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From the Director
New Year's greetings to everyone from all of
us at CJS! We are pleased to report that the Center's Y2K preparations
were a complete success (we unplugged our computers and turned out
the lights), and accordingly we experienced no undue difficulties
during the transition to the new millennium.
By the time you read this we will have completed our reorganization
of the CJS office staff. Brett Johnson, who has been working part-time
for CJS as Program Coordinator over the past year, is now our full-time
Program Associate. Brett, who has a Ph.D. in Japanese Theater from
the University of Minnesota (1998), is particularly interested in
performance studies, film, and Japanese popular culture. In addition
to his previous part-time work for CJS, Brett was the administrator
for the Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations
at U of M. Brett thus brings a considerable degree of intellectual
expertise and administrative experience to CJS. In his new position
Brett will function as key administrator in the CJS office, and will
assume responsibility for our ongoing and expanding roster of scholarly
programs.
At the same time, Linda Williams, who has been working for CJS for
some six years now, has been promoted to Administrative Assistant.
Linda, a recent and deserving recipient of an LS&A staff award,
will continue to function as CJS Student Services representative.
In addition, Linda will take over the financial side of CJS operations,
as well as oversee development efforts.
The reorganization came about in the interests of making the Center
more responsive to faculty and student needs. As academic disciplines
grow increasingly specialized, if not narrow, and as the professional
lives of our faculty become more hectic, the challenge is to continue
to make CJS an active and integral part of Japan related research
and teaching at U of M. We hope that the new office structure will
allow us to both focus and expand our intellectual mission on campus.
We are pleased to report that the Fall Film Series was a major success,
drawing in a more diverse crowd than ever before. At the same time,
attendance at the CJS Noon Lecture Series has gone up by about 30%.
We attribute this to the calibre of the guest speakers, and to the
fact that our core constituency has finally adjusted to our new location
in the International Institute wing of the new School of Social Work
Building. The Noon Lecture Series for the Winter term promises to
be as intellectually exciting and varied as ever. (See under "events"
below.) We are also delighted to host two Toyota Visiting Professors
this semester. The first, Donald McCallum of the University of California
at Los Angeles, is a leading scholar of East Asian Buddhist art and
author of the highly acclaimed book Zenkoji and Its Icon: A Study
in Medieval Japanese Religious Art (Princeton University Press,
1994). Professor McCallum will be offering a mini-course entitled
"Temple and Icon in Seventh-Century Japan," as well as a
Noon Lecture presentation. Our second Toyota Visiting Professor for
the semester will be John Dower, the Elting E. Morison Professor of
History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Dower
is author of a number of books, including the influential War Without
Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon, 1986). His
most recent book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World
War II (W.W. Norton/The New Press, 1999), just won a National
Book Award, which he will receive immediately following his visit
to CJS. Professor Dower will be offering two one-day seminars, both
open to the public, entitled "Oxymoronic Democracy in Post-Surrender
Japan," and "WWII and Japan: The Kaleidoscope of Memory,"
in addition to a Noon Lecture presentation. (Details appear in the
listing of CJS events below.)
While I am on leave this semester, we are fortunate
to have Roy Hanashiro stand in as Interim Director. Roy, who comes
to us from the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, is a specialist
in Bakumatsu-early Meiji history, and author of the recently published
Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875
(Brill, 1999). Much of Roy's research to date has concerned the Japanese
mint and foreign experts during the Meiji period, but he has recently
begun a new line of research into the history of the Burakumin. We
are delighted to have Roy strengthen his ties to CJS, and are appreciative
of the
commitment, enthusiasm, and expertise that he brings to the position.
Robert Sharf
The Center for Japanese Studies
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Publications
Our spring lineup contains four titles that will
be published in our Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies.
The first is Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka,
by M. Cody Poulton (Monograph No. 29; ISBN 0-939512-01-7; cloth, $49.95),
the first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka
(1873-1939), a major literary figure in modern Japan. Believing in
beauty and truth and in language's mystical evocation of experience,
Kyoka sought for a way to reinvest the world with a kind of magic
that he felt was being lost. Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical
study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic
formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque
and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of
the Taisho era. It is important reading for those whose interests
lie in Japanese literature, theater, and film and in cross-cultural
theater and film.
"Dark Pictures" and Other Stories, by Noma Hiroshi,
translated and with an afterword by James Raeside (Monograph No. 30;
ISBN 0-939512-02-5; cloth, $32.95; paper, $15.95) is a collection
of dark and haunting stories of young men whose universal desires
and anxieties are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war.
In the three stories contained here--"Dark Pictures," "A
Feeling of Disintegration," and "A Red Moon in Her Face"--the
main characters are all young men who have lived through the war but
have emerged far from unscathed. In "Dark Pictures," probably
the most famous of Noma's stories, the protagonist thinks back to
his last meeting with his university friends before they were all
arrested. The "dark pictures" of the title refers to paintings
and engravings by Brueghel, which the protagonist and his friends
had viewed together. The miseries depicted in Brueghel's work seem
in retrospect to encapsulate all the miseries the main character has
suffered since seeing his friends: persecution, self-doubt, sexual
anxiety, warfare, imprisonment, bombardment, and the miseries of life
in Japan after the defeat.
The other two stories are set in the postwar world of black marketeers
and bombsites, but they too concern young men whose universal anxieties
about sexual desires and their place in the world are overshadowed
by memories of the brutality of war. These translations offer for
the first time the chance for English readers to appreciate the work
of this difficult and haunting writer.
