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A new digital-only special issue from U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal is now available free to readers on Project MUSE.
“Celebrating 60+ Issues of U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal” centers on three themes that often appear in the journal: mobility, storytelling, and activism. The journal is the world’s oldest periodical devoted to the study of gender and Japan and was founded in 1988 by Japanese feminists who were educated in the United States.
The issue brings together seven previously published articles of significance, which:
“All of these seven articles explain that, due to laws, social conventions, business practices, and other factors, women have faced different choices in work and family and different access to education, jobs, and politics than people of other genders. They show how women have coped with public and personal traumas, initiated movements for change and equality, and formed communities. They account for diversity among Japanese women and dispel stereotypes. They capture accounts omitted from historical records,” writes Alisa Freedman in the special issue’s introduction.
Alisa Freedman served as the the journal’s editor-in-chief from 2016-2022, is a professor of Japanese literature, cultural studies, and gender at the University of Oregon, and author of several books. She dedicates the commemorative issue to the journals’ previous editors: Drs. Yoko Kawashima, Noriko Mizuta, Sally A. Hastings, and Jan Bardsley.
Editor’s Introduction: “Celebrating 60+ Issues of U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal“
Alisa Freedman
Publishing in Academic Journals: Pro Tips from U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal
Alisa Freedman
Remembering Okei (1852–1871): Daughter of Aizu, Pioneer of Gold Hill
Kristina S. Vassil
Yosano Akiko in Belle Époque Paris / ベル・エポックのパリの与謝野晶子
Scott Mehl
A Friend in Need: Esther B. Rhoads, Quakers, and Humanitarian Relief in Allied Occupied Japan, 1946–52
Marlene J. Mayo
Plotting Illness: Cancer in Ogino Anna’s “Nue” and Yamauchi Reinan’s The Spirit of Cancer / がん闘病者のフィクションについて語る： 荻野アンナ「鵺」と山内令南の闘病記「癌だましい」
Amanda C. Seaman
Nue / 鵺
Ogino Anna & Amanda Seaman 荻野アンナ
The Desire and Disgust of Sweets: Consuming Femininities through Shōjo Manga
Grace En-Yi Ting
Volume 41, Number 1 (2022)
Associate Editor Catherine Swatek and Editorial Board Member Robert E. Hegel remember Rolston in the following introduction:
Given his publication record, one might assume that David L. Rolston is a scholar of narrative fiction. For his first major publication, David served as editor of How to Read the Chinese Novel, a milestone in providing English-language readers a glimpse of reading practices and practical criticism contemporaneous with Ming and Qing novels themselves. Not merely the compiler of the translations that comprise six of the book’s seven chapters, David’s work can be seen throughout the volume, from adding innumerable notes and explanations to the “How to Read” (dufa讀法) translations; to writing essays on the sources, history, and formal aspects of traditional fiction criticism; to compiling explanatory appendices and an extensive bibliography for each of the masterworks covered. This project was completed before David finished his Chicago doctorate.
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Volume 46, Number 2 (2021)
This Special Section features discussion on 1960’s protect songs to K-pop idols. Editor Cheehyung Harrison Kim notes:
Culture is at once a medium through which we make sense of the
world (for good or ill), a field of empowerment for the underprivileged, and a source of hegemony for the state and corporations. This cultural complexity is discernible in South Korea’s current political landscape, and it is also the very theme explored in this volume’s Special Section “Music That Moves: Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea,” dexterously guest edited by Dafna Zur and Susan Hwang. In Katherine Lee’s elegant piece on the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir, musical performance is at the heart of transnational religiosity and Cold War politics. Transnationalism is also the framework of Dafna Zur and Yoon Joo Hwang’s original research on children’s music during the colonial period, when the merger between western style of songwriting and Korean emotionality unevenly transpired in the genre of tongyo. Music as a field of popular resistance is the core of Pil Ho Kim’s audacious piece on South Korea’s 1960s protest songs, which, for Kim, is a pre-minjung expression of the multitude. Susan Hwang’s emotionally prodigious article, too, is on the resistive and resilient aspect of music, which, in the aftermath of the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, served as a crucial repertoire for the counter-state. From the opposite side, music as practice of hegemonic efficacy is dealt with in Alexandra Leonzini and Peter Moody’s intricate article on North Korea’s sonic culture, as it is done in Roald Maliangkay’s perspicacious study on South Korea’s use of K-pop in marketing. Whether the hegemonic entity is the state or a corporation, music is, in these two articles, a potent medium of influence.
