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Quarterly Newsletter of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa
Spring 2005 Vol. 8 No. 2Contents
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From the Director

2-3Student News

4Faculty News

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CJS Seminar Series

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From the Tea Center

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Recent Events

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From the Library

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Announcements
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 July11, 2005. Please send to:
J-Current Editor
Center for Japanese Studies
1890 East-West Road, Moore 216University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
E-mail: cjs@hawaii.edu
Tel: (808) 956-2667
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Copyright © 2005 Center for Japanese Studies.
All rights reserved.
An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action
Institution

FROM THE CJS DIRECTOR
I usually resist the idea of writing a Director’s column in ournewsletter, since the news
speaks for itself, but as this academic year draws to a close, I
decided to take over this space
to talk about a few things thatwould not normally appear in ournewsletter but are important tothe Center.
First off, the Center staff. I hope I
am not out of line in announcing, before formal BOR approval, that ourAssociate Director, Dr. Gay Satsuma, is about to get a much-deserved promotion. She is the principal administrator for our National
Resource Center (NRC) projects,
the mainstay of our exchange programs, and after nine years here
she knows more about the history
and day-to-day operations of theCenter than anyone. Congratulations, Gay, and thank you for keeping the place together.
Our Secretary, Adele Ching, wasalso promoted last Fall, though it
would take a string of promotions
to match all she does for us. (Theonly one overpaid in this place is thedirector!)
Earlier this year, our graduate assistant, Kazutoh Ishida, PhD can-Draft cover of Okinawan-English
Wordbook

didate in East Asian Languages andLiteratures, moved on to a challenging
position with Volunteers in Asia, in Palo
Alto, and left a huge void. Shun
Takekawa, PhD candidate in Political Science, joined us at that time, andhas brought along with him his newspaper experience, and wry sense ofhumor. Shun, who was awarded ourSasaki Scholarship this academic year,
was invited by the UH Foundation tospeak at this year’s dinner for scholarship donors and recipients, and gavea very moving speech on the importance to foreign students of privatelyfunded scholarships. (This at a time
when, in the name of “homeland security,” obstacles are being put in frontof overseas students wishing to study
here!) Unfortunately, Shun, too, willbe leaving us this summer. Such is theway with grad assistants, though, andwhen they move on, it is always to takea step closer to their careers, so how
can one complain?
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We have also been blessed with great student helpers. Last
Fall, Jojo Wong left us after two years to participate in ourHiroshima University exchange. She keeps in touch, and has
posted more pictures of her life at Hirodai on her website
than I would ever have thought possible. Kittma (Kitty)
Leelaamornvichet, who has been with the Center for threeyears, will be graduating this semester, and Nate Brown, ournew student helper, will have a hard act to follow, though she
has trained him well.
Most of our Center activities end up on the pages of thisnewsletter once they are completed, but one project deserves
advance publicity: In cooperation with the University of theRyukyus, we are preparing an Okinawan-English dictionary
built upon the manuscript left by the late Professor Mitsugu
Sakihara. As a first step, under the guidance of Professor
Leon Serafim at UH, and Professor Shigehisa Karimata atRyudai, Dr. Stewart (Andy) Curry, recent PhD and current
Instructor in our EALL Department, is preparing an OkinawanEnglish wordbook that we (and the Okinawan PrefecturalGovernment) hope to have available for the Worldwide
Uchinanchu gathering in Okinawa next year. Dr. Sakihara’s

manuscript will then be re-configured into a full-fledged dictionary and reference for scholars, a project that will likely
take another year or two.
Speaking of Okinawa, CJS would like to welcome Professor
Masanori Nakahodo, of the University of the Ryukyus, whowill be here until next spring as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Keep aneye out for some CJS activities involving Nakahodo-sensei.
a specialist in Okinawan literature.
In mid-April, the SHAPS community hosted Ms. Cheryl Gibbs,Program Officer in the U.S. Department of Education, International Education Program Services. Cheryl has administered the NRC and Foreign Language and Area Studies(FLAS) grants for our East Asia, Southeast Asia, and PacificIslands Centers for the past seven years. She finally had theopportunity to come out here from Washington D.C. to see
how all that federal money is being spent, and I think shewent away very impressed. Naturally, we all hope our relationship with Cheryl will last a LONG time!
Whew!

