RIJS People
Associates in Research:
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Edward Mack (University of Washington/Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature) – Distribution and reception of Tokyo-based publishing culture throughout the broader Japanese linguistic community and the relationship between emigrants to Brazil and the Tokyo-centered discourse of "Modern Japanese Literature."
tmack(at)u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/tmack
Robert J. Maeda (Brandeis University/Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts) – Isamu Noguchi in the 1940s.
maeda(at)brandeis.edu
Tamaki Maeda (Wellesley College/Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow, Art Dept.) – Sino-Japanese artistic exchanges in the early 20th century.
tmaeda(at)wellesley.edu
http://www.Wellesley.edu/Art/
Gerald Marsella, Jr. (Peabody Essex Museum/Curatorial Assistant, Dept. of Japanese Art and Culture) – Early Meiji "mugiwara zaiku" and its role in the early stages of the so-called "Japan Craze" in late 19th century Salem.
Gerald_Marsella(at)pem.org
http://www.pem.org
Andrew Maske (University of Kentucky/Assistant Professor of Asian Art History, Dept. of Art History, School of Fine Arts) – Comparative research on the roles of creative art ceramics in the contemporary cultures of Japan, Korea, and China.
andrew_l_maske(at)yahoo.com
Jennifer Milioto Matsue (Union College/Assistant Professor, Depts. of Music, East Asian Studies, and Anthropology) – Completing monograph Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene; Researching Japanese music dealing with the blurring of genre in such musics as wadaiko, nagauta, and trance-electronica; Music scenes in contemporary Japan.
matsuej(at)union.edu
http://idol.union.edu/matsuej/
Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka (Wellesley College/Associate Professor of History, Dept. of History) – Imperialism, the Arms Race, and Democracy: the Politics of Populist Nationalism in Japan, 1887-1922.
ymatsusa(at)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/History/Faculty/matsusaka.html
Trent E. Maxey (Amherst College/Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of Asian Languages and Civilizations, and, Dept. of History) – The political and intellectual construction of religion in Meiji Japan.
tmaxey(at)amherst.edu
www.amherst.edu/~history
James L. McClain (Brown/Professor of History, Dept. of History) – A history of the Japanese middle class in the 20th century.
James_McClain(at)Brown.edu
James McLendon (Independent scholar) – The role of MOF in Japan’s political economy.
hjmclendonjr(at)yahoo.com
Richard H. Minear (University of Massachusetts Amherst/Professor, Dept. of History) – Wartime writings of Nambara Shigeru.
rhminear(at)history.umass.edu
Itsuko Mino (Independent researcher) – Parental filicide with/without suicide in Japan in the second half of the 20th century; Health science: Prenatal cognitive development in the USA from ethnic and psychosocial perspectives.
minomiya(at)aol.com
Tosh Minohara (Kobe University/Professor of International History, Graduate School of Law) – Biography of Komura Jutaro; Intelligence dimension of prewar U.S.-Japan relations; Elihu Root and Japan; East Asia policy of the Hoover Administration; Events in prewar Japanese diplomacy.
minohara(at)gmail.com
http://www.law-kobe-a.oc.jp
Kuniko Miyanaga (Tama University/Dean, The School of Global Studies) – Globalization led by community of scientists in pursuit of factuality; development of democracy in global history, and quest for factual truth for society and humankind.
miyanaga(at)tama.ac.jp
http://sgs.tama.ac.jp/english/
Jiro Mizuno (Senior Legal Advisor, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq.) – Japan’s approach regarding Iraqi reconstruction and recovery of governance.
mizuno(at)un.org, mizunojr(at)yahoo.com
Robert Morehouse (Independent Scholar; The December Institute/Chairman) – The trials of Generals Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masahara Homma; Wartime and postwar activities of Masanobu Tsuji.
rmorehouse(at)post.harvard.edu
www.decemberinstitute.org
Kiyoko Morita (Tufts University/Lecturer in Japanese, Dept. of German, Russian & Asian Languages and Literatures) – Adapting college-level Japanese language teaching methodologies to students with special needs.
Kiyoko.morita(at)tufts.edu
Carolyn A. Morley (Wellesley College/Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures) – The Zato Kyogen plays in the 16th and 17th centuries.
cmorley(at)wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/EALL/
James W. Morley (Columbia Univ./Ruggles Professor of Political Science, Emeritus) -- Current affairs and U.S. policy.
jameswmorley(at)rcn.com
Anne Nishimura Morse (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/William and Helen Pounds Curator of Japanese Art, Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa) – Japanese Esoteric Buddhist art and Japanese postcards.
amorse(at)mfa.org
www.mfa.org
Samuel C. Morse (Amherst College/Professor, Depts. of Art and Art History and Asian Languages and Civilizations) – Religious culture of the Nara, Heian, and Kamakura periods; history of Esoteric Buddhist art, pilgrimage, and cultural practice.
scmorse(at)amherst.edu
http://www.amherst.edu/~finearts
http://www.amherst.edu/~asian/
Robert A. Myers (Columbia U. Business School/Adjunct Professor) – Comparing Japanese and U.S. intellectual property.
ramyers(at)nyc.rr.com
Izumi Nakayama (Furman University/Assistant Professor, Dept. of History and Dept. of Asian Studies) – History of menstruation leave; Gender, labor, science.
izumi.nakayama(at)furman.edu
John Nathan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara/Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) – Radical changes occurring in education, business, government, popular culture, and family life: Japan’s uneasy quest for a viable role in today’s world.
mezameyo(at)earthlink.net
Suzanne O'Brien (Loyola Marymount University/Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Dept. of History) – The discourses on customs (fuzoku) in nineteenth-century Japan; Masculinity and consumption in modern Japan.
sobrien(at)lmu.edu
David Odo (Harvard University/Fellow and Visiting Curator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology) – Early Japanese photography; history and photography of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands; early Japanese colonialism.
david.odo(at)sant.oxon.org
www.peabody.harvard.edu
Midori Oka (Peabody Essex Museum/Associate Curator of Japanese Art) – Currently organizing an exhibition on Japanese kabuki theater, to open in January 2008.
midori_oka(at)pem.org
Sumiko Otsubo (Metropolitan State University/Assistant Professor of History/Chair, Dept. of History) – Book manuscript revision: Some Ironies of Modernity: Eugenic Legislation in Japan, 1883-1941.
sumiko.otsubo(at)metrostate.edu
www.metrostate.edu
