Japanese Association for American History

No. 28 (2005)
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1 Founding of the Japanese Association for American History

The New World of Trans-Atlantic Ocean:
3 Introduction
5 Hitoshi TAKAHASHI… Tannenbaum-Elkins Thesis Reconsidered
23 Kazuteru OMORI… Chasing the Shadow of America:
African Americans’ Quest for American Nationality
in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States and Liberia
38 Masako Sasamoto NAKAMURA… Trans-Atlantic World
and Self-Formation of W.E.B. DuBois:
From Great Barrington to Berlin
58 Katsuyuki MURATA… “We, Blacks” Articulated through Difference:
Theoretical Perspectives of the African Diaspora

Articles:
76 Kozue YASUDA… PR Strategy for Female Smokers:
Edward L. Bernays’ Attempt at Building Democratic Consumerism
92 Hiroshi TAKEI… Trumbull Park Homes Disturbances and
“Communal Violence”
111 Recent Ph.D. Dissertations by Members

Notes
113 Activities of the Society of American Historical Studies
117 Activities of the Japanese Association for American History
117 Report of the First Annual Meeting of the JAAH
124 Report of the Regular Meetings
129 Financial Reports of the Japanese Association for American History
131 The Rules of the Japanese Association for American History
134 Membership Application
135 Guidelines for Submission
136 Abstracts

No. 29 (2006)
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Occupation/Bases/Militarism:
1 Introduction
3 Takuya OZAWA… The Choice of the “Backyard”:
U.S. Relations of Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica after 1979
18 Hirofumi HAYASHI… The Sex Trade and Sexual Offences
Related to the U.S. Military in East Asia
36 Yuko ITO… PHILCAG, Bases, and the Counter Insurgency:
U.S.-Philippine Military Relations during the Initial Marcos Era
55 Hiroshi FUJIMOTO… Towards Reconciliation and Peaceful Relationship:
Experiences and Memories of U.S. Vietnam War Veteran Mike Boehm
and His My Lai Peace Park Project
71 Masashi SHIMAKAWA… Does “the Occupation of Iraq” Compare
to “the Occupation of Japan”? : The Lessons from History
89 Kozue AKIBAYASHI…Women Challenge Militarism:
East Asia-U.S.-Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism

Articles:
104 Akiko ITABASHI… Womanhood as Consumers during Wartime:
Images of Women in Advertisements in Ladies’ Home Journal and
Life during World War II
121 Recent Ph.D. Dissertations by Members

Notes:
123 Activities of the Japanese Association for American History
123 Report of the Second Annual Meeting of the JAAH
135 Report of the Regular Meetings
139 Financial Reports of the Japanese Association for American History
140 The Rules of the Japanese Association for American History
141 Membership Application
142 Guidelines for Submission
143 Abstracts

No. 30 (2007)
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30th Anniversary Feature: Reviewing the State of American Historical Studies in Japan
1 Introduction
2 Yoko SHIRAI…American Exceptionalism and Historical Perspectives in American Studies
12 Hirofumi NAKANO…The Place of American Historical Studies in Europe
22 Toru UMEZAKI…Reassessing the Problematik and Agendas of
the Society of American Historical Studies (Amerikashi Kenkyukai) in Its Early Years

Feature: Transnational History Reconsidered:
Possibilities and Challenges of History beyond National Borders
35 Miya SHICHINOHE SUGA…Transnational History on Mobility of People:
Recent Publications in Japan
47 Eiichiro AZUMA…Transnational Asian American History:
The Possibilities of an “Inter-National” Paradigm
64 Yukari TAKAI… Doing Transnational History at a Canada-U.S. Borderland:
Japanese Remigrants and the Rise of the Border
82 Tetsushi FURUKAWA…African American Relations with Japan and/or East Asia:
Toward a Transnationalization of African American History
93 Recent Ph.D. Dissertations by Members
97 From the Editorial Board

Notes:
98 Activities of the Japanese Association for American History
98 Report of the Third Annual Meeting of the JAAH
106 Report of the Regular Meetings
109 Financial Reports of the Japanese Association for American History
110 The Rules of the Japanese Association for American History
111 Membership Application
112 Guidelines for Submission
113 Abstracts

No. 31 (2008)
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Practicing History:
1 Introduction
3 Koji OGAWA…A “Spectre” is Haunting the United States of America:
The Spectre of World History
21 Kozo KITAJIMA…The Problem of the Textbook Screening
from the Viewpoint of Okinawa
38 Tomochika OKAMOTO…Deadlock and Breakthrough on National History in History
Education: Focusing on History Textbook Issues in Japan and the United States

Articles:
56 Shuhei MINAMI…Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
and the Boundary of the Community: The Bonds of the Skilled Workers
and “Electrical Workers’ Town” Electchester
73 Makoto KUROSAKI…A Reassessment of the Roles of Churches
in the American Civil Rights Movement

Research Note:
91 Chieko KITAGAWA OTSURU…Institutional Reforms of the U.S. House of
Representatives: Attempts of Consensus Formation through Deliberation
101 Recent Ph.D. Dissertations by Members
103 Recent Publications by Members

Notes:
106 Activities of the Japanese Association for American History
106 Report of the fourth Annual Meeting of the JAAH
114 Report of the Regular Meetings
119 Financial Reports of the Japanese Association for American History
120 The Rules of the Japanese Association for American History
124 Membership Application
125 Guidelines for Submission
126 Abstracts