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Volume 62 (2022)
As expressed by authors Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Wakako Suzuki in the introduction:
The literary genre shōjo shōsetsu emerged in conjunction with the rise of girls’ education in the Meiji period. Early stories were meant to educate readers to become “good wives and wise mothers.” Accordingly, shōjo shōsetsu endured restrictions on the narratives they could tell, limiting the breadth of their authors’ artistic and literary possibilities. Shōjo shōsetsu evolved and diversified in the postwar era and, especially starting in the 1980s, became a means for young female authors to empower themselves. Shōjo shōsetsu have declined in popularity recently as readers consume stories more broadly across media and genres. The goal of this special issue is to contemplate the function, meanings, and problems of shōjo shōsetsu. Instead of merely confining ourselves to a rigid, unified notion of shōjo shōsetsu, we consider shōjo characters from the wider literary world, investigating their roles, functions, and cultural implications.
The new issue includes the following articles:
Introduction: Girls and Literature
イントロダクション：少女と文学
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Wakako Suzuki
Trees That Grow Kimono (1895)
着物のなる木
Wakamatsu Shizuko 若松賤子
Translated by Wakako Suzuki
Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as the
Territory of the Dispossessed Girl
追い立てられた少女の領域としての『浅草紅団』
Barbara Hartley
Love and Sexuality in Postwar Girls’ Culture: Examining
Tomishima Takeo’s Junior Fictiona
戦後少女文化における恋愛と性愛：富島健夫の
ジュニア小説をめぐって
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Countdown to the Demise of Girls’ Novels
少女小説のカウントダウンの開始
Kume Yoriko 久米依子
Translated and Introduced by Barbara Hartley
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Volume 15 (2022)
From the editor Young-Jun Lee:
A century’s worth of change looks quite remarkable in Korean literature. Today’s young Koreans cannot read the same newspapers read by their grandparents’ generation. In less than a hundred years, the national written language has shifted from Chinese characters to Korean hangul, then briefly to Japanese as enforced under colonial rule, and then to the modern Korean language that we know today. During this process, remarkable sociocultural transformations dominated daily life. Over the first half of the 20th century, Koreans endured enormous political shifts most notably marked by colonization, the Korean War, and the ensuing divide of the country into separate political nations. Along the way, Korean literature registered these upheavals and fluctuations.
Notably, the literature of totalizing grand narrative, which concerned itself with the trajectory of nation-building, persisted in Korea until the 1980s. Ever since the end of the military dictatorship and the establishment of a civil government in the 1990s, however, that literature began to shift its focus to the lives of women. Now, those long ignored and marginalized—including queer women, as well as other queer people such as those who are non-binary— have also begun to emerge more strongly as published authors, even as they have been increasingly centered as subjects of literary narratives. The ongoing impact of this inclusive, expansionary shift
can be seen directly in AZALEA’s decision to focus on LGBTQ+ literature for its fifteenth issue.
