The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 19 (2008)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2006
The following citations and abstracts introduce recent publications and dissertations,written in English by the members of the Japanese Association for American Studies,on topics related to American Studies. The works are listed in the order of articles injournals, articles in books, books, and dissertations.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Endo, Yasuo and Sheila Hones, see Hones, Sheila and Yasuo Endo.

Hidaka, Yu. “The Museum as an Apparatus that Leads Trends through Discourse:
The MoMA and Photography,” Journal of the Society of English Studies (The Society of English Studies) 36 (2006): 169–86.
In order to examine the function of the museum as an apparatus that leads trends throughdiscourse, I would like to study two of the most important figures in the history ofAmerican photography: John Szarkowski and Garry Winogrand. By analyzing Winogrand’s photographs and Szarkowski’s criticism, which was tremendously affected byWinogrand, I will show that Szarkowski’s discourse enabled us to recognize the tangled
problem of the museum’s role.

Hones, Sheila and Yasuo Endo. “History, Distance and Text: Narratives of the 1853–
4 Perry Expedition to Japan,” Journal of Historical Geography 32, 3 (July 2006):
563–78.
Narratives of the 1853–4 Perry expedition to Japan have played a key role in the textual
negotiation of commonsense understandings of space, place, history, and geopolitics. We
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terms of concepts of proximity and distance.

Hones, Sheila. “All Together Now,” The Review of International American Studies
1,1 (September 2006) : 18–25.
This paper engages with the concept of the “international” by envisioning the International American Studies Association not as the top layer in a space of scales but as an
academic event-space made up of non-local sites of interaction in which all members areequally co-present in the ‘here’ and ‘now.’

Hones, Sheila. “In the Event: Engaging with American Space,” 49th Parallel: AnInterdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies (Autumn 2006): np, http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/.
Arguing that different ways of naming, framing and mapping space render different aspects of American studies subject matter visible and knowable, this paper experimentswith the application of geographical theory to American studies practice. It focuses inparticular on David Harvey’s understanding of space as simultaneously absolute, relative,and relational.

Ishihara, Keiko. “Politicized Gender and Politicized Religion: Same-Sex Marriage inthe Discourse of 21st Century American Politics,” Journal of American Studies (TheAmerican Studies Association of Korea) 38, 1 (Spring 2006): 73–102.
A recent series of attempts by some liberal states to legalize the rights for same-sex couples has heated the debate. At the federal level, the Clinton administration enacted theDefense of Marriage Act and the issue also became the focus of the 2004 presidentialelection. This article treats the historical legalization of homosexuality from crime to
private right, and the political and cultural arguments on same-sex marriage.

Izumikawa, Yasuhiro. “Security Dependence and Asymmetric Aggressive Bargaining: North Korea’s Policy toward Superpowers,” Asian Security 3, 1 (January 2007):
45–71.
This article develops a theoretical model of asymmetric coercive bargaining, and uses itto explain why North Korea took risky aggressive actions toward both the United States
and the Soviet Union from the late 1960s to the present. It highlights that North Korea’s
risky behavior is more likely when its external security circumstances deteriorate.

Izumikawa, Yasuhiro. “South Korea’s Nordpolitik and the Efficacy of Asymmetric
Positive Sanctions,” Korea Observer (Institute for Korean Studies) 37, 4 (December2006): 605–41.
This article analyzes South Korea’s so-called “Nordpolitik (northern policy)” as a case ofa weaker state’s positive sanctions toward more powerful ones, and attempts to derivefrom the case implications for successful positive sanctions. It reveals that political posi-

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tive sanctions worked more effectively toward China, while economic positive sanctions
were fundamental in achieving the breakthrough in ROK-USSR relations.

Katagiri, Yasuhiro. “‘Let the Word Go Forth’: John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Rhetoric on Civil Rights during the South’s Second Reconstruction,” The Japanese Journalof American Studies 17 (2006): 263–87.
This article provides an analysis of the rhetorical strategies used by President John F.
Kennedy in his attempts to enforce federal court orders for public school desegregationand protecting black Americans’ civil rights, shedding light on Kennedy’s almost tortuous vicissitude of learning and maturing to define and redefine the proper place of civilrights in his presidency.

Kita, Miyuki. “A Journey to Brown: American Jewish Organizations’ Fight Against
Segregated Education,” Bulletin (Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Kitakyushu) 117 (Oct. 2006): 31–61.
This paper examines the activism of American Jews to abolish segregated education during the late 1940s. During this period, Jews were involved in litigation to desegregate theschools in the South, which had been launched by the NAACP, and filed amicus curiae
briefs against several graduate and law school cases preceding Brown on behalf of theblack plaintiffs. This could reveal one phase of the “color-blind” orientation of Jews inthe United States.

