Noriko Asato, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vita

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

SCHOLARSHIP

PUBLICATIONS   

BOOKS

Under Contract

Noriko Asato, (ed.), Asian Studies Librarianship: A Guide to Reference Sources (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, contract received. Publication date, Jan. 2012)

In Press

Yoshitaka Kawasaki, Noriko Asato, and Hiroki Takakuwa (Eds.), Amerika Koritsu Toshokan ni okeru Chiteki Jiyu no Ryoiki to Saikouchiku [The Concept of Intellectual Freedom and Its Reconstruction in American Public Libraries] (Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University, Aug. 2011).

Published Work

Noriko Asato, Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).

BOOK CHAPTERS

Noriko Asato, “The Genesis of the Japanese Language School Controversy in Hawaii: Buddhist and Christian Conflict.” InDuncan Ryuken Williams and Tomoe Moriya (eds.), Issei Buddhism in the Americas: The Pioneers of the Japanese-American Buddhist Diaspora (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2010): 45-64.

Noriko Asato, “Okumura Takie to Nihongo Gakko Ronso--Nichibei Kankei no Kanten kara [Takie Okumra and the Japanese Language School Controversy: From the Perspective of the Japan-U.S. Relationship].” In Ryo Yoshida and Yukuji Okita (eds.), Doshisha, Hawai, Nihon?\Shirarezaru Nichibei Koryushi [Intellectual Exchange between Hawaii and Doshisha University: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii and Doshisha University during the Inter War Period] (Kyoto, Japan: Doshisha University International Center, 2008): 81-95.

Noriko Asato, “Americanization vs. Japanese Cultural Maintenance: Analyzing Seattle’s Nihongo Tokuhon, 1920.” In Gail Nomura, and Louis Fiset (Eds.), Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005): 95-119.

ARTICLES: PEER-REVIEWED

In Review

Noriko Asato, “The Origins of the Freedom to Read Foundation: Public Librarians’ Campaign to Establish a Legal Defense Against Library Censorship.” Public Library Quarterly.

In Press

Noriko Asato, “Toshokanin no Senmonshoku Toshiteno Chiteki Jiyu: Ronso to Amerika Toshokan Kyokai no Taio [Responding to Librarians who Defend the Library Bill of Rights: The American Library Association and Intellectual Freedom in a Period of Transition].” Library World (September 2011).

Published Works

Noriko Asato, Andrew Wertheimer, and Akira Nemoto, “Shosetsu Toshokan Senso to ‘Toshokan no Jiyu ni Kansuru Sengen’ no Seiritsu [Examining the ‘Statement on Intellectual Freedom in Libraries’ and Violence in the Novel Toshokan Senso (Library War)].”  Journal of Japanese Society of Library and Information Science 57 (2011): 19-32.                                                                                                                                            

Noriko Asato, “Religious Conflict among Hawaii Nikkei and How Japanese Entered the Public School Curriculum, 1896-1924.”  Japanese Language & Literature 42 (2008): 63-94.

Atsushi Fukada & Noriko Asato, “Universal Politeness Theory: Application to the Use of Japanese Honorifics.” Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004): 1991-2002.

Noriko Asato, “Ousting Japanese Language Schools: Americanization and Cultural Maintenance in Washington State, 1919-27.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 94 (2003): 140-150.

Noriko Asato, “Mandating Americanization: Japanese Language Schools and the Federal Survey of Education in Hawaii, 1916-1920.”  History of Education Quarterly 43 (2003): 10-38.

PROCEEDINGS

Noriko Asato, “LIS Education and the Changing Face of East Asian Librarianship” Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice 2009 Proceedings. (University of Tsukuba, 2009). electronic publication. http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/~atsushi/a-liep/proceedings/index.html

Noriko Asato, “Learner’s Difficulties with Japanese Honorifics: Investigating from the Perspective of the Pragmatic Knowledge.” AILA ’99 Proceedings. (Tokyo: International Association of Applied Linguistics, 2000). CD- ROM.

Atsushi Fukada, Noriko Taira, Noriko Asato, & Yuki Johnson, “Development of Computer-based Materials for Japanese Instruction.”  In Yuki Johnson (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference. (Ann Arbor, MI: Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese, 1996): 87-95.

Noriko Asato, “Assessing L2 Pragmatic Competence.” In Yukiko Hatasa, & Kazumi Hatasa (eds.),  Bridging Gaps: Proceedings of [the] Sixth Annual Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference. (West Lafayette, IN: Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese, 1994): 48-60.

