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Symposium on Japanese Society. Introduction by Susan B. Hanley. 8,1 Symposium on Ie Society. THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE Introduction by Kozo Yamamura. 11,1 Symposium: Transition From Medieval to Early Modern Japan. STUDIES Introduction by Michael P. Birt and Kozo Yamamura. 12,2 Special Issue: A Forum on the Trade Crisis. Introduction by Kenneth B. Pyle. 13,2 Index to Volume 1, Number 1 through Symposium: Social Control and Early Socialization. Volume 44, Number 1 Introduction by Thomas P. Rohlen. 15,1 Symposium on Gender and Women in Japan. (Autumn 1974 through Winter 2018) Introduction by Susan B. Hanley. 19,1 Symposium on Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture. Introduction by John Whittier Treat. 19,2 © 2000–2018 by the Society for Japanese Studies Symposium on Teaching and Learning in Japan. Introduction by Thomas P. Rohlen. 20,1 This index is divided into eight parts: Symposia, Articles, Book Reviews, Opinion and Comment, Communications, Publications Symposium on Continuity and Change in Heisei Japan. of Note, Miscellaneous, and a List of Contributors. Introduction by Susan B. Hanley and John Whittier Treat 23,2 ARTICLES SYMPOSIA Akita, George. An Examination of E.H. Norman's Scholarship. 3,2 - Allen, Laura W. Images of the Poet Saigyo as Recluse. 21,1 Workshop on the Economic and Institutional History of Medieval Japan. Allinson, Gary Dean. The Moderation of Organized Labor in Postwar Introduction by Kozo Yamamura. 1,2 Japan. 1,2 Symposium: The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident. Allison, Anne. Memoirs of the Orient. 27,2 Introduction by Kenneth B. Pyle 1,2 Ambaras, David R. Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Essays in Japanese Literature. 2,2 Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912. 24,1 Symposium: Japanese Origins. Anchordoguy, Marie. Japan at a Technological Crossroads: Does Introduction by Roy Andrew Miller. 2,2 Change Support Convergence Theory? 23,2 Essays on "The Japanese Employment System." 4,2 Anderson, Stephen J. The Political Economy of Japanese Saving: Essays on Modern Japanese Thought. 4,2 How Postal Savings and Public Pensions Support High Rates Symposium: Japan in the 1970's. 5,2 of Household Saving in Japan. 16,1 Symposium: Translation and Japanese Studies. Arnesen, Peter J. The Struggle for Lordship in Late Heian Japan: Introduction by Roy Andrew Miller. 6,1 The Case of Aki. 10,1 Auestad, Reiko Abe. Nakano Shigeharu’s “Goshaku no sake.” 28,1 Index to The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volumes 1:1 – 44:1 (1974 – 2018) Page 2 Avenell, Simon Andrew. Civil Society and the New Civic Movements in Brownstein, Michael C. The “Devil” in the Heart: Enchi Fumiko’s Contemporary Japan: Convergence, Collaboration, and Onnamen and the Uncanny. 40,1 Transformation. 35,2 Bryant, Taimie L. "Responsible" Husbands, "Recalcitrant" Wives, Barshay, Andrew E. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Retributive Judges: Judicial Management of Contested Divorce Reflections on Maruyama Masao and Modernism. 18,2 in Japan. 18,2 Barshay, Andrew E. Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The Gulag Burns, Susan L. Rethinking “Leprosy Prevention”: Entrepreneurial Memoirs of a Japanese Humanist, 1945–49. 36,2 Doctors, Popular Journalism, and the Civic Origins of Biopolitics. Bayliss, Jeffrey P. Minority Success, Assimilation, and Identity in 38,2 Prewar Japan: Pak Chungŭm and the Korean Middle Class. 34,1 Calder, Kent E. Linking Welfare and the Developmental State: Postal Ben-Ari, Eyal and Sabine Frühstück. “Now We Show It All!” Savings in Japan. 16,1 Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan’s Armed Campbell, John Creighton. The Old People Boom and Japanese Policy Forces. 28,1 Making. 5,2 Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Public Peace and Private Attachment: The Cave, Peter. Bukatsudō: The Educational Role of Japanese School Goals and Conduct of Power in Early Modern Japan. 