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1. Lee, I-Zhuen. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.

Degree: PhD, Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, 2018, Cornell University

► This dissertation examines the relation between scholars of kokugaku (often translated as "nativism") and the rise of empirical rationalism as a paradigm for knowledge in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Early Modern Japan; Early Modern Japanese Medical History; Kokugaku; Tokugawa Intellectual History; Wabun; Asian studies; Nature; Asian literature

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Lee, I. (2018). Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.

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Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749

2. Lee, Sujin. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.

Degree: PhD, History, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

► This dissertation aims to answer comprehensively the simple, yet significant question of why and how population became a political problem in interwar Japan (late 1910s… (more)

▼ This dissertation aims to answer comprehensively the simple, yet significant question of why and how population became a political problem in interwar Japan (late 1910s - late 1930s). During Japan’s interwar years, there was a growing call among social scientists, social reformers, and government elites to solve “population problem (jinkō mondai).” These Japanese intellectuals attributed the population problem in Mainland Japan (naichi) to a wide array of social ills including poverty, unemployment, and physical, mental, and moral degeneration, and considered various solutions to reform the Japanese population. The prevalence of this population discourse must be understood as an obvious symptom of the growing attention among contemporary Japanese intellectuals and bureaucrats to the population: the size and quality of the population became an object of knowledge and an objective of government. Moreover, the ambiguous, yet productive category of the Japanese population provides a revealing look at the complex social relations and colonial mobility in the Japanese Empire. This dissertation focuses on modern governmentality and imperialism that were embedded in the interwar discourse of the population problem. Using Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of discourse, I consider the population discourse to encompass different, or even conflicting agendas, languages, and movements that shaped and reshaped the population problem. The close reading of the arguments of different population discourses, including Neo-Malthusianism, the proletarian birth control and eugenics movement, feminist advocacy for voluntary motherhood, and the government's investigation into population problems, reveals the distinctive nature of Japan's interwar period in two senses: 1) a dynamic space where various discourses on population issues—particularly, birth control, eugenics, and population policy—continuously interwove sexual and biological issues with politico-economic ones; and 2) a crucial stage for reconstructing Japanese modernity through integrating scientific progressivism, social reformism, and imperial nationalism. In sum, in revisiting interwar Japan through the frames of governmentality and imperialism, my dissertation illuminates how the multiple discourses on population constituted and categorized desirable bodies to reproduce, and how these discourses intersected with modern subjectivities—namely, gender, nation, and class. Advisors/Committee Members: Sakai, Naoki (chair), Seth, Suman (committee member), Koschmann, Julien Victor (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Asian studies; birth control; eugenics; imperialism; Interwar Japan; population problem; Science history; biopolitics

…graduate students at Cornell University. Professors Brett De Bary, T.J. Hinrichs, Eric…

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Lee, S. (2017). Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, Sujin. “Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, Sujin. “Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee S. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840.

Council of Science Editors:

Lee S. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

Cornell University

3. Hong, Soo Kyeong. FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945.

Degree: PhD, History, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56934

► This dissertation traces the history of a dietary reform movement, which sought “right eating” in early twentieth-century Japan. The movement revolved around the concept of… (more)

▼ This dissertation traces the history of a dietary reform movement, which sought “right eating” in early twentieth-century Japan. The movement revolved around the concept of shokuyō, which broadly referred to the art of nourishing life and vitality—yōjō—through proper eating. Its central proposition was a call for the return to “natural and traditional” foodways with a particular emphasis on the consumption of unpolished rice and largely plant-based foods. Chapter One explores how the movement and discourse of shokuyō came into being and developed as a reaction against modern transformations of Japanese society since the Meiji Restoration. It situates the shokuyō movement within the context of discourses on hygiene, health, and the overarching project of civilization and enlightenment. Although the late Meiji shokuyō advocates sought to associate its ideal diet within the boundaries of orderliness of nature and civil morality, the way to understand the relationship between food and health became increasingly overshadowed by the ascendance of institutionalized nutrition science in the 1920s. Chapter Two looks at how “efficiency” and “rationalization” became catchwords in food-related public campaigns and medical discourse in which the concept of shokuyō was superseded by that of eiyō (nutrition). In spite of this, the shokuyō movement, evolved toward another direction with a new critique of modern medicine. Chapter Three concerns this transformation by analyzing how Sakurazawa Yukikazu reconceptualized shokuyō theories as “Natural Medicine” by drawing on contemporary French critiques of biomedicine and Shinto ideology. The following two chapters trace the movement’s transformation in the 1930s from an esoteric and upper-class-centered one into a large-scale movement targeting wider sectors of society. Chapter Four looks at how the campaigners actively intervened in the wartime standardization of brown rice as the national staple in face of total war. Chapter Five on the other hand analyzes the shokuyō movement’s crusade against sugar consumption in Japanese migrants’ diets in Manchuria, showing how they attempted to bring together tenets of “eating right” and the project of Empire. This dissertation ultimately argues that shokuyō’s “traditionalist” and “natural” dietary persuasion fed into a cultural nationalist and imperialist political imagination grounded in a holistic understanding of the body, health, and environment. Advisors/Committee Members: Koschmann, Julien Victor (chair), Hinrichs, TJ (committee member), Sakai, Naoki (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Tradition; Body; Brown rice; Health; Nature; food; Science history