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Noriko Asato “Korean Print Culture: Becoming Inspired by Korea’s Printing Technologies.” CEFIA Webzine vol. 79. Feb. 2011. http://www.ikorea.ac.kr/webzine/1102/main_eng.asp

Noriko Asato, “Japanese.” in David Wishart, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Great Plains (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004): 144.

Noriko Asato, “National Japanese American Student Relocation Council.” In David Wishart, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Great Plains (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004): 145.

BOOK REVIEWS

Noriko Asato, Review of From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II, by Allan W. Austin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), Nebraska History 86 (4) (December 2005): 146-147. 

Noriko Asato, Review of Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II, by Gary Okihiro. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).  Nebraska History 80 (Winter 1999): 179.

TRANSLATIONS

Violet Harada, “Manabi no Specialist to site no School Librarian: 21 Seiki no Gakko ni okeru Kyodo no Juyosei [School Librarians as Learning Specialists: Working Collaboratively in The 21st Century School] Doshisha Daigaku Toshokangaku Nenpo 35 (2009): 76-86.

Andrew B. Wertheimer, “Asano Shichinosuke to Topaz Shuyosho Nihongo Toshokan 1943-1945: Bunka Koso to shite no Dokusho to Toshokan Mairi [Shichinosuke Asano and the TopazRelocation Center Japanese Language Library, 1943-1945: Reading and Toshokan-mairi as Cultural Resistance].”Proceedings of the JSLIS Spring 2005 Conference (Tokyo: JSLIS, 2005): 11-14.

PRESENTATIONS

Conference Presentations: Peer-Reviewed

• “Subverting the Power of Buddhist Japanese Language Schools: The 1924 Introduction of Japanese in Public School Education in Hawaii.” Association for  Asian American Studies, Honolulu. 23 April 2009.
• “LIS Education and the Changing Face of East Asian Librarianship.” Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice, Tokyo. 6-8 March 2009.
• “Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity: LIS Research/Education and Studies of the ‘Other,’” Association for Library and Information Science Education, Denver. 22 January 2009.
• “Beyond the Animation: Library War and Intellectual Freedom in Japan.” Hawaii Library Association Conference, Maui. 23-25 October 2008. (presented with Andrew Wertheimer).
• “Washington's Japanese Reader and the Shaping of Japanese American Identity, 1919-1927.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) The Hague, Leiden (The Netherlands). 12 July, 2006.
• “The Origins of Buddhist and Christian Conflict over Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii.” The Issei Buddhism Conference. University of California, Irvine. 3-5 September 2004.
• “Mandating Americanization: Japanese Language Schools and the Federal Survey of Education in Hawaii, 1916-1920.” History of Education Society Annual Meeting,
• Yale University. New Haven. 20 October 2001.
• “Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Washington State, 1919-1921.” Fifteenth Annual Meeting, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Lincoln, Nebraska. 29 September 2001.
• “Nihongo Gakko: Analyzing the Pre-war Washington Japanese Language School Textbooks.” The Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington, Seattle. 5 May 2000.
• “Learners’ Difficulties with Japanese Honorifics: Investigating from the Perspective of the Pragmatic Knowledge.” Twelfth World Congress on Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2 August 1999.
• “Teaching Pragmatic Aspects of Polite Language Use in Japanese.” The Eleventh New England Japanese Language Pedagogy Workshop, Amherst College. June 1997.
• “Development of Computer-Based Materials for Japanese Instruction.” The Ninth Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  April 1997.  (presented with Atsushi Fukada, Noriko Taira, & Yuki Johnson)
• “Measuring Politeness: A Critical Examination of Indirectness Scales.” The Eleventh International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois.  April 1997.
• “The Notion of Politeness Revisited.”  The 1997 American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando. March 1997. (presented with Atsushi Fukada)
• “Polite Language Behavior: A Comparison Between Learners and Native Speakers of Japanese.”  The 1997 Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago.16-19 March 1997.
• “Assessing L2 Pragmatic Competence.” The Sixth Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference, Purdue University. 15-16 April 1994.

