The Twenty-first Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
July 8-9, 2017, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
SATURDAY, JULY 8
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Session 1: Room 5121
Mediated Frontiers of Japanese Culture and Society: Borders Drawn, Translated, orTransported
Organizer and Chair: Andre Haag, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1) Andre Haag, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Blurred Lines: Sketching the Frontiers of Imperial Japanese Culture in Takahama
Kyoshi’s Chōsen (1911)
2) Mark Ombrello, Kansai University
Welcome to Fantasy Island: Othering the South Seas in Shimada Keizō’s Serialized
Comic, Bōken Dankichi3) William Hedberg, Arizona State University
Civilization and Its Discontents: Glimpses of Japan in Meiji-Period Translations of Late
Imperial Chinese Fiction
4) Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moving Lines: Rickshaw Pullers and the Boundaries of the Social in Matsubara
Iwagorō’s Saiankoku no Tōkyō and Yokoyama Gennosuke’s Nihon no kasō shakai
Discussant: Greg Dvorak, Waseda University
Session 2: Room 5124
The Causes of the Misunderstanding and Conflict between Japan and the US
Organizer: Yoshiaki Katada, Meijo University
Chair: Akira Iikura, Josai International University
1) Yoshiaki Katada, Meijo University
Japan’s Trade with the US over the Pacific from the 1910s to the 1920s
2) Takenosuke Mishima, Waseda Saga High School
The Liberal Internationalists in Japan and the US
3) Akira Iikura, Josai International University
The Deterioration of US Sentiments toward Japan in the Prewar Period: Analysis of
Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon, the “Dean of American Cartoonists”
4) Yuka Fujioka, Kwansei Gakuin University
Japan’s Public Diplomacy and Immigrants
Discussant: Yuka Fujioka, Kwansei Gakuin University

1Session 3: Room 5223
Imperial Female Archetypes: The Disciplined Colonial Girl, the Sexually AmbivalentStudent, and the Grotesque Old Shōjo (少女)Organizer/Chair: Helen J. S. Lee, Yonsei University
1) Kyung Sook Shin, Yonsei University
Living as a Colonial Girl: The Sushin (Self-Disciplining Curriculum) of the 1930s andFormation of the Colonial Girl in Korea
2) Bong Gwan Jun, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Recalcitrant or Obedient? Same-Sex Love and Female Students3) Su Yun Kim, University of Hong Kong
“Modern Youth” and Gender in Romance Literature in the 1930s Colonial Korea
4) Sohyun Chun, Oita University
The Grotesque Shōjo
Discussant: Rebecca Copeland, Washington University
Session 4: Room 5224
Science, Literature and Differential Mobilities in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Ryuta Komaki, Washington University
1) Aaron Jasny, University of TokyoJapanese Mountains on the World Stage
2) Ryuta Komaki, Washington University
One Weather Station at a Time: Japanese Meteorology and the Boundary of the Empire3) Walter Hare, Washington University
Fenced Off: Hōjō Tamio and the Loss of Humanity
Discussant: Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University
Session 5: Room 5322
Re-reading Three Japanese Filmmakers
Organizer: Earl Jackson, National Chiao Tung University
Chair: Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University
1) Yutaka Kubo, Kyoto University
Keisuke Kinoshita Reconsidered: The Confinement of Queerness in the Flashback2) Luke Cromer, Waseda University
Kawashima Yūzō: The Alternative Spaces of a Japanese Cinema Modernist
3) Earl Jackson, National Chiao Tung University
Realism and Representation in Masumura Yasuzo
Discussant: Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University2

Session 6: Room 5323
Individual Papers I: People in Motion
Chair: Tanapoom Ativetin, Srinakharinwirot University
1) Akadet Chaichanavichakit, Waseda University
Perpetuating Migration Cycle of Low-skilled Workers from Myanmar to Thailand:
Generations to Generations
2) Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Australian National University
Navigating Geo-Politics at the Mouth of the Amnok/Yalu: Sindo and its Fisherpeople3) Yuko Yamade, Meiji University
Translation and Exophonie in Yoko Tawada‘s Migrant Writings4) Andrew Wolman, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Humanitarian Protection in East Asia: Reviving a Neglected Framework for Asylum
Advocacy5) Elim Yee Lam Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Inheritance and the Life of Cantonese Migrants: Case Study on Shatenki and the Xie
FamilySession 7: Room 5210
Individual Papers II: Twentieth Century Politics, China and Korea
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University
1) He Le, Cornell University
Illusionary Victory: Shanghai’s Propaganda Posters in the 1950s
2) Jiayi Li, Columbia University
Special Political Zone: Political Reforms in Shenzhen, 1978–1990
3) Roie Yellinek, Bar-Ilan University
The Nature of the Relationships between Middle Eastern Leaders and China
1992–20154) Peter Banseok Kwon, Harvard University
Puguk Kangbyŏng: Park Chung Hee’s Defense-centered Heavy and Chemical
Industrialization, 1973—1979
5) Jiyeon Choi, Korea Legislation Research Institute
Regulation Far-Fetched, or Necessary Evil? Review on the Improper Solicitation and
Graft Act of South Korea

