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Fall 1998 Newsletter
Publications From the Librarian Special Events Japan at U-M Online Faculty & Associate News Students & Alumni Visitors Japan and Business Faculty and Student Resources, Fellowships, and Deadlines Social Calendar
__________________ Greetings from Ann Arbor, where autumn is upon us: leaves are beginning to turn crimson, and squirrels are busy stocking up nuts. The academic year began with the arrival of new and returning students and faculty, and an escalation of activities in and out of the office. The semester’s busy schedule was inaugurated by a series of live Noh workshops, offered by a scholar-artist from Japan. Other activities include a multi-disciplinary and multi-regional seminar on "Global Processes of Privacies," part of a larger initiative sponsored by the International Institute, which brings together scholars from in and outside the university. For M.A. and Ph.D. students, career workshops present practical advice separately for those on a business track and for those on an academic track. Our standard fare, the Noon Lecture Series, is anything but standard, featuring distinguished speakers from a variety of disciplines. Our other staple, the Film Series, offers a thought-provoking collection on the theme of "Liminal Japan: Films That Want More." And in celebration of the new term, pure fun, and collegiality, CJS held a fall picnic with the Center for Chinese and Program in Korean Studies. With all that is going on, let me take this opportunity to welcome our Toyota Visiting professor and other faculty and students in Japanese studies, and to thank the hard-working staff who make this Center shine. Nearly a year has passed since the Center for Japanese Studies moved from Lane Hall to the third floor of the School of Social Work Building and began sharing a roof with the International Institute and the other area Centers. As one would expect of a brand new building, the setting offers ample electric outlets, good environmental control, several elevators, conference rooms, efficient kitchens, and other modern innovations. We are currently trying to enhance the appeal of our new lodgings by adding hominess to our space. This includes setting up tatami, recycled from the Lane Hall lobby, on platforms in the hallway just outside our door as a way to provide some comfortable lounging space. We are also seeking to make our small library more user-friendly. It has been catalogued and is classified into: (1) Books published by the Center for Japanese Studies Publication Programs, (2) Books authored by CJS faculty, and (3) Books authored by the visiting friends of CJS. The first category includes a classic such as the CJS Occasional Papers as well as the more recent Black Eggs, a collection of poems by Kurihira Sadako, translated by Dick Minear, and the Kagerô Diary, translated by Sonja Arntzen. Our shelves are also home to books published by former and present CJS faculty members, from Village Japan, the comprehensive and multi-disciplinary study of Niieke Village in the 1950’s edited by Richard Beardsley, John W. Hall, and Robert Ward, to Genji Days by Edward G. Seidensticker. Our friends have been very generous in forwarding to us their new publications. A Lateral View: Essays on Contemporary Japan by Donald Richie and Small Town: Giant Corporation by James F. Hettinger and Stanley O. Tooley are but two among the pool of recently received titles. On behalf of CJS, I would like to thank the contributors of these books, which have enriched our library collection. Please visit our website at http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/ for the complete listing of these titles. In addition to these books and certain journal titles, our holdings include what one might call historical records, which together help outline the development of Japanese studies in the United States from the post-war years forward. Changes that took place in Japan-US relations from the days of Far Eastern Quarterly to the time of its renamed version, The Journal of Asian Studies, and finally to the new era of the electronic JAS, seem so enormous and rapid. Today, the current economic crisis that is extending its tentacles over the globe seems certain to affect the state of Japanese studies in the United States and, more immediately, what we do here at the Center for Japanese Studies. The Center is more than ever eager and prepared to offer services in considering innovative ideas and constructing new programs. We welcome your views and suggestions. Hitomi Tonomura The Center for Japanese Studies will publish six titles in fall 1998, five in our Monograph series and one in our Paper series. The books represent a wide range of topics, from translations of classical texts to translations of modern poetry and prose; from studies of Kamo no Chômei to studies of Tanizaki. Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chômei, by Rajyashree Pandey of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, is the first monograph-length study in English on one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan, Kamo no Chômei (1155-1216). Pandey situates Chômei’s works within the debate that tries to reconcile literary and artistic activities, seen as fundamentally worldly pursuits, with a commitment to Buddhism. The book offers an original reading of Chômei’s texts, traces his life, and at the same time casts light upon intellectual preoccupations that were central to his times (Monograph No. 21, ISBN 0-939512-86-6, cloth only, $32.95). The Shade of Blossoms, by Ôoka Shôhei, translated with an introduction by Dennis Washburn of Dartmouth College. Ôoka Shôhei (1909-88) was a distinguished member of the Japanese literary establishment for more than four decades following the end of the Pacific War. The Shade of Blossoms, for which he was honored in 1961 with both the Mainichi and the Shinchô literary prizes, provides a disturbing view of lives at the margins of Japanese society. The setting is the demimonde of the Ginza bar scene in the 1950s; the subject is the aging bar hostess Yôko. The Shade of Blossoms is a powerfully ethical work of literature that describes the inner search for meaning and identity in a world where received values have been disrupted by war and by social upheavals (Monograph No. 22, ISBN 0-939512-87-4, cloth, $28.95; ISBN 0-939512-88-2, paper, $12.95). When We Say ‘Hiroshima’: Selected Poems, by Kurihara Sadako, translated with an introduction by Richard H. Minear of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This small paperback collection was culled from Black Eggs, the extensive collection of Kurihara’s poetry that we published in 1994. Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till now she has addressed her poetry primarily to issues of nuclear destruction, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power. Also included are meditations on death, survival, nuclear radiation, Japanese politics, American foreign policy, and women’s issues (Monograph No. 23, ISBN 0-939512-89-0, paper only, $11.95). A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice, edited by Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice and Anthony Hood Chambers of Arizona State University. This volume presents eighteen essays by scholars from six countries on Tanizaki Jun’ichirô (1886-1965), one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995 and have been significantly revised for this publication. Topics include Tanizaki’s fiction, plays, and film scenarios; his aesthetics; his place in Japanese intellectual history; his depiction of the West; his use of humor; and film adaptations of his works (Monograph No. 24, ISBN 0-939512-90-4, cloth only, $42.95). Women and Class in Japanese History, edited by Hitomi Tonomura of the University of Michigan, Anne Walthall of the University of California, Irvine, and Wakita Haruko of the University of Shiga Prefecture. Women and Class in Japanese History marks an important moment not only in the study of gender and women in Japanese society but also in the development of collaborative efforts between Japanese and Western scholars on the subject. The fourteen essays presented here seek to clarify the critical linkages between the meaning of female domains and the workings of other social institutions. Building on the past developments in women-and-gender-related scholarship in Japan and the United States, the essays pay particular attention to the nature of class differences and the societal context for the cultural and symbolic constructions that have given shape and meaning to women’s experiences (Monograph No. 25, ISBN 0-939512-91-2, cloth only, $44.95). The Tale of Saigyô, translated with an introduction and notes by Meredith McKinney of Australia. The Tale of Saigyô is a poetic biography of the late-Heian poet Saigyô (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary history. Its anonymous author followed the venerable "poem-tale" tradition by using 128 of Saigyô’s finest and best-known poems and weaving around them facts and legends about the poet. The result is a biographical "journey" through his life (Paper No. 25, ISBN 0-939512-83-1, paper only, $11.95). To order these and other titles, please contact the University of Michigan
Press, Bruce Willoughby ___________________ Reference titles in CD-ROM: I am going to begin with the introduction of several CD-ROMs that have been added to our Japanese collection. "DC-ASAX: Sengo gojûnen Asahi Shimbun midashi dêta bêsu.” As a comprehensive index to the Asahi Shimbun, 1945-1995, it should be useful for newspaper source information along with Asahi’s back issues held in the library. “Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozô Meijiki kankô tosho maikuroban shûsei sakuin.” This is a CD-ROM index to the National Diet Library’s Meiji Microfilm Collection which includes 110,000 titles in 160,000 volumes of books published in the Meiji era. “Ôya Sôichi Bunko zasshi kiji sakuin,” 1992-1997. This CD-ROM continues its earlier book-form indexes from 1888. Ôya Sôichi Bunko is the single largest periodical collection in Japan with more than 6,500 titles from the Meiji era to the present and is a major source of periodical literature on journalism, politics, society, culture (including popular culture), etc. “Seifu kankôbutsu sôgô mokuroku” is a comprehensive catalog of government publications which is issued each year. Our holdings begin with 1995. By the time this newsletter is out, the Asia Library will have a computer room equipped with a couple of new computers that are solely dedicated to viewing/searching CD-ROMs and databases in CJK languages. New acquisitions: Other information: You are welcome to call Mari Suzuki at 764-0406 or e-mail her at msuzuki@umich.edu for questions on the use of Japanese CD-ROMs and the Nichigai online service. Asia Library tours will be provided for new faculty and students at any time. Please call Mari for an appointment. Yasuko Matsudo Ten years ago, Yasuko Matsudo joined the staff of the Asia Library as Assistant Head and Curator of Japanese Collections. She brought with her rich cultural and subject background, developed