A complete listing of all the UHM-affiliated papers given at this years meeting can be found archived on the CJS website.

We hope everyone had a won-derful and productive time at the meeting and is preparing for 2012 in Toronto.

The Association of Asian Studies (AAS) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) held a joint conference at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center from March 30-April 3, 2011. This con-ference was one of the largest gatherings of scholars on Asia this year and CJS faculty and graduate students were well-represented. More than twenty CJS faculty, graduate students, and alumni presented papers at the conference on a range of topics across the disciplines.

Beyond paper presentations, numerous UHM graduate stu-dents in Japan-related areas were able to attend the confer-

ence and meet scholars from throughout the mainland and Asia.

This was the first time since 1991 the AAS annual meeting was held in Honolulu. It was also the largest AAS meeting to date, with nearly 800 panels spread over four days.

Association of Asian Studies, International Convention of Asia Scholars meeting in Honolulu

J-Current reports on the achieve-ments and activities of UHM Japanese Studies faculty and stu-dents as well as Japan-related events, research, scholarships and overseas programs. Please send materials for submission to: Paul Christensen J-Current Editor Center for Japanese Studies 1890 East-West Road, Moore 216 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Honolulu, HI 96822 E-mail: cjs@hawaii.edu Tel: (808) 956-2667 Fax: (808) 956-2666 Web: www.hawaii.edu/cjs Copyright © 2011 Center for Japanese Studies. All rights reserved. An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Institution

Spring 2011

Inside this issue:

CJS Seminar Series 2

Student Voices 2

Library, Center for Okinawan Studies

3

Akihito Scholarship 2011 4

Poetry Contest 4

Kabuki at Kennedy Theatre

6

Graduate Student Awards and Announce-

ments 6 –7

EPIC Program Summer Interns to Ehime 7

Faculty Announce-ments and Publications 5

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events as they develop.

CJS encourages anyone want-ing to donate to the relief ef-fort to contact the American Red Cross, the Japan Red Cross, or other established charitable organizations. Addi-tionally, Aloha for Japan, a non-profit organization set up out of the Lieutenant Gover-nor’s Office immediately fol-lowing the tragedy, is coordi-nating and accepting dona-tions along with the Japan-America Society of Hawaiʻi, to aid in the relief efforts.

The earthquake and tsunami that struck off the coast of Tohoku and brought unimag-inable damage, loss of life, and nuclear uncertainty to Japan has been foremost in the minds of CJS staff and com-munity members this semes-ter. Everyone at CJS would like to again extend their deepest sympathies and con-dolences to those in Japan who continue to suffer from the earthquake and tsunami damage. All of Japan has been in our thoughts since this tragic disaster began and we will continue to follow the

Perhaps of greatest impor-tance is the need to remember this series of tragic events as they continue to unfold. As a community in Hawaiʻi with strong connections to Japan the importance of the recovery efforts cannot be understated. Scholars of Japan, valued com-munity members, and students will all have a role to play in the ongoing recovery efforts. As those with a deep invest-ment in Japan, CJS encourages all its members and affiliates to find any and all means to help Japan during this moment of recovery.

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

There were several “firsts” for the CJS seminar series during the spring 2011 semester, in-cluding a film screening and pecha-kucha night.

Alessandra Sabelli (PhD student, anthropology) began the semester with a graduate seminar on February 11 titled “Aging with Robots in Japan: A Future with Emotional Technology.” Alessandra’s research is based on her field-work and looks at the use of technology and robotics in the care of Japan’s elderly.

On February 18 CJS hosted a film screening of the docu-mentary Can’t Go Native? The film chronicles Dr. Keith Brown (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh) and his more than 50 years of fieldwork in the village of Mizusawa in north-ern Japan. The screening was well-attended and a lively ques-

tion and answer session fol-lowed, led by Dr. Brown. Pic-tured at right are: Dr. Robert Huey (CJS Director), Eric Cunningham (PhD candidate, anthropology), Dr. Brown, Toru Yamada (PhD candi-date, anthropology), Dr. Paul Christensen (CJS Special Pro-jects Coordinator), Dr. Chris-tine Yano (Professor of An-thropology), Patrick Ball (PhD student, anthropology), and Dr. Gay Satsuma (CJS Associate Director) follow-ing the film screening.

