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Tamae K. Prindle
Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature [Japanese]
East Asian Studies

Phone: 207-859-4416
Fax: 859-4705
Email: Tamae.Prindle@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
4406 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8844

Education

Tamae K. Prindle received her B.A. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She transferred to SUNY Binghamton from the Gakush�in University French Literature Department in Tokyo. She earned her first M.A. in English Literature from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, her second M.A. in East Asian Studies from Cornell University, and her Ph. D. in Modern Japanese Literature with a minor in pre-modern Japanese literature and anthropology from Cornell University.

Areas of Expertise:

Japanese language and literature

Japanese business novels

Japanese cinema, especially feminist perspectives on

Women

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Professional Information

She is currently the Oak Professor of East Asian Studies and the Chair of the East Asian Studies Department at Colby College. Her interests focus on Japanese language, modern Japanese literature, Japanese cinema, and feminism. She pioneered the introduction of Japanese �business novels� to the West. Her works on business novels have been written up in Harper�s (June 1986), Far Eastern Economic Review (May 1990), Across the Board (May 1990), The New York Times (May 1993 and October 1996), and others and have been adopted as textbooks in many colleges and universities in the United States. She has actively published and given presentations on Japanese language, literature, and cinema. She is also known as the author of many Hyper Card grammar drills.

Other Courses Taught

Course	Course Title
FS132	Global Perspectives on Gender ...
EA332	Modern Japanese Literature
EA232	Literature of Japanese
EA457	Seminar on Japanese Culture
EA233	Money and Society in Japanese Literature
EA271	Women in Japanese Fiction & Cinema

Coursework

Websites:
Japanese at Colby
JLTA of New England
East Asian Studies at Colby

Current Research

Women in Japanese Cinema: Feminist Analyses of Japanese Films.

Publications

Made in Japan and Other Japanese �Business Novels� (M.E. Sharpe, 1989) This is an introduction and translation of seven Japanese �business novels� by leading Japanese �business novel� writers, Sabur� Shiroyama, Ikk� Shimizu, Ry� Takasugi, Taichi Sakaiya, and Takashi Kaik�. These novellas describe what the expression, �made in Japan� used to imply, the spirit of the Japanese bank industry, an underground profession called �s�kaiya,� the mechanism of personnel decisions, the impact on the economy of the baby boom generation, and the CM competition.

Kinjo the Corporate Bouncer and Other Stories from Japanese Business (Weatherhill, 1989) is a reprint of the above book by another publisher for the non-U.S. markets.

Labor Relations: Japanese Business Novel (University Press of America 1994) This is an introduction and edited translation of Kazuo Watanabe�s novel about Japanese department store management.

The Dark Side of Japanese Business: Three �Industry Novels� (M.E. Sharpe, 1996) is an introduction and translation of Ikk� Shimizu�s two novellas and one novel. Both the introduction and the novel explain the delicate relationship between a Japanese automobile maker and its parts makers.