Publications by William Wetherall
In dusty and musty but trusty print media, 1963 to date
First posted circa 2000
Last updated 22 August 2024
This list of publications includes only those that have appeared in print media.
Articles published only on Yosha Bunko or other electronic media are not included.
For most of my life I have been a researcher, writer, translator, and editor.
For more about my personal background see the About page.
and the Family history and Mill Street pages under Wetherall.
Fiction
Original stories
1983 "The Passer" [unpublished] Placed 17th among 329 entries in 3rd Asia Week Short Story Contest (1983) 1984 "The Reunion" Placed 4th among 389 entries in 4th Asia Week Short Story Contest (1984) Revised for and published in: Suzanne Kamata (ed) The Broken Bridge (Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan) Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1997, 113-127 1985 "Hospitality" [unpublished] Placed 11th among over 400 entries in 5th Asia Week Short Story Contest (1985) 1988 "The River" (short story) Asiaweek, 14(3), 15 January 1988, 61-65 Placed 3rd among XXX entries in 7th Asia Week Short Story Contest (1987) Reprinted in: Leon Comber (ed) Prize Winning Asian Fiction Hong Kong University Press, 1991, 315-328 1989 "The Emperor's Vision" (short story) Kyoto Journal, 10, Spring 1989, 10-11 1991 "The River" (short story) In: Leon Comber (ed) Prize Winning Asian Fiction Hong Kong University Press, 1991, 315-328 Originally published in: Asiaweek, 14(3), 15 January 1988, 61-65 Placed 3rd in 7th Asia Week Short Story Contest (1987) 1991 "The House of Wang" (short story) In: Leon Comber (ed) Prize Winning Asian Fiction Hong Kong University Press, 329-343 Tied for 3rd place among XXX entries in 8th and last Asia Week Short Story Contest (1988) 1992 "Boundaries" (25 short-short stories) Mainichi Daily News 7 March - 19 September 1992 1997 "The Reunion" (short story) In: Suzanne Kamata (ed) The Broken Bridge (Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan) Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 113-127 Revision of story first written in 1984 for 4th Asia Week Short Story Contest in which it placed 4th among 389 entries 2011 "Spring 2011" (short story) SWET newsletter (Tokyo), Number 128, June 2011, pages 17-22
Translated stories
1970s Translated by William Wetherall Matsumoto Seicho, "Harikomi" [Stakeout] Unpublished short story submitted with article on Matsumoto to Journal of Popular Culture, which wanted only the article. I didn't want to publish the article without the story. First ranslated at UC Berkeley in mid 1970s Posted on Yosha Bunko website, 2006 Revised on Yosha Bunko website, 2023 1973 Translated by William Wetherall Oe Kenzaburo, "Miru mae ni tobe" [Leap before you look] First translated at U.C. Berkeley in 1973 Presented with structural analysis in seminar on Oe Kenzaburo at UCB (Francis Motofuji) Posted on Yosha Bunko website, 2006 Revised on Yosha Bunko website, 2023 1976 Translated by William Wetherall Nishino Tatsukichi, "American Japanese" [Beikei Nichijin] First translated in 1976-1977 Posted on Yosha Bunko website, 2006 Revised on Yosha Bunko & Konketsuji websites, 2023 1989 Translated by William Wetherall Oe Kenzaburo, "Unexpected Muteness" [Fui no oshi] First translated at U.C. Berkeley in 1973 Japan Quarterly, 36(1), January-March 1989, pages 35-44 1996 Cotranslated with Kunioki Yanagishita Oe Kenzaburo, A Quiet Life [Shizukana seikatsu] New York: Grove/Atlantic, 240 pages 1996 Translated by William Wetherall Takagi Nobuko, "Return Flow" [Kanryu] Japanese Literature Today [Japan P.E.N. Club] No. 21, 1996, pages 22-31 1998 Translated by William Wetherall Oda Makoto, "Stomping on Aboji" ['Aboji' o fumu] Japanese Literature Today [Japan P.E.N. Club] No. 23, 1998 pages 16-25
Translated novels
1996 Cotranslated with Kunioki Yanagishita Oe Kenzaburo, A Quiet Life [Shizukana seikatsu] New York: Grove/Atlantic, 240 pages 2020 Cotranslated with Kunioki Yanagishita Kunioki Yanagishita, Catch 51: A Han-Japa Odyssey [Kyatchi 51: Aru han-Japa no tabi] Tokyo: Soseki Books, 271 pages
Chasing the moon (Tsuigetsuki)
By Sugimoto Akiko
The following stories, some entirely fictional, others partly autobiographical, were written by Sugimoto Akiko, who studied Chinese literature for three years at Beijing University in the late 1990s. Born in Tokyo in 1977, Akiko has been an avid reader and student of Japanese and Chinese literature since her childhood, largely inspired by her grandmother's older brother, Inoue Yasushi, who treated her as a grandchild, and whose study she frequented when in elementary and middle school. All the articles were woodblock illustrated by Kubota Kenji.
2005 Possessed by the magic of Kanji Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 1 The East, 41(1), May/June 2005, pages 32-34 2005 Xiaoqing Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 2 The East, 41(2), July/August 2005, pages 32-35 2005 Witch in training Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 3 The East, 41(3), September/October 2005, pages 32-37 2005 Landscape of stone Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 4 The East, 41(4), November/December 2005, pages 36-39 2006 Going north Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 5 The East, 41(5), January/February 2006, pages 31-35 2006 Mao at Baiyunguan Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 6 The East, 41(6), March/April 2006, pages 40-43 2006 My 1997 Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 7 The East, 42(1), May/June 2006, pages 36-39 2006 Guizi and Ahn Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 8 The East, 42(2), July/August 2006, pages 35-39 2006 Three Chinese stories (Jiaoren; The Sun, the Moon, and the cat; Wenwen) Sugimoto Akiko (Translation by William Wetherall) Chasing the moon, Part 9 The East, 42(3), September/October 2006, pages 40-42
Monographs
Dissertation
1982 Wetherall, William Following-in-Death in Early Japan PhD Dissertation, Asian Studies University of California at Berkeley University Microfilms International, DA8313017, 608 pages Dissertation Abtracts International, Vol. 44 No. 1 (1983) University Microfilm order number UM 83-13,017 Suicidal and homicidal following-in-death in Japan, as seen from classical sources and archaeological findings concerning the ancient civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe
Bibliographies
1987 Bibliography of Suicidology in Japan [In Japanese] Tokyo: Japan Suicide Prevention Association, Inochi no Denwa, i, 149, 1 pages
Books
[Forthcoming]
Pamphlets
1974 Coauthored with George De Vos De Vos, George A., and William O. Wetherall Japan's Minorities (Burakumin, Koreans, and Ainu) London: Minority Rights Group, 1974, 20 pages [2nd revised and expanded edition of 1968 pamphlet on burakumin written by George De Vos] 1983 Coauthored with George De Vos and Kaye Stearman De Vos, George A., William O. Wetherall, and Kaye Stearman Japan's Minorities (Burakumin, Koreans, Ainu and Okinawans) London: Minority Rights Group, 1983, 18 pages [3rd edition, "updated" by Kaye Stearman] [Note: This edition was not authorized by either De Vos or Wetherall]
1981 Translated by William Wetherall Inamura Hiroshi (Professor of Social Psychiatry, University of Tsukuba) The Study of Suicide: Its Treatment and Prevention A translation of Jisatsugaku [Suicidology] Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1977 Manuscript submitted to University of California Press in July 1981. Manuscript returned with reviewer comments stipulating flaws in content. UC Press issued contract on basis of prospectus for co-authored version. Inamura did not return contract or make revisions in his chapters. Working manuscript returned to Inamura but copy retained by Wetherall.
