Teruko Kumei
Professor of English Language and Literature, Shirayuri Women's College. America is a "nation of immigrants" created by people from various countries who came to the country in search of a new frontier. He studies American culture from the perspective of "Japanese immigrants." He completed his master's degree in American History at the Maxwell Graduate School of History, Syracuse University. He specializes in American history and American studies, particularly Japanese American history, and has recently been excavating, preserving, and analyzing Japanese-language literature. He received the Shimizu Hiroshi Award from the American Studies Association for his book "Social History Surrounding Foreigners: Modern America and Japanese Immigrants." He has co-authored and edited books including "What is the United States of America: History and Present," "Reading America Through the Ages," and "An Invitation to American Culture: Learning about the Diverse America Through Themes and Materials."
(Updated August 2013)
Stories from This Author
Tanka, Haiku, and Senryu as Documentary Literature: Democracy, Justice, and Dignity in the Poems of the Issei - Part 2/2
Nov. 20, 2013 • Teruko Kumei
Read Part 1 >> 3. American Populism: From Exclusion to Redress Anti-Japanese A 1907 New York Times article described this as "the Japanese invasion of the white man's world." Soon, the Gentlemen's Agreement was signed, followed by the 1913 California Alien Land Act, the suspension of passport issuance to picture brides in 1920, the 1922 Ozawa Takao ruling that determined foreigners could not be naturalized, and the 1924 Immigration Act that halted Japanese immigration. I have just picked out three …
Tanka, Haiku, and Senryu as Documentary Literature: Democracy, Justice, and Dignity in the Poems of the Issei - Part 1/2
Nov. 18, 2013 • Teruko Kumei
Today's session is entitled "Democracy as expressed in Tanka, Haiku, and Senryu," and we will first look at his early works as "literature of the people," then at works that describe American life as "records of life, poetry of emotion," and finally at "American Populism: From Exclusion to Redress." 1. Popular Literature Haiku, tanka, and senryu are literary forms that could be called the "national literature" of Japan, and were rooted in the lives of ordinary people. Naturally, they were …
Drama "99 Years of Love" - Student Reactions
Aug. 29, 2013 • Teruko Kumei
(Editor's note: This article was presented in Japanese at the " 99 Years of Love/Hate" session (July 6, 2013) at the Japanese American National Museum's nationwide conference " Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity, " held in Seattle. Please also see the presentations by Professor Iino Masako ( background to the article ) and Professor Shimada Noriko ( historical research ) in the same session.)"99 Years of Love ~Japanese Americans~" won the Tokyo Drama Awards 2011 in the "Single Drama Category". …
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