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No.019(2008) The City

2008.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1 Editor’s Introduction

7 Emory Elliott Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere
25 Naochika Takao Sex and the City: The Reconstruction of Middle-Class Urban Consciousness in The Scarlet Letter
43 Shitsuyo Masui Reading The House of the Seven Gables in the Context of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Burial Reform Movement
63 Yuko Nakagawa From City of Culture to City of Consumption: Boston in Henry James’s The Bostonians
83 Yuko Matsukawa Defi ning the American Flaneuse:Constance Fenimore Woolson and “A Florentine Experiment”
103 Kiyohiko Murayama Dreiser and the Wonder and Mystery and Terror of the City
123 Julia Leyda Space, Class, City: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha
139 Naomi Tonooka Art and Urban Space: Rent, the East Village, and the Construction of Meaning
159 Takayuki Nishiyama The American Welfare State and the City: The Politics of the Social Welfare Policy in New York City under the Lindsay Administration
177 Masaharu Yasuoka City-County Separation and Consolidation in the United States: The Impact on Urban Growth
197 Noritaka Yagasaki Origins of Cities and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Southern California: Regional Changes in the Context of Three Economic-Cultural Regions of the Americas
231 Wakako Araki Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands
239 Ichiro Miyata Manufacturing Segregation: The Birth and Death of Underground Atlanta, 1969-1981

259 English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2006

42. Nuclear Space (2008)

2008.03.14 The American Review

Nuclear Space
One Minute after the Detonation of the Atomic Bomb: the Erased Effect of Residual Radiation TAKAHASHI, Hiroko
The Language of the Nuclear Age: Critical Approach to the Rhetoric of Containment and Deterrence SHIMOKOBE, Michiko
The Nuclear Imagination of a Mad Scientist: a Note on Nikola Tesla SHINDO, Masaaki
Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain: The Construction of Nuclear Space and Racism ISHIYAMA, Noriko
The Pugwash Conferences and American Scientists’ Quest for Disarmament and Stable Mutual Deterrence, 1955-1963 KUROSAKI, Akira
NPT Regime and Defense Industrial Base-US,UK, and West Germany Nuclear and Military Expenditure Negotiations (March 1966-April 1967)Surrounding the NATO Crisis of 1966 SAKADE, Takeshi
Prosthetics in the Cold War: Discourses and Representations of Hearing Aid in the Atomic Age MISOE, Atsuro
Articles 
The Claim Against “Enemy Alien” Status of Koreans in Wartime Hawai’i Redefining “Korean” and Reconstructing Nationalism LEE, Rika Rihwa
Hardhat Patriots: the Construction Workers in New York City and the Change of Their Lives MINAMI, Shuhei
Book Review
Taku Amano, Professional Groups and Health Policy in the United States SUNADA, Ichiro
Maho Toyoda, Labor Reform for/against Women in the US Occupation of Japan SATO, Chitose
Jun Kamata, Resistance at the Margin: Radioactive Waste and American Indian Social Movement MATSUNAGA, Kyoko
Sadao Asada, From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Sadao Asada, Culture Shock and Japanese-American Relations: Historical Essay MIWA, Kimitada
The Forty-First Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts

No.018(2007) Proceedings: American Studies in Trans-Pacific Perspective

2007.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Karen Halttunen Transnationalism and American Studies in Place
21 Daizaburo Yui Historical Lessons in Asian-American Relations: Searching for Inter-Civilizational Dialogue
37 Natsuki Aruga Introduction: American Studies in Trans-Pacific Perspective
41 Ian Tyrrell Looking Eastward: Pacific and Global Perspectives on American History in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
59 Jun Furuya A New Perspective on American History from the Other Side of the Pacific
73 Gary Y. Okihiro Toward a Pacific Civilization
87 Oscar V. Campomanes La Revolucion Filipina in the Age of Empire
107 Youzhong Sun The Trans-Pacific Experience of John Dewey
125 Victor Sumsky America in East Asia: The Rise and the Waning of a Benevolent Hegemon Image
143 Seong-Ho Lim Clashing Perceptions of ‘America’ in Trans-Pacific Relations: The Case of Anti-Americanism in South Korea
163 Manako Ogawa Estranged Sisterhood: The Wartime Trans-Pacific Dialogue of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1931-1945
187 Toru Umezaki Breaking through the Cane-Curtain: The Cuban Revolution and the Emergence of New York’s Radical Youth, 1961-1965
209 Taro Futamura Made in Kentucky: The Meaning of “Local” Food Products in Kentucky’s Farmers’ Markets