Textbooks
1978 Coauthored with Hashimoto Mitsuo [in English and Japanese] Hashimoto Mitsuo and Uezarooru Uiriamu Eigo de Nihon o kataro (Amerika no shinbun ni miru Nihon) [Discussing Japan in English (Japan as seen in American newspapers] (Japanese Current Events as Seen in American Newspapers) Osaka: Sogensha, 1978, 134 pages 1985 Coedited with Kajiki Ryuichi and two other editors The Progressive Course I [in English and Japanese] (High School, English I) Tokyo: Hitotsubashi Shuppan, 1985 1985 Coedited with Kajiki Ryuichi and two other editors The Progressive Course II [in English and Japanese] (High School, English II), Two Volumes, Tokyo: Hitotsubashi Shuppan, 1985 1985 Coedited with Kajiki Ryuichi and two other editors Writing for Understanding [in English and Japanese] (High School, English C), Tokyo: Hitotsubashi Shuppan, 1985 1985 Coedited with Kajiki Ryuichi and two other editors Reading for Understanding [in English and Japanese] (High School, English B) Tokyo: Hitotsubashi Shuppan, 1985
Syllabuses
1997 Bilingual Journalism and Fiction (Workshop on reading, translation, writing, editing, and publication of news articles and fictional stories) [2 volumes covering 36 two-hour units] Tokyo: International Education center, 1997 1997 Bilingual Knowledge and Skills (Survey of basic concepts and applications of all major fields of letters and science) [8 volumes covering 36 two-hour units] Tokyo: International Education center, 1997 1997 Bilingual World -2001 (Survey of translations of selected works of Japanese literature and other materials from classic and contemporary sources) Tokyo: International Education center, 1997-2001 4 volumes, each covering 18 two-hour units Each different but with basic overlap Designed to be taken once or sequentially Spring Semester, 200 pages Fall Semester, 170 pages Spring Semester, 132 pages Fall Semester, 132 pages
Articles
Articles in books
1975 Coauthored with George De Vos Wetherall, William O.; and George A. De Vos "Ethnic Minorities in Japan" In: Veenhoven et al (eds) Case Studies on Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms (A World Survey) The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 5 volumes (1975-1976), Volume 1 (1975), pages 333-375 1979 [In Japanese] "Nihon no 'sukui o motomeru sakebi', ima to mukashi" ['Cries for help' in Japan, past and present] In: Japan Suicide Prevention Association, Inochi no Denwa (eds) Jisatsu yobo to shiseikan [Suicide prevention and views of life and death] Tokyo: Seiwa Shoten, pages 165-170 Translation by author of paper presented in English at 1st International Symposium on Views of Life and Death in Asia, Tokyo, 1978. 1981 "Public Figures in Popular Culture: Identity Problems of Minority Heroes" In: Changsoo Lee and George De Vos (eds) Koreans in Japan (Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981, pages 281-303, 406-413 (Chapter 12) 1983 [In Japanese] Japanese translation of preceding article, in same volume. "Nihon ni okeru jisatsu hitei ron" [Suicide-opposing views in Japan] In: Kyoto Kokusai Bunka Kyokai (ed) Watakushi no Nihongaku (Gaikokujin ni yoru Nihongaku ronbunshu) [My Japanology (Collection of Japanology papers by foreigners)] Kyoto: Bunrikaku, 1983, pages 125-142 1983 "Japan's Anti-Suicide Traditions" In: International Cultural Association of Kyoto (ed) Essays on Japanology, 1978-1982 Kyoto: Bunrikaku, 1983, pages 105-123 Winner of Specialist Division, Third Japanology Essay Contest, International Cultural Association of Kyoto, 1980. Abridged edition published as "Anti-Suicide Traditions in Japan: Past and Present", The Japan Times, 14 February 1981, pp. 10-11. 1983 [In Japanese] "Josei no jisatsu" [Women and suicide] In: Nihon Jistatsu Yobo Gakkai [Japan Suicide Prevention Association] (ed) Raifusaikuru ni okeru sei to shi [Life and death in the life cycle] Tokyo: Nihon Jitsatsu Yobo Gakkai, 1983, pages 83-85 1993 [In Japanese: "Nihongo yaku ni yoru buraku mondai no massho: Ayamari ya ninshikibusoku wa ken'etsu hodo kowakunai" [The eradication of the buraku problem in Japanese translations: Errors and lack of awareness not as frightening as censorship] In Narusawa Eiju (editor) Hyogen no jiyu to buraku mondai [Freedom of expression and the buraku problem] Kyoto: Buraku Mondai Kenkyujo, 1993, pages 88-109 First published in Buraku (see Articles in journals) Also presented at BPLI seminar (see Presentations) 2006 "Nationality in Japan" Chapter 2 in: Soo im Lee, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, and Harumi Befu (editors) Japan's Diversity Dilemmas (Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education) Lincoln (NE): iUniverse, 2006, pages 11-46 2008 "The Racialization of Japan" Chapter 12 in: David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (editors) Transcultural Japan (At the borderlands of race, gender and identity) [Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations] London: Routledge, 2008 (xxv, 342 pages, hardcover) Pages 264-281 (Chapter 12) 2016 "Zaitokukai and the Japanese roots of Zainichiism" Part 3 (pages 201-209) of Mark Schreiber and William Wetherall Tabloid Nationalism and Racialism in Japan Chapter 15 (pages 195-209) in: Jeff Kingston (editor) Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan [Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations] London: Routledge, 2016 (xiv, 322 pages, paper cover) See also Part 1 (pages 195-196) of Chapter 15 William Wetherall and Mark Schreiber Introduction: History and terminology
Articles in encyclopedias
1983 "Foreigners in Japan" Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983 (9 volumes), Volume 2, pages 313-314 2000 "Population: A human crossroads" Japan National Tourist Organization (Website) Internet: 2000 2000 "Did people really commit harakiri?" Japan National Tourist Organization (Website) Internet: 2000 2000 "What is Chushingura?" Japan National Tourist Organization (Website) Internet: 2000 2000 "Why is the Chushingura saga so popular?" Japan National Tourist Organization (Website) Internet: 2000
Articles in journals
1965 "What Shall We Do With Andromeda?" California Engineer (UC Berkeley), 43(6), March 1965, pages 22-23, 30, 32 1966 "Cybernetics and Semantics" California Engineer (UC Berkeley), 44(4), January 1966, pages 12-17 1979 [In Japanese] Coauthored with Chung Daekyun -1980 Chung Daekyun and Uezarooru Uiriamu "Gaikokujin kyojusha ron" [On foreign residents (in Japan)] Part 1, Chosen kenkyu (Tokyo), No. 196, December 1979, pages 34-42 Part 2, Chosen kenkyu (Tokyo), No. 202, August 1980, pages 26-32 1981 [In Japanese] Discussion with Sato Kinko Uezarooru Uiriamu and Sato Kinko (Attorney) "Kokusekiho wa sakoku no ibutsu ka (Hoishiki kara mita Nihonjin to Amerikajin)" [Is the Nationality Law the legacy of a closed country? (Japanese and Americans seen from legal their legal awareness)] Eigo tenbo (Tokyo), No. 74, Summer 1981, pages 17-22, 30 1984 [In Japanese] "Shinju wa Nihon dokutoku no mono de wa nai" [Murder-suicide is not peculiar to Japan] Jisatsu yobo to kiki kainyu (Tokyo), No. 9, November 1984, pages 31-34 1989 "Buffer Zones" [On Oe Kenzaburo] Japan Quarterly, 36(1), January-March 1989, pages 32-34 1989 "Naturally Speaking" ［On Hirohito and the emperor system］ Japan Quarterly, 36(1), January-March 1989, pages 45-49 1991 [In Japanese] "Jisatsu tokei no goho to goyo: Kancho, masukomi, oyobi gakkai ni okeru "suji mosho" no shindan to chiryo" [The Misreporting and Misuse of Suicide Statistics in Japan: A Diagnosis and Treatment of Innumeracy in the Bureaucracy, Mass Media, and Academia] Seishin hoken kenkyu, 4(37), 1991, pages 47-70 Journal of Mental Health, Number 37, 1991, pages 47-70 Official Publication of the National Institute of Mental Health, NCNP, Japan 1991 [In Japanese] "Jisatsu no topogurafii-zu: toritsusen ni yoru gurafikku hoho" [The topography of suicide in Japan: A graphic method using isorate lines] Kosei to shihyo, 38(15), December 