PROGRAM
FIFTH ANNUAL ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN
June 23-24, 2001
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOONSession 1: Room 207
Hidden Religiosity
Chair / Organizer: Leila Madge, Nanzan University
1) Robert Kisala, Nanzan University. "What to Make of Japanese Non-religiosity"2) Clark Chilson, Nanzan University. "Barricaded Buddhist: Secretive Shinshu in JapanToday"3) Leila Madge, “The Women's Friendship Society: Christian Ethics and the Creation of
the Modern Domestic Sphere"
Discussant: Mark Mullins, Meiji Gakuin University
Session 2: Room 201
Four Seasons in China – A Socio-Economic Study
Chair / Organizer: Yasutomi Ayumu, University of Tokyo
1) Fukao Yoko, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. “Shangdong Seasonal MigrantWorkers into Manchuria”
2) Yasutomi Ayumu, University of Tokyo. “Rural Market System in Manchuria”
3) Shiroyama Tomoko, Hokkaido University. “Seasonal Fluctuations of the Prewar
Shanghai Financial Market: A Study of Urban-Rural Economic Integration
4) Kuroda Akinobu, University of Tokyo. “Money in A Peasant Economy”
Discussant: Parks M. Coble, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Session 3: Room 208
Under Reconstruction: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Postwar JapanChair / Organizer: Christopher Scott, Stanford University
1) Mark Gibeau, Sapporo University. “The Border Within: Destruction of the Nation/al inAbe Kobo’s Kemonotachi wa furusato o mezasu”
2) Christopher Scott, Stanford University. “Between Korea and Japan: Kim Soek-pom andthe Limits of Postwar Japanese Literature”
3) David Gundry, Stanford University. “Identity Crisis: Anpo in the Memoirs of Kishi
Nobusuke”
4) Kathleen Geisse, Stanford University. “Gender Crossing: Rescription of Sex Roles inthe Literature of Mori Mari”
Discussant: Atsuko Ueda, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session 4: Session 301
The Japanese in America: 1904-1945: Accommodation, Adjustment, Exclusion andInternment
Chair / Organizer: Carole Schroeder, Boise State University
1) Carole Schroeder, Boise State University. "A Snapshot in Time: Japanese Reactions tothe 1906 San Francisco Board of Education Segregation Order"
2) Ikuko Torimoto, St. Norbert College. "Mr. Kyuin Okina's Description of Everyday Lifein a Japanese-American Community in California at the Turn of the Century"3) Nancy Bartlit, University of New Mexico. "World War II: A Japanese Internment Campin Santa Fe while New Mexico National Guardsmen Were Imprisoned in the Philippinesand Japan Labor Camps"
Discussant: Tom Conner, St. Norbert CollegeSession 5: Room 307
Individual Paper Session: Security and Conflict in Contemporary Asia
Chair: to be announced
1) Chien-peng Chung, Nanyang Technological University. "‘Hedging’on Peace andProsperity: Southeast Asia's Relations with China, Japan, and the United States”
2) Robert Eldridge, Research Institute for Peace and Security. "Shimagurumi Toso: Islandwide Protests and the Okinawa Problem of the 1950s"
3) James J. Orr, Bucknell University. “Yasui Kaoru, Juche, and the Integration of Science,Faith, and Politics”
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Session 6: Room 207
Japan-Philippine Relations: Official Development Assistance (ODA) and AlternativePractices
Co-chairs /Organizers: Temario C. Rivera, International Christian University, and YoshikoNagano, Kanagawa University
1) Temario Rivera, International Christian University. “The Political Economy of Aid:
Japanese ODA in the Philippines, 1971-1999”
2) Yoshiki Seki, Waseda University. “Political Ecology of the Philippine Reforestation
