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Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African …

"Kittenish Appearance:" Western Fashion In Meiji Japan, Harry Zhang

Gettysburg College Headquarters

This paper seeks to examine the degree to which Meiji era Japan adopted Western fashion. It uses written and photographic sources to understand the attitude of Meiji era Japanese towards the introduction of Western fashion into everyday life, and the changing of said attitudes throughout the Meiji era and its implication on Japan's national identity.

Japanese Colonialism: Unraveling The Complex Historiography And Cultural Genocide In The Korean Peninsula, Madison Huckabay

History | Senior Theses

Upon the influence of western imperialism reaching East Asia, Japan began its own imperial conquests as it worked to establish itself as a world power alongside Russia and Western powers. After the first Sino-Japanese war between Qing China and Imperial Japan, China was forced to recognize independence to Korea, along with ceding the Taiwan, Pescadores and Liaodong territories to Japan as of 1895. While Japan initially claimed to promote Korea’s independence and nationalism, they officially ended up annexing Korea as of 1910. From the perspective of the western powers and historians, they were initially optimistic about Japan’s reform on Koreans. …

Creative Citizen Peacebuilding: Japanese Artists And Audiences Respond To The Vietnam-American War, Long T. Bui, Ayako Sahara

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article explores two case studies related to South Vietnam and Japan, relating them to the controversial history and legacy of the Second Indochina War. The first is the Japanese adoption and adaptation of South Vietnamese antiwar music. The second is a Japanese film, uncovered decades later after the war, exposing the role of Japan in South Vietnam. Cultural productions, from nations allied with the United States, sought to expose the popular struggle for peace against the rising tide of Cold War military violence and corporate capitalist exploitation. Through interviews, archival research, and textual analysis, the article argues for a …

Of Spies And Assassins, Haddon Smead

Honors Theses

This thesis explores the possibility of a connection between the Shinobi of Japan and the Order of Assassins from the Middle East. There is evidence that these two secret societies of antiquity are related and that there might have been some level of interaction and/or connection between them. The aligning methodologies, the geopolitical circumstances, the transmission of culture, and the other organizations resembling these two groups establish a frightening level of similarity between them and support the existence of a historical connection. It is hoped that additional study will be undertaken with regards to this subject, and the author of …

Kokoro: Hints And Echoes Of Japanese Inner Life, Lafcadio Hearn, Koizumi Yakumo

Zea E-Books Collection

The works of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) played a critical role in introducing his adopted Japan to a worldwide audience. In Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, he writes, “The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, — for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). This word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning, — just as we say in English, ‘the heart of things.’” After centuries of isolation Meiji-era Japan was forced to adjust …

Influential Storytelling At Its Finest: Why The Postwar West Took Notice Of Yasujirō Ozu’S Tokyo Story, Abigail Deveney

Japanese Society and Culture

Tokyo Story (1953) came to fame in 1958, when Yasujiro Ozu’s postwar film about a fragmenting family won the Sutherland prize at the London Film Festival – or so cinematic scholarship suggests. There is, however, a much more complex tale to be told. In fact, director Ozu’s shomingeki-genre film was being discussed and promoted internationally long before what is considered that watershed moment.

This dissertation explores why the western world took note. It argues that Tokyo Story’s nuanced and humanist narrative was a unique form of soft power, attracting and persuading decades before that concept was formally articulated. Tokyo Story’s …

Mice Meet World: How Disney And Nintendo Allowed Consumers To Escape From, Re-Enter, And Later Re-Envision A War Torn World, Samantha Constantine

Masters Theses, 2020-current

This thesis examines how Disney and Nintendo appealed to consumers in both the United States and Japan by celebrating ideals that spoke to consumer’s existing perceptions of national identity and national exceptionalism, particularly the dream of upward mobility. This thesis highlights four character traits that both the Japanese and Americans found heroic and that comprised the wider dream of upward mobility: hard work, perseverance, tenacity, and kindness. Through the immersive experiences that Disney and Nintendo provided, consumers became the heroes of their own journeys and brought these characteristics to life both in the fantasy worlds each company created and in …

Effects Of The United States Reconstruction On Nationalism In The Japanese Education System, Connell Murphy

Voces Novae

When the United States began its reconstruction of Japan after World War II, they consistently put their own interests within the country before what would benefit Japan the most . While the first two years of the occupation led to significant changes inside and outside schools, including the Ministry of Education’s diminished role, increased local involvement in the academic system, and the removal of nationalistic “morality” classes such as shushin. All of these changes were necessary efforts to denationalize and decentralize Japan’s educational system and allow more choices for teachers and schools. When Washington began to take an increased interest …

Revisiting A Struggle: Port Kembla, 1938, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

A review and discussion of the 2015 documentary film 'Pig Iron Bob' (Producer/Director Sandra Pires). The focus of this film is the dramatic 2-month long boycott by Australian waterside workers in Port Kembla (NSW), 1938/39, of a cargo of Australian pig-iron bound for Japan. The workers took their action in protest against Japanese militarism and the Sino-Japanese War. The boycott enraged the conservative Australian government of the day which pulled out all stops to maintain its policy of appeasement towards Japan.