1991, pages 27-35 Journal of Health and Welfare Statistics, Health and Welfare Statistics Association 1991 Tooru Takahashi, Shizuo Aizawa, Tatsuo Takeuchi, and William Wetherall "Personality Traits of Patients with Anxiety Neurosis" The Japanese Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology, 45(4), 1991, pages 779-786 1991 "Race, Culture, and History in American and Japanese Popular Fiction" The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 4th Series, Volume 6, 1991, pages 87-113 1993 [In Japanese] "Nihongo yaku ni yoru buraku mondai no massho: Ayamari ya ninshikibusoku wa ken'etsu hodo kowakunai" [The eradication of the buraku problem in Japanese translations: Errors and lack of awareness not as frightening as censorship] Buraku, 45(3)561, March 1993, pages 23-40 Republished in Narasawa 1993 (see Articles in books) Also presented at BPLI seminar (see Presentations) 1995 [In Japanese] "Koreisha no jisatsu tokei: Shiinhi ga agaru ippo, shiboritsu wa sagatte iru" [Elderly suicide statistics: Ratio as cause of death increasing, but mortality rate decreasing] Seikatsu kyoiku, 39(11), November 1995, pages 8-12 [Magazine for Public Health Nurse (Tokyo: Hoken Dojin Sha)] 2005 "Kwannon or Kannon?" (Readable romanization) SWET newsletter (Tokyo), Number 107, April 2005, pages 3-13 2005 "Botchan: A Modern Classic" [Review article] SWET newsletter (Tokyo), Number 108, July 2005, pages 43-49 2006 William Wetherall and Mark Schreiber "News nishikie: An arranged marriage that didn't last" Andon 80 (Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts), 2006, pages 5-24 (cover story) 2008 "Keene, Seidensticker, et al.: Products of War, Commodities of Peace" SWET newsletter (Tokyo), Number 121, November 2008, pages 12-23
Articles in magazines and newsletters
Far Eastern Economic Review
Weekly magazine published in Hong Kong
Wrote mainly feature articles for Arts and Society section
Filed all such articles with section editors in Hong Kong
Filed only one news article with FEER Tokyo Bureau Chief
1983-1990 -- Over 60 feature articles and book reviews
1983 "Japan's pop Roots fails to cast new light on minority problems" Far Eastern Economic Review, 122(41), 13 October 1983, pages 62-63 1983 "Sizing up the differences in sexual standards" Far Eastern Economic Review, 122(49), 8 December 1983, pages 51-52 1984 "Untouchables remain touchy in pedigree-conscious Japan" Far Eastern Economic Review, 123(9), 1 March 1984, pages 35-36 1984 "Dual nationals caught in a storm over their Mt. Fuji inheritance" Far Eastern Economic Review, 124(23), 7 June 1984, pages 40-42 1984 "Puzzle of the past: Who is buried in Kusakabe's tomb?" Far Eastern Economic Review, 125(31), 2 August 1984, pages 31-32 1984 "The purgers and proliferators of Japan's erotica industry" Far Eastern Economic Review, 125(36), 6 September 1984, pages 45-46 1984 "Striking sensitivities in sumo's inner sanctum" Far Eastern Economic Review, 126(45), 8 November 1984, pages 50-52 1984 "For many Japanese life comes to an end at 40" Far Eastern Economic Review, 126(50), 13 December 1984, pages 51-53 Reprinted in Mainichi Daily News, 17 December 1984, page 5 1985 "The St Valentine's Day clean-up of Soapland" Far Eastern Economic Review, 127(7), 21 February 1985, pages 47-48 1985 "The unfortunate victims of Japan's classroom bullies" Far Eastern Economic Review, 128(20), 23 May 1985, pages 65-66 1985 "Escaping from marriage, avoiding office love" Far Eastern Economic Review, 130(50), 19 December 1985, pages 84-85 On divorce in Japan. 1985 "It's all right to dream, it's wrong to marry" Far Eastern Economic Review, 130(50), 19 December 1985, page 85 On Prince Hironomiya's views of international marriage. 1986 "To tell or not to tell: That is the question" Far Eastern Economic Review, 131(5), 30 January 1986, pages 34-36 1986 "Heroes from the past smite the woes of today" Far Eastern Economic Review, 131(10), 6 March 1986, pages 53-55 1986 "Sexual capitalists exploit the Filipino connection" Far Eastern Economic Review, 132(19), 8 May 1986, pages 105-107 1986 "Japanese youth and the Yukko syndrome" Far Eastern Economic Review, 133(29), 17 July 1986, pages 45-47 1986 "Case against fingerprinting: Korean could be deported for resisting alien law" Far Eastern Economic Review, 133(30), 24 July 1986, pages 43-44 1986 "Skid Row and flophouse in Japan's backyard" Far Eastern Economic Review, 134(45), 6 November 1986, pages 50-51 1987 "Nakasone promotes pride and prejudice" Far Eastern Economic Review, 135(8), 19 February 1987, pages 86-87 1987 "Japan curses Gaijin and AIDS still spreads" Far Eastern Economic Review, 136(15), 9 April 1987, pages 111-113 1987 "Japan in the grip of alien-fingerprinting row" Far Eastern Economic Review, 137(28), 9 July 1987, pages 48-50 1987 "Mentally ill shunted behind locked doors" Far Eastern Economic Review, 137(33), 13 August 1987, pages 36-37 1987 "An imperialist hero or just another trader" Far Eastern Economic Review, 138(40), 1 October 1987, pages 44-45 [History -- Yamada Nagamasa in Siam] 1987 "Pride and sometimes prejudice in Japan: Anti-Semitism" Far Eastern Economic Review, 138(42), 15 October 1987, pages 52-54 1988 "A Bridge not too far for those with leprosy" Far Eastern Economic Review, 141(29), 21 July 1988, pages 41-42 1989 "The Showa is over: Paying their last disrespects to Emperor Hirohito" Far Eastern Economic Review, 143(4), 26 January 1989, pages 38-39 1989 "A nation's dying industry: Burgeoning mortuary market spurs competition" Far Eastern Economic Review, 143(11), 16 March 1989, pages 66-67 (Japan 1) 1989 "Rites of passage: History of funeral practices intertwined with religion" Far Eastern Economic Review, 143(11), 16 March 1989, pages 67, 70 (Japan 2) 1990 "Bashers at wits' end: Satirists practise democracy-by-proxy" Far Eastern Economic Review, 149(31), 2 August 1990, pages 25-26
The English Journal
Monthly magazine published in Tokyo
for intermediate to advanced students
Co-editor and annotator of most feature interviews
Occasional interviewier and cover feature editor
1978-2006 -- Over 20 interviews and other articles
1978 "Ethnolinguistic Discrimination" (Fruit, People, and Yellowface English) The English Journal, 8(4)88, March 1978, pages 48-54 1978 "Humanizing Language Training in Japan", New Horizon Part 1: Language and Education, 131, May 1978, page 14 Part 2: Language and Human rights, 132, June 1978, page 14 Part 3: World Auxiliary English (WAE), 133, July 1978, page 14 Part 4: Language Use Ethics, 134, September 1978, page 14 1981 "Before and Beyond Writing" The English Journal, 11(4)128, April 1981, pages 90-93 1982 With Matsui Tsukasa [In Japanese and English] "English expressions of quantities" [Erekutoronikusu jidai no eigo] The English Journal, supplementary issue, 1982, pages 72-100 1982 "How to Choose an English Language School" The English Journal, supplementary issue, 1982, pages 216-220 1982 With Nishida Tsukasa [In Japanese and English] "Practical [English] letter writing" The English Journal, 12(13)149, September 1982, pages 122-135 1984 "Hearing Coach" -1985 Hearing Marathon (The English Journal), February 1984 - January 1985 1988 [In Japanese] "Easy English Writing" -1989 (Serialized in 12 four-page chapters) The English Journal, 18(6)234 - 19(3)250, April 1988 - March 1989
Other magazines and newsletters