Invited Presentations

• “Muted Dissent: Case Studies Regarding Librarian's Free Speech Rights.” Kyoto International Library Forum, Japan, 8 August 2011.
• “Planning a Bibliographical Guide for the Next Generation East Asian Studies Librarian.” Council on East Asian Libraries Conference, Honolulu, 30 March 2011.
• “Okumura Takie to Nihongo Gakko Ronso--Nichibei Kankei no Kanten kara”[Takie Okumra and the Japanese Language School Controversy: From the Perspective of the Japan-U.S. Relationship].  Doshisha, Hawai, Nihon--Shirarezaru Nichibei Koryushi [Intellectual Exchange between Hawaii and Doshisha University: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii and Doshisha University], Kyoto, Japan, 26 October 2007.
• “The Origins of Community Support and Conflict with Japanese Language Schools.” Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 27 May 2006.
• “The Origins of Japanese Language Schools in the United States: Teaching the Mother Tongue in the Territory of Hawaii.”  Temple University Japan, Tokyo, 21 November 2005.
• “Religious Rivalry and the Origins of the Japanese Language School Controversy in Hawaii, 1896-1920.” Department of History Colloquium, Co-sponsored by the UH Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 16 November 2005.
•  “Building on Success: The Potential Future of Japanese Studies at UNL” Panel: U.S. Japan Relations in the Midwest, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 15 October 1998.

Translator at Presentation

• Violet Harada, “Manabi no Specialist to site no School Librarian: 21 Seiki no Gakko ni okeru Kyodo no Juyosei [School Librarians as Learning Specialists: Working Collaboratively in The 21st Century School],” Doshisha University, Kyoto, 5 March 2009.

Poster Session

• “Strategic politeness: A Comparison between Learners and Native Speakers of Japanese.”  The Seventeenth Second Language Research Forum, Michigan State University.  October 1997.

FELLOWSHIP / SCHOLARSHIPS

Visiting Professor (Researcher), Promotion of Educational Research Foundation, Kyoto University. Hosted by the Graduate School of Education. Summer 2010.

URI Summer Program in China. University of Rhode Island Confucius Institute Scholarship, 2010.

The Korean Studies Fellowship. The Korean Society, Fall 2010. 

RESEARCH GRANTS

PI = principal investigator   CR=Collaborating Researcher

External

CR “LIPER (Library and Information Professions and Education Renewal) Project 3 in Japan.” Japan Society of Promotion of Science, 2010.

PI  “Farrington v. Tokushige: The Hawaii Nikkei Struggle for the Right to Learn Heritage Language.” Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Research Grant, 2005-2006.

UH Internal

PI  “Examination of Archival Documents: A Professional Organization’s Fight against Federal Infringement of First Amendment Rights.” UH Endowment for Humanities Grant Summer Research, 2011.

University of Nebraska

PI  “Examining the 1927 Japanese Language School Supreme Court Case.” Arts & Humanities Research Enhancement Fund-Seeds Grant,UNL, 2004.

PI  “Japanese Perspectives on Japanese American History, 1919-1940.” Human Rights and Human Diversity Fund, UNL, 2002.

PI  “Japanese Foreign Ministry Records and Japanese Perspectives on Japanese American History, 1919-1940.” Humanities Center, UNL,2002-2003.

PI  “History of Education Quarterly Conference & Research at the Houghton Library, Harvard.” Dean of Arts & Sciences, UNL, 2002.

PI  “Exploring Issei Newspapers.”  UNL Research Council.  Summer Research Fellowship, UNL, 1999.

HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• Beta Phi Mu, 2011-
• Phi Beta Delta, 2004-

TEACHING

• LIS 610                 The Information Environment
• LIS 690                 Internship Program
• LIS 705                 Asian Research Materials & Methods (Online. Spring 2012-)
• LIS 699                 Directed Reading and Research

SERVICE

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Program

• LIS Research / Professional Development Committee, Chair, 2009-
• LIS Student Affairs Committee, 2008-

Department

• Established Internship Exchange Program with University of Tsukuba, Japan, 2010-
• Japanese Computer Science Professors Campus Tour, simultaneous translator, 2008  

University

• Escorted President David McClain to Doshisha University, Japan for his Honorary Doctorate, simultaneous translator, 2007

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• National Endowment for the Humanities.  Expert Peer Reviewer, Fall 2003.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

•             American Library Association
•             Association for Asian Studies
•             Council on East Asian Libraries
•             Hawaii Library Association
•             Japanese Society of Library and Information Science
•             Nippon Association for Librarianship

Revised 8 June 2011.