidentality of Belonging: The Everyday Life in Goto Meisei’s Apartment Megaplex Novels, Atsuko Sakaki
Session 12: Japan’s Economic Bilateralism: Implications for the World Economy
Japan’s New Regionalism: The Politics of Free Trade Talks with Mexico, Mireya Solis
Asia’s Financial Regionalism: Japan Driven by the Domestic-International Political Nexus, Saori N. Katada
Japan’s Agenda for Economic Integration in Asia: Fostering Industrial Harmonization, Walter Hatch
The WTO and Japan-China Trade Relations, Saadia Pekkanen
Mitsukawa Kametaro and Kanokogi Kazunobu: The Conservatism of Japan’s Radical Right, Christopher W. A. Szpilman
Shepherding the People toward Restoration: Yasuoka Masahiro and Official Reformism in Early Showa Japan, Roger H. Brown
Tenko, Hayashi Fusao, and the Political Uses of Literature in Interwar Japan, Jeff E. Long
Session 31: Performing Okinawa: Identity, Politics, and Performance in/out of Okinawa
Singing the Okinawan Diaspora: Songs of Home, Departure, and Return, James E. Roberson
Drumming out a Message: Eisa and the Okinawan Diaspora in Mainland Japan, Yoshitaka M. Terada
The Battlefield of Memory: The Politics of Memoration in Contemporary Okinawa, Christopher T. Nelson
The Politics of Performance in the Local History of Okinawa, Kazuma Maetakenishi
Session 32: Critical Issues in the History of Japanese Photography
Between Art and Industry: The Hobby Photographer and Middlebrow Aesthetics in 1920s–1930s Japan, Kerry L. Ross
Montage and Marketing in Japan, Gennifer S. Weisenfeld
"Democratic Photography" in Occupied Japan, Julia Adeney Thomas
Ishimoto Yasuhiro and a Tale of Two Katsuras, Jonathan M. Reynolds
Session 33: Individual Papers: Topics in Japanese Functional Linguistics
A Case Study of the Communicative Functions of the Japanese Conditional Form Tara, Sono Takano Hayes
The Structure of Japanese Inferential System: A Functional Analysis of Daroo, Mitai, Rashii, Soo, and Yooda, Hidemi Sugi
Japanese Sentence-Final Particle Kana: Its Function as a "Mitigation Marker" in Conversation, Yuka Matsugu
Analysis of Narratives of Non-Native Speakers of Japanese, Hiromi Nishida Urayama and Masahiko Minami
Gift-Giving in Warring States Japan: Maintaining and Reconfiguring Relationships, Lee Butler
Preparing for Death: Konoe Nobutada’s Will of 1613, Lee Bruschke-Johnson
The Merchant’s Ark: Live Animal Gifts in Early Modern Dutch-Japanese Relations, Martha Chaiklin
Research and Recognition: International Friendship Ties and Intellectual Exchange in the Late Tokugawa Period, Margarita Winkel
Session 51: Education and Politics in Japan: The What, Why, and How of Change and Its Absence
An Institutional Perspective on the Stability of Postwar Japanese History Education, Julian B. Dierkes
Explaining Policy Failure in the Case of Foreign Language Education in Japan, Robert William Aspinall
Educational Reform at Elementary and Secondary Schools in Contemporary Japan, Peter Cave
Higher Education Reform in Japan: From "Immobilism" to National Renovation, Brian J. McVeigh
Superflat Metamorphosis: On Aesthetic Difference and Commodification, Marc Steinberg
The Early Modern Origins of a Superflat Japan, Thomas Looser
Superflat Children, Marilyn J. Ivy
Superflat Differences (Locating Japan in the Superflat), Toshiya Ueno
Body, Migration, and Empire: Tamura Toshiko’s Writing in Vancouver from 1918 to 1933, Noriko J. Horiguchi
Writing between the Spaces of National and Cultural Boundaries: Tamura Toshiko’s 1930s Fiction, Anne Sokolsky
The Transformation of Women’s Issues in Occupied Shanghai: Sato (Tamura) Toshiko’s Nu-Sheng and Women’s Literature in Propaganda Magazines, Peichen Wu
From Folk Beliefs to Yasukuni Ideology: Yasukuni’s Appropriation of Beliefs in Death and the Afterlife, Akiko Takenaka-O’Brien
Yasukuni Ideology and the "Kamikazefication" of the Home Front as Seen in Shashin Shuho, 1938–1945, David C. Earhart
Sowing Nationalism, Reaping Skepticism: The Renovation of Yushukan War Museum, Takashi Yoshida
Framing Yasukuni Shrine: A Documentary Video on Nationalism and Social Memory, John K. Nelson
Session 72: "Magnificent Obsession": Japanese Studies and Japanese Popular Culture
Girl Talk: Japanese Popular Culture and the Question of Gender, Tomiko Yoda
