The Second EAJS Japan Conference
Faculty of Letters, Kobe University
24 – 25 September 2016

Conference Programme

Supported by The Japan Foundation

GREETINGS AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Saturday (24 Sept. 2016) 13:45-14:45, Rokko Hall
Greetings by Professor Bjarke FRELLESVIG (EAJS President)
Welcome Remarks by Professor Noriyuki INOUE (Vice President of Kobe University)
Keynote Speech by Dr Tamotsu AOKI (The National Art Center, Tokyo):Age of “Cultural Power” ―Japan, Asia and World「『文化力』の時代―日本とアジア・世界」

Sunday (25 Sept. 2016) 13:45-14:45, Rokko Hall
Introduction by Professor Bjarke FRELLESVIG (EAJS President)
Keynote speech by Professor Gabriele VOGT (University of Hamburg, Germany):
Crossing Borders: Japan and Europe in a Globalized WorldCULTURAL PROGRAMME
Saturday (24 Sept. 2016) 18:45, Takigawa Memorial Hall, 1F
Dinner Reception and performance by Kamigata Taiko (pre-registration online or on-site)

PROJECT DIRECTOR
LOCAL ORGANIZERS

VENUE

LUNCH
BOOK CORNER

Professor Bjarke FRELLESVIG, University of Oxford
Professor Noriyuki INOUE, Kobe University
Professor Nobuo KAZASHI, Kobe University
Professor Yoshikazu SUZUKI, Kobe University
Professor Kiyomitsu YUI, Kobe University
Kobe University, Faculty of Letters
Rokkodai Second Campus
Rokkodai-cho 1-1, Nada-ku, Kobe 6570013, Japan
Phone: +81 78 803 5561
Location on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/zACbzZ
Available at the campus restaurant (Bldg. 101) from 11:00
to 14:00 on Saturday and Sunday (no registration required)
In the east side of the campus restaurant (Bldg. 101)3

■ To Nearest Stations

Access Information● From Airports【Kobe Airport (神戸空港)】
Take the Kobe New Transit Port Liner Line and get off at the last stop “Sannomiya (三宮)” station(time required: 17 min). From “Sannomiya”，take a local train on Hankyu Railways, Kobe Linebound for “Umeda (梅田)” and get off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 5 min).
【Osaka International Airport (伊丹空港)】
Take the Osaka Monorail to the next stop “Hotarugaike (蛍池)” station. From “Hotarugaike,” takethe Hankyu Railways, Takarazuka Line bound for “Umeda (梅田)”．Get off at “Juso (十三)” andtransfer to a train bound for “Sannomiya (三宮)” or “Shinkaichi (新開地)” on the Kobe Line, thenget off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 1hour).
【Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港)】(1) Take JR Kansai Airport Line and get off at “Osaka” station (time required: 1 hour). Transfer to
JR Kobe Line and get off at “Rokkomichi (六甲道)” station (time required: 25 min).
(2) Take the Limousine Bus bound for “Kobe Sannomiya (神戸三宮)” (time required: 65 min).
From “Sannomiya (三宮)”, take a local train on Hankyu Railways, Kobe Line bound for “Umeda(梅田)” and get off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 5 min).

● From Shinkansen Departure and Arrival Stations【Shin-Kobe Station (新神戸)】
Take a train bound for "Sannomiya (三宮)" on the Kobe Municipal Subway (神戸市営地下鉄) andget off the next stop “Sannomiya (三宮)” station (time required: 2 min). From “Sannomiya”, take alocal train on Hankyu Railways (Kobe Line) bound for “Umeda” and get off at “Rokko” station(time required: 5 min).
【Shin-Osaka Station (新大阪)】
Take the JR Kobe Line (JR 神戸線) and get off at “Rokkomichi” Station (time required: 30 min).