Kitahara, Taeko. “Framing the Supernatural: Henry James and F. Marion Crawford,”
The Japanese Journal of American Studies 17 (2006): 183–200.
This essay studies two pairs of framed ghost stories by Henry James and F. Marion Crawford. It examines how in the stories the two authors not only experiment with the supernatural genre, but also explore deeper, prohibited issues related to gender and sexuality
by taking advantage of the narrative ambiguity produced by the frame device.

Leyda, Julia. “Making Place in Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha,’” English Literatureand Language (Department of English Literature, Sophia University) 43 (2006):
23–40.
This essay argues that there is a distinction between the geographical term “place” andthe literary term “setting.” Using examples from Stein’s novella, it examines how theplace of the text is created through the characters and their relations, rather than throughreference to any real-world, verifiable points on a map.

Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “Comparative Content Analysis between the US and JapaneseMedia during the Run-up Period of the Iraq War,” Bulletin of Keiwa College 15(2006): 51–71.
This study investigates stories of the New York Times and the Asahi during the run-up

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period of the Iraq War. The content analysis of their articles finds that the two allies havequite distinctive treatments of the War during the period, especially rationalization of thecause of the War, and role and the power of the United Nations.

Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “Comparative Analysis of the ‘Embedded’ Stories between
Japanese and US Media during the War in Iraq: A Comparative Study of PoliticalCommunication,” Annual Report of Keiwa Liberal Arts Research Institute 4 (2006):
109–32.
This work compares newspaper stories of “embedded” journalists during the War in Iraq
between the Asahi and the New York Times. The results show that journalists from the twopapers presented quite different views of the war, including evaluations of the everyday
developments in battalions, and journalists’ sympathy with members of the units withwhich they were embedded.

Masunaga, Toshikazu. “Innocent Children and Embedded Capitalism: A FabricatedHistory in Grandfather’s Chair,” Kwansei Gakuin University Humanities Review(Kwansei Gakuin University) 10 (2005): 13–29.
“Children’s literature” in 19th century America was a political discourse, which aimed at“a happy wedding of reformism and nationalism.” Hawthorne’s Grandfather’s Chair isseemingly a faithful response to this demand of the literary marketplace, however, thestory of the chair’s ownership reveals the cultural degeneration of the venerable American history.

Nakashima, Tomoko. “Defining ‘Japanese Art’ in America,” The Japanese Journalof American Studies 17 (2006): 245–62.
This paper examines the formation process of the American concept of “Japanese art” inthe 19th century. Japan was first discovered as a country of exotic decorative objects
through the descriptions of travel narratives and then in the texts of art specialists. Bothtexts examined “Japanese art” from the ethnological point of view and imagined it asexotic ethnic art.

Nomura, Shiori. “The Japanese Immigrant Media and Women between 1914 and1924,” The 49th Parallel, Special Conference Edition (November 2006): http://www.
49th parallel.bham.ac.uk/.
This paper demonstrates the impact of researching the representation of the voices ofJapanese women living in the United States. It seeks to reveal the socio-political, cultural,and power relationships imposed on Japanese immigrant women and the involvement of
the women in these cultural politics through a study of the immigrant media between
1914 and 1924.

Ogawa, Manako. “The ‘White Ribbon League of Nations’ Meets Japan: The TransPacific Activism of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1906–1930,” Diplo-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WORKS IN 2006

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matic History 31, 1 (January 2007): 21–50.
This study examines the trans-Pacific activism of the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union and its overseas affiliates, particularly the Japanese union. It reveals how thewomen of Asia and the West promoted dialogue through international networks of theWCTU and other women’s organizations during the inter-war period.

Suzuki, Noriko. “Japanese Democratization and the Little House Books: The Relation between General Headquarters and The Long Winter in Japan after World War
II,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (Children’s Literature Association)
31 (2006): 65–86.
This paper examines the ways in which GHQ attempted to use Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The
Long Winter in the Little House books as propaganda for inculcating American, western
discourse in Japan after WWII. This paper illustrates how the children’s book wielded
considerable influence on the process of Japanese democratization in the postwar era.

Yamagishi, Takakazu and Adam Sheingate. “Occupation Politics: American Interests and Struggle over Health Insurance in Postwar Japan,” Social Science History(Duke University) 30, 1 (2006): 137–64.
This paper demonstrates how U.S. interest group politics affected Japanese health insurance during the American occupation after World War II. It concludes that largely because of the pressure from the American Medical Association, health insurance reform inJapan became more conservative than initially anticipated.