CJS also held our first ever pecha-kucha night on March 4 in the Tokioka Room. Six UHM graduate students presented their research in pecha kucha format, a style of presentation initially devel-oped in architecture where 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each. The result is highly visual, fun, and infor-

mative presentations. The eve-ning’s presenters, pictured di-rectly below, included Eric Cun-ningham (Anthropology), Travis Seifman (Art History), Laura Specker (Philosophy), Yoshi-taka Miyake (Geography), Crystal Valliant (EALL), and James Jack (Art History). The event was such a success that we are planning to make it a regular addition to the semester seminar series.

workers live out these struc-tural conditions. I demonstrate how temporary agency work-ers experience neoliberalism and respond to it at a micro level.

CJS enabled me to pursue this study. A 2009-10 CJS fellow-ship allowed me to reside and write in Hawaiʻi. Thanks to Prof. Steinhoff, I participated in the Japanese Studies disser-tation writing workshop “Global Network for Research Training in the Social Sciences in Modern Japanese Studies” at Sheffield, UK in March

My dissertation is on the ex-periences of temporary agency workers (haken rōdōsha) in fac-tories. Increased emphasis on flexibility in human resource management and growing numbers of contingent work-ers is an issue Japan shares with other industrialized na-tions. Temporary workers face job insecurity, lower wages, and meager promotion pros-pects. Under neoliberal ideol-ogy workers are stigmatized as the degenerate undeserving poor responsible for their own economic fate. My study ex-amines how transitory agency

2009. The intense workshop included numerous established professors and a cosmopolitan collection of minds (American scholars teaching in the UK, German scholars teaching in Singapore, Japanese students studying in Germany, French students about to head to Ja-pan for field research). I’m grateful for CJS funding my expenses, especially when I had to fly into Chicago from Sheffield for the annual AAS meeting. The Tokyo-Sheffield-Chicago flight was not one I could afford out of pocket. Thank you CJS!

CJS Seminar Series, Spring 2011

CJS Student Voices - Shinji Kojima, Sociology

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CJS Graduate stu-dents: Would you like to share your experiences in an upcoming J-Current? We will be running a CJS Student Voices column in subse-quent issues and would love to hear from you. Please email the editor at cjs@hawaii.edu

A new image database, "Images of Okinawa after World War II," has been developed for researchers in the Okinawan studies community. The site http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/okinawa/ provides a searchable database of over 250 digitized im-ages from the Kupfer Slide Collec-tion and photos of the US Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Is-lands (USCAR). The Kupfer Slide Collection consists of 154 color slides, taken by Dr. Kupfer when he was stationed in Okinawa from 1945-46 and 27 color slides taken in 1956 by Ms. Irene Betan. 53 black & white USCAR photos were part of the materials left by the late Dr. Douglas G. Haring, a Ryukyuan scholar at Syracuse Uni-versity. For more information, contact Ms. Tokiko Y. Bazzell, Japan Collection Librarian at Ham-ilton Library tokiko@hawaii.edu.

The UHM Library's Asia Collec-tion librarians actively participated in the Council on East Asian Li-braries (CEAL) and Association

for Asian Studies (AAS) Confer-ence held at the Honolulu Con-vention Center from March 29 to April 8, 2011. During and immediately after the Confer-ence, over 20 librarians and Japa-nese publishers from Japan and the US Mainland toured Hamil-ton Library and exchanged infor-mation with other Japan Studies Librarian. Some of them assisted the Library's 2004 flood disaster and they were all impressed with how well the Library had recov-ered. The visitors from Japan also expressed their appreciation for everyone’s kindness and con-cern with regard to the disasters taking place in Japan. The Japa-nese publishers led by the Japan Publishing & Trading Company (JPTC) also donated nearly 200 new Japanese titles with a retail value of over $8,000 to the Li-brary.

Pictured: A group photo in front of the Hamilton Library. From left: Ms. Kazuko Sakagu-chi (Reischauer Institute of

From the Library

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The Center for Okinawan Studies continued its lecture series this semester, starting on January 20, with a talk by Nancy Tome of the Okina-wan Genealogical Society of Hawaii (OGSH). Ms. Tome spoke about the activities of the OGSH and also gave some interesting tips about doing research on Okinawan gene-alogies.

On February 1, a delegation from the University of the Ryukyus (Ryudai) did an infor-mational session to promote

From the Center for Okinawan Studies the exchange programs between UHM and Ryudai. Students were given the opportunity to learn what the exchange programs were about and how they could apply for the programs. UHM’s Office of International and Ex-change Programs also informed students of the procedures at UHM for applying to such pro-grams.

On March 7 and 8, Professors Manabu Oshiro, Masahide Ishihara, and Shigehisa Kari-mata of Ryudai gave talks on kumiodori, Okinawan language

revitalization, and resources being developed for learning Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan lan-guage), respectively. These lec-tures were well attended (standing room only).