professional skills, and research library experiences that had been accumulated from serving such institutions of higher education as Yale, Notre Dame, and Sophia University, on both sides of the Pacific. Yasuko has made significant contributions to the continued development of the Japanese collection here at Michigan, which is one of the most comprehensive library resources for Japanese studies outside of Asia. She has coordinated the Asia Library's acquisition and serial operations and served as a more-than-able liaison with the Japanese studies faculty and students. In more recent years, she has actively participated in teaching library resources and in developing electronic resources related to East Asian studies. The courteous reception and knowledgeable introduction that she unfailingly afforded regional and international visiting scholars have further enhanced the outreach efforts of the University Library. Yasuko has also created an enviable record of professional activities. She has been active in the Council of East Asian Libraries, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources. She was the chair of the Japanese Materials Committee and produced for the Association for Research Libraries the survey report assessing American acquisitions of Japanese publications. For the National Coordinating Council, she provided leadership for the Japanese Art Exhibition Catalog Project, leading to a deposit system that services these resources. The staff of the University Library is fortunate to have had her intellectual companionship and exceptional friendship for so many years. On the eve of her retirement, please join us in wishing her good cheer, good health, and Godspeed. Weiying Wan ________________ The inaugural speaker for the Robert L. Danly Memorial Lecture was Edwin McClellan, Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University. Professor McClellan’s lecture "On Translators" was held Wednesday, September 23rd in the Michigan League Koessler Room beginning at 5:00 p.m. with a reception following the talk. Robert L. Danly, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, award-winning writer and translator, and former Director of the Center for Japanese Studies (1987-93), passed away on April 27, 1997. Professor Danly was instrumental in transforming the Center’s publications program into one of the most highly regarded American publishers for studies of Japanese literature, culture, and history. "Privacies" Seminar:
This was an opportunity to explore and historicize privacies and power in art and literature, law, gender relations, household, family, illegalities, the firm, architecture, gardens, politics, and policing, for example. The seminar was held in the 2nd floor conference room 2609, International Institute, School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University. Seminar participants anticipate publication of a volume documenting their work. "Marketing the Dharma: The Publishing Industry and the Western Construction of Buddhism," a one-day symposium was held on October 10 in the Michigan League Henderson Room. It was sponsored jointly by the U-M’s Program in Buddhist Studies and Shaman Drum Bookshop. _______________________ If you haven’t explored the Center for Japanese Studies yet, please take an opportunity to access our web site. It is constantly changing to meet the challenges of our new environment. One of the more recent developments is the expansion of the Japan Technology Management Program page. Check their URL: http://www.umich.edu/~umjtmp/ to see what’s new and exciting in the East Asian Business Program. To find out more about Center for Japanese Studies’ (CJS) events and activities, simply explore http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs. This site provides information on events, special exhibits, and lecture and film series. Additionally, the site provides information on the center and its staff, funding opportunities, academic programs and faculty, upcoming events, recent publications, and resources on Japan which are available at the University and elsewhere, including the new and always growing film database being put online by our Art Director, Brett Johnson. ___________________________ We are pleased to extend a warm welcome to a new area studies colleague in law, Mark D. West. He was an Abe Fellow at the Tôkyô University Faculty of Law. His current research focuses on extortion by shareholders of management in U.S. and Japanese corporate law regimes (sôkaiya). Additionally, he lectures on comparative corporate governance and advises the Japanese Bar Association on deregulation issues. His most recent publication was “Legal Rules and Social Norms in Japan’s Secret World of SumM” in the University of Chicago Law School The Journal of Legal Studies in 1997. In December, 1997, he presented a talk "Corporate Extortion: The Case of the Sôkaiya" at the U-M Law School. We also give a warm welcome to Professor Hugh de Ferranti, ethnomusicologist, who is joining the faculty of both ALC and the Music School. Professor de Ferranti most recently held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching-Research Fellowship at Cornell University. He has a forthcoming article on music of the biwa for the Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Last March, Professor de Ferranti presented a lecture "Performative Transformations of Tradition in Japanese Oral Narrative" at the U-M campus. Professor de Ferranti was pivotal in bringing Professor Takanori Fujita for a September workshop on Noh theater. There was a special public presentation by the