EAJS2017

15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies
Lisbon, August 30 - September 2, 2017
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH
CHAM - Centre for the Humanities

Conference timetable
Wednesday 30 August

Friday 01 September

12:30-15:30

Reception desk open

15:30-16:00

Welcoming remarks,
Cinema São Jorge

08:30-17:45

Reception desk open

09:00-10:30

Panel session 5

16:00-18:00

Keynote lecture,
Cinema São Jorge

10:30-11:00

Refreshments

18:30-20:00

Opening reception,
Museu Nacional de História
Natural e Ciência

11:00-12:30

Panel session 6

12:30-14:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Journal launch: Global perspectives
on Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

Thursday 31 August

14:00-15:30

Panel session 7

15:30-16:00

Refreshments

08:30-17:45

Reception desk open

16:00-17:30

Panel session 8

09:00-10:30

Panel session 1

17:30-19:00

10:30-11:00

Refreshments

AJE assembly,
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

11:00-12:30

Panel session 2

20:00-22:30

Gala dinner, Pátio da Galé

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Panel session 3

15:30-16:00

Refreshments

16:00-17:30

Panel session 4

17:30-19:00

JAWS business meeting,
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

19:30-20:30

Classical concert,
Church of São Roque

Saturday 02 September
08:30-17:45

Reception desk open

09:00-10:30

Panel session 9

10:30-11:00

Refreshments

11:00-12:30

Panel session 10

12:30-14:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Publishing in peer reviewed
journals,
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002

14:00-15:30

Panel session 11

15:30-16:00

Refreshments

16:00-17:30

EAJS General meeting,Gulbenkian FoundationEAJS201715th International Conferenceof the European Association for Japanese Studies
Lisbon, August 30 - September 2, 2017
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH
CHAM - Centre for the Humanities

Conference convenors
Alexandra Curvelo and Ana Fernandes Pinto (CHAM)EAJS Council 2014-2017
President: Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford)
Treasurer: Verena Blechinger-Talcott (Free University Berlin)
Secretary: Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge)
Extended Council: Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg University), Andrej Bekeš (University of Ljubljana), John
Breen (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto), Andrea Germer (Kyushu University),
Michael Kinski (University of Frankfurt), Urs Matthias Zachmann (University of Edinburgh), Rein Raud
(Tallinn University)
Conference organisers (NomadIT)
Eli Bugler, James Howard, Rohan Jackson, Saskia Lillepuu, Triinu Mets, Elaine Morley, Hugh SwannEAJS2017 is deeply grateful for financial and institutional support from:
CHAM, NOVA FCSH, FCT, Japan Foundation, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, São Jorge,Câmara Municipal de Sintra, Fundação Milenium BCP, Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua,
AirFrance KLM.
WiFi
There is free wireless access (no login information required) throughout the campus and in all thebuildings within the conference venue, on the Faculty’s own network “fcshunl”.

Table of contents
Practical information .............................................................................. 5
Local information ...................................................................................... 9Book exhibit ............................................................................................ 15
Events ..................................................................................................... 17
Thematic sections, panel and paper abstracts .......................................... 35
S1: Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies ........................ 36
S2: Language and Linguistics ....................................................... 41
S3a: Modern Literature ............................................................... 48
S3b: Pre-modern Literature.......................................................... 56
S4a: Visual Arts............................................................................ 65
S4b: Performing Arts............................................................... 70

S5a: Anthropology and Sociology ................................................ 77
S5b: Media Studies .................................................................... 89
S6: Economics, Business and Political Economy .................... 98
S7: History ............................................................................... 107
S8a: Religion and Religious Thought........................................ 125
S8b: Intellectual History and Philosophy ................................. 135
S9: Politics and International Relations ................................... 140
S10: Japanese Language Education ......................................... 145
List of convenors, discussants and presenters3................................... 163

Notes4Practical information
A warm welcome to all EAJS2017 conference participants from the local organisers (CHAM) and theNomadIT team (the conference administrators). In this programme you will find a concise guide to theconference, its venues and Lisbon, which we hope you will find helpful.

Using this programme
The Practical information and Local information chapters will aid you with the practicalities of attending
the conference, including tips on how to use this book, how to navigate the conference venue and Lisbon.
The general Timetable on the inside front cover gives a quick overview of when receptions, panelsessions, keynotes and other events are taking place. The Events section (ordered chronologically) gives
details of the activities taking place during the conference besides the panel sessions, including keynotes,
meetings, receptions and the conference dinner. You will find the map showing the various venues we areusing on the back cover of the book.
The full academic programme, combined with the events, is detailed in the Daily timetable section. Thisshows what is happening and where, at any given moment, in chronological sequence. More information
can be found in the Thematic sections, panel and paper abstracts section, which lists panel and paper
abstracts divided according to thematic sections and then ordered by panel reference numbers – S4b_02,
S5a_06, etc.
At the rear of the book there is a List of convenors, discussants and presenters to help you identify thepanels in which particular colleagues will convene/discuss/present their work. Following this index are
the Publisher advertisements.
If you need any help interpreting the information in the conference book, please ask a member of theconference team at the reception desk.

Timing of panels and individual papers
The conference is organised into thematic sections:
S1: Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
S2: Language and Linguistics
S3a: Modern Literature
S3b: Pre-modern Literature
S4a: Visual Arts
S4b: Performing Arts
S5a: Anthropology and Sociology
S5b: Media Studies
S6: Economics, Business and Political Economy
S7: History
S8a: Religion and Religious Thought
5Practical information			S8b: Intellectual History and Philosophy
S9: Politics and International Relations
S10: Japanese Language Education
Panels have been allocated one ninety-minute session (although there are two panels in Section 7 which
run for two contiguous sessions). A session generally contains three paper presentations (occasionally
two or four). We are using 28 panel rooms at a time, so any one panel is up against a large number ofalternatives. The panel times are shown in the Thematic sections, panel and paper abstracts section andin the Daily timetable.

EAJS2017 conference venues
The conference takes place at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade NOVAde Lisboa (Av. de Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisboa). Centred around the large courtyard, where we’ll havecatering distribution, we are using four buildings on the campus: Torre (Tower) A, Torre B, Bloco (Block)
1 and I&D. The book exhibit will be in the foot of Torre B.
The welcome remarks and the keynote lecture by Momoko Nakamura take place at the Cinema São
Jorge (Av. da Liberdade 175, 1250-001 Lisboa). To get there from the main venue you need to walk to
São Sebastião metro (10 mins), take the Blue line and ride three stops in the direction of Santa Apolónia,getting off at the Avenida stop (4 mins). The cinema is by the station.
The welcome reception, which follows the keynote, takes place in the cloisters of the Museu Nacional deHistoria Natural e Ciência (Rua da Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-096 Lisboa). This is a short walk up thehill behind the cinema (12 mins).
The EAJS AGM on the final day takes place at the Gulbenkian Foundation, just across the road from themain venue.

Catering
The conference registration fee includes lunch and refreshment breaks. Refreshment breaks (coffee,
tea and pastries) are provided on all conference days (except for the opening day) at 10:30-11:00 and
15:30-16:00. The distribution points are located in both the main courtyard and the space between I&D
and Torre A. Lunch is served from 12:30 to 14:00 on Thursday to Saturday from these same distribution
points. There is some seating available in the base of Torre B (right side); otherwise we recommend
taking your lunch bag and visiting the gardens of the Gulbenkian Foundation, just across the road.
The conference dinner (not included in the registration fee, but purchased in advance as an optional extra)
takes place on Friday night (starting at 20:00) at Pátio da Galé (Praça do Comércio, 1100 Lisboa). To
reach Pátio da Galé from the main venue, walk to São Sebastião metro (10 mins), go five stops on themetro’s Blue line in the direction of Santa Apolónia to Baixa-Chiado (7 mins), and then walk downhill (4mins).

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Practical information

Reception desk, EAJS conference team, NomadIT office
On arrival at the reception desk you will have been given this book and your conference badge. If youbought a ticket for the Friday night conference dinner with your registration, this will be printed on thecorner of your badge (a cutlery icon).
There is a team of helpful volunteers, familiar with the programme, the venue and the surrounding area,that you can turn to when in need of assistance. The volunteer team members can be identified by theirconference t-shirts. If you cannot see a team member, please ask for help at the Reception desk.
Reception desk opening hours: Wed 12:30-15:30; Thu 08:30-17:45; Fri 08:30-17:45; Sat 08:30-17:45.
All financial arrangements must be dealt with in the conference organisers’ (NomadIT) office located in
Bloco 1, Sala 0.03. NomadIT’s office hours are: Wed 12:30-15:30; Thu 08:30-13:00; 13:30-17:45; Fri
08:30-13:00; 13:30-17:45; Sat 08:30-13:00; 13:30-17:45. (We may also close for short breaks at random
times, but will post a note on the door if that’s the case!)

Recycling
NomadIT re-uses the plastic badge holders and lanyards, so please drop these in the boxes provided at thereception desk or at the dinner, or to a member of the conference team when leaving the conference forthe final time. With similar concern for the environment, we ask delegates to please be careful to use therecycling bins for paper and plastic.

Emergency contact details
During the conference, emergency messages should be sent to eajs(at)nomadit.co.uk. Members of
NomadIT can be contacted on UK cell/mobile phones +447482613951 (Triinu Mets) and +447866425805(Rohan Jackson).

Printing
If you need to print your conference paper, a boarding pass or other short text-based documents, this canbe done for 20 cents per page at the NomadIT office.

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Local information
About Lisbon
In 1620, Nicolao d’Oliveira declared that Lisbon, the principal city and head of the Kingdom of Portugal,
was “more populated than all other cities of Europe”. Oliveira emphasized the “very healthy, mild air” of
Lisbon, and vividly described the wide variety of goods that arrived in the city from India, Iran, Brazil,
Ethiopia and Arabia. Only five years later, in 1625, António Coelho Gasco called Lisbon a “princess”,“imperial lady” and “Emporium of commerce”, and also indicated that “all the peoples of the world, eventhe most remote” travelled to Lisbon.
These words may inspire the visitor to discover the real city that lies behind the imperial rhetoric andEurocentric view of the foreign peoples and goods that arrived in Lisbon, and to look beyond the ghostly
heritage of the 1755 earthquake, which resulted in the complete reconstruction of “Baixa”, in a new,“enlightened” fashion. Lisbon was one of the first true world cities and still is a very cosmopolitan one.
We invite you to explore World Heritage architectural marvels, the Jerónimos Monastery and Belém
Tower, with their intricate carvings showcasing all the glory and excitement of the Age of Exploration,and to discover the treasures from the East and the West inside the world-class Calouste Gulbenkian
Museum, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Fundação Oriente, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, or theacclaimed Design Museum (MUDE) and the Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art. The city’s legendary
seven hills will seduce you with their characteristic mosaic pavements and dazzling tiled façades, andreward you with strategically-placed viewpoints offering breathtaking panoramas of the city after a ride
on a charming old tram (don’t miss No. 25 and 28).
You’ll find yourself wandering through colourful 18th-century squares downtown and getting lost in the
medieval maze of the Alfama district, overlooked by an ancient (reconstructed) castle. Follow that with adive into the spectacular Oceanarium and spend your nights indulging in the city’s gastronomic delights,
listening to the sounds of Fado, or bar-hopping through the cobbled alleys of the shabby-chic Bairro Alto
district. You’re sure to become mesmerized by Lisbon’s wonderful mix of the old-fashioned and the hip,of the historic and the modern, but you’ll also want to go outside the city to the fairytale town of Sintra
and to the cosmopolitan shores of Cascais and Estoril.
Lisbon districts
Baixa: broad squares, 18th-century architecture, patterned pavements, popular cafes
Bairro Alto & Chiado: vibrant nightlife, picturesque streets, classic and alternative culture, chic shopping,restaurants
Belém: the Age of Discovery, grandiose monuments, museums
Alfama: medieval maze, spectacular views, an imposing castle, the sounds of Fado
Uptown: masterpieces and museum treasures, shopping malls
Parque das Nações: the 21st century by the Tagus; futuristic architecture9Local information		

Closest metro stations
Bairro Alto: Baixa-Chiado (blue and green lines)
Cais-do-Sodré: Cais-do-Sodré (green line)
Alfama: Santa Apolónia (blue line)
24 de Julho: Cais-do-Sodré (green line)
Parque das Nações: Oriente (red line)
Docas: Tram no. 15, 18; bus no. 28, 714, 727, 732

Taxis
Autocoope - Taxis de Lisboa: +351 217 932 756 (http://www.taxislisboa.com/)
Rádio-táxis de Lisboa: +351 218 119 000
Taxitours: + 351 964 120 673 (http://www.taxitours.com.pt/)
Taxi apps have been slow to catch on in Lisbon, but 99Taxis (www.99taxis.com), MyTaxi (www.
pt.mytaxi.com) and Uber (www.uber.com) are available.
Taxis are a good way of getting around. Lisbon taxis are cheap. Taxi fares are calculated on the basis of
an initial flat charge, currently €3.25. If luggage is carried (bigger than 55x35x20cm) a further €1.60 ischarged. The call-out is charged at €0.80.
A journey from the airport to most locations in central Lisbon should not cost more than €12 plus any
baggage and call-out charges. Meters are displayed in all licensed taxis so the fare should not come as ashock. Tips are voluntary: 10% is the norm.
Lisbon local taxis charge 20% more after 22:00 and on weekends (using Rate 2 rather than Rate 1). The
fare outside of the city is calculated on a km basis upon leaving the city limits, about €0.47/km, and any
motorway/bridge tolls are paid by the client. When taking a cab, try to enquire about the price to yourdestination first. Save your receipt and check if the license plate matches the receipt details. See if themeter is running and rate code is correct.

Metro - Metropolitano de Lisboa
This is one of the easiest ways to get around Lisbon. Accessible and relatively cheap, the metro has fourmain lines:- yellow (Rato - Odivelas)- green (Cais-do-Sodré - Telheiras)- blue (Santa Apolónia - Reboleira)- red (S. Sebastião - Aeroporto)
NB: the stations closest to the conference venue are Campo Pequeno (yellow line), Praça de
Espanha (blue line) or São Sebastião (blue and red line).
Just an idea: the gardens of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian which you see at the centre of this map,
are a great spot to take your lunch bag during the days of the conference!

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Local information

Ticket
Before hopping on the metro you must buy an electronic ticket, Viva Viagem, and charge it up (minimum
charge €5). The card itself costs 50 cents and can be bought at the ticket office or using the vending
machines. Upon charging the card, keep the receipt as it may be useful if you need to change a damaged
card. A ticket exclusively for the metro can only be charged up to €20. You can check your card balanceusing the machines, choosing the option carregamento/leitura.
Tip: recharge your card with the approximate number of trips in mind, as you get a small bonus each time
you charge it with more than €5.
A single ticket costs €1.30 and is valid for one journey, after validation, throughout the metro.
A one-day ticket Carris/Metro costs €6.15 and is valid for an unlimited number of journeys throughout the
Carris (bus/tram/elevator) and Metro networks for 24 hours after validation.
Hours
The first trains leave 06:30 from the terminal stations of each line; the last trains leave at 01:00 from theterminal stations of each line.

Business hours
Opening hours for shops and businesses across Portugal are usually 09:30 to 19:30, Monday to Saturday.
Malls close late (23:00 or midnight) daily. Cafés tend to open from 08:00 or 09:00 until 20:00 daily;
restaurants 12:00-15:00 and 19:00-22:00 daily; banks 08:30 to 15:00 (Monday to Friday); pharmacies
09:00 to 20:00, Monday to Friday; and supermarkets 09:30 to 20:30 daily.

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Nightlife
Traditionally, the centre of Lisbon’s nightlife has been the Bairro Alto, with its Fado clubs, traditional,
canteen-style bars, and upscale discos. In the past year, the renovation of the riverside quarter of Cais-doSodré led to its rebirth as a nightlife centre – currently the most trendy – with a large spectrum of bars,
tascas (traditional eating places) and clubs. The bars are often open as late as 02:00 and the clubs until
04:00 or 06:00. Much of the action also moves onto the Docas (Docks) district, situated just to the east of
Ponte 25 de Abril (bridge). But don’t rule out other districts such as 24 de Julho, Alfama, Bica, or Parquedas Nações (Expo).
10 nightlife possibilities
Club Lux (Av. Infante D. Henrique, Armazém A, Cais da Pedra a Sta Apolónia, 1950-376): partly owned
by John Malkovich, this is hailed as “the city’s most stylish club” for the design, the crowd and the music.
Club MusicBox (R. Nova do Carvalho 24, 1200-014): located in Cais do Sodré, one of the city’s live
music hotspots hosts both Portuguese and international artists as well as regular DJ sets (rock, dance, hiphop or reggae). Drinks are expensive, but totally worth the atmosphere.
Clube Ferroviário (Railway Club - Rua de Santa Apolónia 59-63, 1100-468): near Santa Apolónia train
station, this is a club with an amazing view of the Tagus River from the rooftop terrace. The club is
spacious – the downstairs halls have live music and/or DJs playing and the rooftop terrace offers tapas
and drinks and various types of entertainment.
Bairro Alto bar hop: Lisbon’s lively street party. Check out Majong – usually so crowded most of people
stand outside in front of it.
Docas: located at the old docks next to the ‘Ponte 25 de Abril’ bridge, along the river in Alcantara
between Baixa and Belém, this area is full of trendy cosmopolitan restaurants and bars.
Hot Club Portugal (Praça da Alegria, 48): one of the oldest and best jazz clubs in Europe.
Chapitô (Costa do Castelo 7, 1149-079): located near downtown (Rossio), on the hill of the Saint George
castle, with a breathless panoramic view over Alfama and the river. Drink among young artists (Chapitô isdivided into bar, restaurant, discotheque, bibliothèque, theater, training school) and enjoy the best nighttime city views at this restaurant-bar.
Incognito (Rua dos Polais de São Bento 37): an established ‘alternative dance bar’ with a discerning mix
of music from across the indie-rock-dance spectrum. You need to ring the doorbell to get in!
Senhor Vinho (Rua do Melo a Lapa 18, 1200-723): the city’s best Fado House.
Solar do Vinho do Porto (R. São Pedro de Alcântara 45, 1250-237 Lisboa): sample the country’s famouswine.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Av. de Berna 45 A, 1067-001): features a world-class classical musicprogramme.
Op Art (Doca de Alcantara): one of the most famous nightclubs at Docas (music played is mostly electroand house), where you can watch the sun rise to the sound of music.

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Useful links
Timeout Lisbon: http://timeout.sapo.pt/
Agenda Cultural de Lisboa: http://www.agendalx.pt/
goLisbon: http://www.golisbon.com/
Lisbon Guide: http://www.lisbon-guide.info
Turismo de Lisboa: https://www.visitlisboa.com/?lang=en-GB
Links for information on restaurants in Lisbon:
http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/portugal/lisbon/restaurants/fodors-choice
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/lisbon-portugal-restaurants-cafes-places-to-eat-a7118751.
html
https://www.timeout.com/lisbon/restaurants/the-best-lisbon-restaurants
http://nelsoncarvalheiro.com/where-to-eat-out-in-lisbon/

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Book exhibit
There will be a Book Exhibit in the bottom of Torre B, where delegates are invited to browse the stands
and titles, and talk to the exhibitors and publisher representatives. The support of the exhibitors is an
important part of putting on the conference, so please do take the time to visit their stands and talk to theirstaff.
The hours of the Book Exhibit will be as follows: Thu 10:00-18:00; Fri 10:00-18:00; Sat 10:00-14:30.
The following exhibitors will be present:
Aprende Japonés Hoy/Verasia, Brill, CHAM, Editions Chandeigne, Fuji Shuppan, Center for AsianHistorical Records (National Archives of Japan), JPT Europe Ltd, Kinokuniya Publications Service ofLondon Co. Ltd., NetAdvance, Nikkei Europe Limited, Springer Japan, Taylor & Francis, Yumani Shobo.

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Events
Tuesday 29 August
13:00-18:00 Commemorating the 900th Anniversary of Saigyo’s Birth, Organisation: Saigyo Society,
Torre B, Piso 3, T10
1st Period:
Symposium: Saigyo the Wanderer (Working Title)
Traveling Scenes Represented Pictorially: A Discussion Centering on the “Saigyo Monogatari Emaki”(Picture Scroll of “The Tale of Saigyo”) (Working Title) (30 minutes)
The Lineage of the Pilgrim - (Tanka) Poet (Working Title) (30 minutes)
Discussion (60 minutes)
2nd Period:
Workshop: The Future of Saigyo Studies: Foreign Opinions (several speakers) (45 minutes)
Discussion / Exchange of Views (45 minutes)
13:00-18:00 Japanese Studies in Japan: A New Trend?, Organisation: Tohoku University Global
Japanese Studies Initiative, Torre B, Piso 2, T6
Presenters: Ono Naoyuki (Tohoku University), Unoda Shoya (Osaka University), Ioannis Gaitanidis(Chiba University)
Respondent: Sebastian Maslow (Kobe University)
Presiding: Orion Klautau (Tohoku University)
Although departments of “Japanese Studies” (nihongaku) have existed in European and North American
universities at least since the mid twentieth century, there was never a clear need for such independent
sections in the context of Japanese universities. There have indeed been experiences of the sort, but
the bulk of research on “Japan” was carried out in traditional discipline-focused departments such as“National History” (kokushi), “National Literature” (kokubungaku) and “National Language” (kokugo).
However, in the past decade, at least ten new departments, institutes, and even full-fledged graduate
schools of “Global Japanese Studies” (kokusai nihongaku), which aim at “de-regionalizing” the study ofJapan reframing it in a further inclusive context, were created in mostly public Japanese universities. In
order to consider this current trend and its effect in Japanese institutions, this session intends to present
three representative case studies, in order to consider the possibilities and predicaments of the field in thevery country it intends to understand.
13:00-17:00 “面白い話と語りの文化”, Organisation: GNプロジェクト「面白い話で世界をつなぐ」, 科学研究費によるプロジェクト（挑戦的萌芽研究）「民間話芸調査研究「面白い話コンテ
スト」の国際的展開による音声言語データの共有化」, I&D, Multiusos 2
研究集会「面白い話と語りの文化」
趣旨：ヨーロッパ日本語教師会（AJE）から発議され、日本語教育グローバルネットワークの支援を受けているプロジェクト「面白い話で世界をつなぐ」をさらに充実・発展させるために、研究集会「面白い話と語りの文化」を次の要領で開催します。皆さまどうぞ奮ってご参加
ください。

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Events		

12:30-13:00 受付
13:00-13:05 開会の辞 定延利之（京都大学）
13:05-13:35 「面白い話」のコンテストとコーパス、論文集について, 定延利之（京都大学）
13:40-14:10 ブラジル人の面白い話, 中川千恵子（早稲田大学）
14:15-14:45 変化する日本人の「面白い話」―「笑いの文法」を手に入れ始めた日本人, 瀬沼文
彰（西武文理大学）
15:00-15:30 「わたしのちょっと面白い話」における句末伸長の音声的特徴と効果, 森庸子（同志社大学）
15:35-16:05 「面白い話」を題材とした日伊仏間の遠隔共同授業プロジェクト, 林良子（神戸大学）, Tiziana Carpi（ミラノ大学）, 国村千代（レンヌ第一大学）
16:10-16:55 基調講演「思い出いろいろ」（仮題）, 久野眞（高知大学）
16:55-17:00 閉会の辞 林良子（神戸大学）, 懇親会
どなたでもご参加できます。参加費は無料です（但し懇親会費は有料）。
連絡先：sadanobu.toshiyuki.3x(at)kyoto-u.ac.jp 定延利之（さだのぶ・としゆき）
主催：・GNプロジェクト「面白い話で世界をつなぐ」
・科学研究費によるプロジェクト（挑戦的萌芽研究）「民間話芸調査研究「面白い話コンテスト」の国際的展開による音声言語データの共有化」
共催：・科学研究費によるプロジェクト（基盤B）「海外日本語学習者音声アーカイブの構築・分析とWEB韻律学習支援ツール開発」
・外国語発音習得研究会

Wednesday 30 August
10:00-12:30 The Near Future of Pre-Modern Japanese Text Research, Organisation: National
Institute of Japanese Literature, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
Chair: Didier DAVIN (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Panelists: Kitamoto Asanobu (Center for Open Data in the Humanities/ National Institute of Informatics),
Takada Tomokazu (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), Yamamoto Kazuki(National Institute of Japanese Literature), Saito Maori (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Discussants: Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge), Unno Keisuke (National Institute of Japanese
Literature)
シンポジウム概要：現在、国文学研究資料館では１０年に及ぶ「日本語の歴史的典籍の国際共同研究ネットワーク構築計画」が進行中です。これは日本文学だけではなくあらゆる分野の日本の古典籍３０万点の全冊画像をWEB上で公開し、その画像を活用して共同研究を推進しようというものです。その概要と４年目を迎えた現状を説明し、計画の目指す将来像と画像データを用いて新たに創造される研究方法など、日本研究の近未来像を具体的に紹介しようと思います。
The National Institute of Japanese Literature is currently running a ten-year program called the “Project
to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts”. This project
consists in digitalizing and making available on line about 3 hundred thousand items written in classicalJapanese concerning not only literature but all disciplines. This event will be a presentation of the
progress of the program now in his fourth year, a demonstration of our goals by showing new possible
ways of research, and concrete examples of what should be the near future of Japanese studies.

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10:00-12:00 Screening of a Japanese documentary film, “Life is Fruity” (Tokai Television
Broadcasting, Ltd., 2016), Organisation: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Torre B, Piso 1,
Auditório 1“Life Is Fruity” is a documentary film featuring an elderly couple living in the suburbs of Nagoya city.
The film shows this couple’s quiet life surrounded by woods, against a backdrop of large-scale suburban
developments, which the husband himself as an architect was engaged in. The film is followed by adiscussion with the producer (Mr. Abuno Katsuhiko), the director (Mr. Fushihara Kenshi), and thenarrator (Ms. Kiki Kirin). This event is sponsored by the Center for Information on Religion (Tokyo) andsupported by the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya).
10:30-13:00 Legacies of Kirishitan Culture: Searching for the Origins of Five Centuries ofInteraction between Japan and Europe, Organisation: Nichibunken and UNL, Torre B, Piso 5,
Auditório 3
キリシタン文化の継承――日欧交流 500 年の原点を探る
1549 年のザビエル来日とキリスト教伝道の開始を源とする「キリシタン」の文化は、安土・桃山時代～徳川時代初期の日本を特徴づけるものとして理解されてきました。しかし同時に、その言語的・文化的多様性に富んだ精神は、文学、美術のみならず、政治を含む社会のさまざまな要素のなかに根づき、禁教の時代を超えて、近代以降の日本文化を構成する重要な一部をなしています。EAJS リスボン大会の関連特別事業として行うこのワークショップでは、現代に至る日欧交流の原点を求めて、「キリシタン文化の継承」というテーマを取り上げます。
国際日本文化研究センター（日文研）は、学際的な共同研究に重点を置き、世界の多様な研究機関や研究者と協力して、国際的に開かれた視点から日本研究を推進する研究機関です。本ワークショップは、進行中の日文研プロジェクトであり、大学共同利用機関法人・人間文化研究機構の広領域連携型基幹研究プロジェクトを構成するユニットとしても指定されている、「キリシタン文学の継承：宣教師の日本語文学」（研究代表者：郭南燕准教授）を軸に、EAJS リス
ボン大会にふさわしい内容とするため、大会の現地主催者であるリスボン新大学の皆さんとともに企画しました。大会に参加される方は、どなたでも自由に議論にお入りください。この場を通じて、日文研の活動についてよりよく知っていただくとともに、実り豊かな学術交流のひとときを提供できればと願っております。
Kirishitan culture, whose origins in Japan date back to Francis Xavier’s arrival in 1549 and the start ofhis missionary work, has been understood as a characteristic feature of the Azuchi-Momoyama and theearly Tokugawa periods. However, it is also important to realise that its multi-cultural and multi-linguistic
spirit, in not only its artistic elements but in politics and social institutions too, was subsequently
incorporated into Japanese culture, and handed down from generation to generation from the era of theban of Christianity through to modern times. This workshop, organised as a special event associatedwith the EAJS Lisbon Conference, focuses on the theme “Legacies of Kirishitan Culture” to explore theenduring cultural exchange between Japan and Europe.
Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) aims to pursue Japanese studies in the
broadest sense through inter-disciplinary “Team Research” projects and in cooperation with a diversity of
research institutes and researchers around the world. This workshop draws on an ongoing Nichibunken
project titled “Literary Legacies of Kirishitan Culture: Missionary Writings in the Vernacular” (Project
leader: Nanyan Guo, Associate Professor), designated as a research unit of the National Institutes for
the Humanities, Inter-University Research Institution Cooperation, and developed in collaboration withcolleagues at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The workshop is open to all participants of the 15th EAJS
Conference.

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Participants:
Mayuko Sano (Nichibunken)
Nanyan Guo (Nichibunken)
Shinzo Kawamura (Sophia University)
Angelo Cattaneo (CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores)
Liu Jianhui (Nichibunken)
Kevin Doak (Georgetown University)
Shoichi Inoue (Nichibunken)
Alexandra Curvelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
15:30-16:00 Welcoming remarks, Cinema São Jorge (Av. da Liberdade 175, 1250-001 Lisboa)
To reach Cinema São Jorge from the main venue: walk to São Sebastião metro (10 mins); three stops on
Blue line in the direction of Santa Apolónia to Avenida (4 mins).
16:00-18:00 Keynote lecture, Cinema São Jorge (Av. da Liberdade 175, 1250-001 Lisboa)
Rethinking language myths from gender: Japanese speakers, speech style, and honorifics
Momoko Nakamura (Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama)In this talk, I will take up the following three major myths about Japanese language and demonstrate what
can be revealed about them by taking gender into consideration:
1. Japanese language is constructed by the speech of the Japanese,
2. Japanese women’s language is a tradition of Japanese language,
3. Japanese young people do not mind using honorifics appropriately.
First, the speech of non-Japanese in Japanese translation has played a crucial role in constructing Japanese
language. Women’s language, one of the characteristics of Japanese, has mainly been realized by thetranslated speech of non-Japanese women than by Japanese women’s speech. At the same time, Japanesetranslators have created a special speech style in rendering the casual speech of non-Japanese men thathas enriched the stylistic variation of Japanese.
Second, a historical analysis has found that Japanese women’s language became a tradition during WWII
to legitimate the compulsory use of Japanese language in the colonies of East Asia.
Third, Japanese young men have invented the new honorific form -su by shortening the polite sentencefinal form -desu. The use of -su in the conversation between male university students indicates their acuteawareness of honorific usage.
18:30-20:00 Opening reception, Cloister of the Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e Ciência (Rua da
Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-096 Lisboa)
All delegates are invited to attend this social event which opens the conference.

Thursday 31 August
09:00-10:30 Section 10 Keynote lecture by Christian Galan (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès& (Paris) National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations’s Center of Japanese Studies(INALCO)), Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
Read the abstract in the Thematic sections, panel and paper abstracts section, at the beginning of Section
10.
17:30-19:00 JAWS business meeting, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
All members of Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) are invited to attend.

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19:30-20:30 Classical concert, Church of São Roque (Largo Trindade Coelho, 1200-470 Lisboa)
A beautiful venue with great acoustics, in the heart of the city. Tickets are €10 per person and can bebought from the conference office. To reach the Church of São Roque from the main venue: walk to São
Sebastião metro (10 mins); four stops on Blue line in the direction of Santa Apolónia to Restauradores (5mins); walk uphill (9 mins).

Friday 1 September
13:00-14:00 Journal launch: Global perspectives on Japan, published by the Japanese Studies
Association of Turkey (JAD); co-organised by the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS), Bloco 1, Piso
1, Sala 1.11
Global Perspectives on Japan, published by the Japanese Studies Association of Turkey, is an Englishlanguage peer-reviewed journal on Japan-related topics in the fields of history, humanities and social
sciences. Editor in Chief: Erdal Küçükyalçın. The inaugural issue is dedicated to the 26th JAWS
Conference held between 1 and 4 September 2015 in Istanbul.
16:00-17:30 Co-convenors meeting about publication of papers on the theme: Does Japan Need
More Structural Reform?, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
17:30-19:00 AJE assembly, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
All members of AJE are invited to attend.
20:00-22:30 Gala dinner, Pátio da Galé (Praça do Comércio, 1100 Lisboa)
To get to Pátio da Galé from the main venue: walk to São Sebastião metro (10 mins); five stops on Blueline in the direction of Santa Apolónia to Baixa-Chiado (7 mins); walk downhill (4 mins).

Saturday 2 September
13:00-14:00 Publishing in peer reviewed journals, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002
All are invited to attend.
16:00-17:30 EAJS General meeting, Gulbenkian Foundation
All EAJS members are invited to attend the General meeting.
The Gulbenkian Foundation is across the road from the main venue and to the right.

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Daily timetable
Wednesday 30 August
15:30-16:00 Welcoming remarks, Cinema São Jorge (Av. da Liberdade 175, 1250-001 Lisboa)
16:00-18:00 Keynote lecture, Cinema São Jorge (Av. da Liberdade 175, 1250-001 Lisboa)
18:30-20:00 Opening reception, Cloister of the Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e Ciência (Rua da
Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-096 Lisboa)

Thursday 31 August
09:00-10:30 Section 10 Keynote lecture by Christian Galan (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès& (Paris) National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations’s Center of Japanese Studies(INALCO)), Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
09:00-10:30 Panel session 1:
S1_01 Environmental impacts of a shrinking population in Japan: towards a ‘depopulation
dividend’, Torre B, Piso 3, T10
S2_01 Rethinking the world through language: the role of Esperanto in modern Japanese
history, Torre B, Piso 3, T16
S2_03

Phonetics and phonology, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_03 Reading Ōe Kenzaburō’s a political youth dies in the 21st century, Torre A, Piso -1,
Auditório 001
S3b_01
T7

Poems, Prose and the real world: Intertextual associations of waka, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala

S3b_02 Commentary, Vernacularization, and Pictorialization: New directions in the study ofMurasaki Shikibu’s Edo-period legacy, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1
S4a_01 Visual Arts: individual papers I, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_08

Noh and Society: Performance Contexts, Performers and Images, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_03 Mobility, alternative lifestyles and search for belonging in post-growth Japan, Bloco 1,
Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5a_09 Attitudes toward Death, Dying and Funerary Customs in Japan - Past, Present andFuture, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5a_13 The changing faces of gift-giving in Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12
S5b_03(Mis)reading pop culture texts in Japan and beyond, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_01
T11

Reforming Legal Education in Japan: Current Issues and Future Outlook, Torre B, Piso 3,

S6_12

Demographics and economic participation, Torre B, Piso 3, T1223

Daily timetable		

S7_01 The Samurai and Realms of Memory, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S7_02 Human Mobility and the Japanese Empire: Contested Chronologies, Frames, andMemories, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_18 Northeast Asian History Wars: Competing National Narratives in Japanese, Korean, andChinese Museums, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_30
0.08

Christian Histories: Space, Organisation and Global Comparison, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala

S8a_01

Early Modern Jesuit Roads to Salvation in Japan, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S9_04

Japan set adrift - ontological insecurity in changing times, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_Keynote Students, teachers, language, method, new media – where should Japanese
language education be anchored? Some reflections from the field, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00-12:30 Panel session 2:
S1_02 Shrinking /demographic change as a chance: spatial and social transformations II, Torre
B, Piso 3, T10
S2_02 Construction and utilisation of the corpus of historical Japanese: Man’yōshū andChristian materials, Torre B, Piso 3, T16
S2_04

Syntax I, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_04 The politics and practice of everyday life in modern Japanese literature (Bungaku-KaraNichijyo-o-Tou), Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001
S3b_06 The Japanese book as material object: Format, design, and layout of pre-Meiji
manuscripts and printed books, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1
S4a_02 Print Matters: Visuality, Materiality, and the Afterlife of the Image in Japanese Art,
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_02 The world of Noh: three aspects of its socioeconomic structure, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6
S4b_09Papers I, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T5

S5a_01 Interdisciplinary perspectives on work-related diversity and diversification in Japan,
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5a_02 Care for Others in Individualized and Longevity Society: Seeking for Recognition andStaying Place, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5a_16 Transnationality, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12
S5b_04 Negotiations of hegemonic gender norms in Japanese media spaces: analyses of women’s
media and female audiences, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2
S5b_10

Journalism in Japan, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S6_02 Assessing gender equality in Japan: 30 years since the EEOL, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S6_11 Startups, SMEs and stakeholder resource allocation, Torre B, Piso 3, T1224

Thursday 31 August

S7_04 Progressive Theory and Social Practice in a Working-Class Neighborhood: The Social
Activism of the Tōkyō Imperial University Settlement House, 1923-1938, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_06 Passes for Trade: Diplomatic History of Medieval/Early Modern Japan in a Global
Perspective, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S7_22 The Uses of Chinese Texts in Post-Sinocentric Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_31

Popular, Radical and Revolutionary Cultures, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08

S8a_06
Sala 02

Modest Materialities The Social Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Things, Torre A, Piso 0,

S8a_19 The Rise of Zen: Changes in the Medieval Buddhist Landscape, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_06

Human beings and nature in Japanese intellectual history, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_02 The New Law on Buraku Discrimination 部落差別解消推進法案 , Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05
S10_01

Looking at the linguistic dictionary as a learning resource [JP], Torre B, Piso 3, T14

S10_05 Aims of Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations in Europe: suggestions from thestudy on Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations in Europe in Spain, France and Belgium, Torre
B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
S10_06 Peace and language education (1): critical content-based instruction (CCBI) and ideas
and practices of Japanese language education [JP], Torre B, Piso 3, T13
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel session 3:
S1_03 Shrinking/demographic change as a chance – spatial and social transformations III, Torre
B, Piso 3, T10
S2_05

Syntax II, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S2_06

New approaches to and fields of Japanese linguistics, Torre B, Piso 3, T16

S3a_01 Literature and education in modern Japan: Three case studies of non-official education
through the medium of literature, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001
S3a_08

Identity and commitment In 1960s Japan, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002

S3b_04 Parodic representations of irogonomi characters in classical Japanese literature, Torre B,
Piso 2, Sala T7
S3b_10 Multimodality in Early-modern Books: Enhancing Texts Through Images, Torre B, Piso
1, Auditório 1
S4a_05Materiality and Processes in Japanese Art Festivals, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3

S4b_03 Performance of History and Memory: Extratextual Dimensions of the Tale of the Heike,Japan’s Iconic War Tale, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6
S5a_10 Making Sense of this World: The Intersection of Materiality and Immateriality in Japan,
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5a_12 Body, Affect and Selves In-between: from the institutional margins of work andeducation in contemporary Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

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Food, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

S5b_01Press freedom and identity politics in contemporary Japan, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S5b_11 Videogames in Japan, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2
S6_10

Employment, labour markets and career structures, Torre B, Piso 3, T11

S7_03 Women networks in nineteenth century Japan (first session), Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_09 Bloody Sengoku: Truer than Name, Heavier than Words, Tougher than Flesh, Bloco 1,
Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S7_14

Rewriting the 1968 in Japan: between myth and disillusionment, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09

S8a_05 Discourses on the Body-Mind Complex (1): Sex, Gender, and the Body-Mind, Torre A,
Piso 0, Sala 03
S8a_18

Defending the Dharma in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8b_08 Time and Society in the early modernization of Japan, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04
S9_01

Japan’s changing diplomatic and security practice, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_04 Peace and language education (2): possibilities of critical content-based instruction(CCBI), Torre B, Piso 3, T13
S10_12 A proposal for developing teaching materials with “BTSJ-Japanese Conversation
Corpus” for natural communication education in Europe, Torre B, Piso 3, T14
S10_14

Japanese language learning and teaching in Europe, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea
16:00-17:30 Panel session 4:
S1_04

Conceptualising speed and deceleration, Torre B, Piso 3, T10

S2_07

Historical linguistics, Torre B, Piso 3, T16

S3a_02 Violent fictions: literatures of mobilisation in trans-war Japan and Korea, Torre A, Piso
-1, Auditório 002
S3a_09 The Rebirth of the Author, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001
S3b_14

Parody and satire in the Edo period, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S3b_15 Waka poetics, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7
S4a_09 Ruling Momoyama Arts - Implications of Authority in Visualized Forms of Cultural
Exchange, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_10Papers II, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_06 From cultural to social hybridity in Japan: towards new theoretical approaches toglobalization, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12
S5a_25 Affecting Environments, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5b_08 The Representations of Nuclear Energy in Japanese Mass Media and Popular Culture:
The Daigo Fukuryû Maru incident and its aftermath, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

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S5b_12

Media and social development, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_07 Women’s Participation and Advancement Under Abe, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S6_13

Branding and narratives of corporate identity, Torre B, Piso 3, T12

S7_03 Women networks in nineteenth century Japan (second session), Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_19

Re-assessing 13th Century Political Culture in Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05

S7_20 The World to Come: Discourses of the Body, Politics, and War in Japanese Future
Writing, 1905-1990, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_34
0.08

Negotiating Changing Norms: Intelligence, Diplomacy and Ideology, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala

S8a_04

Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers I, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8a_07 Religious Discourses on the Body-Mind Complex (2): The Further Reaches of Esoteric
Buddhism, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_09(Re-)considering time: Modern interpretations, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_03“Expert Knowledge” in Japanese Politics, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_03 The next generation of language education: technology and pedagogy side-by-side, Torre
B, Piso 3, T14
S10_08 Rethinking Japanese as a heritage language through the perspective of “language andmobility”: case studies in the European context [JP], Torre B, Piso 3, T13
S10_15

Meeting the needs of Japanese learners in Europe, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

17:30-19:00 JAWS business meeting, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
19:30-20:30 Classical concert, Church of São Roque (Largo Trindade Coelho, 1200-470 Lisboa)

Friday 1 September
09:00-10:30 Panel session 5:
S1_06 The Japanese countryside after the 3/11 disaster I, Torre B, Piso 3, T10
S2_08 Texts and philology, Torre B, Piso 3, T15
S3a_05 Literary expression opening the way for the present: focusing on political incorrectness
as keyword, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002
S3a_06 “Can the dead speak?”: the politics of ‘voice’ in Japan’s nuclear literature, Torre A, Piso
-1, Auditório 001
S3b_03 Border-Crossing Through Word and Image: Gods, Poetry, and Topography, Torre B, Piso
2, Sala T7
S3b_05“Hantologie” and Narrative of Japanese War Literature, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S4a_03 Materialities of Japanese Visual Cultures in the Nineteenth Century, Torre B, Piso 5,
Auditório 327

Daily timetable		S4b_07

Community in/and performance/arts, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_14 The Aftermaths of the Tohoku Disaster: From the Social Sphere to Individual Life
Choices and Psychological Outcomes, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5a_20Romance and Commodification, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

S5a_23 Affective Methods, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5b_06 The Golden Age Revisited: Labour, Society, Gender and Politics in 1950s Japanese Film,
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3
S5b_13

Japanese morning dramas, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_09 Women and Foreign Workers in the Japanese Labour Market, Torre B, Piso 3, T12
S6_16

Japan and Asia, Torre B, Piso 3, T11

S7_05 The Meiji Translator: Shifting Profiles, Motives and Effects, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_08 Jesuit Religious Interaction in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Japan, Bloco 1,
Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S7_28
0.08

Revisiting the Edo-Meiji Divide: Cultures, Ideas and Representations, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala

S8a_08Christians in the Kansai, 1827-29, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8a_09 Shinto Culture in the Age of Globalization: Challenges to Conveying Concepts, Torre A,
Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_05

New light on the Japanese Enlightenment, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_06 Domestic politics: integration policy, constitutional amendment and cabinet scandals,
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05
S10_10 Feedback on Case-based approach to teaching business communications [JP], Torre B,
Piso 3, T14
S10_13 Learning and teaching Japanese (JHL: Japanese as a Heritage Language) in Europe.
Why? Voices from the field [JP], Torre B, Piso 3, T13
S10_27 On teaching Japanese in wider Europe: the status quo and prospects in Central Asia,
Bosnia and Hercegovina, Denmark, and Portugal [AJE Invited panel], Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00-12:30 Panel session 6:
S1_07 The Japanese countryside after the 3/11 disaster II, Torre B, Piso 3, T10
S1_12 Developing international tourism in Japan: perceptions of and interactions with foreign
visitors, Torre B, Piso 3, T16
S2_09

Language, technology and translation, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_10 Politics of transgressive sexualities in modern Japanese literature, Torre A, Piso -1,
Auditório 002
S3a_11 Post-Fukushima arts, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

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S3b_12 Noh Texts as a Nexus: Their Multi-layered Compositions and Beyond, Torre B, Piso 1,
Auditório 1
S3b_13Making literary classics accessible to a wider audience, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7

S4a_06 The Materials of Postwar Japanese Photography: Cameras, Photobooks, and Alternative
Printing Processes, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_06 Staging Christian Insurrection in Medieval Japan, and in Early-Modern Japanese andEuropean Memory, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T5
S4b_13Papers V, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_08Clashing Imaginaries: recovery in Tohoku after 2011, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10

S5a_21

Sexuality, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

S5a_24

Rhythm and Music, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

S5b_14

Negotiations of history and the media, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S5b_15

Sound and music as medium, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S6_03 Tackling a Conundrum: how can gender equality be achieved in an ageing and shrinking
Japan through structural reform?, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S6_14

Financial markets, Torre B, Piso 3, T12

S7_10 Reflecting Mirrors: Sino-Japanese Relations in the International Public Discourse, 19011945, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_15

Natural Disasters as History Markers in Edo Era Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05

S7_17 Out of Step and Out of Time: Insurgent and Abject Cultures ca. 1923, 1945, 1968, Bloco 1,
Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_32

Gender, Ideology and the Nation, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08

S8a_10

Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers II, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8a_11 Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers III, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_10

Religion in Art, Politics of Art, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_07

Sub- and Non-State Actors in Japanese Politics, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_07 Let’s sharpen our assessment skills through “OJAE Oral Japanese Assessment Europe”,
a CEFR-based test at 6 levels with newly-developed incrementally-stratified criteria and test
scripts[JP], Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
S10_16

