The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 18 (2007)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2005
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
Hirobe, Izumi. “Naturalization Cases of Asian Immigrants from In re Ah Yap
to United States v. Ozawa and United States v. Thind,” Paciﬁc and AmericanStudies (University of Tokyo) 6 (March 2006): 119–130.
This paper examines the history of both the successful and the unsuccessful attempts
made by Asian immigrants to be naturalized around the turn of the twentieth century,emphasizing the way in which court decisions contributed to the deﬁnition of race, theconnotation of which was changing greatly at the time.

Hones, Sheila, and Julia Leyda. “Geographies of American Studies,” American
Quarterly, 57, 4 (December 2005): 1019–32.
This paper engages with issues involved in the conceptualization of ‘international’American studies. We argue that the geography of Americanist scholarship worldwide
is not simply a matter of physical location but also has to include the ways in which academic space is produced, relatively and relationally, through routine scholarly activities.

Kohiyama, Rui. “To Clear Up a Cloud Hanging on the Paciﬁc Ocean: The 1927
Japan-U.S. Doll Exchange,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (JapaneseAssociation for American Studies) 16 (2005): 55–80.

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The article analyzes the Japan-U.S. doll exchange in 1927 from the perspective of theU.S. Christian women’s involvement. It also attempts to elucidate the conﬁguration ofpeculiar U.S. attitudes toward foreign relations and examine how Japan and the U.S.
reacted to and affected each other through the exchange, which left long-lasting reverberations.

Kumei, Teruko. “Crossing the Ocean, Dreaming of America, Dreaming ofJapan: Transpaciﬁc Transformation of Japanese Immigrants in Senryu Poems,1929–1941,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Japanese Association forAmerican Studies) 16 (2005): 81–109.
Japanese immigrant senryu poetry is “a record of life and a poem of sentiments” of theJapanese immigrants in the United States. These poems show how the immigrants mentally crossed the Paciﬁc, and yet tried to embrace both Japan and the United States. Theyalso register the tragedy in which the United States pressed the immigrants to sever theirJapanese identity without admitting them as members of the US society.

Leyda, Julia, and Sheila Hones, see Hones, Sheila, and Julia Leyda.
Maeshima, Kazuhiro. “The Effects of Televised Candidate Advertisements in
US Elections,” Bulletin of Keiwa College 14 (2005): 143–161.
This study examines the effects of televised political advertisements in current US politics and assesses their advantages and disadvantages. Although political commercials
are unique channels of communication, this paper argues that their positive effects areunduly exaggerated. The negative results of overﬂowing political advertising are costly
campaigns, depressed voting participation, unsubstantiated attacks, mercenary politicalconsultants, and a citizenry disconnected from its representatives.

Matsukawa, Yuko. “Onoto Watanna’s Japanese Collaborators and Commentators,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Japanese Association for AmericanStudies) 16 (2005): 31–53.
American orientalism at the turn into the twentieth century is usually considered to bewhat fueled Winnifred Eaton’s construction of and masquerade as Onoto Watanna, awriter of Japanese descent. This article examines outward markers of Onoto Watanna’s
Japaneseness in order to interrogate how Japanese writers and artists in the United States
also enabled and/or criticized her orientalist performance.

Mizuno, Takeya. “Federal Government Uses of the Japanese-Language Press
from Pearl Harbor to Mass Incarceration,” Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly 82 (Spring 2005): 148–166.
This paper examines how the US government ofﬁcials used the Japanese “enemy language” press to pacify Japanese Americans and facilitate their mass incarceration during
WW II. The Ofﬁce of Facts and Figures, and later the Ofﬁce of War Information, used
the press as a messenger, as a morale builder, and as a defense against Axis propaganda.

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Nakano, Satoshi. “South to South across the Paciﬁc: Ernest E. Neal and Community Development Efforts in the American South and the Philippines,”
Japanese Journal of American Studies (Japanese Association for AmericanStudies) 16 (2005): 181–202.
Focusing on the experiences of Ernest E. Neal (1911–1972), an African American sociologist and community development expert who devoted his life to social enterprises
sponsored under the name of “community development” in various agrarian communities at home (the American South) and abroad (India and the Philippines), this article explores ways to share transpaciﬁc experiences among peoples “across the Paciﬁc.”Nakano, Satoshi. “Gabriel L. Kaplan and U.S. Involvement in Philippine Electoral Democracy: A Tale of Two Democracies,” Philippine Studies (Ateneo deManila University Press) 52, no.2 (2004): 149–178.
Asking why Gabriel L. Kaplan, a New York Republican politician-turned-CIA-agent
could have been so successfully involved in Philippine politics during the 1950s, thisarticle explores colonial/post-colonial encounters between electoral democracies in theU.S. and the Philippines.

