The Seventeenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Registration will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 29.
Sessions will be held in the building named Meimeikan of J. F. Oberlin University.
Registration: Meimeikan 3rd Floor Lobby
Book Display: A309
After-Session Discussion: A309 and 8th Floor Lounge Area
All rooms are equipped with projector, video, DVD player, and overhead projector.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SATURDAY JUNE 29
9:15 –
Registration
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 1–7
12:00 NOON – 1:15 P.M. Lunch Break
1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Sessions 8–15
3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Sessions 16–23
5:45 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Keynote Address
6:40 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

Reception

SUNDAY JUNE 30
9:15 –
Registration
9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
ASCJ Business Meeting
10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON Sessions 24–29
12:00 NOON – 1:30 P.M. Lunch Break / Film Screening
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Sessions 30–37
3:40 P.M. – 5:50 P.M.
Sessions 38–43
SATURDAY JUNE 29
SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS: 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 NOON
Session 1: Room A304
Risk, Finding Employment, and Border-crossing in Higher Education in Contemporary Japan
Organizer and Chair: Robert Aspinall, Shiga University
1) Robert Aspinall, Shiga University
The Risky Business of ‘Study Abroad’: Individualization, Globalization and Crossing the Japanese
Border in Both Directions
2) William Bradley, Ryukoku University
Japanese Universities at Risk under Multiple Pressures3) Julian Chapple, Ryukoku University“Global Jinzai” as a Policy Driver in Japanese Higher Education
Discussant: Gregory Poole, Doshisha University
Session 2: Room A305
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Organizer and Chair: Naoko Shimazu, Birkbeck College, University of London
1) Naoko Shimazu, Birkbeck College, University of London
Categories of Japan as the Other in East Asian Societies: An Overview
2) Paul Morris, Institute of Education, University of London
The Portrayal of Japan in the School Curriculum of the Philippines and Hong Kong
3) Edward Vickers, Kyushu University
A Totem of Chineseness: Representations of Japan in the Museums of Mainland China, Taiwan andHong Kong
4) Christine Han, University of London
The Role of Japan in Nation Building in Singapore
Discussant: Tomoko Ako, Waseda University

Session 3: Room A505
Gender and Modernity under Japanese Ruling: Adoption or Adaptation?
Organizer: Yunyuan Chen, National Chengchi University
Chair: Peichen Wu, National Chengchi University
1) Lin Yang, National Chengchi University
Love, Women and Nation: Romantic Love Discourse in Korean Yi Kwang-Su’s The Heartless2) Yunping Tu, National Chengchi University
The Adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll House in Taiwan in the Early 1930s
3) Yunyuan Chen, National Chengchi University
Translate “Neo Sensationalism” (Shinkankaku School): Erotic, Grotesque and Nonsense—Liu Na-O’s
Translation Works under the Hierarchy of the Japanese Empire Circle
4) Wanting Wang, National Chengchi University
Modern Girls and the Japanese Fascist Aesthetics: Images of Women in Colonial Taiwan in the
1930s–1940s
Discussant: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Session 4: Room A507
Filial Piety and Impiety in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
Organizer and Chair: Thomas Gaubatz, Columbia University
1) Chi Zhang, Columbia University
Confucian Edutainment? Filial Piety Tales in Early Modern Japan2) Thomas Gaubatz, Columbia University
Recursive Transgressions: Textual Play and Class Norms in Ejima Kiseki’s Impiety Tales
3) Nan Ma Hartmann, Columbia University
Confucius Falls in the Mountain of Love—Filial Piety in Tsuga Teishō’s “The Courtesan of Eguchi”
Discussant: David Atherton, Columbia University
Session 5: Room A508
New Perspectives on State and Society in the Early Years of the PRC
Organizer: Christian Hess, Sophia University
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University (emerita)
1) Aminda Smith, Michigan State University
Contradictions Among the People: Thought Reform and Resistance in 1950s China
2) Jon Howlett, University of YorkThe CCP in Shanghai: Urban Challenges in the Early PRC
3) Tadashi Kono, Gakushuin University
The Rise and Fall of an Advanced Agricultural Cooperative Team in Hebei Province
4) Hajime Osawa, Chubu University
School Education and Social Integration in the 1950s in the People’s Republic of China
Discussant: Christian Hess, Sophia University

