THE NINTH ANNUAL ASCJ CONFERENCEPROGRAM
Registration will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 18, 2005
All sessions will be held in the main classroom building of the Faculty of Comparative
Culture at the Ichigaya campus of Sophia University.
SATURDAY JUNE 18
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room 201
Images of Japanese Women: Interdisciplinary Analyses of the Persistent Paradigm
Organizer / Chair: Aya Kitamura, University of Tokyo
1) Yumiko Yamamori, Bard Graduate Center
A. A. Vantine and Company: Purveyor of an Image of Japan and the Japanese People, 18951920
2) Aya Kitamura, University of Tokyo
Gazed Upon and Gazing Back: Images and Identities of Japanese Women
3) Ruth Martin, Oxford Brookes University“Trailing Spouses” No More: The Experience of Japanese Expatriate Wives in the UK
Discussant: Chizuko Ueno, University of Tokyo
Session 2: Room 301
Hybridity and Authenticity: Japanese Literature in Transition
Organizer / Chair: Masako Ono, Teikyo University
1) Masako Ono, Teikyo University
Marginalization of Chinese, Essentialization of Japanese, and Hybridization of The Tale ofGenji
2) Asako Nakai, Hitotsubashi University
Hybridity, Bilingualism, Untranslatability: Mizumura Minae and the Politics of “ModernJapanese Literature”
3) Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Transformations Bodily and Linguistic: Tawada Yōko’s Revisions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
4) Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yuta as Postcolonial Hybrid in Ōshiro Tatsuhiro’s Fiction
Discussant: Yeounsuk Lee, Hitotsubashi University
Session 3: Room 208
Contentious Politics in Contemporary China
Organizer / Chair: Hiroki Takeuchi, University of California, Los Angeles
1) Shinichi Tanigawa, Stanford University1

Political Processes of Violence Escalation: Toward A Three-Step Model of Cultural
Revolution Violence
2) Hiroki Takeuchi, University of California, Los Angeles
Petitioning and Political Participation in Rural China
3) Erik Mobrand, Princeton University
Workers’ Conflict in Chengdu
4) Hyejin Kim, Rutgers University
The Ethnic Korean Network and South Koreans’ Responses to Chinese Authority
Discussant: Kazuko Kojima, Tsukuba University
Session 4: Room 209
Individual Papers on Intellectual History
Chair: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University1) Jungwon Kim, Harvard University
Revisiting the Cult of Chastity: State Ideology and Actual Practice in Late Choson Dynasty
Korea
2) Yoshiko Okamoto, International Christian University
Japanese Propaganda by Intellectuals during the Russo-Japanese War: The Case of Okakura
Kakuzō (1862-1913) in the United States
3) Kazuo Yagami, University of Northern Colorado
Konoe Fumimaro and Communism4) Wei Ting Jen, Osaka University of Foreign Studies”“To the Mainland!”: An Analysis of the Construction and Articulation of Japan’s “SpecialInterests” in China in the 1930s5) Taku Tamaki, International Christian University
Confucius as a Constructivist: Re-reading the Analects
Session 5: Room 307
Translating Asian Modernity: The Border-crossing Performance of Subjectivity, Nation,and History
Organizer / Chair: I-fen Wu, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
1) Yu-lin Lee, Tamkang University
Tracing the Line of Flight: The Translation of Japan’s Imperialization in Taiwan
2) Chia-chi Wu, Tamkang University
Undoing Translation: Reconsidering History, Nation, and Gender in the “Once Upon a Timein China” Series3) Ming-hung Tu, Tamkang University
The Popular Imaginary of Communities in Torendi-dorama: Philia, Family Spirit, andNakama-ishiki
4) I-fen Wu, Tamkang University2