Nozaki, Kyoko Norma. “Comments on the Panel, Reading Landscapes:Japanese American Women Writers’ Representation of Environmental Issues,”
Feminist Literary Studies: Gender, Culture, and Creativity (3rd FSEL International Conference, Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature,2005): 36–40.
Focusing on texts by three Japanese American women writers, the paper tries to map themain topic of the discussion by the panelists, that is, how women’s perspectives on environmental issues are closely related to the issues of gender and ethnicity. In conclusion,it discusses two common denominators—biblical connotations and anomalies in conventional Asian American literature.

Nozaki, Kyoko Norma. “Lind Trinh Vo: Mobilizing an Asian America Community,” AALA Journal (2005) : 171–173.
This paper discusses ambiguities and contradictions in identity issues based on Vo’s
ﬁeldwork in Asian American organizations in San Diego. It suggests that the tendency
is more apparent when gender and ethnic identities overlap. Complicated racial identityissues among people of mixed Asian ancestry are also reﬂected in the research.

Ochi, Toshio. “Erasing Memories, Preserving Memories: Political Meanings ofPollution and Antipollution Movements in Cold War Japan,” Journal of Paciﬁc
Asia (Network Paciﬁc Asia, Rikkyo University) 12 (2005): 65–91.
I review the case of Minamata disease in Niigata and other pollution-related diseases
that arose during the Cold War era in Japan, in order to show how the state has tried toshape our understanding of the past. By illustrating the interplay between victims andgovernment actions, I argue that historical “memory” is frequently constructed by thestate.

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Sakata, Yasuyo. “The Origins of the U.S.-ROK Alliance as a ‘RegionalAlliance,’ 1953–54: U.S. Policy on Asia-Paciﬁc Collective Security and theFormation of the U.S.-ROK Alliance,” Gunsa (Military History)(Seoul: Institute for Military History Compilation, Ministry of National Defense) 57(December 2005): 29–87.
The U.S.-ROK alliance is often perceived as a “peninsular alliance,” but there is anotheraspect: the alliance as a “regional alliance” to serve common security beyond the Koreanpeninsula. The article focuses on the origins of the alliance as a regional alliance throughanalysis of the Eisenhower administration’s “Western Paciﬁc” collective security concept and its relation to Korea.

Sato, Gayle K. “Reconﬁguring the ‘American Paciﬁc’: Narrative Reenactmentsof Viet Nam in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace,” Japanese
Journal of American Studies (Japanese Association for American Studies) 16(2005): 111–33.
The arc of Kingston’s oeuvre is read as an evolving narrative reenactment of US warsin Asia, an intertextual narrative of paciﬁsm. The author’s use of Walt Whitman and her
relocation of ﬁctional character Wittman Ah Sing from California to Hawai’i produce areconﬁguration of “American Paciﬁc” as a place and practice of collaborativegrassroots
paciﬁsm.

Setooka, Hiroshi. “The Economic and Social Backgrounds of the Japanese
Government’s Cooperation with the United States—Why Does Japan Dispatch
the Self Defense Force into Iraq?—,” The Economic Review of Komazawa
University (The Economic Society of Komazawa University) 37, no.1, 1–20.
This paper argues that behind Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi’s decision to dispatch
the Self Defense Force to Iraq was the general concern for the everyday life of theJapanese people. In order to sustain the current standard of living which the Japanesepeople are enjoying as well as to maintain vital worldwide corporate activities, theJapanese Government chose to cooperate with the United States in the face of opposition
at home.

Takeda, Okiyoshi. “It’s Not Just Moral Values, but Voter Mobilization, Stupid:
An Early Assessment of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election,” Aoyama Journalof International Politics, Economics, and Business (Aoyama Gakuin University) 66 (2005): 31–70.
Bush’s victory in the 2004 election was widely interpreted by the media as the triumphof “moral values.” Using initial polling data, this article critically examines this viewand argues that “moral values” is a vague concept without concrete policy substance.
The article ﬁnds an alternative explanation for Bush’s victory in the centralized voter
mobilization drive organized by the Republican Party.

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Thorsten, Marie. “The Political Science Fiction of Challenge to America (PBS,1993),” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Japanese Association forAmerican Studies) 16 (2005):135–158.
This paper argues that the 1993 PBS documentary series Challenge to America, with its
science-ﬁction-like ambience constructing Germany, and especially Japan, as futuristic,
superior Others, represented a direction in economic nationalism that relocated the objectof national power in the productive body of the ideal workers and future worker, or students.

Usui, Masami. “Women’s Voice behind Men’s Words in Victoria Nalani
Kneubuhl’s Fanny and Bell,” Doshisha Studies in English (Doshisha University) 78 (2005): 27–55.
In Kneubuhl’s new play, Fanny and Bell, neglected and lost women’s stories and voicesof the transitional era from the nineteenth to the twentieth century have been discovered,examined, and revived in the form of a drama in order to revise the misunderstood storiesof two outstanding artists, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson and her daughter Belle
Osbourne.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Hashimoto, Yorimitsu. “Japanese Tea Party: Representations of VictorianParadise and Playground in The Geisha (1896),” in Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conﬂict, ed. John K. Walton (Clevedon, U.K.:
Channel View, 2005), 104–124.
This is a detailed analysis of the operetta The Geisha, which once became a synonym ofJapan. I argue that one of the reasons that made this play so successful in the UK andthe US is that because it was a comedy, it succeeded in mitigating the threat that the rising Japan and New Women would have given to the hierarchical order of patriarchal
Western societies.

