Christine R Yano

Biographic Data

ID168458
NAMEChristine R Yano
GIVEN NAMESChristine R
FAMILY NAMEYano
SIGNATUREYANO C R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
ORCID0000-0002-2099-5282
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Applied / Engaged / Activist / (ultimately) Kuleana Anthropology in the Classroom and Beyond – An Interview with Professor Christine Yano

    Open AccessShivani Daxini, Christine Yano et al.ARTICLETeaching Anthropology2024

    Christine Yano has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. At the University of Hawaii, she taught a course called ‘Applied/ Engaged/Activist (ultimately) Kuleana Anthropology’. This is predicated upon the idea that we need not choose between scholarship on the one hand, and community engagement on the other, and it encou…

  • Global Asias: Improvisations on a Theme (a.k.a. Chindon-ya Riffs)

    Open AccessChristine R YanoARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2021Cited by: 1References: 12

    In preparing my presidential address for publication, I debated between different options. On the one hand, I could do what I assume is most typically done—that is, take the oral presentation and re-present the material as a research-based journal article. On the other hand, I considered the extraordinary year of challenges, disruptions, traumas, fears, and insights that had preceded this presidential address. Nothing from that year could be cons…

  • Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku

    Katarzyna J Cwiertka, Yasuhara Miho et al.BOOKBranding Japanese Food2020

  • Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku

    Katarzyna J Cwiertka, Miho Yasuhara et al.BOOKBranding Japanese Food2020

  • Unraveling the Web of Song

    Christine R YanoCHAPTERDoing Fieldwork in Japan2017

  • Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

    Barbara J Brooks, Lonny E Carlile et al.BOOKJapan's Competing Modernities2017

    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 Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai

    Christine R YanoARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2017

    Reviewed by: The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai Christine R. Yano (bio) The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan. By Andrea Gevurtz Arai. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2016. xvi, 233 pages. $85.00, cloth; $25.95, paper. Scholarly works on recessionary Japan and the triple disaster of 2011 have become a genre of research that p…

  • Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation

    Christine R YanoARTICLEEthnomusicology2016

  • Plucking Paradise: Hawaiian `Ukulele Performance in Japan

    Christine R YanoARTICLEJapanese Studies2015Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article examines historical and contemporary Japanese attitudes toward the `ukulele (and Hawai`i) configured as paradisical objects of yearning and utopian desire. This is desire in the form of what I call a ‘plucked paradise’ – a form of music-making upon a stringed instrument, as well as the image of a flower being harvested for one’s use. Plucking a string produces a relatively delicate sound that decays quickly; plucking a flower is a sm…

  • Obama no Obama” – Knowledge as Exhilaration: A Curator’s Exhibition Report

    Christine R YanoARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2013

    This article describes my experience as a widely published academic scholar in organizing an exhibit for the public titled “Obama no Obama (Obama’s Obama): One President, Two Countries, A Myriad of Goods.” The exhibit, at a local museum, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai`i, presented the souvenirs and paraphernalia from Obama, the Japanese beach town in Fukui province, which celebrated Barack Obama, the 44 th president of the United States. I…

  • Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan

    Alisa Freedman, L Miller et al.BOOKModern Girls On The Go Gender…2013

    This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of girls continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century. Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward, claiming the publ…

  • Japan since 1945: From Postwar to Post-Bubble

    Christopher Gerteis, Timothy S George et al.BOOKJapan since 19452012

    The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four thematic narrative frames, the essays of this volume explore topics that range from the last twenty years of the Japanese state’s efforts to formulate industrial policy and foster financial reform to the un…

  • Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways

    Christine R YanoBOOKAirborne Dreams2011

    In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am's "Nisei"-second-generation Japanese Americans-even though not all of them were Japanese American or second-generation. They were ostensibly hired for their Japanese-language skills, but few spoke Japanese fl…

  • Reach Out and Touch Someone: Thinking Through Sanrio's Social Communication Empire

    Christine R YanoARTICLEJapanese Studies2011Cited by: 7References: 1

    Hello Kitty (b. 1974) in the year 2009 was all grown up. Indeed, Sanrio, the mouthless feline's maker, took the opportunity for a year-long celebration of her 35th anniversary that extended into 2010. Thirty-five: the year marks the standard end of young adult promise in Japan, after which traditionally new employment opportunities close, scholarships for post-baccalaureate education end, and fertility rates in women decline. But what does 35 yea…

  • Wink on Pink: Interpreting Japanese Cute as It Grabs the Global Headlines

    Open AccessChristine R YanoARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2009Cited by: 3References: 5

    Consider the following news items by which Asia is making the headlines:In a 2007 “mockumentary” book entitled Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook, journalists Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers chronicle girl culture street fashion in urban Japan from the late 1960s to 2007, ending with what they call “cute overload.” There, as an example of this overload, stand two young women in various shades of pink from head to t…

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    Conversation with Sonia Ryang Sonia Ryang

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    Bridging Asian and Asian-American StudiesChristine R Yano

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    National Agendas, Local Income and Knotted Knowledge in HuangbaiyuShannon May

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    Finding Resonance in East Asian Anthropology Carolyn S Stevens •The 2006 Hsu Book Prize Citation Linda Lewis

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    Conversation With Bill KellyAllison Alexy

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    A Conversation With Roger L Janelli Sue‐Je L Gage

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    Interview With Merry White Masayo Nishida

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

  • Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants

    Christine Yano, Christine R YanoARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2007

    Book Review| July 01 2007 Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain. Christine Yano Christine Yano Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 116–117. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…