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■ Around Rokkodai Second Campus（Please refer to the next page for orientation inside the campus）● From Nearest Stations【By Bus】
Take a Kobe City Bus No.36 (神戸市バス 36 系統) bound for "Turukabutodanchi (鶴甲団地)" or"Turukabuto-Nichome-Domari (鶴甲 2 丁目)" at Rokko, Hankyu Line (阪急六甲) or Rokkomichi,
JR Line (JR 六甲道) or Mikage, Hanshin Line (阪神御影) station and drop off at "ShindaiBunnrinougakubu-Mae (神大文理農学部前)" (time required: 10 - 25 min).
【By Taxi】
From Rokko sta. (Hankyu): 5 min., cir. 680 yen; from Rokkomichi sta. (JR): 10 min. cir. 1,000 yen.
From Mikage sta. (Hanshin): 10 min., cir. 1,240 yen.
From Shin-Kobe sta.: 15 min., cir 1,640 yen; from Sannomiya sta.: 20 min., cir. 2,120 yen.
【On Foot】
From Rokko sta. (Hankyu): 15 min.

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Rokkodai Second Campus Map● Main venue and Registration【96～98】Faculty of Letters (Bldg. A, B)● Sub-venue【90】Faculty of Agriculture (Bldg. B)【100】Takigawa Memorial Hall (Conference Rooms L1, L2. 2nd Floor)● Keynote speeches【102】Rokko Hall
● Dinner Reception【100】Takigawa Memorial Hall (1st Floor)● Lunch【101】Restaurant● Book display【101】In the east side of Restaurant
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Anthropology (JAWS) Section
Convenor: Carmen Tamas (Kobe University, Japan)

DAY ONE (Saturday, 24 September)

Panel I: The shifting structures and salience of homes, families and households in Japan
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B331
Chair: Richard Ronald (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)•••

Richard Ronald, Oana Druta (University of Amsterdam) & Maren Godzik (Fukuoka
University, Japan): Japan’s Urban Singles: Negotiating Alternatives to Family
Households and Standard Housing Pathways
Lynne Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong): Single Women andHousing Choices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai
Oana Druta (University of Amsterdam): Young adults’ pathways into homeownershipin Tokyo: shifting practices & meanings

Session 1
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B331•••

Charly Poisson (University Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin, France): Three representations of thefamily in the 2000s Japanese cinema
Nathalie Close (Sophia University, Japan): Film as research methodology: a case study
Maria Ibari Ortega (Australian National University, Australia): The mothers of men’s
tradition. Transmitting local heritage from the margins in Japan

Session 2
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204•••

Noriko Fujita (Waseda University, Japan): “Hatarakikata” as Discourse: For Whom?
For What?
Ludgera Lewerich (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany): Searching forand finding a better life in the countryside? Migration stories from rural Japan
Gurvan Maillard de la Morandais (Hiroshima University, Japan): A study of the retiree
contribution aspects to the revitalization process of Higashi-Hiroshima city rural areas

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Matthew Henry Wickens (Toyo University, Japan): Work as a Survival Strategy forHomeless Men in Tokyo, Japan

Session 3
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B331
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Andrea de Antoni (Ritsumeikan University, Japan): Call Me a Dog: Ritualized Affective
Correspondences, Inugami Possession and Exorcism in Contemporary Tokushima
Prefecture
Alina Radulescu (University of the Ryukyus, Japan): Praying for Rain in the Yaeyama
Islands – from state ritual to revival of tradition
Natasa Visocnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Festival as a social movement –Higashi Kujo Madang in Kyoto
Christian Goehlert (LMU Munich, Germany): Japanese Rituals of Pregnancy andChildbirth between Resurgence and Re-Interpretation

Session 4
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B331•••

Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University, Japan): The Power of 100 Yen – Larp in Japan
Clothilde Sabre (Hokkaido University, Japan): A trip to cuteness or a cute trip? The
promotion of ‘Kawaii Tourism’
Kyoko Koma (Meiji University, Japan): ‘Legitimation’ of Kawaii as a Japanese Culture
through Perpetual Acculturation?: A Case of Lolita Fashion Representations in Tokyo,
Paris, and Otaru

DAY TWO (Sunday, 25 September)

Panel II: Creating a Sense of Belonging, Community, and Self at Schools in Japan
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204
Chair: Jennifer McGuire (University of Oxford, UK)••

Gregory Poole (Doshisha University, Japan): Creating Community at Daycare:
Deflecting the power of the state
Yuki Imoto (Keio University, Japan): Revisiting International Preschools in Japan:
Reflections on the evolvement of the self and the field in ethnographic research

