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Quarterly Newsletter of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa
Winter 2005 Vol. 8 No. 1

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Feature Stories

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Recent Events

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Faculty News

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Student News5CJS Seminar

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From the Library

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The Tea Center

TELECONFERENCE WITH RYUDAI

Participants in the Teleconference with the University of the Ryukyus at EastWest Center.

J-Current reports on the achievements
and activities of UHM Japanese Studies faculty and students as well as Japan-related events, research, scholarships and overseas programs. Submission deadline for the next issue is April
20, 2005. Please send to:
J-Current Editor
Center for Japanese Studies
1890 East-West Road, Moore 216
University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
E-mail: cjs@hawaii.edu
Tel: (808) 956-2667
Fax: (808) 956-2666
Web: www.hawaii.edu/cjs

Copyright © 2005 Center for Japanese Studies. All rights reserved.
An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action
Institution

On January 27, Bob Huey and Gay
Satsuma represented CJS at a teleconference between UHM andEast-West Center representatives,and over forty faculty, administrators and students at the Universityof the Ryukyus (Ryudai). They described ongoing Okinawa-related
activities currently sponsored by
CJS, including the Sakihara
Okinawan-English dictionary, and an
Okinawan film project.
The conference was hosted on the
Hawai‘i side by East-West Center
President Charles Morrison, andorganized by Obuchi Fellows andScholars currently at EWC, including Professors Ryuji Ishikawa,
Minako Yogi, and Tamaki
Osumi. UH participants also included Dean Aviam Soifer(Richardson School of Law), Ms.

Erika Lacro (Director of Student
Services for the School of Travel Industry Management), and Professor
Dennis Ogawa (Chair, Departmentof American Studies) all units thathave joint projects with units at
Ryudai. The Obuchi Fellows andScholars and other exchange students
also gave reports on their activities.
Okinawa participants included RyudaiVice President Hiroshi Kakazu, aswell as counterparts for the UH units
mentioned above.
The Obuchi program, jointly fundedby the US and Japanese governments, and named for the late Prime
Minister Keizo Obuchi, brings
Okinawan scholars to the East-WestCenter for extended research visits.
It is currently coordinated by Bob
Nakasone, Director of Okinawa
Projects at EWC.

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Reception Honoring
Dr. Viglielmo
On February 1, 2005, CJS and the Collegeof Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
held a reception honoring Dr. Valdo H.
Viglielmo (Professor Emeritus of Japanese
Literature, UH) and presenting theFestschrift, Confluences: Studies from
East to West in Honor of V. H. Viglielmo.”
Dr. Viglielmo, who retired from the Department of EALL in Spring 2002, attended thereception with his wife, Frances, andfriends like Dr. Edward Seidensticker(Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Columbia University). Colleagues and students
appreciated his academic and educational

contribution,
friendship, andsincerity
throughout his
career at UH
and celebrated
the publicationof the book.
Dr. and Mrs. Viglielmo at the reception
The book is edited by Dr. Nobuko Ochner (Associate uted to the book, discussing JapaneseProfessor, EALL) and Dr. William literature as well as philosophy. The book
Ridgeway, who completed his PhD un- is available from The University Press ofder the supervision of Dr. Viglielmo. Nine- Hawai‘i.
teen of his friends and students contrib-

Recent Events
Workshop on
Pragmatics andCurriculum

Eight out of the seventeen workshop
participants, including high school andcollege level teachers and graduate students, returned for the follow-up meeting and discussed ideas for incorporatOn December 29, 2004, CJS sponsored a ing pragmatics into their curriculum.
follow-up meeting for the 2004 summer Some of the participants also shared lesworkshop “Incorporating Pragmatics son plans and materials which they deinto the Beginning Level JFL Curriculum.” veloped for teaching pragmatics in theirclassrooms. The
workshop was
Follow-up meeting for the 2004 summer workshop
facilitated by
Kazutoh Ishida(PhD student,EALL), Emi
Murayama(PhD student,EALL), andworkshop consultant Dr. Dina
Yoshimi (Associate Professor,
EALL), CJS Director Robert

Huey and Associate Director Gay Satsuma also attended the meeting.