Session 6: Room A306

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Individual Papers on Japan Studies
Chair: Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
1) Maren Ehlers, University of North Carolina in Charlotte
Bakumatsu Benevolence: Domain Reforms and Poor Relief in Nineteenth-Century Japan2) André Linnepe, Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Japanese Studies
Governmentality and Confucianism in Early Modern Japan: Yamaga Sokō (1622–1685) on the
Problem of Ritual Self-sacrifice (junshi)
3) Justin Aukema, Sophia University
The Memory of the Great Tokyo Air Raid in the Literature of Saotome Katsumoto
4) Aya Matsushima, New York University
War Films, Japanese Pride, and Selective Memory of World War II
5) Joel Matthews, New York University
The Ex-Colonial Anomaly: Black Markets in 1940s Japan
Session 7: Room A509
Violent Cartographies of Southeast Asia
Organizer and Chair: Alvin Lim, American University of Nigeria
1) Anusorn Unno, Thammasat University
The Enemy Within: The “Red Shirts” and Their Challenge to the Violent Cartography of the Thai
Nation2) Frank Cibulka, Zayed University
Blood on the ‘Pearl of the Oriental Sea’: Enquiry into the Sources of Violence in the Philippines
3) Noah Viernes, University of Hawaii at Hilo“We Have Our Own Art”: Bangkok Aesthetics and the Blood Paint of the UDD
4) Alvin Lim, American University of Nigeria
The Gaze and the Tain: Self and Other in Cambodia
Discussant: David Toohey, Aichi University
LUNCH BREAK 12:00 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:15 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
Session 8: Room A304
Ethnic and Gendered Experiences of Transnational Migration to Japan:
Cases from the Philippines
Organizer: Jocelyn Celero, Waseda University
Chair: Johanna Zulueta, Hitotsubashi University
1) Ron Bridget Vilog, Nagoya University
Exploring Ethnicity-Based Immigration: The Case of Philippine Nikkeijin in Central Japan
2) Jocelyn Celero, Waseda University
Managing Migration, Managing Ethnic Identities: The Case of Filipino Mothers Rearing JapaneseFilipino Children in Japan3) Tricia Okada, Independent researcher
Filipino Transgender Entertainers’ Transitions Before and After Japan
Discussant: Sachi Takahata, University of Shizuoka

Session 9: Room A307
Social Investigation of Japanese Youths in the Fashion, Media, Music Scenes:
1970-Present
Organizer and Chair: Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York1) Masato Kudo, University of Tokyo
The Emergence of Fashion Magazines in Japan

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2) Yusuke Arai, Hitotsubashi University
Changing “Post-graduation” Lifestyle of Shibuya’s Gyaru and Gyaru-o3) Arni Kristjansson, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Japanese Dubstep and Juke: Local Music Scenes and Genres
Discussant: Yuniya Kawamura; Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York

Session 10: Room A308
Disputed Archipelagoes: Sovereignty and Political Authority at the Periphery of Japan
Organizer and Chair: Robert Eskildsen, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Robert Eskildsen, J. F. Oberlin University
Masterless Lands: The Sino-Japanese Conflict over Taiwan and the Meiji Restoration
2) Unryu Suganuma, J. F. Oberlin University
Territorial Disputes on the Japan-China Border: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Liuqiu/Ryukyu Kingdom
3) Ryoko Nakano, National University of Singapore
Sea of Peace or Sea of War? Sino-Japanese Territorial Disputes
Discussant: Bruce Batten, J. F. Oberlin University
Session 11: Room A507
Reassessing Edo Culture
Organizer and Chair: David Gundry, University of California, Davis
1) David Gundry, University of California, DavisCountry and City, Modernist and Modern in the Haibun of Matsuo Bashō and Ihara Saikaku
2) Jens Bartel, Columbia University
Interchangeable (Visual) Parts: A Pair of Landscape Screens by Maruyama Ōkyo in a Private
Collection in New York City
3) Luciana Sanga, Stanford University
The Strange in the Essays of Tadano Makuzu
4) Dennis Zomerhuis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Searching for The Divine Within: Reassessing the Supernatural Character of Princess Fuse
Discussant: William Fleming, Yale University