1972 "The Educational Institution as a Nakodo" Nucleus (IEC, Tokyo), 25(3), Fall 1972, pages 6-10 1978 [In Japanese] Uezarooru Uiriamu "Gengo bunka ni hisomu minzoku sabetsu" [Ethnic discrimination latent in language culture] Amitie (Tokyo), No. 3, 1978, pages 16-18 1978 "World Auxiliary English and Language Education in Japan (Setting Goals for Meaningful Change)" Nucleus (IEC, Tokyo), 31(2), Summer 1978, pages 42-52 1978 "World Auxiliary English and Language Education in Japan" The Zen-Ei-Ren Magazine, No. 16, 1978, pages 2-7 1980 "Nationality and Immigration in Japan: Internationalism vs. Sexism and Ethnocentrism" Center News (The Japan Foundation, Japanese Studies Center) 5(2), June 1980, pages 2-4 1981 [In Japanese] "'Hiroi Nihon' e no susume" [Towards a 'Large Japan'] Nucleus (IEC, Tokyo), 33(4), March 1981, pages 52-54 One of three winners of the 35th Anniversary Essay Contest (November 1980) Japanese American Conversation Institute, International Education Center, Tokyo. 1983 [In Japanese] "Shakkinku, jistasu, ikka shinju: Nihon ni habikoru sarakin shokogun" [Loan worries, suicide, and family murder-suicide: High-interest borrowing syndrome spreading in Japan] Shukan jiji (Tokyo), 25(23)1198, 18 June 1983, pages 66-68 1985 [In Japanese] "Chichi kara uketa mondai to sono kaiketsu" [The problem I got from my father, and its solution] Inochi no Denwa (Tokyo), 3(1)50, June 1985, pages 2-3 1986 "The Trial of Fumiko Kimura" PHP Intersect (Tokyo), 2(7)19, July 1986, pages 6-9
Articles in newspapers
Asahi shinbun
1977 [In Japanese] "Eigo kyoiku no byorigaku: Ikita kotoba o ruuru de korosu na" [The pathology of English-language education: Don't kill a living languge with rules] Asahi shinbun, 21 January (Morning edition), page 5 (Rondan)
Asahi Evening News
1986-1988 -- Over 15 feature articles and book reviews
1986 "Nakasone's Remarks: An Anti-Nihonjinron Analysis" (Part 1) Asahi Evening News, 4 December, page 7 "Nakasone's Remarks: An Anti-Nihonjinron Analysis" (Part 2) Asahi Evening News, 5 December, page 15 A critique of Edward C.P. Stewart "Nakasone's Remarks: A Semantic and Intercultural Analysis" AEN, 5 November 1986, page 9 Critical letter to editor 1 Bart Ainsworth, "Communication Difficulties" AEN, 9 January 1987, page 5 Rebutal letter to editor William Wetherall, "A Major Irritant" AEN, 16 January 1987, page 7 1988 "Honorary Whites, Gaijin, and Internationalization" Part 1: In the Name of Anti-Racism Asahi Evening News, 28 September 1988, page 9 Part 2: Linguistic Apartheid in Japan Asahi Evening News, 29 September 1988, page 9
The Japan Times
1978-2005 -- Over 30 feature articles and book reviews
1977 "Concept of 'International' at English Language Schools In Japan Limited to 'Yellow Japan' And 'White America'" The Japan Times, 8 September 1977, page 10 1978 "Most Important Factor Involved in Learning English Is Student's Motivation" The Japan Times, 14 March 1978, page 11 1978 "Discriminatory Approach Toward Foreigners Intrinsic in Culture Here" (Another Culture, Another Way) The Japan Times, 22 June 1978, page 3 (Lions International Convention Extra) 1978 "Enormous Gaps Exist Between Constitutional Rights for Women and Actual Practices, Laws" (Nationality Law Is One of Discriminatory Examples) The Japan Times, 24 June 1978, page 3 (Lions International Convention Extra) 1981 "Anti-Suicide Traditions in Japan: Past and Present" The Japan Times, 14 February 1981, pages 10-11. Winner of Specialist Division Third Japanology Essay Contest International Cultural Association of Kyoto, 1980 Abridged version of winning essay. For complete essay and Japanese translation, see Articles in Books, 1983. 1983 "If Ito Can Be American, Why Can't Pak Be Japanese?" The Japan Times, 3 July 1983, page 10 1985 "Suicide in Japan" Part 1: "Suicide in Japan: Figures are misleading" Decreasing for the living, increasing for the dead The Japan Times, 19 August 1985, page 6 Part 2: "Suicide in Japan: In the 1980s" Men who survived the '50s can't cope with the '80s The Japan Times, 26 August 1985, page 8 Part 3: "Suicide and the individual personality" Blaming everything but individual personality The Japan Times, 23 September, page 12 1985 "Doctor's Cancer Dilemma: To Tell or Not to Tell" The Japan Times, 13 November 1985, page 12 1986 "Multiethnicity or Fingerprinting: Japan's Moral Choice" The Japan Times, 27 July 1986, page 6 (Guest Forum) 1986 "What the Prime Minister Really Said About Ethnic Intelligence" The Japan Times, 26 November 1986, page 11 1986 "Seeing the Japanese Life Cycle Through Comic Books" The Japan Times, 10 December 1986, page 3 (National Edition) 1987 "Japanese have role in spread of AIDS around the world" The Japan Times, 12 April 1987, page 2 [First part of four-part series cancelled after secound part] 1987 "AIDS: The human connection in local spread" The Japan Times, 13 April 1987, page 2 [Second part of four-part series cancelled after this part] 1987 "AIDS relative endemic in Japan" (ALT may have been here since antiquity; may hasten AIDS) The Japan Times, 10 May 1987, page 10 [Fourth part of four-part series later published by itself] 1987 "The anti-Semitic book boom" (It damages Japan's reputation in the World) The Japan Times, 9 September 1987, page 16 (Focus) 1988 "How to become a Japanese citizen" The Japan Times, 13 October 1988, page 14 1989 "How world press viewed Japan in 1912 (Passing of an Era)" The Japan Times, 4 January 1989, page 17
The Japan Times Weekly (Domestic edition)
1986 "A model for today? Chushingura story continues to fascinate Japan" The Japan Times Weekly, 13 December 1986, pages 1,6 (cover story) 1987 [Interviewed by Janet Snyder] "Japan's fingerprints for foreigners row heats up" The Japan Times Weekly, 8 August 1987 1987 "Yamada Nagamasa tales fact or fiction?" The Japan Times Weekly, 31 October 1987, page 6 1988 "Going home to the streets" (Anonymous homeless forgotten side of Japan's society) The Japan Times Weekly, 12 March 1988, page 5 and most of text on pages 8-9 (Cover story) 1988 "Bridge to the outside" (Gate-less span ends isolation for island's leprosy patients) The Japan Times Weekly, 16 April 1988, page 4 1992 "The Burakumin Debate" The Japan Times Weekly, 32(10), 7 March 1992, pages 1,4-5,15 (Cover story) 1993 "The Ainu Nation" The Japan Times Weekly, 33(1), 2 January 1993, pages 1,3-5 (Cover story)
The Japan Times Weekly (International edition)
1986 "What the Prime Minister Really Said About Intelligence" The Japan Times Weekly, 13 December 1986, page 8
Mainichi shinbun
1977 [In Japanese] "'Jiko shokai' no genkai
("Nihon bungaku no kaigai muke hon'yaku wa Nihonjin de" ni tsuite)"
[The limitations of 'self-introduction'
(On "Overseas-oriented translations by Japanese of Japanese literature")]
Mainichi shinbun, 12 July 1977 (Yukan), page 6
1978 [In Japanese] "'Sekaijin' ni naru saitei joken
(Nihonjin to iu jinshukan no tenkan)"
[The first requisite of becoming a 'world person'
(Changing the racial view of Japanese)
Mainichi shinbun, 3 January 1978 (Chokan), page 5
Mainichi Daily News
1985-1994 -- Over 20 feature articles and book reviews
1985 "English Tanaka and Haiku as a Form of Writing Practice" Part 1: Phrases Prosaic and Poetic Mainichi Daily News, 6 August 1985, page 9 Part 2: Splish, Splash, Kerplunk! Mainichi Daily News, 13 August 1985, page 9 1987 "Japan and Korea: Spiral of Nationalism" Mainichi Daily News, 21 August 1987, page 9 1987 "Japan and Asia?: Japanese Orientalism" Mainichi Daily News, 4 September 1987, page 9 1990 "William Wetherall's Seven Wonders of Japan" Mainichi Daily News, 20 January 1990, page 9
Other newspapers and periodicals
1963 "A Treatise on Nevada County Education and Culture" The Union (Grass Valley, California), 16 April 1963, pages 4-5 1964 "Life in the Army" nearly daily column The Union (Grass Valley, California) 16 installments from 29 Oct 1964 to 26 Nov 1964 1975 "Bilingual education -- a way to identity" San Francisco Examiner, 11 June 1975, page 35 (Other Voices) 1978 "Chief Joseph" Easy Readings for Students New Horizon, December 1978, No. 137, page 13 1980 "Clean Water" [Kanagawa-ken] Kigyocho dayori, 108,1980-11, pages 50-51 Reprint of "Clean Water" from Step News essay column (1980-05, No. 173, page 12) 1981 "Danjo sabetsu no Kokusekiho wa Kenpo ihan" [In Japanese] [The sexually discriminatory Nationality Law is unconstitutional] Fujin shinbun (Tokyo), No. 344, 10 May 1981, page 2 1983 Article in Japanese for weekly magazine "Subete boku no soozooryoku ne" Wezarooru Wiriamu san (Eigo gakko kyoshi) [ "Everything (results from my) power of imagination" ] [ Wetherall William (English school instructor) ] Shukan Asahi zokan "Pasokon ga nan da!!" 20 March 1983, 88(12)3403, pages 37-38 1985 "Shinju a Human Act, Not a Cultural One" Pacific Citizen (Los Angeles), 13 September 1985, pages 8, 12
