The Twenty-Second Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)International Christian University
June 30 – July 1, 2018

Information correct as of June 15, 2018. Please check the website for any late changes:
https://ascjapan.org/
Registration will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 30.
Sessions will be held on the second and third floors of University Hall (Honkan) at
International Christian University.
Registration: Second Floor central hall area of University Hall.
Book Display: Second Floor central hall area of University Hall.
All rooms are equipped with laptop computers, digital projectors and VGA cables for hooking
up your own laptop, however, we cannot provide connectors. If additional AV equipment isneeded, participants should contact Christopher Bondy (bondy@icu.ac.jp) to makearrangements.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

SATURDAY June 30
9:15 –
10:00 A.M. – 12:00
12:00 – 1:15 P.M.
1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.

Registration
Sessions 1–8
Lunch break
Sessions 9–17
Sessions 18–26
Keynote Address

6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

Reception

SUNDAY July 9
9:15 –
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
10:00 A.M. – 12:00
12:00– 1:30 P.M.
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.

Registration
ASCJ Business Meeting
Sessions 27–34
Lunch break
Sessions 35–41
Sessions 42–49

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SATURDAY, JUNE 30
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00–12:00
Session 1: Room 204
The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan
Organizer and Chair: Carola Hommerich, Hokkaido University
1) Carola Hommerich, Hokkaido University, Toru Kikkawa, Osaka University
Movement Behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification inJapan2) Naoki Sudo, Gakushuin University
Which Changes Count? An Analysis of the Drivers of Japan’s “Quiet
Transformation”
3) Hiroshi Kanbayashi, Tohoku Gakuin University
The Changing Images of Japan’s Social Stratification: The Other Side of the “Quiet
Transformation”
4) Ryoji Matsuoka, Waseda University
A Collapsing “Mass Education Society”? Assessing Changes in Attitudes Towards
Education from the 1990s to the 2010s and the Differentiation Mechanism
Discussant: Hirohisa Takenoshita, Keio University
Session 2: Room 252
Tracing the Political Legacies of Transwar Japan: Intellectual, Aesthetic andInstitutional Histories
Organizer and Chair: Max Ward, Middlebury College
1) Reto Hofmann, University of Melbourne
Nabeyama Sadachika and the Afterlife of Ideological Conversion2) Namiko Kunimoto, Ohio State University
The Art of Conversion in Transwar Japan
3) Max Ward, Middlebury College
The Transwar History of Criminal Rehabilitation in Japan
Discussant: Aaron S. Moore, Arizona State University
Session 3: Room 351
Remembering, Forgetting, and Forgiving? The lasting impact of Japanese imperialism
on Japan’s relations with its East Asian Neighbours, 1965 to today
Organizer: Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Chair: Ioannis Gaitanidis, Chiba University
1) Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
Utsunomiya Tokuma’s Shifting Perception of the Koreas in between Normalizationand the Abduction of Kim Daejung (1965–1975)
2) Ulrich Flick, Tohoku Gakuin University
Colonial Past as “Historical Memory”: Dealing with ‘Manchuria’ in PostwarJapan3) Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
John Rabe and the Nanjing Massacre in Postwar Japan and China: Witness, Hero,
Liar?
Discussant: Ioannis Gaitanidis, Chiba University2

Session 4: Room 251
Gendered Scripts in the Public Imaginary of Modern Japan
Organizer and Chair: Kelly Hansen, Okayama University
1) Tomoko Seto, Yonsei University
Gendered Memories of Empire in Inoue Hisashi’s Manzanar, My Town (1993)
2) Kelly Hansen, Okayama University
Shifting Images of Ryōsai kenbo: The Legacy of Hara Setsuko
3) Caleb Boteilho, South Kitsap High School
Star Wars’ Mirrored Dichotomies: Teaching Gendered Language Constructs
Through Film Translation4) Alexandra Hambleton, Bunkyo Gakuin University
Pushing Back against the Backlash: Alternative Images of Womanhood in Japan
Today
Discussant: James Welker, Kanagawa University
Session 5: Room 260
The Aesthetics and Politics of Film from Taiwan and Hong Kong
Organizer and Chair: Kevin Tsai, University of South Alabama
1) Fan-Ting Cheng, National Taiwan University
Towards A Taiwanese Queer Tactics: Huang Hui-chen’s Documentary Feature
Film Small Talk (2017)2) Yi-Wen Chuang, Academia Sinica
Teen Romance Films as a Challenge to Polyphony and Globalization
3) Kevin Tsai, University of South Alabama
Inventing Female Suffering from a Classical Tale in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Assassin
4) Tzu-chin Insky Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
Contesting Chineseness: Border-Crossing and the “Homeland” in Tang ShuShuen’s China Behind
Discussant: Kukhee Choo, Sophia University
Session 6: Room 253
Producing the Creator: Changing Images of Authorship in Japanese Literary History
Organizer: Pau Pitarch Fernandez, Waseda University
Chair: Mariko Naito, Meiji University
1) Ariel Stilerman, Florida State University
Tachibana no Narisue and The Culture of Profession in Medieval Japan
2) Nan Ma Hartmann, Waseda University
Before the Story Begins: Authorial Preface in Early Modern Narrative Anthologies
3) David Boyd, Princeton University
Fame and Failure in Bunshō Kurabu (Writing Club, 1916–1929)
4) Pau Pitarch Fernandez, Waseda University“Facing Each Other Stark Naked”: Taishō Biographies and the Author as Modern
Hero
Discussant: Mariko Naito, Meiji University

