IASIL JAPAN Newsletter
2002–3
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
December 2002
1. The 19th Conference of IASIL JAPANThe 19th Conference of IASIL JAPAN was held at Hiroshima City University onOctober 19th and 20th 2002. The Conference theme was “Crossing Borders.”
This year we were honoured by the presence of Ambassador of Ireland, HE Mr. Pádraig
Murphy, along with the Embassy Office Manager, Mr. Noboru Hashimoto. .
We had fantastic two days with two guest speakers, Mr Matthew Sweeney from Ireland,Prof Glenn Patterson from Queens University, Belfast. We would like to express ourgratitude to the Cultural Relations Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, andthe British Coucil, Japan, for the grant to support their trip to Japan.
There was quite a change of the programme at the last moment, which you will findbelow.

*************Programme (Revised)*************
Saturday, 19 October, 2002
11:00–12:30 Registration“Celebration–– Glenn Patterson: Manchester Belfast Return” by Granada Televisionand “More of It Than We Think “ by BBC Northern Ireland will be shown in the SmallAuditorium.
12:30–13:00 Opening Addresses (Small Auditorium)
President of IASIL JAPAN Ken’ichi Matsumura
President of Hiroshima City University Reiji FujimotoAmbassador of Ireland Pádraig Murphy
The British Council Alison Beale
Chair: Akiko Manabe
13:00–14:00 Special Lecture (Small Auditorium)
Glenn Patterson, Novelist
Introduction: George Hughes
14:10–15:10 Papers
Lecture Room
1. George Hughes, “Reading John McGahern: Is this the future of the Irish novel?”
2. Yoriko Kitagawa, “The Absent Father: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day”
Chair: Mitsuko Ohno
Room 403 (LL)
1. Rina Kikuchi, “Reassessment of Brendan Kennelly’s Poetry My Arse”
2. Naoko Toraiwa, “The Difficult Age: Medbh McGuckian’s Venus and the Rain”
Chair: Nobuaki Tochigi
15:20–16:10 Poetry Reading (Small Auditorium) Matthew Sweeney, Poet
Introduction: David Burleigh
16:20–18:20 Symposium (Small Auditorium)“Irish Dracula”
Chair: Masazumi Toraiwa
Speakers: Mikio Fuse, Mayaya Shimokusu
18:30–20:30 Reception (Student Hall)
Host: Shiro Suzuki

Sunday October 20 2002
10:00–11:30 Papers
Room 403 (LL)
1. Tatsuo Ohtsuka, “Analysis of Immaturity of G.B. Shaw in terms of its Structure andHuman Relationships among its Characters”
2. Eishiro Ito, How did Buddhism Influence Joyce and Kenji?”
Chair: Kazuhiro Doki
11:35–12:25 Poetry Workshop (Small Auditorium)
Matthew Sweeney, Andrew Fitzsimons, Nobue Miyake,Fuyuji Tanigawa, Masazumi
Toraiwa, Naoko Toraiwa
Introduction: Tetsuro Sano
12:30–13:30 Lunch & Annual General Meeting (Small Auditorium)
Chair: Seishi Matsuda
13:40–14:40 Reading (Small Auditorium)
Glenn Patterson
Introduction: Hiroyuki Yamasaki
14:50–17:20 Symposium (Small Auditorium)“Crossing Borders in Irish Literatures”Chair: Seishi Matsuda
Speakers: Katsunori Kajihara, Ken’ichi Matsumura, Hiroyuki Yamasaki
17:30 Closing Address (Small Auditorium)
Akiko Manabe★We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the staff of Hiroshima City
University, especially President Reiji Fujimoto, Prof. Hiroko Ikeda and their wonderfulstudents.
Annual General Meeting
Items covered at the AGM, Friday October 18th 2002
1) Financial Report of the Fiscal Year 2001 by Treasurer, Prof. Hiroko Ikeda.