The Tokugawa Samurai: Values & Lifestyle Transition, Kathleen A. Mcgurty

Student Publications

The Tokugawa period of Japan was a time of great prosperity but also great strife among the social classes. Of the most affected peoples of the Japanese feudal system was the samurai, who had so long been at the center of military and even political power. For hundreds of years, these highly revered peoples had lived a consistent life based off of virtues passed on through a code, and have also lived comfortable lives due to special powers that were reserved for them.

However, with a lack of warfare and increasing Western influence on the political, social, and military system …

A War Within World War Ii: Racialized Masculinity And Citizenship Of Japanese Americans And Korean Colonial Subjects, Jeffrey Yamashita

History Honors Projects

Even though the Pacific Ocean stands as an aqueous wall between Japan and the United States, World War II exposed the shared relationship between these two nations in their utilization of racial minority populations for the war effort. I interrogate the intersections of gender identity, race, and citizenship of Japanese Americans and Korean colonial subjects in the Japanese Empire during World War II. Specifically, I compare Japanese Americans—soldiers of the segregated Japanese American100^th/442^nd Regimental Combat Team, draft resisters from Heart Mountain, and prisoners of war—with Korean colonial subjects—soldiers who fought for the Imperial Japanese Army— and hope …

The National Imagination (Spring 2011), Robert D. Tobin, Beth Gale, Alice Valentine

Syllabi

What images make people think of the United States of America? Cowboys? The flag? And are there similar icons in other cultures that help define cultural identity? The National Imagination explores the concept of a national community as constructed and critiqued through literary and cinematic narratives, as well as other cultural texts.

Our underlying premise is that national languages and cultures promote the identity of particular communities. We are interested in examining those subjective expressions of culture—images, symbols, narratives—that lead people to feel that they are members of the communities we call nations. We are also interested in discovering points …

The National Imagination (Spring 2010), Robert D. Tobin, Belen Atienza, Alice Valentine

Syllabi

What images make people think of the United States of America? Cowboys? The flag? And are there similar icons in other cultures that help define cultural identity? The National Imagination explores the concept of a national community as constructed and critiqued through literary and cinematic narratives, as well as other cultural texts.

Our underlying premise is that national languages and cultures promote the identity of particular communities. We are interested in examining those subjective expressions of culture—images, symbols, narratives—that lead people to feel that they are members of the communities we call nations. We are also interested in discovering points …

The Japanese Revolutionaries: The Architects Of The Meiji Restoration, 1860-1868, Dana Kenneth Teasley

Student Papers (History)

Scholars have offered many conflicting interpretations of the Japanese Meiji Restoration of 1868, but few have put forth a comprehensive analysis as to the nature of the protagonists and the motivation of those who initiated this revolutionary movement. Although historical interpretations of the Restoration and its heroes have ranged from a romantic and generalized theory of economic struggle to focused studies of individuals whose motivations were singular, the true character of the samurai revolutionaries behind the Restoration is the issue here. Of those samurai who, acquired knowledge of Western civilization and technology, took part in the Restoration, and witnessed the …

Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 196. Letters sent to Stone and his mother, Nelle Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II from friends in armed service around the world. Includes letters, holiday greeting cards, telegrams, V-mail and postcards. Almost all correspondents were members of a local fraternal club known as the Senators which was composed of graduates of Bowling Green High School.

Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 25. Correspondence related to travel of Elizabeth Moseley Woods (1865-1967). Also includes Woods family correspondence, 100th birthday congratulations, Woods and Hall families genealogies, a household account book kept by Woods on a stay in Paris, 1901, and a script of a 1938 radio broadcast related to a South American cruise taken by Woods. Also includes clippings related to the retirement of Dr. John D. Woods as editor of the "Glasgow Times." An original and two copies of 1862 Civil letters (Confederate) are also included.

This Sporting Life: Sports And Body Culture In Modern Japan, William W. Kelly, Atsuo Sugimoto

CEAS Occasional Publication Series

Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 1

Sports in Japan have long been embedded in community life, the educational system, the mass media, the corporate structures, and the nationalist sentiments of modern Japan. For over a century, they have been a crucial intersection of school pedagogy, corporate aims, media constructions, gender relations, and patriotic feelings. The chapters in this book highlight a wide range of sports, and together, they offer a significant window on to the ways that the sporting life animates the institutions of modern Japan.