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Jennifer McGuire (University of Oxford): Integrated Education and Integrating Worlds:
Deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth and the creation of ibasho
Maki Tsuruta (Soka University, Japan): “Was Medicine Taken?”: The function of thecategory “medicine” and the social construction of ADHD in Japanese schools

Panel III: Rural areas in Japan—between decline and resurgence
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B331
Chair: Ralph Lützeler (University of Vienna, Austria)••••

Ralph Lützeler (University of Vienna): Living conditions in Japanese rural areas: Stuckin a downward spiral?
Barbara Holthus (University of Vienna): Parental well-being in Japan: Regional
differences
Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna): Rural well-being in Japan: Reexamining
the Aggregate Kumamoto Happiness Index
Johannes Wilhelm (University of Vienna): Vulnerability and resilience as seen in a
post-disaster rural environment

Session 5
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B331•••

Anya Benson (Chuo University): Becoming Purikyua: The creation of commercialized
identity spaces in the marketing of Purikyua
Nicola Pietro Bonaldi (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy): Male at Play: Understanding
Japanese Bishōjo Gēmu
William H. Kelly (University of Oxford, UK): Religious Encounters in the Rating andCensorship of video games in Japan and beyond

Session 6
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204•••

Eyal Ben-Ari (Kinneret Academic College, Israel): Good Repose for the Military Dead:Japan in Comparative Perspective
David Lewis (Yunnan University, China): Rituals of Sacrifice and Safety in a Japanese
Factory
Sebastien Penmellen Boret (Tohoku University, Japan): Remembering Disasters inJapan: Memorials, religion and the State

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Session 7
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B331••••

Emma Cook (Hokkaido University, Japan): Food Rituals and Food Allergies: School
Lunches in Contemporary Japan
Garcia St. Aubyn Chambers (Toyo University, Japan): The Ritual of Communal Bath inJapan: Perspectives from a Participant-Observer
Marta Elzbieta Szczygiel (Osaka University, Japan): “We’re cleaning up Japan” Western Role in the Social and Cultural Construction of Excrement in Japan
Adrian Ovidiu Tamas (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan): The Ritual of
Hygiene and the Practice of Purity—Daily Routines of Cleanliness13

Economy

Economy Section
Convenor: Simon James Bytheway (Nihon University, Japan)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Session 1
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B234•••

Simon James Bytheway (Nihon University): Yasuda Zaibatsu: Dissolution,
Reorganization, and Beyond
David Rear (Nihon University, Japan): Weakening the hegemony of Japanese-stylemanagement: discourse intervention through keywords
James Brady (Asia Pacific Institute of Research Osaka, Japan): Firms on the farm: anideational political economy analysis of corporations in Japanese agriculture

Session 2
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B234••

Pawel Pasierbiak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland): The Role of Japan in
East Asian Economic Regionalism
Joey Soehardjojo (Warwick Business School, United Kingdom): Transplantation ortransforming? Bringing Japanese Management Systems to Indonesia

Session 3
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B234•••

Lenka Vyletalova (Sophia University, Japan): Adjustments to the neoliberal market:‘global human resources’ development in Japan
Ryohei Nakagawa (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan): On wage negotiation
power and flat wages after the 2000s in Japan
Philippe Debroux (Soka University, Japan): Elderly workers in Japan and Germany

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Session 4
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B234••

Claude Levi Alvares (University of Hiroshima, Japan): Teachers professionalization
paradigm in question
Kai Macyowsky (Osaka University, Japan): Precarious Employment at Japanese
Universities - About the Work and Life of Hijōkin Kōshi

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History

History Section
Convenor: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University, Germany)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Session 1
09:00-11:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1•••

Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University, Germany): Kobe and the Meiji Restoration:
Diplomats, Merchants, and the Global Arms Trade
Giulio Bertelli (Osaka University, Japan): The role of Italian diplomats in Japan fromthe end of the Edo period to early Meiji era (1866-1870)
Ian Ruxton (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan): Ernest Satow's visits to Japan
from Siam

