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MJS-related publications

Books

Jinhee Lee, ed., "The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Colonial Atrocity Ninety Years Later." (forthcoming, University of Hawaii Press).

Noriko Reider,  "Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan." University of Chicago Press (forthcoming)

Tomoyuki Sasaki. "Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society: Contesting a Better Life." SOAS Studies of Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 

Akiko Takenaka, Yasukuni Shrine: "History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar." (University of Hawai’i Press and Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, July 2015).

Akiko Yoshida, "Unmarried Women in Japan: The Drift into Singlehood", Routledge, (forthcoming 2015)

Articles

Valerie Barske, “Dancing Postcolonial Trauma in Okinawa,” Brenda Farnell ed. Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement Vol. 22.2 (Fall 2015)

Monika Dix, "A Mother's Voice: The Potency of a Woman in the Jojin Ajari no haha no shu", in Japanese Language and Literature, vol. 48, no.1, (April 2014): pp.105-127.

Dennis Frost, “Sporting Disability: Official Representations of the Disabled Athlete at Tokyo’s 1964 Paralympics,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 2.3 (Dec 2013): pp. 173-86.

Jinhee Lee, "‘Malcontent Koreans (Futei Senjin)’: Towards a Genealogy of Colonial Representation of Koreans in the Japanese Empire.” Studies on Asia IV (3:1): 117-187, 2014.

Yuko Shibata, “Dissociative Entanglement: US-Japan Atomic Bomb Discourses by John Hersey and Nagai Takashi.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 122-37.

Peter Tillack, "Concrete Abstractions: Gotô Meisei's Hapless Danchi Dwellers and Japan's Economic Miracle," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 23, no. 2 (2015).

Michael Wert, "Swordsmanship and Society in Early Modern Japan," in Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture. New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion, Ashgate, (forthcoming, 2015). 

Michael Wert, "The Military Mirror of Kai:  A Medieval Text and Martial Fantasy in Early Modern Japan,” Das Mittelalter (The Middle Ages), 19:2, (Nov 2014).

Book Chapters

Michael Bathgate, “Jakushin’s Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature,” in Jonathan Crane, ed., "Beastly Morality:  Animals as Moral Agents." (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

Terry Jackson, "Western Information, Book Networks, and Intellectual Community Formation in Early Modern Japan" In Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution by University of Hawaii Press ( Feb 2016).

David Tobaru Obermiller, "Dreaming Ryukyu:  Shifting and Contesting Identities in Okinawa," in Christopher Gerteis and Timothy George eds., Japan Since1945:  From Postwar to Post-Bubble. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

Scott O'Bryan, "The Climatic Dilemmas of Built Environments: Tokyo, Heat Islands, and Urban Adaptation." In Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present, edited by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown, 230-45. Corvallis: Oregon Statue University Press, 2015.

Sumiko Otsubo, “Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918,” in The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s, edited by Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2015, 461-480.

Grants

Jinhee Lee, Academy of Korean Studies Conference Grant (2014) and Brown University's Humanities Research and Teaching Fund (with Kerry Smith, 2013) toward the publication in preparation, Jinhee Lee, ed.," The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Colonial Atrocity Ninety Years Later."

Elizabeth Dorn Lublin. Triangle Center for Japanese Studies Travel Grant, July 2014 - for use of the Edward J. Parrish papers at Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library.