Program: ODA, Government and Community”
3) Yoshiko Nagano, Kanagawa University. “Beyond the ODA/NGO Dichotomy: JapaneseNGOs and the Resurgence of Communities in Negros Province, Philippines”
Discussant: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ibaraki University
Session 7: Room 208
Healthy Childbirth, Activism, and Athletic Bodies: Institutionalizing 'Woman' inModern Japan
Chair/Organizer: Hikari Hori, Gakushuin University
1) Aya Homei, The University of Manchester. “Entrepreneurs of Childbirth: Midwives andNationalism in Early Twentieth Century Japan”
2) Hikari Hori, Gakushuin University. “Feminist Discourse, Women’s Activism and Film:
Yamataka Shigeri (1899-1977) and the Institutionalization of ‘Women’ in Japan from the
1920s through the 1950s”
3) Naoko Kuwata, The University of Manchester. “Sports Culture and Female Identities inJapan and Britain, 1918-39”
Discussant: Hyeshin Kim, Gakushuin University
Session 8: Room 201
Using Schools to Make Chinese Villages Modern: Contending Twentieth Century
Visions
Chair: Sau-chu Alison Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organizers: Joel Andreas, Tsinghua University, and Xiaoping Cong, University of California,Los Angeles1) Elizabeth Vander Ven, University of California, Los Angeles. “EducationalTransformation During the Late Qing and Early Republic: The Case of Sishu (TraditionalSchools) in Haicheng County, Fengtian Province”
2) Xiaoping Cong, University of California, Los Angeles. “Using Schools to Reconstructthe Rural Community: The Social Program of the Xiaozhuang Village Teachers School,1927-1930”
3) Dongping Han, Warren Wilson College. “The Impact of Cultural Revolution Educational
Reforms on Rural Development: The Cases of Jimo and Nanle Counties”
4) Joel Andres, Tsinghua University, “Leveling and Rebuilding the Educational Hierarchy in
China: The Experience at the Bottom”
Discussant: Sau-chu Alison Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 9: Room 301
Diplomacy, War and Public Opinion: Japanese-German Relations 1895-1945
Chair / Organizer: Christian Spang, International Christian University
1) Rolf-Harald Wippich, Sophia University. “Militant Nationalism and Japan-Enthusiasm inWilhelmine Germany: The Case of the Sino-Japanese War 1894-95”
2) Sven Saaler, German Institute of Japanese Studies. “The ‘German Peril’: German POWsin Siberia 1917-18”
3) Gerhard Schepers, International Christian University. “Exoticism in German Literatureon Japan”
4) Christian Spang, International Christian University. “German Academics as Part-Time
Diplomats: Biographical Notes on Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Hack, Prof. Dr. Karl Haushofer
and Dr. Hermann von Raumer.
Discussant: Nobuo Tajima, Seijo University
Session 10: Room 307
Individual Paper Session: Japanese Thought and Religion
Chair: to be announced
1) Erin McCarthy, St. Lawrence University. “Buddhist and Confucian Ideals in the Ethics ofWatsuji Tetsuro”
2) Ranjana Mukhopadhyana, University of Tokyo. “Social Action and Soteriology: Their
Relationship in the Case of Nichiren Buddhist Groups in Japan”
3) Noboru Tomonari, University of Chicago. “On One’s Own: The Autobiographies ofRural Entrepreneurs in Late Tokugawa Japan”
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M
Session 11: Room 201
Japanese Colonial History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Perspectives
from Asia
Chair / Organizer: Kobayashi, Hideo, Waseda University
1) Kobayashi Hideo, Waseda University. “Colonial Regimes and the Modern Period,
1895-1990: Postwar Legacies from the Prewar Period”
2) Lin, Man-houng, Academica Sinica. “Taiwanese Merchants, Overseas Chinese