students of the class at the end of the workshop. The Center for Japanese Studies is proud to announce the five winners of this year’s faculty awards: Professor Emeritus William Malm, School of Music, was awarded a grant for his project: "Japan Music and Musical Instruments." On August 28, Professor Malm lectured at Princeton to the Henry Luce Fellows on Asian music. On October 2nd, he presented a paper titled "Musical Time, Space and the Theory of Relativity" in the lecture series Thinking About Music at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. October 22nd, he will chair a session on Japanese music at the Society of Ethnomusicology meeting at Indiana University. November 23-25, he has been invited to speak on regional music at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC. Professor Abé Markus Nornes, Film and Video Studies Program and Asian Languages and Cultures, was granted an award for "Forest of Pressure, Ogawa Shinsuke and the ‘Subject’ of Documentary." Professor Markus Nornes has an article on subtitling history and theory in the upcoming Film Quarterly and another on the Japanese translation of Paul Rotha’s documentary, Film, in Cinema Journal later this year. In addition, he made a keynote speech about American independent cinema at a convention of independent film programmers and theater owners in Japan this September. Professor Emeritus Gayl Ness, Sociology, was awarded a grant for "Managing Urban Population Environment Dynamics in Kobe, Japan." A grant was made to Professor Jonathan Reynolds, History of Art for "Framing ‘Tradition’: Watanabe Yoshio and the Photographic Representation of Ise Shrine." University of California Press is the publisher for Jonathan Reynolds’ forthcoming book Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of a Japanese Modernist Architecture. Professor Reynolds has a chapter forthcoming in the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University publication of Papers on the History of Modern Japanese Architecture “A Modernist ‘Crusader’: Maekawa Kunio and the TMkyM Imperial Household Museum Competition of 1931." Additionally, he has a chapter in the forthcoming Japan’s Competing Modernities: The Problem of Culture and Democracy in Early Twentieth Century Japan published by the University of Hawaii Press. In January 1998, Professor Reynolds was interviewed by Kenchiku Chishiki about his research. Mieko Yoshihama, Professor, School of Social Work, was awarded a grant for "Focus Groups on Domestic Violence in Japan." Professor Yoshihama was invited to present at the International Research Network on Violence Against Women’s Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC in January. She also presented "Culture: Constraints or Sources of Strengths?" at the workshop on Multicultural Issues in Domestic Violence held in February in Portland, Oregon. Professors David Weinstein and Donald Davis were awarded a National Science Foundation grant for "Why Do Countries Trade? Analytical and Empirical Inquiries." Professor Weinstein, with Yishay Yafeh, also published "On the Costs of a Bank Centered Financial System: Evidence from the Changing Main Bank Relations in Japan" in the April 1998 Journal of Finance. Additionally, the Center wishes to congratulate Professors Weinstein and Kinney on the birth of their son, May 8, 1998. At the July meeting of the Regents, there were actions taken on faculty appointments. David E. Weinstein will hold the Sanford R. Robertson Associate Professorship in Business Administration. "Weinstein’s work in Japanese industrial policy and organization, and international trade and investment has earned him a reputation as the best junior scholar, and among the best of all scholars, in this area. He is fluent in Japanese and has many professional ties in Japan. He was a visiting scholar at the Ministry of Finance in Japan and also at the University of Tokyo. His publications appear in prestigious American and Japanese journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, and the Journal of International Economics." John Campbell has returned from a sabbatical year as an Abe Fellow, spent in Japan, Europe, and Ann Arbor. His current research topic is Kaigo Hoken, the big, new, public Long-Term-Care Insurance system passed last fall. He is working on the politics of the decision-making process (in cooperation with Masuyama Mikitaka, U-M Ph.D. candidate in political science) and on policy aspects. During the year, he helped organize and served as co-chairman of the program committee for the first International Convention of Asia Scholars, held in the Netherlands in June with some 800 participants. He also co-organized (with Ikegami Naoki) an international symposium at Keiô University called "Long-Term Care for Frail Older People: Reaching for the Ideal System" in May. The proceedings will be published in both English and Japanese. The second English book from the earlier Campbell-Ikegami collaboration, called "The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System" was published by Cambridge University Press in August. The Japanese version, published by Chûô Kôron Shinsho as “Nihon no Iryô: Tôsei to Baransu Kankaku,” has sold about 50,000 copies. Campbell continues to serve as Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Asian Studies. On April 28, Dr. Michael Fetters received a Ramesh Verma Diversity Award from the University of Michigan Health System for development and implementation of the University of Michigan Health System Japanese Health Initiative based at Family Practice in the East Ann Arbor Health Center. In