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Winter 2010 Densho Contents • International Institute The University of Michigan WINTER 2010 DENSHO CONTENTS From the Director 2 From the Executive Editor 3 From the Librarian 3 New Exhibitions at the U-M Museum of Art 4 From the Toyota Visiting Professor 5 In Memoriam Professor Robert E. Ward 6 Japanese Health Care: A System That Works 7 2010 Mochitsuki 8 Upcoming CJS Events 9 Faculty Updates 10 New Books by CJS Faculty, Alumni & Friends 11 A Life in Film 12 Student & Alumni News 13 Announcements 14 Calendar – Winter & Spring 2010 15 From the Director ate last year, I was invited to speak Japanese Studies at Michigan has L at an event marking the 50th accomplished since 1966. We now teach Anniversary of Berkeley’s Center for around 200 Japan-related courses a year; Japanese Studies. My assignment was to we’ve graduated 455 students in our reflect on the past, the present, and the Japanese Studies MA program; 372 future of Michigan’s Center for Japan-related doctoral dissertations have Japanese Studies; and I needed to do been written in Michigan’s departments; some reading in order to think about and our library now has 310,000 our Center’s past. One of the volumes in Japanese. Although the idea of a “field station” in documents I consulted was a report Japan now has a quaint semi-colonial Professor Ward was clearly thinking not titled “The Development of Japanese ring, Michigan’s CJS still follows only about numbers, but also about the Studies at The University of Michigan, through, in some different ways, on the special qualities of Michigan’s CJS. One 1947-1966,” written by Robert E. directions set by the Okayama project. thing that stood out for him was the Ward, the political scientist who was We still believe in getting people to Okayama field station, which our CJS director for many terms spanning Japan to do their work. We continually Center operated between 1950 and the 1950s to the 1970s. I learned of fund research in Japan by faculty and 1955 as a site for both research and Professor Ward’s death a few days after I students. We support the latter in their graduate training. He notes that returned from Berkeley. You will see, efforts to gain advanced language skills, “during these years all of our faculty elsewhere in this newsletter, an obituary primarily at the Inter-University Center members and practically all of our for Professor Ward written by my for Japanese Language Studies. Our doctoral candidates spent at least a year colleague John Campbell. Here, I want partnership with the Ito Foundation for on research assignments at the Okayama to share with you some of the thoughts International Education Exchange allows Station.” This was a significant develop- I had as I read his report. Michigan students to do two years of ment for a number of reasons. First, research at a Japanese university. We also When Professor Ward produced his Professor Ward and his colleagues had maintain strong ties with Japanese report in 1966, he was writing at a point determined that the study of Japan scholars. One of our main instruments in time when Michigan’s CJS, founded required scholars and students to live for doing this is the Toyota Visiting in 1947, had been in place for almost there, not as the result of birth or another Professorship, which allows us to invite twenty years. He was looking back with primary occupation, but to do research. a scholar from Japan every other year. pride at what had been accomplished Second, he makes it clear that the In recent years, we’ve recognized that since the Center’s inception. He points Okayama project allowed the creation of our scholarly networks need to be not out that the number of Japan-related associations and networks with Japanese only bi-national but international, and courses had grown from 21 in 1947 to scholars. “Our relations with Japanese we’ve welcomed Toyota Visiting 52 in 1966; the Center’s MA program scholars,” he writes, “have multiplied at Professors from Europe, Israel, and had graduated 129 students; 62 PhDs a rate that is occasionally dismaying to Australia. Interdisciplinarity remains a had been awarded to students doing behold.” And third, the work in keystone of our activities, reflected in work on Japan; and the number of Okayama was an interdisciplinary nearly every conference or panel we books in Japanese in our library had project. It wasn’t only the anthropolo- plan. For example, as you will see in grown from several thousand to 83,000 gist Beardsley who went to do field another article in this newsletter, we volumes. Professor Ward and his work, it was also Hall the historian and held, at the very height of the health colleagues—among them, Richard Ward the political scientist. It’s hard care debate in November, a panel titled Beardsley, John Hall, Robert Hall, and now to imagine researchers from these “Japanese Health Care: A System that Joseph Yamagiwa—had built a power- three disciplines co-authoring a book, Works.” This discussion