Merchants, and the Japanese Government: Economic Activities Between Taiwan andJapan, 1895-1945”
3) Okabe Makio, Independent Scholar. “Going Abroad: Emigration to Asia in Modern
Japan, 1868-1945: Its Policy and Thought”
Discussant: Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Session 12: Room 207

Japan’s Higher Education: Entering the New Millennium
Chairs: Brian McVeigh, Toyo Gakuin University, and Harumi Befu, Stanford University/
National Museum of Ethnology (Sponsored the Japan Anthropology Network)
1) Harumi Befu, Stanford University/National Museum of Ethnology. “AcademicGovernance at a Japanese University”
2) Earl Kinmonth, TaishoUniversity. “From Selection to Seduction: The Impact ofDemographic Change on Private Higher Education in Japan”
3) Takami Kuwayama, Soka University. “Why Japanese Universities are Unproductive: AJapanese Anthropologist’s Account”
4) Jane M. Bachnik, National Institute of Multimedia Education. “The Challenge of‘Revolutionizing’ the Status Quo: The IT Revolution in Japanese Higher Education”
5) Brian McVeigh, Toyo Gakuin University. “Resisting Rules, Regulations, andRegimentation: Japanese University Life as a Counter Disciplining Period”
Session 13: Room 301
Challenges to the State: Globalization and the Changing Security Environment of Asia
Chair: Soma Masaru, Sankei Shinbun
Organizer: Joel R. Campbell, Miyazaki International College
1) Anthony C. Torbert, Kobe Gakuin University. “Coming in from the Cold? What
Rapprochement with North Korea could mean for Japan and East Asia”
2) Mohammed Alam, Miyazaki International College. “The New Nuclear Policy of India:
Past History and Future Directions”
3) Greg Chaikin, Shimonoseki University. “Piracy and the Maritime Regimes of East Asia:
A Role for Japan?”4) Mika Mervio, Shimane University. “The Opportunity of the Commons: EnvironmentalSecurity and Japanese Foreign Policy”
Discussant: Joel R. Campbell, Miyazaki International CollegeSession 14: Room 208
Individual Paper Session: Discourses on Sexuality and Gender in China and Japan
Chair: to be announced
1) Farrer, James, Sophia University. “The Male Discourse of Extramarital Affairs inShanghai”
2) Yinghong Li, Obirin University. “Shanghai Re-Narrativised: Weihui's Blank Fiction andthe Commodification of Desire”
3) Noriko Tsunoda Reider, Miami University of Ohio. “Transformation of the Oni: Fromthe Frightening and Diabolic to the Cute and Sexy”
4) Peichen Wu, University of Tsukuba. “Lesbianism among the Members of the JapaneseBluestocking Society around 1911 -- Gender Performance in Heterosexuality andHomosexuality”
Session 15: Room 207
Individual Paper Session: Art, Architecture and Identity
Chair: to be announced
1) Aaron Cohen, Reitaku University. “A Pictorial Tour of Japanese Settlements in Chinese
Treaty Ports”
2) Hong Kal, State University of New York at Binghamton. “Museum Battle: JapaneseColonial Legacies and the Postcolonial Identity in Korea”
3) Abidin Kusno, New York University. “Mosque Battle: Architecture and Identity inIndonesia”
4) Patricia Karetzky, Bard College. “The Buddhas of the Past and Future at the Northern
Wei Caves in Qingzhou, Eastern Gansu, China
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 5:55 P.M. – 6:40 P.M.
Professor Charles Keyes, President AAS
Main Lecture Hall
"Asia There, Asia Here: Whose Traditions Do We Study?"
RECEPTION 6:45 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
First Floor Dining Room

Sunday, June 24
SUNDAY MORNING BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M.-9:50 A.M.
Main Lecture HallSUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.
