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1 Editor’s Introduction

7 Masashi Orishima Immersed in Palpable Darkness: Republican Virtue and the Spatial Topography of Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn
25 Hiroshi Okayama Analyzing ‘Political Space’ Two-Dimensionally: The Notion and Prospects of Interpolitical Relations
45 Noritaka Yagasaki Spatial Organization of Japanese Immigrant Communities: Spontaneous Settlements and Planned Colonies in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, California
63 Fukuko Kobayashi Producing Asian American Spaces: From Cultural Nation to the Space of Hybridity as Represented in Texts by Asian American Writers
83 Julia Leyda Home on the Range: Space, Nation, and Mobility in John Ford’s The Searchers
107 Yoneyuki Sugita Is the “Cyberspace Revolution” Really a Revolution? A Case Study: Healthcare and Modern Scientific Thought
131 Simon R. Potter Another Closing Frontier?: Observations on Geography in American Academe
157 Mari Kotani Across the Multiverse: How Do Aliens Travel from “Divisional” Space to “Network” Space?
171 Nahoko Tsuneyama Americanization of Shakespeare: A Cultural History through Three Posters
193 Yuka Tsuchiya Imagined America in Occupied Japan: (Re-)Educational Films Shown by the U.S. Occupation Forces to the Japanese, 1948-1952

215 English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2000

225 Contributors

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1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Hiroko Sato Looking at the United States from Two Dimensions of “Otherness”
15 Yoshikatsu Hayashi Discrepancies between Rhetoric and Realities: U. S. Commitments to Its Major Wars During the Last Hundred Years
41 Eikoh Ikui Reprogramming Memories: The Historicization of the Vietnam War from the 1970s through the 1990s
65 Nobuo Kamioka Support Our Troops: The U.S. Media and the Narrative of the Persian Gulf War
83 Hiroyuki Matsubara The Anti-Prostitution Movement and the Contest of the Middle-Class Reformers over Cultural Authority: San Francisco, 1910-1913
105 Hideyo Konagaya Taiko as Performance: Creating Japanese American Traditions

125 English-Language Works by JAAS Members (1999)

133 Contributors

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1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Hideyo Naganuma Reexamining the “American Century”
25 Hiroshi Matsushita The First Integrated Wave of Regionalism and Democratization in the Americas: A Comparison of NAFTA and MERCOSUR
49 Hiroshi Matsuoka Cold War Perspectives on U.S. Commitment in Vietnam
71 Naoko Sugiyama Postmodern Motherhood and Ethnicity: Maternal Discourse in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
91 Misako Koike Challenges and Hopes for American Theatre in the Twenty-first Century

109 Yujin Yaguchi Remembering a More Layered Past in Hokkaido: Americans, Japanese, and the Ainu
129 Gayle Sato (Self) Indulgent Listening: Reading Cultural Difference in Yokohama, California
147 Chitose Sato Gender and Work in the American Aircraft Industry during World War II
173 Masami Usui Creating a Feminist Transnational Drama: Oyako-Shinju (Parent-Child Suicide) in Velina Hasu Houston’s Kokoro (True Heart)
199 Atsushi Kusano The Political Influence of Homosexuals in the United States: Their Pattern of Action and Sources of Power

219 English-Language Works by JAAS Members (1998)

229 Contributors

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1 Editor’s Introduction

5 Hitoshi Abe Minshushugi and Democracy
15 Mary Helen Washington Desegregating the 1950s: The Case of Frank London Brown
33 Naoki Onishi The Puritan Origins of American Taboo
55 Masaru Okamoto The Changing Meaning of What Was Considered to Be “Taboo” in the History of the Temperance Movement
77 Yasuko I. Takezawa Racial Boundaries and Stereotypes: An Analysis of American Advertising
107 Noriko Hirabayashi President Clinton’s Strategies for Communications in the 1998 Tobacco Debate
133 Atsushi Yoshida Portraying the American Taboo: The Down and Out in Reginald Marsh’s Oeuvre
153 Ayako Uchida The Protestant Mission and Native American Response: The Case of the Dakota Mission, 1835-1862

177 English-Language Works by JAAS Members (1997)

185 The Japanese Journal of American Studies Contents, No.01 through No.010

191 Contributors