...Hsiao-pei Yen This essay explores the connections between colonialism, nationalism, and anthropology in China's southwestern frontier. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the pressing problem of national survival encouraged the Nationalist state and anthropologists to collaborate in an effort...

... by Duke University Press 2015 The Voice of Interpellation and Capitalist Crisis: Notes toward an Investigation of Postwar Japanese Ideology Ken C. Kawashima The puppet called “historical materialism” is to win all the time. It can...

...Marilyn Ivy Duke University Press 2005 In/Comparable Horrors: Total War and the Japanese Thing Marilyn Ivy Perhaps no other national formation has troubled the demands of international comparison as much as Japan, occupying...

...Toshio Ochi In order to make sense of the organization of postwar Japanese politics, it is crucial to engage the social movements that were mobilized after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011. Following the catastrophe, many problems within Japanese social structure became apparent. At the same time...

... sensibility that makes his films not imitations of Hollywood products but manifestations of a particular sense of “repression” that stems from this background. Such symptoms of repression must be understood in terms of the historical context in which the story and film are based—Japanese Shanghai under...

... of contemporary New Asia was curated into “being” in Japanese, Australian, and Singapore museums. A key goal was the attempt to imagine a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to transcend national boundaries, even as there was the awareness that the region's cultural diversity and history of political fractures...

.... Decades later, an urban development project unearthed the unremembered and perhaps unwanted remains of a legion of Imperial Japanese soldiers. This essay explores the collaboration between the photographer Higa Toyomitsu and the material remains of the dead as they come together in a creative effort...

... on the island. “Royal Poinciana Tree: 1946” and “The Translator” are read with a focus on their realistic characterization of native Taiwanese intellectuals born in the middle to around the end of the Japanese colonial rule. Thereafter is analyzed as a fully developed account of the first postwar generation’s...

... negotiation in post–Cold War postcolonial East Asia. The Japanese novel Exceedingly Barbaric (2008), by Tsushima Yuko, and the Taiwanese film Finding Sayun (2010), by Aboriginal filmmaker Laha Mebow (Chen Jie-Yao), are analyzed as rehabilitations of colonial wounds outside of the normative politics...

...Olga V. Solovieva This essay discusses Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl as a complicated figuration of the Russian and Soviet literary traditions. A comparison is drawn with the Japanese documentary Little Voices from Fukushima (2015) by the antinuclear activist Hitomi Kamanaka...

... a keynote lecture at an international conference on Japanese cinema jointly hosted by the Kinema Club and the Japan Foundation in Tokyo. Not being a specialist, I chose as my topic Akira Kurosawa’s film No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), based on the controversy of the dismissal, in 1933, of a Kyoto...

..., and Censor- ship in Japan (2000), Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagina- tion (2006), and Precarious Japan (2013). Arif Dirlik lives in Eugene, Oregon. He most recently held the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India (fall...

... the formation of the Chinese national state (in northeast China, called Manchuria) and the lived experience of Chinese nationalism by Korean migrant peasants, whose migration to Manchuria had increased to 2 million during the Japanese colonial period. The provincial govern- ment of Manchuria during...

... to honor and rejoin deceased spirits. This makes it (also) a time when Japanese go back to natal homes, often in the countryside, for a short respite from work and hectic lives to gather with families. As things slow I am grateful to STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study...

... – Palestine Liberation Organization; PFLP – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PLF – Palestine Liberation Front; DFLP – Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PFLP-GC – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command; ALF – Arab Liberation Front; JRA – Japanese Red Army...

... James . 2014 . “ From Deconstructing Genji to Deep Ecology: Remembering Richard Okada .” In Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies , edited by Bourdaghs Michael Jackson Reginald Long Hoyt . Vol. 15 : 195 – 202 . Jackson Reginald . 2014 . “ In Lieu...

... Contributors Masao Adachi is a prominent experimental filmmaker who first appeared in the Japanese New Wave movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and was associated with Nagisa Oshima, Kiju Yoshida, and others who forged the formation of new cinema devoted to probing...

... .” 2014 . Reuters.com , November 5 . http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-china-tibet-idUSKBN0IP0BA20141105 . Ching Leo T. S. 2001 . Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation . Berkeley : University of California Press . Chuang Wan...

... Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos . New York : Doubleday . Karatani Kojin . 1993 . Origins of Modern Japanese Literature . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Koschmann J. Victor . 1981 – 82 . “ The Debate on Subjectivity in Postwar Japan: Foundations...

... . 1974 . Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel . Berkeley : University of California Press . Miyoshi Masao . 1979 . As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) . Berkeley : University of California Press . Miyoshi Masao . 2009...