Session 2
11:15-12:30, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1••Jürgen Paul Melzer (Yamanashi Gakuin, Japan): From Zero Fighters to Cherry Blossom
Suicide Attackers: Japanese Aeronautical Innovation During World War II
Judit Erika Magyar (Waseda University, Japan): Advertising in total war: changes ingovernment directives between 1938-1945 depicted in Shashin Shuho

Panel I: Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times
15:00-17:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1
Chair: Michiko Ikuta (Osaka University, Japan)
Discussant: Yulia Mikhailova (Hiroshima City University, Japan)•••

Katsumi Fujiwara (Osaka University, Japan): Women as Consumers in Harbin –Focusing on Department Stores
Naho Igaue (Chuo University, Japan): Interethnic Marriages in Japanese Novels Set in“Manchukuo”: Relationship between Russian Migrants and Asian People
Michiko Ikuta (Osaka University, Japan): The Imprisonment of Women in Siberia

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Session 3
17:15-18:30, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1••

Sergey Tolstoguzov (Hiroshima University, Japan): Takashima Shūhan and financeproblems in Japan in Tenpo period
Petra Palmeshofer (University of Vienna, Austria): The Visualization of History in
Aesop´s Fables in Japan - Victorian Illustration versus Kawanabe Kyōsai´s Depiction of
Meiji History in Caricatures

DAY TWO: Sunday (25 September)

Panel II: East-Asia and the International Order after the Great War: Prospects, Hopes, andDisappointments
09:00-11:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1
Chair: Tosh Minohara (Kobe University, Japan)
Discussant: Torsten Weber (DIJ German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan)•

Clinton Godart (Hokkaido University, Japan): Future War and Future Peace after 1919:
Military Affairs and Religion in the Thought of Ishiwara Kanji•

Junghoon Lee (University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea): The Shanghai Provisional
Government and the Myth of an Emergence of a Modern Nationalist State in Korea•

Aleksandra Babovic (Kobe University, Japan): The International Order after the GreatWar and Creation of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Session 4
11:15-12:30, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1•

Egas Moniz Bandeira (Tohoku University, Japan): Japanese stances towards Chineseconstitutionalism, 1906-1909

Panel III: The structure and function’s transfiguration of the nationalism in Japan
Chair: Katsuji Nara (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)••

Katsuji Nara (Ritsumeikan University, Japan): Aizawa Seishisai’s thought of order inthe Bakumatsu Period: through the analysis of mails to his nephew
Takuma Sato (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea): The Seduction of "NuclearNationalism": A Page of Anti-Americanism nationalism

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Session 5
15:00-17:00 Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L1•••

Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan): Balance of Favour: The emergenceof territorial boundaries around Japan, 1861-1875
Sigfrid Östberg (University of Oxford, UK): Between Crisis and Innovation: Japanese–
Korean Frontier Diplomacy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Marco Tinello (Hosei University, Japan): The Annexation of Ryukyu to Japan throughthe lens of the Ryukyuan International Treaties

Session 6
15:00-17:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L2••

Giovanni Borriello (Tuscia University, Italy): Women in Japanese medicine. A
comparative analysis of women's role in medicine between East and West
Astghik Hovhannisyan (Hitotsubashi University, Japan): A Rational Coalition? Ōta
Tenrei’s Defense of Birth Control, Eugenics, and Euthanasia

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Interdisciplinary Section
Convenor: Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford, UK)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Panel I: Mapping Trends, Mapping Identities: Material Cultural Exchange Between Japanand its Neighbours
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101
Chair: Jennifer Coates (Kyoto University, Japan)•••

Ikuko Wada (Okayama University, Japan): Designing National Aesthetics: SeventeenthCentury Textile Trade between Japan and India
Katsura Koishi (Kyoto University, Japan): Cho-cho san no kibō: Considering Japan’s
Hopeful Attitudes to International Encounter
Jennifer Coates (Kyoto University): Imported Trends on Japanese Bodies: American
Aesthetics in Postwar Japanese Cinema

Panel II: Film, Journal and the Japanese Empire: Imagining the Other and the Self in the20th century
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204
Chair: Fei Chen (University of Tokyo, Japan)•••