Hones, Sheila, Julia Leyda, and Khadija El Alaoui-Fritsch “Space and Place inGeography and American Studies,” in How Far Is America from Here?
Proceedings of the International American Studies Association First World
Congress, ed. Paul Giles, Theo D’haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson
Zamora (Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2005), 527–47.

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This revision of three linked presentations from the 2003 IASA world congress suggests
ways in which geographical theory might be folded into work in American studies. The
argument is developed through case studies of Toshio Mori’s Yokohama, California,
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “American History” and Edward Zwick’s 1998 movie, The Siege.

Hones, Sheila. “Place/Setting: Geographies of Narrative History,” in History inWords and Images, ed. Hannu Salmi (Turku: University of Turku, Departmentof History, 2005), 300–307.
Grounding its argument in a case study of English-language histories of the 1853–4 Perry
expedition to Japan, this paper argues that the “setting” of narrative history should beunderstood to go beyond issues of location and circumstance to include the space-producing effects of the narration of event.

Leyda, Julia, Sheila Hones, and Khadija El Alaoui-Fritsch, see Hones, Sheila,
Julia Leyda, and Khadija El Alaoui-Fritsch.
Morimoto, Anri. “Understanding the People of Other Faiths: Conviviality
among Religions,” in Toward a Peaceable Future: Redeﬁning Peace, Security,
and Kyosei from a Multidisciplinary Perspective, ed. Yoichiro Murakami, NorikoKawamura, and Shin Chiba (Pullman, Washington: The Thomas S. Foley
Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, Washington State University,2005), 179–189.
A book chapter of the joint publication project by International Christian University andWashington State University. Taking a clue from Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s thesis of“believing as heresy,” it seeks ways to understand how religions can co-exist peacefully
and convivially. Some key words, including faith, toleration, and idolatry, are redeﬁned
in a post-colonial perspective.

Sato, Gayle K. “Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation,” in Asian American Literary Studies, ed. Guiyou Huang (Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 15–40.
A reading of Asian American literary history as a form of counter-memory of twentiethcentury US wars in Asia. Three novels and one memoir, representing Japanese, Korean,and Vietnamese American writing, are discussed as reenactments of home/fronts in theAsia Paciﬁc War and Vietnam War that reﬂect different gendered, generational, and geopolitical perspectives.

Yonezawa, Miyuki. “Memories of Japanese Identity and Racial Hierarchy,” inRace and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World, ed. Paul Spickard (NewYork and London: Routledge, 2005), 115–132.
The article challenges modern Japan’s general belief that it is a homogeneous country
by discussing race, ethnicity and the formation of a national identity in the making ofJapan. It examines the Japanese mythology, European ideas of race, and the histories of
two minority groups—the Ainu and the Okinawans.

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BOOKSIshihara, Tsuyoshi. Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American
Icon (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005).
This book examines the transformation of Mark Twain’s literature in Japanese translations and adaptations in the sphere of Japanese popular culture and juvenile literature.
Challenging a simplistic one-way model of “cultural imperialism,” it discusses the ways
in which both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture transformed Twain’s originals and shaped Japanese versions of Mark Twain and his literature.

DISSERTATIONS
Ayabe, Masatomo. “The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County,Illinois, 1923–1926.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,2005.
The Ku Klux Klan of Williamson County, Illinois, was a vigilante organization to help
enforce Prohibition. In the early 1920s, the Klan took over a citizens’ movement thatsought to rid the county of bootleggers and moonshiners. The secret order represented awide range of occupations, age groups, and political parties. Contrary to its anti-labor
image, the order attracted a number of union coal miners.

Fujisaka, Kyoko. “Japanese Immigrant Women in Los Angeles, 1912–1942: A
Transnational Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2005.
This dissertation examines the transnational histories of Japanese immigrant (Issei)
women from their youth in Japan to their settlement in the United States. It analyzes theinﬂuences of Japanese culture that shaped the ethnicity of Issei women. Unlike conventional perspectives, this study describes Issei women as actors who created their ownfutures.

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Sasaki, Yutaka. “The Struggle for Scholarly Objectivity: Unofﬁcial Diplomacy
and the Institute of Paciﬁc Relations from the Sino-Japanese War to theMcCarthy Era.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NewBrunswick, 2005.
Focusing on the period from the Sino-Japanese War to the McCarthy Era, this dissertation
aims to assess the achievements as well as the limitations of the activities of the Instituteof Paciﬁc Relations. By positing the concept of scholarly objectivity at the center ofanalysis, this thesis shows the way in which the IPR struggled hard to apply this principle
to analyses of controversial issues of the time.