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This article describes my experience as a widely published academic scholar in organizing an exhibit for the public titled "Obama no Obama (Obama's Obama): One President, Two Countries, A Myriad of Goods." The exhibit, at a local museum, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai`i, presented the souvenirs and paraphernalia from Obama, the Japanese beach town in Fukui province, which celebrated Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Inside the doors of the exhibit hung display after display of goods from Japan and the United States focused on President Obama, particularly during his campaign days of 2008 and 2009 when Obama-mania was at its peak throughout many parts of the world. Obama town garnered headlines throughout Japan and beyond, adopting familiar slogans, "Yes we can!" as banners of support for the candidate and publicity for the town itself. I decided to turn my research interest in the topic into an event that could examine image-making, celebrity, and commodification that surrounds public figures in the United States and Japan – and do so in a very public manner.

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Jennifer Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.278 pp.

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia' investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection's focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.0The first section, "Good Foods," focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, "Bad Foods," focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foods that threaten not only traditional foods, but also the stability and strength of the nation and its people. The third section, "Moral Foods," focuses on how themes of good versus bad are embedded in projects to make modern persons, subjects, and states, with specific attention to the ambiguities and malleability of foods and health. The malleability of moral foods provides unique opportunities for understanding Asian societies' dynamic position within larger global flows, connections, and disconnections

Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Our Voices -- Introduction: Our Histories -- Part I: Early Era, Indigenous and Global Roots -- 1. Mālamalama: Reconnecting as Native Hawaiian Women through Cultural History -- 2. Global Roots and Gendered Routes: Early Asian American Women's History -- 3. Two Sisters, Two Stories: Transnational Lives of Ume Tsuda and Yona Abiko -- Part II: New Intersections of Race, Gender, Generation, Communities -- 4. "Up to My Elbows in Rice!": Women Building Communities and Sustaining Families in Pre- 1965 Filipina/o America -- 5. Stretching the Boundaries of Christian Respectability, Race, and Gender during Jim Crow: Chinese American Women and the Southern Baptist Church -- 6. Stepping Onstage and Breaking Ground: Asian American Dancers Complicate Race and Gender Stereotypes, 1930s- 1960s -- Part III: New Cultural Formations, New Selves -- 7. "She Speaks Well": Language as Performance of Japanese American Femininity and Social Mobility in Postwar Hawaiʻi -- 8. History, Identity, and the Life Course: Mixed Race Asian American Women -- 9. Ancestral Ethics and Sāmoanness: Explaining the Contemporary Sāmoan American Women -- Part IV: Wartimes and Aftermath -- 10. Memories of Mass Incarceration: Mobilizing Japanese American Women for Redress and Beyond -- 11. Refugee Lifemaking Practices: Southeast Asian Women -- 12. "Defiant Daughters": The Resilience and Resistance of 1.5- Generation Vietnamese American Women -- Part V: Globalization, Work, Family, Community, Activism -- 13. Precarious Labor: Asian Immigrant Women, 1970s- 2010s -- 14. The Backbone of New York City's Chinatown: Chinese Women and the Garment Industry, 1950- 2009 -- 15. Women's Agency and Cost in Migration: Taiwanese American Transnational Families -- 16. "Revolutionary Care" as Activism: Filipina Nurses and Care Workers in Chicago, 1965- 2016 -- Part VI: Spaces of Political Struggles -- 17. The Mother's Tongue: Language, Women, and the Chamorros of Guam -- 18. Asian American Feminisms and Legislative Activism: Patsy Takemoto Mink in the US Congress -- 19. Opening the Path to Marriage Equality: Asian American Lesbians Reach Out to Their Families and Communities -- 20. Turning Points: South Asian Feminist Responses to Gender- Based Violence and Immigration Enforcement -- Part VII: New Diasporas, Diverse Lives, Evolving Identities -- 21. Locating Adoptees in Asian America: Jane Jeong Trenka and Deann Borshay Liem -- 22. "Let Them Attack Me for Wearing the Hijab": Islam and Identity in the Lives of Bangladeshi American Women -- 23. Navigating the Hyphen: Tongan- American Women in Academia -- Part VIII: Gender, Cultural Change, Intergenerational Dynamics -- 24. Linked Lives: Korean American Daughters and Their Aging Immigrant Parents -- 25. Negotiating Cultural Change: Professional Hmong American Women -- 26. Stories and Visions across Generations: Khmer American Women -- Reflections -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index