Jihye Chung (University of Tokyo): The Imagination of Koreans in Moving Images in
Early Postwar Japan
Le Wang (University of Tokyo): Negotiation between Propaganda and Entertainment:
the Imagination of Manchukuo in “National Policy Films”
Fei Chen (University of Tokyo): Locating Yunnan in the Qing Empire and Asia: theGeographical Imagination of Chinese Provinces among the Chinese Students in Japan,
1906-1911

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Interdisciplinary

Session 1: Cheerleading
09:00-11:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L2•••

Hirofumi Iwatani (Kobe University, Japan): A Case study of changes in Japanese stylesof cheering: Focusing on unique body performances of a college cheerleading group
Norio Niwa (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan): Cultivating a self-disciplined,
resourceful and respectable leader: how ritualistic behaviors among cheerleadinggroups in Japanese universities have changed
Kayo Yoshida (Kobe University, Japan): Engendering “Cheer up!”: Change of Women’sRole in the Japanese College Cheerleading Groups

Session 2: Japanese Cinema
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101••

Leena Eerolainen (University of Helsinki, Finland): The monstrous masculine inJapanese kaiki eiga
Fernando Ortiz-Moya (University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China): U-Turn and the
pursuit of Happiness: the “back to basics” Japanese Cinema

Session 3: Place and Heritage
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204••

Golani Solomon Erez (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel) and Christian
Dimmer (Waseda University, Japan): Heritagisation in pre-2020 Olympic Tokyo —Discourses around the City’s Modernist Built Legacy
Abhik Chakraborty (Wakayama University, Japan): Alpine Tourism and Place-Making
in Contemporary Japan

Panel III: Staying Hopeful in the Periphery: Multiple Marginalization in Rural Japan
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101
Chair: Hisako Omori (Akita International University, Japan)••

Chikako Nagayama (Akita International University, Japan): Colonial Interpretations ofan Aboriginal Girl 's Life and Death
Sean O’Reilly (Akita International University, Japan): Fighting Blind: Zatoichi as a
Symbol of Hope for the Marginalized in Japanese History
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Hisako Omori (Akita International University, Japan): "There is Something about
Mary": The Global Prominence and Local Marginalization of the Marian Apparition in
Akita

Session 4: Old Age and Ageing
15:00-17:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L2•••

Steve Chan (SIM University, Singapore): Ageing in Place: Housing for Seniors in Japanand Singapore
Celia Spoden (Düsseldorf University, Germany): Differing approaches to terminal carefor people with dementia in a Japanese and a German nursing home
Maren Godzik (Fukuoka University, Japan): Old Age and Ageing in Contemporary
Japanese Art

Session 5: Art and Design
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101••

Hitomi Asano (Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University, Japan): A New Interpretation ofWestern Style Paintings Found on Folded Screens
Delphine Vomscheid (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Japan): Zashiki: the essenceof the Japanese dwelling?

Session 6: Disaster and Recovery
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204••

Anna Vainio (Tohoku University, Japan): Un-pausing Communities in Tohoku: Social
Construction of Recovery and the Future by Grassroots Actors
Flavia Fulco (Sophia University, Japan): Kataribe tours: performance of storytelling in
post-disaster Tohoku

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DAY TWO: Sunday (25 September)

Session 7: Contemporary Issues in Japanese Studies
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101•••

Bojana Yamamoto-Pavlasevic (Kobe University, Japan): Child-centrism in Japan
Wolfgang Herbert (University of Tokushima, Japan): Schism in the Japanese
underworld: the Yakuza on the way to extinction
Yasuo Shimizu (Doshisha University, Japan): Japanese Running Taboo

Session 8: Popular Culture
09:00-11:00, Takigawa Memorial Hall, Conference Room L2•••

Maria Grajdian (Nagasaki University, Japan): Precariousness and Vulnerability: Love,melancholia and anomie in Makoto Shinkai’s anime works
Marco Pellitteri (Kobe University, Japan): From muscular to feminine, from cool tokawaii Shifts in trends, meanings, and audience of anime in Italy in the 1990s
Kamila Sosnowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland): The faces of kawaii - anaesthetical trend, a social device and globalised culture

