The Thirteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
PROGRAM
The conference will be held on the Yotsuya campus of Sophia University on June 20–21, 2009.
All sessions will be held in Building 11 of the Yotsuya campus. All rooms are equipped with projector, video cassette player, and DVD player. The projector will be connected to a laptop computer installed with presentation software.
Registration: Ground-floor lobby, Building 11.
Book Display: Room 205, Building 11.
After-Session Discussion: Atrium, in front of Building 11.
Keynote Address: Room 410, Building 8.
Reception: 5th floor cafeteria, Building 2.
ASCJ Business meeting: Room 209, Building 11.
Cafeterias (open Saturday only): Basement of Building 11; 5th floor of Building 2
Information correct as of June 18, 2009.
For the latest information about the conference, please check the website:
www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SATURDAY JUNE 20
9:15 – Registration
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 1–8
12:00 NOON – 1:15 P.M. Lunch break
1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M. Sessions 9–16
3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. Sessions 17–24
5:45 P.M. – 6:30
P.M. Keynote
Address:
“Korean
Buddhism in East Asian Context”
—Robert Buswell, UCLA
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Reception
SUNDAY JUNE 21
9:15 – Registration
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M. ASCJ Business Meeting
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 25–32
12:00 NOON – 1:00 P.M. Lunch break
1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. Sessions 33–40
3:15 P.M. – 5:15 P.M. Sessions 41–47
SATURDAY JUNE 20
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room 11-221
Discovering Diversity within Filipino Communities in Modern Japan
Organiser/Chair: Mariko Iijima, Sophia University
1) Nicolle Comafay, Doshisha University
A Church-Based Filipino Community in Japan
2) Alec LeMay, Sophia University
Filipina Ambassadors: A Theological Perspective of how Filipina Migrants Exert Agency within the Catholic Church of Japan through their Japanese-Filipino Marriages
3) Mariko Iijima, Sophia University
Return-Migrant in Japan: Examining the Formation of Philippine Nikkeijin Identity since the 1990s
4) Johanna O. Zulueta, Hitotsubashi University
Living as Migrants in a Place That Was Once “Home”: Okinawan-Filipinos in Okinawa
Discussant: Shun Ohno, Kyushu University
Session 2: Room 11-305
City, School, Enterprise, and Government: the Changing Landscape of East Asian Societies in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Organizer/Chair: De-min Tao, Kansai University
1) Thi Ha Thanh Nguyen, Kansai University
The Rise and Fall of Hue, the Citadel City of Vietnam in the 19th Century
2) Wei-wei Shen, Kansai University
Kang Youwei and the Daido School in Yokohama
3) Dong Jin, Hua Zhong Normal University
Shibusawa Ei’ichi’s Efforts for Founding a Central Bank in China
4) Yi-min Chen, Kansai University
Robert Dollar and E. H. Harriman: Two Ambitious American Enterprisers in the Far East in the 1900s
Discussant: Masato Kimura, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Session 3: Room 11-405
Old Responsibilities Never Die; They Just Fade Away? Approaching War Responsibility in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Organizer: May-yi Shaw, Harvard University
Chair: Katsumi Nakao, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Kirsten Ziomek, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tours to the Metropolis
2) Benjamin Uchiyama, The University of Tokyo/University of Southern California
“Enjoying the Thrills of Modern Warfare”: Japanese Media Coverage of Shanghai Street Fighting, Hundred Man Killing Contests, and the Fall of Nanjing, 1937–1938
3) Yi-Chieh Lin, Harvard University
The Comfort Women in Taiwan and Their War Memories
4) May-yi Shaw, Harvard University
In the Name of Peace: Wartime History Reapproached and Memories Reappropriated in Contemporary Japanese Films and Peace Museums
Discussant: Katsumi Nakao, J. F. Oberlin University
Session 4: Room 11-209
Microhistorical Approaches to Understanding Japanese Modernity
Organizer/Chair: Atsuko Aoki, Brown University/Rikkyo University
1) Alexandre Mangin, Rikkyo University/Université Lyon 3
Miyamoto Tsuneichi: A Renewed Method for Human Sciences in Japan
2) Atsuko Aoki, Brown University/Rikkyo University
Jōkō Yonetarō and The Politics of “Modern” Education in Colonial Korea
3) Lionel Babicz, The University of Sydney
11 February 1889: the Birth of Modern Japan
Discussant: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Session 5: Room 11-411
An Apology for “Drop Dead Cute”: The Global Context of Japanese Contemporary Popular Culture and Aesthetics
Organizer/Chair: Dong-Yeon Koh, The Korea National University of Arts
1) Shigeru (CJ) Suzuki, University of Colorado, Boulder
Who Is Responsible for the War?: Nakazawa Keiji’s Barefoot Gen and the Construction of the War Memory
2) Artur Lozano Mendez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Holier-than-Cute Techno-Orientalist Discourse
3) Dong-Yeon Koh, The Korea National University of Arts
Murakami’s “Little Boy” Syndrome: A Victim or Aggressor in Contemporary Japanese and American Art
4) Adrian Favell, Aarhus University
After Murakami: Cosmopolitanism, Creativity and the Changing International Experiences of young Japanese Artists in the post-Bubble Period
Discussant: Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University, Kyoto
Session 6: Room 11-419
Individual Papers on Asian Politics and History
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University
1) Miwa Hirono, University of Nottingham
“International Contribution” or Competition in Disguise? A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Peacekeeping Operations
2) Kenji Kaneko, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
The Concepts of Marginality in Wartime Japan
3) Ji-Young Kim, University of Delaware
Symbolic Politics, History Problems, and the Japan-South Korea Security Relationship
4) Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski, City University of New York/Doshisha University
From Beirut to Kyoto: Transfer of Education Models in the 19th Century
5) José Vergara, University of Kyoto, and Maria Titeyeva, University of Kyoto
Geographical education in a contested territory: “Geography Textbook of Karafuto”
6) Helena Meyer-Knapp, The Evergreen State College
Heritage or History? School studies tours at World War II Sites in Japan, Korea and the United States
Session 7: Room 11-505
Parodic Positions in the Japanese Literary Tradition
Organizer: Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
Chair: Jack Stoneman, Brigham Young University
1) Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
John Lennon vs. The Gangsters: The Parodic Metafiction of Takahashi Gen’ichirō
2) Chris Weinberger, University of California, Berkeley
The Stereoscopic Vision of Mori Ōgai
3) Jack Stoneman, Brigham Young University
Saigyō’s Self-Selected Poetry Contests, Parody, and Japanese Poetic Praxis in the Late Heian Period
Discussant: Indra Levy, Stanford University
Session 8: Room 11-311
Individual Papers on Japanese Culture and History
Chair: Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Erin Brightwell, Princeton University
The Phantasm China of “Kara monogatari”
2) Blai Guarne, Stanford University
Narrating Japan: From “la Triomphante” to The Garden of Kanashima
3) Csaba Olah, The University of Tokyo
Diplomatical Documents in Medieval Japan (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries): Form, Content and Writing Process
4) Richard Reitan, Franklin and Marshall College
Regulating the Social Mind: Psychology and the Appropriation of Spirit in Meiji Japan
5) Daniel Schley, Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo
Sacral Kingship in Medieval Japan
6) Jin-Rong Shieh, Fu Jen Catholic University
Gilded Kamakura: Old Japan as the New Frontiers for the American Scions
LUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Session 9: Room 11-209
Gender and Migrants of Japanese Ancestry in Japan
Organizer: Hugo Córdova Quero, Center for Lusophone Studies, Sophia University
Chair: Alberto Fonseca Sakai, Josai International University
1) Hugo Córdova Quero, Center for Lusophone Studies, Sophia University
Gendering Faith in Japan: Religious Experiences among Japanese Brazilian Migrant Women
2) Pauline Cherrier, University of Lyon (France)
Gendered Representatiosn of Nikkei-Brazilians
Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka, University of California at Berkeley
Session 10: Room 11-221
Culture, Tradition and Challenges in Japanese Music Education
Organizer/Chair: Mari Shiobara, Tokyo Gakugei University
1) Yuri Ishii, Yamaguchi University
Musical Tradition and Culture in Policy and Reality: A Case Study in Yamaguchi Prefecture
2) Chieko Mibu, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art and Music
The Structural Defect of Music Education in Japan from the Perspective of Community Musicians