Japanese as a heritage language, Torre B, Piso 3, T13

S10_17

IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design I, Torre B, Piso 3, T14

12:30-14:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Journal launch: Global perspectives on Japan, published by the Japanese Studies
Association of Turkey (JAD); co-organised by the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS), Bloco 1, Piso
1, Sala 1.11

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Daily timetable		

14:00-15:30 Panel session 7:
S1_05

Fractured rurality in contemporary Japan, Torre B, Piso 3, T10

S2_10

Language contact, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_12

Redefining coloniality of modern ‘Japan’, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

S3a_13

Politics of Translation, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002

S3b_07

Dream Vision in Premodern Japan, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S4a_07 Visual Arts: individual papers II, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_04 Actor-Audience Relationships in Japanese Comic Storytelling (Rakugo), Torre B, Piso 2,
Sala T6
S5a_04 Negotiating safety: Re-establishing scientific baselines for regulation in Japan, Bloco 1,
Piso 1, Sala 1.10
S5a_05 Sensory Ethnographies in Spaces of Co-Production: The Quest for Alternative
Immersive Experiences, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5a_11 Homophobia in contemporary Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12
S5b_09 Writing and Script in Japanese Media, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3
S5b_16

Japanese media and the negotiation of risk, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_04 Issues for Women’s Advancement in Japan: Understanding the Quality of Life of Young
Women[JP&EN], Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S6_15 Abenomics, Torre B, Piso 3, T12
S7_07 The Circulation of Ideas between Japan and Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limits of
Global History (first session), Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_16 Interconnecting (hi)stories: Reconsidering Japan and Maritime Asia in Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S7_24 Challenging National History from the North: The Changing Terrain of Ainu
Historiography, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S8a_12 Deconstructing the ‘Essence’ of New Religions: A New Approach for an Old Field of
Study, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02
S8a_13 Aspects of the Effect of Kami-Buddha Separation (Shinbutsu bunri) at Dewa Sanzan:
Iconography, Liturgy and the Reconstruction of Popular Faith, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_11Modern Philosophy, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_08 The Role of the SDF, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05
S10_posters

Japanese language posters, Torre B, Piso 3, T13 & T14

15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea
16:00-17:30 Co-convenors meeting about publication of papers on the theme: Does Japan Need More
Structural Reform? Torre B, Piso 3, T1130

Friday 1 September

16:00-17:30 Panel session 8:
S1_08
3, T16Nature-making, sacralisation, and spatial contestation in the Ryukyu Islands, Torre B, Piso

S1_13

Socioeconomic change in non-metropolitan Japan, Torre B, Piso 3, T10

S2_11 Language use, Torre B, Piso 3, T15
S3a_14

Postwar Japanese Literary Climate, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

S3a_15Reconstructing the Past, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002

S3b_16

Medieval Sino-Japanese literature, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S4a_08Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Japanese Cinema, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3

S4b_05 Continuity and change: social conditions and creator-audience communication in three
Japanese performing arts, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6
S5a_19Nostalgia and subculture, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

S5a_22

Masculinities, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

S5b_07 Beyond the Label of Commerciality: Approaching Narrative Complexity inContemporary Light Novels, Anime and Gēmu, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2
S5b_17

Social media in Japan, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S7_07 The Circulation of Ideas between Japan and Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limits of
Global History (second session), Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_25 Archived Outside: New Perspectives on Japanese History from International Collections,Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_27

New Perspectives from Archaeology, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05

S8a_14 Unpacking the local - ethnographic approaches to contemporary Japanese Buddhism,
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02
S8a_15 The early modern system of regulations against Christians and its influence: a work-inprogress report on the Marega Collection in the Vatican Library, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_12

Shin Buddhist Soteriology, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S9_05 Adjusting to the post-Cold War order in Asia - Japanese development policy towards
Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05
S10_09 Effective reading comprehension lessons for learners in Europe [JP], Torre B, Piso 3,
Auditório 2
S10_18

Language and identity, Torre B, Piso 3, T13

S10_19
T14

IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design II, Torre B, Piso 3,

17:30-19:00 AJE assembly, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
20:00-22:30 Gala dinner, Pátio da Galé (Praça do Comércio, 1100 Lisboa)

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Saturday 2 September
09:00-10:30 Panel session 9:
S1_09

Heritage and history II, Torre B, Piso 3, T10

S2_12 Young speakers of Japanese, Torre B, Piso 3, T15
S3a_07

Japan, Russia, and revolution, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

S3b_09Gender and Cultural Space in Premodern Japanese Texts, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S4a_04 On Paper and Beyond: Material Manifestations of Historical Figures, Torre B, Piso 5,
Auditório 3
S4b_12Papers IV, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_07 Affect and Emotion in Social Movement Research, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5a_18

Storytelling, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

S5b_02

Film Theory, Toxic Environments, and the Anthropocene, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_08 Towards a political and economic ‘new deal’ in Japanese employment polices andpractices? Exploring the social and psychological impact of prolonging the working life of older
employees in Japan, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S7_11 Japanese Diplomacy in Transition, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_23 Brackets & Breakdowns: How academic disciplines define and sustain segmentations oftime in ancient Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05
S8a_16

Japanese Religion amid Early Modern Social Transitions, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8b_03 Discourses and representations of living beings in Early Modern Japanese books, Torre
A, Piso 0, Sala 04
S9_09

Regional Politics, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_02 Analysis of essays by European learners of Japanese as a second language: examining
results of holistic rating and multiple-trait rating [JP], Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2
S10_11 1+2 approach: teaching young Japanese learners in Scottish primary education [EN],
Torre B, Piso 3, T13
S10_20T14

IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design III, Torre B, Piso 3,

10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea
11:00-12:30 Panel session 10:
S1_10 Alternative life and living arrangements, Torre B, Piso 3, T10
S2_13

Multilingual Japan, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_16

Representations of Violence, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

S3b_11

Renga Masters and the Makings of Medieval Classicism, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

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S4a_10 The Role of Art and Literature Salons in 18th and 19th Century Japan, Torre B, Piso 5,
Auditório 3
S4b_14Papers VI, Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_26 Roundtable wrap-up: Feeling (in) Japan: affective, sensory and material entanglementsin the field, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11
S5b_18

Facets of movie productions in Japan, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S5b_19Governance through the media, I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S6_05 Neoliberal means to liberal ends? The Abe Government’s campaign to Reform theJapanese Way of Work, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S7_12 Foreign Perceptions and interactions with Japan in the late Tokugawa/early Meiji periods,
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06
S7_21 The Gender of the Law: Re-theorizing the Discourse on Modernity in Late Meiji Legal
Notions of Family, Gender and Citizenship, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08
S7_29 Tourism in and of History, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09
S7_33

Social Tension and Social Position in Tokugawa Japan, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05

S8a_02

Constitutional revision and the public role of religion, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S8a_03 Gods in the Making: A Reconsideration of the Process of Deification in Medieval Japanand Beyond, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_04 The Mutual Emplacement of Europe and Asia on Cartographic Folding Screens inJapan during the Early Modern Period, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04
S9_10

Japan’s International Relations, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

S10_21

Japanese learners’ pragmatics and creativity, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

S10_22

Language education and socio-historical responsibility, Torre B, Piso 3, T13

S10_23
T14

IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design IV, Torre B, Piso 3,

12:30-14:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Publishing in peer reviewed journals, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002
14:00-15:30 Panel session 11:
S2_14

Linguistic innovation and presentations of “self”, Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S3a_17

Redefining Communality and Landscape, Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001

S3b_17

Miscellany, Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S4a_11 Visual Arts: individual papers III, Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3
S4b_01 Kabuki and Its Spectators: The Theatrical Experience in Edo- and Meiji Period Japan,
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6
S5a_27

Film: Hierarchies of a Japanese Festival, Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

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Daily timetable		S5b_05 Queering and Gendering Popular Culture in Japan: Manga, Anime, and TV Drama,
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2
S6_06 The Social Consequences of Structural Reforms on the Welfare Mix: Agricultural
Protection, Family Care and Corporate Welfare, Torre B, Piso 3, T11
S6_17

CSR, law and business, Torre B, Piso 3, T12

S7_13 Meiji Colonialism in Hokkaidō and Transnational Colonial Exchanges, Bloco 1, Piso 0,
Sala 0.06
S7_26

Investigating Imperial Cultures, Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09

S8a_20 Moulding the past in 20th-century Japan. The influence of narrative and academic
discourses on the study of Japan’s history of religions, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02
S8a_21 A political history of spirituality in modern Japan: Honda Chikaatsu, Taniguchi
Masaharu, and Hatoyama Yukio, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03
S8b_01
04

Sakuhin-ron - a Viable Approach to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki Myths?, Torre A, Piso 0, Sala

S9_11 Approaches to identity and foreign policy: heritage, territory and repertoires, Torre A, Piso0, Sala 05
S10_24

Reading and writing in Japanese as a foreign language, Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

S10_25Use of drama, theatre and literature in Japanese language teaching, Torre B, Piso 3, T13

S10_26 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design V, Torre B, Piso 3, T14
15:30-16:00: Coffee/tea
16:00-17:30 EAJS General meeting, Gulbenkian Foundation

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Thematic sections, panel and paper abstracts
The conference’s thematic sections are listed below. The panels are listed within their sections,in alphanumeric order by panel reference (S4b_02, S7_05, etc). The papers are listed in order ofpresentation. Where a paper/poster title has [JP] appended, the presentation/poster will be in Japanese.

Sections
S1: Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Section led/convened by Volker Elis (University of Cologne) & Evelyn Schulz (Ludwig Maximilians
University Munich)
S2: Language and Linguistics
Section led/convened by Patrick Heinrich (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) & Riikka Länsisalmi(University of Helsinki)S3a: Modern Literature
Section led/convened by Simone Müller (Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies) & Atsuko Ueda
(Princeton University)
S3b: Pre-modern Literature
Section led/convened by Maria Chiara Migliore (University of Salento) & Rajyashree Pandey(Goldsmiths, University of London)
S4a: Visual Arts
Section led/convened by Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm University) & Khanh Trinh (Museum Rietberg
Zurich)S4b: Performing Arts
Section led/convened by Barbara Geilhorn (University of Manchester) & Andreas Regelsberger (Trier
University)
S5a: Anthropology and Sociology
Section led/convened by Andrea de Antoni (Hokkaido University) & Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan
University)
S5b: Media Studies
Section led/convened by Blai Guarné Cabello (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Ronald Saladin(German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
S6: Economics, Business and Political Economy
Section led/convened by Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford) & Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
S7: History
Section led/convened by Mikael Adolphson (University of Cambridge) & Mark Pendleton (The Universityof Sheffield)
S8a: Religion and Religious Thought
Section led/convened by Lucia Dolce (SOAS, University of London) & Erica Baffelli (University ofManchester)
S8b: Intellectual History and Philosophy
Section led/convened by Rein Raud (Tallinn University) & Raji Steineck (University of Zurich)

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S9: Politics and International Relations
Section led/convened by Paul O’Shea (Lund University) & Karl Gustafsson (Swedish Institute ofInternational Affairs)
S10: Japanese Language Education
Section led/convened by Marcella Maria Mariotti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) & Noriko Iwasaki(SOAS, University of London)

S1: Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
S1_01 Environmental impacts of a shrinking population in Japan: towards a ‘depopulation
dividend’
Convenors: Peter Matanle (University of Sheffield); Julia Thomas (University of Notre Dame)
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
Presenting research from three geographical contexts in Japan, this panel explores the potential for
depopulation to assist in reversing environmental losses arising from economic development andpopulation expansion.
Depopulation and the environment: how Japan can lead the way
Fernando Ortiz-Moya (The University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
Japan is naturally depopulating, and hence can serve to explore the depopulation dividend of a shrinking
population. Using case study methodology, and focusing on Kitakyushu City, this paper explores theimpact of depopulation and urban policies on the environment.
Depopulation and environmental sustainability in Japan’s rural townscapesPeter Siegenthaler (Texas State University)
This research relies on promotional materials, maps, and journalistic articles to investigate relationships
among depopulation, tourism promotion, sustainability and the effects of preservation activists’interventions toward the conservation of heritage architecture in two hamlets in rural Japan.
Fewer people, more trees? Examining the impact of rural depopulation on environmental functionsof forests in Japan
Linas Didvalis (Vytautas Magnus University)
By combining different scenarios of demographic change and current trends of national forest
management policies, the paper seeks to evaluate how decrease in rural population in Japan may affectenvironmental functions of country’s forests.
S1_02 Shrinking /demographic change as a chance: spatial and social transformations II
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Shrinking suburbs and super-ageing society in Japanese cities
Yoshimichi Yui (Hiroshima University)
Recently, Japanese old suburban housing estates are declining. They are facing several serious problems.
Most serious problems are aging of residents and decreasing population. In this study, we try to clarify theconditions of shrinking suburbs and revitalization in Japanese cities.
‘Akiya’ as a resource for community-driven development and revitalisation: a case study on
Honjima island
Svetlin Petrov (University of Tokyo)
This study looks at the potential of vacant housing in Japan as a resource for community-driven
development. Findings suggest that vacant housing has the potentital to first, be a source of affordable realestate; and second be a tool for preserving and promoting local identity and sense of place.
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Shrinking cities, child poverty and community empowerment in Japan
Thomas Feldhoff (Ruhr University Bochum)
The paper analyses the socio-economic and spatial dimensions of child poverty in Japan and looks into
policy approaches undertaken by the central and local governments to address this issue. The focus is on
local learning support programs enabling participating communities to enhance resilience.
S1_03 Shrinking/demographic change as a chance – spatial and social transformations III
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Is retirement migration an opportunity for Japan’s shrinking cities?
Maren Godzik (Fukuoka University)
Retirement and elderly migration plays a significant role within revitalization schemes of Japan’s
shrinking cities. Based on migration data and revitalization strategies this paper will examine theperspectives of two middle sized cities to prevent population decline.
Limits of mobility: public transport in over-aged and depopulated rural Japan
Timo Thelen (Düsseldorf University); Hitoshi Oguma (Takasaki City University of Economics)
Many rural municipalities in Japan are struggling to sustain a sufficient level of public transport due to
weak economy, depopulation, and over-aging. The case study of Kyotango City (Kyoto Pref.) searches for
new approaches of how to handle the difficulty of limited mobility on the countryside.
The transforming of the Nakamura Yukaku red light district in Nagoya: from sexual service space
to welfare space
Honami Kageyama (Sugiyama Jogakuen University)
This paper examines how the Nakamura Yukaku District in Nagoya has changed after the Prostitution
Prevention Law in 1956. It was very strictly controlled as an old red-light district. Recently there is a
noticeable trend of transforming these previous sexual spaces into senior care facilities.
S1_04 Conceptualising speed and deceleration
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Japan as “post-growth” paradigm? Assessing representations of urban and rural experimentations
in social sustainability
Adrian Favell (University of Leeds)
Via a review of recent “post-growth” discussions and curatorial work in art and architecture, thepaper assesses the significance of academic and aesthetic representations of urban and regional social
movements in Japan, as a potential forerunner of global trends and source of new politics.
Defying the cult of speed: in search of resonance in urban Japan
Michael Drewing (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Concerns of alienation provoked by the constant acceleration of society lead to new questions in urban
planning. ‘Resonance’ and ‘human scale’ are two approaches to understand and tackle those problems as
seen in the urban environment of Shimokitazawa, Tōkyō.
Concepts of slow city implemented into the urban fabric of Tokyo
Michael Grieser (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich)
An ethical turn is unfolding concerning the ideal of good living in terms of bottom-up city planning inTokyo. The paper will discuss the importance of 3.11 as a catalyst and the role of latent civil networks forthis development. Then the paper compares these new concepts to the Italian slow city.
S1_05 Fractured rurality in contemporary Japan
Convenor: Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna)
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30

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In Japan, politicians and the media alike contend that many rural areas are on the way to extinction. At thesame time, the image of the countryside as a harmonic place has remained alive. This panel argues thatreality is fractured, i.e. there are more than two ways of interpreting rural Japan.
The marginalization of rural Japan between myth and reality
Ralph Lützeler (University of Vienna)
Based on the examination of statistical data on migratory flows between municipalities and on population
structures at the rural settlement level in Kumamoto prefecture, this paper questions to what degreecommunities in peripheral Japan are really threatened by extinction these days.
We just want to be, staying here … Life, social vulnerability and resilience in a depopulating hamlet
Johannes Wilhelm (Keio University)
This paper describes the impact of population deline on the lumber village Yagisawa in Kamikoani (Akita
Pref). By drawing on the thoughts of those left behind and those who have left the hamlet, it challenges
popular views as embodied by the terms of ‘marginal villages’ or ‘abandoned regions’.
Debate on the relocation of the residential area and the construction of a tsunami seawall in Mōne,
Kesennuma City after the 2011 Tsunami Disaster
Tomohiro Ichinose (Keio University)
Drawing on five years of research on local opposion to governmental plans of seawall construction in
Mōne village, Miyagi Prefecture, this paper reflects on the negative impacts of a wall, that is no longer
needed from the relocated villagers, on the ecosystem of Mōne District.
S1_06 The Japanese countryside after the 3/11 disaster I
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
From coastal to compact: reconstruction Machizukuri in Yamamoto after the 3.11 disaster
Pilvi Posio (University of Turku)
This case study based on ethnographic fieldwork shows how collective spatial discourses shaping the
local experience of post-disaster reconstruction and community building are constructed by residents’machizukuri groups in the town of Yamamoto.
Houses on the shaking ground; relocations and reconstructions after the earthquake in 2011 Japan
Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
This discussion examines two cases of people’s displacement in damaged cities after the earthquake in2011. It shows how current model relocation program is problematic, and it is essential to sustain thesense of locality, community, and habitual dwelling in housing designs through their recovery.
Nature and mujō (impermanence): the ecological Nihonjinron after the great east Japan
earthquake in 2011
Naoki Kambe (Rikkyo University)
This study regards public discourse of mujō (impermanence) by intellectuals after the triple disasterof March 2011 as ecological Nihonjinron and analyzes how it emphasized the uniqueness of Japaneseperceptions of nature and supported the intellectuals’ discontent with nuclear energy.
S1_07 The Japanese countryside after the 3/11 disaster II
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Sudden exile, sudden wealth: local human effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University)
The Fukushima nuclear disaster drastically impacted the lives of people in Iitate village, forcing theevacuation of the entire population, but also bringing unexpectedly generous compensation payments thathave made some of the villagers suddenly wealthy. How has the community responded?

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Efforts to pass on the memories of the disaster in Onagawa, Japan
Kiwa Nakano (Daito Bunka University)
I would like to examine Onagawa-chō in Miyagi Prefecture, Tohoku, and discuss new events developedby young residents, focusing on how they try to pass their memories and experiences on to the next
generations, and share information about the disaster with others.
The ‘Cesium scandal’ about radioactively contaminated beef: a digital humanities approach to theJapanese blogosphere in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident
Christian Oberlaender (Halle University)
After the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011, radioactively contaminated beef that was sold insupermarkets around Tokyo caused a major scandal. This paper analyzes the public debate about this‘Cesium Scandal’ as it is reflected in more than 1000 Japanese BLOG entries using new digital methods.
S1_08 Nature-making, sacralisation, and spatial contestation in the Ryukyu Islands
Convenors: Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer (University of Vienna); Paul Kreitman (Columbia University);
Aike Rots (University of Oslo)
Discussant: Stanislaw Meyer (Jagiellonian University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
This panel explores various aspects of nature-making and spatial contestation in the Ryukyu Islands. The
papers address nature conservation in relation to territorial conflicts, the postwar history and changing
meanings of sacred sites, and the contemporary significance of heritage production.
Heritage production, ecology, and the resignification of sacred space: the case of Seifa Utaki
Aike Rots (University of Oslo)
This paper looks at the role of nature, sacrality and cultural identity in heritage production. It explores theconsequences of Seifa Utaki’s transformation from one of the Ryukyu Kingdom’s sacred centres into a
World Heritage Site, popular tourist destination and ‘biodiversity hotspot’.
Sacred places in Okinawa in the past and present
Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer (University of Vienna)
The paper discusses the change of perception of sacred places (utaki) in Okinawa from the post-war time
until the present. Whereas in the past, utaki were often disregarded, along with religious practices of ritualspecialists, nowadays they are seen as a precious cultural heritage of Okinawa.
The search for the Ryukyu albatross: wildlife and sovereignty conservation in the Senkaku islands,
1945-1972
Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)
This paper explores the relationship between wildlife and sovereignty conservation by examining a seriesof wildlife conservation campaigns that the Ryukyu University zoologist Takara Tetsuo carried out in thedisputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Isles during the U.S. military occupation of Okinawa (1945-1972).
S1_09 Heritage and history II
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30“Ruin” or “heritage”? A study on narratives and images of Gunkanjima
Shoko Sumida (Ritsumeikan University)
This presentation reveals how a place is experienced and decoded and the specific set of persons
responsible for this viewpoint. This is based on the case of Gunkanjima ― located in the Nagasaki
prefecture, with its formal name Hashima ― that was declared a World Cultural Heritage Site in 2015.

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16th century Japanese landscapes and gardens seen by Luis Frois
Cristina Castel-Branco (Lisbon University- ISA); Guida Carvalho (Institutu Superior de Agronomia Universidade de Lisboa)
Luis Frois wrote about 16thctry Japan. Removed from religious considerations we focus on landscapes,
gardens and architecture in Kyushu and the GoKinai portrayed by Frois, comparing with 16th/17th ctry
byobu paintings and present Japan. Luso-Nagasaki foundation is presented as fusion urban product.
Echos from the countryside: on how small communities of Shikoku reinvest in their past to look to
the future
Diego Cosa Fernandez (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan)
Heritage, ecology, urban regeneration, Shikoku.
S1_10 Alternative life and living arrangements
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Between the public and the private: shared living in contemporary urban Japan
Helena Grinshpun (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The talk focuses on Japan’s recent “share house” trend and discusses it as a new format of urban
collective housing informed by Japan’s changing socio-economic agenda. I explore the physical space of
the “share house” and its social function of generating alternative modes of intimacy and belonging.
The perpetuation of structures of social inequality in contemporary Japan through the ongoingpolicy of community-building projects
Kie Sanada (Humboldt University Berlin)
Taking a case of one Japanese village community, my paper elucidates a mechanism, under which thehistorically constituted and therefore locally specific structure of social inequality is perpetuated via an
ongoing state-led regional policy, namely community building projects.
Gambling in the suburbs: a sociomaterial analysis of pachinko in contemporary Japan
Tommaso Barbetta (University of Tokyo)
Adopting the analytical tools of actor-network theory, the present paper investigates the controversial role
played by pachinko and pachinko halls in the everyday life of suburban Japan, focusing on the spatial
production of habits and addictive behaviours.
Eco-branding: rural revitalisation in the aftermath of Biomass towns
Lisa Yoshikawa (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
The paper examines rural “cities” attempting to brand and revitalise themselves as eco-town in face ofeconomic stagnation and demographic shifts. They do so by co-opting the central government’s national
goals to become the world’s eco-leader, often on the backs of rural efforts and resources.
S1_12 Developing international tourism in Japan: perceptions of and interactions with foreign
visitors
Convenor: Clothilde Sabre (Hokkaido University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel aims to question how Japanese inbound tourism actors perceive and integrate the experiences
and the representations of foreign visitors and how it influence local development of the sites. Three cases
will be presented and discussed, with an interdisciplinary perspective.

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American Soldiers as Foreign Tourists and Interactions of “American tourist gaze” in the Japanese
Occupation Period
Riichi Endo (Hokkaido University)
This presentation will discuss about forms of tourist experiences and images in Japanese international
tourism by picking up cases about travels carried out by American soldiers and Japanese tourist industries
which planned tours for them in the Japanese occupation period.
Japan getting international through the Okinawan tourism
Mike Perez (University of Lyon 3)
I will stress the processes by which Okinawan tourism was developed as a foreign destination in Japan.
Then, I will argue about how the Okinawa Prefecture plays a major function in building the image ofJapan as an attractive destination for international tourist and as a multicultural country.
Developing tourism with media contents, from Akihabara to Hokkaido?
Clothilde Sabre (Hokkaido University)
This presentation will compare Akihabara (Tokyo) and Hokkaido as tourist destinations, in order toquestion the influence of media contents on tourism careers of foreign travelers in Japan. The notion of‘contents tourism’ will be introduce and question to understand tourism development in Japan.
S1_13 Socioeconomic change in non-metropolitan Japan
Torre B, Piso 3, T10: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Survival at the margins: precarious livelihoods in rural Japanese fishing communities
Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo)
This contribution explores the question of how livelihoods of small family businesses in Japanese
coastal fisheries are challenged – and defended – in the context of dwindling resource stocks, new global
commodity chains in seafood produce and the intensified territorialisation of maritime space.
Outsider/insider: being different in rural Japan
Barbara Holthus (University of Vienna); Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna)
Deviance from mainstream society is difficult to imagine in Japan’s close-knit rural communities.
Combining Goffman’s theory of backstage-frontstage with ethnographic data from fieldwork insouthwestern Japan, we demonstrate how individuals deal with the intricacies of communal life.
Socio-spatial inequality between international tourist destinations in Japan
Carolin Funck (Hiroshima University)
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in international tourists visiting Japan. The economic, socialand environmental impact they have differs throughout the country. This paper examines socio-spatial
inequalities caused by the unequal distribution and sudden changes in international tourism.

S2: Language and Linguistics
S2_01 Rethinking the world through language: the role of Esperanto in modern Japanese history
Convenor: Ian Rapley (Cardiff University)
Discussant: Gotelind Müller-Saini (University of Heidelberg)
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel explores how Japanese people engaged with the planned language Esperanto, from the late
19th to the mid 20th centuries: how they used it to analyze the key role of language in ordering society, tomake connections across borders, and to advocate a fairer, more modern and better world.

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Why Is Esperanto so popular in Japan?
Joshua Fogel (York University)
Esperanto has no identifiable links to Japanese, and yet it remains popular in Japan. How is it themost famous of putatively international languages can have acquired such a following in Japan? This
presentation examines this question with several case studies.
Volapük, Pekesaranpan, Zilengo, & Esperanto: the International languages of Meiji Japan
Ian Rapley (Cardiff University)
By considering familiar linguistic events such as Mori Arinori’s English proposal and some unfamiliar
ones such as the planned language projects of Volapük and Zilengo, this paper will begin to write aninternational dimension into the history of Japan’s nineteenth century linguistic thinking.
Inclusive design in Esperanto and romanisation movements in 1930s Japan
Joseph Essertier (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
The linguist and Esperantist Saitō Hidekatsu (1908-1940) believed that a child’s native written language
as well as their second language should be easy to learn. He proposed a two-step process: learn
Romanized Japanese. Then Esperanto. A debate over inclusive design of language ensued.
S2_02 Construction and utilisation of the corpus of historical Japanese: Man’yōshū andChristian materials
Convenor: Toshinobu Ogiso (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Discussant: Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford)
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
At NINJAL, construction of the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ) is proceeding. Most recently, weare developing two new sub-corpora of Man’yōshū and Christian Materials. This panel includes twopresentations on these new sub-corpora and one research presentation utilizing the new CHJ.
Construction and utilisation of the corpus of Christian materials (Kirishitan Shiryō)Atsuko Kawaguchi (Mie University); Yuki Watanabe (Nagoya Woman’s University); Miwako Murayama(National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
In this presentation, we report on the construction and the utilisation of the corpus of Christian materials(Kirishitan shiryō). These are crucial materials reflecting colloquial late Middle Japanese, and this corpus
will be released as part of the Corpus of Historical Japanese.
The design and characteristics of the Man’yoshu corpus
Tomoaki Kono (The University of Tokyo)
Man’yoshu is a collection of Japanese poetry, compiled in the eight century. This anthology includes
contemporary dialects and the original texts are written in kanji characters. We designed and are
constructing the corpus of Man’yoshu, which enables researchers to study these features.
Historical changes in the distribution of Japanese Perfective Markers -tu and -nu
Takashi Nomura (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
I discuss the historical changes in the distribution of -tu and -nu, using the Corpus of Historical Japanese.
In the Nara Period, -tu followed volitional verbs while -nu followed non-volitional verbs, and -tu rarely
co-occurred with -keri. In the Heian Period, there existed unpredicted patterns.
S2_03 Phonetics and phonology
Chair: Guiseppe Pappalardo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel is devoted to structural constraints and social variability of Japanese phonetics and phonology,
including cross-linguistic influences.

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Positional restrictions on the non-nasal coda phoneme Q in Japanese
Kunihiko Kuroki (Kobe Shoin University)
In this talk, I clarify that positional restrictions on the non-nasal coda phoneme Q in Japanese can bedivided into four levels based on the strength. This study intends to describe how coda phonemes arephonologically opposed to each other in Japanese.
Sociolinguistic factors affecting vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese: a corpus-based analysis
Giuseppe Pappalardo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)This paper aims to analyse the sociolinguistic variation of vowel devoicing using the CSJ. Age, genderand speech style variation has been analysed for different phonological environments. Particular attention
will be given to atypical environments which showed a higher rate of variability.
Cross-language phoneme mapping: phonological constraints in the case of Slovene mid-central
vowel in Japanese
Nina Golob (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)
This is an empirical study on how Japanese categorize the Slovene mid-central unrounded vowel in their
L1. Based on the reports that such mapping displays certain patterns, the paper discusses segmental andprosodic constraints of the target language that possibly contribute to such patterning.
S2_04 Syntax I
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This panel addresses syntactic structures with a focus on its pragmatic meaning.
The noun phrase “X no-Naka-no X” and the desirability hypothesis [JP]Hiroshi Abe (Tohoku University)
The phrase “X no-Naka-no X (= X in X)”, like “Otoko no-Naka-no Otoko (= man in men)” means not
a prototype X but a “desirable” X. By this phenomena, I would like to point out the existence of the“desirability” subjectivity.
Case drop as a gradable phenomenon in nominal units of Japanese.
Arkadiusz Jabłoński (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Quite contrary to the frequently mentioned agglutinating features of Japanese, with relatively easy
division of a word into its lexical stem and grammatical content, some morphological phenomena still
happen to be misdefined. The omission of nominal modifiers (case drop) is undoubtedly one of them.
Ellipsis: the strategies for efficiency in Japanese and Korean
Sunghee Youn (Kwansei Gakuin University)
This study examines ellipsis in Japanese and Korean, focusing on strategies frequently adopted forachieving conciseness. The survey of translated subtitles and newspaper headlines shows that the two
languages utilize different strategies in order to meet spatial and temporal constraints.
S2_05 Syntax II
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel adresses syntax of Japanese and Ainu with a focus on the nature or type of statement made.
Benefactive constructions in modern Japanese: corpus-based approach
Natalia Solomkina (Russian State University for the Humanities)
In this research we study benefactive constructions of modern Japanese in Internet and spoken language
using National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) corpora. We take a look at theway they deviate from standard Japanese using semantic and syntactic criteria.

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Syntactic research on “greeting expressions” in Japanese written corpus
Manami Fujihira (Osaka University)
This research examines the “greeting expressions” in Japanese, such as “Arigatou”. This research
discusses the syntactic structure of “Arigatou” sentence based on findings from written corpus andcompare to other similar greeting expressions.
Inferential evidentiality in Sakhalin Ainu
Elia Dal Corso (SOAS University London)
This study explores evidentiality in Sakhalin Ainu (SA). Here I focus on evidentiality that expresses
information source based on inference. Using a semantic-based approach, I propose a tentative analysis of
SA inferential constructions, highlighting their interaction with the category of tense.
S2_06 New approaches to and fields of Japanese linguistics
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
In this panel new approaches to the study of Japanese and new or understudied fields are presented.
Experimental approach to semantics of spatial description in modern JapaneseMaria Telegina (University of Oxford)
Cognitive semantics approach is utilized to formulate a typology of spatial description strategies basedon the results of a spontaneous speech experiment involving 51 Japanese native speaking residents of the
Kanto area.
Changing use of Japanese language among Bolivian Nikkei
Yvonne Siemann (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
After WWII, groups of mainland Japanese and Okinawans migrated to Bolivian lowlands. What does theuse of Japanese language mean for these 2500 Bolivian Nikkei? How has it changed over time and why,also with regard to the economic usefulness of their connection to Japan?
Moraic linguistic rhythm in developmental dyslexia
Fusa Katada (Waseda University)
A mysterious discrepancy in the prevalence of English and Japanese dyslexic populations is led tostrengthening the mora-basic hypothesis that the moraic rhythm serves as a universal prosodic frame. This
conforms to a human neurobiological restriction inclined toward a synchronized behavior.
S2_07 Historical linguistics
Chair: Sven Osterkamp (Ruhr University Bochum)
Torre B, Piso 3, T16: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
In this panel historical papers touching on structures, prehistory and genealogical affiliation of Japaneseare presented.
Reflexes of Proto-Japonic *r in Sakishima languages
Aleksandra Jarosz (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
In this paper, the development of Proto-Japonic *r in Sakishima will be discussed. Two symmetrical rules
will be posited: flap deletion rule, whereby *r got deleted if followed by *i or *u, and flap assimilation
rule, whereby *r preceded by *i or *u assimilated with an adjacent consonant.
Ananda ain’t not alone
Sven Osterkamp (Bochum University)
The past negative in -(a)nanda is widely attested since the 15th century, but no consensus has ever beenreached concerning its etymology. Refuting most previous proposals, we will suggest an origin involving
a doubled negative suffix -(a)n- and provide corroborating evidence for such a solution.

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S2: Language and Linguistics“Eastern Altaic languages” as a language area
Vít Ulman (Charles University in Prague)
This paper will attempt to analyze “eastern Altaic languages” (Japanese, Korean, Tungusic) as a language
area using approaches from comparative linguistics and linguistic typology.
S2_08 Texts and philology
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel analysis modern and pre-modern Japanese texts.
Hentaigana charts in Meiji textbooks revisited: an analysis of Hentaigana charts
Kazuhiro Okada (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
The nature of hentaigana charts, or charts of non-standard hiragana characters, in Meiji textbooks is
discussed. A statistical analysis of the charts shows that they largely overlap, implying that the chartsdiffer from the characters used in the contents, contrary to earlier views.
The validity of using Iroha-Jiruishō to interpret ancient Japanese diaries of the male nobility
Akari Fujimoto (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Sota Tanaka (The Universityof Tokyo)
In this presentation, we show the relationship and similarities between the words of Iroha-Jiruishō (色葉字類抄), one of the old Japanese dictionaries from the Heian period, and the words of the ancient diary“Meigetsuki” (明月記) written by a male noble of the same era.
New Japanese words for new social phenomena as reflected in Japan Times
Anca Focseneanu (University of Bucharest)
In this paper I discuss the status of newly created words in Japanese that refer to new social phenomena or
trends such as konkatsu (marriage hunting) or ikumen (men engaged in child-rearing and homemaking).
My analysis is based on words collected from articles in Japan Times from 2015 and 2016.
S2_09 Language, technology and translation
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel focusses on digital humanities and translation.
Building a general database system of Chinese character dictionaries in Early Japan:
Tenreibanshōmeigi in the HDIC project
Yuan Li (Hokkaido University); Shoju Ikeda (Hokkaido University)
This paper introduces the Integrated Database of Hanzi Dictionaries in Early Japan, also known as the
HDIC project, which is composed of three main dictionaries of the Heian period. We provide a detailed
report of the full-text publication of one dictionary: Tenreibanshōmeigi 篆隷万象名義 in the HDIC.
“Web Chamame”: a morphological analysis support software using UniDic for historical Japanese
documents
Tomoaki Tsutsumi (Tokyo Denki University); Toshinobu Ogiso (National Institute for Japanese Language
and Linguistics)“Web Chamame” is the morphological analysis support software using UniDic. That was made forthe purpose of support of a Japanese linguistic study. “Web Chamame” has been developed as a web
application, and it can be used easily using web browsers.
Translating the untranslatable: a Yiddish text in the Japanese rendering
Tomasz Majtczak (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
The paper will aim to collect some Yiddish words which seem untranslatable or very difficult to translate,
and to investigate the way they are rendered into Japanese. This will be done with the example of theJapanese translation of “The song of the murdered Jewish people” by Y. Katsenelson.

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S2_10 Language contact
Chair: Yoshiyuki Asahi (NINJAL)
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Languages come into contact in the repertoires of speakes, resulting in structural cross-linguistics
phenomena which are at the center of this panel.
On the transliteration of foreign geographical names in Japan: the role of character meaning in the
choice of written form
Anna Sharko (Waseda University)
In this presentation we will discuss the particularities of the transliteration of foreign geographical names
in Japan. We will pay special attention to the mechanisms of, and motivations for, the choice of written
form and how much the meaning of kanji influences this choice.
Use of English words to pronounce Japanese expressions: evidence from some Japanese language
textbooks during WWII
Yoshiyuki Asahi (NINJAL)
This paper report an instance of the Japanese language textbook printed during the World War II. Some
textbooks adopted English words to show Japanese words. This paper will examine how Japanesephonology demonstrated by Japanese American tutors is different from Japanese phonology by Japanese.
Extended classification of English loanword compounds
Anna Bordilovskaya (Rikkyo University)
This paper addresses the problem of Irwin’s classification of loanword compounds in Contemporary
Japanese focusing on English origin loanword compounds, and investigates the influence of the donor
language morphological and syntactic patterns (English in this research) on Japanese word formation.
S2_11 Language use
Chair: Orie Endo (emeritus)
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
People speak in order to get things done. How things are done with Japanese is at the heart of this panel.
The pragmatics of Tsukkomi: a conversation analysis of interaction in the My Funny Talk corpus
Goran Vaage (Kobe College)
In this paper, the MFT corpus was analyzed in terms of structure and interactional functions, focusing on
back-channeling, confirmations, questions and tsukkomi. Furthermore, three distinct patterns of tsukkomi
was established, confirming that tsukkomi is a part of social interaction in Japanese.
Recent honorifics: confusion in the use of humble forms
Orie Endo
最近、尊敬語のつもりで謙譲語を用いた誤用が多くみられる。2016年９月には安倍首相が、「陛下が国民に向けてご発言されたこと…」と述べて、新聞にもそのまま載った。尊敬表現なら、「ご発言をされた」か、「発言された」であるはずのところである。介護記録の中にも尊敬語のつもりで、「○○さんが申した」のような記載がある。一方で文化庁の調査では、敬語は簡素化する方がいいという意見26.1%に対して、豊かな表現を大切にすべきとの意見が64.1％となっている。こうした最近の日本語の中の敬語の混乱について具体例をもとに考察する。
Translanguaging as community building: linguistic identity and ideology at a College of Liberal
Arts in Kyoto
Gregory Poole (Doshisha University)
This paper examines the everyday practice of translanguaging at a department of liberal arts in Kyoto.
Ethnographic data reveal how identities and ideologies of the community members are constructed byeveryday communicative practices.
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S2_12 Young speakers of Japanese
Chair: Zi Wang (Duisburg-Essen University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
Language is transmitted from generation to generation, and it is changing as an effect thereof. YoungJapanese is the future of Japanese.
Corrupted language? An examination of young students’ strategies of (im)politeness and identity
negotiations
Zi Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen)
The aim of this presentation is to dispel the myth that young people in Japan are experiencing increasing
difficulty in using polite language. To do this, I present data from seven months of fieldwork. I also
highlight the importance of club activities as a research setting for sociolinguistics.
Doing friendship through conversational humour: a case study of spontaneous conversational
interactions between two Japanese young men who identify as close friends
Halina Zawiszová (Palacký University in Olomouc)
The paper discusses findings from the analysis of conversational humour used by two young male friends.
It shows that they have developed a specific humour style and focuses on two types of highly ritualized
conversational activities that emerged from the analysis as particularly salient.
Linguistic change among the young generation in the Grand Tokyo Area
Mariko Kuno (Kokugakuin University)
The aim is to demonstrate variations of the language spoken by the young generation who live in theGrand Tokyo area. They speak this language in private occasions. For instance, the pronunciation of theword ten-in has changed. New expressions like murijane are becoming more popular.
S2_13 Multilingual Japan
Chair: Fumiya Hirataka (Keio University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Japan is multlingual, but its languages have distinct vitality and uses. They are also taught and managed
differently.
Exploring the possibility of utilizing “picture-story show” to inherit endangerd language -In thecase of Hachijoan- [JP]Yosuke Miki (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Discuss the approach to apply Oral discourse database to preservation and succession activities ofendangered language. As an example of documentation and visualization of performance of picture-story
show by speakers of Hachijoan, I focus on the style of “storytelling” and discuss it.
The Japanese sign language
Yoko Nishina (Hiroshima University)
An overview on the linguistic structure of the Japanese Sign Language (nihon shuwa) will be presented.
We will see similarities and differences between the oral language and the sign language which are bothto be considered natural languages.
On possibilities and problems of mother language education in Japan: another aspect ofmultilingual Japan
Fumiya Hirataka (Keio University)
I will outline the present situation of mother language education in Japan, point out possibilities andproblems based on interviews with mother language teaching groups in Hyogo prefecture, and discuss
future issues in order to approach this aspect of achieving a multilingual Japan.

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S2_14 Linguistic innovation and presentations of “self”
Chair: Hideko Abe (Colby College)
Torre B, Piso 3, T15: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Language is also used “to be somone”. How to be someone in Japanese is at the heart of this panel.
Emoticons in Social Media - The case of Kaomoji in Facebook Communication
Michaela Oberwinkler (University of Tübingen)This paper is a report of a sociolinguistic corpus analysis of Japanese posts and comments collected in
Facebook. It investigates the graphical structure, the meaning and the functions of Kaomoji with a focus
on gender and generation differences.
Linguistic Practice of a Japanese Transsexual Speaker
Hideko Abe (Colby College)
This study examines how an MtF transsexual speaker, Hirasawa Yüna, a manga artist has transitioned
from a man to a woman linguistically. Based on 25-hour-videotaped-conversation over the period of 10
months in 2016, it analyzes two aspects of linguistic transfer; (1) voice quality and (2) grammar.
Character and role language in a wider framework of thought on language and society
Andrej Bekeš (University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts)
Recent research on kyara (character) and yakuwarigo (role language), by Sadanobu, Kinsui et.al., merits
careful examination in the framework of similar research in the “West”. This paper examines theirapproach focusing on the concepts, such as social context, polyphony, social roles, and habitus.

S3a: Modern LiteratureS3a_01 Literature and education in modern Japan: Three case studies of non-official education
through the medium of literature
Convenor: Pieter Van Lommel (University of Tsukuba)
Chair & discussant: Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel investigates the role modern Japanese literature played as an alternative form of educationfrom Meiji to Shōwa by exploring various ways in which ‘pure’ literature, school readers and farmers’
drama each targeted specific readerships and complemented or contradicted official education.
Educating the periphery: an ideological analysis of Tayama Katai’s Inaka Kyōshi
Pieter Van Lommel (University of Tsukuba)This paper presents an ideological analysis of Tayama Katai’s novel Inaka Kyoshi from the point of viewof the country teacher in late Meiji. Drawing on contemporary sources such as novels written for teachers
and a teacher’s diary, Katai’s critical stance as well as its limitations are discussed.
Centre and periphery in literature education: the case of Shimazaki Tōson
Irina Holca (Kyoto University)
This paper analyses the role played by some of Shimazaki Tōson’s works in shaping the periphery of
the “kokugo” and “bungaku” education, while shedding light on the way other peripheries, such as theJapanese countryside, the colonies, and the world outside Japan, are represented therein.
(Made to) act out farmers: the educational aspects of the Japanese peasant literature movement
Akiyo Suzuki (Kanazawa University)
In this paper, I analyze drama composed for peasants in early Showa, focusing on the relationshipbetween the theory put forth by Nakamura Seiko and others and the agricultural policy of the same era.
The features and limitations of peasant drama as an educational tool are discussed.
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S3a: Modern LiteratureS3a_02 Violent fictions: literatures of mobilisation in trans-war Japan and Korea
Convenor: Christina Yi (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Naoki Watanabe (Musashi University)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
We investigate the ways literature addresses the politics of war mobilization in East Asia from the late
1930s through the 1970s, focusing on fiction and literary criticism produced out of the encounter between
Japan and Korea under the conditions of colonial modernity, occupation, and the Cold War.
The scandal and horror of colonial modernity: stories of the Pure White Sect from late colonial
Korea
Mi-Ryong Shim (Northwestern University)
This paper examines depictions of the Pure White Sect, a religious cult in colonial Korea that became
exposed to the public in the late 1930s. The paper argues that the sensational and melodramatic aspects ofthese accounts at once legitimized and pointed to the limits of colonial modernity.
Chang Hyŏkchu and Japan’s Korean War
Samuel Perry (Brown University)
This paper examines the Occupation Era work of Chang Hyŏkchu, among the first Koreans to benaturalised as a Japanese, whose stories about war widows trapped in Korea, in particular, shed light on
the simultaneously semi-colonial and post-imperial nature of Korean War fiction written in Japan.
Returnees, residents, and other remainders of the Japanese Empire
Christina Yi (University of British Columbia)
This paper illuminates the theoretical and political limits of so-called “repatriate literature” (hikiage
bungaku) by comparing Ri Kaisei’s “Shōnin no inai kōkei” (Scene Without a Witness, 1970) with
Morisaki Kazue’s “Hōkan suketchi ni yosete” (Sketches of My Visit To South Korea, 1970).
S3a_03 Reading Ōe Kenzaburō’s a political youth dies in the 21st century
Convenor: Brett de Bary (Cornell University)
Discussant: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (Freie Universität Berlin)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
Upon publication of the first translation of Õe Kenzaburō’s 1961 A Political Youth Dies (Seiji Shōnen
Shisu) and its long-suppressed original (Hijiya-Kirschnereit/Held, 2015), the panel assesses implicationsof Õe’s depiction of ultra-nationalism and the Shōwa Emperor for postwar Japan and today.
Ultranationalism as irony
Yōichi Komori (University of Tokyo)
Using Ōe’s own reflections on the seductive power of ultranationalism as a springboard, the paper
examines the formal structure of A Political Youth Dies in relation to the central status given to thepostwar emperor system in Ōe’s fictional worlds.
Reading a political youth dies after the collapse of the Cold War system
Ryuichi Narita (Japan Women’s University)
The “political human being” of Ōe’s A Political Youth Dies will be considered with the term, “sexual
human being” in other works written in the era of the Cold War. Ōe’s efforts to imagine the “inner life” ofthe terrorist contrasts with the monolithic image of the terrorist in the 21st century.
Herz und Mund und Tat und Terrorismus
Hideto Tsuboi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Recalling Ishikawa Takuboku’s image of the terrorist, this paper considers how the actions perpetratedby Ōe’s 1960’s political youth are drowned out in a flood of televisual images. It is time to confront thislong-lost text of the 1960’s and consider its possible homologies with the present time.
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S3a_04 The politics and practice of everyday life in modern Japanese literature (Bungaku-KaraNichijyo-o-Tou)
Convenor: Nozomi Uematsu (Queen Mary, University of London)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This panel explores the politics and practice of “everyday life” in Modern Japanese Literature. Each paper
will question how one ‘senses’ and regards one’s experience in everyday life, and explore the way inwhich literature politicises and provides dissidence to these experiences through language.
Politics in a girl’s everyday life: “Women’s happiness” in Banana Yoshimoto’s kitchen
Nozomi Uematsu (Queen Mary, University of London)
This paper explores the pedagogy of “happiness” in women’s everyday life in Banana Yoshimoto’s
Kitchen, in the context of neoliberalism. Looking at the social discourse of the 80s, I will discuss thecontradictory connections between women’s workforce and domesticity in relation to their happiness.
The politics of representing and transmitting 3.11 trauma narratives
Linda Flores (University of Oxford)
This paper explores literature after 3.11 and the ethics of representing the disaster that so profoundly
disrupted the norms and rhythms of everyday life in Japan. This paper is concerned with two issues: thepolitics of representing 3.11 and the transmission of trauma narratives about 3.11.
The politics of everyday modernism in Kawabata Yasunari’s 1920s writing
Stephen Dodd (SOAS University of London)
This paper will analyse how Kawabata and Yokomitsu explore the sense of reality in everyday life though
new literary expression, focusing on the senses and perception. It will explore links between cultural life,
especially in terms of the emergence of modernism, and political life in 1920s Japan.
S3a_05 Literary expression opening the way for the present: focusing on political incorrectness
as keyword
Convenors: Keiko Kanai (Waseda University); Daniela Moro (Ca’ Foscari University); Caterina Mazza(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Chair: Hannah Osborne (University of Oxford)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Looking at works of post-war Japanese literature handling characters in a condition of disadvantage or
marginality, the aim of the panel is to suggest a reflection on the strategic use of political incorrectness ina selected corpus of fictions that rework contemporary socially accepted discourses.
Who makes up for the Little Fox? Reading “Minamata umi no koe” by Ishimure Michiko after the
3.11 Disaster
Keiko Kanai (Waseda University)“Minamata umi no koe” is narrated from the stance of equivalence between human beings andenvironment. While taking a distance from the tendencies of appreciation she is having in the field ofEnvironmental Literature, I would like to think of a possibility to re-read Ishimure Michiko’s works.
The “curse of Eguchi”: women’s figures between sexual slavery and agency in Eguchi suieki (1981)
by Saegusa Kazuko
Daniela Moro (Ca’ Foscari University)
I propose an analysis of “Eguchi suieki” (1981) by Saegusa Kazuko from the point of view of genderand intertextuality with the noh play “Eguchi”, focusing on the image of the female sex worker between
slavery and agency and I explore the possibilities of the text in the contemporary context.

