RIJS People
Associates in Research:
J - L
William D. Johnston (Wesleyan University/Professor of History/Chair, History Dept.) – Firearms and state formation in early modern Japan.
wjohnston(at)wesleyan.edu
www.wesleyan.edu/history/
Mark A. Jones (Central Connecticut State University/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History) – History of childhood and the middle class in modern Japan.
jonesm(at)ccsu.edu
www.history.ccsu.edu
Naoki Kamimura (Hiroshima City University/Professor, Faculty of International Studies) – Japanese nuclear disarmament policy and the U.S. - Japan alliance; Comparative analysis of experiences of Japan and other U.S. allies with nuclear disarmament.
kamimura(at)intl.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
http://www.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
Ikumi Kaminishi (Tufts University/Associate Professor of Asian Art History, Dept. of Art and Art History) – Research on the visual aspect of Buddhist concept upaya (skillful means) in medieval Japan.
ikumi.kaminishi(at)tufts.edu
Taizo Kato (Waseda University/ Professor, Dept. of Science and Engineering) – Characteristics of jobless youths in Japan; Pathological gambling increasing in Japan.
taizokato(at)aol.com
www.kato-lab.net
Sari Kawana (University of Massachusetts Boston/Assistant Professor of Japanese, Dept. of Modern Languages) – History of publishing in Japan; genre fiction, particularly detective fiction and science fiction.
sari.kawana(at)umb.edu
Terry Kawashima (Wesleyan University/Associate Professor/Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures) – Defining "capital" and "non-capital" spaces through Heian/Medieval poetry and prose from Yamato monogatari to Heika monogatari.
tkawashima(at)wesleyan.edu
Masato Kimura (Shibusawa Ei’icihi Memorial Foundation/Director, Research Department) – Shibusawa Ei’ichi and the trilateral relations among Japan, China, and the United States.
kimur66(at)attglobal.net
Takako Kishima (Waseda University/Associate Professor of Political Science, School of International Liberal Studies) – Postmodernist analysis of the international/intercultural relations of the Asia-Pacific; Sino-Japanese and Korean-Japanese relations from the perspectives of cultural and political geography.
kishima.t(at)waseda.jp
T. James Kodera (Wellesley College/Professor of Religion, Dept. of Religion; Co-Director, East Asian Studies Program) – Essays on Koreans in Japan from Nara to present; Dogen, the Zen master, from a humanist perspective; pilgrimage.
jkodera(at)wellesley.edu
Takeshi Kokubo (University of Massachusetts Boston/Lecturer Emeritus of Japanese Language and Literature, Dept. of Modern Languages) – Book projects: 1) "The Steerage Passengers"
2) Translation of autobiography of Kiyoshi Kawakami.
takeshi.kokubo(at)umb.edu
www.umb.edu
Kimberly Kono (Smith College/Assistant Professor of Japanese, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures) – Colonial literature by Japanese writers in Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria.
kkono(at)email.smith.edu
www.smith.edu/eall
Thomas LaMarre (McGill University/ Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies) – Labor transformations as seen in anime, manga, and new media.
thomas.lamarre(at)mcgill.ca
Jeffrey M. Lepon (Attorney/Lepon Holzworth & Kato, PLLC. Washington, DC) – U.S.-Japan commercial transactions.
jml(at)lhkdc.com
Gary P. Leupp (Tufts University/Professor of History, Dept. of History; and, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religions, Dept. of Comparative Religion) – Wage-earning weavers in Nishijin during the Tokugawa period; History of western awareness of Buddhism and the transmission of Buddhist memes to the west of Afghanistan in the premodern period.
gleupp(at)tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/history/
Mark Lincicome (College of the Holy Cross/Associate Professor, Dept. of History; Director, Study Abroad Program) – "Peripheral Visions: Imaging Asia in Japan and Australia, 1850s-1930s" -- comparison of images/conceptions of "Asia," relations with the "West," views of "Asians" and indigenous peoples (Ainu, Ryukyuans, Aborigines) and discourses on race and culture, and, national/regional identities' bearing on global expansion of capitalism and imperialism.
mlincico(at)holycross.edu
www.holycross.edu/academics/history
