The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Japan
was founded in May 1994 to promote the exchange of ideas and information about literature and environment. ASLE-Japan has developed diversity and interdiscplinarity in its membership with an increasing number of scholars of Japanese, American, British, Chinese, French, and German literature, writers and poets, journalists, activists, and biologists.

In addition to annual conferences, ASLE-Japan has hosted a couple of international symposium. A few of the speakers at these include:
ISHIMURE Michiko, HINO Keizo, Linda Hogan, KATO Yukiko, KO Un, W. S. Merwin, MIKI Taku, MORISAKI Kazue, Brenda Peterson, SAKIYAMA Tami, Gary Snyder, and TAKADA Hiroshi.

PUBLICATION

Literature and Environment

ASLE-Japan’s official journal, published annually since 1998.

ASLE-Japan Newsletter

Issued biannually.

Nature: Urban, Rural, Wild (Sairyusha, 2004)

A collection of essays and articles presented at the ASLE International Symposium in Okinawa. Edited by YAMAZATO Katsunori, et al. (Japanese)

A Guide to Nature Writing (Minerva, 2000)

Collecting 120 works of Japanese, American, and British nature writing. Complied by ASLE-Japan. (Japanese)

Echoes of the Environment: Interviews with 12 Japanese Leaders (Tsurumi, 2000)

Edited as a college textbook by ASLE-Japan.

A LIST OF JAPANESE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

The following is a working bibliography of Japanese environmental literature in English translations. Special thanks to ASAI Chiaki, MATSUNAGA Kyoko, and SHIOTA Hiroshi for their help in this effort. (Masami R. Yuki)

Basho, Matsuo. Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Trans. Yuasa Nobuyuki. Penguin Classics, 1967.
---. Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings (Shambhala Classics). Trans. Sam Hamill. Shambhala Pubns, 2000.

Hayashi, Kyoko. “Yellow Sand.” Trans. Kyoko Iriye Selden. Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction. Trans. and ed. By Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden. New York: An East Gate Book, 1991. 207-16.

Hino, Keizo. “The Rectory” (Bokushikan). Trans. Charles M. DeWolf.

Ibuse, Masuji. “Carp.” Trans. John Bester. Lieutenant Lookeast, and Other Stories. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1971; London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. 91-95.
---. Salamander and Other Stories. Trans. John Bester. Kodansha Amer Inc; Reissue ed, 1994.

Ikezawa, Natsuki. A Burden of Flowers. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 2002.

Ishimure, Michiko. Story of the Sea of Camellias. Trans. Livia Monnet. Kyoto: Yamaguchi Publishing House, 1983.
---. Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease. Trans. and Intro. Livia Monnet. 1990. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The Universty of Michigan, 2003.
---. “Lake of Heaven.” Trans. Reiko Akamine and Bruce Allen. Organization and Environment 11.4 (1998).
---. Lake of Heaven. Trans. Bruce Allen. ms.

Kunikida, Doppo. “Musashino.” Trans. Kyohei Yamamoto. Living English, 1932.

Miki, Taku. “The Howling man; Escape from the City; Adolescent Thought; Managed Days; Genealogy; Calculation” Trans. Whang Insu. The poetry of postwar Japan. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1975. 214-221.

Miyazawa, Kenji.
---. Kenji Miyazawa Poems. Trans. Pulvers, Roger. Tokyo: Chikuma. 1997.
---. Night On The Milky Way Train. Trans. Pulvers, Roger. Tokyo: Chikuma. 1996
---. Night on the Milky Way Railway. Trans. Strong, Sarah. N.Y.: M.E.Sharp, Inc. 1991.
---. Night Train to the Stars and Other Stories. Trans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International. 1987.
---. Masterworks of Miyazawa Kenji : Poems and Fairy Tales. Trans. Sarah M. Strong and Karen Colligan-Taylor. Tokyo: Sunmark, 2002.
---. Milky Way Railroad. Trans. Sigrist Joseph. and D. M. Stroud, Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1996.
---. Once and Forever, the tales of Kenji Miyazawa. Trans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1993.
---. Matasaburo the Wind Imp. Ttrans. Bester, John. Tokyo: Kodansha International.1992.

Morisaki, Kazue. “Two languages, Two Souls.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 153-65.
---. “Signing Voices from the Bottom of the World: One of My Favorite Poems.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 165-66.
---. “Tough Girls.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 167-74.
---. “Atoyama: Women and Labor in Japan.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 175-78.
---. “The Beginning of Life, The End of Death.” Concerned Theater Japan 68/69 (1969): 178-89.
---. “New Life.” Trans. Masami Raker Yuki. ISLE 13.1 (2006): 183-87.