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Politics, porn and parody: Takahashi Gen’ichirō’s “Koi suru genpatsu” (2011) and the strategic
power of “Incorrectness”
Caterina Mazza (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)In this presentation I will show how in his short novel “Koi suru genpatsu”, Takahashi Gen’ichirō (b.
1951) exploits parody to show the critical function of self-reflexive literature, rising a political incorrect
voice against the supremacy of the “not said” in the Japanese society.
S3a_06 “Can the dead speak?”: the politics of ‘voice’ in Japan’s nuclear literature
Convenor: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya University)
Discussant: Ina Hein (University of Vienna)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Analyzing literary responses to Japan’s nuclear catastrophes, we focus on textual representations of the“voices of the dead” and their function as political metaphors. Exploring narrative strategies, we seek to
identify the greater political issues that this choice of narrative perspective implies.
Literary texts after catastrophe: representations of the voices of the deadDaniela Tan (University of Zurich)
Literary texts giving voice to the dead after catastrophic events show a recurrent pattern. What structures
do writers apply to create space for these narratives, and which implications does this have for the debate
about the role of literature and literary critique dealing with catastrophic events?
Unburied bodies, wandering souls: the Poetics and Politics of “Voice” in Post-3.11 Japanese
Literature
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya University)
I analyze several post-3.11 novels that focus on the relationship between the dead and the living, and aresometimes narrated from the perspective of the dead. I consider the political implications of this choice of
narrative perspective, references to religious practices, and the meaning of time.
From a distance: ways of listening to the dead in Elfriede Jelinek’s “Kein Licht” [JP]Asako Fukuoka (Kobe Univercity)
This paper analyzes literary strategies of “listening to voices of the dead” of Austrian playwright Elfriede
Jelinek’s response to the Fukushima meltdowns. It illustrates their political connotations and impact incontext of the “tojisha”-problematic in Japan.
S3a_07 Japan, Russia, and revolution
Convenor: Robert Tierney (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
2017 is the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. This panel marks that anniversary by
exploring the reverberations of revolutionary Russia in the politics and culture of Japan in the first half ofthe twentieth century.
The revolutionary music of Dmitri Shostakovich in Japan
Robert Tierney (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)This paper focuses on the reception of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich in Japan, particularly
during the early post-war period when his works had a catalyzing effect on social movements affiliatedwith the then powerful Japan Communist Party.
Pilnyak on Revolution and Japan (1926 and 1932)
Michael Finke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Soviet author Boris Pilnyak visited Japan in 1926 and 1932 and published two related travelogues
and other short works. This talk discusses Pilnyak’s idiosyncratic depiction of Japan, including thepolitical situation and his own reception as representative of the Russian Revolution.
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Futabatei Shimei and the revolutionary challenges to Japan’s imperial project
Marvin Marcus (Washington University in St Louis)
This paper explores the tension between Meiji Japan’s imperial project and the emergence of political
idealism and activism inspired by Russia’s revolutionary movement. It centers on the writings ofFutabatei Shimei and the reformist work of the Heiminsha (People’s Society) coterie.
S3a_08 Identity and commitment In 1960s Japan
Convenor: Thomas Garcin (The University of Strasbourg)
Chair: Mayumi Shimosakai (University of Orléans)Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel aims at investigating and analyzing the complex relationships between committed literatureand the quest for identity in 1960s Japan. Special attention will be paid to the interactions between theauthors’ literary identities and the community.
Disillusionment and commitment in the 1960s: Mishima Yukio and Takahashi Kazumi
Thomas Garcin (The University of Strasbourg)
This paper aims at analyzing the relationship between Mishima Yukio and Takahashi Kazumi’s texts andhighlight the similarities and differences between both writers in their relationship to politics, identity andcommitment. I will focus my analysis on two novels published in 1969.
The genesis of “Zainichi” Korean writing: the case of Kim Tal-su and Kim Seok-peom [JP]Mayumi Shimosakai (University of Orléans)The first “Zainichi” Korean writers, Kim Tal-su and Kim Soek-poem, described Korea mainly through its
historical turmoil. Their literary project was doubly political: denouncing foreign intervention in Korea
and inventing at the same time a new kind of writing within the “Japanese Literature”.
Struggles and eros: Morisaki Kazue [JP]Makiko Andro-Ueda (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales)
Morisaki Kazue (1927-) is a writer now being rediscovered. In the 1960s, in addition to her well known
reports, she wrote various works on women’s issues. Without any access to gender studies, her style
strayed between poetry, theoretical reflections and letters, that we propose to analyse.
S3a_09 The Rebirth of the Author
Convenors: J. Keith Vincent (Boston University); Teru Shimamura (Ferris University); Reiko Auestad(University of Oslo); Kirsten Cather (University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: J Keith Vincent (Boston University)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
With papers by Reiko Abe Auestad on Tsushima Yuko, Kirsten Cather on Dazai Osamu, and Shimamura
Teru on Shiga Naoya, this panel explores methods of making the author matter that far exceed the once
dominant division between “sakka-ron” and “sakuhinron.”.
Locating Dazai in Landscape and Literature
Kirsten Cather (University of Texas at Austin)
Kirsten Cather examines the case of Dazai Osamu to ask what happens when the promise of
autobiographical literary criticism and tourism meets an author whose work was as much about his deathas his life.
Tsushima Yûko: Calling upon the Dead
Reiko Auestad (University of Oslo)
Reiko Abe Auestad’s paper finds in Tsushima Yūko’s novels a strategy that intensifies readers’ relations tocharacters in a way that depends for its ethical force on the readers’ knowledge of Tsushima’s own life.

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Re-evaluating the “I-novel” Reading Mode in Shiga Naoya’s “Kōjinbutsu no fūfu,” “Wakai,” and“Takibi”
Teru Shimamura (Ferris University)
In this presentation, I take a step away from historically normalized “I-novel” style of reading to focus onhow, in the three of his most important novels, his novelistic language zeroes in on certain “omens,” or“portents,” that seem to emerge from archaic layers of the Japanese language.
S3a_10 Politics of transgressive sexualities in modern Japanese literature
Convenor: Linda Galvane (Stanford University)
Discussant: Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley College)
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel explores the politics of non-normative sexualities in modern Japanese literature, examining theprocesses behind the formation of these sexual expressions and transgressive body images and how these
representations have related to changing socio-cultural and political circumstances.
Incest taboo across the boundaries: negotiation of brother-sister incest in modern Japanese
literature through alignment with subordinate geography
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Osaka University)
This paper attempts to analyze the reconcilation of a semi-taboo sexual relationship such as brothersister love by escaping to, and alignment with, the subordinate geographical sphere such as Manchuria,
observed in cases such as Shimazaki Toson’s _Vita Nova_ or Futabatei Shime’s _In His Image_.
Pregnant with shit: the politics inscribed in the representations of enema in the post-war Japanesepublications of ‘perverse sexual desire’
Linda Galvane (Stanford University)
This paper explores the representations of queer female bodies and sexuality in the works dedicated toenema in the magazine Kitan Club in 1950s, demonstrating how this non-productive sexual practice canbe read as a remonstration to the pre-war imperial ideology of “good wife, wise mother.”Female freaks: provocative bodies in the 1990s
Noriko Hiraishi (University of Tsukuba)This paper explores the representations of female bodies as “freaks” in the 1990s Japanese fiction. By
analyzing two cases that focus on such women (with a penis growing out of one’s toe and a plasticsurgery beauty), it examines how the queer bodies challenge the sexual norms of Japanese society.
S3a_11 Post-Fukushima arts
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Literature and politics after “Fukushima”: criticism of “system” and society in Kirino Natsuo’s
novel “Baraka”
Lisette Gebhardt (Goethe-Universität)
Kirino’s post-disaster-novel Baraka points out the deep discontent of Japanese people with the current
state of things as well as the doubts whether “Fukushima” could be a caesura in regard to a moredemocratic country. The text represents contemporary Japanese “political literature” after ‘3.11’.
Literature as visual art: imagination and visuality since 3/11
Shigemi Nakagawa (Ritsumeikan University)
Given that literature is an art of language, it is essentially distinct from the visual arts. We must also
consider the problem of the visual images contained therein. In this paper, I want to consider the notable
shift in visual images in Japanese literature after March 11th, 2011.

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Stop thinking! Suspension of thought and political representation in the fiction of Takahashi
Genichirō
Filippo Cervelli (University of Oxford)
The paper explores how suspension of critical thought is played out in the characters in Takahashi
Genichirō’s fiction. It argues that in such works this phenomenon is at the core of the great discrepancy
between Japanese citizens and political representation often denounced by the author.
S3a_12 Redefining coloniality of modern ‘Japan’
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
From Ian Hideo Levy to Rībi Hideo: some strategies for reading border-crossing literature
Dan Fujiwara (Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University)
My presentation aims to propose strategies for reading “border-crossing literature” (ekkyō bungaku) bytackling Rībi Hideo. A close reading that focuses on his writing style might lead us to regard his work as atruly literary practice, not as just testimony of our globalized world.
Representing the unrepresented: resistant voices in the discourse about Okinawa
Ina Hein (University of Vienna)
This paper discusses Medoruma Shun’s essay collection Okinawa ‘sengo’ zero-nen and Ôe Kenzaburô’s
Okinawa nôto. It will be analyzed what aspects of the relationship between Okinawa and Japan are
addressed, what writing strategies are used, and what overall messages can be identified.
When Irish literature encountered Formosa: Kikuchi Kan’s “The Son Of The Rebel” and Lady
Gregory’s “The Goal Gate”
Pei-Chen Wu (National Chengchi University)
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how the imagination of Irish literature traversed geographicalboundaries as well as to show how Kikuchi Kan adapted Lady Gregory’s play and how Liang Qi-chao’s
adopted the political narratives to represent the colonial Taiwan.
S3a_13 Politics of Translation
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Transformation of A “Queer”Little Princess: Transition of Shokojo from Wakamatsu Shizuko to
Itoh Sei
Wakako Taneda (Fuji Women`s University)
This study aims to compare and analyze the transformation of the “queerness” of A Little Princess during
the formation of the “Shojo Shosetsu (Girls’ fiction)” genre before and after the WWII, by taking a close
look at the the translated wordings, particularly gender-related ones.
(Re-)Appropriated Leitmotif Structures in Japanese Translations of Thomas Mann’s Novels,
Comparatively Retraced and Visualized via Corpus-driven Digital Analysis
Nicole Marion Mueller (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Leitmotif structures of several novels of Thomas Mann are compared with their Japanese translations
while implementing corpus-driven digital analysis and associated means of visualization. The results are
historically contextualized regarding Japanese self-definitions towards the West.
Integrating Politics and Love: The Novel Karyū shunwa and Japanese Political Fiction in the
Decade of the 1880s
Daniel Poch (University of Hong Kong)
This paper examines the thematic integration of love and politics in the novel Karyū shunwa (187879) through a narrative that emphasized the control of emotions and desire. This new type of narrativedecisively impacted the Japanese political novel and Tsubouchi Shōyō’s project of literary reform.

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S3a: Modern LiteratureS3a_14 Postwar Japanese Literary Climate
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Nakajima Atsushi: First Japanese Postcolonial Author?
Klemen Senica
Nakajima Atsushi is sometimes labeled a forerunner of Japanese postcolonial literature. This fact is rather
surprising for at least two reasons. Not only was Japan a colonial superpower for almost eighty years, but
Nakajima also did not live to see the collapse of the Empire of Japan in 1945.
Akogare no kuni: Postwar Japanese Writers to the Soviet Union
Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University of Rome)The fundamental question underlying this paper is how intellectuals of postwar Japan responded to theencounter with the Soviet Union, and in particular how their identity and beliefs were challenged by thatexperience, and to what extent such issues were embodied in their writings.
S3a_15 Reconstructing the Past
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Redefining Wasteland - Modern Japanese Poetry and the Paradigm of Change
Christian Chappelow (Goethe University Frankfurt)
The 1940s and 1950s saw the development of Contemporary Japanese Poetry (gendaishi). Looking at thedefining moments of this term, I aim to give an overview of ideological aspects of poetry production set
for change. Special focus will be given to new debates on the gendaishi since 2011.
In Search of Private History: Flâneur’s Imagination in Junichirō Tanizaki’s Yoshino-kuzu (1931)
Yuki Shimizu (Meiji University)
Modernism in Japan is characterised by the discontinuation from the past. Junichirō Tanizaki was thewriter who reconstructed the lost history in his novella Yoshino-kuzu. His imagination is associated with
Walter Benjamin’s flâneur who appropriates public history for re-narrating private history.
Uneasiness with the Present Time: Nostalgia in Japanese Literature of the Heisei Period
Elena Giannoulis (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper addresses contemporary notions of nostalgia in Japanese literature and asks why there is asociocultural need for a sentimentality for the past. Through close readings of Heisei literature it analyzes
different (narrative) forms and functions of nostalgia in Japan since the 1980s.
S3a_16 Representations of Violence
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Beauty of the Battlefield: Hayashi Fumiko’s War Diaries
Adam Gregus (Trier University)
In my paper, I will present Hayashi Fumiko’s (1903-1951) diaries from the offensive on the Chinese cityof Hankou in 1938. I will analyze both their form and content, examining their place within Hayashi’s
body of work, as well as within the state propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Dialogic Imagination of Tenkô Novel as Seen through Murayama Tomoyoshi’s “White Nights”
Juhee Lee (University of Tsukuba)
The tenkô novel is considered a form of the autobiographical I-novel genre. I reevaluate thisunderstanding by examining the dialogic relation between Dostoyevsky’s and Murayama Tomoyoshi’s“White Nights” and analyzing the novella’s polyphonic narrative structure.

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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword: the Role of Writing in a ‘Second Revolution’ of Meiji and the
Revolutionary Origin of Kunikida Doppo’s Writing Career
Yu Sakai (University of Oxford)
By focusing on the historical and intellectual role of the Minyūsha, this paper will show the revolutionary
origin of Kunikida Doppo’s writing. The Minyūsha’s and Doppo’s view of writing as a form of politicalengagement acutely challenges the commonly assumed separation of politics and literature.
S3a_17 Redefining Communality and Landscape
Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Does Love Conquer All? Reading Suzuki Izumi in Light of Yoshimoto Takaaki’s On Communal
Illusion
Irit Weinberg (Tel-Aviv University)
The paper will discuss the works of pioneering science fiction writer Suzuki Izumi in the context ofJapanese counter culture. I will read Suzuki’s works in the light of Yoshimoto Takaaki’s theory thathighlights the dangers of “communal illusion” of the state.
The “Politics of the Oppressed” and “Experience” in Kōbō Abe’s Early Works [JP]Xie Fang (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)This study focuses on the representations of the politically oppressed that appear repeatedly in Kōbō
Abe’s early works. The study concludes how the author’s experience of “absence” connects politics andliterature at the linguistic level through the text of “presence”.
Going in nearly perfect circles - The train ride as an alternative historiographic praxis in Shono
Yoriko’s “Taimu-surippu kombināto” (1994)
Stefan Wuerrer (The University of Tokyo)
This paper presents a reading of the female protagonist’s train ride in Shono Yoriko’s “Taimu-surippu
kombināto” as a non-linear, private, yet historical mode of remembering that calls into question the notionof a coherent self/narrative and historical other whithout erasing the female I.

S3b: Pre-modern LiteratureS3b_01 Poems, Prose and the real world: Intertextual associations of waka
Convenor: Thomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel explores intertextuality in waka poetry and its impact and effect, through the analysis ofreferences to Chinese tales in poetry, poems’ use to create multi-layered effects in prose contexts and, useof evidence in poetry competition judgements and appeals.
Kankoji waka: Intertextual relations between Japanese poetry and Chinese tales
Xueyan Juan (Tsinghua University)
This paper will consider the textual relationships in kankoji waka – poems referring to Chinese tales –arguing that these contributed to the generation and changing of poems’ meanings, outlining a four-partdivision of these intertextual functions.
The Creation of Multi-layered Worlds through Poetic Reference in Makura no sōshi
Koji Nakada (Tamagawa University)
This paper examines the use of poetry, poem excerpts and poetic vocabulary in Makura no sōshi to create
multi-layered expressions in the prose text. The focus will be an analysis of the section ‘After the Regent
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Frogs, Fish-Traps and Silkworms: Judgement and Appeal in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred
RoundsThomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
Inter- and extra-textual evidence reveals how value was assigned to individual poems. This paper
considers a contentious round in Roppyakuban uta’awase (Spring III: 22 on Frogs) to analyse theassertion of differing visions of poetic value and quality.
S3b_02 Commentary, Vernacularization, and Pictorialization: New directions in the study ofMurasaki Shikibu’s Edo-period legacy
Convenor: Gaye Rowley (Waseda University)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel focuses on unexplored aspects of the Edo afterlife of Murasaki Shikibu’s oeuvre.
Taking translation, broadly conceived, as their locus point, the panelists will explore commentary,
pictorialization, and vernacularization in the reception of Genji monogatari and Murasaki Shikibu nikki.
Text and Image in Baiō’s versions of The Tale of Genji
Akihiko Niimi (Waseda University)
In my presentation I shall look first at the distinctive features of the vernacular versions of Genji by“Baiō,” the ukiyoe artist Okumura Masanobu (1686-1784), before moving on to consider the originalityof Masanobu’s illustrations and their relationship to the text.
The creation of national prose in Japan’s eighteenth century: Ban Kōkei’s translations fromclassical Japanese
Rebekah Clements (Durham University)
This paper examines the scholar Ban Kōkei’s (1733-1806) advocacy of translation as a means ofcultivating a national Japanese prose style, drawing upon examples that include a translated sectionof Genji monogatari in Kōkei’s 1794 work, Utsushibumi warawa no satoshi (Translation for the
Enlightenment of Little Children).
Tales, Diaries, and Kokugakusha: The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
Yoko Ogawa (Matsue National College of Technology)
In my presentation I shall examine Murasaki Shikibu nikki shaku, a commentary by the Kokugakusha
Shimizu Noriaki, focusing on the texts he quotes in order to highlight the distinctive features of his
vernacular translation and the importance of research on tales and diaries by Kokugakusha.
S3b_03 Border-Crossing Through Word and Image: Gods, Poetry, and Topography
Convenor: Haruo Shirane (Columbia University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
In premodern Japan the human world coexisted with other worlds, of the dead, of gods, of nature. How
did one cross the borders between these worlds? The panel shows the significance of border-crossing andthe language and tropes associated with border-crossing in poetry, prose, and performance.
Poems Connecting Humans to Gods: Oracles, Offerings, Incantations, and Kagura
Tae Hirano (Seikei University)
It is believed that Japanese gods are engaged in the practice of waka, and many messages from the gods
have been transmitted in the form of waka, called takusenka (oracle poems). My paper will explore
various oracle poems between different realms.

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Words Representing Borders: The History of Hashi (Bridge) and Saka
Rie Kaneoka (Chiba University)
I argue that two key words in the understanding of the representation of topographical borders in theancient period were hashi and saka. In my paper I trace the historical evolution of the word hashi as a typeof boundary and show how and why it underwent various changes during its history.
Saigyō, A Border Poet: Nature and Border-Crossing Words
Tomomi Yoshino (Chuo University)
Saigyō , the medieval waka poet, is known as a cultural border-crosser. Then how is the “border-crossing”
achieved in Saigyō’s poetry? I will explore some rhetorical devices as they relate to the multidimensional“border-crossings” that are characteristic of Saigyō’s poetry.
S3b_04 Parodic representations of irogonomi characters in classical Japanese literature
Convenors: Raisa Porrasmaa (Helsinki University); Stina Jelbring (Stockholm University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
In classical Japanese literature, the character known as irogonomi is usually an ideal gentleman, interested
in romantic love. The panelists discuss the representations of these characters from the point of view ofhumor and parody. The timeline reaches from the Heian to the Edo period.
Lovesick Ladies, Emotional Gentlemen, and a Japanese Don Quijote: Some Humoristic Points of
Impact in the Court Literature of the Heian Period
Stina Jelbring (Stockholm University)
In the works of the Heian period we find examples of various kinds of humour such as parody. One
outstanding object of parody was, the aesthetic ideal to which sensitivity could be counted. We may seethat this ideal manifests itself in easily moved male courtiers, who could be depicted as comical.
Comical irogonomi characters and episodes in late Heian and Kamakura monogatari
Raisa Porrasmaa (Helsinki University)
In the case of late Heian and Kamakura monogatari, we meet gentlemen who are courting ladies in“irogonomic” way. However, these episodes end surprisingly in a comical or ironic fashion. I argue thatthe ideal (literary) irogonomi actually is lightly comical and thus a very human character.
S3b_05 “Hantologie” and Narrative of Japanese War Literature
Convenors: Hiromi Motohashi (Aichi Prefectural University); Daisuke Higuchi (Kobe University);
Makoto Takagi (Sagami Women’s University); Hiromi Hyodo (Gakushuin University)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
War literature sometimes makes the dead return to this world as spectres. There are enormously manydead people who are forgotten without representation. We need to rethink ways of representing death andmemory in war literature and explore the possibility of telling the stories of the dead.
「境界線のポリティクス」の彼方へ－戦争叙述における複数的視点の可能性について－
Makoto Takagi (Sagami Women’s University); Daisuke Higuchi (Kobe University)
日本の戦争叙述は、感情移入の可能な人物とそれが不可能な他者を分割して扱うことを通して、テクストの持つ偏った視点をあたかも中立的なものとして読者に印象づける機能を持っている。本報告では前近代及び近現代の戦争叙述・歴史叙述を具体的に検討することを通して、「境界線のポリティクス」の諸相を考察し、あわせてその負の影響を相対化しうる歴史叙述のスタイルについて検討する。

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Makoto Takagi (Sagami Women’s University)
This paper will discuss the aspect that of Nue, such as only serving episode is forgeries crushing the normthat the requiem system of Noh. Here Nue is going to generate transformed into a specter from ghost.
Next, we examined how then, specter, or to occur in the KATARI of the system, was studied.
亡霊論の射程Makoto Takagi (Sagami Women’s University); Hiromi Hyodo (Gakushuin University)
兵藤裕己は、軍記物語研究において亡霊に着目することの重要性と今後の研究における可能性を述べた上で、コメンテーターとしてパネル登壇者の発表をまとめ、問題点を提示する。
Godaigo Tenno and his princesses in Taiheiki
Hiromi Motohashi (Aichi Prefectural University)
後醍醐天皇は、信仰を利用しようとした人物である。彼は仏教だけでなく、天皇の役割と関わるさまざまなモノや思考について独自の考えを持っていた。特に『太平記』が語る後醍醐天皇
は、そうした信仰に関する意識が極めて強く窺える。一方で、後醍醐天皇には伊勢神宮に仕える皇族女性を指す「斎宮」制度の復興を目指した記録があり、自身の娘である懽子内親王と祥子内親王を卜定している。特に祥子内親王は百首歌を奉ったとされるが、『太平記』はそれらを語らない。最後の斎宮である後醍醐天皇の二人の娘と『太平記』の語りを検討し、戦記文学における女性像について述べる。
S3b_06 The Japanese book as material object: Format, design, and layout of pre-Meiji
manuscripts and printed books
Convenors: Alessandro Bianchi (Freer|Sackler); Berenice Möller (University of Hamburg); Takahiro
Sasaki (Keio University)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
The goal of our panel is to analyse an array of pre-Meiji Japanese literary texts by looking at their
physical (bindings, formats, sizes, covers, etc.), material (paper, ink and pigments, etc.) and formal(layout, calligraphic hands, painting styles, etc.) features.
On the formats of monogatari literature in Kamakura - and Nanbokuchō-period manuscripts:
typical examples and exceptions [JP]Takahiro Sasaki (Keio University)
In pre-Meiji Japan, the physical format of books was selected according to their content. In mypresentation I will focus on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscripts and fragments (kohitsugire),
exploring the relationship between the genre and book format in monogatari literature.
To read or not to read? The many faces of early Edo illustrated noh manuscripts
Berenice Möller (University of Hamburg)
During the 17th century there is a small group of manuscripts that bear the text and illustrations of noh
pieces. They do not contain producers’ or ownership marks and are hardly studied. This paper sheds lighton their context mainly by examining their material evidence.
Calligraphy, borders and mise en page - the architecture of design in early modern Japanese books
Alessandro Bianchi (Freer|Sackler)
In my paper I shall look at Japanese woodblock printed books, attempting to describe how Edo period
publishers, authors and illustrators resorted to the stylistic freedom offered by woodblock-printing
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S3b_07 Dream Vision in Premodern Japan
Convenors: William Bodiford (UCLA); Susan Klein (UC Irvine); Hiroshi Araki (International ResearchCenter for Japanese Studies)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel will explore the function of dream visions in the Heian and Muromachi periods in specificliterary, political, and religious settings, including tale literature (Genji monogatari), religious dreams, anddream vision Noh.
Rethinking the Tale of Genji in Japanese Dream Culture and its Representations
Hiroshi Araki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
How are dreams depicted in Heian period texts, what can we extrapolate from those representations tounderstand how dreams were functioning culturally within Heian society, and how does this comparecross-culturally? I will use as a case study several examples of dream phenomena in Genji monogatari.
Practice and Poetics of Dreaming: Dream Kings, Dream Gods, and Dream Diaries
William Bodiford (UCLA)
Examination of the cultural, religious, and literary frameworks that animated dream narratives inmedieval Japan (ca. 13th to 16th centuries), specifically the Buddhist dream kings, Japanese gods, and the
poetics of their orcales.
Spellbound by Blossoms: Dream Vision Noh as Political Allegory
Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
This paper examines several dream vision Noh plays based on Heian period tales such as Ise Monogatarior Genji monogatari, to show how they might be seen as allegorical rewritings of a lost classical past,
rewritings that would have nevertheless resonated ideologically for their Muromachi audience.
S3b_09 Gender and Cultural Space in Premodern Japanese Texts
Convenor: Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Robert Khan (SOAS, University of London)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel discusses the ways in which gender appears as a defining cultural category in Japanese literaryworks from the 8th to 14th centuries. How is gendered space delineated in poetry, script, and travel
narratives? Three position papers will be followed by a brief response and discussion.
Border-Crossing in Towazugatari
Saeko Kimura (Tauds University)
This paper examines border-crossing and gender in the 14th-century diary Towazugatari. The travel
narrative intertwines language and socioreligious space in its recounting of meetings with courtesans(yūjo) and shirabyōshi dancers and its retelling of legends related to temples and shrines.
Reconsidering Women and Script in Heian and Kamakura Japan
Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia)
This paper examines women and script through a sociohistorical overview of the places and spaces inwhich Heian and Kamakura court women engaged with kanbun and kanshi (Literary Sinitic prose andpoetry) as educators, in court work, and in their religious lives.
Poetry Contests as Gendered Performances: The Tentoku yonen dairi utaawase (Poetry Contest of
the Year 960 [Tentoku 4])
Michel Vieillard-Baron (INALCO)My presentation examines the role of women in this famous imperial contest involving great poets of theperiod. Analyzing kanbun and kana accounts, I define functions entrusted to women and physical spaces
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S3b: Pre-modern LiteratureS3b_10 Multimodality in Early-modern Books: Enhancing Texts Through Images
Convenor: Laura Moretti (The University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
By studying multimodality, i.e. the combination of different ways of making meanings, in a variety ofunder-researched Edo-period printed books, this panel explores the ways in which text and image interact
and create a new, powerful overall meaning beyond that of the verbal text alone.
Literary Costumes: Word and Image in Genroku Texts on Clothing
Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania)
Through comparison of antiquarian costume studies texts with illustrated kimono pattern books, thispaper will show how scholars and poets forged multiple meanings with apparently trivial images andwords that circulated within the literary world of the late seventeenth century.
Illustrating non-narrative Chinese texts in the Edo period: printed illustrated editions of Kobun
kōkyō 古文孝経
Ellis Tinios (University of Leeds)
The overwhelming majority Edo editions of Kobun kōkyō are not illustrated. Why did publishers go to
the trouble and expense of adding illustrating to a text always in demand? Exploring this questions will
enrich our understanding of Edo publishing.
Re-imagining words and pictures. From illustrated books to picture-books in Edo-period Japan
Laura Moretti (The University of Cambridge)
By examining two under-researched picture-books published by the Edo-based Urokogataya in the second
half of the eighteenth-century, this paper studies how _Ise monogatari_ and the seventeenth-century_Ikkyū banashi_ acquired new meanings thanks to their re-packaging in different visual layouts.
S3b_11 Renga Masters and the Makings of Medieval Classicism
Convenor: Jeffrey Knott (Stanford University)
Chair & discussant: Tokuro Yamamoto (Kansai University)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Universalization of classicism in late medieval Japan is attributed to “transmission” from the Capital,
especially by itinerant renga masters. We reject a unidirectional model, arguing that records of rengashi
activity display instead creative efforts by which a shared high culture was built anew.
Commentary in the Provinces: The Meaning of Sōgi’s Yamaguchi Notes on the “Tales of Ise” [JP]Ooki Matsumoto (Nara University)
I examine renga master Sōgi’s Yamaguchi Notes on the “Tales of Ise,” a unique commentary on that workby his own hand, aimed expressly at novices. I consider the light it sheds, contrasted with other Sōgi
commentaries, on the reality of rengashi activity in regional literary hubs like Yamaguchi.
Rengashi Criticism on the Road to a More “Literary” Tale of Genji
Jeffrey Knott (Stanford University)
The recognized role of rengashi in expanding Genji readership is misunderstood as one of mere cultural
facilitation. Evidence of rengashi teachings in fact demonstrates their break with earlier Genji tradition.
This is particularly clear in their newly “literary” treatment of the Uji chapters.

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Classics in the Muromachi Period: The Changing Function of the “Commentary” in Commentaries[JP]
Hiroshi Yokomizo (Tohoku University)
In this paper I consider the significance of the interpretive complexity we find in some works ofMuromachi exegesis like renga poet Shōhaku’s Genji commentary Rōkashō. I argue that it accuratelyreflects dynamic shifts in how what we call “commentary” functioned in the study of classical texts.
S3b_12 Noh Texts as a Nexus: Their Multi-layered Compositions and Beyond
Convenors: Akiko Takeuchi (Hosei University); Takamitsu Ikai (Hosei University); Taro Yokoyama (Atomi
University)
Discussant: Kyo Tamamura (Joetsu University of Education)
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel analyzes the composition of noh texts on bibliographical, linguistic, and narratological levels.
Examining their publication/circulation system, unique rhetoric, and fusion of narration and characters’
speeches, we offer new theoretical frameworks for Japanese traditional drama.
Study on the Text Transformation of Noh: How the Medium of Print Affected the Texts
Takamitsu Ikai (Hosei University)
This paper examines the process by which Kurumaya utaibon was published. It thus reveals how thelibretti of noh were transformed through publishing processes, in the period when the primary materials
of instructing noh chanting shifted from handwritten copies to printed texts.
Whose Words (and to Whom)?: Fusion of Narration and Characters’ Speeches in Noh
Akiko Takeuchi (Hosei University)
This paper examines narration and its fusion with characters’ speeches in Zeami’s deity plays and warrior
plays, using theater semiotics and narratology. It reveals Zeami’s careful manipulation of narrative style
to match the play’s socio-religious purposes.
The Poetics of Chained Sentences: Kakekotoba and Engo in Noh Texts
Taro Yokoyama (Atomi University)
This paper picks up verses typically seen in noh, in which each sentence is grammatically incomplete andmerged with the following one. Rhetorical devices such as kakekotoba and engo play a crucial role in it.
The analysis of these verses reveals the mechanism of generation of poetic images in noh.
S3b_13 Making literary classics accessible to a wider audience
Convenor: Machiko Midorikawa (Waseda University)
Chair: Yoshitaka Yamamoto (Osaka University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
How can literary classics be made relevant and accessible to a broader audience without making
unacceptable compromises? We look at the potential as well as the shortcomings of different pedagogicaland scholarly approaches to popularization.
The feasibility of an English-language commentary on Genji monogatari
Machiko Midorikawa (Waseda University)
This paper will discuss the possibility of producing a detailed Genji commentary in English, from thechoice of headings to focus, level of detail, intended readership, and method of distribution. Examples
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Popularization of Literary Classics and Its Dissidents: The Case of Edo-Period Kanshibun
Yoshitaka Yamamoto (Osaka University)
This paper will examine how Sinological scholars in Edo-period Japan at times warned against unfetteredpopularization of kanshibun (prose and poetry in classical Chinese), and what influence their arguments
had on the ongoing popularization and standardization of Chinese literary classics in Japan.
Visualizing utamakura: Teaching Japanese Literary History with Digital Literary Maps
Judit Arokay (Heidelberg University)
This paper will demonstrate a new way of familiarizing students with utamakura and meisho (poetic
and famous places), a key aspect of classical literature, by use of a cartographical application, “Digital
Literary Maps”.
S3b_14 Parody and satire in the Edo period
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Readapting the classics: sex, parody and manuals in shunpon
Maria Bugno (University of Cambridge)
My aim is to outline the close relationship between sex, humour and didactic intention in the sexuallyexplicit production of Edo period (shunpon). There are two major trends in this production: narrative
playful prose texts and didactic manuals, that reworked earlier literature to appeal to readers.
Defining a Genre: the Borders of Edo Senryū
Maria Tsoy (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
The paper explores the interrelations between Edo poetic genres senryū and kyōku, attempts to find where
the concept of maekuzuke and the concept of senryū overlaps, and examines whether the term senryū may
be expanded on the texts other than those published in Yanagidaru anthology.
The Priest as Foil: Satirizing the Clergy in Ihara Saikaku’s 1685 Shokoku banashi
Jeffrey Newmark (The University of Winnipeg)
This presentation focuses on Ihara Saikaku’s treatment of Buddhist priests in his 1685 anthology Shokoku
banashi (Tales from Various Provinces). In most of the text’s tales, Saikaku used priests as foil andcatalyst, satirizing the clergy within largely lay stories of the mysterious and fantastic.
S3b_15 Waka poetics
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Ma 魔 in Waka Poetry Studies - FUJIWARA no Teika’s View of Waka Poetry Miki Sakamoto (Kansai University)
Okikaze-shū has Teika’s notes of Sanjūrokkasen in which it is written that a fellow who compiled suchanthologies are Ma 魔 of the way. Ma is very important to Teika next to Yūgen and Ushin tei. I plan toinvestigate how Teika used Ma in his writings and clarify the meaning of Ma in Teika’s thought.
Return of the unexpected - Re-thinking mi and kokoro in Makura no soshi
Miika Pölkki (University of Helsinki)
The dynamics of mi and kokoro in Makura no sōshi are re-thought in order to propose a reorientation
whereby we shift our focus from the history/literature paradigm to relations-based view of quality, depth,
extent, intimacy and intensity in textual practices.
Lotus Meditation in a Boat: ‘No-Topic Poems’ and the Landscape outside the Capital in the 1140s
Ivo Smits (Leiden University)
The Sinitic travel poetry of a monk in the 1140s deals with various aspects of life outside the capital andoffers a view of rural Japan hardly seen in contemporary sources. As such, they illustrate the importanceof a hardly discussed genre in Heian literature, ‘no-topic poetry’ (mudaishi).

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S3b_16 Medieval Sino-Japanese literature
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Written characters and the construction of meaning in Wakan rōeishū commentary
Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford)
This talk examines the various roles of Chinese characters and glossing practices in interpretingand mediating between different types of poetic language within the eclectic context of medieval
commentaries on the Japanese and Chinese-style Chanting Collection (Wakan rōeishū, early 11th c).
Worldviews and Poetry in Kuchizusami (970)
Antonio Manieri (“L’Orientale” University of Naples)
After introducing Minamoto no Tamenori’s pedagogical/encyclopedic project in Kuchizusami, I willshow how the learning of a complex stratified cultural knowledge, expression of diversified worldviews,
is also facilitated by clear examples of formulaic texts with a strong illocutionay force.
Chinese Anecdotes in the Shômono (the commentaries written in kana on Chinese classic books)
Kiyoyuki Tsuta (Osaka University)
In the shômono, there are some Chinese anecdotes which are modified from originals, and I suggest thatthese modifications often occur in romance relationships. It is concluded that there are differences incultures and thoughts between Japan and China on the background to this phenomenon.
S3b_17 Miscellany
Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
The Japanization of a Saint Story: Comparing the Japanese and Chinese versions of The Story of
Barlaam and Josaphat
Wenlu Wang (Tokyo University)
This paper re-examines an early Jesuit text in Japan, a saint story named “Tattoqi Confessores S. Barlan
to, S. Iosaphat no Gosagueo”, and contributes to our understanding of how the story was Japanized, byconsidering a Chinese version of the same story alongside the two extant Japanese versions.
Narration Between Setsuwa and Monogatari: Defining the ‘Shintōshū’ in the Context of Japanese
Literary History
Sebastian Balmes (LMU Munich)The presentation aims at explaining the significance of the 14th century setsuwa collection Shintōshū forthe literary history of medieval Japan by focusing on its narrative techniques and comparing them to thoseof later versions of its tales transmitted in historical as well as literary contexts.
Along the Seacost Road: Medieval Japanese travel diaries from a geopoetic perspective
Adam Bednarczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
The aim of the paper is to discuss descriptions of journeys from Kyoto to Kamakura along the Seacoast
Road in the medieval Japanese travel diaries (kikō) from the geopoetic perspective, and to show how theaccounts can be (re)interpreted in the light of the new research orientation.

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S4a: Visual Arts
S4a_01 Visual Arts: individual papers I
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
On “Seeing” in Nineteenth-Century Japan, or: Reframing of Early Japanese Spirit Photography
Mio Wakita (Heidelberg Universtiy)In this paper, I discuss the newly emerged ideas of “seeing” after the introduction of photography inJapan, by taking early examples of Meiji spirit photography as a case study and locating them within thetensions between visual modernity and pre-modern systems of vision and knowledge.
Shaping Likeness: Yokoyama Matsusaburo’s Attempts at Portraiture
Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
This presentation explores the approaches to “portrait” in the works of Yokoyama Matsusaburo (18381884). It begins by destabilizing the category of “portrait” historically and demonstrates properties oflooking he explores in multiple media, arguing for more self-reflexive approach in visual arts.
Manga, circa 1920: Defined through two histories and a how-to
Miriam Wattles (UCSB)Manga, defined theoretically and historically c. 1920, stressed freedom of format and expression.
Thematically, it might include reportage, sharp critique, or horror. It sought to dissolve all boundaries
between popular and fine art. 1920s manga complicates present histories of the visual arts.
S4a_02 Print Matters: Visuality, Materiality, and the Afterlife of the Image in Japanese Art
Convenors: Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University); Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania);
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This roundtable panel presents three case studies where print, as a material form, expands its message
through reproduction and the material representation of “art” in its moment. Using the lens of materiality
we further demonstrate how print also engaged “afterlives” for its subjects.
Representation and its Materiality: The Annual Events of the ‘Azure Towers,’ Illustrated (Seirōehon nenjū gyōji) and its Afterlives
Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
Kitagawa Utamaro and Jippensha Ikku collaborated on the illustrated book, Annual Events of the ‘Azure
Towers,’ Illustrated (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) in 1804. The material form and the afterlife of this book will
be investigated a case study for the power of print to define its subject.
Magazines, Materiality, and Modernism: Shirakaba and the Evolution of Japanese Art
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College)
This paper adopts the premise that “modernism began in the magazines and the magazines in which
it began were shaped by modernity to” offer a new approach to understanding the critical role that art
journals like Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910-1923) played in the evolution of modern Japanese art.
Imagining Mu Tamagawa: Visuality and Materiality of Landscape Prints in the Late Edo Period
Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University)
This paper explores visual imaginaries of the poetic trope of Mu Tamagawa or ‘Six Jewel Rivers’ in
Edo-period popular printed culture from the perspective of materiality, the physical features of objects
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S4a_03 Materialities of Japanese Visual Cultures in the Nineteenth Century
Convenors: Tomoë I.M. Steineck (University of Tuebingen); Wibke Schrape (Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin); Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
The panel on Japanese images from the nineteenth century addresses materiality as a stage of negotiation
between artistic and art historical discourses. Three case studies illuminate the flexibility of artistic
material in the intertwined networks of producing and collecting Japanese artefacts.
A Material Glimpse at Edo’s Visual Culture
Wibke Schrape (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
This paper addresses a compendium of paintings (mekuri) that once served as room decoration andwas re-organized into a model collection in Berlin. It facilitates a glimpse at the understudied field ofnineteenth-century visual culture and a reflection of collector’s impact on artworks’ materiality.
Many Meanings between Two Covers: A shoga album from the 1850s
Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland)
A sumptuous album of shoga (calligraphy and painted images) from the 1850s, languishing for decades
in a library collection, yields insights into contemporary practices of cultural networking and the shifting
meanings of the “artwork” dependent on context and viewer.
Beyond Materiality: The Potential of a Non-Material Collection as a Historical Witness for
Religious and Art Historical StudiesTomoë I.M. Steineck (University of Tuebingen)
The Spinner Collection constitutes a unique theological study of Japanese religion through its visualmaterial. The paper investigates the icons and contributing artists with focus on the atelier of Kanda Sōtei,to trace the complexity and variety of sacral art production in pre-modern Japan.
S4a_04 On Paper and Beyond: Material Manifestations of Historical Figures
Convenors: Haruko Wakabayashi (Rutgers University); Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University); Misato
Ido (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Discussant: Seishi Namiki (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel looks at visual representations of figures that have become prominent icons in historicalnarratives. The three papers explore the political and social contexts, which shaped the visual narratives,
and the diverse material manifestations and personas the figures took on as a result.
Reinventing National Heroes in the 1890s: Portraits of the Southern Court as a Paragon of Fidelity
Misato Ido (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
This paper explores the process of how the two major figures of the Southern Court in the 14th century,
Prince Moriyoshi and Kusunoki Masashige were reevaluated in the Meiji era and represented throughdifferent media with special focus on the birth of “history painting” in the 1890s.
Raikō and His Heroic Conquests: A Visually Constructed Warrior Genealogy in Tokugawa
Narrative Scrolls
Haruko Wakabayashi (Rutgers University)
This paper examines Edo-period representations of the warrior hero Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his placein the Tokugawa genealogy of warrior leaders. It focuses on the Kano school Shuten dōji scrolls and theirimpact on Nara emaki, ehon, and festival floats of the later period.