A Taste Of Japan, A Taste Of Japan

Menus of the 20th Century

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, February 24, 1989, Kevin Murphy, Erika Rohrbach, Fred Gladstone, Michelle L. Grande, Richard P. Richter, Lenore Bailey, Matt Weintraub, Dorothy O'Malley, Bridget Algeo, Matt Becker, Neil Schafer, Katherine Grim, Jean M. Kiss, Kathy Bowers, Jennifer Strawbridge, Peggy Hermann, Gabrielle Deboca, Christopher Harbach

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Finds and Dumps Its Own Dump • Depression Treatable • GPA Lowered for Frat Pledges • Letter: Mannherz Assaults Grizzly • Myrin Library Meeting Future • Photos Don't Show All, More to Dump Than Meets the Eye • Ursinus Awaits ECAC Bid • Matters Set School Record • McMullin Keys U.C. Track • U.C.: Up, Then Down • Ursinus Women: The Stuff of Champions • Cinders Smoking • Meisters: Ohio or Bust! • Richter Doesn't Trash Klee • Wismer Deceiving Diners • DeCatur Nips Nippon • Yanks and Frogs Alike • Airband Tonight • Graduation 1989 Coming Together • …

A History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Japan From 1948 To 1980, Terry G. Nelson

Theses and Dissertations

The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan from 1948 to 1980 is a study in cross-cultural interaction. Compared to the earlier attempts of the Church in proselytizing the Japanese in the period 1901 to 1924, there are some significant contrasts. The earlier mission is seen as an attempt by a small, relatively unknown, provincial religion, in financial straits, just emerging into the twentieth century, trying to establish itself in a non-christian, fiercely nationalistic, culturally closed nation.

From very humble beginnings, starting with second and third generation Japanese in Hawaii, and with LDS members of …

Danmono: A Type Of Japanese Koto Music, Jonathan Richard Besancon

Honors Theses

Sokyoku (koto music) in Japan before the end of the seventeenth century is represented by only two genres: sets of solo songs with koto accompaniment which are called kurniuta, and koto solos called danrnono. Danrnono and kurniuta were the beginning of the sokyoku tradition which developed through the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868). It is the solo genre of sokyoku, the danrnono, which is the subject of this study. This genre is the most important of the few examples of Japanese music which are independent of literary influence. The danmono repertoire is also rather curious because it is limited today to only …

The Grizzly, February 5, 1982, James H. Wilson, Mark Angelo, Kevin Burke, Larry Muscarella, Georgeann Fusco, Mary Mulligan, Duncan C. Atkins, Chuck Groce, Joe Rongione, Jean Morrison, Richard P. Richter, Glenn A. Parno

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Wismer Thefts Provoke Action • Lloyd's Tenure Rejection Official • KDK Attains Highest GPA • Rod Luck Visits W's Gymnastics • Comment: New Faculty Program a Contradiction of Goals? • On Energy Conservation • Administration's Views on Pledging • Book Store Improves Under New Management • Bell Rate Hikes to Affect Students • Pattern Changes Planned for Next Semester • The Way to a Man's Heart • Japanese Program Opens This Summer • Aquamen Swamp E-town • Racqueteers Rolling • Women Splash to Victory • Sterling Brown to Take Over Football Team • B-Ball Takes Two • Girls Dump Mighty …

The Grizzly, December 4, 1981, James H. Wilson, Richard B. Mcquillan, Kevin Burke, Brian E. Kelley, Georgeann Fusco, Mark Angelo, Hank Larkin, Larry Muscarella, Kevin Kunkle, Karen L. Reese, Duncan C. Atkins, Mark Lonergan, Chuck Groce, Jean Morrison, Joe Rongione, J. Houghton Kane, S. Ross Doughty

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Dealing With Financial Pressure • EcBA Department Interviews for New Positions • Freshman Relates Pre-Collegiate Experiences in Japan • Union Evaluation Prompts Improvement • Campus-wide Planning Meeting Sets Competitive Goals for UC • Residents Fix Up Curtis Hall • Lucas Named To PaCIE • 'Messiah' Rehearsal Open to Public • Jarvis and Rutherford in Last Coffeehouse • Best Albums of 1981 • Senior Poet Honored Nationally • New Wrestlers Lead the Way • Girls B-Ball Prime for Opener • Baseball Team Has New Skipper • Men's Swimmers Take Third Place • Hoopsters Off to Slow Start • Gymnasts Pleasing • …

The Grizzly, October 19, 1979, Brian Barlow, Jennifer Bassett, Ross Schwalm, Diana Dakay, Dean Mioli, Jay Repko, Stephanie Kane, Brian Clemens, David Garner, Michael Chiarappa, Jean Morrison, Martin Katz, Margaret Martz, Bruce Dalziel, Tracy Nadzak