3) Mari Shiobara, Tokyo Gakugei University
Teaching “Music Culture” in the Japanese Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives
4) Christian Mau, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Reaching-in: Supplementing Traditional Music Teaching in the Japanese Classroom
Discussant: Hiroki Ichinose, Tokyo Gakugei University
Session 11: Room 11-305
Forgotten Words: Revisiting Colonial Indonesian Literature
Organizer/Chair: Nobuto Yamamoto, Keio University
1) Nobuto Yamamoto, Keio University
Reading Boven Digoel
2) William Bradley Horton, Waseda University
Social Novels: Tamar Djaja and the Publishing Worlds of Bukittinggi (1939–1941)
3) Elizabeth Chandra, Keio University
The Lord of Romance: Njoo Cheong Seng and Chinese-Malay Literature in 1940s
Discussant: Caroline Sy Hau, Kyoto University
Session 12: Room 11-311
Conceptual Change and State Formation in Early Modern and Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Doyoung Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1) Doyoung Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Rise of Intellectual Professionalism in Early Tokugawa Society
2) André Linnepe, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin Humboldt University
The Common-Sphere of the Realm in Early Tokugawa Japan: Its Conceptualization in the Neo-Classical Confucian Teaching of Yamaga Sokō (1622–1685)
3) Michael Burtscher, University of Tokyo
Conceptual Change in the Early Meiji Period: The Genesis of Shinri
Discussant: Yuri Kono, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Session 13: Room 11-411
Individual Papers on Contemporary Japanese Cultural Production
Chair: Roberta Strippoli, Bates College
1) Rossella Ceccarini, Sophia University
The Role of the Food Worker in the Globalization of Food: the Case of Pizza Cooks in Japan
2) Patrick Galbraith, University of Tokyo
Fujoshi: From “Ladies” to “Rotten Girls,” Transgressive Play and Intimacy among young Japanese female Yaoi Fans
3) Michael Furmanovsky, Ryukoku University
Uncovering the Historical Origins of Japan’s Commercial Pop Music Industry: Misa Watanabe and the Japanization of Western Pop, 1959–63
4) Shoko Imai, The University of Tokyo
Cuisine, Cities and Globalization: The Geography of Japanese Food
5) A. J. Jacobs, East Carolina University
Embedded Unevenness in Central Tokyo: A Comparison of Koto and Kita-Ku
Session 14: Room 11-419
Economics, Security, and Leadership: Northeast Asian Integration in the Post-Cold War Era
Organizer/Chair: Joel R. Campbell, Kansai Gaidai University
1) Joel R. Campbell, Kansai Gaidai University
Koizumi to Aso: Continuity and Change in Japanese Political Leadership
2) Jeong-Pyo Hong, Miyazaki International College
Is a United States of Northeast Asia Possible? The Korea-Japan Submarine Tunnel Project
3) Garren Mulloy, Daito Bunka University
“Softer Power” and Japan’s security in a shifting East Asian political economic environment
4) Ching-Chang Chen, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
From Trouble Maker to Peace Builder? Taiwan’s Evolving Security Strategy under the Ma Ying-jeou Administration and Its Implications for East Asia
Discussant: TBA
Sōseki’s City
Organizer: Dan O’Neill, University of California at Berkeley
Chair: Angela Yiu, Sophia University
1) Dan O’Neill, University of California at Berkeley
Preparing for the Urban Uncanny: Hearing Things and the Anxiety of Influence
2) Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
Following in Sanshirō’s Footsteps: Reading Truths about Urban Time and Space in Natsume Sōseki’s Fiction
3) Yuko Iida, Kobe College
Love and the City: Sōseki’s Youth Goes to Tokyo
4) Angela Yiu, Sophia University
Pathological Interiority in Sōseki’s Configuration of Space
Discussant: Kyoko Kurita, Pomona College
Session 16: Room 11-505
Intersections of Religion and Literature in Pre-modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Molly Vallor, Stanford University/Rikkyo University
1) Ignacio Quiros, École Pratique des Hautes Études/Rikkyo University
Sympathetic Magic in Early Japan: the Different Modalities of the So-called “Spirit of the Words”
2) Molly Vallor, Stanford University/Rikkyo University
Between Conversations: Rinzai Zen and the Tradition of Setsuwa in Musō Soseki’s Muchū Mondōshū
3) Sayoko Sakakibara, Stanford University
Localized Motif, Totalized Space: The Shōtoku Cult in Early Modern Japanese Maps
4) David Gundry, Stanford University/Waseda University
When Enlightenment Kills: Ihara Saikaku’s “Heartstrings Plucked on Lake Biwa” as “Chigo monogatari”