12,2 Clubs. 30,2 Birt, Michael P. Samurai in Passage: Transformation of the Sixteenth- Choi Jamyung. The Hegemony of Tokyo Imperial University and the Century Kanto. 11,2 Paradox of Meritocracy in Modern Japan. 44,1 Bix, Herbert P. The Pitfalls of Scholastic Criticism: A Reply to Norman's Clerici, Nathen. History, “Subcultural Imagination,” and the Enduring Critics. 4,2 Appeal of Murakami Haruki. 42,2 Bix, Herbert P. The Showa Emperor's "Monologue" and the Problem Cohen, Mark. The Double Movement of the Landlord Class in Prewar of War Responsibility. 18,2 Japan. 44,1 Bix, Herbert P. Inventing the "Symbol Monarchy" in Japan, 1945-52. Cole, Robert E. The Late-Developer Hypothesis: An Evaluation of Its 21,2 Relevance for Japanese Employment Patterns. 4,2 Bodiford, William M. Remembering Dōgen: Eiheiji and Dōgen Conlan, Thomas. The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Japan: Hagiography. 32,1 The Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki. 25,2 Boocock, Sarane Spence. Controlled Diversity: An Overview of the Crawcour, Sydney. The Tokugawa Period and Japan's Preparation for Japanese Preschool System. 15,1 Modern Economic Growth. 1,1 Borovoy, Amy. Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Crawcour, Sydney. The Japanese Employment System. 4,2 - - Postwar Japan. 38,2 Crawcour, Sydney. Kogyo iken: Maeda Masana and His View of Meiji Brazell, Karen. "Blossoms": A Medieval Song. 6,2 Economic Development. 23,1 Brecher, W. Puck. Down and Out in Negishi: Reclusion and Struggle in Cullen, Jennifer. A Comparative Study of Tenkō: Sata Ineko and an Edo Suburb 35,1 Miyamoto Yuriko. 36,1 Broadbent, Jeffrey and Kabashima Ikuo. Referent Pluralism: Mass DeBever, Leo J. and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Saving, Accumulation and Media and Politics in Japan. 12,2 Modern Economic Growth: The Contemporary Relevance of Brown, Philip C. Practical Constraints on Early Tokugawa Land Japanese History. 4,1 Taxation: Annual Versus Fixed Assessments in Kaga Domain. Denecke, Wiebke. Chinese Antiquity and Court Spectacle in Early 14,2 Kanshi. 30,1 Brown, Roger H. Shepherds of the People: Yasuoka Masahiro and the Di Marco, Francesca. Act or Disease? The Making of Modern Suicide New Bureaucrats in Early Showa Japan. 35,2 in Early Twentieth-century Japan. 39,2 Index to The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volumes 1:1 – 44:1 (1974 – 2018) Page 3 DiNitto, Rachel. Translating Prewar Culture into Film: The Double Ericson, Steven J. The “Matsukata Deflation” Reconsidered: Financial Vision of Suzuki Seijun’s Zigeunerweisen. 30,1 Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881– Dinmore, Eric. Concrete Results? The TVA and the Appeal of Large 85. 40,1 Dams in Occupation-Era Japan. 39,1 Ericson, Steven J. Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Doak, Kevin M. Ethnic Nationalism and Romanticism in Early Japan. 41,2 Twentieth-Century Japan. 22,1 Feeney, Griffith and Hamano Kiyoshi. Rice Price Fluctuations and Doak, Kevin M. Building National Identity through Ethnicity: Ethnology Fertitility in Late Tokugawa Japan. 16,1 in Wartime Japan and After. 27,1 Fessler, Susanna. The Debate on the Uselessness of Western Dodd, Stephen. Darkness Transformed: Illness in the Work of Kajii Studies. 37,1 Motojirō. 33,1 Flaherty, Darryl. Democratization, 1919, and Lawyer Advocacy for a Dore, Ronald P. More About Late Development. 5,1 Japanese Jury. 37,2 Dore, Ronald. Japan’s Reform Debate: Patriotic Concern or Class Fletcher, W. Miles, III. The Japan Spinners Association: Creating Interest? Or Both? 25,1 Industrial Policy in Meiji Japan. 22,1 Dorsey, James. Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango. 27,2 Flowers, Petrice R. Failure to Protect Refugees? Domestic Institutions, International Organizations, and Civil Society in Japan. 34,2 Dowdle, Brian C. Why Saikaku Was Memorable but Bakin Was Unforgettable. 42,1 Fowler, Edward. Rendering Words, Traversing Cultures: On the Art and Politics of Translating Modern Japanese Fiction. 