The Japan Mark Twain Society

Interested in joining us?
Please contact the following:

Executive Director
ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi
ishihara（ at ）waseda.jp

Japan Mark Twain Society
c/o English Department
School of Education, Waseda University
1-6-1, Nishi-Waseda,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
169-8050 JAPAN


Copyright(C)2008-, The Japan Mark Twain Society and Webmaster. All Rights Reserved.
Webmaster: twain1910.
twain1910 ( at ) gmail.com
Japanese Site

President:
IGAWA Masago, Tohoku University

Vice President:
GOTO Kazuhiko, Rikkyo University

Executive Directors:
ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi, Waseda University
NAKAGAKI Kotaro, Daito Bunka University
TAMURA Ryo, Waseda University

Exectutive Council:
ARIMA Yoko, Keiai University
CHIKUGO Katsuhiko, Fuji University
EGASHIRA Rie, Fukuoka University of Education
ICHIKAWA Hiroyoshi, Professor Emeritus, Shimane University
IWAYAMA Tajiro, Professor Emeritus, Doshisha University
KANAYA Yoshio, Kanagawa University
KUBO Takuya, Kanazawa Univeristy
OGUSHI Hisayo, Keio University
SATOUCHI Katsumi, Osaka University
SUGIYAMA Naoto, Kwansei Gakuin University
TAKEDA Takako, Nagoya College
TATSUMI Takayuki, Keio University
TSUJI Kazuhiko, Kinki University
TSUJIMOTO Yoko, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
UENISHI Tetsuo, Tokyo Institute of Technology
WAGURI Ryo, Kyoto Koka Women's University
YAMAMOTO Yuko, Kobe Women's University

Audit Commissioners:
SUZUKI Takashi, Nihon University
MITSUISHI Yoko, Toyo University

Editor in Chief (Mark Twain Studies):
TATSUMI Takayuki, Keio University

Editor in Chief (Journal of Mark Twain Studies, Japanese Number):
TSUJIMOTO Yoko, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

Editorial Board:
EGASHIRA Rie, Fukuoka University of Education
Mary A. KNIGHTON, Washington and Lee University
OGUSHI Hisayo, Keio University
TAKEDA Takako, Nagoya College
UZAWA Yoshiko, Keio University

From 1876 until the present day, Mark Twain has continued to capture the Japanese imagination. Looking back at the postwar years, I recall how in those days we simply enjoyed reading this good old local humorist. Yet, recent currents in contemporary literary criticism have encouraged us to revolutionize Twain's image, even giving rise to heated controversy over the recanonization of this representative man of the Gilded Age. This productive reconstruction of American literary history in the late 20th century very naturally led Japanese scholars to conceive The Japan Mark Twain Society in October 1996. Including myself, four of Japan's foremost authorities on Twain---Professors Nobunao Matsuyama, Yorimasa Nasu, Shunsuke Kamei and Makoto Nagawara, the Society's first president, joined forces to establish The Japan Mark Twain Society on March 15, 1997 at Doshisha University in Kyoto. At that time we sponsored a symposium on The Prince and the Pauper and featured Professor Masaie Matsumura's lecture on Twain's transatlantic connections. We have since held our annual meetings every autumn: The first one featured Professor Toshio Watanabe's special lecture on Twain in the 21st century (October 13, 1997 at Toyo University, Tokyo); the second, Professor Yoshio Katsuura's lecture on his scholarly encounters with Twain (October 16, 1998 at Astair plaza in Hiroshhima); the third annual meeting focused on the years prior to Twain's literary debut, moderated by Professor Hiroaki Ichikawa (October 8, 1999 at Kitakyushu University); the fourth annual meeting highlighted a symposium on Sexuality, Gender, Feminism, moderated by Professor Koji Oi (October 13, 2000 at Doshisha University). For information about subsequent symposia, please see the "Professional Notes" section in our Mark Twain Studies Vol.1.

It is the Society's second president, Professor Shunsuke Kamei, who made possible the publication of our own academic journal through negotiations with Mr. Nobuo Hara of Nan'Undo publishers. Since 2002, we have annually published the Japanese numbers of The Journal of Mark Twain Studies, dedicated in turn to "Twain and Technology," "Twain and Detective Fiction," and "Twain and Fantasy." These three issues paved the way for the first English issue you are perusing right now. We hope that Mark Twain Studies will contribute much to international Twain scholarship, continuing to reveal the hidden agendas of this all-American hero not only in the context of his own Gilded Age, but also in today's Globalized one.

NASU Yorimasa
Former President of The Japan Mark Twain Society

Mark Twain Studies Vol.3(October 2010)
CONTENTS

From the President:
He Comes Back to Us: On the Centennial of Mark Twain’s Death, ICHIKAWA Hiroyoshi

Editorial:
By Old Man River, TATSUMI Takayuki
Lighting out for New Territory in Mark Twain Studies, Mary A. KNIGHTON

Exclusive:
Robert H. Hirst on Autobiography of Mark Twain

Special Feature:
Twain and Faulkner
New Directions in Twain Studies: Twain and/or Faulkner and Southern Studies
Ted Atkinson, Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr., Louis J. Budd, Thadious Davis, Leigh Anne Duck, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Robert Hamblin, M. Thomas Inge, Donald Kartiganer, Michael Kiskis, Barbara Ladd, Noel Polk, Tom Quirk, Philip Weinstein

The Myth of Simultaneous Order: Twain, Faulkner and Eliot, TATSUMI Takayuki
Adventures of Quentin Compson, Huck Finn’s Modern Double, HAYASHI Fumiyo
Cultures of Defeat, from Twain and Henry Grady to Faulkner and Mishima, GOTO Kazuhiko
The Daemonic Conscience in Twain and Faulkner, Mary A. KNIGHTON
Mechanical Syndrome: Twain, Faulkner, and the Typewriter, YAMANE Ryoichi