2) Journal of Irish Studies by President Ken’ichi Matsumura and Secretary Akiko
Manabe (Details will be in the section below, 2. Journal of Irish Studies.)
3) New Committee Members were approved.
David Burleigh, Kazuhiro Doki, Andrew Fitzsimons, Reiji Fujimoto, Taketoshi
Furomoto, George Hughes, Hiroko Ikeda, Chizuko Inoue, Akiko Manabe, Junko
Matoba, Richard Kelly, Seishi Matsuda, Ken’ichi Matsumura, Peter McMillan, Hiroko
Mikami, Masami Nakao, Peter O’Connor, Mitsuko Ohno, Minako Okamuro, TetsuroSano, Yoko Sato, Shigeo Shimizu, Fuyuji Tanigawa, Nobuaki Tochigi, Masazumi
Toraiwa, Naoko Toraiwa and Hiroyuki Yamasaki.
4) The new President, Ken’ichi Matsumura was approved.
5) IASIL 2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Prof. Naoko Toraiwa6) IASIL 2003 in Budapest, Hungary by Prof. Masazumi Toraiwa7) IASIL JAPAN 2003 by Secretary, Prof. Akiko Manabe
Host University will be Waseda University. Prof. Nobuaki Tochigi will work for thearrangement of the conference.
8) IASIL JAPAN website by President Matsumura.
2. Journal of Irish Studies
New editor: Prof.. Peter O’Connor
New Editorial Board: Professors Andy Fitzsimons, Taketoshi Furomoto, Clair Hughes,Mitsuko Ohno, John Oliphant, Hidemitsu Togo and Hiroyuki Yamasaki.
The Office would like to apologize for the carelessness of not having noticed ourfinancial situation. In order to address this shortfall, the Committee decided to try to
institute changes in the editorial direction of the JIS, and economies in IASIL JAPAN ingeneral.
Some of these changes are: for the 2003 issue there will be no Fiction and Poetry Editor
and consequently no poetry/fiction by non-members, the exception being guests of theAssociation. Similarly, there will be no International Marketing Director from the 2003issue, as had been planned. Planned international sales would also end, and there will bea reduction in the production budget.

On November 16 2002, the new editor, Prof. Peter O’Connor, President Matsumura andSecretary Manabe went to our printer, Shichigatsudo to discuss the matter. Prof.
O’Connor has gone through possible economies:
1. Fewer pages, 2. Smaller type 3. Reduction of white space (margins, gutter, space
between title and opening paragraph of papers etc.) 4. Changing position of pagenumbers 5. Cheaper and lighter paper inside 6. Printing fewer copies 7 Having only one
proof of author’s articles.
Because of the few papers submitted by the deadline (December 14, 2002), the deadline period for the 2003 issue is moved to within the period April 1 to April 25 2003.
Please find enclosed letters from the previous editor, Prof. Peter McMillan and the neweditor, Prof. Peter O'Connor. For further information, please contact Prof. O’Connor.
The Office would like to express sincere gratitude to the Editor, Prof. McMillan andEditorial Board members, Professors Andrew Fitzsimons, Taketoshi Furomoto, RichardKelly, Ciaran Murray, Nobuaki Tochigi, Peter O’Connor, Mitsuko Ohno, Moynagh
Sullivan and Tetsuro Sano, for their hard and generous work to create our Journal.
The Office would appreciate it if those members who have published books would send
one review copy.
3. Plans for IASIL Japan 2003 Conference
At the committee meetings held on December 15, the Committee began to plan for the20th IASIL Japan Conference.
a)Time: October 12 & 13, 2002.

b)

Place: Waseda Universityc)

Conference Theme: Looking Forward, Looking Backd)

Guest Speakers: Cathal O Searcaigh(Among the economies that would have to be made were the reduction from two to one
in the number of guests to be invited to the 2003 Conference.)e) Symposia

i) Reading one short story of Frank O’Connor (Chair & Organizer: Prof. GeorgeHughes)ii) Short Irish Poems (Chair & Organizer: Prof. David Burleighf) Call for Papers!
Applicants for the paper reading are requested to send the office a synoposis by
the end of May. The following items must be either
1.

saved in FD and sent with a hard copy typed on A4-sized sheetsor2.

