JSAC 2010 CONFERENCE
September 30th – October 3rd, 2010

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, Sept 30thTHURSDAY GRADUATE DISSERTATION WORKSHOP – IAR/CK Choi Building, CJRKonwakai Meeting Room
9.00am-5.00pm (by invitation only)
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK - Asian Centre Auditorium
Opens at 4.30pm
THURSDAY ICE BREAKER - Asian Centre Auditorium (Cash bar)
5.00-7.00pm
Talk at 6.00pm by Dr. Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia
University): Patterns of Change: A Grand Unified Theory of Japanese History

FRIDAY, Oct 1stFRIDAY MORNING PANELS:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK – IAR/C.K.Choi Building, Foyer
Opens at 9.00am
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120
9.30-11.00am
Panel 1: Japanese People andCulture in History

Liu Institute Case Room
9.30-11.00am
Panel 2: Identity Issues inContemporary Japan

Ponderosa Arbutus Room
9.30-11.00am
Panel 3: Japanese Business andthe Global Economy

11.00-11.15am Refreshment BreakIAR/C.K.Choi Building Foyer

IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120 Lui Institue Case Room
11.15am-12.45pm
11.15-12.45pm
Panel 4: Meiji and Taisho History Panel 5: Japanese Studies:
Learning and the Field

Ponderosa Arbutus Room
11.15-12.45pm
Panel 6: Communities,Globalization, and Social
Movements in JapanFRIDAY LUNCH
12.45-1.45pm
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Foyer- Japanese Hot Dogs!
FRIDAY AFTERNOON PANELS:
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room120
1.45-3.15pm
Panel 7: Japanese Identity in
Canada and Kansai

Liu Institute Case Room
1.45-3.15pm
Panel 8: Academic Sources
for Japanese Studies

Ponderosa Arbutus Room
1.45-3.15pm
Panel 9: Internationalization ofEducation in Japan

3.15-3.30pm Refreshment BreakIAR/C.K.Choi Building Foyer

FRIDAY AFTERNOON CAMPUS FIELD TRIPS (all field trips start and finish at the IAR/C.K.Choi
Building Foyer):3.30-5.00pm
 Nitobe Japanese Garden Tour
 Museum of Anthropology (Japanese Collection) Tour
 Beans Tokugawa Maps TourKONWAKAI RECEPTION: (Cash bar)
Reception Rooms Green College: 5.00-7.00pm
FILM SHOW: `Campaigns’ (dir. Soda Kazuhiro)
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120: 7.30-9.30pm

SATURDAY, Oct 2nd
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK – IAR/CK Choi Building Foyer
Opens at 8.30am
SATURDAY MORNING PLENARY:IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120
9.00-10.30am `JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC NEIGHBOURHOOD’ FORUM: Former Ambassador Joseph
Caron, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Honorary Professor,
Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Yuen Pau Woo, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
10.30-10.45am: THE MOKUYOKAI REFRESHMENT BREAK
IAR/C.K.Building Foyer
SATURDAY MORNING PANELS:IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room
Liu Institute Case Room120
10.45am-12.15pm
10.45am-12.15pm
Panel 10: Science and Technology Panel 11: Japanese Economyin Japan and Canadaand Business

SCARP Room 150
10.45-12.15pm
Panel 12: Love and Death inPre-Modern Japanese Culture

SATURDAY LUNCH
12.15-12.30pm
IAR/C.K.Building Foyer – Cold Lunch (Sandwich Selection)
SATURDAY LUNCH PLENARY:
12.30-1.30pm
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120
Talk by Dr. Takehiko Kariya (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University, andUniversity of Tokyo): Education Reforms in a Rapidly Changing Society, Japan: What Does
Sociological Research on Japanese Education Tell Us in a Global Context.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON PANELS:
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120 Liu Institute Case RoomSCARP Room 150
1.30-3.00pm
1.30-3.00pm
1.30-3.00pm
Panel 13: Language Education,
Learning and Communications

Panel 14: Japanese Politics inthe 21stCentury

Panel 15: From Moga to
Manga: Topics in Modern
Japanese Culture

3.00-3.15pm Refreshment BreakIAR/C.K.Choi Building Foyer

JSAC AGM:
IAR/C.K. Choi Building Room 120: 3.15-4.45pm Presidential Address and AGM: Award of Klaus
Pringsheim Prizes for Graduate Student Papers
SATURDAY BANQUET: 5.00-9.00pm, Sage Bistro, University Centre

5.00-9.00pm (Dinner served at 5.45pm)
After-Dinner Talk by Dr. Masaru Kohno (Economics and Politics, Waseda University): "Don't Think
Twice About Japanese Politics, It's All Right."

