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Letter from Toshio Tamaoi [?] to Mrs. Seiichi Okine, December 1947 [in Japanese]
No full textA letter from Toshio Tamaoi in Itsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan to his uncle, Seiichi Okine. The letter is mailed by Kenjiro Okine. In the letter, he thanks Seiichi for the gifts and laments the high inflation in post-war Japan. He also asks about Kimie Tanimoto who recently left for the U.S. and includes updates on his family: His wife is giving a birth in January and his elderly mother wishes the Okines would return to Japan. The letter is resealed with the tape, "OPENED BY MIL. CEN. CIVIL MAILS," and stamped with "C.C.D. J-4422" by the Civil Censorship Detachment. The arrival date of the letter, February 3, 1948, is recorded on the backside of the envelope.The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines
Doing Occidentalism in Contemporary Japan: Nation Anthropomorphism and Sexualized Parody in Axis Power Hetalia,
No full textAxis Powers Hetalia (2006–present), a Japanese gag comic and animation series, depicts relations between nations personified as cute boys against a background of World War I and World War II. The stereotypical rendering of national characteristics as well as the reduction of historically charged issues into amusing quarrels between nice-looking but incompetent boys was immensely popular, especially among female audiences in Japan and Asia, and among Euro-American manga, anime, and cosplay fans, but it also met with vehement criticism. Netizens from South Korea, for example, considered the Korean character insulting and in early 2009 mounted a protest campaign that was discussed in the Korean national assembly. Hetalia's controversial success relies to a great extent on the inventive conflation of male-oriented otaku fantasies about nations, weapons, and concepts represented as cute little girls, and of female-oriented yaoi parodies of male-male intimacy between powerful "white" characters and more passive Japanese ones. This investigation of the original Hetalia by male author Hidekaz Himaruya (b. 1985) and its many adaptations in female-oriented dōjinshi (fanzine) texts and conventions (between 2009 and 2011, Hetalia was by far the most adapted work) refers to notions of interrelationality, intersectionality, and positionality in order to address hegemonic representations of "the West," the orientalized "Rest" of the world, and "Japan" in the cross-gendered and sexually parodied mediascape of Japanese transnational subcultures
Studies on Japanese Library Management Philosophy Based on Toshio Iwasaru’s Works
No full textThis paper considers the modern historical stream of Japanese libraries.
Most library teachers in this country have the same idea that there is a clear
discontinuity made by Meiji-Ishin ( 明治維新). On the contrary, Toshio
Iwasaru told that Japanese library history has a just consistent continuous
timeline, and that there is not a break by appearance of Meiji bureaucratic emperor-
centered government. The author could understand Iwasaru’s opinion.departmental bulletin pape
Toshio Iwai : digital games as musical realizations
No full textDespite the abundance of resources chronicling the evolution of digital games, the process of historicization of this data started relatively recently. As per Huhtamo (2005), “the current state of writing on game history could be called its chronicle era.” As such, chronicles are considered to lack the critical stance that a proper historical reconstruction must adopt.
According to Bordwell and Thompson (1994), a biographical history can be one of the different explanatory frameworks available to build film histories. By adapting this concept to digital games, this paper will provide a short biographical history of Japanese digital game author and media artist Toshio Iwai. From 1987 to 2006, Iwai has experimented with creative use of audio in games with the musical shoot’em up O tocky (ASCII Corporation 1987), the audio visual mashup Sim Tunes (Maxis 1996), and the more accomplished Electroplankton (Nintendo 2005).
