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The Tenth
Asian Studies
Conference Japan was held at
International Christian
University (ICU) in Tokyo on 24-25 June 2006.
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PROGRAM
Registration will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 24, University
Hall, Central Entrance,
International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo
Book Display: Second Floor Lounge and Room 251
Donuts and Refreshments: University Hall, Central Entrance
After-Session Discussion: Rooms 203 and 302
SATURDAY JUNE 24
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room 252
Koreans and the
Japanese Empire: New Historical Perspectives
Organizer: David Palmer, Flinders University
Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Jung-Sun N. Han, Korea University
Will to Empire:
Modern Japanese Cartoons and the Visual Representation of the Korean
Annexation of 1910
2) W. Donald Smith, Independent Scholar
Korean Forced
Labor in Wartime Coal Mining
3) David Palmer, Flinders University
Slave Labor
under Imperial Fascism: The Korean Forced Laborers of Hiroshima-ken
Discussant: Yoichi Hirama, The Military History Society of Japan
Session 2: Room 352
Reproducing
Modernities: Race, Gender, and Labor in Making Nations across the
Pacific
Organizer: Denise Khor, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1) Su Yun Kim, University of California, San Diego/Yonsei University
Colonial
Intimacy and Reproduction of Family: Interracial Unions in Colonial
Korea
2) Tomoko Tsuchiya, University of California, San Diego
Memory of
Japanese War Brides: Their Images and Experiences between Two Nations
3) Denise Khor, University of California, San Diego
Discipline and
Leisure: Asian Laborers and the Work of the Movies
Discussant: Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Session 3: Room 202
How Will Japan's
International Identity Be Affected by New Security Issues?
Organizer/Chair: Wilhelm M. Vosse, International Christian University
1) Susanne Klien, University of Halle, Germany
Reassessing
Japan's International Contribution in the Wake of 9-11: From Civilian
Power to Normal State?
2) Wilhelm Vosse, International Christian University
Are Americans
from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A Comparative Look at Public
Attitudes on Peace and Security
3) Alexander Bukh, Hosei University
Japan's National
Identity, Historical Memory, and History Textbooks
4) Andrew Oros, Washington College
External Actors
and State Identity: Securing Japan through Missile Defense
Discussant: Tadashi Anno, Sophia University
Session 4: Room 303
Shibusawa
Keizô and the Possibilities of Social Science in Modern Japan
Organizer: Wakako Kusumoto, Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation
Chair: Alan Christy, University of California, Santa Cruz
1) Noriko Aso, University of California, Santa Cruz
Shibusawa
Keizô's Folk Capitalism
2) Kenji Sato, University of Tokyo
Thinking of
Images/Thinking through Images: Shibusawa Keizô's Ebiki
Project
3) Kayoko Fujita, Osaka University
A Passage to St.
Louis: The Shibusawa Keizô Collection for the
Museum of Commerce and the Exhibition “Different Lands/Shared
Experiences”
4) Wakako Kusumoto, Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation
Looking for
Shibusawa
Keizô: An Exploration of the Junctions (or Discontinuities)
among
Anthropology, Folklore, and Studies of Japan
Discussant: Alan Christy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Session 5: Room 316
Poets, Audience,
and Court Spectacle: Facets of the Fujiwara Patronage of Poetry in Late
Tenth-Century Waka
Organizer/Chair: Gian Piero Persiani, Columbia University
1) Katsushige Monzawa, Waseda University
Reconstructing
the Target Readership of the Tônomine
Shôshô Monogatari
2) Gian Piero Persiani, Columbia University
Instituting
Poetic Authority: Saneyori and the Tentoku 4 Poetry Match
3) Joseph T. Sorensen, University of California, Davis
Screen Poetry
and Ceremonial Observance at the Heian Court
Discussant: Janine Beichman, Daito Bunka University
Session 6: Room 253
Individual Papers
on Japanese Literature and Art
Chair: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University
1) Mari Nagase, University of British Columbia
Shusse for an
Edo-Period Woman Kanshi Poet, Hara Saihin
2) Rachel Payne, University of Canterbury
Censorship of
Kabuki in the Early Meiji Era
3) Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University
Intermediary
Genres of Meiji Art: The Photographic Paintings of Ochiai Yoshiiku and
Yokoyama Matsusaburô
4) Joan Ericson, Colorado College
The Return of
Momotarō: Revisiting Tales for Children
5) James Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Japan’s
Postwar “Holy War”: The Inquiry into
Literature’s Contribution to the War Effort
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 7: Room 252
"Japaneseness" in