From theater and literature we switch to politics with Local Voices,
National Issues: The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese Policy-Making,
edited by Sheila A. Smith (Monograph No. 31; ISBN 0-939512-04-1; cloth,
$32.95). This book represents a new wave of scholarly interest in
local politics and center-local relations in Japan that has been stimulated
by the end of the cold war, increasing internationalization, and the
issue of "reform." Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak studies nongovernmental
organizations and local internationalization; Sheila A. Smith analyzes
the controversial issue of U.S. military bases in Okinawa under former
Governor Ota; Patricia L. Maclachlan deals with calls for reform brought
about by revelations of corruption and unethical practices among local
bureaucrats; and Theodore J. Gilman explores urban redevelopment politics
and policy-making in Omuta. Ellis S. Krauss provides a history of
scholarship on local politics and center-local relations in his introduction,
and Patricia G. Steinhoff prepares the groundwork for future research
by exploring the various relationships between kan (officials) and
min (people) found in the new wave of research presented here.
Finally, we turn to folk religion with Shugendo: Essays on the
Structure of Japanese Folk Religion, by Miyake Hitoshi, edited
and with an Introduction by H. Byron Earhart (Monograph No. 32; ISBN
0-939512-05-X; cloth, $49.95). This work on Japanese asceticism and
folk religion represents the first comprehensive publication in English
of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugendo
(mountain asceticism) and one of the foremost researchers on Japanese
folk religion. The first part of this book is devoted to Shugendo
and introduces the results of Miyake's research on Shugendo's
history, organization, ritual, austerities, thought, and cosmology.
Related subjects include exorcism and the exclusion of women. The
second part of the book provides research and reflection on Japanese
folk religion, including essays on the idea of nature, worldly benefits,
new religions, death and rebirth, and the structure of folk religion.
Shugendo: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
clarifies the logic behind the religious syncretism of the Japanese
people. It is must reading not only for those interested in Japanese
history, culture, and religion, but also for those studying world
religions and folk culture.
To order these and other titles, please contact the University of
Michigan Press, 839 Greene St. / P.O. Box 1104, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1104,
tele: 734/764-4392; fax: 734/936-0456; e-mail: um.press.bus@umich.edu.
To find descriptions of all of our publications, see the Center's
web page and click on Publications.
Bruce Willoughby
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From the Librarian
Since beginning work at the Asia Library as the
Curator of the Japanese Collection, I have strived to maintain the
level of our collection as one of the best in the country. Despite
the dramatically changing exchange rate between the dollar and the
yen, causing us to lose approximately 30% of our purchasing power
this year, we are still aggressively obtaining major publications
on humanities and social sciences, some examples of which are listed
below.
As multi-volume sets: GHQ Nihon senryoshi, 45 vols.; Tsukamoto
Kunio zenshu, 16 vols.; Hotta Yoshie zenshu (dai 2-ki),
16 vols.; Meiji-jin ni yoru kindai Chosen ron, 20 vols.; Santo
Kyoden zenshu, 20 vols.; Suzuki Daisetsu zenshu (zoho shinpan),
40 vols.; Nihon kanshi-jin senshu, 18 vols.; Edo kyoka-bon
senshu, 15 vols.; Meiji-ki shakaigaku kankei shiryo, 10
vols.; To-Do-Fu kenbetsu Nihon no minzokubunpu chizu shuaei,
13 vols.; Mizuno Tadayuki bakumatsu roju nikki, 9 vols.; Endo
Shusaku bungaku zenshu, 15 vols.; Genji Monogatari kenkyu shusei,
15 vols.; and Genbun taisho gendaigo yaku Dogen Zenji zenshu,
17 vols.
CD-ROM publications and new serial title acquisitions include: CD-ROM
Eibun Nihon daijiten; Kamakura ibun kenkyu (CD version, no.
1 - 1998); Nihon shuppan shiryo; and Fukkoku Nihon no minzoku
ongaku, (36 CDs), among others.
The materials listed represent just a small portion of the total purchases
we have made this year. Of the entirety of 1999 acquisitions, some
are currently available for borrowing, while others are in various
stages of acquisition. Whatever the field, we hope that these materials
can be utilized to the fullest by our academic community.
Kenji Niki
Curator of the Japanese Collection
Asia Library
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CJS Events
NOON LECTURE SERIES
The CJS Noon Lecture Series begins this winter on January 13 with
Stanford University professor Bernard Faure speaking on "A
Gem of a Woman: Nagas, Jewels, and Transgressive Women in Medieval
Japan." Other lecturers will include our winter TVPs John
Dower from MIT and Donald McCallum from UCLA. Additional speakers
include John Lie, Robin LeBlanc, Kathy Uno, and Luke Roberts. Our
speakers cover a wide range of topics, from sociology, history, art
and literature, to law. All Noon Lectures (exceptions noted) are held
on Thursdays from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Room 1636 on the first floor
of the School of Social Work Building. Limited refreshments will be
served. Please refer to the calendar at the end of this issue for
a comprehensive listing of dates, times, and titles.