Columns
Columns in newspapers
1964 "Life in the Army" nearly daily column The Union (Grass Valley, California) 16 installments from 29 Oct 1964 to 26 Nov 1964 1977-1978 "Gaikokujin ga mita Nipponjin" monthly column in Japanese Signed "Wezarooru Wiriamu" in katakana Step News (monthly newspaper of Nihon Eigo Kentei Kyokai) 6 essays from 1977-10 (No. 142) to 1978-03 (No. 147) 1978-1980 "Eigo kobanashi" monthly column in English with Japanese notes Signed "William Wetherall" Step News (monthly newspaper of Nihon Eigo Kentei Kyokai) 19 humorous stories 1978-04 (No. 148) to 1980-01 (No. 169) 1978-1983 Unnamed monthly column consisting of short essays Step News (monthly newspaper of Nihon Eigo Kentei Kyokai) 57 essays from 1978-04 (No. 148) to 1983-02 (No. 206)
Columns in magazines and newsletters
1985 "Short Essay" monthly column NEW HORIZON English Course (Tosho) A monthly newsletter for middle school English teachers Humanizing Language Training in Japan Part 1: Language and Education 1978-05, No. 131, page 14 Part 2: Language and Human Rights 1978-06, No. 132, page 14 Part 3: World Auxiliary English (WAE) 1978-07, No. 133, page 14 Part 4: Language Use Ethics 1978-09, No. 134, page 14 Japanese Heterogeneity 1980-06, No. 154, page 14 Motivation, Guilt, and Achievement 1980-07, No. 155, page 14
Book reviews
Reviews of fiction
1985 "Three Valuable Books on Old Japan" Reader's Journal, Summer 1985, page 19 Review of Ryusaku Tsunoda, et al., Sources of Japanese Tradition Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature Dorothy Britton, A Haiku Journey (Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi) 1985 "'Japanese Peril' Revived in Popular Novels" The Japan Times, 29 June 1985, page 7 1985 "Paranoia invents the rebirth of the Yellow Peril" Far Eastern Economic Review, 129(30), 1 August 1985, pages 41-42 Reviews of The Miko, Dai-Sho, Kensei, and Zaibatsu 1986 "Appreciating Asian men" Far Eastern Economic Review, 134(41), 9 October 1986, pages 56-57 Review of Pat Barr Kenjiro New York: Warner Books, 1986 (1985) 1986 "Japan in Pulp (1): Bushido and Crime" Asahi Evening News, 4 December 1986, page 6 Reviews of Marc Olden, Gaijin, Corgi Books, 1986 and Nick Christian, Ronin, Tor, 1986 1986 "Japan in Pulp (2): The Son of Shogun" Asahi Evening News, 11 December 1986, page 6 Review of Douglass Bailey, Shimabara, New York: Bantam Books, 1986 1987 "Japan as seen in recent pulp fiction" (What's portrayed often has little to do with reality) The Japan Times, 25 March 1987, page 12 Review of Nick Christian Ronin New York: Tor (Tom Doherty Associates), 1986 1986 "Oh, to be a supergaijin" (Olden's outlandish storyteller's illusion) The Japan Times, 25 March 1987, page 12 Review of Marc Olden Gaijin London: Corgi Books (Transworld Publishers), 1986 1987 "Shogunesque titles" (One word says it all, and sells best, too) The Japan Times, 25 March 1987, page 12 1987 "'Japanese Peril' Revived in Popular Novels" The Japan Times, 29 June 1987, page 7 1988 "Americans utterly lost" The Japan Times, 26 March 1988, page 16 Review of two books Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding, London: Picador (Pan Books), 1987 (1986) Marc Olden, Oni, London: Corgi Books, 1987 1988 "The Twain Embrace" The Japan Times, 2 April 1988, page 14 Review of Gerald Green East and West New York: Fawcett Crest, 1987 (1986) 1988 "Stories of conflict and harmony" The Japan Times, 10 September 1988, page 14 Review of Cunde (Louis M. Munz) Japanese Snapshots New York: Vantage Press, 1988 1988 "From Here to Maternity" Mainichi Daily News, 21 November 1988, page 9 Review of Nobuko Albery Absurd Courage London: Century Hutchinson, 1987 1989 'Samurai Stategy' good for straight pulp fix The Japan Times, 7 January 1989, page 14 Review of Thomas Hoover The Samurai Strategy New York: Bantam Books, 1988 1989 "Samurai in space" Far Eastern Economic Review, 146(48), 30 November 1989, page 45 Review of two books: Robert Matthew Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society London: Routledge, 1989 John L. Apostolou and Martin H. Greenberg (eds) The Best Japanese Science Fiction New York: Dembner Books, 1989 1992 [Summer Reading] Mainichi Daily News, 8 August 1992, page 9 Review of James Welch The Indian Lawyer New York: Penguin, 1992 2019 And Then There Were None: One Person by Kim Soom Korean Literature Now 26 March 2019, Spring 2019, pages 83-84 Review of Kim Soom (キム・スム), Hitori (ひとり) [One Person] Japanese translation by Oka Hiromi (岡裕美) of Kim Soom (김숨Kim Sum 金息), Han Myeong 한명 Hanmyŏng), 2016 Tokyo: San-Ichi Shobo, 2018 And Then There Were None
Reviews of non-fiction
1984 "The book of the dead" Far Eastern Economic Review, 126(41), 11 October 1984, page 79 Review of Lee A. Headley (editor) Suicide in Asia and the Near East Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 1985 "Taboos and traditions" Far Eastern Economic Review, 127(4), 31 January 1985, pages 40-41 Review of Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan London: Cambridge University Press, 1984 1985 "Three Valuable Books on Old Japan" Reader's Journal (Tokyo), Summer 1985, page 19. Review of three books Ryusaku Tsunoda et al., Sources of Japanese Tradition Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature Dorothy Britton (trans), A Haiku Journey 1985 "Understanding Japan" Far Eastern Economic Review, 129(32), 15 August 1985, pages 46-47 Review of Kodansha Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983 1985 "Espionage for prosperity" Far Eastern Economic Review, 130(42), 24 October 1985, page 58 Review of Richard Deacon Kempei Tai: A History of the Japanese Secret Service New York: Berkley Books, 1985 (1983) 1985 "Harmony from conflict" Far Eastern Economic Review, 130(44), 7 November 1985, pages 76-77 Review of three books Ellis S. Krauss, et al., Conflict in Japan Tetsuo Nejita, et al., Conflict in Modern Japanese History George De Vos (ed), Institutions for Change in Japanese Society 1986 "Universal divine wind" Far Eastern Economic Review, 131(9), 27 February 1986, pages 43-44 Review of three books: Richard O'Neill, Suicide Squads Warner, Warner, and Seno, The Sacred Warriors Edwin Hoyt, The Kamikazes 1986 "Prostitute and feminist" Far Eastern Economic Review, 131(12), 30 March 1986, page 56 Review of Tomoko Yamazaki The Story of Yamada Waka: From Prostitute to Feminist Pioneer Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985 1986 "Fantasies of an 'outsider'" Far Eastern Economic Review, 132(17), 24 April 1986, page 56 Review of Jane Condon A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women of the '80s New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1985 1986 "Study of hidden motives" Far Eastern Economic Review, 132(23), 5 June 1986, pages 53-54 Review of Takeo Doi The Anatomy of Self: The Individual Versus Society Translated by Mark A. Harbison Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986 1986 "No Fruit, but Thorns" Part 1: Asahi Evening News, 11 September 1986, page 6 Part 2: Asahi Evening News, 25 September 1986, page 6 Two part review of Mamoru Iga The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum (Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 1986 "Thorny price of success" Far Eastern Economic Review, 134(41), 9 October 1986, pages 55 Review of Mamoru Iga The Thorn and the Chrysanthemum (Suicide and Economic in Modern Japan) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 1986 "Perennial Questions" Asahi Evening News, 10 October 1986, page 9 Review of Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi "Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986 1986 "Is There a Permanent Subclass in Japan?" The