Modern East Asia seminar
Subtitle: Japan
By: chair, Bettina Gramlich-Oka ; co-chairs, Theodore F. Cook & Dave Flynn
Contributors: Columbia University. University Seminars
Publisher: Columbia University Seminars
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Other titles: Japan; Modern East Asia seminar: Japan 2008-2009 : Columbia University; Columbia University Seminar on modern Japan
Notes: Papers delivered at seminar presentations from October 14, 2005, and from November 14, 2008 through May 8, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chiefly in English with some Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Pathways to reconciliation? : Eleanor Roosevelt and Japan, 1953 / Marlene J. Mayo; title: From state to society : democratizing undemocratic civil society organizations in Japan / Mary Alice Haddad; title: Technologies of war and masculine identities : the introduction and diffusion of guns / Anne Walthall; title: Brazilian-Japanese families broken by transnational migration (A joint meeting with Brazilian seminar) / Ethel Kosminsky; title: Healer monks and the anthropology of knowledge in ancient Japan / Michael Como; title: Envisioning identities : language policies and naming practice in Japan / Noriko Watanabe; title: Gen'ichi Kato's Nobel candidacy : nerve physiology and the politics of science, 1924-1936 / James R. Bartholomew; title: Flowery tales : Ōe Taku (1847-1921) and the making of Meiji Japan's "Emancipation moment" / Daniel Botsman.