TOYOTA VISITING PROFESSORS (TVP)
FOR 2000-2001
For Winter, 2000, CJS brings in TVPs Donald McCallum of UCLA and John
Dower of MIT. Donald McCallum is a professor of Japanese Art History,
with an abiding interest in East Asian Buddhist Art, Japanese Buddhist
iconography, sculpture, and ritual. During his time in Ann Arbor,
Professor McCallum will be teaching a seminar entitled "Temple
and Icon in Seventh Century Japan," dealing with our understanding
of the nature of Buddhist art and architecture during the seventh
century, particularly concerning the "Four Great Temples."
Professor John Dower specializes in modern Japanese
history, especially that of World War II and the Occupation. He is
the author of the well-known War Without Mercy (1986), and
will offer a two-day seminar and a lecture on the topic of his newest
book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999),
which won the 1999 National Book Award for nonfiction. The seminar
will take place on January 17 and 19, and run from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
in SSWB Room 1636. These sessions are titled "Oxymoronic Democracy
in Post-Surrender Japan" and "WWII and Japan: The Kaleidoscope
of Memory," respectively. Professor Dower's lecture, "Japan
and the Cultures of Defeat," will take place on January 18 at
noon in the Rackham Amphitheater. All events are open to the public,
however we do request that you pre-register for the seminars with
CJS first, in order to be notified of the readings that Professor
Dower has provided.
Toyota Visiting Professors in 2000-2001 are: Social
Psychologist Susumu Yamaguchi from Tokyo University; Historian Fumiko
Umezawa from Keisen University, and Ethnomusicologist Takanori Fujita
from the Osaka International University for Women.
1999 GLOBAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP
On December 11, thirty K-12 teachers traveled to Ann Arbor to partake
in the International Institute's Saturday seminar workshop, "Growing
Up and Growing Old in East Asia." Participants in this event
received information on how to better incorporate teachings on Japan,
China, and Korea into their curriculum through a series of lectures
and informational packets. Forthcoming workshops in the series will
focus on the Middle East, Latin America & the Caribbean, and Russia
& Eastern Europe.
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Special Events
CJS AND THE 10TH ASIAN BUSINESS CONFERENCE
The 10th Asian Business Conference, presented in Assembly Hall at
the University of Michigan Business School, will take place on January
20-21, 2000. The conference brings together senior executives, consultants,
and government officials to discuss current issues affecting firms
doing business in or with Asia. This year's focus is "Asian Economies
in Transition: Refocusing, Restructuring, Revitalizing." In attendance
will be a number of invited speakers, including Masayoshi Son, Chairman
of the Softbank Corporation of Japan. For additional information on
the conference, contact the Asian Business Conference office by e-mail
asiabus2000@umich.edu or by phone at 734.763.0686.
9TH ANNUAL JSA JAPAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The Japan Student Association (JSA) is a non-profit organization run
by students attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since
its founding in 1991, JSA has held numerous educational activities
each year to share the culture of Japan with its members and the diverse
community at the University of Michigan. The JSA Japan Cultural Festival
(JCF) originated during the 50th anniversary year of the bombing of
Pearl Harbor and in commemoration of the internment of more than 120,000
Japanese-Americans.
This year's JCF promises to be another fun-filled, informative event.
Booths on culture and entertainment, ranging from music to technology
to origami and the kimono, will once again be present, providing attendees
knowledge of the Japan of the past and the Japan of the present. In
addition, Japanese food will be available to satisfy visitors' lunchtime
cravings.
The 9th Annual Japan Cultural Festival will be held on Sunday, March
12th, 2000 in the Michigan Union Ballroom. For more information on
the JCF, or to inquire about joining JSA, contact jsao@umich.edu.
FORGIVENESS
PERFORMANCE AND MINICOURSE
Forgiveness, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng and presented
by the University Musical Society, is a contemporary music theater
work that attempts to reconcile the history of Japan, China, and Korea
through theatrical collaboration. Based on the classic Chinese opera
Fa Zi Du, Forgiveness incorporates Japanese Noh
theatre, Chinese opera, and traditional Korean shamanistic dance.
The performance is Friday, March 24, 2000 at 8 p.m. at the Michigan
Theater. In preparation for the Forgiveness performance, the
Centers for Japanese and Chinese Studies, the Korean Studies Program,
and the U-M Theatre department are sponsoring a minicourse structured
around the performance. Beginning on February 24 (Room 1644 SSWB)
and continuing for seven sessions (additional meeting times and dates
to be arranged), this course will be coordinated by Brett Johnson
from the Center for Japanese Studies and will also feature guest lecturers
from various area studies faculty. Participants and also the general
public will also have a chance to take advantage of "Master Class"
performances that will be given by the performers, and other ancillary
events being created around the performance. For information on the
scheduling of these events, please refer to the calendar at the back
of this issue.
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Faculty Profile:
Roger Hackett, Professor Emeritus of History
"Zuru Zuru Koko Ni Kimashita"
When Roger Hackett "retired" from the U-M History
department in 1993, it was a jump to an even busier world. Immediately
he became involved in the "Japanese Curriculum Development in
Urban Michigan" program. Attending workshops and working as an
advisor, he helped shepherd secondary school teachers through informative
sessions about Japan. For two years he also accompanied the group
to Japan for several weeks. It was near this time as well that Roger
began to take classes again and turned his attention to a number of
research projects he had not previously had time for. Add the children
and grandchildren, playing sports, USC football, and colleagues looking
for help and this retirement thing quickly turned in to a full-time
job. The often-circuitous road that led Roger Hackett to Ann Arbor
and his current, satisfying duties actually begins in 1920's-era Kobe,
Japan.
