The Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)International Christian University
July 2-3, 2016

Information correct as of June 9, 2016. Please check the website for any late changes:
www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj
Registration will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, July 2.
Sessions will be held on the second and third floor of University Hall (Honkan) at International Christian
University.
Registration: Second Floor central hall area of University Hall.
Book Display: Second Floor central hall area of University Hall.
All rooms are equipped with digital projectors and cables for hooking up laptops. If additional AV equipment
is needed, participants should contact Gavin Whitelaw (whitelaw@icu.ac.jp) to make arrangements.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

SATURDAY July 2
9:15 –
Registration – Second Floor central hall area
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 1–8
12:00 NOON – 1:15 P.M. Lunch break
1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Sessions 9–17
3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Sessions 18–25
5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Keynote Address – Room 213
6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

Reception

SUNDAY July 3
9:15 –
Registration
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
ASCJ Business Meeting – Room 265
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 26–33
12:00 NOON – 1:30 P.M. Lunch break
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Sessions 34–41
3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.
Sessions 42–47

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The Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
July 2-3, 2016, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo
SATURDAY, JULY 2
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Session 1: Room 204
Publishing about Asia in Academic Journals and Book Series (Roundtable)
Organizer/Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
1) David Howell, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
2) Inge Klompmakers, Brill
3) Jennifer Munger, Journal of Asian Studies
4) Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Monumenta Nipponica
Session 2: Room 252
Straddling Cultures: Sinophone Communities in Contemporary East Asia
Organizer/Chair: Ngu Ik Tien, University of Malaya
1) Dai Ning, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Language Shift and Private Language Planning in Intermarried Families in Japan
2) Ngu Ik Tien, University of Malaya
Forging Tools for Cross-Cultural Communication: Ethnic Minority Activism in the Capital
City of Malaysia
3) Chai Siaw Ling, University of Malaya
The Complexity of Identity: Sarawak Chinese Literature in Malaysian Chinese Literature4) Seah Cheng Ta, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Voices of Hong Kong and Singapore Sinophone Communities: A Study of Novels by Liu
Yichang and Yeng Pway Ngon
Discussant: Yow Cheun Hoe, Nanyang Technological University
Session 3: Room 351
Reproduction and Appropriation in the Japanese Visual Arts
Organizer: Shalmit Bejarano, Hebrew University
Chair: Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Sophia University
1) Jungeun Lee, University of Pittsburg
Displaying Authority: The Ashikaga Shoguns’ Chinese Collections and Their Formal Display
2) Yoonjung Seo, Freie Universitat
Chinese Images for Commemorative Painting in the Late Joseon Dynasty: A Transcultural
Approach to Joseon Art and Visual Culture3) Dylan McGee, Nagoya University
Mapping the Book Trade in Early Modern Nagoya (1794—1854)
Discussant: Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Sophia University2

Session 4: Room 251
Modernization, Media and Culture: The Life Experiences of Colonial Subjects under JapaneseControl
Organizer/Chair: Hsiu-hui Sun, National Chengchi University
1) Sumei Wang, National Chengchi University
Mass Media and the Modern Girl in 1930s Colonial Taiwan
2) Pei-ching Hsin, National Chengchi University
Enlightenment or Entertainment Through the Eyes: Exhibitions and Department Stores in
Taiwanese Literature during the Japanese Colonial Period3) Hsiu-hui Sun & I-fen Chen, National Chengchi University
Constructing the Concepts of “Happiness”: A Comparative Analysis of the Seasoning
Product “Ajinomoto” in Taiwan Jih Jih Shin Pao and Sheng Jin Shih Pao4) Eve Chiu, The Foundation for Excellent Journalism Award in Taiwan
Inspecting “Taiwanese Vernacular Text” Debates during the 1930s in Colonized Taiwan from
the Magazine Nan-Yin
Discussant: Chiung-wen Hsu, National Chengchi University
Session 5: Room 253
Environmental Aftermath: Industrial Technology Transfers in Post WW2 Northeast Asia
Organizer/Chair: M. William Steele, International Christian University
1) M. William Steele, International Christian University
Constructing the Construction State: The Postwar Revival of the Cement Industry in Japan
2) Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Australian National University/University of Leeds
Narratives of Mineralogical Collaboration: North Korean and Soviet Mineralogical
Development 1945-1950 in the Captured Documents Collection
3) Joseph Andrew Seeley, Stanford University
Japanese Colonial Aquaculture and the Environmental Legacies of Sup’ung Dam
Construction on the Yalu River
Discussant: Bruce Batten, J. F. Oberlin University
Session 6: Room 203
Trans-Pacific Overtures: Japan-U.S. Exchanges and Collaborations of the 1950s and 1960s
Organizer: Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
Chair: Mary Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin University
1) Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa
We’ll See It All: Japanese Writers Abroad in the 1950s
2) Richi Sakakibara, Waseda University
The Politics of “Cultural Exchange”: Representations of Japan under the Cold War Scheme3) Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
The Forgotten Story of Japanese Women Who Studied in the United States, 1949—1966
4) Jayson Chun, University of Hawai‘i-West O’ahu
The “Pop Pacific”: The Growth of Transnational Popular Culture in 1950s and 1960s Japan
Discussant: Mary Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin University