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LUNCHTIME SESSION: 12:15 P.M.-13:15 P.M.
Film Preview: Room A203
Until the Invisible Handcuffs are Removed”: The Legal Scapegoating of the “Hisabetsu
Buraku” Community
Organizer and Chair, David Slater, Sophia University
Director, Kim Song Woong (Interpreter, Matsumoto Chie)
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
Session 8: Room 5121
Rethinking Sinocentricism in Early Modern East Asian Literature
Organizer: Clarence I-Zhuen Lee, Cornell University
Chair: Suyoung Son, Cornell University
1) Suyoung Son, Cornell University
Literary Chinese and Reimagining China in Yi Tŏng-mu’s (1741–1793) “Noeroe
nangnak sŏ”2) Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State University
Inventing the Vernacular: Yi Ok’s (1760–1812) Imagination of a Northern Variety Play3) Yamamoto Yoshitaka, Osaka University
Poetry as a Non-Universal Medium: Muro Kyūsō’s Literary Exchange with the Chosŏn
Mission4) Clarence I-Zhuen Lee, Cornell University
Reassessing Sinocentrism in Early Edo Medicine: Literary case studies and Local
diseases
Discussant: Rintaro Goyama, Keio University
Session 9: Room 5124
Collective Action in Asia: Social Psychological Studies in Japan, Hong Kong, and thePhilippines
Organizer/Chair: Danielle P. Ochoa, University of the Philippines Diliman
1) Danielle P. Ochoa, University of the Philippines Diliman
Angry, Ashamed, or Hopeful? Comparing Emotions in Mobilizing Collective Action in
Japan, the Philippines, and Australia2) Randolph C. H. Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Collective Action as a Means to Eradicate Gender-based Oppression in Chinese
Culture3) Gloria Y. K. Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Supporting Collective Action for Sexual Equality: A Sense of Place and Mindfulness4) Eric Julian Manalastas, University of the Philippines Diliman
Ally Collective Action and Stigma in Japan and the Philippines
Discussant: Makiko Deguchi, Sophia University

4Session 10: Room 5223
Of Bugs, Pigs and Things: Rethinking the Exterior of Human Language, from the Voiceof Non-humans to Image-thinking
Organizer: Hyung Jin Lee, University of Tokyo
Chair: Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
1) Thi Hien Nguyen, Vietnam National University
Of Bugs and Men: Narratives of Desire and Hatred in Korean Literature from the 1970s
to the Present
2) Ju A Joung, Kangwon National University
The Affliction of the Human Body and the Allegory of the “Human-Animal” in theWorks of George Orwell, Miyazaki Hayao and Contemporary Korean Writers
3) Hyung Jin Lee, University of Tokyo
Violent Imaginations in Écriture Féminine: Images of Metamorphosis in Contemporary
Korean Fiction
4) Yerhee Kim, Kangwon National University
The (Non-) Ontology of Image and Image-thinking: Poetic Thoughts in Korean
Modernist Literature of the 1930s
Discussant: Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
Session 11: Room 5224
Contested War Narratives as Expressed in Museums and Film
Organizer/Chair: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington
War in Textbooks: A Comparative Study of the Narrations of the 1895 Sino-Japanese
War in Japanese and Chinese Textbooks (1897–1907)
2) Xiaohua Ma, Osaka University of Education
History, Memory, and Reconciliation in East Asia: Museum Wars in Sino-Japanese
Relations
3) Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Reconciling Victimization: War Museums in Tokyo and Seoul
4) Noriko Kawamura, Washington State University
Historical Memory of Heroes and Villains on Japan’s Longest Day
Discussant: Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies

5Session 12: Room 5322
Local Society in Motion: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life in the Early
Modern Era
Organizers: Boyi Chen, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences; Gilbert Chen, Washington
University
Chair: Peilin Wu, China West Normal University
1) Boyi Chen, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences
Two Types of Segregation: Structural Similarities and Differences of the SouthFujianese Local Communities in Batavia and Manila
2) Gilbert Chen, Washington University
Being Buddhist in this World: A Social History of Ordinary Monks and Nuns in Early
Modern China
3) Nan-Hsu Chen, National Taiwan University
Joint Reclamation? Pirates, Illegal Immigrants and the Local Politics of Early
Nineteenth-Century Taiwan
4) Xiao Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Community Leaders in Property Disputes in Ba County: Legal Intermediaries andLitigation Strategy 1736—1861
Discussant: Peilin Wu, China West Normal University
Session 13: Room 5323
Individual Papers III: Environmental Issues in Northeast Asia
Chair: Jenine Heaton, Kansai University
1) Thomas Edward Jones, Meiji University“Blue Sky, Clean Water, Grey Hearts?” Reflections on the Long-term Legacy ofIndustrial Waste Dumping on Teshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea National Park
2) Sang-ho Ro, Ewha Womans University
Damming Rivers: Environmental History of Cold-War Developments in 1960s SouthKorea
3) Xiao Yu, East Normal China University
Setting rules through pollution-induced contention: The Evidence from Rural China
4) Abhik Chakraborty, Wakayama University
Transition and Continuity in Mountain Landscapes of Japan
5) Maxime Polleri, York University
Furusato Sweet Furusato: Finding Home after Fukushima

6Session 14: Room 5210
Individual Papers IV: Print Culture, Translation, and Games
Chair: Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Machiko Ishikawa, Surugadai University
Producing English Translations of the “Hiragana poems” of Kishida Eriko
2) Zengxian Li, Ritsumeikan University
Japan Printed Books in East Asia: the Lockhart Collection in the Cambridge University
Library3) Tin Kei Wong, University of Queensland
A Comparative Study on Images of Mothers in Chinese and Japanese Translations:
Laura M. White and Wakamatsu Shizuko’s Translations of Little Lord Fauntleroy
4) Man Shun Yeung, The University of Hong Kong
Abel Yen, Benjamin Bowen Carter and Dictionarium Sinicum: Their Place in the
History of Early 19th Century Westerners’ Chinese Learning5) Ben Whaley, The University of Calgary
Phantoms of War and Traumatic Memory in Metal Gear Solid V
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Session 15: Room 5121
Contemporary Japanese Foreign Policy
Organizer/Chair: Robert D. Eldridge, International Policy Studies
1) David Adebahr, Kyoto University
Introducing a New Strategic Approach by Orienting “South”? Testing Strategic
Elements in Japan’s Evolving Security Policy for Asia
2) Maria Malashevskaya, Saint Petersburg University
Mongolia in Japan’s Eurasian Policy (1996–2016)
3) Edward Boyle, Kyushu University
Tracing “Integral Territory”: Sovereignty, Access and the Body of the Japanese Nation
4) Tatsuro Chiba, Pompeu Fabra Univeristy
Japan’s Foreign Policy under the Abe Administration: A Role Theory Analysis ofJapan’s Foreign Policy Initiatives between 2006–2007 and 2012–2016
Discussant: Robert D. Eldridge, International Policy Studies

