The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)PROGRAM
Information correct as of June 23, 2011. This online program reflects changes made after the conference
program was printed. A list of changes will be provided as an insert in the printed program.

Registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25. The conference venue is University Hall,International Christian University (ICU). Directions are available on our web site. When you arrive at

ICU, please allow time to walk to University Hall from the bus or taxi stop. This will take about fiveminutes. Also allow time to pick up your registration materials in Entrance Hall (first floor),
including name card, program, and conference bag. Donuts and coffee or tea will be available in a
lounge room on the second floor.
You should arrive at your room 5-10 minutes before the session starts. All rooms are equipped withprojector, video, DVD player, and overhead projector. A computer installed with PowerPoint will beavailable in each room for use by presenters. If you are planning to show a PowerPoint, copy yourPowerPoint file onto the desktop of the computer provided, and open the file so that it will be readywhen it is your turn to speak.
Each session has a total of 120 minutes. Papers will be given in the order listed on the program.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SATURDAY JUNE 25
9:00 –
Registration
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 1–6
12:00 NOON – 1:15 P.M. Lunch break
12:10 P.M.–1:05 P.M.
“Meet the Editors”
1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Sessions 7–13
3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Sessions 14–21
6:00 P.M. – 6:40 P.M.
Keynote Address: “Comprehending Disaster from Afar”
7:00 P.M. – 8:50 P.M.
Reception
SUNDAY JUNE 26
9:15 –
Registration
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
ASCJ Business Meeting
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 22–29
12:10 P.M. – 1:20 P.M.
Lunch and Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Sessions 30–36
3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.
Sessions 37–43

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SATURDAY JUNE 25
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room 205
Konkatsu, Matchmaking and Media in Contemporary Japan
Organizer: Sally McLaren, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Chair: Laura Dales, University of Western Australia
1) Laura Dales, University of Western Australia“Become happy!”: Konkatsu and the Ideals of Marriage2) Sally McLaren, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts and Asuka Tomaru, Bunkyo Gakuin
University
The Konkatsu Boom and the Japanese Media3) Erika Alpert, University of Michigan/ Kyoto University
Modern Matchmaking: Language, Gender, and Arranged Marriage in Contemporary Kansai
Discussant: Beverley Yamamoto, Osaka University

Session 2: Room 213
Embodiment, Identity Construction and Connecting Local and Translocal Spaces in Okinawa
and Taiwan
Organizer: Mei-ling Chien, National Chiao Tung University
Chair: Shu-jung Lin, National Tsing Hua University
1) Shu-jung Lin, National Tsing Hua University
Cultivating an Environmentally Conscious Self: Social Engagement through Organic Food Production in
Taiwan2) Hsueh-cheng Yen, National Taiwan University
How Tea Competition is Possible? Embodying Hierarchy and Manufacturing of Subjectivity
3) Mei-ling Chien, National Chiao Tung University
Constituting the Everydayness and Hakka Identity through the Narration of Singing and Listening to Folk
Songs4) Chi-fang Chao, Taipei National University of the Arts
Dancing and the Aesthetics of ‘Human Relationship’ in Taketomi, Southern Okinawa
Discussant: David Y. H. Wu, University of Hawai`i

Session 3: Room 252
Murakami Haruki: A Call for Academic Attention
Organizer: Gitte Marianne Hansen, University of Cambridge/Waseda University
Chair: Norihiro Kato, Waseda University
1) Gitte Marianne Hansen, University of Cambridge/Waseda University
From 1982 to 1Q84: Murakami Haruki’s Female Narrative-works
2) Chikako Nihei, Sydney University
It’s All in the Self: Boku’s Isolation in Hear the Wind Sing3) Midori Tanaka Atkins, SOAS, University of London
Murakami Haruki: Neo-modern Narratives and their Delicate Distance against the “Other”
Discussant: Norihiro Kato, Waseda University

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Session 4: Room 303
The Economic Crisis and Its Consequences for the Migrant Families, Employment and
Education
Organizer/Chair: Edson Urano, University of Tsukuba
1) Maria Rosario Piquero-Ballescas, Toyo University
Impact of Economic Crisis on Filipino Migrants in Japan
2) Gracia Liu-Farrer, Waseda University
Survivors of Economic Depression: The Chinese Migrants in Japan
3) Lucia E. Yamamoto, Shizuoka University, JapanThe Impact of the Financial Crisis on Brazilian Children’s Education in Japan
4) Edson Urano, University of Tsukuba
The Economic Crisis as an Opportunity for Reflection on the Needs of Transnational Social Agenda: The
Case of the Brazilian Migrant Workers in Japan
Discussant: Hirohisa Takenoshita, Shizuoka University

