Definition of ‘Marriage’: the Massachusetts gay marriage case”] in Onna-tachi no 21-seiki, No. 27, February 2004 Non-refereed Journal Articles and Book Reviews Forthcoming Book Review for Ian Condry, The Soul of Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story. American Anthropologist. Forthcoming (in Japanese) “Kodo-suru Kai wo Josei Undo-shi ni Ichizukeru.” (“Situating Kodo-suru Kai in the History of Women’s Movement.”) Kodo-suru Onna-tachi no Kai Shiryo. Suirensha. 2013 (in Japanese) “Feminizumu no Shiten kara Mita Kodo-hoshu Undo to Ianfu Mondai.” (“The Action Conservative Movement and the “Comfort Women” Issue From a Feminist Perspective”). Journalism. Asahi Shimbun-sha. November: 81-91. 2012 (in Japanese) Book review for Yasuda, Koichi. Netto to Aikoku (The Internet and Patriotism). Migrant Network. July-August 2012. 2011 “The Fukushima Daiichi Accident and Conservatives’ Discourse about Nuclear Energy and Weapons in Japan”. Anthropology News. October 2011 2011 “SEAA Panels at New Orleans”. Anthropology News. January 2011 2010 (in Japanese) “The "fiction" surrounding feminism and its analysis of backlash: the "gender-free controversy" and five years later”. αSynodos e-journal. Vol. 61. October 1, 2010. 2006 “’Loser Dogs’ and ‘Demon Hags’: Single Women in Japan and the Low Birth Rate” Social Science Japan Journal: Issue 9-1, April 2006 2006 (in Japanese) “Kansei ‘Gender’ ga Kita!: no teigi wo meguru tôsô to gyôsei, joseigaku, josei undo.” [“The Government-manufactured Notion of ‘Gender’ Came Down to Us!: the struggle over the definitions of ‘gender’ and and the government, women’s studies and the women’s movement.”] Gendai Seikyoiku Kenkyu Geppô (Monthly Report Sex Education Today), The Japanese Association for Sex Education, January 2006
1998 (in Japanese) “Nichibei Josei Jôhô Jijô” [“Women’s access to information in Japan and the U.S.”], Nihon Fujin Mondai Konwakai Kaihô, No.57. Other 2008 Report on the Workshop at Japan Mass Communication Studies Association Meeting: “How does Backlash Occur?: The Interrelationship between the mass media and the public discourse on the web” Center for Gender Studies (CGS) Newsletter, International Christian University 2007 (in Japanese) “Backlash kara Knagaeru Feminism no Yukue” (Backlash! and the Future of Feminism in Japan) Roundtable discussion with Emi Koyama and Masami Saito. Ogiue, Chiki ed. Natsukare!, 2007 Translations 2007 Seyama, Noriko, Woolala, Satoko and Yamagami, Chieko. Documentary Film: The U.S. Tour of 30 Years of Sisterhood, 2007 (script translation and subtitle writing) 2006 Martin, Jane and Houston, Barbara. “Gender wo Kangaeru: Jane Martin, Barbara Houston interview (kikite Tomomi Yamaguchi).” [Thinking about Gender: interview with Jane Martin and Barbara Houston, interviewer Tomomi Yamaguchi.] and Houston, Barbara, “Gender-free Gainen ni Kansuru Mijikai Komento.” [A Short Comment on the notion of ‘Gender-Free.”] in Backlash!: Naze Gender-free wa tatakaretanoka? [Why was gender-equality attacked?] Tokyo: Sofusha, 2006 2004 Yamagami, Chieko and Seyama, Noriko. Documentary Film: 30 Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan, 2004 (script translation and subtitle writing) 1995 Document 2: The Citizen’s Movement Committee on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the War – “A Petition to Oppose the ‘Diet Resolution of Remorse and Apology’ that Condemns Our Country’s War in a One-sided Fashion,” and Document 3: Editorial from Sankei Shimbun, June 7, 1995 – “A compromised proposal that lacks wisdom: We cannot judge history based on the resolution in the House of Representatives,” in John W. Dower, “Japan Addresses its War Responsibility” ii: The Journal of the International Institute, Fall 1995, Vol.3, No.1.