3Session 7: Room 203
Individual Papers 1: Creative Genders
Chair: Tanapoom Ativetin, Srinakharinwirot University
1) Danica Truscott, University of California, Los Angeles
For Whom Does She Pray? The Question of Gender and Voice in Ōtomo no
Sakanoue no Iratsume’s “God-Worshipping Song”
2) Martyn Smith, SOAS, University of London/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The Creation of Men’s Magazines in 1960s Japan3) Juliana Buritica Alzate, International Christian University
Feminist Literary Re-visions of the Izanami and Izanaki Myth4) Galia Petkova, International Center for Japanese Studies
The Curious Case of Onna Shibaraku
Session 8: Room 316
Individual Papers 2: Literary Utopias
Chair: Mary Reisel, Rikkyo University
1) Scott Mehl, Colgate University
A.I. and the Future of Japanese Literature
2) Joshua Rogers, Columbia University
Akutagawa’s Religion: Secularism, Sacredness, and Taishō Literature
3) Lam Ka Yan, The City University of Hong Kong
The Rendering of Memories in Enchi Fumiko’s Namamiko Monogatari
4) Peijie Mao, University of North Georgia“Urban Utopia” and Cosmopolitanism in Early 20th Century Shanghai PopularMedia5) Lee Seungjun, Nagoya University
Reconsidering Introverted Generation as a Literature of Time
Lunch break 12:00 – 1:15

LUNCHTIME SESSION: 12:10 P.M. – 1:10 P.M.
Film Preview: Room 260“Boys are selling sex in Japan. Who is buying?”
Organizer and Chair, David Slater, Sophia University
Producer: Ian Thomas Ash

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:15–3:15
Session 9: Room 260
Japanese Social Movements and Injustice (1): Historical Perspectives
Organizer and Chair: Simon Avenell, Australian National University
1) Shin Takahashi, Kobe University
Lest We Forget: Remembering (The Other) War Dead in Post-Occupational
Okinawa2) Simon Avenell, Australian National University
Japan’s Environmental Injustice Paradigm and Transnational Activism
3) Hiroe Saruya, Sophia University
Articulations and Implementation of Democratic Values and Principles: Revisiting
the Zengakuren and the Voiceless Voices4) Takemasa Ando, Musashi University
Contests for the Use of (In)justices: Japanese Antinuclear Movements and the
Nuclear Industry after the Chernobyl Accident
Discussant: David Slater, Sophia University
Session 10: Room 204
The Korean War as Transnational Postcolonial Conflicts
Organizer and Chair: Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University
1) Chris Hyunkyu Park, Australian National University
Stop the War and Spread Peace: Korean Americans in the Anti-Korean War
Movement and Trans-nationalizing Postcolonial Struggles
2) Young-hwan Chong, Meiji Gakuin University
A War between Japan and Zainichi Koreans? The Korean War and the“Nationality” Question3) Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University
The Korean War as Transnational Postcolonial Conflicts
Discussants: Masuda Hajimu, National University of Singapore
Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
Session 11: Room 351
War, Memory, and History in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art
Organizer and Chair: Asato Ikeda, Fordham University
1) Rhiannon Paget, John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art
Parlour Patriots: Amateur Ink Painting and Holy War
2) Alison J. Miller, University of the SouthA Royal Passing: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Empress’ Funeral in 1950s Japan
3) Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, University of East Anglia
Recreating the Tradition and Inventing Identity: The Study of the Regional Struggle
and Politics in Okinawan Modern Art
4) Sara Osenton, University of Toronto
Historiography as Subject: Conflicting Moments and Narratives in Contemporary
Japanese Art
Discussant: Asato Ikeda, Fordham University

