The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 20 (2009)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2007
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
Iida, Fumio. “Is Multiculturalism Compatible with Minority Politics?” Kobe University Law Review 41 (2007): 1–16.
This article considers the way in which claims of multiculturalism are compatible withthose of other minorities, such as women, elderly people, and homosexuals. It focuses on
recent multiculturalist arguments by Will Kymlicka and Eisenberg Avigail, among others.

Izumi, Masumi. “The Japanese Canadian Movement: Migration and Activism before
and after World War II.” Amerasia Journal (Asian American Studies Center, UCLA)
33.2 (2007): 49–66.
This article reviews the history of Japanese Canadians’ political, economic, and culturalactivism before and after World War II, and elucidates how migration generated andshaped those activities and activism. It aims at developing Asian Canadian studies that
could offer critical sites/sights for illuminating the dynamic history of the Asian-Pacificdiaspora.

Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “The Social Construction of ‘Evil’”: Comparative Content
Analysis between the U.S. and Japanese Media during the Iraq War.” Bulletin ofKeiwa College 16 (2007): 65–99.
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Based on the content analysis of editorials about the Iraq War in leading U.S. and Japanese newspapers, this article explores the differing notions of “evilness” the newspapers
implicitly and explicitly express, with a focus on “evil” as socially constructed by thedifferent historical and cultural backgrounds of the West (United States) and the East(Japan).

Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “Public Opinion and the Media during the Period of the Iraq
War: A Comparative Analysis between the United States and Japan.” Annual Reportof Keiwa Liberal Arts Research Institute 5 (2007): 115–40.
This article explores a factor that may affect differences in the U.S. and Japanese perspectives on the Iraq War in leading print media: public opinion formation. More specifically,
it investigates interrelationships among public policy processes, public opinion, and newsmedia coverage about the war, using statistical methods to analyze the congruence between news trends concerning the war and changes in public opinion. Special attention ispaid to the Japanese media’s negativity toward U.S. Iraq policies.

Matsukawa, Yuko. “‘Face to Face with Italy’: American Women in Elizabeth Spencer’s The Light in the Piazza.” Seijo English Monographs 39 (2007): 1–60.
This article examines how, in The Light in the Piazza, Elizabeth Spencer reconfigures thecharacter type of the “American girl abroad” in order to provide ironic commentary on
the condition of American womanhood in the 1950s, as well as to question how travelingabroad and viewing home from that vantage point complicates gendered identity.

Matsumoto, Reiji. “Tocqueville and Constant on War and the Army.” Tocqueville
Review 28.1 (2007): 153–64.
This article analyzes Tocqueville’s argument about war and the army in the historicalcontext of postrevolutionary France, with reference to Benjamin Constant’s discussion of
the same topic. It discovers in the Tocquevillian viewpoint theoretical suggestions usefulfor a critical understanding of the formation of the military-industrial complex in theUnited States in the twentieth century.

Mizuno, Takeya. “The Federal Government’s Decisions in Suppressing the Japanese-Language Press, 1941–42.” Journalism History 33 (Spring 2007): 14–23.
This article analyzes the U.S. federal government’s decision-making process in suppressing the Japanese “enemy language” press in the earliest phase of World War II. Becauseof civilian officials’ persistent efforts to preserve and utilize the Japanese-language press
to support national war policies, it was exempted from total suppression. Nevertheless, it
was subject to some degree of control throughout the war.

Morimoto, Anri. “Violence as Impetuosity: Taxonomy of Religious Violence.” Journal of the Nanzan Review of American Studies (Center for American Studies, NanzanUniversity) 29 (2007): 51–60.

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A response to the panelists Gary Laderman, Andrew Rotter, and Hortense Spillers atNagoya American Studies Summer Seminars 2007, this article argues that the concept ofviolence should be expanded for a closer analysis. References are made to Walter Benjamin, Rene Girard, Georges Bataille, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and twopictures from the nineteenth-century temperance movement.

Morimoto, Anri. “The Forgotten Prophet: Rediscovering Toyohiko Kagawa.” Princeton Seminary Bulletin (Princeton Theological Seminary) 28.3 (2007): 292–308.
This lecture, given at the invitation of the third Toyohiko Kagawa Lectureship, Princeton
Theological Seminary, traces the life and thought of a Japanese Christian leader who
studied at Princeton about a hundred years ago, and examines why this renowned “Japanese Schweitzer” was little known in his home country.

Moriya, Tomoe. “A Note from a Rural Town in America: The Young Suzuki Daisetsu and the Significance of Religious Experience.” Eastern Buddhist 38.1–2 (2007):58–68.
This article deals with the essays Suzuki Daisetsu (Daisetz T. Suzuki) wrote while in theUnited States and published in a Japanese Buddhist journal. These articles, which hewrote in Japanese rather than English, reveal how his transnational experience influenced
him and what he considered to be religiously interesting to share with Japanese Buddhists.

Nakajima, Hiroo. “The Monroe Doctrine and Russia: American Views of Czar Alexander I and Their Influence upon Early Russian-American Relations.” DiplomaticHistory (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) 31.3 (June 2007):
439–63.
The article reappraises the relationship between the Monroe Doctrine and Russia. It argues that comparatively friendly Russian-American relations, and especially the highesteem U.S. policymakers had for Czar Alexander I, contributed to the unilateral declaration of the doctrine, which originated in a British proposal for an Anglo-American declaration.

