David R Ambaras
Biographic Data
| ID | 1077705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Ambaras |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ambaras |
| SIGNATURE | AMBARAS D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6926-773X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Paul Kreitman. Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty
Forum Introduction
Digital humanities (DH) projects in Asian studies have received scant attention. Yet they raise important questions about who DH projects represent and how they represent them, how the field recognizes labor, the role of digital data in Asian humanities, and the boundaries and affordances of "Asia" as a category of analysis. This essay introduces the forum contributions and articulates the critical frameworks and essential questions for analyzing…
Scholarly and Public Responses to “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: The Current State of the Problem, A Report by Concerned Scholars
J. Mark Ramseyer's 2020 article “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” provoked numerous highly critical responses from the general public and the scholarly community. Our group composed a report that analyzed the article and concluded that it should be retracted because it misused and distorted evidence. After more than two years of investigation, during which Ramseyer published a response to his critics, the editors of the International Revie…
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma
Reviewed by: In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma David R. Ambaras (bio) In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire. By Eiichiro Azuma. University of California Press, Oakland, 2019. xii, 353 pages. $75.00, cloth; $75.00, E-book. Studies of the Japanese empire have experienced …
Doing Violence to Buraku History: J. Mark Ramseyer's Dangerous Inventions
We are researchers with strong concerns about J. Mark Ramseyer's (hereafter JMR) article "On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan." We are active in various disciplines and have published work on aspects of Buraku history and literature, as well as the history of slums, deviance, and marginality. The article comprises one part of a larger body of writing by JMR in recent years that has been critiqued and refuted for i…
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate. These stories reveal the shared experiences of the border…
Jordan Sand. Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
In Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, Jordan Sand considers how, in the late twentieth century, neighborhood activists, architects, artists, and others promoted urban preservation projects and claimed rights to common spaces, thus fostering new modes of political engagement in Japan's postindustrial society. The micropublics they created, however, existed in ambivalent relation to both the capitalist forces that capt…
Dans le piège du fourmilion: Japonaises et Fujianais aux marges de l'Empire et de la nation
Au début du 20 e siècle, les journaux japonais rapportèrent l'« enlèvement » de Japonaises parties à Fuqing, au Fujian, en compagnie de colporteurs chinois qu'elles avaient rencontrés au Japon. Les autorités japonaises, soucieuses de sauvegarder le prestige national, s'efforcèrent de les rapatrier et d'empêcher l'émigration d'autres femmes à Fuqing, mais il leur fallut affronter la coopération douteuse des forces chinoises à une époque d'hostilit…
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan
The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan, Bad Youth treats the policing of urban youth as a crucial site for the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion (1895 to 1945), David R. Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience deli…
Bad YouthJuvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan: Juvenile delinquency and the politics of everyday life in modern Japan
Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945
Research Article| February 01 2004 Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945 David R. Ambaras David R. Ambaras Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 31–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911804000051 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas
Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas
Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912
Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and the New Middle Class in Japan, 1895-1912
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas
Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945
Research Article| February 01 2004 Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945 David R. Ambaras David R. Ambaras Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 31–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911804000051 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Bad YouthJuvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan: Juvenile delinquency and the politics of everyday life in modern Japan
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan
The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan, Bad Youth treats the policing of urban youth as a crucial site for the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion (1895 to 1945), David R. Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience deli…
Dans le piège du fourmilion: Japonaises et Fujianais aux marges de l'Empire et de la nation
Au début du 20 e siècle, les journaux japonais rapportèrent l'« enlèvement » de Japonaises parties à Fuqing, au Fujian, en compagnie de colporteurs chinois qu'elles avaient rencontrés au Japon. Les autorités japonaises, soucieuses de sauvegarder le prestige national, s'efforcèrent de les rapatrier et d'empêcher l'émigration d'autres femmes à Fuqing, mais il leur fallut affronter la coopération douteuse des forces chinoises à une époque d'hostilit…
Jordan Sand. Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
In Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, Jordan Sand considers how, in the late twentieth century, neighborhood activists, architects, artists, and others promoted urban preservation projects and claimed rights to common spaces, thus fostering new modes of political engagement in Japan's postindustrial society. The micropublics they created, however, existed in ambivalent relation to both the capitalist forces that capt…
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate. These stories reveal the shared experiences of the border…
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma
Reviewed by: In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma David R. Ambaras (bio) In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire. By Eiichiro Azuma. University of California Press, Oakland, 2019. xii, 353 pages. $75.00, cloth; $75.00, E-book. Studies of the Japanese empire have experienced …
Doing Violence to Buraku History: J. Mark Ramseyer's Dangerous Inventions
We are researchers with strong concerns about J. Mark Ramseyer's (hereafter JMR) article "On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan." We are active in various disciplines and have published work on aspects of Buraku history and literature, as well as the history of slums, deviance, and marginality. The article comprises one part of a larger body of writing by JMR in recent years that has been critiqued and refuted for i…
Scholarly and Public Responses to “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: The Current State of the Problem, A Report by Concerned Scholars
J. Mark Ramseyer's 2020 article “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War” provoked numerous highly critical responses from the general public and the scholarly community. Our group composed a report that analyzed the article and concluded that it should be retracted because it misused and distorted evidence. After more than two years of investigation, during which Ramseyer published a response to his critics, the editors of the International Revie…
Paul Kreitman. Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty
Forum Introduction
Digital humanities (DH) projects in Asian studies have received scant attention. Yet they raise important questions about who DH projects represent and how they represent them, how the field recognizes labor, the role of digital data in Asian humanities, and the boundaries and affordances of "Asia" as a category of analysis. This essay introduces the forum contributions and articulates the critical frameworks and essential questions for analyzing…
Political science (11 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Japan (3 works) · Law (3 works)