ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN
Fourth Asian Studies Conference Japan was held on

June 24th & 25th 2000
thank you to everyone who attended
Keynote speech: Susan Mann, past president Association of Asian Scholars,"Engendering the Histories of Asian Civilizations"
Honored guest: Ono Kazuko, AAS Distinguished Service Award winner

I. SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 NOON
1. Immigration Policy Towards East Asians in the United States and theRussian Far East: A Comparative Perspective
Chair: Yasuo Sakata, Osaka Gakuin University1) Yasuo Sakata, Osaka Gakuin University. "Conflicting Attitudes Toward
Overseas Migration of Japanese Laborers during the Meiji Period"2) Toshihiro Minohara, Kobe University. "Japanese Exclusion and Domestic
Politics: A Reevaluation of the Enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924"
3) Igor R. Saveliev, Niigata University. "Russia's Regional Policy Towards East
Asian Immigrants 1860-1916"
Discussant: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University top
2. Frightening Women: Women's Agency and the Production of Fear in
Twentieth Century Japan
Chair: Michael Dylan Foster, Stanford University / Kanagawa University
1) Michiko Suzuki, University of Tokyo. "Modernity's Monstrous Bildung:Naomi's Education in Chijin no ai"

2) David N. Averbach, University of California, Berkeley. "Blind Fear:
Unsightedness and Unsigntliness in Edogawa Rampo's Moju"
3) Takashi Lep Ariga, Kanagawa University. "Teasing Societies: Male Rhetorical
Strategies in Response to Female Activism"4) Michael Dylan Foster, Stanford University / Kanagawa University. "'Am I
Pretty?' Rumors, Fear and the Legend of Kuchi-sake-onna"
Discussant: Gretchen I. Jones, University of Maryland. top
3. Engaged in Religion in Modern Japan
Chairs: Stephen Covell, Princeton University and Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya,University of Tokyo
1) Betsy Dorn, University of Hawai'i. "Christianity, Patriotism, and Reform: ALook at the Japan Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period"2) Inaba Keishin, University of Tokyo / London University. "Altruism andCharitable Activities of New Religions in Japan: Theoretical Perspectives"
3) Ranjana Mukhopadhy, University of Tokyo. "The Social Activities of Rissho
Kosei kai"4) Stephen Covell, Princeton University. "Lighting Up Tendai"
Discussant: Shimazono Susumu, University of Tokyo top
4. Redefining Korean Histories and Identities: Academic, Literary, andMedia Considerations
Chair: C. Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne/Institute forInternational Studies, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University. "The 'New Korean Woman': Japanese andKorean Images of Liberation"2) Kristine Dennehy, The University of California at Los Angeles. "Postwar
Resident Korean Historical Narratives"
3) C. Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne/Institute forInternational Studies, Meiji Gakuin University. "Kim Sok Pong's Karasu no Shi:History, Identity and Subjectivity"
Discussant: Barbara Brooks, City College, City University of New York top

5. Individual Paper Session: Trans-national Economic Trends in theAsia-Pacific Region
Chair: Junji Shiba, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University
1) No show without announcing: Neyede Sati Ishioka, University of Tsukuba.
"Japan's Role in the International Political Economy after the Cold War: A Case
Study of ODA to Latin America"2) Aida Marcia Lissa, University of Tsukuba. "Industrial Restructuring andRegional Division of Labor: Japanese Electronics production Networks inSoutheast Asia"
3) No show without announcing: Mauricio Lorence, Sacred Heart University(USA). "The Japanese Immigration to Brazil and its Contributions toAgribusiness in Brazil"
4) Yasuba Yasukichi, Osaka Gakuin University. "Assessing the Economic
Growth of the Asian NIEs, 1966-1997"5) No show without announcing: Byung-ok Kil and Richard Robyn, Kent
State University. "Lessons of European Integration for the Asia-Pacific
Economic Area: A Leadership Role of Japan" top
II. SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
6. Problems in Introducing Educational Reform and Democratic Contentand Practices during the Allied Occupation of Japan
Chair: Harry Wray, Nanzan University
1) Harry Wray, Nanzan University. "Teacher Education Reform During theAllied Occupation of Japan"
2) Gary Tsuchimochi. "A Study on the Introduction of 'General Education' in
Postwar Japanese Universities"
3) Reiko Yamamoto, Meisei University. "Educational Purge Policy During theAllied Occupation"4) Fumiyo Nakagawa, Miyagawa Junior High School. "Teacher Education
Reform During the Allied Occupation of Japan"
Discussant: Toshio Nishi, Reitaku University. top