Session 5: Room 314
Individual Papers on Conflict, Cooperation and Cooptation in Contemporary Asia
Chair: Koichiro Matsuda, Rikkyo University
1) Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
Consequences of the Backlash against State Feminism: Fighting Back, Backpedaling, and Turning Backto Men2) Jamyung Choi, University of Pennsylvania
Blooming Students’ Middle-class: The Red Gate Consumption Cooperative and Student Life at Tōdai
3) Yae Sano and Misato Kimura, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University
Environmental Volunteerism in Japan
4) Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Advent of Vulnerability: Perceptions of Crisis in Present-Day Japan
5) Zeying Wu, Lingnan University
Does Patriotic Education Lead to Anti-Japanese Sentiments in China?
6) Yongming Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Agent of Change: Road Building and Global Positioning in Southwest China

Session 6: Room 352
Sounds and Melodies, Words and Games: The Practice of Everyday Life in the Japanese
Empire and Thereafter
Organizer: Takashi Mitsui, The University of Tokyo
Chair: Helen Lee, Yonsei University
1) Helen Lee, Yonsei University
Education of Imperial Desire: Play and Games in the Imperial Classroom2) Kyounghwa Lim, Inha University
Listen to the Voices from the Neighbors and Sing along: the Images of Korea in the Leftist Movement inJapan, 1945–1955
3) Takashi Mitsui, The University of Tokyo
The Words that Speak the History: Lived History in Korean Words
Discussant: Joseph Murphy, University of Florida

LUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.

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LUNCHTIME SESSION: 12:10 A.M.–13:00 P.M.
Room: 253
Meet the Editors
Organizer/Chair: Axel Klein, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Managing Editor, Contemporary Japan
Participants:
Emma Barber (Asia Pacific World)
Tom Blackwood (Social Science Japan Journal)
John Breen (Japan Review)
Ben Dorman (Asian Ethnology)
Takashi Inoguchi (Japanese Journal of Political Science)
Axel Klein (Contemporary Japan)
Paul Swanson (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies)This special lunchtime session offer a short introduction to peer-reviewed journals on Japan and an
opportunity to meet their managing editors. Participants are welcome to bring (and eat) their lunch
during the session.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Session 7: Room 213
Medical Discourses as Social Discourses: Understanding Japan through the Lens of Infectious
Disease, 1868 to the Present
Organizer: Pamela Runestad, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Chair: Akihito Suzuki, Keio University
1) Akihito Suzuki, Keio University
Germs and the Making of Modern Japan: Etiologies of Cholera during the Meiji Period
2) Takeshi Nagashima, Senshu University
The “Kawasaki Dysentery” and the “Imperial Capital” in 1935
3) Waka Hirokawa, Osaka University
Understanding Modern Japan Through Epidemiological Patterns of Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy), 1880s–
1940s4) Pamela Runestad, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Rural and Urban, “Us” and “Them”: Understanding Contemporary Japan through Museum
Representations of HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Discussant: Yuriko Tanaka, Kyoto University

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Session 8: Room 252
Exploring Issues of Diversity and Human Rights in Japan from a Feminist Perspective(Roundtable)
Organizer/Chair: Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo Eiwa University
1) Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
2) Kaoru Aoyama, Kobe University3) Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo Eiwa University
4) Sachiko Kaneko, Japan Women’s University5) Leny P. Tolentino, Kalakasan Migrant Women Empowerment Center & Solidarity Network with Migrants
Japan

Session 9: Room 253
Performative Aspects of Noh in Historical and Contemporary Works
Organizer/Chair: Titanilla Mátrai, Waseda University, Theatre Museum
1) Violetta Brazhnikova Tsybizova, Waseda University
The Sense of the Seasons in Noh Costumes: Yūya, a Case Study
2) Titanilla Mátrai, Waseda University, Theatre Museum
Theatrical Elements in Shindō Kaneto’s film Kuroneko
3) Yusuke Suzumura, Hosei University
Noh in the Classroom: The Situation of Noh Education in High School Music Classes
Discussants: Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
Akiko Takeuchi, Hosei University