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A short glimpse at the long afterlife of Fujiwara no Kamatari
Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University)
This paper scrutinizes the changing material manifestation of the seventh-century statesman Fujiwara no
Kamatari. The focus is on the socio-political implications of Edo-period depictions of his persona related
to narratives, and his iconic ideal portrait on banknote designs from 1891 through 1945.
S4a_05 Materiality and Processes in Japanese Art Festivals
Convenor: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen)Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
The panel will discuss the need for new cross-disciplinary methodologies for new types of art incontemporary Japan. Using examples from recent Japanese art festivals, we propose a field study
approach with attention to aesthetic as well as social dimensions of materiality and processes.
Exploring a Sense of Belonging: In Search of a New Art Research Methodology
Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); Anemone Platz (Aarhus University)
Using recent art projects by Yokō Tadanori and the art unit Me as examples, this joint presentation will
present ideas for new micro-level methodologies to analyse new types of project-based art forms thatappear at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Setouchi Art Triennale.
Collaborative Fictions: Re-inventing Rituals of Making in Landscape and Time
Katherine Mezur (University of California, Berkeley)
The paper uses a specific performance work by the collective Nibroll and their collaboration with local
citizens in creating a festival cart as a means to discuss the relationship between a sense of nostalgia for“countryside” and a contemporary “body with no sense of direction.”
The aesthetic transversal - outline of a concept that includes the materialities of milieu in theunderstanding of artistic composition
Emil Bach Sørensen (University of Copenhagen)This paper presents the theoretical concept of ‘the aesthetic transversal’ inspired by the geo-philosophyof Deleuze and Guattari as a framework for analysing the connections between humans and the material
milieu of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale.
S4a_06 The Materials of Postwar Japanese Photography: Cameras, Photobooks, and Alternative
Printing Processes
Convenors: Kelly McCormick (UCLA); Maggie Mustard (Columbia University); Carrie Cushman(Columbia University)
Chair & discussant: Jonathan Reynolds (Barnard College)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel argues for a history of photography told through the object cultures that have contributed to theformation of photographic practice. Focusing on photobooks, printing processes, and camera design, we
examine how a material turn reveals new perspectives on postwar Japanese photography.
Rethinking “Made in Japan”: Design, Photography, and Nationalism in Postwar Japan
Kelly McCormick (UCLA)In this paper, I examine the role of the construction of “Japanese Design” and “Japanese Photography” asunifying cultural categories in the postwar period.
Embodied Viewing: Materiality and Perceptual Experience in the Postwar Japanese Photobook
Maggie Mustard (Columbia University)
This paper argues that the postwar Japanese photobook offers a radical conception of the materiality ofthe photograph. The technical innovations and design experiments of the period posit a multisensory
photographic theory, one rooted in the physical and sensorial experience of the reader’s body.
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The Rise of Antiquarian Photography in the Dawn of the Digital Era
Carrie Cushman (Columbia University)
This paper examines the return to “primitive” photographic practices in reaction to the dawn of the digitalera in Japan. I argue for a material turn in artistic practice that coincides with the material turn in thetheory in the 1990s.
S4a_07 Visual Arts: individual papers II
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
The Rise of Domestic Photo Studios and the Popularization of the Carte de Visite in the 1860s-1870s
in Japan
Susanne Koppensteiner (University of Vienna)
The paper will look at the spread and usage of photographic technologies in early Meiji Japan. I will
discuss the rise of domestic photo studios and their specific practices in the 1860s-1870s, focusing
especially on Cartes de Visite as a medium that was widely in use and gained enormous popularity.
Selective exhibitions and the development of a visual norm in calligraphy
Laili Dor (INALCO/Université du Maine)
How did the materiality of exhibition conditions in early 20th century lead to new visual norms and aredefinition of Japanese calligraphy?
Bridging the Gaps - A Look at Tokyo Fluxus and Early Japanese Conceptual Art
Marko Grubacic (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade)
By considering the broader social and historical circumstances that have instigated the emergence andevolution of conceptual art in Japan, this paper places special emphasis on the artistic lagacy of a diverse
group of artists that participated in the international Fluxus movement.
Ozu’s filmmaking and the materiality of the cinematographic medium: style rendered inoperative
Suzanne Beth (McGill University)
Paying attention to the material dimension of the cinematographic medium, my paper aims at questioning
the formalist studies of Ozu’s filmmaking and their emphasis on the register of mastery, arguing that it isbest accounted for in terms of cinema’s expressive means rendered inoperative.
S4a_08 Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Japanese Cinema
Convenors: David Pinho Barros (Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto); Luís Mendonça (Instituto de
História de Arte, FCSH/NOVA); Miguel Patrício (FCSH-UNL)
Chair: Sabrina D. Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
This panel wishes to unite distinct takes on an oft-neglected topic within the field of Japanese films
studies: the use of colour. It intends to focus on three different periods and examine the phenomena ofrejection and attraction colour has inspired in several filmmakers of paramount consequence.
Red teapot, yellow teacup: clear line colouring in Ozu’s late films
David Pinho Barros (Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto)
This paper proposes to elaborate on the transition from black and white to colour in Ozu’s film career by
establishing a dialogue with the “clear line”, a concept originally employed to characterise Hergé’s styleand where colour is a major element of graphic composition and narrative significance.

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Colour advances and retreats in the New Wave: From Wakamatsu’s redness to Matsumoto’s dark
world
Miguel Patrício (FCSH-UNL)
In his “eroductions”, Kôji Wakamatsu showcased a surreal use of colour as opposed to Toshio
Matsumoto’s resistance to its symbolic power in Shura. However, in both cases, colour and shadow
entertain a dialectical relation: the emancipation of the former is made possible by the latter and viceversa.
Gesture and Colour in Isao Takahata’s Ghibli
Luís Mendonça (Instituto de História de Arte, FCSH/NOVA)
Since “Only Yesterday”, Isao Takahata is enticed by the so-called negative space or ma. Most of his films
erupt from white, a colour that represents light but that also conveys the anguish of emptiness.
S4a_09 Ruling Momoyama Arts - Implications of Authority in Visualized Forms of Cultural
Exchange
Convenors: Nora Usanov-Geissler (Freie Universität Berlin); Antje Papist-Matsuo (Freie Universität
Berlin); Annegret Bergmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussant: Anton Schweizer (Tulane University)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
In the Momoyama era, art production flourished in a situation of eco-political and socio-religious interestsand foreign exchanges. The panel will consider some of its innovative artworks, regarding both theirproduction contexts and historiographic approaches to them.
The Foreign Other Incorporated. An Approach to the Negotiation of Identities on Japanese nanban
byōbu
Nora Usanov-Geissler (Freie Universität Berlin)
The paper analyses pictorial negotiations of identities in nanban byōbu paintings. It focusses on their
spatial setting in the littoral periphery as opposed to the capital, and examines how this marginal position
is mirrored in art historical narratives.
Goshomaru - Kabuki zeitgeist in tea bowls
Annegret Bergmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
The paper presents in Japan commissioned and in Korea produced goshomaru tea bowls as a product of
the Momoyama zeitgeist and explores whether their historiography fell victim to the historical narrativeof the tea ceremony.
Embedded Exoticism: Materiality and Visuality of Early Japanese Export Lacquers
Antje Papist-Matsuo (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper aims at tracing the materiality and visuality of Japanese export lacquers as evidence forpremodern global art production and cultural exchange, with a focus on the late 16th and early 17th
centuries.
S4a_10 The Role of Art and Literature Salons in 18th and 19th Century Japan
Convenors: Nobuo Nakatani (Kansai University); Akiko Yano (British Museum); Andrew Gerstle (SOAS
University of London)
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
The panel will focus on art/literature (yûgei) salon networks, primarily in Kyoto/Osaka, and their functionof supporting artistic activity, both of those aspiring to be ‘professional’ and those who were content orpreferred to remain ‘amateur’.

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Kamigata Poetry Salons and Kabuki
Andrew Gerstle (SOAS University of London)
Kabuki actors, as ‘riverbed beggars’, were officially beneath the class system. This paper will focus on
how poetry circles were a crucial venue for promoting and supporting actors as literati figures, and how
these circles encouraged individuals to create actor prints and surimono.
Concepts of East Asian Art History and Reevaluation of Osaka Painting Schools (Osaka Gadan)
Nobuo Nakatani (Kansai University)
In the 1880s Okakura Tenshin formulated a history of ‘Japanese’ art that almost completely left out any
outstanding Osaka works, many of which were consciously within an ‘East Asian’ art tradition. My paper
will focus on Kimura Kenkado and his network of artists to reevaluate this tradition.
The Role of Art and Literature Salons in Fostering ‘Amateur’ Artists
Akiko Yano (British Museum)
Participation in various arts was popular in the late Edo period. Cultural networks contributed to theflourish of art production. Focusing on late 18th to early 19th century Kyoto/Osaka, I will examine therole of art in society and how it encouraged ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’ artists.
S4a_11 Visual Arts: individual papers III
Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Visual Representations of Arhats (Rakan) in Japan: The Concept, the Forms and the Influence
Beatrix Mecsi (ELTE Institute of East Asian Studies)
In my talk focussing on the representations of arhats in Japan I show how the concept, the forms andstyles have developed and influenced further ideas and representations not only in East Asia.
“Chinese or Japanese?”: the construction of a ‘Chinese aesthetic’ of bronzeware in Momoyama andEdo period Japan
Donatella Failla (‘Edoardo Chiossone’ Museum of Japanese Art)The Chiossone Museum, Genoa, Italy, owns a large collection of Chinese and Japanese bronzes, gatheredin Japan during the Meiji period by E.Chiossone (1833-1898), a Genoese Professor of Design andEngraving who came to Tokyo in 1875 to be employed by the Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance.
Tsuchida Bakusen´s Spring (1920) and the Momoyama Period Art appraisal during the Meiji andTaishō periods
Daniel Sastre de la Vega (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
By analyzing the work Spring (1920) by the painter Tsuchida Bakusen (1887-1936) we will discuss theinfluence of the study and conceptualization of the idea of a “Momoyama art” and “Momoyama culture”
as one of the creative triggers during the late Meiji and Taishō periods.

S4b: Performing Arts
S4b_01 Kabuki and Its Spectators: The Theatrical Experience in Edo- and Meiji Period Japan
Convenors: Tove Bjoerk (Saitama University); Hiroko Goto (Tezukayama University); Takayuki Hioki(Shirayuri University)
Chair & discussant: Kyozo Takei (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel considers the impact of Kabuki audiences on the formation of Kabuki itself during the 17th,
18th and 19th century. We discuss the importance of the theatre teahouses, Kabuki performed at mansionsof feudal lords, and how the theatrical experience changed in the Meiji period.

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The Social Diversity of Kabuki Audiences in Tokyo during the Meiji Era
Takayuki Hioki (Shirayuri University)
The social spectrum of Kabuki audiences is claimed to have changed during the Meiji period. This paper
clarifies the social diversity kabuki audiences by comparing newspaper articles concerning both highbrow and low-brow Kabuki theatres in Tokyo.
Early Modern Theatre Teahouses and Theatre-Goers
Tove Bjoerk (Saitama University)
In this presentation, the business strategies of early modern theatre teahouses will be analyzed based ondiary records from the mid-Edo period. I will show not only that wealthy spectators were targeted by the
teahouses, but also how they were fundamental to Kabuki’s development as a stage art.
On Kabuki Performed at Feudal Mansions - The Spectators
Hiroko Goto (Tezukayama University)
Kabuki performances were also held at the mansion of feudal lords. Based on diaries and household
records, this presentation will show the social scale of the spectators attending these events and discuss
their relevance as a part of Kabuki’s audience.
S4b_02 The world of Noh: three aspects of its socioeconomic structure
Convenors: Reiko Yamanaka (Hosei University); Diego Pellecchia (Kyoto Sangyo University); Keizo
Miyamoto (Hosei University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Noh theatre differs greatly from other forms of performance. This panel focuses on three characteristicfeatures of the noh establishment in the contemporary world: its socio-economic structure, the educationof performers, and the role of amateurs.
For whom is noh staged? Training for the actors or performance for the audience?
Keizo Miyamoto (Hosei University)
This presentation will take the historical perspective in order to discuss how this unique production
format came into being, and how it affected the social status of noh performers.
How is a ‘Noh professional’ trained?
Reiko Yamanaka (Hosei University)
This paper will survey the traditional system of Noh training and education, and how it is graduallychanging in the twenty-first century.
A comparative look at amateur practices in noh and contemporary theatre
Diego Pellecchia (Kyoto Sangyo University)
This paper looks at the socio-economic and artistic role of amateur practitioners in two contrasting
environments: noh theatre and contemporary non-traditional theatre.
S4b_03 Performance of History and Memory: Extratextual Dimensions of the Tale of the Heike,Japan’s Iconic War Tale
Convenor: Elizabeth Oyler (University of Pittsburgh)
Chair: Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University)
Discussant: Susan Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel explores extratextual dimensions of the Tale of the Heike, illustrating the work’s function
in mapping and preserving historical memory. We address metatheatrical dimensions of performance
practice and the performative role of cultural heritage sites emerging in response to it.

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From the Tale of the Heike to Landscape, to Local Economy: The Invention of Yasu as Giō’s
Hometown
Roberta Strippoli (Binghamton University SUNY)
This paper explores the heritage sites connected to the “Giō” episode found in Yasu-shi, Shiga Prefecture.
Here a complicated narrative involving the dancer Giō was developed in the Edo period to reinforce
claims over the ownership of an irrigation canal central to local agriculture.
Daihiji: Greater Secret Pieces of the Heike biwa tradition and the performance of history
Elizabeth Oyler (University of Pittsburgh)This presentation focuses on the “Initiates’ Chapter,” one of three secret pieces of the Heike biwa
repertoire. It discusses both thematic and structural elements of the piece within the context of secrecy
and custodianship of historical memory.
The Miminashi Hōichi Story and the Question of the Epic Performance
Claire-Akiko Brisset (Paris Diderot University)
The story of Miminashi Hōichi is well known thanks to Hearn’s famous anthology Kwaidan (1904).
Discussing previous versions dating back to the Edo period and local variants still pertaining in rural
folklore, Brisset tries to explore this story as a form of reception of the Heike epic.
S4b_04 Actor-Audience Relationships in Japanese Comic Storytelling (Rakugo)
Convenors: Sarah Stark (University of Ghent); Till Weingärnter (University College Cork); Bernhard
Seidl (Vienna University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Japanese comic storytelling (rakugo) came close to extinction at the end of World War II, but it enjoys aremarkably large following today, mainly in Tokyo and Osaka. Storytellers and audiences interact at live
shows, but also through popular media. Actor-audience relationships will be scrutinized.
Decision Processes on the Yose Stage
Sarah Stark (University of Ghent)
While other Japanese stage arts announce the plays staged far in advance and follow scenarios, rakugo
performances are mainly improvised – even the stories given are often decided in the first minutes onstage, through audience interaction. This paper explores the performer’s decision process.
Shunpūtei Shōta: A Rakugo Star and his Audiences
Till Weingärnter (University College Cork)This paper attempts to apply the concept of stardom to analyse rakugo performer Shunpūtei Shōta’s
relationship with his audience. It will examine mdes of communication between the performer, the media
and his audience to analyse how his persona and the image of him as a “rakugo star” is constructed.
Breaking the Fourth Wall in Edo koten rakugo
Bernhard Seidl (Vienna University)
Rakugo has some direct actor-audience interaction within clear boundaries, but interaction ceases once
the actual story starts. However, some perfomers nevertheless seem to play with breaking the Fourth Wall.
This paper aims to analyze the how and why of this.
S4b_05 Continuity and change: social conditions and creator-audience communication in three
Japanese performing arts
Convenor: Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
We reexamine ideas regarding the conveyance of social messages in three Japanese performing arts,
considering structures of creation that impact what can and cannot be communicated to an audience, as
well as creator-audience communication within a range of temporal, social, and cultural conditions.
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Audience-performer relations in naniwa-bushi musical story-telling
Alison Tokita (Kyoto City University of Arts)
An examination of performance-audience interaction in the musical-storytelling genre of naniwa bushi,
through discussions of performance conditions and formulaic phrases that contribute to performeraudience communication, and of the composition and nature of recent naniwa bushi audiences.
Kabuki playwriting from Edo into Meiji: what could be said, who said it, and who was listening?
Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California, Santa Barbara)
An examination of the shift in kabuki playwriting from Edo into Meiji and the effects on the delivery andreception of sensitive subjects, with consideration of changing participants, processes, and social/cultural/political spheres.
S4b_06 Staging Christian Insurrection in Medieval Japan, and in Early-Modern Japanese andEuropean Memory
Convenor: Patrick Schwemmer (Musashi University)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T5: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel explores the turn from insurrection to martyrdom in medieval Japanese Christianity, as
depicted in the Japanese-language performing arts of the Jesuit mission, in anti-Christian kabuki andpuppet plays in Japan, and in nostalgic “Japan plays” produced in the early-modern Catholic world.
«Crusno von fattauo ague tamayte»: A Ballad of Christian Insurrection from Sixteenth-Century
Japan
Patrick Schwemmer (Musashi University)
A 1591 Vatican collection of medieval Japanese Christian literature opens with a ballad in a Heike-likestyle, which I show is the remnant of a literary strategy that accompanied the Jesuits’ abortive plan tofight Hideyoshi using Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese Christian troops.
Insurrection and Martyrdom in the Japan Plays of Catholic Central Europe
Oba Haruka (Kyushu University)
This paper explores the turn from insurrection to martyrdom in medieval Japanese Christianity, as
remembered in plays about Japan on the early-modern European Catholic stage.
Perpetually Deferred Christian Insurrection in Tokugawa period anti-Christian narratives
Jan Leuchtenberger (University of Puget Sound)This paper examines the significance of the figure of the deceitful Christian conqueror in early-modern
Japanese chapbooks, kabuki, and puppet plays, in the context of Japan’s engagement with the West and ofeighteenth century discourses on Japan and its place in the world.
S4b_07 Community in/and performance/arts
Convenors: Thomas Looser (NYU); Andreas Regelsberger (Trier University); Peter Eckersall (The
Graduate Center CUNY)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel will investigate the way that notions of community have evolved in artistic practices in Japanin the past and in the present day.
Constructing “community”: Kabuki and puppet theater
Andreas Regelsberger (Trier University)
This paper will investigate the way in which “community” in theatre structures of Kabuki and puppet
theatre has been constructed in the Edo period.

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Acts of Community
Thomas Looser (NYU)
This paper looks at a new centrality given to artists/directors in the creation of community, in a processwith newly delimited possibilities. At stake are the idea of an artistic act; the grounds of an artistic object;
and the sense of community that might emerge out of this artistic process.
Performance community in an age of re-enactment
Peter Eckersall (The Graduate Center CUNY)This paper discussed the questions of how performances made by radical performance communities arechallenged and reinterpreted in an age of theatrical re-enactment.
S4b_08 Noh and Society: Performance Contexts, Performers and Images
Convenor: Eike Grossmann (University of Hamburg)
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
The relation of noh and Japanese society changed several times during the course of its history. Thissession investigates various communities that create and perform noh and explores the social dynamicthat gradually turned the flourishing noh from the 15th century into a ‘heritage theatre’.
Writing, rewriting and transmitting noh plays during Zeami’s time
Mikio Takemoto (Waseda University)
Noh written by Zeami are performed by all five schools today. This presentation raises the question how
the transmission of noh plays was organized. It aims at showing how Zeami revised plays written by otherauthors and why this practice of reorganizing and rewriting plays ceased after his death.
Noh theatre in the peripheries during the Edo period - The example of Kurokawa noh
Eike Grossmann (University of Hamburg)
During the Edo period noh theatre was frequently performed in domains, such as Kumamoto, Okayama,
Kaga or Date. This presentation investigates Kurokawa noh, a local, semi-professional tradition and its
role in the cultural activities of the Shōnai domain during the Edo period.
Modern society and noh theatre - On the implementation of digitalized visual information into nohlibretti
Akiko Miyake (Yokohama National University)
Noh theatre has to adapt to the needs of modern society in order to raise the interest of young people withno knowledge of premodern literature or noh. This presentation argues that using new digital technologies
might be a contemporary solution to prevent the decline of interest in noh theatre.
S4b_09 Papers I
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T5: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
A classical celebratory narrative performing art, Yokote-manzai: extinct or transforming?
Shinko Kagaya (Williams College)
A classical celebratory narrative performing art, Yokote-manzai, died out towards the end of the 20th
century. What if anything has been transmitted, transformed, and replaced from Yokote-manzai, to the
future generations by the creation of an intermediary theatricalized version?
“The Truth of Masks”
Cody Poulton (University of Victoria)
This paper intends to enquire into the multiple nature of identity as it is created in nō. I will also consider
theories of puppetry and material theatre as a way to parse the interaction between the human actor andthe material reality of the mask.

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Kyogen: Humour as Post War Therapy
Adedoyin Aguoru (University of Ibadan)
Classical Japanese theatre, particularly Noh, reflects seriousness and tragic motifs. However, an exception
is the effusive laughter found in Kyogen. Humour is a therapy engaged for improving quality of life.
Kyogen and its therapeutic role in post war Japan is the focus of this paper.
S4b_10 Papers II
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
3.11 in a Global Perspective - Raising the Question of Individual Responsibility in Post-Fukushima
Performance
Barbara Geilhorn (University of Manchester)
The paper will focus on an analysis of Setoyama Misaki’s Invisible Clouds (Mienai kumo, 2014)
and scrutinize how central problems of contemporary Japanese society are addressed from a global
perspective.
Dance as a Political Choice: Murobushi Kō’s “Outside” Corporeality
Katja Centonze (Trier University/Waseda University)
Recent debates in dance studies focus with more emphasis on the complex interrelation between dance
and politics questioning, for example, the extent to which performance can influence society. In reference
to this agenda this paper discusses controversial aspects emerging from Murobushi Kō’s dance.
Mourning in, as and for the Theatre: the case of Ishinha’s Amahara
Andrew Eglinton (Konan Women’s University)
This paper will read “Amahara”, the final production by the Osaka-based Ishinha company following thedeath of its artistic director in June 2016, in relation to site and community. It will ask what it means tomourn in, as and for theatre in the 21st century.
S4b_12 Papers IV
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
A fragmentation of actor and spectator - The collective staging of the olfactory in the incense
ceremony
Benedikt Vogel (Trier University)
This paper focuses on the incense ceremony of the Edo-period – a performative art characterized by theprocesses of viewing and showing. Within the performance a unique fragmentation of the roles of actor
and spectator provides structure and frame for the otherwise tacit olfactory experience.
Otokoyaku in drag: Examining Takarazuka Revue’s transgender roles
Zuzanna Baraniak-Hirata (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Based on content analysis and interviews with actresses, directors and fans of the three most popular
plays staged by the Takarazuka Revue in which leading female characters tend to be enacted by male role
players, this paper argues for the existence of a third, ‘transgender’ gender role.
Revue as a Liminal Theatre Genre: its characteristics and socio-cultural meanings
Makiko Yamanashi (Trier University)
Revue is a stage show that combines multiple performance traditions and modern innovations. This paperinterprets revue as a ‘liminal’ theatre genre by examining its characteristics since the Taisho period andrevealing some of the key reasons for its ongoing popularity in Japan.
S4b_13 Papers V
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30

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御神楽とご祈祷－四国のお神楽で奉納される祝詞について－
Cahit Kahraman (Namik Kemal University)
四国・愛媛県の山奥にある村島神社で毎年の春大祭にお神楽の行事が執行される。村島神社をめぐる信仰または祭りが手厚く行われているのである。その一例としてお神楽があげられる。
村島神社は元々無人社であるが、祭事の際多くの村人が山に集合するのである。お神楽の祝詞は如何なるものなのか。その内容はどのようなことを伝えているのであろう。祭り全体の30分も占めている祝詞奏上は主催者の趣旨を濃縮しているのである。平成18年から現地の祭り及び信仰について調査を続け、お神楽の一部「祝詞奏上」とその文の構成を分析し、地域の人々との繋がりや神社芸能のあり方を考察する。
Performer-Audience Connection in Intimate kagura Performances Revisited
Irit Averbuch (Tel-Aviv University)
In the context of kagura performances we find the most intriguing relations between performers andaudiences. In the context of an intimate performance of a small village home, these are especiallycomplex. This paper examines several kagura examples to explore these identities and connections.
The “Dance of the Herons”: Preserving a medieval performing art in changing times
Luise Kahlow (Hosei University Tokyo)
This case study on the folk performing art “Dance of the Herons” introduces the history andcharacteristics of the tōya preservation organization in Yamaguchi and Tsuwano. Analyzing the challenges
of preservation, I will discuss the present-day strategies of the two communities.
S4b_14 Papers VI
Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Discourses of erotic desire in the Kabuki hyōbanki (actor’s critiques) of the Genroku period
Sven Schürkes (University of Trier)Taking up the concept of mitate I will portray the modes of negotiating erotic allure and body discoursesof the early Kabuki as they can be found in the Kabuki hyōbanki (actor’s critiques). I concentrate on theissues Yarō mushi (1659) and Kokon shibai iro-kurabe hyakunin isshu (1693).
Challenging borders and attracting new audiences - Noda versions of kabuki with Kanzaburo
XVIII
Chieko Hiranoi (Hosei University)
Noda Hideki often referred to other writers’ works as motifs in his works, and he adapted some classics
as well. He met Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII and they collaborated for creating Noda versions of kabuki,
inviting new audiences to kabuki as well as to the theatre of Noda.
Constructing permanent and temporary communities in kabuki
Helen Parker (The University of Edinburgh)
The paper examines the relationship between kabuki and two types of community: the permanentand established community based around the Ginza Kabukiza theatre, and the new and/or temporarycommunities built around specific experimental performances and promotional events.

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S5a: Anthropology and Sociology
S5a_01 Interdisciplinary perspectives on work-related diversity and diversification in Japan
Convenor: Phoebe Stella Holdgrün (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo)
Discussant: Gabriele Vogt (Hamburg University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This interdisciplinary panel addresses the issue of diversity and diversification in work and the workplacein Japan. The panel aims at examining risk and opportunity structures emerging due to growing diversity
as well as at exploring the multifaceted implications of diversification.
Sexism, gender role ideals, competency perceptions, and career ambitions of Japanese university
students
Tobias Soeldner (German Institute for Japanese Studies)
In a series of three online studies the interrelation between gender role ideals, hostile/benevolent sexism
expressed in job descriptions, perceived gender specific work competencies, and career aspirations ofJapanese university students was examined.
Does the diversification of employment forms lead to political polarization? Exploring possible
impacts on voter preferences and partisan politics in Japan
Steffen Heinrich (German Institute for Japanese Studies)
For years, one of the most controversial issues in Japanese labour politics has been the “diversification of
employment forms”. This paper asks whether this process lead to political polarization in and explores theevidence in the context of policy as well as voter preferences.
Literature and the media as agents of diversity - The utopian re-organization of work and theworkplace
Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
This presentation investigates how Japanese literature and the media negotiate diversity at the workplace.
Analyzing two TV dramas and the literary works they are based on I argue that these works express theincreasing wish of Japanese Society to reorganize work, the workplace, and its processes.
S5a_02 Care for Others in Individualized and Longevity Society: Seeking for Recognition andStaying Place
Convenor: Yoshihide Sakurai (Hokkaido University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
In this session we will discuss various types of care provided by creative actors such as clinical religious
persons for spiritual care, paramedical for end-of-life care, and l’Arche communities for disables. In sodoing, we grasp a new sense of spirituality by reflecting our different life stages.
Medicalization of natural death and restoration of human death in Japan
Yoshihide Sakurai (Hokkaido University)
My paper illustrates demographic changes and hardships in personal life and society, and then introduces
the activities of doctors practicing palliative care, paramedical workers, and citizens who have an interest
in nursing care and good-dying.
End-of-life within a Japanese Nursing Home
Shizuko Katagiri (Kagoshima University)
This research explores End-of-life of the residents in a Japanese Nursing Home. The question are how
nursing home care workers are changed by the End-of-life care that is given to the residents, and in turn
how other residents are influenced by sharing the process of death in the nursing home.

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Comparative Studies of l’Arche communities in France, Canada, UK and Japan: What matters forcare-work(ers)
Junko Terado (Senshu University)
L’Arche is an International Federation dedicated to the group-home movement where people with andwithout learning disabilities live together. The aim of this paper is to consider the common guiding
principle for all l’Arche communities and the difference between l’Arche in Japan and the others.
S5a_03 Mobility, alternative lifestyles and search for belonging in post-growth Japan
Convenor: Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Discussant: Stephanie Assmann (Hokkaido University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel explores recent trends in Japanese youth to migrate to remote rural areas or foreign countries
in their quest for a personally fulfilling life. Panel presenters will discuss their respective ethnographic
findings from a broad range of sites in and beyond Japan.
Serendipity, small-scale happiness and scarce commitment: Perpetually mobile Japanese
professionals between satisfaction and precariousness
Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
This paper explores the narratives of individuals who choose to move to remote rural areas as part of theirprofessional careers. I ethnographically examine how individuals negotiate lifestyles between multiple
moorings with regard to place and identity and collapsing binaries of work and leisure.
From Wasteland to Promised Land: Narratives of relocation in post-disaster Tohoku
Flavia Fulco (Sophia University)
This paper analyzes narratives of people who have relocated to Northeast Japan after the 2011 The Great
East Earthquake and Tsunami. This area represents an attraction for people that seek to “reinvent” theirlife in a more personally satisfying way by embracing a more precarious lifestyle.
Therapeutic Bodywork: The different interpretations of ‘Movement’ in the strive toward abalanced future
Silke Werth (University of California Santa Barbara)
This paper explores the layers of meaning of “mobility” through the narratives of Japanese who moved to
the US to redirect their lifecourse. For them mobility becomes the core of life and livelihood as they study
physical therapy to align self-fulfillment and gainful work through helping others.
S5a_04 Negotiating safety: Re-establishing scientific baselines for regulation in Japan
Convenors: Florentine Koppenborg (FU Berlin); Susanne Brucksch (German Institute of JapaneseStudies (DIJ) Tokyo); Tine Walravens (Ghent University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
The panel elaborates how the concept of safety is negotiated among various societal actors referring to
the distinction of science-based vs. value-based risk perception, and which efforts authorities conduct toreestablish public trust in the field of food safety, public health and energy security.
Building trust or talking risk? The food safety debate on mad cows and frozen dumplings in Japan
Tine Walravens (Ghent University)
This presentation explores how regulatory authorities in Japan aim to re-establish trust in their food safety
monitoring after selected food incidents since the BSE crisis in 2001. It is argued that the coupled termanzen-anshin is applied as both a political construct and an anxiety-reducing tool.

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Nuclear safety regulation after the Fukushima accident: An ongoing struggle over defining nuclear
safetyFlorentine Koppenborg (FU Berlin)
This paper sheds light on efforts to improve nuclear safety in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear
accident. It argues that a struggle emerged over defining nuclear safety driven in large parts by citizen
groups filing lawsuits against reactor restarts on the grounds of safety concerns.
The overwhelming safety focus: Balancing patient needs, medical risks and public expectation
towards medical device approvals
Susanne Brucksch (German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo)
The paper elaborates how safety is understood and established in processes of medical device approvalin Japan. It argues that the value-based concept of anshin (reassurance) beside the science-based one ofanzen (avoidance of danger) resulting in difficulties to balance safety and bearable risks.
S5a_05 Sensory Ethnographies in Spaces of Co-Production: The Quest for Alternative
Immersive Experiences
Convenor: Gulin Kayhan (Waseda University)
Discussant: Beata Switek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel explores how senses are cultivated in spaces of co-production where participants emphasize
their own agency in the assembling of a valued affect and inquires why certain vocabularies of experienceachieve more prevalence than others in narratives of the intersubjective sharing of affect.
Procuring, Making, and Sensing: Material Practices of Russian-speaking Migrants in Japan
Ksenia Golovina (The University of Tokyo)
Based on an ethnography of Russian-speaking migrants in Japan and their material practices, this paper
explores how the affective turn in social inquiry helps us better capture the cognitive-material messinessof the migrant experience.
We are kitanai people! Being one with the dirt and growing one’s own food in the Japanesecountryside
Ksenia Kurochkina (Waseda University)
Based on a long-term ethnography that pays close attention to the everyday bodily engagements of
newcomers to the Japanese countryside, this paper discusses how their choice to reside in the countrysideallows rural newcomers to experiment anew with their bodies and their connection to the world.
Co-producing The Sublime: Aesthetic Violence, Live Spaces and Affective Experiences
Mira Malick (Waseda University)
This paper discusses how live music spaces constitute a multi-sensory site of engagement that is coproduced by performers and fans and explores the interplay between individual experiences of thesublime and their public enactments and manifestations that are ultimately social.
S5a_06 From cultural to social hybridity in Japan: towards new theoretical approaches toglobalization
Convenor: Hirofumi Utsumi (Otemon Gakuin University)
Discussant: Kimio Ito
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
This panel is to discuss theoretically and empirically globalizing Japan based on the concept of culturaland social hybridity. It aims to reconsider the key concepts of sociology, including ‘society’, and globalize
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Social hybridity, Japanese Studies and Area Studies: beyond methodological nationalism,
regionalism and civilizationalism
Toshio Miyake (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)This paper explores the conceptual potential of social hybridity applied to contemporary Japan in orderto critically address the essentialising assumptions of methodological nationalism, regionalism andcivilizationalism.
Bushido as a Hybrid
Masaki Shiraishi
This paper explores hybridity of bushido which reflects contradictory necessity of Japanese modernity.
My aim is to demonstrate how it simultaneously served for reproduction of traditional culture andtransition of hegemony from the old order to the new one.
Developing an Approach on Social Hybridity for Global Studies
Hirofumi Utsumi (Otemon Gakuin University)
The theory of ‘hybridity’ has focused on ‘cultural hybridity’. I suggest that in order to advance ourunderstanding of globalization we need a study of ‘social hybridity’. The purpose of this research is totheoretically refine the concept of ‘social hybridity’ for applying to empirical research.
S5a_07 Affect and Emotion in Social Movement Research
Convenor: Patricia G Steinhoff (University of Hawaii)
Discussant: Barbara Holthus (University of Vienna)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
The panel examines research in which emotion plays an important role. Sensitivity to emotion becomesthe foundation for analyzing the emotional dynamics of social interaction. The studies concern emotions
such as fear, shame, and anger that are evoked in specific cultural and social contexts.
“Coming Out” as Families of a LGB Member in the Japanese Context: Conflicts and Struggles in
the Interior and Exterior Zone
Kotona Motoyama
This paper explicates the emotional dynamics of “coming out” as families of a LGB member in interior
and exterior zones. The families’ struggles were strongly affected by interaction norms in the interiorzone. This paper claims to redefine what “coming out” means.
Translation of Anger: Emotions and Practices of Right-Wing Converts in Japan
Yuki Asahina (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
This paper examines the process through which politically disinterested individuals become right-wing
citizens in contemporary Japan. It explores how individual-level emotions are translated into collective
grievances and they are embodied through everyday practices.
Social and Emotional Costs of Providing Social Support to Political Prisoners
Patricia G Steinhoff (University of Hawaii)This paper examines the social and emotional costs of providing social support to political prisoners inJapan. Using data from long-term fieldwork (participant observation and interviews), it focuses both oninteractions with prisoners and on the influence of the supporter’s broader social milieu.
S5a_08 Clashing Imaginaries: recovery in Tohoku after 2011
Convenors: Anna Vainio (University of Sheffield); Anna Martini (University of Groningen); Ben Epstein(University College London)
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The panel discusses involvement of various actors in post-disaster Tohoku and how they imagine therecovery process both in space and time. We will focus on: emotional responses of visitors, negotiation of
conflicts and sustainability in communities, and mental health of affected populations.
Touring Tohoku after 2011: imagining and experiencing disaster places
Anna Martini (University of Groningen)
After the 2011 triple disaster, tourism became a means to attract people and economic revenue backto Tohoku. I analyse how tourism workers and tourists make sense of disaster sites through tourism,
focusing on their emotions and affects, and how these produce and manipulate imaginaries of place.
Un-pausing communities: Social construction of post-disaster future of Tohoku
Anna Vainio (University of Sheffield)
Drawing on field work from communities in post-disaster Tohoku, the paper discusses the “good practice”
of Community-Based Disaster Recovery and its effectiveness in the Japanese context.
Coping with Catastrophe: Disaster Mental Health After 3.11
Ben Epstein (University College London)
This paper, based on an institutional ethnography of Japan’s disaster mental health system, addresses thedevelopment of professional identities and the interplay between standardized laboratory research andintervention as linked to broader questions about the management of suffering.
S5a_09 Attitudes toward Death, Dying and Funerary Customs in Japan - Past, Present andFutureConvenors: Dorothea Mladenova (University of Leipzig); Juljan Biontino (Chiba University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel aims to show continuities and discontinuities in attitudes toward death and dying and its
ensuing funerary culture, spanning from the Japanese Empire to contemporary society while also
considering future trends.
The change in attitudes toward death and dying and its relation to funerary practices in theJapanese Empire (1868-1945) and beyond
Juljan Biontino (Chiba University)
This paper compares changes in attitudes toward death and burial practices between the Japanese
mainland, Korea and Taiwan under Japanese rule. It is emphasized that Japan used burial policies to alignthe Korean and Taiwanese family system to the Japanese one in order to prepare for assimilation.
Avoiding conflicts at the deathbed: A new awareness of dying and Living Wills in Japan
Celia Spoden (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany)In the debate about the legislation of passive euthanasia, Living Wills are treated as a means of selfdetermination in medical decision-making. However, drawing on empirical data I will show that the
Living Will is used as a tool to avoid interpersonal conflicts at the deathbed.
Shūkatsu: How the Japanese society aims to tackle peak death
Dorothea Mladenova (University of Leipzig)
Within the hegemonic population discourse the super-aged society is problematized as a society ofmany deaths (tashishakai). The Japanese funeral industry is trying to tackle this issue by transferring the
responsibility onto the individual through end-of-life-activation (shūkatsu).
S5a_10 Making Sense of this World: The Intersection of Materiality and Immateriality in Japan
Convenor: Lynne Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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The panel explores the relationship between the material and immaterial worlds in Japan and considers
how material contexts impact perceptions. Panelists consider whether there are any recognizable patterns
in the interplay of material and immaterial spheres in Japan.
The Materiality of Life After Death in Japan
Gordon Mathews (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Life after death is portrayed in writings and by those I’ve interviewed as a realm apart from theJapanese social and material world: an escape from that world. But ano yo [“that world”] continuallyinterpenetrates with kono yo [“this world’]: this world is materially linked to the world to come.
Educating Disabled Children: Articulating the Values of Human Growth and Well-being
Lynne Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper explores the how educators and parents in Japan have made the argument for government
support of special education; an argument that promotes the value of the growth and well-being ofchildren who might never be able to “pay back” or contribute to society in a recognizable way.
The Materiality of Happiness: Exploring Marital Happiness Through Housing in JapanLin Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper employs housing as an example to explore how the material and immaterial realms intersect
in the sphere of marriage in contemporary Japan. It reveals how the more tangible attributes of housing at
once reflect and determine its occupants’ less tangible sense of marital happiness.
S5a_11 Homophobia in contemporary Japan
Convenors: Corentin Colin; Aline Henninger (INALCO); Erick Laurent (Gifu Keizai University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Based on recent ethnographic data, this panel will present the grounds for homophobia in contemporary
Japan and some aspects of this phenomenon, especially through three presentation handling withhomophobia in the field of education, in the daily life and also in manga culture.
Primary schools in nowadays Japan: a breeding ground for homophobia?
Aline Henninger (INALCO)
I will analyse ways in which institutional heteronormativity operates in Japanese primary schools. This
presentation will be sustained by my fieldwork data. I conducted an ethnographic research in four primaryschools in Tokyo area and Yamagata area from 2013 October to 2014 June.
Homophobia in manga: some reflections on gay readers’ culture in Japan
Corentin ColinIn this communication, I will show that Japanese gay men can find through manga ‘representations ofhomosexuality different ways to think about and talk about their gay life and also LGBT issues in Japan,
especially about homophobia related topics.
Ordinary homophobia in Japanese everyday society and culture
Erick Laurent (Gifu Keizai University)
The very existence of homophobia in Japan indeed may need, as a prerequisite, a real consciousness, by
the “perpetrators”, of what homosexuality means. However in Japan, especially in rural areas (where I
conducted fieldwork and interviews among gays), this is not often the case.
S5a_12 Body, Affect and Selves In-between: from the institutional margins of work andeducation in contemporary Japan
Convenor: Yuki Imoto (Keio University)
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This panel considers how individuals on the margins of Japanese institutions of work and education(including the ethnographic researchers themselves) deal with dominant social discourses and structures;and in particular, how this interacts with notions of body, affect and the self.
‘Bringing the heart and body back into education’: negotiation of spaces in-between amongcontemplative educational practitioners in Japan and the US
Yuki Imoto (Keio University)
This paper discusses how educational practitioners in Japan and the US are reengaging with the ‘body’ inuniversity teaching. I provide reflexive accounts of educators bridging American and Japanese theories
and experiences of contemplative education, with a focus on ‘mindfulness’.
Gendered Precarity: The Ambivalent and Conflicted Lives of Women Managers in Japan
Swee-Lin Ho (National University of Singapore)
This paper is an ethnographic study of the precarious work conditions of women managers in Japan, due
to gender role expectations, exploitative corporate practices permitted by Japan’s antiquated labor laws
such as nominal management, and ineffective labor unions to protect their interest.
Towards an understanding of communication noryoku (the ability to communicate) incontemporary Japan: A team-ethnography of communication skills workshops for adults with
communication problems
Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan Campus); Junko Teruyama (University of Tsukuba)This paper explores the multiple meanings of communication noryoku (ability to communicate) incontemporary Japan, drawing on a team-ethnography of communication skills workshops run by an adultwith hattatsu-shogai (developmental disability) and long-term research on hikikomori and hattatsu-shogai.
Lost in the third space of the university: impact of lived experiences on decision-making andformation of professional identity
Machi Sato (Hiroshima University)
This paper draws on an ethnographic study on junior academics who are responsible for professional
development of faculty members and provide accounts of how they are lost in third space of theuniversity in Japan and how their lived experiences and Japanese concepts help them navigate their lives.
S5a_13 The changing faces of gift-giving in Japan
Convenors: Melinda Papp (Eotvos Lorand University Budapest); Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes
University)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
How gift giving relates to tradition and religion, what are its implications to consumer behavior, how thenature of the relationship between the recipient and gift giver becomes reflected in the act of gift-giving,are some of the questions which this panel will address.
Rituals and gifts in the Japanese marketplace: Legacy of tradition, consumerism or meaningful
consumption?
Melinda Papp (Eotvos Lorand University Budapest)
The consumer culture of contemporary Japan surrounds customs rooting in the traditional lifestyle. Manyof these customs observed in present days have changed forms and meanings. What is the role of themarketplace and of consumption in the popularity and in the meaning-creation of these customs?
The genesis of the forbidden gift: from religious offering to bribe in JapanDavide Torsello (Central European University)
Gift giving practices in Japan have long and tortuous histories. Some history and folklore literature trace
their development back to moments when people practiced offerings to religious deities. This paper
examines the genesis of bribing from religious offering in Japan from anthropology.

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Gift giving and Japanese housewives living in the UK
Ruth Martin (Oxford Brookes University)
This paper examines gift giving by Japanese women who are living temporarily in the UK as a result of
their husband’s job. It will show the importance gift giving has had in terms of creating good impressionsof the Japanese wives who give them and subsequently of Japan.
S5a_14 The Aftermaths of the Tohoku Disaster: From the Social Sphere to Individual Life
Choices and Psychological Outcomes
Convenors: Julia Gerster (Freie Universität Berlin); Marie Weishaupt (Freie Universität Berlin); Shira
Taube Dayan (The University of Haifa)
Chair & discussant: Brigitte Steger (University of Cambridge)
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
The panel focuses on the aftermaths of the 2011 Tohoku chain of disasters still evident in Japan today,
as reflected in the dynamics of social ties of local communities, in risk-perceptions of self-evacuatedfamilies and regarding the psychological coping of the affected populations to the youngest.
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the 2011 earthquake,tsunami and radiation.
Julia Gerster (Freie Universität Berlin)
This analysis of the dynamics of social ties in Fukushima and Miyagi prefecture employs sociologicalinstitutionalism to investigate the role of cultural aspects for post 3.11 social recovery and challenge theunderstanding of “recovery” as a restoration of the pre-disaster state of communities.
“Am I a Good Parent?”: Risk Perception and Self-Evacuation in Post-Fukushima Japan
Marie Weishaupt (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper intends to analyze how contrasting discourses on risk in the aftermath of the Fukushima
accident have created a drift in the meaning of social roles within families affected by the accident,
especially in the case of self-evacuees, using sociological and discursive institutionalism.
A Psycho-Cultural Perspective on Childhood following the Tohoku Disaster (More than Words in a
Narrative Study)
Shira Taube Dayan (The University of Haifa)
This paper focuses on the field of children psycho-trauma following natural disasters with relevancy
to the Japanese socio-cultural context in general and the Tohoku Disaster in particular, aiming to shedfurther light on this field’s current needs and methodological implications in Japan.
S5a_16 Transnationality
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Ethnic and Intergenerational Space: Cultural Needs and Emotional Fulfillment for Multiethnic
Elderly within Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System
Jackie Kim-Wachutka (Ritsumeikan University)
Foreign-elderly aging needs have motivated younger generations to seek recognition within Japan’s longterm care system. They have created space where language, culture, tradition, food, and activities enliven
nostalgic memories of “homeland”, providing a sense of security and comfort for the aging.
“One of the Few Countries That Like Us”: Narratives of Performing “Japanese”-ness in Turkey
Romit Dasgupta (University of Western Australia)
This paper discusses cultural and human interactions between Japan and Turkey in “micro” of everyday
contact. Specifically, it draws attention to how everyday, embodied performances of “Japanese-ness”
shape imaginings and articulations of “Japan” in public discourse in Turkey.

