Abstracts of the 2001 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 22–25, 2001, Chicago, IL
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Representations of Colonial Experiences in Chosen Senryu: Working Class Japanese in Colonized Korea, Helen J. S. Lee
Performing "Race," Gender, and Romance in Colonial Manchuria, Kimberly Kono
Anti-Colonialism and the Colonial Novel: Nakajima Atsushi’s Light, Wind and Dreams, Robert Tierney
Kim Tal-su and Resident Korean Literature in Postwar Japan, Christopher D. Scott
Postwar Tenko: Transcending the Left-Right Paradigm, Rikki Kersten
When Right Is Wrong: Does the French Revolutionary Idea of "Right vs. Left" Distort Our Understanding of Japanese Politics? The Example of the Postwar Kyoto School, David Williams
The Far Right and Democratic Lobbying: The Case of the Association of Shinto Shrines, Ken Ruoff
Session 12. Japan Changes: Old Challenges, New Responses in the World Political Economy
From Export Platforms to Integrated Manufacturing: Japan’s MNCs in East Asia, Patricia Nelson
Budgets and State Finance; The Politics of Public FDI Credit in Japan, Mireya Solis
Sword and Shield: Japan’s Strategic Use of the WTO Dispute Settlement System, Saadia Pekkanen
Insulation in an Era of "Open Regionalism": Asianizing the Yen, William Grimes
Session 13. The Roots of Nationalism? Boundaries and Identity in Early Medieval Japan
Crossing the Sea: Japanese Identity in Eleventh-Century China, Robert Borgen
Limits to Authority and Kamakura Proto-Nationalism, Ethan Segal
India, China, and Barbaric Others: Representing the Foreign in Early Medieval Japan, Haruko Wakabayashi
Session 31. Subjects of/in Translation: Japanese Literature and Psychoanalytic Methods
Chiasmic Narrative and Twisted Subjectivity in Kanai Mieko’s "Boshizo,” Mary A. Knighton
Traces of Another: Origuchi, Laplanche, and the Enigmatic Signifier, Jonathan M. Hall
First Person Plural: Psychoanalysis, Narrative, and the Shishosetsu Subject, Andra Alvis
On Retreat in Style: Saikaku, Sairoken Kyôsen, and Kindai yasa inja (1686), Lawrence E. Marceau
Yosa Buson and the Shiin (Urban Recluse): Using the Mundane to Transcend the Mundane, Cheryl Crowley
Ôkubo Shibutsu, Vagabond Poet of Edo, Patricia Graham
Session 33. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Culture in Japanese
Cultural Construction, Negotiation, and Language Pedagogy: Making "Culture" More Dynamic in Japanese Language Instruction, Hiroaki Kawamura
Analysis of Non-disjunctive Sentence Ending keredo and ga, Satoru Ishikawa
Developing a Sociocultural Competence in Japanese, Fumiko Nazikian and Noriko Cakmak
Toward Performance-Based Instruction of East Asian Languages, Mari Noda
Treading the Tiger’s Tail: American and Japanese World War II Veterans’ Reconciliation Ceremonies, Marie Thorsten
Revisioning the Pacific War: Japanese and American Critiques of Pearl Harbor Films, Geoffrey White
Americanizing Japanese War Crimes, Lisa Yoneyama
Session 53. Love, Kingship, and the Female Gaze in Heian Monogatari
Deconstructing the Figure of Step/Mother: The Web of the Maternal and the Erotic in Ochikubo monogatari, Catherine Youngkyung Ryu
From Erotic Object to Nunhood: The Potency of Ukifune’s Silent Gaze in Genji monogatari, Lili Selden
Romancing the Political: The Female Narrator’s Construction of "Kingship" in Makura no sôshi and Eiga monogatari, Naomi Fukumori
Session 54. The U.S. and Japan in Asia: Developing Multilateral "Governance"
Cooperative Competition or Competitive Cooperation? U.S.-Japanese Interaction in Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997–2000, Saori N. Katada
The U.S. and Japan in APEC’s EVSL Negotiations: Agriculture, Bilateralism, and Regional Multilateralism, Ellis Krauss
Japanese Foreign Policymaking toward the ARF: The Emergence of an Asia-Pacific Multilateral Security Institution and U.S.-Japan Relations, Kuniko Ashizawa
Multilateral Governance and Japan’s New Regional Grand Vision: Policies towards APEC and ARF, Andrew Oros
Session 55. Things Japanese, Things Unexpected: Material Culture in Contemporary Japan
Sporting Goods and Self-Fashioning: Why Don’t the Japanese Want to "Be Like Mike" © ? William Kelly
