The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 17 (2006)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2004
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 in journals, articles in books, books, and dissertations.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Aoki, Andrew L. and Takeda Okiyoshi. “Small Spaces for Different Faces:
Political Science Scholarship on Asian Paciﬁc Americans,” PS: Political
Science and Politics 37:3 (July 2004): 497–500.
In an attempt to access the status of political science research on Asian Paciﬁc Americans(APAs), this paper searches 25 top journals of the discipline and annual meeting programs of the American Political Science Association from 1990 through 2003. Althougharticles and papers on APAs have increased in number in this period, they are still marginal in the discipline. Interdisciplinary journals publish more articles on APAs thanpolitical science ones. It argues that institutional and environmental factors within thediscipline underlie these trends.

Fujimoto, Shigeo. “Conceptions of Time in the History of Childhood: A Studyof Intergenerational Perceptions of Life on the Early New York Frontier,” The
Japanese Journal of American Studies 15 (2004): 37–55.
This paper analyzes the perceptions of nature and society held by settlers of the early
New York frontier and how those perceptions were passed on to the succeeding generation. After examining the settler generation’s ideas, it concludes that since they wereclosely connected with the frontier experience and thus transitory, the intergenerational
perceptions were an inherently vanishing historical phenomenon.

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Hashikawa, Kenryu. “Rural Enterprise and the Northern Economy in the Early
Republic: The New Jersey Charcoal Venture as a Test Case,” The Japanese
Journal of American Studies 15 (2004): 97–113.
Through the case study of a New Jersey charcoal venture in the 1820s, this article argues
that during the early republic the countryside had commercial ventures serving the urban
market, thickening market relations. These ventures were not necessarily a departurefrom the rural economy, but were built on it.

Hones, Sheila and Julia Leyda. “Towards a Critical Geography of American
Studies,” Comparative American Studies 2:2 (June 2004): 183–204.
In this paper we argue that taken-for-granted geographical knowledge is central to thediscipline of American studies not only in the framing of subject matter but also in thespatialization of disciplinary practices. We call for wider recognition of the contingent
nature of the geographies of international American studies.

Hones, Sheila. “Sharing Academic Space,” Geoforum 35:5 (September 2004):
549–552.
This paper developed out of my participation in a plenary panel on “The Spaces of Critical Geography” at the 2002 International Conference of Critical Geography. The paperargues against the tendency in the geography of knowledge production to oversimplify
scholarly positionality by conﬂating location with nationality, language, and academic
practice.

Hori, Masaharu. “Japanese Public Bureaucracy in the Era of Globalization,”
Ritsumeikan Law Review, International Edition, 21 (March 2004): 1–18.
Since the late 1990s, Japanese public bureaucracy (JPB) has dramatically adapted to New
Public Management. I attempt to explore the impact of globalization on JPB and to reconsider Japanese administrative thinking in light of the Japanese way of adapting to foreign
thinking since the opening of Japan to the world.

Iwabuchi, Sachiko. “The Pursuit of Excellence: Abraham Flexner and His
Views on Learning,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 15 (2004):
139–61.
Abraham Flexner, who saw perfection in the German gymnasium, deplored American
higher education in the early twentieth century. Yet he recognized that even a democratic
country like the United States could nurture the gifted few. He helped to found the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton to realize his ideal for higher education.

Izumikawa, Yasuhiro. “Strategic Innovation or Strategic Nonsense?: Assessing
the Bush Administration’s National Security Strategy,” The Japanese Journalof American Studies 15 (2004): 257–72.

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This article analyzes the National Security Strategy of the United States published by
the Bush Administration in September 2002. While arguing that there is sound logic
behind the preemptive doctrine, the article reveals contradictions in the administration’s
strategic thinking.

Leyda, Julia. “Playing Scales: The Polycentric Multicultural Geographies of‘American History.’ ” The Northern Review 32 (Hokkaido University, April
2004): 7–18.
This essay argues that the geographical concept of scale can be productively introduced
into discussions of multiculturalism in literature, using the short story “American History” by Judith Ortiz Cofer as an example.