Session 12: Room A505
Gendered Colonialism: Manchuria, Taiwan and Korea under Japanese Control
Organizer: Mo Tian, Australian National University
Chair: Nissim Otmazgin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1) Mo Tian, Australian National University
Colonial Propaganda, Ideology and Nationalism: The Concordia Society of Manchukuo, 1932–1945
2) Junko Agnew, University of Cincinnati
Manufacturing Reality: Film and Nation in Manchukuo
3) Hsiu-hui Sun, National Chengchi University
From Hedonism to Patriotism: Constructing the Discourse of “Female Beauty” in Taiwan during theLate Japanese Occupation Period4) Suk-Jung Han, Dong-A University
Filmic Representation/Construction of Korean Genders through Colonial Experience
Discussant: Mik-Young Kim, Hiroshima City University

Session 13: Room A508
Decoding and Contextualizing Postwar Abstract Paintings in Asia
Organizer: Lesley Ma, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Kuiyi Shen, University of California, San Diego

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1) Eugenia Bogdanova, Heidelberg University
Theorizing Postwar Abstraction: Connecting Japanese Archaist Calligraphy and European Primitivist
Painting within the Bokujinkai Calligraphy Group2) Lesley Ma, University of California, San Diego
Postwar Abstract Art in Taiwan: Chuang Che’s Collage Paintings, 1964–1966
3) Tina Le, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ta Ty: Early Abstraction in Postcolonial Vietnam
Discussant: Hayashi Michio, Sophia University

Session 14: Room A509
Individual Papers on East Asian History
Chair: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
1) Klaus Dittrich, Korea University
The Competition of Imperial Worldviews in European and American Publications on Korea, 1882–
1910
2) Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College
Maritime Customs and Chinese Imperialism: New Perspectives on Korea’s “Chinese Decade,” 1882–
18943) Wen-shuo Liao, Academia Historica
Chinese Nationalist Propaganda by Shortwave: Radio Broadcasts to the United States (1937–1945)
4) Paul W. Ricketts, University of California, San Diego
Kaleidoscopic Modernisms: Montage Aesthetics in Shanghai and Tokyo Pictorials of the 1920s and1930s5) Clement Tong, University of British Columbia
Separate Ways: How the Translation Approaches for the Chinese Bible and the Japanese Bible Went
Opposite Directions from 1864 to 1919
Session 15: Room A306
Individual Papers on Premodern Japanese Literature and Art
Chair: Lisa Li, J. F. Oberlin University
1) Valeria Martielli, Leiden University
Clothes on Display: Social and Power Dynamics in Early Modern Period tagasode byōbu
2) Matt Bennett, University of Cincinnati
Okiku’s Well: Portal Between Worlds, Site of Resistance3) Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture“Second Orality” as “‘Sharebon’ Literacy”: “Yūshi hōgen” as Playful Reading Experience4) Rachel Kwok, University of British Columbia
Drawing Identity and Inking Character in The Tale of Genji
5) Evelyn Huang, Ohio State University
The Refined Popular: A Study of Dōjōji engi emaki

SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M
Session 16: Room A405
Resistance of Japanese Women to Normative Feminine Bodies
Organizer: Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
Chair: Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Naoko Ikeda, York University
Taking Back and Freeing Our Bodies: Feminist Approach to Eating Disorder and the Politics of the‘Body’-Reclaiming