sent by e-mail as an attached file or as written in the message

Name, university or other affiliation, address, the title of your paper and a 250–
300 word summary.
Papers read at the Conference should be 3,000 words long and given within 20
minutes.
4. Request for Information of Your Publication
Please read the letter below from Prof. Kazuhiro Doki who is compiling the IASIL
bibliography for the year 2002 and send the information by the end of May 2003 toProf. Doki.
★★★★★
To IASIL members:
We are compiling the IASIL bibliography for the year 2002 (from January to December
to be published in the coming issue of the Journal of Irish Studies. Please send abibliography of your publications to Kazuhiro Doki by the end of May 2003. Thebibliography can include: books, articles, and translations. When you send yourbibliography, please pay attention to the following conditions:
1. Your bibliography should follow the Oxford Style Sheet. Here are some examples
below, and if you need more examples, please refer to the latest issue of the Journalof Irish Studies.
Ex. (1) Bourke, Angela, “Yeats and Irish Folklore in the 1890s”,

in Yeats Studies (Bulletin of The Yeats Society of Japan),30,

pp.3-22, 1999.

(2) Coote, Stephen, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Hodder and Stoughton(London), 612,
2. If your article is written in Japanese, please give the original title in Romaji after theEnglish title.
Ex. Izubuchi, Hiroshi, Dialogue with Yeats, Works of Izubuchi Hiroshi 1,Misuzu shobo (Tokyo), written in Japanese: Yeats to no Taiwa, Izubuchi
Hiroshi Chosaku shu 1.
3. In transcribing Japanese words into Romaji:(a) Follow the Hepburn system (ヘボン式), whose table you can find inKenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th ed, 1991.
Ex. Not ti but chi; not tu but tsu, etc.
(b) Do not use phonetic signs such as ∧ or − over vowels (macrons) in order toindicate their length.
(c) English names should be spelled in English. Do not transcribe into Romaji
even though the article is written in Japanese:
Ex. Not: Yeitsu to no Taiwa, but: Yeats to no Taiwa.
4. Please send your bibliographic details either by e-mail or by post to:Doki, Kazuhiro
1-2-302 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho
Kariya-city, Aichi 448-0001
e-mail: kdoki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp
5. IASIL 2003 in Hungary
Please find the information leaflet enclosed here. (For those who are receiving thisnewsletter by e-mail, please read another attached file.)
6. The 2002 Membership Fee
A postal transfer sheet is enclosed for those who have not paid the membershipfee. Please forgive us if the correspondence is crossed on the way.
Regular membership ¥8,000

Married couples ¥12,000
Student membership ¥5000. (Students who would like to receive IUR have to pay¥8,000).
For those who use the bank rather than the post office, please use the following bank:
Name of the Bank: UFJ Bank, Branch: Shogoin
Branch no: 445
Account no: 5006757
Under the name of : Hiroko Ikeda, IASIL-JAPAN Office
口座番号	  5006757
登録者名	  イアシル・ジャパン	  事務局	  池田寛子
店番	  445
銀行名	  UFJ	  銀行	  聖護院支店☆Professor Reiko Taniue will be our new Treasurer from April 2003. The officewould like to thank Prof. Hiroko Ikeda for her three years’ work.
7. Website
Thanks to Prof. O’Connor, the IASIL JAPAN website has been createdat http://www.musashino-wu.ac.jp/iasil-j/
8. “IASIL Japan”
The issue of abandoning the hyphen between IASIL and JAPAN in the title of ourAssociation, i.e. “IASIL-JAPAN” was raised at the Committee Meeting and it wasapproved. We will use “IASIL Japan” from now on.

*********IMPORTANT NOTICE***********
Because of the present financial situation, the Office would greatly appreciate it, if
you would find it acceptable to receive the newsletter only by e-mail. If you agree,
please send an e-mail toakiko-m@biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp
Sorry for the inconvenience. I would be grateful if you could say Yes.
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I would like to thank you all very much for your support for the disorganized andinsufficient Office for these three years. I also would like to apologize for all thecareless mistakes I have made, which certainly have been given you so muchinconvenience and hurt. I will try my best to create a better new Office for thenext three years. Please help me out as you always have. Please don’t hesitate togive me whatever opinions you have. I do appreciate your voice!
Akiko Manabe, Secretary of IASIL JAPANWISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

IASIL–JAPAN OFFICE
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Shiga University, Faculty of Economics
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