Leyda, Julia. “Towards a Critical Geography of American Studies,” with Sheila
Hones. Comparative American Studies 2:2 (June 2004): 185–203.
See Hones, Sheila and Julia Leyda.

Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “Tocqueville’s Democracy and Samurai: Inazo Nitobe’s
Attempt to Apply American Democracy to the Feudal Tradition of Japan,”
Bulletin of Keiwa College 13 (2004): 87–105.
This study examines Alexis de Tocqueville’s views on religion in democratic society
and its inﬂuence on philosophers in Japan, a country which has not had any “religion”
in the Western sense. Especially, this work focuses on the theory of Inazo Nitobe, who
believed that samurai ethics was the Japanese equivalent of religion and that Japanese
democracy would bloom as long as Japanese citizens maintain traditional samurai ethics.

Matsumoto, Reiji. “From Model to Menace: French Intellectuals and American
Civilization” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 15 (2004): 163–185.
This article deals with the French image of America since the 18th century to the present. After giving a brief summary of the historical reactions of French intellectuals to
American civilization, it ﬁnds in André Siegﬁed’s Les Etats-Unis d’aujourd’hui(America Comes of Age) and Georges Duhamel’s Scènes de la vie future (America, theMenace) an intellectual origin of French anti-Americanism of the 20th century.

Nakashima, Tomoko. “The Formative Years of the Transpaciﬁc Networks Promoting Japanese Studies in America,” Paciﬁc and American Studies (Center for
Paciﬁc and American Studies, University of Tokyo) 4 (2004): 111–127.
This paper discusses how Japan and the Japanese academy came into existence as centersof authority in Japanese studies in America, and examines how this hierarchical structure
was the product of a social and geopolitical construction that emerged from the transpaciﬁc networks promoting Japanese studies in the American academy.

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Nozaki, Kyoko Norma. “Crossing National Boundaries and the Color Line: A
Contrastive Study of Houston’s Tea with Ariyoshi’s Hishoku,” New Wave:
Studies on Japanese Americans in the 21st Century (Institute for Research in
Humanities, Kyoto University, 2004): 57–64.
The central theme of this paper is Japanese ‘war brides,’ the experiences of these wivesof U.S. servicemen, and their impact on American society. Similarities between
Houston’s Tea and Ariyoshi’s Hishoku, despite the language divide and different geographic settings, are discussed, as well as interaction among multi-ethnic characters.

Ogushi, Hisayo. “A Legacy of Female Imagination: Lydia Maria Child and theTradition of Indian Captivity Narrative,” The Japanese Journal of American
Studies 15 (2004): 57–74.
This article examines the Indian captivity narrative and its inﬂuence on the rise of theAmerican romance, and speciﬁcally clariﬁes how the romance novels of Lydia MariaChild (1802–82) were direct descendants of the work of Puritan women writers. Child,in her ﬁrst romance novel, Hobomok (1824), shows the racial miscegenation of an Indian
man and a white woman. Child’s own views on ethnicity and femininity had been developed in the tradition of racial hybridity in American history.

Ogushi, Hisayo. “Romanticizing Slavery: Dangerous Crossings in Child, Twain
and Chase-Riboud,” Mark Twain Studies 1:1 (2004): 33–56.
This article examines together three very different writers: Lydia Maria Child, MarkTwain, and Barbara Chase-Riboud, pursuing their connections and distinctions in orderto reevaluate Romance as an apt forum for addressing racial problems. Indeed, readingthese texts together may afford us the unique opportunity to appreciate the genre of Romance from a multiculturalist point of view.

Onishi, Naoki. “American Conceptualization of Time and Jonathan Edwards’
Post-Millennialism Reconsidered,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies
15 (2004): 19–36.
This essay explores the possibility of clarifying the speciﬁc features of the American
sense of time, while reviewing the widely accepted understanding that Jonathan Edwards
was the most inﬂuential ﬁgure who promoted post-millennialism. Surveying the documents of Edwardseans, it becomes clear that it was Samuel Hopkins and Joseph Bellamy
who presented Jonathan Edwards as the promoter of optimism rather than Edwards himself.