Session 9: Nikkei and Japanese Abroad
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101••

Yvonne Siemann (University of Lucerne, Switzerland): Undokai in the Japanesediaspora: the example of Bolivian Nikkei
Ana Sueyoshi (Utsunomiya University, Japan): Second Generation of South Americans
in the Japanese Higher Education System and their Academic Performance

Session 10: Rural Renewal
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B204•

Rebecca Ferderer (Nagoya University, Japan): Extending the Protection of
Geographical Indications to Non-Agricultural Products as a Strategy for Rural
Revitalization in Japan
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Kenji Nagasaka (Doshisha University, Japan): Can Japanese greening NGO be an
integrator of scientific knowledge transfer for afforestation? Case of Green Earth
Network Japan

Panel IV: Imagined Landscapes and Boundaries: Negotiating Cultural Geography throughFilm
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Agriculture, Room B101
Chair: Anastasia Fedorova (Hokkaido University, Japan)•••

Hironori Itoh (Kyoto University, Japan): The Expressway and the Shinkansen: Imagesof Tokyo in the Films of Ozu, Wenders, and Kiarostami
Mari Sugawa (Nara Prefectural University, Japan): The Struggle of Female
Independence in Postwar Kyoto Cinema
Anastasia Fedorova (Hokkaido University, Japan): Documenting the Border: Imperial
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Language and Linguistics

Language and Linguistics Section
Convenor: Anna Bordilovskaya (Rikkyo University, Japan)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Session 1
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B135••

Mark Irwin (Yamagata University, Japan): Rendaku and Labial Lenition
Junko Hayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan): The Types of Intentional Interrogatives inModern Japanese Language

Session 2
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B135••

Anna Bordilovskaya (Rikkyo University, Japan): Foreign Culture Frame inContemporary Japanese: A Corpus-based Case Study of Loanword Modifiers
Bernhard Seidl (Vienna University, Austria): Negotiating description and prescription:
Language criticism in Japanese newspapers

DAY TWO: Sunday (25 September)

Session 3
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B135••

Ekaterina Levchenko (Independent Researcher, Russia): "Kojiki" and "Nihon Shoki"
songs: New academic translations in Russian with glossing and morphemic analyses
Julie Brock (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan): How to translate a poem
"poetically" or "the meaning of the meaning" – The example of a waka of the
Man'yōshū (Book 9, n°1778)

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Session 4
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B135••

Martin Parsons and Mark D. Sheehan (Hannan University, Japan): Promoting active
learning through collaborative problem-solving at a university student conference inJapan
Blanche Sylvie Delaborde (INALCO, France): The Expressive and Narrative Power ofGraphic Onomatopoeia in Japanese Comics: the example of Bonobono (1986-Today)

Panel I: Internships for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, Portfolios and E-learning
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B135
Chair: Richard Harrison (Kobe University, Japan)•••

Masao Sanehiro (Kobe University): Internships in Teaching Japanese As a Foreign
Language
Miyako Kiso (Kobe University): Portfolios in Teaching Japanese As a Foreign Language
at The University of Hamburg – a case study using Literary Works
Richard Harrison (Kobe University): Portfolios in the Teaching of Japanese as a
Foreign/Second Language - E-Portfolios and Flipped Classrooms

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Literature Section
Convenor: Paul Schalow (Rutgers University, United States of America)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Panel I: From Modernism through Digital Culture in Japan: Poetry and the Visual
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B232
Chair: Jordan A. Y. Smith (Josai International University, Japan)
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Tanya Barnett (University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America): The
Red of Putrefying Decadence: Landscapes of the Interior and Exterior in the Works of
Murayama Kaita
Marianne Simon-Oikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan): Poetry and Space: The
Collaborative Poems of Niikuni Seiichi and Pierre GarnierAndrew Campana (Harvard University, United States of America): Moving Hands, Still
Feet: Japanese Poetry and Visualizing Disability
Jordan A. Y. Smith (Josai International University, Japan): Visual Poetry ofContemporary Japan: Medium+Message / Analogue+Digital Modes