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Volume 61, Number 1 (2022)
The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:
The Place of Space in Oceanic Linguistics
Leah Pappas and Alexander Mawyer
Semantics and Pragmatics of Voice in Central Malagasy Oral Narratives
Penelope Howe
On the Nature of Proto-Oceanic *o in Southern Vanuatu (and Beyond)
John Lynch
Rare, but Real: Native Nasal Clusters in Northern Philippine Languages
Robert Blust
The Greater West Bomberai Language Family
Timothy Usher and Antoinette Schapper
The Phonology and Typological Position of Waima’a Consonants
Kirsten Culhane
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Volume 72, Number 2 (2022)
Includes the following articles and discussions:
Bhāviveka’s Inclusivism: Discriminating the Feces, Jewels, and Fake Jewels of the Veda
Hyoung Seok Ham
Buddhist Ethics as a Path: A Defense of Normative Gradualism
Javier Hidalgo
For Glory and for Sport: Jonathan Edwards and the Vedanta School on God’s Motive for Creating the World
Daniel M. Johnson
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and Pārthasārathi Miśra on First- and
Higher-Order Knowing
Malcolm Keating
Is Zhuangzi a Patient Relativist?: A Response to Yong Huang Jianping Hu
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Volume 61, Number 1 (2022)
The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:
Lakheen-Jo-Daro, an Indus Civilization Settlement at Sukkur
in Upper Sindh (Pakistan): A Scrap Copper Hoard and
Human Figurine from a Dated Context
Paolo Biagi and Massimo Vidale
The Hamin Mangha Site: Mass Deaths and Abandonment
of a Late Neolithic Settlement in Northeastern China
Yawei Zhou, Xiaohui Niu, Ping Ji, Yonggang Zhu, Hong Zhu, and
Meng Zhang
Early Metal Age Settlement at the Site of Palemba, Kalumpang,
Karama Valley, West Sulawesi
Anggrreani
Patterns of Mortuary Practice over Millennia in Southern Vanuatu,
South Melanesia
Frédérique Valentin, Wanda Zinger, Alison Fenwick, Stuart Bedford,
James Flexner, Edson Willie, and Takaronga Kuautonga
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Volume 44, Issues 2 & 3 (2021)
Graphic Medicine’s Possible Futures: Reconsidering Poetics and Reading
Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti
Conflict or Compromise?: An Imagined Conversation
with John Hicklenton and Lindsay Cooper about
Living with Multiple Sclerosis
John Miers
Out of Sync: Chronic Illness, Time, and Comics Memoir
Jared Gardner
Face as Landscape: Refiguring Illness, Disability,
and Disorders in David B.’s Epileptic
Erin La Cour
Graphic Confessions and the Vulnerability Hangover
from Hell
Safdar Ahmed
Drawn to History: Healing, Dementia, and the Armenian
Genocide in the Intertextual Collage of Aliceheimer’s
Crystal Yin Lie
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Volume 44, Issue 4 (2021)
Editor Craig Howes embraces this volume as he explains:
“The latest issue of Biography qualifies as special because of its ordinariness. After a four-installment run featuring two special issues, an inaugural Forum, and the Annual Bibliography and International Year in Review, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Articles and book reviews—that’s all!
But the table of contents for this issue speaks to what has distinguished Biography for decades as a quarterly. First, the articles. Their geographic, historic, linguistic, and generic range is in keeping with our international and interdisciplinary profile. American celebrity biographies and philosophy, twentieth-century Indian regional autobiography, modernist Austrian psychoanalytic biography, post-WWII German-Romanian autofiction, contemporary Palestinian auto/biographical texts—our pages map out and tell the stories of the field.”
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Volume 34, Issue 1 (2022)
The new issue includes the following articles, dialogues, political, media, and book reviews.
One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua
Bonnie Etherington
Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings
of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics
Christen T Sasaki
The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism
Ryan Schram
“We Are So Happy EPF Came”: Transformations of Gender in Port Moresby Schools
Ceridwen Spark and Martha Macintyre
Pacific People Navigating the Sacred Vā to Frame Relational Care: A Conversation between Friends across Space and Time
Silia Pa‘usisi Finau, Mele Katea Paea, and Martyn Reynolds
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Volume 26, Number 1 (2022)
Ritual and Play in Buddhist Nun-Making: Girlhood,
Nunhood, and the Shaping of the “Little Teacher” in
Today’s Myanmar
Rachelle Saruya
From Archenemy of the Nation to the Intimate
Other: Prince Damrong Rajanubhab’s Journey
through Burma and the Colonial Ecumene
Thanapas Dejpawuttikul
Military Rule with a Weak Army: Myanmar’s
Late Expansion
Marie-Eve Reny
Grassroots Roles and Leadership Aspirations:
The Experiences of Young Ethnic Women in
Myanmar Civil Society Organizations
Maaike Matelski and Nang Muay Noan
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Volume 33, Number 2 (June 2022)
The “Material Turn” in World and Global History
Giorgio Riello
From the Atlantic to the Manchu: Taiwan Sugar and the Early Modern World, 1630s–1720s
Guanmian Xu
The Myth of Immobility: Women and Travel in the British Imperial Indian Ocean
Scott Reese
Religion and the Contemporary Phase of Globalization: Insights from a Study of John Paul II’s World Youth Days
Charles Mercier
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Volume 17-1 (2020)
Between Disaster, Punishment, and Blame: The Semantic Field of Guilt in Early Chinese Texts by Thomas Crone (review)
Michael Nylan
Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China by Steven P. Feldman (review)
John Sagers
Confucianism and Sacred Space: The Confucian Temple from Imperial China to Today by Chin-shing Huang (review)
Deborah Sommer
The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge by Minhua Ling (review)
Yinni Peng
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes by John Wei (review)
Shunyuan Zhang
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Volume 13, Number 1 (2022)
The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:
The Philosophical Turn in Tonghak: Focusing on the Extension of Ethics of Ch’oe Sihyŏng
Cho Sŏng-hwan
The Faith of Sich’ŏnju in Tonghak/Ch’ŏndogyo and its Method
of Practice
Kim Yonghae
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The new issue features the following introduction by Trang Phan, John Phan, and Mark J. Alves
The current issue is the result of a workshop held at the Harvard Yenching Institute in April of 2021, entitled Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals, and which featured nineteen linguists working on diverse aspects of the Vietnamese language, ranging from semantics to historical phonology. Our purpose in gathering was to take stock of the great leaps in Vietnamese linguistic research that have occurred over the past few decades, to bring together cutting-edge research from each subdiscipline, and to begin a new collaborative dialogue on Vietnamese linguistics, typology, and language universals. Most of all, it was our belief that the time had come to reconsider Vietnamese linguistics as a unified field of inquiry. As a result, a new academic organization was founded: the International Society of Vietnamese Linguistics.
