Two member introductions:
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From: Kevin Doak
doak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
I'm Kevin Doak, Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My _Dreams of Difference: the
Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity_ (U Cal 1994) looked at
conservative cultural and ethnic nationalists in wartime Japan. Since
then, I have been looking at the attraction of ethnic nationalism
(minzokushugi) for liberals and marxists in 20th century Japan.
I look forward to the kind of broad forum on issues related to
Japan that this network can provide.
kmd
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From: Regina Lark
lark@chaph.usc.edu
I am Regina Lark, a doctoral student at the University of Southern
California. I am in the process of conducting research on the interracial
marriages between Japanese women and American men during the Allied
occupation of Japan, 1945-1952. I intend to focus on several issues: how
the American military sought to keep these marriages from taking place, the
shifts that occurred within Japanese society/culture (before, during and in
the immediate post-war years) that allowed Japanese women to marry outside
their group, and the immigration process of these Japanese "war brides,"
comparing their immigration and subsequent patterns of "acculturation and
assimilation" into the U.S. to the immigration of other groups of women
(Issei and European). At this point I would welcome any bibliographic
citations in the areas of women's culture in Japan in the pre-war years.
Please respond via private mail: lark@scf.usc.edu. Thanks very much.
Regina Lark
EDITOR'S NOTE: I think other members of the list would be interested in any
suggested readings that result from this request, and I hope that people
will post their thoughts to H-Japan by sending them to
Philip Brown
Editor, H-Japan
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