of universal house program. He had every reason to as these scholars did in Village Japan health insurance, which attracted a be proud. But I think even he would be (1959), a landmark work in the study both surprised and pleased to see what of rural Japan. continued on page 13 From the From the Executive Editor Librarian echnology is pushing us ever 929280-59-9 [paper]), a fascinating he Asia Library has the very good Tfarther and faster away from collection of essays that describe and Tnews that our position for the yesterday’s ways of doing things, and this analyze vivid and compelling examples Coordinator of Public and Information is particularly the case in the world of of Japanese media. Case studies include Services has been filled by Dr. Brian T. publishing, where the printed book is talent and stars, romance, anime, telops, Vivier, who comes to us from the Yale becoming the electronic book. We have game/talk shows, and live action University Library. This is a newly been quick to respond to the technology nostalgia shows. The book also looks at established position based on our push by making available online the Japanese television from a political and previous coordinator’s position, but with Center’s older publications (from 1950 to economic perspective, with attention to expanded duties to include the 1974), our out-of-print titles, and our Sky TV, production trends, and Fuji development of our Western-language Faculty Series. We are now moving into TV as an architectural presence in materials collection. first-edition electronic books that will be Tokyo. The authors open up new lines Since early October, the Asia Library’s available in print-on-demand paperback of thinking about television and popular public reading room has been undergo- copies. Our inaugural title is The Grand culture both within and between ing a renovation. First, all reference Old Man and the Great Tradition: Essays nations. Contributors are Noriko Aso, materials were moved to an area just on Tanizaki Jun’ichir¯o in Honor of Adriana JungBong Choi, Stephanie DeBoer, inside the entrance to the 4th floor stacks Boscaro, edited by Luisa Bienati and Aaron Gerow, Shuhei Hosokawa, Kelly from the reading room. Two rooms were Bonaventura Ruperti (ISBN 978-1- Hu, Koichi Iwabuchi, Hirofumi then demolished to open up space and 929280-55-1 [web and paper edition], Katsuno, Gabriella Lukacs, Eva Tsai, new carpet was laid in the reading room viii + 168 pp.). Adriana Boscaro and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Christine and in the adjacent technical processing Tanizaki Jun’ichir¯oare two names firmly Yano, and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto. room. Soon, the reference material linked in the minds of many who feel In the spring we will publish The shelves will be reassembled and the connected to Boscaro either on a personal Linguistic Turn in Contemporary public reading facility will be level or through a shared devotion to the Japanese Literary Studies: Politics, completely modernized to meet users’ work of Tanizaki. This book is primarily a Language, Textuality, edited and with an needs. This renovation should be tribute to both the work of the “grand introduction by Michael K. Bourdaghs. completed by the end of this year. old man,” in all its inexhaustible richness, We will also bring out a reprint in our and to Boscaro’s tireless contributions to Classics Series of The Woman’s Hand: Our Japanese digital resources now include: the study of Tanizaki in Italy and around Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s the world. This title adds to our list of • Nichigai Web Service—Magazine Plus Writing, edited by Paul Gordon books on Tanizaki: A Tanizaki Feast: The and Books Plus Schalow and Janet A. Walker. And on International Symposium in Venice, edited • Asahi Shinbun II Kikuzo down the line, look for The Female as by Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Subject: Reading and Writing in Early • Japan Knowledge Chambers and Tanizaki in Western Modern Japan, edited by P. F. Kornicki, • Yomiuri: Still accessible but printing Languages: A Bibliography of Translations Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley, and is not permitted. For this reason, it and Studies, also edited by Adriana Imagination without Borders: Feminist will soon be changed to a Web Boscaro, and Shadows on the Screen: Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social accessible format. Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ on Cinema and Responsibility, edited by Laura Hein and “Oriental” Aesthetics, by Thomas LaMarre. • Yomidasu Rebecca Jennison. For price and • Zasshi kiji sakuin shu¯sei detabesu We are also excited to announce the availability of these and all of our other (Koseisha): New purchase publication of Television, Japan, and titles, please go to our website at Globalization, edited by Mitsuhiro www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications.
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