Asian Studies
Occasional Forum
Dr. Toake Endoh (Assistant Professor,
Fashion Institute of Technology, State
University of New York) gave a talk titled“Shedding the Unwanted: Japan’s Emigration Policy Towards Latin America
in a Historical Perspective” on January
21, 2005. She talked about the political
implications of Japan’s
emigration policy toward
Latin America from the
1890s to 1960s. This talk
was held as part of the
Asian Studies Occasional Forum and wassponsored by the AsianStudies Program and
CJS.
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Informational Sessions on
Funding and Careers
An informational session on fellowships and scholarships forgraduate students who focus on Japan was held on January 20,
2005. Robert Huey and Gay Satsuma outlined the fellowships
and scholarships available through CJS. About fifty students
attended the session. In addition, Dr. Patricia Steinhoff (Professor, Sociology) talked to the attendees about the Japan Studies
Dissertation Workshop of the Social Science Research Council.
Mr. Chrisopher Bondy (PhD student, Sociology) talked about
his experience at that workshop. Dr. Petrice Flowers (AssistantProfessor, Political Science) also shared her funding experiences
as a PhD student with the attendees. See CJS website for funding
sources (http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/funding.html).

Se Rah Lee talking to students about her career as aprofessional interpreter

Petrice Flowers talking about her experience as a graduate
student

Faculty News
Dr. Lonny Carlile (Associate Professor, Asian Studies/CJS) has
come out with a new book, Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005).
Dr. Lawrence Marceau (Visiting Professor, EALL) has comeout with a new book, Takebe Ayatari: A Bunjin Bohemian in
Early Modern Japan (University of Michigan, CJS Monograph Series, 2004).
“The Singularities of International Migration of Women to Japan: Past, Present and Future” written by Dr. Michael Douglass(Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Director of Globalization Research Center) appears in Race, Ethnicity and Migrationin Modern Japan (Routledge, 2004), a three-volume series, ed-

On March 3, 2005, the East Asia Career Seminar “Interpreting
and Translating” was held. Director of the Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies (CITS) David Ashworth (Associate
Professor, EALL), Ms. Hong-ja Harrison (CITS Instructor andKorean Language Interpreter), Ms. Se Rah Lee (Owner of Se Rah
Lee Translations and Korean Language Interpreter), Ms. Yumiko
Tateyama (EALL and CITS Japanese Language Instructor), and
Ms. Suzanne Zeng (EALL and CITS Chinese Language Instructor) provided the participants with information about educationaland career opportunities in the field of translation and interpretation.

ited by Michael Weiner, that covers the formation of racial identities and social exclusion of minorities.
Ms. Susan Hirate (Japanese language Instructor, EALL) received
The Frances Davis Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2004 forher dedication and excellence as a teacher of undergraduate students.
The UH Japan Studies Endowment Committee wishes to announce
its Spring and Summer Faculty and Special Projects competition. Applicants must be permanent U.S. residents and regularfaculty at the University of Hawai‘i. Priority is given to proposals
which focus on Japan and its heritage. (Requests for equipment[computers, cameras, etc.] and summer salary, as well as proposals for Summer Research that do not include a travel component,
are normally not competitive.) Applications may be obtained fromthe Center for Japanese Studies, Moore Hall, Room 216, or downloaded from the website at http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/
funding.html. Applications must be submitted to the Center forJapanese Studies by April 5, 2005.

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Kaoru Villa, Jolyon Thomas, Matthew McMullen, and Dominic Franchini (left to right) at the Graduate Student Seminar