In the past twenty years, research into the Vietnamese language has advanced exponentially, in tandem with developments in our understanding of syntax, semantics, phonetics, and phonology—both on the synchronic and diachronic levels. Specific work on the Vietnamese language now informs and even leads broader linguistic inquiry in a number of unprecedented ways. These new developments invite a concentration of state-the-field research into a single volume, one that will serve not only to summarize current issues in each subdiscipline of Vietnamese linguistics, but also to initiate a longer, more collaborative conversation about the Vietnamese language.
Our goals in this special issue are thus twofold: first, we seek to provide a snapshot of current research into Vietnamese syntax, semantics, phonology, and phonetics, from both the historical and synchronic points of view, that may serve as a resource for linguists interested in exploring our current understanding of the Vietnamese language. Second, we hope that this issue will also serve as an invitation to all linguists working on the Vietnamese language or related languages to contribute to a broader, more cosmopolitan discussion—one in which discoveries of one subdiscipline may serve to inform or enlighten another.
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Volume 61 (2022)
The new issue features the following articles:
“Unseasonal Winds of Love”: A History of Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki
Martha Chaiklin
Historian and Feminist Kanō Mikiyo: A Lifetime of Writing Against Japanese Imperialism
Setsu Shigematsu
The “Emperor’s Heart” and the “Mother’s Heart”: What Gave Rise to the “Mothers of Yasukuni”
Kanō Mikiyo, Setsu Shigematsu
War-Themed Shōjo Manga as a Site for Female Subjectivity: An Aesthetic Analysis of Mothers and Daughters Narrating War
Kaori Yoshida, Kazumi Nagaike
Androids for the Stone Age?: Individuality, Space, and Gender in Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman
Ronald Saladin
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Volume 40, Number 2 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:
“Making History”: Metatheatre in the Peach Blossom Fan
Allison Bernard
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Volume 22, Issue 2 (2021)
From the Guest Editors Rachel Emerine Hicks, Debra McDougall, and David Oakeshott in The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwester Pacific:
“Schooling journeys” is more than a metaphor in the southwestern Pacific. To step into a classroom, children and youth often travel hours each day or live for months at a time away from their families. The journey of schooling is rarely direct; it often winds between formal and informal learning and in and out of school, work, and home life. And the journey is expensive; many families struggle mightily to gather the money for fees, school supplies, uniforms, and transportation. Young people embark on these precarious journeys, and their families make sacrifices to support them, because schooling promises a better life—a move away from the backbreaking labor of subsistence agriculture toward a reliable salary that will better support their family and community. Because of the structural inequalities in school and a lack of jobs for those who complete schooling, however, few experience the socioeconomic advancement schooling promises. Still, students and their families continue to hope that schooling will lead to well-paid work. Even more important, though, going to school is seen as key to being a competent and effective person in society—increasingly for both women and men.
Volume 55 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles, reviews, notes, and queries:
Aloha Space Age: NASA and the Hawaiian Islands, 1957—1970
David A. Smith
The First Attempt to Overthrow Liliʻuokalani
Ralph Thomas Kam
Dr. Richard You and the Golden Age of Hawaiʻi’s Athletics
John D. Fair
Incarcerating a Nation: The Arrest and Imprisonment of Political Prisoners by the Republic of Hawaiʻi, 1895
Ronald Williams Jr.