3Session 7: Room 352
After Digital Humanities: Urban Cartographies of Modern Japan
Organizer/Chair: Christophe Thouny, The University of Tokyo
1) Christophe Thouny, The University of Tokyo
Cartographies of Modernity in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta and Sumida-gawa2) Sarah Frederick, Boston University
Departed Cartographies: Natsume Sōseki Maps His Arrival in Post-Shiki Kyoto
3) Sayumi Takahashi Harb, Independent Scholar
Expanding Kyoto’s Gendered Geographies: Meiji Modernity and the Rise of “Urban”
Utamakura4) Earl Jackson, National Chiao Tung University
Terminal Reader: Catastrophic Urban Literacy in Abe Kōbō
Discussant: Anne McKnight, Shirayuri College
Session 8: Room 314
Individual Papers 1: East Asian Law, Politics, and Religion
Chair: Alex Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Wu Guo, Allegheny College“Cowshed”: The Extra-Judicial Disciplinary Penalty during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
2) Cynthia Daugherty, Seinan Gakuin University
Elizabeth Vining and Christianity in the Imperial House: Advancing Common Goals of
Occupier and Occupied in Early Post-War Japan3) Kim Sunil, Kyung Hee University:
Violent Entrepreneurs Turned Nationalist Instruments: The Evolution of Non-State Political
Coercion in South Korea
4) Silja Keva, University of Turku
The National Diet of Japan and Parliamentary Diplomacy: Japan’s Participation in the AsiaEurope Parliamentary Dialogue
5) Franziska Schultz, University of Tübingen
Economic Effects of Political Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations in Annual Reports of theJapan-China Economic Association

