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Japan’s remote northeast struggles recover a decade after the tsunami hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1513965160368-LI8L8Q30AVUOIXQ0TLPK/47-2-Cover-web.jpg Writings - The Hills Above, the Sea Below This nonfiction narrative follows coffee shop own Jun Akazaki as he and his mother try to get to safety in the minutes and hours after the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. As they watch the waves batter Otsuchi, their hometown, they begin to realize how thoroughly their lives have changed. This essay appeared in the Fall 2017 issues of The Iowa Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498403570690-M7D4KGBFNR9C4VE4180C/Kibo+no+Bokujyo Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498402890800-TCEEICX3MZZMM18XW42E/Ishinomaki+no+Katsudo Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498402758286-XB64468CAOXVGA28HXZV/Kamaishi Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498409382752-B96XP8CL9V7Q3VNMSY7K/image-asset.jpeg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498408005299-RM1LJUZ3U2Z6M8KKCEJF/image-asset.jpeg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1498408403413-0FCMQ9HSF7JBTVEB471M/image-asset.jpeg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1500479549460-HN8TLKFC0JPGQHEUHH1U/image-asset.jpeg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1513963612248-9W3UT4WAC2NUN4NYL6NT/cover_9781609453992_1042_240.jpg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1500479930348-J1IWR6B5DW9OVPB98LDC/image-asset.jpeg Writings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/1582554855438-0K4OCYZPLTQCUJB4X9EK/Pavilion+of+Women.jpg Writings - Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women, and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Feminism This article looks at the competing conceptions of gender in Pearl S. Buck’s Pavilion of Women. Using the work of prominent gender scholars as a lens to examine the text, I argue that the novel is a rich portrait of female subjectivity in early twentieth-century China, which should be given more attention. The article appeared in the March 2019 volume of the Journal of the Jissen English Department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fc4a446c3c4b3066f476b/cd6add46-3bd8-456c-81da-cdc86d509226/img_LG_UtS.jpg Writings - Accumulating and Realizing the Radical Potential of Catastrophe in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest This article looks at how Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel Through the Arc of the Rain Forest anticipates what John Bellamy Foster calls the accumulation of catastrophe in the current stage of capitalism. The narrative demonstrates the inherent contradictions of global neoliberal capitalism and speculates about what will happen when these tendencies overwhelm all technocratic countermeasures. In my reading, the novel also demonstrates how imagining the collapse of the current system allows us to glimpse its exterior. After the text’s dystopian elements have reached their peak, the novel concludes with a multi-pronged ending that suggests several possibilities for the imaginary reconstitution of society or utopia. Crucially, all of these hopeful futures emerge from what I call the radical potential of catastrophe. 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