Aoyama Italiano: Itameshi and a Yearning for Home in Globalizing Japan, Merry I. White
"Mi Kasa Su Kasa": Umbrellas and the Tokyo Station Lost and Found Office, Paul Noguchi
Confounding Kitty: Dual-Marketing of Japanese Cute Products, Christine R. Yano
Session 56. Remembering War in Peace: Appropriating Memories across Borders and Generations
Constructing an Acceptable Past: Postwar Narratives of the Japanese Agricultural Colonists, Greg P. Guelcher
The Admiral and the Tourist: On Okinawan Battlefield Tourism, Yoko Genka
Lost Memories, Veiled Ideologies: Yasukuni Shrine and State Shintô, 1869–1945, Akiko Takenaka O’Brien
"Mother Said She Grew Up with the War": A Study of Transgenerational Japanese Memories of the Pacific War, Gregory S. Johnson
Session 74. Unexplored Origins: India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination
A South Asian Component in the Buddhist Statuary of Classical Japan, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
Myoe’s Mount Lanka: Emptiness, Landscape, and Poetic Imagination, Ryuichi Abe
Imaginary Cartographies: Jambudvipa and the Japanese World Map, David (Max) Moerman
Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Buddhist Travel and the Construction of Modern Buddhism, Richard Jaffe
Session 75. Idioms of "Eros" in Postwar Japanese Cinema
Overcoming Misogynist Modernism in Contemporary Film, Christine Marran
Gazing Otherwise: Alternate Erotics in Woman in the Dunes, Nina Cornyetz
Sexuality as a Sign (kigo): Takahashi Tomoaki’s A New Love in Tokyo, Tamae Prindle
Session 76. Questioning Modernity and Popularity in Twentieth-Century Japanese Music
"Japanese Music" Can Be Popular, Hugh de Ferranti
Dis-communication: Noise Music in Post-80s Japan, Anne McKnight
Naniwa-bushi: Modernity or Tradition? Alison Tokita
Pop Goes the Bubble: Pizzicato Five and Universal Pop Music, Mark Driscoll
Session 77. Rethinking School Relations in the Tokugawa Period
Yamazaki Ansai and Confucian School Relations, 1640–1675, Samuel Hideo Yamashita
The Remodeling of the Reizei House: The Place of Court Poetry in the Mid-Tokugawa Literary Field, Steven D. Carter
Intellectual Polarities and the Development of the Kokugaku Field: Hirata Atsutane and the Nudenoya, 1823–1834, Mark McNally
Session 95. New Views of Noh through the Works of Komparu Zenchiku
"Twilight That Shatters the Self": The Landscapes of Komparu Zenchiku, Paul S. Atkins
Komparu Zenchiku, Meishukushû and the Invention of Tradition, Noel John Pinnington
Yuya and Shunkan: Author, Author! Arthur Thornhill
Diversity and Inequality of Schooling Experience: Third-Generation Koreans in Japan, Kaori H. Okano
Cultural Deficits or Social Construction? Identifying the Educational Problems of Buraku Children in the Earliest Years of Schooling, Sarane S. Boocock
The Newcomers in the Japanese Elementary School Classroom: "Internal Internationalization" and Japanese Education, Ryoko Kato Tsuneyoshi
Death Rituals as a Field of Socio-Political Negotiation: The Public Authority and Funerary Buddhism in Late Tokugawa Japan, Nam-lin Hur
For Want of a Priest: Lay Custodianship of Vacant Temples in Late Tokugawa Japan, Alexander Vesey
Neither Peasant, Merchant, Artisan, nor Buddhist Priest: Ôyama oshi in Early Modern Japan, Barbara Ambros
Political Activism and the Temple: The Case of Nakanishi Gogen—Meiji Activist/Priest, Stephen Covell
Session 98. Individual Papers: Transcending Genre, Transforming Conventions
Interrogating genbun itchi: Higuchi Ichiyô’s First-Person Narratives, Timothy J. Van Compernolle
A Metamorphosis in Okinawan Fiction: The Works of Medoruma Shun, Davinder L. Bhowmik
Socializing Intellect: Dutch Scholar Ôtsuki Gentaku’s Study Journey, Terrence Jackson
The Red Hair Barbarian in the Japanese World Order: The Transformation of the Dutch Shogunal Audience, Kayoko Fujita
The Making of Fûzokuga: The Paintings and the Art Historical Category, Susan Lee
Session 116. Other Worlds, Lost Worlds: Murakami Haruki’s Fictional Topographies
Orphic Obsessions: Descent into the Underworld in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki, Susan Fisher
Murakami Haruki’s Underground, Naomi Matsuoka
Wells, Hotel Rooms, and Other Black Holes: Liminal Spaces in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki Susan J. Napier