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Dedication to craft, personalized care and affection: How producers and consumers use
commodities to achieve the meaning-making in Japanese-style services in Guangzhou
Reijiro Aoyama (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
This paper examines the processes of cross-cultural meaning-making involved in production andconsumption of Japanese services in Guangzhou. It focuses on the increasing importance of bodily
practice, sensory experience, and the concept of personalized service for value creation in commodity
chainsS5a_17 Food
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Japanese identities through foodAyumi Takenaka (Aston University)
In this paper I examine people’s identities and expressions of culture through the lens of food. I focus on
Nikkei cuisine, broadly defined as Japanese fusion food with Peruvian (and Latin American) flavors, thathas lately come in vogue around the world.
Edible Arts: Japanese Cuisine as Visual Culture
Nancy Stalker (The University of Texas at Austin)This presentation traces and analyzes modern Japanese culinary aesthetics, from guidelines articulated
by early 20th century restaurateur Kitaōji Rosanjin to contemporary global deployment by chefs in world
renowned non-Japanese restaurants.
The reconfiguration of authentic Japanese food in Dublin
Ayako Suzuki (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
This paper examines the reconfiguration of Japanese food by foreign chefs in Dublin. The chefs of‘authentic’ Japanese style restaurants had a sense of responsibility to serve authentic food in theirrestaurants with the knowledge and skills that they had acquired in their home countries.
S5a_18 Storytelling
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30‘Female conference interpreters are better because they ease up the atmosphere’: A sociologicalperspective of gender, body and mind narratives of interpreters in contemporary Japan
Deborah Giustini (The University of Manchester)This presentation examines from a sociological perspective the narratives of Japanese female professionaltranslators/interpreters, throwing into relief their bodily, gendered, and emotional experiences in
professional life emerged from an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Tokyo.
An Ethnography of Listening: Unspoken Rules of Japanese Listeners’ Senses, Behaviour andMaterial Aids
Nanase Shirota (University of Cambridge)
Based on ethnography in Tokyo and TV drama analysis, I will delineate how listeners adapt their sensesof hearing, sight and touch, and how they control their bodies with the help of materials such as phones.
This will reveal the complexities of Japanese communication and listeners’ unspoken rules.
Making heroes and creating local identities - An analysis of the celebration of “Akahachi no ireisai”
Alina Rădulescu (University of the Ryukyus)
This paper is an examination of “Akahachi no irei-sai”, a commemoration of a local hero of Ohama vlg.
By analysing the event`s narrative, I reveal how it is constructed to function as both a religious ritual anda storytelling practice that places the village at the center of regional politics.

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S5a_19 Nostalgia and subculture
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Inhabiting melancholia: Shopping arcades, age, and art
Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter)This paper explores melancholia as an affect in aging neighbourhoods, focusing on two shopping
arcades in different parts of the city of Osaka. One appears to be slowly declining, the shops awaiting
abandonment. In the other, artists move in and inhabit the melancholic space.
Sabukaru - Pop between underground and mass culture
Franziska Ritt (University of Cologne)
This paper explores the usage of and the discourse on the term “subculture” (or “sabukaru”) inJapan, taking the existing discussion on otaku culture, but also a broader understanding of youth andunderground culture into account.
Keeping the dream alive: the careers and personal struggles of Koenji’s street musicians.
Robert Simpkins (SOAS, London)
This paper explores the lives of street musicians looking for a career in Koenji in central Tokyo. In
particular I discuss how these individuals reinterpret their dreams after moving to the capital city, as theodds of success become increasingly stacked against them.
S5a_20 Romance and Commodification
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Hostess Wanted: An Analysis of Job Advertisers from Japanese Red-Light Districts
Christian Goehlert (LMU Munich)Free magazines that advertise a variety of jobs that could be classified as sex work are surprisingly
common in Japan. Analysing two such magazines, this paper aims to uncover the strategies that are
employed in order to make this line of work seem palatable or even attractive to young women.
Family Characteristics and Mate Selection: Evidence from Computer-Assisted Dating in Japan
Ekaterina Hertog (University of Oxford); Wei-hsin Yu (University of Maryland, College Park)
Using data from a major matchmaking agency in Japan we examine how family circumstances affectone’s attractiveness as a potential date. We find that a greater possibility of co-residence with in-laws, aswell as resource commitments deter potential marriage partners.
Enmusubi Tourism: Development of Spiritually Based Businesses
Michiyo Yoshida (Wakayama University)
This study focuses on the business activities around enmusubi tourism. Research shows that enmusubi
tourism is supposedly spiritualistic in nature but is highly commercialised because travellers areencouraged to gain spiritual power by consuming goods, food, and services related to enmusubi.
S5a_21 Sexuality
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Sexuality in Contemporary Japan - Sexless Couples and Extramarital Affairs
Alice Pacher (Meiji University)
The purpose of this study is to give a brief description of sexuality in contemporary Japanese society,viewing broad range of sexual behavior and consciousness. It, especially focused on sexless couple
relationship and extramarital affairs, which both increased in recent years.

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Nora Kottmann (University of Dusseldorf)
This talk aims to give an insight in (romantic) couple relationships beyond marriage with a special focus
on the interrelation of space and practices of intimacy, based on a discussion of the literature and recent
statistical data as well as on findings from a field study in Tokyo.
When intimacy steps to the fore: Embodied affects in the public sphere
Dalit Bloch (Tel-Aviv University)
I explore emerging perceptions concerning intimacy care and affection among married partners, andtheir expression in light of widespread socio-cultural notions. I refer to research methods in the study oftypically hidden aspect of life, and conclude with the case of international couples..
S5a_22 Masculinities
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Beautiful businessmen: changing masculinity and changing male beauty practices in contemporaryJapan
Christopher Tso (University of Cambridge)
Through analysis of self-help books and preliminary fieldwork in Tokyo, this paper explores male beauty
practices in Japan focusing primarily on salarymen, how they modify their bodies according to ideals ofmale beauty and the influence of increased bodily self-surveillance on everyday experience.
From Ikumen to Ikuboss: Family-Company Relationship in Post-Bubble Japan
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni (Tel Aviv University)
The paper will offer a critical examination of the recent shift in the focus from men to corporations’management as reflected in the shift in the popularity of the buzzwords Ikumen and Ikuboss. This will beanalyzed against the background of the current interest in Work and Life balance.
Negotiating Masculinities in Elderly Care
Hiroko Umegaki (University of Cambridge)
Rapid social changes lead to middle-aged couples providing elderly care for both set of parents. Men as
sons and sons-in-law selectively undertake care practices that reconcile with their sense of masculinity.
Such care arrangements result in sons-in-law increased importance in the family relations.
S5a_23 Affective Methods
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Soaking in a hot tub, soaking in a culture: bathing as an everyday embodied experience
Ceren Aksoy Sugiyama (Ankara University)
In Japan taking bath is a significant everyday life activity. In order to grasp the multiple meanings ofbathing and its broader reflections on the Japanese society, body should be taken as the existential groundof this practice capable of creating a way of interaction with its environment.
My name is André: an auto-ethnographic perspective on the FtM crossdressing world in Japan
Marta Fanasca (The University of Manchester)
The aim of this paper is to examine the findings of my ethnographic fieldwork in a dansō (Ftm
crossdresser) escort company in Akihabara where I worked from September 2015 to July 2016. I
investigate how dansō create their male self and what relationships develop between crossdressers andclients.

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Affective mesh: Friendship and the field(worker)
Laura Dales (The University of Western Australia)
Friendship is constituted between and through other social engagements. In meshwork, the lines offriendship knot with those of other intimate (and non-intimate) relations (Ingold 2011). This paper
sketches the ways that bodily experiences and affect have shaped relationships central to my research.
S5a_24 Rhythm and Music
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Rupture and Rhythm: A Phenomenology of National Experiences
Kristin Surak (SOAS, University of London)
This paper examines how people make sense of ruptures in the flow of everyday life. Based on
ethnographic research, it examines how novice and experienced tea ceremony practitioners in Japan moveinto, interpret, and normalize disruptions in perception and proprioception within tea spaces.
Dancing the Culture: Learning of Culture through the Body Senses in Nihon Buyō
Nataša Visočnik (University of Ljubljana)
The research, based on an ethnographic study of Japanese perception of body in the world of Nihon Buyō,
describes the training of the body to obtain certain movement, as well as cultural codes. Thus we learn
that the research of the dance is the exploration of the embodied knowledge in society.
The Resonant Method. Researching Japanese Court Music Ethnographically Between a Semiotics
of Passion and a Pragmatics of Taste
Andrea Giolai (Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) and Leiden University)
This presentation compares anthropological approaches to the study of passion, introduces examples fromthe amateur practice of gagaku, and suggests that more “resonant” methods may enable us to understandbetter how ethnographers and their Japanese research participants may become mutually attuned.
S5a_25 Affecting Environments
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Design with nature: ecological landscape design and participation of children and local residents inJapan
Keitaro Ito (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Preserving open or natural space such as wildlife habitats and spaces where children can play is a very
important issue nowadays in urban areas. Thus, we have been designing landscape even in urban areas,
based on vernacular design. We would like to discuss urban nature, design and participation.
Being and Landscape: An Ontological Investigation in a Japanese Rural Community
Ricardo Santos Alexandre (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
In this paper I show that by avoiding the objectifying approach to the Japanese furusato, based on theinvention of traditions, inspiring moral values can be found in the way people actually live their sentient
lives in their rural communities – for them, their furusato is not an ‘invention’.
S5a_26 Roundtable wrap-up: Feeling (in) Japan: affective, sensory and material entanglementsin the field
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
S5a_27 Film: Hierarchies of a Japanese Festival
Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30

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This session presents a single film:
Hierarchies of a Japanese Festival: A Research Film
Natalie Close (Sophia University)
The presentation introduces a research film exploring the different training methods for members of amikoshi festival in Tokyo. These methods differ according to the hierarchical level the members advance
to, and ultimately this film explores how the practice is passed down through the generations.

S5b: Media Studies
S5b_01 Press freedom and identity politics in contemporary Japan
Convenor: Jeff Kingston (Temple University Japan)
Discussant: Tina Burrett (Sophia University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Press freedom in contemporary Japan faces many threats. The most dangerous of these threats is therecrudescence of reactionary nationalism led by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. This panel examines state
encroachment on the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression. We argue that curtailment ofpress freedom undermines Japan’s identity as a democracy based on accountability and transparency.
Self-censorship, state intimidation, an inhospitable legal context and a deferential press beholden to thegovernment weaken democracy.
Press Freedom Under Fire: The “Comfort Woman”, the “History Wars” and Uemura Takashi
Tomomi Yamaguchi (Montana State University)
This paper discusses a campaign by the right-wing and the government targeting the liberal Asahi
Shimbun and especially its reporter, Uemura Takashi, on the “comfort woman” coverage. Uemura case isdeeply connected to the suppression of press freedom, self-censorship, and promotion of revisionism.
The Right-Wing Media and the Rise of Illiberal Politics in Japan
Koichi Nakano (Sophia University)
This paper tries to make sense of the rise of illiberal politics with a particular focus on the role played by
the media. A particular emphasis shall be placed on the two of the most striking features of press-state
relations in modern Japan with deep historical roots.
Chilling Effects on News Reporting in Japan’s “Anonymous Society”
Lawrence Repeta (Meiji University)
Japanese law and custom are weighted heavily toward protecting privacy and confidentiality. They
impose practical limitations on news reporters. These limitations are reinforced by court decisions andother government actions. This presentation will describe some examples of these problems.
S5b_02 Film Theory, Toxic Environments, and the Anthropocene
Convenor: Livia Monnet (University of Montreal)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
In addition to an ecocritical examination of toxic environments in several recent documentaries andfiction films, this panel proposes a discussion of film theory’s potential for subverting the Anthropocene
discourse’s envisioning of the planetary environment as ahistorical and undifferentiated.

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Imagining the end of Anthropocene: denial and recognition in post-Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
films
Elise Domenach (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Can films help us imagine the end of anthropocene? I will examine a double trend in post-Fukushima
films (fascination for disaster and rebuilding), and Toshi Fujiwara’s “No Man’s Zone” in terms of Cavell’s
sceptical theorizing of recognition and denial.
Questioning the Nuclear Anthropocene in Recent SF Films
Livia Monnet (University of Montreal)This paper argues that the experimental aesthetic of two recent SF films, Sono Shion’s Hisohisoboshi(2015) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009), highlights a crisis in thought while subverting at once thetropes of postapocalyptic SF cinema and the discourse on the nuclear Anthropocene.
Our Physical Reality for Film Theory: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Charisma
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota)
In a discussion of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s film Charisma, this paper will examine ways that film theory canbetter account for the historicity, vibrancy and unpredictability of the material world.
S5b_03 (Mis)reading pop culture texts in Japan and beyond
Convenor: Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong)
Chair & discussant: James Welker (Kanagawa University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
The papers in this panel examine what is at stake when media products and practices originating in Japanare consumed and interpreted differently by diverse audiences, both in Japan and globally.
Fans versus Media Regulators in Debates over Meaning: Who Decides?
Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong)This paper looks at the banning of an anime in New Zealand - and discusses failed fan attempts to havethe ruling overturned. I point to potentially fatal flaws in a classificatory system that insists on reading atext against the “interpretive community” for which it was intended.
Global Misunderstandings of Japanese Emoji: Who is Crying with Joy?
Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon)
Do Japanese emoji make possible global language or instead make national differences more apparent?
Using examples of narrative communication from text messages to literature, I explore how emoji have
led to both playful ways of expressing sensitive topics and dangerous cultural misunderstandings.
Moe anthropomorphism as global and local media failure: the case of Unako ‘eel girl’ and anargument for the grand narrative
Debra Occhi (Miyazaki International College)
The Unako ‘eel girl’ commercial depicts moe characterization more broadly within the Japanese
mediascape, beyond the world of otaku media mix fandom. Contextualizing moe aesthetics within abroader analytic perspective, I argue against Azuma’s claim that Japan lacks a grand narrative.
S5b_04 Negotiations of hegemonic gender norms in Japanese media spaces: analyses of women’s
media and female audiences
Convenor: Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
The panel concerns the gendered dimension of contemporary Japanese media with a focus on gender
representation in women’s media and formation of a gender-specific community of audiences andexamines what kind of gender norms are (re)constructed and how these norms are negotiated in media
spaces.
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The emergence of new housewives? A content analysis of Japanese housewives’ magazines, VERYand I LOVE mama, from a class and gender perspective
Kanae Takahashi (Meiji University)
This presentation examines portrayals of ideal lifestyles in two contemporary housewives’ magazines,
VERY, and I LOVE mama and argues that gender norms that women should be ‘good mothers andbeautiful wives’ are reinforced in these contemporary magazines.
The construction of idealized femininity in media: longitudinal content and discourse analyses of awomen’s magazine, an an
Kyoko Koma (Meiji University)
We examine what images of normative femininity have been constructed through discourses and images
in an an, an archetype of contemporary Japanese women’s magazine. An attention is paid to the termkawaii in its issues published from 1970 to 2016.
Manga reading and production by female manga fans called fujoshi: Are they free fromconventional gender norms?
Saori Ishida (Meiji University)
This paper examines the way that dominant gender norms affect identify formation of female manga fanscalled fujoshi and their activities of reading and producing manga. The paper argues that their ‘deviant’
way of enjoying manga is accompanied by their conformity to ‘normal’ femininity.
S5b_05 Queering and Gendering Popular Culture in Japan: Manga, Anime, and TV Drama
Convenor: Andrea Germer (Heinrich-Heine-University)
Chair & discussant: Ulrike Woehr (Hiroshima City University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
To what extent does popular culture carry possibilities of questioning norms, subverting genderstereotypes or queering normativity? Pursuing this question in case studies of three different genres:
manga, animation, and TV drama, we aim to complicate the discussion on gendered media in Japan.
Queering gender in postwar manga, from Princess Knight to Princess Princess
Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)
This presentation will examine how postwar manga accomplishes both narrative queering of gender/sex/
sexuality, through tropes and plot devices, and visual queering, through generic conventions for depicting
characters.
Queering, passing - and reifying normativity: Hosoda Mamoru’s “Wolf Children”
Andrea Germer (Heinrich-Heine-University); Rafael Vinícius Martins (Kyushu University); Tianqi Zhang(Kyushu University)
A close analysis of the 2012 animated film and box office success “Wolf Children” (dir., Hosoda
Mamoru) reveals the film’s complex strategy of queering its main protagonists, portraying dynamics ofstigmatization and at the same time re-instituting normativity through binary notions of gender.
Queering desire: intimacy between women in Japanese TV dramas
Jasmin Rückert (University of Vienna)
This presentation introduces recent examples of female-to-female intimacy in Japanese TV-Series andplaces them in context with earlier representations of lesbian and queer desire in this medium.
S5b_06 The Golden Age Revisited: Labour, Society, Gender and Politics in 1950s Japanese Film
Convenors: Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University); Mats Karlsson (The University of Sydney)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30

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This panel shows how three key 1950s Japanese films by respected but non-canonical directors employed
the theme of labour to reveal shifts in the postwar social fabric, analysing changing patterns of work andrelating them to a broader contemporary context of class, gender and modernisation.
Kinoshita Keisuke’s film at the end of the rainbow: love, labour and alienation at the Yahata SteelWorks
Mats Karlsson (The University of Sydney)
This paper treats aesthetic and thematic aspects of Kinoshita Keisuke’s controversial 1958 film The
Eternal Rainbow. Shot on location, the film explores in a semi-documentary mode the ambition andalienation of workers at a steel mill, yet evades the implications of the problems that it uncovers.
Labour of Love: Female Self-Determination in Yoshimura’s Kyoto
Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
This paper explores the representation by director Yoshimura Kozaburo in two postwar films film of
women working in traditional professions in Japan’s old capital of Kyoto, suggesting how tradition opens
up potential spaces for female self-determination.
The joy of working: the salaryman at work and play in Toho’s 1950s cinema
Johan Nordstrom (Tsuru University)
This presentation explores how in the 1950s dominant narratives of Japan’s postwar high economic
growth, salaryman job security and modernization were reinforced through cinema, especially in the‘salaryman-films’ of the studio Toho, such as their popular ‘Company President’ (Shachō) series.
S5b_07 Beyond the Label of Commerciality: Approaching Narrative Complexity inContemporary Light Novels, Anime and Gēmu
Convenor: Antonio Loriguillo-López (Universitat Jaume I (Spain))
Chair: Dolores Martínez (SOAS)
Discussant: Shiro Yoshioka (University of Newcastle)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Regarded as highly commercial art forms by their belonging to the production committee based
media mix, storytelling in anime and gēmu has generally been overlooked as formulaic. We present a
multidisciplinary overview of complex storytelling within the prolific entertainment industries of Japan
Complex narration in visual novel adaptations to anime
Antonio Loriguillo-López (Universitat Jaume I (Spain))
The paper discusses the anime versions of visual novels. The text seeks to produce an approach fromnarratology to how the branching narratives and multiple endings of visual novels are adapted within thelinear conventionalisms of the classical plot structure at the base of commercial anime.
“It’s All in the Game.” On Multimedial Explorations of Non-Mechanistic Game Mechanics
Artur Lozano-Méndez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)“All You Need Is Kill” is a Japanese sci-fi novel with manga and film adaptations. It explores basic gamemechanics—having to repeat a stage until the player learns to overcome the obstacles. The sum of these
media renderings of a mechanistic premise results in a view of ontology as indeterminate.
Beyond the fourth wall: transdiegetic characters, distancing effect, nesting narratives, and opposite
texts in geemu
Victor Navarro-Remesal (CESAG (Comillas Pontifical University))
The paper discusses the strategies for ludonarrative complexity in games created by metalepsis, includingtransdiegetic characters, the Brechtian distancing effect, nesting narratives, and the Borgesian “countertext”, all of them commonly found in commercial geemu such as Silent Hill or Catherine.

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S5b_08 The Representations of Nuclear Energy in Japanese Mass Media and Popular Culture:
The Daigo Fukuryû Maru incident and its aftermath
Convenors: Akihiro Yamamoto (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies); Tino Bruno (Ritsumeikan
University and Lyon 3 University); Maika Nakao (Ritsumeikan University)
Discussant: Masaya Nemoto (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/ Ritsumeikan University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
This panel aims at analyzing how the images of both the peaceful atom and military nuclear power wererepresented by the Japanese mass media and popular culture during the first half of Cold War, at a time
when the nuclear arms race was set into motion and nuclear power programs developed worldwide.
The Representations of Nuclear Energy in Japanese Daily Newspapers Following the Daigo
Fukuryû Maru Incident
Tino Bruno (Ritsumeikan University and Lyon 3 University)
This paper looks into how Asahi and Yomiuri newspapers helped to ensure public acceptance about
nuclear energy at a time when fear of atomic radiation was at its height, after the Daigo Fukuryû Maru
was exposed to radioactive fallout from a thermonuclear test conducted in the Bikini Atoll in 1954.
Creating Nuclear Fear: Anti Nuclear Movement and the Expressions of Radiation Exposure in
1950s Japan
Maika Nakao (Ritsumeikan University)
This paper focuses on Kamei Fumio’s anti-nuclear documentary film entitled The World Is Terrified(Sekai wa kyōfu suru, 1957) and discusses about the expressions of radiation exposure from theperspective on social movement and social construction of suffering.
Nuclear Fear in Special Effects Programs on Japanese TV in the 1960s and 1970s
Akihiro Yamamoto (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)This paper focuses on special effects programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and examines how nuclear
weapons and atomic power plants were depicted then, at a time when Japanese nuclear power plants
started to generate electricity and at a period when nuclear weapons continue to pose a serious threat.
S5b_09 Writing and Script in Japanese Media
Convenor: Naoko Hosokawa (EHES)
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Discussant: James Stanlaw (Illinois State University)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Drawing on media accounts and from a cultural studies approach, the panel explores various aspects of
the use of katakana in the Japanese media. The purpose of the panel is to shed light upon the role of script
choice in media and contribute to the wider studies of contemporary Japanese media.
From Japan to the World: Japanese words in katakana and national identity in contemporary
media
Naoko Hosokawa (EHES)
Through the examination of the primary data extracted from media sources, this paper aims to contributeto the understanding of contemporary Japanese national identity from the point of view of media
discourse analysis.

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New media communication and net-poetry: The uses of katakana script in the aftermath of thetriple disaster in Japan
Veronica De Pieri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)Drawing on media accounts and from a cultural studies approach, this paper seeks to shed light upon therole of script in new media communication through the consideration of the use of the katakana script in
the net-poetry disseminated via Twitter in the aftermath of the Fukushima triple disaster.
Transliterating Fukushima in Japanese media: Post-nuclear accident representation and katakana
scriptYohei Koyama (SOAS, University of London)
Drawing on media accounts and from a cultural studies approach, the paper examines how the word
Fukushima has been represented in the Japanese media through its transliteration into katakana.
S5b_10 Journalism in Japan
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Local Newspapers: Meaningfulness in Regional Japan
Anthony Rausch (Hirosaki University)
This presentation will focus on chihoshi, local newspapers of Japan, presenting survey research pointing
to the role of the local newspaper for readers together with an in-depth examination of the agenda-setting
power of local newspaper rensai columns in local communities.
Reporting a troubled Wave: Japanese newspapers’ coverage of Korean popular culture, 2011-2013
Laura Lopez Aira (SOAS, University of London)
This paper analyses the coverage of the Korean Wave by two Japanese national newspapers, the Yomiuri
Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun. In particular, it will look at articles published between 2011 and 2013, a
period characterized by the worsening of diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea.
Reporting Highs and Lows: Media Reporting of Disasters and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Christopher Hood (Cardiff University)
Using a novel, Kuraimāzu Hai, and its dramatization to help illustrate the issues, this paper highlights
how journalists covering a disaster may experience highs from covering a major story, but also lows and
PTSD from experiencing sights of suffering that can impact them for many years to come.
S5b_11 Videogames in Japan
Chair: Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
The role of Japanese video games in the history of interactive entertainment: between an assertive
force and a separate market
Tomás Grau de Pablos (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
Video games are a widely adaptive cultural form whose economic viability has allowed the emergenceof several national industries. This paper will discuss the way in which the development of the Japaneseindustry has been influenced by negative and positive perceptions of their products overseas.
Playful networks of history: the circulation of historical contents in Japanese video games
Martin Picard (Leipzig University)
This paper will focus on the sociopolitical aspects of interacting with Japanese historical games byanalyzing how the imaginary of Japanese history is represented, repeated, reinterpreted, and revised invideo games.

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Body Politics: sensitivity, prohibition and taboo in the treatment of the human body in the rating
and censorship of videogames in Japan
William Kelly (University of Oxford)
This paper explores the treatment of the human body in the rating and censorship of video games inJapan, focusing specifically on the ‘problem’ of depictions of hands with four digits and the cultural,
historical, political and economic context within which this prohibition has developed.
S5b_12 Media and social development
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Nikkatsu Film Noir as a Lens to Look at Socio-Cultural Change in Postwar Japan
Caleb Kelso-Marsh (The University of Western Australia)
This paper considers the ways that the genre of American film noir was adapted in “Nikkatsu Action”
crime films such as Rusty Knife (1958), Branded to Kill (1967), and A Colt is My Passport (1967) toconvey some of the faultlines of rapid socio-economic and cultural change in 1950s/1960s Japan.
Understanding the claim to realism in Nakashima Tetsuya’s Confessions (2010)
Chris Perkins (The University of Edinburgh)
Commenting on the unique style of Nakashima Tetsuya’s Confessions (2010), principal photographer
Masakazu Ato argues that by taking the realism out of the film a ‘new realism’ is created.’ How can thisbe so?
The Scientist as a functional bundle in Japanese (kaiki) eiga
Leena Eerolainen (University of Helsinki)
I will analyze the role of “The Scientist” in Japanese cinema, a notion related both to the construction ofhegemonic masculinity and scientific nationalism. I will analyze postwar representations of the mad/sad/rad scientist in pop culture and how it correlates with the construction of identities.
S5b_13 Japanese morning dramas
Chair: Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Television and the ama: the continuing search for a real Japan
Dolores Martinez (SOAS)
Revisiting my article, ‘Tourism and the Ama: the search for a real Japan’, this paper considers Japanese
nostalgia for the past and traditional lifestyles, through NHK’s ‘Amachan’. This 2013 asadora was hugely
successful and has been called a social phenomenon. What exactly does this mean?
“August 15th” in Japanese TV dramas [JP]Sachiko Masuda (Ritsumeikan University)
The purpose of this research is to show how Japanese television dramas represent “August 15th” andhow it is related to the memory of war among Japanese people, by analyzing and comparing the scenes of“August 15th” in war memorial dramas and NHK’s morning drama series.
An Everyday Glimpse of the Nation: NHK’s Morning TV Series (asadora) and Rituality
Elisabeth Scherer (University of Duesseldorf)
This presentation deals with NHK’s series format of asadora and its role as a national institution in Japan.
The asadora is interpreted as a “media ritual” phenomenon, which experiences profound transformations
in recent years through a changing broadcasting landscape.
S5b_14 Negotiations of history and the media
Chair: Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
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Barbarian, Demonizer, Paper Tiger: Portrayals of China and Korea in the Japanese journal Sapio
Torsten Weber (DIJ Tokyo)
My paper offers a content analysis of the popular Japanese monthly Sapio, focusing on its portrayals ofChina and Korea. It is based on a macro analysis of the journal since its first publication in 1989 and uses
qualitative and quantitative data to analyze and explain major shifts and stereotypes.
History-as-Performance: The Postmodernism of Japanese Radical Cinema of the 60s-70s
Seán Hudson (Kyushu University)
Reconsidering the relationship between history, cinema, representation, and performance in Japanesefilms of the 60s and 70s.
Turning Trauma into Triumph - The Emperor as Hero in Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (Harada
Masato, 2015)
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS, University of London)
This paper will look at the film Nihon no ichiban nagai hi, the first film to ever portray Emperor Hirohito
and his involvement in the Second World War. An analysis of the film thus sheds light on how media,
memory and politics intersect in contemporary Japanese society.
S5b_15 Sound and music as medium
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30“Kachūsha no uta” and the birth of Japanese popular music
Lasse Lehtonen (University of Helsinki)
The birth of contemporary Japanese popular music can be traced to one song, “Kachūsha no uta”
(Kayusha’s Song, 1914). This paper discusses the song, its immense popularity, and its influence on
Japanese popular music, media, and Japanese society in the Taishō period.
A Journey to the West in Search of Sound: Cultural negotiation found in Japan’s early history ofsound cinema
Woojeong Joo (Nagoya University)
This study examines the historical development of sound cinema in Japan by focusing on the nation’scontact and negotiation with the Western world. A film producer Kido Shiro’s visit to Europe and the US
will be discussed, along with the discourse analysis of Japan’s early view of sound cinema.
Intermediality and the discursive construction of popular music genres: the case of ‘Japanese City
Pop’
Moritz Sommet (University of Cologne, University of Fribourg (Switzerland))This paper examines the discursive history of Japanese City Pop to interrogate the intermedial processes
at work in the construction of popular music genres. A corpus of musical intertexts is examined andrelated to the (extra-)musical qualities of media artefacts commonly associated with City Pop.
S5b_16 Japanese media and the negotiation of risk
Chair: Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Fukushima and Japanese media: why and how they converted to antinuclear advocates after
Fukushima nuclear disaster?
Katsuyuki Hidaka (Ritsumeikan University)
Since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, there has been a clamour in the Japanese media forthe realisation of nuclear power phase-out. This paper reveals why and how the Japanese media pose theirantinuclear discourse by exploring the various arguments of major national newspapers.

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Journalism in post-Fukushima Japan: How Tokyo-based mass media tested the boundaries of
independent reporting after 3.11.
Florian Meissner (Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, Dortmund Technical University)
This paper outlines techniques and impediments of critical reporting by Japanese mass media in thecontext of ‘Fukushima.’ Drawing from a qualitative interview study, the speaker discusses attempts to
expand the limits of press freedom in Japan as well as setbacks under the Abe administration.
Television Drama as a Means of Consolation? The 3.11 Nuclear Catastrophe in “Hula gâru to inu
no Choko” (Hula Girl and Her Dog Choco) [JP]Hilaria Goessmann (Trier University); Akiko Hayashi (Chuo University)
The paper analyses the messages of the TV drama and the eponymous children’s book. They will also becompared on a text-linguistic level in terms of their intertexuality.
S5b_17 Social media in Japan
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
An Empirical Research of News Dissemination through Twitter in Japan
Tomoko Takemura (Ritsumeikan University)
The purpose of this study was to investigate what kinds of news events are spread by Twitter users andwhat information about the news is included in their tweets. The study found that popular news on Twitter
has the same news values as traditional media, but has some different features from them.
Innovation or Tradition? Analyzing the Twitter Networks of Japanese Environmental
Organizations
Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki (University of Tsukuba); Yutaka Tsujinaka (University of Tsukuba)
Social media such as Twitter provides an innovative information space for communicating environmental
policy. In this paper, we compare and analyze how Japanese non-profit, government, and politicalorganizations are currently utilizing Twitter for advocacy, engagement, and promotion.
Cultural Translation and the 2020 Games: Framing The “LGBT” Boom
Claire Maree (University of Melbourne)This paper explores the contemporary Japanese ‘LGBT boom’ in the socio-political context of the 2020
Tokyo Games. In focuses on the mediatization and cultural translation of the anti-discrimination clause of
the International Olympic Committee Charter that includes sexual orientation.
S5b_18 Facets of movie productions in Japan
Chair: Ronald Saladin (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ))
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
The Film Director Naruse Mikio and the Writer Kawabata Yasunari. The Relation between Text
and Film in the Work The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no oto, 1949-1954 for the novel, 1954 forthe film)
Susanne Schermann (Meiji University)
My main question is: Is it possible for an adaptation to be faithful to the original? The second point willbe the personal relationship between Kawabata and Naruse, and if (or how) this influenced the work oftransposing the novel to screen.

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Japan-Latin America Film Connections The Cuban Revolution in Kuroki Kazuo’s ‘A Cuban Lover’(1969)
Alejandra Armendariz-Hernandez (University Rey Juan Carlos)
This paper analyses the Japanese film ‘A Cuban Lover’ (Kyûba no koibito, Kuroki Kazuo, 1969)
exploring its representation of the Cuban Revolution and the transnational dynamics regarding its
production, distribution and exhibition.
S5b_19 Governance through the media
Chair: Blai Guarné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
A new kind of furusato? Contemporary media representations of rural Japan
Ludgera Lewerich (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf)
Analyzing media representations of rural Japan in the context of urban-to-rural migration, I argue that the
portrayal of the countryside as furusato has been updated to appeal to a new generation, while still serving
as an antithesis to feelings of uncertainty and alienation in today’s society.
Cross-border Air Pollution and Masking Responsibility in the Media
Luli van der Does-Ishikawa (Hiroshima University)
2013年冬、中国からの越境大気汚染が日本全国で大々的に報道されて以来、汚染大気中の有害物質がもたらす健康被害、労働力低下、経済的な悪影響が懸念されているが、東アジアの政治
社会的緊張関係のもとで国家責任としての抜本的な解決策が打ち出せない中、メディアは越境
大気汚染問題における世論を刺激し牽引してきた。立法行政のみならず、地方自治体、学際、
経済産業界、さらには一般市民を巻き込んで、リスク・警戒・責任・エンパワメントの言説が展開され、五段階を経て「好ましい言説」が抽出・伝播され、利害関係者間で浸透しつつ「自己責任」による全国的な健康管理製品の普及へと国境を越えて発展していったプロセスを解明する。

S6: Economics, Business and Political Economy
S6_01 Reforming Legal Education in Japan: Current Issues and Future Outlook
Convenor: Giorgio Fabio Colombo (University of Nagoya)Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel addresses the recent crisis of the legal education in Japan (including the Law School system)and provides an analysis of current criticalities and perspectives, in order to present the situation and offersome proposal for improvement.
Access to the legal professions and gender equality in Japan
Michela Riminucci (Kobe University)
This paper aims at analyzing the recent reform of legal education in Japan from the point of view ofgender equality by taking into account that apparently gender-blind policies as well might have beneficial
repercussions on the level of women’s empowerment within a society.
A Japanese University, Faculty of Law. Year 2030
Andrea Ortolani (Keio University)
This paper analyzes the challenges faced by undergraduate legal education in Japan and offers somesuggestions on how Japanese faculties of law shall address them in the next years.

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Evaluation of Japanese Law Schools from the Students’ Point of View
Takayuki Ii (Senshu University)
This paper considers the Japanese Law Schools based on the result of questionnaire and surveys to current
Law School students. In reference to the evaluation of students, this paper discusses the challenges thecurrent system is facing and ways to reform and improve its functioning.
S6_02 Assessing gender equality in Japan: 30 years since the EEOL
Convenors: Sawako Shirahase (University of Tokyo); Mari Miura (Sophia University); Helen
Macnaughtan (SOAS University of London)
Chair & discussant: Machiko Osawa (Japan Women’s University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Japan’s gender gap is the worst among advanced countries globally, due to a lack of women’s economic
opportunities and low female representation in the political sphere. We discuss the factors preventing
Japan from achieving gender equality in the workplace and in politics, and why the 1986 Equal
Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL) has not led to significant improvements three decades on.
The Resilience of a Gender Dividend? Women, Men and Employment in Japan since the EEOL
Helen Macnaughtan (SOAS University of London)
Is employment in Japan fragmenting into a new construct of gender, with so-called ‘Womenomics’
policy? Or will the resilience of the status quo remain? I argue that the way in which both sexes are
expected to work has not significantly changed, despite 30 years of equal employment legislation.
Mother’s work and Economic inequality among children in low-fertility societies: Focusing on
Japan from a cross-national perspective
Sawako Shirahase (University of Tokyo)
The paper aims to examine economic inequality among children, associated with mother’s work. To
clarify Japan’s situation, I compare Japan to Germany, Italy, Spain, and Taiwan. The contribution of amother’s income to the household is more or less limited in low-fertility societies.
Why So Few Women in Politics? Analyzing the Gender Gaps in Politics and Economy in Japan
Mari Miura (Sophia University)
This paper investigates the gender bias embedded in the electoral system and recruitment process ofpolitical parties. I argue that Japan’s mixed electoral system requires high political capital to be elected,
which makes it difficult for women to enter politics.
S6_03 Tackling a Conundrum: how can gender equality be achieved in an ageing and shrinking
Japan through structural reform?
Convenor: Hiroko Takeda (Nagoya University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
The overarching purpose of the proposed panel is to explore the ways in which structural reform can be
carried out to support both care work at home and the promotion of women’s employment and careeradvancement.
Gender and Elderly Care in Japan
Makiko Fuwa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
This study examines the state of elderly care provision by adult children at home and the gendered
distribution of care responsibility in Japan by using “Survey to grasp the state of balance between workand elderly care responsibility, 2013”.

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Structural Reform of the Family Revisited
Hiroko Takeda (Nagoya University)
This paper discusses reasons as to why the policy reforms conducted by the Japanese government in theareas of birthrate decline and the elderly care in the last 30 years have been so ineffective by considering
the political logic and ideas behind the policy-making,
A Comparative Study of Care and Women’s Employment: Scandinavian Countries and Japan
Kuniko Ishiguro (Tokyo International University)
This paper compares the policy development in Scandinavian countries with that in Japan to understandwhy gender equality at the workplace lags behind the other industrially advanced countries 30 years after
the introduction of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law.
S6_04 Issues for Women’s Advancement in Japan: Understanding the Quality of Life of Young
Women [JP&EN]
Convenors: Kazuyo Yamada (Shiga University); Kumiko Ida (Osaka Prefecture University); Tomoko
Nakahara (Kobe University); Kimie Kumayasu (Osaka Prefecture University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
In Japan the issue of women’s poverty continues to be marginalized and in particular the situation of
women as part of a household. Our research examines the quality of life of women living in households
from the viewpoint of capability and shows some issues overlooked by mainstream studies.
The living conditions of young women focusing on employment, finances and happinessKazuyo Yamada (Shiga University)
The subject of my presentation is to explain the living conditions of young women, focusing on theiremployment, money matters and happiness. I will discuss their quality of life in three aspects, and young
women’s perception of happiness.
Quality of Life of Young Women and Fear of Violence
Tomoko Nakahara (Kobe University)
This study aims to explain quality of life of young women focusing on fear of violence. I focus on two
aspect of violence, fear of violence in family relation and fear of violence in relationship of strangers.
Through the analysis, I will discuss the quality of life of young women.
Quality of life of young women and sense of self-esteem
Kimie Kumayasu (Osaka Prefecture University)
本報告では、世帯で暮らす（高卒以下）若年女性の生活の質を、自尊感情との関連から明らかにすることを目的とする。分析に使用するのは、高卒以下の若年女性に対して我々が行ったウ
ェブ調査から得られたデータである。
S6_05 Neoliberal means to liberal ends? The Abe Government’s campaign to Reform theJapanese Way of Work
Convenors: Shinji Kojima (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University); Scott North (Osaka University);
Charles Weathers (Osaka City University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
We analyze the Abe Government’s employment reform campaign, especially work hours, temporary
agency work, and women’s employment. The utilization of neoliberal strategies through imbalanced
policymaking institutions means that disadvantaged workers, such as care workers, will gain little benefit.

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Reforming the Working Day in Japan
Scott North (Osaka University)
Prime Minister Abe’s government says it wants to limit work hours to counter the social and personal ills
they cause. Opposition parties and others have proposed regulatory remedies. But business interests, whowant further deregulation of work hours, dominate the committee discussing work reforms.
Abenomics and Women’s Employment
Charles Weathers (Osaka City University)
The Abe Government has prioritized support for working women. However, the Government’s
policymaking contradictions mean that workers, predominantly women, in public service jobs such ascare work and teaching will continue to face severely unequal employment practices.
Neoliberal Reforms of Temporary Agency Work: In Whose Benefit?
Shinji Kojima (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
Drastic reform of the Worker Dispatching Act is an important part of the Abe administration’s campaign
to expand the freedom of employers and workers to adopt diverse work styles. However, the reforms haveso far kept workers lives in precarity, and they have little hope towards the future.
S6_06 The Social Consequences of Structural Reforms on the Welfare Mix: Agricultural
Protection, Family Care and Corporate Welfare
Convenor: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
The panel focus is the social consequences of market-oriented structural reforms the social protection
system: covering the agricultural protection system guaranteeing income and livelihoods in rural Japan,
the long-term care system, and the male breadwinner centered corporate welfare system.
Struggling Cooperatives and Changing Village Institutions: Japan’s Destabilizing Agricultural
Welfare State
Hanno Jentzsch (German Institute for Japanese Studies)This paper investigates the role of social ties and norms on the village level (“village institutions”) as
resources for local actors in Japan’s rural and semi-rural peripheries to alleviate the repercussions ofstructural reforms in the agricultural sector.
Care markets in Japan: regional aspects of welfare creation
Vitali Heidt (University of Duisburg-Essen)This paper argues that elderly care in Japan has shifted the role of the family and, additionally, is a
facilitator for regional economic and structural development by itself.
S6_07 Women’s Participation and Advancement Under Abe
Convenor: Mari Osawa (The University of Tokyo)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Abewomanomics is one of the most controversial of the structural reforms. This panel will evaluate
progress within three areas of the gendered Japanese political economy: administrative reforms andgender policy, representation of women in local political leadership and women in private enterprise.
How Womanomics Promotes Women’s Empowerment in Local Politics
Naoko Oki (Ochanomizu University)
The presence of female officeholders of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has increased since the 2000s
in local assemblies. This paper discusses how the sharp increase in LDP’s women in local assemblies
promotes women’s participation in local politics in Japan.

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For Better or Worse?: Women’s Employment in Life Insurance Industry under the Abe’s
Womanomics
Kaoru Kanai (Saitama University)
This paper aims at analysing whether the Abe government’s push for the promotion of women has exerted
any effects on corporate employment practice. It takes Japanese life insurance companies as a case, for thelife insurance companies have been traditionally a major employer of women in Japan.
Policy Machinery for “Women-Shining Society” Under the Abe Government
Ki-young Shin (Ochanomizu University)
This paper evaluates Abenomics with a focus on the impact on policy machinery for gender equality,
namely Gender Equality Bureau. It analyzes whether Abenomics has empowered Gender Equality Bureau
with more budget and manpower or simply shifted limited resources from other equality policies.
S6_08 Towards a political and economic ‘new deal’ in Japanese employment polices andpractices? Exploring the social and psychological impact of prolonging the working life of older
employees in Japan
Convenors: Philippe Debroux (Soka University); Jacques Jaussaud (University of Pau (UPPA)); Julien
Martine (University Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
Drawing on field research and theoretical literature this contribution aims to assess the implications ofinnovative practices of a number of Japanese companies to support older workers’ employment extension
and to examine the conditions of emergence of a new employment psychological contract.
Elderly workers in Japan: the need for a new approach
Philippe Debroux (Soka University); Jacques Jaussaud (University of Pau (UPPA)); Julien Martine(University Paris Diderot - Paris 7); Keith Jackson (SOAS, University of London)
Drawing on field research and theoretical literature this contribution aims to assess the implications ofinnovative practices in some Japanese companies to support employment extension and to examine theconditions of emergence of a new employment psychological contract for old and young workers.
Prolonging working life in Japan: issues and practices for companies
Julien Martine (University Paris Diderot - Paris 7); Jacques Jaussaud (University of Pau (UPPA))This contribution aims to identify and discuss management practices developed by some Japanesecompanies to support the necessary extension in terms of age of employment of their employees.
Towards a political and economic ‘new deal’ in Japanese employment polices and practices?
Exploring the social and psychological impact of prolonging the working life of older employees inJapan.
Keith Jackson (SOAS, University of London); Philippe Debroux (Soka University)
In the context of Japan’s rapidly ageing society and shrinking population this paper identifies andexamines HRM policies and practices being developed by Japanese employers to prolong the working lifeof employees aged 50+ in Japan and suggests implications for HRM in Japan and similar economies.
S6_09 Women and Foreign Workers in the Japanese Labour Market
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
What is wrong with Abe’s “womanomics”?
Yuko Ogasawara (Nihon University)
In-depth interviews with working married men found that people are more open to assume new roles thanto give up traditional roles. The paper argues that promoting women to join the workforce as in Abe’s“womanomics” overlooks the real hindrance to the breakdown of the gendered division of labor.

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What Does the Japanese Labor Market Mean for Female Workers? -A Comparison with SelectedOECD NationsRei Hasegawa; Shinji Hasegawa (Waseda University)
We present the work situation in selected OECD countries for female workers. Although European
countries, the United States and Japan are different in many aspects influenced by distinctive systems ofeach nation, various forms of gender disparities can still be detected in all countries.
Overcoming the Ethnocentric Firm? - Foreign Fresh University Graduate Employment in Japan asa New International Human Resource Development Method
Harald Conrad (University of Sheffield)
This paper analyses a new and distinct recruitment trend – the hiring of foreign fresh university graduates
into Japanese multinational enterprises’ operations in Japan. Based on this, we propose a new conceptual
framework to assess the viability of international personnel development methods.
S6_10 Employment, labour markets and career structures
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Continuity or Change? Analysing the Recruitment and Career Patterns of Japanese Corporate
Elites in an Era of Reform
Jaok Kwon
Through an analysis of the educational backgrounds and career patterns of Japanese corporate elites overthe last three decades, this paper argues that the conventional cohesive recruitment and career systemhave been strengthened despite rapid globalization and deregulatory labour market reform.
Institutionalized in-house careers as a structural barrier to productivity growth in Japan
Franz Waldenberger (German Institute for Japanese Studies)
The paper (a) describes the relevance of in-house careers in Japan, (b) analyses their negative impact on
productivity at the micro, meso and macro level, (c) points to possibles channels through which externalmarkets for skilled managers might be developed.
In the land of working poor
Jan Sýkora (Charles University)
The paper focuses on the social consequences of structural reforms implemented by the Abeadministration which resulted in widening of the gap between rich and poor. The relatively new
phenomenon of rising inequality is discussed in both theoretical and empirical approaches.
S6_11 Startups, SMEs and stakeholder resource allocation
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Structural Reforms related to Japan’s Ecosystem for High-Tech Start-ups since the late 1990s
Marie Anchordoguy (University of Washington, Seattle)
Since 2000, Japan’s Start-up ecosystem has changed dramatically. We analyze structural reforms related
to financing startups, attracting entrepreneurs/labor, universities’ roles in creating new companies, large
firms’ relations with new firms, and state policies targeting a healthier ecosystem.
Rethinking the commitment balance between corporations, institutional investors, workers/
consumers, and the government in Japan
Ryohei Nakagawa (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)This paper provides insights on how the commitment balance in the six mutual relations between
companies, institutional investors, workers/consumers, and government can be sustained in the long run
and how the country should tackle some of the unbalanced relations.