18,1 Drixler, Fabian. The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan: The Eastward Expansion of Shin Buddhism. 42,1 Fowler, Edward. The Buraku in Modern Japanese Literature: Texts and Contexts. 26,1 Dunscomb, Paul E. “A Great Disobedience Against the People”: Popular Press Criticsm of Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-22. Friday, Karl F. Pushing Beyond the Pale: The Yamato Conquest of the 32,1 Emishi and Northern Japan. 23,1 - Duus, Peter. Yoshino Sakuzo: The Christian as Political Critic. 4,2 Frühstück, Sabine and Eyal Ben-Ari. “Now We Show It All!” Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan’s Armed Edelson, Loren. The Female Danjūrō: Revisiting the Acting Career of Forces. 28,1 Ichikawa Kumehachi. 34,1 Fruin, W. Mark. The Japanese Company Controversy: Ideology and Edwards, Walter. Event and Process in the Founding of Japan: The Organization in a Historical Perspective. 4,2 Horserider Theory in Archeological Perspective. 9,2 Fujita Mariko. "It's All Mother's Fault": Childcare and the Socialization Edwards, Walter. The Commercialized Wedding as Ritual: A Window of Working Mothers in Japan. 15,1 on Social Values. 13,1 Fujiwara, Gideon. Channeling the Undercurrents: Fūsetsudome, Edwards, Walter. Buried Discourse: The Toro Archaeological Site Information Access, and National Political Awareness in and Japanese National Identity in the Early Postwar Period. 17,1 Nineteenth-Century Japan. 43,2 Edwards, Walter. Contested Access: The Imperial Tombs in the Fukui Haruhiro. The Liberal Democratic Party Revisited: Continuity Postwar Period. 26,2 and Change in the Party's Structure and Performance. 10,2 Edwards, Walter. Forging Tradition for a Holy War: The Hakkō Ichiu Fukui Haruhiro. Too Many Captains in Japan's Industrialization: Tower in Miyazaki and Japanese Wartime Ideology. 29,2 Travails at the Foreign Ministry. 13,2 Efird, Robert. Japan’s “War Orphans”: Identification and State Fukuzawa, Rebecca Erwin. The Path to Adulthood According to Responsibility. 34,2 Japanese Middle Schools. 20,1 Gao Bai. Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy. 20,1 Index to The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volumes 1:1 – 44:1 (1974 – 2018) Page 4 Gardner, William O. Mongrel Modernism: Hayashi Fumiko’s Hōrōki and Hall, John W.
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    Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Article ID 1651 | Mar 29, 2006 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Japan s Imperial Succession Debate and Women s Rights J. Sean Curtin Japan’s Imperial Succession Debate and Women’s Rights By J. Sean Curtin Just when Japan's Imperial House was on the verge of an historic reform that would have marked an enormous step towards making it a more gender equal institution, the legislation permitting an Empress to reign was suddenly shelved. The immediate cause of the abrupt turnaround was the surprise announcement that 39-year-old Princess Kiko, the Emperor's daughter-in-law, was pregnant. The announcement led Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro to promptly abandon his reform plans, handing victory to ultra-conservatives who bitterly opposed the proposals. Princess Kiko Whether Japan changes its male-only imperial succession law now appears to depend on the sex of Princess Kiko's unborn child. Under current legislation, if the baby is a boy, he would become third in line to the throne after Crown Prince Naruhito and his father, Prince Fumihito. The birth of a boy would also create the possibility that the Crown Prince might one day relinquish his imperial status. The episode reveals the formidable power of Japan's diehard male-chauvinists and exposes the deep-seated anti-female bias at the heart of 1 4 | 3 | 0 APJ | JF the Japanese establishment. Recent events illustrate why gender advances in Japan are always painfully slow, usually half-hearted and sometimes fail to materialize at all. Two polls conducted since the news of the pregnancy indicate that public support for allowing a female Emperor to reign is dropping.