The Eighteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
June 21 – 22, 2014, Sophia University

SATURDAY JUNE 21
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room 411
Reflections on the United Red Army Affair in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Organizer/Chair: Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
1) Sayumi Takahashi Harb, Connecticut College“Jasmine in the Barrel of a Gun”: Writings by Radical Women of the Red Army
2) Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
Representations of the United Red Army in Post-Aum Manga
3) Yoshiko Fukushima, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Liberty and Romantic Poetics in Noda Hideki's Canon4) Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University
1970s Terrorism on the Silver Screen: United Red Army and The Baader Meihof
Complex
Discussant: Mariko Schimmel, Grinnell College
Session 2: Room 419
Around Kōtoku Shūsui and the Great Treason Incident
Organizer, Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
1) Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Condemning Patriotism, Extolling the People
2) Kagaya Masumi, Akita Prefectural University
Passion for Visiting of the U.S. in 1900’s -- in Association with Socialism
3) Aragorn Quinn, Stanford University
Acts of Violence: Hirasawa Keishichi’s “Factory Acts” and Radical Performance
during the Winter Period
4) Andre Haag, University of New Mexico
The Age of Conspiracies: Imagined Terror from Kōtoku Shūsui to Pak Yŏl and Kaneko
FumikoDiscussant: Yukari Yoshihara, University of Tsukuba

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Session 3: Room 405
Formation of Hong Kong Identity and Pop Culture
Chair: Hoi-yan Yau, University of Tsukuba
1) Ling Fung Karin Chau, University of Hong Kong
Politics of Depoliticization: Construction of the Hong Kong Identity
2) Heung Wah Wong, University of Hong Kong
A Case of Banal Nationalism: TV drama and Identity in Hong Kong
3) Hoi Yan Yau, University of Tsukuba
Pop Music and the Spread of Hong Kong Identity
4) Heung Wah Wong and Hoi Yan Yau
Yuki Maiko, the Image of Local Porn Star and Hong Kong Identity
Discussant: Ryoichi Hisasue, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade
Organization
Session 4: Room 205
Chinese Canon in Chosŏn Literature
Organizer: Jeongsoo Shin, Chung’ang University
Chair: Gregory Evon, University of New South Wales
1) Jeongsoo Shin, Chung'ang University
Seoul Selective Adaptation: the Chinese Anthology Wenxuan in the literary scope ofChosŏn2) Jinwoo Baek, Korea University
The Typicality of Chinese Historical Figures as Universal History and Aspects ofLiterary Interpretation in Korea
3) Wook-Jin Jeong, University of Washington
An Overlooked Source for Understanding Yi Sun-sin’s Tactics: Making Use of
Apocryphal Texts as Recorded in the Nanjung ilgi
Discussant: Gregory Evon, University of New South Wales
Session 5: Room 221
Past & Future Perfect: History and Utopia in Meiji and Taishō Japanese Buddhist
ReformOrganizer/Chair: James Mark Shields, Bucknell University/International Research Center forJapanese Studies
1) Bryan Daniel Lowe, Vanderbilt University
Restoration or Reform: Meiji Writings on Buddhism in the Nara Period (710–784)2) Michel Mohr, University of Hawai‘i
Pursuers of a New Humanism: Nishida Tenkō and Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s Utopian
Visions and Their Shifting Horizons
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A Lifetime of Utopianism: Itō Shōshin
4) Bill M. Mak, Kyoto University
Vision, Disillusion and Reconciliation: The Career of Utsuki Nishū in Hong Kong
during the Japanese Occupation Period (1941–1945)
Discussant: James Mark Shields, Bucknell University/International Research Center forJapanese Studies
Session 6: Room 209
Individual Papers on Empire1) Yuting Dong, Harvard University
Unveiling the Empire’s Hiroba: An Analysis of Daidō Hiroba in Shinkyō (1921-1945)
2) Benoit Berthelier, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
The Birth of Modern Korean Poetics: Literary Modernity and Poetic Genres inColonial Korea
3) Kuo-An Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Photographing Colonial Taiwan: Photography and Visual Culture in the 1930s4) Seio Nakajima, Waseda University
Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism: The Manchurian Motion Picture Corporation and
the Production of My Nightingale (1943)
5) Makiko Mori, Auburn University
An Ode to Revolution: Su Manshu’s The Lone Swan and the Poetic Translation of‘Japan’Session 7: Room 215
Individual Papers on Japanese History
1) Keiko Karube, Momoyama Gakuin University
The English Factory in Japan: The Untold Story of William Eaton and His Son
2) Tomoko Onabe, Osaka University
Tracing Western Optics’ Influence on Mid- to Late Edo Science and Culture3) Patrick Schwemmer, Princeton University
The Tengu Aim to Trick You, But I Have Prayed that Your Fides not Fail: A JapanesePassion Narrative of 1591
4) Viktor Shmagin, University of California, Santa Barbara“They Fear Us, Yet Cling to Us”: Russian Negotiations with Local Officials during theTsushima Incident of 1861
5) Jonathan Stockdale, University of Puget Sound
Spiritual Beliefs Concerning Japanese Whales

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LUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Lunch Time Meeting on Asian Mobility 12:20-1:00
Room 411
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Session 8: Room 215
Identifying Self: Historical Japan and the Koseki (I)Organizer/Chair: David Chapman, University of South Australia
1) David Chapman, University of South Australia
Managing ‘Strangers’ and ‘Unimaginables’: Population Registration in Meiji Japan
2) Karl Jakob Krogness, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Ius koseki: Japanese Citizenship as Administrative Household Membership
3) Itsuko Kamoto, Kyoto Women’s University
Creating Spatial Hierarchies: The Koseki, Early International Marriage andIntermarriage
Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University
Session 9: Room 221
The Dregs of Empire: Postcolonial Issues Confronting Japan and Korea
Chair: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Samuel Perry, Brown University
Gendering the Ghosts of Colonialism in Sata Ineko’s “White and Purple”
2) Atsuko Aoki, University of the Sacred Heart
Memory and Narrative Identity of Jōkō Yonetarō: A Postwar History of a Former
Japanese Colonial Settler’s Narratives
3) Matthew Augustine, Kyushu University
Repatriation Without Restitution: Korean Conscripts and Their Unpaid Assets in
Postwar Japan
4) Ellie Bae, Rikkyo University
Helen Kim as New Women and Collaborator: A Comprehensive Assessment of Korean
Collaboration under Japanese Colonial Rule
Discussant: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Session 10: Room 411
Touring Discourses of the Pacific War: Memories, Records and Practice in Japan
Organizer: Daniel Milne, Kyoto University
Chair: Daniel Milne, Kyoto University
1) Andrew Elliott, Doshisha Women’s College
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Traveling Towards War: Anglophone Accounts of East Asia, 1937-1941
2) Daniel Milne, Kyoto University
Educating Soldiers to be Good Tourists: US Army Guidebooks and post-WWII Tourism
in Japan
3) Makoto Yamaguchi, Kansai University
From War God to Firefly: Remembering Kamikaze (Tokko) in Postwar Japan4) Andrea De Antoni, Kyoto University
The Forgetful Ghost: Haunted Places and the Obliteration of Narratives of WWII in
Contemporary Kyoto
Discussant: Dick Stegewerns, Oslo University
Session 11: Room 209
Temporal Tensions: Painting and the Past in Medieval Japan
Organizer: Rachel Saunders, Harvard University
Chair: Rachel Saunders, Harvard University
1) Aaron M. Rio, Columbia University
Vestiges of the Golden Age of Kamakura: Rethinking Kantō suibokuga
2) Rachel Saunders, Harvard University
Shifting in the Sands: The Image of Xuanzang in Medieval Japanese Painting3) Sara L. Sumpter, University of Pittsburgh
Life, Death, and Posthumous Reputations: The Shifting Perception of Sugawara no
Michizane in Heian Period Japan
Discussant: Phillip Bloom, Indiana University
Session 12: Room 419
Russian and Japanese Radicals View Each Other: 1880s to 1920s
Organizer: Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University
Chair: Wada Haruki, The University of Tokyo
1) Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University
Russian Radicals on Japan, 1880s to 1900s
2) Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University
Revolutionaries, Political Novels and Beautiful Women3) Young-ran Ko, Nihon University
Representations of Russian Revolution and the Socialist Fashion – as seen in NAPF’s
Journal, Senki
4) Alexander Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington
Russian Perceptions of Japan and China in the Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution:
A Comparative Case Study of Boris Pil’niak’s Travelogue
Discussant: Yaroslav Shulatov, Hiroshima City University

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Session 13: Room 405
Dealing With the ‘Biological’ Body: ‘Queer’ Identities and Discourses of Gender,
Embodiment and Sexuality in Japanese Contexts
Organizer/Chair: SPF Dale, Sophia University
1) Takashi Yoshinaka, Yokohama City University
How Can the “Male” be Constructed in Society and by FTM Individuals? Analyzing
Norms in a Magazine for Transgender Men
2) Noritaka Moriyama, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Osu / mesu (male / female) Representation in Japanese Gay Pornography: A Case
Study on the Appropriation of “Biological” Sexes
3) SPF Dale, Sophia University
The Body ‘Ambiguous’: Gender, the Body, and (x) Gender Identity
Discussant: James Welker, Kanagawa University
Session 14: Room 205
Individual Papers on Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration
1) Robert Moorehead, Ritsumeikan University
What about Me Is Peruvian? Symbolic Ethnicity and the Identity Formation of SecondGeneration Peruvian Youth in Japan
2) Charlie Morgan, Ohio University
International Couples Shaping Immigration in Japan
3) Sue-Je Gage, Ithaca College
Almost Korean: Mixed Koreans in an Era of Multiculturalism in South Korea
4) Young Mi Lee, Kyung Hee University
Women in North Korean Defector Literature: A Focus of Two Types of Novel in South
Korea
5) Charlotte Eubanks, Pennsylvania State University
Crossing the Red Line: Japanese Women’s Self Writing and the Colonial South PacificSession 15: Room 326
Individual Papers on Asian History
1) Jiren Feng, University of Hawai’i, Hilo
Indoctrinating Confucian Ideals in Architecture: The Government Construction
Regulations from the Tang to the Ming
2) Songchuan Chen, Nanyang Technological University
Soft Borders on the Maritime Frontier: The Qing’s Canton Trade, 1757-1842
3) Arthit Jiamrattanyoo, University of Washington
Ambivalent Voices, Liminal Identities: The Pensionados, the Filipino Magazine, andU.S. Tutelary Colonialism in the 1900s
4) George Solt, New York University
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The Role of India in Japan's History of Pan-Asianism
5) Ryan Hartley, Meiji University
Japan’s Political Economy and Hegemony in the Mekong River Basin Countries(MRBCs)SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M
Session 16: Room 215
Identifying Self: Contemporary Japan and the Koseki (II)Organizer/Chair: David Chapman, University of South Australia
1) Lara Chen, Waseda University
Officially Invisible: The Stateless (mukokusekisha) and the Unregistered(mukosekisha)
2) Akiko Ishiyama, Independent Scholar“Family Values” and the Koseki: Female Conservatives and the Patriarchal Bargain
3) Linda White, Middlebury College
Challenging the Heteronormative Family in the Koseki: Surname, Legitimacy, andUnmarried Mothers
Discussant: Ki-young Shin, Ochanomizu University
Session 17: Room 419
Between Three Homelands: Mobility, Interaction, and Social Integration of Central
Asian and Sakhalin Koreans
Organizer/Chair: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University
1) Alena Chagay, Nagoya University
The Role of Human Capital in Social Adaptation of Korean Migrants from Uzbekistan
in Moscow and Seoul, Late 1980s to the Present2) Svetlana Paichadze, Hokkaido University
Inter-generational Differences in Migration Strategies of Sakhalin Koreans in South
Korea
3) Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University
Renegotiating Identity in New Diasporic Spaces: Central Asian and Sakhalin Koreansin Russia and the Republic of Korea
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Session 18: Room 411
Christianity and Religious Systems in Early Modern Japan: Myōtei Mondō and the Art
of Refutation
Organizer/Chair: James Baskind, Nagoya City University
1) James Baskind, Nagoya City University
The Pure Land is Void: Myōtei Mondō, and Discourse on the Afterlife in Early Modern
Japan2) John Breen, International Research Center for Japanese Studies“Lies and more lies!”: On Fukansai Habian’s “Shintō no koto”
3) Hans Martin Krämer, Heidelberg University
Between “Law” and “Sect”: The Emergence of the Category of “Religion” in Japan in
the 16th/17th Encounter of Buddhism and Christianity
Discussant: Ryo Nishimura, Nakamura Hajime Eastern InstituteSession 19: Room 221
Individual Papers on Modern Japanese Literature
1) Quillon Arkenstone, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Nakanishi Inosuke and Chungsŏ Ijijŏ: Metropolitan and Colonial Reception of Early
Proletarian Literature
2) Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Heidelberg University
The Buddhist Dimension of the Japanese Postwar Avant-Garde Calligraphy as a
Factor of its Internationalization
3) Devon	
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  University	
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  Minnesota,	
  Twin	  Cities	  	
  Traces of the Metropolis: The Orphan in the Work of Ōe Kenzaburō
4) Colleen	
  Laird,	
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  Greensboro	
  Crossing	
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  Threshold:	
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  Away	  From	  Home	  in	
  the	  Works	
  of	  Contemporary	
  Japanese	  Female	
  Directors	  5) Michiko	
  Suzuki,	
  Indiana	
  University	  Literary	
  Materiality	
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  Postwar	
  Fiction:	
  Narrating	
  Kimono	
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  the	  Works	  of	
  Miyao	  Tomiko	
  Session 20: Room 405
Filipino Migrants in Japan
Organizer: Jocelyn O. Celero
Chair: Benjamin A. San Jose, De La Salle University-Manila.
1) Jocelyn O. Celero, Waseda University
Of Resistance, Survival and Change: Reading Ethnic Resilience through Filipino
Migrant Women’s Narratives2) Jeorge G. Alarcon, Jr., Waseda University
Migrant Vulnerability, Social Resilience, and Filipino Migrant Networks in the Kanto
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Filipino Scholars’ Narratives of 3.11: A Perspective on Foreign Students’ Social
Resilience during Disaster4) Benjamin A. San Jose, De La Salle University-Manila
Rethinking Narratives of Resilience and Nationalism among Filipino Migrants in Japan
Discussant: Takeshi Akiba, Akita International University
Session 21: Room 205
Shifting Educational Paradigms in Japan and Their Impact on Modern East Asia
Organizer: Taku Kamei, Kansai University
Chair: Jenine Heaton, Kansai University
1) Yang Zhou, Kansai University
National Education in the Bakumatsu Period: The Gakumon Ginmi Examination andSocial Mobility2) Taku Kamei, Kansai University
The Impact of Japan’s Modern Educational System on Late Qing China: Chen Duxiu
and the Geography Text Xiaoxue wanguo dili xinbian3) Anh Duc Le, Kansai University
Meiji Education and its Impact on Vietnamese Revolutionaries
4) Hyojin Lee, Kansai University
Sinology and Oriental Studies in Modern Asian Academism
Discussant: Andrew Hall, Kyushu University
Session 22: Room 209
Military and Psychological Approaches to the Termination of the Asia-Pacific War
Organizer/Chair: Reiko Yamamoto, Meisei University (retired)
1) M.G. Bucky Sheftall, Shizuoka University
Narrative for Armageddon: Japanese Establishment Rhetoric during the Final Monthsof the Asia-Pacific War
2) Reiko Yamamoto, Meisei University (retired)
Psychological Warfare during the Battle of Okinawa: A Re-evaluation
3) Harry Wray, Nanzan University
The Atomic Bombings and the End of the Pacific War
Discussant: Sven Saaler, Sophia University

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Session 23: Room 326
Individual Papers on History and Current Events
1) Patrick Hein, Meiji University
Japanese Judges at International Courts: Quest for Global Justice or Hidden National
Rhetoric? The Cases of Judge Kuniko Ozaki of the International Criminal Court (ICC),
Judge Mooto Noguchi of the Khmer Rouge
2) Rachel Leng, Harvard University
Japan’s Civil Society from Kobe to Tohoku: Impact of Policy Changes on GovernmentNGO Relationship and Effectiveness of Post-Disaster Relief3) Stephen Robert Nagy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nationalism, Domestic Politics and the Japan Economic Rejuvenation: A Comparative
Examination of the Abe and Koizumi Administrations
4) Miki Toyofuku, University of Tokyo
Too Heavy Tax Burden? Japan’s Tax Policy and Party Competition

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Indenture, Abolition, and the Nation-State Form
Mrinalini Sinha
Professor of History, University of Michigan
President, Association for Asian Studies
6:10 P.M. – 6:55 P.M.
Building 10 Auditorium

RECEPTION: 7:00 P.M. – 8:40 P.M.
Kiozaka Building 5th Floor

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SUNDAY JUNE 22
BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Building 10, Room 301
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 24: Room 411
Manga Representations of the 3.11 Disasters: Internal and External Perspectives
Organizer: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Chair: Jaqueline Berndt, Kyoto Seika University
1) Olga Antononoka, Kyoto Seika University
Communicating Emotions: The Possibilities and Limitations of Shōjo Manga in
Representing 3.11
2) Karl Ian Cheng Chua, Ateneo de Manila University
Dealing with the Past, Remembering for the Future: Localized Visual Narratives of
3.113) Ronald Stewart, Prefectural University of Hiroshima
A Fukushima Newspaper Cartoonist Looks at 3.11
4) Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Anti-nuclear Agitprop Art after 3.11 as Seen from Fukushima
Discussant: Jaqueline Berndt, Kyoto Seika University
Session 25: Room 405
Cross-Cultural Contact and Colonialism: Taiwan and Manchuria Under JapaneseControl
Organizer/Chair: Hsiu-hui Sun, National Chengchi University
1) Sumei Wang, National Chengchi University
Everyday Rhythms and Urban Life in Colonial Taiwan: An Exploration Based on Lin
Huikun’s Inviolable Destiny2) Shih-yun Lo, National Chengchi University
Imagining China and Discovering Taiwan: A Discussion on Chun-Mu Hsieh’s Travelsof Emerging China
3) Hsiu-hui Sun & I-fen Chen, National Chengchi University
Colonial Modernity, Beauty and Hygiene: A Comparative Analysis of Cosmetic andSanitary Products Advertising in Taiwan Jih Jih Shin Pao and Sheng Jin Shih Pao4) Eve Chiu, the Foundation for Excellent Journalism Award in Taiwan
A Reflection on “Assimilation Policies:” The Subjectivity of Educated TaiwanesePresented in the Editorials of Taiwan Min-Pao during Japanese Occupation
Discussant: Curtis Gayle, Japan Women’s University
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Session 26: Room 209
Landscape as Object and Frame in Japanese Literary and Visual Culture
Organizer: Thomas O’Leary, Saddleback College
1) Molly Vallor, Kobe University
Zen Dialogues in the Pure Land: Landscaping the Line of Musō Soseki at Saihōji
2) David Gundry, University of California at Davis
Lake Biwa as a Site of Transition in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku
3) Christina Spiker, University of California at Irvine
An Itinerary of Hokkaido: Photo Postcards, Tourism, and Erasing the Indigenous Body
4) Thomas O’Leary, Saddleback College
Reclaiming Post-War Landscape in Japan: Tradition, Memory, and Nostalgia
Discussant: Daniel C. O’Neill, University of California, Berkeley
Session 27: Room 215
Textual Practices of the Catholic Missionaries in Asia, 15th - 18th Centuries
Organizer: Wei Jiang, King’s College London
Chair: Carla Tronu, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
1) Shaoxin Dong, Fudan University
Jesuit Annual Letters and their Meanings for the Studies of Chinese History2) Wei Jiang, King’s College London
Intertexuality and the Chinese Rites Controversy: Writing from the Philippines
Perspective3) Kenji Igawa, Osaka University
Early Catholic Missionary Work in Japan and the Two Japanese Missions to Rome:
Cultural Conversations through Textual Practices
4) Paolo Aranha, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München“Contexted” Missions: Textual Practices and Strategies in the Malabar Rites
Controversy5) Jia Jane Si, Fudan University
On the Translation of the Sacred Edict in Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinica
Discussants: António Vasconcelos de Saldanha, University of Macau, and Carla Tronu,
London School of Oriental and African Studies
Session 28: Room 221
Hunger and Peace: Food in the Literature, Politics, and Philanthropy of OccupiedJapan
Organizer: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Chair: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University
1) Noriko Horiguchi, University of Tennessee
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Hayashi Fumiko: Narratives and Memories of Food in a Collapsing Empire2) Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Matters of the Kitchen in a Time of Hunger
3) Natsuko Godo, International Christian University
Quakers and Hunger Relief
Discussant: Diana Kohr, Hosei University
Session 29: Room 419
Commerce and Culture: Ethnographic Studies of Cultural Practices and Commercial
SpacesOrganizer: Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw, International Christian University
Chair: Christopher Bondy, International Christian University
1) Susan Paige Taylor, University of Tokyo“Books that Cross the Ocean”: Jimbocho and Seoul as Sites of Knowledge Production2) Makoto Osawa, Waseda University
Nō no Machi: Commerce and the Diversified Logics of Efficiency
3) Shawn De Haven, International Christian University
Earning Laughs: Training Methods at the Asakusa Tōyōkan and Engei Hall
4) Kentaro Hasegawa, Waseda University
Cultural Production and Japanese Footbag: From Corporate Advertisement toProfessional Association
Discussant: Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw, International Christian University
Session 30: Room 205
Individual Papers on Political and Cultural Issues in East Asia
1) Itsuko Toyama (Kanamoto), St. Andrew’s University
Hiding and Reverting Christianity in the Dual Religious Practices of Japan's kakurekirishitan: Vanishing Religious Minority in the Nagasaki Region and Japanese Cultural
Traits2) Sang-ho Ro, Ewha Women’s University
Encyclopedias in Inner Chamber: A Microcosm of Korean Women and their
Knowledge in Print in the 1910s and 20s3) Yiyi Yin, University of Southern California
Fan Art and the Contemporary Film Fandom in China
4) Yidi Wu, University of California, Irvine
Polyphonies Across the Spectrum: The 1980 Elections and Campus Politics in China
5) Wei Huang, King’s College London
China’s National Image Building: Wishful “Soft Power”

