The Nineteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
June 20 – 21, 2015, Meiji Gakuin University
SATURDAY JUNE 20
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Session 1: Room 1351
Sporting Histories, Mediated Cultures: Women and Sports in Japan
Organizer/Chair: Michelle Ho, Stony Brook University
1) Helen Macnaughtan, SOAS, University of London
The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics2) Iwona Merklejn, Aoyama Gakuin University
Witchcraft or Teamwork? Women’s Volleyball in Japanese Animation and Television Drama
3) Michelle Ho, Stony Brook University
Following Nadeshiko Japan on Social Media: Women’s Soccer and Fan Affect4) Robin Kietlinski, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Challenging Women: Female Olympians in Twenty-first Century Japan
Discussant: Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
Session 2: Room 1352
New Processes, New Policies? The Politics of Labor Market Reform in Contemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
1) Gabriele Vogt, University of Hamburg
Health-Caregivers on the Global Labor Market: A Comparative Study of Japan’s Economic
Partnership Agreements and Germany’s Triple Win Program2) Mari Miura, Sophia University
Neoliberal Motherhood: Care and Work in the Japanese Welfare State
3) Jiyeoun Song, Seoul National University
Precarious Young Workers and Labor Market Reform in Japan
4) Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)The Politics of Labor Market Reform in Japan and Beyond: Who Decides and Who Cares?
Discussant: John C. Campbell, University of Tokyo/University of Michigan

Session 3: Room 1353
The Transformation of Space in Modern China: The Tangible and the Intangible
Organizer: Huang Xuelei, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Paul Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego
1) Chen Yunlian, Takushoku University
Making a World Harbour in Shanghai, 1908–1920
2) Son An Suk, Kanagawa University
Reshaping the Shanghai Port: The 1922 International Conference on the
Reconstruction of the Shanghai Port
3) Huang Xuelei, University of Edinburgh
The Cosmetics Industry and Changing Smellscapes in Urban China, 1910s -1940s
4) Zhang Ling, University of Chicago
City Symphony and Shanghai Soundscape in the late 1930s
Discussants: Paul Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego; Christian Hess, Sophia University
Session 4: Room 1451
Alternatives and Margins in Japanese Education
Organizer/Chair: Christopher Bondy, International Christian University
1) Maiko Sumino, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
How to Support the Underrepresented Student Population for a Globalized Age:
Educational Structures and Practices in Japan
2) JD Parker, Arizona State University
From Dōwa to Jinken Kyōiku: Insights on Human Rights Education Teacher Training
in a Multicultural Japan
3) Kaori Oi, University of Tokyo
Language Use of High School English Teachers in Japan
4) Tomoko Tokunaga, Keio University; Christopher Bondy, International Christian University
Negotiating Hybrid Roles as Researchers: Reflections of Two Ethnographic Studies
on Minority Education in Japan
Discussant: Yuki Imoto, Keio University2

Session 5: Room 1358
Japan in the late 1940s: The Tokyo Trial, the Yoshida Doctrine and Japanese Geopolitics
Organizer/Chair: Christian W. Spang, Daito Bunka University
1) Elliot Milton, Embassy of Ireland (Tokyo)
The Tokyo Trial: What the Allies Hoped to Achieve2) Sugita Yoneyuki, Osaka University
A Reinterpretation of the Yoshida Doctrine
3) Christian W. Spang, Daito Bunka University
Japanese Geopoliticians after 1945
Discussant: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Session 6: Room 1457
Happiness in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Curtis Anderson Gayle, Japan Women’s University
1) Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Marriage or Happiness? Women and the Pursuit of Freedom in Early Twentieth CenturyJapan2) Curtis Anderson Gayle, Japan Women’s University
Official and Everyday Happiness: Women in Postwar High-Growth Japan
3) Phoebe Holdgrün, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Striving for Happiness and Calculating Risks: Mothers’ Strategies as Political Activists
Discussant: TBA

