Papers by Samuel Yamashita
University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Oct 13, 2017
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Dec 1, 1983
... a dream : there was neither heaven nor earth, neither life nor death ; and everything, even m... more ... a dream : there was neither heaven nor earth, neither life nor death ; and everything, even mountains, rivers and palatial mansions, appeared phan-tasmal ... the twin sons of Ogawa Shõi /J>M^m-37 Actually, they had been meeting regularly for some time at Matsu-shita-chõ when ...
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University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Dec 31, 1984
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The American Historical Review, 1986
The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considere... more The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works by poets who wrote both for and against war, and provides background essential for understanding why some of Japan's most famous writers swung 180 degrees to support or oppose war at different times in their careers. Through examples from American and British poetry, Rabson also shows that this phenomenon of poets changing their views is by no means exclusive to Japan. Exposing the efforts of some Japanese writers after 1945 to conceal or revise their poetry written during World War II, the author discusses assertions by literary critics and historians that poets bear a special "war responsibility".
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The population of wartime Japan (1940-1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most America... more The population of wartime Japan (1940-1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country's wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable book by Samuel Yamashita offers an intimate picture of what life was like for ordinary Japanese during the war. Drawing upon diaries and letters written by servicemen, kamikaze pilots, evacuated children, and teenagers and adults mobilized for war work in the big cities, provincial towns, and rural communities, Yamashita lets us hear for the first time the rich mix of voices speaking in every register during the course of the war. <BR.Here is the housewife struggling to feed her family while supporting the war effort; the eager conscript from snow country enduring the harshest, most abusive training imaginable in order to learn how to fly; the Tokyo teenagers made to work in wartime f...
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The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2022
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Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture
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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2013
An American minister's outrage over a celebration of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japa... more An American minister's outrage over a celebration of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan led to a generous gift of school supplies for students at a primary school in Hiroshima City. In gratitude, students at this school sent dozens of drawings and paintings to the minister's church. This exchange was inspired by the minister's Unitarian faith and moral decency and realized through the generosity of his parishioners. But the Japanese children's artwork can be read in several other ways that greatly complicate the story and implicate Cold War narratives of victory and defeat as well as powerful memories of the destruction, death, and suffering caused by the war. This essay accompanies the "Hiroshima Children's Drawings" photo essay featured in the March 2013 issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review...
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Gastronomica, 2022
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The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2018
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Gastronomica, 2020
In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France ... more In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japanese stagiaires to French restaurants in Europe and the United States encouraged a series of changes that I am calling the “Japanese turn,” which found chefs at fine-dining establishments in Los Angeles, New York City, and later the San Francisco Bay Area using an ever-widening array of Japanese ingredients, employing Japanese culinary techniques, and adding Japanese dishes to their menus. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the wide acceptance of not only Japanese ingredients and techniques but also concepts like umami (sav...
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The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2020
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Beyond Pearl Harbor, 2019
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Global Food History, 2019
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... Since moving to Pomona College in 1997, PBI has greatly extended the scope of its ... Through... more ... Since moving to Pomona College in 1997, PBI has greatly extended the scope of its ... Through World War I, conditions in many Japanese factories had been as brutal as in ... Without discarding the trappings of representative government, they stressed the principle that Ito Hirobumi ...
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