Student News
Grad Seminar Series
SteeringCommittee
Launched
CJS Graduate Student Seminar Series
steering committee has been formed byKyle Ikeda (PhD, EALL), Morgan
Lindberg (PhD, EALL), Matthew
Mcmullen (MA, Relgion), Akemi
Nakamura (PhD, Sociology), Shunichi
Takekawa (PhD, Political Science),
Chie Fukuda (PhD, EALL) and Kaoru
Villa (PhD, EALL). Committee members will be meeting every Thursday
for lunch in the Tokioka Room to discuss research projects and interests.
The committee is looking for more representatives from the other departments, so please contact CJS or the students above.
CJS Graduate Student
Seminar Series
The third Graduate Student Seminar, apanel presentation and discussion withthe title “Funeral Buddhism,
Marginalized Spirits, Manga
Hagiography, and Sanctified Violence:
Reinterpreting Religion in Contemporary Japan,” was held on February 4,
2005. The panel examined the tensions
and contestations between Japanese
Buddhist ideals and religious practicethat have been aggravated by the process of secularization in late 20th andearly 21st century Japan. Dominic
Franchini (MA, Religion), Matthew
McMullen(MA, Religion), Jolyon Tho-mas (MA, Religion), and Kaoru Villa(PhD, EALL) respectively presented papers that covered contemporary funeralpractices, a new religious sect, a
hagiography of Buddha in a mangastory, and a controversial Zen priest during WWII. The panel was moderated
by Dr. Christine Yano (Associate Professor, Anthropology).
UH Student Wins SpeechContest at Sophia Univ
UHM undergraduate student, John
Yamaoka won the “International Student Speech Contest in Japanese”(Ryugakusei niyoru Nihongo supîchi
kontesto) at Sophia University, Tokyo,
in fall 2004. John studies Japanese language at UHM, and is participating in
the Center’s student exchange programwith Sophia University.
Presentations
Yoshihiro Jeremy Mochizuki (MA,EALL) presented his paper “Human
Sexual Desire in Ihara Saikaku’s‘Gengobei, the Mountain of Love’ from
Five Women Who Loved Love” at The
CUEAGA (Colorado University East
Asian Graduates Association) Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference,“Transmissions and Transformations,”
at University of Colorado at Boulder,
during March 4-6, 2005.
Midori Ishida (PhD, Second Language
Studies) will present her paper, “CA for
understanding microgenesis of modal

expressions in decision-making activities,” at the 16th International Conference
on Pragmatics and Language Learning,
Indiana, during April 14-16, 2005.
Publications
Midori Ishida (PhD, Second Language
Studies) has her paper titled “Effect ofrecasts on the acquisition of aspectual
form -te i-(ru) by learners of Japanese asa foreign language” in Language Learning, 54 (2): 311-394, (2004) published.
Kyle Ikeda (PhD, EALL) contributed abook chapter, titled “Higuchi Ichiyo’s‘Wakaremichi,’ Modern Punctuation and
Genbun Itchi,” to Confluences: Studies
from East to West in Honor of V.H.
Viglielmo (UH Press, 2005) edited by
Nobuko Ochner and William Ridgeway,
and his paper titled “Shimakutuba dekataru ikusa yu to Mausu—Aushuvittsuo ikinobita chichi oya no monogatari nokanôsei” [Possibilities of Narrating theBattle of Okinawa in dialect and Maus A
Father’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History]
appears in EDGE, no.13, 2004.
Akemi Nakamura’s (PhD, Sociology)
paper “‘We are All Residents of Japan’:
The Construction of Common Identity
and the Success of the Anti-fingerprinting Movement” appears in Group as aConstruct: Gender, Ethnicity and Social
in Groups in Japan of the 2004 issue ofJapanstudien: Jahrbuch des Deutschen
Instituts fur Japanstudien (Yearbook of
the German Institute for Japanese Studies), no. 16.

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Graduation
Shinji Kojima received his MA in December in Sociology with a thesis titled“Regaining Human Life: U.S. Military
Base Workers’ Movement in Okinawa,

Irmela HijiyaKirschnereit

1945 – 1972.” Kojima is continuing his
study of sociology as a PhD student at
UH.
SSRC Workshop
Kyle Ikeda (PhD, EALL) attended the Social Science Research Council Japan
Studies Dissertation Workshop from December 15 to 19, 2004.

Literature Grad Student
Discussion Group Started
Kyle Ikeda (PhD, EALL) and Morgan
Lindberg (PhD, EALL) have formed a Japanese Literature Graduate Student Discussion Group (J-lit Club) in fall 2004. If you
are interested in joining the Club, contact
Morgan (morganlindberg@yahoo.com) or
Kyle (kylei@hawaii.edu).

