Josai University Educational Corporation

International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science (JICPAS)

Review of Japanese Culture and Society

JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Review of Japanese Culture and Society Vol.XXV December 2013 (Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies)

Introduction to “Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies"
Jordan Sand
Alan Tansman
Dennis Washburn
音楽 OngakuOnkyō/Music, Sound
Hosokawa Shūhei
史学 Shigaku/History
Thomas Keirstead
懺悔 Zange/Confession
Christine Marran
美人 Bijin/Beauty
Miya Elise Mizuta
おたく Otaku/Geek (translated by Dennis Washburn)
Morikawa Kaichiro
中流 Chūryū/Middling
Jordan Sand
郷土 Kyōdo/Native Soil (translated by Jordan Sand)
Satō Kenji
記憶 Kioku,思い出 Omoide/Memory
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
サブライム Saburaimu/Sublime
Alan Tansman
科学 Kagaku, 究理 Kyūri/Science
(translated by Matthew Fargo and Jordan Sand)
Tsukahara Togo
文学 Bungaku/Literature
Dennis Washburn
洋画 Yōga/The Western Painting, National Painting, and Global Painting of Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki
Translated Essays
Excerpts from The Legends of Japan (1929) (translated by David Humphrey)
Yanagita Kunio
“Being" and “Doing" (1958) (translated by Dennis Washburn)
Maruyama Masao
Group Characteristics Based on “Place" (1967) (translated by Paul Roquet)
Nakane Chie
The First Stirrings of Folk Scholarship (Minkangaku) in Modern Japan (1983)
(translated by David Henry)
Kano Masanao
Art in Focus
Voices of Mono-ha Artists: Contemporary Art in Japan,Circa 1970
(from a panel discussion at the University of Southern California,February 2012)
(transcribed by Hayato Fujioka)
(translated by Rika Iezumi Hiro and Reiko Tomii, with Mika Yoshitake)
Reiko Tomii, Section Editor
What Is Mono-ha?
Mika Yoshitake
Six Contradictions of Mono-ha
Reiko Tomii
Dialogue 1
Sekine Nobuo and Koshimizu Susumu, with Joan Kee
Dialogue 2
Lee Ufan and Suga Kishio, with Mika Yoshitake
Dialogue 3
Haraguchi Noriyuki with Reiko Tomii
Roundtable
Haraguchi Noriyuki, Koshimizu Susumu, Lee Ufan, Sekine Nobuo,
and Suga Kishio,with Hollis Goodall
Beyond Being and Nothingness: On Sekine Nobuo (1970-71)
(translated by Reiko Tomii)
Lee Ufan
On the Contributors

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