The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 23 (2012)English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2010
The following citations and abstracts introduce recent publications and dissertations, written in English by members of the Japanese Association for American
Studies, on topics related to American Studies. The works are listed in the orderof articles in journals, articles in books, and dissertations.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Izumikawa, Yasuhiro. “Explaining Japanese Antimilitarism: Normative andRealist Constraints on Japan’s Security Policy.” International Security 35.2
(Fall 2010): 123–60.
In taking the approach dubbed “analytical eclecticism,” this article challenges the notionthat Japan’s reluctance to use its military overseas derives from “antimilitarism.” It,instead, claims that Japan’s gun-shy policy is a result of constructivist and realist factors,
such as its alliance security dilemma.

Kami, Hideaki. “The Ebb and Flow of Cold War Tensions: The U.S. Government and Anti-Castro Exiles from 1980 to 1992.” Pacific and American Studies 11(March 2011): 51–71. Available at http://www.cpas.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/pas11.pdf.
This article presents a fresh explanation of why U.S. policy toward Cuba remained hostile even after the Cold War ended. Using newly declassiﬁed documents available at theRonald Reagan Presidential Library and the personal archives of Cuban exiles, this article reveals previously neglected aspects of the interaction of the U.S. government with
anti-Castro exiles in South Florida.

Mizuno, Takeya. “Censorship in a Different Name: Press ‘Supervision’ in Wartime Japanese American Camps 1942–1943.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 88.1 (Spring 2011): 121–41.
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When the U.S. federal government forced Japanese Americans to move into “relocationcenters” during World War II, ofﬁcials allowed the inmates to publish their own newspapers “freely,” under “supervision” but without “censorship.” In reality, however, thenewspapers published under governmental auspices were inevitably subject to various
types of editorial interference. Ofﬁcials also elicited self-restraint from staffers, making
strict supervision or outright censorship unnecessary.

Nitta, Keiko. “An Equivocal Space for the Protestant Ethnic: U.S. Popular Culture and Martial Arts Fantasia.” Social Semiotics (Special Issue: Rey Chow andPostcolonial Social Semiotics, Routledge) 20.4 (2010): 377–92.
This article intends to undo the commodity status of several martial arts ﬁlms producedin Hollywood and their pretence of ethnic recognition in terms of Rey Chow’s conceptof “the protestant ethnic.” It offers an interpretation of the signiﬁcance of the genre inaccordance with an obvious combination of commercial and security interests of theUnited States.

Shibahara, Taeko. “Through Americanized Japanese Woman’s Eyes: Tsuda
Umeko and the Women’s Movement in Japan in the 1910s.” Journal of Asia
Pacific Studies 1.2 (May 2010): 225–34.
Japanese women in 1910 in the privileged class who gained access to Western liberalideologies, but who were alienated from society and from women in other classes, were
not able to overcome the double standards embedded in gendered policies to transformtheir knowledge into a social movement.

Suzuki, Nanami. “Popular Health Movements and Diet Reform in NineteenthCentury America.” Japanese Journal of American Studies 21 (2010): 111–37.
The food culture of the United States experienced great changes from the 1820s to the1890s. At this time, the popular health movement arose, which questioned the food culture that had grown so much richer and more diverse. The movement began in opposition to standard medicine and proposed new methods of healing and care that focusedreforming the “bodies and souls” of Americans, especially through diet. Fully workedout recipes uniﬁed the movements’ followers, who believed that attaining good healthwould allow them to perform as essential members of a changing American society.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Hida, Susumu. “East Asian Community and Japan-U.S. Alliance.” Globalization and the East Asian Community. Ed. Kyung Hee Institute for HumanSociety, Kyung Hee University. Seoul: Handa, 2010. 1–39.

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This article examines the relationship between the Japan-U.S. alliance and a future East
Asian community, which is expected to be multilateral and cooperative. It points out that
the Japan-U.S. alliance would have to be relativized to harmonize with the multilateralcommunity.

Iida, Fumio. “The ‘Postwar Enlightenment’ Project: Masao Maruyama and Liberal Civil Society.” Globality, Democracy and Civil Society. Ed. Terrell Carverand Jens Bartelson. London: Routledge, 2011. 46–63.
This article highlights the implications of postwar enlightenment formulations for democratic development in Japan by focusing on the discourse of Masao Maruyama. It argues
that Maruyama’s overriding concern was to support the ideal of self-government, although his attitudes toward formal liberal political arrangements varied signiﬁcantly,depending on time and context.

Sasaki,Yutaka. “Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American
Institute of Paciﬁc Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning
the Occupation of Japan during World War II.” The United States and theSecond World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front.
Ed. G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash. New York: Fordham University Press,
2010. 293–332.
This article assesses the role of the Institute of Paciﬁc Relations (IPR) and the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the unofﬁcial planning for the future American Occupation of Japan during World War II. Making use of both Japanese and American archival
materials, it closely examines the competing visions of the two inﬂuential private organizations in regard to key policy issues surrounding the U.S. Occupation of Japan.

Takebayashi, Shuichi. “The Prehistory of the British Invasion: Transatlantic
Exchange of Folk Music Tradition.” Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/
lation: Issues in International American Studies. Ed. Susana Araújo, JoãoFerreira Duarte, and Marta Pacheco Pinto. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2010. 191–98.
The so-called British Invasion of the mid-1960s occurred as a result of exchanging folk
music traditions between the United States and England. This article discusses two major
factors responsible for the birth of this musical phenomenon—the structure of the musicindustry and the twists and turns of the Cold War political situation.

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DISSERTATIONS
Shibahara, Taeko. “ ‘We Became Women of the World’: Japanese Women inthe Interwar Transnational Feminist Movement.” PhD diss., Doshisha University, 2010.
This dissertation examines the development of feminist consciousness among Japanese
middle-class women in Tokyo in the interwar period in the context of increasing competition between imperial powers internationally and an emerging imperialistic and militaristic ideology domestically. Focusing on transnational contacts, it examines howJapanese women localized the master narrative of the Western feminist movement. It
argues that the transnational feminist movement was a constructive force for dealing
with the negative inﬂuences of militarism, imperialism, and modern patriarchy.

Takebayashi, Shuichi. “The Making of Folk Identity: Politics, Consumption,Tradition, and Rebellion in the Folk Music Revival Movement.” PhD diss.,Michigan State University, 2010.
This dissertation examines how and why postwar urban college students embraced traditional folk music as a way to construct their cultural identity in their particular socioeconomic condition. To them, folk music was a search for self as well as a way out of thedilemmas of postwar American society.