7Session 16: Room 5124
Tiger, Journal, and Film: Negotiating Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
Organizer/Chair: Fei Chen, University of Tokyo
1) Fei Chen, University of Tokyo
From Empire’s Frontier to Sichuan’s Treasury: Japanese Knowledge, Japanese
Practice and the Tibetan Crisis, 1895—1911
2) Ying-kit Chan, Princeton University
The Bible Through the Gun: American Missionaries and Tiger-Hunting in RepublicanEra Fujian Province3) Le Wang, University of Tokyo,
Films, Picture-story Show and Radio Broadcast: Entertainment and Pacification in
Rural Manchukuo
Discussant: Chien-Shou Chen, Academia Sinica
Session 17: Room 5223
Language Ideologies on the Move: Scales and Stakes of Linguistic Alterity
Organizer: Shunsuke Nozawa, University of Tokyo
Chair: P. Kerim Friedman, National Dong Hwa University
1) P. Kerim Friedman, National Dong Hwa University
Learning how not to See Language Like a State
2) Rika Yamashita, Kanto Gakuin University
Beyond the Minority/Majority Dichotomy: Language and the Muslim Ummah in
Globalizing Japan3) Tzu-kai Liu, Academia Sinica(Re)configuring Language Ideologies Online and Offline: Wa Migrant Workers’
Multilingual Identities on the Move
4) Debra Occhi, Miyazaki International College
Othering, Success, and Failure in the Representation of Rural Identities: Two Local
Promotion Videos in Kyushu, Japan
Discussant: Shunsuke Nozawa, University of Tokyo
Session 18: Room 5224
Race under Occupation Conditions
Chair: Paul Christensen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
1) W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University
Neither Friend nor Foe: Being Multiracial in Wartime Japan
2) Ai Baba, Cornell University,
Who’s Afraid of Being Called a Racist? On Fear and Intermarriage in the Japanese
Empire3) Chia-ning Chang, University of California at Davis,
Representations of the Asian Others: War and Resistance in Modern Japanese Cinema
4) Jonathan Glade, Michigan State University
Fraternization: Censorship and Expression in US-Occupied Japan and Southern Korea
Discussant: Paul Christensen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

8Session 19: Room 5322
British Diplomats in Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Japan
Organizer and Chair: Ian Ruxton, Kyushu Institute of Technology
1) Mayuko Sano, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Rutherford Alcock, a Promoter of Tokugawa Japan
2) Robert Morton, Chuo University
Friend or Foe? Sir Harry Parkes, Japan and the Meiji Restoration
3) Ian Ruxton, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Ernest Satow’s Role as a Catalyst in the Meiji Restoration
Discussant: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
Session 20: Room 5323
Idol Apocalypse: Media Environments and the Body in Contemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: Andrew Campana, Harvard University
1) Kukhee Choo, Sophia University
Female Idols at a Crossroad: 1980s Matsuda Seiko and Nakamori Akina
2) Andrew Campana, Harvard University
As a Piece of Flesh: Togawa Jun’s Alternative Pop Stardom and Cross-Media Poetics
3) Caitlin Casiello, Yale University
Transgressing Human: Monstrosity, Gender and Erotic Encounters in Helter Skelterand Urotsukidōji
4) Franz Prichard, Princeton University
Embodying Evidence: Re-mediation, Decontamination, and the Expanded Ecologies ofDisaster
Discussant: Anne McKnight, Shirayuri College
Session 21: Room 5210
Individual Papers V: Issues on Religions Across Asia
Chair: Alex Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Jeongeun Park, the University of British Columbia
An Examination of Korean Monks’ Household Registers and the Issue of Clerical
Marriage in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
2) Rui Oliveira Lopes, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Mirrors of Devotio: Artistic Appropriation and Cultural Negotiation of Religious Art inPortuguese India and the Mughal Court
3) Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Comic and Enlightening: Kyōgen Plays as a Genealogy of Buddhist Humorous
Language4) David Henry, University of Alaska
Nakazato Kaizan and Ishii Tsuruzo: Text vs. Image in Daibosatsu toge (Great
Bodhisattava Pass)
5) Jonathan Stockdale, University of Puget Sound
Re-reading Japanese Whale Memorials (kujira-zuka): The Historical and Religious
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SUNDAY, JULY 9SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Session 22: Room X102
Configuring the People: Semiotics and Subjectivity in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: John Branstetter, University of California, Los Angeles
1) John Branstetter, University of California, Los Angeles
Debating the People: Individuality, Knowledge, and Politics in Meiji Japan
2) Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los AngelesChildren as Imaginary Citizens: Politics of Childhood in Early 20th-century Japan
3) Christophe Thouny, University of Tokyo
Mobile Places, Urban Masses: Dwelling Experience in Kon Wajirō’s Urban Topologies
of Taishō Tokyo
4) Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Meiji University
Do Coeds Ruin the Nation?: The Female Student at the Limits of Postwar Citizenship
Discussant: Tsuboi Hideto, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Session 23: Room X103
Tokyo 2020: Framing a Mega-event
Organizer: Barry Natusch, Nihon University
Chair: Beryl Hawkins, Temple University Japan
1) Beryl Hawkins, Temple University Japan“Framing” Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics in the News2) Barry Natusch, Nihon University
In Ichikawa’s Footsteps: Framing a 2020 Tokyo Olympic Documentary3) Maria Guajardo, Soka University
Three Core Concepts: Shaping a Nation’s Image via the Tokyo 2000 Olympics
Discussant: Tadahiro Tsuji, Nihon University