(Robert Huey)

Student News
Grad Seminar Series Presented Two Events
Japanese Studies Graduate Student Seminar Series presented
a panel presentation and discussion with the title of “Manipulation, Contestation & Negotiation of Okinawan Identity: Language, Library Policy, and Media Representation”
on April 28, 2005. Chie Fukuda (PhD, EALL) discussed how
the Ryukyuan “language” was conceptualized, deployed, andutilized by linguists, forklorists, administrators, politicians,and Okinawans since Japan’s implementation of assimilation
policies at the end of the 19th century. Fujiko Uehara (MA,Library Information and Science) addressed how RyukyuanAmerican cultural centers, established and managed by theUnited States of Civil Administration of Ryukyu Islands(USCAR), were used as a tool for policy control through
USCAR publications including propaganda magazines.
Kinuko Maehara (MA, Sociology) examined the representation of contemporary Okinawa in a popular NHK television
drama, Churasan, based on her analysis of the audience reaction and commentary as found on the show’s official website.
A visiting scholar of EALL, Professor Masanori Nakahodo(Faculty of Law & Letters, University of the Ryukyus) joined
the panel as a commentator.

Graduate students, Fukuda, Uehara, andMaehara (right to left), presented their papers
on Okinawan identity. Professor Nakahodo (leftend) joined as a commentator

Japanese Studies Graduate Student Seminar Series, Informal
Workshop “Why Do We Go to Conferences?” was held on
April 21, 2005. Four PhD students presented their academic
conference experiences and discussed how to get the mostout of an academic conference as a junior scholar. Kaoru
Villa (PhD, EALL) talked about reasons to go to conferences
and how to choose better ones for graduate students in earlystages. Kyle Ikeda (PhD, EALL) gave tips about abstract
writing based on his conference organizer experience as wellas things to do for academic networking at conferences.
Shunichi Takekawa (PhD, Political Science) reported on theAssociation of Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago
this year at which he presented a paper. Christopher Bondy

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“Multiple Discourses in Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo” at the
Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo,for June 18-19.
Mie Hiramoto (PhD, Linguistics) presented her paper“Deconstructing ‘Japanese Women’s Language’: A Prosodic
Analysis” at the 13th Annual Meeting of Symposium about
Language and Society, University of Texas at Austin, on April
15, 2005. She also presented her paper “Another Look at‘Japanese Women’s Language’: A Prosodic Analysis” at the
41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago,on April 8, 2005. Bothpapers are coauthored by Dr. Andrew Wong (Assistant Professor, Linguistics).

Writing Workshop for Graduate Students
Are you busy on Friday afternoons? Since mid-March theCJS graduate student organization has been organizing two
informal paper writing workshops each Friday from 2:30 to3:30 pm and from 3:30
to 5:00 pm. They
started the workshop
so that Japanese studies graduate students
can have a chance eachweek to talk about theirupcoming term papers
Tomoko Iwai (PhD,and ongoing researchEALL) presented her
projects as well as topaper “The developpresent up to fivement of conversational competence
pages of written mateamong L2 Japaneserial. Though the workStudents discussing academic conference experiences
learners” at 2005 Asshop will not be meetsociation of Teachers
ing over the summer,ofJapanese
Seminar,Chicago,onMarch
31, 2005.
they hope to begin again during the Fall 2005 semester. If
you are interested in participating next semester, please conKazutoh Ishida (PhD, EALL) presented his paper “Empowertact Morgan Lindberg (PhD, EALL) at ing
Learners
toActivelyandmorganlindberg@yahoo.com.
Dynamically Develop Social Relations” at the Association ofTeachers of Japanese Seminar, Chicago, on March 31, 2005.
Publications
Kazutoh Ishida (PhD, EALL) contributed a book chapter“Why shift forms when addressing the same person?: Raising awareness about the pragmatic use of the Japanese plainand desu / masu forms” to Pragmatics in language learning, theory, and practice (JALT Pragmatics SIG, Tokyo: 2005)
edited by Donna Tatsuki.
L. Halliday Piel (PhD, History) contributed the abstract ofher MA Thesis, “Suzuki Miekichi and the Art and Politics ofthe Tsuzurikata Movement” (University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, 2002), to the April 2005 issue of Japanese Language and Literature (Boulder, Colorado: Association ofTeachers of Japanese).
Presentations
Ashby Butnor (PhD, Philosophy) presented her paper “Suffering and Liberation: Zen and Feminist Perspectives” at theCentral Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, during April 27-30, 2005.
Kelly Hansen (PhD, EALL) will give a presentation entitled