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Translation and Adaptation in Premodern Japan
Organizer and Chair: Lawrence E. Marceau, International Center for JapaneseStudies/University of Auckland
1) Kimiko Kōno, Waseda University
Translation and Reception in Kiyohara no Nobukata’s Chōgonka narabi ni Biwakō
hishō2) Mizuki Uno, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
The Birth and Development of Japanese Images of The Tales of the Twenty-fourParagons of Filial Piety
3) Lawrence E. Marceau, International Center for Japanese Studies/University of
AucklandTransforming the Mediterranean World in Isopo Monogatari
Discussant: Reiko Hirose, Senshu University
Session 13: Room 203
Politics and Education in Japan’s Publishing History
Organizer and Chair: Maj Hartmann, KU Leuven
1) Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University
Juvenile Science and the Japanese Nation: Shōnen’en and the Cultivation of
Scientific Subjects
2) Pieter Van Lommel, University of Tsukuba
Media for Schoolteachers: The Diverse Roles Played by Commercial Education
Periodicals in Late Meiji Japan
3) Maj Hartmann, KU Leuven
The Exchange of Educational Publications in the 1920s and New Forms of
Cooperation between Publishers and the State
Discussant: Shiho Maeshima, University of Tokyo
Session 14: Room 252
Gender and Discourse in Late Imperial China
Organizer: Tomoko Gomi, University of Sacred Heart
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University
1) Tomoko Gomi, University of Sacred Heart
Personal Belongings in Public Space: Shoes in Records of Judgments of the Qing
Dynasty2) Yoshiyuki Ogawa, Kokushikan University
Court Ladies and Gender from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty
3) Akira Konita, Waseda University
The Biographies of Women in Local Gazetteers: Focusing on the Qing Dynasty
Historian, Zhang Xuecheng
Discussant: Mio Kishimoto, Toyo Bunko

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Session 15: Room 316
In and Out: Transnational Migration to and from China
Organizer and Chair: Mario Liong, Ritsumeikan University
1) Lucetta Y. L. Kam, Hong Kong Baptist University
Coming Out and Going Abroad: The Chuguo Mobility of Queer Women in China
2) Mario Liong, Ritsumeikan University
From China to Sweden: Gender Dynamics and Practices among Chinese Academic
Immigrant Families in Sweden3) Atit Pongpanit, Naresuan University[Re]imagining Their Belongings: Thai Female Migrants in Hong Kong
4) Isabella Ng, The Education University of Hong Kong
Framing the Issue of Asylum Seekers and Refugees for Tougher Refugee Policy: A
Study of the Media’s Portrayal in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Discussant: Yajiao Li, Ochanomizu University
Session 16: Room 314
Individual Papers 3: Commodified Cultures
Chair: Thomas Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Fan Ching Wan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Maintaining a School Culture: A Case Study of an Ōendan in a Japanese University
2) Keiko Nishimura, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Character, Context and Communication Robots in Japan3) Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University
Russian Hostesses in Japan: A Way Towards Self-Fulfillment?
4) Sonja Ganseforth, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Fish as Cultural Commodity: The Transformation of Coastal Fisheries in Japan
5) Annie Sheng, Cornell University
Supersized Bread Production: Agro-industrial Wheat and Bakery Trade in Global
Capitalism in East Asia and the US
Session 17: Room 251
Individual Papers 4: Culture Exchange and Maritime History
Chair: Jenine Heaton, Kansai University
1) Joe Travis Shutz, State University of New York, BinghamtonSouthern Pirates and Northern Barbarians2) Ubaldo Iaccarino, University of Napoli
The Hispano-Japanese “Capitulations” of 1610: Trade, Diplomacy, and Knowledge
Exchange between Edo, Manila and Mexico in the Early 17th Century.
3) Szymon Gredzuk, University of the Ryukyus(Hi)stories from the Coastal Contact Zones: Japan in the Maritime Writing of
M.A.Benyowsky.
4) Maria Grazia Petrucci, University of British Columbia
Organtino Gnecchi Soldo in the Economic Policies of Oda Nobunaga, 1563–1582