Discussant: Haruko Wakabayashi, Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Education and the New Second Generation of Immigrants in Japan: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Migrants
Organizer/Chair: Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University
1) Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University
Transition into the Secondary Education among Children of Immigrants: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Migrants
2) Eunice Akemi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
The Ethnic Schools in Immigrant Communities: The Case of Brazilian Schools in Japan
3) Roberto Pires Jr., Shizuoka University
Discussing Ethnic Identity Formation among the Second Generation of Brazilian Migrants in Japan
Discussant: Yoshikazu Shiobara, Keio University
Contested Identity: Gender, Nation and “Chineseness” in Late Imperial and Early Republican Fiction
Organizer/Chair: Fumiko Jōo, University of Chicago/University of Tokyo
1) Fumiko Jōo, University of Chicago/University of Tokyo
Gender Performance and the Salvation of Women in Ye Xiaowan’s Dream of the Mandarin Ducks
2) William C. Hedberg, Harvard University
Allusion and Precedent in Li Boyuan’s “Gengzi guobian tanci”
3) Hui Luo, Victoria University of Wellington
Genre, Canon, Censorship: the Cultural Ascension of Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from the Make-do Studio)
4) Hailin Zhou, Villanova University
On Sato Koryoku: Zhang Ziping’s Argument for Popular Literature
Discussant: Yasushi Ōki, University of Tokyo
Session 19: Room 11-311
Individual Papers on Asian Cultural History
Chair: Alexander Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Hongwei Lu, University of Redlands
New Urban Cinema: Transformation of Urban Space and Familial Intimacy in Contemporary China
2) Masumi Kagaya, Tsukuba University
Social Hierarchy and Class in Meiji period: Spectacles of Slum described in Documentaries by Gennosuke Yokoyama
3) Shiho Maeshima, Kanagawa University/University of British Columbia/The University of Tokyo
Rethinking Women’s Magazines: Mass-Market Women’s Magazines and Reading Culture in 1920s–30s Japan
4) Yusuke Tanaka, International Christian University
Freedom from the Press: Intellectuals and Their Response to the Tokyo Newspaper Strike in 1919
5) Lisa Yinghong Li, J.F. Oberlin University
Reinventions of the Female Self: Recent Additions to China Fictions in Foreign Languages
Changing Conceptions of the Enduring in Edo Japan
Organizer: Yulia Frumer, Princeton University
Chair: William Fleming, Harvard University
1) Niels van Steenpaal, Kyoto University
Governing through Virtue and Virtuosity: an Examination of the “Official Records of Filial Piety and Righteousness” (1801)
2) William Fleming, Harvard University
Fictional Visions of Rural Japan by an Edo Scholar of Dutch Studies
3) Yulia Frumer, Princeton University
A Matter of Time: Mechanical Clocks and Their Conceptual Implications for Edo Period Scientific Thought
Discussant: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University
Session 21: Room 11-411
Meaning Behind Eating in Contemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: Chrissie Tate Reilly, Monmouth University
1) Chrissie Tate Reilly, Monmouth University
Food Fight: Patriotic Eating in World War II Japan
2) Hiroko Shimbo, Japanese Cooking Authority, Chef, Cookbook Author
The Happiest Black Pig: Sustainable Farming and Okinawa-style Pork Diet
3) Stephanie Assmann, Tohoku University
Slow Food Japan: Reviving Local Foodways in a Global Food Paradise
4) Joshua Evan Schlachet, Kagoshima University
We Are What They Ate: Lived Imagination in Contemporary Satsuma
Discussants: Elizabeth Andoh, independent scholar
Postwar Social Movements across Japan and the United States: Connections and Conflicts
Organizer: Yuko Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
Chair: Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University South Bend
1) Yuko Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
Between “World Peace Day” and “No More Hiroshima Day”: Trans-Pacific Alliance by Christians in the Early Postwar Years
2) Maho Toyoda, Kansai University
American Intervention in Postwar Japanese Birth Control Movement
3) Kazuyo Tsuchiya, University of California, San Diego; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Transnational Antiracist Alliances: Black Church Leaders and Zainichi Koreans in Japan’s Struggles over Citizenship, 1969-1974
Discussant: Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University South Bend
Un-(dis-)covering Bodily and Linguistic Spaces in Oba Minako and Tawada Yoko’s Oeuvre
Organizer/Chair: Danuta Lacka, University of Tokyo
1) Emanuela Costa, Osaka University
Transnational Identities, Metamorphic Bodies: Displacement and the Female Body in Oba Minako and Tawada Yoko
2) Danuta Lacka, University of Tokyo
Visiting Body, “Self” in Residence: Exploring Tawada Yoko’s Literary Project
3) Daniela Tan, Zurich University
Narrative strategies: a Comparison of Older and Newer Texts of Oba Minako
4) Dennitza Gabrakova, City University of Hong Kong
Islands of Translation: between Oba Minako and Tawada Yoko
Discussant: Yoichi Komori, University of Tokyo
Performing Texts: Interaction and Interpretation in Medieval Ritual Practices
Organizers: Benedetta Lomi, SOAS, Fumi Ouchi, Miyagi Gakuin University
Chair: Iyanaga Nobumi, Tokyo Centre of EFEO
1) Kigensan Licha, SOAS
How to Do Things with Kōan
2) Benedetta Lomi, SOAS
The Horse-head in the Lotus: Developments of Batō Kannon in Medieval Japan
3) Fumi Ouchi, Miyagi Gakuin
Vocalising the Pure Land: Somatic Nature of Genshin’s Soteriology
4) Carmen Tamas, Osaka University
The Magic beyond the Words: Origins and Development of Prayer-Related Rituals within the Nichiren Sect
Discussant: Fabio Rambelli, Sapporo University
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Korean Buddhism in East Asian Context”
Robert Buswell President of the Association for Asian Studies (2008–09) Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA
5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Building - Room 410, Building 8
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RECEPTION: 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
5th floor cafeteria, Building 2
3,000 yen (2,000 yen for graduate students)
You can purchase your reception ticket online when you register.
Online registration ends June 10. See the website for details.
A limited number of tickets will be sold on the day.
SUNDAY JUNE 21
ASCJ BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Room 209, Building 11
Everyone registered for ASCJ 2009 is welcome
to attend the Business Meeting.
The agenda includes:
elections for positions on the Executive Committee,
report on ASCJ finances,
report on future ASCJ venues.
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 25: Room 11-419
Dangerous Eating in Asia
Organizer: Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw, International Christian University
Chair: Shaun Kingsley Malarney, International Christian University
1) Shaun Kingsley Malarney, International Christian University
Dangerous Meat in Colonial Hanoi
2) Ryan Sayre, Yale University/Waseda University
The Taste of Disaster: The Politics of Survival Foods in Japan
3) Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University
Food Safety Controversies in Japan
4) Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw, International Christian University
Shelf Lives: The Uneasy Social Digestion of Konbini Cuisine in Japan
Discussant: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Session 26: Room 11-311
Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History of an Ideology
Organizer: Dick Stegewerns, Oslo University
Chair: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
1) Matsuda Koichiro, Rikkyo University
The Conceptualization of “Asia” by the Mito School and the Kokugaku School
2) Kim Bongjin, University of Kitakyushu
Sŏ Ch’aepil and Other Korean Intellectuals’ Responses to Pan-Asianism, 1898–1910
3) Dick Stegewerns, Oslo University
Taisho Democracy and Asia: The Asianism of Ukita Kazutami and Murobuse Kōshin
Discussant: Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Kyushu Sangyo University
Session 27: Room 11-209
Redrawing the Map: Displacement and Geography in Song-Yuan Literary and Visual Discourses
Organizer: Shuen-fu Lin, University of Michigan
Chair: Benjamin Ridgway, Valparaiso University
1) Benjamin Ridgway, Valparaiso University
From River By-way to River Border: Reconfiguring Jiankang in the Wartime Writings of Ye Mengde
2) Gang Liu, University of Michigan
From Fengshui to Shanshui: Shifting Perspectives on Dynastic Change in a Song Loyalist Text
3) Roslyn Hammers, University of Hong Kong
The Book of Agriculture: Re-locating the Appearances of Proper Governance
Discussant: Lara Blanchard, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Session 28: Room 11-411
All for the Empire: Our Learning, Our Body, Our Labor, and All!