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LUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. - 1:15 P.M.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
Session 9: Room 204
Fracturing of Traditional Diplomatic and Trade Relations in 16th—17th Century Japan
Organizer/Chair: Csaba Olah, International Christian University
1) Igawa Kenji, Seijo University
Some Examples of Trade Traditions in Sixteenth Century Japan
2) Okamoto Makoto, The University of Tokyo
Transformation of Diplomacy and Trade in Japan during the 16th—17th Centuries
3) Maria Grazia Petrucci, University of British Columbia
Back to the Past: Piracy and Diplomacy in Relations between Japan and Ryukyu
4) Lucio de Sousa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Japanese Slavery and the Iberian Legislation
Discussant: Csaba Olah, International Christian University
Session 10: Room 351
Shifting Boundaries, Ambiguous Identities: State and Non-State Actors in Waste Management
and Recycling in East Asia
Organizer: Rebecca Tompkins, Leiden University
Chair: Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University
Rebecca Tompkins, Leiden University
1) “Our Mission As Women:” Cooperation between Women’s Groups and City Authorities in
the Garbage Campaign of Prewar Tokyo
2) Hyojin Pak, Leiden University
Managing the Disorderly: Formal and Informal Actors in Making Seoul’s Nanji Landfill,
1978—1993
3) Adam Liebman, University of California, Davis
Controlling Waste in Kunming, China: Struggles to Order and Govern the Urban
Environment
Discussant: Tomoko Okayama, Taisho University
Session 11: Room 253“Queer” Lines: Genders and Sexualities in Institutions and at Play in Japan (Part I)
Organizer/Chair: SPF Dale, Hitotsubashi University
1) SPF Dale, Hitotsubashi University
On Medical Terms: Gender Identity Disorder and the Recognition of Non-Binary Gender
Identities
2) Minata Hara, Japan Sexual Minorities Network for Social Inclusion
Is Gender an “Identity” for All, or Just an Orientation?: Rethinking “Gender Identities” inJapan through Phone Counseling3) Yuen Shu Min, University of Melbourne
Drinking and Partying…Or Something More? Negotiations of Belonging in theContemporary FTM Scene in Japan54) Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong
Takahashi Tetsu and the Struggle for Freedom of Sexual Expression in Early Postwar Japan
Discussant: Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session 12: Room 203
Theorizing the Other in Urban Spaces of Play in Tokyo
Organizer/Chair: Jamie Coates, Waseda University
1) Jamie Coates, Waseda University
Playing in Ikebukuro: Negotiating Exclusion in Chinese Migrant Spaces of Play2) Toru Takeoka, Hitotsubashi University
Performative Othering and the Possibility of Inclusion: The Case of Tokyo’s Kabukichō Red
Light District3) Mira Lequin Malick, Waseda University
Things that Cultivate in the Dark: Tropes, Templates and Gendered Prosumption4) Alexandra Hambleton, Bunkyo Gakuin University
The Buzz of Liberation: Sex Toys, Desire, and Feminist Potential in Contemporary Japan
Discussant: Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas
Session 13: Room 252
Minorities/Minority Languages in Asia
Organizer/Chair: Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University
1) Suraj Shrestha, Daitō Bunka University
Minority Language Policy and Practice in Nepal
2) Nang Seng Hong, Independent Scholar
On Shan Language Revival in Burma
3) Igor Tarakanov, Daitō Bunka University
On the State of Yiddish Preservation in the Russian Far East
4) Zhang Yongsheng, Daitō Bunka University
Standard Mongolian Language and the Khorchin Dialect in Inner Mongolia
Discussant: Cezar Constantinescu, Sophia University
Session 14: Room 316
Yōji Yamada: A Filmmaker between the Studios and Post-Studio Eras of Japanese Cinema
Organizer/Chair: Jose A. Montaño Muñoz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
1) Francisco Javier López Rodríguez, Nagoya University
Depictions of Parenthood in Yōji Yamada’s Family-Themed Films
2) Kenta Kato, Waseda University
Yōji Yamada Remakes: Representation of Something Older
3) Jose A. Montaño Muñoz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Twilight of an Era of Filmmaking: Yōji Yamada and Jidaigeki
Discussant: Karen Severns, Waseda University

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Individual Papers 2: Contemporary East Asian Literature
Chair: Jenine Heaton, Kansai University
1) Li-ping Chen, University of Southern California
Searching for (Alter)native Soil: Eikan Kyu and the Politics of Homecoming in Postcolonial
Displacement
2) Hiroaki Matsusaka, University of Michigan
Colonial Borderlands in Japanese Proletarian Literature: Maedakō Hiroichirō’s Novels on
Korea and Contested Representations of Hwajŏn
3) Wu Xiaofang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
A Quest for East-West Religious Dialogue: On Helen M. Hayes’s Abridged Translation of
Xiyouji (1930)
4) Makiko Mori, Auburn University
Does Money Kill Culture?: Money Matters in the Early-Republican Popular Fiction Industry
5) Nicholas Lambrecht, University of Chicago
Returnee Postmemory: The Emergence of Second-Generation Japanese Repatriation
Literature
Session 16: Room 251
Individual Papers 3: Japanese and Chinese War Memory
Chair: Karl Friday, Saitama University
1) Han Jung-Sun, Korea University
Making of Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan
2) Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies DIJ Tokyo
The Nanking Massacre and the Use of History in Japanese-Chinese Relations
3) Shota T. Ogawa, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Work of Commemoration in the Age of Digital Colorization: Recent NHK War
Documentaries
4) Aya Ezawa, Leiden University
Japanese Children Born of War and the History and Memory of WWII
5) Hao Xiaoyang, Kyushu University
The Treatment of Sexual Violence in the Class B/C War Crimes Tribunals Conducted in the
Republic of China
Session 17: Room 352
Haiku in Contemporary Practice (Roundtable)
Chair: Philip Rowland, Tamagawa University
1) Philip Rowland, Tamagawa University
2) Toru Kiushi, Nihon University
3) Ayako Takahashi, Nagaoka University of Technology