Oiwa, Keibo. Narrated by Ogata Masato. Rowing the Eternal Sea: The Story of a Minatama Fisherman. Trans. Karen Colligan-Taylor. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Yanagida, Kunio. “Folklores and tradition of Tono district” Trans. Shizuo Toda. Tohoku Gakuin Digaku Ronshu, Eigo Eibungaku, July 1962. 117-136.
---. The legends of Tono. Trans. Ronald A. Morse. Tokyo: Japan Foundation, 1975.
---. Studies in mountain village life. U of Kentucky P, 1954.

Bradley, John, ed. Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age. Minneapolis. Coffee House P, 1995. (Includes Sankichi Toge’s “At the Makeshift Aid Station,” “The Shadow,” and “August 6, 1950,” and Sadako Kurihara’s “When We Say ‘Hiroshima’”)

Ibuse, Masuji. Black Rain. Trans. John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1969.

Hachiya, Michihiko. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician. August 6. North Carolina: Chapel Hill P, 1955.

Hayashi, Kyoko. “The Empty Can.” Atomic Aftermath: Short Stories About Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ed. Kenzaburo Oe. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984, 135-51.
---. “The Site of Rituals.” Trans. Kyoko Seldon. Nuke-Rebuke: Writers & Artists Against Nuclear Energy & Weapons. Ed. Morty Sklar. Iowa: The Spirit That Moves Us. P, 1984. 21-57.
---. “Two Grave Markers” Trans. Kyoko Seldon. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. 1.1 (January-March 1986): 23-35.

Kurihara, Sadako. Black Eggs. Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, U of Michigan, 1994.
---. When We Say ‘Hiroshima’: Selected Poems. Trans. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, U of Michigan, 1999.

Matsuo, Atsuyuki. A-bomb Haiku. Tokyo: Shinjusha, 1995.

Nagai Takeshi. The Bells of Nagasaki: A Message of Hope from a Witness, a Doctor. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1984.

Nakano, Jiro, ed. Outcry from the Inferno, Atomic Bomb Tank Anthology. Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge P, 1995.

Oda Makoto. H: A Hiroshima Novel. Trans. By D.H. Whittaker. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995.

Oe, Kenzaburo, ed. The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath. New York: Grove P, 1985.

Ota, Yoko. “City of Corpses” Trans. Richard H, Minear. Hiroshima: Three Witnesses, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1990. 147-273.
---. “Fireflies.” Trans. Koichi Nakagawa. Atomic Aftermath: Short Stories About Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ed. Kenzaburo Oe. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984, 93-119.

Selden, Kyoko and Mark Selden eds. The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki. NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989. (Includes short stories by Hiroyuki Agawa, Kyoko Hayashi, Yoko Ota, and Shiro Nakayama.)

Toge Sankichi. Hiroshima Poems. Tokyo: Sanyusha Shuppan, 1980.

Tsukui, Nobuko. Out of the Ruins: Atomic Bomb Literature of Japan, Collected Essays and Translations. 2001.

Vance-Watkins, Lequita, and Mariko Aratani eds. White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1995.

References

Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: A Bibiliography. Compiled by The International House of Japan Library, 1979.

『日本文学・語学研究英語文献要覧』吉崎泰博編　東京 : 日外アソシエーツ, 1979. (Studies in Japanese literature and language : a bibliography of English materials)

中島朋子『英語で読む広島長崎文献Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Books Available in English』中国新聞社, 2003.

No. 9 (2006)

Articles

Wicks, Izumi. “The Analogy between Woods and Novels: John Fowles’s View of Nature and Novels”

Yamamoto, Yohei. “Natue Writers’ Language Bred from ‘Necessity’: Thoreau, Dillard, and the Encounter with Animals”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “Remembering the Sound of Water: Soundscape in Taguchi Randy’s An Island of Raindrops and Dawn”

Matsuya, Rie. “Michiko Ishimure’s Landscape of Soul and Memory”

Kamioka, Katsumi. “Edward Abbey and the American National Parks”

Tada, Mitsuru. “Ecological Effects of Chemicals on Nature in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Sawako Ariyoshi’s Fukugo-Osen (Multiple Pollution) from the Point of View of Ecotoxicology”