Saito, Noboru. “Echoes from Washington Irving’s Historical Romance,” The
Cross-Cultural Review (The International Society for Cross-Cultural Studies)
1 (2004): 191–204.
Having traced the evolution of the works of Washington Irving from biography to novel,
this paper examines his historical writings in order to analyze how they participate inand redirect cultural history. The comparison would have been particularly apparent in
the illustrated serialization of that kind of writing.

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Sakata, Yasuyo. “The U.S.-ROK Alliance in Transition: The Post Cold-War
Redeﬁnition and Beyond,” Asian Cultural Studies (The Institute of Asian
Cultural Studies, International Christian University) Special Issue 13 (2004):
87–102.
This article examines the post-9.11 U.S.-ROK alliance talks, in the context of the postCold War redeﬁnition process since the 1990s. It argues that the alliance redeﬁnition
attempted in the 1990s was incomplete, and that the new process is a historic opportunity
for the alliance to complete its redeﬁnition for the post-9.11 world.

Setooka, Hiroshi. “The Economic and Social Backgrounds of Neoliberalism
and U. S. Unilateralism,” Komazawa Daigaku Keizaigaku Ronshu (The Economic Review of Komazawa University) 36, no. 1, (August 2004): 1–19.
The neoliberal policies in each country continue for long years against many forecasts
and U.S. unilateralism today seems to be considerably stronger than many expectations.
This paper insists that there exist sufﬁcient economic and social backgrounds, i.e., theusual standard of living of middle-class citizens in developed countries as well as corporate activities, that should be considered carefully. Especially American middle-classcitizens with American ﬁnancial businesses have enjoyed enough beneﬁts from the globalized world economy under the free market system, and they themselves are the leading actors of globalization today.

Suga, Miya. “Little Tokyo Reconsidered: Transformation of JapaneseAmerican Community through the Early Redevelopment Projects,” The
Japanese Journal of American Studies 15 (2004): 237–255.
This paper scrutinizes the Little Tokyo Redevelopment projects in Los Angeles from the
1960s to the early 1980s. It reveals the complexities of the process of redevelopment andtheir impact on “ethnic resurgence.” Through an examination of anti-Japanese sentimentand the diversiﬁed community response toward it, it sheds light on the non-passive,
strategic involvement of community members and explores how they rearticulated thefunctions and signiﬁcance of Little Tokyo.

Tachi, Mikiko. “Commercialism, Counterculture, and the Folk Music Revival:
A Study of Sing Out! Magazine, 1950–1967,” The Japanese Journal of
American Studies 15 (2004): 187–211.
This paper examines the complex and contested relationship between commercialism
and the U.S. folk music revival of the 1950s and the 1960s. Through an analysis of articles and advertisements in the folk music periodical Sing Out! Magazine, it demonstrates
that the popularity of anti-commercial music was in fact interdependent with mainstream
commercialism.

Tachibana, Kenichiro. “Does Trust Work in the Era of Distrust? Kenji
Miyazawa and William James Give the Same Answer,” Policy Management
Studies (Policy Management Department, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University)
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This essay discusses ideas of Kenji Miyazawa that could help people of today rebuild
conﬁdence in themselves. Miyazawa knew a great deal about the latest theories of naturalscience and psychology of his time, and he held numerous ideas in common with great
thinkers such as William James. These were key sources of spiritual energy that enable
him to reexamine the relation between individual happiness and the happiness of theentire world.

Takamitsu, Yoshie. “The War in Paciﬁc and American Foreign Policy Makers:
Joseph C. Grew and Cordell Hull,” Chiba University Social Sciences and Humanities 8 (2004): 9–16.
This paper examines the world views of Joseph C. Grew and Cordell Hull, two American
foreign policy makers during the 1930s and early 1940s, and discusses how these twodifferent world view affected the Far Eastern crisis in the 1930s.