June 2000 “Teaching Introductory Women’s Studies: Examples from Toyama University, Aichi Shukutoku University and the University of Michigan,” The Women’s Studies Association of Japan Spring Conference, University of Tokyo, Japan. (refereed) April 2000 “Fighting Words: Japanese feminist activists and media protests,” Harvard Graduate Student Conference in Japanese Studies, Harvard University. (refereed) July 1999 Panelist, Symposium, “What is Studies for?” Annual Women’s Studies Symposium by Nihon Joseigaku Kenkyûkai, Kyoto, Japan. (invited) October 1997 “Is Naomi Campbell Japanese? The Construction of the Ideal Body in Japanese Aesthetic Salons,” Rackham Graduate Student Conference, “Genders, Bodies, Borders,” University of Michigan. (refereed) May 1997 “Nichi-bei Josei Joho Jijô” (“Women’s access to information in Japan and the U.S.”). in a symposium “Women and the Future of Information” by Nihon Fujin Mondai Konwa-kai (Japan Women’s Forum). (invited) June 1996 “Japanese women as commodities: the images of Japanese women in the American mass media,” The Women’s Studies Association of Japan Spring Conference, Tokyo, Japan. (referred) April 1995 “Television as a site of cultural struggle: an ethnographic study of Japanese television viewers in the U.S.,” Graduate Student Conference, “Popular Culture: Mass, Lived, Contested,” Cornell University. (referred) Presentations February 2014 Panelist in “Diversity and Engaged Outreach” panel, Letters and Science, Fellows in Engagement Panel, Montana State University. November 2013 “The Mainstreaming of Feminism and the Politics of Backlash in the 21st Century Japan.” Women’s and Gender Studies Speaker Series, Montana State University. October 2013 Panelist in “Women Uniting to End Violence Against Women and Girls”, Sack Lunch Seminar. Montana State University. April 2011 Panelist in “The Atomic Age Forum” at Montana State University.
2011 “Feminism, Backlash and the Rise of New Right-Wing in Contemporary Japan.” Sack Lunch Seminar. Montana State University. December 2009 “The history of Feminist Movement’s Use of the Media: from minikomi to the internet” Glocal Feminism Research Group Meeting, Tokyo Women’s Plaza, Tokyo, Japan. June 2009 “Backlash and the Internet” in “Examining Feminism and the Internet” Research Meeting, Feminism and the Internet Research Group, Bentencho Citizens’ Study Center, Osaka, Japan. February 2007 “Conservative Religious Groups and Feminism: Current backlash in Japan,” Wednesday Community Luncheons, Divinity School, University of Chicago (invited presentation) February 2006 “The Liberation Movement in Japan” in The Japanese Law Society, University of Chicago, Lunch Lecture (invited presentation) December 2005 “Backlash against feminism and our strategy to fight against it” in “Gender and Representation” Research Group, 7th Meeting, Ferris Women’s College, Yokohama, Japan (invited presentation) December 2004 “What is ‘Gender Free’?” in “Thinking the relationship among academic Women’s Studies, the government and the women’s movement via the notion of “Gender Free.” Gender Colloquium, University of Tokyo, Japan. (organizer and panelist) December 2004 Guest lecture on feminist anthropology (for an introductory sociology course taught by Prof. Yuki Senda), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. (invited presentation) November 2004 Guest lecture on “Post-war Japanese feminism,” (for the course “Gender and Japanese History,” taught by Prof. Susan Burns), Department of History, University of Chicago. (invited presentation) November 2004 “Japanese Feminism and the Politics of History-making,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Chicago. September 2002 “Pioneers of the Women’s Movement: The United States,” “Feminism in the World” lecture series, STEP Toyonaka Gender Equality Center, Osaka, Japan. (invited presentation)
Undergraduate (teaching assistant) East Asian Civilizations-Japan: Winter 2005 and Winter 2006 University of Michigan (1993-2004: as a Graduate Student Instructor) Undergraduate Ethnic Diversity in Japan Introduction to Women’s Studies Japanese Culture and Society Mass Communication in Contemporary Society Women in Popular Film and Television Introduction to Anthropology College of Foreign Languages, Tokyo, Japan (1998-1999) vocational courses Translation Skills Comparative Cultures TOEIC Exam Preparation Pan Nations Consulting Group, Tokyo, Japan (1997-1998) Corporate Workers: Business English Waseda Juku, Ichishin Yobiko and Soyu Gakuin, Tokyo (1996-1998) Junior High and High School Students: English and Japanese University of California, Santa Barbara (1998-1999: as a teaching assistant) Undergraduate Third-year Japanese Professional Development regarding Teaching: 2012 Completed “Teaching Online: A Course,” Montana State University 2012 Certificate of Completion, Teaching Online Program, Montana State University 2010 Teaching and Learning Committee Workshops, Montana State University 2009 Desire to Learn Training Sessions at Montana State University 2003 Preparing for Future Faculty Workshop, University of Michigan