Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Biographic Data
| ID | 110044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariko Asano Tamanoi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariko Asano |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamanoi |
| SIGNATURE | TAMANOI M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9964-8138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
War and compassion: The plight of war orphans in East Asia, 1867–1945 and beyond
War and peace are the two incompatible notions. War and compassion are not: war often calls for human compassion to save not only friends but also enemies. As the technology of war has advanced since the nineteenth century, the targets of compassion in the form of philanthropy, social work, and humanitarianism have also expanded to include soldiers, civilians, and children. In this article, I explore the link between war and compassion in the nin…
The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) in Postwar Japan
In Japan, sensō koji (war orphans) are often identified as furōji (juvenile vagrants). The dominant image of sensō koji is therefore a street child engaging in a variety of adult survival activities in such cities as Tokyo after the war's end. This essay aims to problematize this myth. In the first part, I reconsider the meaning of koji, sensō koji and furōji as socially "constructed" terms after the onset of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). In the sec…
Pan-Asianism in the Diary of Morisaki Minato (1924– 1945), and the Suicide of Mishima Yukio (1925–1970)
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Suffragist Women, Corrupt Officials, and Waste Control in Prewar Japan: Two Plays by Kaneko Shigeri
Through the reading of two plays written by Kaneko Shigeri, this article examines the way in which Japanese suffragist women, who actively participated in the local governance of Tokyo in prewar Japan, joined in the production of two mutually related sets of discourses on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of "purity" (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of "pure" women and "impure" men, and succe…
Victims of Colonialism? Japanese Agrarian Settlers in Manchukuo and Their Repatriation
Manchukuo is the state that Japan created in Northeast China (Manchuria) in 1932 to serve its interests. To populate this vast overseas empire with Japanese, the government sent approximately 380,000 farmers and their families as "agrarian immigrants (nogyo imin)." Many of them were victims of the depression at home. By participating in the construction of Manchukuo, they joined the circle of "colonizers": they received large tracts of land which…
Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan
Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact of colonization and resurrected the utopian justification for creating Manchukuo, as the puppet state w…
Japanese War Orphans and the Challenges of Repatriation in Post-Colonial East Asia
In 1965, Japanese journalist Magoroku Ide accepted an invitation from the government of the People's Republic of China to visit the country. Still seven years before the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, travel to China was restricted to those officially invited and even they were subject to state surveillance. Among the places he and his fellow Japanese journalists visited was the city of Anshan in northeast China. Havi…
Crossed histories: Manchuria in the age of empire
Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to "Manchuria" under Japan’s influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, unpack the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical imaginaries of various individuals and groups shaped by imperialism, colonialism, Pan-Asianism, and the prese…
Between colonial racism and global capitalism: Japanese repatriates from northeast China since 1946
A decline in imperial power is not necessarily accompanied by "an equal and concomitant decline in racial ideas and ideologies" (Rich 1990:1). In this article, I examine this thesis in the context of contemporary Japan, which lost its empire with its unconditional surrender to the Allied powers in 1945. The protagonists of this article are the Japanese farmers who colonized northeast China during Japan's imperial expansion. Although the former co…
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan
War responsibility and Japanese civilian victims of Japanese biological warfare in China
This article focuses on the narrative of Aizawa Yoshi, a former teacher at the Harbin Higher School for Japanese Women during the Manchukuo era (1932-45). In 1940, Yoshi lost twenty-two of her students and colleagues to a typhoid epidemic that spread throughout the city of Harbin. Today, she believes that they were the victims of Japanese biological warfare. However, as a Japanese civilian, she finds it extremely difficult to express her belief i…
"A Road to "A Redeemed Mankind: The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 1, Winter 2000
Knowledge, Power, and Racial Classifications: The "Japanese" in "Manchuria
Was knowledge always the basis of colonial power? If so, were colonial rulers invariably confident of the accuracy of their knowledge? Among the Victorian British, for example, there was widespread agreement that India could be known and represented as a series of facts (Cohn 1996, 4). Based on this agreement, the British colonial officials, missionaries, and entrepreneurs tried to demonstrate their power through what Bernard Cohn calls "official…
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the 19th century, the women of central Japan, Nagano prefecture in particular, provided abundant and cheap labour for a number of industries. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses, not only because of the importance of their labour to the nati…
