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Session 11, How Power Hides among Men: Critical Examinations of the Japanese Case
The Art of the Gut: How Gender Constrains the Political Voices of Japanese Men, Robin M. LeBlanc
Ten Years After: Masculinist Power, Festivals, Centers, and Movements in Japan, James E. Roberson
Foreign Policy and Transformation of Masculinities in Japan, Yumiko Mikanagi and Yusuke Tanaka
Session 12, Community Histories: Refocusing Sengoku Japan
Another Instance of Domainal Self-Governance in Suburban Kyoto, Hiroshi Niki
Healing Gifts: Medicine and Community in Ishiyama Honganji, Andrew E. Goble
Social and Cultural Integration in Late Medieval Japan, Lee Butler
The Documents of the Maeno Clan: Historical Goldmine or Masterful Forgery? David D. Neilson
Session 13, Reconsidering Mappo in Medieval Japan
The Place of Mappo in Tenth and Eleventh Century Japanese Society, William Londo
The Legacy of Mappo: Honen and His Disciples, Mark Blum
Mappo and Conceptions of the World in Medieval Japan, Kevin G. Carr
Migrating People, Traveling Books, Yoshitaka Hibi
Telling Stories: Connections to the Homeland through the Literature of "Rafu Shinpô" (Los Angeles Times), Anne Sokolsky
The Female Ideal: Japanese Immigrant Women and the Nichibei (Japanese American Daily) 1914–1924, Shiori Nomura
Putting Down Roots: Okina Kyuin's Declaration of an Immigrant Literature in the 1920s, Kristina S. Vassil
Session 34, Romanticizing Ryukyu, Constructing Okinawa
Romantic Ryukyu in Okinawan Politics, Gregory J. Smits
Bashofu: Japan’s Folk Craft Movement and the Construction of a New Okinawa, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum
Writing the Island with a Dance of Words, Davinder L. Bhowmik
Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion: Eisaa in Contemporary Okinawa, Christopher T. Nelson
Session 35, Reconstructing "Taisho"
Search for a "New Japan:" Politics and Culture in the Shadow of the Great War, 1919–1931, Frederick R. Dickinson
Reflecting on the Past, Reconstructing for the Future: The Great Kanto Earthquake as a Watershed in 1920s Japan? John Charles Schencking
Enthroning a New Emperor: The 1928 Ceremonies and the Construction of National Identity in Japan, Sandra Wilson
Session 36, Logics of Expressivity: Discourses of Desire, Interest and Emotion in Contemporary Japan
Language of Love: Romantic Autobiographies of Korean Women in Japan, Sonia Ryang
Regional Rage: Linguistic Expressions of Anger among Japanese (Kansai) Men, Cindi SturtzSreetharan
The Kokuhaku: Japanese Men and& The Love Confession, Janet Shibamoto Smith
Iwanu wa hana: Japanese Women's Public Complaints, Debra J. Occhi
Session 37, German Comparative Perspectives on Political and Economic Change in Japan
Taming the Beast: Corruption and Change in Japanese Politics, Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Letting the Dog Bite? Why the LDP Passed a New Antitrust Law that it Didn’t Really Want, Mark Tilton
Japan and Germany at the Crossroads towards New Corporate Governance Systems?, Andreas Moerke
Session 53, The Cultural Economy of Being Young in Heisei Japan
Freeters and the Search for Meaningful Work in the New Economy, Colin Smith
What is a Store for? Reconsidering the Relationship between Konbini and Youth, Gavin H. Whitelaw
Unwed Mothers without Partners, Ekaterina Korobtseva
Japanese Rappers and 9/11: Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture, Ian R. Condry
Session 54, Ecology and Japan Studies
Otogizoshi, Setsuwa and the Environment: Connections to Herbalism and Natural History, Kazuaki Komine