Hirakata, Yuka. “Reasons for the Transition of the Chinese Characters for ‘Momiji’: From Yellow Leaves to Red Leaves”

Interview

Exploring the Process of Writing: A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Beebee, Fay
Trans. Ken-ichi Noda, Masami R. Yuki, Keita Hato-oka

Articles

Nakajima, Kensuke. “Love of Nature in Japan: A Modern Haiku-Poet’s Critical View

Hayama, Gakuto. “History, Nature, and Women: An Ecofeminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow”

Takahashi, Ayako. “Gary Snyder’s ‘The Mountain Sprit’: Animism, Wilderness, Performance”

Roundtable

Reconsidering Ecocriticism
Masami Raker Yuki, Mayumi Toyosato, Yoshiko Kayano, Shin Yamashiro, Ikua Kina, Kazuaki Odani, Shinji Iwamasa

No. 7 (2004)

Articles

Matsuya, Rie. “’How Various, How Luminous, How Devine’ Nature Represented in Rima in W. H. Hudson’s Green Mansions”

Yamashiro, Shin. “The Split of Joshua Slocum: Autobiographic and Anachronistic Elements in Sailing Alone Around the Wrold (1900)”

Sanoki, Yukio. “Also Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac How to Take Pleasure in Nature”

Miura, Shoko. “Rachel Carson’s ‘Material Immorality’ and Melville’s Moby-Dick”

Aihara, Yuko. “A Tree is Nothing: An Ecocritical Reading of Cynthia Ozick’s ‘The Pagan Rabbi’”

Kido, Mitsuyo. “A New and Old Voice in American Nature Writing: An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming”

No. 6 (2003)

Symposium: Animism and Literature

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Spiritualism of Natural Surroundings: A Japanese View of Nature and Animism”

Takahashi, Masako. “Animism in Koyahijiri by Izumi Kyoka”

Kina, Ikue. “Animism and Language: A Native American View”

Takahashi, Tsutomu. “Language and Soul in the Works of Michiko Ishimure”

Articles

Ohkawa, Shigero. “Millennialism and Spirituality in the Radical Environmental Movement centered on the case of Earth First!”

Honda, Ranko. “The Concept of Woman and Nature in the Victorian Age”

Hayama, Gakuto. “Nature, Senses, and Worldview”

Baba, Akira. “Beyond Localism: Nature Development and Ethnography on the Sea Islands”

Hatooka, Keita. “Americam Bugs: The Representation of Wildlife in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon”

No. 5 (2002)

Essay

Nakamura, Kumio. “Tokyo Remembers Water: Episodes Abound”

Report on symposium

Iwamasa, Shinji. “What is ‘urban nature’?”

Articles

Akamine, Reiko. “Birds, Sanctuary, Women: The Urban and the Wild in Refuge”

Honda, Ranko. “Nature as Culture: Representations of Nature in the 19th Century Britain”

Kayano, Yoshiko. “Reading Nature in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop”

Kawatani, Hiroko. “A Celebration of the Earth: A New Reading Of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises”

Maekawa, Toshihiro. “Norman Maclean and Ernest Hemingway: The Two Fishings in A River Runs Through It and ‘Big Two-Hearted River’”

No. 4 (2001)

Articles

Wakamatsu, Michiko. “J. M. Synge and Nature: a Quest for Anti-Christian Values in Synge’s Autobiographical Works and Nature Writing”

Sekiguchi, Keiji. “A comparative Study of H. D. Thoreau and Miyazawa Kenji: Their Vegetarianism”

Yamashiro, Shin. “The Beach as a Neutral Ground: Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod and The Tradition of American Beach Narrative”

Schreiner, C. S. “Star Friendship: Ecology in the Writing of Alphonso Lingis”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “National Parks and Nature Writing: Literary Environmental Activism”

Allen, Bruce. “Edo Period Ecological Change and the Wild Boar Famine of 1749”

Nakanishi, Sumi. “Theory of Sympathy in Minakata’s ‘The Origin of the Swallow-Stone Myth’”

No. 3 (2000)

Articles

Itoh, Shoko. “A Comparative Consideration of Japanese System of Studies and Education in Environmental Literature with that of the United States”

Ishihata, Naoki. “From the English Lake District to Nihon Arupusu”

Kumagai, Yumiko. “Prophets of Nature: William Wordsworth’s and Gary Snyder’s Communion with Nature”

Yamakage, Takashi. “’Why the Countryside?’: Voices from The Magic apple Tree and The Living Landscape”