Organizer/Chair: Helen Lee, Yonsei University
1) Puja Kim, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Making of Imperial Women in Korean Girls: The Elementary School Curriculum under Kōminka
2) Taeyoon Ahn, Ewha Womans University
Playing “Imperial Sisters”
3) Helen Lee, Yonsei University
Birthing Imperial Children: The Womb Improvement Project in Colonial Korea
4) Reiko Hirose, Hokkaido Information University
Warriors on the Home Front
Discussant: Leslie Winston, Waseda University
Session 29: Room 11-221
Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Women’s Schools as Sites of International Exchange
Organizer: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Chair: Anne Walthall, University of California Irvine
1) Noriko Kawamura Ishii, Otsuma Women’s University
Kobe College Graduates as Students in the United States
2) Patricia G. Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
Toyo Eiwa Girls’ School As a Site of International Exchange: The Experiences of Canadian Methodist Women
3) Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Learning from Travel: Tsuda Graduates in the United States, 1900–1941
Discussant: Anne Walthall, University of California Irvine
Session 30: Room 11-505
Japan and the Soviet Specter: Reconsidering the Image of the Soviet Union in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy
Organizer: Akira Watanabe, Keio University
Chair: Shingo Yoshida, Keio University
1) Makiko Ueda, Keio University / JSPS Research Fellow
Hitoshi Ashida’s Changing Views on the Soviet Union
2) Akira Watanabe, Keio University
The Japan-US Alliance Formation and the Gaps of the Soviet Image
3) Miho Kimoto, Keio University
Gorbachev’s Public Relations for Japan
Discussant: Mizuki Chuman, Keio University
Session 31: Room 11-305
Conceptions, Modes and Structures of Noh in Films, Objects, Poetry and Music
Organizer: Pia Schmitt, Waseda University
Chair: Judy Halebsky, Hosei University
1) Pia Schmitt, Waseda University
The Magic of “Objects”: On the Role of Gowns Functioning as “Katami” in Plays by Zeami Motokiyo
2) Titanilla Mátrai, Waseda University
Intercultural Elements in Film: The Use of Noh in Kurosawa Akira’s Throne of Blood
3) Mariko Anno, Tokyo University of the Arts
Continuity of Tradition Today: The Nohkan Part in Adaptations of Yeats’ At the Hawk’s Well
4) Judy Halebsky, Hosei University
The Poetics of Noh in Transformation: Noh in the Poetry of Leslie Scalapino and Daphne Marlatt
Discussants: Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California
Reiko Yamanaka, Institute of Nogaku Studies, Hosei University
Session 32: Room 11-405
Competitive Collaboration in Haute Finance: Japan and the West in the Interwar Period
Organizer/Chair: Katalin Ferber, Waseda University
1) Simon James Bytheway, Nihon University
From Lombard Street to Wall Street: Financial and Monetary Cooperation between the US and Japan 1918-1941
2) Dong Zhaohua, Waseda University/Beijing University
Restoration or Stabilization? Japan and her Return to the Gold Standard
3) Katalin Ferber, Waseda University
The Conceptual Background of the “Savings Nation” in Japan
Discussant: Kobayashi Hideo, Waseda University
LUNCH BREAK 12:00 NOON – 1:00 P.M.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Session 33: Room 11-411
Individual Papers on Gender in Asia
Chair: Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Zerina Shabnaz Akkas, University of Tsukuba
Literacy, Women Participation and Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh: A Case Study from Monsurabad Island
2) Thomas Barker, National University of Singapore
The Indonesian Film Industry and the East Asian Connection
3) Daraka Chhay, University of Tsukuba
Coping with Challenges: the Quest for Autonomy, Gender Equity and Roles Transformation amongst Women in Rural Cambodia
4) Micheline Lessard, University of Ottawa
Trafficking in Women and Children between Vietnam and China during the French Colonial Period (1885–1945)
Session 34: Room 11-209
Over One Thousand Years of Kōshiki: Points of View on the History and Performance of a Buddhist Ritual Genre
Organizer/Chair: Michaela Mross, Komazawa University
1) Steven G. Nelson, Hosei University
The History of the Musical Realization of Kōshiki Texts: From Planned Improvisation to Standardized Sectarian Versions
2) David Quinter, University of Alberta
Who Drives the Buddha-Vehicle? A Study and Translation of Eison’s Monju Kōshiki
3) Lori Meeks, University of Southern California
Ritual and Identity at the Medieval Convent Hokkeji: An Examination of the Ānanda and Rahula Kōshiki
4) Michaela Mross, Komazawa University
The Development of Hōon Kōshiki in the Sōtō School: Hagiography in a Ritual Context
Discussant: Niels Guelberg, Waseda University
Session 35: Room 11-405
How Japan Works: Patterns of Diversification in the Labor Market
Organizer: Volker Elis, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Chair: Yukiko Yamazaki, Tokyo University
1) Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Freeter and Beyond: Are Work Attitudes Changing? Development of Work Values of Entrants to the Labor Market in Japan
2) Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University
3) Volker Elis, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
High Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan: Just for Fun or Bitter Necessity?