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2) Satoko Itani, University of Toronto
Discursive Construction of “Masculine” Female Athletes in Japan
3) Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University
Performances of Japanese Women Professional Wrestlers and Gender Transformation
Discussant: Maho Isono, Waseda University

Session 17: Room A305
Religious Resurgences, Conflicts and Co-existence in South Asia
Organizer and Chair: Sali Augustine, Sophia University
1) Jose Panadan, JDV University, Pune
Multiple Religious Identities: Problems and Prospects—an Indian Christian Perspective2) Naonori Kusakabe, Bunkyo Gakuin University
Role of Civil Society in Religious Disputes in Bangladesh
3) Thomas Varkey, Junior College Division, Sophia University
Inter-Religious Dialogue and Co-existence in Multi-Religious India
4) Sali Augustine, Sophia University
Religious Resurgence in the Context of Global Secularity-Cases from Asia
Discussant: Masaaki Fukunaga, Gifu Women’s University
Session 18: Room A304
Going Viral: Infection, Ideology, and Contagious Culture in Japan
Organizer: Michael E. Crandol, University of Minnesota
Chair: Pamela Runestad, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
1) Pamela Runestad, University of Hawai`i at Manoa“Viral Transmissions”: The Impacts of Viral Information on the Japanese HIV Epidemic
2) Ti Ngo, University of California at Berkeley
Imperial Aspirations in the Age of Wilsonian Internationalism: Japan’s South Pacific Mandate and the
New Rhetoric of Overseas Expansion, 1919–1937
3) Sara L. Sumpter, University of Pittsburgh
Symptom as Cure: The Representation of Folk Religion as Elite Practice in Early Medieval
Handscrolls4) Michael E. Crandol, University of Minnesota
Karma and Contagion: Onryō from Noh Drama to J-Horror
Discussant: James C. Baxter, J. F. Oberlin University
Session 19: Room A505
The Confucian Tradition and East Asian Cultural Interaction: Neo-Confucianism,
Colonialism, and Gender
Organizer and Chair: Jenine Heaton, Kansai University
1) Hong Zheng, Kansai University
The Accomplishments of the Confucianist Andō Seian: His Life, Works, and Friendship with Zhu
Shunshui2) Mengxi Ren, Kansai University
Kaibara Ekken’s How to Train Girls: Neo-Confucianism and Gender in the Edo Period
3) Se-Hyon Jeong, Kansai University
The Religious Transformation of Keigakuin: Confucianism and Religion in Modern Korea
4) Yuli Kim, University of Tokyo
Korean Confucianism and the Issue of Abortion
Discussant: Jian Zhao, Tokiwakai Gakuen University

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Session 20: Room A507
Rethinking Nationalism and Socialism: Cultural Politics and Knowledge
Production in Modern East Asian Intellectual Histories
Organizer: Soonyi Lee, New York University
1) Soonyi Lee, New York University“Global Universalism”: Liang Qichao, Zhang Junmai, Zhang Dongsun, and Their Cultural Vision ofa New World after the Great War
2) Wei-chi Chen, New York University
Political Discourse of the Weak and Small Nation in Colonial Taiwan in the 1920s: A Historical
Moment for Anti-colonial Internationalism3) Hsiao-pei Pei, Harvard University
Ethnology, Southwester Frontier Minorities, and Wartime Nationalism in China, 1937–1945
4) Osamu Nakano, New York University
Nationalism, Marxism and the Problem of the Production of Historical Knowledge in Interwar Japan
Discussant: Naoyuki Umemori, Waseda University

Session 21: Room A508
Views on the Newspaper Press in Contemporary Japan: Implications for AsianSocial Science
Organizer and Chair: Anthony S. Rausch, Hirosaki University
1) Sachiyo Kanzaki, University of Montreal
Media Concentration: Tokyo versus Kansai Newspapers
2) Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba
The Evolution of Online News in Japan
3) Shunichi Takekawa, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Newspapers and the Earthquake and Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction in Iwate Prefecture
Discussant: Anthony S. Rausch, Hirosaki University

