NOTE from the Editor: I thought, given the rapid increase in our ranks,
that I would not only send out new self-introductions, but some of those
that went out much earlier. I hope newer members will get a better sense of
who is "here" as a result.
Philip Brown
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From: Bill Tsutsui
btsutsui@UKANAIX.CC.UKANS.EDU
My name is Bill Tsutsui and I am an Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Kansas. My research interests lie in the business, labor and
economic history of modern Japan, specifically in the development of
Japanese labor and production management methods. I am currently revising a
book manuscript (provisionally entitled "Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific
Management in 20th-century Japan") which traces the influence
of American models on Japanese managerial thought and practice. One
offshoot of this larger study is an article, "W. Edwards Deming and the
Origins of Quality Control in Japan," which is forthcoming in _JJS_ (Summer
1996). I have some residual enthusiasm for the history of Japanese finance
- my study _Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the
Occupation_ was published by Routledge in 1988 - and the recent gyrations in
the Japanese financial world may just rekindle my
interest in the subject.
I look forward to participating in H-Japan (and any other ventures which
might alleviate the relative isolation of being an Asianist on the Great
Plains).
William M. Tsutsui
Department of History
The University of Kansas
btsutsui@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
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From: Tomohiko Taniguchi
tomohiko_taniguchi@CM.NIKKEIBP.CO.JP
TANIGUCHI, Tomohiko(MR)
Senior Writer with The Nikkei Business, a weekly business magazine,
since March 1995, I have been working with the magazine for the past ten years.
Fulbright visiting fellow at Center of International Studies, Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University for the academic year of 1991-92.
Formerly a staff editor with Gendai Korea magazine.
Publications include "Japan's Banks and the 'Bubble Economy' of the
Late 1980s"(Center of International Studies, Program on US-Japan Relations,
Princeton University, 1993) and the translation of Kent E. Calder's
"Strategic Capitalism" (The translation was from Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha,
titled Senryakuteki Shihon-shugi" 1994)
Interests range from US-Japan relations with particular emphasis on
security, finance and trade.
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From: Morgan Pitelka
mpitelka@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU
My name is Morgan Pitelka, and I am a graduate student at Princeton
University, working with professors Martin Collcutt and David Howell. I am
interested in medieval and early-modern Japanese social and cultural
history. I hope to conduct research on pottery-production families and
ceramics communities, focusing on issues of lineage, the perpetuation of
tradition, the mythologization of origins, status relations between
artisans and the urban elite, and the pan-Asian (China<->Korea<->Japan,
etc.) flow of culture.
If you conduct research or are interested in any of these topics, please
contact me. I am trying to get a sense of how many Japan-medievalists are
active on the internet, and would like to try to put together a resource
page (WWW) which deals with some of these issues. I look forward to
participating in this mediated discussion group on topics in Japanese history.
Morgan Pitelka
Princeton University
East Asian Studies
email: mpitelka@princeton.edu
homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~mpitelka
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From: Christopher Hood
C.P.Hood@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK
I am presently doing research on the Japanese Education System, in
particular the reforms of the 1980s. I plan to finish and obtain my PhD
next summer.
Before, I was at the University of Sheffield for 4 years, doing a BA in
Japanese and Business Studies. I then spent one year on the JET Programme,
teaching at 8 lower secondary schools in Seto near Nagoya in Aichi.
Apart from the Japanese education system, my other interests include
football (soccer) - I did my undergraduate dissertation about the J.League,
sumo, and many contemporary issues.
Christopher Hood.
School of East Asian Studies,
University of Sheffield.
Christopher Hood
Uni.: School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.
Tel.: (0114) 282 4384 Fax.: (0114) 272 9479
HomePage: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~eas/ss/chood/ (updated: 15/01/96)
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From: Peter Kornicki
pk104@HERMES.CAM.AC.UK
My name is Peter Kornicki and I teach Japanese history at Cambridge
University in England. My recent interests have included Japan's
participation in the international exhibitions in the nineteenth century and
the history of the book in Japan. I am currently working on two quite
disparate projects: Buddhism and politics in the Nara period, focussing on
the reign of Shoutoku and the _hyakumantou darani_; and the impact on
Japan of the Golovkin embassy to Peking in 1805-6.
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From: Eiji Sekine
eiji@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU
Dear Netters,
My name is Eiji Sekine and I am Associate Professor of Japanese at Purdue
University. My book publications include a book, "Tsha no shokyo: Yoshiyuki
Junnosuke to kindai bungaku" (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1993) and an anthology I
edited, "Uta no hibiki, monogatari no yokubo: Amerika kara yomu Nihon
bungaku." This anthology includes 17 critical essays on Japanese literature,
13 of which are written by researchers from the States.
I am interested in the issue of the construction of modern subjectivity in
Japan in relationship with such topical areas as sexuality, gender,
marriage/family, madness, otherness, etc. I am currently writing a book on
this issue by examining various materials from late Meiji through the
present. I hope to hear discussion and/or suggestions related to this
interest from a wide range of specialists in different areas of Japanese
studies.
As Secretary/Editor of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary
Studies, I can provide you with information on the association's activities,
which include an annual meeting, newsletter publication, and publication of
the proceedings. If you are interested in this association's activities,
please e-mail me with information on your mailing address; I will send a
copy of the latest issue of the newsletter.
Let me briefly add that the fifth MAJLS annual meeting will be held November
1-3, 1996, at Indiana University, under the general title of "Ga/Zoku
Dynamics in Japanese Literature." Call for papers has been announced and the
dealine for paper proposals is May 1, 1996. For more information, please
contact
Professor Edith Sarra, Conference Chair, EALC,
Goodbody Hall, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN 47405-2401;
esarra@othello.ucs.indiana.edu.
Eiji Sekine
eiji@sage.cc.purdue.edu
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