...Irena Hayter This essay focuses on perception and the senses in Japanese literary modernism and specifically in the so-called new sensationist ( shinkankakuha ) writers, especially Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972) and Yokomitsu Riichi (1898–1947). The critical debates that unfolded around...

... shaped Japan's domestic prostitution abolition movement. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 overseas prostitutes prostitution abolition modern Japan Karayuki-san middle class Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union (JWCTU) Purity Society The Shame of Empire: Japanese...

...Yumiko Iida 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero: Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s Yumiko Iida The aesthetic is at oncethevery secret prototype...

...Alicia Volk This essay addresses the problematic notion of the “avant-garde” in the context of Japanese modern art. It looks at the formation in 1907 of the national salon, the Bunten, to elucidate the relational dynamics of art organizations in early twentieth-century Japan, especially during...

... . 1998 . “ The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene .” positions 6 , no. 3 : 637 – 73 . Dower John W . 1986 . War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War . New York : Pantheon Books . Gerow Aaron . 2010 . Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations...

... of the modern girl character. The title Chijin no ai references the Japanese title of the US film A Fool There Was (1915), starring Theda Bara as the prototypical vamp. In a US context, the vamp character embodies not only the threat of the sexual woman but also anxieties surrounding racial mixing. In importing...

...Qin Wang Abstract While the Japanese sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi is frequently mentioned in discussions of “alternative modernity” on the part of Asia, people have not sufficiently addressed the asymmetrical relationship between literature and politics in Takeuchi's thinking, as his literary...

... not only in investigating other Asian nations but also in conceptualizing the Japanese empire as a multiethnic nation. Tsuboi Shōgorō—a founding father of modern Japanese anthropology—and his scholarly group, the Tokyo Anthropological Association, employed a variety of visual media in their work, ranging...

... in what they thought was the “country for all the world’s poor.”30 The proletarian state of their hopes, however, suspected them of being “Japanese spies,” detained them in a rundown, shabby, overcrowded facility without a trace of modern...

... to modernize national customs in both metropole and colonies on a European model, and inexpensive upright rattan chairs played a role in this. Yet Japanese colonists in Taiwan found themselves in an unusual situation since they were by habit floor sitters, placed by colonial conquest in a dominant position...

... for a productivist extermination of communism in the north, Ch'oe increasingly sought to overcome the division of the peninsula by questioning a continuing Euro-America-centric global modernity, the East/West binary, and the continuing effects of Japanese colonialism. Ch'oe's naturalizing of a regime of universal...

... from the Japanese vantage point at the Battle for Songhwan scrambling empires. These views are still well cemented in our out-­of-­date textbooks describing modern Sino-­Japanese relations solely in light of the aftermath of the “First” Sino...

... arises in his argument in which Japan, as ostensibly the most mediated modern culture, becomes the site for all cultural mediation without undergoing further mediation by its East Asian colonies. This logic of mediation masks Japanese colonial violence in the form of a transhistorical philosophical...

...Christopher Weinberger This essay offers a new reading of a pivotal and controversial novella, “Gan” (“The Wild Geese,” 1911), by major modern Japanese writer Mori Ōgai. Scholars (such as Dennis Washburn and Shiokawa Tetsuya) have argued that Ōgai's formal experimentation and aesthetic ideals led...

..., grambooks, 2010). John Szostak is an associate professor of Japanese art history at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His research specialization is modern Japanese painting history, especially Nihonga painting of the Meiji...

... the Japanese gokoro, serves as a token to be invested and exchanged for various political values, especially in cases of modern nationalism. For example, in the beginning of the twentieth century, the phrase xinli, literally “psyche force,” as well...

... organized by Kōsaka Masa'aki, Nishitani Keiji, Kōyama Iwao, and the historian Suzuki Shigetaka. These discussions aimed to legitimate Japanese empire and its war efforts through a “philosophy of world history.” In particular, in the last session, “The Philosophy of Total War,” the participants provided...

... on the application of the conventional matrices of associations in classical poetic language to contemporary consumer-oriented intertexts. Foregrounding intertextuality provides a means of gauging premodern and modern texts in terms of multiple modes of textuality, canons, and cultural assumptions in Japanese verse...

.../anti-Japanese movement. More recently, however, the novelist Wuhe has highlighted its ambiguous nature in his award-winning novel The Remains of Life ( Yusheng , 2000). For Wuhe, the incident is an entangled web of conflicting impulses: a violent confluence between modern politics and traditional...

... with capitalist modernity. The article also uses a global framework to rethink the narrative of Japanese mediation as the lens by which to examine Korea’s modern experience within Korean historiography. References “1931 nyŏn i omyŏn (2)” (“When the Year 1931 Comes”) . 1930 . Chosŏn ilbo (Korean Daily...