Tanaka, Kei. “Japanese Picture Marriage and the Image of Immigrant Womenin Early Twentieth-Century California,” The Japanese Journal of American
Studies 15 (2004): 115–38.
This article examines the process through which the concept of the “vain woman”
became the dominant perception of immigrant Japanese women during the period ofJapanese permanent settlement in California. The emergence of the “vain woman” is discussed within the context of the development of photography and its use for marriage
arrangement among the populace of contemporary Japan.

Tanaka, Hisao. “Modes of ‘Different’ Time in American Literature: Melville,
Faulkner, and Morrison,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 15 (2004):
75–96.
This paper is an attempt to explore the representations of different modes of time in
American literature by such “rebels” as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Toni
Morrison—the so-called heretical cosmology, a deviation from the master narrative ofProtestant Christianity which is a dominant, homogeneous, religious framework in
American society and which, as a general invisible socio-cultural institution, sanctions
the idea of the linear progress of time buttressed by the biblical story of the beginningand the ending.

Tsuchiya, Kazuyo. “Race, Class, and Gender in America’s ‘War on Poverty’:
The Case of Opal C. Jones in Los Angeles, 1964–1968,” The Japanese Journalof American Studies 15 (2004): 213–236.
This paper examines how Opal C. Jones, an African-American welfare activist, forcefully challenged the federal/local anti-poverty institutions and voiced alternative visionsof citizenship in Los Angeles. It contends that Jones’ efforts resulted in expanding theroles available to women in the Los Angeles “War on Poverty,” providing a signiﬁcantcritique of the local welfare system that ignored racial/class differences, and restoring
welfare activists to the status of historical agents.

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Usui, Masami. “Hawai‘i as a Motherland in Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s Plays,”
Doshisha Studies in English (The Literary Association of Doshisha University)77 (2004): 87–119.
By investigating Hawai‘i ’s historical, cultural, and social background, Victoria Nalani
Kneubuhl explores the sexual colonialism which Hawai‘i has experienced. While theland as a metaphor of mother/woman has been developed and transformed, the ecological system has been violated by imported and transplanted species, and nature/landscapehas been utilized to comfort travelers, visitors, and outsiders, all involving the sacriﬁceof the native people and their land and the loss of identity and self-esteem.

Usui, Masami. “Sexual Colonialism in Korea/Japan/American Spheres in Nora
Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman and Fox Girl,” The Japanese Journal of
American Studies 15 (2004): 254–83.
In Comfort Woman and Fox Girl, the crucially and brutally interlinked experiences of
Korea, Japan, and America in World War II and the Korean War are reconstructed
through Keller’s awareness of and research on the ideological background, and ultimately her intriguing narrative and mythological implications which discover, recover,and reveal the long-neglected and long-lost selves of women and children in sexual,
physical, and psychological abuse and imprisonment.

Usui, Masami. “Sexual Colonialism in a Post Colonial Era in Lois-Ann
Yamanaka’s Novels: Wild Meat and the Bully Burger, Blu’s Hanging, Name
Me Nobody, Heads by Harry, and Father of the Four Passages,” Doshisha
Literature (English Literary Society of Doshisha University) 47 (2004): 27–51.
This paper examines how Lois-Ann Yamanaka has been pursuing the theme of sexualcolonialism in a postcolonial era by presenting her Pidgin-written works set primarily in
local Hawai‘i from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Throughout these productions,
Yamanaka’s challenge to retrieve and reveal the neglected voices of sexually and psychologically violated victims has been constructing a unique space in the postcolonialera.