The Pelagic Empire: Reconsidering Japanese Expansionism, 1895–1945, William M. Tsutsui
International Animal Activism and Intellectual Thought, Christine Marran
Ecology and Japanese Popular Culture, Richard H. Okada
Session 55, Nationalism Contested in Contemporary Japan
Contested Civic Participation: Nationalistic and Alternative Japanese Societal Membership Definitions in Resident Korean Intellectuals' Opinion Pieces, Youngmi Lim
"Peace Museums" as Sites of Contention: The Struggle over Sole Interpretive Authority of the Asia-Pacific War, Akiko Takenaka
"Backlash" under Trial: Contestation over Feminism and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, Tomomi Yamaguchi
Session 56, Individual Papers: Texts and Arts in Japanese History
The Masses and the Massacre: Proletarian Writers’ Response to the Korean Massacre, Alex Bates
Japanese Folktales in Colonial Language Education in Taiwan: The Momotaro Tale from 1900–1935, David A. Henry
Scripting the Moribund: The Genji Scrolls’ Aesthetics of Decomposition, Reginald Jackson
Pilgrimage to Brothels, Susan Lee
Conquering the Foreign Other in Early-Modern Kirishitan Texts, Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Session 77, Urban Space and the Urban Gaze: Literature, Ethnography, Art
The Urban Sakariba and Naturalist Representation, Christopher L. Hill
Kida Minoru's Bohemian Travelogue: An Attempt at the "Ethnographic Turn" in Wartime Japan, Toshiya Ueno
The Politics of "Upside-down and Inside-out": The Shut-in as Ethnographer, Miyamoto Ryûji and Abe Kôbô, Tomoko Shimizu
Ontology of the Expansive White Wall, Sabu Kohso
Session 78, The Politics of Japan's Yasukuni Shrine: From Meiji to Present
A Diminished Shinto: Shrine Reform and Yasukuni in Early-Meiji Japan, Trent Maxey
Yasukuni from the Margins, Hiraku Shimoda
Is Japan's Government Haunted by Spirits of the Military Dead? John K. Nelson
Session 79, Man'yôshû Revisited: New Perspectives on the Ancient Anthology
Seeking Hitomaro’s Ghost: Pilgrimages to the Poet's Grave, Anne Commons
Anthologization as Poetry Creation in the Man’yôshû, Jeremy Robinson
Gift of Tongues: Languages of Praise in Man’yôshû and Kaifûsô, Jason P. Webb
Session 80, New Directions in the Study of Japanese Party System Evolution
A Decade of DPJ Evolution: Ideology and Geography, Robert J. Weiner
How Japanese Women Overcome Party Constraints: Doi Takako, Fukushima Mizuho, and Moriyama Mayumi, Alisa Gaunder
How a Two Party System Emerged from Electoral Reform, Nobuhiro Hiwatari
How Can We Integrate Hiroshima/Nagasaki in a Japanese Literature Course? Toshiko Yokota
Constructing War: A Strategy for Engaging Young People, Marnie Jorenby
Teaching Hiroshima for Life, James J. Orr
The Unknowing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Hosea Hirata
Session 100, Text, Commentary, Reception: Practices of Literary Scholarship in Premodern Japan
Generic Instability and Secret Teachings in Late Medieval Ise Monogatari Commentaries, Jamie L. Newhard
Revised, Veiled, Beautified: Reading the Canon according to the Kokindenju, Lewis Cook
The Ancient Man’yoshu Text, its Early Modern Commentaries, and their Modern Reception, Torquil Duthie
Edo Commentaries on the Tale of Genji: Eroticism and Popular Culture, Haruo Shirane
Session 101, Embodying Deviation: Representations of Marginal Bodies in Early Modern Japan
The Evil Needs a Face: Reading the Criminal's Body in Tokugawa Period Japan, Andreas Niehaus
The Immoral Body: Confucian Discourses on the Difference between Animals and Humans, Hans Martin Kraemer
Classifications of the Body in Bakumatsu Japan: From Shifting Boundaries Between Humans and Animals to "Civilized" and "Barbarian" Physiognomies, Nadin Hee