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Session 7: Room 1456
Individual Papers 1: Contemporary Images of Japan
Chair: James Baxter, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Joff Bradley, Teikyo University
On the “Destruction of Every Reason to Hope” in Japan
2) Lorie Brau, University of New Mexico
Grasping for the Ungraspable in a Food Manga: Oishinbo’s “True Story” of Post-3.11
Fukushima3) Kristine Santos, University of Wollongong
Girls and Amateur Comics: The Creation of Japan’s Delusional Imagined Community
4) Ashanti Shih, Yale University
Capturing the Invisible: Photographic Depictions of Mercury Pollution in Minamata Bay, 1950s–1970s4

Session 8: Room 1458
Individual Papers 2: Issues in Twentieth Century Japan
Chair: Koichiro Matsuda, Rikkyo University
1) Yin Yanfei, Ohio State University
Paintings by One Artist, Agendas of Two Countries: Exhibitions of Sesshū Tōyō in Japanand China in 1956
2) Charles Cabell, Toyo University
Kawabata Yasunari and the Return of Empire under US Hegemony: Japanese Literature,
National Identity and Postwar Forgetting3) Lee Wai Shing, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honkon Nippō (Hong Kong News) and Japan’s Southward Advance (1909—1945): A New
Understanding of the Hong Kong-Japan Relationship4) Florentino Rodao, Complutense University of Madrid
The Anti-Comintern Pact and Bilateral Relations
5) Letizia Guarini, Ochanomizu University
The Father/Daughter Relationship in Kakuta Mitsuyo and Yu Miri’s WorkLUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.

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Saturday Lunch Time Meeting: 12:10 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Session 9: Room 1361
Transformational Effects of Service Learning:
The Great East Japan Earthquake Relief Project (Roundtable)
Organizer: Dawn Grimes-MacLellan, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Kyoko Ichikawa, Meiji Gakuin University
2) Yuriko Saito, Meiji Gakuin University
3) Erika Kojima, Meiji Gakuin University
4) Akemi Shimazawa, Meiji Gakuin University5) Cody Rapley, Victoria University of Wellington
6) Dawn Grimes-MacLellan, Meiji Gakuin University

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Session 10: Room 1451
Women and Ambiguous Politics in Post 3.11 Japan: A Collaborative Project (I)Organizer/Chair: David H. Slater, Sophia University
1) David H. Slater, Sophia University
Making a Collaborative Archive of 3.11 Disaster and Recovery, Mobilization and Protest
2) Maya Houser, Waseda University
The Problem of Politics and Community among Voluntary Evacuees
3) Rebecca Milner, Sophia University
The “Passive Politics” of Evacuation?
Discussant: Eto Mikiko, Hosei University
Session 11: Room 1351
Fushigi as Critique – Mizuki Shigeru and Postwar Japan
Organizer/Chair: Christophe Thouny, University of Tokyo
1) Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky
Yōkai and Ghostly Interventions in Mizuki Shigeru’s War Narratives
2) Peter Bernard, Harvard University
Dunwich in Tottori: Translating the Weird in Mizuki Shigeru’s Kashihon Manga
3) Christophe Thouny, University of Tokyo
From Salaryman Revolution to the Media-mix: Postwar Narratives of the Umbrella Monster
Discussant: Anne McKnight, Shirayuri College

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R2P in East Asia: Acceptance, Commitment and Practice
Organizer: Sangmin Bae, Northeastern Illinois University
Chair: Martyn de Bruyn, Northeastern Illinois University
1) Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University PAPER WITHDRAWN
R2P on the Korean Peninsula: From Resistance to Strategic Engagement2) Lina Gong, Nanyang Technological University
China’s Role in the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect
3) Hiroshi Takazawa, University of Tokyo
A Practical Way Forward: Australia’s Bottom-up Approach in Cooperation with
Nongovernmental Research Institutes4) Sangmin Bae, Northeastern Illinois University
Active in Not Being Active: How East Asian Powers Accept R2P
Discussant: Hideaki Shinoda, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Session 13: Room 1353
Water Worlds: The Past and Present of Aquatic Environments in Japan
Organizer /Chair: Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1) Roderick Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Quotidian Routines and Environmental Relations Along the Rivers of the Early-Modern
Kanto Plain
2) Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
The Senkawa Jōsui: Views from a Constructed Waterway3) Michael Wood, Chapman University
Deterritorialized Waters: Invasive Species Discourse and the Lake Biwa Watershed
Discussant: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University