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LUNCH BREAK 12:00 NOON – 1:15 P.M.
Film Screening

Broken Memories, Shining Dust
A film by Nilosree Biswas
12:20-1:00
Room 411
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M
Session 31: Room 405
Envisioning the Urban and Suburban in Modernizing Japan
Organizer: W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University
Chair: Fumiko Umezawa, Keisen University
1) W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University
Itami: Meisho-making with Wine and Song2) Jeffrey Newmark, University of Winnipeg
Fushigi na meisho: The Role of the Mysterious in Late Tokugawa Maps and Gazetteers3) Kota Inoue, Washington State University
Narrating the Periphery in Imperial Japan: The Uses of meisho in Doppo’s‘Musashino’
Discussant: Fumiko Umezawa, Keisen University
Session 32: Room 209
Loss and Remembrance: An Investigation of Mourning in Japan
Organizer/Chair: Jyana S. Browne, University of Washington
1) Beth M. Tucker, University of Pennsylvania“Engulfed in Darkness:” Mourning Poetics in Classical Japanese Literature
2) Jyana S. Browne, University of Washington
Layers of Mourning: Ghosting in Chikamatsu’s Love Suicide Plays
3) Tara Rodman, Northwestern University“A More Humane Mikado:” The First Productions of The Mikado in Post-War Japan
4) Michael Larson, Tohoku University
The Base Camp: Belief, Loss, and Mourning in the Wake of Disaster
Discussant: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
Session 33: Room 419
The Paradoxes of Fascism: Revolution and Reaction in Interwar East Asia
Organizer/Chair: Max Ward, Middlebury College
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1) Brian Tsui, Australian National University
The Guomindang’s Conservative Revolution: Ideological Conversion and Anticommunism in China
2) Margaret Clinton, Middlebury College
Engineering Culture: The Cultural Enterprise Planning Committee and Revolutionary
Restoration in China on the Eve of WWII
3) Reto Hofmann, Monash University
Vanishing Link: Japanese “Ultranationalism” and Italian Fascism
4) Max Ward, Middlebury College
Ideological Conversion and Revolutionary Restorationism in 1930s Japan
Discussant: Naoyuki Umemori, Waseda University
Session 34: Room 215
Rotting Corpses and Sleeping Beauties: Dead Bodies in East Asian Literature
Organizer: Michael Hoeckelmann, King’s College London
Chair: Gong Lan, University of Tokyo
1) Alevtina Solovyeva, Russian State University for the Humanities
Skulls, Bones and Their Post-Mortem Existence in the Folklore and Literary Traditionsof China, Japan and Mongolia
2) Lan Gong, University of Tokyo
Floating Spirit and Decaying Body: The Image of Death in Kusō-shi (九想詩)3) Aglaia Starostina, Russian State University for the Humanities
The Reunion of the Souls and the Body in Pre-Tang and Tang Accounts about theSupernatural
4) Hoeckelmann, Michael, King’s College London
Death and Retribution in Medieval Disquisitions (lun 論) and Epitaphs (muzhi 墓誌)
Discussant: Mizuki Uno, University of Tokyo
Session 35: Room 221
Histories of Radiation in Modern Japan
Organizer: Shi-Lin Loh, Harvard University
1) Lisa Onaga, Nanyang Technological University
Historicizing Japanese Genetic Studies of Low-Dose Effects of Radiation
2) Maika Nakao, Keio University
Being a World Power: Radium Hopes and Fears in Modern Japan
3) Shi-Lin Loh, Harvard University
Instruments of Modernity: Rentogen in Pre-war Japan
Discussant: Akihisa Setoguchi, Kyoto University

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Session 36: Room 411
Japanese War Criminals: Guilt, Justice and the Long View
Organizer/Chair: Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University
1) Dean Aszkielowicz, Murdoch University
The Trial and Execution of Katayama Hideo
2) Beatrice Trefalt, Monash University
The French Prosecution of Japanese War Crimes at the International Military Tribunal
for the Far East: Reframing the History of the Japanese Occupation of Indochina3) Robert Cribb, Australian National University
Forgotten Prisoners: Japanese War Criminals in Rangoon Jail, 1946-1951
4) Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University
Reinterpreting Guilt: War Criminals and Japanese Society, 1945-1960
Discussant: Yuma Totani, University of Hawai'i
Session 37: Room
Individual Papers on Youth and Identity
Chair:
1) Ning Zhang, Bethel University
Nu Hanzi or Sassy Girl: Neologism and the Negotiation of Gender in Contemporary
China2) Dukin Lim, University of Tokyo
Remarriage for Newcomer Koreans In Urban Japan: Decision-Making and the Impactof Decision
3) Ksenia Kurochkina, Waseda University
Young Re-settlers to Rural Areas of Japan: Work and Life in the Countryside4) Xia Zhang, Manhattanville College
NOT A “Generation Gap”: Anti-parent Sentiments, Youth Culture, and New Media in
China5) Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts
Atopic Pregnancy: Childbearing and Female Identity in “The Unfertilized Egg”
Session 38: Room 205
Individual Papers on Early Literature / Religion
Chair:
1) Or Porath, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nyakudō no Kanjinchō and Homoerotic Cosmology in Medieval Japan2) Hsin-Yi Lin, Columbia University

