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

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