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:30–5:30
Session 18: Room 260
Japanese Social Movements and Injustice (2): Contemporary Perspectives
Organizer and Chair: David Slater, Sophia University
1) Vivian Shaw, University of Texas, Austin/Sophia University
Locating Justice: Imagining Transnational Antiracist Solidarities after 3/11
2) William Andrews, Sophia University
Injustice, Victimhood and Purity in Recent Far-left Japanese Movements
3) Robin O’Day, University of North Georgia
From the Precariat to the Fight for Fifteen Hundred Yen: Japanese Youth and the
Discourses of Workplace Injustices
Discussant: Simon Avenell, Australian National University
Session 19: Room 251
Reconsidering Modernity from the Age of the Mongols: Proto-Globalization in theThirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Organizer: Yoichi Isahaya, JSPS/Rikkyo University
Chair: Yuji Nawata, Chuo University
1) Ishayahu Landa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Transcontinental Migrations in the Mongol Age and the Transformation of theEurasian Ethnic Landscape as a Case Study in the field of Global History
2) Francesca Fiaschetti, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Across the Universal Empire: Ideas of Proto-Globalization in Wang Dayuan’s Work
3) Yoichi Isahaya, JSPS/Rikkyo University
Pax Mongolica in the Global History of Astral Sciences: Out of the TranslationNaturalization Paradigm
4) Florence Hodous, Renmin University
The “Globalization” of Shamanism: How the Religious Views of a Marginal
Nomadic Group Influenced All of Eurasia
Discussant: Masaki Mukai, Doshisha University
Session 20: Room 204
Continuity and Change in Japanese Trade and Diplomacy during the Transition fromthe Late-Medieval to the Early Modern Period
Organizer and Chair: Csaba Olah, International Christian University
1) Csaba Olah, International Christian University
Japan’s Foreign Trade in the 16 to 17th Century and the Commercial Environmentin East Asia
2) Igawa Kenji, Waseda University
The Places of Audiences between Monarchs and Foreign Missions in the 16th
Century3) Okamoto Makoto, University of Tokyo
The Merchants of Kyoto and Foreign Trade from the 16th to the Early 17th Century:
The Shift from Diplomatic Ships Sent to Ming China to Vermillion Seal Ships
4) Peng Hao, Osaka City University
Business Intermediaries in the 17th Century Nagasaki Trade
Discussant: Matsukata Fuyuko, University of Tokyo

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Session 21: Room 351
Border-Crossing, Cultural Interaction, and Language Mobility in East Asia
Organizer: Lei Hu, Washington University
Chair: Yuning Chen, Washington University
1) Yuning Chen, Washington University
Languages and Translatability in Orphan of Asia
2) Lei Hu, Washington University
Rethinking Tale of Poison Women
3) Fangzhou Yuan, University of Pennsylvania
A Buried Sino-Japanese Proposal: Looking Past the Infamy of Pro-Japan
Bureaucrats in Early Twentieth Century China through Cao Rulin’s Memoir4) Menglin Liang, University of Pennsylvania
A Marginalized Envoy: Owen Lattimore’s Political Experience in China during
World War II
Discussant: Shion Kono, Sophia University
Session 22: Room 253“Can We Clean It Up?”: Purity, Corporeality, and Pollution in Early Modern andModern Japanese Literature of Love and Eros
Organizer and Chair: Linda Galvane, Stanford University
1) David J. Gundry, University of California, Davis
Spirit and Corporeality in the Erotic Fiction of Ihara Saikaku
2) Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka University
The Purity Campaign as a Literary Context
3) Linda Galvane, Stanford University(Im)Pure Excreta Purified by Shadows?: Scatological Representations in the Worksof Tanizaki Junichirō
Discussant: Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University
Session 23: Room 203
Displacements and Dislocations in Postwar Japanese Mass Media
Organizer and Chair: Christina Yi, University of British Columbia
1) Akito Sakasai, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Reconstruction Possessed by the Past: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog and RepatriatedSoldiers
2) Christina Yi, University of British Columbia
Reading and Writing the Persistence of Empire in Postwar Japan3) Yuki Ohsawa, Josai International University
Anime Tourism: What Lagrange: The Flower of Rin’ne Has Brought to and Createdin the Virtual World and the Rural Community in Kamogawa
Discussant: Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon

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Individual Papers 5: Marginalized Bodies
Chair: Christopher Bondy
1) Kathryn M. Tanaka, Otemae University
The Politics of Literature: Early Examples of Patient Writing from Hansen’s
Disease Hospitals in Japan
2) John M. Skutlin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Stigma of Ink: Legitimation Maneuvers among Tattooed Individuals in Japan
3) Shalmit Bejarano, Hebrew University/Tel Aviv University
Gazing at the Metaphorical Body: Another Look at the Scroll of Illnesses
4) Machiko Ishikawa, Surugadai University
Sexology of the Mermaid: Minakata Kumagusu and the Writing against Morality ofImperial Japan
Session 25: Room 314
Individual Papers 6: Religion in China and Japan
Chair: Edward Drott, Sophia University
1) Chihiro Saka, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
The Symbolism of Cloth in Worship Practices Associated with Datsueba, the Old
Hag at the Border between Life and Death2) S. Jonathon O’Donnell, Lakeland University
Satan, Samurai, and the Sun Goddess: Shinto and/in Neo-Charismatic SpiritualWarfare3) Nicholas Morrow Williams, The University of Hong Kong
Kūkai’s Inner Dialogue: The Role of Chinese Literary Genres in the Composition of
the Sangō shiiki4) Yeung Man Shun, The University of Hong Kong
A Multi-Functional Venue for China-West Contacts: The Canton (Guangzhou)
Buddhist Temple Haichuang from the Late 18th to the Mid-19th Century5) Mihoko Oka, University of Tokyo
In the Shadow of the Successful Missionary Work of the Society of Jesus: Japanese
Brothers and Dojukus
Session 26: Room 316
Publishing in Academic Journals (roundtable)
1) John Breen, Japan Review
2) Isaac Gagné, Contemporary Japan
3) Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Monumenta Nipponica
4) Linda Grove, Social Science Research Council
5) David Howell, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
6) Ken Kimlicka, Taylor and Francis

10Presentation of Graduate Student Paper Award&KEYNOTE ADDRESS“Connecting Places”
Anne Feldhaus
Arizona State University andPresident, Association for Asian Studies
Room 304
Saturday 5:45–6:30

Reception: 6:45–8:30
Dining HallSUNDAY, JULY 1Business meeting: 9:30–9:50
Room 265
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00–12:00
Session 27: Room 352
The Genealogy of Shinpa Films from the Early Era to after the War
Organizer: Sawako Ogawa, Kyoto University
Chair: Susanne Schermann, Meiji University
1) Norie Taniguchi, Nihon University
Shinpa Films and Traditional Japanese Mass Entertainment Culture2) Manabu Ueda, Kobe Gakuin University
Screening Spaces of Shinpa Films: Narrations and Cinemas during the 1910s3) Sawako Ogawa, Kyoto University
Influence of Kabuki and Bunraku on Shinpa Films and Genealogy towards
Melodrama4) Susanne Schermann, Meiji University
No Blood Relation in Literature, on Stage, and in Film
Discussant: Chika Kinoshita, Kyoto University

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Peripheries of Proletarian Aesthetics in East Asia
Organizer and Chair: Kevin Michael Smith, University of California, Davis
1) Sangmi Bae, Sunmoon University
Feminizing Revolutionary Representation: Bildungsroman Form and Censorship inColonial Korea
2) Edwin Michielsen, University of Toronto
Celebrating the Proletariat: May Day and Proletarian Literature in Interwar East
Asia3) Kevin Michael Smith, University of California, Davis
Crabs, Fish, and Workers: Toward a Posthuman Marxist Reading of Kobayashi
Takiji’s Fiction4) Zhen Zhang, University of California, Davis
Hu Feng: A Proletarian Aesthetic Education in Japan
Discussant: Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
Session 29: Room 252
Modernity and Visibility of Asian-ness in Popular Culture: A Reconsideration
Organizer: Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of Technology
Chair: Jinyoung Jin, Stony Brook University
1) Jinyoung Jin, Stony Brook University
From Head to Toe: Representations of Modern Masculinity in Colonial Korea
2) Minjung E. Lee, Korea University“Concordia Dress (kyōwafuku)” in Manchukuo: Its Origin and Legacy in Modern
Asia3) Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of Technology
Hybrid Dandyism in East Asia: A Cross-cultural Perspective4) Hannah M. Yoo, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Fashioning Modernity and Ethnicity: Reflections on Asian Costume Exhibitions andCollections in the U.S.
Discussant: Discussant: Yu-Kei Tse, International Christian University
Session 30: Room 260
Japan in/as Musical Practice
Organizer and Chair: Scott W. Aalgaard, Wesleyan University
1) Joshua Solomon, Hirosaki University
Musical Itinerancy and the Social Construction of Northern Tohoku
2) Alexander Murphy, University of Chicago
What the Ear Sees: Sonic Racialization and Nisei Performance in Japan’s Imperial
Jazz Age
3) Scott W. Aalgaard, Wesleyan University
Japan’s “One More Time”: Takada Wataru, Ryo Kagawa, and Alternative
Modalities of Musical Critique
Discussant: Hideto Tsuboi, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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Science on the Move: The Transnational Migration of Science, Technology, andPersonnel in the Cold War
Organizer: Walter E. Grunden, Bowling Green State University
Chair: Kaori Iida, Sokendai
1) Kenji Ito, Sokendai
Nishina Yoshio and the U.S. Export of Radioisotopes to Occupied Japan
2) Walter E. Grunden, Bowling Green State University
Physicists and “Fellow Travelers”: Nuclear Fear and Japanese Scientists asTransmitters of Atomic Secrets
3) Takashi Nishiyama, State University of New York, BrockportContaining Wartime Scientists and Engineers in Japan, 1945–1969
Discussant: Wen-Hua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University
Session 32: Room 251
Individual Papers 7: History and Memory
Chair: Roger Brown, Saitama University
1) Jake Northey, Sophia University
Restoration or Reform? Analysing the “Ishin” Ideology in Modern Japanese
Politics2) Ian Cipperly, University of Chicago/Inter-University Center
Restorationist Nostalgia in Shōwa Japan: Dangers of an Imagined Past
3) Guo Xilin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Politicizing History: Controversy over Chinese History in Hong Kong’s Secondary
School Curriculum since 2000
4) Christian W. Spang, Daito Bunka University
Anti-Nazis and Nazis among German Teachers at Japanese High Schools before
1945
Session 33: Room 351
Individual Papers 8: Applied Genders
Chair: Hyangjin Lee, Rikkyo University
1) Colleen Laird, Western Washington University
A Career in Transition: The Queer Trajectory of Ogigami Naoko’s On-Screen
Reflections
2) Rebecca Tompkins, Senshu University
Women, Waste, and Work: Gender Roles, National Belonging, and the Complexities
of Household Waste Management in Japan
3) Maura Stephens, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa“Being Kind to Women is Being Kind to the Earth”: Messages of Femininity andEnvironmentalism from Japanese Menstrual Cloth Napkin Companies
4) Masako N. Racel, Kennesaw State University
From Frail to Strong: Improving Japanese Women’s Health and Physiques through
Education in the Early 20th Century5) Devin Yun-Jung Wu and Yun-Ju Kao, University of Tokyo
Marriage Equality in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future13