Session 22: Room A509
Individual Papers on Gender and Popular Culture in Japan
Chair: Chris Brody, International Christian University
1) Shawn De Haven, International Christian University
What’s So Funny About Japanese Women?: An Analysis of Female Comedians
2) Pui Hung Jessica Vale, University of Hong Kong
“Flight Attendant Spirit” and the Making of Femininity: Signs from Flight Attendant Narratives andAdvice Books
3) Kazue Harada, Washington University in St. Louis
Having it Both Ways: Gendering Cyborgs in Ohara Mariko’s Science Fiction4) Kelly Hansen, San Diego State University
Socio-linguistic Notions of Authenticity in Japanese Cell Phone Novels
Session 23: Room A306
Individual Papers on East Asian Diaspora Communities
Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
1) Anthony do Nascimento, University Jean Moulin Lyon3 / Rikkyo University
Attempts to Limit Japanese Immigration in Brazil during the 1920s and the 1930s: On the Possible
Existence of a “Yellow Peril” in Brazil
2) Lee Wai-Shing, Lingnan Institute of Further Education
Assimilation or Not? The Role of Overseas Chinese Schools in Japan (2000–2010)
3) Yee Lam Elim Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
From Tension to Harmony: The Role of Overseas Chinese Women in Inter-ethnic Cooperation within
an Ethnic Community of Yokohama Chinatown in Japan (1992–2012)
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4) Jie Zhang, Waseda University
The Perceived Discrimination and Social Exclusion of Chinese Immigrants in Japan
5) Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Rissho University
What Can I Call You? Naming Strategies amongst Foreigners in JapanKEYNOTE ADDRESSAsian Studies across Academies
THONGCHAI WINICHAKUL
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
President, Association for Asian Studies
6:10 P.M. – 6:55 P.M.
Meimeikan Room A408

RECEPTION: 7:00 P.M. – 8:40 P.M.
Meimeikan First Floor Lounge

SUNDAY JUNE 30
BUSINESS MEETING 9:30 A.M. – 9:50 A.M.
Meimeikan Room A304
SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 A.M.

Session 24: Room A307
Practicing Fantasy in Boys’ Love Fandom: History, Gender, New Media, andPostcolonial Nostalgia
Organizer: Rae Jui-an Chao, Duke University
1) Patrick Galbraith, Duke University
Beyond Genre/Gender Conventions: Girls, Men and the Bishōjo Form
2) Keiko Nishimura, Sophia University
Performativity and Desire among Yaoi Fans on Twitter3) Wei-jung Chang, Ochanomizu University
Taiwanese Fujoshi’s Fantasy of Japan: A Case Study of Butler Cafés4) Rae Jui-an Chao, Duke University
Desires in Crossing: Queering Boys’ Love
Discussant: Polly Stannard, Ochanomizu University

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Session 25: Room A308
Bundan Snark
Organizer: Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa
Chair: Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa
1) Alejandro Morales Rama, Sophia University
Partners in Need: Personal Relationships as a Survival Method in the Late Meiji Bundan
2) Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
Personal Politics of Interwar Modernism: Fights Between Kawabata Yasunari and Ryūtanji Yū3) Koji Toba, Waseda University
How the “Truth” Is Sponsored: Koyama Itoko and the Controversy over Dam Site
4) Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa
Trenchant Warfare: Yasuoka Shōtarō and Furuyama Komao Write World War II
Discussant: James Dorsey, Dartmouth College

Session 26: Room A505
Resilience after 3/11 – An Evaluation of Post-disaster Recovery
Organizer and Chair: Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
1) Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University
The Role of Social Capital in Resilience
2) Yasuyuki Sawada, University of Tokyo
Livelihood Recovery and Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake3) Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
The Impact of Trust on Socio-psychological Wellbeing after 3/11
4) David H. Slater, Sophia University
Tohoku Voices: Video Oral Narratives of Recovery
Discussant: Kyle Cleveland, Temple University

Session 27: Room A507
Education as National Forming Scheme in Manchukuo
Organizer and Chair: Masakazu Matsuoka, Tokyo University of Arts
1) Ulrich Flick, Heidelberg University
From Regional History to ‘National’ History – Japanese Colonial Policies Seen in History Textbooks
in Manchuria2) Jiaru Sun, Waseda University
Forming Nationals through Boy Scout Activities in Manchukuo, 1932–1938
3) Issei Yamamoto, Waseda University
Schemes of Forming National Identities through Education in Japanese-occupied Northern China
4) Masakazu Matsuoka, Tokyo University of Arts
From Manchuria to Malaya: Scheme and Boundary of Forming Imperial Citizens in MulticulturalSituations
Discussant: Andrew Hall, Kyushu University

Session 28: Room A304
Individual Papers on East Asia
Chair: M. William Steele, International Christian University
1) Bart Gaens, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
From “Pan-Europa” to “the Beautiful Country”: Coudenhove-Kalergi and Japan
2) Oleg Benesch, University of York
Examining the Martial Country: The Influence of Bushidō and the Samurai on Chinese Views ofModern Japan
3) Karol Zakowski, Keio University
Broken Ties? Japan’s Parliamentary Diplomacy towards China under the DPJ Government

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4) Satoshi Machida, University of Nebraska at Kearney
The Potential Revision of the Japanese Constitution and Security Dilemma in East Asia
5) Asger Rojle Christensen, Danish Broadcasting Corporation / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Japan: Abducted by the Abduction Issue

Session 29: Room A509
Individual Papers on Colonial and Interwar Japan
Chair: Koichiro Matsuda, Rikkyo University
1) Christopher J. Frey, Bowling Green State University
Anglo-American Roots of Japan’s Colonial Education Policies
2) Kenta Nakaima, Kyushu University
Situating Ethnic Religion in the Field of Politics: Iha Fuyu and the Imperial System
3) Judit Erika Magyar, Waseda University
Constructing a Nation: Shiratori Kurakichi and Mizuno Hironori on National Polity
4) Hirokazu Yoshie, Harvard University
Writing Un-professionalism out of Primary School: The Mystery of the Pedagogical Debate on the
Subject Composition and Imperial Ideology (or, Lack Thereof) between 1905 and 1925
5) Aingeru Aroz-Rafael, University of Tokyo
The Three Dimensions of the Concept of Language Field (bamen) in the Early Work of Tokieda Motoki(1937–1941)

LUNCH BREAK 12:00 NOON – 1:30 P.M.
Film Screening: Ana Botol in West Timor: Life in the City and Village,a documentary by anthropologist Yoshinari Morita
Chair: Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Meimeikan Room A306
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M
Session 30: Room A306
Film Screening: ManDove, a documentary film about perkutut (singing dove) competitions in Java
by Jim de Sève and Kian Tjong
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, J. F. Oberlin University
Session 31: Room A507
Corporeal Regimes: The Body in Visual Culture and Literature in Korea, Japan,
and Taiwan
Organizer and Chair: Ta-we Chi, National Chengchi University
1) Earl Jackson Jr., National Chiao Tung University
Dolls, Dreams, and Drives: Sexual Subjectivity in the Films of Kim Kyung-Mook
2) Jonathan M. Hall, Pomona College
On Nudity, Somewhere
3) Ta-wei Chi, National Chengchi University
The Modern Turn: The Non-heterosexual, the Non-able-bodied, and 1960s Taiwan Fiction4) Chih-chi Weng, National Chengchi University
The Comic Body: Another Native Literature in 1980s Taiwan
Discussant: Hana Washitani, Waseda University

