Japan in the World, the World in Japan: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan
edited by Center for Japanese Studies
University of Michigan Press, 2001 eISBN: 978-0-472-12796-2 | Paper: 978-0-939512-95-9 Library of Congress Classification DS834.95.J318 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 952.0071173
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In fall 1997 the Center for Japanese Studies at The University of Michigan celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The November symposium featured more than fifty speakers, moderators, and musicians who celebrated the occasion and offered reminiscences on the Center's multifaceted scholarly and professional missions, discussions of the accomplishments of its al-umni/ae, and perspectives on wartime and postwar Japan-U.S. relations. As the first American interdisciplinary institute devoted to education and research on Japan, The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies has a path-making legacy. This volume, which includes the public presentations from the November 1997 symposium, reflects that legacy and the university's long and continuing involvement in Asia, which dates back to the 1870s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Note on Personal Names
Preface
Hitomi Tonomura
Opening Remarks
Philip H. Power
PIONEERING JAPANESE STUDIES
Moderator's Comments
Roger F. Hackett
In War and Peace: Japanese Studies and I
George Oakley Totten III
A Personal View of the Impact of the Center for Japanese Studies
on Academia and United States Foreign Policy
Edwin Neville
Japan: Twelve Doors to a Life
Forrest R. Pitts
The Bridges of Washtenaw County, or I Remember Yamagiwa
Grant K. Goodman
Fate, Timing, Luck
Arthur E. Klauser
Moderator's Comments
John Creighton Campbell
Reflections on the Origins of the Center for Japanese Studies:
A Tribute to Robert Burnett Hall (1896-1975)
Robert E. Ward
Perspectives on Village Japan
J. Douglas Eyre
v
Personal Reflections, 1950
Grace Beardsley
Tozama among Fudai: A Cornellian in Okayama
Robert J. Smith
Personal Reminiscences
Margaret Norbeck
Remembrances of Michigan
Robin Hall for John Whitney Hall
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Present at the Creation of the Japanese Constitution
Beate Sirota Gordon
CONNECTING WITH THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD
Japanese Economic Studies: From Marginal to Mainstream
Hugh Patrick
Japanese Economic Studies: A European Perspective
Jennifer Corbett
Studying the Japanese Economy: Michigan Origins
Gary Saxonhouse
Moderator's Comments
Yuzuru Takeshita
Connecting with the Japanese Economy through Law
B. J. George, Jr.
Connecting with the Professional World
Dan Fenno Henderson
Japan Center as Campus Catalyst
Whitmore Gray
Law and History
Mark Ramseyer
The Frustrations and Promise of a Career Involved with
U.S.-Japan Economic Relations
Merit E. Janow
From Household Enterprise to the Professional World
of Business: An Anthropological Journey
Jill Kleinberg
Learning from Japan: From Toyota City to the Motor City-
Twenty Years of Learning about Each Other
John Shook
Twin Displeasure on Two Sides of the Pacific
Kondo Motohiro
LOOKING AHEAD TO A NEW GLOBAL AGE
Marx vs. Area Studies: Social Science Illusions
Irwin Scheiner
The Politics of Modernism in Japan: Once Again the
Problem of Fascism
Bernard Silberman
The Paranoid Style in Japanese Foreign Policy
Peter Duus
My Middle University
Edward Seidensticker
War and Ethnicity in the Study of Modern Japan
Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Internationalism in Interwar Japanese Financial Politics
'Richard J. Smethurst
Discovering Korea at Michigan: The Making of an
Interarea Historian
Michael Robinson
Japanese Studies in Korea: Past Developments
and Future Prospects
Jung-Suk Youn
Japanese Studies in the United States: The 1990s and Beyond
Patricia G. Steinhoff
Contributors
Index
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Japan in the World, the World in Japan: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan
edited by Center for Japanese Studies
University of Michigan Press, 2001 eISBN: 978-0-472-12796-2 Paper: 978-0-939512-95-9
In fall 1997 the Center for Japanese Studies at The University of Michigan celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The November symposium featured more than fifty speakers, moderators, and musicians who celebrated the occasion and offered reminiscences on the Center's multifaceted scholarly and professional missions, discussions of the accomplishments of its al-umni/ae, and perspectives on wartime and postwar Japan-U.S. relations. As the first American interdisciplinary institute devoted to education and research on Japan, The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies has a path-making legacy. This volume, which includes the public presentations from the November 1997 symposium, reflects that legacy and the university's long and continuing involvement in Asia, which dates back to the 1870s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Note on Personal Names
Preface
Hitomi Tonomura
Opening Remarks
Philip H. Power
PIONEERING JAPANESE STUDIES
Moderator's Comments
Roger F. Hackett
In War and Peace: Japanese Studies and I
George Oakley Totten III
A Personal View of the Impact of the Center for Japanese Studies
on Academia and United States Foreign Policy
Edwin Neville
Japan: Twelve Doors to a Life
Forrest R. Pitts
The Bridges of Washtenaw County, or I Remember Yamagiwa
Grant K. Goodman
Fate, Timing, Luck
Arthur E. Klauser
Moderator's Comments
John Creighton Campbell
Reflections on the Origins of the Center for Japanese Studies:
A Tribute to Robert Burnett Hall (1896-1975)
Robert E. Ward
Perspectives on Village Japan
J. Douglas Eyre
v
Personal Reflections, 1950
Grace Beardsley
Tozama among Fudai: A Cornellian in Okayama
Robert J. Smith
Personal Reminiscences
Margaret Norbeck
Remembrances of Michigan
Robin Hall for John Whitney Hall
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Present at the Creation of the Japanese Constitution
Beate Sirota Gordon
CONNECTING WITH THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD
Japanese Economic Studies: From Marginal to Mainstream
Hugh Patrick
Japanese Economic Studies: A European Perspective
Jennifer Corbett
Studying the Japanese Economy: Michigan Origins
Gary Saxonhouse
Moderator's Comments
Yuzuru Takeshita
Connecting with the Japanese Economy through Law
B. J. George, Jr.
Connecting with the Professional World
Dan Fenno Henderson
Japan Center as Campus Catalyst
Whitmore Gray
Law and History
Mark Ramseyer
The Frustrations and Promise of a Career Involved with
U.S.-Japan Economic Relations
Merit E. Janow
From Household Enterprise to the Professional World
of Business: An Anthropological Journey
Jill Kleinberg
Learning from Japan: From Toyota City to the Motor City-
Twenty Years of Learning about Each Other
John Shook
Twin Displeasure on Two Sides of the Pacific
Kondo Motohiro
LOOKING AHEAD TO A NEW GLOBAL AGE
Marx vs. Area Studies: Social Science Illusions
Irwin Scheiner
The Politics of Modernism in Japan: Once Again the
Problem of Fascism
Bernard Silberman
The Paranoid Style in Japanese Foreign Policy
Peter Duus
My Middle University
Edward Seidensticker
War and Ethnicity in the Study of Modern Japan
Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Internationalism in Interwar Japanese Financial Politics
'Richard J. Smethurst
Discovering Korea at Michigan: The Making of an
Interarea Historian
Michael Robinson
Japanese Studies in Korea: Past Developments
and Future Prospects
Jung-Suk Youn
Japanese Studies in the United States: The 1990s and Beyond
Patricia G. Steinhoff
Contributors
Index
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