8Session 14: Room 1358
Overlapping Cosmologies and Cosmographies in Pre-Modern Asia (I)Organizers: Bill M. Mak, Kyoto University; Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University
Chair: Bill M. Mak, Kyoto University
1) Eric Huntington, Princeton University
Buddhist Cosmology in Bhutanese Murals: An Iconographic Negotiation between Kālacakra
and Abhidharma Cosmologies
2) Daniel Patrick Morgan, CNRS-Paris VII
A Sphere unto Itself: The Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese
Cosmography3) Bill M. Mak, Kyoto University
Greek Astral Science in China: Nestorians, Perso-Arabs, and the Jesuits4) Yoichi Isahaya, University of Tokyo
Entangled Representation of the Heaven: Dunhuang Fragment P. 4071 in the Transition andNaturalization of the Western Astral Science
Discussant: Ellen Van Goethem, Kyushu University
Session 15: Room 1458
(Mis)Representing Japan to Western Audiences (Roundtable)
Organizer/ Chair: James Welker, Kanagawa University
1) Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
2) Patrick Galbraith, Duke University3) Debra Occhi, Miyazaki International College
4) James Welker, Kanagawa University
5) Toby Slade, Tokyo University

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Real and Ideal Mothers: Representations of Motherhood in Japanese Literature from
Gendered Perspectives
Organizer/Chair: Natsumi Ikoma, International Christian University
1) Lindsay Ray Morrison, International Christian University
In Search of What Is Real: The Role of Nature in Japanese Literature on the Mother andHome2) Natsumi Ikoma, International Christian University
To Miss the Missing Mother: Absence of Real Mothers in Japanese Literature by Male
Authors3) Juliana Buriticá Alzate, International Christian University
Nearer to or Farther from the Idealized Mother: Portrayals of Motherhood by Japanese
Women Writers
Discussant: Fukuko Kobayashi, Josai International University
Session 17: Room 1457
Individual Papers 3: Northeast Asian Politics
Chair: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Lee Sangjoon, Nanyang Technological University
Mission to Tokyo: The Asia Foundation and the Cultural Cold War in Asia
2) Stella Xu, Roanoke University
From A Marxist Universal History to an Ultra-Nationalist Approach: Studies on Ancient
History in North Korea (1950s–2010)
3) Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Cambridge
Uncovering a North Korean Resource History: Mineralogical Narratives of the Captured
Documents Collection4) Hovhannisyan Astghik, Hitotsubashi University
War and Eyesight: Ophthalmological Research in Prewar and Wartime Japan10

Session 18: Room 1456
Individual Papers 4: Literature in China, Japan, and Taiwan
Chair: Angela Yiu, Sophia University
1) Zhang Yao, University of Tokyo
Cultural Transformation in Chinese Literature in the 1990’s
2) Shan Lianying, Gustavus Adolphus College
Eco-feminism in Kirino Natsuo’s Tokyo Island
3) Daniela Kato, Hiroshima Jogakuin University PAPER WITHDRAWN
Geopolitical Imaginings for Tumultuous Times: Political Landscapes in Contemporary
Women’s Travel Writing on Northeast Asia
4) Chang Cheng-Chieh, Nagoya University
Identity, Sexuality, and Mobility in Zenkyoto Fiction: Representation of the Student Movementin the late 1960’s in Taiwanese Wu Chi-wen’s Galaxy in Ecstasies
5) Wang Yuanfei, University of Georgia
Textual Hangzhou: The Female Body, Romance, and Empire in Feng Menglong’s Vernacular
Short Stories
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Session 19: Room 1451. Women and Ambiguous Politics in Post 3.11 Japan: A Collaborative
Project (II)Organizer/Chair: David H. Slater, Sophia University
1) Danzuka Haruka, Tokyo University
Political Mobilization over Daily Life of Younger Mothers in Fukushima
2) Uno Satsuki, Tokyo University
Militant Women’s Politics: Women against Nukes
3) Robin O’Day, University of Tsukuba
Senior Women’s Activism: Generational Dimensions of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement
Discussant: Yamaguchi Tomomi, Montana State University