L. Halliday Piel (PhD, History) presented her paper “Discovering the Child in Tokugawa Japan,” at the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, for March 16-18,
2005.
Asuka Suzuki (PhD, EALL) presented her paper “The Roleof ‘Small Talk’ in Developing Interactional Competence in JFLClassroom” at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference in Chicago on March 31, 2005. She will also present
her work entitled “Humorous Talk as a Collaborative Achievement” at the 14th World Congress of Applied
Linguistics hosted by Association of American Applied Linguistics held at University of Wisconsin at Madison for July24-29, 2005.
Position
Ashby Butnor (PhD, Philosophy) has accepted a position inthe Department of Philosophy at Ithaca College in Ithaca,
NY. She will be teaching courses in Asian Philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

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Faculty NewsConference Presentations
Dr. Lonny Carlile (Associate Professor, Asian Studies /CJS) made a presentation entitled, “The Impact of Changing Times and Changing Contexts on Shashi: A Comparison of the JTB’s 50-Year and 70-Year Histories” for the North
American Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest
Group on April 2, 2005, at the Association for Asian Studies(AAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Shashi Panel wasorganized by Ms. Tokiko Y. Bazzell (Japan Specialist Librarian).

Publication
Dr. Theresa Greaney (Associate Professor, Economics)’spaper “Measuring Network Effects on Trade: Are Japanese
Affiliates Distinctive?” is forthcoming in Journal of theJapanese and International Economies.

Dr. Terry Klafehn (Assistant Professor, EALL) presented
his paper “Form Emerges from Use: Why Japanese Speakers Can’t Pass a Wug Test” at Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, University of Alberta(Canada), for October 8-10, 2004 (Funded by a URC travelgrant).

Appointments
Dr. Lucy Lower (Associate Professor, EALL) attended thePlenary Meeting of the Inter-University Center Board, heldprior to the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) AnnualMeeting, March 31, in Chicago, representing Hawaii. Hernomination to the Executive Board was approved.

Dr. Dina Yoshimi (Associate Professor, EALL) organized apanel entitled, “Promoting Interactional Competence in theJapanese as a Foreign Language Classroom” for the 2005
ATJ Seminar held in Chicago on March 31, 2005. Papers

Dr. Theresa Greaney (Associate Professor, Economics) wasappointed Associate Editor of the Journal Japan and the World
Economy (Elsevier) from March 2005.

presented in conjunction with the panel included Yoshimi’s“‘What do I say next?’: Interactional Competence as a Goal ofJFL Instruction,” as well as several of the papers listed on the“Student News” page of this newsletter.

CJS Seminar Series
Dr. Keith Brown

Shinto and Buddhism: Intermixture of Rituals and Deities without Conflict: Shimbutsu
Konkô in Mizusawa, Japan March 10, 2005. Dr. Keith Brown (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh) gave a talk about the co-habitation of Shintoism andBuddhism in Mizusawa-city (in the Tohoku region) and its implications. He introduced thenotion of “Shinbutsu konko” with a number of stories that he heard and observed in thecity.
Are Minka Unique to Japan?: The Role of Environment and Culture in Shaping Traditional Housing in Japan April 14, 2005. Dr. Susan Hanley (Professor Emeritus of History,University of Washington) discussed her on-going work on Japanese traditional private
dwellings. She talked about similarities and dissimilarities between traditional farm housesin the Tohoku region of Japan and in Switzerland and possible origins of those traditional
houses in Japan.

Dr. Susan HanleyTerrorism and World Religion April 25, 2005. Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama (President of theCalifornia Institute of Human Science) talked about the phenomenon of terrorism through5Spring 2005

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Fifteen teachers from Punahou HighSchool (Honolulu) listened to a shortlecture on medieval Japanese aesthetics and participated in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at Jaku’an on March29, 2005.
If you would like to the Center to givetea ceremony demonstrations at local
schools, or to host schools at the UHM
campus, please contact CJS (Phone 808956-2665 or cjs@hawaii.edu).
Punahou High School teachers attending a teaceremony

From the Tea Centera comparative examination of world religions. He described the evolution of religion and how terrorism is an inevitable offshoot of the cultural conditions that gave birth to the “desert” religions of the Middle
East, and presented a new model of world religion that transcends thelimitations of each tradition. This talk was co-sponsored by the UH
Philosophy Department.