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Lehman Shock, Abenomics and Small Businesses in Japan
Yoshiaki Shikano (Doshisha University); Eriko Naiki (Doshisha University)
By analyzing the CRD, a database on Japanese small businesses financial data, we clarified how theJapanese small businesses have been affected by the Lehman Shock and Abenomics, an economic policy
package implemented by the Abe Administration.
S6_12 Demographics and economic participation
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
The elderly in ageing societies: cost factor or safety net? A comparison of family regimes andNational Transfer Accounts data in Germany and Japan.
Felix Lill (Hertie School of Governance); Rikiya Matsukura (Nihon University)
This paper investigates to what extent the family serves as a bulwark against generational conflict inaging Japan and Germany. Discussing welfare and family regimes, hypotheses are tested using the latest
two waves of National Transfer Accounts macrodata. Japan’s prospects are direr than Germany’s.
Towards an Open Japan? Abenomics and Immigration Policy
David Chiavacci (University of Zurich)
Foreign pundits often identify a more open immigration policy as a missing element in Abenomics.
However, admission policy reforms are actually an element of Abenomics. This paper will analyze thebackground of these immigration reforms and discuss their possible impact on Japan’s labor market.
The political economy of the ‘New’ Abenomics and the ‘Japan’s Plan for Dynamic Engagement of
All Citizens’
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe (University of Sheffield)
This paper examines the ‘New’ Abenomics and Japan’s Plan for Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens byfocusing on the proposed labour market reform. The paper claims that, although the reform may be aimed
at improving work conditions, it is more about economic growth based on economic nationalism.
S6_13 Branding and narratives of corporate identity
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Organizational barriers to the implementation of brand orientation
Rie Sakuraki (Shujitsu University)
This study seeks to understand the practical barriers to achieving brand orientation across an organization.
Its findings suggest that the degree of differentiation, the organizational balance of power, and a strong
dependence on a corporate brand impede the implementation of brand orientation.
Private label brand strategies in Japan: opportunities to satisfy dynamically changing consumer
needsDavid Marutschke (Soka University)
This paper investigates challenges of the Japanese retail industry related to a fundamental shift inconsumer’s attitudes towards higher price-sensitivity and value orientation. Private label strategies ofmajor retailers are analysed to discuss how Japan can regain retail growth and productivity.
The processes and consequences of the appropriation of ethnography into Japanese industry
Yasunobu Ito (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST))
Ethnography has been gaining popularity in industries such as marketing and design. This paper explores
how and why ethnography appeared in the Japanese business scene around the late 2000s, and highlights
the “feedback loop” between mass media and firms’ business affairs.
S6_14 Financial markets
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30

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When and why does the Japanese government intervene in the forex market? Using economic news
to predict central bank action
Mark Manger (University of Toronto)
We hypothesize that public pressure motivates governments to devalue a currency. We use structural topic
models to quantitatively analyze daily Japanese news articles, and employ a supervised machine learning
approach to predict foreign exchange market intervention by the Japanese central bank.
Negative Interest Rates at the Bank of Japan and Central Banks in Europe
Markus Heckel (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Since 2012 central banks have introduced negative interest rates. This paper analyzes negative side effects
including the risks to financial stability, distributional effects and global imbalances. We discuss ideas
such as higher inflation goals and assess the concept of independent central banks.
15 years of Quantitative Easing and no inflation in sight; is the theory wrong or the politicians get it
wrong
Mariusz Krawczyk (Ryukoku University)
For 15 years the Bank of Japan has been consistently failing in its attempts to re-inflate the economy. The
failure originates from the misunderstanding the nature of inflation and the original reasons of deflation.
Only coordination of structural and monetary policy may succeed.
Currency Problems in Allied Occupied Germany and Japan, 1945-1952
Simon Bytheway (Nihon University)
Historically, currency reform is best enacted hot on the heels of regime change. In both Germany andJapan, however, hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars were exchanged by military authorities for dubious
paper currencies issued by the defeated enemies, and by other occupying powers.
S6_15 Abenomics
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Is Japan Back? : The Political Economy of Abenomics
Takaaki Suzuki (Ohio University)
In this paper, I argue that while Abenomics has yielded rich political dividends, its economic policies
have been mired in ambiguity and fallen short of its stated objectives. I then examine and explain thisdiscrepancy from a broad comparative historical framework.
Abenomics and the political economy of reform
Werner Pascha (Duisburg-Essen University)
Abenomics is introduced as an instructive case study of overcoming the reluctance of elected politicians
to introduce far-reaching (economic) policy changes. Political entrepreneurs can overcome such barriers
through innovative ideas and persuasion, while the policy output may remain doubtful.
Inside Abenomics third arrow: TPP as part of the structural reforms
Silvio Miyazaki (University of São Paulo)
A turning-point to the Japan’s trade policy was when the Japanese government decided to join the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP). This treaty can be an important factor to change the Japanese economy, and it
has seen as one of the economic policy pillars that has been called Abenomics.
S6_16 Japan and Asia
Torre B, Piso 3, T11: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30

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How can Japan (re)establish its politico-economic position vis-à-vis the Asia region? A case study ofan entrepreneurial Indo-Japanese creative business project
Ryotaro Mihara (SOAS, University of London)
This paper ethnographically examines contemporary Japan’s politico-economic relationship building visà-vis the Asia region using an entrepreneurial Indo-Japanese creative business project as a case study.
Knowledge transfer and co-evolution of Japanese working practices in an emerging market
economyJoey Soehardjojo (University of Warwick)This empirical study uses cross-sectional data from both the Japanese and locally-owned Indonesian
automotive sector of cars, motorcycles and auto parts firms. It focuses on relationships between the MNCsubsidiaries in legitimizing and adopting the Japanese MNC’s practices in Indonesia.
Enhancing Administrative capacities in water supply: Assessment of Japan’s role in local
development partnerships in Myanmar and the Philippines
Kei Namba (Graduate School of East Asian Studies)This paper aims to assess the impacts of local level partnerships in the context of Japanese overseas
water projects two cities in Southeast Asia: Yangon, Myanmar and Manila, the Philippines, where theadministration capacities in the water management are weak.
S6_17 CSR, law and business
Torre B, Piso 3, T12: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Diffusion of shoe fitting service: interaction between an activist group and companies
Sayako Miura (Shujitsu University)
This study develops a dynamic framework based on the qualitative study of the diffusion of shoe fitting
service to explain why companies behave in socially responsible ways. We view the adoption of such
behavior as a dynamic process comprising interaction between stakeholders and companies.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Increase of Corporate Value in Japanese Financial
Institutions
Soon Jin Kwon (Kurashiki University of Science and the Art); Yuji Yashima (Wakayama University);
Takeshi Kawaji (Seikei University)
In modern financial institutions, implementing sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is
essential in order to increase banks` surplus and corporate value. This study is to evaluate the effects of
CSR on the increase in corporate value for Japanese financial institutions.
Unwelcomed Environmental Reforms to Gain International Competitive Advantage in the 1970s
and 1980s: A case study of Japanese Automakers in the U.S. Market.
Keiji Fujimura (Osaka University)
This study will examine Michael Porter’s hypothesis in which properly designed environmental reforms
trigger innovation that even lead to absolute advantages over firms in foreign countries, using the case ofJapanese automakers in the U.S. market during the 1970s and 1980s.
The consequences of the reform of Japanese Private International law
Chiara Gallese (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)Japanese private international law was recently reformed; however, some changes are not in line with theEuropean conflict of laws. The lack of legal harmonization was considered the greatest challenge in EU
industry, but it has an impact also on Japanese economy, generating costs and expenses.

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S7: History
S7_01 The Samurai and Realms of Memory
Convenor: Constantine Vaporis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Discussant: Anne Walthall (University of California, Irvine)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel examines the modern uses of Edo-period samurai in order to understand issues relating tohistorical reception, memory landscapes, as well as collective and cultural memory. This is done throughthe study of historical texts, castle sites, and memory landscapes.
The Historical Reception of “Hagakure”— Honor, Loyalty, and Patriotism
Shinko Taniguchi (Waseda University)
This paper is a reevaluation of the early 18th-century text Hagakure, within the context of thedevelopment of bushido thought, from its first appearance until today. A particular focus will be how theconcepts of honor and loyalty came to be read within the context of modern nationalism.
Japan’s modern castles between nostalgia and neglect
Oleg Benesch (University of York)This paper examines the often-neglected history of castles in modern Japan, and how they weretransformed from unwanted “feudal” relics to symbols of Japan’s proud martial heritage. It further
explores the central role castles played in the militarization of society in imperial Japan.
Reconsidering Yoshida Shôin through his Memory LandscapeConstantine Vaporis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
This paper reconsiders the historical legacy of Yoshida Shôin (1830-59), the controversial imperial
loyalist and Chôshû domain samurai, primarily through an examination of the sites or realms ofmemory—e.g., the monuments, graves, statues, shrines—that comprise his memory landscape.
S7_02 Human Mobility and the Japanese Empire: Contested Chronologies, Frames, andMemories
Convenors: Steven Ivings (Kyoto University); Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg); Jonathan
Bull (Hokkaido University)
Chair & discussant: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel contends that flows of people—in many cases better understood as circulations—have had
an enduring and overlooked impact on Japanese history, and the papers also serve to problematize
conventional periodization, framing and narrating of the history of Japanese migration.
Heading Further North: Colonial Settlers and Migratory Labour in Japan’s “Far North”
Steven Ivings (Kyoto University)
This paper aims to bring the “far north” back in to the debate on empire and Japanese migration, andsuggests that doing so alters much of our temporal and conceptual understanding of the Japanese empire.
Revisiting the beginning of Meiji Japan’s migration: a case of a family business from northern
KyushuTakahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg)
This paper traces the movements of a merchant family from Kyushu to illustrate the border crossingsfor the Japanese in the late nineteenth century, thereby bridging the historiographical gap between earlymodern trade network in East Asia and modern-era emigration within the Japanese empire.

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Weaponizing the loss: politics and the settling of the unsettled in Karafuto repatriate narratives
Jonathan Bull (Hokkaido University)
Of the multiple strands to repatriate narratives, this paper focuses on how memories of ‘heading further
north’ became entangled with repatriate leaders and Hokkaido politicians’ attempts to ‘weaponize theloss’ to achieve various political objectives.
S7_03 Women networks in nineteenth century Japan
Convenors: Michael Kinski (Frankfurt University); Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Sophia University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
The panel has two parts: 1) Women Working Within the Structures of the Family. 2) Women’s Lives
Outside the Structures of the Family.
14:00-15:30
Paternalistic Discourse and Women’s Roles in Samurai Homes
Luke Roberts (University of California Santa Barbara)
This talk will describe the lives of samurai women of the Mori house in Tosa domain in the Edo period.
The abundant Mori family records allow us to reconstruct stories of their lives and also uncover many of
the untruths in daimyo government records that were created to image a stable patriarchy.
Upholding the Household: Bakin’s Daughter-in-Law and Her Diary
Noriko Itasaka (Senshu University)
This presentation focuses on the life of Michijo (1806-1858), daughter-in-law of Kyokutei Bakin (17671848), one of the most renowned fiction writers of the late Edo period. This presentation reconstructs
Michijo’s life through an examination of her ten-volume diary.
Female Networks and Social Stratification in Meiji Japan from the Perspective of Fukuzawa
Yukichi’s Practical Efforts on Women’s Socialization
Naoko Nishizawa (Keio University)
I examine how Fukuzawa conceptualized and supported female networking. I interrogate Fukuzawa’s
vision of women’s place in modern society from the perspective of network building, focusing on thepractical efforts he himself made to encourage female-driven forms of socialization.
16:00-17:30
Network Expansion and Complexity in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Case of the Shin-Yoshiwara
Red-Light District
Yuriko Yokoyama (National Museum of Japanese History)In this presentation I question previous studies of the pleasure quarters and use the perspective of
networks to highlight the specific structures that perpetuated them as sites of sexual oppression into thenineteenth century.
Female Workers in Training: The Day-to-Day of Early Meiji Women in Records of the Tomioka
Silk Mill
Noriko Sugano (Teikyō University)
This presentation will scrutinize the popular image of female workers in the early Meiji period. The
examination of records of the Tomioka Silk Mill sheds light on the experiences of these young womenand on the role of networks in their lives.

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Seeking Knowledge from Throughout the World: Japanese Women in American Colleges andMedical Schools, 1885-1900
Sally Hastings (Purdue University)
This paper will examine networks that supported Japanese women in travels to U.S. institutions of higher
learning, 1885-1900: from rural Japan to major ports, from homes to educational institutions in Japan,
from Japan to the United States, and from the United States to meaningful work in Japan.
S7_04 Progressive Theory and Social Practice in a Working-Class Neighborhood: The Social
Activism of the Tōkyō Imperial University Settlement House, 1923-1938
Convenors: Till Knaudt (University of Heidelberg); Bruce Grover (University of Heidelberg); Hans
Martin Krämer (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Shoya Unoda (Osaka University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Between 1923 and 1938, professors and students from Tōkyō University operated a settlement house in
the industrial Honjo ward. This panel will investigate how they sought to transcend social work and rather
initiated an autonomous worker’s movement through providing knowledge and self-awareness.
Between Welfare Services and Marxist Politics: The Social Activities of the Tōkyō Imperial
University Settlement House
Hans Martin Krämer (University of Heidelberg)
Prewar left-wing activists are usually thought to have been primarily interested in discussing Marxist
theory. How did the progressive elite of the 1920s and 30s come to be immersed in concrete welfare
activities in the context of the Tōkyō Imperial University Settlement House?
Tenkō: Theoretical Continuity and Change in the Age of Fascism
Bruce Grover (University of Heidelberg)
Despite the progressive activism of their youths, many former Tōkyō University Settlement members
fully embraced ethnic nationalism and state power in the 1930’s as policy advisers to the wartime state.
This paper reveals the surprising degree of continuity of reformist ideals among these thinkers.
Proletarian Learning: Intellectuals, Workers, and Class Emancipation in the Tōkyō University
Settlement House
Till Knaudt (University of Heidelberg)
Between 1924 and 1932 students at University of Tōkyō’s Settlement ran a labor school to educate theurban proletariat, creating opportunities for labor emancipation and political change in Japan.
S7_05 The Meiji Translator: Shifting Profiles, Motives and Effects
Convenors: Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
Discussant: Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel examines the shifting profile of the Meiji translator, charting the emergence of theirincreasingly distinct professional identity. It asks who engaged in translation, what their motives were,and explores their effects of their practice on Japan’s literary landscape.
Translating Popular Science for Social Mobility in Early Meiji Japan: The case of ‘Hatsumei Kiji’
Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
This paper explores how a scholarly Chinese work on science was reworked through adaption, synthesis
and vernacularization for a readership of early Meiji tradesmen. It examines the various intralingualtranslation strategies adopted by the work’s creator to hone his message for his new audience.

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Translator Celebrity in the Meiji Period: Identifying the Factors that Created Translators’ Fame
Motoko Akashi (University of East Anglia)
This paper explores celebrity translators in the Meiji period, aiming to define the factors that earned
them fame. The paper identifies: who these translators were; how the translators and their works were
promoted; their popularity, translation practices; and their activities beyond translation.
The Meiji Literary Translation Boom: Its Characteristics and Causes
James Hadley (Trinity College Dublin)
This paper explores the boom in literary translation that occurred in the early years of the twentiethcentury. It compares statistics-based data on translation publications throughout the Meiji period withhistorical data pertaining to world events to ask about the nature and causes of the boom.
S7_06 Passes for Trade: Diplomatic History of Medieval/Early Modern Japan in a Global
Perspective
Convenors: Fuyuko Matsukata (The University of Tokyo)
Chair: Birgit Tremml-Werner (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Fuyuko Matsukata (University of Tokyo)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This panel deals with Japanese foreign relations from the medieval to the early modern period, focusing
on passes issued by state authorities to control traders. Through multilateral examinations, the panel tries
to bridge the divides between studies based on Chinese and European sources.
The flexibility of the tally system between Muromachi Japan and Ming China
Makoto Okamoto (The University of Tokyo)
This paper aims to analyze the usage of the tally, which functioned as a pass between Muromachi Japanand Ming China. Judging from some existing historical materials, it can be said that the flexibility of thetally system contributed toward sustaining the relationship between those two countries.
The various uses of trading passes between Japan and the Philippines, 1590-1620
Birgit Tremml-Werner (University of Zurich)
Early modern diplomatic exchange between Spain and Japan included the exchange of numerous lettersand embassies, often discussing ways of legitimizing trade. Passes issued by the bakufu came to be
regarded as official documents. This paper looks at the uses of passes in Japan and the Philippines.
Shinpai: The Trading Pass in Early Modern Sino-Japanese Trade
Hao Peng (Osaka City University)
This study focuses on trading passes called shinpai, which were used in the Sino-Japanese trade from1715 into the 1850s. Drawing upon many Japanese and Chinese documents, this study aims to clarify themechanism of the shinpai system and the response of Qing authorities to its implementation.
S7_07 The Circulation of Ideas between Japan and Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limits of
Global History
Convenors: Judith Fröhlich (University of Zurich); Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University); Andreas
Renner (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich)Discussant: Andreas Renner (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich), Sheldon Garon (Princeton
University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
By exploring the exchange of political thought and concepts of international law and Empire between
Japan and Northeast Asia in the early twentieth century, our panel addresses broader issues of thepossibilities and limits, faced by Japan historians, in writing global history.

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Taishō Anarchism and the Russian Revolution of 1917: Takao Heibē (1895-1923)
Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University)
This paper explores an understudied topic of the relationship between Taishō anarchism and Russiancommunism. It demonstrates how with the support of Russian Bolsheviks, Japanese anarchism once again
became a crucial part of Asia-wide radical networks.
The First World War and the Rise of Radical Right Wing Ideology in Japan
Christopher Szpilman (Sophia University)
The presentation focuses on the rise of totalitarian and radical reformist ideology in Japan after WWI. By
examining the writings of some influential men, it traces some causes of the collapse of the party cabinets
and the rise of militarism that put Japan on a collision course with the US.
Russian Eurasianism and Turkism in the Japanese Empire
Shohei Saito (Hiroshima-City University)
This paper compares the importance of Eurasianism and Russian Turkism in the Japanese Empire in the
1930s and 1940s.
16:00-17:30
Japanese Impressions of World War I, Perceptions of a Future War during the 1920s, and Their
Effect on Treatment of POWs
Rotem Kowner (The University of Haifa)
This presentation analyzes Japanese impressions of World War I and perceptions of a future war during
the 1920s in order to demonstrate their effect on the treatment of POWs in the final wars of Imperial
Japan during the 1930s and 1940s.
Informal Empire in a Post-Imperialist World: Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922
Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
Though the end of WWI is generally regarded as a turning point signifying the replacing of imperialistic
values and practices by internationalism, the history of the Siberian Intervention reflected profounddisagreements within Japan’s ruling elite regarding the future course of foreign politics.
Towards a Transimperial History of Imperial Japan? Northeast Asia as Region of Colonial
Competition in the First Half of the 20th Century
Daniel Hedinger (LMU Munich)This contribution will focus on German-Japanese interactions, collaboration and competition in
Manchuria during the 1930s and early 1940s and thus discuss how a transimperial approach to theimperial history of Japan could look like.
S7_08 Jesuit Religious Interaction in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Japan
Convenor: Maria Grazia Petrucci (University of British Columbia)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel explores the pedagogical, literary and commercial aspects of the interaction between European
Jesuits and their influences in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan.
Marcos Jorge’s Catechism and its Japanese Version
Renata Cabral Bernabé (University of São Paulo)
This paper will present a comparison between the Catechism “Doutrina Cristã”, written by the Portuguese
Jesuit Marcos Jorge in 1566, and its Japanese version, translated primarily in 1568 and printed in 1591 in
the press brought from Europe to Japan, by Alessandro Valignano in the previous year.

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João Rodrigues Tsûzu, from Linguist to Historian. The Livro Terceiro da História Eclesiástica deJapão, a Forgotten Codex (17th Century)
Giuseppe Marino (Fudan University)
The Jesuit mission in Japan was founded in 1549 and continued until the 1620s when government
persecution eradicated the Christian church in the country. Among the priests working on the mission wasJoão Rodrigues who was appointed to collect material for the compilation of a history of the mission.
The Controversy between Murayama Tōan and Suetsugu Heizō
Maria Grazia Petrucci (University of British Columbia)
In the early seventeenth century the Tokugawa regime implemented trade regulations unfavorable to
the Portuguese who traded in Nagasaki, due to its consolidation of power. The controversy between
Murayama Tōan and Suetsugu Heizō, both prominent officials, shows their support for the previous
regime.
S7_09 Bloody Sengoku: Truer than Name, Heavier than Words, Tougher than Flesh
Convenors: David Spafford (University of Pennsylvania); Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan);
Lori Meeks (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Reinhard Zöllner (University of Bonn)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Against the volatile background of violence and disorder, Japan’s sengoku society articulated,emphasized, and reformulated the meanings attached to blood, the vital red liquid that circulates in thearteries and veins of humans.
Was Blood Thicker? Adoption, Marriage Alliance, and Kinship in Sixteenth Century Japan.
David Spafford (University of Pennsylvania)
Widespread adoption of heirs in sixteenth-century warrior houses signaled not disregard for kinship ties,
but rather an open acknowledgment of the constructedness of familial attachment and succession, and aneed to extend the boundaries of the familial (and political) group beyond consanguinity.
Bloody Hell!: The Proliferation of Blood Bowl Hell Discourse in Sengoku-Period Japan
Lori Meeks (University of Southern California)This paper will explore why narratives and practices focused on the Blood Bowl Sutra, a short,apocryphal text that damns women to a special hell for the sin of polluting the earth with uterine blood,
may have appealed to men and women living in the tumultuous years of the Sengkoku era.
Blood seal practice in the age of wariness
Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan)
The practice of dripping or smearing blood on one’s signature (kaō) increased in frequency amidst the
16th-century spread of violence. We probe the causes for and meanings behind this development, andspeculate its relationship to the act of jigai (self-killing) and the discourse of seppuku.
S7_10 Reflecting Mirrors: Sino-Japanese Relations in the International Public Discourse, 19011945
Convenor: Andrea Revelant (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Sino-Japanese relations in the first half of the 20th century through an analysis of public opinion andofficial discourse: competing visions of world order and critical turning points.

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The Japanese Press and the Making of Nationalist China, 1926-29
Andrea Revelant (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)The paper illustrates how Japanese public opinion responded to the establishment of the Nationalist
government in China, shedding light on the diversity of viewpoints expressed in major newspapers andmagazines about the prospects for bilateral cooperation.
Japan’s Twenty-One Demands and Their International Impact: New Research on British Sources
Sochi Naraoka (Kyoto University)
This paper examines the international impact of the 21 Demands, mainly using British primary sourcesthat previous research had neglected. It also presents the debate that developed over this issue in the
British press, with a focus on the opposition between The Manchester Guardian and The Times.
Chinese Perceptions of Asia and Japanese Pan-Asianism in the Early 20th century
Shin Kawashima (The University of Tokyo)
This paper discusses how Chinese visions of regional order in Asia and Japanese Pan-Asianism evolved
and influenced each other in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the analysis tracks the legacyof the concept of tribute relations in modern nationalist discorse.
S7_11 Japanese Diplomacy in Transition
Convenors: Andrew Cobbing (University of Nottingham); Egas Moniz-Bandeira (University of
Heidelberg); Mayuko Sano (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Chair & discussant: John Breen (Nichibunken)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
Japanese diplomacy underwent profound changes during the nineteenth century. Rather than explaining
these through a narrative of modernization imposed by the West, these studies of Japanese diplomats
transcend conventional periodization to consider the case for East Asian modernization from within.
Tsutsui Masanori, Tokugawa Foreign Relations and Modern Diplomacy: A Case Study inContinuity
Mayuko Sano (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Tsutsui Masanori (1778-1859) was a shogunal retainer who held extensive experience in foreign
relations. By drawing on Japan’s long-term friendship with Korea, his role in formulating the Tokugawa
Shogunate’s new relationship with the United States helped shape a new era of diplomacy.
From Visiting Envoys to Permanent Missions: Sameshima Naonobu and the First Japanese
Legations in Europe
Andrew Cobbing (University of Nottingham)
Sameshima Naonobu, Japan’s first resident minister in Europe, played a key role in the Meiji government
initiative to open legations abroad. Despite outward appearances of following Western forms, the strategy
was to gain diplomatic leverage and enhance Japan’s standing in the international order.
Hayashi Gonsuke and the Chinese political reforms (1906-1908 and 1916-1918)
Egas Moniz-Bandeira (University of Heidelberg)
Hayashi Gonsuke served as Japan’s minister in Peking twice, once to the Qing Empire and then to the
newly-founded Republic. Although he argued for autonomous Chinese state formation from within, hiswork in practice failed to dispel suspicions about his allegedly imperialist agenda.
S7_12 Foreign Perceptions and interactions with Japan in the late Tokugawa/early Meiji periods
Convenors: Saho Matsumoto (Nagoya City University); Antony Best (London School of Economics);
Mamiko Ito (Gakushuin University)
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This panel will look at foreign interaction with Japan in the mid- to late-nineteenth century from thecultural, intellectual and religious perspectives. It will move beyond clichés about Orientalism to look in
detail at how Japan was perceived and appreciated as a society and civilization.
British Romanticism and Japan, 1858-1894
Antony Best (London School of Economics)
Many Victorians saw Japan after 1858 as a throwback to an idealized Medieval past. This paper argues
that, in the light of the influence of Romanticism, this view helps to explain Japan’s intellectual andcultural attraction to the West and was not necessarily intended to denigrate.
Christian missionaries in Meiji Japan and the unequal treaties with the West
Saho Matsumoto (Nagoya City University)
This paper focuses on the American missionary in Japan, William Imbrie, and the political activities that
he undertook to lobby for the end of the unequal treaties with the West and to discourage the rise of the‘Yellow Peril’ discourse.
Expanding network of Asian Studies
Mamiko Ito (Gakushuin University); Tomoko Hasegawa (Gakushuin University)
This study examines how the western diplomats, scholars and merchants created networks in Asia anddeveloped Asian studies by focusing on their works among their own communities and institutions, suchas “Royal Asiatic Society” and “The Asiatic Society of Japan” from the middle of the 19th century.
S7_13 Meiji Colonialism in Hokkaidō and Transnational Colonial Exchanges
Convenor: John Hennessey (Linnaeus University)
Chair & discussant: Michele Mason (University of Maryland)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Investigating American advisers that spread technologies of settler colonialism and “human exhibits” ofAinu, this panel will set Japan’s colonization of Hokkaidō in the context of transnational colonial trends,
nuancing the oversimplified description of Meiji expansionism as “mimetic imperialism.”
Cradle of Imperialism: Sapporo Agricultural College and the Transnational Exchange of Colonial
Knowledge
John Hennessey (Linnaeus University)
This paper investigates how American oyatoi-gaikokujin William Smith Clark and David Pearce
Penhallow spread colonial knowledge to future colonial administrators at Sapporo Agricultural College inthe 1870s and analyzes their conceptions of empire.
Specters of Colonialism and Oyatoi Gaikokujin: Archives, Indigeneity, and the Transnational
Exchange of U.S. Settler Colonial Techniques
Danika Medak-Saltzman (University of Colorado Boulder)This paper argues ideas about Indigenous peoples bore a significant influence on early U.S./Japan
relations. An Indigenous Studies perspective on this era is employed to consider how Ainu peoples were
impacted, how spectral and indelible ideas about “Indians” influenced these early relationships.
Human displays and the Ainu, 1903-1913
Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University)
While the Japanese were influenced by western modes of empire building, human displays of Ainu
deviate from typical western narratives. I argue that these displays raised questions about Japan’s position
as an imperial power, rather than reinforced its prestige as an imperial power.
S7_14 Rewriting the 1968 in Japan: between myth and disillusionment
Convenors: Maja Vodopivec (Leiden University); Minoru Iwasaki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
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This panel attempts to demonstrate that 1968 is not a nostalgic story or a myth to be dismissed. While
standing between the myth of 1968 and disillusionment, we will discuss Katō’s Words and tanks, imageryof life and death, and women and disabled discourse from the present point of view.
Katō Shūichi’s postwar enlightenment thought, the 1968, and the global history: a Japaneseperspective from Europe
Maja Vodopivec (Leiden University)
One of the most famous works by Katō Shūichi, a postwar enlightenment intellectual was on his
experience of the Prague Spring. I will analyze Katō’s “Words and Tanks” as a text in which Japaneseliberal intellectual elite of the time was trying to come to terms with new and emerging global reality.
Rights of Women vs. Rights of the Disabled People: Eugenics in Japan after the 1968
Rin Odawara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Recently, 19 people with disability got stabbed in Kanagawa. The incident is connected to the recent
nuclear accident, and to the debate on women’s reproductive rights. Roots of both debates can be traced
back to ‘70s, and it’s evident that eugenics in the society has not been discussed adequately.
Resounding Space: the Emotional Memory through/of the Young Dead Students in the 1960s
Minoru Iwasaki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Through rereading the 1960s best-selling diaries or posthumous notebooks of young activists, I will
examine a reference relationship of their peculiar sentiment and political imagination of the time, not only
as a political rise and fall, but also as a contemporary problem of “emotional memories.”
S7_15 Natural Disasters as History Markers in Edo Era Japan
Convenor: Marion William Steele (International Christian University)
Discussant: Philip Brown (The Ohio State University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel seeks to recover ways in which Edo period commoners and samurai used natural disasters tocreate narratives of their past. Papers focus on the Genroku Earthquake of 1703, the Great Flood of 1742,
and a series of natural disasters preceding the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Natural Disasters in Contemporary Narratives of the Collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Marion William Steele (International Christian University)
This presentation analyzes a print issued in 1868 that illustrated events leading to the end of theTokugawa regime. It seeks to demonstrate ways in which a confluence of earthquakes, floods, fires andepidemics in the 1850s and 1860s were used to mark the passing of the old order.
“Heaven Has Washed Away All”: Floods as Historical Markers in Edo Era Japan
Patricia Sippel (Toyo Eiwa University)
This paper examines the importance of floods in the creation of social memory in the Edo era. Special
attention is given to the stone markers and literary accounts that recorded the massive Honshu flood of
1742.
Heaven and Earth Collapsing: The Memory of the Final Years of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s
Government
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey (Australian National University)
This paper deals with the natural disasters that marred the final years of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s
government with focus on the earthquake of Genroku 13 (1703). The paper will explore why this 8.2
magnitude earthquake, causing a change in era name, finds little mention by historians.

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S7_16 Interconnecting (hi)stories: Reconsidering Japan and Maritime Asia in Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries
Convenor: Takashi Kawato (Chiba Keizai University)
Discussant: Elisabetta Colla (School of Arts and Humanities/Lisbon University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel aims to develop a new historical perspective on the era of from the 16th to 17th centuries andexplains mutual exchanges of political, economic, and social aspects between Japan and maritime Asia,
and review the periodization in the learning of “Japanese history” as national history.
Currencies in medieval and early-modern Japan
Takashi Kawato (Chiba Keizai University)
Chinese coins as medieval currency was circulating until the 1660s, but the tri-metallic monetary system
as early-modern currency was established in the 1560s. This presentation explains aspects of the transitionof the monetary system of Japan from the 16th to the 17th century as a “gray area”.
A Tentative Plan on the Periodization in History Textbooks of Japanese High Schools
Nobuyuki Onishi (Chuo University Suginami High School)
This presentation focuses on medieval/early modern periodization in Japanese high school history
textbooks. In Japan, World History and Japanese History are minutely separated, and the periodization
between them is discordant. I propose a tentative plan of periodization to solve this problem.
A Simplified discussion about “Tanegashima”, where is the place of the encounter between thePortuguese and the Japanese
Kenji Igawa (Waseda University)
This presentation focuses on the first contact by the European to the Japanese archipelago in the middleof the sixteenth century. This topic is not just major inside and outside Japan, but complicated. It willdevelop newer perspective for maritime Asian regional and global history.
S7_17 Out of Step and Out of Time: Insurgent and Abject Cultures ca. 1923, 1945, 1968
Convenor: William Marotti (UCLA)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Our panel offers three cultural historical examinations of pivotal moments in 20th century Japanese
history through literary and cultural work. Each paper addresses sociopolitical transformations of urban
space by revisiting these as scenes of conflict, irresolution, and possibility.
One Station from Yoyogi: Revolution and Abjection in Shinjuku
William Marotti (UCLA)
I address the creation of a key politicized space in Shinjuku during the late 1960s, with particular focus
on the role of marginalized sociopolitical identities and practices, and in turn, the centrality of Shinjuku innational political struggles over the legitimacy of protest and force.
Landscape as History: Nosaka Akiyuki and the “Burned-out Ruins/Black Markets Generation”
Michael Molasky (Waseda University)
This paper explores how novelist Nosaka Akiyuki deployed the trope “burned-out ruins/black markets”
in his writing to challenge dominant narratives of postwar history—regardless of whether those narratives
emphasize “continuity” or on “disjuncture” between the prewar and postwar eras.
Viral City: Urban Tokyo as Illness in the 1920s
Nathan Shockey (Bard College)
This paper examines the imagination of Tokyo as disease in the period following the Great Kanto
Earthquake. I take up the work of governor Goto Shinpei, a former doctor and colonial administrator, as
well as fiction by the modernist Yokomitsu Riichi to present a picture of the city as a sick body.
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S7_18 Northeast Asian History Wars: Competing National Narratives in Japanese, Korean, andChinese Museums
Convenors: Kenneth Ruoff (Portland State University); Xiaohua Ma (Osaka University of Education);
Mark Caprio (Rikkyo University)
Discussant: Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel examines how Japan, China, and South Korea use museums to incorporate their interpretationsof the delicate and controversial colonial and Asia-Pacific wartime periods, focusing on how these states
weave these histories into their longer national narratives.
War Museums and the National Narrative: The Case of Japan and the Republic of Korea
Mark Caprio (Rikkyo University)
This paper will examine how Japanese and Korean museums display their acts of wartime victimization
during times of foreign invasion. It will focus on displays on the Asia-Pacific War found in Japan’s
Yushukan and those on Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War found in the War Museum of Korea.
The Colonial Era as Portrayed in Korea’s Museum-scapeKenneth Ruoff (Portland State University)
This presentation, by looking at historical themes ranging from modernization to historical continuities
from the colonial period to the especially volatile topic of collaboration, examines how museums in the
Republic of Korea narrate the colonial period.
Fighting for “Peace”: Museums Wars and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation
Xiaohua Ma (Osaka University of Education)
This paper will consider the role war memory plays in Japan’s relations with China and its other regional
neighbors to ascertain the effect it has had on Asia-Pacific security. Its focus is on Japan’s postwar
reconciliation policy as seen from transformations in its peace/war museums.
S7_19 Re-assessing 13th Century Political Culture in Japan
Convenor: Daniel Schley (University of Bonn)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Problematizing issues of periodization and methodology for the study of the Kamakura (1185-1333) era
in Japan, this panel will use an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the thirteenth century on its own
terms, pointing to significant changes that occurred in Japanese political culture.
The Past in “Mirrors”: Crafting Continuity in Transitional Times
Erin L. Brightwell (University of Michigan)
Taking Japan’s “Mirrors” as a collective site in which medieval ideas of morality, historiography, andauthority intersect, this paper explores a changing configuration of religious movements, discourses on
writing, and political vicissitudes that legitimated particular ways of presenting the past.
Discussion of Violence in Thirteenth-century Japan In Terms of the Laws and Regulations of the
Kamakura Bakufu and the Behavior of the Gokenin (shogunal retainers)
Kiyoshi Jinno (Tokyo University of Science)
Focusing on violence (the power that forcibly destroys or detains a person; or destroys or confiscatesa person’s property) as a tool to understand 13th-century Japan, this paper reviews definitions of the
Kamakura Bakufu’s laws and their consequences on the life of the Gokenin (shogunal retainers).

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History, Memory and Authority in the “Post-Jōkyū” World
Michael McCarty (Salisbury University)
Investigating how the Jōkyū Disturbance of 1221, which caused the defeat and exile of the Japaneseemperor, loomed behind depictions of earlier events like the Genpei War (1180-85) in medieval discourse,
this paper argues for a re-conceptualization of genre, authority and memory in medieval Japan.
The Political-religious Language of Benevolence before and after Jōkyū
Daniel Schley (University of Bonn)In 13th century Japan, the political ideal of benevolent government assumed an unprecedented importancefor defining kingship between Kyoto and Kamakura. Its influence and meaning will be explored inhistoriographical and literary sources like Azuma kagami, Rokudai shōjiki and Kokon Chomonjū.
S7_20 The World to Come: Discourses of the Body, Politics, and War in Japanese Future
Writing, 1905-1990
Convenor: Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Panelists will discuss the evolution of Japanese future writing from 1905 to 1991, covering nearly acentury of historical speculation of the ‘world to come’. We focus on descriptions of the human body toilluminate changing historical discourses on social relations, political power, and war.
Imagine the World! Adventure Literature and Science Fiction in Meiji Japan
Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)This paper examines publications directly following the Russo-Japanese War, such as Boken Sekai, thatfeatured early Japanese science fiction and speculative writing about the future. Transformations of thebody, as well as non-human bodies, featured prominently as well as the expansion of empire.
Robot Science Fiction and the Politics of Mass Culture in 1920s Japan
Seth Jacobowitz (Yale University)
Seth Jacobowitz’s paper investigates conceptions of artificial human being and robots in the literature andthought of Unno Juza (1897-1949) and Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke (1892-1931) against the politics of massculture in 1920s Japan.
Numa Shōzō’s Human Cattle Yapoo and Prophetic Posthumanism
John Whittier Treat (Yale University)
Numa Shōzō’s scifi Human Cattle Yapoo (Kachikujin Yapū, 1956-91) has been typically read as a
racialized analogy of a masochistic Japan under American occupation, but the work is also a precursor of
current speculative writing imagining a posthuman future.
S7_21 The Gender of the Law: Re-theorizing the Discourse on Modernity in Late Meiji Legal
Notions of Family, Gender and CitizenshipConvenor: Urs Matthias Zachmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
This panel discusses the notion of modernity in the late Meiji period through the lens of gender, family
and the law. It particularly asks what dynamic relation between these drove the formation of the Meiji
state, applying interdisciplinary analyses of legal and literary texts.
Gender, the Meiji State, and Modern Patriarchy
Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (University of Edinburgh)
The Meiji legal system excluded women from public roles. Challenging the conventional view that theinstitution of the family (ie) was responsible, my aim is to demonstrate the power of masculine networks
in the construction of the new legal order and of citizenship in modern Japan.

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Lethal Transplants: Particularism and Universalism in Late Meiji Legal Concepts of the Family
Urs Matthias Zachmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper discusses the so-called ‘re-feudalisation’ of late Meiji Japan by looking at the controversy
around family law. Focusing on Hozumi Yatsuka’s writings it shows how conservative intellectuals
sought to rationalise Japan’s particular family system from a universalist perspective.
Adapting Meiji Legal Codes: The Re-presentation of Jogakusei (school girls) in Miyake Kaho and
Higuchi Ichiyo’s Novels in Relation to the Meiji Adoption System
Raj Lakhi Sen (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)This paper uses literary writings to deconstruct the representation of western style education for jogakusei(school girls) in the milieu of the traditional adoption system. It shows how the Meiji legal system
coerced jogakusei to ironically perform traditional norms in face of new social desires.
S7_22 The Uses of Chinese Texts in Post-Sinocentric Japan
Convenors: Michael Facius (Freie Universität Berlin); Niels Bader (Freie Universität Berlin); David
Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Discussant: Ivo Smits (University of Leiden)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Japanese intellectuals harnessed Sinitic writing for a wide range of work. Questioning the artificial
modern/premodern divide, the panel showcases influential texts from various genres – poetry, stylistic
primer, political treatise -, their intertextual webs, and their cultural and political impact.
Good prose, good government: On the boom of the Tang and Song Eight Prose Masters in 19thcentury Japan
Michael Facius (Freie Universität Berlin)
The collection “Tang and Song Eight Prose Masters” was a model for elegant prose writing throughout
the 19th century. Its popularity, the paper argues, was rooted in the political outlook of the Masters thattied style to government, a point resonating strongly with the Japanese political agenda.
Dutch Texts through Chinese Lens: The Sinological Erudition of the Rangakusha
David Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
While marketed as a distinct brand of scholarship, Edo-period Rangaku was suffused with Sinologicalerudition. On a case study of an 1805 translation text with an important mid-century political afterlife thepaper seeks to document the synergy of the ‘Dutch’ and classical ‘Chinese’ expertise.
Constructing the last bunjin: Classical Allusions in Natsume Sōseki’s Chinese Poetry Unveiled
Niels Bader (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper investigates how and why commented and annotated translations identify and explain allusions
to classical Chinese texts in Natsume Sōseki’s Chinese poetry. It argues that this practice contributed
significantly to the writer’s contemporary image as one of the last men of Chinese learning.
S7_23 Brackets & Breakdowns: How academic disciplines define and sustain segmentations oftime in ancient Japan
Convenor: Jason Webb (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Tomoyasu Kato (Meiji University)
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel seeks to turn a critical eye to conventions of periodizing Japan’s “ancient” times first bycomparing orientations historical, archaeological, and literary. How does each discipline indulge in its
own collective fabrications of sequence, rupture, and inevitability? Can we improve things?

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Periodization in Japanese Archaeology: The Case of the Yayoi-Kofun Transition
Kenichi Sasaki (Meiji University)
This paper reflects upon what kinds of criteria Japanese archaeologists use to distinguish the Yayoi Period
from the Kofun Period. As new data are discovered, different criteria are selected to make the distinction.
What Makes an Era?: Alternative Views of Historical Periods via the Keikokushū preface
Jason Webb (University of Southern California)
Radically different conceptions of period and periodization are possible when focus is shifted frompolitical and military power to a perceived status of writing. This paper uses the early ninth-century
anthology Keikokushū to explore alternative definitions and assessments of historical periods.
The Problem of Period Demarcation in Japanese History
Takehiko Yoshimura (Meiji University)
A survey of periodization methods across disciplines affirms that differences in the criteria used
to distinguish periods causes incompatibilities in timeline conceptions. Can periodizations of the“premodern” Japanese past be unified? Should they be? This paper seeks to contribute to the debate.
S7_24 Challenging National History from the North: The Changing Terrain of Ainu
Historiography
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
View from the north: relations with Ainu and Russia and the periodization of the history of earlymodern Japan
Vasilii Shchepkin (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences)
In our opinion, Japan’s policy towards Ainu and relations with Russia reflect the changes in Japan’s
economic and social life, worldview, intellectual history etc., and intertwining of these processes in thelate 18th century marked the turning point in early modern Japan’s history as a whole.
Poetry as historical source: at the margins of ideas in pre-war Japan
Nadine Willems (University of East Anglia)
The pre-war poetry of Sarashina Genzō links proletarian politics, Ainu ethnography and transnational
literary consciousness. As a historical source it offers insights into the ideological currents of the time.
Poetic ethnography also raises key questions about interdisciplinarity and translation.
Indigenous Modernity on the Northern Frontier: The Alternative Rhythms of Okhotsk History
Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian National University)
Space and time are connected. Changing spatial perspective changes the temporal landscape too. My
paper uses the framework of the Okhotsk region (spanning Sakhalin, Hokkaido and the Kurile Islands) torethink the periodisation of Japanese history and the boundary between tradition and modernity.
S7_25 Archived Outside: New Perspectives on Japanese History from International Collections
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Reimagining the Gordon W. Prange Collection: Towards Transwar Literary Media History
Yukako Tatsumi (University of Maryland)This paper explores a possibility of reimagining the Prange Collection, the Archive of the Allied
Occupation of Japan, as a vehicle to bridge the periodized historical narratives of print media and reshape
literary landscape in response to the series of the events across the transwar decades.

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Japanese Book “Migration” from Karafuto to Leningrad (based upon the Unknown Documentsfrom the Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts)
Karine Marandjian (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts)
The paper based upon recently discovered archive materials centers on the post war Sakhalin history
when Karafuto library holdings left after the repatriation of the Japanese population were transferred in1948 to Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies.
A historical examination of The Greater East Asia War and British India
Pallavi Bhatte (Kyoto University)
This presentation examines the historical understanding of the relationships between The Greater East
Asia War and British India with a focus on ideologies, circumstances and developments thereby seeking
new discussions into Japan-India relations based on newly declassified archival documents.
Among Friends? Collaboration between Swedish Military Intelligence and Japan’s Military
Attaché in Sweden during World War II, Onodera Makoto
Bert Edström (Institute for Security and Development Policy)
Based on documents in Swedish archives that so far have not been taken into account by researchers,
this paper deals with collaboration between Swedish military intelligence and Japan’s military attaché in
Sweden during WWII, Onodera Makoto.
S7_26 Investigating Imperial Cultures
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Ancient Japanese imperial musical performances as reflections of social order and humanrelationships
Michiko Hirama (Toho Gakuen College)
Through analysis of descriptions in official histories and books of ceremonies, this paper discusses thepolitical importance of ceremonial music and dance performance in the ancient Japanese court, seen as
bodily action. It draws on previous historical studies and ethnomusicological perspectives.
A Quaker Tutor to the Crown Prince: Collaboration between Occupied and Occupier throughChristianity in Early-Postwar Japan
Cynthia Daugherty (Seinan Gakuin University)
This presentation focuses on Elizabeth Gray Vining, an American Quaker, who was employed as tutor tothe crown prince (current Emperor Akihito) between 1946 and1950. In particular, it examines Vining’s
work in connection with instrumental uses of Christianity during the American occupation of Japan.
S7_27 New Perspectives from Archaeology
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
The Ainu Society and Graves in the 17th Century: Findings from the Documents of a Foreign
Missionary and from a Recent Archaeological Research
Tomoya Aono (Date City Institute of Funkawan Culture)
This study describes some findings on the Ainu society of the 17th century through a comparison between
the letters written by Girolamo de Angelis, an Italian Jesuit missionary who visited Ezo in 1618, and theresults of our archaeological research.
Reevaluating Plant Food Cultures during the Jomon Period Using Starch Granule Assemblages
from Northern Japan
Ayako Shibutani (National Museum of Japanese History)
This paper evaluates the role of grinding stones in the processing of wild plants by analysing starch
granules extracted from stone artefacts dating to the early-to-middle Jomon period of northern Japan.

