Edited by Richard Torrance

Published: 2015-01-16

FRONT MATTER

Front Matter, including an Editor’s Foreword by Richard Torrance

Richard Torrance
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1398

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

郷土色と一人称ナラティヴ――抒情の1900年代から1920年代

Kyōdoshoku to ichininshō narateibu—jojō no 1900 nendai kara 1920 nendai

Sadami Suzuki
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1399

SPECIFIC REGIONS

Yamato as cultural memory: Maekawa Samio's poetry on Nara

Leith Morton
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1358

Images of Kanazawa in Izumi Kyōka's Yuna no tamashii

Artem Vorobiev
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1404

Playing house: suburbia and self in Miyabe Miyuki's R.P.G.

Raechel Dumas
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1408

Gion in early Meiji: Narushima Ryūhoku's A Glimpse of the Capital's Cats

Matthew Fraleigh
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1411

Miyabe Miyuki's descriptions of Shitamachi Tokyo

Noriko Chino
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1415

REGIONAL LITERARY PRODUCTION AND THE VICISSITUDES OF DIALECT

A moveable tea house: sharebon in early nineteenth century Nagoya

Dylan McGee
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1419

The dialect complex of Dazai Osamu as seen in Regretful Parting

Guohe Zheng
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1423

FOREIGNNESS IN JAPAN

A failure of de-colonization: reading the postcolonial subject as double agent

Robert Del Greco
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1427

Struggling between nostalgia and reality: the Association of Chinese Literature Studies and Takeda Taijun's Fūbaika

Yongfei Yi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1431

Kiritsubo and Yang Kuei-fei: a Sino-Japanese dimension

Masako Nakagawa
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1435

Diaries of conversion: God, self, and the dilemma of faith in modern Japanese literature

Massimiliano Tomasi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1440

JAPAN IN FOREIGN REGIONS

Two views from Paris: Mori Arimasa and Katō Shūichi on Japanese culture in 1955

Doug Slaymaker
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1445

Japanese women and rural settlement in Manchukuo: gendered reflections of labor and productivity in Manshū gurafu

Annika A. Culver
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1450

THE REGION OF THE WORKING CLASS

Hirabayashi Taiko's proletarian fiction of the worksite

Stephen Filler
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1456

Against the storm: the postwar Japanese culture through the real voices of working women, 1946-1950

Yumi Soeshima
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1460

Labor and literature of contemporary Japan: the prescience of Hannah Arendt

Yasuko Claremont
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1465

CONTEMPORARY PLACES

Mythical landscapes and imaginary creatures: Pokémon and Japanese regionalism

Kathryn Hemmann
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1469

Japanese earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms as archetypal symbols: an explication of Kamo no Chōmei's The Earthquake, The Tale of Heike, Rai Sanyō's Hearing of the Earthquake in Kyoto and the Great East Japan Earthquake

Doyin Aguoru
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26812/pajls.v14i.1476