Session 10: Room 303
China’s 1911 Revolution: Winners, Losers, and Japanese Supporters
Organizer: Demin Tao, Kansai University
Chair: Yoshiko Okamoto, International Christian University
1) Fan Jing, Kansai University
From Student to Revolutionary: Yan Xishan’s Transformation in 1900s Tokyo
2) Chen Si, Kansai University
The Fates of Zhao Erxun and Zhao Erfeng: A Tale of Two Brothers and the 1911 Revolution3) Weiwei Shen, Kansai University
Japan and the 1911 Revolution: Tsuyoshi Inukai as Faithful Supporter of Sun Yat-sen
Discussants: Demin Tao, Kansai University
Yoshiko Okamoto, International Christian University

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Session 11: Room 314
Individual Papers on Transwar Asia
Chair: Curtis Gayle, Japan Women's University
1) Chrissie Reilly, US Army Staff Historian/UMBC
Whaling Policy in Japan during WWII and Postwar Occupation
2) Kiyoshi Ueda, Hosei University“State” Shinto in Postwar Japan: Association for Studies of Japan as a Case Study
3) Takuma Melber, University of Mainz/Waseda University
Allied Studies concerning Morale, Psychology and Mindset of Japanese POWs in World War II
4) Kaori Saito, the Australian National University/Waseda University
Can Japan Compete with “Emerging Donors”? Aid Policy for Cambodia
5) Jonathan Ping, Bond University
China’s Relations with South Asia: From Threat Avoidance to Development Opportunity

Session 12: Room 316
Rethinking the Japanese Immigrant History[panel withdrawn]

Session 13: Room 352
Contesting Visions: Japanese (Language) Literature under the Shadow of Empire
Organizer: Mariko Naito, The University of Tokyo
Chair: Christina Yi, Columbia University
1) Pau Pitarch Fernández, Columbia University
A Cosmopolitan in the Colonies: Sato Haruo’s Writings on Taiwan
2) Christina Yi, Columbia University“But Where are the Mothers?”: Interrogating the Gendered Aporia of Empire3) Akito Sakasai, The University of Tokyo
The Radiant Darkness: Post-war Black-market Narratives4) Mariko Naito, The University of Tokyo
Conflicting Visions of the Past in Postwar Films
Discussant: Toshiko Ellis, The University of Tokyo

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Session 14: Room 205
The Minor Corporeality Exhibited in China and Taiwan
Organizer/Chair: Ta-wei Chi, Chengchi University
1) Guo Jie, University of South Carolina“Deep” Metamorphosis: The Desiring Body in Farewell My Concubine
2) Wen-chu Huang, Chengchi University
The Impotence of Being Romantic3) Ta-wei Chi, Chengchi University
The Rhetoric Spoken for the Silenced
Discussant: Angela Yiu, Sophia University

Session 15: Room 252
International Japaneseness? Art and Architecture in Early 20th-Century Japan
Organizer: Yu Kishi, International Christian University
Chair: Mari Takamatsu, New York University
1) Daiki Amanai, JSPS Researcher
Nationalism and Engineering: Japanese Architectural Discourse in the Early Twentieth Century2) Yu Kishi, International Christian University
Rethinking Imperial Crown Style: Architecture and Society in 1930’s Japan3) Kyoko Ozawa, The University of Tokyo
Narrating a History of Forms: From the Works of Yukio Yashiro
Discussant: Mari Takamatsu, New York University

Session 16: Room 253
The Transmission of Asian Buddhist Thought and Imagery
Organizer/Chair: Hillary Pedersen, Italian School of East Asian Studies
1) Catherine Ludvik, Stanford Japan Center
Benzaiten and Ugajin: The Skillful Combining of Deities
2) Hillary Pedersen, Italian School of East Asian Studies
The Jingoji Godai Kokūzō Bosatsu Sculptures and Ninth-century Japanese Religious Multivalence
3) Karen Mack, Atomi Women’s University
Amida Worship and Pure Land Visualization: Central Asian or Not?
Discussant: Patricia Fister, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Session 17: Room 303
Reconsidering Ero Guro Nansensu in the Context of Wartime Japan
Organizer/Chair: Nathen Clerici, University of British Columbia/Hokkaido University
1) Nathen Clerici, University of British Columbia/Hokkaido University
War and Nation in the Fiction of Yumeno Kyūsaku
2) Yuichi Kuroiwa, Hitotsubashi University
Transformations in Ero guro nansensu: Reading Edogawa Ranpo’s Kotō no oni3) Kaori Yoshida, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Cartooning the Other: Shifts in Animalized Manifestation in War Manga
Discussant: Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University

