The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 30 (2019)English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2017
The following citations and abstracts introduce recent journal publications written in
English by members of the Japanese Association for American Studies on topics
related to American Studies.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALSAsakawa, Tomoyuki. “Two Questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Trimalchio.’”
Bulletin of the Institute of Human Sciences (Institute of Human Sciences, Toyo
University) 19 (2017): 101–20.
This article examines the influence of Petronius’s “The Banquet of Trimalchio” on F.
Scott Fitzgerald, while also comparing Jay Gatsby with Trimalchio, before going on toshow how the revision of Fitzgerald’s early novel draft Trimalchio affects the charactersand how much the revised characters enhance the overall value of The Great Gatsby.

Furui, Yoshiaki. “Writing a Durable Mark: A Community of Isolatoes in John Marrand Other Sailors.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 19, no.2 (2017): 52–70.
By focusing on solitude in Herman Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors (1888), theauthor argues that the collection of poems comprises “a community of isolatoes.” By
construing John Marr and Other Sailors as a dead letter addressed to future readers, theauthor joins other recent scholars who challenge the critical image of Melville in his
later years as a solitary recluse.

Ishii, Noriko. “Difficult Conversations across Religions, Race and Empires:
American Women Missionaries and Japanese Christian Women during the 1930sand 1940s,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24, no. 4 (2017): 373–401.
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This essay examines how American and Japanese women in the foreign missionary
movement struggled to reconcile the rise of state Shintoism, Japanese patriotic
nationalism, and American racism and nationalism with their Christian faiths during the1930s and 1940s, when the United States and Japan were moving toward war.

Katagiri, Yasuhiro. “‘But I Have to Be Confronted with Your Troops’: A Historical
Reinterpretation of Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett’s Segregationist Defiancetoward the John F. Kennedy Administration over the 1962 Desegregation Ordeal at
the University of Mississippi.” Journal of the Faculty of International Studies ofCulture (Kyushu Sangyo University) 67 (2017): 37–86.
Revisiting the substance of the secret telephone negotiations held between President
John F. Kennedy and Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett in connection with the 1962
University of Mississippi desegregation incident, the author of this article offers ahistorical reinterpretation of what both administrations were up against in the face of thecivil rights crisis.

Kawane, Takuro. “Federal Budgeting under the Budget Control Act of 2011:
Focusing on the Relationship between Micro-Budgeting and Macro-Budgeting: Part1.” Ritsumeikan Economic Review (Ritsumeikan University Economic Society) 65,
no. 5 (2017): 83–95.
Since enacting the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA), the US Congress has
managed to link the micro-budgeting appropriation process with macro-budgeting. Thishas been dysfunctional, however, under the current budgeting process. In this part of thearticle, the author summarizes the macro-budgeting schemes since enactment of theCBA and analyze the macro-budgeting tools under the Budget Control Act (BCA) of2011.

Kawane, Takuro. “Federal Budgeting under the Budget Control Act of 2011:
Focusing on the Relationship between Micro-Budgeting and Macro-Budgeting: Part2.” Ritsumeikan Economic Review (Ritsumeikan University Economic Society) 65,no.6 (2017): 227–37.
After exploring the characteristics of macro-budgeting under the Budget Control Act of2011 in Part 1, in this article, Part 2, the author evaluates the impact of BCA schemes on
the traditional appropriation process and macro-budgeting outcomes. The author
discusses the relationship between fiscal rules and political discretion, the relationshipbetween macro- and micro-budgeting, and the way to restore federal budget process
under the polarized and vulnerable politics.

Nakano, Satoshi. “Methods to Avoid Speaking the Unspeakable: Carmen Guerrero
Nakpil, the Death of Manila, and Post–World War II Filipino Memory andMourning.” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 48, no. 1 (2017): 27–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44089939.

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In this article the author discusses the postwar history of a major object-loss, or PTSD,
as experienced by Filipino urban elites who suffered as a result of genocidal experienceduring the Battle of Manila in February 1945, in which 100,000 civilians wereslaughtered as a consequence of Japanese atrocities and massacres as well as
indiscriminate shelling by the United States.

Seki, Hiroyuki. “Allocating the US Department of Defense Budget: Revisiting the‘Incremental/Fair Share Model.’” Defence and Peace Economics (December 25,2017) online doi.org/10.1080/10242694. 2017.1419402.
The author of this article examines the “incremental/fair share model” that was proposedby Alex Mintz in 1988 concerning the budget allocation of the US Department of
Defense and finds that the model is statistically significant. Few previous studies haveaddressed the allocation of the US defense budget; consequently, the incremental/fairshare model should constitute a starting point for further research on US defense-budget
allocation.

Tatsumi, Takayuki. “US-Japan Literary Interactions in the Transpacific CulturalHistory.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (May 2017) online
doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.201.
In 1853 US Commodore Perry opened not only “the doors” of Japan but also thepossibilities of modern literature. From this perspective, the author explores the horizonof transpacific literary history, illustrating his points with works by Yukichi Fukuzawa,
Yone Noguchi, Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, andShusaku Endo.

Uno, Hiroko. “Emily Dickinson and Japanese Flowers: Her Herbarium and Perry’sExpedition to Japan,” Emily Dickinson Journal 26, no. 1 (2017): 51–79.
There is a strong possibility that Emily Dickinson obtained specimens of Japanese
flowers from Perry’s expedition to Japan, given that her visit to Washington, DC,
coincided with their arrival there, that conservatories were built both on the Capitol Hillgrounds and the Dickinson homestead in the same year, and that there was a relationshipbetween Edward Dickinson and the American Board and with Daniel Webster.

ARTICLES IN BOOKSTakanashi, Yoshio. “Ralph Waldo Emerson and Daisetsu Suzuki: A Comparative
Investigation on their Views of Nature, Mind, and Language.” In Thoreau in the
21st Century: From Japanese Perspectives, edited by Masaki Horiuchi, Thoreau

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Society of Japan, 244–58. Tokyo: Kinseido, 2017.
The author of this article observes that Daisetsu Suzuki enthusiastically read Emerson’s
essays in his college days. He undertakes a comparative and critical investigation of theessential differences as well as noticeable affinities between Suzuki’s Zen Buddhism andEmersonian Transcendentalism, placing the focus on their views of jinen and nature,“no-mind” and dual mind, and “non-verbal truth” and the language of nature.

Tatsumi, Takayuki. “Race and Black Humor: From a Planetary Perspective.” DisOrienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction, edited byIsiah Lavender III, 26-41. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.
This is a revised version of the author’s keynote address delivered in 2010 at the 31st
Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, featuring the topic “Raceand the Fantastic.” Inspired by Gayatri Spivak’s idea of “planetarity,” the author
reconsiders the significance of authors Brian Aldiss, Karen Tei Yamashita, and ShelleyJackson in transnational literary history.

BOOKS
Hugh Rockoff and Isao Suto, eds. Coping with Financial Crises: Some Lessons from
Economic History. Singapore: Springer, 2017.
This edited book focuses on financial markets in the periods leading up to, during, andafter financial crises. The chapters are based on new data and archival research. While
not neglecting the United States or Britain, the usual focus of financial historians, thecollection includes studies of financial markets in times of crisis in Japan, Sweden,France, and other countries to achieve a truly global and historical perspective.