Discussant: Yukiko Yamazaki, Tokyo University
Session 36: Room 11-419
Border Crossing, Social History, and Japan’s Foreign Relations during the Early 20th Century
Organizer/Chair: Evan Dawley, U.S. Department of State
1) Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, National Tsing-hua University
Sovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia
2) Martin Dusinberre, University of Newcastle
Unread Relics of a Transnational Furusato: Rethinking “Internationalization” in 1910s Japan
3) Chika Shinohara, National University of Singapore
Border Crossing and the New Institutionalization of Women’s Education in 1910s Japan
4) Evan Dawley, U.S. Department of State
Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Japan’s Settlement of Taiwan
Discussant: William Steele, International Christian University
Session 37: Room 11-305
Producing Japanese Visual Modernity, 1920s-1930s
Organizer: Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Duke University
Chair: Chinghsin Wu, University of California, Los Angeles
1) Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Duke University
Modernity in Manchoukuo: Shifting Representations of a 1930s Japanese Urban Ideal
2) Younjung Oh, University of Southern California
Dream of Mass Utopia: Avant-garde Art and Department Stores in 1920s Japan
3) Chinghsin Wu, University of California, Los Angeles
Machine and the Arts: Rationality as an Ideal Modernity
Discussants: Nancy Lin, University of Chicago
Olivier Krischer, University of Tsukuba
Session 38: Room 11-311
Individual Papers on Shōwa Culture
Chair: Janine Beichman, Daito Bunka University
1) James Dorsey, Dartmouth College
Censored Songs of Showa Japan: Silence Speaking Volumes
2) Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
The Face in the Shadow of the Camera: Corporeality of the Photographer in Kanai Mieko’s Narratives
3) Wibke Voss, Free University Berlin
Postmodern Parody and Mitate: Transcontextuality in Yokoo Tadanori’s Posters for Angura Engeki
4) Kendall Heitzman, Yale University
Two Palimpsests: Tokyo and Yasuoka Shōtarō’s Autobiographical Fiction
Representations of Travel and Cultural Otherness in Japanese Arts and Literature
Organizer/ Chair: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1) John Tran, University of Tsukuba
2) Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba
3) Peichen Wu, National Chengchi University
4) Satoshi Okada, University of Tsukuba
5) Harksoon Kim, University of Tsukuba
6) Melek Kato, University of Tsukuba
Session 40: Room 11-505
Buddhism and Local Modernization
This panel was cancelled after the program was printed. The remaining participants will join Session 41.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:15 P.M. - 5:15 P.M.
Session 41: Room 11-505
Reorienting Transcendence: Religion in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Viren Murthy, University of Ottawa
1) Mariko Naito, University of Tokyo
Conflicting Religious Topoi: Izumi Kyōka’s Hakusan Worship
2) Jeremy Hurdis, University of Ottawa
The Role of Religion and Morality in Japanese Philosophers in the Prewar Period: The Cases of Watsuji Tetsuro and Nishida Kitaro
3) Viren Murthy, University of Ottawa
The Antinomies of Religion in Meiji Japan and late Qing China
4) Daiana Di Massimo, Ca’Foscari University of Venice/University of Lyon 3 (IETT)
A Sōshiki Shūkyō: Investigating contemporary Higashi Honganji (Ōtani-ha) Social Engagement
Discussants:
Nakajima Takahiro, the University of Tokyo
Yoshihide Sakurai, Hokkaido University
Session 42: Room 11-311
Individual Papers on Migration and Gender
Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University
1) Gitte Marianne Hansen - Copenhagen University/Waseda University
Balancing Femininity: Eating disorders, Self-harm, and Female Subjectivity in Japanese Cultural Expressions
2) Kumiko Nemoto, Western Kentucky University
Long Work Hours and the Corporate Gender Divide: How Does Overwork Shape the Gender Division in the Japanese Workplace?