229 English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2005

41. Nature and Environment (2007)

2007.03.14 The American Review

Nature and Environment
Rereading “American” Places: Postcolonial Dimensions in Bioregionalism YAMAZATO, Katsunori
On the Gender Root of Silence: Going down the “Toxic Inferno” of Silent Spring ITOH, Shoko
Legal Framework for Environmental Conflict Management: How Did Federal Agencies Reach Consensus Ending Development of Oregon Inlet Jetty Proposal OIKAWA, Hiroko
Market, Culture, and Ecological Values of Water: A Historical Case of the American West and Beyond OSHIO, Kazuto
Environment Sculpture: Isamu Noguchi’s Garden Sculpture, Environment Sculpture and Site Specificity KAWAI, Masatomo
The Perprexity of the Animals: Thomas Pynchon’s Post Modern Ecology HATOOKA, Keita
The Culture and Business of Farming: Ecological Imagination of Japanese American Writers MATSUNAGA, Kyoko
Articles 
The Nexus Between Native American and the Salem Witchcraft: John Neal’s Rachel Dyer and American (Literary) Independence SHIRAKAWA, Keiko
Japanese American Soldiers and European “War Brides”:American Orientalism and Whiteness NAKAMURA, Masako
Book Review
Shusuke Takahara, Wilson Diplomacy and Japan: Ideal and Reality 1913-1921 NISHIZAKI, Fumiko
Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon SUGIYAMA, Naoko
Kazuhisa Honda, Rethinking “American Democracy”: Racism and Deliberative Democracy FUJINAGA, Yasumasa
Hiroshi Okayama, The Consolidation of the American Two-party System: The Republican Party and the Formation of the Post-bellum Regime during Reconstruction TANAKA, Kikuyo
The Fortieth Annual Meeting: A summary Report
Abstracts

No.017(2006) Gender

2006.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Asian Crossroads/Transnational American Studies
53 Hiroyuki Matsubara The 1910s Anti-Prostitution Movement and the Transformation of American Political Culture
71 Naoko Ono Gender Ideology in the Rise of Obstetrics
91 Rumi Yasutake Men, Women, and Temperance in Meiji Japan: Engendering WCTU Activism from a Transnational Perspective
113 Yukako Hisada Between Factory and School: Women School Teachers in Early Nineteenth-Century New England
129 Keiko Sugiyama Ellen N. LaMotte, 1873-1961: Gender and Race in Nursing
143 Yuko Matsumoto Gender and American Citizenship: The Construction of “Our Nation” in the Early Twentieth Century
165 Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru Re-Gendering Citizenship in Post 9-11 America
183 Taeko Kitahara Framing the Supernatural: Henry James and F. Marion Crawford
201 Yoshiko Uzawa “Will White Man and Yellow Man Ever Mix?”: Wallace Irwin, Hashimura Togo, and the Japanese Immigrant in America
223 Joshua Paul Dale Intact or Cut? Castration and the Phallus in the New Gender Politics
245 Tomoko Nakashima Defining “Japanese Art” in America
263 Yasuhiro Katagiri “Let the Word Go Forth”: John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Rhetoric on Civil Rights during the South’s Second Reconstruction

289 English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2004

40. Violence (2006)

2006.03.14 The American Review

Violence
Emancipation, Family, and Violence: Race, Class, and Gender in a North Carolina Piedmont Community During Reconstruction Sasaki, Takahiro (1)
Can Counter-Terrorist Novels Be Written Now?: From Mao II (1991) to Specimen Days (2005) Takemura, Kazuko (19)
Structured Violence as a Form of Southern Culture: The Emmett Till Case and Faulkner’s “Dry September” Tanaka, Hisao (39)
Hollywood and Post-9/11 America Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro (57)
Representations of Violence in the Borderlands of the Virtual-Real: Visualization in American Psycho Ozawa, Eimi (81)
Pimp Culture: Distorted Masculinity in the Hip Hop Generation Kanazawa, Satoshi (99)
Articles 
The Logic behind Nativism: The Case for Lyman Beechers’ Plea for the West   Yamanaka, Aki Yamanaka, Aki (119)
The Historical Origin of American Unilateralism: The French Mission and the Adams Administration Ishikawa, Takafumi 139 Ishikawa, Takafumi (139)
The Problem of Nuclear Proliferation to West Germany and Eisenhower’s Response Kurashina, Itsuki (159)
Rival Political Visions of the Social Security Act of 1935 Nakajima, Jo (177)
Book Review 
Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America Abe, Kosuzu (195)
Yasushi Watanabe, After America: Trajectories of the Bostonians and the Politics of Culture Kawashima, Kohei (201)
Fumiko Iriko, Hawthorne, the Scarlet Letter, Tapestry Satoh, Shigemitsu (209)
Ken Chujo, Race in History: Difference and Heterogeneity in the United States Takemoto, Yuko (215)
Yasutake, Rumi, Transnational Women’s Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859-1920 Matsubara, Hiroyuki (221)
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -227
Abstracts -241

No.016(2005) The Pacific and America

2005.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Yasuko Takezawa Transcending the Western Paradigm of the Idea of Race
31 Yuko Matsukawa Onoto Watanna’s Japanese Collaborators and Commentators
55 Rui Kohiyama The Clear up a Cloud Hanging on the Pacific Ocean: The 1927 Japan-U.S. Doll Exchange
81 Teruko Kumei Crossing the Ocean, Dreaming of America, Dreaming of Japan: Transpacific Transformation of Japanese Immigrants in Senryu Poems; 1929-1941
111 Gayle K.Sato Reconfiguring the “American Pacific”: Narrative Reenactments of Viet Nam in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace
135 Marie Thorsten The Political Science Fiction of Challenge to America (PBS,1993)
159 Akifumi Nagata American Missionaries in Korea and U.S.-Japan Relations 1910-1920
181 Satoshi Nakano South to South across the Pacific: Ernest E. Neal and Community Development Efforts in the American South and the Philippines
203 Kenji Kajiya Deferred Instantaneity: Clement Greenberg’s Time Problem

219 English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2003

39. Media (2005)

2005.03.14 The American Review

Media
American Journalism in Decline Factors Behind its Transformation Fujita, Hiroshi (1)
Bloody Shirt and the Idea of Racial Equality: Radical Republicans and Post-Civil War Journalism Kido, Yoshiyuki (21)
The Rosenberg Case and American Intellectuals: A Background Analysis of the Media Tug-of-war Maekawa, Reiko (43)
New Media, Old Media: A New Phase of Media Studies in the U.S. Kitano, Keisuke (63)
Reinventing America as the Other: A New Perspective on American Studies Yoshimi, Shunya (85)
Articles 
Emerson’s Style and Its Reception in Japan Mizuno, Tatsuro (105)
Crusade for the Unemployed Nishikawa, Masaru (125)
Selling Democracy: Norman Granz and Jazz in the Cold War Torii, Yusuke (143)
Book Review 
Hatsue Shinohara, Forgotten Crusade: The American Scholars of International Law in the Interwar Period Nishioka, Tatsuhiro (163)
Etsuko Taketani, U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861 Beppu, Keiko (169)
Nahoko Tsuneyama, American Shakespeare: A Cultural History of the Early American Theater Yamamoto, Hideyuki (175)
Noriko Ishiyama, Environmental Justice and American-Indian Tribes: Struggles over the Storage of High-leval Radioactive Waste Sato, Madoka (181)
Akiko Ochiai, Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Ear South Carolina Uesugi, Shinobu (187)
The Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -195
Abstracts -217

No.015(2004) Ideas of Time in America

2004.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

Editors

1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Stephen H. Sumida America at War Again: Issues of Ethnicity and Unity
19 Naoki Onishi American Conceptualization of Time and Jonathan Edwards’ Post-Millennialism Reconsidered
37 Shigeo Fujimoto Conceptions of Time in the History of Childhood: A Study of Intergenerational Perceptions of Life on the Early New York Frontier
57 Hisayo Ogushi A Legacy of Female Imagination: Lydia Maria Child and the Tradition of Indian Captivity Narrative
75 Hisao Tanaka Modes of ‘Different’ Time in American Literature
97 Kenryu Hashikawa Rural Enterprise and the Northern Economy in the Early Republic: The New Jersey Charcoal Venture as a Test Case
115 Kei Tanaka Japanese Picture Marriage and the Image of Immigrant Women in Early Twentieth-Century California
139 Sachiko Iwabuchi The Pursuit of Excellence: Abraham Flexner and His Views on Learning in Higher Education
163 Reiji Matsumoto From Model to Menace: French Intel-lectuals and American Civilization
187 Mikiko Tachi Commercialism, Counterculture, and the Folk Music Revival: A Study of Sing Out! Magazine, 1950-1967
213 Kazuyo Tsuchiya Race, Class, and Gender in America’s “War on Poverty”: The Case of Opal C. Jones in Los Angeles, 1964-1968
237 Miya Shichinohe Suga Little Tokyo Reconsidered: Transformation of Japanese American Community through the Early Redevelopment Projects
257 Yasuhiro Izumikawa Strategic Innovation or Strategic Nonsense? Assessing the Bush Administration’s National Security Strategy

273 English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2002

38. Religion (2004)

2004.03.14 The American Review

Religion
Introduction to the Religion of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) KIMURA, Takeshi (1)
Vodun After Crossing the Atlantic FUROMOTO, Atsuko (21)
Jonathan Edwards and the Ideal of Protestant America MORIMOTO, Anri (41)
Discovering the American Catholic Roots KIKAMA, Yasuo (61)
The Book of Mormon and the Birth of a Church HIRAI, Yasuhiro (81)
Buddhist Folk Song Tradition in Hawaii: A Study of Song Lyrics in Relation to Japanese American Experiences WELLS, Keiko (103)
Reexamination  of the American Civil Religion MORI, Kouichi (123)
Articles 
The Urban Reform and the Machine Politics in New York City: The Civil Service   Reform during the Administration of Fiorello H. La Guardia SUGAWARA, Kazuyuki (141)
Roots of  Womens Labor Protection: Establishing the Womens and Minors Bureau in the U.S. Occupation of Japan TOYODA, Maho (159)
Representation of Respectability in African American Organizational Efforts to Help the Ingrams HISHIDA, Sachiko (179)
The Genesis of the Japanese American Redress Movement OYAGI, Go (199)
Literature, Advocacy, and Dis/claiming the Nation: Reading the Politics of Aesthetics in Joy Kogawas Obasan NAKAMURA, Rika (219)
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -237
Abstracts -259