February, he presented a paper "We live too short, and die too long: On Japanese and U.S. Physicians’ Caregiving Practices and Approaches to Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatments" at the Abe Program Seminar "Care and Meaning in Later Life: Culture, Policy and Practice in Japan and the United States" held in Zushi, Japan. Professor Hitomi Tonomura hopes Women and Class in Japanese History, of which she is co-editor, is in print by the time this Newsletter is being circulated. (Ann Arbor: The Center for Japanese Studies Publication, 1998). She presented several talks in Winter and Spring, 1998. These included: "Managing Illicit Sex in Japan’s Samurai Age, 1200-1800," delivered at Florida Atlantic University; "Female Labor in Premodern Japan," presented for a conference on “Japanese Wisdom, European Wisdom Today,” which was held at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyôto; and “Body and Territory in Taiheiki," delivered at the University of California, Los Angeles. She planned a conference on "Global Processes of Privacies," as part of the International Institute’s initiative on "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies," funded by the Ford Foundation. Professor Gary Saxonhouse published two papers in 1998: "When are VIEs voluntary?" in Development, Duality and the International Economic Regime, U-M Press and "Japan and the 1994 Economic Report of the President" in Japanese Economic Policies Reconsidered, Edward Elgar, UK. Additionally, he has two forthcoming publications "’The East Asian Miracle’?: Lessons from Japan’s Recent Experience," Pacific Review, Vol. 11 No. 3 and "Information Diffusion: Japanese and American Equity Markets" in Finance Development and Competition, Oxford University Press. Professor Harold Stevenson published "An Examination of American Student Achievement from an International Perspective" with S. Lee in The State of Student Performance in American Schools, The Brookings Institute. Forthcoming is his "Cultural Interpretations of Giftedness: The Case of East Asia," in Friedman and Shores’ Gifted Children: Vol. 2. published by the American Psychological Association. Also forthcoming is his "Human Capital" in H. Rowen’s The Rise of East Asia to be published by the Stanford University Press. Professor Azumi Ann Takata made two presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies held in Chicago, May 1998. Her presentations were titled "On the Determinants of Organizational Form at Founding in Meiji Japan" and, for the Young Scholars Panel, "Doing Dissertation Research in Japan." Professor Takata was also a panel discussant for "Japanese Management Practices Abroad" and noted that two of the three paper presenters for this panel were from the University of Michigan: Professors Mary Yoko Brannen, Business School, and S. Nazli Wasti, IOE. Professor Takata’s presentation "To Be or Not to Be a Joint-Stock Company: Factors Affecting the Adoption of Organizational Form for Business Enterprises in Meiji Japan" was made at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in August, 1998. "Building an Excellent Teacher Corps: How Japan Does It," authored by Professor Carol Kinney appeared in the American Educator, Winter 1997-98 issue. Her chapter "Teachers’ Lives" prepared for the Japan Volume of the Third International Math and Science Studies Case Studies Project is forthcoming for 1998. Professor Stephen Sumida’s most recent publication "East of California: Points of Origin in Asian America Studies," appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies 1:1, February 1998. Professor Sumida was a speaker at both Amherst College and the University of Washington in April. At Amherst he presented "Angel Island and Other Beginnings of Asian American Awareness." At the University of Washington, he presented "Dead Yellow No-No Boy Reconsidered." "Japanese American Women" by Professor Gail Nomura is a chapter in The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Dr. Nomura also has a forthcoming publication: "Historical Background of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans" in Transforming Barbed Wire published by Arizona State University. Professor Jeffrey Liker is publishing "Supplier Involvement in Design: A Comparative Survey of the U.S., U.K., and Japan," with Rajan Kamath and Nazli Wasti; it will appear in the International Journal of Quality Science. Professor Liker, with Durward Sobek and Allen Ward, also published "Another Look at How Toyota Integrates Product Development," in the Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1998. Funded by a grant from the Sloan Trucking Center and JTMP, Professor Liker is currently doing a large-scale survey of automotive parts to understand the organizational implications of just-in-time manufacturing systems. Additionally, with Mary Yoko Brannen, he is doing a study of cultural issues in the implementation of Japanese manufacturing practices in the U.S. "Burakumin: Discriminated Minorities in Japan" was presented in Flint by Professor Roy Hanashiro last November. He also addressed the Flint Rotary Club in February with "Insights on the Way We Perceive the World and Its Impact on the Global Economy." Professor Seon Ae Yeo recently published "What It Means to Have a Baby in a Foreign Country," New Medical World Weekly, 2287, 6. Professor Yeo and Michael Fetters were co-principal investigators for "Japanese Couples’ Experiences with the Birthing Process in the United States" funded by the Center for Japanese Studies in 1997-1998. Professor Yeo continues to provide a prenatal class for Japanese