Ford, Anne. “Scalping, Decapitation and Deforestation: Nature/Body Politics in Hardy’s The Woodlanders”

Akamine, Reiko. “Nature and Gender: Mary Austin’s Representation of the Desert”

Maekawa, Toshihiro. “Nick Adams’ Basic Memory of Scenery: Nature in ‘Big Two-Hearted River’”

Hayashi, Nao. “The People Who Go On Living: The Competition for Survival and the Survivors in The Grapes of Wrath”

No. 2 (1999)

Articles

Tsuji, Kazuhiko. “Mark Twain’s View of Nature in ‘Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians’”

Allen, Bruce. “Cape Cod: Writing on the Edge”

Shiota, Hiroshi. “Between Self and River: The Nature of Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder”

Yokota, Yuri. “Landscape and Narratives: A Study of the Wroks of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko”

Yuki, Masami Raker. “A Preliminary Theory of Acoustic Ecology: Soundscape in Contemporary Literature”

Schreiner, C.S. “Disorderly Imperative: Loren Eiseley and Postmodern Naturalism”

Ford, Anna. “Atwood’s Wilderness Tips: Short Fiction for a Postnatural Age”

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Maintaining the Sense of Nature through Japanese Expressions: Regarding Phonetic Expressions (Onomatopoeia)”

Akamine, Reiko. “Place, Community, Homeland: Ishimure Michiko’s Environmental Philosophy”

Ashizawa, Kazuhiro. “National Parks and Wilderness”

No. 1 (1998)

Articles

Colligan-Taylor, Karen. “Miyazawa Kenji’s Work Invites Ecocriticism”

Sato, Mitsushige. “Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Nature: The Astrology of Anne Bradstreet”

Ozawa, Namie. “The Discord of ‘Economy’ in H.D. Thoreau’s Walden”

Takahashi, Mamoru. “Writers and the Meaning of ‘Walking’”

Nishimura, Yorio. “D’Arcy McNickle: His life and Works”

Allen, Bruce. “The Ecological Philosophy of Ando Shoeki”

Iwai, Hiroshi. “Japanese Views of Nature in Doppo Kunikida’s Musashino”

Takahashi, Tsutomu. “Henry Thoreau in Takada Hiroshi’s Encounter with the Tree”

19-21 August 2007
Kanazawa Bunka Hall (15-1 Takaoka Kanazawa, Ishikawa)
Daijoji (ru 10 Nagasaka Kanazawa, Ishikawa)

■ Organizers: ASLE-Japan, ASLE-Korea
■ Special Supporter: The Rolex Institute
■ Sponsors: The Toyota Foundation, The Commemorative organization for the Japan World Exposition ('70)、The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation

Sunday, August 19/Kanazawa Bunka Hall

13:30-14:15 Registration
14:15-14:30 Welcome

14:30-15:30 Keynote Speech by Ko Un: “A Poor Reflection”

15:30-15:50 Break

15:50-17:20 Session 1 Poetics of Nature in Korean and Japanese Literature

Hong Yong hee, Kyunghee Cyber University (Korea), “On Ecological Imagination of Kim Ji Ha’s Poetry”
Huh Hyejung, Korea Cyber University (Korea), “The Arabian Nights, the Silk Road, and the Erotic Motif in ‘Cheoyongga’”
Kono Chie, Nihon University (Japan), “The Sublime Solitude in Nature: The Tanka Poems of Tsuiji Masako”
Morita Keitaro, Rikkyo University (Japan), “Ito Hiromi, Seungho Choi, and Ma Kwang-Soo"

17:20-18:50 Drinks & Snacks

18:50-20:40 Reading Workshop
Discussion Leaders: Lee Gangsun, Kang Yeonhuen, Lee Young Hyun (ASLE-Korea)，Morita Keitaro, Nakamura Yuko, Yamamoto Yohei（ASLE-Japan）

Monday, August 20/Kanazawa Bunka Hall

10:00-11:00 Keynote Speech by Uchiyama Takashi

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:30 Session 2 Senses of Place

Kang Yong-ki, Chonnam National University (Korea), “Eco-consciousness in Poongsoo”
Kim Ilgu, Hannam University (Korea), “A Comparative Ecological Study of The Water Babies, Sim Cheong, and Princess Bari”
Odani Kazuaki, Niigata Women’s College (Japan), “Calling the Wind: Reading ‘Wind’ in Lee JungJa, Korean Poet of Japan”