Hawaiian Women’s Fashions: Kapa, Cotton and Silk by Agnes Terao-Guiala (review)
Linda Arthur Bradley
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Volume 60 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:
Yosano Akiko in Belle Époque Paris / ベル・エポックのパリの与謝野晶子
Scott Mehl
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Volume 83 (2021)
Editor Craig S. Revels reflects over the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected geographers and members as he states:
Last year’s volume was published in a time of great uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, and this year’s unfortunately arrives under similar conditions, slowly improving though they may be. The tragedies, disruptions, and general state of societal affairs during the pandemic will not soon be forgotten…
Geographers have been at the forefront of research into the spread of COVID-19 since the earliest days of the pandemic, and Steve Graves and Petra Nichols contribute an analytical perspective on infection rates in Los Angeles County. In particular, they statistically identify a causal relationship between infection and a range of key socioeconomic and demographic variables, a relationship influencing the location and rate of spread for the disease. They leave us to consider how those factors must be addressed in any preparations for future public health crises.
In a significantly different context, Ray Sumner and John Menary
demonstrate that taking students into the field, always a valuable exercise, is even more rewarding when it leads to unexpected discoveries and challenges our carefully laid plans. In this case, a straightforward field methods class oriented around the Los Angeles River instead became an open-ended, student-driven exploration into the social dimensions of heritage, ethnicity,
culture, and urban development.
Volume 38, Number 2 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles and reports:
Raktim Pariwar’s Red Lanterns: Dance and Cultural
Revolution in Nepal
Anna Marie Stirr
The Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019
Cody Poulton
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Volume 14 (2021)
From the Editor Young Jung-Lee:
One of the most important recent shifts in Korean literature is found in gender conflict. This “Special Feature: Gender Trouble in Korean Literature and Society,” guest-edited by Hye-Ryoung Lee, shows a fundamentally new perspective through six scholars reading Korean Literature and Society. Over the past decade, the #MeToo Movement has shaken the world, and Korean society has been no exception, as can be seen in Choi Young-mi’s poem “En,” introduced here with six critical essays. Even before its publication, “En” was the focus of media attention, and it remained a hot topic in Korean society for years due to Choi’s high-profile court battles.
Volume 43, Number 4 (2020)
From Coeditor Anna Poletti:
With this forum, we, the editors of Biography, inaugurate a new feature of the journal that aims to respond to and amplify specific examples of the power of life writing as a cultural, political, and social practice, and which document key moments in the evolution of that practice. In this forum, No Friend but the Mountains is discussed as both a profoundly localized text responding to, making knowledge about, and exposing a highly specific and complex set of conditions, and as a uniquely transnational text that speaks to and about a global phenomenon. Its highly innovative use of life writing as a narrative technique and epistemological practice warranted, in our minds, a concentrated response from the journal. Commissioning and editing this response has renewed my appreciation for the primary concerns of lifewriting scholarship: tracking the mercurial power of personal storytelling to crystalize the contemporary moment in such a way that new knowledge emerges from the entanglements it depicts, and the entanglements it drags its readers into.
Volume 25, Number 2 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles:
Ethnocentrism or National Reconciliation: Rethinking
Ethnic Relations and the History of Karenni
Tadayuki Kubo
Nats in the Land of the Hintha: Village Religion
in Lower Myanmar
Keziah Wallis
Elephant Riders of the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State:
Evasive Mobility and Vadological Geography
Jacob Shell
Volume 45 (2021)
From the Editor Cheehyun Harrison Kim:
This analytic potency of migration is superbly demonstrated in this volume’s Special Section Unsettling Korean Migration: Multiple Trajectories and Experiences, guest edited by Sunhee Koo (The University of Auckland) and Jihye Kim (The University of Central Lancashire). Sunhee Koo and Jihye Kim have brought together papers on labor (Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim), ritual life (Marcus Bell), cultural identity (Sunhee Koo), and artistic production (Hee-seung Irene Lee and Soojin Kim). The six engrossing articles deal with how the Korean diaspora—in Argentina, Germany, Japan, China, and the United States—have shaped and represented their particular situations through negotiation, resilience, and creativity. The authors are highly critical of any national framework, and they see diasporic life as contexts of not only sorrow and sacrifice but also innovation and regeneration. Sunhee Koo and Jihye Kim offer a detailed explanation in their Introduction.