couples at the U-M Medical Center in Plymouth, MI. Professor Donna Nagata has articles on the effects of the Japanese-American internment on intergenerational relationships. Jointly with E. Kao and C. Peterson, she has "Explanatory Style, Family Expressiveness, and Self-esteem Among Asian American and European American College Students" to be published by the Journal of Social Psychology. Aileen Gatten has been invited to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyôto as a Visiting Professor in Classical Japanese Literature. Ms. Gatten published “Fact, Fiction and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tônomine Shôshô Monogatari," in Monumenta Nipponica 53:2 (1998). Aileen also has a review of the Fujitsu CD-ROM "The Tale of Genji" and "The Tale of Heike" forthcoming in Monumenta Nipponica 53:3. She presented "The World in Thirty-one Syllables: Rhetorical Techniques in Classical Japanese Poetry" at the Istituto Universitario Orientale held at the Universty of Naples, Italy in May 1998. _____________________ CJS wishes to congratulate the following M.A. students who completed their degree for the May 1998 graduation: Dan Heilbrunn, Harold Ward, Jonathan Crow, and Thornton Harrison Frost. Dan had a very busy summer last year. He had two internships: Aeroquip Corporation hired him as a consultant to determine market entry strategies into the South Korean and Singaporean semiconductor equipment and he worked for Guidant Corporation, a medical devices company, reengineering their inventory management system. Those who completed their degree for the August 1998 graduation are: Thomas Blackwood, Kelly Dietz, Etta Hesselink, John Montag, Michelle Plauché, and Bob Wilson. Bob is now working for Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, MA. Michelle and Thomas are continuing in U-M Ph.D. programs and Kelly will be entering a Ph.D. program at Cornell. We are very proud of our newest alumni. CJS M.A. students who are continuing this year are Aundrea Almond Wallace, Vince Fike, Naomi Hagiwara, Dora Hannah, Korey Hartwich, Andrew Lange, and Marcus Willensky. One new student, Alan Young, will join them. Alan received his B.A. from Duke University. Welcome to Ann Arbor, Alan. Vince Fike is again coordinator for the Noon Lecture Series. Dora (Dodi) Hannah is in her second year of Law School. This summer she was working at the Family Law Project which gives legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence. Thc Center will also welcome three new exchange students: two from Tôkyô University and one from Kyûshû University. Tim Van Compernolle, ALC, received an IIE Fulbright dissertation research fellowship. He will be at the University of Tôkyô for one year starting in September working with Professor Komori Yoichi on Japanese narratives of the 1890s. Congratulations, Tim! Jim Raymo, Population Studies, has been working on research culminating in the following publications and presentations: "Later Marriage or Less Marriage? Changes in the Marital Behavior of Japanese Women" forthcoming in Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol.60, no.4, November, 1998; "Kinnen no Kekkon Kôdô: Nichibei Hikaku" presented at IPSSR Occasional Seminar, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Ministry of Health and Welfare, March 25, 1998; poster presentations "Marital Status Transitions in Japan, Taiwan, and the US," April 2, 1998 and "Changing Patterns of Marital Status and Household Type in Japan, 1975-1995," April 3, 1998 at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Chicago, IL. Margaret Gibbon notified the Center that she was awarded an 18 month Mombusho fellowship. She is already headed for Okayama University. We are very proud of Patricia Griffin, U-M undergraduate and CJS work-study staff member. Trisha won a Mombusho scholarship for a year’s study abroad at Nagoya University. Trisha spent her summer working on an internship with the Ford Motor Company. Congratulations, Trisha! Two U-M undergraduates received CJS scholarships to study at the Kyôto Center for Japanese Studies beginning in September, 1998. Andrew Schreiber and Rebecca Retzler are already en route to Japan. Recent CJS graduate, Heather Hopkins Clement will be enrolling in an MBA program at Michigan State University. Heather has been working with the Japan Technology Management Program since graduation. We shall miss her valuable assistance with our events. Recent ALC graduate, Patricia Welch will be taking a Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Toronto. Pat’s position will be in the Department of East Asian Studies. Alumna Anne Hooghart spent February to June 1998 in Nagahama, Shiga, Japan as a Michigan-Shiga Exchange Teacher, teaching about Michigan and the U.S. in six elementary schools, four junior high schools, and three kindergartens in that city. She also observed and participated in various classes from science and math to art, music, and physical education and reported her observations about the Japanese school system to the Michigan Department of Education, one sponsor of the exchange. She plans to use the realia and other materials she collected in Japan for her Japanese classes at Battle Creek Lakeview High School this fall. Alumna Ruth Keyso has terrific news about the book she has been writing in Okinawa. An American publisher, Greenwood Publishing Group in Connecticut has decided to publish it! Nine Lives: An Oral History of Life on Okinawa During the Postwar Period is scheduled to be in bookstores this time next year. Ruth will be at the AAS conference in Boston this coming March to do a