...Helen J. S. Lee During wartime Japan (late 1930s – 1945), the Japanese women in colonial Korea were pounded by ideological injunctions and practical imperatives demanding better service to the empire. This article explores the negotiations and struggles of Asano Shigeko (1922 – 42), a Keijō-born...

...Mariko Asano Tamanoi Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology Mariko Asano Tamanoi Introduction In a recently published essay, Uri Linke reveals the origin of folklore studies...

... emperor cult was itself a kind of “cult of sensibility.” Initiated to the cult through inspirational speeches at a girls’ school and the missionary work of teaching Korean children, Lee’s protagonist Asano Shigeko expe- riences a form of religious...

... statist men in the warm, nurturant culture of redemptive Confucian historiography and Great Leader logic. Mariko Asano Tamanoi carefully details the way that the lexicon of Yanagita Kunio, founder of modern Japanese folk studies...

... cultural riches. Indeed,Asano Nagatake,director of the Tokyo National Museum,attributed equal if not more importance to a Japanese audience for the arts festival: “Given the international character of the event,we would of course like as many people...

... of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which opens the treaty to various legal interpretations of when Taiwan’s inhabitants acquire Japanese nationality. See Asano Toyomi, “Nihon teikoku niokeru Taiwan ‘hontjin’ to ‘shinkokujin’ no hasama－kokuseki sentakuken...

... three thousand in 1941 and forty-­five hundred in 1942,57 while the only Russian unit of the Japanese Manchuria-­based Kwantung Army, the Asano Brigade, numbered merely thirty-­five hundred soldiers and officers. Besides, Asano...

... State from Manchukuo to South Korea,” in Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire, ed. Mariko Asano Tamanoi (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005). 44. For gunka, see Junko Oba, “To Fight the Losing War, to Remember...

... to the “thought pervert” dimensions of Incident. All translations from Japanese material are my own. 1 Theexhibitionsthatfeaturedthesemasterpiecescomprisethetopthreeonthelistofexhibition attendance records for 1945–1980 compiled by Asano Sh...

... Regulation of Petty Crimes: The Case of Korea in Shokuminchi teikoku nihon no hteki kz (The Legal Structure of Impe- rial Japan in Its Colonies), ed. Asano Toyomi and Matsuda Toshihiko (Tokyo: Shinsansha, 2004), 319 – 52...

.... 38. Asano Tru, Zen’ei kaiga (Avant-Garde­ Painting), vol. 8 of Genshoku gendai Nihon no bijutsu (Modern Japanese Art in Color) (Tokyo: Shgakkan, 1978), 117. Mori gai selected the term sengensho as the equivalent of “manifesto” for his...

... Akitoshi Shimizu has identified as native ethnology in metropolitan Japan. As to the nature and politics of such an intellectual endeavor, Mariko Asano Tamanoi offers a fascinating deconstruction in “Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnol...