26TH ANNUALASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN⽇本アジア研究学会 ＠上智⼤学

Jipbap (Home Cooking) andGendered Labor in theAge of Neoliberalism
Hyaeweol Choi
President, Association for Asian Studies
Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chairin Korean Studies
Chair, Department of Gender, Women’s,
and Sexuality Studies
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
University of Iowa
ASCJ 2024 has been made possible by the generous support of Sophia University and the
Association for Asian Studies.
For full program and access details, see: https://ascjapan.org/
Email: ascjconf@gmail.com
Conference language: English

ASCJ Executive Committee===================================================
Ahran Ellie Bae, Tokyo Kasei University
Bruce Batten, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Environmental History and Ancient Japan
Tove Bjoerk, Saitama University, Early Modern Japanese Literature Publicity/Web
Christopher Bondy, International Christian University, Japanese Society
Roger Brown, Saitama University, Modern Japanese History
Mark E. Caprio,

Rikkyo University, Korean History

Yen-Yi Chan, Sophia University, Japanese Art History
Edward Drott, Sophia University, Japanese Religions, Vice President
Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University, Japanese History
Karl Friday, Saitama University, Japanese History, CoC Representative
Curtis Gayle, Waseda University, Modern Japanese History
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University, Japanese History
Christian Hess, Sophia University, Chinese History, President
Andrew Kamei-Dyche, Aoyama Gakuin University
Rieko Kamei-Dyche, Rissho University
Hyangjin Lee, Rikkyo University, Asian Film Study
André Linnepe, Teikyo University, History of Japanese Thought
Lisa Yinghong Li, J.F. Oberlin University, Chinese Literature
Yoshie Moriki, International Christian University, Asian Anthropology, Treasurer
Lindsay Morrison, Musashi University
Noriko Murai, Sophia University, Art History
Roberto Ono, Hosei University
Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Modern Japanese History Vice President
Matthew Strecher, Sophia University, Japanese Literature
Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University, International Relations
Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University, Japanese Intellectual History Books/Displays
Alex Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University, Buddhist Culture, Comparative Cultural History
Yamamoto Yoshitaka, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Edo Period Japanese Literature

The Twenty-sixth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
Sophia University
July 6-7, 2024
Information is correct as of June 21. Please check our website for any late changes:
https://ascjapan.org
Registration will begin at 9:15 on Saturday, July 6 on the 4th floor of Building 2.
All sessions will be held on the 4th floor of Building 2 on the Sophia University Yotsuya campus.
Registration and Book Display: 4th floor of Building 2.
All rooms are equipped with a projector, HDMI cables and a DVD player.
PROGRAM OVERVIEWSaturday, July 6
9:15 - Registration
10:00 – 12:00 Sessions 1 – 9
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 15:00 Sessions 10 – 18
15:15 – 17:15 Sessions 19 – 27
17:30 – 18:15 Keynote Address
18:30-20:00 Reception
Sunday, July 7
9:15 - Registration
9:15 - 9:50 ASCJ Business Meeting
10:00 – 12:00 Sessions 28 – 36
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break and Roundtable Session
13:30 – 15:30 Sessions 37 – 43
15:45 – 17:45 Sessions 44 – 49

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The Twenty-sixth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
Sophia University
July 6-7, 2023
SATURDAY, JULY 6Saturday Morning Sessions: 10:00– 12:00
Session 1: Room 407
Wartime displacement, gender roles and the struggle for repatriation: Korean migrants during
and after the Asia-Pacific War
Organizer: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University
Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Discussant: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Papers:1) Agota Duro, Hiroshima Jogakuin University
Involuntary Displacement: Examining the Migration of Koreans to Hiroshima
during the Japanese Occupation
2) Mikwi Cho, Earlham College
Fossilization of Gender Roles: Korean Women in Imperial Japan3) Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University‘Eternal Displacement’: A Post-Cold-War Movement to Reunify Sakhalin Korean
Families, Divided by the Asia-Pacific War
Session 2: Room 405
Materiality of Experience: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Premodern Objects andTheir (After)Lives
Organizer: Marta Sanvido, University of Hamburg
Chair: Marta Sanvido, University of Hamburg
Discussant: Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado, Boulder
Papers:1) Ellen Van Goethem, Kyushu University
Inscribed Wooden Tablets and Construction in Ancient Japan
2) Pier Carlo Tommasi, University of Hawaii at Manoa
What’s the “Matter” with Emotions? Grief and Affective Materiality in Medieval Manuscript
Culture3) Marta Sanvido, University of Hamburg
Coins of the Dharma: Everyday Materiality in Premodern Japanese Buddhism
4) Caroline Hirasawa, Waseda
What Happened to the Painting that Wept?

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Session 3: Room 406
Media and Creative Industries in Contemporary Japan: A Gender Perspective
Organizer: Enno Yinong Li, Nagoya University
Chair: Alexandra Maiuga, Ritsumeikan University
Discussant: Tomoko Shimizu, Tokyo University of the Arts
Papers:1) Enno Yinong Li, Nagoya University
Living a Feminist Artist Life: Identity and Creative Labor in the Videos of Mako
Idemitsu
2) Chiaki Inoue, The University of Tokyo
An Analysis of Gender in the Critical Writings of "Bijutsu Techo"
3) Kaiwen Liu, The University of Tokyo
Reading “Healing” in Japanese Queer Cinema: Through a Prism of Texture and Tactility4) Alexandra Maiuga, Ritsumeikan University
Women Adored: Female Representation and Self-Orientalism at Tokyo Game Show
Session 4: Room 404
Shifting Perspectives in Transwar Japanese Visual Culture
Organizer: Emily Cole, Boston College
Chair: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University
Papers:1) Emily Cole, Boston College
Postwar Photostories: Natori Yōnosuke and the Weekly Sun News2) Shih-cheng Huang, SOAS University of London
Artistry and Sociality: Horino Masao’s Graphic Montage in Criminology
3) Jasmin Rückert, Institut für Modernes Japan, Heinrich-Heine-Universit.t Düsseldorf
Shifts and Stagnation: Perspectives on China in the Works of Japanese Photographers4) Kyle Peters, Assistant Professor
Hayashi Tatsuo’s Editorial Entanglements in Graphic and Photo Magazines:
Friends of the Soviet and FRONT
Session 5: Room 408
Shintō in the Japanese Empire – New approaches to Shintō and Japanese
Mythology in Colonial Contexts
Organizer: Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
Chair: Juljan Biontino, Chiba University
Discussant: Kaitlyn Ugoretz, Nanzan University
Papers:1) Bernhard Scheid, Austrian Academy of Science
The Kume Incident of 1892 and the Pitfalls of State Shintō
2) Karli Shimizu, Hokkaido University
Uncivilized Lands and Disloyal Subjects: Pioneer Theology and Universalized Theology atOverseas Shinto Shrines
3) Aono Masaaki, Momoyama gakuin daigaku (St. Andrews)
Susanoo’s False Tomb in Colonial Korea

34) David Weiss, Kyushu University
Mythical State Founders and their Role in the Construction of National Identities in Japan and
Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu, Jinmu, and Tan’gun
Session 6: Room 409
Nation-Building Dilemmas on Japan’s Borders: The Cases of South Sakhalin,Semi-Colonial China, Yokosuka, and the Assistance Association for Okinawa andthe Ogasawara Islands
Organizer: Jiang Keyi, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University ofHong Kong
Chair: Lee Junyoung, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Hanyang
University
Discussant: Satō Takuma, Department of Japanese Studies, Hanyang University
Papers:1) Lee Junyoung, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Hanyang University
History of Interactions Between Koreans and Ainu in South Sakhalin (Karafuto)During JapaneseRule2) Jiang Keyi, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Li Dazhao’s and Yoshino Sakuzō’s Diverging Visions of “International Democracy,” March
1917 to April 1919
3) Chu-Wen Hsieh, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
From Kaigun Curry to Navy Burger: Two Empires in A Military Port City
4) Kim Miyoung, International Development Institute, Chungbuk National
University
Northern Territories and Compatriots at the Nanpō Dōhō Engokai
Session 7: Room 410
In the Fog of War: Russian Invasion of Ukraine and East Asia
Organizer: Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja), Oslo University
Chair: Yaroslav Shulatov, Waseda University
Discussant: Kato Mihoko, Hiroshima City University
Papers:1) Rebekka Asnes Sagild, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
Re-examining China’s Strategic Partnership with Russia? Perspectives from the Chinese
Domestic Discourse in the Wake of Russia’s War against Ukraine
2) Chang Younghee, Independent researcher
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations: Focusing on the Changes
in Taiwanese Perception of the United States
3) Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University
A War for the Coming Multipolar World? How Anti-Hegemonism Sometimes Evolves into ProPutin Stance among South Korean Left
4) Lim Kyounghwa, Chung Ang University
The Meanings of Immediate Ceasefire Proposal for the Ukrainian War in the Context ofJapanese Anti-war Movement’s History

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Session 8: Room 403
Individual Papers 1: Books, Texts and Translations
Chair: Yoshitaka Yamamoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature
1) John Bundschuh, Swarthmore College
Tensed and Tenseless Narratives: The Grammatical Portrayal of Time in 20th-century
Japanese Translations of a Sinitic Buddhist Text
2) Paul Atkins, University of Washington, Seattle
Authentication of Medieval Japanese Literary Manuscripts
3) Haruka Saito, SOAS University of London
Ritual Space and Prayer: Buddhist ritual and liturgical texts in Medieval Japan
4) Linjie Zhang, University of Edinburgh
Bookstores in Shanghai: The Dawn and Decline of Public Space (2001-2022)
5) Paul Warnick, Brigham Young University
Early Analysis of Japanese Auxiliary Verbs (jodooshi)
6) Juan Felipe Arroyave, University of Washington
Lightness and folk: Towards a First English Translation of Basho’s Sumidawara
Session 9: Room 402
Individual Papers 2: Science, Cartography, and Museal Cultures
Chair: Yen Yi Chan, Sophia University
1) Daniel Penner, Columbia University
Letters at the Cusp of Nature and Society: A Literary Study of Science Writing in Early-Meiji
2) Zhijian Yan, Utrecht University
Ogata Koan: Locating the Late Edo pathology in the Japanese history of medicine andWesternization, 1800-1850.
3) Jing SUN, The University of Tokyo/University of Pennsylvania
Eat by Numbers: The Science and Political Economy of Nutrition in Rationed Japan, 1940-1950
4) Huang Jingjing, The University of Hong Kong
Emotion, Experience and Entanglement: The Literary Cartography of Zhong Lihe’s Early
Writings of Manchuria5) Stephanie Bell, Columbia University
The Making of a Superstar Icon – The Kōfukuji Ashura Between National and Temple Museums
12:00 P.M. – 13:00 Lunch break5Saturday Afternoon Sessions I: 13:00-15:00
Session 10: Room 403
Routing New Realities: Agency and Resilience of Female Asian Migrants in Global
Professional Landscapes
Organizer: Megha Wadhwa, Free University of Berlin
Chair: Megha Wadhwa, Free University of Berlin
Discussant: David H. Slater, Sophia University Tokyo
Papers:1) Ruth Achenbach, Goethe University Frankfurt
Gender Norms and Freedom Among Female Chinese Migrants in Japan and Singapore
2) Joohyun Justine Park, Goethe University Frankfurt
The Journey of Labour Market Integration: Social Resilience Strategies among Female Asian
Skilled Migrants in Korea
3) Megha Wadhwa, Free University of Berlin
Balancing Acts: Resilience and Adaptation Among Married Indian Women in Japan
Session 11: Room 404
Writing at the Crossroads of Science and Its Others in Meiji Literature
Organizer: Fumiko Jōo, Mississippi State University
Chair: Shion Kono, Sophia University
Discussant: Shion Kono, Sophia University
Papers:1) Kathryn Tanaka, University of Hyogo
Bad Bloodlines: Stigma, Hansen’s Disease and Melodrama in Meiji Japan
2) Fumiko Jōo, Mississippi State University
Narrating the Strange: Ishikawa Kōsai’s Yasō kidan and the East Asian Zhiguai Tradition
3) Mamiko Suzuki, Rice University
The Liminal Space of Shōen’s Sickbed Diary: Shōen Nikki and Shōen’s kanshi
4) Scott Mehl, Colgate University
Contrastive Literature in Meiji Japan: On the Writings of Kuroyanagi Kaishū
Session 12: Room 405
Social Dimensions of kanshi Poetry
Organizer: Victor Fink, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Chair: Prof. Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
Discussant: Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
Papers:1) Ms. Chencheng Feng, Waseda University
Shōshi-kai - Poetry Gatherings in Celebration of Old Age2) Victor Jonathan Fink, University of Heidelberg
Hierarchy, Friendship and Emotion in Late Edo kanshi Poetry3) Yoshitaka Yamamoto, National Institute of Japanese LiteratureAlbums for Sale: Material Aspects of Literati Culture and Commercial Publishing in Late
Tokugawa Japan

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Session 13: Room 406
A Ghostly Chronology: Video Essays on the History and Evolution of Japanese
Horror Cinema
Organizer: Lindsay Nelson, Meiji University
Chair: Lindsay Nelson, Meiji University
Discussant: Colleen Laird, University of British Columbia
Papers:1) Alison Peirse, University of Leeds
Curse or Cure? The kaibyō eiga and Global Horror Film Criticism2) Quan Zhang, N/A
KwAIdan3) Lindsay Nelson, Meiji University
Waking the Dead: Fake Documentary Q and Nostalgia for Dead Media
Session 14: Room 407
Asian-German Studies - Across Multiple Divides: International Relationships inShanghai around the Second World War
Organizer: Lee M. Roberts, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Chair: Lee M. Roberts, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Discussant: Ricky Law, Carnegie Mellon University
Papers:1) Lee M. Roberts, Purdue University Fort Wayne
More than Fair-weather Friends? Relations between Japanese Civilians and Other Nations inShanghai Leading up to and during the Second World War
2) Wenyan Gu, East China Normal University
Involving the Other Perspective: Narrating the Chinese-Jewish Transcultural Contact inDocumentaries
3) Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun, Grinnell College
Sex, Statelessness, and Survival: Jewish Women's Memories in Shanghai Exile during WorldWar II
Session 15: Room 410
Postwar Japan as Conspiracy
Organizer: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Chair: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Discussant: Louise Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Papers:1) Nick Kapur, Rutgers University
Conspiracy Reality: The 1961 Sanyū incident and the Rebirth of the Japanese Right2) M. Downing Roberts, University of Tokyo
Conspiracy and "Black Mist" in Postwar Japanese Film
3) Max Ward, Middlebury College
Conspiracy and History in David Peace’s Tokyo Trilogy

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Study-Abroad and Trans-war/Cold War Migration of Knowledge
Organizer: Yuka Moriguchi, Kyoto University
Chair: Yuka Moriguchi, Kyoto University
Discussant: Mike Shichi Lan, National Chengchi University
Papers:1) Hiromi Monobe, Doshisha University
Japanese Culture as a Weapon of Defense in Cold War America: Kibei Nisei Librarians andTheir Contributions to Asian Studies in the United States2) Yuka Moriguchi, Kyoto University
International Trainees at the Argonne International School for Nuclear Science and Engineeringin the 1950s
3) Kento Morie, Kyoto University
Negotiating International Expertise: U.S. Training Programs for Emerging Asian Diplomats inthe Decolonization Period
Session 17: Room 409
Emerging Ethnographic Frames of Conceptualizing Japan
Organizer: Dylan O'Brien, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Robert Dahlberg-Sears, Ohio State University
Discussant: Sachiko Horiguchi, Temple University Japan
Papers:1) Maiko Kodaka, SOAS
Politicizing/Politicized Female Sexual Desire: Reflections from Ethnography of Female Fans ofMale Porn Stars
2) Robert Dahlberg-Sears, The Ohio State University
Listening to What Is/n’t: Fieldwork Contradictions in Japanese Punk Scenes
3) Dylan O'Brien, UC San Diego
The Possibilities of Sameness: Ethnographic Approaches to Antisemitism in Japan
4) Shun Ito, Sophia University
Machizukuri, is it a key term to opening up narrative, or a shallow ice breaker for ethnographic
research in rural Japan?

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Individual Papers 3: Art and Politics
Chair: Noriko Murai, Sophia University
1) Wei Sun, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg / Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Avant-garde in the showcase: Reading Japan through exhibitions of avant-garde art inEuropean museums (1980-2000)
2) Alice Ashiwa, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Discovering Art and Politics at the 1969 Sogetsu Art Center Film Festival Protest3) Ran Shauli, Bar Ilan University
The missing pictures: visualization of massacres in wartime Nanjing and Southeast Asian cities,
and in later massacres
4) Ying Huang, Individual researcher
Chinese Comic Artists in Japan: Transnationalism, Cross-cultural Comic Production, andCultural Identity
Saturday Afternoon Sessions II: 15:15-17:15
Session 19: Room 410
Suffering, Salvific, and Sinister: Spectacular Representations of Japanese Women
Organizer: Beth M. Carter, Case Western Reserve University
Chair: Beth M. Carter, Case Western Reserve University
Discussant: Michiko Suzuki, University of California at Davis
Papers:1) Beth M. Carter, Case Western Reserve University
The Spectacle of Suffering: Noh, Mourning Poetics, and the Rokujō Haven
2) Jyana S. Browne, University of Maryland
Spectacular Salvation: Visions of Female Beatitude on the Puppet Theatre Stage
3) Caitlin Adkins, University of Pennsylvania
The Lasting Poison of the “Poison Woman” Trope: Spectaculizing Women in High-Profile
Trials in Japan
Session 20: Room 402
Individual Papers 4: War, Colonialism and Identity
Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University (Emeritus)
1) Yuki Minami, Victoria University of Wellington
The Ghost Platoon: The Zainichi Student Volunteers in the Korean War
2) Michiko Suzuki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Internationalism in Crisis: The Fifteenth International Conference of the Red Cross in Tokyo,
19343) Andrew Hall, Kyushu University
Japanese-run colonial education in Korea, 1919-1931: Messages of unity, reality of
discrimination
4) Jiacheng Dong, Indiana University Bloomington
Strife to Survive: A Comparative Study on Dagong Bao (Ta Kung Pao)’s Editorials and PoliticalCommentaries, 1931-1932
5) Hao Chen, University of Virginia

9Motherland, Homeland, and Borderland: Ethnic Koreans in Yanbian and the Making of the
China-North Korea Border (1945-1962)
6) Han Qiaoyu, The University of Tokyo
Sesso and the Chinese anti-Christian discourses
Session 21: Room 408
Constructing Deviance: Criminality in Media and Literary Landscapes
Organizer: Wakako Suzuki, Whitman College
Chair: Wakako Suzuki, Whitman College
Discussant: Chelsea Szendi Scheider, Aoyama Gakuin
Papers:1) Wakako Suzuki, Whitman College
Tokyo’s Bad Girls: Media Representation of Furyō in Imperial Japan
2) Tanya Barnett , University of Hawai'i at Mānoa‘Going Native’ in the Metropole: Homoerotic Desire and Cannibalism in Murayama Kaita’s“The Diabolical Tongue”
3) Mari Ishida, Wake Forest University
Recasting Futei senjin: Interethnic Anti-Imperialist Struggles in 1920s’ Tokyo
4) Tatiana Sulovska, University of California, Los Angeles
Beyond the Landscape: Transcending the Present Condition (In the Thought of Adachi Masao,
Nagayama Norio, and Terayama Shūji)
Session 22: Room 406
Asian-German Studies 2 – Jewish-German Teachers and Topics in Japan: From
Advising the Meiji-Government to Teaching in the 1930s/40s in an Increasingly
Xenophobic Society
Organizer: Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University
Chair: Lee Roberts, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Discussant: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
Papers:1) Todd Maslyk, University of Michigan
Legalizing the Divine: Socio-Religious Affiliation as a Factor in the Work ofGerman Legal Advisors in Meiji-Japan2) Ricky Law, Carnegie Mellon University“The Jews Did It!”: Populist Views of Jews in Interwar and Wartime Japan
3) Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University
Two non-Aryan Germans in Rural Japan. Life Between Japanese Spy Paranoia and Fears ofNazi Harassment
4) Thomas Pekar, Gakushūin University
Influences of the Musicians Klaus Pringsheim and Joseph Rosenstock on Japanese Music
Education in Schools and Universities

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Family History, Narrative, and Identity in East Asia
Organizer: Eugene Y. Park, University of Nevada, Reno
Chair: Sixiang Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Nataliya Chesnokova, HSE University
Papers:1) Eugene Y. Park, University of Nevada, Reno
Layers of Family History: Surname Pak in Global Time
2) Songhee Lee, Korea University
Identity Formation of Andong Kim as a Political Force
3) Adam Bohnet, University of Western Ontario
Genealogy as a Survival Strategy: The Descendants of Kang Shijue, a Ming Loyalist in Northern
Hamgyŏng
4) Donggue Lee, Ajou University
The “Homogenous Nation” Discourse and Multiculturalism: The Descendants ofHangwae and Their Family Strategies in Early Modern Korea
Session 24: Room 405
Creating Global Asia during the Interwar Years: Rethinking “Imagined Communities” inChina and Taiwan
Organizer: Soonyi Lee, Mercy University
Chair: Soonyi Lee, Mercy University
Discussant: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Papers:1) Qian Zhu, Duke-Kunshan University
Labor Futures: New Villageism (新村主义) and Search for Modern China
2) Wei-chi Chen, Institute of Taiwan History, Academic Sinica
Global Imagination and Taiwanese Anti-colonial Movement during the Interwar Years
3) Yi Zeng, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Observations and Understanding of Hu Shih by Local Intellectuals in Taiwan during theJapanese Colonial Era, 1920-1930
4) Soonyi Lee, Mercy University
The Breakup between Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Liberal Discourses on Politics in China
during the 1930s

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Individual Papers 5: Media and Literature in Modern Japan
Chair: Matthew Strecher, Sophia University
1) Yusuke Henry Bent, Waseda University
Victims to Perpetrators: Media Representations of War Orphans in Immediate Post-War
Japanese Detective Fiction
2) Aafke van Ewijk, Leiden University/ Rikkyo University
Children’s books/literature reconsidered: Warrior legends for young people in Edo and Meiji
Japan3) Kristina S. Vassil, California State University, Sacramento
Transplanted Trees: Okina Kyūin's (1888-1973) iminchi bungei and the Origins of JapaneseAmerican Literature4) Shiyi Sherry Zha, University of Leeds
On the Edge of Spectacle: embodied experiences in Murō Saisei and Liu Na’ou’s city writings in20th Century Tokyo and Shanghai5) Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
La Voix humaine in Zigzag Mediation: The Sonorous Body and Analog Media in Itō Seikō’s“Imai-san”
Session 26: Room 409
Attention Please: Japanese histories of mediated and technological attention
Organizer: David Humphrey, Michigan State University
Chair: David Humphrey, Michigan State University
Discussant: Iris Haukamp, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Papers:1) Diane Lewis, Washington University in St. LouisAttention to Detail: Computerization and Women’s Occupational Illnesses in 1960s-1980s Japan2) Martyn David Smith, The University of Sheffield
Attending to the Soundscape: "Techniques of listening" and the Japanese sound hunter
3) David Humphrey, Michigan State University
Learning Attention: Computer vision and the training of the modern viewer
Session 27: Room 404
Cities of Stars: Mapping Modern Kansai Artists and their Presence in the Photography,
Postcards, Magazines, and Entertainment Industry of the Taishō early Shōwa eras
Organizer: Cecile Laly, Kyoto Seika University
Chair: Inaga Shigemi, Kyoto Seika University
Discussant: Inaga Shigemi, Kyoto Seika University
Papers:1) Michael Furmanovsky, Ryukoku University
Kasagi Shizuko and the Role of the Kansai Sensibility in Shaping Japanese PopularEntertainment Culture2) Cecile Laly, Kyoto Seika University Nakayama
Iwata in 1930s Hanshin: Performers as a Photography Driving Force
3) Lucile Druet, Kansai Gaidai University
Kansai Girls “à la mode”: the Power and Agency of Kyōto / Ōsaka Geisha Pictures
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Announcement of the
Linda Grove Graduate Student Paper PrizeandKEYNOTE ADDRESS

Jipbap (Home Cooking) and Gendered Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism
Hyaeweol Choi Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies
Chair, Dept. of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, The University of Iowa
andPresident, Association for Asian Studies
17:30 – 18:15
Room 401
Followed by Reception 18:30-20:00
SUNDAY, JULY 7ASCJ BUSINESS MEETING: 9:15 A.M. – 9:50
Room 411
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00
Session 28: Room 407
Comparative Narrative and Diasporic Translation in the Context of Japan, Korea
and the United States
Organizer: Hyung-jin Lee, Sookmyung Women's University (Seoul, Korea)
Chair: Hyung-jin Lee, Sookmyung Women's University (Seoul, Korea)
Discussant: Shunichiro Akikusa, Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan)
Papers:1) Loren Goodman, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Rolling with Punchlines: Storytelling and Personal Mythology among East Asian Professional
Boxers2) Han Sung Kim, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Shadows of Industrialization: A Study of English and Korean Translations of the Japanese
Novel, Tokyo Ueno Station (2020)
3) Hyung-jin Lee, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Translation as a Cultural Manipulation: Cultural Translation of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017)13

Session 29: Room 410
Decline and Resurgence?: Tracing the Historical Antecedents of Contemporary
Social Movement Activism during the “Ice Age”
Organizer: Hiroe Saruya and Tobias Weiss, Sophia University
Chair: Hiroe Saruya and Tobias Weiss, Sophia University
Discussant: David H. Slater, Sophia University
Papers:1) Tobias Weiss, Sophia University
Preparing the Ice Age of Movements?: The Japan Productivity Movement
2) Hiroe Saruya, Sophia University
The Evolution of New Left Movements: From the 1960 Anpo Protests to the Post 3.11 AntiNuclear Power Movements
3) Keisuke Mori, Senshu University
The Turn towards Digital Activism of the Anti-U.S. Movements on the Periphery: Frame
Contests of A Social Movement with Geographically Remote External Actors
4) Akira Suzuki, Hosei University
Low-Key Activities of SMOs during the “Ice Age” and Their Influence on Government Policies:
Case Study of a SMO Concerned with Asbestos Issues
Session 30: Room 406
Investigating the Re-Presentation of Boundaries and Liminality in Hong Kong
Literature
Organizer: Ms. Elizabeth E. Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chair: Ms. Elizabeth E. Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Dr. Michael Tsang, Birkbeck, University of London
Papers:1) Ms. Elizabeth Edith Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Re-)presenting the aural experience of the boundary: Performativity in Hong Kong AvantGarde Poetry2) Ms. Tung-Yi Shing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“A stranger in a land where nothing was real”: Diaspora and Travel in Xu Xi’s “Iron Light”
and Dorothy Tse’s “The Travelling Family”
3) Mr. Chan Chak Lam Cellur, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong as Cultural Intersection for Chinese Literature in the 1980s: A Study of 1980s
Mainland Chinese Novels and Xi Xi's Collection of the Correspondences of Mainland Writers
4) Mr. Wayne Kwong, University of Warwick
One boundary with respective interpretations?: An experimental comparative study of post-2014
Sinophone Hong Kong writing and Hong Kong oral history

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Session 31: Room 408
Spaces of Possibility in East Asian Urban Spaces and Popular Culture
Organizer: Christophe Thouny, Ritsumeikan University
Chair: Christophe Thouny, Ritsumeikan University
Discussant: Christophe Thouny, Ritsumeikan University
Papers:1) Baryon Tensor Posadas, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Affect andArtificial Intelligence in Psycho-Pass2) Mei Mingxue Nan, Harvard University
Immersive Script Murder: Urban Gen Z and Media Politics in Contemporary China
3) Andrea Mariucci, Cornell University
Akihabara Adventure: Finding humanity in silicon and concrete
4) Jing Wang, Dalhousie University
Gender Practices and the Construction of Female Spaces in Chinese BL Culture
Session 32: Room 405
Taiwan in the Wake of War and Empire: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender
Organizer: Matthew R. Augustine, Kyushu University
Chair: Shichi Mike Lan, National Chengchi University
Discussant: Shu-Mei Huang, National Taiwan University
Papers:1) Shichi Mike Lan, National Chengchi University
Migration, Marriage, and War: Southeast Asian Women who became Taiwanese during theSecond World War
2) Matthew R. Augustine, Kyushu University
Shifting Boundaries of Nationality and Interethnic Families in Postwar Taiwan
3) Yoshihisa Amae, Waseda University
Left Behind: Empire, Decolonization, and the Fate of Korean Women in Postcolonial Taiwan
Session 33: Room 404
Protestant Missionaries and Multicultural Christianity in Imperial Japan and theUnited States
Organizer: Bo Tao, Chiba University
Chair: Emily Anderson, Japanese American National Museum
Discussant: Emily Anderson, Japanese American National Museum
Papers:1) Bo Tao, Chiba University
Interracial Fellowship in a Time of Exclusion: The Transpacific Activism of Allan Hunter andKagawa Toyohiko
2) Kazumi Hasegawa, Nagoya Gakuin University
Ulysses Grant Murphy and His Involvement with the Seattle Japanese Christian Church
Federation in the Transpacific World from 1908 to 1967
3) Noriko Ishii, Sophia University
A Woman Missionary’s Endeavor for Multicultural Christianity: Alice E. Cary’s Settlement
Work in Osaka and Honolulu in the Interwar and Wartime Years

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Session 34: Room 402
Individual Papers 6: Nationalism and Security
Chair: Curtis Gayle, Waseda University
1) Yasser Ali Nasser, University of Chicago
Dreaming of Peace: The Japanese Socialist Party and the Regional Quest for a Neutral Japan2) Marini Raffaella, Ritsumeikan University
Japan’s Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding: Possible Contradictions and Ambiguities in theConstruction and Promotion of “Authentic Japan” through Japan House London
3) Yi Liu, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Technology Transcending the Bamboo Curtain: Western Origin of China’s
Quest for Modernization from 1954 to 1965
4) Justin Wu, California State University, Sacramento
A Militarist but also a Model Patriot? Mishima Yukio’s coup attempt (1970) and Chinese
Nationalism in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Session 35: Room 403
Individual Papers 7: Revitalization and Care in Contemporary Japan
Chair: Roger Brown, Saitama University
1) Jinjin Zhan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shrinking Communities, Regional Identity, and Digital Relationality: An Anthropological Studyof Technology-driven Regional Revitalization Initiatives in Contemporary Japan2) Eiko Saeki, Hosei University
Supporting Unconventional Kinship Building: Donor Conception in Contemporary Japan
3) Fernando Ortiz Moya and Marco Reggiani, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies andUniversity of Strathclyde
A Sustainable Future for Shrinking Japan? Creating New Narratives of Revitalisation in SDGs
Future Cities
4) Sachiko Horiguchi, Temple University, Japan Campus
Protecting Our Communities: Primary Care Physicians' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
in Japan5) Astghik Hovhannisyan, Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages andSocial Sciences
Towards a History of Women with Disabilities in Japan

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Session 36: Room 409
Temporal Emotions: Changing Norms and Embodiment of Feelings in Transitional
Korea during the Early Twentieth Century
Organizer: Sueun Chae, Syracuse University
Chair: George Kallander, Syracuse University
Discussant: George Kallander, Syracuse University
Papers:1) Chanhee Lee, SOAS, University of London
Travelling Confucian: Yi Chongŭng’s Confucianist perception and emotion of his modern
experience in 1902
2) Sueun Chae, Syracuse University
Appropriating the Confucian ideology: Yun Ch’iho’s (1865-1945) Disapproval of the Japanese
Slogan of the Kingly Way Nation in the 1930s3) Suyoung Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Affective Subjectivity of Korean Female Workers in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)
4) Sean Han, University of Alabama
Imagining Transcultural Sensibility: Sorrow and Indignation in Cho Soang’s Anti-Colonial
Writing in China
12:00 – 13:30. Lunch break
Roundtable Session: Room 410
Archives and Human Security: Considering Ogata Sadako’s Contributions
Lori Watt (Washington University in St. Louis)
Ayako Kobayashi (Sophia University, Faculty of Global Studies, Department of Global Studies)
Keyao Pan (Florida International University)
Ako Muto (JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development)
Sunday Afternoon Sessions I: 13:30 – 15:30
Session 37: Room 402
Individual Papers 8: Diasporic Communities and Migration
Chair: Yoshie Moriki, International Christian University
1) Rosallia Domingo, De La Salle University
Beyond Invisibility: Filipino Women in the Gendered Digital Gig Economy
2) Mariam Jayne M. Agonos, University of the Philippines Diliman
Where to next?: The post-migration considerations of Filipinos in diaspora in Taiwan3) Sri Ayu Wulansari, University of Indonesia
Human Rights Activist Women’s Practice in Japan and Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis with
Special Reference to their Advocacy of Gender Equality
4) Joita Das, National University of Singapore
Asian (Dis) Connection, Migration and Transnational Identities: The Case of the Overseas
Chinese of Kolkata

