Noriko Asato

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"With my interdisciplinary approach in teaching and research, and connections in Japan, I will help support the historical role of the UHM LIS Program as a bridge for Asian Pacific/ international librarians and LIS educators."

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Education

Ph.D., Purdue University. 1998.
MLISc, Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii, 2011.
Master of Arts, East Asian Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1993.
Master of Education - Professional Development; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. 1991.

Professional Background

Jan. 2007-
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science Program, Information & Computer Sciences Dept.;University of Hawaii at Manoa

Summer 2010-
Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University

Aug. 2004- Dec. 2006
Associate Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures; Asian Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Aug. 2005-Dec. 2005
Visiting Researcher, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Aug. 1998-
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures; Asian Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Sept. 1993- May 1998
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Sept. 1996- May 1997
Research Assistant, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

June 1993- Aug. 1993
Senior Instructor, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

Jan. 1992- Dec. 1992
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sept. 1989- May 1991
Lecturer, Dept. Foreign Languages University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Professional Affiliations

American Library Association
Association for Asian Studies
Council on East Asian Libraries
Hawaii Library Association
Japan Society of Library & Information Science
Nippon Association for Librarianship

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Fields of Interest

Japanese / Japanese American Print Cultures
Asian Librarianship
Censorship
Intellectual Freedom

Courses Taught

LIS 610: The Information Environment
LIS 690: Library Internship Program
LIS 705: Asian Research Materials & Methods

Current Research Interests

Librarians' Free Speech/ Intellectual Freedom

Hainichi Undo to Nihongo Gakko: Hawai, Kariforunia, Washinton Shu.

The anti-Japanese Movement and Japanese Language Schools: The Experience in Hawaii, California, and Washington. A Japanese translation and expanded version of my Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).

Tokushige v Farrington Supreme Court Case and Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, 1919-1927

Analysis of Books Confiscated from Detained Japanese Americans during World War II

Multicultural Services in Japanese Public Libraries: Asian Immigrants and their Offspring

Selected Publications

Books

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

Articles and Book Chapters:

Noriko Asato, (Ed.), Asian Studies Librarianship: A Guide to Reference Sources (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2012)

Yoshitaka Kawasaki, Noriko Asato, and Hiroki Takakuwa (Eds.), America 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 Daigaku Toshokan Johogaku Kenkyukai, 2011).

Noriko Asato, "[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).

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, "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.

Noriko Asato, "The Genesis of the Japanese Language School Controversy in Hawaii: Buddhist and Christian Conflict." In Duncan Ryûken Williams, and Tomoe Moriya (Eds.), Issei Buddhism in the Americas: The Pioneers of the Japanese-American Buddhist Diaspora (Book manuscript under review).

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.

Conference Presentations:

"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).

"Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity: LIS Research/Education and Studies of the ‘Other,’" Association for Library and Information Science Education, Denver. 22 January 2009.

"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.

"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." 50th Annual Meeting, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Lincoln, Nebraska. 29 September 2001.

"Analyzing the Mechanism of the Anti-Japanese Language School Movement: Washington’s Case." Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Toronto, Canada. March 2001. (declined acceptance due to time conflict)

"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.

Grants and Fellowships:

Korean Studies Fellowship. The Korean Society, Fall 2010.
University of Hawaii Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 2011

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