Challenging Femininity by Challenging Language: Eighth-grade Girls Confront Peer Group, Ayumi Miyazaki
Motherhood vs. Womanhood: Gender Socialization and Ambivalence among Adolescent Women, Amy Borovoy
Educational Policy Reform and the Teacher’s Job: Implications for Female Teachers and Students, Gerald LeTendre
Session 121, The Embodiment of Difference in Modern Japanese History
Unsettling Gender and Empire: The Body of the Mother in Yi Hoe-song’s "Kinuta o utsu onna", Barbara Toni Hartley
Menstruation Leave in Early 20th-Century Japan, Izumi Nakayama
Life-Writing, Citizenship and Physical Difference in Contemporary Japan, Vera Mackie
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Reinventing the Emperor in Postwar Japan, Morris F. Low
The Prince’s New Clothes: Japanese Views of China in the Shotoku Taishi denryaku, Sayoko Sakakibara
Shoko Mandarazu: Horyuji and the Cult of Prince Shotoku in the Kamakura Period, Chari Pradel
Arguing for the Legitimacy of Women’s Buddhist Practice: Shotoku and Hashihito Narratives at Medieval Chuguji, Lori Meeks
Shotoku Worship in Shinran's Pure Land Buddhism, Kenneth Lee
Topic Management in a Storytelling Activity by Japanese-English Bilingual Children, Momoe Saito Fu
Action and Adventure: The Use of Verb Forms in the Narratives of Japanese-English Bilingual Children, Sanae Fukuda and Masahiko Minami
Analysis of Narrative Structures in Speakers of Japanese as a Foreign Language, Hiromi Nishida Urayama
The Acquisition of a Point of View in Japanese Narratives, Seiko Kosaka
Session 124, Boundaries in Question: Japan and Korea in the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods
Outside the Nation-State Boundary: The "Comfort Women" and Human Rights Law, Hiromi Mizuno
Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship: Immigration Policies and Japan’s National Identity, Hwa-Ji Shin
Island Stories: Korea, Japan, the US and Territorial Boundaries, Alexis Dudden
Strategic Boundaries: Yu Miri, History, and Controversy, Melissa L. Wender
Session 125, Texts in the Camera Eye
The Status of the Figure in the Age of the Camera, Charles Shiro Inouye
Questioning the Visuality of "Cinematic Writing", Michael Raine
The Face in the Shadow of the Camera: Corporeality of the Photographer in Kanai Mieko’s Narratives, Atsuko Sakaki
The Traveling (Camera) Eye in Tawada Yôko, Doug Slaymaker
Session 144, "Otoko no michi": Cultivating Masculinity in Japan, 1600–1945
The Manly Merchant in 17th-Century Kawagoe, Luke S. Roberts
Bishonen and Brotherly Love: Conflicted Masculinity in Hara Hoitsuan’s The Secret Politician, Michele Mason
Serving the Emperor, Saving the Buraku, and Purging the Feminine: Creating the Public Life of Oe Taku, Daniel V. Botsman
Shido in the Service of the State: Yasuoka Masahiro and the Ideal of the Warrior as Moral Elite in Imperial Japan, Roger H. Brown
Session 145, Wartime Film Culture in the Japanese Empire
Mobilizing Pleasure: Wartime Film Melodrama, Chika Kinoshita
Mapping the Cultural Geography of Korea in Imperial Japanese Film Culture, Michael Baskett
Cinematic Genbun’itchi: The Transformation to Sound Cinema in the Japanese Empire, Sharon Hayashi
Memorializing Martyrdom: Local Identity and a Tokugawa Loyalist in Modern Japan, Michael Wert
Modernizing the Tokugawa: Marquis Tokugawa Yoshichika and the Founding of the Tokugawa Art Museum, Morgan J. Pitelka
"The Purified Past": Vernacular House Preservation in Akita Prefecture, Milena Markova
Constructing Historical Parks: Buddhist Temples, Archaeology, and National Identity in Modern Japan, Yoko Shirai