Transwar Japan: Assimilation and Elimination
Organizer/Chair: Yu Kishi, International Christian University
1) Shiro Yoshioka, International Christian University
"Nothing that
happens is ever
forgotten, even if you can't remember it": Retrieval and Reconstruction
of Japaneseness in the Films of Miyazaki Hayao
2) Yu Kishi, International Christian University
Japaneseness in
Modern Japanese Architecture: Kenzo Tange's "Jômon tradition"
and "Yayoi tradition"
3) Miyuki Morita, International Christian University
The Concept of
"Japaneseness": A Case Study of School Textbooks Used in Immediate
Postwar Okinawa
4) Yuji Kawazoe, International Christian University
Universal versus
Uniqueness: The Limits of Assimilation Policy in Colonial Taiwan
Discussant: Michio Hayashi, Sophia University
Session 8: Room 352
The Social
Dynamics and Political Ramifications of "Scientific" Knowledge in
India, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam
Organizer/Chair: Shaun Kingsley Malarney, International Christian
University
1) Shaun Kingsley Malarney, International Christian University
Scientific
Knowledge, Hygiene, and the Transcendence of "Backwardness" in
Revolutionary Vietnam
2) Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University
Controversy over
Genetically Modified Crops in India: Emerging Science and Technology
and Social Identities of Farmers
3) Yasuhiro Tanaka, International Christian University
Scientific
Knowledge and Social Formation: The Case of Meiji State Bureaucrats
4) Shu-Fen Kao, Leader University
Scientific
Discourse and
Social Construction of Risks: A Case Study of the Cobalt-60 Radioactive
Contamination Incident in Taiwan
Discussant: Nawalage Cooray, International University of Japan
Session 9: Room 202
Roundtable:
Economic Planning of Japan in Historical Perspective
Organizer/Chair: Katalin Ferber, Waseda University
Participants:
1) Simon James Bytheway, Nihon University
2) Katalin Ferber, Waseda University
3) Janis Mimura, State University of New York, Stony Brook
4) Scott O'Bryan, Indiana University at Bloomington
5) Michael Schiltz, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Session 10: Room 303
Mobilizing the
Urban Experience of Tokyo
Organizer/Chair: Julian Worrall, University of Tokyo
1) Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College
Phenomenological
Urban Studies and the Redevelopment of Shibuya
2) Astrid Edlinger, University of Tokyo
Happy Shopping
3) Julian Worrall, University of Tokyo
Theorizing
Sakariba
Discussant: David Slater, Sophia University
Session 11: Room 316
Roundtable: The
Future of Basic Textual Research in Classical Japanese Literature
Organizer: Machiko Midorikawa, Kanto Gakuin University
Chair: Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
Participants:
1) Kuniko Kido, Tokai Women's Junior College
2) Akihiko Niimi, Kure National College of Technology
3) Hiroshi Yokomizo, Waseda University
4) Machiko Midorikawa, Kanto Gakuin University
5) Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
Discussant: Randle Keller Kimbrough, Nanzan University/University of
Colorado
Session 12: Room 253
The Other and the
Same in Recent Japanese Literature and Film
Organizer: Irena Hayter, University of London
Chair: Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
1) Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
What's the
Matter with "M"? Horie Toshiyuki Addresses Multisensorial
Multiculturalism in Paris, Circa 1995
2) Rachael Hutchinson, Colgate University
Hold That Pose!
Photography and Kabuki in Takeshi Kitano's Kikujirô
3) Irena Hayter
A Postmodern
Nationalism? Form and Ideology in Japanese Film
4) Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Toronto
Doppelgänger,
Repetition, History: Doubles and Doubling in Edogawa Ranpo and
Tsukamoto Shinya
Discussant: Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Session 13: Room 253
Individual Papers
on Modern Chinese History
Chair: David Wank, Sophia University
1) Makiko Mori, University of California, Los
Angeles
Contesting
Utopias: The Late Qing Reconfiguration of the Concept of Qing
2) Motoe Sasaki, Johns Hopkins University
Crossroads for
“New Women” in Revolutionary China: He Zizhen,
Agnes Smedley, and
Wu Guanghui in
1930s Yenan
3) Daniel Y. K. Kwan, University College of the Fraser Valley
Culture and
Politics of Chinese Workers: An Analysis of Spare-Time Educational
Programs in Guangzhou, 1949–1959
4) Grace Ai-Ling Chou, Lingnan University
Containing
Communism through Cultural Education: American NGO’s in Hong
Kong in the 1950s
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M
Session 14: Room 252
Gender and
Ethnicity in Contemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University
1) Keiko Funabashi, Shizuoka University
Gender Relations
in Managing the Balance between Raising a Child and Work: From a Survey
in Six Countries (Japan, Korea, Thailand, France, Sweden,
and U.S.)