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Session 32: Room A508
Local Mediations: De-Centering Nation in Postwar Japan
Organizer: Michael P. Cronin, College of William and Mary/Ritsumeikan University
Chair: Ken Yoshida, University of California, Merced1) Ji Hee Jung, Tokyo University
A Network of the Local: The Culture of Collective Radio-Listening in Early Postwar Japan
2) Michael P. Cronin, The College of William and Mary/Ritsumeikan University
Embodying the Local: Morishige Hisaya and the Osaka Man in Postwar Film
3) Ken Yoshida, University of California, Merced
Against Contingency: Konno Ben and Reality in the Age of Television
4) Tomoyuki Sasaki, Eastern Michigan University
Localizing the Threat: Hokkaido and Cold-War Security
Discussant: Megumi Kitahara, Osaka University
Session 33: Room A307
Transnational Media (Re)presentation and Consumerism from the Period of Interwar
Japan to Post-3.11
Organizer: Eliko Kosaka, Hosei University
1) Shiho Maeshima, Hosei University
Consumerism, the Housewife, and the Modern Girl: Consequences of Interwar Cosmopolitanism inJapanese Popular Magazine Advertisements2) Edward K. Chan, Aichi University
Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Hollywood Directors Making Japanese Films
3) Eliko Kosaka, Hosei University
A Traveling Asian American Narrative: Reiterating Japanese American Pacific War Memory in
Yamazaki Toyoko’s Futatsu no Sokoku
4) CJ (Shige) Suzuki, Baruch College, City University of New York
Towards A New Solidarity: Post-3/11 Comics in Multimedia Platforms
Discussant: Akiko Mizoguchi, Hosei University
Session 34: Room A509
Kabuki and History: Reconsiderations and New Considerations of Jidaimono
Organizer and Chair: Katherine Saltzman-Li, University of California at Santa Barbara
1) Satoko Shimazaki, University of Southern California
Presenting the Past: Edo Kabuki and Historical Contemporaneity2) Alan Cummings, SOAS, University of London
History and Time in Meiji Jidaimono
3) Katherine Saltzman-Li, University of California at Santa Barbara
Temporal-Social Settings for Kabuki Play Genres
Discussant: TBA

Session 35: Room A505
Was Language Really Power? Examining Early Modern Multilingual Communication in Crosscultural Relations with the Japanese
Organizer and Chair: Birgit Tremml; University of Vienna
1) Andrés Pérez Riobó, Ritsumeikan University
Communication Issues of the Harada Missions to Luzón
2) Susumu Akune, Kyoto University
Communication and the Jesuits’ Successful Mission in Seventeenth-century Vietnam
3) Birgit Tremml, University of Vienna
The Critical Role of Japanese in Southeast Asian Port Cities, 1580–1640
Discussant: Prof. Nariko Sugaya, Ehime University

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Session 36: Room A304
Individual Papers on Japanese Society
Chair: Gavin Whitelaw, International Christian University
1) Stephanie Assmann, Akita University
Food Heritage and Tourism: Revitalization Efforts in Tohoku
2) Steven Fedorowicz, Kansai Gaidai University, Asian Studies Program
Visualizing the Deaf in Contemporary Japan
3) Sookyung Park, Waseda University
Care Professions as Emotional Labor in Japan
4) Hiromi Saito, Sophia University, Graduate School of Global Studies
Kyohei Sakaguchi and the Corporeality of the Everyday: City, Art,Home-less, and Home
5) Keiichi Satoh, Hitotsubashi University, and Reeya Komoda, Hitotsubashi University
Organizational Background of the Explosion of the Social Movement after the Fukushima Accident: A
New Phase of Japanese Civil Society?

Session 37: Room A405
Individual Papers on Political Identity in Contemporary Asia
Chair: Curtis Gayle, Japan Women’s University
1) Wenchuan Huang, National Dong Hwa University
The Politics of Space about Street Naming in Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City
2) Marie-Eve Reny, University of Chicago
Pushing the System’s Boundaries with Caution: “Compliant Defiance” in Chinese Society3) Jin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local Language in Twentieth-century China
4) Yu Liu, City University of Hong Kong
Between the West and the Far East: The Importance of Harmonious Agreement
5) Tynyshtyk Mailibayeva, Hitotsubashi University
Inter-ethnic Interactions in Kazakhstan: Dialogue or Monologue?
SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:40 P.M. - 5:40 P.M
Session 38: Room A507
Critical Approaches to the Japanese Roleplaying Game
Organizer and Chair: Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
1) Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Wako University
JRPG and Transnationality in Videogame Genres
2) Michael Craig, University of California, Berkeley
Into the Depthless Depths: Immobile 3D and Aestheticized Agency in Late-90s JRPGs
3) Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware
Player-character Identification in the JRPG: Single and Multiple Selves in Final Fantasy X
Discussant: Douglas Schules, Rikkyo University