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Session 24: Room X104
Propaganda as Affective Mediums: Rethinking Propaganda from Imperial toContemporary Japan
Organizer: Wan-ting Wang, National Chengchi University
Chair: Pei-chen Wu, National Chengchi University
1) Wan-ting Wang, National Chengchi University
Internalized Machinery: Ethnic Male Bodies in Propaganda Documentaries and Zhou
Jinbo’s Literature of Colonial Taiwan during WWII
2) Shih-chin Chang, National Chengchi University
Musicality and the Discipline of Body in War Poetry of Colonial Taiwan
3) Pei-Jung Lin, National Chengchi University
Hidden Movements of Cross-Language Intellectuals During World War II: On Yang
Yuping’s “Railway Poems” (Tetsudō shishō) and “Tribal Diary” (Buraku nikki)
4) Katherine Mezur, University of California, Berkeley/San Francisco Museum of
Performance and Design
Cute Girl (kawaii shôjo) Propaganda: Japanese “Soft Power” and Subversive POP
Discussant: Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba
Session 25: Room X105
The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Characters and Language
Organizer/Chair: Jin Liu, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
1) Yu Li, Emory University
The Primacy of Morphographicity as Inspiration: A Linguistic Analysis of the Chinese
Script in Contemporary Visual Art
2) Jin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Subversive Writing: Li Xiaoguai’s Newly Coined Chinese Characters and His Comic
Blogging
3) In Young Bong, Chungbuk National University
The Cultural Politics of Argot and Censorship in Modern Chinese Literature4) Lijie Dong, University of Alberta
The Political Metaphor in Contemporary Sinophone Science Fiction
Discussant: Alexander Des Forges, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Session 26: Room X106
Barriers at work: Employment and entrepreneurial possibilities and problems incontemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: SPF Dale, Hitotsubashi University
1) Jennifer Coates, Kyoto University
The Film Star and the Housewife: The Strange Case of the Invisible Career2) Alexandra Hambleton, Bunkyo Gakuin University
The Feminist Entrepreneur: Labor and Self-Actualization in the Japanese Adult
Industry3) Jamie Coates, Sophia University
The Intersectional Labyrinth of Chinese Entrepreneurialism in Japan
4) SPF Dale, Hitotsubashi University
How Friendly is LGBT-friendly?: Experiences of LGBT Employees and Diversity
Policies in Japanese workplaces
Discussant: Diana Khor, Hosei University
Session 27: Room X107
Individual Papers VI: War and Occupation
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
1) Simon James Bytheway, Nihon University
Currency Problems in Allied Occupied Germany and Japan, 1945–1952
2) Christian W. Spang, Daito Bunka University
Nazi Racism and Japanese-German Marriages
3) Ji Hee Jung, Seoul National University
Rearticulating the American Way across the Pacific: The U.S. Cold War Politics ofDomesticity and Its Ruptures in Occupied Japan
4) Hyewon Um, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Litigation, Administrative Relief, and Political Settlement for Japanese War Orphans:Cause Lawyering and Its Implications for Social Movements in Japan
5) Astghik Hovhannisyan, Hitotsubashi University
Eugenic Sterilizations in Postwar Japan

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Session 28: Room X201
Individual Papers VII: Chinese and Japanese History
Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
1) Nobuko Senoo, Independent Scholar
The Assimilation of Exotic Cultures in Tang China: The Tri-Colored Glazed Ewer of the
Arab Shipwreck2) Roman Pasca, Kanda University of International Studies
Visions of the Human Being in Tokugawa Philosophy: Nature as Shizen and the “HomoNaturalis”
3) Sergey Tolstoguzov, Hiroshima University
Tenpo Reforms in the Time and Space of Premodern Japan
4) Carolyn Pang, Columbia University
Destroying to Appease the Gods: Challenges of Historical Preservation in Present-day
Japan
Lunch BreakSUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 29: Room X102
Modern Tokyo: Public Spaces, Gendered Places
Organizer/Chair: Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1) Yuko Nakamura, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Spaces for Socializing: Emergence and Development of Women-only Gatherings in PreWorld-War-II Tokyo, Japan
2) Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tokyo’s First City Parks: The Making of Public Places in the Meiji Period
3) Sally Hastings, Purdue University
The Tokyo YWCA: Constructing Places to Advance the Needs of Young Women, 1905—
1940
Discussant: Noriko Ishii, Sophia University