From Primal Landscape to the Paraspaces of Supermodernity: The Buried Furusato in Murakami’s Kokkyô nô Minami, Taiyô no Nishi, Ila Goody
U.S. Bases in Okinawa and the Problem of Local Memories in the Age of Globalization, Masamichi S. Inoue
Ordinary Political Masculinity: How Ethics of Manhood Constrain the Political Participation of Japanese Men, Robin LeBlanc
Issue Voting in House of Representatives Elections, 1972–1996, Gill Steel
Session 118. Between Ideology and Practice: The Construction of Female Gender in Tokugawa Japan
The Medicalization of the Female Reproductive Body in Late-Seventeenth-Century Japan as Seen through Childbirth Manuals, Yuki Terazawa
The Politics of Prostitution in Early-19th-Century Kanazawa, Elizabeth A. Leicester
Sex and the Body in the Writings of Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825), Bettina Gramlich-Oka
The People Will Not Be Cheated: Mass Circulation Newspapers and Japan’s Siberian Expedition, Paul E. Dunscomb
"For Our Bright Future": Japanese Children and Representations of War and Defeat, January 1945–January 1946, Owen Griffiths
The Wages of Masculinity: Building a Militant Working-Class Family Man in Postwar Japan, Christopher Gerteis
Ex-Wives, Activist Mothers: A View of the Family System from the Single Mothers’ Movement in Tokyo, Linda E. White
Constructions of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Japan, Aya E. Ezawa
Session 138. What’s Wrong with Japanese Women: Positionality and the Language of Rescue
Mrs. Mogi’s Letter: How to Educate the Occupationnaire, Jan Bardsley
Do Japanese Women Spoil Men? Igniting Debate Online, Hiroko Hirakawa
Resisting and Rescuing the Other through Learning the Other’s Language: A Critical Reading of Onna Rashiku (Like a Woman), Ryuko Kubota
Projecting East Asia: Japanese Wartime Newsreel Depictions of Daitoa, R. W. Purdy
The Early Postwar Institutionalization of War Memories in Japanese Educational Policies, Julian B. Dierkes
Selective Memories: Politics, Institutions, and War Memories in Postwar Japan, Steven Benfell
Politicization of History-Making and Interstate Reconciliation in Asia, Yinan He
Improvisatory Vocal Realization of Written Texts in Early Medieval Japan: Kooshiki Lecture-Ritual Performance and Narration of the Tale of the Heike, Steven G. Nelson
Primers on Preaching: Inventing the Way of Shodo, Lorinda Robertson Kiyama
The Mythic Structure of Koowaka-mai: The Yuriwaka Legend and the Idea of a Japanese Nation, Todd Squires
Biwa Hoshi at the Crossroads: Founding Legends, Heike Biwa, and Guild Identity in Premodern Japan, Elizabeth Oyler
Session 141. Tanizaki and Empire
The Loss of Empire and Tanizaki’s Orient, Thomas LaMarre
Squaring the Colonial Circle: Tanizaki on Film and Literary Translations, Eric Cazdyn
Oriental Aesthetics and Cultural Suffering, Margherita Long
Session 158. Notes from the Underground: Japanese Countercultures in Global Space
The Digital Music Revolution: Sampling, MP3, and the Remix Ethos of Hip-Hop in Japan, Ian Condry
No Climax, No Point, No Meaning? Women’s YAOI Fiction on the Internet, Mark McLelland
Pagans, Poets and Raves: The Alternative Economy of Japan’s New Age, Karen Kelsky
Session 159. Worlds of Wonder: Setsuwa and the Configuration of Belief in Heian and Medieval Japan
Tales of the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry, Keller Kimbrough
Riddled Writing and Text Transference: The Strange Story of Kibi no Makibi in China, Tom Howell
Buddhists and the Beasts: Desire and False Visions in Setsuwa, Michelle Li
Grateful Animals, Inferior Beasts: Buddhist Ongaeshi Tales and Changing Conceptions of the "Animal" in Early Japan, Hoyt Long
Session 160. Contemporary Japanese Nationalism
"Perverse Masochism" and Japan’s History Curriculum: The Movement to Promote Correct History and "Love of Nation" in Contemporary Japan, John K. Nelson
Rehabilitating Hideki Tojo, Charles W. Nuckkolls
The Showa Hall and Conservative Reactionism in Contemporary Japan, Franziska Seraphim
The Second Wave of Japanese Neo-Nationalism, Noriyuki Katagiri
Session 161. Travel Writing: Discovering the Landscape of Modern Japanese Literature
Here and There in Manchuria and Kumamoto: A Comparison of Natsume Sôseki’s Mankan tokoro dokoro and Kusamakura, Bill Burton