Translating Ozu? Historical Continuation and Cultural Presentation in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’sCafé Lumière
Discussant: Hitomi Nabae, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Session 6: Room 308
Tokyo: Planned and Unplanned, 1870s-1960
Organizer / Chair: Rod Wilson, Stanford University / Hosei University
1) Matsuyama Megumi, University of Tokyo
Public and Private: Urban Renewal in Early Meiji Tokyo
2) Roderick Wilson, Stanford University / Hosei University
Civil Works and Civil Discontent: The Building of the Port of Tokyo and the Arakawa
Drainage Canal
3) Hatsuda Kosei, University of Tokyo
The Potential and Limitations of Ishikawa Eiyō’s “Sakariba-ron”
4) Julian Worrall, University of Tokyo / University of New South WalesLoyal Dogs and Peace Fountains: The Station Plaza Monument in Twentieth-Century TokyoDiscussant: Andre Sorensen, University of Toronto at Scarsborough
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 7: Room 201
The Family Revisited
Organizer / Chair: Gavin Whitelaw, Yale University / Waseda University
1) Yukari Kawahara, Waseda University
What Is the Family For? Constructing Family and Gender Roles in Japanese SecondarySchools
2) Katrina Moore, Harvard University / University of Tokyo
What Happens to the Household of the Salary Man (Sarariiman) When He Retires?
3) Gavin Whitelaw, Yale University / Waseda University
Behind the Counter: Corporations, Families, and the Changing Face of the Mom and PopDiscussant: Hiroshi Aoyagi, Kokushikan University
Session 8: Room 301
The Botany of Representations
Organizer / Chair: Denntiza Gabrakova, University of Tokyo1) Denntiza Gabrakova, University of Tokyo
A Poetics of Weeds
2) Mariko Naito, University of Tokyo
The Botany of “Waka” of the Japanese Middle Ages
3) Maki Nakai, University of Tokyo
The Garden of Color: Color and Pattern in Medieval Japanese Costume4) Kumiko Nagai, University of Tokyo
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Ornamental Plants for Aristocrats and Commoners: Reading Heian Period Painting Scrolls
Discussant: Midori Sano, Gakushuin University
Session 9: Room 208
Violence and the State: Public Perceptions and Political Constructions in Modern Japan
Organizer / Chair: Eiko Maruko, Williams College
1) Eiko Maruko, Williams College
Discursive Constructions of Political Violence in Interwar Japan
2) Tom Ellis, University of Portsmouth
Violent Crime in Japan? Myths, Media, and the Role of the Police
3) Kaori Miyanishi, Kyoto University
Local Women’s Views of State Violence and the Military
Discussant: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Session 10: Room 209
Individual Papers on Nationalism and Colonialism
Chair: Koichiro Matsuda, Rikkyo University
1) Debrashita Ghosh Dastidar, Tsukuba University
Deconstructing Kipling: A Post-Colonial Perspective2) Marc Andre Matten, University of Tokyo
Patriotic Feelings among Chinese Students in Japan (1895-1911): A Reevaluation
3) Feng Lan, Florida State University
Re-reading Yu Dafu’s Sinking as a Diasporic Configuration of the De-Based Chinese Man inJapan
4) Shino Toyoshima, University of London
The Making of the New Local Community in Colonial Korea: Reorganization of the Local
Korean Community by Common School5) Mike Shi-chi Lan, Nanyang Technological University
Between Empire and Nation: The Taiwanese Transition from Japanese Subjects to Chinese
Citizens, 1945-1947
Session 11: Room 307
Individual Papers on Culture and Modernity
Chair: M. William Steele, International Christian University
1) Kelly Hansen, University of Hawai’i
Multiple Discourses in Futabatei’s Ukigumo2) Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas
The Double, the Doppelganger, and the Doll in Taisho Literature
3) Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Florida State University
The Cultural Translation of Dandyism in Japanese Modernity: The Performances of Ethnic
and Cosmopolitan Identities
44) Atsuko Handa, International Christian University
Murakami Haruki: His Cross-Cultural Experience in the West and the East
5) Lorraine Plourde, Columbia University / Waseda University
Staging NoiseSession 12: Room 308
Lost in Transportation: Japanese Public and Popular Culture in Generational Time
TravelOrganizer / Chair: Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University
1) Yuko Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
The Atomic Bomb and the “Symbol of Peace” Discourse: Hiroshima City in the Early
Postwar Years
2) Maho Toyoda, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Women Trade Unionists and their Memories of the US Occupation of Japan
3) Philip Seaton, Hokkaido University
Handing Down Memories: The Generational Reconstruction of War Crimes Testimony
4) Rie Karatsu, Massey University
Takashi Miike and the Japanese Cinematic New Wave: The Next Generation
Discussant: Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M
Session 13: Room 201
Japanese Culturescapes: Global Encounters, Local Interactions
Organizer / Chair: Martin Roberts, The New School1) Rafael Reyes-Ruiz, Zayed University, Dubai
Music and the (Re)creation of Latino Culture in Japan
2) Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College
Transnational Postcoloniality: The Japanese and the Taiwanese in Recent Auteur Cinema(s)3) Martin Roberts, The New School
Designer Japan: Globalization and the Subculture Industry
Discussant: John C. Maher, International Christian University
Session 14: Room 301
The Book in Modern Japan: Bookstores, Collections, Genres, and Libraries
Organizer / Chair: Sari Kawana, University of Delaware
1) Amadio Arboleda, Josai International University
Book Distribution in Japan: The Role of the Ubiquitous Bookstore
2) Marvin Marcus, Washington University in St. Louis
Living With Books: Uchida Roan and the View from Maruzen
3) Christopher Hill, Yale University
Naturalist Literature and Social Imaginaries
54) Sharon Domier, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Conflicted Loyalties: Banned Books and Public Librarians in Prewar Japan
Discussant: Sari Kawana, University of Delaware
Session 15: Room 208
Political Participation and Social Capital in Japan
Organizer / Chair: Ken’ichi Ikeda, University of Tokyo
1) Ken’ichi Ikeda, University of Tokyo
The Dark Side of Social Capital-Intolerance and Social Networks in Japan
2) Tetsuro Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
Internet Use and Network Diversity in Japan: Putting Political Intolerance into Perspective3) Sean Richey, University of TokyoJapanese Network Capital: The Impact of Social Networks on Japanese Political
Participation
Discussant: Yutaka Tsujinaka, Tsukuba University
Session 16: Room 209
Individual Papers on Past Beliefs and Present Practices
Chair: Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University1) Wilburn Hansen, Stanford University
Tengu Medium2) Chieko Nakano, University of Arizona
The Forming of Karmic Affinity: The Function of Illustrated Biographies in the Late
Kamakura Period
3) Christopher Thompson, Ohio University
The Resurgence of the Hearth God Tradition: Kamadogami Shinkō in Northeastern Japan
4) Benjamin Freeland, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / University of British Columbia
Troublesome Sects, Totalitarian Aspirations: The Cases of Omotokyō and Falun Gong
5) Lorinda Kiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Therapeutic Theatres: Noh and Playback Theatre at a Japanese Clinic
Session 17: Room 307
Korea in Japan’s Gaze, Japan in Korea’s Gaze
Organizer / Chair: Stephen Epstein, University of Wellington
1) Jung-Sun Han, Korea University
Invitations to Empire: Japan-Korea Relations Imagined in Japanese Cartoon Journalism,1876-1910
2) Robert J. Fouser, Kyoto University
Korean Spaces in Japan: Korea Towns, Historical Sites, Theme Parks
3) Hyangjin Lee, University of Sheffield