Session 147, Individual Papers: State and Society in Contemporary Japan
Married to the Military in Okinawa: Okinawan Military Brides’ Views of Transnational Intimacy in Contemporary Japan, Rebecca Forgash
Japan’s Iraq Policy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Foreign Policy, Natsuyo Ishibashi
Awakening Farm-Mother Power: Depopulation and Food Heritage in Rural Japan, Bridget Love
Race as Spiritual Metaphor: Rastafarian Discourse in Japan, Marvin Dale Sterling
Resituating Hayachine Kagura: Municipal Consolidation and the Politics of Folk Performance Preservation in Northeast Japan, Christopher S. Thompson
Session 165, Reconceptualizing Modalities of Race and Ethnicity in Japan
Playing with Race: Plastic Identities and the Rigidity of Racial Simulacra, John G. Russell
Ethnic Touristic Imaginings and Identity Negotiations in Japanese Popular Culture, Kyle Cleveland
Ethnic Eroticisms: Shifting Fashions, Twisting Hierarchies of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Japan, Millie Creighton
A More Diverse Minority: Reconceptualizing the Buraku in Japan, Christopher Bondy
Session 166, Japanese Political Reform Movement in Sticky Areas
Banking: Regulatory Reform and Market Distortions, Ulrike Schaede
Pensions: Does Politics Change when Institutions Change? Margarita Estevez-Abe
Agriculture: The International and Domestic Pressures for Reform, Christina Davis
Article 9 and the SDF: Preparing for Combat at Home and Abroad, Sheila A. Smith
Session 167, Violence and Democracy in Imperial Japan
Fear of Violence, Violence of Fear: Vigilantes, Self-defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole, 1910s-1920s, Jin-hee Lee
Organized Violence and Imperial Democracy: Political Ruffians in Parliamentary Politics, Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Urban Riots and Democracy in Taisho Japan, Yuko Fujino
Session 168, Exhibiting Ueno: Spaces of Enlightenment in Modern Tokyo
Industrial Exhibitions in Ueno Park: Differentiated Development, 1877–1907, Angus Lockyer
Civilized by Nature: Making Man and Beast at the Ueno Zoological Gardens, Ian J. Miller
What's in a Name? What's in a Space? The Hakubutsukan and Bijutsukan of Ueno, Alice Y. Tseng
Japan’s Electoral System after Reform: Is It Indeed "La plus ça change"?, Margaret A. McKean
The Personal Vote and Electoral Coalitions: Their Continuing Role in Japanese Elections, Ray Christensen
Faulty Forecasts from Prior Paths? Electoral Reform and the LDP, Ellis Krauss
Predicting Japanese Politics, Steven R. Reed
The Writer at His Desk: Authorial Self-fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Comicbooks (Kibyôshi), Adam L. Kern
Literary Occupations: The Self-censored Manuscripts of Ôoka Shôhei, Jonathan Abel
Kadokawa Haruki’s Golden Formula: Tying In Cinema and Literature in 1970s Japan, Sari Kawana
Carnival of the Antinomian: Antisemitic Publishing and Postmodern Performance in 1980s Japan, David G. Goodman
Session 190, Dialogues on Japanese Colonial Sensibility: Body, Style, Korea
Passing, Colonial Kitsch, and Foreign Natives: Keywords for New Research, Haeng-ja Chung and Miriam R. Silverberg
The Unbearable Lightness of Cultural Commodities, Kim Puja and Younok Song
Korea Booms and Colonial Sensibility, Helen J. S. Lee and Kawamura Minato
Session 191, Spaces of Identity in Miyazaki Hayao’s Anime and the Limits of Techno-Orientalism
The World of Anime: A Space for Dislocating the Oriental-Occidental Binary, Kaori Yoshida
Anime and the Creation of Ideal Spaces, Timothy Iles