SUNDAY, Oct 3rd
SUNDAY MORNING PANELS:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK – IAR/CK Choi Building Foyer
Opens at 8.30am
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room120
9.00-10.30am
Panel 16: Japan in the World
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room120
10.45am-12.15pm

Liu Institute Case Room
9.00-10.30am

SCARP Room 150
9.00-10.30am

Panel 17: Constitutional Norms
and Security Issues in JapanLui Institute Case Room
10.45am-12.15pm

Panel 18: Transformations inBuddhist Ideas and Practices
SCARP Room 150
10.45am-12.15pm

Panel 20: Okinawan Identity,
Panel 21: Spirited Away:
Gender, Tourism and the Military Tradition, Spirit and Religion inJapan

Panel 19: Health, Medicineand Care in Japan, Asia andCanada
SUNDAY LUNCH
12.15-12.45pm
IAR/C.K. Choi Building Foyer - Obento lunch

SUNDAY AFTERNOON FIELD TRIP (limited to 40 people; this field trip is by coach and will finish at
the University of British Columbia)
12.30-5.00pm: Field Trip to Steveston Buddhist Temple, Historic Powell Street and the Nikkei Heritage
Centre, Burnaby.

FRIDAY MORNING PANELS I: OCTOBER 1st 9.30am-11.00am
Panel 1: Japanese People and Culture in History (Chair: Carol Gluck, Columbia University), IAR/C.K.Building
Room 120
Paper 1
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Between the Continent and the Ocean: Construction of the Japanese
People and the Culture
Paper 2The Practice of Tradition and Modernity: Cultural Interaction, with a
Sheri Zhang
Focus on East Asian Women
Leimbigler
Paper 3
Managing Japanese Kimono: Negotiating Identity, Values and Way Of Life
Jennifer Beamer
1868 – 2009
Panel 2: Identity Issues in Japan (Chair: Millie Creighton, Anthropology, University of British Columbia),
Lui Institute Case RoomPaper 1
Koreans in Japan and the Politics of Nationality in Occupied Japan
Simon Nantais
Paper 2
Performing Naturalness’: ‘Virtual Scrutiny’ of Minorities in Japan
Ma. Ledda B. Docot
Paper 3
Racial discrimination in Japan and issues of identity
Arudou Debito
Paper 4

Jennifer Chan

Global Muslim Networks: Nongovernmental Associations in Japan

Panel 3: Japanese Business and The Global Economy (Chair: Teri Jane Bryant, Haskayne School of Business,
University of Calgary), Ponderosa Arbutus RoomThe Impact of Globalization on the Three K’s of Japan Airlines
K. Victor Ujimoto
Paper 1
Paper 2
Why are Japanese Electronics Companies Still in Malaysia: Aspects ofDavid W. Edgington
Competition with China
Paper 3
Positioning India in the Japanese IT Industry: Challenges andAnthony P. D’Costa
Opportunities
FRIDAY MORNING PANELS II: OCTOBER 1st 11.15am – 12:45pm
Panel 4: Meiji and Taisho History (Chair: Bill Sewell, St. Mary’s University), IAR/C.K.Building Room 120
Paper 1Jeffrey W. Alexander Learning the Hard Way: Japan’s Early Beer Brewers Struggle for Survival,
1870-1914
Paper 2
Port Arthur as a National Heritage Site and Japan’s Challenge to theKen Ruoff
International System of Racism, 1905-1940
Paper 3Teri Jane Bryant and Guntai Manga: Comic Postcards and the Marketing of a Kinder, Gentler
Imperial Japanese Military
Iain Macpherson

Panel 5: Japanese Studies: Learning and the Field (Chair: Christine Yano, University of Hawaii)
Liu Institute Case RoomPaper 1
Pop Culture in the Classroom: Re-purposing Manga to Teach JapaneseMari Tanaka
Language
Paper 2The Practical Side of Developing and Implementing a Language Field
Cara Cadre
School in Japan
Paper 3Knowing How Far to Travel and Incorporating Student-led Activities in aTom Waldichuk
Geography Field Course: Experiences from 2008 and 2010

Panel 6: Communities, Globalization and Social Movements in Japan (Chair: Takehiko Kariya,Nissan Institute Oxford), Ponderosa Arbutus RoomObama, Japan, the Special Olympics and Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics
Paper 1Millie Creighton
Dancing in the Streets: Domesticating the “Anti-globalization” Movement in a
Paper 2Robin O’Day
Japanese “Freeter” Union.

