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No.029 (2018) Memory

2018.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1. Editors Introduction

3. Michiko SHIMOKOBE,Inland/Oceanic Imagination in  Melville’s Redburn: Expansion and Memory in the Political Climate of America

23. Tsuyoshi ISHIHARA, Memory of American Classics: The Legacy of Mark Twain  in US School Textbooks, 1930s-1940s

45. Michio ARIMITSU, De-Occidentalized “Projections in the  Haiku Manner”: Poetics of Indeterminacy  and Transcultural Reconfiguration of “Frog Perspectives” in Richard Wright’s Last Poems

67. Masumi IZUMI, Gila River Concentration Camp and the Historical Memory of Japanese American Mass Incarceration

89. Akiko OCHIAI, A “New Integration” of Memory  in the National Museum of  African American History and Culture

113. Yoshie TAKAMITSU, Improving US-Japanese Relations through  the News Media: Roy W. Howard, Dentsu, and the Osaka Mainichi

139. English-Language Works by JAAS Members  2016

51. American Self-Images Reconsidered (2017)

2017.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: American Self-Images Reconsidered

The Remnants of Empire: “The British Partyand the Transformation of the American Self-Image during the War of 1812

ENDO, Hirobumi(1)
Patriotism, Regional Attachment and Communal Responsibility in Sutton E. Griggs’ Novels: Southern Black Manhood at the Time of Spanish American War OKUDA, Akiyo(21)

American Exceptionalism in Obama’s Interventions: Redefining American Self-Image in a Turbulent World

KUSANO, Hiroki(45)

The U.S. as a “European Power”: G.H.W. Bush in the Context of U.S.-European Relations at the End of the Cold War

SHIDA, Junjiro(67)
The Globalization of Historiography and the “American Past” NAKANO, Kotaro(91)
Richard Hofstadter and Henry Adams: The Search for American Identity NAKANO, Hirofumi(117)

Regional Conflicts in the Formative Period of National Literature: Geopolitics of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s America in The Linwoods

WAKABAYASHI, Makiko(139)
Articles
The Equivocal Poetics of Timothy Dwight: Reading Part IV of Greenfield Hill, “The Destruction of the Pequods” (1794) KOIZUMI, Yumiko(161)

The Birth of the Nurturing Father and Neoliberalism: The Representation of White Middle-class Fathers in Late Twentieth Century America

SEKIGUCHI, Yohei(183)

As a Chronicler of my own sex”: Antebellum Women, Citizenship, and Domestic History in Sarah J. Hale’s Woman’s Record

MASUDA, Kumiko(205)
Book Review

MINAMI Shuhei, The Men Who Build America: Everyday Lives of Construction Workers in New York City and Their “Patriotism”

YOKOYAMA, Ryo(229)
The Fiftieth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -235

No.028 (2017) America and the World

2017.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

50. Occupation (2016)

2016.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Occupation

Govermentality and Rights of Movement in America’s Trans-Pacific Empire: From the Case Files of Filipino Applicants for Certificates of Citizenship in the Hawaiian Islands

OKADA, Taihei(1)
American Literature under Occupation OCHI, Hiromi(21)

The U.S. Occupation of Japan and Opinions toward Democracy: The Dissolution of the Prewar Lineage Based Political System and Tatsuo Iwabuchi

FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki(45)

Continuity and Discontinuity of Literary Space in Occupied Japan: A Case Study on Discourse Analysis on America in Magazines as Media

INOUE, Ken(67)

Registering Tribal Memories as National Historic Sites: The Northern Cheyenne Tribe’s Fight against U.S. National History

KAWAURA, Sachiko(87)
Articles

Formation of the Asian American Movement for Apology and Reparations from Japan: Transformation of Identity and Genealogy of Asian American Activism

OYAGI, Go(107)
The Momentum of American Normalization Talks with Cuba: Presidents, Politics, International Systems and Perceptions MATSUMOTO, Asuka(129)

The Cold War and the Crisis of Spirit: Billy Graham on Communism, Liberty and Original Sin

AIKAWA, Yusuke (149)
Book Review
Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation KAWASHIMA, Masaki(167)
Seiko Mimaki, The Era of the Outlawry of War Movement SHINOHARA, Hatsue(175)
The Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -181
Abstracts -199

 

No.027 (2016) Japan and the United States

2016.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1. Toshikazu MASUNAGA, Beyond the American Landscape:Tourism and the Significance of Hawthorne’s Travel Sketches

21. Hisayo OGUCHI, Little House in the Far East:The American Frontier Spirit and Japanese Girls’ Comics

45. Tosh MINOHARA, The Russo-Japanese War and the Transformation of US-Japan Relations: Examining the Geopolitical Ramifications

69. Yuji ONIKI, Through the Eyes of Ancient Egyptians: Franz Boas and Tanizaki Junichirô on Modern Japan

97. Keiko NITTA, Black Bottom of Modernity:The Racial Imagination of Japanese Modernism in the 1930s

123. Yoneyuki SUGITA, The Yoshida Doctrine as a Myth

145. Ayako KUSUNOKI, Consensus Building on Use of Military Bases in Mainland Japan: US-Japan Relations in the 1950s

167. Shinsuke TOMOTSUGU, After the Hegemony of the “Atoms for Peace” Program: Multilateral Nonproliferation Policy under the Nixon and Ford Administrations

189. Ikue KINA, Postwar US Presence in Okinawa and Border Imagination: Stories of Eiki Matayoshi and Tami Sakiyama

211. Okiyoshi TAKEDA, Closing the Gap: The Japanese American Leadership Delegation Program and Increasing Involvement of Japanese Americans in US-Japan Relations