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Session 18: Room 352
China as an Emigrant Destination: Foreign and Internal Migrants in the PRC
Organizer/Chair: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University
1) Roberto Castillo, The University of Hong Kong
Red Money: Nigerian Money Spraying, Music and Aspirations in China
2) Ying Yang, Nagoya University
Two African Communities in China: A Comparative Study of African Migrants in Yiwu andGuangzhou
3) Zhiyi Li, Nagoya University
Is Woman’s Eeman (faith) at Home?: A Case Study of the Construction of Sisterhood
Relations by Internal Muslim Female Migrants in Yiwu, China
Discussant: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya University
Session 19: Room 351
Rethinking Power in the Periphery in Medieval Japan
Organizer: Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State University
Chair: Kendra Strand, St. Olaf College
1) Erin L. Brightwell, University of Michigan
Reflecting Authority: Mobilizing Traditions in Medieval Discourse on the Past
2) Kendra Strand, St. Olaf College
Ruling from the Periphery: Constructing Imperial Authority in Medieval Japan
3) Hanna McGaughey, University of Trier
How a Goddess Enters Politics
4) Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State University
Sacred Placemaking in Medieval Japan: Mapping Landscapes, Narratives, and Spatial
Practices in the Taima-dera jikkai-zu byōbu
Discussant: Michelle Kuhn, Nagoya University
Session 20: Room 253“Queer” Lines: Genders and Sexualities in Institutions and at Play in Japan (Part II)
Organizer/Chair: Michelle Ho, Stony Brook University
1) Michelle Ho, Stony Brook University
Queer Attachments: Inhabiting Affective Spaces in Japan’s Drag Cafes
2) Adrienne Johnson, University of Tokyo
Josō or Gender Free? Queering Gender Expression in Visual Kei
3) Akiko Mizoguchi, Hosei University/Tama Art University
Birth of a New Queer Community: Theorizing BL As a Transformative Genre
Discussant: James Welker, Kanagawa University

8Session 21: Room 203“Otaku,” Reality, Politics: Labeling and Gender in Contemporary Japan
Organizer/Chair: Patrick W. Galbraith, Duke University
1) Björn-Ole Kamm, Heidelberg University
Masculinities and Femininities between Authenticity, Plausibility, and Otaku Stereotypes:
How Language Makes Realities in Japanese Table-talk RPGs
2) Lien Fan Shen, University of Utah
Otaku Identity As a Strategy to Transgress Normative Sexuality and Gender Politics inGenshiken Nidaime3) Patrick W. Galbraith, Duke University
Real(ity) Problem: “Otaku” and the Politics of Imagination
4) Thiam Huat Kam, Rutgers University
The New (Economic) “Reality” of the “Otaku?”: Valuing and Theorizing to Contain
Productive Capacities into Consumption
Discussant Jaqueline Berndt, Kyoto Seika University
Session 22: Room 252
In Pursuit of an Education: “Study Abroad” in the Cities of Early Modern Japan
Organizer: Ellen Nakamura, University of Auckland
Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
1) Ryō Umihara, Sumitomo Historical Archives
Spreading the Latest Medical Techniques and Knowledge in the Edo Period
2) Waka Hirokawa, Senshu University
Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge Acquisition: The Flexibility of the Medical Education
System in Late Tokugawa Osaka3) Ellen Nakamura, University of Auckland
Choosing a Study Destination: The Recollections of Sagara Chian (1836—1906)
4) Takeshi Moriyama, Murdoch University
The Making of a Mapmaker: Shibata Shūzō (1820—1859) and the Institute for WesternStudies (Bansho shirabesho)
Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
Session 23: Room 316
Reframing Tradition to Tackle Contemporary Problems: The Parodic World of Ch’oe Inhun
Organizer/Chair: Barbara Wall, University of Hamburg
1) Dennis Wuerthner, Ruhr University
On Adaptations of Chosŏn Dynasty Literature by Ch’oe Inhun
2) Jaejin Koo, Semyung University
History, Ethics, and Nostalgia in Ch’oe Inhun’s Parodic Play Hans and Gretel
3) Barbara Wall, University of Hamburg
Polyphony Reloaded: A Comparison of Ch’oe Inhun’s Sŏyugi and Gao Xingjian’s LateTwentieth Century Lingshan as Parodies of the Sixteenth Century Xiyouji
Discussant: Haehyun Park, Chosŏn Ilbo

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Session 24: Room 251
Individual Papers 4: Prewar East Asian History
Chair: Paul Clark, West Texas A & M
1) Dong Yuting, Harvard University
Localization of an “Imperial” Garden City: A History of Green Land in Shinkyō (1932—1945)
2) TongyunYin, MacLean Collection
Imaging and Imagining Early Republican Beijing: Photographs of the Imperial Relics inthe 1920s
3) Ayelet Zohar, University of Haifa
Opaque Photography: Anti-Photography, Surface and the Images of the Sun in JapanesePhotography4) Silvio Vita, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Exotica of the Japanese Past: Shinmura Izuru (1876—1967) and the Representation of theChristian Century5) Lisa Yoshikawa, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Exporting to Extinction?: Animal Conservation and Western Imperialism in Meiji and TaishōJapan
Session 25: Room 314
Individual Papers 5: Contemporary East Asian Culture and Religion
Chair: Gavin H. Whitelaw, International Christian University
1) Daisy Yan Du, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
International Childhood Fraternity: Imagining the West in Animated Films in Socialist China
2) Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Marcel Proust’s Queer Japan
3) Ono Sayako, Independent Scholar
The Body and Akogare: Women Who Express Themselves through Dancing Ballet
4) Yuki Ohsawa, University of British Columbia
Technological Bodies: Reconceptualizing the Cyborg/Human Relationship through JapaneseAnime and Manga
5) Charles Cook, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reimagining Religion: NGO Discourses in Post-3.11 Japan

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Presentation of Graduate Student Paper Award&KEYNOTE ADDRESS“What Global Asia Meant to Anthropology c. 1900”
Laurel Kendall
American Museum of Natural History andPresident, Association for Asian Studies
Room 213
Saturday 5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.

RECEPTION: 6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
ICU Dining HallSUNDAY, JULY 3
Room 265
Business meeting: 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Session 26: Room 352
Changes and Perspectives in Asian Studies Over Twenty Years (Roundtable)
Moderator: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Linda Grove, Sophia University, China, History
2) David Wank, Sophia University, China, Sociology
3) Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan, Literature4) M. William Steele, ICU, Japan, History5) Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History, Korea, Anthropology
6) Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University, Korea, History

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Session 27: Room 253
Mental Health/Illness in Contemporary Japan (Part I): Addiction and Self-Help Groups
Organizer: Paul Christensen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Chair: Junko Kitanaka, Keio University
1) Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Foreign Models and Local Needs: The Treatment of Compulsive Gamblers in Yokohama
2) Rie Yamada, University of Tokyo
The Meaning of “Self-Help” for Families of Patients with Mental Disorders in Japan3) Sachiko Horiguchi, Temple University and Junko Teruyama, University of Tsukuba
Envisioning Individual and Social Change: An Ethnography of Communication Skills
Workshops for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Discussant: Amy Borovoy, Princeton University
Session 28: Room 252
Marginal Issues in Japanese Higher Education
Organizer/Chair: Maiko Sumino, the University of Tokyo /Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science
1) Takako Hayashi, University of Tokyo
Expertise and Professional Development of Faculties and Staff Engaged in Student Support at
Japanese Universities: Current Situation and Future Outlook2) Jennifer McGuire, University of Oxford /National Museum of Ethnology (JSPS Fellowship)
Accessible Information in Higher Education: A Paradigm for Empowerment for Deaf andHard-of-Hearing Students in Japan
3) Maiko Sumino, University of Tokyo /Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
The Interpretation of Inclusion Practices by Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis ofJapan and the United States
4) Tomoko Tokunaga, Keio University
Reimagining Minorities in Japanese Education: The Possibilities of International
Collaborative Courses in Japan
Discussant: Christopher Bondy, International Christian University
Session 29: Room 204
The Confucian Classics and East Asian Politics
Organizer/Chair: Hong-Kyu Park, Korea University
1) Jae-Hyeok Song, Korea University
Statesman Jeong Do-jeon and The Classic of History2) Sulsoo Park, Korea University
Reformer Zhang Juzheng’s Interpretation of The Great Learning
3) Gi-Yeon Kim, Korea University and Hong-Kyu Park, Korea University
Mencius and Unification of a Divided Country
Discussant: Tadashi Karube, Tokyo University