Volume 60, Number 1 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles:
Avaipa, a Language of Central Bougainville
Jason Brown,Melissa Irvine
East Polynesian Subgrouping and Homeland Implications Within the Northern Outlier–East Polynesian Hypothesis
William H. Wilson
Toward a Comparative Typology of ‘Eating’ in Kanak Languages
Anne-Laure Dotte, Claire Moyse-Faurie
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Volume 71, Number 4 (2021)
The new issue included the following articles and translations:
Jian’Ai: Considerations From the “Greater Selection”
Susan Blake
Patterning the Myriad Things: Holism, Harmony, and Anthropogenic Influence in the Huainanzi
Matthew Hamm
Confucianism and Totalitarianism: An Arendtian Reconsideration of Mencius versus Xunzi
Lee Wilson
“America’s National Character” by Watsuji Tetsurō: A Translation
Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth, Sayaka Shuttleworth, Watsuji Tetsurō
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Volume 12, Issue 1 (2021)
The new issue includes the following articles:
Going Global: The Transformation of the Korean Catholic Church
Denis WS Kim
Japanese Buddhist Modernism and the Thought of Sŏn Master Toeong Seongcheol (1912–1993)
Cho Myungje and Bernard Senécal S.J. (SeoMyeonggweon)
Calm Water is a Mirror: Neo-Confucian Meditation in the Chosŏn
Dynasty
Guy S. Shababo
A Buddhist Critique of Neo-Confucianismin Seventeenth-Century Chosŏn Korea
Kim Jong Wook
Book Review
Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea, by Hyaeweol Choi
Reviewed by Choi Hee An
Issue 58 (2020)
Includes the following articles:
Plotting Illness: Cancer in Ogino Anna’s “Nue” and
Yamauchi Reinan’s The Spirit of Cancer
Amanda C. Seaman
Nue.
by Ogino Anna. Translated by Amanda C. Seaman
Performativity of Gender in Speech: Life Experiences
of Japanese Trans Women
Hideko Abe
Natsume Fusanosuke, Panel Configurations in Sho¯jo
(Girls’) Manga.
by Natsume Fusanosuke. Translated and Introduced by
Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda
Volume 75, Issue 1 (2021)
Includes the following articles:
The Historical Ecology of Game Species Introductions in Hawai’i
Deidre J. Duffy, Christopher A. Lepczyk
A Terrestrial Vertebrate Palaeontological Reconnaissance of Lord Howe Island, Australia
Julian P. Hume, Ian Hutton, Greg Middleton, Jacqueline M.T. Nguyen, John Wylie
Light-Level Geolocators Reveal That White-Throated Needletails (Hirundapus caudacutus) Follow a Figure-Eight Migration Route Between Japan and Australia
Noriyuki M. Yamaguchi, Sayaka Mori, Hiroshi Yonekawa, Daichi Waga, Hiroyoshi Higuchi
Fine-Scale Distribution, Abundance, and Foraging Behavior of Salvin’s, Buller’s, and Chatham Albatrosses in the Northern Humboldt Upwelling System
Javier Quiñones, Ana Alegre, Cynthia Romero, Massiel Manrique, Luis Vásquez
Influence of Light and Substrate Conditions on Regeneration of Native Tree Saplings in the Hawaiian Lowland Wet Forest
Susanne Kandert, Holger Kreft, Nicole DiManno, Amanda Uowolo, Susan Cordell, Rebecca Ostertag
Potential Distribution and Environmental Niche of the Black Corals Antipathes galapagensis and Myriopathes panamensis in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
Antonella Lavorato, Silvia Stranges, Hector Reyes Bonilla
Investigating the Diel Occurrence of Odontocetes Around the Maui Nui Region Using Passive Acoustic Techniques
Marian Howe, Marc O. Lammers
Limnological Characterization of Three Tropical Crater Lakes in the Archipelago of Samoa (Lanoto’o, Olomaga, Mataulano)
Robert Schabetsberger, Christian D. Jersabek, Zlatko Levkov, Bianca Ehrenfellner, Laulu Fialelei Enoka, Seumalo Afele Faiilagi
Association Affairs: Pacific Science Association
Volume 54 (2020)
Includes the following articles:
The Lasting Significance of the Majors-Palakiko Case
Jonathan Y. Okamura
A Rock in the Park: The Key to a Remarkable Historical Tale
Hugh R. Montgomery
Ne Tentes aut Perfice: Early Hawaiian Diplomacy in the Southwestern Pacific and the Creation of Hawai‘i’s First Royal Order
Lorenz Gonschor
Reconnecting to Kawaiaha‘o Female Seminary: The Lives of the Students at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Deborah Day
Our Royal Guest: American Press Coverage of King Kalākaua’s Visit to the United States, 1874–1875
Douglas V. Askman