poster presentation of the book. William Londo, History, is engaged in his dissertation research on the medieval history of Mt. Kôya, the center of Shingon Buddhism in Japan. He is currently a visiting researcher at the NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions in Kyôto, and is also editorial assistant for its journal, Japanese Religions. In June he presented a paper at the Japan Asian Studies Conference in Tôkyô on the revival of Mt. Kôya in the Heian era. Alumnus Keith Truelove is now at Morgan Stanley. Currently he is taking up a new challenge: equity derivative sales. Most of the products are index options and futures. Former CJS staff member, Chrisann Neuransky, paid a brief visit to the Center. Chrisann just completed a three-year JET commitment. Hiroyuki Hashimoto joins our community of scholars as the Fall 1998 Toyota Visiting Professor. Professor Hashimoto has served as a Lecturer at Tôkyô University of Information and Science,Waseda University, Chiba University, and at the University of Tôkyô. He was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University. He was appointed in the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the National Museum of Japanese History prior to his appointment in the Department of Japanese Culture, Faculty of Letters at Chiba University. He was awarded the 11th Award from the Folkloric Society of Japan in 1990 for an article titled "Theatrical Space as Contrivance: Ritual and Performing Arts at Mimi Shrine." Hashimoto specializes in studies on the performing arts that include medieval, folk and popular performing arts. During his appointment as a Toyota Visiting Professor, Professor Hashimoto will offer a course titled "Re-imaging Folk Performing Arts in Contemporary Japan." Japanese society today typically presents Japan's folk performing arts (minzoku geinô)—exemplified by regional dances, religious ritual performances, and urban theatrical performances—as a contemporary manifestation of Japan's authentic culture. They are so important they fall under the protection of legislation: the Cultural Properties Protection Law protects them as intangible national cultural properties while the Festival Law also protects them as a significant source of regional profit and economic prosperity. This course will explore the multi-layered meanings of these art forms from various angles: religion, aesthetics of the body, and media power. It will also investigate how Japanese society contructs and gives meaning to folk performing arts today. It will attempt to understand how the notion of authenticity is shaped, disseminated, and exploited. We will be welcoming Professor Hashimoto with a reception on October 16 from 5-7 p.m. at the Center. Professor Masakazu Shimada has been doing research on management systems, the history of labor relations and entrepreneurship. Professor Shimada and wife are the proud parents of a new baby girl, born Wednesday, September 9, 1998. Makoto Yamada, Professor of Economics at Kagoshima University, will be visiting the School of Public Health and the Center for a time this academic year. He is an expert on national-local financial relationships in Germany and Japan, and has recently been studying their public Long-Term-Care Insurance systems (the only ones in the world). His research in the United States will focus on various kinds on long-term care systems in different states. We are happy to welcome Sook Young Wang, Chair of the Japanese Studies Department at Inha University. Professor Wang bravely camped in the cooler climes of Upper Michigan as part of a Michigan tour. While on campus, Professor Wang will be doing research on the Western academic approach to Japanese literature, particularly the approach to contemporary literary theory. She will be examining 15th-century poetry and literary theory manuscripts held at the Asia Library. She is interested in connecting with Korean area studies scholars on the U-M campus. She has an interest in ancient Korea and Japan and the influence of the Korean handling of Chinese script on ancient Japanese script. Her most recent publication is "Nihon koten shiika" (Japanese Classical Poetry), Japanese Studies Series, no. 6, Japanese Studies Association of Korea, Seoul, in press. Also joining the campus community, for an all-too-brief visit, was Professor Takanori Fujita, Osaka International University for Women. Professor Fujita taught and performed in the special workshop on Noh theatre and gave one of our noon lectures. Part of the workshop required students to learn to perform on traditional Japanese instruments. ______________________ Organized and run by students in the University of Michigan Business School MBA Program, the 9th Annual Asian Business Conference will focus on the outlook for business in Asia as countries recover from the financial crisis of 1997-98. The conference will feature: Regional panels focusing on common issues facing companies doing business in greater China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia; functional panels addressing the opportunities and issues related to specific industries and business activities throughout Asia, including consulting, finance, human resource management, marketing, media/entertainment, and high technology; and opportunities to meet some of the top business people working in American and multinational firms in Asia. For more information, contact: East Asia Business Program at 734-764-2349. A "Negotiating with the Japanese" workshop was held Wednesday, September 30 to Friday, October 2, 1998. The next session will be February 10-12, 1999.