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Japanese Irrigation and Water Control Engineering in Colonial Taiwan: Views Across theTwentieth Century
Organizer/Chair: Philip C. Brown, Ohio State University
1) Kuo Yunping, Kainan University
The Development and Spatial Organization of Taiwan’s Irrigation System During theJapanese Colonial Period2) Philip C. Brown, Ohio State University
Planning and Commemorating Rural Development: Taiwan’s Jianan (J. Kanan) Water
Control Project, 1920–1955
3) Shimizu Misato, Tokyo Foreign Language University
Japanese-Sponsored Irrigation Associations and their Taiwanese Clients: A Case Study of the
Jianan Irrigation4) Amae Yoshihisa, Chang Jung Christian University
Colonial Modernity Revisited: Postcolonial Discourse on Hatta Yoichi in Present-Day
TaiwanDiscussant: Douglas Fix, Reed College

12Session 21: Room 1352
Ch’oe Nam-sŏn’s Editorship in Printed Modernity of Korea: Print Culture in Early Colonial
Period Korea, 1910–1925
Organizer/Chair: Hyonhui Choe, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1) Seulki Park, Hallym University
Ch’oe Nam-sŏn’s Editorial Performativity in Korea’s 1910’s Print Culture2) Suk Yun, Hallym University
Transcribing Deformation in the Formation of Poetic Modernity: Ch’oe Nam-sŏn’s Use of
Hyphens in Works of Song Lyrics
3) Chung Hee Ryu, University of Tokyo
Korean Intellectuals’ Perception of Colonial Korea before and after the March First
Movement of 1919: Yun Ch’i-ho and Ch’oe Nam-sŏn’s Perspective on Western Civilizationand the Korean Nation
4) Hyonhui Choe, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korea as a Chain of Printed Signs: The Invention of Korea in 1920’s Ch’oe Nam-sŏn’s
Nationalist Studies
Discussant: Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
Session 22: Room 1353
Postwar Transitions across New Borders: Economic and Political Activities of Repatriates in
Postwar Japan
Organizer/Chair: Jonathan Bull, Hokkaido University
1) Sumiyo Nishizaki, London School of Economics and Political Science
After Empire Comes Home: Economic Experiences of Japanese Civilian Repatriates,
1945–1956
2) Jonathan Bull, Hokkaido University
Repatriate Groups and the Figure of the Repatriate3) Taisho Nakayama, Hokkaido University
Where have the Subarctic Engineers of Karafuto Gone?: Engineers at the Saghalien Central
Experiment Station in the Postwar
4) Carly Buxton, University of Chicago
Two-Way Passage: The Nisei of SCAP
Discussant: Mariko Iijima, Sophia University
13Session 23: Room 1358
Overlapping Cosmologies and Cosmographies in Pre-Modern Asia (II)Organizers: Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University; Bill M. Mak, Kyoto University
Chair: Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University
1) Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer, Saint Joseph’s University
Divination Manuals of the Han Dynasty: A Case Study of the Yinwan Manuals as Early
Chinese Technology
2) Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University
Composing the Cosmos in Ancient Japan: Post-Mortem Realms in Dedicatory Prayers
3) Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University
Four Directions and Layered Cosmologies: An Eighth Century Buddhist Monument in the
New Capital4) Cindy Postma, Independent Scholar
On the Cosmology and Cosmography of Pre-modern Japan, Through the Prism of an
Eighteenth Century Shogunal Scholar
Discussant: Ellen Van Goethem, Kyushu University
Session 24: Room 1458
Tokyo: The City, the Fringes, the Created Spaces Between
Organizer/Chair: Alejandro Morales Rama, Sophia University
1) Lei Hu, Sophia University
An Urban Space Study of Higuchi Ichiyō’s Nigorie2) Kevin Niehaus, Sophia University
Painting the Town Red: Uncovering the Modern City in Natsume Sōseki’s And Then
3) Alejandro Morales Rama, Sophia University
Protean City, Liminal Citizens: A Study on the Importance of Urban Space and Memory in
the Fiction of Izumi Kyōka.
4) Saki Inoue, Sophia University
Innovating the Urban Soundscape: Semiotic Noise and the Creation of Spatial Ma in
Contemporary Japanese Theatre
Discussant: Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa

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Session 25: Room 1361
Individual Papers 5: Modern Japanese Society
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
1) Akiko Hayashi, Meiji University
Learning Embodied Culture2) Julija Knezevic, RMITIn House Interpreter: “Office Flower” of “Gender Escalator”?
3) Lori Kiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology
How Japanese Adoption Mediators Envision the Future of Social Welfare in Japan
4) Takama Saori, Hitotsubashi University
The Conditions for the Use of Hospitals as Nursing Homes in Postwar Japan
5) Jeniece Lusk, Miyazaki International College
Assessment and Evaluation of the Effect of Family and Labor Reform in Japan on Fertility
Rates and Attitudes toward Childbearing
Session 26: Room 1457
Individual Papers 6: Northeast Asian History
Chair: Christian Hess, Sophia University
1) Feng Jiren, University of Hawaii, Hilo
The Eighth-Century Building Code Yingshanling and Its Place in Chinese Architectural
Literature
2) Cecily McCaffrey, Willamette University
Geographies and Place-Based Identities in the History of the White Lotus Uprising
3) Caremon Sutt, Austin Peay State University
The Rules and Realities of Inheritance in Hungary and Kamakura Japan
4) Lee Jae-yon, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Keywords and the Intellectual Landscape of Kaebyŏk (1920–1926) in Korea
5) Joo Woojeong, Nagoya University
An Audio-Vision of Peripheral Territory: Imperial Gaze in the Early Japanese Talkie
Documentaries of the 1930s

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Room 1456
Saturday 5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Presentation of Graduate Student Paper Award&KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, President AAS
Do Asian Foreign Relations Have a History?

RECEPTION: 6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Palette Zone, 2nd Floor

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Sunday June 21
Room 1351
Business meeting: 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Sunday Morning Sessions: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Session 27: Room 1451
Struggles over Boundaries: China’s Expansion in Various Spheres and International Responses
Organizer/Chair: Yang Jiang, Danish Institute for International Studies
1) Christian Wirth, Griffith University
Securing the Seas, Securing the State: The Politics of Social Order and Identity in China,
Japan, and South Korea
2) Aki Tonami, University of Copenhagen
China and Japan in the Arctic: Economic Security and the Role of Foreign Policy3) Jeffrey Ordaniel, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
US-Japan Balancing Acts in the South China Sea: Multilateralism, International Law and theMaintenance of Status Quo
Discussant: Yang Jiang, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark
Session 28: Room 1351
Temples and their Patrons: New Research on Local Religious Practices in China and Taiwan
Organizer/Chair: Randall Nadeau, Trinity University
1) Xun Liu, Rutgers University
Of Poems, Calligraphy, Zither, and Gardens: Quanzhen Monastic Hosting of Literati Arts in
Late Qing Nanyang2) Tyler Feezell, National Chengchi University
Macheng Jiao: A Case Study Concerning the Relationship Between Ritual, Practitioner, andPatron3) Shin-yi Chao, University of Rochester
Secularizing Religious Revival in China: A Case Study
4) Randall Nadeau, Trinity University
The Cultural Capital of Local Religious Practices in Taiwan: From Miao-hui to the “Cultural
Arts Festival”
Discussant: David Wank, Sophia University
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Session 29: Room 1352
Policing Delinquency and Dissent in Prewar Japan
Organizer/Chair: Max Ward, Middlebury College
1) Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Before the Thought Police: Policing Socialists and Anarchists in the Early Twentieth Century2) John Person, University at Albany, SUNY
Policing the Right: The Japanese Wartime Government’s Problems with Patriotism
3) Max Ward, Middlebury College
From Youth Delinquency to Dangerous Thought: Rehabilitation and Reform in Interwar
Japan
Discussant: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
Session 30: Room 1353
Social and Political Relationships Revealed by the Great East Japan Earthquake
Organizer/Chair: W. Lawrence Neuman, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater;
Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo University
1) Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University.
Social Ties and Mortality in the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake2) W. Lawrence Neuman, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Yoichi Murase, Rikkyo
University
Explaining Differences in Resident’s Anxiety over Recovery after the Great East Japan
Earthquake3) Eijiro Fukui, Keio University
What Kind of Information Did Embassies in Japan Want at the Great East Japan
Earthquake?
4) Kazunori Kawamura and Dávid Bohács, Tohoku University
Confidence in Japanese Administration in Areas Affected by the Great East Japan
Earthquake
Discussant: Yoshikuni Ono, Tohoku University