Session 34: Room 316
Individual Papers 9: Transnational Art
Chair: Michio Hayashi, Sophia University
1) Thammachat Krairit, University of Wollongong
Beyond Reading Shōnen: The Adaptation of Action and Adventure Manga in
Thailand
2) Andrew David Field, Duke Kunshan University
Early Jazz Networks in Asia: Teddy Weatherford and the Flows of American
Popular Music Across the Pacific and Indian Ocean, 1920s–1940s
3) Gerald Figal, Vanderbilt University
U.S. Bases and Photo Business in Early Postwar Okinawa
4) Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University“Gift of Sea”: Morimura Yasumasa between Aoki Shigeru and Joe Rosenthal
Lunch break 12:00 – 1:30

LUNCHTIME SESSION: 12:10 P.M.–1:10 P.M.
Roundtable Discussion
Room 215

The Kim-Trump Meeting in Historic Perspective
Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University, Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
Suzy Kim, Rutgers University, American Reactions to DPRK Talks
Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University, The Art of Building and Destroying Trust

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:30–3:30
Session 35: Room 252
The Millennial Generation’s Culture in Chinese Cyberspace
Organizer: Vanessa Frangville, Université libre de Bruxelles
Chair: Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam
1) Seio Nakajima, Waseda University
The Sociality of Millennials in Cyberspace: A Comparative Study of Barrage
Subtitling in Bilibili and Niconico
2) Vanessa Frangville, Université libre de Bruxelles EASt
Performing Contemporary Uyghur Culture Online: “Anar Pishti” Web-series
3) Gwennaël Gaffric, Université libre de Bruxelles EASt
Virtual Worlds in Virtual Spaces: The Emergence of “Chuanyue” Fiction4) Hua Bin, Université libre de Bruxelles EASt
Cosplay in the Chinese Cyberspace: Exchange, Performance andCommercialization through Online Communities and Online Video Platforms
Discussant: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University

