James L Huffman

Biographic Data

ID193631
NAMEJames L Huffman
GIVEN NAMESJames L
FAMILY NAMEHuffman
SIGNATUREHUFFMAN J L
AFFILIATIONSWittenberg University
ORCID0000-0001-6356-2113
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • David R. Ambaras. Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Continuing a longtime focus on people who occupy society’s edges, David Ambaras offers us two important things in Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire. At its simplest level, the work uses four “connected microhistories” (21) to tell the stories of a largely unstudied population: “transgressive” people, mostly Japanese women, who lived in South China during the pre–World War II years. At a theoretical level, …

  • Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan

    James L HuffmanBOOKDown and Out in Late Meiji Japan2019

  • The Rise and Evolution of Meiji Japan

    Open AccessJames L Huffman, James Huffman et al.BOOKRise and Evolution of Meiji Japan2019

  • Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi Gen’ichirō

    James L HuffmanBOOKPolitics of the Meiji Press2019

    This biography introduces the young Fukuchi, in the first months after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as a newspaper editor just beginning to write critically on social and political issues. His outspoken and politically indiscreet editorials soon made him the first journalist in history of Japan to be jailed for his writings. During the early Meiji years, he continued to grope for an ideal and a position, even joining the regime as a brash and i…

  • Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan

    James L HuffmanBOOKDown and Out in Late Meiji Japan2018

    This work examines the daily lives of Japan’s very poor—the kasō shakai or underclass—during the last half of the Meiji era (1868-1912). Focusing on urban slums ( hinminkutsu ), it attempts to understand how poor people themselves experienced life. After examining the dominant popular views of hinmin or poor people in this era as a baseline, the author looks at what brought masses of hinmin to the cities, where they lived, and what work they did:…

  • Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan

    James L HuffmanBOOKCreating a Public2017

  • Private Property and State Power: Philosophical Justifications, Economic Explanations, and the Role of Government

    Open AccessJames L Huffman, J HuffmanBOOKPrivate Property and State Power2013

    This book details the relationship between private property and government. As private property is important to both individual welfare and the public interest, the book provides an intellectual frame

  • Challenging Kamikaze Stereotypes: "Wings of Defeat" on the Silver Screen

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEJapan focus2013

    Is there a more enduring World War image than the kamikaze pilots: those super-patriots who, according to the stereotype, willingly, even joyfully, pledged loyalty to their beloved emperor as they flew their doomed planes into Allied ships? The image still produces sympathetic tears and angry sneers: prime minister-to-be Koizumi Jun'ichiro weeping at the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in 2001; an American college history textbook referri…

  • Unearthing the Moche: The Bioarchaeology of San Jose de Moro, Peru, Summer 1995

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEThe University of Western Ontario…2011

    During the summer of 1995, San Jose de

  • Japan in World History

    James L HuffmanBOOKJapan in world history2010

    "Here is a marvelous compact history of Japan from earliest times to the present focusing on Japan's relationships with the rest of the world. In lively prose rooted in observations by people who lived the history, the work highlights the contributions of a wide range of acetors: women as well as men, commoners as well as elites"--Publisher supplied summary

  • Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the state

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEJapan focus2006

    Yasukuni Shrine, home for a century and a half to the spirits of Japan's fallen soldiers, has fueled controversy in every decade of my academic career. When I arrived in Tokyo as the 1970s were about to dawn, great numbers of students and young radicals across the nation were working in concert with writers, professors, and Christian theologians of all ages in opposition to the state's ties to the Shinto institution. In the mid-1980s, I attended …

  • The American Merchant Experience in 19th Century Japan (review)

    James L HuffmanARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2005

    Reviewed by: The American Merchant Experience in 19th Century Japan James L. Huffman (bio) The American Merchant Experience in 19th Century Japan. By Kevin C. Murphy. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2003. xii, 260 pages. $90.00. When Ulysses S. Grant recommended that the pro-Japanese journalist Edward H. House be named America's consul general in Yokohama in 1881, [End Page 218] the Yokohama-based Japan Gazette sneered that "these are not times when the…

  • Mikiso Hane

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2004

  • Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations

    James L Huffman, Joseph M HenningARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

  • Edward H. House: Questions of meaning and influence

    James L HuffmanARTICLEJapan Forum2001

    This article examines two key issues regarding Western efforts to interpret Meiji Japan, as illustrated in the life of Boston journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). They are, first, the difficulty of cutting through the rhetoric of any era, as one seeks to understand what an interpreter meant, and, second, the complexity of efforts to decipher how much influence historical figures exerted. The essay begins with a summary of House's life: his pro…

  • Edward H. House: Questions of meaning and influence

    James L HuffmanARTICLEJapan Forum2001References: 1

    This article examines two key issues regarding Western efforts to interpret Meiji Japan, as illustrated in the life of Boston journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). They are, first, the difficulty of cutting through the rhetoric of any era, as one seeks to understand what an interpreter meant, and, second, the complexity of efforts to decipher how much influence historical figures exerted. The essay begins with a summary of House's life: his pro…

  • Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Taro

    James L Huffman, Stewart LoneARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

  • War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919

    James L Huffman, Frederick R DickinsonARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2000Cited by: 3

    For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus …

  • A History of Japanese Journalism: Japan's Press Club as the Last Obstacle to a Mature Press

    James L Huffman, William De LangeARTICLEPacific Affairs1999

    Although the Japanese press is one of the world's most advanced mass-media industries, at its very heart we can still find the anachronistic kisha-club (press club). First book in English to look in depth at the history and development of journalism in Japan as well as the current status of the kisha-club

  • Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan

    Takashi Fujitani, James L HuffmanARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998

  • Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan

    Michael Lewis, James L HuffmanARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1998

  • Creating a public: People and press in Meiji Japan

    James L HuffmanBOOKCreating a public1997

    No institution did more to create a modern citizenry than the newspaper press of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Here was a collection of highly diverse, private voices that provided increasing numbers of readers - many millions by the end of the period - with both its fresh picture of the world and a changing sense of its own place in that world. Creating a Public is the first comprehensive history of Japan's early newspaper press to appear in Eng…

  • Making Common Sense of Japan

    James L Huffman, Steven R ReedARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1995

    Common misconceptions about Japan begin with the notion that it is a small country (it's actually lager than Great Britain, Germany or Italy) and end with pronouncements that the Japanese think differently and have different values-they do things differently because that's the way they are. Steven Reed takes on the task of demystifying Japanese culture and behavior. Through examples that are familiar to an American audience and his own personal e…

  • Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859-1866

    James L Huffman, F G NotehelferARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993

  • Africa, Asia, and Latin America

    Open AccessJames L HuffmanARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1990