America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts: Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments There are many I wish to thank. For taking the time to answer my questions and for their assistance along the way: Yoshiko Chuma, Rachel Cooper, Ximena Garnica, John Gillespie, Beate Gordon, Paula Lawrence, Samuel Leiter, Carol Martin, Kenji Matsumoto, Naoyuki Miura, Aya Ogawa, Yukihiro Ohira, Mari Ono, Eiko Otake, Nigel Redden, J. Thomas Rimer, Ralph Samuelson, Somei Sato, Noriko Sengoku, Yoko Shioya, Bonnie Sue Stein, Kei Takei, Tadashi Uchino, John Weidman, John Wheeler, and Kumiko Yoshii. For archival resources: Japan Society’s C. V. Starr Library, Temple University Library, Princeton University Library, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Waseda University Library, and the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University. For permission granted by the following copyright holders and publishers to use material from previously published articles, in reworked and expanded form: the University of Hawai‘i Press for “America’s KabukiJapan , 1952–1960: Image-Building, Myth-Making, and Cultural Exchange,” Asian Theatre Journal 25, no. 2 (2008), 193–230; VWB (Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung) for “Cultural Policy and Private Initiative: The Performing Arts at the Japan Society, New York,” World of Music 46, no. 2 (2004): 123–36; and Johns Hopkins University Press for “Negotiating the Foreign: Language, American Audiences, and Theatre from Japan,” Theatre Journal 61, no. 2 (2009), 249–69. For feedback and stimulating conversations: fellow panelists and colleagues at meetings of the Modern Language Association, Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies, Association for Asian Performance, and the Global Temple Conference. For research funding: Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. I would also like to express my gratitude to LeAnn Fields, Senior Executive Editor at the University of Michigan Press, for her interest in and support of my project, and to the readers of my work for all of their comments and suggestions. ...