Paper 3

Paul Simon Hansen

Japan’s New Neighbours: The Furry, The Foreign, and Fuzzy Boundaries2

Paper 4

John Calimente

Rail Integrated Communities in TokyoFRIDAY AFTERNOON PANELS: OCTOBER 1st 1.45pm-3.15pm
Panel 7: Japanese Identity in Canada and Kansai (Chair: Yuko Shibata, Centre for Japanese Research, UBC),
IAR/C.K.Building Room 120Paper 1
Identity as Process, Negotiation and Hybridity: The Case of the Members
Kozue Matsumotoof Japanese-Canadians in Greater Vancouver
Paper 2Cary Shinji Takagaki Religion and Ethnicity on Canada’s West Coast, the Experience ofJapanese Canadians
Paper 3
The Changing Cultural Discourse and Regional Movements of Kansai in
Sachiyo Kanzaki
Japan
Panel 8: Academic Sources for Japanese Studies (Chair: Fumiko Ikawa-Simth, Anthropology, McGill University),
Liu Institute Case RoomPaper 1
Sources of Japanese Statistics and DataDavid Sulz
Paper 2
Resources on Gender and Sexuality in Japan
Shirin Eshghi
Paper 3

Shirin Eshghi andNina Langton

Digital Games for Languages and Cultures: Collections and Curriculum

Panel 9: Internationalization of Education and Education Policy in Japan (Chair: Julian Dierkes, Institute of
Asian Research, University of British Columbia), Ponderosa Arbutus RoomPaper 1The Internationalization Policies of Japanese Higher Education andHanae Tsukada
International Students: Suggestions for Future Research
Paper 2Toshinori Sano

School Reform and The Japanese Context

SATURDAY MORNING PANELS: OCTOBER 2nd 10.45-12.15 am
Panel 10: Panel on Science and Technology in Japan and Canada (Chair: David W. Edgington, Geography,
University of British Columbia), IAR/C.K.Building Room 120
Paper 1
Takashi Nishiyama (First Secretary, the Embassy of Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Paper 2Matthew Yoshitake (Ceo Cascadia Ecohomes Ltd)
Paper 3Carin Holroyd (Political Science, University of Waterloo)
Panel 11: Japanese Economy and Business (Chair: Masao Nakamura, Institute of Asian Research, University ofBritish Columbia), Liu Institute Case RoomThe Japanese Economy: Current Conditions
Paper 1 Masao Nakamura
Paper 2Paper 3

Ryuko Kubota
Iain Macpherson

Neoliberalism, Human Capital, and Language Learning in Japan
Discourse Analysis as a Method of Research into Japanese Management –With a Focus on the (Neoliberal) Neologism of ‘Flexibility’.

Panel 12: Love and Death in Pre-Modern Japanese Culture (Chair and Discussant: Joshua Mostow, Asian Studies,
University of British Columbia), SCARP Room 150
Paper 1Komachi in Love: Examining the “Kokinshū’s” Construction of Ono noAnthea Murphy
Komachi in the Books of Love
Paper 2Sex, Dreams and Nightmares: Kokinshū Love Poetry and Heian Sexual Ethics
Otilia C. Milutin
Paper 3
Mediaeval Execution in Visual Form
X. Jie Yang
SATURDAY AFTERNOON PANELS: OCTOBER 2nd 1.30-3.00pm
Panel 13: Language Education, Learning and Communications (Chair: Norio Ota, DLLL, York University),
IAR/C.K.Building Room 120
Paper 1
Language Planning and Japanese Language Education in the PacificTsuneko Iwai
Neighbourhood
Paper 2The Process of Language Learning via Social Network Service
Michiru Tamai
Paper 3
Reaching Out Beyond the Limits: Supporting Additive Bilingualism for
Sakurako
Japanese Families with Children Diagnosed with Autism in Canada
SherryTanaka
Paper 4
Crosslinguistic Study of Children`s Speech Development: Japanese
May Bernhardt
Panel 14: Japanese Politics in the 21st Century (Chair: Masaru Kohno, Waseda University), Lui Institute Case RoomPaper 1
New Media Campaigning: Japanese Candidates Online 2007 and 2010
Leslie M. TkachKawasaki
Paper 2
Shinsuke Hamamoto Changing Determinants of Japanese Politicians’ Home Styleand Kuniaki Nemoto
Paper 3The Effects of a More Critical Media on Japanese Voters
Zhen Han
Paper 4
The 21st Century Japanese Prime Minister: A Particularly Precarious Perch
Benjamin Nyblade
Panel 15: From Moga To Manga: Topics in Modern Japanese Culture (Chair: Stefania Burk, Asian Studies,
University of British Columbia), SCARP Room 150
Paper 1Taisho Chic, Showa Sophistication, or Prelude to Total War? : New JapaneseAsato Ikeda
Style Paintings of the Late 1930s
Paper 2The Reward of a Temple Roof: Gifting Journeyers in Inoue’s “The Roof Tile
Mary Sheldonof Tempyo” and Gao’s “The Temple”
Paper 3