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Anne Allison. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 225 pp
Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology
Research Article| February 01 1996 Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology Mariko Asano Tamanoi Mariko Asano Tamanoi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (1): 59–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-1-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mariko Asano Tamanoi; Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology. positions 1 February 1996; 4 (1): 59–86. doi:…
Songs as Weapons: The Culture and History ofKomori(Nursemaids) in Modern Japan
Komori is a generic term that consists of a noun,ko(a child), and a verb,moru(to protect or to take care of); Japanese use it to refer to any person, male or female, old or young, who takes care of children. This article will focus on the young girls, hired by families in need of child care in the so-called modern Imperial period (1868-1945), who were calledkomori. Like their European counterparts, nursemaids and nannies,komoribegan to appear in …
Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. Mary Elizabeth Perry
Women's Voices: Their Critique of the Anthropology of Japan
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Economic anthropology in the 1980s
Ortiz, Sutti, ed. Economic Anthropology: Topics and Theories. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 1. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America (Society for Economic Anthropology), 1983. xvi + 429 pp. including bibliographies at the end of each chapter, notes on contributors, author and subject indices. $16.75 paper
Reconsidering the Concept of Post-Peasantry: The Transformation of the Masoveria System in Old Catalonia
Between colonial racism and global capitalism: Japanese repatriates from northeast China since 1946
A decline in imperial power is not necessarily accompanied by "an equal and concomitant decline in racial ideas and ideologies" (Rich 1990:1). In this article, I examine this thesis in the context of contemporary Japan, which lost its empire with its unconditional surrender to the Allied powers in 1945. The protagonists of this article are the Japanese farmers who colonized northeast China during Japan's imperial expansion. Although the former co…
Songs as Weapons: The Culture and History ofKomori(Nursemaids) in Modern Japan
Komori is a generic term that consists of a noun,ko(a child), and a verb,moru(to protect or to take care of); Japanese use it to refer to any person, male or female, old or young, who takes care of children. This article will focus on the young girls, hired by families in need of child care in the so-called modern Imperial period (1868-1945), who were calledkomori. Like their European counterparts, nursemaids and nannies,komoribegan to appear in …
Reconsidering the Concept of Post-Peasantry: The Transformation of the Masoveria System in Old Catalonia
Knowledge, Power, and Racial Classifications: The "Japanese" in "Manchuria
Was knowledge always the basis of colonial power? If so, were colonial rulers invariably confident of the accuracy of their knowledge? Among the Victorian British, for example, there was widespread agreement that India could be known and represented as a series of facts (Cohn 1996, 4). Based on this agreement, the British colonial officials, missionaries, and entrepreneurs tried to demonstrate their power through what Bernard Cohn calls "official…
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the 19th century, the women of central Japan, Nagano prefecture in particular, provided abundant and cheap labour for a number of industries. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses, not only because of the importance of their labour to the nati…
"A Road to "A Redeemed Mankind: The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 1, Winter 2000
Suffragist Women, Corrupt Officials, and Waste Control in Prewar Japan: Two Plays by Kaneko Shigeri
Through the reading of two plays written by Kaneko Shigeri, this article examines the way in which Japanese suffragist women, who actively participated in the local governance of Tokyo in prewar Japan, joined in the production of two mutually related sets of discourses on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of "purity" (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of "pure" women and "impure" men, and succe…
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater
Reconsidering the Concept of Post-Peasantry: The Transformation of the Masoveria System in Old Catalonia
Economic anthropology in the 1980s
Ortiz, Sutti, ed. Economic Anthropology: Topics and Theories. Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 1. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America (Society for Economic Anthropology), 1983. xvi + 429 pp. including bibliographies at the end of each chapter, notes on contributors, author and subject indices. $16.75 paper
Women's Voices: Their Critique of the Anthropology of Japan
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Songs as Weapons: The Culture and History ofKomori(Nursemaids) in Modern Japan
Komori is a generic term that consists of a noun,ko(a child), and a verb,moru(to protect or to take care of); Japanese use it to refer to any person, male or female, old or young, who takes care of children. This article will focus on the young girls, hired by families in need of child care in the so-called modern Imperial period (1868-1945), who were calledkomori. Like their European counterparts, nursemaids and nannies,komoribegan to appear in …
Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. Mary Elizabeth Perry
Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology
Research Article| February 01 1996 Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology Mariko Asano Tamanoi Mariko Asano Tamanoi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (1): 59–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-1-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mariko Asano Tamanoi; Gender, Nationalism, and Japanese Native Ethnology. positions 1 February 1996; 4 (1): 59–86. doi:…