The Watchers: How Espionage Doomed the Counter-Revolution of 1895
Ralph Thomas Kam
Book Reviews
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman and Julian Smith
Reviewed by Elyssa Ford
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Reviewed by Sarah Miller-Davenport
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War by Duncan Ryūken Williams
Reviewed by Kelli Y. Nakamura
Gateway State: Hawai‘i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire by Sarah Miller-Davenport
Reviewed by JoAnna Poblete
Bibliography
Hawaiiana in 2019: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest
Jodie Mattos
This issue includes the following scholarly articles:
Introduction: Representing Youth and Gender in Japanese Popular Culture Century
日本大衆文化におけるジェンダーと青春を再検討する：
イントロダクション
Jennifer Coates
Rethinking the Young Female Cinema Audience:
Postwar Cinema-Going in Kansai, 1945-1952
若い女性観客を再検討：戦後関西の映画観客1945−1952
Jennifer Coates
Marketing the Panpan in Japanese Popular Culture: Youth, Sexuality, and Power
日本の大衆文化でパンパンを売り出す時：青春、性及び権力
Irene González-López
The Desire and Disgust of Sweets: Consuming
Femininities through Shōjo Manga
スイーツの欲望と嫌悪：少女まんがを通して
フェミニニティを消費する
Grace En-Yi Ting
Beyond Borders: Shōjo Manga and Gender
＜越境する＞少女マンガとジェンダー
Fusami Ogi
About the Journal
The U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual publication, available in print and online that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. The U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal encourages comparative study among Japan, the United States, and other countries. We welcome contributions from all academic fields in the social sciences and humanities and proposals for special issues. Our mission is to foster the work of young researchers and to ensure that the achievements of established scholars are not forgotten.
Arguing against the popular stereotype of Japan as a non-litigious society, an international group of contributors from Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and the U.S. explores how in Japan and its colonies, as elsewhere in the modern world, law became a fundamental means of creating and regulating gendered subjects and social norms in the period from the 1870s to the 1950s. In Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium, the authors suggest that legal discourse was subject to negotiation, interpretation, and contestation at every level of their formulation and deployment.
With this as a shared starting point, they explore key issues such reproductive and human rights, sexuality, prostitution, gender and criminality, and the formation of the modern conceptions of family and conjugality, and use these issues to complicate our understanding of the impact of civil, criminal, and administrative laws upon the lives of both Japanese citizens and colonial subjects. The result is a powerful rethinking of not only gender and law, but also the relationships between the state and civil society, the metropole and the colonies, and Japan and the West.
In Dilemmas of Adulthood, Nancy Rosenberger investigates the nature of long-term resistance in a longitudinal study of more than fifty Japanese women over two decades. Between 25 and 35 years of age when first interviewed in 1993, the women represent a generation straddling the stable roles of post-war modernity and the risky but exciting possibilities of late modernity.
Rosenberger’s analysis establishes long-term resistance as a vital type of social change in late modernity where the sway of media, global ideas, and friends vies strongly with the influence of family, school, and work. Women are at the nexus of these contradictions, dissatisfied with post-war normative roles in family, work, and leisure and yet—in Japan as elsewhere—committed to a search for self that shifts uneasily between self-actualization and selfishness. The women’s rich narratives and conversations recount their ambivalent defiance of social norms and attempts to live diverse lives as acceptable adults. Dilemmas of Adulthood is essential for anyone wishing to understand how Japanese women have maneuvered their lives in the economic decline and pushed for individuation in the 1990s and 2000s.
November 2013, 224 pages, 2 illustrations
$24.00; ISBN: 978-0-8248-3696-2, Cloth
$50.00; ISBN: 978-0-8248-3887-4, Paper