2) Junko Nishimura, Meisei University
Work-Family
Interface: Determinants and Outcome of Work-Family Conflict in Japan
3) Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University
Gender,
Ethnicity, and
Economic Disparity: A Comparative Study of Income Earnings between
Japanese-Brazilian Migrants and Native Japanese
4) Kohei Kawabata, Australian National University
Nationalism in
the
Individualized Era and Possibilities for Solidarity: A Case Study of
Two Young Japanese Who Have Zainichi Korean Friends
Discussant: Yoshikazu Shiobara, Osaka University of Economics and Law
Session 15: Room 352
Good Times, Bad
Times: New Perspectives on Chinese Business and Family Adaptations to
Changing Regimes in Indonesia
Organizer/Chair: Peter Post, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
1) Keng We Koh, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Snapshot
Histories: Family Albums and Home Movies in the Construction of Chinese
Pasts in Indonesia
2) Peter Post, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
Paradise Lost:
The Fates and Fortunes of the Oei Tiong Ham Concern, 1930s-1960s
3) Nobuhiro Aizawa, Kyoto University
Detaching the
Chinese from China: Blocking China and Mobilizing the Chinese in Making
the New Order, 1965-1967
4) Marleen Dieleman, Leiden University School of Management
Co-evolution of
Generational and Regime Changes in Ethnic Chinese Conglomerates: The
Case of the Salim Group of Indonesia
Discussant: Nobuto Yamamoto, Keio University
Session 16: Room 202
Roundtable:
Cultures of
Nature and of (Social) Science: Making Forests and Mountains for
Matsutake Mushrooms across the Asian Pacific
Organizer/Chair: Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz
Participants:
Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz
Shiho Satsuka, Albion College
Lieba Faier, University of California, Los Angeles
Miyako Inoue, Stanford University
Session 17: Room 303
Roundtable: From
Local History to Global History: Learning from Regional Japan
Organizer/Chair: M. William Steele, International Christian University
Participants:
1) James Baxter, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2) Hidemichi Kawanishi, Joetsu University of Education
3) Hiroshi Onitsuka, Iida City Institute of Historical Research
4) Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
5) M. William Steele, International Christian University
6) Sumire Yamashita, University of Tsukuba
Session 18: Room 316
The Utopian
Impulse in Taishô Literature
Organizer/Chair: Angela Yiu, Sophia University
1) Douglas Wilkerson, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
The Urban Refuge
in Taishô Literature
2) Dan O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
The Nomadic
Utopianism of an Invalid: Kajii Motojirô, Hori Tatsuo, and
Urban Space
3) Angela Yiu, Sophia University
Atarashiki-mura
Still Exists! The Literary Beginnings of a Communal Village
Discussant: Sally Hastings, Purdue University
Session 19: Room 213
(Ani)Mimetic
Representation: The Comic Spectacle and the Paragon of Animals in Asian
Modernity
Organizer/Chair: Jane M. Ferguson, Cornell University
1) Tomoko Shimizu, University of Tsukuba
Mimic Animals
and Reversed Savageness
2) Jane M. Ferguson, Cornell University
Albino Tiger,
Alligator Reincarnate: Shan Comic Books as Vehicles for Ersatz
Nostalgia in Southeast Asia
3) Toshiya Ueno, Wako University
The Wolf's Pain:
Anima(liza)tion as a Tactic for Social Critique
4) Iva Georgieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Anima of
Anime
Discussant: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Session 20: Room 253
Individual Papers
on Contemporary Asian Society and Politics
Chair: Yoshiko Ashiwa, Hitotsubashi University
1) Ginny Maeng, Yonsei University
Human Security
and Northeast Asia: The Case of North Korean Refugees
2) Liang Wang, The University of Hong Kong
International
NGOs Campaign in China: Case Studies of Greenpeace-China
3) Feng Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Individual Rights and Collective Rights:
Labor’s Predicament in China
4) Jae Hun Jung, Washington State University
Contested
Motherhood: Korean Mothers in Home Schools
5) George S. Solt, University of California, San Diego
Changing Dietary
Habits and the Popularization of Ramen in Modern Japan
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS
Mary Elizabeth Berry
Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley
Past President of the Association for Asian Studies
Why Work So Hard?