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Session 36: Room 253
Women’s Biographies in Modern Japan: Fictional, Collective, Exemplary and Fake
Organizer: Ellen Nakamura, University of Auckland
Chair: Marnie S. Anderson, Smith College
1) Ellen Nakamura, University of Auckland
The Life of Kusumoto Ine (1827–1903): A Reappraisal
2) Marnie S. Anderson, Smith College
Three Lives Connected in Meiji Japan: Sumiya Koume, Ōnishi Kinu, and Kajiro
Yoshi3) Haiying Hou, University of Auckland
Yoshioka Yayoi’s View of Womanhood: Sexual Hygiene, Women, and the State
4) Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Life and Afterlife of “Exemplary Women”: Filial Piety and Fake Biographiesfrom Tokugawa to Meiji
Discussant: Hori Hikari, Toyo University
Session 37: Room 204
Borders in Transition: Logistics, Voyage and Diplomacy of Ming China and Chosŏn
Korea, 1592–1634
Organizer: Jing Liu, Syracuse University
Chair: George Kallander, Syracuse University
1) Jing Liu, Syracuse University
Sea Transport, Chinese-Korean Maritime Borders, and the Imjin War, 1592–1598
2) Kai Suzuki, University of Shiga Prefecture
The Chosŏn’s Tribute Route from the Land to the Sea: On Yi Pil-yŏng’s Trip in
1620–1621
3) Jaekyung Lee, Seoul National University
Cost of Investiture: Chosŏn’s Reception of the Ming Imperial Envoy in 1634
Discussant: George Kallander, Syracuse University
Session 38: Room 352
Ghostly Realities in Contemporary East Asian Media
Organizer and Chair: Lindsay Rebecca Nelson, Meiji University
1) Seán Hudson, Kyushu University
Found Footage: Japanese Horror Media and the Turn to Actuality
2) Namhee Han, Leiden University
Haunted Times: Colonial Footage in South Korean Historical Films
3) Clélia Zernik, Beaux-arts de Paris
The Space of the Ghosts
4) Peter Bernard, Harvard University
On the Poetics of 3.11 Ghost Stories
Discussant: Lindsay Rebecca Nelson, Meiji University

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Session 39: Room 351
New Perspectives on Murakami Haruki: Transmediality, Gender, the Quest, and Love
Organizer and Chair: Michael Tsang, Newcastle University
1) Michael Tsang, Newcastle University
Politics of Transmediality in Murakami Haruki
2) Gitte Marianne Hansen, Newcastle University
Women in the World of Murakami Haruki
3) Valentina Giammaria, Sophia University
The Many Facets of Love in Murakami Haruki
4) Matthew C. Stretcher, Sophia University
The Quest as Therapy: Mythic-psychological Underpinnings in Murakami Haruki’s
Kishidanchō-goroshi
Discussant: Chikako Nihei, Yamaguchi University
Session 40: Room 316
Individual Papers 10: War and Peace
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
1) Natsuko Godo, International Christian University
Peace Activities before, during and after World War II: Activities by Missionary
Esther B. Rhoads of the Religious Society of Friends
2) Raiyah bint Al-Hussein, University of California, Los Angeles
Domesticated Violence: Minamoto no Tametomo and the Hōgen Monogatari3) Rajit Mazumder, DePaul University“Killers” and the Nation: Legal Ramifications of Fratricide During the Partition ofIndia, 1947–1950
4) Andrea Mendoza, Cornell University
Madwoman’s Address: Witnessing the Poetics of War Trauma in Enchi's Onnamen
Session 41: Room 251
Individual Papers 11: International Relations
Chair: Alex Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Sanchez Cesar Miriam Laura, The City University of Hong Kong
The Rationale of Chinese NOCs’ Internationalization Process: A Dynamic Between
the State and the Market
2) Mai Isoyama, University of Tokyo
The Asia Foundation in Japan and the Cold War Educational Research Network
3) Tony Tai-Ting Liu, National Chung Hsing University
Japan-China-Taiwan Relations in the New Century: Opportunities and Challenges
4) Yu-chi Chang, Brown University
The Contour of the State: Maps and the Production of Geographic Knowledge in
China, 1920s–1940s