Roger Fleming Hackett was born in Kobe, where his father
was chief financial officer for Kobe College. He grew up alongside
older sister Elizabeth, older brother Harold, and younger brother
David speaking Japanese as a first language. Although living in Japan,
the classmates of his youth were his "foreign" peers at
the Canadian Academy, his scholastic home through high school. Roger
Hackett was and is a "jock." Sport has occupied much of
his life, basketball and soccer early on, but in his junior high school
years this included a unique opportunity to swim. Japan's Olympic
team was training for the 1936 games in nearby Nishinomiya and adopted
the American boy as something of a mascot when he was constantly hanging
around their training site. Roger learned the breaststroke from the
eventual gold-medal winner of the 1936 games, training that stood
him in good stead as a competitive college swimmer ten years later.
Growing up in Kobe, Roger was not primarily interested
in Japan, preferring instead to follow the goings on in Europe. At
one time this included obtaining weekly war maps that showed the progress
of battles between Russia and Finland, and following the career of
his favorite statesman Winston Churchill. Even Churchill, however,
could not compete with sports. When it came time to apply to colleges,
Roger was quite sure he wanted to go somewhere where he could be trained
as a world-class athletics coach. His father gently suggested looking
for other opportunities as well, including those near the home of
Roger's grandfather in Minnesota. Armed with a grant from the nascent
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, on June 6, 1940 Roger Hackett, together with
the sons of two families working in missions in China, was standing
on the docks in Kobe ready to board a ship that would take him to
Northfield, MN and Carleton College. The other two boys, whom Roger
had not met before they were tossed together for the trip, were Charles
Cross and Lucian Pye. Cross eventually went on to Yale, and then to
the American diplomatic service from which he recently retired after
serving as U.S. ambassador to Singapore, Consul General in Hong Kong,
and the first director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Pye went
through Carleton and eventually on to graduate school, becoming a
distinguished China expert at MIT. In 1940, they were but three 17
year olds thrown together on the docks of Kobe and leaving home.
Roger landed on his feet quite nicely at Carleton, where
he had a work-study job as a scullion in the women's dorm. He laments
the fact that he "was never able to rise to the high rank of
waiter." As Roger was settling in, his mother and sibling heeded
the U.S. government's advice and slipped out of Japan and over to
Minnesota. His father had financial responsibilities related to his
work and couldn't get out until late in 1941 (barely making it out
at all). Roger's studies at Carleton were summarily interrupted by
the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at first a shock and then a determinate.
With America's entry into the war and Japan a sudden enemy, Roger
had become the "go-to" guy on campus for questions about
Japan. He found there were many he couldn't answer. Roger had for
years seen the home front of the Japanese war effort, and had even
seen the destruction wrought in Shanghai when he traveled there with
his high school basketball team. But the bombing and subsequent war
with the U.S. was a lot for a Japan-raised American teenager to come
to grips with. Roger eventually made the decision to serve the U.S
against Japan and joined the Navy Japanese Language School in Colorado
(he and Chuck Cross were the two youngest there). Naturally athletic,
Roger quickly jumped at a Navy school opportunity to join the Marines,
feeling the action of the branch would be preferable to what he felt
was an inevitable Navy desk job.
Meanwhile, other Hacketts served the war effort in other
ways. Roger's older sister Elizabeth would eventually marry a second-generation
Japanese-American she met while working as the Camp Commander's secretary
at the Army Japanese Language School in Minnesota. Harold was a non-religious
conscientious objector who spent the war years in a war camp. A lifelong
writer/poet/musician, he refused to accept the brutality of the world
and never ceased in his own way to soften it. 180 of Harold's letters
were donated to the rare book collection here at Michigan as "radical"
literature. Harold's letters to Roger during and about the war were
a constant source of orientation. What he stood for deeply affected
Roger who tried to persuade officers and Marine's to capture the Japanese
(as opposed to shooting at them) when the chance arose. The war was
a particularly human tragedy for the Hacketts. Roger felt the U.S.
was "right," but meeting one's childhood on the battlefield
was an irrepressibly bleak undertaking.
Roger Hackett was in Okinawa preparing for an invasion
of Japan, when the war ended. Hackett was subsequently sent to China,
where he was reunited with fellow Marine Charles Cross, to help with
the demilitarization of the Japanese there. Despite various armed
services' entreaties to work with the allied occupation force in Postwar
Japan, Roger made his way out of the service and back to Carleton
College in 1946 (he had still not been to Japan since he left in 1940).
A more focused Roger Hackett quickly finished up his undergraduate
degree at Carleton while swimming for the varsity team and falling
in love with Caroline Gray. Roger would later claim that his only
reason for returning to Carleton after the war was to meet her. He
spied Caroline not long after his return to school and swears he didn't
let her out of his sight until they were married six months later.
Caroline Gray, a budding scholar in her own right, was the better
typist of the two and quietly typed his seminar essays while unbeknownst
to him (Roger only found out the truth years later) paying to have
someone else type her honors thesis. As she typed, Roger essayed his
way right into Phi Beta Kappa.
Following a summer course in the International Studies
Center in New Hampshire, Hackett went on to Harvard where he found
stimulation in the form of both John Fairbank and Edwin Reischauer.