Rethinking Mise-en-Scène in Japanese Popular Culture, Michael Raine
The Trauma Industry: Displacing Japan onto Global Culture, Thomas LaMarre
Session 73: Against the State? The Culture of Protest in Early Modern Japan
Sifting the Schoolhouse Ashes: A Re-examination of Anti-education Protest in Early Meiji Japan, Abigail Schweber
Teachers and Political Activism in Early Meiji Japan, Brian Platt
A Woman’s Place is in the Diet? Gender and Political Culture in Meiji Japan, Marnie S. Anderson
Session 74: Ties That Bind? Negotiating Gender, Family, and Employment in the Post-Bubble Era
The Limits of Gender Equality Reform in Japan: Positive Action or Part Time-ization? Charles M. Weathers
Linked Lives, Linked Careers: Dual-Earner Couples in Contemporary Japan, Yuko Ogasawara
Slouching toward Domestic Equality? The Slowly Shifting Patriarchal Paradigm in Middle Japan, Scott North
Views from the Few: Work/Life Balance in Corporate Japan, Glenda S. Roberts
Session 75: Individual Papers: Contemporary Japanese Society
Eyeing Up Nikkei: Portrayals of Japanese Americans on a Japanese TV Drama, Christine R. Yano
Low Birth Rates and High Times in the Sex Industry: Struggles over Productive and Reproductive Sex in Contemporary Japan, Suzanne O’Brien
Japan’s Vibrant Civil Society, Mary Alice Pickert
Reconstructing "The Japanese Woman": Stereotype and Self-Presentation in Intercultural Interactions, Aya Kitamura
Elementary Education in Japan and the (Limited) Production of Disability, Jeffrey Maret
Session 91: Protocol, Prayer, and Politics: Daimyo Networks in Tokugawa Japan
For Faith and Prestige: Daimyo Motivations for Buddhist Patronage, Alexander Vesey
Growing up as a Daimyo: Life-Cycle Rituals and Networking in Tokugawa Japan, Reiko Sono
Daimyo Politics in Edo: The Network of Matsudaira Naonori, Marjan Boogert
Two Spatial Cultures in Edo: The Shogun’s O-Nari and Daimyo Compounds, Masaki Fujikawa
Our Hearts Aroused by the Bell of Dawn: Melodrama and Meiji Theater, Cody Poulton
Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Tears: Melodrama and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Edo, Jonathan Zwicker
Excessive Feelings: The Melodramatic Failures of the Meiji Kannen Shôsetsu, Daniel O’Neill
What’s Modern about Meiji Melodramatic Fiction? Ken K. Ito
Session 93: Institutions and Incentives in Contemporary Japanese Politics
Electoral Reform and Career Paths of LDP Politicians, Robert J. Pekkanen and Ellis Krauss
How Corruption Persists: Institutions, Incentives, and Information Brokers in Japan, Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Incentives, Institutions, and Bureaucrat-Politician Relations in Japan, Michio Muramatsu and Ethan Scheiner
Institutions and Incentives in the Japanese Diet, Mikitaka Masuyama and Sadafumi Kawato
The Divine Country and Racism: Yamaji Aizan’s View of Imperial Japan, Yeounsuk Lee
The "Divine Country" in Late Mito Thought, Kate Wildman Nakai
The Country of the Gods and Hideyoshi: Warfare and Ideology in Premodern East Asia, Nam-lin Hur
Gods Walk the Earth: Building a Divine Nation, James Ketelaar
Session 110: Fallout from the Kafû Boom: Critique and Resistance in Modern Japanese Literature
A Strange Tale for Hard Times: Kafû in the Thirties, Stephen B. Snyder
Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in Amerika Monogatari, Rachael Hutchinson
Artists in Furansu Monogatari: Position and Position-Taking in Nagai Kafû, Tomomi Parren-Ota
Sometimes an Electoral System Is Just an Electoral System: What SNTV Does and Doesn’t Explain about Japanese Politics, Robert Weiner
Fragmentation and Power: Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Japanese Decision-Making System, John C. Campbell
Leadership Looming Large: The Process of Political Reform in Japan, Alisa Gaunder
Session 112: Individual Papers: On the Margins of Modern Japanese Society
Going the Distance: Resident Koreans in Japanese Cinema, Noboru Tomonari
The State, Society, and Immigrants: A Comparative Study of the Korean Diaspora in Japan and the United States, Kazuko Suzuki
For the Sake of the Japanese Public: Earthquake, Rumors, and Vigilante Violence in the Japanese Empire, 1923, Jin-hee Lee