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Constitutionalism in Asia
Organizer/Chair: Joseph M. Fernando, University of Malaya
1) Joseph M. Fernando, Department of History, University of Malaya
Imagining the Post-Colonial State: Malayan Nationalism and the Framing of the
Independence Constitution2) Hasyim Asy’ari, Diponegoro University
Constitutional Change and Re-Designing the State: Towards Strengthening the Presidential
System in Indonesia
3) Saimin Ginsari, University of Malaya
Revisiting the Spirit of the 1963 Malaysia Federation Agreement
Discussant: Tsuboi Yuji, Tokyo University
Session 31: Room 351
Meditation, Caves and Art in Central Asia
Organizer/Chair: Tamami Hamada, Yokohama College of Art and Design
1) Tamami Hamada, Yokohama College of Art and Design
Buddhist Iconography and Visualization in the Central-Pillar Caves in Dunhuang2) Michiyo Mori, Waseda University
Pranidhi Paintings in Kucha and Turfan
3) Angela Howard, Rutgers University
The Silent Language of Meditation in the Painting of Kucha
4) Nobuyoshi Yamabe, Waseda University“Meditation Caves” in Kucha, Turfan, and Dunhuang
Discussant: Teruo Nakano, Seijo University
Session 32: Room 316
Individual Papers 6: East Asian Contemporary Film
Chair: Lisa Li, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Jessica Ka Yee Chan, University of Richmond
A Simple Life: Aging in Documentary Realism
2) Chia-Ning Chang, University of California, Davis
Perspectives from Leftist Cinema: Yamamoto Satsuo and Postwar Japan3) Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
The Semiotics of Water in the Films of Imamura Shōhei4) Sean O’Reilly, Akita International University
Fighting Blind: Zatoichi and Popular Perceptions of Blindness in Late Tokugawa Japan
Session 33: Room 314
Individual Papers 7: Japanese and Korean Families
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University
1) Isabel Fassbender, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Discourses on Family Planning in Contemporary Japan: Gender and Bodies in the Context of
Ninkatsu
2) Takeshi Hamano, The University of Kitakyushu
The Family That Matters? An Analysis of the Construction of a Social Problem inContemporary Japan13

3) Allen Kim, International Christian University
Fathers Across Shores: Intergenerational Relations and Korean Patriarchy4) Kristina Vassil, California State University, Sacramento
The Aesthetics of Migration: Family, Class and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese
Migrant Fiction
5) Kathryn Tanaka, Otemae University
Conception in the Hospital: Births, Deaths, and Changing Families in Hōjō Tamio’s Fiction
Lunch Break: 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS I: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 34: Room 252
Performance and Representation in Transnational Asia: Refiguring Gender, Sexuality, andNationality in Colonial and Postcolonial Space
Organizer: Huang-wen Lai, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
1) Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University
Performing Interracial and Inter-Ideological Crossings in Transwar East Asia
2) Huang-wen Lai, University of Pennsylvania
Showing the Empire on the Big Screen: The Views of Nationalism, Commercialism, andStardom under Japanese Rule
3) Hideyo Konagaya, Waseda University
The Politics of Performing the Native Other in National and Transnational Cultural Policy4) Fang-chih Irene Yang, National Cheng Kung University
Public Sex and Sexualized Politics in Taiwan
Session 35: Room 253
Mental Health/Illness in Contemporary Japan (Part II): Patient/Provider interfaces
Organizer: Paul Christensen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Chair: Junko Kitanaka, Keio University
1) Katsuya Kushihara, Tokyo University“Pharmaceuticalization” within Japanese Psychiatric Clinics: From the Viewpoint ofPharmacotherapy Users
2) Lenna Schlemper, Tokyo University
Young Adults’ Mental Health Literacy in Seeking Professional Help for Depression in Japan
3) Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Tokyo University
Stress and Radiation after Fukushima
Discussant: Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado

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Session 36: Room 204
Educating Japanese Women: Intersections with American Values
Organizer: Julia C. Bullock, Emory University
Chair: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
1) Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
Government, Church, and Family: American-Educated Japanese Women in Prewar JapaneseSociety2) Noriko K. Ishii, Sophia University
Transnational Conversations, Liberal Religion and Cosmopolitism: Women Missionaries in
Wartime Japan
3) Vanessa B. Ward, University of Otago
Translating Ideas: Chō Takeda Kiyoko and Reinhold Niebuhr between Japan and the UnitedStates4) Julia C. Bullock, Emory University
Separate but Equal? Equality and Difference in Discourses of Coeducation in Postwar Japan
Discussant: Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
Session 37: Room 352
Disenchantment of the West?
Organizer/Chair: Marius Meinhof, Bielefeld University
1) Lili Zhu, Bielefeld University
The Weak Colonizer and its Cooperator: German Colonialism in China after World War I
2) Marius Meinhof, Bielefeld University
Negotiating Modernity: Chinese Students Positioning Strategies and the Ideology ofModernization As Colonial Heritage
3) Tao Liu, Bremen University
The Emergence of a Chinese Epistemic Community: The Rising Confidence of China?
Discussant: Miho Saito, Ritsumeikan University
Session 38: Room 351
New Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Japanese Art
Organizer/Chair: Noriko Murai, Sophia University
1) Mikiko Hirayama, University of Cincinnati“Bourgeois” or “Avant-garde”?: Bourgeois Parliament and the Lives of the Masses (1931)
by Tsuda Seifū2) Noriko Murai, Sophia University
The Avant-Garde Object in the 1950s
3) Maki Kaneko, University of Kansas
Being “Japanese” and “Avant-garde” in Post-Occupation Japan
4) Namiko Kunimoto, The Ohio State University
Katsura Yuki and the Zoomorphic Avant-Garde
Discussant: Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine

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Session 39: Room 316
Rise, Fall, and Normalization of Manga and Anime Culture in Europe and the United States:
Empirical Findings and Theoretical Models
Organizer/Chair: Marco Pellitteri, Kobe University
1) Clothilde Sabre, Hokkaido University“Cool Japan” in France: A Massive Plebiscite or a Typical Case of Acculturation?
2) Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Yokohama National University
Characters As a Vehicle for Constructions of Identity: Understanding and Use of Animeamong Non-Japanese Audiences
3) Marco Pellitteri, Kobe University
A Four-Stage Media Theory of Manga and Anime’s Consumption Models in Europe: Boom,
Crisis, Fragmentation, and Standardization
Discussants: Dixon Heung Wah Wong, University of Hong Kong and Naohiro Shichijo, National
Institute of Science and Technology Policy
Session 40: Room 251
Individual Papers 8: Contemporary Japanese Society
Chair: Edward Drott, Sophia University
1) Kaori Takano, Fort Lewis College
Contemporary Strategies for Social Responsibility in the Japanese Business Community
2) Kudo Takako, Dokkyo University
Voices from Inside: Perspectives from Japanese Public School Teachers and Foreign National
Students on Educational Support in the Public School System
3) Florian Meissner, Dortmund Technical University
Ending the “Safety Myth”: Failures and Future Challenges of Media Reporting in PostFukushima Japan.
4) Dorothea Mladenova, Leipzig University
Shūkatsu: Death Management As an Activity of the Enterprising Self
5) Sookyung Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
A Study on Emotional Labor and Mental Health Measures in Japan
Session 41: Room 314
Individual Papers 9: East Asian Early Modern History
Chair: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
1) Astghik Hovhannisyan, Hitotsubashi University
Experiments on Humans in Japan: The Forgotten Trachoma Experiment2) Clarence I-Zhuen Lee, Cornell University
The Doctor’s Gaze in a God’s World: The Interrelation of Medicine and Kokugaku in the
Writings of Ueda Akinari
3) Zsofia Ujhazy, International Christian University
Thoughts in Textiles: A Semiotic Approach to Edo Period Kosode Design4) Arnel Joven, University of Asia and the Pacific
Medical Traditions in Modern Health Practices in Urban Korea and Japan: Comparing
Patterns in Contemporary Health-Seeking Behaviour in Seoul and Tokyo