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Vietnamese Workers in Japan: Identity and Mobility Trajectories
Organizer: Vietnam Migration Studies Association, Sophia University, Waseda
University
Chair: Dr. Jotaro Kato, Mukogawa Women's University
Discussant: Dr. Jotaro Kato, Mukogawa Women's University
Papers:1) Mai Chi Nguyen, Sophia University
Vietnamese Female White-Collar Workers in Japan: Mobility Trajectories and Settlement
Decision-making2) Bao Quyen Tran, Sophia University
Technical Intern Training Program –A Case Study of Vietnamese Technical Intern Trainees in2019 - 2023
3) Phuong Anh Le, Waseda University
Defining Dependency: Gender roles of Vietnamese families in the Japanese economy
4) Vu Hong Vy Huynh, Waseda University
Vietnamese Skilled Migrants’ life in Japan: Their strategies for social mobility and identity
negotiation
Session 39: Room 405
Translation as a means of circulation of knowledge in social and human sciences
between China and France
Organizer: Kevin Henry, Université de Mons, Belgium
Chair: Gong Zhang, EHESS & Sorbonne Université, France
Discussant: Kevin Henry, Université de Mons, Belgium
Papers:1) Ye Guo, Université Paris-Cité, France
Question of legitimacy: forms of resistance in translation activities of Pierre Bourdieu in
mainland China since the 1990s
2) Gong Zhang, EHESS & Sorbonne Université, France
Chinese and Japanese interpreters at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the productionof Sinological knowledge during the second half of the 19th century
3) Manon Hayette, Université de Mons, Belgium
Jacques Derrida in China: A Deconstructed Story

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Session 40: Room 410
The Transnational Equation For Japanese Pop Culture: Production, Aesthetics, andSubversion
Organizer: Nur Saqifah Aisyah Azlan, Ryukoku University
Chair: James Welker, Kanagawa University
Discussant: James Welker, Kanagawa University
Papers:1) Nur Saqifah Aisyah Azlan, Ryukoku University
Scripting Transnationalism: Boys Love (BL) Manga Covers and Their Translations
2) Tran Thi Nguyet Anh, Doshisha University
Put more clothes on, put down guns and cigarettes: the problematic issues in the transnational
reproduction of Japanese manga – The case of Vietnam
3) Stevie Suan, Hosei University
Regionality and Form: On Anime’s Transnational Cultural Production4) Nakamura Maiko, Tokyo Metropolitan University
The Offspring of BL’s Transnational Imagination: Challenges in Omegaverse and Parallel
Universe
Session 41: Room 406
Crime and Punishment in Colonial and Post-colonial Taiwan
Organizer: Yen-Chi Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
Chair: Yen-Chi Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
Discussant: Mayumi Okazaki, Rissho University
Papers:1) Chiu-hung Liang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Unnatural Deaths of Sex Workers: during the Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan
2) Cheng-yu Lin, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Homicide Cases in Taipei During the Japanese Colonial Period
3) Yen-Chi Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
Welfare or Criminal policy?: The Establishment of Juvenile Justice in the 1960s in Postwar
TaiwanSession 42: Room 403
Individual Papers 9: Empire, Occupation, Migration
Chair: André Linnepe, Teikyo University
1) Jose Mathew Luga, International Christian University/University of the Philippines, Baguio
The Japanese communities in the Philippines during the Asia-Pacific War: The Case of Baguio
City, 1941-1945
2) Luis Zuriel P. Domingo, University of the Philippines Baguio
Laurel, Recto, and the KALIBAPI: Revisiting and examining nationalist sentiments during theJapanese Period, 1942-45
3) Akino Oshiro, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Subsumed Labor: Experience of Okinawans Working for the US Military in the US-Occupied
Okinawa4) Eric Vanden Bussche, The University of Tokyo

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China in the Tropics: Qing Geopolitical Thinking and Chinese Immigration to Brazil in the Late
Nineteenth Century5) Dircea Arroyo Buganza, Universidad Anáhuac México
Different Asian migration to Mexico: The case of Japanese and Chinese during the 1888-1930s.
Session 43: Room 408
Foodscaping East Asia: Food Courts, Frappuccinos, Whale Meat and Hijiki
Organizer: Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds
Chair: Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds
Discussant: Jieun Kiaer, University of Oxford
Papers:1) Niamh Calway, University of Oxford
Michelin Star Meets Food Courts: An Exploration of Taipei’s High-End Food Courts
2) Akamine Jun, Hitotsubashi University
Investigating inherited local foodscapes in former and current Japanese whaling communities
3) Loli Kim, University of Oxford
Hijiki From Sea to Market with the Geungneum Haenyeo
4) Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds
Froth, Frappuccinos and Foodscapes: Spaces of Limited-Edition Coffee Culture in Japan
Sunday Afternoon Sessions II: 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.
Session 44: Room 410
Mediating White-Collar Masculinity in 20th Century Japan
Organizer: Hannah Airriess , Indiana University, Bloomington
Chair: Hannah Airriess, Indiana University, Bloomington
Discussant: Hannah Airriess, Indiana University, Bloomington
Papers:1) Ryan Moran, University of Utah
Making the Future Secure: White Collar Responsible Masculinity in Interwar Japan
2) Tomoko Seto, Kobe College
The Cold War Homosocial Bonds: Salarymen’s Accounts of Female Professional Wrestlers in
1950s Japan
3) Suzuki Takane, Toho University
A Man Without Family: Radicalism Projected in Salaryman Cartoon