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Session 18: Room 314
Individual Papers on Migration and Society in Modern Asia
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University
1) Frédéric Roustan, Hitotsubashi University
Challenging Colonial Domination: The Legal Categorisation of Japanese Migrants in French Indochina2) Linh Vu, University of California at Berkeley
Carless and Careless Natives: Car Accidents in French Indochina3) Yves Berna, University of Mainz
Political Aspects of the Escape of European Jews to Shanghai during WWII: The Role of Ho Feng-shan
and the Chinese Bureaucracy in the Escape of 20,000 Jews from Europe to China/Shanghai
4) Benny Teh, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Japanese Community under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) Program5) Shakil Ahmed, University of Tsukuba
Civil Society of Bangladesh: Depoliticized in Working Agenda but Politicized in Power Relation

Session 19: Room 316
Trans-Pacific Alliances and Negotiations: U.S., Canadian, and Japanese Women and Private
Education for Japanese Women, 1873–1945
Organizer/Chair: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
1) Linda Johnson, Concordia College
Evangelists for Women’s Education: The Collaboration of Tsuda Umeko and Alice M. Bacon
2) Sally Hastings, Purdue University
Mount Holyoke College: Teachers to Japan, Students from Japan
3) Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
Toyo Eiwa Jogakko: Accommodating to Survive in Wartime Japan
Discussant: Noriko Ishii, Otsuma Women’s University

Session 20: Room 351
Individual Papers on Everyday Life and Health in Transwar Asia
Chair: Gavin Whitelaw, International Christian University
1) Winifred Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Imperiled Stronghold or Certain Victory: Between Everyday Life and Extraordinary Performance inColonial Taiwan, 1937–1945
2) Arnel Joven, University of the Philippines
Colonial Appropriation of Medicine and Health-Seeking Behaviour in the Philippines during the Japanese
Occupation Period
3) Wai Shing Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Reexamining Hong Kong Medical History under Japanese Occupation: Using HonKon Nippō (HongKong News) as the Main Reference4) Victoria Lee, Princeton University
Microbial Transformations: The Japanese Domestication of Penicillin Production, 1946-1951
5) Franck Michelin, Meiji University
Hawks vs. Doves? The Analysis of the Occupation of Northern French Indochina Process as a Way toTranscend a Historical Myth8

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Session 21: Room 352
Contemporary Japanese Social Movements
Organizer/Chair: Alexander Brown, University of Wollongong
1) Takuro Higuchi, Kyoto University
A Prehistory of the Alter-Globalization Movement in Japan: Subterranean Autonomous Networks inJapan since the ‘90s
2) Risa Tokunaga, The Australian National University
Struggles of the Cabakura Union: Cabaret Hostess Workers against the “Rule of the Night”
3) Alexander Brown, University of Wollongong
Mayday Mayday! Freeters March for Freedom and Survival
Discussant: Hideaki Tazaki, Rikkyō University

KEYNOTE ADDRESS“Comprehending Disaster from Afar:
Harvard University's Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters”
Ted Bestor
Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
Room 262

6:00 P.M. – 6:35 P.M.
This will be a brief introduction to the ongoing collaborative project among
Harvard University's Reischauer Institute and its MetaLab and Center for
Geographical Analysis, the National Diet Library, the Library of Congress, theInternet Archive, the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese
Library Resources, and many other institutions and individuals to compile an
as-full-as-possible digital record, across many platforms and formats, of theimmediate responses to and reflections on longer term consequences of thedisasters of March 11. http://jdarchive.org/
I am presenting this on behalf of a group of collaborators at Harvard andelsewhere, not as an individually authored talk

RECEPTION: 7:00 P.M. – 8:50 P.M.

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SUNDAY JUNE 26
BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Agenda1) Budget report for 2010.
2) Election of current members of the Executive Committee ending their terms of office.
3) Nominations of new members to the Executive Committee. Elections.
4) Elections for offices of President, Vice-Presidents (two posts), Treasurer.
5) Any other business.

SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 22: Room 205
Individual Papers on Modern Japanese Fiction
Chair: James Baxter, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Katarzyna Sonnenberg, Jagiellonian University
From Recollection to Perception. A Bergsonian Reading of Higuchi Ichiyō’s Narratives
2) Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
The Trope of the Basetown in Contemporary Fiction by Murakami Ryuu and Ikezawa Natsuki
3) Yukiko Shigeto, Whitman College
Fiction as Artifice: Estranging the Will to Immediacy4) Jonathan Dil, Keio University
Open and Closed Systems in Murakami Haruki’s 1Q84

Session 23: Room 252
Visual Satire in Asia: A Dying Genre?
Organizer: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University
Chair: Noriko Iijima, Hiroshima City University
1) Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University
Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro in Political Cartoons: On Characteristic Features of Contemporary
Japanese Cartoons
2) Mo Tian, Hiroshima City University
3D Cyber Cartoons in the Construction of Neo-Nationalism in China
3) Tokoro Yukiyoshi, Professional Cartoonist
A Demonstration of Satirical Cartoons
4) Galina Tyun, St. Petersburg State University
Indonesian Cartoons: from Politics to High-Tech
Discussants: Kosei Ono and Atsushi Hosogaya

Session 24: Room 253
Alternative Moralities in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
Organizer/Chair: Patti Kameya, Kent State University
1) Gergana Ivanova, University of British Columbia
Heian Writers and the Construction of Tokugawa Womanhood2) Niels Van Steenpaal, Kyoto University
The Social Significance of the Celebration of Filial Children in the Edo Period
3) Mathew Thompson, Sophia University
Caricatures of Morality: Changing Representations of Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Medieval and Early
Modern Narrative
4) Patti Kameya, Kent State University
Economics and Moral Values in Anecdotal Collections on Strange People
Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University

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Session 25: Room 303
Visions of Yaoi/BL Studies: Theoretical Approaches to Narratives Involving Female Fantasies ofMale Homosexuality
Organizer: Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University
Chair: Kazuko Suzuki, Texas A&M University
1) Kazuko Suzuki, Texas A&M University
Transgressing Duality and Normativity: Gender and Sex(uality) Manipulation in Japanese Yaoi
Discourse2) Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland
BL Literacy: Subversion, Resuscitation, and Transformation of the (Father’s) Text
3) Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University
Queer Readings of BL: Are Women “Plunderers” of Gay Men?
Discussant: John Lie, University of California, Berkeley

Session 26: Room 314
Individual Papers on Modern Art and Literature in Asia
Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) David R. George, Jr., Bates College
A Spanish Novelist’s Tour of Japan: The Image of Vicente Blasco Ibañez in the Taisho Press (1919–1928)
2) Mauricio Baros, Universidad de Chile
The New Horizons of Whistler: Japan and Chile
3) Tomoki Ota, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science/Tokyo University of the Arts
Promoting Public Understanding of Art History through Popular Culture in the 1920–50s: Kōdan Stories,
Radio Dramas and Children’s Books
4) Tomoe Ikeda, Kansai University
Development of the Detective Story in 1920s China

Session 27: Room 316
Corporeal Space, Urban Space and Outer Space: Locating the Colonial Imagination
Organizer: Jing Wang, University of Toronto
Chair: Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Toronto
1) Nicole Go, University of British Columbia
Chinese Coolies, (Auto-)Ethnography and (Post-)Colonial Spaces: Racialized Labour in Japanese andAsian North American Literature2) Jing Wang, University of Toronto
Reading Tokyo Through Shanghai in Modern Japanese Literature3) Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Toronto
Imperial Imaginations: Colonial Genealogies of Japanese Science Fiction
4) Darcy Gauthier, University of Toronto
Between Bodies: The Theatre of Abe Kōbō StudioDiscussant: Yōichi Komori, University of Tokyo

