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Japan Forum, 2022
Abstract Legally, administratively and socially, citizenship adapts to the challenges of not only... more Abstract Legally, administratively and socially, citizenship adapts to the challenges of not only shifting geopolitics but to new infectious diseases that do not readily submit to the rule of nation-states. This essay looks at citizenship in Japan among other countries against the backdrop of the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic and the newer COVID-19, from the abject figure of the stigmatized homosexual in the former to quarantined foreigners aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess in the latter. I conclude with the role of passports in Japanese writers, such as Tawada Yōko (1960-), who do not so much remap citizenship as question its utility.
The Affect of Difference, 2016
214 the presence of positions of maneuvering. Further, recent scholarship has contributed much mo... more 214 the presence of positions of maneuvering. Further, recent scholarship has contributed much more nuanced and complex studies on the socalled "dark era" than Atkins acknowledges. While critiquing the lack of nuance in a postcolonial nationalist predilection for "sticking it to the Big Man" (Japanese imperialists, in this case) and rightly calling for a consideration of the complex perspectives of the colonizers, Atkins at times is in danger of reducing the complexities of perspectives from the colony and the postcolony to that of undifferentiated "nationalism" or postcolonial ressentiment. Nonetheless, Primitive Selves makes an important contribution to global empire studies, the disciplines of history, ethnography and anthropology, as well as to transnational Japanese and Korean studies and should be widely consulted by scholars and students of these areas and beyond.
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2015
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2017
Let us now suppose that from now on the foundation stone of our political life will be that Abel ... more Let us now suppose that from now on the foundation stone of our political life will be that Abel slew Cain. Don't you see that from this deed of violence the same chain of wrongdoing will follow, only that mankind will not even have the consolation that the violence it must call crime is indeed characteristic of evil men only? Hannah Arendt, On Revolution1 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) never traveled to Asia, unless one counts Jerusalem. Her interest in and expertise on the world outside of Europe have been discounted as minimal at best, contemptuous at worst. She shared her time's Orientalist verities, for instance. "What for Abstract: Political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) wrote little on Asia, but her 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil suggests how she might have evaluated responsibility for and judgment of war crimes in East Asia. I speculate first about how she might have regarded the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and I argue that she would have approved of the executions of those ruled culpable for the Rape of Nanjing while contesting much of the moral and legal thinking that led to them. Second, Arendt's endorsement of the literary imagination as a tool for judgment allows us to read Hotta Yoshie's 1963 A-bomb novel Judgment to explore how justice might have been served in the wake of the wartime use of nuclear weapons.
Trans-Humanities Journal, 2015
positions: asia critique, 2015
Pinkwashing and homonationalism are recent terms coined to describe the identification of sexual ... more Pinkwashing and homonationalism are recent terms coined to describe the identification of sexual minorities with the neoliberal state; the former is usually used to critique certain policies within the State of Israel meant to promote its society as tolerant of diversity, the latter with the movement for same-sex marriage and participation in the armed services in the United States. This essay extends the application of these terms to Singapore, where between 2001 and 2004 the state tentatively and partially relaxed its restrictions on homosexual activity (e.g., the “Nation Parties”) in the hope of attracting the “creative class” to the island and its economy, only to reinstate prohibitions when those burgeoning activities were seen as conflicting with Singapore’s ideology of “Asian values.” Singapore today remains a nation where male homosexuality is illegal but domicile to a discreet gay subculture.
Journal of Korean Studies, 2016
3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Education at a Glance 2012: Hig... more 3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Education at a Glance 2012: Highlights. Paris OECD (2012),” accessed January 6, 2016, http://www .oecd.org/eduEAG2012_e-book_EN_.200912.pdf. Site discontinued. 4. OECD “Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators.” OECD Publishing, accessed April 4, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2014-en. 5. President Barack Obama, The White House, “Remarks of President Barack Obama in State of the Union Address—As Prepared for Delivery,” accessed May 18, 2016, https:// www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-barack-obama-stateunion-address-prepared-delivery. 6. Pearson Education Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment, “Index— Which Countries Have the Best Schools?,” accessed November 12, 2015, http://thelearning curve.pearson.com/index/index-ranking. 7. Nancy Abelmann, Jung-ah Choi, and So Jin Park, eds., No Alternative? Experiments in South Korea’s Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012). 8. Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, eds., Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts (New York: Springer, 2014); and Hyunjoon Park, Re-evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: Demystifying Stereotypes (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Choice Reviews Online, 2009
... Many thanks to Pam Snyder at Oberlin. My colleagues and studentsespecially Suzanne Gay, Amy ... more ... Many thanks to Pam Snyder at Oberlin. My colleagues and studentsespecially Suzanne Gay, Amy Redden, Ikuko Kurasawa, and Sheila Jagerin the East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin College have provided a wonderfully supportive environment. ...
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2015
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1987
... Nagaoka points out the enthusiastic response generated by HN among the "younger generati... more ... Nagaoka points out the enthusiastic response generated by HN among the "younger generation." 3 See "Documentation as Art," the second chapter in Sidra ... 7 Oe, Hiroshima noto, in Hiroshima no hikari: Oe Kenzaburo dojidai ronshu 2 t i '2/ -' ODY: 99i P MORVU-iM 2 (Tokyo ...