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Session 31: Room 1358
Creating and Maintaining Cultural Traditions through Music
Organizer: Yuri Ishii, Yamaguchi University
Chair: Wai Chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University
1) Shun Hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Nationalism, Religious Identity, and Christian Hymns in Modern China: A Sociological
Analysis
2) Wai Chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University
Perspectives on Cultivating Cultural Awareness and Understanding in Chinese
Undergraduate Students in Hong Kong Through Music, Society, and Culture Education
3) Yuri Ishii, Yamaguchi University
Creating and Maintaining Cultural Traditions through Music: The Case of Taiwan
Discussant: Mari Shiobara, Kunitachi College of Music
Session 32: Room 1458
Rethinking the Relationships between Borders, Community, and Place in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Joshua Solomon, University of Chicago
1) Joshua Solomon, University of Chicago
Regionalism Beyond Borders: The Creation of Place by “Local Authors” Beyond Locality
2) Makiko Shoji, Doshisha University
Border and Bordering: Questions Drawing out of Local/Personal Experience and Hate
Speech3) Motohiro Koizumi, Tottori University
New Art Movements of Co-Creation, Challenging “Borders”
Discussant: Anthony Rausch, Hirosaki University

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Flipping the Script: Women and Performance from Noh to Shōjo
Organizer/Chair: Nathen Clerici, SUNY New Paltz
1) Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Transforming Feminine Immorality into Aesthetics: The Case of Murasaki Shikibu’s Death2) Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
Acts Like a Girl: Gender Performativity in Rakugo
3) Nathen Clerici, SUNY New Paltz
The Performance of “Queer Love” in the Narratives of Osaki Midori
4) Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, Vassar College
Performativity of Shōjo Narratives
Discussant: Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia
Session 34: Room 1457
Individual Papers 7: Multicultural Japan and Korea
Chair: Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College
1) Jacqueline Andall, University of Tokyo
Migration Dynamics and Blackness in Japan: West Africans in Tokyo
2) David Rands, Austin Peay State University
Varying Attractions: Function-Based Spatiality and the Migration of Koreans to Japan andJapanese to the United States
3) Seo Akwi, Fukuoka Women’s University“We Are Voters!”: Political Representation of Marriage Migrants in Korea
4) Wong Yee Lam Elim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Overseas Chinese Women and Education: A Case Study of an Overseas Chinese Women’s
Association in Yokohama Chinatown
Lunch Break: 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 35: Room 1361
Bringing Turkey into Asia and Asian Studies (I)Organizer: Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia/Middle East Technical University
Chair: Bahadır Pehlivantürk, TOBB University/Middle East Technical University
1) Smita Tewari-Jassal, Middle East Technical University
Tracing the Turkish Footprint in North Indian Oral Traditions
2) Esra Demirkol, University of Sussex/Middle East Technical University
Transnational Family Life across Continents: The Experiences of Turkish Migrants in Japanand Their Left-behind Families in Turkey
3) Besim Can Zırh, Middle East Technical University and Chang Yau Hoon, Singapore
Management University
Religious Minorities in Two Muslim-Majority Societies in Asia: Turkey and Indonesia
Discussant: Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia/Middle East Technical University
Session 36: Room 1351
Emotion and Social Movements in Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University
1) Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Meiji University
The Martyring of Kanba Michiko2) Ran Zwigenberg, Pennsylvania State University
Emotional Mobilization and the Antinuclear Movement
3) Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University
The Chosen Traumas of Postwar Tohoku Studies
Discussant: Kawanishi Hidemichi, Hiroshima University

