...Steven Clark Ridgely The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture . By Mari Boyd . Tokyo : Sophia University Press , 2006 . xii , 293 pp. ¥3,086 (cloth). Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000 . By Peter...

...Yuzo Ota Foreign Employees in Nineteenth-Century Japan . Edited by Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira Iriye . Boulder : Westview Press , 1990 . viii, 312 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 928 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES JAPAN Foreign...

...Yoshinobu Ota Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City . By Jennifer Robertson . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xvii, 235 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 926 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES discussed...

...John Whittier Treat Abstract In ōta yōko's (1903?–63) novel Han-ningen (Half-Human, 1954) the heroine, named Oda Atsuko, is like author Ōta herself a famous A-bomb writer suffering from severe depression. She enters the hospital in an attempt to cure an addiction to tranquilizers whose intemperate...

... and educated townsmen classes, kyōshi ranged from silly puns and parodies of long-petrified Chinese verse forms to serious poems that used new subjects, language, and perceptions to revive the old genre, kanshi. Of the major poets, Ōta Nampo (Shokusanjin) of Edo, well-known as a master of kyōka, was equally...

...Thomas Winant Biruma ni okeru Nihon Gunsei-shi no Kenkyu. (Research in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma) . By Tsunezo Ota . Tokyo : Yoshikawa Kobunkan , 1967 . ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... into one of two categories. Some analyze Hearn's position between Japan and the West (Earl Miner, "Hearn and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation"; George Hughes, "Lafcadio Hearn: Between Britain and Japan"; Yuzo Ota, "Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Problematic Interpreter"; and Paul Murray, "Lafcadio Hearn's...

... in the Human Pavilion, and it is the one that Okinawan histories rely upon when pointing to a long history of Japanese discrimination against Okinawans (Christy 1993 ; Engeki “Jinruikan” 2005 ; Ota 1967 ). It is intriguing that some evidence points to an alternative story, but it has not been considered...

... in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma). By TSUNEZO OTA. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1967. ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. In this book Professor Ota of Toyko Gakugei University has attempted to gather together the many sources on the Japanese occupation of Burma during...

...) will be threatened if Futenma Air Base is relocated to an offshore site. Not the first postreversion governor of O k i n a w a - ^ to get face-to-face meetings with top officials of the U.S. Departments of Defense and State, Ota Masahide championed the aggrieved landowners still prominent in the Movement...

... of the Archives of the Ateneo de Manila. Syracuse University DONN V. HART Biruma ni okeru Nihon Gunsei-shi no Kenkyu. (Research in the History of the Japanese Military Administration of Burma). By TSUNEZO OTA. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1967. ii, 586 pp. Chronology, Documents, Index. ¥ 2,800. In this book...

..., that this is a text about AIDS, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki. Nor can one say, theoretically, that this text discusses the figures of Nishida Philosophy, Ota Yoko, Takenishi Hiroko, Michel Foucault, David Wojnarowicz, and Sue Golding. These names, these figures, play centrally, but the cast is parodic, curious, and polemic...

... a variety of approaches to three topics in postwar Japanese literature. J O H N WHITTIER TREAT explores three of Ota Yoko's book-length works in an attempt to understand what happens when such literary subgenres as the testimonial novel, the documentary novel, and the imaginative novel are asked...

... into the international economic community. As the three articles that follow demonstrate, Japanese writers have responded to their country's special position in a number of ways. Writers like Ota Yoko have sought new narrative methods to describe their experience. Others, such as Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, have...

... generation's understanding of religious reality to accord with the facts of the contemporary world" (p. 92); by Takeshi Nishida that Kinoshita became interested in Oliver Cromwell "during the critical years between childhood and adolescence" (p. 70); and by Yuzo Ota that Kagawa suffered a "deprivation of love...

... counterparts, so a firm of 300 employees is not really so small. However, the "small" firms on which Whittaker focuses are truly small, generally with fewer than 20 employees and owner managed for the most part. Whittaker looked at two districts where small firms clustered: Ota City in Gumma Prefecture...

... essay by Henry D. Smith II situates the floating world in its Edo locale between 1750 and 1850. The literature of wit and humor in the late eighteenth century is next examined by Haruko Iwasaki in an essay that concentrates especially on the contributions of Ota Nampo (1749-1823) and Santo Kyoden (1761...

... does not mention the defeat of two-term governor Ota Masahide. In that election, many Okinawans experienced economic uncertainty as part of the Asian financial crisis exacerbated by the Liberal Democratic Party's unwillingness to accommodate the antibases governor. In neighborhoods abutting military...

... ways of engaging primary source material that could be adapted for advanced high school courses and warrant inclusion in the NCTA's listings of curriculum materials. One example is “The Atomic Body” in chapter 5, which includes a six-page list and discussion of recurring images in Ôta Yôko's work...

... architects and builders. But the largest city in the world, where ten percent of the Japanese population resides, which has been since the beginning of the seventeenth century the true political capital of the country, certainly deserves more of our attention and our scholarship. After 1456, when Ota...