Anxiety and
Consumption in Seventeenth-Century Japan
5:55 P.M. – 6:40 P.M.
Room 367
RECEPTION:
6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
ICU Cafeteria
SUNDAY JUNE
25
BUSINESS MEETING:
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Room 151
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 21: Room 252
Maintaining and
Transforming Identities through Religion: Identity Negotiation of
Korean Society in the Early Twentieth Century
Organizer/Chair: Choe Yeonjung, Seoul National University
1) Kim
Jiyon, Seoul National University
The
Self-Identification of Korean Intellectuals in the Educational Reform
of the Early Twentieth Century
2) Choe Yeonjung, Seoul National University
The New Woman
and Christianity in 1920s Korea: Religion as a Tool of Emancipation?
3) Identities of Korean
Christians in the Early Twentieth Century
Cho Namwook, Seoul National University
4) Kim Joosil, Seoul National University
Reconfirmation
of Korean National Identity by Dangun
Discussant: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Session 22: Room 352
Gendering of Work
in Comparative Context
Organizer/Chair: Vivian Price, California State University, Dominguez
Hills
1) Mary Heather White, WUSC-EAST in Sri Lanka
Gender and
Development in Sri Lanka
2) Kayoko Muramatsu, Nihon University
Women in the
Japanese Construction Industry
3) Faustin T. Kalabamu, University of Botswana
Women's dilemma
in Botswana's Construction Industry
Discussant: Vivian Price, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Session 23: Room 202
The
Socio-Political Internet in
Asia
Organizers: Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba, and Han
Woo Park, Yeung-Nam University
Chair: Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba
1) Han Woo Park, Yeung-Nam University
Features and
Structures of Online Political Communications in Korea’s
Blogosphere
2) Kakuko Miyata, Meiji Gakuin University
Does the
Internet Facilitate Civic Engagement?
3) Chien-leng
Hsu, Lancaster University
International
Politics and the Net: Making It Visible
Discussant: Tadashi Takenouchi, University of Tokyo
Session 24: Room 303
Roundtable:
Writing Lives in
Early Modern and Modern Japan: Diaries, Memoirs, and Autobiographies as
Historical and Literary Sources
Organizer/Chair: Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at
Boulder/Ochanomizu University
Participants:
1) Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at Boulder/Ochanomizu
University
2) Gaye Rowley, Waseda University
3) Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder/University of
Tokyo
4) Simon Partner, Duke University/Waseda University
Session 25: Room 316
Travel and
Transnationality: Discourses of Identity in Latter Twentieth-Century
Japanese Travel Writings
Organizer/Chair: Jordan Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
1) Abbie Yamamoto, University of California, Berkeley
The War-Bride's
Identity Formation in New York City: Emiko in Ariyoshi Sawako's Hishoku (No Colors)
2) Jordan Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
Satori and
Sainthood in Mexico: Poly-fictionalizing the Spiritual Quest in
Ôe Kenzaburô's Jinsei no Shinseki (An Echo of Heaven)
3) Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, University of California, Los Angeles
Views of
Murakami Haruki: Tôi Taiko and the Contemporary Travel
Narrative
Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles
Session 26: Room 213
Mass Utopia in
East Asia
Organizer: Sujaya Dhanvantari, Chuo University
Chair: Bernard Wilson, University of Hong Kong
1) James Tink, Chuo University
Somersaults and
Contradictions: Confounded Modernities in Japanese and Korean Fiction
of the 1990s
2) Sujaya Dhanvantari, Chuo University
Visions of
Modernity in Soviet and Japanese Radical Films of the 1920s
3) John Clammer, Sophia University
Japanese New
Religions
Discussant: Bernard Wilson, University of Hong Kong
Session 27: Room 253
Individual Papers
on Asian Interactions
Chair: Kenneth Robinson, International Christian University
1) Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington
Confucianism in
the Context of Sino-Japanese Intellectual Interchange: Modern Chinese
Textbooks and Japanese Influence
2) Naoko Kato, University of Texas at Austin
Shanghai’s
Ambiguous Identity: Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges at Uchiyama
Bookstore
3) Christopher Dewell, Waseda University
Japanese
Instructors at the Beijing Police Academy, 1901–1912
4) Jeremy Phillipps, Kanazawa University
Imperialism and
Regional Identity: The Japan Sea Period and Japanese Imperialism in the
Early 1930s
5) Iu Yiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Globalization
and Localization of the "Seiyû" Culture in an Asian Context
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M
Session 28: Room 252
Japanese Youth
and Deviance: Representations in Print and Visual Media
Organizer/Chair: Melanie Czarnecki, Sophia University
1) Melanie Czarnecki, Sophia University
Social Outcasts:
Schoolgirls and Abortion in Late Meiji
2) Joanne Izbicki, Ithaca College
There's No Such
Thing as a Bad "Otoko no ko": Japanese War Orphans and Fr.