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Session 37: Room 1353
Mass Literacy in Modern Japan: Transformed Practices of Reading and Writing
Organizer/Chair: Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Mayo Kakimoto, Jin-ai University
The Lives of Children and Their Reading Habits in the Meiji Period: A School Boy’s Diary
2) Kyoko Ooka, University of Tokyo
The Act of Writing by Women in the Boundary Between Private and Public: An Analysis ofContributions to Shufu no Tomo
3) Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University
Polyphonic Space for Self-expression: Christian Dormitory Diaries at the Second Higher
School during World War Two4) Ayako Nakano, Waseda University
The Expansion of Reading Environment: An Analysis of the Practice of Reading and Writingby Soldiers
Discussant: M. William Steele, International Christian University
Session 38: Room 1352
Bordering Japan: The Representation as Act of Bordering
Organizer/Chair: Yuri Takahashi, Doshisha University
1) Kazuki Nishikawa, Doshisha University
Nation and Bordering in the Case of Art during the Asia and Pacific War
2) Yoko Asato, Doshisha University
Proliferation of Borders and the “Pineapple Boom”: Rethinking Postwar History from
Ishigaki Island of Okinawa
3) Yuri Takahashi, Doshisha University
The Asian American Film Festival as a Contact Zone: Rethinking the Subjectivity of JapaneseAmericans in the Perspective of Representation and Bordering
Discussant: Shujin Lee, Cornell University

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Encountering the Genji: The Varieties of Literary Experience
Organizer/Chair: Jeffrey Knott, Stanford University
1) Tarin Clanuwat, Waseda University
More than Just a Love Story: Medieval Genji as Gate to Knowledge
2) Jeffrey Knott, Stanford University
On First Looking into Kigin’s Murasaki: Becoming a Genji Reader
3) Makiko Tsuneda, Waseda University
A “Féministe” Finding the Tale of Genji in Nineteenth Century France
Discussant: Keisuke Unno, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Session 40: Room 1458
Bandits, Borders, Empire: On the Pleasures & Perils of Crossing The Line
Organizer/Chair: Andre Haag, University of New Mexico
1) Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara
White Robes, Black Robes, Horse-Riding Bandits: Stories of the Yalu River Rail Bridge
2) Andre Haag, University of New Mexico“Guerillas in the Mist,” and Other Stories of Close Calls on Empire’s Edge
3) Jooeun Noh, University of Tokyo“Rumors” at the Borders of Empire: Reading Post-Kanto Earthquake Information Flows
Between Japan, Korea, and China
4) Su Yun Kim, University of Hong Kong
Life on the Borderline as Cosmopolitan: Manchurian Popular Narratives in Colonial Korea
Discussant: Kang Sang-Jung, University of Tokyo

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Session 41: Room 1457
Individual Papers 8: Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture
Chair: Noriko Murai, Sophia University
1) Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
Kawase Naomi and the Sympathetic Gaze
2) Kang Inhye, Doshisha University
Race and Monyō: The Racial and Ethnic Discourses of Modern Japanese Anthropologists on
the Pattern Designs
3) David Sprague, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences and Iwasaki Nobusuke,
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
New Meanings for Old Places for All to See: Japanese Historical Maps in the Age of theInternet4) Du Daisy Yan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
From Monkey King to Astro Boy: The Roles of Chinese Animation in Tezuka Osamu’s Mangaand Anime5) Ohsawa Yuki, University of British Columbia
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Contemporary Science Fiction Animations

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Session 42: Room 1358
Individual Papers 9: Women in Japanese and Chinese Literature
Chair: John Dorsey, Rikkyo University
1) Aoki Arisa, Waseda University
The Dawn of the Self-Sacrificing Stepmother: Breaking down One Archetype to Create
Another in Chikamatsu’s Plays
2) Shen Ruihua, Morehouse College
The Women’s Voice: How Web-Feminism Has Changed Gender Discourse in China
3) Joanna Sturiano, Harvard University
Hirabayashi Taiko’s Gangster Fiction and the Limits of Modern Japanese “Women’s
Literature”
4) Kelly Hansen, San Diego State University
The Language of Women in Natsume Sōseki’s Meian
5) Eugene Lee, SOAS, University of London
The Female Other: Images of Qing Women in Eighteenth-Century Yŏnhaengnok
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.
Session 43: Room 1361
Bringing Turkey into Asia and Asian Studies (II)Organizer: Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia/Middle East Technical University
Chair: Besim Can Zirh, Middle East Technical University
1) Ceren Ergenç, Middle East Technical University
Citizen Participation in Recent Neoliberal Transitions: A Comparison between China andTurkey2) Bahadır Pehlivantürk, TOBB University/Middle East Technical University
Mrddle Power and rts Lrmrts: Japan and Turkey as Tradrtronal and Emergrng Mrddle Powers
3) Kōhei Imai, JSPS/Meiji University
Comparative Studies of the Foreign Policy Styles of Japan and Turkey
Discussant: Aysun Uyar Makibayashi, Doshisha University