Admission to the Center for Japanese Studies Masters Program deadline is January 3, 1999. Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship deadline is January 15, 1999. For more information, please click here. Grant K. Goodman Fellowship and other Center Fellowships deadlines are January 7, 1999. Center for Japanese Studies U-M Faculty Associates Instructional/Course Development Seed Grants deadlines: February 1 and May 1. Please contact the Center for more detailed information about these opportunities. The Center for Japanese Studies sponsors an annual competition for grant awards supporting research on Japan. The competition is open to all University of Michigan faculty pursuing research that investigates any aspect of Japanese society and culture. Grants are awarded in a range from $500 to a maximum of $10,000. Funds may support individual or group projects and are designed to provide support for travel, lodging, salaries and benefits of research assistants; supplies and books directly related to the project. Award recipients report at the end of the award period and offer a presentation in the Center’s Noon Lecture Series. The Center for Japanese Studies wishes to invite interested faculty to submit proposals for the next award cycle. Interested individuals should contact the Center for Japanese Studies for an application form and more information. The application deadline for grants to be awarded for 1999-2000, including Summer 1999, is March 31, 1999. Deadlines for Center for Japanese Studies Students Specializing in Japanese Area Studies Conference Travel Support are November 30, January 31, and March 31 annually. The Itoh Scholarship Foundation deadline is October 1-October 31, 1998 for early entry. Mombusho deadlines are April 1 for Japanese Studies Scholarships for undergraduates and the In-Service Training for Teachers Scholarships. The interview and language testing will take place on April 8 at the Japan Consulate in Detroit. The Ito Foundation scholarship deadline is mid-February for the 1999 cycle. The NSEP (National Security Education Program) fellowships for undergraduates deadline is January 15, 1999. Please submit applications directly to the Office for International Programs. CJS is updating its student/alumni/ associate address database. If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, if you have moved or are planning to move, or if you have not been receiving a copy of the CJS Newsletter regularly, please let us know. Send a note with your new address to:
Suite 3603, 1080 S. University University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 or e-mail Linda Williams at: umcjs@umich.edu
CJS Faculty, Students and Alumni The Zatsudan Club, a Japanese conversation group for native and
non-native speakers, meets more or less regularly to chat over coffee
in Ann Arbor. They are always seeking new friends to join them. For more
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1998 Fall Calendar _______________ 17 Lecture, "Time’s Arrow: Counter-Histories and Contemporary Japanese Theatre," Miryam Sas* 24 Lecture, "Realization of the Rhythm Structure in Noh Music,"
Takanori Fujita* 25 Film, "Shall We Dance" Shall We Dansu 25 Presentation, Noh Workshop, McIntosh Hall, School of Music, 7-9 PM ____________ 1 Lecture, "The Codes of Strangers: The Culture of Information in Seventeenth-Century Japan," M. E. Berry* 2 Film, "The Ceremony" Gishiki 2-4 Conference, "Crossing Borders: Privacies," International Institute 8 Lecture, "Exhibiting Plural Japans: the Ideology and Practice of the National Museum of Japanese History," Hiroyuki Hashimoto* 9 Film, "Double Suicide" Shinju ten no amijima 15 Lecture, "Hokusai’s Courtesans and Dandies: Bijin Paintings as Records of Artistic Discourse in Late-Edo Popular Culture," John Carpenter* 16 Film, "Twenty-Four Eyes" Nijushi no hitomi 22 Lecture, "Ama Matsuri: Gender, Femininity, and ‘Tradition,’" Bethany Grenald 23 Film, "Maboroshi" Maboroshi no Hikari 29 Lecture, "Aesthetics as Ideology: The Case of Kobayashi Hideo," James Dorsey* 30 Film, "Summer in Narita" Nihon Kaiho Sensen: Sanrizuka no Natsu ______________ 5 Lecture, "Japanese Management of Technology in Comparative Perspective," Robert Cole* 6 Film, "She and He" Kanojo to kare 12 Lecture, "Etoki: The Role of Images in the Proselytization of Buddhism," Ikumi Kaminish* 13 Film, "The Sea and Poison" Umi to dokuyaku 19 Lecture, "Japan’s ‘Small Pacific’: Ocean Fears and Fantasies in Early Modern Culture," Marcia Yonemoto* 20 Film, "Gonin" Gonin ______________ 3 Lecture, "Rich Nation, No Army: Politics, History, and National Identity in Postwar Japan," Steven Benfell* 4 Film, "Ghost in the Shell" Kôkaku kidôtai 11 Film, "Fireworks" Hana-bi ____________ 3 Deadline, Admission to CJS MA Program Application 15 Deadline, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Application An asterisk (*) denotes a lecturer from outside the University. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures take place in Room 1636, 1080 S. University and begin at noon.
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