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS II: 3:40 P.M. – 5:40 P.M.
Session 42: Room 253
Horizons of Cultural Translation: Traversing the Translationscape in Modern Japan
Organizer: Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Deguchi Tomoyuki, Tōkai Univeristy1) Miyabi Gotō, Princeton University
Valorization of “Beauty”: Mechanism of Translation in Meiji Japan
2) John Branstetter, University of California, Los Angeles
What Translation Obscures: The Paradigm of Translation and Nakae Chōmin’s Minyaku
yakkai3) Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los Angeles
Becoming an Adventurous Translator: Morita Shiken’s Translation Strategies
4) Jordan Smith, Jōsai International University
Translationscapes: Between Translation Practice and Literary Systems In and Out ofJapan(ese)
Discussant: Kōno Shion, Sophia University
Session 43: Room 252
Democracy in Indonesia: Struggles across Time
Organizer/Chair: Shane J. Barter, Soka University of America
1) Vishnu Juwono, University of Indonesia
The End of Parliamentary Democracy and the Demise of Anti-Corruption Measures during
the Post-Revolutionary Era, 1956—1967
2) Shane J. Barter, Soka University of America
Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh3) Colm Fox, Singapore Management University
Democracy and Ethnic Campaigning in Indonesia
Discussant: Takeshi Ito, Sophia University
Session 44: Room 204“Neo-Plural Society” from the Perspective of the International Migration in Southeast Asia andthe Arab Gulf States
Organizer: Masaki Matsuo, Utsunomiya University
Chair: Masako Ishii, Rikkyo University
1) Mizanur Rahman, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Recruiting Migrant Labour in the GCC States: Interplay Between Institutions and Networks
2) Masaki Matsuo, Utsunomiya University
Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States3) Naomi Hosoda, Kagawa University and Kyoko Matsukawa, Konan University
Identity and Future Prospects among Second-Generation Asian Youth in the Arab Gulf States
4) Masako Ishii, Rikkyo University
Formal and Informal Protection for Filipino Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States
Discussant: Akiko Watanabe, Bunkyo University

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Session 45: Room 352
Political Landscapes of the Pure Land: Buddhism and Politics in Wartime Japan
Organizer: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Chair: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
1) G. Clinton Godart, Hokkaidō University
Nichirenist Navalism: Ogasawara Naganari, Nichiren Buddhism, and the Imperial Japanese
Navy2) John Person, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFaith in the Ethnos: Shinran and Radical Nationalist Thought in Prewar Japan3) Kunihiko Terasawa, Wartburg College
True Pure Land Buddhism and War Time Teachings and Doctrines (Senji-kyōgaku)
4) Max Ward, Middlebury College
The Politics of Spiritual De-Politicization: Buddhism and the Rehabilitation of Political
Criminals in 1930s Japan
Discussant: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Session 46: Room 351
Religion, the Sciences, and the Mystical: Ideas and Networks in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Asia and Europe
Organizer: Soumen Mukherjee, Presidency University
Chair: Yoshiko Okamoto, International Christian University
1) Ayon Maharaj, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis
and His Call for a “New Science of the Mind”
2) Soumen Mukherjee, Presidency University
Conscious Souls: Philosophy, Spirituality, and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern India
3) Claudia Richter, Leipzig University
Carl Jung and the Struggle Against Cartesian Rationalism: Seeking Support from Asia
4) Sajjad Alam Rizvi, Presidency University
Music, Emotions, and Reform in South Asian Islam: Late Eighteenth and Early NineteenthCenturies
Discussant: Yoshiko Okamoto, International Christian University
Session 47: Room 251
Individual Papers 10: Traditional Japanese and Chinese Literature
Chair: Matthew Strecher, Sophia University
1) Xiaolin Duan, Elon University
Pray and Play: Pilgrimage and Tourism around West Lake in Medieval to Early Modern
China2) Ka Ki Alan Ho, McGill University
Pacifying the Silk Roads: A Study of the Dou Family and Their Governance in Hexi in Early
Eastern Han
3) Ying Huang, Nagoya University
Femininity in Feng Zikai’s and Lin Wenyue’s Translations of The Tale of Genji
4) Scott Mehl, Bard College
Sources of Modern Japanese Poetry: Fukuzawa Yukichi
5) Gouranga Charan Pradhan, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Sensory Narratives as Expression of Spirituality: A Case Study of Hōjōki
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