Japan Times, 27 December 1986, page 8 Review of Sueo Murakoshi, et al., (eds) Discrimination Against Buraku, Today Osaka: Buraku Liberation Research Institute, 1986 1986 "Are men born better at math?" Reader's Journal, 1(2), Winter 1986, page 19 Review of Camilla Benbow and Julian Stanley Science (12 December 1980, 2 December 1983) in Science 85, June 1985 and Jo Durden-Smith and Diane DeSimone Sex and the Brain New York: Arbor House Publishing Company, 1984 1987 "Priming the peace industry" Far Eastern Economic Review, 135(4), 22 January 1987, pages 41-42 Review of Women's Division of Soka Gakkai Women Against War Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986 1987 "The Banality of Evil" Asahi Evening News, 23 January 1987, page 7 Review of Richard Drinnon Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987 1987 "Delusions of Gender" Asahi Evening News, 2 February 1987, page 9 Review of Women's Division of Soka Gakkai Women Against War Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986 Critical letter to editor Tomiya Akiyama and Celine Shinbutsu, "From Soka Gakkai" AEN, 20 March 1987, page 7 Rebutal letter to editor William Wetherall, "Claims and Logic" AEN, 21 March 1987, page 7 1987 [In Japanese] "Bunken shokai: Shohyo" [Introduction to resources: Book review] Jisatsu yobo to kiki kainyu (Tokyo), No. 11, March 1987, pages 34-35 Review of Mamoru Iga The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum (Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 1987 "Plague of historical bugs" Far Eastern Economic Review, 135(10), 5 March 1987, pages 50-51 Review of Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986 1987 "Looking at homogeneity" Far Eastern Economic Review, 136(19), 7 May 1987, page 52 Review of G. G. Weeramantry Human Rights in Japan Melbourne: Lantana Books, 1979 1987 "Behind the high fences" Far Eastern Economic Review, 136(20), 14 May 1987, page 63 Review of Richard Drinnon Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987 1987 "Horseriders march on" Far Eastern Economic Review, 136(23), 4 June 1987, page 54 Review of Jon Carter Covell and Alan Covell Japan's Hidden History: Korean Impact on Japanese Culture Elizabeth (New Jersey), Seoul: Hollym International Corp, 1985 1987 "Migration or Diffusion?" Asahi Evening News, 12 June 1987, page 9 Review of Irving Rouse Migrations in Prehistory: Inferring Population Movement From Cultural Remains New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 1987 "Outcasts of history" Far Eastern Economic Review, 136(26), 25 June 1987 page 50 Review of Sueo Murakoshi, et al., (eds) Discrimination Against Buraku, Today Osaka: Buraku Liberation Research Institute, 1985 1987 "About ourselves" Far Eastern Economic Review, 137(31), 30 July 1987 page 42 Review of Anthony J. Marsella, George De Vos, and Francis L.K. Hsu (eds) Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives New York and London: Tavistock Pubsications, 1985 1987 "Passage to the East" Far Eastern Economic Review, 137(33), 13 August 1987, page 75 Review of Cyriac K. Pullapilly and Edwin J. Van Kley (eds) Asia and the West: Encounters and Exchanges from the Age of Exploration Notre Dame (Indiana): Cross Cultural Publications, 1986 1987 "How it all began" Far Eastern Economic Review, 137(37), 10 September 1987, pages 50-51 Review of Irving Rouse Migrations in Prehistory: Inferring Population Movement from Cultural Remains New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 1987 "Asian Encounters of the Occidental Kind" Asahi Evening News, 25 October 1987, page 6 Review of Cyriac K. Pullapilly and Edwin J. Van Kley (eds) Asia and the West: Encounters and Exchanges from the Age of Exploration Notre Dame (Indiana): Cross Cultural Publications, 1986 1987 "Popular Convolutions" Asahi Evening News, 13 November 1987, page 11 Review of Shunsuke Tsurumi A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980 London: Kegan Paul International, 1987 1987 "What's in a Title?" Asahi Evening News, 11 December 1987, page 10 Review of Ben-Ami Shillony Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981 1988 "Censorship and Tranquility" Asahi Evening News, 13 January 1988, page 9 Review of Monica Braw The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Japan 1945-1949) Lund Studies in International History, No. 23 Malmo (Sweden): Liber Forlag, 1986 1988 "Revisiting the Pacific war" Far Eastern Economic Review, 139(5), 4 February 1988, pages 73-74 Review of Ben-Ami Shillony Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981 1988 "Homogeneous Misunderstandings" Asahi Evening News, 11 March 1988, page 9 Review of Toshiya Torao and Delmer M. Brown (eds) Chronology of Japan [Nihon no rekishi] Tokyo: Business Intercommunications Inc. (Asuka Shobo), 1987 1988 "Wives, Widows and Prostitutes" Asahi Evening News, 8 April 1988, page 9 Review of two books: Eiichi Kiyooka (translator and editor) Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women (Selected Works) University of Tokyo Press and Anne E. Imamura Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987 1988 "Asia's Diswelfare Woes" Mainichi Daily News, 10 April 1988, page 17 Review of John Dixon and Hyung Shik Kim (eds) Social Welfare in Asia London: Croom Helm, 1985 1988 "A Japanese abroad" Far Eastern Economic Review, 140(16), 21 April 1988, page 57 Review of Seitaro Kanegae The Path to Friendship: A Tale of a Japanese immigrant in the Philippines Tokyo: Keiso Shobo Publishing Company, 1987 1988 "Japan Hit and Missed" Asahi Evening News, 22 April 1988, page 9 Review of Boye De Mente Japan Almanac Lincolnwood (Illinois): Passport Books, 1987 1988 "The Heart of the Law" Mainichi Daily News, 24 April 1988, page 9 Review of Frank K. Upham Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 1988 "The Culturally Constituted Boy" Asahi Evening News, 13 May 1988, page 11 Review of Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock (eds) Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Culture and Social Dimensions Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987 1988 "Medical pluralism" Far Eastern Economic Review, 140(23), 9 June 1988, page 88 Review of Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock (eds) Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987 1988 "How 'Americans' see Japan" The Japan Times, 13 August 1988, page 16 Review of Sheila K. Johnson The Japanese Through American Eyes Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988 1988 "A fall-out of silence" Far Eastern Economic Review, 141(34), 25 August 1988, pages 39-40 Review of Monica Braw The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Japan 1945-1949) Lund Studies in International History, No. 23 Malmo (Sweden): Liber Forlag, 1986 1988 "Catching the Pacific Wave" Mainichi Daily News, 4 September 1988, page 9 Review of The Pacific Review Vol. 1, No. 1 Oxford University Press, 1988 Focusing on Nathanial Thayer "Race and Politics in Japan" 1988 "Monkey Business and Caste" Asahi Evening News, 23 September 1988, page 9 Review of Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney The Monkey As Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987 1988 "Japanese in the Philippines" The Japan Times, 15 October 1988, page 14 Review of Seitaro Kanegae The Path of Friendship: A Tale of a Japanese Immigrant in the Philippines Tokyo: Keiso Shobo Publishing Company, 1987 1988 "Blue-eyed images" Far Eastern Economic Review, 142(42), 20 October 1988, pages 89-90 Review of Sheila K. Johnson The Japanese through American Eyes Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988 1988 "Is It All the West's Fault?" Mainichi Daily News, 23 October 1988, page 9 Review of Theodore H. Von Laue The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 1988 "See you in court" Far Eastern Economic Review, 142(50), 15 December 1988, pages 93-94 Review of Frank K. Upham Law and Social Change in Post-war