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Prehistory without Prehistory - the construction of archaeological time in Modern Japan
Rafael Abad de los Santos (University of Seville); Celia Sánchez SauraIn this paper we analyze the evolution of modern archaeology in Japan, with a special emphasis on theformation of concepts related to the unwritten past. In this process, we can observe that the recognition ofa “prehistoric past” did not involve finally the adoption of the term “Prehistory”.
S7_28 Revisiting the Edo-Meiji Divide: Cultures, Ideas and Representations
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Examining the Intellectual Framework of Social and Legal Justice in Late Edo and Early Meiji: an
Example of Eto Shinpei’s Heritage
Noriko Berlinguez-kono (University of Lille)
The in-depth study on legal “reforms” led by Eto Shinpei, first Minister of Justice of Meiji, offers a soundexample of reflections on bridging divides. If the political decision to implement the reforms marks a newera, the ideas behind them often belong to a former frame of thoughts and practices.
“Bridging the tradition vs modernity gap” - cultural identity as traditional and transitional
principle for modernizing Japan
Mária Ildikó Farkas (Károli Gáspár Universtiy of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
My paper tries to provide a comparative and interdisciplinary approach for interpreting the Japaneseprocess of forming modern collective (national) identity based on premodern cultural concepts of identity,
comparing this pattern with global (Asian, Western and Central European) development issues.
‘Trans-Restoration’ Period Dramas: Challenging 1868 as Dividing Line
Sean O’Reilly (Akita International University)
1868 looms large both in Japanese history and in the history of Japanese cinema. It is the supposedly firm
dividing line between period dramas and present-day dramas. However, in this paper, I will analyze a few
key films which challenge this boundary, with important implications for us today.
S7_29 Tourism in and of History
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Passive Promotion: the China Travel Service and Tourism to Japan, 1931-1937
António Barrento (University of Lisbon)
From 1931, the China Travel Service did not want to be seen to be clearly promoting tours to Japan.
However, it did not refrain from publishing tourism writings on Japan during the rest of the Nanjing
decade. This paper examines this apparent contradiction while attempting to interpret it.
Memory-making of war through school trip (shūgaku ryokō) in Japan - opportunity or trap?: A
new perspective of dark tourism
Kaori Yoshida (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
This paper investigates how war memories have been interpreted, publicized, and embedded in warthemed dark tourism, by examining school trips in Japan (shugaku ryoko). It analyzes guidebooks andinterviews with tour agents and teachers, to reveal the narrativization of WWII for young generation.
S7_30 Christian Histories: Space, Organisation and Global Comparison
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
The Persecution of the Kirishitan and the Morisco: A Global Comparison
Andres Perez Riobo (Doshisha University)
The social systems of Japan and Spain during the early modern period were defined by the eliminationof the Kirishitan and the expulsion of the Morisco. Despite being simultaneous, they have not yet beensystematically viewed from a global point of view. I will reconsider their global significance.

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Making Protestant Church Space in Imperial Japan: Urban Space, Architecture, and Tokyo’s
Largest Churches, 1880-1923
Garrett Washington (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
This paper responds to lingering questions about Protestant Christianity’s ability to influence society
in imperial Japan. It investigates the unexamined importance of the urban and built spaces of Tokyo’slargest, most popular Japanese Protestant churches in the religious movement’s transformation.
Keepers of the Christian Faith: A Reconsideration of the Christian brotherhood’s role in Japanafter 1614
Jose Blanco-Perales (Universidad de Oviedo)
The proposed paper challenges the assumption that Christianity rapidly deteriorated after 1614, andstresses the importance of the Christian brotherhoods arguing that they allowed the Christian devotees tocontinue with their practices since the expulsion of the missionaries until around 1625.
S7_31 Popular, Radical and Revolutionary Cultures
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Traversing the Great Divide: Continuities in Gesaku Print Culture within Meiji Newspapers
Alistair Swale (University of Waikato)This paper aims to highlight the role of demimonde literati from the Bakuhan intelligentsia in establishinga genuinely popularised discourse of critical opinion outside the control of the government endorsed
program of ‘civilization and enlightenment’ as evidenced in the Tokyo E-iri Shimbun.
Post-Fascist Political Culture: Kamakura Akademia
Laura Hein (Northwestern University)
Much scholarship examines postwar Japan in post-colonial and Cold War contexts but the aftermath offascism has faded from view. Many Japanese responded by creating institutions such as the Kamakura
Akademia, which engaged in reparative efforts now characterized as mitigating PTSD.
No Regret To Inform: The ‘Newspaper Funerals’ and Popular Protest in Meiji Japan
Joel Joos (University of Kochi)
I will address the issue of how popular protest in the regions (Kochi) in early Meiji Japan was given a
voice, not only through modern media such as newspapers, but also through the public visualization ofdissidence, in this case the staging of real but also highly symbolic “newspaper funerals”.
S7_32 Gender, Ideology and the Nation
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Writing women out of history: an Edo/Meiji divide in Chanoyu
Rebecca Corbett (The University of Southern California)This paper examines temporal and methodological divides that have allowed for an historical narrative todevelop which ignores women’s participation in chanoyu prior to the Meiji period.
“The waste of society as seen through women’s eyes”: Women’s mobilization and waste campaigns
on the Japanese home front
Rebecca Tompkins (Leiden University)
This paper analyzes the relationship between the Japanese state and women in wartime mobilization by
examining waste reduction and collection campaigns. Women’s wartime mobilization was largely directedby the state, but in some cases women organized their own independent waste campaigns.

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Reconfiguring “Ga” and “Zoku” in Modern Times: Mass-Market Women’s Magazines and the“Revolution” of Print Media in Interwar Japan
Shiho Maeshima (University of Tokyo)
This paper aims to investigate the interrelations among magazine genres, gender categories, and theformation of cultural hierarchy, by reconsidering the significance of interwar mass-market women’smagazines in the history of print/reading culture in modern Japan.
S7_33 Social Tension and Social Position in Tokugawa Japan
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Travel in Tokugawa Japan: Identity and Social Transformation
Sonia Favi (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)This paper investigates travel in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in connection with notions of social
identity and transformation. Primary sources from the John Rylands collection in Manchester will be
investigated, through a theoretical framework combining social history and historical bibliography.
A sprit or a child: Social positions of the fetus and the infant in the Tokugawa period
Eiko Saeki (Hosei University)
Drawing upon historiography, folklore studies, and archeological data on prenatal deaths, this study
explores the conceptualization of personhood and the beginning of life in the late Tokugawa period.
Master of territorial allocations: the Tokugawa state and local conflicts at Kōyasan temple in theseventeenth century
Eiji Okawa (University of Victoria)
The paper examines the role of the Tokugawa judicature in the arbitration of local conflicts at Kōyasan
temple in the seventeenth century. In so doing, I reassess state power and complicate the discussion of themedieval-early modern divide.
S7_34 Negotiating Changing Norms: Intelligence, Diplomacy and Ideology
Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
The fine line between the institutional and the non-institutional: Intelligence gathering before andduring the Russo-Japanese War (1880-1905)
Grégoire Sastre (East Asian Civilisation Research Center)In this paper, I analyse the gathering of intelligence from the perspective of its actors in preparation for
the Russo-Japanese War. Army intelligence officers and non-institutional agents took part in this effort. I
explain their motives, their methods, and their impact on Japanese foreign policy.
Japan and European Border Settlements after WWI
Bostjan Bertalanic (Josai University)
My paper explores Japan’s participation in the European border delimitation process after the Paris peace
conference of 1919 through its involvement in the work of the Hungary-Yugoslav Border Delimitation
Commission (BDC) established by the Trianon Treaty of 1920.
International Norms and Imperialism: The Diplomacy of Modern Japan, 1894-1922
Yuichi Sasaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Japan’s imperial expansion has generally been associated with the events after the Manchurian Incident
in 1931. Yet, Japan’s continuous territorial expansion also occurred from 1894 to 1922. I explain the
dynamics of this expansion, focusing on the principles of modern Japanese diplomacy.

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Japan’s Cultural Cold War in the 1950s
Ayako Kusunoki
This paper will demonstrate in what way interested groups within the Japanese society—political parties,
the financial community, labor unions, academic circles or civil societies—fought the war to win hearts
and minds of the Japanese people in such a turbulent period.

S8a: Religion and Religious Thought
S8a_01 Early Modern Jesuit Roads to Salvation in Japan
Convenor: Linda Zampol D’Ortia
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
This panel aims to exemplify the various ways in which soteriological preoccupations affected theearly modern mission of the Society of Jesus in Japan, by considering its missionary policies, financial
management, and printed propaganda.
The economics of salvation and the Japanese mission to Japan (16th- 17th centuries)
Helene Vu Thanh (University of South Brittany)
This presentation intends to link two notions that are generally seen as antinomic in a Catholic context
by examining some of the ways the Society of Jesus managed to reconcile its spiritual and material
objectives in the particular case of the Japanese mission
Jesuit soteriological preoccupations in the early modern mission in Japan
Linda Zampol D’Ortia
This paper aims to exemplify different paths that were envisioned by Catholic missionaries to reachsalvation in the sixteenth-century Jesuit enterprise in Japan, and how they related to the wider context ofglobal early modern Catholicism.
Seventeenth-century Jesuit Narrative on Japanese martyrdom: salvation and devotion
Ana Fernandes Pinto (CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores)
This paper analyses the seventeenth-century missionary discourse about Christian persecution in Japan
published in Europe, and aims to exemplify both its uses as devotional literature and propaganda.
S8a_02 Constitutional revision and the public role of religion
Convenor: Mark Mullins (University of Auckland)
Discussant: Ian Reader (University of Manchester)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
The issue of constitutional revision has reappeared since PM Abe’s return to LDP leadership in 2012.
This panel will consider the debate surrounding proposed revisions to articles of particular concern toorganized religions (20, 89, and 9).
Conflicting Verdicts in Two Recent Japanese Cases on Separation of Religion from State
Helen Hardacre (Harvard University)
Examination of two 2010 Japanese Supreme Court cases regarding separation of religion from state
reveals that government officials routinely use public resources to support Shinto ceremonies.
Civic duties vs. individual rights in public institutions
Mark Mullins (University of Auckland)mThis paper considers the concerns of religious minorities over proposed revisions to Articles 20 and 89 inlight of the impact of the Fundamental Education Law revision in 2006.

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Defensive Strategies: Tracing Komeito’s Changing Position on Pacifism, Security, and the JapaneseConstitution
Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)
This paper draws on ethnographic research on Soka Gakkai to portray how member support of Komeito
has changed in response to the party’s shifting policies vis-à-vis the Japanese Constitution.
S8a_03 Gods in the Making: A Reconsideration of the Process of Deification in Medieval Japanand Beyond
Convenors: Hiroo Sato (Tohoku University); Or Porath (University of California, Santa Barbara); Emily
Simpson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
The panel seeks to illuminate the process of deification in medieval Japan through case studies examining
the elevation of Empress Jingū and monastic acolytes (chigo) into godhood. We also consider how theconcept of human deification evolved and expanded from medieval to modern times.
Defying Deification? Sanno-Shinto Ritual Commentaries of Chigo kanjō and their Doctrinal
Foundations
Or Porath (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The paper will explore the deification of youths in the medieval ritual consecration of acolytes (Chigo
kanjō). It will discuss how monks employed Buddho-Shinto doctrines in order to render the acolyte as avehicle for salvation, which allowed monks to experience the divine through sexual acts.
The Empress Divine: Jingū’s Status as a Deity in Jisha engi
Emily Simpson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Empress Jingū forms part of a composite deity at many shrines, but her elevation to and status as a kami
is generally overlooked. Through examination of several medieval jisha engi, I explore the deification
process of Jingū and her role in engineering her own standing as a deity.
The Divine Within: Mapping the Ideology of Deification from the Medieval to the Modern Eras
Hiroo Sato (Tohoku University)
Medieval deification involved people transcending human form to become kami after death. In the 16th
century, a new type of deification emerged: lay people considered themselves kami. In this paper, I
examine this shift and explore the relationship between such deification and Yasukuni thought.
S8a_04 Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers I
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Is Confucianism religion?
Kiri Paramore (Leiden University)
Building on work published in my recent Japanese Confucianism (Cambridge, 2016), and adding further
research data (both historical, and fieldwork based), this presentation uses the sociology of Confucianism
in Japan to answer the question: is Confucianism religion?
The invention of Confucianism in Modern Japan by sinologists and intellectuals, between religion
and philosophy, shûkyô and tetsugaku.
Eddy Dufourmont (University Bordeaux Montaigne)
Confucianism as jukyô can be seen as an invention in modern Japan, for which few research on
Confucianism have been made. I will focus on sinologists like Uno Tetsuto or intellectuals like Nakae
Chômin to explain this process in tension between shûkyô and tetsugaku, which are also modern
creations.

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Heian Jingū: A “Traditional” Shrine in a “Foreign” Guise
Ellen Van Goethem (Kyushu University)
The founding of Heian jingū is often explained in simple terms; it was established for the 1100th
anniversary of the move to Heian and was dedicated to the city’s founder. A closer look reveals a more
complex narrative that illustrates the fits and starts of State Shinto in the early Meiji period.
S8a_05 Discourses on the Body-Mind Complex (1): Sex, Gender, and the Body-Mind
Convenor: Mariko Yoneda (Kobe Gakuin University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
An exploration of the impact of Esoteric Buddhist teachings (Shingon and Tendai) regarding the bodymind complex on discourses on sex and gender in early medieval Japan, with special emphasis on the roleof sex in medicine (gynecology), salvation, and poetry hermeneutics.
Explaining Conception to Women? Buddhist embryological knowledge in the Gushi nintai sanshō
himitsu hōshūAnna Andreeva (Heidelberg University)
Analysis of an influential work attributed to the Tendai monk Annen (841-889?) entitled Collection of
Secret Rituals on Seeking Offspring, Conception, and Childbirth (Gushi nintai sanshō himitsu hōshū),which discusses operations of the female body, including fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Ideas of the Religious Body-Mind Complex in Eisai
Mariko Yoneda (Kobe Gakuin University)
This paper discusses the characteristics of the ideas of the body-mind complex of Tendai/Zen priest Eisai(1141-1215) as described in Ingoshū (written in 1181, revised in 1190), in their relation to both Tendai
and Shingon esoteric Buddhism; it further traces their influence in medieval Japan.
The Imagination of the Body-Mind Complex in Waka poetry: Waka kanjō, Gorin kujimyō
himitsushaku, and secret rituals based on the Yugikyō
Keisuke Unno (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This paper discusses the impact of Esoteric Buddhist elements, especially Shingon visualizations on thefive organs, on medieval waka poetic treatises and relates consecration rituals (waka kanjo). Moreover, it
addresses the role of sexual imagery based on the Yugikyo.
S8a_06 Modest Materialities The Social Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Things
Convenors: Benedetta Lomi (University of Bristol); Caroline Hirasawa (Sophia University)
Discussant: Ina Hein (University of Vienna)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
How do objects become “sacred”? Our panel tackles this question by focusing on humble materials thattake on powerful meanings. Presentations will discuss how the status and power of materials and objects
are defined by their participation in networks of practice, exchange, and disposal.
Rice, Relics, and Stūpas: The Sacredness of Rice Grains in Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhist
Practice
Steven Trenson (Hiroshima University)
This paper will highlight some aspects of the sacredness of rice grains in medieval Japanese esoteric
Buddhism by focusing on their place and role in a network of practices related to relic worship.
Terminal Commodities? Material Attachment and the Social Death of Puppets
Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Can sacred or animated objects ever be considered garbage? Based on fieldwork in 2012/13, this paper
focuses on the ritual disposal of the difficult to get rid of category of puppets and stuffed animals andexplores how their disposal is conceptualized in terms of ambivalent, two-way attachments.
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Mobilizing the Mantra of Light: The Lives and Afterlives of Rosters in Saidaiji Order Kōmyō
Shingon Practices
David Quinter (University of Alberta)
This paper examines the “humble materialities” that proved essential to the popularization of the Mantraof Light (kōmyō shingon) in Japan, with a focus on the ritual, material, and soteriological uses ofcontributor rosters for the mass annual assemblies that Eison (1201-90) initiated at Saidaiji.
Paper, Brush, and Social Agency: On the Materiality of Nichiren’s Mandalas
Lucia Dolce (SOAS, University of London)
This contribution analyzes the material and format of Nichiren’s paper mandalas, and their talismanic
functions.
S8a_07 Religious Discourses on the Body-Mind Complex (2): The Further Reaches of Esoteric
Buddhism
Convenor: Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Intense transformations in the Esoteric Buddhist discourse on the body-mind complex took place in the
Muromachi period, such as their diffusion among performers and practitioners in the provinces, theirincorporation in the martial arts, and the gradual shift towards elements of Chinese thought.
The Body-Mind Complex in the Medieval Discourse on Military Techniques (hyōhō): The
Challenge of Chinese Thought Against Buddhism
Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
This paper explores medieval military techniques (hyōhō) from the Kamakura to the late Muromachi
periods, in particular the transformation in their constructs of the body-mind complex from a dominanceof Esoteric Buddhism to classical Chinese thought (especially, the Sunzi and the Yijing).
Religious Conceptualizations of the Body-Mind Complex in Saimon Ritual Texts
Yasuro Abe (Nagoya University)
An analysis of body-mind conceptions from exo-esoteric Buddhism (derived from Shingon’s mandalaof the five organs and Tendai’s meanings of the five sounds) in late medieval saimon ritual texts used in
special ceremonies to ward off evil spirits and eliminate illnesses.
Religious Conceptions of the Body-Mind Complex in Shinto Consecrations Rituals (Shintō kanjō)
Satoshi Ito
A discussion of Oyashiro kanjō, a little known form of Shinto consecration ritual that was related to aunique set of secret teachings, such as Shingon embryology and visualization of the five organs, waka
kanjo (knowledge on Kokin wakashu), military techniques, and even horse veterinary.
S8a_08 Christians in the Kansai, 1827-29
Convenor: Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
In 1829, 6 alleged Christians were crucified in Osaka, 3 men and 3 women. This shocking incident,
investigated by Ōshio Heihachirō, added greatly to the anti-Christian panic of late Edo. The official
documents and other sources reveal much about the politics of gender and religion in this period.
The Keihan Christian incident: Outline and sources
Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
An introduction to the Keihan Christian incident of 1827-29, its historical significance, the actors
involved (both the accused and the prosecutors), the role of Ōshio Heihachirō, and the various categories
of sources available.

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Inari Mediums/Christian Witches: Gender in the Keihan Christian Incident
Fumiko Miyazaki (Keisen University)
Gender aspects of the Keihan Christian Incident, as they emerge from a comparison of the activities ofthe female principals with those of the male principals, as well as other female religionists active outside
officially sanctioned religious institutions and female founders of New Religions.
Investigation, Prosecution, and Repercussions
Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University)
The Keihan Christian incident as a window into Tokugawa investigative and judicial procedures, thegovernment’s stance toward heterodox religious groups, and the operation of the temple registry system inlate Edo urban centers.
S8a_09 Shinto Culture in the Age of Globalization: Challenges to Conveying Concepts
Convenor: Kikuko Hirafuji (Kokugakuin University)
Discussant: Michael Wachutka (Tuebingen University Center for Japanese Studies)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
We will discuss about how to convey Shinto concepts to abroad in the age of globalization. We willdeal with some concrete examples connected to the Shinto classics (myths), Japanese folklore, andcontemporary Shinto in our discussion.
Raising the Global Profile of Japanese Studies of Shinto and Japanese Culture
Nobutaka Inoue (Kokugakuin University)
I will present some translation projects concerning Shinto and Japanese culture. Second, I will discuss thefurther development of these programs in the age of globalization.
The Question of Readership in Translations of Ancient Shinto Texts. The Case of Kojiki
Ignacio Quiros (Kokugakuin University)
In any translation project, it is imperative to carefully decide who the intended readership is before start
writing. My goal in this presentation is to use the specific case of Kojiki as means for offering some ideas
about how to improve the readability of translations of ancient Shinto texts.
Problems in the comparative study of folk religious culture: Focusing on the word folk
Hiroshi Iwai (Tezukayama University)
It is not easy to explicate Japanese folk religious culture in English or any other Western languages. I will
discuss problems in the comparative study of folk religious culture focusing on the term folk.
S8a_10 Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers II
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Creating the person and changing the world. Religious and social aspects of human resources
development (jinzai ikusei) in Risshō Kōseikai
Aura Di Febo (The University of Manchester)
The paper explores the interplay between religious and social aspects of jinzai ikusei through the analysis
of social welfare training in Risshō Kōseikai. While invested with religious significance, training
activities also fulfil practical social functions relying on secular concepts and methods.
Relics and Regalia: Kōshū’s (1276 -1350) Vision of Imperial Authority
Léo Messerschmid (Asien-Afrika-Instutu (Universität Hamburg))
The paper aims at clarifying some of the hermeneutical strategies that the Tendai Monk Kōshū employs
in his work Keiranshūyōshū to conflate the meanings of the imperial regalia and key Buddhist concepts inorder to locate imperial authority into a larger ritualistic and cosmological framework.

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‘Religious Studies’ through Buddhist Eyes: On Modern Nichiren Buddhism and Honda Nisshō’s
Theory of the Honzon
Yulia Burenina (Doho University)
Honda Nisshō (1867-1931) was the leader of Nichiren denomination Kempon Hokkeshū, deeply
influenced by the religious studies of a Dutch theologian C. P. Tiele (1830-1902). The paper offers a few
reflections on Honda’s understanding of this modern discipline and its application to Nichiren Buddhism.
S8a_11 Religion and Religious Thought: individual papers III
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Heresy, Politics and Conceptual Change - Stepping Stones for Instigating shintō uke in the 17th
Century
Stefan Koeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences / IKGA)This paper will focus on shintō uke, religious certification by shintō shrines, in Okayama domain. Motives
for implementing shintō uke, e.g., anti-Buddhist sentiments will be discussed, but also the question bywhich kind of concept of Shintō these measures were provoked will be considered.
Narratives of failure, narratives of triumph: Jesuit re-imagination of the fate of Japanese native
Christianity (1632-1650)
Miguel Lourenço (CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores)
My aim is to analyze the emergence of a narrative of providential features and legitimization purposesin the midst of the Jesuit province of Japan that dealt on the outcome of Tokugawa’s persecutions ofChristianity in Japan from the early 1630s to 1650.
S8a_12 Deconstructing the ‘Essence’ of New Religions: A New Approach for an Old Field of
Study
Convenor: Masato Kato (SOAS University of London)
Discussant: Michiaki Okuyama (Nanzan University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel will revisit underlying theoretical assumptions about Japanese ‘new religions’ (shinshūkyō)—particularly with regards to imperialism, gender, and national identity—through a new analyticalframework called the ‘dynamic process of collaborative interpretation’.
Imperial Japan and New Religions: Modernity as Religiously Experienced
Takashi Nagaoka (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
This paper will propose a new idea, which I call the ‘dynamic process of collaborative interpretation’,to understand the historical characteristics of Japanese new religious movements during the era ofnationalism and imperialism of modern Japan.
Female Body in Miracles: Modernity and Gender Role in Japanese New Religion
Yumi Murayama (Center for Information on Religion)
This paper studies the construction of gender roles in a Japanese new religion by analyzing themiraculous stories published in Konkokyo’s journal in the late Meiji period. Against the background ofmodernization, gender roles transforms through the interaction with modern ideologies.
Negotiating Universalism and Nationalism: Conceptual Convergence and Divergence of ‘Religion’and ‘Japan’
Masato Kato (SOAS University of London)
This paper aims to revisit academic discourses surrounding the boundary negotiation between religious
and national identities amongst early new religions through an analysis of Tenrikyō in postwar decades so
as to nuance the arguments surrounding new religions’ universalism and nationalism.

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S8a_13 Aspects of the Effect of Kami-Buddha Separation (Shinbutsu bunri) at Dewa Sanzan:
Iconography, Liturgy and the Reconstruction of Popular Faith
Convenor: Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS)
Discussant: Lindsey DeWitt (Kyushu University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Meiji religious policy to “clarify” the institutional relationship between kami and buddhas has generally
been studied as a political process. This panel takes a concentrated look at its effects at one site, throughliturgical and iconographic changes and alternative cults that emerged.
Modifying liturgies: A strategy for religio-political reconciliation
Fumi Ouchi (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University)
Unlike the effect of shinbutsu bunri on tangible properties, that on aural traditions has attracted almost
no academic concern. A study of changes to the liturgy Sanyama Haishi reveals a device to engineer acompromise between the old tradition and the new order through the physical senses.
The effects of shinbutsu bunri through iconographical change and compromise at Dewa Sanzan
Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS)
The re-identification of deity and accompanying iconographic changes reflect the impact of shinbutsu
bunri at Dewa Sanzan. An examination of popular prints from the area reveals the extent of compromise
permitted, while a topographical study castes doubt on the wanton destruction of fabric.
The Impact of Meiji Penal Code and Shinbutsu Bunri Policies on the Sokushinbutsu of Yudono
Andrea Castiglioni (University of California Santa Barbara)
This paper focuses on the cult of the mummified corpses (sokushin-butsu) of Mount Yudono ascetics in
the Meiji period.
S8a_14 Unpacking the local - ethnographic approaches to contemporary Japanese Buddhism.
Convenors: Daniel Friedrich (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); Paulina Kolata (University ofManchester); Mark Rowe (McMaster University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
This panel aims to investigate multiple meanings and narratives of Buddhism in the lives of Buddhists
themselves, and to contextualise them in the broader socio-economic and political frameworks that shape
the contemporary realities of Buddhist communities and individuals.
Buddhist temple communities in transition: ご縁 (goen) and contemporary geographies of survival
and socio-religious change in an ethnographic perspective.
Paulina Kolata (University of Manchester)
The paper explores the concept of ご縁 as a lens into understanding how Buddhist temple priests viewand face the realities of survival and community erosion in relation to their religious and social situation,in the context of “Japan’s shrinking regions” (Matanle 2011).
The Wickedness of Depopulation: Temples, Shrines and Uncertain Futures in Japan’s Shrinking
Regions
Daniel Friedrich (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)This paper discusses how religious practitioners at temples and shrines in Hokkaido understand andrespond to the changes wrought by depopulation.
Gendering Japanese Temple Buddhism
Mark Rowe (McMaster University)
An ethnographic account of female Buddhist priests in localized contexts in contemporary Japan.

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S8a_15 The early modern system of regulations against Christians and its influence: a work-inprogress report on the Marega Collection in the Vatican Library
Convenors: Yukinori Mino (National Institute of Japanese Literature); Yukihiro Ohashi (Waseda
University); Silvio Vita (Kyoto University of Foreign Students)
Chair: Otomo Kazuo (The National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Discussant: Martin Nogueira Ramos (Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
The panel will show the value of this collection from the perspective of the influence of the Christian
impact on Japanese society over time. Special focus will be given to its formation and to theconsequences of the anti-Christian measures for the life of local communities in the Usuki domain.
On the Footsteps of Christianity in Bungo: Mario Marega (1902-1978) motives and networks in theinterwar years
Silvio Vita (Kyoto University of Foreign Students)
This paper will investigate the formation of the Marega collection, with particular attention to theindividual motives of Marega as a missionary in the 1930s, and how his researches relate to the local
community of historians in Oita as well as the academic discourse on the Christian Century.
Anti-Christian Policy in its Working: the Role of Local Bureaucrats and the Required
Documentation
Yukinori Mino (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This paper will analyze the actual working of the surveillance of Christians and their descendants at
Usuki over time. The actors involved in the regular checking of local society will be identified as well as
the bureaucratic documentation to be produced at different moments in the life of people.
The Descendants of Christians and Village Society: The Usuki Domain as a Case Study
Yukihiro Ohashi (Waseda University)
This paper will try to understand the significance of being a descendant of Christians (ruizoku) as a social“attribute” in the Edo period by using records from the Marega Collection and other extant documentsfrom the Usuki domain related to the surveillance system of this group of people.
S8a_16 Japanese Religion amid Early Modern Social Transitions
Convenor: Jon Morris (Komazawa Women’s University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel examines developments within Japanese Religion during Japan’s transition from a medieval toan Early Modern society. Focusing on new modes of Buddhist preaching and new published formats of
Buddhist texts, this project contributes to a reassessment of Early Modern “secularization.”
Disavowing Oral Transmissions
Satoshi Sonehara (Tohoku University)
In the first part of the Early Modern period, Reikū Kōken promulgated what came to be known as theAnraku precepts. This presentation examines the direction, focusing on the disavowal of oral transmission
and the end of the worship of Matara-Jin, in Reikū’s criticisms of Tendai esotericism.
Late Medieval Transitions in Buddhist Preaching
Kaoru Oshima (Kansai University)
In the 14th century, the preaching form known as jikidan “direct sermons” appeared. This style was moreconcerned with explaining the content of a teaching in a readily comprehensible manner, and marks amovement toward an Early Modern religious mode founded upon popularization of knowledge.

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Esoteric Ritual Procedure Manuals in the Early Modern Period
Koichi Matsumoto (Ikenobo Junior College)
This presentation examines esoteric ritual manuals in the Early Modern period, focusing on the ‘Asabashō’ compendium. ‘Asaba shō’ came to be adopted throughout the Tendai sect, and also in other sects
during that period. I trace its increasing diffusion in both manuscript and print editions.
S8a_18 Defending the Dharma in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Convenor: Janine Tasca Sawada (Brown Univeristy)
Chair: Paul Swanson (Nanzan University)
Discussant: Makoto Hayashi (Aichigakuin University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel demonstrates that in response to anti-Buddhist sentiments and the perceived threat ofChristianity, already in the late Edo period Buddhist activists began to argue vigourously in defense of
their religion and that they further developed these apologetical strategies in the Meiji period.
Buddhist Apologetics: Defense or Reinterpretation?
Janine Tasca Sawada (Brown Univeristy)
Imakita Kōsen (1816-1892) defended Zen Buddhism against its Confucian critics in the Bakumatsu era by
reinterpreting classical Confucian texts in his Zenkai ichiran, but later uses of the book in Zen educationsuggest that this type of “gohōron” 護法論 may reinvent the Dharma as much as justify it.
By Pen and Sword: Varieties of Gohō Strategies in Bakumatsu Japan
Orion Klautau (Tohoku University)
This presentation focuses on the apologetic discourses of Gesshō (1817-1858) and Ryūon (1800-1885)
in the context of Bakumatsu Japan. This paper aims to show how their ideas contained, at their core, theseeds of the modernization process which was to come after restoration days.
Buddhist Apologetics around 1880: Wakeikai and Buddhist Speech (Bukkyo enzetsu 仏教演説)
Seiji Hoshino (Kokugakuin University)
In this paper, I will focus on the activities of Buddhist associations in Japan in the 1880s. They held
Buddhist Speech meetings and some speeches were written down and published. I will consider the
strategies observed in their narratives in relation to the idea of “defending the Dharma.”
S8a_19 The Rise of Zen: Changes in the Medieval Buddhist Landscape
Convenors: Molly Vallor (Meiji Gakuin University); Masatoshi Harada (Kansai University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Once dominated by the kenmitsu (exoteric-esoteric) lineages, medieval Japanese Buddhism changed
dramatically in the late fourteenth century following the rise of the Zen lineages. This panel will shed newlight on this understudied period by addressing it from multiple angles.
Zen Ceremonies and the Reconfiguration of the Medieval Buddhist Ritual System [JP]Masatoshi Harada (Kansai University)
From the fourteenth century on, new ceremonies exclusively performed by Zen lineages came to occupy
an important place in medieval religious life. This paper will shed new light on how Zen lineages actively
fashioned a ritual system that served as a counterpart to that of the kenmitsu lineages.
Musō Soseki’s Muchū Mondōshū: A Fourteenth Century Zen Master’s Critique of Shingon and
Zen
Molly Vallor (Meiji Gakuin University)
This paper examines Musō Soseki’s critique of Shingon and Zen in his influential sermon in kana, Muchū
Mondōshū (1342). It argues that this critique was integral to a critical yet hitherto overlooked function ofthat text: Musō’s bid to establish himself as the premier Buddhist teacher of his time.
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Imperial Authority and Esoteric Space in Medieval Japan [JP]Yoshiyuki Tomishima (Kyoto University)
This paper will explore Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s aims in constructing a massive seven-storied pagoda in
the esoteric style at his Zen complex of Shōkokuji in 1399. It will be argued that this pagoda was built inorder to legitimize the kingship of the Muromachi regime.
S8a_20 Moulding the past in 20th-century Japan. The influence of narrative and academic
discourses on the study of Japan’s history of religions.
Convenors: Claudio Caniglia (SOAS, University of London); Chiara Ghidini (L’Orientale, Naples);Gaetan Rappo (Harvard University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
The panel’s aim is to stimulate discussion on the ways pre-existing or commonly accepted ideas, selfrepresentations, ideologies and visions later labeled as “essentialistic” have come to inform and influencestudies on specific topics and notions within the field of Japan’s history of religions.
Ideological and methodological issues in the study of the “Tachikawa” heresy -- reassessing thelegacy of Mizuhara Gyōei and Moriyama Shōshin
Gaetan Rappo (Harvard University)
Pre-war discourses on the Tachikawa lineage in Japan had a lasting and often misunderstood legacy. This
paper will focus on Mizuhara Gyōei and Moriyama Shōshin, showing how and why they wrote about this
topic, and assessing their impact on our understanding of Tachikawa as a “Buddhist heresy.”
Re-enacting antiquity and reviving religious passion. Orikuchi Shinobu’s vision of kodai in 20thcentury Japan
Chiara Ghidini (L’Orientale, Naples)
Orikuchi Shinobu focused on kodai in his academic and fictional works, aiming to revive in 20th-century
Japan ritualised everyday life and belief in kotodama (spiritual efficacy of words).This paper deals withhis notions of kodai and kotodama, assessing their legacy on a variety of research fields.
Only Shugendō is a true Japanese religion: Gorai “narrative” research on Shugendō and its
criticism
Claudio Caniglia (SOAS, University of London)
Seen from the standpoint of recent criticism, Gorai Shigeru’s vision of Shugendō sharply contrasts withthe amount of data he collects and his knowledge. My paper aims to assess to what extent his ideas on
original religion and Japaneseness oriented data organisation and the results of his studies.
S8a_21 A political history of spirituality in modern Japan: Honda Chikaatsu, Taniguchi
Masaharu, and Hatoyama Yukio
Convenors: Hidehiko Kurita (Nanzan University); Eiko Namiki (International Christian University);
Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University)
Discussant: Franziska Steffen (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
This panel will explore mutual influences between political developments and modern Japanesespiritualist thought, from Honda Chikaatsu’s Shinto theology-inspired politics, to NRM leader Taniguchi
Masaharu’s politico-economics, and to former prime minister Hatoyama Yukio’s discourse on parascience.

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The “alien” prime minister: Hatoyama’s “occult” politics
Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University)
Called “alien” since his early career days, former prime minister Hatoyama Yukio, has been known bothfor his unusual beliefs in para-science as well as for his alleged political missteps. This paper examines
the relation between these two facets of his personality through archival research.
Honda Chikaastu as a metaphysical thinker in Meiji State Shintō
Eiko Namiki (International Christian University)
This presentation examines the theological doctrines and spiritual practices of Honda Chikaatsu (18221889) and discusses how these addressed and applied to the unique political and religious circumstancesof the late nineteenth century.
Taniguchi Masaharu’s idea of political economy: from spiritual therapy to social reform
Hidehiko Kurita (Nanzan University)
Taniguchi Masaharu, the founder of a Japanese New Thought group Seichō no Ie, argued about political
economy as well as spiritual therapy. This paper aims at clarifying the relation between his political,
economic and spiritual ideas, against the social and historical circumstances of his time.

S8b: Intellectual History and Philosophy
S8b_01 Sakuhin-ron - a Viable Approach to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki Myths?
Convenor: Robert F. Wittkamp (Kansai University)
Discussant: Raji Steineck (University of Zurich)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
In the research on Japanese mythology, particularly in research on the Kojiki, sakuhin-ron (provisionaltranslation: “textimmanence-based analysis”) has established itself as a fairly popular concept. The main
aim of this panel is to shed light on the pros and cons of this approach.
Mapping the Sakuhin-ron - a Survey of Kojiki Research
Robert F. Wittkamp (Kansai University)
Kōnoshi Takamitsu’s influential sakuhin-ron approach reveals the underlying ideologies of Kojiki and
Nihon shoki. The paper provides a survey of the approaches to Kojiki from Kojiki-den to the present inorder to determine the historical position and to reveal the particular aims of sakuhin-ron.
Forbidden gazes: Looking from Kojiki to Nihon shoki and backBernhard Scheid (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
My presentation will take the motif of “forbidden gazes” in ancient Japanese mythology and ask what canbe gained and what would be lost by analyzing it in a strict sakuhin-ron way.
Situating Sakuhin-ron within the International Discourse on Mythological Studies
David Weiss (University of Tuebingen)This paper will introduce the major theoretical trends which informed modern mythological studies inJapan. Contrasting comparative approaches with the sakuhin-ron approach, it will shed light on potencies
and limitations of either approach and situate sakuhin-ron within an international context.
S8b_03 Discourses and representations of living beings in Early Modern Japanese books
Convenors: Annick Horiuchi (Université Paris Diderot); Matthias Hayek (University Paris Diderot)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
By examining different discourses dealing with animals and human beings, whether they were‘observable’ or ‘fabulous’, in Edo period books, this panel aims to look at how Japanese scholars from the17th and 18th century understood, classified, and interacted with their ‘natural’ environment.
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Prodigious men and elusive beasts: extraordinary creatures in Terashima Ryōan’s Wakan sansaizue (1715)
Matthias Hayek (University Paris Diderot)
By looking at how Terashima Ryōan’s Wakan sansai zue (1715) deals with prodigious denizens offaraway lands and elusive beasts, I will attempt to shed light on the boundaries between ordinary andextraordinary within the scholarly perception of environment in the first half of the Edo Period.
Animal-men relations as seen in late 18th century illustrated encyclopedias of famous products ofJapan
Annick Horiuchi (Université Paris Diderot)
Using the genre of Illustrated encyclopedias of famous products printed in late 18th century, the paper
will examine different aspects of men-animal relations, such as the imagery attached to specific animals
or the way animal behavior is analyzed by villagers in order to capture them.
Exotic animals in Edo popular books and misemono show catalogues.
Margarita Winkel (Humanities-Leiden University)
Animals, after their appearance in events held at temples or parks that combine religious icons, acrobatic,
freak and animal shows (misemono), became talk of the town and appeared as topics discussed anddepicted in popular books and prints. How are they represented in popular literature?
S8b_04 The Mutual Emplacement of Europe and Asia on Cartographic Folding Screens inJapan during the Early Modern Period
Convenors: D. Max Moerman (Columbia University); Radu Leca (International Institute for AsianStudies); Angelo Cattaneo (CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores)
Chair & discussant: Alexandra Curvelo (FCSH-UNL)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
The panel investigates a selection of seventeenth-century Japanese cartographic folding screens tounderstand how Japanese cartographers addressed cosmology and world geography by re-elaborating
European and East Asian sources through interaction with European merchants and missionaries.
Transcultural Cosmographic Exchange on a Recently Re-discovered Seventeenth-century Japanese
Cartographic Folding Screen
Angelo Cattaneo (CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores); Susumu
Akune (Kyoto University)
The paper analyses a cartographic byobu held at Kanshinji in Kawachinagano that documents articulated
patterns of circulation of cosmographic knowledge from China, Korea and Europe in Japan in earlymodernity. Within a single world view various systems of knowledge were juxtaposed and integrated.
Complex Interfaces: The Meaning of Scenes of Cannibalism on Cartographic Folding Screens
Radu Leca (International Institute for Asian Studies)
Cartographic folding screens acted as complex interfaces that initiated a process of material translationand cultural assimilation in tandem with the transmission of geographical knowledge. This is illustrated
through the analysis of scenes of cannibalism featured on the screens.
Orbus Terrarum or Nansenbushū? Geographic and Cosmological Hybridity in Japanese
Cartographic Folding Screens
D. Max Moerman (Columbia University)
This paper analyzes the mutual emplacement of Europe and Japan through the co-articulation of Jesuit
and Buddhist cosmologies on cartographic folding screens in order to offer an alternative reading thatchallenges the prevalence of positivist and Eurocentric interpretations.

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S8b_05 New light on the Japanese Enlightenment
Convenor: Mick Deneckere (Ghent University)
Discussant: Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel aims at rekindling the study of the 19th c. intellectual movement known as the Japanese
Enlightenment, by looking beyond the legacy of the Meirokusha and through an investigation of Japaneseperspectives on the Western Enlightenment, and by consequence, on the Enlightenment in Japan.
The Enlightenment in Japan: a re-examination of its alleged secular character
Mick Deneckere (Ghent University)
Looking beyond the often-quoted front-line figures of the Japanese Enlightenment, this talk focuses on
the legacy of Buddhist intellectuals. Based on a media-driven concept of the Enlightenment, it discusses
their memorials to the government and the establishment of Buddhist societies in the 1870s.
Rhetoric of Parody in Nakae Chomin
Futoshi Hoshino (Kanazawa College of Art)
In this presentation, I will analyse the writings of Nakae Chomin (1847-1901), known as the “Rousseauof the Orient”, to reconsider the Japanese Enlightenment in the Meiji period.
Shifting Relationships in Modern Philosophical Pantheon. Reshaping the Relationship MachiavelliRousseau during the Bunmei Kaika Period
Francesco Campagnola (Ghent University)
The paper explores how Meiji intellectuals appropriated Enlightenment authors and reconfigured theirrelationship to their European philosophical tradition by means of the case study of Rousseau andMachiavelli. The paper focuses on Nakae Chōmin, Kuga Katsunan, Inoue Kowashi, and Hayashi Tadasu.
S8b_06 Human beings and nature in Japanese intellectual history
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
Approaching the Heian Period Sphere of Beliefs
Nathalie Phillips (University of Edinburgh)
The purpose of this paper is to consider the various sets of beliefs appearing in the Heian-period source
material as being intimately related, by means of an approach that posits an episteme generating various
modes of thought as the unifying centre of their worldview.
The sexual vitalism of “musubi”: Sato Nobuhiro (1769-1850)
Andriy Nakorchevski (Keio University)
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of “musubi”, the key concept in the quite remarkable ideologicaland philosophical system of Sato Nobuhiro, who belongs to what might be termed the mystical wing of“national learning”.
Transgendering Nature: Sexology, Epistemology, Slime Mould, and the Japanese Naturalist
Minakata Kumagusu (1867 - 1941)
Eiko Honda (University of Oxford)
What if nature was ‘transgender’? This is one of the radically new epistemologies of science that I
will bring to the surface via an intellectual history of Modern Japan, read through the works of thetransnational naturalist and polymath Minakata Kumagusu (1867—1941).
S8b_08 Time and Society in the early modernization of Japan
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30

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Astronomical and Calendrical Sciences in the Works of Nishikawa Joken (1648-1724)
Daniel Said Monteiro (Paris Diderot University)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze early modern Japanese cosmology through the works of theNagasaki scholar Nishikawa Joken (1648-1724). I will focus on the transmission of European scientificknowledge by the Jesuits and its impact on the Japanese astronomical and calendrical practices.
The Annihilation of History: Andō Shōeki’s Understanding of Time
Roman Pașca (Kanda University of International Studies)
In my presentation, I examine the concept of time in Andō Shōeki’s philosophy. First, I discuss the idea of“annihilation of history” and then move on to focus on its role in the ontology and epistemological statusof the human being.
The Study of Rangaku from the Perspective of the History of Political Thought: Astronomy,
Geography, Civilization
Takeharu Okubo (Keio University)
This paper investigates the changes in the notion of “Politics and Time” in nineteenth century Japan, by
shedding light on the development of Rangaku in relation to the transformation of Dutch politics andacademics, such as the foundation of the Royal Military Academy and the Royal Delft Academy.
S8b_09 (Re-)considering time: Modern interpretations
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Platonism and Ghosts in Nishida’s Early Concept of Time
Enrico Fongaro (Tohoku University)
This paper aims to highlight the platonism in Nishida’s early concept of time by contrasting it with a zen
concept of time as illustrated in Hakuin’s Dokugo shingyō. It will be suggested that the overcoming of
platonism in Nishida was supported by a concept of time based on bodily experience.
Imanishi Kinji on Time and History
Kristyna Vojtiskova (Charles University)
When reading Imanishi Kinji´s Seibutsu no sekai, questions such as “What is time and history for
individual? What is it for species?” emerge. My paper scrutinizes a biologist´s concept of time and history
related to living things as both individuals and species.
Recollection and Beyond: On Ōmori’s Theory of the Past
Makoto Katsumori (Akita University)
In this paper, I will critically examine Ōmori Shōzō’s theory of the past and point out some essential
difficulties it faces. Starting from this analysis, I will further seek to develop an alternative approach to thethematic of the past.
S8b_10 Religion in Art, Politics of Art
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Temporal shifts in Bashō’s (rather Buddhist) Oku no hosomichi
Ian Astley (University of Edinburgh, UK)
In describing his journey through northern Japan, Bashō manipulates the temporal conventions inJapanese poetics. His geographically and socially liminal wanderings also upset temporal sequence,
allowing him to set forth a contemplative perspective on the conditioned nature of our existence.
Debating the Tones: Ogyū Sorai and Musico-Philosophical Orthodoxy in Early Modern Japan
Jonathan Service (University of Oxford)
This paper will introduce and interrogate Ogyū Sorai’s Treatise on Music Tones (Gakuritsukō 楽律考) showing why music had become a pressing issue for the leaders and intellectuals of the period andanalyzing the rhetorical appeals and ideological presuppositions of Sorai’s response.
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How the Sakuteiki Turned into the Bible of Japanese Gardening
Christian Tagsold (Heinrich Heine University)
The Sakuteiki is often referred to as the gardening bible of Japan. However, the treatise from the mid-11th
century only rose to prominence in the 20th century. Japanese garden experts used it as a tool against
Western orientalism. To achieve this, they had to ignore its mystic qualities.
S8b_11 Modern Philosophy
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
The De-quantification of the Subject [JP]Keisuke Hasunuma
This paper explains that NISHI Amane discovered the natural form of the proposition. His formula is : イ
ハロナリ。イ stands for the Subject 、ロ stands for the Predicate. He put no quantifiers on the Subject .
He realized that the subject word in Japanese sentences stands for the pattern.
Nishitani Keiji’s conception of mind and its relevance today
Carlos Andrés Barbosa Cepeda (Pompeu Fabra University)
My proposal is that Nishitani conceives of mind as a primarily pre-reflective gathering of reality itself
qua self-awareness that materially manifests as a living body. This, I think, goes in line with the enactivist
trend in the philosophy of mind and contributes to reinforcing its arguments.
S8b_12 Shin Buddhist Soteriology
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
Shinran and Thomas Aquinas - Jihi and Love Comparative Study of Philosophy of Religions in the
13th Century
Yoko Ito (University of Bonn)In this paper I will compare 親鸞 (1173-1263) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) to contribute to thedevelopment of comprehensive understanding on the Japanese intellectual history through grasping thedifference and similarity about the key conceptions of both: 慈悲 (Jihi) and Love (amor, caritas).
Inverting the Flow of Time: Soga Ryōjin’s Grasp of Historicity and Potentiality in the Single
Thought Moment of Faith
Michael Conway (Otani University)
This paper discusses the conception of time in Soga Ryōjin’s works, showing how he employs a uniqueinterpretation of a Yogācāra theory of time to argue that the salvific moment in Shin Buddhism contains
both the results of all of past history and the potentiality for all of future time.
Thought-Moment and Historical Moment: Tanabe Hajime’s Temporal Reading of the Pure Land
Imaginary
Melissa Curley (Ohio State University)
Philosopher Tanabe Hajime argues that Pure Land myth reveals a dialectical understanding of history.
This paper explores how Tanabe builds on a temporal structure suggested by Soga Ryōjin, and considers
the ethical and political significance of Tanabe’s treatment of history in its post-war context.