Edward Flanagan
3) Maria Flutsch, University of Tasmania
Murakami Haruki
and His Killer Teenagers
4) Christophe Thouny, McGill University
Synchronizing
with the World: The Desire for Connectivity in Post-EVA Japanese Youth
Culture
Discussant: Robert Yoder, Chuo University
Session 29: Room 352
Women's Mobility
and Emancipation in Asia
Organizer: ShongGor Ooi, Keio University
Chair: Fabio Aschero, Keio University
1) Fabio Aschero, Keio University
Choice or
Compromise? Marriage Postponement in Japan and Italy
2) ShongGor Ooi, Keio University
Skilled Migrant
Japanese Women in Asia
3) Ozlem Zaimoglu, University of Tokyo
Turkish Women
Migrants in Japan
Discussant: James Farrer, Sophia University
Session 30: Room 202
Newspapers and
Journals in Republican-era Tianjin and Shanghai
Organizer/Chair: Timothy Weston, University of Colorado/Waseda
University
1) Timothy Weston, University of Colorado/Waseda University
The Politics and
Business of Shanghai's Commercial Newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s
2) Linda Grove, Sophia University
The World of
Women's Magazines in 1920s Tianjin
3) Toshihiko Kishi, The University of Shimane
Advertising and
Graphics as Seen in I Shi Bao
Discussant: James Huffman, Wittenberg University
Session 31: Room 303
From Edo to
Tokyo: The Dissolution of Urban Society in Early Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Roderick Wilson, Stanford University
1) Kaoru Iwamoto, University of Tokyo
Chichibu's
Kannon Temples Before and After the Meiji Restoration
2) Masato Takenouchi, University of Tokyo
Dissolution of
Early-Modern Urban Society and the Activities of Shinto Priests in Edo
and Tokyo
3) Roderick Wilson, Stanford University
From Edo Bay to Edomae: Environmental Relations in Tokyo's Fishing
Communities, 1850s-1890s
4) Megumi Matsuyama, University of Tokyo
Renters' Rights:
Changing Patterns of Tenancy in Meiji-Period Tokyo
Discussant: David Howell, Princeton University
Session 32: Room 316
Transformation as
Innovation: The Uses of China in Eighteenth- to Twentieth-century
Japanese Artistic Practice
Organizer/Chair: Sachiko Idemitsu, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of
Japanese Arts and Cultures
1) Sachiko Idemitsu, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts
and Cultures
The Birth of
True Views: One Aspect of Artistic Activities by Ôbaku
Priests in Early Eighteenth-century Japan
2) Rosina Buckland, New York University
Transformation
as Innovation: From Travelling Bunjin to Meiji Master
3) Maki Kaneko, University of East Anglia
Representing
Asia: Images of the Great Buddha in Wartime Japan
Discussant: Khanh Trinh, former curator of Japanese art at the Museum
of East Asian Art in Berlin [Change
received June 16th, not reflected in printed program]
Session 33: Room 253
Individual Papers
on Writing and Language in Japan History
Chair: Tzvetana Kristeva, International Christian University
1) Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound
Spreading the
Word: The Role of the Kashihonya in Disseminating One Forbidden
Kirishitan Text
2) Paul Clark, West Texas A&M University/Rikkyo University
The
Genbun’itchi Society and the Drive to
“Nationalize” the Japanese Language
3) Curtis Anderson Gayle, Leiden University
Writing History
and Contesting Memory: Ehime and the Emergence of Chi’iki
Josei-shi
4) Kelly Hansen, University of Hawaii
Genbun’itchi
in the Twenty-first Century: The Case of Densha Otoko
5) Noriko Manabe, CUNY Graduate Center
Globalization
and Japanese Creativity: Adaptation of the Japanese Language to Rap
Session 34: Room 213
"Transnational Tradeswomen" (film): Introduced by Vivian Price
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