Ludomusicology, or the field of studies concerned with the analysis of sound in games, is particularly lacking critical resources concerning Iwai, with a few exceptions (Herber 2006). This paper argues that the common trait of Iwai’s works is found in the possibilities afforded to the players, which are able to use the potentialities of digital games as tools to actualize musical realizations. Such affordances will be analyzed in light of Small’s concept of "musicking" (1998), focusing on music as a human behaviour, rather than a preconstructed piece of work.peer-reviewe
Colonial development of Taiwan as viewed by contemporary Japanese scholars (using the example of the book by Toshio Watanabe The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan). Review of: Watanabe T. The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan
No full textThis review analyzes the monograph by a famous Japanese economist, professor of Takushoku University Toshio Watanabe, which focuses on the colonial history of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century. The author provides a vivid picture of the Japanese transforming the entire economy of the island and “transplanting” the model of Meiji modernization into their colony
Missionaries to Japan 1883-1968
No full textDigitized copies of photographs of missionaries from Lancaster Theological Seminary to Japan. 13 TIFFS 1 PDF1. Toshio Mine 19602. Masahiro Tomura 19613. Taisuke Taguchi 19244. Kano Naito 19595. Harmui Ogaea 19276. Takeo Noya 18937. Shiro Takagi 19308. Tadoshi Tan 19229. Tamotsu Utsugi 193010. Masatoshi Ogasawara 195211. Yasuo Oikawa 195812 Akiko Toriyama 1959PDF list of Missionaries who were not photographed
The port city of Yokohama: Its history of requisition by foreign occupation forces and redevelopment in the aftermath due to citizen–local government collaboration
No full textYokohama was not a colonial port city, but foreign forces seized the city for decades after the Japan’s defeat in the war. The author clarifies the historical background of the process of derequisition and its redevelopment. Since opening its port in 1859, Yokohama has developed as an international trading city. The city was destroyed by a major earthquake in 1923. Although it recovered as a modern city in the 1930s, it was again devastated in air raids during the war. After the US military seized the city in 1945, the state government had to lease land from landowners and provide it to the US, which continued to be stationed in Japan under the US–Japan Security Treaty. The city government continued to request the land’s release to the original owners. The Honmoku District was seized as a residential area for US families. Due to the prolonged requisition, landowners sold their land to the state to pay taxes, and half of the district became state property. The city planned to use the state property for civic purposes. Intense negotiations between the state and the city dragged on for a long time, finally concluding in 1982
Abstract 921: Cdyl2 is a chromodomain protein involved in the maintenance of pluripotency of stem cells
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Reader proteins of histone modifications are required to translate the information of histone marks into the cellular phenotypes, including pluripotency and malignancy. For example, a reader protein BRD4 has its target specificity and becomes a target of cancer therapy. Here, we aimed to identify reader proteins involved in the pluripotency of stem cells. Using the UCSC database, 11 genes coding chromo- or PHD-domain proteins were isolated as actively transcribed in mouse ES cells (ESCs). Among the 11 genes, Cdyl2, chromodomain protein Y-like2, was found to be down-regulated upon ESC differentiation using RT-qPCR. Immunofluorescence and ChIP assay revealed that Cdyl2 recognized H3K27me3 of the specific regions, including differentiation-associated genes. Cdyl2-knock-out ESCs could not survive after differentiation induced by LIF removal or retinoic acid because of the induction of apoptosis, indicating that Cdyl2 is important for normal differentiation of ESCs. ESC expressing exogenous Cdyl2 showed incomplete down-regulation of Oct-4 and Nanog by retinoic acid, and generated teratomas with an abnormal composition of three germ layers, showing perturbation of differentiation ability. Pathologically, aberrant expression of human CDYL2 was observed in breast cancer cell lines and primary breast cancers. Two breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468) expressing exogenous CDYL2 showed enhanced attachment ability along with the up-regulation of integrin alpha-6 and integrin beta-1. The population of cancer stem cells, defined as ALDH positive cells, were increased in CDYL2-expressing MDA-MB-468 cells, showing that human CDYL2 is involved in proliferation of cancer stem cells. From these data, we conclude that, between self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells, mouse and human Cdyl2/CDYL2 is necessary for the implementation of the initial step of differentiation.
Citation Format: Naoko Hattori, Kana Kimura, Jumpei Taguchi, Toshio Imai, Yasuhiro Yamada, Toshikazu Ushijima. Cdyl2 is a chromodomain protein involved in the maintenance of pluripotency of stem cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 921. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-921</jats:p
A STUDY EXAMINING THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING LOCAL CATV NETWORKS USING THE COLLECTIVE COMPENSATION METHOD
No full textRemembering and (Re)storing War Memories : The Postwar Fiction of Shimao Toshio
No full textThe tension between remembering and narrating war memories has been a significant theme in the discussion of postwar Japanese literature because it is closely tied to the broader issue of historical consciousness (rekishi ninshiki mondai) in postwar Japan. This article focuses on the postwar fiction of Shimao Toshio (1917-1986), whose work was shaped by his tokkōtai (special attack force) experience in the Asia-Pacific War. The article argues that the memory of imperial Japan forms an overarching thematic thread in Shimao's postwar fiction. The author engaged with this theme by employing Christian motifs in his work. While his early fiction tends to mask the memory of imperial Japan's violence, his later novels, culminating with his best-known fictional work, Shi no toge (The Sting of Death, 1977), uses such imagery to deal with the traumatic past, exploring the possibility of a restorative approach in dealing with past failures and their consequences. In this way, Shimao goes beyond the dynamics of victim-victimizer, providing a key illustration of the ways in which the traumatic memory of modern Japan can be transformed into a resource for the regeneration of society.journal articl
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