{"id":868,"date":"2010-03-22T19:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:12","slug":"aas-love-self-promotion-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/03\/aas-love-self-promotion-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"AAS Love – Self Promotion Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a good week for me and the Association for Asian Studies<\/a>. I just got my Journal of Asian Studies<\/a> in the mail. Not only did I get the journal, but \"\"<\/a> the cover image is my photograph<\/a> of firefighters at the 1985 Atsuta Festival. There’s an article that goes with it, Mary Alice Haddad on the democratization of volunteer fire departments<\/a>, which is quite interesting1<\/a><\/sup>, including the fact that there are almost 900 thousand volunteer firefighters in Japan, which makes it one of the larger civic traditions. <\/p>\n

In addition, the very first review in the Japan section is Jeffrey Lesser’s review of Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures<\/i>, Edited by Nobuko Adachi, in which I have a chapter. He doesn’t mention my chapter in the review2<\/a><\/sup>, but he does praise the book generally, and the review includes discussion of another work — Toake Endoh, Exporting Japan<\/i> — which apparently addresses a familiar argument about the relationship between colonial and migration policy in useful detail. <\/p>\n

To make it a perfect week, I’d have to be going to the AAS Meeting<\/a> in Philadelphia. Well, I am! I’ll be presenting a paper on Friday afternoon<\/a> joined by some very interesting folks:<\/p>\n

Session 106: National Borders and Memory Borders: The Prewar Japanese Diaspora and Postwar Memories of the \u201cHomeland\u201d
\nHometown pride and \u201csafe\u201d international history in rural western Japan, Martin Dusinberre
\nDiaspora Memory: Selective Histories of Japanese Emigration, Jonathan Dresner
\nLost Homeland: Colonial Memories of Manchuria in Okinawa after World War II, Shinzo Araragi
\nBeyond Conflicted Memories of the \u201cSecond Hometown\u201d: a homecoming tour of Japanese repatriates to the Philippines , Mariko Iijima<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Martin, in particular, for organizing the panel. <\/p>\n

Naturally, I’ll be blogging and tweeting<\/a> the conference, as much as I can. <\/p>\n

Now, who else will be there, and when can we have a blogger meetup?<\/p>\n

  1. I didn’t know that when I gave permission to use the picture, of course, but I figured Wasserstrom, et al., knew what they were doing  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li>

  2. none of the reviews I’ve seen have, actually. It’s not entirely surprising, since my chapter is a little odd-man-out, looking at diaspora from the perspective of the Japanese government’s anxieties about the cultural illiteracy of emigrants, instead of from a particular diaspora community.  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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