Yaguchi, Yujin and Mari Yoshihara. “Evolutions of ‘Paradise’: JapaneseTourist Discourse about Hawai‘i,” American Studies (Mid-America American
Studies Association) 45:3 (Fall 2004): 81–106.
The article traces the history of popular Japanese discourse about Hawai‘i. Through historical and textual analysis, it illustrates how in the process of Japan’s romanticization,
feminization, and consumption of the islands, Hawai‘i for the Japanese has become a“familiar Other” that fulﬁlls and mediates Japanese longing for “paradise islands.”

Yanagisawa, Ikumi. “Japanese ‘Picture Brides’: What Was the Issue?” The
Journal of Intercultural Studies (The Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai
Gaidai University) 31 (2004): 15–27.

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The main objective of this paper is to explain how the discourse on “Picture Brides” wasformed and how it became an issue in the media in the United States. Subsequently, thediscourse was formed and was successfully used by local politicians and by both theJapanese and the U.S. governments.

Yoshihara, Mari. “The Flight of the Japanese Butterﬂy: Orientalism, Nationalism, and Performances of Japanese Womanhood,” American Quarterly 56:4
(December 2004): 975–1001.
The article examines Western, Japanese, and overseas Japanese responses to Miura
Tamaki’s performances of Madame Butterﬂy. It also analyzes the production of the opera
by Yamada Kosaku and Horiuchi Keizo. It argues that the Japanese Butterﬂy was at oncea performance of the modernity of the Japanese nation-state, of Japanese women’s newly
gendered identity, and of the status of Japanese immigrants abroad.

Yoshida, Yoshinori. “The Cherokee ‘Civilization’ and Resultant Tragedy,”
Sekai no mado (Institute for World Affairs and Cultures, Kyoto Sangyo University) 18 (2004): 3–28.
This article traces the origin of the Cherokee intra-tribal split to the visit of their sevenleaders to London in 1730 and their exposure to the well-advanced European culture.
Their reverence for British superiority resulted, in sequence, in their conclusion of atreaty of friendship and commerce, their intermarriage with British traders, education
for their children provided by Christian mission schools, a receptive background for aslave plantation system, and the emergence of a wealthy elite class within their egalitarian nation.

Zmijewski, David. “Mark Twain’s Dual Visions of Hawai‘i: Censoring theCreative Self,” The Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaiian Historical Society)38 (2004): 99–119.
Mark Twain was known for speaking his mind. However when he traveled to Hawai‘iin 1866, the reporter was not allowed to write freely of the events that occurred there.
This article analyzes how the reporter’s opinions on economic cooperation between thetwo nations, the monarchy, and the American Protestant missionaries were censored by
the author himself.

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ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Kurihara, Tamiko. “A Comparative Study of the Economic Activities by Sogo
Shosha in the United States and Canada in the Late 1990s,” in Understanding
Japan: Essays Inspired by Frank Langdon, ed. Lawrence T. Woods (Vancouver:Centre of International Relations, University of British Columbia, 2004):
189–209.
The examination of the different trading and investment patterns of sogo shosha in the
United States and Canada reveals that they have recognized the United States and Canada
as two distinct markets. It also shows the recent economic integration through NAFTA
has partly facilitated the adjustments of sogo shosha operations in North America.

Sakata, Yasuyo. “Building a Security Community in Northeast Asia? The Six
Party Talks and Beyond,” in The United Nations and Global Crisis Management
ed. Sung-Hack Kang (Seoul: Korean Academic Council on the United Nations
System, 2004): 93–119.
Using Adler and Barnett’s security community-building theory, this article argues that
Northeast Asia is entering the “nascent” stage of security community building. The “principles for cooperation in East Asia” in the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (TrackTwo dialogue) and the Six Party Talks are important building blocks for building a
Northeast Asia security community.

Zmijewski, David. “Travel Begins at Home: The Adventures of Mark Twain,”
Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time, ed. Dominka
Ferens, Justyna Kociatkiewicz, and Elzbieta Klimek-Dominiak (Krakow:
Rabid, 2004): 47–56.
This article examines the importance of travel in the works of Mark Twain as well as theinﬂuence it had on the formation of his character. Twain’s ﬁrst trip abroad to Hawaii in
1866 deﬁnitely impacted his writing both stylistically and topically, and it is from thatﬁrst journey abroad that I commence this discussion of the concept of travel and what it
meant to Mark Twain.