Session 1
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B232••

Laura Imai Messina (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan): Material/Immaterial,
Useful/Useless Dichotomies in Kusuri yubi no hyōhon by Ogawa Yōko
Elena Giannoulis (Free University of Berlin, Germany): Forms and Functions of
Emoticons in Japanese Literature

Session 2
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B232••

Alina Anton (Kobe University, Japan): The Asian Body in North American Context:
Visual and Literary Racialization(s)Tomoko Aoyama (University of Queensland, Australia): The Significance of Girls'
Intertextuality in Nogami Yaeko's Mori

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Kathryn M. Tanaka (Otemae University, Japan): Literature as Social Activism andReconciliation: Survivor writing and the meaning of Hansen’s disease in Japan

Session 3
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B232••

Dylan McGee (Nagoya University, Japan): Cures for the Common Reader:
Advertisements for Cosmetic and Medicinal Products in the Daisō Rental Books (17671899)
Mario Talamo (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France): The sleep of reason
produces monsters: katakiuchimono and the sunset of Kansei ideology

DAY TWO: Sunday (25 September)

Panel II: Female Homosocial Bonds in Modern Japanese Literature
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B232
Discussant: Yoriko Kume (Nihon University, Japan)••••

Junko Yamada Noro (Ochanomizu University, Japan): Female Relationships in Takeo
Arishima’s Kurara no shukke: Representation of Christianity in Japanese Literature
Yumi Kikuchi (Ochanomizu University): The heroine‘s desire for female bonding inNomizo Naoko’s novel Jojū Shinri
Shoko Haga (Ochanomizu University): Tightening bonds between women: serialized
novels in women’s magazines of Taishō and early Shōwa
Letizia Guarini (Ochanomizu University): Are Women Their Own Worst Enemies?
Female Bonds in Kakuta Mitsuyo’s works

Session 4
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B234•••

Yuko Kawarai (Osaka University, Japan): The reception of “The Tale of Genji”
regarding laments for empress consort Kenshi
Paul Schalow (Rutgers University, United States of America): Memory of Fujiwara no
Yorinaga (1120-1156)
Berenice Moeller (University of Hamburg, Germany): Practices of re-binding in early
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Session 5
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B232••

Irina Holca (Kyoto University, Japan): Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a
Man’s Heart Goes through His Stomach: Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana)
Toshio Takemoto (University of Lille, France): Murakami Haruki and the novel writer's
literary expression of political involvement

Session 6
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B232•••

Larry Walker (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan): “Voice” in the Knopf Translation ofMishima Yukio’s Spring Snow
Stefan Wuerrer (The University of Tokyo, Japan): Negotiations on Femininity in the
Literary Works of Kusama Yayoi
Azumi Kawahara (Ritsumeikan University, Japan): “Kachiku-jin Yapoo” and Post-War
Historiography: Relation between Syozo Numa’s Masochism and Japanese History

Session 7
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B234•••

Pieter Van Lommel (University of Tsukuba, Japan): The educational novel in Meiji
Japan
Akiyo Suzuki (Kanazawa University, Japan): The ingestion and rewriting of Japaneseclassical literature inside the English drama of Torahiko Kori
Mami Fujiwara (Yamaguchi University, Japan): Plagiarism or Rewriting?—Osamu
Dazai’s literary collage, Onna no Kettō (A Woman’s Duel), a Re-told Story

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Politics

Politics Section
Convenor: Ayako Kusunoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Panel I: Japan’s Postwar Path from the Paradigm of National Security: The Shifting Patternsof US-Japan Strategic Relations, 1950s-1980s
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B231
Chair: Nam Chang-hee (Inha University, Korea)
Discussants: Yasuyo Sakata (Kanda University of International Studies, Japan)
and Chisako T. Masuo (Kyushu University, Japan)
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Tomoaki Hagito (Kobe University; Japan): U.S.-Japan Relations within the Context ofAmerican Security Interests in East Asia during the 1950s
Shiro Sato (Osaka International University, Japan): Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear
Umbrella in US-Japan Relations
Ayako Kusunoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan): The
Establishment of the Japan Foundation and U.S.-Japan Relations during the early
1970s
Wataru Yamaguchi (Doshisha University, Japan): Formation and Development of
Reagan’s Foreign Policy toward Japan during the 1980s

