Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

Contributors

Contributors  Barbara J. Brooks is assistant professor of history at the City College of the City University of New York. She is working on a book on citizenship and colonial society in the Japanese empire, having recently completed a book manuscript titled Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Treaty Ports, Consuls, and War in China, 1895–1938. Lonny E. Carlile is assistant professor in the Center for Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa. Recent publications include “Economic Development and the Evolution of Japanese Overseas Tourism” (1996), a translation titled Contemporary Politics in Japan by Masumi Junnosuke (1995), and “Party Politics and the Japanese Labor Movement” (1994). Kevin Doak is associate professor of modern Japanese history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity as well as various articles on nationalism and romanticism in twentieth-century Japan. Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history and East Asian languages and cultural studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and founding editor of Sino-Japanese Studies, an interdisciplinary journal. His recent publications include The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1994) and The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862–1945 (1996). 379 Sheldon Garon is professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) and The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987). He is currently working on a book on savings and frugality campaigns in twentieth -century Japan. Elaine Gerbert is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Kansas. She has translated novellas by Uno Kòji (Love of Mountains) and written on Satò Haruo in Beautiful Town: Stories and Essays by Satò Haruo and on Uno Kòji in a festschrift for Edwin McClellan. Some of her other writings are “The Suwa Pillar Festival Revisited” (1996) and “Lessons from the Kokugo Readers”(1993), for which she received the George Z. Bereday award. Jeffrey E. Hanes teaches history and Asian studies at the University of Oregon. His recent publications include “From Megalopolis to Megaroporisu ” (1993) and “Taishû bunka/ka’i bunka/minshu bunka” (“Mass Culture /Subcultures/Popular Culture,” 1996), and “Contesting Centralization? Space, Time, and Hegemony in Meiji Japan” (1997). Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University. Her major publications include Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyòdan (1984), The Religion of Japan’s Korean Minority (1986), Kurozumikyò and the New Religions of Japan (1986), Shinto and the State, 1868–1988 (1989), and Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (1997). Sharon A. Minichiello is associate professor of Japanese history and director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa. Her publications include “Chishikijin to seiji: Takagi Yasaka to Matsumoto Shigeharu, 1931–1941” (Intellectuals and politics: Takagi Yasaka and Matsumoto Shigeharu, 1931–1941) in Kindai Nihon no seiji kòzò (The Political Structure of Modern Japan, 1993), and Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan (1984). Tessa Morris-Suzuki holds a chair in Japanese history in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Her research focuses on the social effects of technological change and on issues of national identity in modern Japan. Her most recent books are The Technological Transformation of Japan and Reinventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. Jonathan M. Reynolds completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1991 and is assistant professor in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan. His primary research focus is Japanese modernist architecture. 380 CONTRIBUTORS He is the author of Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of a Japanese Modernist Architecture. Michael E. Robinson is associate professor of Korean history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1988) and numerous articles on modern Korean history and culture. Roy Starrs, who holds a Ph.D. in modern Japanese Literature from the University of British Columbia, is head of the Department of Japanese of the University of Otago, New Zealand. His main interests lie in East-West comparative literature and culture, as reflected in his study of Nietzschean philosophy in Mishima’s novels, Deadly...