Pictured from left to right: COS Direc-tor Dr. Joyce Chi-nen, University of the Ryukyus profes-sors Dr. Masahide Ishihara, Dr. Shige-hisa Karimata, Dr. John Lim, and Dr. Manabu Oshiro.

Japanese Stud-ies at Harvard University), Ms. Tomoko Bia-lock (Southern California Uni-versity), Mr. Yano Masa-taka (Resources and Historical Collection Office at the University of Tokyo), Mr. Toshiyasu Oba (National Diet Library), Ms. Tokiko Bazzell, & Ms. Izumi Koide (Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation). Below: Image from the Oki-nawa database site - http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/okinawa/

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issue in Japan that also dates back to rebuilding efforts and industri-alization in the immediate post-war era.

Michelle will be affiliated with Kumamoto University in central Kyushu during her two years of fieldwork in Japan. Congratula-tions on receiving this prestigious and exciting award!

Akihito Scholarship 2011 Michelle Daigle (PhD Candi-date, Anthropology) has been awarded the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship for 2011. Michelle’s research looks at industrial pollution and its environmental impact in Japan, specifically as it pertains to Minamata disease. Minamata disease, mercury poisoning, remains a persistent social

Thirteenth Annual Japanese Poetry Contest The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department held their Thirteenth Annual Japa-nese Poetry Contest this se-mester. The panel of judges for the 2011 Japanese Poetry Contest distributed 28 awards to students in all levels of Japanese courses from hun-dreds of submissions.

Justin Kanda in JPN 402 won the Sen Soshitsu Poetry Award, Brissa Yamamura in JPN 201 was selected for the Literature Faculty Haiku Prize, Yuta Yamada in JPN 202 was given the Perry Ishigaki Choko Haiku Prize, and Natalie Chen in JPN 101 was selected for the Perry Ishigaki Choko Poetry Prize. Each winning poem is reprinted below.

Justin Kanda:

のばす手の

隙間から落ち

なくす愛

海の水にて

洗う傷跡

Brissa Yamamura:

日本のそぼ

よく分からない

えがおだけ Yuta Yamada:

桜見て

大切な時

友だちと

Natalie Chen:

「かくれんぼ」

ゆきがある

しろうさぎはしる

みえますか

There were also individual winner at the different level divisions. Chalei Maduli was the winner at the Japanese 100 level, Devin Kamita at the 200 level, Alia Aihara at the 300 level, and Stacy Take-shita at the 400 level.

Chalei Maduli:

大地震

次は日本に

良い波を

Devin Kamita:

「かなしい十二月」

くろいふく

たくさんのひと

十二月のてんきは

さむくて、くらい

食べ物が多いけど

だれも食べたくない

みないたむ

かなしくいう

「どうしてもう

ぼくのゆうじん

早くしぬ」

Alia Aihara

気がついた！

愛することは

雪みたい…

美しいけど、

早く溶ける

Stacy Takeshita:

「見えない」

目を覚ました瞬間から

雪が降っている

二台の車

血液

人が地面に横たわっている

母と父が見えた

母と父が声をあげて泣いている

大衆の方へ手を振る

どうして誰も私が見えないの？

Ms. Tokiko Bazzell moderated Session 191: Workshop: Japanese Company Histories: their resource value and limitations in relation to corporate archives, and business administration and area studies - Sponsored by Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group at the AAS conference in Hono-lulu.

Dr. Haruko M. Cook (EALL) presented a paper entitled, “Learning to shift styles during study abroad in Japan: A case study of an American JFL learner” in a colloquium, by the same title at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Confer-ence, Chicago, March 26-29, 2011.

Dr. Patrice Flowers’ (Political Science) new book Refugees, Women, and Weapons (Stanford, 2009), was reviewed in the most recent edi-tion of the Journal of Japanese Studies. The review stated that the book “advances an exciting and original argument on international norm adoption and compliance and makes an important contribu-tion to the constructivist school of international relations . . . Flower's book will stand tall in the book-shelves of many scholars of Japan and international relations.” - Dr.

Apichai Shipper, University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles.

Dr. Tomoko Iwai (EALL), received the 2011 Frances David Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teach-ing. Two other recent Davis awardees come from EALL's Japanese pro-gram: Susan Hirate in 2004 and Pat-rick Woo in 2007. The Award "recognizes dedication and demon-strated excellence" in undergraduate teaching

Dr. Mark Levin (Law) presented two talks at the University of Washington School of Law as a guest of its Asia Law Center. On Wed., Feb. 16, he gave a luncheon talk titled "An Infor-mal Conversation about Legal Work in Japan and East Asia" hosted by the UW's Center for Professional Devel-opment and Leadership Develop-ment. On Feb. 17, he presented his current research as a part of the UW Faculty Colloquia Series, "Civil Jus-tice and the Constitution: Limits on Instrumental Judicial Administration in Japan. An article based on this research is forthcoming in the UW Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2. Dr. Levin was also elected to a position on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Japanese Studies, beginning with the Winter 2012 Issue.