Session 1
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B231••

Nissim Otmazgin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): From Colonial Powerto Soft Power: Japan's Cultural Policy in Asia
Tets Kimura (Flinders University, Australia): Japanese fashion limited: Its soft power(in)ability in Australia

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Panel II: Japan’s Proactive Engagement in the International Development and Peace
Cooperation
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B231
Chair: Raymond Yamamoto (Osaka University, Japan)••••

Carla Bringas (Osaka University, Japan): Japan's aid food security strategy: comparing
strategies in Cerrado and Prosavana
Misato Matsuoka (The University of Warwick, Japan): Japan’s Proactive Pacifism andthe ODA Policy: Changing Foreign and Security Policymaking?
Masumi Owa (Nagoya College, Japan): Japan’s aid: self-interest or enlightened selfinterest
Raymond Yamamoto (Osaka University, Japan): Japan’s Security Reforms—
Implications for the Country’s Peacekeeping Engagement

Session 2
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B231••

Jan Niggemeier (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany): Embrace the Global, but How? Japanese Social Movements as Strategic Agents in Transnational Diffusion
Ioan Trifu (Goethe-University Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany): Japan’s Cultural
Heritage Policy: Postwar Identity Politics, Residual Tensions, and Emerging
Governance

DAY TWO: Sunday (25 September)

Panel III: Civil Society and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B231
Chair: Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu (Rice University, United States of America)•••

Lily Gardner Feldman (Johns Hopkins University, United States of America): German
Civil Society and Reconciliation: Lessons for Japan?
Seiko Mimaki (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan): Emerging Global EpistemicCommunity? The Possible Roles of Scholars in Northeast Asian Reconciliation
Andrew Horvat (Josai International University, Japan): The Japanese News Media’s
Role in Historical Reconciliation – a Question of Sustainability

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Session 3
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B231••

Susanne Brucksch (DIJ German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan):Innovation Governance in the Field of Medical Technologies: The newly foundedJapan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
Hadas Kushelevich (Osaka University, Japan): The Future Reputation of Japan’
Pharmaceutical Market

Session 4
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B231••

Tatsuro Chiba (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain): Japan’ Foreign Policy in the Post
Cold War PeriodDavid Adebahr (LMU Munich, Germany): Abe's pivot south – implications for Japan's
current security policy in Asia

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Religion and Philosophy

Religion and Philosophy Section
Convenor: Christian Hermansen (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

DAY ONE: Saturday (24 September)

Session 1
09:00-11:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B334••

David Malitz (Assumption University, Thailand): Discipline and progress: ThaiBuddhist modernity and its imaginations of the Japanese
Christian Hermansen (Kwansei Gakuin University): Shinreisan or the Thomsen Farm the story of a mission project in Japan

Session 2
11:15-12:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B334••

Michiko Hirama (Toho Gakuen College, Tokyo, Japan): Sumai (相撲) Rituals as
Imperial Performance Ceremonies in the Ancient Japanese Court (seventh to tenthcentury): Introduction of the Chinese Baixi (百戯) Festival and the Social Importanceof Konoefu (近衛府) Music and Dance
Paola Cavaliere (Osaka University, Japan): Testing the empowerment thesis: atypology of Religious Civil Society Organizations in Japan

Session 3
15:00-17:00, Faculty of Letters, Room B334•••

Jon Morris (Komazawa Women's University, Japan): Toward a Social and IntellectualHistory of Mokujiki
Roman Pașca (Kanda University of International Studies, Japan): Nature as an
ontological principle: on Ando Shoeki’s concept of gosei (“mutual natures”)
Jordanco Sekulovski (Kobe University, Japan): The Way of Kâta: Rethinking Selfhood
through Japanese and Non-standard philosophy

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Session 4
17:15-18:30, Faculty of Letters, Room B334••

Claudia Marra (Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Japan): Hanjimono (判じ物 )leading to Enlightenment - The Pictural Heart Sutra (般若絵心経 )Mihaela Lacramioara Sighinas (Kobe University, Japan): On the Interpretation of
Pilgrimage Songs in Early Modern Japan

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