A career as a diplomat seemed to be calling. As his graduate studies
expanded into a full-fledged Ph.D., Hackett stayed on two extra years
at Harvard to teach in the Reischauer /Fairbank Asian Studies course.
The Hacketts began a family of their own at this time and the eventual
result was three children: Anne, David, and Brian. At the same time,
Roger was reunited with his younger brother David who was also attending
Harvard (in Chemistry and Biology). Roger has always claimed that
his older brother Harold was the writer of the family and his younger
brother David the most brilliant mind. The two younger Hackett brothers
met on common ground in the poetry class of Archibald MacLeish one
of the most mesmerizing lecturers on campus. David, eventually a prominent
young member of the science faculty at Berkeley, was to be tragically
murdered at the age of 39. David's son Paul Roger Hackett has since
gone on to become the head football coach at USC. Roger now lives
his sporting dreams, at least in part, vicariously through his nephew
Paul. In the early 1950s, however, the brothers found safe turf at
a Boston jazz club where they could talk music and nurse a beer for
hours.
Armed with an SSRC grant to Tokyo University, Roger
Hackett went back to Japan for the first time since he leaving as
a college-bound 17 year-old. He was to be a special graduate student
attending seminars and lectures and researching Yamagata Aritomo.
In his preliminarily Orals for the Ph.D. at Harvard he offered two
Chinese fields and an "international field." He was a Japan
specialist but in early 1950s America nobody was yet teaching advanced
work on Japan. He remembers being something of a disappointment to
the Todai faculty. Welcomed to the Japanese university with open arms
as a promising young scholar from Harvard, he saw host faculty excitement
fade as soon as he announced that he was interested in "modern"
history. Todai had nobody in the literary (bungakubu) faculty
teaching kindaishi (modern Japanese history), certainly nothing
as "new" as the Meiji era.
With the extra two years at Harvard and now pursuing
research in Japan, Roger Hackett had committed himself to life in
the academy. A chance meeting with Bob Scalapino (Berkeley professor
of Political Science) in the Isseido bookstore in Kanda led, by fits
and starts, to a 1953 faculty position at Northwestern. It was Roger
Hackett's responsibility to open up East Asian History to the undergraduates
at Northwestern with an East Asia course, a modern China course and
a modern Japan course in the first year (during which time he was
expected to finish his dissertation). Northwestern's History department
was a small and collegial bunch with rotating faculty social functions
hosted at each of the professor's homes in turn. Roger Hackett first
shared an office with famed Woodrow Wilson scholar Arthur Link, and
would eventually buy Link's Evanston home which became the Hackett's
first house. Five years after joining the staff, John Fairbank talked
Hackett in to the Editorship of the Journal of Asian Studies,
which he undertook from 1959-1962. While Northwestern had no Japanese
language program and no graduate students, the JAS editorial duties
brought Hackett into contact with virtually everyone in the field,
and brought "everyone" in contact with him.
In 1961, with an opportunity to narrow his focus and
work with graduate students, Professor Roger Hackett joined the history
department at Michigan. He signed on specifically as a Japan historian
and would now spend 80% of his contact time with graduate students.
At U-M's Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) he joined Bob Ward, Richard
Beardsley, James Plummer, Joseph Yamagiwa, Mischa Titiev, Bob Hall,
and a young Bill Malm among others. Given Michigan's size, Hackett
was for the first time at a place where it was possible after a year
not to know all of the faculty members even within his own department
(History). This was not the case at the Center for Japanese Studies
however, which was a close-knit group of scholars whose families often
met at Center social engagements. Intellectually, CJS was moving toward
scholarship based around principles of "modernization."
During professor Hackett's tenure, the publication of the "Twelve
Doors" book, as well as the final scholarship on the Okayama
field station were completed. He also saw first "modernization"
and then the auto industry and business take hold as essential center
projects. During this time as well, the Center received a million
dollar endowment from the Japanese government and greatly expanded
its faculty. At the beginning of Hackett's association with the Center
(he would be Center Director from 1968-71 and again from 1978-79),
there was a large cohort of MA students. One of Roger's teaching assignments
was the coordination of the core MA course in Japan Studies, commonly
referred to as the "Twelve Doors" course, complete with
oral exit interview and multiple teachers. This was a time in the
development of Japan studies when many of the resultant MA essays
were on the cutting edge of scholarship.
Throughout his time at Michigan, Roger Hackett worked as an administrator
and more for the Center while supervising more than two dozen Ph.D.
theses and continuing to research, publish, and teach at the undergraduate
and graduate levels. His goal as a teacher has always been to "excite
the undergraduates about the things that excite me" and to "learn
from and teach the graduate students at the highest level possible.
"
Roger Fleming Hackett, Born: Kobe Japan; HS diploma
from the Canadian Academy, Kobe; BA Carleton College; MA, Ph.D. Harvard
University; Faculty, Northwestern University; Editor Journal of
Asian Studies; Faculty, University of Michigan; Director, Center
for Japanese Studies; Chairman, Department of History; scholar; teacher;
student; son; husband; father; uncle; grandfather; jock; traveler;
writer; sports fan . . . is fond of describing his journey thus far
with the phrase "zuru zuru koko ni kimashita". It
is a phrase that captures the affect that unknowable situations, obstacles,
and achievements have in causing one's life path to be filled with
uncontrollable twists and turns. If you're lucky, one of your twists
or turns might involve Roger Hackett. It is quite possible as you
are taking or teaching your next class at U-M, Roger will be there
(he is attracted to both good teachers and interesting subjects).