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus - Tohoku Make Exchange • Campus Life Committee • Faculty Makes Recommendations About College Curriculum • Women's Financial Workshop Offered • Letters to the Editor • Ursinus News In Brief: Student teachers assigned; Generous alumni gifts; Alternate weekend • 1979 Homecoming Candidates • The Who - An Interesting Saga • The Long Run - Always Sincere • ProTheatre To Open • Knack Review • Music News: Disco, Tom Petty • C.S. Lewis Forum • Super Sundae • USGA Notes • Fearless Friday Forecast • Young Artists Series Resume • Life In Your Nasal Passage: Frat War Is Hell!!! • …

The Ursinus Weekly, May 17, 1973, John T. Fidler, Elsie Van Wagoner, Rachel Mcclain, Gary Griffith, Sandra Wible, Carol Seifrit, James Cochran, Robert Vietri, Ruthann Connell, Helen Ludwig

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Japanese students eager to tour US and study at UC • Preview of freshmen reveals a typical lot • POW speaks to psychology classes • Juniors elect officers for their senior year • Economics majors inducted into honor society • Editorial: Ellsberg and his gift of justice; In praise of PBS • Faculty portrait: Mr. Juan Espadas • Final exam schedule • "Taming of the Shrew" pleases weekend audience • Trackmen complete successful season • British upset 11-8; Smart coaching helps • Lacrosse team wins two but loses the big one

The Ursinus Weekly, March 22, 1973, Charles Chambers, David Ochocki, Rich Mcintyre, Joseph Van Wyk, Richard Whaley, Kitt Turner, Nancy Frye, John Kraus, Elsie Van Wagoner, John O. Rorer Iii, Cris Crane, Helen Ludwig, Susan Petersen, Rodger Blind

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

U.S.G.A. takes action on several matters • C.C.C. slots filled for coming autumn • Fifteen Japanese students to arrive at Ursinus for Summer session • Physical Education Department expands freshman course to fit facilities • Dean R.J. Whatley institutes new property damage procedure • Moore's military miniatures march into class • Editorial: The tax game • Focus: Tom Sturgeon • Follow the bouncing ball • Right before your eyes we have "Loot," an obscure comedy by Joe Orton • A meeting of Eastern and Western cultures; U.C. students offer international perspectives • A night on Broadway with Elmer • Songfest …

The Ursinus Weekly, January 23, 1969, Judy Schneider, Alan Gold, Byron Jackson, Frederick Jacob, John S. Picconi, Judith Earle, James Williams, Howard Solomon, Kenneth Yorgey, Jonathan Weaver

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Williams presents "Aesthetic Japan" • USGA announces students named to Ursinus Board • Cut system modified for failing students • Ursinus obtains Gulf Oil grant • Merck & Co. awards research grant to UC • Final examination schedule • Confrontation: Black vs. white • Editorial: Another chapter in the ongoing inquiry in the higher morality as precepted and pursued on the Ursinus College campus • Letters to the editor • Exchange • Underground films debut at Ursinus • Editorial: Neglected issues • Faculty portrait: Dr. Levie Van Dam • Freeland spirit pervades • Parents O.K. strict rules • Bears drop …

The Ursinus Weekly, October 3, 1968, Judy Schneider, Alan Gold, Jonathan Weaver, Frederick Jacob, Byron Jackson, Cris Crane, John S. Picconi, Thomas Miller

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Fourteen join faculty; Dept. heads named for Philos. & Economics • 227 freshmen begin studies; 3 foreign students included • Professors recognized for teaching excellence • Stained glass exhibit on display at Ursinus • Joint effort concert features Intruders • Editorial: Student activism - radical or responsible? • Frosh at Shalom; Dinks on till 12th • The "illegalities" of Ursinus law • The great society? • Editorial: Everyone's problem • Freeland's days numbered; Library to rise on site • Graduate school aspirants urged to prepare early • Forums replace required chapel • Studio art to highlight new fine arts course …

The Ursinus Weekly, December 9, 1963, Sharon E. Robbins, Sue Yost, F. Donald Zucker, Craig Garner

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ten Ursinus students named to Who's who • Mrs. Randall, 942 resident head, dies Saturday • UC Circle holds Christmas party • College Bowl team prepares for meet • J. A. Minnich attends seminar • "Breeches Bible" used at vespers • Handel's Messiah to be given at UC; 26th annual concert set for Dec. 12 • PSEA to hear talk on testing • Notes on the WSGA • Barnhouse of TV 10 speaks • Design for Living program Tuesday night • Editorial: Curtain Club meets the challenge; Constitutional controls viewed • Reaction from abroad: Stockholm; Tokyo • Letters to the …