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Session 44: Room 1451
Intersections of Gender and Race in the Imagination of Mobility and Futurity
in East Asia
Organizer: Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
Chair: Jooyeon Rhee, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1) Jooyeon Rhee, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The [Im]mobility of Vengeful Masculinity in Colonial Space: Focusing On A Korean
Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo2) Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Japanese Woman: Transgression andTechnoorientalism in Japanese Cyberpunk
3) Chikako Nagayama, OCAD University
Resisting the Normative Space of Home: Kakuta Mitsuyo’s The Eighth Day
4) Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt University
Play. Die. Repeat: The Ludology of Alterity in All You Need Is Kill and The Edge ofTomorrow
Discussant: Akiko Shimizu, University of Tokyo

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Session 45: Room 1351
Metropolis in Asia: Representations and Reconfigurations of Contemporary Urban Spaces
Organizer: Gala Maria Follaco, University of Naples L’Orientale
Chair: Alessandra Cappelletti, The American University of Rome
1) Tommaso Bobbio, University of Turin
The Will to Appear Global: Urban Development, Marginality and Territorial
Transformation in the Narratives of Slum Dwellers of Ahmedabad (West India)
2) Mara Matta, Sapienza University of Rome
Dhaka, a Multi-Minded City of Thousands of Villages: The Case of the Micro-Polis of theMandi (Garo) Tribal Women
3) Alessandra Cappelletti, American University of Rome
The New Xinjiang: Towards a Reassessment of the Interpretative Binarisms,
Centre-Periphery and Urban-Rural
4) Giulia Rampolla, University of Naples L’Orientale/ University of Macerata
Individualism, Reshaping of the Urban Space and Migrations: Perspectives of the Metropolisin Twenty-first Century Chinese Fiction
Discussant: Gala Maria Follaco, University of Naples L’Orientale

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Session 46: Room 1458
Ethics of Representation in Modern Japanese Literature
Organizer/Chair: Kathryn Tanaka, Otemae University
1) Kathryn Tanaka, Otemae University
Heroic Women, Tragic Fates: Representing Women and Hansen’s Disease in the 1930s
2) Mika Endo, Bard College
The Trouble with Children: Ethical Dilemmas in Creating a New Children’s Culture in 1910s
and 1920s Japan
3) Kayo Takeuchi, Nihon University
The Cared for Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Matsuura Reiko’s Kenshin(The Dog’s Body)
4) Izutani Shun, Ritsumeikan University
Self-reliance and Escaping the Family: Contemporary Japanese Women’s Literature andEthics of Care
Discussant: Tsuboi Hideto, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
Session 47: Room 1353
Individual Papers 10: Nineteenth Century History
Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
1) Michael Abele, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
From Bakurō to Butchers: An Osaka Outcaste Community in Japan’s Long NineteenthCentury
2) Joshua Schlachet, Columbia University
Social Ills and Poison Foods: The Culture of Productive Digestion in Late-Tokugawa Japan
3) Sohn Heejeong, SUNY at Stony Brook
Photography and Kojong’s Body Politics
4) Gary Chi-hung Luk, University of Oxford
The British Expedition to China and the Chinese Junk Trade during the Opium War, 1840–
1842
5) Warren Stanislaus, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation PAPER WITHDRAWN
Laughing at Japanese History: Satire and Laughter in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Individual Papers 11: Nineteenth Century Northeast Asian History
Chair: Ed Drott, Sophia University
1) Greg Wilkinson, Brigham Young University
Ritual Processes and Material Exchange in Modern Shingon Pilgrimages
2) Malgorzala Citko, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Ritual as a Means of Establishing Power: Ritualistic Character of the Rokujo and Mikohidari
Poetic Schools’ Practices
3) Wilburn Hansen, San Diego State University
Jindai Moji Discourse: “Aliterate” Literacy4) Cindi Textor, University of Washington
Queer(ing) Language in Yi Kwangsu’s Mujong

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