If you talk with him, you will certainly catch a glimpse of the 17-year-old
who left his family behind on the Kobe docks, the love-struck college
student still married to his college sweetheart, the man who misses
his brothers, the battle-weary Marine, the proud uncle, the skilled
administrator, the scholar, and the student. You will also encounter
a man who has been both further from and closer to Japan than most
of us could ever conceive of as possible.
"A Song to My Brothers in This Hour"
Let us sit in a circle
cross-legged in the old fashion
Singing sad songs . . . .
For the country of our birth is turned upon us;
The green hills of our gestation are fanged in
desperate defiance;
About us everywhere the fires of hate are kindling.
The people of our youth-days -
the proud and kindly people -
They are despised!
Already I see the teeming cities infernoed:
The people, the proud kind courteous people
are burnt to their blindness;
nailed to a desperate hour.
It is a sad time
needing a sad song.
- Harold W. Hackett, Jr.
Portion of a poem given to his brothers on the
outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the U.S.
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Faculty and Associate
News
While continuing his position as the Director
of the Korean Studies Program this academic year, Professor John
Campbell, Political Science, has also just been named to the Board
of the National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Resources,
and is for a second year a faculty member at the SSRC Dissertation
Workshop in Japanese Studies. He is also directing "Losing Faith
in Politics? Trends in Citizen Attitudes and Behavior in Japan and
the United States," a joint research project and seminar supported
by the Center for Global Partnership and Pacific Basin Research Center.
This project involves twenty political scientists in the United States
and Japan, all examining survey data from both countries over time.
During 2000, Professor Campbell will also be a visiting professor
and acting director of the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, and
will serve pro term as the U-M representative on the governing board.
Research associate Aileen Gatten is currently completing a
study of Tonomine Shosho monogatari while also beginning
work on a study of the family and world of Fujiwara no Tamefusa. In
January, she will present "Faith, Love, and Smallpox: Letters
of an Eleventh-Century Japanese Noblewoman" at the University
of Zurich.
Professor Roy Hanashiro, History, had his book Thomas William
Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875 published in
October through Brill Academic Press. He also served as Executive
Secretary at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, and will be
the CJS Interim Director during Winter Term 2000. In Summer 2000,
he will be in Japan doing research on discrimination, space, and state
policies.
Professor Emeritus William P. Malm, Ethomusicology, has accepted
a winter term visiting professorship at the University of Hawaii,
beginning January 2000.
Spending a year in Japan through the help of a Fulbright grant, Professor
Abe Markus Nornes, Film and Video, is researching and writing
about film director Ogawa Shinsuke and his film collective. In September,
Professor Nornes participated in a workshop on translation organized
by Dartmouth and Georgetown, while during October, his article "The
Body at the Center" was published in Japanese. At the Yamagata
Film Festival, Professor Nornes gave a speech on the festival's opening
film Filmmaking and the Way to the Village, and in November
presented a lecture on translation and cinema at the Meiji Gakuin
Film Studies Research Group.
Professor Jennifer Robertson, Anthropology, has recently been
awarded the Kurt Weill Prize for her book Takarazuka: Sexual Politics
and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (University of California
Press, 1998; 2nd printing April 1999), by the Kurt Weill Foundation.
She was the recipient of a Michigan Humanities Award for 1999 - 2000,
received an LS&A Excellence in Research Award in 1999, was a Visiting
Research Scholar at the American University in Cairo October - November
1999, and will be a Visiting Scholar at the H.S. Truman Research Institute
for the Advancement of Peace (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
from May - June 2000. Among her 1999 publications were the Japanese
edition of "Takarazuka," Odoru teikokushugi: Takarazuka
ni miru kindai nihon no sei to bunka no shokuminchifu (Dancing
Imperialism: The Colonization of Sex and Culture in Modern Japan as
Framed by the Takarazuka Revue), published by Gendai Shokan in December;
"Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan, "
in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 25 (1):
1-36; "Sexuality and Shopping: Eugenics and Female Citizenship
in Urban Japan, 1920-1940," in Rethinking Urban and Mass Culture
in 1920s and 1930s Japan: Representations, Politics, Identities and
Subject Formations; "Pathology and Desire: Fans of Japan's
All-Female Takarazuka Revue," (translation into Finnish), Lahikuva,
Summer 1999; and "Drama, Discipline and Desire: The All-Female
Takarazuka Revue," (translation into German), Japanische Bibliothek,
vol. 32. Her work as General Editor of Colonialisms, a University
of California Press book series Professor Robertson initiated on the
histories and practices of colonialism and imperialism outside of
Western Europe and the United States, 19th - 21st centuries will result
in three volumes forthcoming in 2000. Professor Robertson will also
be giving numerous invited lectures in 2000 on topics ranging from
"Miss Japan: Eugenics and other Technologies of the Female Body
in Wartime Japan" to "To Mix or Not to Mix: 'Blood' and
the Politics of Assimilation in Imperial Japan" at venues including
the University of Illinios, the Association of Asian Studies annual
meeting in San Diego, and Hebrew University, among others.
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Student & Alumni
News
Anne Hooghart is now teaching full-time at Battle
Creek Lakeview High School, where she's happy to report that there
are 140 students enrolled in Japanese I through IV. In November, she
presented a paper entitled Teachers of Japanese in Michigan: Who Are
We? at the National American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
conference in Dallas. On December 11, she was one of four presenters
at the International Institute's Global Education Workshop "Growing
Up and Growing Old in East Asia."