Shimazaki Tôson in France: The Tales of a Kindai Literary Traveler, Marvin Marcus
Travel Writing and the Creation of Culture: Yanagita Kunio’s Kainan shôki, Melek Ortabasi
Wanderlust or Boredom? The Gypsy-Traveler in Postwar Literature and Film, Rachel DiNitto
Session 162. Individual Papers: State and Market in Contemporary Japan: Negotiating the Nexus
Designer Death: Posthumous Buddhist Names (kaimyo) as Status Symbols, Erica D. Swarts
Disembedding the State? The Transformation of the Intermediate Sector in Japan, Mary-Alice Pickert
Trade Rules and Political Persuasion: The Politics of Reforming Japanese Agricultural Policy, Christina Davis
Networking for Profit: Information Loops in Japanese Industries and Their Impact on Firm Profitability, Michael A. Witt
Alternatives to Hierarchy in Japan: Business Networks as Enabling Institutions, Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens
Session 179. Roundtable: You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching: Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Silk as Civilization: Tomioka Filature and the Socio-Political Construction of Technological Choice, David Wittner
Globalizing Japanese Eugenics: Taiwan, Brazil, and the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations, Sumiko Otsubo
Organizing for War: Group Identity, Science Policy, and the Mobilization of Scientific Research in World War II Japan, Walter E. Grunden
Session 181. Kaimami—A New Look: Voyeurism and (In)visibility in Heian and Kamakura Court Culture
Transparent Barriers: Kaimami in Heian Architecture and Literature, Doris G. Bargen
Kaimami in the Twelfth Century Illustrated Scroll of the Tale of Genji, Masako Watanabe
Voyeurism and Invisibility: Kaimami in Late-Twelfth-Century Monogatari, Robert Omar Khan
On the Inside Looking Out: Kaimami and Self-Presentation in Asajigatsuyu, Matthew Fraleigh
Session 182. Bodies of Memory: On the Material and Immaterial in 1960s Japan
Should We Say "No" to Ecstasy? Watching Ichikawa Kon’s Tokyo Olympic (1965), Shu Kuge
Traumatic Sites of Memory: Oda Makoto’s Contemporary History, Bruce Suttmeier
Physical Memory and Mimetic Bodies in Postwar Japanese Theater, Miryam Sas
Session 198. Common Nonsense: Metanarrative, Power, and Silliness in Edo Popular Culture
Humor and Power in Two Classic Genroku Kabuki Plays, Katherine Saltzman-Li
Gesaku as Discourse of the Socially Purposeless, Adam L. Kern
Dramatic Nonsense in Kabuki, Laurence R. Kominz
Hierarchies, Networks, Markets and Frames: Reconsidering Japanese Organizations, Brian Moeran
The Unwaged Organization: Citizens’ Movements, Extra-domestic Networking, and Social Identity Formation among Japanese Women, Okpyo Moon
The Japanese Organization and the Individual: Exploring "The Generation Gap," Gordon Mathews
How I Learned to Play: The Rules of the Game in Japanese Organizations, Michael Ashkenazi
Session 200. Winners and Losers? A Reevaluation of Japanese War Literature
The Possibility of Subversion in Japanese Wartime Writing, David C. Earhart
Truth and Fiction: Lu Xun as Seen in Dazai Osamu’s Regretful Parting, Guohe Zheng
Truth and Fiction in Ooka Shohei’s Fires on the Plains, David C. Stahl
Whipping the Empire into Shape: Japanese Views of Punishment, Race, and Civilization in East Asia, 1895–1912, Daniel V. Botsman
Empire of Welfare: Social Work and Japanese Colonialism, 1918–1945, David R. Ambaras
Sexual Management in Colonial Taiwan: Prostitutes, "Comfort Women" and the Mothers of the Japanese Race, Eika Tai
Session 213. Traditions and Innovations: Staging Noh at Different Historical Junctures
Performing Furyû Noh: The Theater of Muromachi Noh Performer Konparu Zenpô, Beng Choo Lim
Variant Stage Directions (kogaki) in Noh of the Mid-Edo Period, Reiko Yamanaka
Tradition and the Individual Talent: The Case of Kanze Hisao, Shelley Fenno Quinn
Session 214. Incest Narratives in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film
The Visuality of Desire and Troubled Gender, Shigemi Nakagawa
Incest and Identity in Kin Kakuei’s "A Stone Path," Melissa Wender
Telling the Story All Over Again: Brother-Sister Love in the Fiction of Nakagami Kenji, Eve Zimmerman