Ideologies of Sexual Purity, International Politics and the Shôjo Protagonists in Miyazaki Hayao’s Animation, Alwyn Paula Spies
Session 212, Philosophy and the Political in Wartime Japan
The Philosophy of Total War, Takeshi Kimoto
Responsibility, Penitence, Apologia and the Philosophy of the Kyoto School, Christopher S. Goto-Jones
A Reexamination of the "Overcoming Modernity" Symposium, Richard F. Calichman
"Subjective Technology" in Kyoto School Philosophy: Nakai Masakazu's Philosophy of Technology and the Political, Aaron S. Moore
Session 213, Reconfiguring Militarism in Postwar Japan
From Gunjin to Gaijin: The Practical Politics of Everyday Okinawan-Military Relations in Japan, Christopher Ames
Taming the Armed Forces in Japan, Masakazu Tanaka
A Deputized Army: The Postwar Japanese Military, Aaron Skabelund
Postwar Postwarrior Masculinities in the Self-Defense Forces, Sabine Fruhstuck
Session 214, Mapping the Journey through Texts: Courtiers on the Road in Premodern Japan
The Official Journeys of Heian Senior Nobles, Yoshida Sanae
Courtier in the Countryside: Pilgrimage Travel in Eleventh-Century Japan, Aileen P. Gatten
To the Edge of the World: Imperial Pilgrimages to the Tennoji in Eiga monogatari, Takeshi Watanabe
Women on the Road: Nijô’s Encounters with Female Travelers, Christina Laffin
Session 215, New Dimensions in Japanese Economic and Security Policy
Japan ’s New Trade Strategy: A Shift from Single-Track to Multiple-Track Approach, Shujiro Urata
Japan’s Forum-Shopping in International Trade, Saori N. Katada
Self-Responsibility, Risk and the Nature of the Japanese State, Glenn D. Hook
Revisiting Japan’s Defense Strategy: Changing Strategic Environment and National Security, Yumi Hiwatari
Session 229, The Korean Other in (Post)colonial Japanese Culture
The Transformation of Security System in Japan: The Great Earthquake (Kantodaishinsai) as the Turning Point, Hang Kim
Korean Subject in the Imperial Capital: Reading Otherness in Nakajima Atsushi’s "Toragari", Kota Inoue
Holes of Empire, the Biopolitics of Conversion, Ho Duk Hwang
Blood and Bone(r)s: The Zainichi Korean Male Body in Postwar Japan, Christopher D. Scott
Session 230, Power, Culture, and Transnational Media in 20th-Century Japan
Containment of Horror: Japonisme, Expressionism, and Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919), Daisuke Miyao
Creating a Popular Audience: Cinema as a Global Medium and Popular Entertainment in Taisho Japan, Hideaki Fujiki
The Man Who Became a Method: Globalization of the Suzuki Method, Mari Yoshihara
The Comedy Problematic: The DVD Revolution and Hollywood Marketing in Contemporary Japan, Hiroshi Kitamura
Session 231, Japanese Women and the State in Historical Context
Decolonizing Women's Bodies: A Case Study of the Eugenics Protection Law and Freedom of Birth Control in Postwar Japan, Taeko Shibahara
Mobilizing Women in a Japanese Colony: The Japanese State, Japanese Women, and Korean Women, Atsuko Aoki
Women’s Centers in Japan: Institutions of State Feminism or State Control? Miriam Y. Murase
Changes in Gender Equal Policy of Local Government in Japan: Has "Gender-free" Citizenship Emerged? Ki-young Shin
Session 232, Historicizing Japanese Textbooks
Contested Textbooks: The Early Meiji Conflicts over Textbook Content and Production, Abigail Schweber
Independence Gained and Lost: Japanese-Produced Textbooks in Colonial Korea and Manchuria, Andrew R. Hall
Japanese Schools and Korean Discontent: The Role of Colonial Education in the Kwangju Student Movement, Deborah Solomon
The Representation of "Comfort Women" and Politics of History in Contemporary Japan, Yoshiko Nozaki