Japan Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 1989 "Japan's virulent imports" Far Eastern Economic Review, 143(3), 19 January 1989, page 47 Review of Ann Bowman Jannetta Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987 1989 "How the emperor-god was seen" Far Eastern Economic Review, 143(5), 2 February 1989, page 43 Review of Kiyoko Takeda The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor Basingstoke (Hampshire): Macmillan Education, 1988 1989 "Ersatz heaven: Guru of the afterlife gives preview tours" Far Eastern Economic Review, 144(18), 4 May 1989, pages 61-62 Review of Tetsuro Tanba Daireikai (Great Spirit World) 1989 "Living up to legend" Far Eastern Economic Review, 145(28), 13 July 1989, page 60 Review of Theodore C. Bestor Neighbourhood Tokyo Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989 1990 "Still say no: Shintaro Ishihara writes again" Far Eastern Economic Review, 149(31), 2 August 1990, pages 26, 30 Review of Sore demo "ie" to ieru Nippon 1992 [Spring Paperback Roundup] Mainichi Daily News, 2 May 1992, page 9 Review of Peter Matthiessen In the Spirit of Crazy Horse New York: Viking Penguin, 1991 1999 "Doing the dirty on a gaijin gangland king" Mainichi Daily News, 22 May 1999, page 9 A reivew of Robert Whiting Tokyo Underworld (The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan) New York: Pantheon Books, 1999 2005 "Race across the Pacific" The Japan Times, 24 July 2005, 9 (The Asian Bookshelf) Review of Jon Turk In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific New York: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2005 2006 "Written Texts -- Visual Texts" Andon 80 (Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts), 2006, pages 57-61 Review of Susanne Formanek & Sepp Linhart (editors) Written Texts -- Visual Texts: Woodblock-printed media in Early Modern Japan Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005 2012 "Translating 'Translation'" SWET newsletter (Tokyo), Number 130, May 2012, pages 72-85 Review of David Bellos Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything New York: Faber and Faber, 2011
Credits
Among researchers and writers in Japan, I am known as a bit of a recluse, as I choose to remain aloof of professional associations and clubs and generally prefer to work alone. However, the door to my library has always been open to serious scholars and journalists, and I have greatly benefited from friendships and other associations with a number of other students of the human condition in Japan, who allowed me to participate in their work. Human nature being what it is, most people who cross my threshold publish their newspaper or magazine reports, or theses or books, without sending me copies or otherwise acknowledging my help. A few, though, have been generous with their thanks, for which I thank them.
Contributions
1989 Karel van Wolferen The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation London: Macmillan, 1989 496 pages "William Wetherall and Ivan Hall supplied running comments and many invaluable editorial suggestions while going through various drafts of the manuscript." (Acknowledgements) I also supplied the subtitle. 1994 Ian Buruma The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994 330 pages "Finally, I am deeply grateful to Fritz Stern and William Wetherall, whose wisdom and erudition have improved the manuscript no end." (Page 520) 1996 Mark Schreiber Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1996 312 pages "Thanks are also in order to William Wetherall, who was generous in sharing of his files on background data, and also provided invaluable advice while the book was in manuscript stage." (Page 10) 2001 Mark Schreiber The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001 250 pages "Two [Japan scholars and writers] in particular [from whom I received guidance and encouragement], Aaron Cohen and William Wetherall, were my teachers in every sense of the word." (Page 12) 2006 張賢徳 人はなぜ自殺するのか： 心理学的解剖検調査から見えてくるもの 東京：勉誠出版、平成18年12月20日初版発行 216ページ Cho Yoshinori Hito wa naze jisatsu suru no ka? Shinrigaku-teki kaibo kenchosa kara miete kuru mono [ Why do people commit suicide? What can be seen from studies of psychological autopsies ] Tokyo: Bensei [Bensey] Shuppan First edition published 20 December 2006 216 pages ・・・心理学的剖剣についてご教示くださった 日本自殺予防学会のウェザロール・ウィリアム先生・・・ [ . . . William Wetherall, of the Japan Association of Suicide Prevention, who instructed (informed) [me] about psychological autopsies . . . ] (page 215) 2016 Mark Schreiber "Death by firing range" Number 1 Shimbun, 48(8), August 2016, pages 12-13 Thanks for contributions to this article (page 13) 2018 Christopher Harding Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present London: Allen Lane (Penguin, Random House), 2018 Newspapers [sic = News nishikie] depicting the Taiwan Expedition of 1874 (Courtesy of Yosha Bunko collection, William Wetherall) Pages 162, 459
Guidance
1978 Nathan Oba Strong Patterns of Social Interactions and Psychological Accommodation Among Japan's Konketsuji Population Doctoral dissertation Anthropology and Education, University of California, Berkeley 3, vi, 268 pages Three full-page magazine advertisements and articles with kanji time stamps and hand-written identifications are from my collection, as are materials related to Japan's Nationality Law and the facsimile of my own article the Nationality Law. At the time Nathan completed his dissertation, I and my wife were preparing to file a lawsuit on behalf of our unborn child, a daughter born three months after Nathan filed his disseration. I was introduced to attorneys by Wagatsuma Hiroshi, a colleague of George De Vos, the chair of both Nathan's and my dissertation committees. Wagatsuma was also guided Nathan's dissertation. 2011 Simon Nantais Koreans and the Politics of Nationality and Race During the Allied Occupation ofJapan, 1945-1952 Doctoral disertation Department of History, University of Victoria, 2011 xiv, 283 pages "Bill Wetherall . . . always found time to answer my numerous queries" (page xiii) 2012 Lily Anne Yumi Welty Advantage Through Crisis: Multiracial American Japanese in Post-World War II Japan, Okinawa and America 1945-1972 Doctoral disseration History, University of California at Santa Barbara, December 2012 xvi, 227 pages UMI Number 3553794, Ann Arbor (Michigan): ProQuest, 2013 "Bill Wetherall gave me access and direction with the materials in his extensive personal archive" (pages vi-vii) 2017 Diletta Pardini Il caso Kimura: un'analisi dal punto di vista guiridico e socio-culturale [ The Kimura case: an analysis from a legal and sociocultural point of view ] Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Istituzioni Economiche e Giuridiche dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea [ (Course of) Master's degree (graduation) ] in Languages and Economic and Legal Institutions of Asia and (of) Mediterranean Africa ] Universita Ca'Foscari Venezia [ Ca' Foscari University of Venice ] Anno Academico 2016/2017 [ Academic year 2016/2017 ] 105 pages One-page inscription on personal copy includes "I wouldn't have got this far without your help and support . . . check page 2!" Page 2 says "To Bill" . . . her boyfriend's name! Diletta spent several months in Japan to work and study. Her research focused on suicides called "shinju", which involve either a suicide pact between two or more people, or more commonly one or more acts of suicide concomitant with or following one or more homicides. Dileta decided to study the issue of cultural defense in the case of Fumiko Kimura, who was tried for drowning her children in the act of attempting to drown herself, in Santa Monica, in 1985. I loaned Diletta my materials on the case, about which I myself had written, and we discussed it at length. It was most gratifying to work with such a bright, motivated, and resourceful person, who also has a gift for conversation and a sense of humor.