Dr. John Szostak (Art and Art His-tory) began a 12-month residency in August as a Robert and Lisa Sains-bury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, London, affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Stud-ies at the University of London. Dr. Szostak was re-elected to the position of Treasurer for the Japan Art His-tory Forum, an international profes-sional organization for Japan art his-torians. He gave two invited lectures in February: Feb 17 at the Nissan Institute of Oxford University, paper entitled "Foul is Fair: 'Anti-Beauty' as Vehicle for Artistic Modernism in Japan"; Feb 21 at Cambridge Univer-sity, paper entitled "Nihonga Painting and the Japanese Reception of Artis-tic Modernism."

Dr. Alexander Vovin (EALL) pre-sented his paper titled ‘Jōdai nihongo to kodai-chūsei kankokugo no “mizu” to “namida” “ (‘“Water” and “tear” in Old Japanese and Old and Middle Korean’) at the Reitaku Uni-versity International Conference on Japanese and Korean linguistics, No-vember 12-13, 2010. He also have a guest lecture in the Department of Linguistics at Kyōto University titled “Katakana no kigen (Origins of kata-kana)” on November 11, 2010.

Faculty Presentations and Announcements

Faculty Publications “namida” (‘“Water” and “tear” in Old Japanese and Old and Middle Korean’ in the Pro-ceedings of the Reitaku Uni-versity International Confer-ence on Japanese and Korean linguistics, pp. 115-20 through the Reitaku University Lan-guage Research Center, 2010.

Dr. Christine Yano

(Anthropology) published Air-borne Dreams: Nisei Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways with Duke University Press. Reviews of Airborne Dreams have been outstanding and Dr. Yano has made several appearances in con-junction with the book at local bookstores and the Japanese Cul-tural Center of Hawaiʻi.

Dr. Alexander Vovin (EALL) published Man’yōshū: A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Translitera-tion, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary, Book 5, XVI+179 pp. Global Oriental/Brill, 2011. He also published Jōdai nihongo to kodai-chūsei kanko-kugono “mizu” to

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before and after each perform-ance. Pictured: Nick Ishi-mura (left) as Manjiro and James Schirmer as Fukuoka Mitsugi. Photo by Reese Mo-riyama.

Ryan Buyco (MA, Asian Studies) received the Edward Seidensticker Award for the best paper in Japanese Studies at the 2011 School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. His pa-per, Ōoka Shōhei's Travels in the Philippines: A Postcolonial Read-ing, examines the representa-tions of the Philippines in postwar Japanese travel litera-ture and its place in postcolo-nial studies.

Eric Cunningham (PhD candi-date, Anthropology) presented two papers this semester. At the SPAS Graduate conference he gave a paper titled It Flows Both Ways: water and circulation in Japan. At the GSO conference he presented That was called Dam Close: water resource develop-ment and the production of harmony in central Japan.

Several UHM PhD students including Michelle Daigle (anthropology), Vincent Okada (social work), and Yoko Wang (Sociology) will

participate in the Law & Soci-ety Association’s annual meet-ing in San Francisco from June 2-5. All are participating in a panel, chaired by Dr. Mark Levin (Law), titled “Cross-Connecting Citizen Move-ments in Japan: An Explora-tion in Legal Mobilization Methods and Results.”

RaeAnn Dietlin (MA Asian Studies) received an honorable mention for her paper Gender-Bending in Japanese Media: Women’s Negotiation of Identity in the World of Shojo at the SPAS Graduate conference.

Sarah McClimon (PhD can-didate, ethnomusicology) suc-cessfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "Music, Politics, and Memory: Japanese Military Songs in War and Peace" on April 15. It is based on field-work in the Tokyo area from 2009-2010 with support of the Japan Foundation. She antici-pates graduation in summer 2011.

Vince Okada (Social Work) was awarded the Nobumoto Tanahashi Fellowship from the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the June Chun Naughton Interna-tional Student Scholarship, and the Daniel Selvarajah Sanders Doctoral Award in Interna-tional Social Work from the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.