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Session 28: Room 351
Individual Papers on Asian History
Chair: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
1) Anatoliy Anshin, Moscow International Higher Business School MIRBIS/ Russian State University for the
Humanities
Daidōji Yūzan’s Warrior Precepts: The Paradox of Tokugawa-era Writing
2) Luke Hambleton, Beijing Normal University
An Environmental Approach to the Early Development of Tobacco in China
3) Sangho Ro, Princeton University
Offspring of Tonghak, Modern Media and Consumer Culture, 1898–1910
4) Klaus Dittrich, Hanyang University
The Foreign Community in Late Joseon Korea, 1882–1910
5) Joyman Lee, Yale University
Japanese Industrialization Experience and Chinese Thinking on Industrial Development, 1910–1935
6) Christian W. Spang, University of Tsukuba
The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in East Asia (1930–45)

Session 29: Room 352
Between Resistance and Cooperation: The Movement of the Imperial Subject in Colonial
Taiwan under Japanese Colonization
Organizer: Chiali Lin, Chengchi University
Chair: Peichen Wu, Chengchi University
1) Chiali Lin, Chengchi University
A Relative Position Caused by “Kominka”: The Possibility of Modifying the Binary Frame
2) Peiting Liao, Chengchi University
Amity between Japanese and Taiwanese in the Late Japanese Colonial Period of Taiwan: Lung Yingtsong and Lu He-ruo’s Short Stories as Example
3) Peijuang Lai, Chengchi University
Kominka Factors of the Movie “Sayon no Kane”: In Observation of the Receptors
4) Hsiaowei Bai, Chengchi University
From Taiwan to China: Difficulties Reflected in the Works of Taiwanese Authors in China during the
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
Discussant: Yukari Yoshihara, Tsukuba University

LUNCH BREAK 12:00 NOON – 1:20 P.M.

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LUNCHTIME SESSION: 12:10 P.M.–1:20 P.M.
Room: 213
Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
Organizer/Chair: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Participants
Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University (social anthropology)
Sukeyasu Steven Yamamoto, Tokyo University, emeritus; RIKEN Special Advisor for International
Relationships (nuclear and high energy physics)
David McNeill, journalist, The Independent and Irish Times
Leslie Tkach Kawasaki, Tsukuba University (political science, media)
Michael Shackleton, Osaka Gakuin University (social anthropology)

The earthquake and tidal wave of March 11, 2011, coupled with the ongoing disaster at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant, add up to a disaster of great magnitude. Already the word
"saigo" 災後 (post-disaster) has been coined, in deliberate reference to "sengo" 戦後 (postwar), as a linguistic reminder that things will never be the same again.
Or won't they? The response to 3/11, by individuals, communities and governments, has
prompted a fresh tsunami of punditry, commentary and political point-scoring, spreading
through the domestic and international media. Many have praised the fortitude and enduranceof those affected; others have sought underlying cultural reasons for the perceived
inadequacy of emergency countermeasures. As with the end of World War II, elements ofcontinuity and change are tightly interwoven and anyone who can provide a persuasive takeon what is going on has every chance of influencing public perceptions and thereby—
perhaps—reality.
Some three months on from the disaster, ASCJ's own team of pundits will try to make somesense of it all. Each will speak for just seven or eight minutes, before debate is thrown open
to the floor. Those who wish to take the discussion further are welcome to stay on after thescheduled finish.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M

Session 30: Room 205
The Gender and Genres of Activism: Political and Literary Writings by Japanese Women
Organizer: Mamiko Suzuki, University of Utah
Chair: Samuel Perry, Brown University
1) Mamiko Suzuki, University of Utah
Marriage or Mirage: Imagining Meiji Women’s Politicality in Women’s Rights Fiction2) Abbie Yamamoto, U.C. Berkeley
Seeking Female Solidarity across Class Lines
3) Samuel Perry, Brown University
The Canard of the Communist Housekeeper: Scandal and Commitment in Women’s Proletarian Fiction
Discussant: Timothy van Compernolle, Amherst College

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Session 31: Room 252
A Post-Western IR? Examining the Possibility of an ‘Asian’ International Relations Theory(Roundtable)
Organizer/ Chair: Giorgio Shani, International Christian University
1) Giorgio Shani, International Christian University
2) Patrick Strefford, Kyoto Sangyo University
3) Kosuke Shimizu, Ryukoku University
4) Hiroyuki Tosa, Kobe University

