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Scholarship & Creative Works by Faculty of Color

Professional accomplishments of faculty of color at Metropolitan State University (MN).

Sumiko Otsubo, PhD

 
  • “Globalizing Reproductive Politics: Sanger’s Legacy in Japan.” Review of Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan, by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 17, no. 4 (October, 2018): 728-9.
  • Review of Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium, edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks.Pacific Affairs 88.2 (June 2015): 315-317.
  • “Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918," in The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s, edited by Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2014, 461-480.
  • Review of Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease, by Alexander R. Bay.  Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 105.2 (2014): 448-449.
  • “Nichibei yūseigaku no setten: Shokubutsu gakusha Yamanouchi Shigeo o chūshin to shite [The interface of Japanese and American eugenics: Focusing on Botanist Yamanouchi Shigeo].” In Seimei no rinri [Life and ethics], edited by Kiyoko Yamazaki, vol. 3 (Kyūshū Daigaku Shuppankai [Kyushu University Press], Fukuoka, Japan, 2013), 131-160.
  • “Emperor, Family, and Modernity: The Passage of the 1940 National Eugenics Law.” In Tumultuous Decade: Japan’s Challenge to the International System, 1931-41, edited by Kimura Masato and Tosh Minohara. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 69-100.
  • Review of Women’s Movements in Asia, edited by Roces and Edwards, Women’s History Review, 2013.  (http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dhwZCkHjMPVQQavhhqYJ/full)
  • Review of “Kazoku keikaku” e no michi:  Kindai Nihon no seishoku o meguru seiji, by Ogino Miho.  East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 5 (2011): 585-589.
  • Review of Struggle for National Survival: Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts, 1896-1945, by Yuehtsen Juliette Chung.  EASTM  31 (2010): 103-108.
  • “Japan.” In An Introduction to the History of Science in Non-western Traditions, edited by Douglas Allchin and Robert DeKosky, 2nd ed.  Seattle: History of Science Society, 2008, 73-87.  (Takashi Nishiyama and Walter Grunden, co-authors) (http://www.hssonline.org/teaching/nonwestern/Sci_NonWestern%20Traditions_2nd.ed.pdf)
  • Review of The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan, by Ann Jannetta. Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of Science and Technology, 25.6 (November 2008): 580.
  •  “Toward a Common Eugenic Goal: Christian Social Reformers and the Medical Authorities in Meiji and Taisho Japan.” Kenkyū Soshō [Research Series] No. 86, Dōtoku to Kagku no Intāfēsu [The Interface between Morality and Science: An Aspect of Modernization].  Kobe: Konan University Sōgō Kenkūjo, 2006, 43-86.　
  • Review of Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism, by Hiroko Tomida.  Journal of Japanese Studies31.2 (Summer 2005), 505-510.
  • “Engendering Eugenics: Feminists and Marriage Restriction Legislation in the 1920s.”  In Gendering Modern Japanese History, edited by Barbara Molony and Kathleen S. Uno.  Cambridge, MA and London: Asia Center, Harvard Asia Center, 2005, 225-256.
  •  “The Female Body and Eugenic Thought in Meiji Japan.”  In Building a Modern Nation: Science, Technology and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond, edited by Morris Low.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 61-81.
  • "The interface of Japanese and American eugenics: Focusing on Botanist Yamanouchi Shigeo"
    “Between Two Worlds: Yamanouchi Shigeo and Eugenics in Early Twentieth Century Japan.” Annals of Science, 62.2 (April 2005): 205-231.
  • “Women Scientists and Gender Ideology in Japan.”  In A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, edited by Jennifer Robertson.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 467-482.
  • Abstract of Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women, by Phyllis Birnbaum. Journal of Women’s History, 12.1 (Spring 2000): 196.
  • Abstract of Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China, by Frank Dikötter.  Journal of Women’s History, 11.4 (Winter 2000): 200.
  • “Feminist Maternal Eugenics in Wartime Japan.”  U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, English Supplement No. 17 (1999): 39-76.
  •  “Eugenics in Japan: Some Ironies of Modernity, 1883-1945.”  Science in Context 11.3 and 4  (1998): 545-565.  (James R. Bartholomew, co-author)
  • Review of China, Korea and Japan:  The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, by Gina L. Barnes.  Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin 11.2 (Spring 1994): 3-4.
To find more information about Professor Sumiko (Otsubo) Sitcawich, click on the link below:

https://www.metrostate.edu/about/directory/sumiko-sitcawich