235. Yasuko KASE, Diasporic War Memory in Juliet S. Kono’s Anshū: Dark Sorrow

257. English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2014

49. Monroe Doctrine Reconsidered (2015)

2015.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Monroe Doctrine Reconsidered

Manifesto of the American System: Jus Publicum Europaeum and the Monroe Doctrine

KANAI, Kotaro(1)

Undeclared Redefinition: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration and the Monroe Doctrine

OKUHIRO, Keita(21)

The Monroe Doctrine and U.S. Intervention Policy: The Origins of U.S. Unilateralism and Multilateralism

KUSANO, Hiroki(41)
The Monroe Doctrine, the Asian Monroe Doctrine, and the Respective Visions of International Order in Japan and the United States: Studies on the Monroe Doctrine in Prewar and Wartime Japan NAKAJIMA, Hiroo(61)

Shades of Latin America: A Hemispheric Reading of American Fiction in the 1980s

WATANABE, Mariko(81)

Geographic Imagination in African American Literature: Unmapping the Monroe Doctrine

TAKETANI, Etsuko(99)
Articles

From Private Grief to Public Mourning: Roger Malvin’s Unfinished Burial

KOMIYAMA, Mamiko(119)

From Republican Mothers to Daughters of the Benevolent Empire”: Benevolence in Sarah Josepha Hale’s Northwood

MASUDA, Kumiko(135)

The Encantadas” as a Sentinel in the Pacific: Relics of the Barren Paradise

OTAKE, Yu(157)

Opening the Constitution, Freeing Slaves: Frederick Douglass’s United States Constitution

GONDA, Kenji(177)
Homemaking in Africa: Osa Johnson and the United States of the 1920s HASEGAWA, Shiori(197)
A Gorilla’s Prayer after a Nuclear War: Reading Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace HAMURA, Takashi(217)
Book Review  
Kenryu Hashikawa, Rural Enterprise in the Rise of American Capitalism: Land-based Small Businesses in New Jersey and Emerging Economic Networks in the Early Republic YAGYU, Tomok(239)
The Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -245
Abstracts -263

No.026 (2015) Family

2015.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

48. Elections and American Society (2014)

2014.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Elections and American Society

The Heritage of Election Day Sermons in American Literary History: Increase Mather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sacvan Bercovitch

TATSUMI, Takayuki(1)
The 1853 Elections and Their Age in Pudd’nhead Wilson UENISHI, Tetsuo(21)

NLRB Union Representation Elections in Industrial Relations: From the Wagner Act to the Taft-Hartley Act

NAKAJIMA, Jo(39)
Reconsidering Elections in the Context of American Democracy MACHIDORI, Satoshi (63)

Barack Obama and Outreach to the Minority Voters: Balancing “Post-Racial” Narratives and Identity Politics

WATANABE, Masahito(77)
Articles

In the Name of Self Defense: The Expulsion of Foreign Paupers and Nineteenth-Century American Immigration Policy

HIROTA, Hidetaka(99)

The Promotion of Area Studies after World War II: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Promotion of Area Studies and the Advancement of the Social Sciences

SASAKI, Yutaka(119)
Book Review

Yoshiyuki Kido, Chinese Immigrants in the United States: The Making of a “Nation of Immigrants”

NAKANO, Hirofumi(139)

Keiko Nitta, Cartographies of American Literature: Cognitive Mapping as a Mode of Literary Criticism

MAKINO, Rie(147)

Toshihiko Aono, The Cold War and the Western Alliance during the Crisis Years

YAMAZUMI, Toru(153)
The Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -159
Abstracts -177

No.025 (2014) Dissent

2014.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1. Editor’s Introduction

5. Gavin James Campbell, “We Must Learn Foreign Knowledge”: The Transpacific Education of a Samurai Sailor, 1864-1865.

25. Etsuko Taketani, “Spies and Spiders”: Langston Hughes and Transpacific Intelligence Dragnets.

49. Haruo Iguchi, Psychological Warfare during the American Occupation of Japan: The Documentary Film Project of Shu Taguchi and Bonner Fellers, 1949-1951.

67. Kyoko Matsunaga, Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest.

89. Yasumasa Fujinaga, Black Power at the Polls: The Harold Washington Campaign of 1983 and the Demise of the Democratic Machine in Chicago.

111. Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru, The US Domestic Front: Politics over Displaced Iraqis.

135. English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2012

No.024(2013) War

2013.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1. Editor’s Introduction

7. Priscilla WALD Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age

29. Eisaku KIHARA The Politicization of the Slavery Issue in the Early American Republic

47. Yukiko OHSHIMA Herman Melville’s “Pequot Trilogy”: The Pequot War in Moby-Dick, Israel Potter, and Clarel

67. Yoshiya MAKITA Professional Angels at War: The United States Army Nursing Service and Changing Ideals of nursing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

87. Shusuke TAKAHARA America’s Withdrawal from Siberia and Japan-US Relations

105. Takeya MIZUNO A Disturbing and Ominous Voice from a Different Shore: Japanese Radio Propaganda and Its Impact on the US Government’s Treatment of Japanese Americans during World war II

125. Hiroo NAKAJIMA Beyond War: The Relationship between Takagi Yasaka and Charles and Mary beard

145. Takakazu YAMAGISHI War, Veterans, and Americanism: The Political Struggle over VA Health care after World War II

165. Itsuki KURASHINA “Let the MLF Sink Out of Sight”: The Cold War and the Atlantic Alliance during the Johnston Administration

185. Takayoshi ISHIWARI Rainbow’s Light: Or, “Illuminations” in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

203. Takeshi UESUGI Is Agent orange a Poison? : Vietnamese Agent Orange Litigation and the New Paradigm of Poison

223. English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2011