Session 16: Room 201
Religious Networks and Social Change in Late Qing and Modern China
Chair/Organizer: Thomas DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles
1) Li Li, Salem State College. “Making Christianity Chinese – the Chinese Christian ThreeSelf Movement in the Twentieth Century”
2) Cecily McCaffrey, University of California, San Diego. “Sects, Violence, and Ethnicity:
The Revolt in Rehe, 1891”
3) Thomas DuBois, University of California, Los Angeles. “City Sectarians and Country
Sectarians: The Li Sect in Tianjing and Cangzhou”
Discussant: Ichiko Shiga, Tokyo Seitoku University
Session 17: Room 301
Revisiting the Right: Radicalism and Conservatism within Interwar Japan's RightWing Leadership
Chair / Organizer: Roger Brown, University of Southern California
1) Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Takushoku University. “Mitsukawa Kametaro andKanokogi Kazunobu or the Conservatism of Japan’s Radical Right-wingers”
2) Roger Brown, University of Southern California. “Yasuoka Masahiro and Moral
Restoration”
3) Jeff E. Long, Oklahoma State University. “Conservatism and Radicalism in Hayashi
Fusao’s Tenko”
4) Stefano von Loe, Harvard University. “Nakano Seigo”
Discussant: Gordon M. Berger, University of Southern California
Session 18: Room 208
Post Cold War Developments in East Asia and U.S. - Japan Relations
Chair: Takasugi Tada'aki, Shobi University
1) Yasuyo Sakata, Kanda University of International Studies. “Korean Peninsula and East

Asian Security: Inter-Korean Relations and Their Implications”
2) Masato Kimura, Harvard University. “The Future Role of US-Japan Economic Relations
in East Asia”
3) Na’oki Ono, Musashi Institute of Technology. “The United States Post Cold War Foreign
Policy and its Implications for US-Japan Relations”
Discussant: Takasugi Tada'aki, Shobi University
Session 19: Room 307
Individual Paper Session: Japan: Society, Culture, ImageChair: to be announced
1) Hara, Mariko, Keio University. “The ‘Japanese Spirit’ as Portrayed in Japanese WartimeNewsreels”
2) Matthew Strecher, Toyo University. “The Earth Quakes Underground: Reporting theHanshin Earthquake and the Sarin Gas Incident”
3) Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University. “Morimura Yasumasa: ‘Portrait of the Artist as Art
History’ and the Question of Mimicry”
4) Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto. “Traffic of Languages: Positions of Sinophiles inEarly Modern to Contemporary Japan”
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M
Session 20: Room 201
The ‘Staging of Literature’: Literary Form, the Book and the Material History ofReading in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Chair / Organizer: Jamie Newhard, Columbia University / University of Tokyo
1) Jonathan Zwicker, Columbia University / University of Tokyo. “Boredom, Tears, and thePleasures of Reading in Nineteenth Century”
2) Jamie Newhard, Columbia University / University of Tokyo “Movements Towards
thMargins: Ise Monogatari Commentaries in 17 Century Japan”
3) Michael Scanlon, Columbia University / Osaka University. “Reading the Unread: The
Konjaku monogatari-shu in Medieval Japan”
Discussant: Steven Zwicker, Washington University
Session 21: Room 207Colonialism, Power, and Ideology in the Philippines
Chair/ Organizer: Julian Go, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1) Patricio Abinales, Kyoto University. “Constructing Official Nationalism”
2) Judy Celine Ick, University of the Philippines. “Shakespeare in the Boondocks: Julius
Caesar and the Logic of American Colonialism in the Philippines”
3) Julian Go, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Domesticating Governance:
Filipino Elite Political Ideology during Late Spanish Rule”
4) Takefumi Terada, Sophia University. “Japan’s Policy to Christian Churches in thePhilippines during WWII”
Discussant: Reynaldo Ileto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Session 22: Room 208
China Faces Globalization: The Middle Kingdom Reaches a Turning Point at the Dawnof the 21st Century

Chair: Sone, Yasuo, Nomura Research Institute
Organizer: Zha, Daojiong, International University of Japan
1) Keum, Hieyeon, University of Seoul. “From Outsider to Insider: China’s Strategy inthe Globalization Era”
2) Hashida, Tan, Tokyo International University. “The Little Dragon Flies: The Emergenceof a Private Economy in China”
3) Sone, Yasuo. "China's WTO Entry: Implications for Japan"?
4) Zha, Daojiong, International University of Japan. “End-run Around the State:
Prefectures and Provinces in the Globalization of Sino-Japanese Relations”
Discussant: Igor Saveliev, Niigata University
Session 23: Room 307
Individual Paper Session: Development and Globalization
Chair: to be announced
1) Tae-Gyun Park, Seoul National University. "Same Destination, Different Roads:
Economic Discourses in the 1950s in South Korea"
2) Aka Firowz Ahmad, University of Dhaka. “Globalization and Women’s Rights in Rural
Bangladesh: A Study of NGO Micro-credit Programs
3) Hiroki Takeuchi, University of California, Los Angeles. "Winners and Losers in theAgreement on China's Accession to the WTO"
4) Takao Kamibeppu, University of Maryland. "History of Japanese Education Aid toDeveloping Countries, 1950s-1990s: The Role of Subgovernmental Processes"