Street Fashion and National Identity in Japan January 6, 2005. Dr. Irmela
Hijiya-Kirschnereit (Professor of Japanese Literature, Free University of
Berlin) talked about Japanese national identity as it appears in youth
street fashion as well as popular magazines. In her talk, Dr. HijiyaKirschnereit discussed how a new Japanese sense of belonging was mixed
with traditional Japanese symbols such as cherry blossoms and the rising
sun flag.
Modern Archival Materials in Japan February 8 and 9, 2005. Mr. Shohei
Muta (Senior Researcher, Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan) gave a lecture about the online digital archivesof the Center and historiographical problems surrounding the study ofmodern Japanese history. Along with his colleagues at the Center, Mr.
Keiji Yamamoto and Mr. Yoshimi Kashiwa, Mr. Muta also conducted two
PC lab sessions for Japan specialists to teach them how to access theonline digital materials effectively.

Shohei Muta

Cullen Hayashida

Edward Seidensticker

Community Capacity Building in Japan: Finding Solutions for a Rapidly
Aging Society in Oshima February 24, 2005. Dr. Cullen Hayashida (Center on Aging, UH) provided the audience with implications for Hawai‘i’s
aging population by reporting and assessing community capacity building projects currently being implemented in rapidly aging communities on
the island of Oshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Visual Culture of 1960s Japan February 25, 2005. Dr. Vera Mackie (Australian Research Council Professional Fellow, History Department, The
University of Melbourne) discussed visual culture and politics in the 60s
Japan. Showing journalistic and cultural photos and art objects, she talked
about the representation and contextualization of 60s democracy, civilsociety, and gender.
Long, Hot Summer, revisited March 4, 2005. Dr. Edward Seidensticker(Professor Emeritus of Japanese, Columbia University) shared his recent
experiences in Japan with the audience and made observations on changing Japan from Princess Tours to how Japan could solve its aging population dilemma.

CJS Seminar SeriesAward
Mie Hiramoto (PhD, Linguistics)
received The Frances Davis Award for
Undergraduate Teaching in 2004.

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From the Library- Halloween Eve Flash Flood and Hamilton Library’s Japan Collection The National Weather Service issued the first flash flood warning at 6:31 PM on Saturday, October 30, 2004. By 7:15 PM, a rain
gauge at Mânoa Lyon Arboretum on Manoa Stream showed
rainfall of 1.29 inches over a 15 minute period. Approximately
15 minutes later, a 6-foot wall of muddy water swept throughthe entire basement of Hamilton Library. The Halloween Eve
Flash Flood deposited 100,000 gallons of muddy water in the
sub-basement, where all the electric cables lay. The flood left
behind debris coated in thick red mud and composed of books,
documents, furniture, personal items and memories. The majority of the UHM Japanese collections were spared from the devastation because they are on the 3rd and 4th floors. However,
Hamilton Library’s basement was the Library’s central nervous
system where Acquisitions, Serials, Cataloging, Government
Documents Departments, and the Library’s computer servers
were located. Every day, librarians and staff prepared all incoming new and gift books, periodicals, videos, CDs, and created
Voyager records for students and faculty’s research and studies. Over3,000 Japanese language
items were destroyed.

Pile of debris in Hamilton basement
after the flash flood

No one could ever imagine a catastrophic event
like this in the UHM community. Although the
Library’s full recovery
will take, at a minimum,
many months, much

Alphabetical list of donors
specific to the UHM Japan Collection
Mr. Toyohiko Ayamori, Japan Publications Trading Company (monetary gift)
Dr. James Brandon, Professor Emeritus (monetary gift)
The Center for Japanese Studies (monetary gift)
Dr. Kakugyo Chiku (monetary gift)
Mr. Ryoji Fukada (monetary gift)
Fuji Shuppan (gift books)
Hon no Tomosha (gift books)
The Japanese Studies Endowment Committee (grantsupport)Kanagawa Prefectural Library (gift books)
Kashiwa Shobo (gift books)