Session 39: Room A508
Performing Modern Bodies in the National: The East Asian Context
Organizer and Chair: Hyunjung Lee, Nanyang Technological University
1) Hyunjung Lee, Nanyang Technological University
Choreographing Nationalism in the Global Context: The Paradox of Korean Ballet in Prince Hodong
2) Ken Takiguchi, National University of Singapore
Ugly Bodies for Overcoming Modernity: Angura Theatre and “Privileged Bodies”

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3) Yukie Hirata, Dokkyo University“Our” Enemy in Post-colonial and Post-Cold War Era: Representation of North Korea in Japanese
Popular Culture
Discussant: Sang Mi Park, University of Tokyo

Session 40: Room A307
3/11 and the Atomic Age: Memory and Power from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Organizer: Vivian Shaw, University of Texas at Austin
Chair: Ran Zwigenberg, Graduate Center, City University of New York
1) Ran Zwigenberg, Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Magic Hand”: Atoms for Peace Exhibitions in Hiroshima: 1956–1958
2) Vivian Shaw, University of Texas at Austin
Trauma as ‘Post-Race’: Material Witnesses and the Politics of Nuclear Trauma in Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum
3) Ryo Morimoto, Brandeis University
The Second Sun, or New-and-Clear Memories after 3/11
4) Paul Jobin, University of Paris Diderot
The Challenge on “Safe Levels” after Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Discussant: Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma
Session 41: Room A505
The Antinomies of Asianism in Capitalist Modernity
Organizer and Chair: Max Ward, Middlebury College
1) Ethan Mark, University of Leiden
Anti-colonial Fascism: Japan, Asianism, and the Making of the Indonesian Army
2) Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Asianism and the Problem of Third World Nationalism: Ishimoda Shō’s History and the Discovery of
Nationality
3) Christian Uhl, University of Ghent
Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité: Ōkawa Shūmei’s Asia, and the Romanticization of the Ideals of theFrench Revolution
Discussant: Max Ward, Middlebury College
Session 42: Room A304
Individual Papers on Politics and Identity in Cold War Japan
Chair: John Dorsey, Rikkyo University
1) Sherzod Muminov, University of Cambridge and Amy King, University of Oxford
Dealing with the ‘Enemy’: Overseas Japanese in the Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China in
the Wake of the Second World War
2) Hiroyuki Inazawa, Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Policy Science
Three Principles on Arms Exports and Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls(COCOM)
3) Masami Kimura, University of Arizona
Japanese and American Public Intellectuals and Opposition to the US-Japan Cold War Alliance in the
Late Occupation Period
4) Chris Winkler, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Making Voters Happy? The LDP’s Election Platforms and Public Opinion

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Session 43: Room A305
Individual Papers on Japanese and Chinese Religion
Chair: Linda Grove, Sophia University
1) Nanlai Cao, University of Hong Kong
Making a Patriarchal Religious Diaspora: The Chinese Christian Presence in Secular France2) Daniel Friedrich, McMaster University
Beyond the Grave: Localized Adaptations of Contemporary Temple Buddhism
3) Carolyn Pang, Columbia University
Restructuring Buddhism for a Modern Society4) Hidehiko Kurita, Tohoku University / Harvard-Yenching Institute
The Historical Conditions of the Japanese Mind-cure Movement in the Early 20th Century5) Yu Yin Hsu, National University of Singapore
The Religious Network of Fujian Overseas Chinese in Nagasaki during the 17th Century

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