...Masao Miyoshi Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Masao Miyoshi Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the Postmodern West1 Every experience of reading a marginal text is at least potentially upsetting. When a third world text is read in the first world, the sense...

...Alan Wolfe Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Alan Wolfe Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? Rjstmodernity has as one of its distinguish­ ing characteristics the capacity and inclina­ tion to juxtapose polar opposites: the inhabi­ tant of contemporary...

...Brett de Bary Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Brett de Bary Karatani Kojin s Origins ofModern Japanese Literature The brief afterword to Karatani Kojin s Ori­ gins of Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon kindai bungaku no kigen, 1980) contains sev­ eral disclaimers. This book...

...Mariko Asano Tamanoi 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Mariko Asano Tamanoi A Road to ‘‘A Redeemed Mankind The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria Walter Benjamin once wrote, ‘‘Nothing that has...

... a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of a full national and historical statement will also have a fundamental impact on literary criti­ cism in the West; and this in two ways, which are rather different from its effects in Japan itself. For The Origins of Japanese Litera­ ture has some...

...James Cannon, III Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Japanese Indigenous Christianity James Cannon III Duke University Indigenous churches in Japan have progressed more rap­ idly and to a further degree than those of any other section of the non-Christian world. Hence...

...Stanhope Sams Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 The Fineness of Japanese Poetry By Stanhope Sams, Literary Editor of the Columbia State The poetry of Japan must eventually command the con­ sideration of all students of literature, not only for its own value, but because...

...Theodore Ropp The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation . By Field James A. Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1947 . Pp. xiv , 162 . $2.50 . The Battle for Leyte Gulf . By Vann Woodward C. . New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1947 . Pp. xii , 245 . $4.00...

...Betty M. Unterberger The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918 . By Morley James William . New York : Columbia University Press , 1957 . Pp. 395 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly points of interpretation the book is also...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated...

...Mark Driscoll U.S. president Barack Obama bowed deeply to the Japanese emperor Akihito in November 2009, which set off a huge outcry by conservatives and neoconservatives. Dick Cheney steamed, “There is no reason for an American president to be bowing to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect...

... At a postgraduation reception, I was chatting 6482 SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 99:4 / sheet 149 of 354 with a student from Taiwan who had just re- ceived her degrees in mathematics and Japanese. Her younger sister, who...

...Alban G. Widgery INFLUENCES FOR PEACEFUL ORGANIZA­ TION IN POSTWAR JAPAN ALBAN G. WIDGERY THE PERFIDY of the Japanese rulers, the dastardly attack on Hawaii and much in the conduct of the war since, have fanned to burning heat the American antagonism to Japanese ag­ gression. Nevertheless, certain...

... Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Glossary Japanese names are given in the Japanese order that is, the surname precedes the personal (given) name. The names of Japanese Ameri­ cans, however, follow the usual American practice. Dogen (1200-1253). Buddhist monk and founder of Soto...

... dress the problem of modernity and modern subjectivity from the vantage point of a specific historical question: How could a Japanese intellectual, as an Asian person, still speak about modernity in Asia after Japan’s defeat...

... To dare whate’er betide. —Yoshida Shōin Who was V. A. Kislitsin? Who was this man who, in the days of Manchukuo, agreed to head the Japanese-created Bureau for the Affairs of Russian...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Why Don t They Write Like Human Beings? The Case for Ideographic Languages Martin Bronfenbrenner We recommend a drastic reform of the Japanese writ­ ten language. Clearly the question of language reform is basic and urgent...

... by the desire to distance and thus control the colonized by creating categories of otherness. In the Japanese empire the move to Asia was ex- pressed as a reunion with the Asian kin, however fictive that was. Japan...

... the impression of overall national doom. Against this backdrop, the present essay points out a significant degree of complicity between the Japanese neoliberals...

..., it is widely assumed that the revival of the economy would entail a further process of restructuring that may affect fundamental transformations of Japanese society...