Gendered Experiences of Japanese Wives of American GIs in Post-World War II Japan, Ayako Mizumura
Session 130: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law in Meiji-Taisho Japan
Rethinking Sex as Crime: Sexuality, the Law, and the Courts in Meiji Japan, Susan L. Burns
Of Pity and Poison: Women in Prison in Meiji Japan, Daniel V. Botsman
Mixed Marriage, Hybrid Children, and the Japanese Empire: Cases from Legal Handbooks on Household Registration in Colonial Korea, Barbara J. Brooks
Session 131: Pop Matters: Japanese Entertainment, Leisure, and Power in a Changing Asia
Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy in Comparative Perspective, Peter Katzenstein
A Preliminary Comparison of the Content and Context of Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century America and Lolita Complex Culture in Contemporary Japan, Sharon Kinsella
Women in Japanese Hip-Hop: Responses to Global Machismo, Ian R. Condry
The State of Japanese Travel: Japan and the Structuring of Tourism in the Asia-Pacific, David Leheny
Why Do Japanese and Korean Children Master Conditionals One Year Earlier than English-Speaking Children? Noriko Akatsuka
Culture in Grammar: How Universal Spatial Notions of Uchi and Soto Are Metaphorically Used in Japanese Grammar, Seiichi Makino
Grammar in the Native Context, Fumiko Nazikian
Grammar as a Basis for Action or "Where’s Waldo?" Patricia J. Wetzel
Session 133: Tawada Yoko Does Not Exist
Tawada Yoko Does Not Exist, Tawada Yoko
Tawada Yoko and the Characterization of No Place, Doug Slaymaker
Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet, Margaret Mitsutani
Session 149: The Ambiguous Borders of Colonial Authority: Japanese Consular Police in Northeast Asia
Japanese Suppression of the Overseas Korean Independence Movement: Consular Police, Nationality, and Public Security Law, Naoki Mizuno
The Japanese Consular Police and Social Control in Colonial Taiwan and the South China Coast, Toyomi Asano
The Colonization of Korea and the Consular Police, 1904–1910, Toshihiko Matsuda
The Myth of Army Unilateralism: Japan’s Consular Police in Manchukuo, 1930–1937, Erik W. Esselstrom
Where Were the Pirates? The Significance of Satsuma’s Commercial Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Foreign Relations, Robert Hellyer
Prohibition or Proliferation: Domainal Politics, Hidden Buddhists, and Local Identities in Satsuma, Derek Wolff
The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan, Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Session 151: Noh and Its Intertexts
Zeami’s Perfect Vision: "Riken no Ken" and Other Metaphors of the Ineffable, Lewis Cook
Fickle Rain, Healing Rain: Images in Motion in the Noh Play Teika, Scot Hislop
Down the Primrose Path: Narihira as Love God in Medieval Poetic Commentaries and the Noh, Susan B. Klein
Defining the "Other": Presentation of Chinese and Indian Elements in Noh Plays, Beng Choo Lim
Cooperative Capitalism in the German and Japanese Telecommunications Industries? Mark Tilton
Familialistic Welfare States in a Postindustrial World: A Comparison of Policy Responses in Japan and South Korea, Ito Peng
Political Permeability and Technocratic Elites: The Policy-Making Process in France and Japan, Patricia Boling
The State, Advocacy, and Policy for Foreign Residents: Emerging Processes of Policy Change in Japan, Korea, and Italy, Deborah J. Milly
Return to Lost Wholeness: Sexuality in Itô Hiromi’s Early Poems, Ken-ichi Miura
The Fantasy of Filicide, Reintegration, and Rebirth in Itô Hiromi’s "Watashi wa Anjuhimeko de aru" (I Am Anjuhimeko), Jeffrey Angles
An Anti-domestic Indulgence: Botanical Metabolism in Itô Hiromi’s Novellas, Kyoko Ômori
Session 169: The Tale of Genji as Cultural, Political, and Critical Commodity
Shared Motifs in the Tales of Genji and Sagoromo, Royall Tyler
Appraising Genji in Early Modern Japan, Patrick Caddeau
Masamune Hakucho and the Modern Tale of Genji, Michael Emmerich
Reframing Genji Monogatari for the Second Millennium, Carole Cavanaugh
Session 170: Culture as Transgression in Postwar Japan
Collusive Nationalism: National Literature Debates in Postwar Japan, Serk-Bae Suh
T.R.Y. and Try Again: The Politics of Re-imagining Empire in Two Recent Japanese Films, Michael Baskett
Generation before Nation: Nara Yoshitomo’s Girl’s with Knives, Miriam R. Silverberg
Session 171: On the Road Again: Money and Movement in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
"Flying Cash": Bills of Exchange in Medieval Japan, Ethan Segal
Social and Economic Aspects of Late Medieval Pilgrimage, Suzanne Gay
Poor Pilgrims? Rethinking Early Modern Nukemairi from an Economic Perspective, Laura Nenzi
Moneylending for Wealth Preservation in Early Modern and Meiji Villages, Jason Danely
A Japanese Vision of 21st-Century Abilities: The Integrated Period, Basics, and Reforms, Ryoko Kato Tsuneyoshi
Decentralizing the Japanese Curriculum: Two Case Studies, Chris Bjork
The Implementation of English Activities in Japanese Elementary Schools: Implications for Global Citizenship, Pui Shan Tam
Session 188: Working Class Back In: Labor and Politics in Postwar Japan
Class in Motion: Postwar Images, Michael Gibbs
Gender, Nation, and the Radical Unions of Occupied Japan, Christopher Gerteis
Dreaming of Ryukyu: Labor and Resistance in Occupied Okinawa, David Obermiller
Writing against Labor: The Body in Postwar Mineworker Poetry, Takehiro Watanabe
Session 189: Japan’s Entertainment Industry in Global Perspective
Techno-Aesthetics: How Japan Is Turning Its Mass Culture into a Global Business, Ronald A. Morse
Just Another Fad? The American Response to Japanese Anime and Manga, Susan J. Napier
Studying Hollywood: How Japan’s Entertainment Industry Recovered, Jane Kagon
Session 190: How Japanese Can It Be? National Identity through the Border-Crossing Lens
Past-Modern Architecture: (Inter)National Identity in the Meiji Period, Don H. Choi
National or Civilizational Identity: Japanese Architectural History and the Search for East Asian Roots, 1893–1937, Vimalin Rujivacharakul
An Iconography of Empire: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Ritual Process of Chita Dashi Festivals, Sean McPherson
Cultural Performance and Power in the Beginning Japanese Language Classroom: Acting in Bourdieu’s "Field", Hiroaki Kawamura
Performance-Based Teacher Training in East Asian Languages, Mari Noda
A Performative Approach to Study Abroad, Stephen P. Nussbaum
Performing Culture in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom, Michael S. Tangeman
The Changing Views of the Zhuangzi in Shikô’s Haikai Theory, Peipei Qiu
Issues of Value in Genroku Haikai, David Cannell
Yosa Buson and the Shômon (Baishô School): The Anxiety of Reception, Cheryl Crowley
Session 209: Japanese Returning to Japan: Social and Psychological Effects
Going Home: International Labor Migrants Return to Meiji Era Yamaguchi and Hiroshima, Jonathan Dresner
Ethnic Identity Crises and the Politics of Assimilation in Contemporary Japan: An Extension of the Critical Sociology of Strangerhood, Masa Higo
From Foreign Country to Cultural Home: Japan in a Sansei’s Mind, Lan Dong
There’s No Place Like Home: The Influence of Canadian Host Families on Japanese High School Study Abroad Participants, Jerrod Hansen
Pan-Asian Societies in Prewar Japanese Foreign Relations: Uchida Ryohei and the Kokuryukai, Sven T. Saaler
Forgotten Leaders in Sino-Japanese Relations: The Case of Toyama Mitsuru, Sun Yat-sen, and Chiang Kai-shek, Mayumi Itoh
Forgotten Leaders of the Interwar Debate on Regional Integration: Introducing Sugimori Kojiro, Dick Stegewerns
Session 211: Japanese Buddhist Art/Objects in Ritual Context
The Magnificent Seven: The Esoteric Rite of the Seven Medicine Master Buddhas in the Heian Period, Yui Suzuki
In Pursuit of the Highest Rebirth: Honen’s View of Raigo Imagery, Candice F. Kanda
The Role of Portraits in the Performance of Mortuary Rituals for the Elite: A Case Study Based on Moromoriki, Karen M. Gerhart
The Material Culture of Gyakushu, Gene (Quitman) E. Phillips
Adapting to Endemic War: Fourteenth-Century Improvements in Arms and Armor, Thomas D. Conlan
Samurai in Monk Robes? Monastic Warriors in Heian and Kamakura Japan, Mikael Adolphson
Once Upon a Horse: Polity, Technology, and Tactics in Early Medieval Japan, Karl Friday
Targeting Dogs, Entertaining Gods: Practice and Performance of Mounted Archery in the Kamakura Period, Roy Ron