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON II SESSIONS: 3:40–5:40
Session 42: Room 253
Japanese Culinary Politics: Taste, Nutrition, Safety and Status
Organizer and Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University
1) James Farrer, Sophia University
The Culinary Politics of Taste in Global Japanese Restaurant Cuisine
2) Stephanie Assmann, Hokkaido University
Culinary Politics: The Revival of Shokuiku in Japan3) Tine Walravens, Ghent University
Trust beyond Safety: Official Responses to Food Incidents in Japan
4) Chuanfei Wang, Sophia University
Wine Producing and Consuming in Japan: Culinary Politics in the Global Wine
World
Discussant: Shoko Imai, University of Tokyo
Session 43: Room 252
At the Interstices of Empires: Cultural Fissures, In-between Spaces, and the
Manufacturing of (Neo-)Colonialism in the Northwest Pacific, 1895–1953
Organizer: Li Youjia, Northwestern University
Chair: Okamoto Koichi, Waseda University
1) Dong Yuting, Harvard University
Land and Ashes: Why Cemeteries Became “Sacred” in Manchuria (1898–1945)?
2) Li Youjia, Northwestern University
Human-powered Metropolis: Push-car Railway in Taiwan and Spatial Constructionof Colonial Urban Spaces
3) Matsudaira Keaki, Sophia University
The Aftermath of the Japanese Empire for Japanese Americans: An Examination of
the Military Experience during the Korean War
4) Hua Rui, Harvard University
Where Empires Run Aground: Trans-Temporal Imageries of the Russo-Manchurian
Border and the Making of the Northeast Asian Territorial Space
Discussant: Okamoto Koichi, Waseda University
Session 44: Room 204
Taishō Love: Romance and Marriage Played out on Page, Stage, and in Society
Organizer: Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Mark A. Jones, Central Connecticut State University
1) Mark A. Jones, Central Connecticut State University
The Year of Runaway Love: Emotion and Opportunity in 1921 Japan
2) Ayumi Fujioka, Sugiyama Jogakuen University
A New Transnational Performance under the Spell of Love: “Philosophy of Love”
at the Imperial Theatre, 19223) Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara
Romantic Love, Rejected: Ippei’s Satire of Taishō Feeling in “Someone’s Life”(1927)
Discussant: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Iterations of Individuality and Selfhood in Modernizing Japan, 1890–1930s
Organizer and Chair: W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University
1) Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Jobu University
Student Individualism and School Identity Based on “School Colors”: A Case Studyof an Old-System Middle School in Nagano Prefecture2) W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University
Leisure as Prescribed Individuality in the Meiji Era
3) Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University
Voices of Others Meddling in Naked Self-Expression: The Christian Dormitory
Diaries at the Second Higher School in Taisho period
4) Robert Ono, Japan College of Social Work
The Leading Confession: Self-Representation of Leprosy Patients During the 1920s–
1930s
Discussant: M. William Steele, International Christian University
Session 46: Room 351
Xingling (Native Sensibility) after Yuan Hongdao: The Inheritance and Innovation ofClassical Chinese Poetics in Early Modern China and Japan
Organizer: Wanming Wang, McGill University
Chair: Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University
1) Kinyip Hui, Community College of City University
The Reconciliation of Natural Sensibility and Style and Tone in Late Ming Poetics:
A Case Study of Tang Ruxun’s Huibian Tangshi shiji
2) Wanming Wang, McGill University
Xingling and Xingqing: Yuan Mei’s Poetics in the Debate over Tang and Song
Poetry3) Rintaro Goyama, Keio University
How Did Early Modern Japanese Poets Understand “Innate Sensibility?”: The
Reception of Yuan Hongdao by Yanada Zeigan
4) Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
Koga Tōan’s Encounter with Yuan Mei’s Eighteenth Century “A Pest in the Forestof Poetry”
Discussant: Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University
Session 47: Room 251
Individual Papers 12: A Very Niche Film
Chair: Lisa Yinghong Li, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Mei Yang, University of San Diego
From Displacement to Homecoming: Poetry as Relational Space in Contemporary
Chinese Cinema
2) Hannah Airriess, University of California, Berkeley
Corporate Cartographies: Salaryman Cinema in Japan’s Era of High Economic
Growth.
3) Joelle Tapas, Harvard University
Surface Tensions: Ōbayashi Nobuhiko’s House and the Animation of Girlhood4) Molly Kim, University of Suwon
Comparative Analysis of South Korean Hostess Films and Nikkatsu Roman Porno:
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Session 48: Room 316
Individual Papers 13: Immigration and Diaspora
Chair: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Daesung Kwon, Doshisha University
Why Immigration Matters in Internationalization of Higher Education: A Critical
Review of International Student Migration in Japan
2) Kristina S. Vassil, California State University, Sacramento
Tales of Okei: “First Japanese Woman Immigrant” and Pioneer of Gold Hill
3) Ji-Yeon Jo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Unsettling Diasporas: Cinematic Explorations of Korean Japanese in Transnational
Korean Cinema
4) You Gene Kim, Waseda University
Issues and Prospects of Multilingualism: The Case of Joseonjok (Korean-Chinese)in Japan5) Jie Zhang, Waseda University, Charlie V. Morgan, Ohio University, Timothy
Cichanowicz, Ohio University
Japanese Perceptions on the Assimilation Processes of Immigrants
Session 49: Room 314
Individual Papers 14: Labor and Employment
Chair: Bernardo Brown, International Christian University
1) Akira Shimizu, Wilkes University
Creating “Impurity” Within: The Early Meiji Construction of a Slaughterhouse and
the Question of Defilement in the Fukagawa Neighborhood in Tokyo2) Kyungok Kim, University of Tokyo
Women’s Mining Labor and Childcare in Wartime, 1937–1945
3) Kristen L. Luck, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Nail that Sticks Up Isn’t Always Hammered Down: Women, Employment
Discrimination, and Litigiousness in Japan4) Ma Jianxiong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Making of Identities and the Silver Mine Industry on the Yunnan-Burma
Borderland in the 19th century

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