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Why Are Japanese Robots so Cute? The Interplay ofPopular Culture and Robotics"?

SUNDAY MORNING PANELS I: OCTOBER 3rd 9.00-10.30am
Panel 16: Japan in the World (Chair: Jeff Alexander, History, University of Wisconsin at Parkside),
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120
Paper 1
Japan As Number Three
Bernard SaintJacques
Paper 2Paper 3

Jacob Kovalio
Sven Tommi RebienJapan in Its Neighbourhood in the `Asian Century’
Requiem for Varieties of Capitalism? Institutional Change in German,Japanese, and British Defense Economies in the 1990s

Panel 17: Constitutional Norms and Security Issues in Japan (Chair: Ken Coates, University of Waterloo), Lui
Institute Case RoomPaper 1
Dropping of Atomic Bombs, Article 9 of the Constitution (1946), and theYuzo Ota
World Federalist Movement
Paper 2
Changing Politics and Constitutional Amendments in Japan
Matsui Shigenori
Paper 3
Canada-Japan Relations and the Maturing of Security Cooperation
Yoshi Kawasaki
Panel 18: Transformations in Buddhist Ideas and Practices (Chair: Jessica L. Main, IAR/Asian Studies,
University of British Columbia), SCARP Room 150
Paper 1
Clerical Marriage and Violence in Modern Korean Buddhism
Jeongeun Park
Paper 2
`Yonaoshi’: The Idea and Transformation in Imperial Japan
Minami Orihara
Paper 3
Shikoku Henro in the Mid 19th Century: Temples, Practice and Local
Eiji Okawa
Community
SUNDAY MORNING PANELS II: OCTOBER 3rd 10.45am-12.15pm
Panel 19: Health, Medicine and Care in Japan, Asia and Canada (Chair: Brian Pendleton, Langara College)
IAR/C.K.Choi Building Room 120
iPaper 1 Janice Matsumura
All Equal Under the Emperor? Studies of Manic-Depression in the JapaneseColonies
Paper 2The Welfare State in Aged Japan
Susan A. McDanielPaper 3
Political Economy of Care in Japan and South Korea
Ito Peng
Paper 4
Hospital Length of Stay (LOS) in Ontario, Canada, and Japan: A SurgicalJames H. Tiesen andProcedureCharles McMillan
Paper 5

Tuukka Toivonen

The Case of Japanese Youth Policy: Symbolic Activation and Quiet
Innovation

Panel 20: Okinawan Identity, Gender, Tourism and the Military (Chair: Benjmin Nyblade, Political Science,
University of British Columbia), Lui Institute Case Room.
Paper 1
Encountering "Okinawa" and Race/Ethnic Relations: Identity Formation ofKinuko MaeharaOkinawan Students in Hawai‘i During the US Occupation of Okinawa
Yamazato
Paper 2Training Future Homemakers in Okinawa: Domestic Reform, US Military
Mire Koikari
Occupation, and Cold War Transnationalism
Paper 3
Intersections of Public Works, Tourism, and Militarism in Okinawa: A Study
Ayano Ginozaof Intimacies of the US and Japan
Panel 21: Spirited Away: Tradition, Spirit and Religion in Japan (Chair: Nam-lin Hur, Asian Studies, Universityof British Columbia), SCARP Room 150
Paper 1
Rediscovery of the Non-Bushido Tradition in Japan
Norio Ota
Paper 2Hiraizumi Kiyoshi and his Usage of “Spirit” In Wartime Japan
Kiyoshi Ueda
Paper 3Idealized Realities and Realized Ideals: Temple-born and Lay-born JapaneseMark Rowe
Buddhist Priests