7. The Politics and Art of Religious Persuasion in Medieval and Early
Modern Japan
Chair: Lorinda Kiyama, Nagoya University
1) Ive Aaslid, Stanford University. "Visual Memory and Salvation in the 48Scroll Honen Shonin Eden"
2) Kevin Gray Carr, Kyushu University / Princeton University. "Who is Saved
by Shotoku?"
3) Lisa Grumbach, Stanford University. "Visions of Amida: Scenes and Storiesof Popular Faith in Amida Buddha Depicted in the Oema of Zenkoji"
4) Lorinda Kiyama, Nagoya University. "Performing Hell in Medieval Japan"
Discussant: Michael Jamentz, Ritsumeikan University top
8. Roundtable: Doing Social Sciences Research in Japan, Organized bythe Japan Sociologists Network
Chair: Hiroshi Ishida, Tokyo University
1) Robert S. Yoder, Chuo University. "Doing Field Work in Japan: Gaining an
Insight into Youth Crime"2) Aya Ezawa, University of Illinois. "Researching Lives on the Margin inContemporary Japan: Notes from the Field" top
9. From Siberian Expedition to Manchurian Crisis: Political andEconomic Interactions between Russia, Japan, and China
Chair: Yasutomi Ayumu, University of Tokyo
1) Tanaka Reiko, University of Cambridge. "The Japanese Intervention inSiberia and the 'Manmo Mondai (Manchurian-Mongolian Problem)'"
2) Yasutomi Ayumu, University of Tokyo. "The Siberian Expedition and theManchurian Bubble Economy"3) Elisabeth Koll, Case Western Reserve University. "The Manchurian Marketand its Impact on the Textile Industry in Northern Jiangsu"
Discussant: Kubo Toru, Shinshu University top

10. Individual Paper Session: Literary and Cultural Trends in ModernChina and Japan
Chair: Junko Koizumi, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
1) Li Ying, International Christian University. "Nihilism of the Absurd: Avantguard Fiction by Can Xue"
2) Tachibana Reiko, Pennsylvania State University. "Women in Two Cultures:Transnational Writers of Japan"
3) John Timothy Wixted, Arizona State University / University of Tokyo. "MoriOgai's Sokkyo Shijin and Hans Christian Andersen's Improvisatore: A Mode ofTranslation"4) Richard Reitan, University of Chicago. "Emergence of Ethics as an Academic
Discipline in 1880s Japan" topIII. SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 3:45 P.M. - 5:45 P.M
11. Envisioning Modern Japan
Chair: Bruce Suttmeier, Stanford University
1) Shu Kuge, Stanford University. "Toward Photography: Seeing as Writing"2) Miri Nakamura, Stanford University. "The Imagined Metropolis: theRepresentation of Tokyo in Tokyo Shinhanjoki"
3) Nancy Stalker, Kokugakuin University. "Seeing is Believing: Proselytization
and Visual Technologies in Prewar Japan"
4) Bruce Suttmeier, Stanford University. "Dying for a Picture: A Contemporary
Critique of Graphic Imagery in Early 1965 Japanese Media"Discussant: Robert Eskildsen, Smith College top12. Crisis, Identity, and Nationalism in Pre-Meiji Japan
Chair: Ethan Segal, University of Tokyo
1) Robert Tierney, Boston University. "Proto-Nationalism and the Kojiki"
2) Ethan Segal, University of Tokyo. "Changing Medieval Identity and theMongol Invasions"3) Noell Wilson, Waseda University. "Domestic Diplomacy and ProtoNationalism in Late Tokugawa Japan"
Discussant: Haruko Wakabayashi, Institute for the International Education ofStudents top
13. Roundtable: The Paradoxes of Globalization: The View of Japan
Chair: Kenneth Grossberg, Tel Aviv University
Participants:
1) Kenneth Grossberg, Tel Aviv University. "The Political EconomyPerspective"2) Masaaki Hirano, Waseda University. "The Management Perspective"3) Akira Iriye, Harvard University. "The International Relations Perspective" top
14. Individual Paper Session: Representation and Politics in ModernChina
Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University
1) Kan Liang, Seattle University. "War, Resistance, and Popularization ofLiterature in China, 1937-1945"
2) Zhiwei Xiao, California State University, San Marcos. "How to Appreciate a
Film: Instructional Writings on the Movies in 20th Century China"
3) Robert Culp, Bard College. "China--The land and its People: Fashioning
Identity in Chinese Secondary School History Textbooks, 1911-1937"
4) Lin Pei-Yin, University of London. "In Pursuit of Aesthetic Autonomy andCultural/Political Identity: Lu Heruo's Works and Life"
5) S. Louisa Wei, University of Alberta / Josai International University. "Where
have all the Ideal Women Gone? A Case of Chinese Film" top
IV. PLENARY SESSION: 5:55P.M. - 6:40 P.M.
Keynote address by Susan Mann, past president of the Association for AsianStudies, "Engendering the Histories of Asian Civilizations"
RECEPTION 6:45 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.

