President

MURAKAMI, Kiyotoshi. Kanazawa University

Vice president

KINA, Ikue. University of the Ryukyus

Executive Secretary

ODANI, Kazuaki. University of Niigata Prefecture

Secretaries

IWAMASA, Shinji. Shirayuri College
TOYOSATO, Mayumi. Sapporo University

Treasurers

TAKAHASHI, Ayako. Nagaoka University of Technology
HIRATSUKA, Hiroko. Keiwa College

Newsletter Editors

YOKOTA, Yuri. Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University
KINOSHITA, Takashi. Ehime University
SHIOTA,Hiroshi. Horoshima Shudo University

Journal Editors

NODA,Ken-ichi. Rikkyo University
BRATTON, Daniel. Doshisha University
OTA, Masataka. Daito Bunka University
TAKAHASHI, Masako. Mie University
YUKI, Masami Raker. Kanazawa University

Computer Network Coordinators

KITAGUNI, Nobutaka. Hagikoen Gakuin
IWAMASA, Shinji. Shirayuri College
YAMASHIRO, Shin. University of the Ryukyus

Executive Council

ALLEN, Bruce. Seisen University
IKEDA, Shiro. Kumamoto University
ISHIHATA, Naoki. Tohoku University
KAMIOKA, Katsumi. Kochi University
KAYANO, Yoshiko. Meisei University
SUGA, Keijiro. Meiji University
TAKAHASHI, Tsutomu. Kyushu University
TANAKA, Tsunehisa. Sapporo University
TATSUMI, Takayuki. Keio University
TSUJI, Kazuhiko. Kinki University
YOSHIDA, Mitsu. Matsuyama University

Graduate Student Liaison

HAYAMA, Gakuto. Wakayama University

International Liaison

MIURA, Shoko. Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Emeritus
KONO,Chie. Nihon University
OHNO, Misa. Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Grant Coordinators

NYUUI, Masashi. Waseda University
OKAJIMA,Shigeyuki. Japan Environmental Education Forum
TAKADA, Ken-ichi. Aoyama Gakuin University
YAMAZATO,Katsunori. University of the Ryukyus
MURAKAMI, Kiyotoshi (President)
KINA, Ikue (Vice President)

Auditor

IKUTA, Shogo. Kanazawa University

Advisors

ITO, Shoko. Hiroshima University, Emeritus
KAMITO, Keiko. Japan Rachel Carson Council
NISHIMURA, Yorio. Hanan University

The following joint plenary speech was fashioned in a way that represents the growing ecocritical community in East Asia and delivered at the International Conference on Literature and Environment, which was held at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, on November 8th, 2008.

Session 1: Poetics of Nature in Korean and Japanese Literature

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

Reading Workshop

Discussion Leaders： Lee Gangsun, Kang Yeonhuen, Lee Young Hyun (ASLE-Korea)，Morita Keitaro，Nakamura Yuko，Yamamoto Yohei（ASLE-Japan）

Session 2: Senses of Place

Odani Kazuaki, “Calling the Wind: Reading ‘Wind’ in Lee JungJa, Korean Poet of Japan”
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”

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.

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.

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”

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

Special Supporter

■ The Rolex Institute

Sponsors

■ The Toyota Foundation
■ The Commemorative organization for the Japan World Exposition ('70)
■ The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation