Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Japan"
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Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900
(2014-06-06)Whales are an enigma. It is difficult to pin them down because they straddle categories. Whales were difficult not just because of their extraordinary size, but rather because they were peculiar sorts of fish, with meat ... -
Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957
(2014-06-06)Carbon Technocracy argues for the centrality of fossil fuel energy to the making of global industrial modernity and to the emergence of East Asian technocratic imaginaries in the first half of the twentieth century. It ... -
Cold War Futurity on Display: New Techno-Environment Staged in South Korea and Japan through Models and Miniatures
(2023-09-11)This dissertation traces how new techno-environments were displayed in cold war Japan and South Korea, especially concerning the intricate temporal senses of futurity in them. It aims to demonstrate the ways in which ... -
Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
(2013-02-13)Social and political life on small subtropical islands is frequently shaped by the economic imperative of sustainable tourism development. In Okinawa, “ecotourism” promises to provide employment for a dwindling ... -
Gendering the Shinto Priesthood in Postwar Japan
(2022-05-17)This dissertation uses archival and ethnographic research to examine how the entrance of women into the Shinto priesthood in 1946 precipitated the formation of a gendered priesthood. Although more than 16% of the priesthood ... -
Geodetic Imaging of Coseismic Slip and Postseismic Afterslip: Sparsity Promoting Methods Applied to the Great Tohoku Earthquake
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Geodetic observations of surface displacements during and following earthquakes such as the March 11, 2011 great Tohoku earthquake can be used to constrain the spatial extent of coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip, ... -
Impact of inpatient caseload, emergency department duties, and online learning resource on General Medicine In-Training Examination scores in Japan
(Dove Medical Press, 2015)Background: Both clinical workload and access to learning resource are important components of educational environment and may have effects on clinical knowledge of residents. Methods: We conducted a survey with a clinical ... -
Investigating Reality: The Japanese Avant-Garde’s Search for Realism, 1929-1941
(2021-07-12)This dissertation uncovers the wartime avant-garde discourse of critical realism advocated by modernist, surrealist, and abstract artists and photographers. In response to the mass imprisonment of communist party members ... -
Orchestrating Modernity, Singing the Self: Theories of Music in Meiji and Taisho Japan
(2013-02-11)The purpose of this thesis is to use the history of music theory to study cultural change in Japan. It has been said that “music is number” (Sima Qian), that it is the “organon of philosophy” (Schelling), that the discovery ... -
Red Sun Rising: Individuals, Institutions, and Infrastructure in Japan's Space Program, 1920-2003
(2020-11-23)Despite being one of the world’s biggest space programs, the Japanese exploration of the cosmos remains a sadly unheralded enterprise. This is regrettable on many levels. The story of how the former empire reached for the ... -
Spatial Correlation of Interseismic Coupling and Coseismic Rupture Extent of the 2011 M\(_W\) = 9.0 Tohoku-oki Earthquake
(American Geophysical Union, 2011)Imaging the extent to which the rupture areas of great earthquakes coincide with regions of pre-seismic interplate coupling is central to understanding patterns of strain accumulation and release through the earthquake ... -
The Two Pacific Wars: Visions of Order and Independence in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines, 1940-1945
(2013-03-08)This dissertation examines the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious attempt to create a new order in East Asia. Most studies on Japan’s new order focus on either the imperial center (Japan) or the ... -
Wartime Atrocities and the Politics of Treason in the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1953
(2012-10-23)This dissertation explores the relationship between violence and betrayal in retribution against military and police collaborators who helped maintain Japan’s wartime occupations up until its defeat in 1945. Looking at the ...