Yanaka, Hisako. “African Americans Meet Japanese Culture,” The Kyoritsu Journalof Area Studies (Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women’s University) 23(2006): 53–73.
This paper analyzes the interest among African American students toward Japan and itsculture. After they started taking Japan-related courses, how did they change their perspectives on Japan? The questionnaires on this issue to about 300 black students and interviews with some of them show that multicultural awareness and sensitivity was promoted among young African Americans while they learned about and experienced
Japanese culture.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Kan, Hideki. “War and Remembrance in East Asia,” The Community of Asia: Con-

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cept or Reallity?, eds. Urvashi Butalia, Jong Won Lee, Masaaki Ohashi, and Karina
A. Bolasco (Pasig City, Phillippines: ANVIL Publishing Inc., 2006), 272–83.
The article analyzes the influences of the Cold War on public memory of the Asia-Pacific
War as well as the ongoing struggle for competing national identities and public memories of the war in Japan. Noting that maturing of civil societies among East Asian countries will be important in promoting mutual understanding and historical reconciliation, it
points to an expanding transnational space and a possibility of transnational history inthis region.

Katagiri, Yasuhiro. “Invoking State Sovereignty to Resist Federal Civil Rights
Laws,” States’ Rights, ed. Jodie Lynn Boduch, The Bill of Rights series (FarmingtonHills, Mich.: Greenhaven Press, 2006), 98–105.
During America’s civil rights years in the 1950s and 1960s, southern white segregationists defied federally mandated civil rights policies, waging the region’s massive resistance. This article analyzes how southern white politicians and officials used and abused
the resurrected theory of states’ rights constitutionalism, or the doctrine of interposition,in carrying out their resistance movement.

BOOKS
Asada, Sadao. From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and theUnited States (Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 2006).
This book traces the genesis and escalation of Japanese-American naval confrontation by
examining the influence of Mahan’s strategic doctrines on the Japanese navy. It concludes
that the “ghost of Alfred T. Mahan hung over the leaders of the Japanese navy as they
prepared for the Pearl Harbor attack.”

Takeda, Okiyoshi, editor. From Art to Business: Japanese Americans in the Professional Arena (Tokyo and New York: The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, 2006).
This entirely bilingual publication chronicles a symposium of the Japanese American
Leadership Delegation held in Nagoya in March 2006. It records personal testimonies offive Japanese American leaders, including noted playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, on how
they have established their careers in the multiracial setting of contemporary U.S. society.
The editor contributes a chapter which introduces the reader to historical and demographic backgrounds of Japanese Americans in the third and fourth generations.

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DISSERTATIONS
Fukase, Yukiko. “Blackness at the Crossroads: Toni Morrison and Multicultural
Modernism.” Ph.D. dissertation, Keio University, 2007.
This dissertation explores Toni Morrison’s dialogue with black and white writers over theissue of black modern subjectivities. In the critical framework of ethnic modernism, aproduct of the correlative configuration of 1920s cultural pluralism and ongoing multiculturalism arguments since the 1980s, the expressivity of black modernity is investigatedin her works published since the late 1970s.

Iijima, Mariko. “Twice-Migrant in Hawai’i: The Japanese Farmers in Kona from the1890s to the Present.” D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford, 2006.
This thesis examines the social and economic history of the Japanese-American community in Kona, Hawai‘i, from the late 19th century to the present. One of the distinctive
features of this community is that many of its founders were so-called ‘twice-migrants.’
I argue that a keen awareness of their shared experience as twice -migrants has played asignificant role in the preservation of their long-lasting and semi-independent diaspora.

Nomura, Shiori. “Japanese Immigrant Women and the Idea of ‘Home’: Voices in The
Nichibei (Japanese American Daily), 1914–1924.” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Birmingham, 2006.
This thesis investigates the articulation of the voices of Japanese women in the U.S. in theJapanese immigrant media between 1914 and 1924 with particular regard to the idea of“home.” It reveals the complex process of forming the voices, which reflected and constructed a changing racial and transnational context for Japanese women in the U.S.

Yagyu, Tomoko. “Slave Traders and Planters in the Expanding South: Entrepreneurial Strategies, Business Networks, and Western Migration in the Atlantic World,1787–1859.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
This dissertation analyzes the economic effects of the domestic slave trade and the slave
traders in the American South in a broader Atlantic context. It interprets the trade as asophisticated business and traders as speculative, entrepreneurial businessmen. Slave
trade played a central role in determining the fate of the South, as a business that createda unified South under proslavery ideology and encouraged western migration to preserve
the institution of slavery. The skills, awareness and commercial networks establishedfrom the slave-trading business allowed traders to acquire managerial abilities and theethos associated with nascent global capitalism in the early 19th century.

Yamagishi, Takakazu. “World War Two and the Health of the State: The Development of Health Insurance in Japan and the United States, 1931–1952,” Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2006.

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This dissertation asks why Japan and the United States adopted different health insurance
systems during World War II and the postwar reconstruction. It argues that the differences in each country’s wartime experience largely influenced what kind of health insurance system Japan and the United States adopted.