3) Djamila Schans, Ochanomizu University/Maastricht University
Immigrants of African Origin in Japan: Pathways of Incorporation
4) Michael Sharpe, York College/University of New York
What does Blood Membership mean in Political Terms? The Case of Latin American Nikkeijin (Japanese Descendants) in Japan
5) David Roh, University of California, Santa Barbara
Importing Korean America: Literary Constructions of Zainichi Identity
Session 43: Room 11-419
The Diplomacy of the Gaimudaijin: Socio-Political Changes in Japanese Foreign Policy from the Manchurian Incident to Pearl Harbor
Organizer/Chair: Tosh Minohara, Kobe University
1) Rustin Gates, Bradley University
Pan-Asianism and Prewar Japanese Foreign Policy: The Case of Uchida Yasuya and his Asianism
2) Yoshie Takamitsu, Chiba University
Interwar Sino-Japanese Relations and American Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union: With Emphasis on the Role of Foreign Minister Hirota Kōki
3) Peter Mauch, Ritsumeikan University
The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Foreign Policymaking Process: Foreign Ministers Nomura Kichisaburō and Toyoda Teijirō
4) Tosh Minohara, Kobe University
Crossing the Rubicon: Foreign Minister Togō Shigenori and Japan’s Decision for War
Discussant: Haruo Iguchi, Nagoya University
Session 44: Room 11-209
Reflection of Modern China in Foreign Eyes: A Study of Journals, Novels, Critics from the Perspective of Cultural Interaction and Cross-Culture Understanding
Organizer/Chair: Chen Yu, Yokohama National University
1) Chi Sung Chen, Kansai University
Images of the Taiping Rebellion in the Illustrated London News
2) Xiao Chun Xu, Kansai University
The Image of Modern Shanghai in the Eyes of Japanese Literary Men
3) Shuang Shuang Zou, Kansai University
What does a Failing General’s Suicide mean? Comparing the Interpretations of Ding Ruchang’s Suicide
Discussant: Jian Zhao, Tokiwakai Gakuen University
Session 45: Room 11-221
Wishes and Choices in Life and Living: Family, Home and Work in Changing Japan
Organizer/Chair: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for Japanese Studies, DIJ
1) Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies, DIJ
Marital Happiness: A Wish for All? Discourses on Marriage in Japanese Women’s Magazines
2) Hiromi Tanaka-Naji, German Institute for Japanese Studies, DIJ
Single Working Women in Tokyo: Their Negotiations of Marriage and Work
3) Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for Japanese Studies, DIJ
Can’t Have It All? Conflicting Ideals of Work, Marriage, and Childbearing in the Popular TV Drama “Around 40”
4) Maren Godzik, German Institute for Japanese Studies, DIJ
Living Arrangements of Elderly People: New Choices in a Changing Society
Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University
Session 46: Room 11-411
The War of Another: Natsume Sōseki, Shiga Naoya, Shimazaki Tōson
Organizer: Chien-Hui Chuang, Osaka University
Chair: Irina Holca, Osaka University
1) Chien-Hui Chuang, Osaka University
Weariness of War in Natsume Sōseki’s Novels
2) Md Moinuddin, Osaka University
Scattered Soldiers, Smoke and Gunpowder in Shiga Naoya’s Novellas
3) Irina Holca, Osaka University
The Rhetoric of Love, Lust and War in Shimazaki Tōson’s “Shinsei”
Discussant: George Sipos, University of Chicago/Ritsumeikan University
Session 47: Room 11-305
Explored, Exploited, and Exposed: Mapping Histories and Traditions of Mountaineering in Japan
Organizer: David Fedman, Hokkaido University of Education
Chair: Takehiro Watanabe, Sophia University
1) Takehiro Watanabe, Sophia University
Trails of History: Corporate Mountaineering and the Ecological Imagination in Postindustrial Japan
2) Scott Schnell, University of Iowa
Reverence or Recreation: Differing Perspectives on the Japanese Alps
3) David Fedman, Hokkaido University of Education
Sights to the Summit: The Hokkaido University Mountaineering Club and Alpinism in Pre-war Japan
Discussant: Kären Wigen, Stanford University