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Hong, S. K. (2017). FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56934

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hong, Soo Kyeong. “FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56934.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hong, Soo Kyeong. “FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Hong SK. FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56934.

Council of Science Editors:

Hong SK. FOOD AS MEDICINE: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF "EATING RIGHT" IN MODERN JAPAN, 1905-1945. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56934

Cornell University

4. Huang, Junliang. The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S.

Degree: PhD, East Asian Literature, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40943

► Centered on the works of three Japanese writers, namely Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927), Hayashi Kyōko (1930- ), and Takeda Taijun (1912-1976), and with references to many… (more)

▼ Centered on the works of three Japanese writers, namely Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927), Hayashi Kyōko (1930- ), and Takeda Taijun (1912-1976), and with references to many other writers such as Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, and Takeuchi Yoshimi, in this dissertation I look into those narrative accounts for a changing pattern in their structure of storytelling about semi-colonial China. My project is in many ways indebted to but also fundamentally different from studies of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges under semicolonialism, in the sense that it is a subtle literary analysis organized around a theoretical problematic, rather than an effort for a comprehensive history. I highlight the politics of storytelling in our texts by examining the temporality and spatiality, narrative devices, linguistic politics, and so on in the writer's storytelling. I take the literary texts discussed in this dissertation as always socially constructed, and as "narrative accounts" that consist of elements of figuration, rather than considering them as the unmediated reproduction of the historical "truth" about the writers or about the Chinese and Japanese societies they traveled/lived in and between. Chapter One is a careful examination of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's narrative of prewar China, entitled Travels in China. Chapter Two focuses on the politics of storytelling in Hayashi Kyōko's autobiographical novel Michelle Lipstick (1980), read together with several other works of hers. Chapter Three is organized around discussions of three major works on China by Takeda, entitled Sima Qian (Shiba Sen, 1943), The Judgment (Shinpan, 1947), and Shanghai Firefly (Shanhai no hotaru, 1976), while referring to several of his essays written between those years as secondary materials. I reach two conclusions. First, I contend that there is an obvious shift in the ways that prewar and postwar Japanese writers construct the time and space of semicolonial China in their works. And secondly, I hold that the allegorical meaning of storytelling lies in the space it opens up for literary critics and literary historians to access the relations between the writer, the narrator, and the surrounding social space, which, in my opinion, are the reality of the past that we have been trying to find in literature. Advisors/Committee Members: de Bary,Brett (chair), Gunn,Edward Mansfield (committee member), Sakai,Naoki (committee member), Hirano,Katsuya (committee member).

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Huang, J. (2015). The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40943

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Huang, Junliang. “The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40943.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Huang, Junliang. “The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S.” 2015. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Huang J. The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40943.

Council of Science Editors:

Huang J. The Politics Of “Storytelling”: Schemas Of Time And Space In Japan’S Traveling Imagination Of Semi-Colonial China And Beyond, 1920S-1980S. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40943

Cornell University

5. Park, Jung. Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea.

Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34269

► Conventional views on state-formation examined within nation political and resource constraints to assess changes that took place. In my dissertation, I explored how external stressors… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: treaties; imperialism; Asian history

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Park, J. (2013). Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34269

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Park, Jung. “Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34269.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Park, Jung. “Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Park J. Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34269.

Council of Science Editors:

Park J. Why Treaties Matter: The Economic And Cultural Effects Of Nineteenth Century Treaties In China, Japan, And Korea. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34269