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The “Korea Problem” in Imperial and Post-Imperial Japan: Reconsidering theRelationship between Metropole and Colony
Organizer: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Chair: Hiroaki Matsusaka, University of Michigan
1) Max Ward, Middlebury College
Ideological Conversion (Tenkō) and the “Korea Problem”: Japanese Anxieties of
Policing the Empire2) Hiroaki Matsusaka, University of Michigan
The “Korea Problem” for Ishigaki Ayako, a Feminist Internationalist
3) Deokhyo Choi, Yonsei University
Looking through the Korean Minority’s “Liberation”: Decolonization in Early Postwar
Japan
Discussant: Kyeong-Hee Choi, University of Chicago
Session 31: Room X104
Satire in Chinese Literature: Satirical Text as Medium for Socio-Cultural Engagement
and Identity Negotiation
Organizer/Chair: Xi Tian, Bucknell University
1) Xi Tian, Bucknell University
Food, Eating and Taste: The Hungry Body in Xiao Hong’s Tales of Hulan River
2) Fang-Yu Li, New College of Florida
Writing the Self as a Satirist: Ji Weiran’s Private Eyes
3) Yunjing Xu, Bucknell University
Satire in Chinese Literature: Satirical Text as Medium for Socio-Cultural Engagement
and Identity Negotiation
Discussants: Silvia Pozzi, University of Milano Bicocca; Chenshu Zhou, Stanford University
Session 32: Room X105
Japan’s Gender Equality in the Era of Abenomics
Organizer/Chair: Machiko Osawa, Japan Women’s University
1) Lindsay Custer, Cascadia College
Perceptions of Feminism and Women’s Role in Society among Young Female JapaneseCollege Students
2) Akira Kawaguchi, Doshisha University
Maternity Harassment and Japanese-style Human Resource Management
3) Ma Xinxin, Hitotsubashi University
Women’s Career Aspirations and Job Turnover among Highly Educated Women inJapan4) Saori Kamano, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research,
Attitudes toward Gender Relationships and Families: Overtime Changes andDeterminants
Discussant: Machiko Osawa, Japan Women’s University

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Session 33: Room X106
The Kimono Kaleidoscope: A Multifaceted Discussion of the Kimono, from the Kosode
Hiinagatabon to Today’s Antique-Kimono Fad
Organizer/Chair: Michelle Kuhn, Nagoya University
1) Michelle Kuhn, Nagoya University
Discussing the Non-Genji Patterns in the Genji Hiinakata
2) Mizuho Kamo, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Examination from Dyeing and Weaving Historical Sources: A Focus on Katagami and
Designs3) Mari Yoshida, Ritsumeikan University
When Supply does not Meet Demand: On Contemporary Kimono Culture
Discussant: Ayako Yoshimura, University of Chicago
Session 34: Room X107
Individual Papers: VIII: Empire and After
Chair: Karl Friday, Saitama University1) Ágota Duró, Hiroshima City University
Establishing Japanese Medical Assistance for the Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors
2) Bjorn Koolen, Sophia University
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere beyond the Propaganda: Japan´s Vision
for Regional Economic Interdependence
3) Hanae Kurihara Kramer, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Man’ei (Manchuria Motion Picture Corporation), 1937–1945
4) Sookyeong Hong, Cornell University
Overcoming Modern Medicine: Sakurazawa Yukikazu’s “Natural Medicine,” 1929–
1945
5) Ryan Moran, Keio University
Producing the Responsible Population in Colonial Korea
Session 35: Room X201
Individual Papers IX: Classical Japanese and Chinese Literature
Chair: Lisa Yinghong Li, Oberin University
1) Yanfang Tang, College of William and MaryClassical Chinese Poetry and Modern Chinese Life
2) Noriko T. Reider, Miami University
Devouring and Helping Yamauba in Folktales: Two Sides of the Same Coin
3) Otilia Clara Milutin, Knox College“Bathed in Perspiration”: Sexual Violence and the Female Body in Heian-Period
Monogatari
4) Yuanfei Wang, University of Georgia
Narratives and Images of “Japanese” Pirates in Late Ming China
5) Hitomi Yoshio, Waseda University
Translating the Classics: Modern Translation of Ichiyō and Kawakami Mieko’s Chichi
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.
Session 36: Room X102
New Perspectives on Late Colonial Korea: Collaboration, Comfort Women, and National
Identity
Organizer/Chair: Chizuko T. Allen, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1) AhRan Ellie Bae, Rikkyo University
The Collaboration Issue in the Case of Yi Kwang-su
2) Vladimir Tikhonov, University of Oslo
Kim Saryang’s Ten Thousand Li of a Dull-Witted Horse: Remembering the AntiColonial Struggle3) Gabriel Jonsson, Stockholm University
Can the Japan-Korea Dispute on Comfort Women be Resolved?
4) Chizuko T. Allen, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Assembled Memories about Korean “Comfort Women”
Discussant: Jung-Sun Han, Korea University