Heather Hopkins-Clement recently told us of her new position
as Pacific Rim Trade Manager for American Health & Nutrition,
a worldwide supplier of organically grown commodities based in Ann
Arbor. She also completed an MBA at Michigan State in December through
the Weekend MBA program.
Jon Metzler let us know that since graduating in 1994, he has
held a variety of interesting positions, ranging from working with
CBS News during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics to editing avant,
a national men's magazine in Japan published by Asahi Shimbun Publications,
Inc. Currently, Jon is at the University of California, Berkeley,
enrolled in the MBA/MA Asian Studies Dual Degree Program.
Brian Minahan writes to let us know that he is working for
Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics as their General Manager, Asia. He
is on the board of directors of their affiliate in Tokyo, and is also
a director of Japan Abrasives Co., Ltd., based in Osaka. At the moment,
he and his wife are living in Tokyo and say they would appreciate
hearing from anyone from the U-M community that may be in the Tokyo
area.
Since taking a position as Assistant Professor at the University of
Kansas History Department, Eric Rath has informed us that he
and his wife Kiyomi are now the parents of a newborn baby girl, Dana
Hiroko Rath. We wish them all the best!
David Rosenfeld reports that he is the organizer of a panel
at the 2000 Association for Asian Studies conference on "National
Fictions: Modern Constructions of Japanese National Identity."
An article entitled, "Counter-Orientalism and Textual Play in
Akutagawa's The Ball" is also forthcoming in the journal Japan
Forum.
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Visitors
U-M CJS graduate Maribeth Graybill returns to
the Ann Arbor community as a visiting professor to teach "Survey
of Japanese Painting" through the History of Art Department during
the Winter Term. Professor Graybill is currently an Associate Professor
of Art History at Swarthmore College, teaching a broad range of study
on Asian art to interested students while also organizing a variety
of exhibits and writing numerous articles focusing on Japanese art
history.
In addition to the 1999 - 2000 Toyota Visiting Professors, the University
also welcomes Professors Osamu Morita and Masahito Inouye
who will be visiting professors at the U-M Law School during the winter
semester. Their visit is part of the exchange program between U-M
and Tokyo University Law Schools. Professor Morita teaches the basic
civil code (contracts, torts) class at Tokyo University and is part
of the Japanese law and economics movement. Professor Inouye is a
specialist in criminal law and criminal procedure. We also welcome
visiting law professors Atsushi Kinami from Kyoto University
and Takashi Maruta from Gakushuin University. Professor Maruta
will be giving a Noon Lecture on March 30 on "Sexual Harassment
and Male Chauvinism in Japan."
The Department of Family Medicine is hosting two visitors from Nagasaki
University, Doctor Yoshiyuki Ozono and Doctor Shinji Sato.
Both are interested in Primary Care and Family Medicine, and will
be on campus until February 28, 2000.
Professor Kathleen Uno, Temple University, continues as a visiting
scholar in the History department. Professor Uno is highly regarded
in the Japan field as a social historian doing work on issues of gender,
family, and childhood in early modern and modern periods. Her book
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform
in Early Twentieth Century Japan was published in April by The
University of Hawaii Press, and Gendering Modern Japanese History,
a work she is co-editing, is forthcoming from Harvard University's
Center for East Asian Studies Publications program. During the winter
semester, Professor Uno will be teaching two classes, "Asian
Women in Transition: Crossing Pacific Boundaries" and "Rethinking
Society And Empire in Japan," and on February 17, 2000 will present
a lecture at the International Institute as part of the CJS Noon Lecture
Series.
Thanks go out to Stephen Vlastos, Fall 1999's Toyota Visiting
Professor, for his contribution to the CJS Noon Lecture Series, and
for his well-received course, "Agriculture and Japanese Society
and Political Economy, 1700 to 1930." Professor Vlastos returns
to his work at the University of Iowa, but we were very pleased that
he was able to spend the past fall teaching at Michigan.
Unfortunately, due to a variety of factors, renowned biwa performer
Fumon Yoshinori's visit to Ann Arbor had to be cancelled. Plans
are underway to try and reschedule a visit for the Fall 2000 term.
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Lane Hall Receives New Look, Occupants
Lane Hall, the Center's previous home for over 40 years,
is undergoing major reconstruction. The building is receiving a facelift
for the millennium, whereupon the Institute for Research on Women
and Gender and the Women's Studies department will take up residence
in the newly transformed building. Lane Hall has gone through much
change since its construction in 1916 as a University YMCA. Religious
organizations of various sorts took up residence there as eventually
did a number of area Centers including CJS. Look for Lane Hall to
reopen for business in the summer of 2000.
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Faculty &
Student Funding
Faculty Funding:
Center for Japanese Studies U-M Faculty Associates Instructional/Course
Development Seed Grants deadlines are February 1 and May 1. Please
see http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/funding/funding.html 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 $30,000. Funds may support individual
or group projects and are designed to provide support for travel,
lodging, salaries and benefits for the principal researcher and research
assistants, supplies, and books directly related to the project. Award
recipients report at the end of the award period and may be called
to 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 2000-2001, including Summer 2000, is February 15, 2000. For more
information on CJS and external funding, please see:
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/funding/funding.html.