Session 32: Room 253
Feeling Japan: Affect, Nation, and Ethnographic Design
Organizer: Daniel White, Rice University
Chair: Joseph Hankins, University of California, San Diego
1) Daniel White, Rice University
Soft Power and the Affective Registers of Bureaucratic Practice in “Japanese” Cultural Administration
2) Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Chicago
Thicker than Water? Affective Relationships within Japanese Children’s Homes
3) Paul Roquet, University of California, Berkeley
Low-affect Sociality in Contemporary Japan
4) Paul Hansen, University of Calgary
Skinship, Kinship and Affect: King Solomon’s Ring and Emerging Japanese Canine-Human
Relationships
Discussant: Joseph Hankins, University of California, San Diego

Session 33: Room 303
Organizing the “Sense-able:” Media, Aesthetics, and Politics in Postwar Japan
Organizer: Patrick Noonan, University of California, Berkeley
1) Rea Amit, Yale University
Rebirth of a Nation
2) Ryan Cook, Yale University
But Does It Threaten Global Monopoly Capitalism? The Yoru no Kai (Evening Society), the Kiroku
Geijutsu no Kai (Documentary Art Society), and the Place of Aesthetics in the Postwar Political Film
Circle3) Patrick Noonan, University of California, Berkeley
The Politics of Disaffection: Melancholy, Anger, and Irony in Terayama Shūji and Tenjō Sajiki’s
Dokyumentarī iede (Documentary Runaway, 1969) and Zengakuren’s Jiyū o warera ni (Freedom For Us,
1968)
Discussant: Kim Icreverzi, University of California, Irvine

Session 34: Room 314
Individual Papers on Modern Literature and Film
Chair: Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
1) Namhee Han, University of Chicago
Wide and Deep: Anamorphic Urbanscape in High and Low (1963)
2) Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
Miike Takashi: Ridiculous Visions of Impossible Masculinity
3) Shota Ogawa, University of Rochester
A Cinematic History of Zainichi Koreans4) Elise Foxworth, La Trobe University
A Postcolonial Analysis of Mandogi Yūrei Kitan [The Extraordinary Ghost Story of Mandogi] by
Zainichi Korean Writer Kim Sok Pom

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Session 35: Room 316
The Exhibitionary Complex and the Police State: Imperial Pedagogy in Taiwan under Japanese
Rule
Organizer: Paul Barclay, Lafayette College
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Hui-yu Caroline Ts’ai, Academia Sinica
Everyday Coloniality, Social Networking, and Knowledge Production: The 1925 Taipei Police Exhibition
2) Takeshi Soyama, Kyushu Sangyo University
Tourism under Japan’s Colonial Rule in Taiwan: From the Perspectives of Privilege, Exclusion,
Assimilation and Resistance3) Paul Barclay, Lafayette College
Ethnic Tourism, Wartime Surveillance and Public Relations: The Taiwan Photography of Harrison
FormanDiscussant: Robert Eskildsen, J. F. Oberlin University

Session 36: Room 352
Japan and China: Thinking about Money and Empire, 1860–1920
Organizer: John Sagers, Linfield College
Chair: Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin
1) Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gold, Silver, and Paper Notes: Fiscal Centralization in Japan and China, 1860–1900
2) John Sagers, Linfield College
Bad for Business: Shibusawa Eiichi and the Costs of Japanese Imperialism, 1890–1910
3) Steven Bryan, Independent Scholar
Trade, Taiwan, and the Empire of Japan4) Jung-Sun Han, Korea University
A Forgotten China Specialist: Yoshino Sakuzō and the Fall of Chinese Empire, 1909–1919
Discussant: Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:40 P.M. - 5:40 P.M
Session 37: Room 205
How Local Government Governs in Contemporary China
Organizer: Zhe Ren, Hokkaido University
Chair: Cheung Mong, Waseda University
1) Mei Huang, Tsukuba University
Towards Civil Society or Still State Corporatism: A Quantitative Analysis of the Business—Government
Relations in Wenzhou, China
2) Yoji Osada, Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai
The Limitation and Problems for “Community” as a Social Stable System
3) Zhe Ren, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
State-Owned Enterprise as a Development Tool: A Study of Land Development in Urban China
Discussant: Guoguang Wu, University of Victoria