Dr. Hiroshi
Motoyama

Dr. Elizabeth
Van Wie Davis

Recent Events
Dr. Elizabeth Van Wie Davis (Professor, College of Security Studies, Department of Regional
Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies) gave a talk titled “Political Islam inChina” on April 8, 2005. She introduced the history and the current situation of Muslims inChina and especially discussed the impact of international terrorism on Chinese Muslims
and implications of political Islam in Xinjiang Uyger. This talk was sponsored by the East
Asia Council.

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From the Library

Fukkokuban Series
Many colorful pamphlets advertising “Fukkokuban” may show up in
your mailbox if you keep in contactwithJapanesepublishers.
Fukkokuban , meaning, “reprints” inEnglish, provide an opportunity to
get your hands on out-of print magazines, books, maps, and government
documents. The price of fukkokuban
Sutairu
is usually high because the publisher
has to track down all the originals,
which are usually scattered between different institutions. The Japan Collection at Hamilton
Library has been painstakingly collecting fukkokuban and this column introduces a few ofthem.

Women’s Magazines
Interest in women’s issues and gender studies has been in vogue somany fukkokuban of women’s magazines have been compiled overthe past several years. With the help of the Center for Japan Studies
Endowment Fund, 64 issues of Sutairu (Style: EAST HQ1104 .S79)
covering 1936 to 1941 are available. Themagazine was created by Uno Chiyo,
who was a flamboyant figure in the earlyShowa era. Uno solicited articles frommany well known writers, cultural leaders
and interviewed significant social figJoshi Bundanures such as Kitahara Takeo, Ozaki Shirô,Miyoshi Tatsuji, Okamoto Kanoko,
Kawabata Yasunari, to name a few. According to Professor
Nobuko Ochner (EALL), “Abundant illustrations and pictures
capture the images of women in the 1930s Japan and they
demonstrate the women’s self-identity as well as their wishes
Seitôand desires.” Thanks to the Ogata Library Fund, the early
20th century’s Joshi Bundan (EAST PL700 .J67) is gradually
being added. This magazine was said to be the only venue for young women to express
their true feelings and is considered a forerunner of the famous Seitô(EAST PL756 .W6 S45). All issues of Seitô are also available at theHamilton Library. Last summer, the entire set of fukkokuban Kageki(EAST PN2926 .T32 K34) was donated by the Yushôdô Press Company.

Children’s Magazines

Akai Tori

Suzuki Miekichi created Akai tori (EAST AP215 .J3 A31) 1918-1936,
which is a magazine of significance in the history of children’s literature. The contributors to the magazine included Akutagawa Ryûnosukeand Kitahara Hakushû among others.

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Government Documents
Although Japanese government documents and maps provide statistics and studies before, during and after WWII, it israre for one institution to hold all the issues. Often the publications were of poor quality paper and many of them have
simply disintegrated over the years. All is not lost, however,
because many of these are available in form of fukkokuban,such as Gaimushô Nenkan (EAST JZ1745.A15 G35), Takumu
Tôkei (EAST JV5227.T34), and Kaigai kakuchi zairyûKageki
honpôjin shokugyôbetsu jinkôhyô (EAST folio JV8721.K354),
and more. The long title, Ichimanbun no ichi Chôsen chikeizushûsei (EAST Ref folio G2330 .I24) provides 98 maps created by the Chôsen Sôtokufu during the Japanese colonialperiod.
Most of the publishers are open to suggestions for future fukkokuban projects. There are no guarantees but you would
not be wasting your time if you let them know what your research interests are because they are in the business ofrounding up hard-to-find historical sources and publishing it as fukkokuban.
(Tokiko Bazzell)

Announcements
CJS Scholarships (2005 – 06)
Congratulations to the following students who received
scholarships!
CJS Graduate Fellowships: William Matsuda, PhD, EALL;
Kelli Nakamura, PhD, History; Kurt Wurmli, PhD, Theater;
Midori Ishida, PhD, Second Language Studies.
Tasuku Harada Graduate Scholarship in Japanese Studies:
L. Halliday Piel, PhD, History.

Minae and Miki Kajiyama Graduate Scholarship: Noa
Matsushita, PhD, Political Science.
William P Lebra Memorial Scholarship: Asuka Suzuki, PhD,EALL.
Hanayo Sasaki Graduate Merit Scholarship: Toru Yamada,PhD, Anthropology.
John Fee Embree Scholarship: Akemi Nakamura, PhD, Sociology.

APPLICATION DEADLINESCJS Graduate Student Travel Grant
August 1, 2005
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 at956-8776 or visit http://gso.hawaii.edu/ for more information.

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