After the debris had been removed, Ms. Perushek, University Librarian,showed the basement to Japanese visitors (Dr. Chiku and Mr. Moroya,Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

progress was made during the first four months thanks to efforts of many people in and outside the Library. The UHM
Japan Collection also received many acts of kindness and generosity from our friends and colleagues. Thanks to the Center
for Japanese Studies (CJS), East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL), and SHAPS, all the librarians and staff in the
Asia Collection Department have temporary offices in Moore
Hall. The Japanese Studies Endowment Committee and CJS

Mrs. Taeko Kato (monetary gift)
Mr. Yusuke Kihara, Kihara Library Information Supplies &Equipment (monetary gift)
Kinokuniya Shoten (gift books)
Ms. Junko Kurita, Japan Foundation Library Tokyo (giftbooks)
Mr. Koshiro Moroya (monetary gift)
Nihon Tosho Center (gift books)
Mr. Nobuyoshi Nishiura (monetary gift)
Mr. Mistuo Nitta, Yushodo Press Company (gift books)
Ozorasha (gift books)
Mrs. Yoriko Ueda, Shoyu Club (monetary gift)
University of Tokyo Library (gift books)
Dr. Katsuyoshi Yamada, Tohoku University (monetary gift)
Yumani Shobo (gift books)

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also provided funds to help replace Japanese books that weredestroyed. Sympathy and financial help also came from Japan.
Our Japanese friends know exactly what a flash flood (teppômizu) does and they can empathize with our plight. Email mes-

sages began pouring in from Japan three days after the disaster. Warmest Aloha and a huge mahalo for all the help and moral
support we received from our friends.
(Tokiko Bazzell)

From the Tea Center
Jaku’an on February 18, 2005.

Undergraduate students from Belmont
University

Undergraduate students from Belmont
University (Nashville, Tennessee) participated in tea ceremony at Jaku’an on January 10, 2004. They were hosted by
SHAPS for their short-term program to
study multiculturism in Hawaii.
High school students from the JapaneseClub at Mid-Pacific Institute (Honolulu)
also learned about tea ceremony at

If you would like the Center to give demonstrations at local schools, or to hostschools at the UHM campus, please contact Dr. Robert Huey or Dr. Gay Satsuma
at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at 808-956-2665.
Dr. Genshitsu Sen paid a ten-day visit to
the University of Hawai‘i this past February. He attended several meetings of
the Tea Practicum (ASAN 324), conducting brief zazen sessions, and speaking
to the students about various aspects ofthe tea ceremony. He also gave two lectures to the Way Of Tea in Japanese History and Culture (HIST 323) course in the
History Department.

GRADUATESTUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
November 2004 Competition
Chie Fukuda (PhD, EALL) will present her paper “Attitudes/
Consciousness of Native Speakers of Japanese Toward NonNative Speakers in Intercultural Communication” at AILA 2005
(The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, July 24 –29, 2005, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
February 2005 Competition
Christopher Bondy (PhD, Sociology) will present his paper“Buraku Borders: Fieldwork in Two Buraku Communities” at
the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March
31 – April 3, 2005, in Chicago.
Tomoko Iwai (PhD, EALL) will present her paper “The Development of Conversational Competence Among L2 Japanese
Learners” at the 2005 ATJ Seminar at the AAS Annual Meet-

Dr. Genshitsu Sen and a student of
the Tea Practicum

High school students from the Japanese Clubat Mid-Pacific Instituteing, March 31 – April 3, 2005, in Chicago.
Josh Petitto (MA, EALL) presented his paper “Master andSlave in Kawabata Yasunari’s Yukiguni” at the Columbia
University 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East
Asia, February 4 – 5, 2005, in New York.

APPLICATION DEADLINESCJS Graduate Student Travel Grant
May 1, 2005
Please note that submission guidelines have recently
changed. For more information, visit www.hawaii.edu/cjs/
funding.html.
Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant
There is no application deadline. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Contact GSO at 956-8776 or visit
http://gso.hawaii.edu/ for more information.

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