Matthew Shores (Ph.D. stu-dent, Japanese Literature), is continuing dissertation work in Japan thanks to a 2010 Mon-bukagakushô Graduate Re-search Grant. During his first several months in Japan he was a full-time pupil of con-temporary rakugo master Ha-yashiya Somemaru IV. He gave an invited lecture and perform-ance at the University of To-kyo's Department of Engineer-ing. Title: “An American Re-searcher’s Introduction to and Perspective on Rakugo with Performances in Japanese and English” on February 8, 2011.

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Kabuki - The Vengeful Sword at Kennedy Theatre attention paid to maintaining the tone and linguistic struc-ture of Kabuki in the original Japanese.

Student ticket prices were $5.00 with a valid UHM student id. Donations were ac-cepted to aid in the To-hoku earth-quake and tsunami re-lief efforts

The Department of Theatre and Dance at UHM opened The Vengeful Sword Kabuki on Friday, April 8 and ran through the end of the month at the Kennedy Theatre. The Vengeful Sword follows a long tradition of Kabuki perform-ances by the UHM Theatre and Dance Department.

The Vengeful Sword also demon-strates the innovation possible with traditional forms of thea-tre in the contemporary. For example, the performances were given in English with

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The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) held its an-nual conference on the UHM campus this year. The ATJ conference took place on Sat-urday, April 2 in Webster Hall. Several CJS faculty members and other UHM affiliates pre-

sented their research at a vari-ety of panels including Dr. Maiko Ikeda (EALL), Dr. Claire Ikumi Hitosugi(EALL), Dr. Tomoko Iwai (EALL), Dr. Terry Klafehn (EALL), Dr. Kimi Kondo-Brown (EALL), Dr. Alexan-

der Vovin (EALL), and Dr. Dina Yoshimi (EALL).

The conference, held in con-junction with the AAS meeting at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, allow for a in-depth conversation on the teaching of Japanese.

Association of Teachers of Japanese annual conference at UHM

Graduate Students Presentations and Publications Art History) presented his paper Hokusai's Ryūkyū Hakkei: Visions of Ryūkyū and of Japan at the College Art Association conference in NY, Feb 10, and at the East-West Cen-ter International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) in Hawaiʻi the following week (Feb 18). Travis took part in the performance of the Theatre department’s kabuki production, The Vengeful Sword this April, he also gave a pre-show talk on April 23.

Kaoru N. Villa (Ph.D. Candidate, Japanese Literature, EALL) pub-lished a journal article in Japanese titled Toshiyori zuinō Fukuro zōshi Yakumomishō ni okeru ‘kemuri’ to kinki―Karon/kagakusho utaawase chokusenshū no ‘kemuri’ no uta o chūshin ni in Kyoto daigaku kokub-ungaku ronsō, vol. 25 (September 2010), pp. 27-52 [published by the

Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Graduate School of Letters/Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University]. This article discusses how kemuri (smoke) came to be viewed as a taboo poetic word and traces the process through the ex-amination of Toshiyori zuinō, Fukuro zōshi, and Yakumomishō as well as selected utaawase and chokusenshū poems.

Toru Yamada (PhD candidate, Anthropology) presented his paper Discursive Effect of Risk: Communica-tive Force in Japanese Regional Politics at the AAS annual meeting in Honolulu. He will also present Alternative Dispute Resolution as a Technique: the Place of Legal Justice in Bio-patent Disputes at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law in Tokyo.

Hiroki Igarashi (Ph.D. Candi-date, Sociology) presented Japa-nese Transnational Families in Hawaiʻi at the AAS conference, and Japanese Transnational Families in Hawaii: Educational Migrants or Lifestyle Migrants? at the Interna-tional Symposium on Designing Governance for Civil Society at Keio University, Japan, February 2011.

Vince Okada (PhD candidate, Social Welfare Program) pre-sented his paper at the East-West Center Graduate Student Confer-ence and the Asian Studies Graduate Society Conference. The topic of the presentation was The Ainu, Japan's Indigenous People: Current Issues and the Historical Paradigm Shift of Japan.

Travis Seifman (MA student,

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Adam Schuetzler (MA stu-dent, Japanese Literature) and Mercedes Bazzone (Asian Studies undergraduate) have been selected for the Ehime Prefectural International Cen-ter (EPIC) Summer Internship. They will be in Ehime Prefec-ture from mid-May until the end of August. Their primary duties include working at the

Ehime Prefectural Interna-tional Center, participating in community events and festi-vals, teaching at the English camp, and promoting Hawai-ian culture throughout the area.

Pictured: Adam Schuetzler and Mercedes Bazzone prior to departing Honolulu for Ehime Prefecture.

EPIC Program Interns Prepare for Summer in Ehime Prefecture

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