Student Funding:
The Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship deadline is January
15, 2000. For more information, please consult http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/ii/flas/.
Deadlines for Center for Japanese Studies Students Specializing in
Japanese Area Studies Conference Travel Support are November 30, January
31, and March 31 annually.
Monbusho deadlines are April 1 for Japanese Studies Scholarships for
undergraduates and the In-Service Training for Teachers Scholarships.
Interviews and language testing will take place in early April at
the Japan Consulate in Detroit.
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Announcements
Zatsudan Club
The Zatsudan Club, a Japanese conversation group for
native and non-native speakers, meets more or less regularly to chat
over cofee in Ann Arbor. They are always seeking new friends to join
them. For more information, contact: Ann Hooghart, tel. 616.965.2326,
e-mail: Anne_M._Hoorhart2glfn.org.
Looking For Articles
ii: The Journal of the International Institute (University
of Michigan) looks for articles with an international aspect or focus.
Past articles have ranged from an examination of health issues in
Africa to the debate over whether to prosecute Bosnian war crimes
in international or national courts. The Journal's 10,000-member readership
encompasses both scholars and general readers. Submissions, therefore,
should appeal to a general intellectual audience. Feature articles
should be 2,000 to 4,000 words in length. Contact: Michelle Harper
or Bonnie Brereton, , Editors, The Journal of the International Institute,
tel. 734.936.8680, fax 734.763.9154.
Looking for Updates
CJS invites all faculty, associates, students, and alumni to send
in news about what you've been doing. Additionally, 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:
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The Center for Japanese Studies wishes to take
this opportunity to thank our donors for their generous contributions
to Center programs.
Center for Japanese Studies
University of Michigan
Suite 3603, 1080 S. University
Director: Robert Sharf
Graduate Secretary: Linda Williams
Program Coordinator: Brett Johnson
Student Assistant: Kevin Martin
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2000 WINTER CALENDAR
JANUARY
13 Lecture: A Gem of a Woman: Nagas, Jewels, and
Transgressive Women in Medieval Japan, Bernard Faure, Stanford
University
14 Reception: Reception for TVP Don McCallum, II Gallery, 1st
Floor SSWB, 4:30 p.m.
17 Seminar: Oxymoronic Democracy in Post-Surrender Japan,
John Dower, TVP Winter 2000. SSWB 1636, 4:00 p.m.
18 Lecture: Japan and the Cultures of Defeat, John Dower,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TVP Winter 2000. Rackham Amphitheater,
12:00 p.m.
19 Seminar: WWII and Japan: The Kaleidoscope of Memory,
John Dower, TVP Winter 2000. SSWB 1636, 4:00 p.m.
20-21 Conference: 10th Asian Business Conference, Asian
Economies in Transition: Refocusing, Restructuring, Revitalizing,
Assembly Hall, University of Michigan Business School
27 Lecture: Multiethnic Japan, John Lie, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Room 4051, LS&A Building
31 Deadline: CJS Student Conference Travel Support
FEBRUARY
1 Deadline:U-M Faculty Associates Instructional/Course
Development Seed Grants
3 Lecture: Matsumoto Shunsuke, 1944 - 1948: Desperation, Redemption,
Death, Don McCallum, UCLA, TVP Winter 2000
10 Lecture: Character Comes Out: Human Beings and Structures
of Power in Japanese Local Politics, Robin LeBlanc, Washington and
Lee University
15 Deadline: CJS Faculty Research Grants
17 Lecture: Century of the Child? Approaching Modern Japanese
Children's History, Kathy Uno, Temple University
25 Lecture: Women, Youths, and Men: Male-Male Eroticism
and the Age-Gender System of Tokugawa Japan, Greg Pflugfelder,
Columbia University
MARCH
12 Festival: Japan Cultural Festival, Michigan Union
Ballroom, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
16 Lecture: Whither the Japanese Employment System: Becoming
like "Us"?, Andrew Gordon, Reischauer Institute Professor
of Japanese Studies
22 Master Class: Korean Salpuri Dance, Betty Pease Studio,
U-M Dance Building, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
22 Master Class: Japanese Noh Theater, Arena Theater, Frieze
Building, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
22 Interview: Chen Shi-Zheng, director of Forgiveness.
Room 1636, International Institute, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
23 Lecture: Okinawan Memoirs: Three Generations of Island
Women Remember the Postwar Past, Ruth Ann Keyso, Senior Editor,
Calibre Press
23 Museum Tour and Lecture: Tour of "The Orchid Pavilion
Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum
of Art" and Chinese Opera lecture demonstration by Zhou Long.
U-M Museum of Art, 6:30 p.m.
24 Performance: Forgiveness, Michigan Theater, 8:00
p.m.
30 Lecture: Sexual Harassment and Male Chauvinism in Japan,
Takashi Maruta, U-M Visiting Professor of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University
31 Deadline: CJS Student Conference Travel Support
APRIL
1 Deadline:Monbusho grant applications
6 Lecture: Questioning 'Japan': Edo Era Politics in Their Own
Terms, Luke Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara
MAY
1 Deadline: U-M Faculty Associates Instructional/Course
Development Seed Grants.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures take place in
Room 1636, 1080 S. University, begin at 12:00p.m., and are part of
the CJS Noon Lecture Series.
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Last update: January 10, 2000 by C. Thompson
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