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Session 38: Room 252
World Expos and the Economic Modernization of Japan and China
Organizer/Chair: Masato Kimura, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
1) Hui Zhang, Huazhong Normal University
The Influence of World Fairs upon East Asian Entrepreneurs: A Comparison between Shibusawa Eiichi
and Zhang Jian
2) Zisu Liang, Kansai University
Economic Modernizers: Shibusawa Eiichi and Zhang Zhidong3) Ling Xi, Kansai University
Sakatani Yoshirō and Modern China’s Financial System during the Meiji and Taisho Eras
4) Guan Wang, Kansai University
The 1970 Osaka Expo: Catalyst of the Modern Japanese Economy
Discussant: Haruo Noma, Kansai University

Session 39: Room 253
Risk and Consequences in Japan
Organizer/Chair: Tina Burrett, Temple University Japan
1) Jeff Kingston, Temple University Japan
Risk and Consequences in Japan: Unstable Jobs and Families
2) Tin Tin Htun, Temple University Japan
Social Identities of Minority Others in Japan3) Tina Burrett, Temple University Japan
Risk and Consequences in Japan: No Risk No Gain in Japanese-Russian Relations
4) Matthew Linley, Temple University Japan
Risky Rhetoric: The Framing of International Disputes by Political Elites and Public Opinion about
Foreign Nations in Japan
Discussant: Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan

Session 40: Room 303
Transformation of Resistance Movements in Okinawa
Organizer: Kozue Uehara, the University of Tokyo
Chair: Rinda Yamashiro Kayatani, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
1) Kozue Uehara, The University of Tokyo
Continuity and Change in Social Movements in the 1970s Okinawa: Analysis from the Narratives of Kin
Bay Struggle activists
2) Rinda Yamashiro Kayatani, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Making Sense of U.S. Military Presence in Okinawa: A Case study of Anti-Base Okinawan Women’sGroups3) Keisuke Mori, Hitotsubashi University
Possibilities of the Contemporary Anti-military Base Movements in the Post-Neoliberal Era
Discussant: Yasuhiro Tanaka, International Christian University

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Session 41: Room 314
Individual Papers on Premodern Japanese Culture and Society
Chair: David Cannell, University of California, Irvine
1) Ben Grafström, The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme
Religious Dimensions of the “Ideal Warrior” in Muromachi-era Fiction
2) Dylan McGee, Nagoya University
Defacing Books: Allographic Inscription and Reader Reception in Early Modern Japan
3) Gideon Fujiwara, University of British Columbia
Religious Thought and Practice in Hirata Kokugaku: The Case of Disciples in Hirosaki Domain4) Takako Suzuki, International Christian University
Political Interests and Religious Miracles in Hayashi Razan’s Honchōjinjakō
5) Maria G. Petrucci, University of British Columbia
Silver, Salt and Saltpeter: The Rise and Demise of Sixteenth-Century Japanese Piracy in Kyushu

Session 42: Room 316
Reproduction and Appropriation in the Japanese Visual Arts
Organizer: Shalmit Bejarano, Kanagawa University and University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Naoko Gunji (tentative), Augustana College
1) Shalmit Bejarano, Kanagawa University and University of Pittsburgh“My flawed edition conveys the teaching of the Sage”: Revisiting Reproduction in Printed Manuals for
Painters2) Ryoko Matsuba, Ritsumeikan University and the British Museum
The Concept of Reproduction on the Kabuki Stage3) Shiori Nakama, Dōshisha University
Kishida Ryusei’s Strategy of Reproduction and Appropriation in the Portraits of Reiko Series4) Naoko Gunji, Augustana College
Replication of the Sacred: Emperor Antoku’s Portrait in Sculpture and Photographs
Discussant: Morihiro Satow, Kyoto Seika University

Session 43: Room 352
Meeting Gender in Everyday Life: Explorations of How Japanese People Experience, Embody
and Play Out Gender Discourses
Organizer/Chair: Maho Isono, Waseda University
1) Noriko Yamaguchi, University of Chicago
Reconstructing Gender in Everyday Life: Postwar Social Reconstruction and Gender Relations in Tochigi,
1945–1960
2) Hiroshi Aoyagi, Kokushikan University
Can the Current Popular Discourse on Japanese Femininity Satisfy Beauvoir?
3) Maho Isono, Waseda University
Seeing the Anorexic Body as the Center of Practicing Discourse: A Case Study of an Anorexic Woman
and Japanese Discourses of Eating Disorders
4) Emma Cook, JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow
Navigating Dominant Discourses of Manhood in Japan
Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University

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