Cornell University

6. Choi, Deokhyo. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.

Degree: PhD, History, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

► This dissertation is a synthesis of social, political, and international histories of decolonization in Korea and Japan. My study demonstrates how the liberation of Korea… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a synthesis of social, political, and international histories of decolonization in Korea and Japan. My study demonstrates how the liberation of Korea became a foundational historical event not only for the colonized but also for metropolitan society. Despite the recent emphasis on the need to treat the metropole and colony as one analytical field, scholars have yet to approach decolonization as a mutually constitutive process that restructures both the metropole and the colony. The fields of Area Studies and International History often divide their focus on the regional aftermath of the Japanese empire into separate national units of analysis, resulting in histories split between the U.S. and Soviet occupations of Korea (19451948) and the U.S. (Allied) occupation of Japan (1945-1952). In a radical departure from the more nation-centered scholarship, my work treats post-empire Japan and Korea, U.S. occupation policy in Japan and Korea, and Japanese and South Korean anti-Communist regimes as one analytical field. In order to maintain a focused line of inquiry through the complexity of the decolonizing world, I position the Korean postcolonial population in Japan, or the so-called "Korean minority question," as a primary methodological site in my work. With such an analytical focus, I pose a key set of different questions that turn our attention to the transnational processes of dismantling the Japanese empire. First, how did the problem of repatriating both Korean colonial conscripted workers from Japan and Japanese colonial settlers from Korea molded popular nationalistic sentiments and mutual antagonisms in post-empire Japanese-Korean relations? Second, how did post-1945 everyday encounters between the Japanese and Koreans, the defeated and the liberated, frame the Japanese "embracing" of defeat and colonial independence along with U.S. occupation? And third, how did the politics of Korean diasporic nationalism emerge in Japan from the struggle over self-determination and autonomy from Japanese power and how did it develop into the critical locus of U.S.-Japan-South Korea cold war containment policy? By exploring these issues previously overlooked in the existing historiography, my work offers a new framework that overcomes a dichotomy and separation between histories of post-1945 Japan and Korea. Advisors/Committee Members: Koschmann, Julien Victor (chair), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member), Chen, Jian (committee member), Chang, Derek S. (committee member), Suh, Jae-Jung (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Decolonization; Cold War; Koreans in Japan

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Choi, D. (2013). Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Choi, Deokhyo. “Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Choi, Deokhyo. “Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Choi D. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223.

Council of Science Editors:

Choi D. Crucible Of The Post-Empire: Decolonization, Race, And Cold War Politics In U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations, 1945-1952. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34223

Cornell University

7. DuBois, Jeffrey. Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor.

Degree: PhD, East Asian Literature, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34260

► This dissertation aims to understand the articulation of nationality in postwar Japan by looking at literary texts that theorize the nature of the emperor and… (more)

▼ This dissertation aims to understand the articulation of nationality in postwar Japan by looking at literary texts that theorize the nature of the emperor and "emperor system" (tennōsei) as a phenomenon specific to the postwar itself. I analyze texts that comment on the nature of "disrespect" toward the emperor, and in some cases perform that very disrespect, which I argue is ultimately the deconstruction of the emperor system itself. The texts under consideration were written at two points in time: the immediate postwar (around 1946) and the time marked by protests of the renewed U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in 1960. I consider these points in time as "discursive spaces" that the texts capture by bringing together a constellation of images and forces, and that allow for productive cross-reading of the texts. Chapter One introduces some of the theoretical premises for the project, and emphasizes my focus on the discursive representation of the emperor as opposed to the tendency of scholarship to focus on the individual emperor as historical and political agent. Chapter Two traces the invention of the postwar emperor system to narratives deployed to project the image of a human and sympathetic emperor who at once broke with the past and represented absolute continuity with it. C hapter Three turns to Nakano Shigeharu's postwar writings on the emperor that show the contradictions inherent in the "emperor system" itself as well as the role of media and society in reproducing it discursively. The narrator of his text, Goshaku no Saku, believes that the only means to liberate the emperor from the emperor system is to take the notion of the "human" emperor to its logical conclusion: "elevate" the emperor to the status of citizen. Chapter Four argues that Sakaguchi Ango's postwar writing on the emperor leads to very similar conclusions, but frames it as "descent" to humanity. Chapter Five considers the context of 1960 in which the postwar narrative of the peaceful emperor became challenged by remilitarization a nd the renewed Security Treaty; the image of the emperor was mobilized not to unify opposing views, but rend them apart. I argue that Fukazawa Shichirō's Fūryū Mutan depicts this very disunity. However, reaction to the text as event shifted the debate from literary representation of the emperor to the ways that the terrorism circumvents free speech. In Chapter Six, I argue that Mishima capitalizes on this shift and creates a moral equivalence between terrorism and political revolt by defining a notion of militaristic glory as the protection of Japanese culture. In the process, he designs a theory of emperor system that reproduces a foreign fantasy. Chapter Seven argues for the relevance of asking today the same questions raised by the authors. ii Advisors/Committee Members: Sakai, Naoki (chair), Sakai, Naoki (chair), de Bary, Brett (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member), de Bary, Brett (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: nationality; kokutai; emperor system

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DuBois, J. (2013). Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34260

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

DuBois, Jeffrey. “Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34260.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

DuBois, Jeffrey. “Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

DuBois J. Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34260.

Council of Science Editors:

DuBois J. Interpreting Nationality In Postwar Japan: “Disrespectful” Representation Of The Emperor. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/34260

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