Japan Forum, 2022
Abstract Legally, administratively and socially, citizenship adapts to the challenges of not only... more Abstract Legally, administratively and socially, citizenship adapts to the challenges of not only shifting geopolitics but to new infectious diseases that do not readily submit to the rule of nation-states. This essay looks at citizenship in Japan among other countries against the backdrop of the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic and the newer COVID-19, from the abject figure of the stigmatized homosexual in the former to quarantined foreigners aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess in the latter. I conclude with the role of passports in Japanese writers, such as Tawada Yōko (1960-), who do not so much remap citizenship as question its utility.
The Affect of Difference, 2016
214 the presence of positions of maneuvering. Further, recent scholarship has contributed much mo... more 214 the presence of positions of maneuvering. Further, recent scholarship has contributed much more nuanced and complex studies on the socalled "dark era" than Atkins acknowledges. While critiquing the lack of nuance in a postcolonial nationalist predilection for "sticking it to the Big Man" (Japanese imperialists, in this case) and rightly calling for a consideration of the complex perspectives of the colonizers, Atkins at times is in danger of reducing the complexities of perspectives from the colony and the postcolony to that of undifferentiated "nationalism" or postcolonial ressentiment. Nonetheless, Primitive Selves makes an important contribution to global empire studies, the disciplines of history, ethnography and anthropology, as well as to transnational Japanese and Korean studies and should be widely consulted by scholars and students of these areas and beyond.
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2015
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2017
Let us now suppose that from now on the foundation stone of our political life will be that Abel ... more Let us now suppose that from now on the foundation stone of our political life will be that Abel slew Cain. Don't you see that from this deed of violence the same chain of wrongdoing will follow, only that mankind will not even have the consolation that the violence it must call crime is indeed characteristic of evil men only? Hannah Arendt, On Revolution1 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) never traveled to Asia, unless one counts Jerusalem. Her interest in and expertise on the world outside of Europe have been discounted as minimal at best, contemptuous at worst. She shared her time's Orientalist verities, for instance. "What for Abstract: Political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) wrote little on Asia, but her 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil suggests how she might have evaluated responsibility for and judgment of war crimes in East Asia. I speculate first about how she might have regarded the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and I argue that she would have approved of the executions of those ruled culpable for the Rape of Nanjing while contesting much of the moral and legal thinking that led to them. Second, Arendt's endorsement of the literary imagination as a tool for judgment allows us to read Hotta Yoshie's 1963 A-bomb novel Judgment to explore how justice might have been served in the wake of the wartime use of nuclear weapons.
Trans-Humanities Journal, 2015
positions: asia critique, 2015
Pinkwashing and homonationalism are recent terms coined to describe the identification of sexual ... more Pinkwashing and homonationalism are recent terms coined to describe the identification of sexual minorities with the neoliberal state; the former is usually used to critique certain policies within the State of Israel meant to promote its society as tolerant of diversity, the latter with the movement for same-sex marriage and participation in the armed services in the United States. This essay extends the application of these terms to Singapore, where between 2001 and 2004 the state tentatively and partially relaxed its restrictions on homosexual activity (e.g., the “Nation Parties”) in the hope of attracting the “creative class” to the island and its economy, only to reinstate prohibitions when those burgeoning activities were seen as conflicting with Singapore’s ideology of “Asian values.” Singapore today remains a nation where male homosexuality is illegal but domicile to a discreet gay subculture.
Journal of Korean Studies, 2016
3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Education at a Glance 2012: Hig... more 3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Education at a Glance 2012: Highlights. Paris OECD (2012),” accessed January 6, 2016, http://www .oecd.org/eduEAG2012_e-book_EN_.200912.pdf. Site discontinued. 4. OECD “Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators.” OECD Publishing, accessed April 4, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2014-en. 5. President Barack Obama, The White House, “Remarks of President Barack Obama in State of the Union Address—As Prepared for Delivery,” accessed May 18, 2016, https:// www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-barack-obama-stateunion-address-prepared-delivery. 6. Pearson Education Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment, “Index— Which Countries Have the Best Schools?,” accessed November 12, 2015, http://thelearning curve.pearson.com/index/index-ranking. 7. Nancy Abelmann, Jung-ah Choi, and So Jin Park, eds., No Alternative? Experiments in South Korea’s Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012). 8. Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, eds., Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts (New York: Springer, 2014); and Hyunjoon Park, Re-evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: Demystifying Stereotypes (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Choice Reviews Online, 2009
... Many thanks to Pam Snyder at Oberlin. My colleagues and studentsespecially Suzanne Gay, Amy ... more ... Many thanks to Pam Snyder at Oberlin. My colleagues and studentsespecially Suzanne Gay, Amy Redden, Ikuko Kurasawa, and Sheila Jagerin the East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin College have provided a wonderfully supportive environment. ...
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2015
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1987
... Nagaoka points out the enthusiastic response generated by HN among the "younger generati... more ... Nagaoka points out the enthusiastic response generated by HN among the "younger generation." 3 See "Documentation as Art," the second chapter in Sidra ... 7 Oe, Hiroshima noto, in Hiroshima no hikari: Oe Kenzaburo dojidai ronshu 2 t i '2/ -' ODY: 99i P MORVU-iM 2 (Tokyo ...