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Session 45: Room 402
Individual Papers 10: Gender and Sexuality
Chair: Lisa Li, J.F. Oberlin University
1) Samuel Perry, Brown University
Bad Gays in Modern Japan
2) Aslı Kaynar, University of Queensland
Portrayals of Modern Girls’ Desires in Uno Chiyo’s and Suat Derviş’s Literary Works
3) Sehar Khwaja, Mahindra University
Rethinking South Asian Motherhood: Understanding Multiple Meanings of Mughal Motherhoodin Medieval India
4) Leng Junxiao & Kato Honoka, The University of Tokyo; International
Christian University
Beyond A Corner of Japan’s Bustling Metropolis: Making Heterotopia in the Flower
Demonstration Yokohama against Sexual Violence
Session 46: Room 403
Global Poetics on the Edge: New directions from Anglophone Asian, Sinophone, andIntermedial Poems
Organizer: Lorraine Wong, University of Otago
Chair: Lorraine Wong, University of Otago
Discussant: Michael Tsang, Birkbeck, University of London
Papers:1) Michael Tsang, Birkbeck, University of London“Cultural Authenticity” and British Asian Poetry: Reading Sarah Howe and Tamiko Dooley
2) Lorraine Wong, University of Otago
The Limits of the Sinophone: Mao Zifu and his Esperanto Chinese Poetry3) Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Heartbroken Poignancy in Classical Chinese Poetry and Cantonese Opera: the Case of Zhu
ShuzhenSession 47: Room 408
Transnationalism and Fashion History in Modern East Asia
Organizer: Rika (Rihwa) Lee, Chuo University
Chair: Christina Yi, The University of British Columbia
Discussant: Christina Yi, The University of British Columbia
Papers:1) Rie Mori, Japan Women's University
Transnationality of the Kapar Amip Ainu Robe in the early 20th Century2) Lingfang LIU, The University of Tokyo
Transformation of Fashion Through Study Abroad: A Focus on Chinese Students Studying inJapan in the Early 20th Century3) Rika (Rihwa) Lee, Chuo University
The Historical Image of Korean traditional dress in Japan: Race, Gender and Colonialism

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Re-examining the impact of the First World War on Japan: New considerations on theJapanese domestic and foreign policy after 1918
Organizer: Manon Ramos, Kyoto University
Chair: Mahon Murphy, Kyoto University
Discussant: Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Papers:1) Motoki Tomoyose, Doshisha University
The change in Japanese migration strategy in New Caledonia following the First World War:from settlement to the exploitation of natural resources.
2) Manon Ramos, Kyoto University
Reconsidering how the First World War impacted Japanese political institutions: an apparent
shift towards a British-style cabinet system.
3) Takeshi Sugawara, Ehime University‘Our loyal Ally’ or ‘a watchdog in the East’? The Failure of the Anglo-Japanese MilitaryCollaboration, 1905-1928.
4) Mahon Murphy, Kyoto University
Victims of a War that has long since been Terminated: Japan’s Repatriation of Ottoman POWs
from Siberia in 1921.
Session 49: Room 405
Multiregional Perception of the World in Medieval East Asia
Organizer: Masha Kobzeva, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chair: Jeongsoo Shin, Academy of Korean Studies
Discussant: Jakub Hrubý, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
Papers:1) Jakub Hrubý, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
Helping to Create Another Son of Heaven – Support for Refugee Princes during China’s
Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589)
2) Masha Kobzeva, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Power of Knowledge as Legitimization Technique: Case of Tang-Silla Exchange Network
3) Jeongsoo Shin, Academy of Korean Studies
Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn’s Recognition of Annam People in Vietnam

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CALL FOR PAPERSASCJ 2025
Venue to be determined

The twenty-seventh annual Asian Studies Conference Japan is expected to be heldin late June/Early July, 2025 in Tokyo. Please check the ASCJ homepage for
updates. Proposals are invited for panels, individual papers and roundtables in allareas and fields of Asian Studies. Submission guidelines will appear on the ASCJ
website: https://ascjapan.org/

ASCJ 2024 Conference Information

Note: the entire ASCJ conference will be held in Building Two on the Sophia
University Campus. All session will be held on the fourth (4th) floor.
Coffee, tea, water and doughnuts are available in Room 401. A book display
area will also be set up on the fourth floor.
Lunch options: there are many restaurants in the immediate vicinity of Sophia
University. Convenience stores are also nearby.
Copy machines are generally located in convenience stores. The conference isunable to provide this service.
Everyone is welcome to attend the ASCJ business meeting on Sunday morning.
The meeting will be held from 9:15 am in room 411
Please return your name tag holders at the end of the conferenceEntrance toBldg. 2

Entrance toBldg. 2!