Editing
2017 Hyoue Okamura "The Language of "Racial Mixture": How Ainoko became Haafu, and the Haafu-gao Makeup Fad" Asia Pacific Perspectives Volume XIV, Number 2, Spring 2017 Pages 41-79 "Bill Wetherall for sharing ideas and helping me translate, write, and edit this paper" (page 59)
Other activities
Taidan
Conversations with others as conversant or intervieww
1981 Talk in Japanese with attorney, legal scholar, and critic Sato Kinko (1934-2008) Wezarooru Wiriamu / Sato Kinko "Kokusekiho wa sakoku no ibutsu ka: Ho-ishiki kara mita Nihonjin to Amerikajin [ Wetherall William / Sato Kinko ] [ Is the Nationality Law a vestige of the closed-country? ] [ Japanese and Americans seen from (their] law-awareness ] Eigo tenbo (ELEC Bulletin), No. 74, Summer [July] 1981, pages 17-22, 30 1992 Talk in Japanese with Dave Spector at Bungei Shunju in Tokyo) "Rensai 172: Taidan: Deebu Supekutaa no TOKYO Saiban" "Raijingu San" no Nihon-kan wa machigai darake Gesuto: Wezarooru Wiriamu [ Number 172: Taidan: Dave Spector's Tokyo Saiban ] [ The view of Japan in "Rising Sun" is full of errors ] [ Guest: Wetherall William ] Shukan bunshun, 34(37)1703, 1 October 1992, pages 184-188
Interviews
1978 Elaine Kim (interviewed at UCB) "Asian Americans and Yellow English" The English Journal, 8(4)88, March 1978, pages 20-23 (Japanese 91-92) 1978 Elsie Elliott, Andrew H. K. Tu, Janice Tan, Chong-Eun Kim, and Philip Cho (Interviewed in Tokyo) "Vignettes of Suicide in Asia" The English Journal, 8(11)95, September 1978, pages 14-18 (Japanese 96-97) 1978 Norman L. Farberow (interviewed in Tokyo) "Suicide Prevention Across the Pacific" The English Journal, 8(11)95, September 1978, pages 10-13 (Japanese 95-??) [Cover story] 1978 Chalmers Johnson (interviewed at UCB) "Japan's Economic Bureaucracy" The English Journal, 8(13)97, November 1978, pages 18-21 (Japanese 105-107) 1978 Donald Keene (interviewed in Tokyo) "Mishima the Person" The English Journal, 8(15)99, December 1978, pages 17-21 (Japanese 106-108) 1979 Roy Milne and Angela Warden (interviewed in Tokyo) "British English sans Anglocentrism" The English Journal, 9(1)100, January 1979, pages 26-30 (Japanese 162-163) 1979 [In Japanese] Hiraizumi Wataru, Parliamentarian, House of Representatives (interviewed at Hiraizumi's Kojima Construction office in Tokyo) "80 nendai no eigo kyoiku ni teigon suru" [A proposal for English language education for the 1980s] The English Journal, 9(1)100, January 1979, pages 57-62 Special feature celebrating 100th edition of EJ 1979 David Wilkins, Redding College (interviewed in Tokyo) "The Notational Approach to Language Teaching" The English Journal, 9(4)103, April 1979, pages 80-86?? (Japanese 104-105) 1979 George De Vos (interviewed at UCB) "Ethnicity in Japan: The Limitations of Homogeneity" The English Journal, 9(6)105, May 1979, pages 71-75 (Japanese 71-75) 1979 Changsoo Lee and Hiroshi Wagatsuma (interviewed at UCLA) "Korean Japanese: Ethnicity and Nationality" The English Journal, 9(7)106, June 1979, pages 72-76 (Japanese 102-103) 1979 Haruo Aoki (interviewed at UCB) "The Nez Perce Indians: A North American People" The English Journal, 9(8)107, July 1979, pages 72-76 (Japanese 102-103) 1979 Mary St. John and Marie Soderberg (interviewed in Tokyo) "Can Japanese Women Be Both International and Traditional?" The English Journal, 9(9)108, August 1979, pages 70-76 (Japanese 101-104, 108) 1979 Don Nakanishi (interviewed at UCLA) "Remembering the Camps: Jewish and Japanese Americans" The English Journal, 9(10)109, September 1979, pages 72-75 (Japanese 102-103) 1979 James R. Adrams (interviewed in Tokyo) "Japanese Literature: Is it Translatable?" The English Journal, 9(11)110, October 1979, pages 62-65 (Japanese 99-100) 1979 Yuji Ichioka (interviewed at UCLA and in Tokyo) "Adjustment Problems of Early Japanese Immigrants in America" The English Journal, 9(11)110, October 1979, pages 71-74 (Japanese 101-102) 1979 Wilga M. Rivers, Harvard University (interviewed in Tokyo) "Varieties of English: Listening, Understanding, Communication" The English Journal, 9(13)112, December 1979, pages 91-93 (Japanese 113-114) 1979 John Robertson (interviewed in Tokyo) "Tokyo Summit Security: Was Assassination Possible?" The English Journal, 9(13)112, December 1979, pages, 81-85 (Japanese 110-112) 1980 Frank Motofuji (interviewed at UCB) "Japanese Films in America: Going Beyond Exoticism" The English Journal, 10(2)114, February 1980, pages 73-76 (Japanese 102-104) 1980 Robert Jungk (interviewed in Tokyo) "Nuclear Weapons and Power: Not Enough to be Against" The English Journal, 10(6)118, June 1980, pages 47-51 (Japanese 80-82) 1980 Andre Boily and Pierre Bourque (interviewed in Tokyo) "Horticulture Olympics: Les Floralies internationales de Montreal 1980" The English Journal, 10(6)118, June 1980, pages 62-65 (Japanese 85-86) 1980 Mujib R Khan (interviewed in Tokyo) "'Basket Case' Bangladesh: Breaking Poverty's Vicious Circle" The English Journal, 10(7)119, July 1980, pages 38-42 (Japanese 72-73) 1980 Michael Belanger (interviewed in Tokyo) "World Toilet Escapades" The English Journal, 10(9)121, September 1980, pages 34-38 (Japanese 71-72) 1980 F. Earle Barcus (interviewed in Tokyo) "Sugar-Coated Violence: Improving Children's Television" The English Journal, 10(9)121, September 1980, pages 39-43 (Japanese 72-74) 1980 Harriet Russell (interviewed in Tokyo) "Anata, Anta, Omae: Sex, Status, and Japanese Pronouns" The English Journal, 10(11)123, November 1980, pages 39-43 (Japanese 72-74) 1984 [In Japanese] Hoshino Yoshiro (interviewed in Tokyo) "Nihon no OA to Ajia" [Office Automation in Japan and Asia] Asian OAEC Report, No. 7, Special Issue Graphication (Fiji Xerox), 16(205), December 1984, pages 40-43
Presentations and appearances
1975 Speaker, Chief's Conference, Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, 25 February 1975, on the life and death of a Japanese woman who had emigrated to America at the age of 8 and committed suicide in Japan at the age of 24. She had been a classmate and friend at UC Berkeley. The hospital was conducting a psychological autopsy on her older sister, who had been hospitalized at Mr. Zion after their father had brought his younger daughter's ashes back to San Francisco from Japan and then committed suicide. The older sister, too, committed suicide while released from the hospital for the day to work. 1975 Moderator, "Japanese Films: A Cultural Mirror", a panel discussion on "The Japanese Film Series" produced by KQED in San Francisco for PBS, sponsored by The Japan Society of San Francisco, and held 6 March 1975 at the A.P. Giannini Auditorium, Bank of America, San Francisco. 1978 Presentation of paper, "'Crys for help' in Japan, past and present", at International Symposium on Suicide Prevention, Asahi Seimei Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, 12-13 May 1978. Japanese title: "Ninhon no 'tasuke o motomeru sakebu': Ima to mukashi". Published in 1979 as article in book. 1982 Presentation of paper, "Seibetsu-nenreibetsu haigu kankei tokei ni miru jisatsu kikendo no raifu saikuru" [The life cycle of suicide risk as seen in statistics by sex, age, and marital status], at 7th Symposium on Suicide Prevention, St. Paul's University, Tokyo, 9 May 1982. Summarization published in 1983 as article in book. 1983 Speaker, on "Being Japanese: A Multiethnic View of Japan", before Japanese American Citizens League, Japan Chapter, at International House of Japan, Tokyo, 22 April 1983. 1984 Presentation of paper, "Shinju wa Nihon dokutoku no mono de wa nai" [Shinju is not something peculiar to Japan], at the 9th Symposium on Suicide Prevention, Tokyo Lutheran Center, Tokyo, 12 May 1984. Transcript of presentation published in 1984 as article in book. 1993 "'Ken'etsu' ya tabuu wa ninshiki busoku yori kowai" ['Censorship' and taboos more frightening than lack of awareness] Presentation at Kyoto Hall, 29 July 1993 42nd National Buraku Problems Summer Seminar 1993 (July 29-30) Kyoto: Buraku Problems Research Institute, 1993, pages 10-11
Presentation of article written for BPRI Published in Buraku (see Articles in journals) Republished in Narusawa (see Articles in books)