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Buddhism, Abortion and Underworld Punishment in Medieval China: An Analysis of
Foshuo changshou miehzui huzhu tongzi jing (The Sutra of Erasing Sins andProtecting Children for Longevity Taught by Buddha)3) Stephen Miller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Buddhification of the One-Hundred-Waka Sequence: Jakuzen’s Hōmon Hyakushu4) Alison Tokita, Kyoto City University of ArtsThe Narrative Worlds of Contemporary naniwa-bushi (ryōkyoku)
5) Diego Pellecchia, Ritsumeikan University
Art for the Producer, not Art for the Consumer: A Critical Look at the Relationshipbetween Amateurs and Professionals in Noh Theatre

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M
Session 39: Room 419
The Way of Research? Critical Reflections on Methodologies for Japanese Studies in
the 21st Century
Organizer: Hanna McGaughey, University of Trier/Waseda University
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
1) Titanilla Matrai, Waseda University, Theatre Museum
Japanese Film Research: Reflections on Donald Richie’s Approaches
2) Aleksi Järvela, Helsinki University/Toyo University
Some Methodological Aspects Regarding Dōgen’s Philosophy
3) Hanna McGaughey, University of Trier/Waseda University
Philology of Performance: A Methodology for Analyzing Zeami’s Creativity4) Birgit Tremml-Werner, University of Tokyo
Comparative Approaches in Macrohistorical and Microhistorical Contexts
Discussant: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
Session 40: Room 209
Religious Causes, Effects and Interaction in Sixteenth Century Japan
Organizer: Maria Grazia Petrucci
Chair: Lucio De Sousa, Kanagawa University
1) Lucio De Sousa, Kanagawa University
The Jewish Presence in Nagasaki in the 16th century2) Maria Grazia Petrucci, University of British Columbia
The Inexistent Fortress: Father Organtino’s Policies of Religious Integration in Japan3) Eiji Okawa, University of British Columbia
Koyasan Monasteries in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
Discussant: Maria Grazia Petrucci, University of British Columbia
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Session 41: Room 405
Shadows of Traditional Opera and the Evolution of Twentieth-Century Chinese
Aesthetics
Organizer/Chair: Dandan Chen, State University of New York
1) Dandan Chen, State University of New York
Construction of Rural China in Theatrical Space: Reexamining Lu Xun and Eileen
Chang’s Writings on Chinese Local Operas
2) Ling Zhang, University of Chicago
The Flowing Ambiguity of Soundscape: Female Voice-over in Spring in a Small Town
and Fei Mu’s Chinese Operatic Sound Aesthetic3) Li Zhang, Columbia University
The Operatic Ah Q and His Hypnotic Depth4) Yifei Shi, Harvard University
Representing Republican Intellectuals on Stage: A Case Study of Jianggong de Mianzi(The Face of Chiang Kai-shek)
Discussant: Wen Jin, Fudan University
Session 42: Room 411
Memorialization for the Living and the Dead of 3.11
Organizer/Chair: David H. Slater, Sophia University
1) Tim Graf, Tohoku University/Heidelberg University
Japanese Buddhism and the Memorialization of 3/11
2) Maja Veselič, Sophia University
Buddhist Priests’ Perceptions of Mourning and Recovery in Post-3.11 Tohoku
3) Ryo Morimoto, Brandeis University/Sophia University
Cartography of Trauma and Semiotic Re-territorialization of Memory: A Case of Two
Miracle Pine Trees in Post-Disasters Japan4) Sebastien Penmellen Boret, Tohoku University'Joining our Hands Together': The Politics of Memorialization around the Constructionof a Monument for the Victims of the Great East Japan Disaster
Discussant: David Slater, Sophia University
Session 43: Room 215
Individual Papers on Postwar Japan
1) Andrew Levidis, Kyoto University
War, Empire and National Renovation: Kishi Nobusuke and the Politics ofConservatism in Interwar Japan2) Annika A. Culver, Florida State University

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Birds of a Feather on an Eagle’s Perch: An American Ornithologist’s View of the US
Occupation, 1946-1949
3) Eui-Young Nam, University of Tokyo
US Military Broadcasting as Sophisticated Propaganda and Its Unintended
Consequences in Japan
4) Jeffrey Alexander, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Brewed in Japan: Innovation and ‘Galapagos Syndrome’ in the Japanese Beer Industry
5) Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
The Evolution of Sound Demonstrations in Japanese Protests

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