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BOOKS
Ishii, Noriko Kawamura. American Women Missionaries at Kobe College,
1873–1909: New Dimensions in Gender (New York and London: Routledge,2004).
This study explores how the American Protestant missionary movement dramaticallychanged the lives of both American and Japanese women in a cross-cultural case studyof the developments at Kobe College between 1873 and 1927. It examines how American
women developed new organizational autonomy and conﬁdence as professional womenand how women of both cultures attempted to connect the concepts of religion, education, gender and civilization (modernization) in different ways over time.

Ochiai, Akiko. Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil
War Era South Carolina (Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood, 2004).
This book articulates how freed lowcountry African Americans worked to acquire land,
focusing on the developmental stages of an African American agrarian movement fromthe 1860s to the 1870s. This analysis reveals not only the upheavals of the age, but also
the resilience of the African American spirit in the face of setbacks and challenges.

DISSERTATIONS
Gonda, Kenji. “Punishable by Death: Literature, Law, and Liberalism and theTwentieth-Century American Murder Narratives.” Ph.D.diss., Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2004.
This study explores how law, legal institutions, and the criminal justice system are represented in four novels of twentieth-century American literature that deal speciﬁcallywith murderers, their trials and executions. It compares the authors’ descriptions of theiroperation to the insights gained from arguments in the ﬁeld of legal studies in order tomake clear how the four murder narratives’ attack is directed ultimately at liberalism—
an ideology which lies at the basis of modern legal thought.

Kitayama, Mariko Takagi. “Hawai‘i’s Japanese Community in the Postwar
Democratic Movement.” Ph.D. diss., University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 2004.

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This dissertation examines the social movements that changed the politics and social
structure of Hawai‘i in the early 1950s from the perspective of its Japanese community.
The study uses the political process model and framing theory to analyze historical materials and data from a systematic content analysis of Hawai‘i Hochi, in order to show how
the Issei took part in the social movements that led to this change.

Kurashina, Itsuki. “Binding the Germans and Talking with the Soviets: U.S.
Disarmament Policy and the Junktim with German Reuniﬁcation, 1955–1960.”
Ph.D. diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick,
2004.
The major purpose of this thesis is to provide a clearer understanding of the foreign policyof Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Administration. This thesis examines its changes byfocusing on the Junktim, a policy that demanded Soviet concessions to promote the reuniﬁcation of Germany on Western terms as a precondition for an agreement on arms reduction and/or arms control between the two blocs.

Monobe, Hiromi. “Shaping an Ethnic Leadership: Takie Okumura and the‘Americanization’ of the Nisei in Hawai‘i 1919–1941.” Ph.D. diss., Universityof Hawai‘i at Manoa, 2004.
This study probes community-building efforts during the so-called interwar periodamong a group of Japanese immigrant leaders in Hawai‘i represented by Takie Okumura.
It focuses on their attempts to resolve the “Nisei Problem,” a collective concern overvarious issues that the second-generation Japanese (Nisei) presumably faced growing up
as minority Americans. To achieve their goal, these immigrant leaders developed international/interracial partnership with Japanese diplomats and elites in Tokyo as well as
white leaders in Hawai‘i.

Tsuchiya, Yuka Moriguchi. “Military Occupation as Pedagogy: The U.S. Reeducation and Reorientation Policy for Occupied Japan, 1945–1952.” Ph.D.
diss., University of Minnesota, 2004.
The U.S. occupation forces in Japan carried out information dissemination campaigns
through mass media to spread democratic ideals and eradicate militarism. Such campaigns were based on the “re-education and reorientation policy” developed during
wartime. The central thesis of my dissertation is that the U.S. re-education and reorientation policy was a joint U.S.-Japan pedagogical project to recast Japan into a modern,rational, and pro-U.S. capitalist nation.