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 3 Modernism and Environmental Discourses in Korea and Japan

Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), “Diethylstilbestrol, My Year of Meats, ecocriticism, and nation”
Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University (USA), “From Robot Pastoral to theme Park Idyll: Environmentalism, Modernization and Postmodernization in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata”
Terashita Hironori, Ritsumeikan University (Japan), “Two Women, The Two Seas: Ishimure Michiko and Lee Nam Hee”
Nakamura Yuko, Rikkyo University (Japan), “The Relationships Between Humans and Nature in Fantasy Fiction Written by Decadants: Sakaguchi Ango and I San”

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 4 The Future of Literary Environmentalism: Proposals from East Asia

Lee Mansik, Kyungwon University (Korea), “Deeper Ecology Movement: Deep Ecology Movement Remodeled by Deconstruction Apprehended by an Oriental Mind-set”
Nakagaki Kotaro, Tokiwa University (Japan), “Monsters from Environmental Pollution: Visions of Nuclear, Junk, and Ruins in the Post-Industrial World”
Masami Raker Yuki, Kanazawa University (Japan), “Culture of Village and Environmental Discourses: Matrix of Language in the Work of Morisaki Kazue and Ishimure Michiko”
Wu Chan Je, Sogang University (Korea), “Harmony of Tree and Bird: Ecological Imagination of Novels of Yi Chong-Jun”

18:15- Dinner

Tuesday, August 21/Kanazawa Bunka Hall and Daijoji

9:00-12:00 Session 5 Gary Snyder in Asia
Iwamasa Shinji, Shirayuri College (Japan), “Reading Miyazawa Kenji and Gary Snyder from the Viewpoint of the Place of Nothingness”
Kim Won-Chung, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), “Gary Snyder Studies in Korea”
Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai, Tamkang University (Taiwan), “Gary Snyder and the Literature of Energy”
Yamazato Katsunori, University of the Ryukyus (Japan) “Envisioning a Planetary Future: Gary Snyder and Japan, 1951-2006”
Commentators: Gary Snyder, Kato Yukiko, Suga Keijiro

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Roundtable Session From Now: Furthering East Asian Collaboration

Lee Soongwon, Seoul Women’s University (Korea)
Shin Moonsu , Seoul National University (Korea)
Noda Ken-ichi, Rikkyo University (Founding President of ASLE-Japan)
Ikuta Shogo, Kanazawa University (Japan)

15:00-15:15 Closing Address

17:00-19:00 Poetry Reading by Ko Un and Gary Snyder in Daijoji

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President

IKUTA Shogo, Kanazawa University

Vice president

TAKAHASHI Tsutomu, Kyushu University

Executive Secretary

ODANI Kazuaki, Niigata Women’s College

Secretaries

IWAMASA Shinji, Shirayuri College
TOYOSATO Mayumi, Sapporo University

Treasurers

TSUJI Kazuhiko, Fukui University
TAKAHASHI Ayako, Nagaoka National College of Technology

Newsletter Editors

MURAKAMI Kiyotoshi, Kanazawa University
YAMASHIRO Shin, University of the Ryukyus
HAYASHI Nao, Shiga University

Journal Editors

YAMAZATO Katsunori, University of the Ryukyus
OOTA Masataka, Daito Bunka University
TAKAHASHI Masako, Mie University
NODA Ken-ichi, Rikkyo University
Patricia LYONS, Ehime University

Computer Network Coordinators

IWAMASA Shinji, Shirayuri College
KITAGUNI Nobutaka, Hagi Koen Gakuin
YAMASHIRO Shin

Executive Council

Bruce ALLEN, Juntendo University
IKEDA Shiro, Kumamoto University
ISHIHATA Naoki, Tohoku University
ITOH Shoko, Matsuyama University
KAMIOKA Katsumi, Kochi University
SEKIGUCHI Keiji, Osaka Prefecture University
TAKADA Ken-ichi, Aoyama Gakuin University
TATSUMI Takayuki, Keio University
MIURA Shoko, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
YOSHIDA Mitsu, Matsuyama University

Grant Coordinators

INAMOTO Tadashi, Oak Village
OKAJIMA Shigeyuki, Japan Environmental Education Forum
KINOSHITA Takashi, Ehime University
IKUTA Shogo (President)
TAKAHASHI Tsutomu (Vice President)

Auditor

NISHIMURA Yorio, Han-nan University

Advisors

KAMITO Keiko