Book Review:
James L. Huffman, Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist, Edward H. House. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xvi + 309 pp.
Reviewed by TAKASHIMA Mariko

Bibliography:
Scholarly Books, Dissertations, and English-Language Essays on Mark Twain by Scholars in Japan, 2006-2010
Compiled by ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi

Information for Authors
Subscription Information
Contributors’ Profiles

Purchase Back Issues

Mark Twain Studies Vol.2(October 2006)
CONTENTS

Editorial:
"Double-Barreled Feature!", TATSUMI Takayuki

Special Feature I:
New Perspectives on "The War-Prayer": An International Forum, edited by Shelley Fisher FISHKIN and TATSUMI Takayuki
Editors' Introduction, Shelley Fisher FISHKIN and TATSUMI Takayuki
Manuscript of "The War-Prayer" (from the Mark Twain Papers)
Typescript of "The War-Prayer" (from the Mark Twain Papers)
Corrected Text of "The War-Prayer" (from the manuscript and typescript)
Essays on "The War-Prayer"
NAGAWARA Makoto, Ron POWERS, Edward J. BLUM, Christopher VAUGHN, Kevin MAC DONNELL, Wesley BRITTON, Dwayne EUTSEY, Patrick DOOLEY, Adrian GASKINS, Christopher CAPOZZOLA, Maggie ORAN, Amanda CLAYBAUGH, Tim EDWARDS, Helen LOCK, Hua HSU, ARIMITSU Michio, Nancy VON ROSK, Martin ZEHR, TSUJI Hideo, Michael KISKIS, Mong-Lan, John HAN, Mark HULSETHER, Mark DONIG, Darryl BROCK, Barry CRIMMINS

Special Feature II:
Twain and Asia, edited by Mary A. Knighton
From "Mark Twain's Pet" to " 'Merican Jap": The Strange Career of Wallace Irwin's Hashimura Togo, UZAWA Yoshiko
Not Twain, But Twichell: The Hartford Support System of Edward Houses Japanese Students, TAKASHIMA Mariko
Representations of the Chinese Other in Mark Twain's World, Darren CHIANG-SCHULTHEISS

Conference Report:
"Mark Twain and Japan": A Panel at Elmira 2005, The Fifth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, IGAWA Masago

Bibliography:
Scholarly Books, Dissertations, and English-Language Essays on Mark Twain by Scholars in Japan, 2004-2005 (Supplement: 2000-2003), Compiled by ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi

From the President, WATANABE Toshio

Information for Authors
Subscription Information
Notes on Contributors

Purchase Back Issues

Mark Twain Studies Vol.1(October 2004)
CONTENTS

Editor's Column, TATSUMI Takayuki

Special Topic:
Mark Twain, Our Contemporary
"The Most Rigorous Law of Our Being": Mark Twain, Growth, and Change, Shelley Fisher FISHKIN
My Samuel Clemens, Michael J. KISKIS
The Influence of Mark Twain, Fred HOBSON
10 Reasons to Read Mark Twain Today, Larry MACCAFFERY
I Started with Huck Finn, Kim Stanley ROBINSON

Essays:
Twain's Move toward Fantasy: a Study of His Writings, 1905-1906 , ARIMA Yoko
Romanticizing Slavery: Dangerous Crossings in Child, Twain, and Chase-Riboud, OGUSHI Hisayo
Searching for the Ideal Girl: Mark Twain's Lost America, NAKAGAKI Kotaro
The Recurrent Trope of the Indivisible Body: Mark Twain's Postmodern Identity and the Body, MITSUISHI Yoko
"Was Huck Burak(k)u?": Reading and Teaching Twain in Asian Pacific World Literature, Mary A. KNIGHTON

Professional Notes:
The Japan Mark Twain Society: Its History and Activities, NASU Yorimasa
Symposium 2001:"Mark Twain and Technology", GOTO Kazuhiko
Symposium 2002: "Mark Twain and Detective Fiction", GOTO Kazuhiko
Symposium 2003: "Mark Twain and Fantasy", TATSUMI Takayuki
Abstracts: Articles Published in Journal of Mark Twain Studies (Japanese Number) Vol.1-3 (2002-04)
Subscription Information

Bibliography:
Scholarly Books, Dissertations, and English-Language Essays on Mark Twain by the Scholars in Japan : 2000-2003, Compiled by ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi


You can download Vol.1 for free.
MTS1.pdf

Upon request, we would be pleased to send hard copies of our Mark Twain Studies to subscribers abroad(except Vol.1, which you can download in this site for free).
It costs US$23.00(including $3.00 of international shipping fee) per copy.
Please contact the following:
Executive Director
Dr. WAGURI Ryo
rb054 ( at ) mail.koka.ac.jp

We had the 15th Annual Meeting on October 7, 2011 at Kinki University.

Symposium
American Literature and Autobiography
(From the right)
TATSUMI Takayuki (Keio University)
WATANABE Toshio (Univeristy of Tokyo)
WAKASHIMA Tadashi (Kyoto University)
MATSUNAGA Kyoko (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)



Workshop
Mark Twain's Autobiography
(From the right)
TAKEDA Takako (Nagoya College)
HAMAMOTO Ryuzo (Tokushima Bunri Univeristy)
NOGAWA Hiromi (Meiji University)
MIZUNO Atsuko (Sanyo Women's College)
KANAYA Yoshio (Kanagawa Univeristy)
SUZUKI Takashi (Nihon University)



The 16th Annual Meeting 2012 will be held in Nagoya.
Check out the information on our website hereafter, please.