Fee 2,500 yen (includes food and drink)
V. SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M.
9:30 ASCJ Business Meeting (refreshments prior)
15. Reading and Writing Nara Classics
Chair: David Lurie, Columbia University
1) David Lurie, Columbia University. "The Preface to the Kojiki and Nara
Period Writing Systems"
2) Anne Commons, Columbia University. "God of Poetry and Angry Ghost:Hitomaro in and out of the Man'yoshu"
3) Victoria Stoilova, Tokyo University. "Yoshida Kanetomo and theConstruction of 'Myths of Japan'"
Discussant: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University, editor Monumenta
Nipponica top
16. Gender, Sexuality and Post-Coloniality in TaiwanChair: Anru Lee, California State University, Sacramento
1) Fang-chih Irene Yang, Tunghua University. "The Political Economy ofSexual Liberation"2) Paul E. Festa, Cornell University. "The Blue Whirlwind Strikes Below theBelt: Male Sexuality, Gender Politics, and the Viagra Craze in Taiwan"
3) Scott Simon, Academia Sinica. "Negotiating Patriarchy and Capitalism: Life
Histories of Taipei Capitalism"4) Shiu-li Lavphy Lin and Antonia Chao, Tunghai University. " 'Cultural Clash'in Everyday Life: The Gender Politics of Emigrant Household Work"
Discussant: Ichiro Numazaki, Tohoku University top17. Conversion Religious and Secular: Asian Perspectives
Chair: Megumi Takasaki, International Christian University and John Clammer,Sophia University1) John Clammer, Sophia University. "Conversion, Performativity andTransformation of Cultural Identity: Chinese Buddhism, Christianity andJapanese New Religions in Southeast Asia"
2) Hideaki Matsuoka, University of California, Berkeley. "Messianity Makes thePerson Useful: Describing Differences in a JapaneseReligion in Brazil"
3) Itoh Masayuki, University of Tokyo. "Conversion to the New Religions inJapan"
4) Megumi Takasaki, International Christian University, "Hidden Christians inJapan and Conversion to Shinto"Discussant: Richard Gardner, Sophia University top
18. Individual Paper Session: Politics in Japan
Chair: M. William Steele, International Christian University
1) Nakachi Kiyoshi, Meio University. "Recent Political Movement on the U.S.
Military Bases in Okinawa, Japan"
2) Peter Cave, University of Hong Kong. "Individuality and Educational
Reform in Japan: A Guide for the Perplexed"3) Suzuki Kenji, European Institute of Japanese Studies (Stockholm).
"Rethinking Japan's Bad Loan Management: Implications from a Comparison
with the Swedish Case"
4) Mika Mervio, University of Shimane. "Anthropocentrism in JapaneseEnvironmental Politics: Birds and Politics in Japan" top
19. Individual Paper Session: International Relations
Co-Chairs: Keiko Sueuchi, Meiji Gakuin University and Wenran Jiang,
University of Alberta
1) Zha Daojiong, International University of Japan. "Economic Security:
Comparing Japanese and Chinese Conceptualizations"2) Takeuchi Hiroki, University of California, Los Angeles. "Domestic Factors in
the Taiwan Strait Crisis: Taiwanese Democracy and Chinese Capitalism"3) Lee Seokwoo, University of Oxford. "The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism
and the Resolution of Territorial Disputes in East Asia"

4) Robert Eldridge, Suntory Foundation. "The Amami Reversion Movement: ItsOrigins, Meaning, and Impact" top
VI. SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M
20. From Imperial Subjects to Democratic Citizens: The Cinema and theNation in Japan from the 1930s to the 1950s
Chair: Mariko Hara, Keio University
1) Mariko Hara, Keio University. "The Emperor and His Subjects as Portrayedin Japanese Wartime Newsreels"
2) Jeffrey Isaacs, University of Chicago. "Historicizing the Aesthetics ofHardship in Japanese Film: Suffering for the Nation in 1941"
3) Takeshi Tanikawa, Columbia University / Hitotsubashi University. "TheFormulation and Implementation of US Film Policy Toward Occupied Japan"
Discussant: Aaron Gerow, Yokohama National University top
21. The Emerging Political Economy of China: Socialist Markets or Free
Markets?
Chair: Joel Campbell, Miyazaki International College
1) Joel Campbell, Miyazaki International College. "The Dragon Shudders: Major
Political Economic Issues Facing China at the End of the Century"2) Hashida Tan, Tokyo International University. "No Flash in the Pan: The
Political Economy of China's High Tech Industries"3) Bakhtior Islamov, Hitotsubashi University. "The Ties that Bind: The
Development of Economic Relations between China and the Newlyindependent States of Central Asia"
4) Szue-Chin Philip Hsu, National Chengchi University. "Local States and Fiscal
Extraction: A New View of Central-Local Relations in Contemporary China"5) Chin-Wei Lin, Tokyo University. "Building a Welfare State: The Politics ofSocial Security in Taiwan"
Discussant: Garth Warries, Kita-Kyushu University top
22. Roundtable: Publishing Japanese Social Sciences and Humanities inEnglish: What is the Problem?

Chair: Frank Baldwin, Abe Foundation
Discussants:
Jonathan Lewis, Denki University
Nina Raj, Editor and Publisher's Representative
Linda Grove, Sophia University
23. Individual Paper Session: Trajectories of Change in China and Japan
Chair: Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University, editor, PMJS
1) Hasegawa Eiko, Josai International University. "Colonized Bodies and theConstruction of the Nationhood in Modern Japan"
2) Mary Reisel, Tel Aviv University. "Japanese High Fashion and theReconstruction of Gender"
3) Robert Efird, University of Washington / Kanagawa University. "History,Family, and Identity: The 'Multicultural Coexistence' of Chinese Returnees inJapan" top