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Anne Allison. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 225 pp
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the 19th century, the women of central Japan, Nagano prefecture in particular, provided abundant and cheap labour for a number of industries. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses, not only because of the importance of their labour to the nati…
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women
War responsibility and Japanese civilian victims of Japanese biological warfare in China
This article focuses on the narrative of Aizawa Yoshi, a former teacher at the Harbin Higher School for Japanese Women during the Manchukuo era (1932-45). In 1940, Yoshi lost twenty-two of her students and colleagues to a typhoid epidemic that spread throughout the city of Harbin. Today, she believes that they were the victims of Japanese biological warfare. However, as a Japanese civilian, she finds it extremely difficult to express her belief i…
"A Road to "A Redeemed Mankind: The Politics of Memory among the Former Japanese Peasant Settlers in Manchuria
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 1, Winter 2000
Knowledge, Power, and Racial Classifications: The "Japanese" in "Manchuria
Was knowledge always the basis of colonial power? If so, were colonial rulers invariably confident of the accuracy of their knowledge? Among the Victorian British, for example, there was widespread agreement that India could be known and represented as a series of facts (Cohn 1996, 4). Based on this agreement, the British colonial officials, missionaries, and entrepreneurs tried to demonstrate their power through what Bernard Cohn calls "official…
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan
Between colonial racism and global capitalism: Japanese repatriates from northeast China since 1946
A decline in imperial power is not necessarily accompanied by "an equal and concomitant decline in racial ideas and ideologies" (Rich 1990:1). In this article, I examine this thesis in the context of contemporary Japan, which lost its empire with its unconditional surrender to the Allied powers in 1945. The protagonists of this article are the Japanese farmers who colonized northeast China during Japan's imperial expansion. Although the former co…
Crossed histories: Manchuria in the age of empire
Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to "Manchuria" under Japan’s influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, unpack the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical imaginaries of various individuals and groups shaped by imperialism, colonialism, Pan-Asianism, and the prese…
Japanese War Orphans and the Challenges of Repatriation in Post-Colonial East Asia
In 1965, Japanese journalist Magoroku Ide accepted an invitation from the government of the People's Republic of China to visit the country. Still seven years before the resumption of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, travel to China was restricted to those officially invited and even they were subject to state surveillance. Among the places he and his fellow Japanese journalists visited was the city of Anshan in northeast China. Havi…
Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan
Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact of colonization and resurrected the utopian justification for creating Manchukuo, as the puppet state w…
Suffragist Women, Corrupt Officials, and Waste Control in Prewar Japan: Two Plays by Kaneko Shigeri
Through the reading of two plays written by Kaneko Shigeri, this article examines the way in which Japanese suffragist women, who actively participated in the local governance of Tokyo in prewar Japan, joined in the production of two mutually related sets of discourses on democracy and waste control. Relying on the idea of "purity" (jôka), these women gendered the discourse of democracy along the divide of "pure" women and "impure" men, and succe…
Victims of Colonialism? Japanese Agrarian Settlers in Manchukuo and Their Repatriation
Manchukuo is the state that Japan created in Northeast China (Manchuria) in 1932 to serve its interests. To populate this vast overseas empire with Japanese, the government sent approximately 380,000 farmers and their families as "agrarian immigrants (nogyo imin)." Many of them were victims of the depression at home. By participating in the construction of Manchukuo, they joined the circle of "colonizers": they received large tracts of land which…
Pan-Asianism in the Diary of Morisaki Minato (1924– 1945), and the Suicide of Mishima Yukio (1925–1970)
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) in Postwar Japan
In Japan, sensō koji (war orphans) are often identified as furōji (juvenile vagrants). The dominant image of sensō koji is therefore a street child engaging in a variety of adult survival activities in such cities as Tokyo after the war's end. This essay aims to problematize this myth. In the first part, I reconsider the meaning of koji, sensō koji and furōji as socially "constructed" terms after the onset of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). In the sec…
War and compassion: The plight of war orphans in East Asia, 1867–1945 and beyond
War and peace are the two incompatible notions. War and compassion are not: war often calls for human compassion to save not only friends but also enemies. As the technology of war has advanced since the nineteenth century, the targets of compassion in the form of philanthropy, social work, and humanitarianism have also expanded to include soldiers, civilians, and children. In this article, I explore the link between war and compassion in the nin…
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