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Japanese Consumption of Korean Romance: The Creation of a New Asian Identity or theExpression of Colonial Reflection?
4) Stephen Epstein, University of Wellington
Drinking Beer in Sapporo: Changing Images of Japan in South Korea
Discussant: Yasuhiro Tanaka, International Christian University

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
5:55 P.M. – 6:40 P.M.
Main Lecture Hall, Second Floor

Yoneo Ishii
President, The National Institutes for the Humanities;
Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University“Orient” to “Area”: Asian Studies in Japan

RECEPTION: 6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
First Floor Dining Room

SUNDAY JUNE 19
BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Main Lecture HallSUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 19: Room 201
From Occupation to War: The United States in Northeast Asia, 1945-1953
Organizer / Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University1) Jia Yu, Rikkyo University
United States Militarization Policies in Occupied Japan and Korea
2) Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: ROK-US Preparation for the Korean War
3) Somei Kobayashi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Korean War POWs under United Nation Forces Control: U.S. Propaganda and the CIE
Orientation Programs
4) Christine de Matos, University of Western Sydney
Challenging the Hegemon: Australia-US Rivalry over the Progress of Democratization inOccupied Japan
Discussant: Chol Lim, Tsuda College7Session 20: : Room 301 room change: AV Room
The Fixed and the Floating World: Reinterpreting the Fiction of Images in Early
Modern and Meiji Japan
Organizer / Chair: Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
1) Timon Screech, University of London
Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Floating World
2) Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
The Trouble with Hideyoshi: Ukiyo-e and the Ehon Taikōki Incident of 1804
3) Tamiko Nakagawa, University of London
The Awkward Object of Desire: The Tenpō Reforms and Erotic Images4) Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas
Printing Religious Imagery in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Discussant: Tadashi Kobayashi, Gakushuin University
Session 21: Room 208National Kids: Political Subjectivity in Popular Representations of Shōnen in ModernJapan
Organizer / Chair: Brian Bergstrom, University of Chicago
1) Mimi Plauche, University of Michigan
Boy Meets Hero: When Jidai Shōsetsu Become Shōnen Shōsetsu
2) Alwyn Spies, University of British Columbia
From Kid to Adult: Gender and Japaneseness in Hadashi no Gen
3) Brian Bergstrom, University of Chicago
Bishōnen and the Beast: Historical Trauma and Monstrous, Beautiful Boys in the Manga ofMaruo Suehiro
Discussant: Jason G. Karlin, University of Tokyo
Session 22: Room 209
Individual Papers on Politics and Society
Chair: Yoshiko Ashiwa, Hitotsubashi University
1) An Chen, National University of Singapore
Peasant Protests and Changing Party Power in the Chinese Countryside2) Eric Zusman, University of California, Los Angeles
What Makes a Tiger Brown: A Comparative Study of Air Pollution Regulation in East Asia
3) Xiuli Wang, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
National Unity and the Problem of Drugs in Myanmar: A Case Study of Kokang4) Nicolas Bergeret, Center for International Studies and Research
How a Problem of Public Policy Is Put on the Agenda in Japan: The Example of the Fightagainst the Japanese Mafia
5) Anthony Torbert, Kobe Gakuin Daigaku8Globalization and Changing Human Resource Management in Japan
6) Junko Nishimura, Meisei University
The Impact of Work on the Family: Sources of Family Life Strain among Japanese Women atthe Post-Childcare Stage
Session 23: Room 307
Japanese Literature and Its Western Other: Immigrant Literature on the American
West Coast and European Influences in the Work of Yasushi Inoue
Organizer / Chair: Ikuko Torimoto, St. Norbert College1) Thomas Conner, St. Norbert College
Itineraries Real and Imaginary: Echoes of Europe in the Novels of Yasushi Inoue2) Ikuko Torimoto, St. Norbert CollegeOkina Kyūin’s Aspiration to Establish an Immigrant Literature on the West Coast, 19071924
3) Kumi Itsumi, Seitoku University (Emeritus)
The Untold Story of Takehisa Yumeji and Okina Kyūin’s Journey to the United States
Discussant: John Mertz, North Carolina State University
Session 24: Room 308
Influences on Environmental Protection in Japan
Organizer / Chair: Isa Ducke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
1) Gabriele Vogt, German Institute for Japanese Studies
How Do Movements Get Things Moving? Methods of Environmental Activism in Japan
2) Harald Dolles, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Collaborative Strategies between Japanese and German Companies in the Environmental
Protection Industry3) Isa Ducke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Lessons from Abroad? Images of Germany in the Environmental Discourse in Japan
Discussant: Wilhelm Vosse, International Christian University