Nomura, Shiori. “Transnational Discourses of the Nation and Race: Croatian Immigrants during World War I in the United States.” Komaba Journal of Areas Studies(University of Tokyo) 10 (2007): 144–74.
This article investigates changing ideas about nation and race presented to Croatian immigrants in the Unites States in the early twentieth century. By-laws, newspaper, andminutes of meetings of the National Croatian Society are analyzed. The formation ofCroatian ethnic identity is discussed in relation to the expression in various forms of theirtransnational consciousness.

Nomura, Shiori. “New Perspectives for Textual Analysis in Media Studies.”

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Kogakuin University Journal of Arts and Sciences 45.1 (2007): 37–51.
This article addresses some key theoretical points for analyzing texts in the media. First,a traditional method of analyzing texts in media studies, quantitative content analysis, isassessed. Next, recent theories of texts and discourse are discussed. Finally, there are suggestions for using recent qualitative methods for analyzing media texts.

ARTICLES IN BOOKSMa Xiaohua. “Constructing a National Memory of War: War Museums in China,
Japan, and the United States.” The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of theAsia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations. Ed. Marc Gallicchio. Durham, NC:Duke UP, 2007. 155–200.
War in the twentieth century was a traumatic phenomenon that left behind survivors who
repeatedly engage in acts of remembrance. Memorializing the significant events of thetwentieth century has become important in China, Japan, and the United States. The past
several decades have seen a proliferation of museums and monuments in these countries
commemorating events of World War II. This article focuses on these three countries
through a comparative analysis of their war museums. By comparing the way war is remembered in these countries, we can see how a nation reproduces in memory the conditions of nationalism.

Matsumura, Masayoshi. “Theodore Roosevelt and the Portsmouth Peace Conference: The Riddle and Ripple of His Forbearance.” Rethinking the Russo-Japanese
War of 1904–5. Ed. John Chapman and Inaba Chiharu. Kent, UK: Global Oriental,
2007. 50–60.
On December 10, 1906, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was for his
contribution to bringing the Russo-Japanese War to a close through the Treaty of Portsmouth. However, the Japanese government never invited Roosevelt to Japan or presented
him with any awards. This essay examines the reasons why.

Miyao, Daisuke. “Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s.” Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire. Ed. Frenchy Lunning. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2007. 83–102.
Cinema has been a transnational cultural form from its very beginning. At the same time,it has often emerged as a national cinema, formed by specific discourses on nationalismand modernization. This essay examines Ofuji Noburo’s 1926 animated film Baguda-jo

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no tozoku (The Thief of Baguda Castle) with regard to this transnational/national duality.

Miyao, Daisuke. “Dark Visions of Japanese Film Noir: Suzuki Seijun’s Branded toKill (1967).” Japanese Film: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Alastair Phillips and Julian
Stringer. London: Routledge, 2007. 193–204.
This essay closely examines Suzuki Seijun’s 1967 film Branded to Kill (Koroshi NoRakuin) and locates it in the historical context of the Japanese film industry and the political and cultural conditions of Japanese society of the late 1960s. More specifically, thisessay examines Branded to Kill as the focal point of Japanese film noir and the Japanese
avant-garde.

BOOKS
Asada, Sadao. Culture Shock and Japanese-American Relations: Historical Essays.
Columbia and London: U. of Missouri Press, 2007.
This book contains essays on the impact of Alfred T. Mahan on Japan’s strategic thinking,the politics of naval limitations, the decision-making process at the Washington Conference, the path to Pearl Harbor, the effect of the atomic bomb on Japan’s decision to surrender, and a comparison of U.S. and Japanese perceptions of the decision to use theatomic bomb.

Miyao, Daisuke. Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2007.
This critical look at Hayakawa’s stardom reconstructs the Japanese actor’s remarkablecareer, from the films that preceded his meteoric rise to fame as the star of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat (1915) through his reign as a matinee idol, subsequent decline, andHollywood resurrection.

Yoshihara, Mari. Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans inClassical Music. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2007.
This book traces the route of how Asians and Asian Americans have come to have a remarkable presence in Western classical music in the last few decades. It discusses thesignificance of musicians’ racial, gender, and class identities for their work in classicalmusic and analyzes the relationship between cultural identity and music making.

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DISSERTATIONS
Maeshima, Kazuhiro. Japanese and U.S. Media Coverage of the Iraq War: A Comparative Analysis. Diss. U. of Maryland, 2007.
This work investigates the relationship between the media and politics by analyzing theIraq War coverage of two leading U.S. and Japanese newspapers: the New York Times andthe Asahi. It reveals that these two print media, although both liberal in their generalorientation, have treated the Iraq War differently.

Suzuki (Honda), Noriko. “The Re-Invention of the American West: Women’s Periodicals, Gendered Geography, and Identity in the Late Nineteenth-Century UnitedStates.” Diss. U. of Tsukuba, 2007.
This is a study on the relationship between the discourse of the American West andwomen’s journalism. It presents how women participated in and intervened in the construction of geographical conceptions of “the West.” Applying a gender perspective, it
provides a thorough examination of women’s writings in newspapers and magazines.