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Session 37: Room X103
Technologies of (In)visibility in Japanese Science Fiction
Organizer/Chair: Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
1) Yusung Kim, Harvard University
How is an Event Invented?: Television in Tokusatsu Eiga in the Late 1950s and Early
1960s2) Denis Taillandier, Ritsumeikan University
The Nanotech Cyborgs from Ganmu to Ganmu Last Order
3) Kazue Harada, Miami University
Perceivable Radiation in the Post-Fukushima Japan in Kobayashi Erika’s The
Luminous4) Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
Animated Bodies: On the Adaptations of Project Itoh’s Zombies
Discussant: Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University
Session 38: Room X104
Diversity and the Diversification of Work and the Workplace in Japan
Organizer/Chair: Phoebe Stella Holdgrün, German Institute for Japanese Studies
1) Tobias Söldner, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Interrelations Between Sexism, Gender Role ideals, Gender Specific Work Competency
Perceptions, and Career Aspirations of Japanese University Students
2) Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Diversification of Employment Forms and its Implications for Japan’s Welfare
Politics
3) Ronald Saladin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Hanzawa Naoki: The Utopia of Changing Workplace Structures in the Media
Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University
Session 39: Room
United Nation Peacekeeping: Japanese Experience and Global Perspectives
Organizers: Kyoko Hatakeyama, Kansai Gaidai University; Andreas Hilger, German Historical
Institute Moscow
Chair: Swapna Kona Nayudu, LSE, London
1) Kyoko Hatakeyama, Kansai Gaidai University
Trajectory of Japan’s Experience and Perspectives in Peacekeeping Operations
2) Andreas Hilger, German Historical Institute Moscow
India and UN Peacekeeping in the Cold War and After
3) Agilolf Keßelring, University of Helsinki
UN Peacekeeping by Germany and Finland
Discussant: Yuji Uesugi, Waseda University

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Session 40: Room X106
Individual Papers X: Modern Asian Literature and Culture
Chair: Noriko Murai, Sophia University
1) Michiko Suzuki, University of California, DavisA Firefly in the Sleeve: Reading the Tale of Genji in The Makioka Sisters
2) Hsin-Chin Hsieh, National Taipei University of Education
A Window to Japan: Arai Hifumi’s Sinophone Writing in Taiwan
3) Marta Fanasca, University of Manchester
Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man: Ethnographic Research in a Dansō Escort Company inAkihabara
4) Yanfei Yin, The Ohio State University
Female Literacy in Chinese Painting of the 1950s: Teaching Mama to Read
5) Kyoko Omori, Hamilton College
Soseki versus Holmes: The Literary Battle Royale
Session 41: Room X107
Individual Papers XI: Political Science and Economy
Chair: Kim Minkyu, Northeast Asia History Foundation
1) Jan Sýkora, Charles University/Osaka University
Consuming Places: Consumption and Consumerism in Modern Japan2) Matthew Brummer, University of Tokyo
Alliances, Threats, and Institutional Development in Japan’s National Innovation System
3) Ng Hoi Yu, University of Hong Kong
Decentralization as a Tool for Electoral Authoritarianism: The Case of Town Councils in
Singapore4) Belinda Q. He, University of Washington
Ways of Exposing: Cinema as Struggle Session in Maoist China
5) Lindsay Nelson, University of Tokyo
From Scary to Scary-Cute: The Evolution of Japanese Horror Marketing18