12:30 P.M.–1:15 P.M.
Audio-Visual Room, First Floor
WORKSHOP
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Electronic Resources Available at the National Diet Library
Sharon Domier
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M
Session 25: Room 201
Contestations of Memory and Decolonization in Postwar Japanese Culture
Organizer / Chair: Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles
1) Richi Sakakibara, Waseda University
Reformulating National Boundaries: The Fall of the Empire Represented in Takeda Taijun’s
Mamushi no Sue (This Outcast Generation)2) Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles
Ruins of Empire: Narratives of Return in Postwar Japanese Literature
3) Dick Stegewerns, Osaka Sangyo University
Nihon Yaburezu (Japan Undefeated): The Cinematic Contest for Japan’s Collective War
MemoryDiscussant: Paul Anderer, Columbia University
Session 26: : Room 301 room change: AV Room
Visual Lexicalization in Illustrations of Edo-Period Popular Culture
Organizer/ Chair: Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia
1) Makoto Yasuhara, Rikkyo UniversityŌgi no Sōshi (Books of Fans): The World of Play between Pictures and Literature
2) Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia
Early Edo-Period Illustrated Poetry Collections and the Lexicalization of Imagery
3) Naoto Miyakoshi, Rikkyo University“Hell-Smashing” and Gate-Smashing: Starting from Yoshitsune’s Hell-Crashing4) Ewa Machotka-Biedrzycka, Gakushuin University
Katsushika Hokusai’s Hyakunin Isshu Uba ga Etoki: Inter-Semiotic Translation within theTenpō Era Ukiyo-e Art (1830-1844)
Discussant: Richard Wilson, International Christian UniversitySession 27: Room 208
Culture and Illness: Rethinking Medical Anthropology in Japan
Organizer / Chair: John Clammer, Sophia University
1) Hideaki Matsuoka, Shukutoku University
The Enclosure of “Delusion”: Psychiatry and Religion in Early Modern Japan
2) Naoko Tamura, University of Paris-Sorbonne
A Sociological Comparison of Japanese Hydrotherapy with That of France3) Yuko Kawanishi, Tokyo Gakugei University
Social Responses to “Hikikomori”: Labeling in an Unmedicalized Society4) Marika Ezure, University College London
Karōshi and the Problem of the Pediatric Medical System in Japan
Discussant: John Clammer, Sophia University10Session 28: Room 308
Changing Contemporary Values among Asian Citizens
Organizer / Chair: Miho Nakatani, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Jeihee Kyung, Keio University
Changing Political Participation in Korea
2) Ayumi Kanamoto, Keio University
Citizen Participation in the Local Policy-Making Process in Korea
3) Fabio Aschero, Keio University
Women’s Economic Independence and Incompatibility of Choices as the Basis of thePhenomenon of Later and Fewer Marriages in Contemporary Japan
4) Shong Gor Ooi, Keio University
Changing Gender Role Perceptions of Migrant Chinese Women in Japan
Discussant: Gyeong Hun Yim, Keio University11