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S9: Politics and International Relations
S9_01 Japan’s changing diplomatic and security practice
Convenor: Giulio Pugliese (King’s College London)
Chair & discussant: Tomohito Shinoda (International University of Japan)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel enriches the fields of Foreign Policy Analysis and Japan’s policy-making and argues thatpolitical leadership and professionalized input by military officials, PR strategists and an increasingly
politicized decision-making system account for change in Japan’s foreign and defense policy.
Between Grand Strategy and grandstanding: the international and domestic politics of foreign
policy in 21st Century Japan
Giulio Pugliese (King’s College London)
Abe Shinzo’s Grand Strategy aimed at balancing an assertive China points at the primacy of international
factors in explaining foreign policy output. At the very same time, it will be argued, Abe’s foreign policy
has catered to the vagaries of domestic politics and Premier-centered “spin.”
Abe Shinzō and Japan’s Changing Arms Export Policy
Sebastian Maslow (Tohoku University)
Abe Shinzō’s return was followed by broad changes to Japan’s arms export policy. Integral to Abe’s
doctrine of a ‘proactive pacifism’, this paper traces the domestic security discourse driving these changes
and looks at the institutions in place for governing the new weapons export policy.
Japan’s Security Policy and Change in Civilian Control
Simon Schwenke (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Recently, Japan changed its civilian control mechanism inside the MOD in several ways. The antagonism
between civil bureaucrats and uniformed members of the Self-Defense Forces was replaced by a new
system aiming at unity, effectiveness and political leadership in a severe security environment.
S9_02 The New Law on Buraku Discrimination 部落差別解消推進法案
Convenor: Ian Neary (Nissan Institute Oxford University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
The panel will consist of hree substantive papers that consider the different levels of significance of thislegislation from the perspectives of historian, sociologist and political scientist.
New Law or Old Issues: Stakeholder expectations on the Bill for the Promotion of the Eliminationof Buraku Discrimination
Christopher Bondy (International Christian University)
This paper will illuminate how different activists and lawmakers view the goals of the Bill for the
Promotion of the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination, the desired outcome and what they ultimately
expect to see the bill do for buraku issues throughout the country.
Contested Liberation: The JCP, Human Rights Groups, and the New Law
Timothy Amos (National University of Singapore)
This paper argues that while Japan Communist Party and linked opposition to the New Law is rooted
in historical interpretative conflicts surrounding the nature of Buraku discrimination, a study oforganizational contestations of the law reveal significant shifts in liberation movement politics.
S9_03 “Expert Knowledge” in Japanese Politics
Convenor: Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30

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This interdisciplinary panel focuses on the role of “expert knowledge” and “experts” in policy-making inJapan to find out how the increasing importance of “experts” challenges democracy and contributes to or
prevents political change.
Expert Knowledge vs. Public Participation in Japan’s Food Safety Regulation: The Food Safety
Commission’s Expert Committee on Genetically Modified Organisms
Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
This paper analyzes how expertise is defined in the regulation process of genetically modified organisms(GMO) in Japan, how experts are recruited, what kind of chances for participation individual citizens andconsumer advocacy groups have and how transparent the GMO regulation process is.
Experts in Cultural Policy-Making in Japan: Two Expert Networks and the Making of the Basic
Law for the Promotion of Culture and the Arts
Yoko Kawamura Seikei University)
This paper argues that in cultural politics in Japan, opposing definitions of culture emerged together withtwo different types of “policy expertise” in the context of the making of the Basic Law for the Promotionof Culture and the Arts and analyzes how they are reflected in the law.
Between data collection and policy formulation: The Fisheries Research Agency in Japan
Susanne Auerbach (Freie Universität Berlin)
In Japan, major research on fisheries is conducted by the Fisheries Research Agency (FRA), an
independent administrative body established in 2001. The paper analyzes, how the FRA negotiates its“objective knowledge” vis-à-vis the fishermen’s “traditional knowledge” in the policy-making process.
S9_04 Japan set adrift - ontological insecurity in changing times
Convenor: Lindsay Black (Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS))
Discussant: Haruko Satoh (Osaka University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
Japan is becoming isolated in global affairs, fearing abandonment by the US, questioning what Japan
stands for and engendering a sense of ontological insecurity. What are the inherent anxieties attendant
upon Japan’s leadership as they attempt to chart a new foreign policy course in uncertain times?
Japan unplugged: Sino-Japanese relations in uncertain times
Diogo Rafael Ferrao dos Santos (Kobe University)
This paper addresses the impact of a changing relationship with America on Sino-Japanese relations,focusing on how this, in turn, affects Japan`s ontological security. It relates the fear of geopoliticalabandonment with the reconstruction of the Japanese “Self”.
Japan’s non-nuclear identity in question
César Rodrigues (Osaka University)
This paper addresses the issue of nuclear proliferation in Japan’s identity and analyses the impacts causedby the evolving East Asian security landscape. We argue that ongoing transformations may present
challenges to Japanese ontological security, bringing the nuclear debate into question.
Security in ambiguity: The necessary “otherness” of Japan in the US-Japan Security Alliance
Carmina Yu Untalan (Osaka University)
This paper examines the implications of recent developments in US-Japan relations to Japan’s ontologicalin/security. It views Japan’s ambiguity towards the US “Other” as its source of a stable “Self”. It offers analternative perspective of ontological security based on fluid, ambiguous identities.

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S9_05 Adjusting to the post-Cold War order in Asia - Japanese development policy towards
Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam
Convenors: Marie Söderberg (Stockholm School of Economics); Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
The panel analyzes the Japanese post-Cold War ODA strategy towards Asia. The need to take greater
accounts of Japan’s national interest has become prominently advocated by Prime Minster Abe. Actual
effects are revealed through examination of three case studies: Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.
Japan’s ODA to Indonesia - The dilemma of Japan’s new ODA principles
Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Being a great economic power, Japan is expected to use its ODA to alleviate global poverty and promoteliberal principles. Despite human rights violations in Indonesia, Japan has maintained a neutral stancetowards the country, and continues to do so as the strategic importance of Indonesia grows.
Philippine as a Case Study of Japanese Policy under the New Development Cooperation Charter
Marie Söderberg (Stockholm School of Economics)
A new Development Cooperation Charter has been adopted in Japan. Aid shall now ensure Japan’snational interests, be more “strategic” and promote public-private cooperation. This paper researches aid
implementation on the ground and the role it plays in the Japanese-Philippine relationship.
Adjusting Aid Policy to the ‘Rise of China’: Japanese ODA in Vietnam
Andre Asplund (MacMillan Center, Yale University)
This paper examines the applicability of a ‘Normative Power Japan’ argument and the function ofJapanese foreign aid within such framework. A case study of Japan’s aid to Vietnam suggests that the ‘riseof China’ limits Japanese normative power and the use of aid to such extent.
S9_06 Domestic politics: integration policy, constitutional amendment and cabinet scandals
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Nagoya City’s Integration Policies and the Case of the Filipino Foreign Residents
Erica Paula Sioson (University of Tokyo)
This paper looks at to what extent Nagoya City’s policies for foreign residents is facilitating theirintegration. Seeing integration as multi-dimensional, findings suggest that while structurally integrated,
identificational integration seems to be incomplete for Filipino foreign residents.
Amending the Constitution of Japan: Recent trends in the debate over a constitutional amendment
Chris Winkler (Hokkaido University)
This talk will examine recent constitutional amendment proposals from the LDP and other conservative
elites and examine where they stand in the long lineage of proposals to revise the Constitution of Japan.
Special attention will be given to the differences between the 2005 and 2012 LDP proposals.
The Notion of Prime Ministerial “Appointive Responsibility” in Japanese Cabinet Scandals
Jens Sejrup (University of Oslo)In recent years, political opponents and the media have approached cabinet scandals as occasions forpursuits of prime ministerial “appointive responsibility.” Pinpointing the strategic rationale driving thephenomenon, I show that appointive responsibility operates in two logically opposed forms.
S9_07 Sub- and Non-State Actors in Japanese Politics
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30

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The Advocacy Activities of the Japanese Rescue Movement (1997-2006): To What Extent did They
Impact Japanese Foreign Policy toward North Korea?
Oana Iancu (University of Sheffield)
The paper discusses Japan’s foreign policy toward North Korea in the period 1998-2006 and thecontribution of the Japanese Rescue Movement to the government’s decision to impose economic
sanctions against the North in 2006.
Domestic actors on the international stage - Japanese Parliamentarians in the Asia-Europe dialogue
Silja Keva (University of Turku)
This paper explores the speeches and interventions of Japanese parliamentarians in the Asia-Europe
Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) process in order to study the role of Japanese parliamentarians in the
promotion of Japan’s foreign policy.
Non-State Actor Initiatives in the Sino-Japanese Island Disputes: Initial Occupation, Dispute
Emergence and Confrontation
Katherine Bandanwal (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
Why does the island dispute in East China sea persist as an issue? The research examines non-state actors(NSA) and their initiatives as key driver of conflict. It focuses on three key historical periods: occupation,
dispute emergence, and confrontation, to demonstrate NSA’s agency and importance.
S9_08 The Role of the SDF
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
The unwanted mediator: Japan’s Iranian catch-22
Kai Schulze (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper aims at elucidating why Japan’s foreign policy elite has been so eager to become an active
part in the negotiations concerning the Iranian nuclear crisis and the coordination of JCPOA, despite therepeated denial by the other participants and how Japan plans to overcome this deadlock.
Djibouti and Beyond: Japan’s first post-war overseas base and the recalibration of risk in securing
enhanced military capabilities
Ra Mason (University of East Anglia)
This paper sheds new light on the significance of Japan’s indefinitely stationed JSDF facility in Djiboutiin the context of institutional change and how this de facto overseas base is increasingly being primed toallow the potential use of enhanced military capabilities developed by Tokyo.
Collective self-defense and Japan’s incrementalism
Michal Kolmas (Metropolitan University Prague)
The presentation decrypts the role and effects of Japan’s recent security bill, which was dubbed by manyas the ‘biggest changes to Japan’s security posture since WW2’.
S9_09 Regional Politics
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
The populism of former Osaka Governor and Mayor Hashimoto Tōru and its effects on democracy
in JapanAndreas Eder (Free University of Berlin)
Former Osaka Governor Hashimoto Tōru’s rise to fame has shaken up Japanese politics since 2008. This
study analyzes this phenomenon through the lens of populism theory, looking at Hashimoto’s discursive
strengths, his opponent’s weaknesses and discussing implications for current Japanese politics.

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Local Politics and National Policy in Japan: Mulitlevel Policy Conflicts between Governors andGovernments, 1990-2015
Ken Hijino (Kyoto University)
This article investigates the behavior of prefectural governors in Japan since the 1990s, who have becomeless dependent on the ruling party for their re-election or policy implementation at local level, thus
leading them to challenge major national policy intiatives in defense of local interests.
The Reform Plan for the Japanese Agricultural Co-op by the Abe Administration
Hironori Sasada (Hokkaido University)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has proposed a drastic reform plan for the Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives, the party’s longtime and loyal supporter. What encouraged Abe to carry out the reform plan?
This article analyzes the reform plan from the viewpoint of constructivist institutionalism.
S9_10 Japan’s International Relations
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Explaining securitization success and its effects: Japan and collective self-defense
Petter Y. Lindgren (Oslo Group of East Asian Research)
I explain a) the conditions under which PM Abe’s securitization of the Senkaku Islands dispute weresuccesful, and b) the effects of the securitization moves. I also argue that securitization needs to be seen asa series of (de)securitization acts in a public struggle, rather than a single move.
Are We Weak, or Still Great? Ontological (In)Security between Self-Reflexivity and Narcissism
Linus Hagström (Swedish Defence University)
The aim of the paper is to propose a theoretical explanation for the oscillation and mediation between
narratives of weakness and greatness of states – seen in Japan and in other states. The explanation draws
on ontological security theory and the study of narcissism.
Globalisation vs. Nationalism: Abe Shinzō’s Beautiful Country Narrative
Taku Tamaki (Loughborough University)
This paper traces the official Japanese narratives of ‘globalisation’ and ‘utsukushii kuni’—and hence
nationalism—to determine whether the two terms confront one another, or are complementary in theJapanese case.
S9_11 Approaches to identity and foreign policy: heritage, territory and repertoires
Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
The Politics of Japan’s Cultural Heritage Policy: Identity and Governance between the Local, theNational and the Global
Ioan Trifu (Goethe University Frankfurt)
What is the politics of cultural heritage in Japan? By focusing on recent developments in the governanceof cultural heritage, involving local, national and global actors, this paper examines Japanese cultural
policy-making processes as well as the complex identity politics ongoing in the country.
The Changing Shape of Japan: ‘integral territory’ and remapping the sovereign body
Edward Boyle (Kyushu University)
This paper will analyze the increasing emphasis being placed upon the notion of ‘integral territory’ inhomogenizing notions of territory mobilized within Japan’s regional territorial disputes and contextualize
this transformation in the shape of Japan on the map.
Evaluating Japanese Foreign Policy Repertoires: Change or Continuity?
Wrenn Yennie Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)/Stockholm University)
This paper discusses the idea of change in Japan’s foreign policy approach by exploring the Japanesetactics used when competing for influence with China in various geographic contexts.
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S10: Japanese Language Education
S10_Keynote Students, teachers, language, method, new media – where should Japanese
language education be anchored? Some reflections from the field
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2, Thu 31st Aug, 09:00-10:30
Christian Galan (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès & (Paris) National Institute of Oriental Languages
and Civilizations’s Center of Japanese Studies (INALCO))The General Inspection assignment for Japanese language education entrusted to me by the French
Ministry of Education in 2010 allows me to observe, for seven years now, from the field, the concrete
reality of this education in French junior and senior high schools. And it is from this experience that I will
speak in this communication.
First of all, I will briefly present a short inventory of the situation of the Japanese language teaching inFrance, not from a general and statistical point of view, but on the basis of the concrete difficulties andproblems expressed by the teachers I have met or observed when visiting classes. I will then try to define
a typology of these difficulties and problems, based on the different teacher profiles that I have been
allowed to observe and/or meet and the various professional conditions and/or constraints these teachers
are facing.
These seven years of experience have made me realize that the difficulties encountered by these teachers
in their daily practice can in reality be divided into two and quite different groups: those related to theobject taught (i.e. the Japanese language) and those related to their vision and understanding of the roleand exercise of their teaching task itself (i.e. the teaching profession). While the former are often at theheart of the reflection and works conducted in the field of the Japanese education language studies, thelatter are much less frequently addressed when they are not - for good or bad reasons – forgotten or
denied. A large part of these difficulties often result from the unsettled (or single) nature of the anchoring(students, teachers, language, method, new media or ICT, etc.) chosen by the teachers to build theirpedagogical practice(s), when it’s not from the unawareness itself of the fact that several anchorages
are possible and that they are not equivalent. I will therefore try to propose in my paper (and submit for
discussion) a reflexive framework - and a few tools - that could perhaps allow these teachers, of course
not to solve immediately this kind of difficulties, but to better identify and understand them at theirindividual and personal level – which is the first step to latter try to solve or overcome them.
S10_01 Looking at the linguistic dictionary as a learning resource [JP]Convenor: Jaeho Lee (Waseda University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
This panel looks at the concept of the “dictionary”, which is among the basic infrastructure in language
learning. The panel constitutes three presentations.
Content creation for the learner’s dictionary [JP]Jaeho Lee (Waseda University)
This presentation reveals how these could be realized by what is expected and what resources in content
creation including sample sentence and interpretation of words contained in the dictionary. It shows thatthe corpus can be used at all levels of content creation for the dictionary.
Compilation of Japanese learners’ dictionaries [JP]Yuriko Sunakawa (University of Tsukuba)This presentation offers the role and meaning of the dictionary in Japanese learning after looking at
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Providing effective dictionary contents based on the IT evolution [JP]Yoshiko Kawamura (Tokyo International University)
This presentation discusses the development of the online dictionary from a simple dictionary resource
through its transformation into a multilingual tool for JSL/JFL learners. The addition of a reverse
bilingual dictionary is expected to extend the usefulness of this resource.
S10_02 Analysis of essays by European learners of Japanese as a second language: examining
results of holistic rating and multiple-trait rating [JP]Convenors: Mari Tanaka (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies); Shin Abe (Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies)
Discussant: Michiyo Fuchs-Shimizu (Japanese School Basel)
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel reports findings from an analysis of essays by European JSL learners, drawn from the
I-JAS corpus. We performed holistic and multiple-trait rating using six levels, and three multiple-trait
perspectives: “Japanese Proficiency,” “Purpose and Content,” and “Organization and Cohesion.”
Linguistic features of essays by European learners of Japanese as a second language [JP]Shin Abe (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); Aiko Sasaki (National Institute for Japanese Language
and Linguistics)
In the “Japanese Proficiency” part, we divided 193 essays into three groups by evaluation score, andanalyzed writing tendencies of each group. We found that the high group has a diversity of written
expressions, as well as longer compositions.
The relationship between multiple-trait rating of “Purpose and Content “ and holistic rating [JP]Yoko Kageyama (Japan Womens College of Physical Education)
We investigated the relationship between multiple-trait (MT) ratings of “Purpose and Content” andholistic (H) ratings for 55 essays. We found 43.6% concordance for H and MT ratings. The low group hadhigh H ratings, and the high group had high MT ratings.
Organization and cohesion of essays by European learners of Japanese as a second language [JP]Mari Tanaka (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies); Yukari Tsubone (Osaka University of Tourism)
In the “Organization and Cohesion” part, we analyze the macro-organizational essay patterns seen in
European learners’ comparison/contrast and opinion essays, along with the meta-language they use,
referring to the level of multiple-trait rating for “Organization and Cohesion”.
S10_03 The next generation of language education: technology and pedagogy side-by-side
Convenors: Alessandro Mantelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Marcella Mariotti (Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice); Takako Aikawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
This panel aims to urge teachers to re-think the design of our language pedagogy. The first two panelists
demonstrate the rapid advancement of language technology for language learning. The third panelist
discusses how teachers can survive technology and make a difference for language education.
JALEA - a highly maintainable JApanese LEArning web application [JP]Alessandro Mantelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
JALEA (JApanese LEArning) is a new e-Learning system inspired by the hypermedia dictionary ofJapanese grammar BunpoHyDict (Mariotti 2008). I will discuss some characteristic features of JALEA
and demonstrate how JALEA can use authentic interconnected video and images for language learning.

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Toward the development of the Japanese AI (Artificial Intelligence) teacher [JP]Takako Aikawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)“AI Teacher” is an innovative and interactive language learning tool, and it can provide real-timecorrections for students’ grammatical errors. This paper discusses AI Teacher’s characteristic features. It
also reveals an intriguing fact about how language teachers correct students’ errors.
IT development and the ‘forced’ future of language teaching: toward the de-standardization of
language education and the professionalization of language teachers [JP]Marcella Mariotti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)In this paper, I discuss how language teachers can ‘survive’ technology and ‘make a difference’ forlanguage teaching. I argue that the rapid advancement of new technologies can drive toward the destandardization of teaching, the professionalization of teachers, and critical education.
S10_04 Peace and language education (2): possibilities of critical content-based instruction(CCBI)
Convenors: Sei Miwa (Hamburg University); Shinji Sato (Princeton University)
Discussant: Shinji Sato (Princeton University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel discusses why the Critical Content-Based Instruction (Sato et al. 2015) is more important
than ever by connecting two panels and providing many concrete examples. In this Panel, we introduce
research and teaching practices of Japanese language education to create a peaceful world.
The meaning of “Japanese” for children living with multiple cultures and languages [JP]Sei Miwa (Hamburg University)
This presentation proposes educational practices that value and further develop mediation competences
and critical thinking of children living with multiple cultures and languages, helping them find meaning inlearning Japanese and become active citizens to create peaceful communities and world.
Bilingualism of school age children in Miyako Island City in Okinawa: how language diversity cancontribute to peace [EN]Sachiyo Fujita-Round (International Christian University)
This presentation addresses the possibility of language revitalization among children in Miyako Island.
Through the modernization, the Miyakoan became situated in Galtung (2006)’s theory of ‘cultural
violence’. To reverse this process CCBI and relaxed attitudes to bilingual language use can help.
Designing a Japanese language course on “war and peace” for Italian students [EN]Patrick Heinrich (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)I present my ideas on a new advanced Japanese language course on the topic of “war and peace” to betaught in the second year of the Japanese Master program of Ca’ Foscari University. Two are topics
addressed, (1) thinking critically about social inequality, and (2) war and peace.
S10_05 Aims of Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations in Europe: suggestions from thestudy on Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations in Europe in Spain, France and Belgium
Convenor: Yuko Suzuki (Language Centre (CSIM) of the University Complutense of Madrid)
Discussant: Naoko Sakurai (University of Leuven), Nozomi Takahashi (Bordeaux Montaigne University)
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
1. How have the associations in Spain, France and Belgium come to be?
2. What have the members learnt and what do they expect from their associations in Spain, France andBelgium?
3. Where are the associations headed in the future?

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How have the Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations in Spain, France and Belgium come to be?
Nozomi Takahashi (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Naoko Sakurai (University of Leuven); Yuko Suzuki(Language Centre (CSIM) of the University Complutense of Madrid)
We compare the features of the Japanese Language Teachers’ Associations of the three countries of
Spain, France and Belgium analyzing the survey based on interviews and questionnaire with founder andrepresentatives of each country. Then we try to clarify their current situation and their development.
Where are the associations headed in the future?
Yuko Suzuki (Language Centre (CSIM) of the University Complutense of Madrid); Nozomi Takahashi(Bordeaux Montaigne University); Naoko Sakurai (University of Leuven)
Common and different points between the three associations are extracted, with efforts by the associationin Spain presented to discuss the significance of the survey, as well as how to better build a network
between teachers and develop diversified Japanese language education in Europe.
What have the members learnt and what do they expect from their associations in Spain, France
and Belgium?
Yuko Suzuki (Language Centre (CSIM) of the University Complutense of Madrid); Nozomi Takahashi(Bordeaux Montaigne University); Naoko Sakurai (University of Leuven)
In this presentation, we clarify the benefits gained by the members from their Japanese language teachers’
associations and the expectations they held. Then we try to give suggestions how the associations cancontribute to the professional development of their teachers.
S10_06 Peace and language education (1): critical content-based instruction (CCBI) and ideas
and practices of Japanese language education [JP]Convenors: Yukiko Okuno (Tokyo Metropolitan University); Uichi Kamiyoshi (Musashino University)
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Thu 31st Aug, 11:00-12:30
The panel emphasizes the core idea of CCBI (Sato et al.), which is creating a peaceful future throughlanguage education. It then introduces related theories, research, and teaching practices of CCBI in thefield of Japanese language education.
Japanese language for peace and hope: from narrative of language learners in civil war zones
Noriko Ichishima (International Exchange Center)In this presentation, focus will be upon Syrian Japanese language learners both in the Syrian boarders aswell as those with refugee status outside the country clarifying their linguistic consciousness from theirnarratives claiming the need for Japanese language education as a peace-building tool.
Towards and improved framework of language education: CCBI and peace
Uichi Kamiyoshi (Musashino University)
When language education is considered as education, a critical perspective is required. In thispresentation, through arguing about Critical Content-Based Instruction and peace, we will provide
opportunities to think about the building of a peaceful society and community through language
education.
Global peace through Japanese language education: practices of the ‘PEACE program’
Yukiko Okuno (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
I would like to discuss what Japanese language education can do in order to build a peaceful world. I
will report on the practice of “PEACE program” which promotes simultaneous understanding of content,
ability to operate target languages, improvement of learning skills as the subject.

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S10_07 Let’s sharpen our assessment skills through “OJAE Oral Japanese Assessment Europe”,
a CEFR-based test at 6 levels with newly-developed incrementally-stratified criteria and test scripts[JP]
Convenors: Michiko Takagi (Institut Libre Marie Haps)
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
Interested in honing your skills in assessing the oral ability of JFL users? Let’s work on this theme using
the OJAE test, which has been researched and developed for 10 years by a team of former OPI testers.
The production of the OJAE-test itself supports a competent assessment of the oral ability of a JFLuser [JP]Michiko Takagi (Institut Libre Marie Haps)
The first part focuses on the testing of B-levels, since these are most frequently practiced and rated as
subtle and difficult, being transitional from A to C. In addition, it will be emphasized that the assessment
competence can be developed through the endeavor of the test-production itself.
The OJAE method applied to the final examination at the universities in Germany
Yasuko Sakai (Spracheninstitut an der Uni. Leipzig)
OJAE can be applied multi-facetedly. I exemplify actual applications of the OJAE method, such as in the
final examination of the BA-qualification. It will be presented how class activities could be carried out
concretely. We strive for the objective and transparent oral test.
Let us share the R&D of the OJAE-Team (AJE-SIG) on the good JFL-test of the oral production
and assessment
Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek (European Institut for Japanese Language Education e.V.)
In 2016 in Brussels the OJAE Team as an AJE-SIG co-hosted a teachers’ seminar with the Belgian NK on
the project Good Dialogue Testers, supported by the JF Cologne. This part exemplifies how such seminars
in various EU regions can contribute to the sharing of a fair, transparent assessment method.
S10_08 Rethinking Japanese as a heritage language through the perspective of “language andmobility”: case studies in the European context [JP]Chair: Noriko Iwasaki (SOAS, University of London)
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
From the perspective of “mobility and language”, we examine how adults in Europe who were born toJapanese parent(s) view their linguistic repertoire (including Japanese as a heritage language) and rethink
the significance and education of Japanese as a heritage language in European contexts.
Trajectory of identity construction of a university student with Japanese heritage: before, during
and after the year abroad in Japan [JP]Noriko Iwasaki (SOAS, University of London)
I examine the trajectory of a BA Japanese student’s identity construction, utilising a multimodal
representation called a “language portrait”. Regarding linguistic and cultural identities as fluid andconstantly emerging, the impact of the year abroad on the student’s sense of self is discussed.
Children crossing borders: comparative study on Japanese heritage language learners in Germany
and Thailand [JP]Ikuo Kawakami (Waseda University)
This paper examines young adults born to Japanese parent(s) in Germany who learned Japanese as
children. Comparing their interview data and the data from young adults in a similar situation in Thailand,
I discuss these young adults’ subjectivities in using their Japanese and plurilingual competence.

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Choosing to learn Japanese in adulthood: the changing significance of Japanese as a heritage
language from childhood to adulthood [JP]Kazuko Miyake (Toyo University)
This presentation focuses on individuals who were born to a Japanese parent but had no Japanese spoken
at home. It examines how Japanese became significant in their lives and what led them to learn Japanesein adulthood. The findings challenge the prevailing views in heritage language education.
S10_09 Effective reading comprehension lessons for learners in Europe [JP]Convenor: Hisashi Noda (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
This panel investigates effective reading lessons for learners in Europe from the two surveys conducted inGermany, Spain, France and UK of over 90 learners.
Survey 1: What the learners want to read and have to read, as well as what the learners do not read.
Survey 2: What makes reading difficult.
The purposes of the panel and methods of the needs survey and the survey of ‘what makes reading
difficult’ [JP]Hisashi Noda (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
This presentation will clarify the purpose and methods of our research into what reading materials areneeded and what skills should be taught in reading lessons which cater for more practical needs ofJapanese learners in Europe.
Needs analysis concerning reading materials for learners in Europe [JP]Suzuko Anai (Oxford Brookes University)
The learners realized the usefulness of understanding the text that has real purpose and list such texts aslabels, flyers etc. Reflecting social networking, they list SMS, blogs and other on-line texts. They do notread Japanese if information is available in English or in their native language.
Effective reading lessons for beginner learners in Europe: from the results of survey investigating
what makes reading difficult [JP]Akiko Nakajima (Paris Diderot University)
At the beginners level, learners were not grouping the words correctly, were not paying attention tofunctional words and not identifying hidden subjects. We suggest that practice is needed to address these
problems as well as how to use dictionaries effectively.
Effective Reading lessons for intermediate learners in Europe: from the results of the survey
investigating what makes reading difficult [JP]Minoru Shiraishi (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona); Yumiko Murata (University of Munich)Intermediate level learners could not grasp the structure of longer and more complex sentences,
misunderstood kanji jukugo and unfamiliar vocabulary. Lessons focusing on the skills, 1 to analyze andgrasp the sentence structure, 2 to infer meaning from the contexts and 3 how to use dictionary.
S10_10 Feedback on Case-based approach to teaching business communications [JP]Convenors: Kumi Casey (Newcastle University); Yoshiko Kurisaki (Europe-Japan Dynamics); Kyoko
Khosla (Hogeschool van Amsterdam); Nozomi Yamaguchi (University of Manchester)
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
The Case-based approach to teaching, teaches the students not only Business Japanese but also how todeal with the problematic situations through discussion. In our report, we provide details of this approachto teaching we designed based on Case Method and also the information from our experience.

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Case-based approach for business communication: application to a blended class of Japanese
language learners and Japanese (exchange) students
Nozomi Yamaguchi (University of Manchester); Satomi Tsujii (University of Coimbra); Yasuko Takeuchi(Université Grenoble Alpes)
This report outlines the attempt to conduct another case-based approach to Japanese language classes
in Europe. We focus on the activities to a blended class of Japanese language learners and Japanese(exchange) students and discuss their understanding on cases and language behaviors.
Case method for business communications: application to training and a class beyond Japanese
language studies
Yoshiko Kurisaki (Europe-Japan Dynamics); Satomi Tsujii (University of Coimbra)
This report is intended to provide the results and insights obtained from the use of the Case method
for the training of Japanese business culture and diversity mindset, outside its original purpose of theJapanese language education for business communication in Japan.
Case-based approach for business communication: application to Japanese language class at Higher
Education (HE) institutions
Kumi Casey (Newcastle University); Kyoko Khosla (Hogeschool van Amsterdam); Reiko Suhara(University of Bonn); Setsuyo Konami (Rotterdam University, Rotterdam Business School)
This is a report on Case-based approach adopted in Japanese language classes and Japanese Business
communication classes in Europe. Our report will examine the difficulties that the teachers encounteredduring the class and provide suggestions to improve the practice.
S10_11 1+2 approach: teaching young Japanese learners in Scottish primary education [EN]Convenors: Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (University of Edinburgh)
Discussant: Isao Iori (Hitotsubashi University), Ann Robertson (1+2 Development Officer, East Lothian),
Makoto Netsu (Japan Foundation, London)
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30
This panel discusses Japanese language provision in Scottish primary education, including (1) the “1+2Approach”, (2) Curriculum for Excellence and its impact on curriculum design, and (3) implications ofresearch findings on Yasashii Nihongo to young learners in Scotland and beyond.
Easy Japanese and Japanese for young learners [EN]Isao Iori (Hitotsubashi University)
This presentation will discuss the role of “Easy Japanese” as a tool for teaching young learners ofJapanese as a second language. We will discuss its current use within Japan, among the children of
immigrants, and also its possible use in the context of Japanese teaching in Scotland.
Ichi+Ni = Japanese? Developing Japanese in the Scottish context
Ann Robertson (1+2 Development Officer, East Lothian)
How do we develop Japanese as an L3 or L4 language in Scottish primary schools? This presentation will
share feedback from Scottish practitioners, officers and education leaders and explore the challenges andopportunities in the development of Japanese learning for young Scottish learners.
1+2 APPROACH: Developing young JFL packages in the Scottish context
Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (University of Edinburgh)
We describe Scotland’s new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) with a focus on the 1+2 Languages Policy.
We will discuss cross-curricular approaches to the development of two streamlined Japanese packages,
with an emphasis on the development of Japanese teaching within the Scottish primary context.

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S10_12 A proposal for developing teaching materials with “BTSJ-Japanese Conversation
Corpus” for natural communication education in Europe
Convenor: Mayumi Usami (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
This panel proposes some potential utilizations of NINJAL’s “BTSJ-Japanese Conversation Corpus”(BTSJ-JCC) for improving the situation where learners find hard to become able to communicate
naturally and their teachers continue to teach unnatural Japanese examples without noticing the issue.
Improvement of Teaching Japanese Grammar Suggested by the “Context” of Natural Conversation[JP]Yoshikazu Kawaguchi (Laboratry for Life and Language)
The author of the proposal shows that the usages of grammatical items in textbooks are often“insufficiently contextualized” compared with those in the “BTSJ Conversation Corpus”. He also argues
possible ways of making a good use of this corpus for improving teaching Japanese grammar in Europe.
The significance of developing teaching materials based on an analysis of BTSJ-JapaneseConversation Corpus- focusing on teaching “incomplete utterances” and “co-constructedutterances” [JP]Mayumi Usami (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
The presenter argues the importance of natural conversation data, focusing on teaching “incomplete
utterances” and “co-constructed utterances” by NCRB. She also insists that the NCRB as a platform forutilizing teaching resources is essential to improve the Japanese language education in Europe.
Textbook conversation vs. natural conversation: pragmatics of kara and node [JP]Takae Hagiwara (Yamanashi Prefectural University)
An investigation of natural conversations reveals that pragmatic knowledge, which cannot be acquired
from the existing textbooks, is essential in Europe where Japanese is not the second language but aforeign language.
S10_13 Learning and teaching Japanese (JHL: Japanese as a Heritage Language) in Europe.
Why? Voices from the field [JP]Convenor: Hiroshi Noyama (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Based on the educational concepts of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, this presentation explores
the meaning of engagement in Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) to both parents and children byanalyzing the outputs of the practices and studies in the Netherlands, Germany and Japan.
Learning and teaching Japanese (JHL: Japanese as a Heritage Language) in Europe. Why? Voicesfrom the field [JP]Emi Yamamoto (Leiden University); Kaoru Matsuo; Hiroshi Noyama (National Institute for Japanese
Language and Linguistics)
This presentation is about a reason why we teach Japanese as a heritage language, especially in classroom
settings. A heritage language classroom is a unique learning space with a diversity and sence ofsymphathy which make possible to stimulate each other’s ZPD and meet “important others”.

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Structuring language environment for CLD students in multicultural/multilingual society in Japan:
the perspective of social participation [JP]Hiroshi Noyama (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Kaoru Matsuo; Emi
Yamamoto (Leiden University)
Based on the educational concepts of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, this presentation explores
the meaning of engagement in Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) to both parents and children byanalyzing the outputs of the practices and studies in the Netherlands, Germany and Japan.
Parents’ perspectives, children’s perspectives: analysing the “can-do weekly check at home” basedon the plurilingual and pluricultural approach to language education
Kaoru Matsuo
Based on the educational concepts of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, this presentation explores themeaning of engagement in Japanese as a heritage language to both parents and children by analyzing theoutputs of the “Can-Do Weekly Check at Home” and other examples practiced at a JHL club.
S10_14 Japanese language learning and teaching in Europe
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Thu 31st Aug, 14:00-15:30
Japanese language education and learning as a lifelong process: its outlook based on practices
reported in European higher education institutions [JP]Kaori Sano (Waseda University)
This study described Japanese language education and learning practices for Japanese studies/Japanology
in European higher education and explored these practices’ future outlook in the framework of adultlearning. This research focused especially on Japanese language learning as lifelong learning.
Learning and teaching Japanese in Germany. Why? Voices from the teacher education programs inGermany [EN]Monika Unkel (University of Cologne)
The study concentrates on the motivation of students majoring in teaching Japanese in Germany. Students
will be interviewed on their motivation as learners as well as on their motivation to become teachers.
Findings will be related to motivation theories and other surveys.
The meaning of learning Japanese in France & the multilingual, multicultural identity constructionof learners: practical insights from a learning motivation study of students majoring in Japanese[JP]
Rei Komai (INALCO)
The process of learning the Japanese language inside and outside of the classroom by learners ofJapanese in France was explored, and the factors leading to continuous learning were examined from theperspectives of motivation and multilingual, multicultural identity construction.
S10_15 Meeting the needs of Japanese learners in Europe
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Thu 31st Aug, 16:00-17:30
Dyslexia training for Japanese language teachers: its effect and prospect [JP]Nagisa Moritoki (Unviersity of Ljubljana); Hiroko Oshima (Paris Diderot University); Kaori Nishizawa(University of Oxford)
This paper aims to present a draft plan of an initial dyslexia teacher training-seminar, upon identifying
teachers’ needs and demands. Analysis will be based on a survey to Japanese teachers and questionnaires
collected from teacher-training seminars about dyslexia in Europe.

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The challenges in the practice of teaching Japanese as a foreign language: beliefs, experiences andidentity of novice university lecturers in Portugal [JP]Yuki Mukai (University of Brasilia)
This qualitative research study investigates beliefs, experiences and identity of three novice university
lecturers in Portugal, focusing on their difficulties in their workplace and in their classroom.
Opening the borders of the Japanese language: discovering and answering the needs of students ofJapanese in Serbia [EN]
Ljiljana Markovic (Faculty of Philology University of Belgrade); Divna Trickovic (Faculty of Philology
University of Belgrade)If facilitation of communication between L2 speakers and not only native speakers were achieved, theborders of the Japanese language would open to new areas of use. The theoretical and practical premises
were tested in a case study in Serbia and will be presented in this paper in detail.
S10_16 Japanese as a heritage language
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
アイルランド中等教育における日本語の導入（Post-Primary Languages Initiative,PPLI)が現地の「継承日本語」話者の子ども達の日本語学習に及ぼす影響 [JP]Midori Inagaki (Waseda University)
This presentation considers how the PPLI, a national development project for foreign languages in
Ireland, has deeply influenced the motivation of children of Japanese Heritage speakers. This is an
example of a country’s language policy strongly effecting a group outside the intended target.
The importance of teaching a Japanese culture as a heritage language [JP]Emi Yamamoto (Leiden University); Yoshie Mera (Japanese Language School)
Japanese textbooks which presenters are developing give examples to show that it is important not toteach just “essential” and traditional cultures, but also diversities of culture and society in the filed ofJapanese language education as a heritage language.
Introduction of small heritage Japanese language learning group in Budapest [JP]Seiji Wakai (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
The most popular place to learn heritage language outside the home is a small heritage language
education class established by parents. In this presentation, I will take up a small heritage Japanese
language learning group in Budapest. And I will report the action and the result of this group.
S10_17 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design I
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Fri 1st Sept, 11:00-12:30
How can we support self-study e-learning? Development and operation of the Japanese online
courses in “JF Japanese e-Learning Minato” [JP]Tomomi Chiba (The Japan Foundation); Nanae Kumano (The Japan Foundation)“JF Japanese e-Learning Minato” is a platform to learn Japanese online for people of the world who have
had no access to the language due to geographic or time constraints. We discuss ways to support selfstudy e-learning using examples from the development and operation of Japanese Online Courses.
Effective improvement of motivation in learning Japanese and teaching Japanese by using Skype
communication [JP]Emi Muratamargetic (Zagreb University); Kumiko Nakanishi (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Based on the data of skype conversation between learners of Japanese in Europe and native Japaneseteachers to be in Japan, we will mainly lead the following conclusion; the learners of Japanese who havecontacted with Japanese teachers to be through skype feel familiar with learning Japanese.

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How blended learning facilitates implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning(CLIL) [JP]Naoko Nemoto (Mount Holyoke College)
This work will explore how blended learning would facilitate implementation of CLIL courses forintermediate learners by examining a case study with video lectures. We will also consider what we cando to make more effective use of ready-made video lectures on the web for intermediate learners.
S10_18 Language and identity
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
A study of the development of the speaking ability in two languages of the culturally linguisticallydiverse children in Japan [JP]Junko MAJIMA (Osaka University); Chiho Sakurai (Doshisha University)
This study shows the linguistic and cognitive development of 131 elementary school children in both
Japanese and their home language, either Chinese or South American Spanish. These data are part ofseries of our study in the last twelve years, focusing on the CLD children (Cummins, 2014) in Japan.
Conveying the self in a foreign language: a self-introduction case study [JP]Kiyomi Fujii (Kanazawa Institute of Technology); Naomi Yanagida (Hitotsubashi University)
In this study, the authors researched how learners introduce themselves and what they want to convey,
as well as what kind of skills the speakers need to effectively communicate these points to the addressee.
The self-introduction video data were collected from a Facebook project.
S10_19 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design II
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Fri 1st Sept, 16:00-17:30
On the importance of developing Japanese language teaching materials in Romania: learning andteaching materials, their mutual intertwining [JP]Ruxandra-Oana Raianu (University of Bucharest)
The present paper consists of a short presentation of the Japanese grammar and vocabulary teachingmaterials developed in Romania. Developing materials is strongly related to the process of learning andteaching, forming a system, in which every one plays an important role.
A case study of communicative activities between learners of Japanese at beginner level andJapanese learners of English on SNS [JP]Miho Inaba (Cardiff University); Shinji Okumura (Mukogawa Women’s Univeristy)
This presentation reports a case study of communicative activities on SNS between learners of Japanese
at beginner level and Japanese learners of English at advanced level, and examines what opportunities forlearning Japanese and for collaborative learning are available in this type of activities.
Considering course designs for co-learning classes: based on the analysis of learning styles andlearning processes [JP]Hiroko Yabe (Tokyo Gakugei University); Megumi Shimada (Nihon University)
We designed co-learning classes where general students and foreign students learn together. We analyzed
free description comments and extracted characteristic words and carried out a correspondence analysis
for both of the groups and for both of the learning styles, seminar and lecture.
S10_20 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design III
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Sat 2nd Sept, 09:00-10:30

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Development of multimedia educational material and analysis of the results got during the courseof Japanese language at University of Naples “L’Orientale” [JP]Giuseppe Giordano (University of Naples “L’Orientale”); Hiromi Imai (University of Naples“L’Orientale”)
Sponsorized by MIUR, University of Naples “L’Orientale” in 2015, by exploiting the potential of Moodle
open-source platform, worked out a path full of activities which allowed students to consolidate what theylearned in their classes, in a dynamic and stimulating way. Results will be discussed.
Creation of a pedagogical material for Japanese language teaching in the aim of intercultural
understanding [EN]Kaori Tsuda (University of Tsukuba); Jérémie Bride (University of Tsukuba)
Our presentation will focus on our experience of creating a pedagogical material for Japanese language
teaching aiming at an intercultural understanding. We will discuss the process of elaboration in which wereflected on how we can make a personal experience into a text for pedagogical use.
Use of social media by learners of Japanese as a foreign language in the UK [EN]Richard Harrison (Kobe University)
This paper will report on findings from a survey on the use of social media technologies by university
students in the UK, for learning Japanese. I will report on the factors that contribute to the learning ofJapanese by university students, and the role technology plays in this learning process.
S10_21 Japanese learners’ pragmatics and creativity
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
An exploration on L2 learners’ creativity in writings: examining stories of personal experience
written by learners of Japanese [JP]Momoyo Shimazu (Kansai University)
This study examines how learners’ creativity in the form of “language play” relates to their narrative
writings. Through analyzing JSL learners’ writings, this study also demonstrates the use of their creative
writing skills as well as certain characteristics in the construction of their stories.
Japanese honorifics and the expanded usage of ‘Saseteitadaku’: survey of Japanese native speakers
and Japanese learners [JP]Hyeonjin Lee (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
In this study, I applied a questionnaire survey to evaluate the usage of ‘Saseteitadaku’ concept. As a result,Japanese learners showed different tendencies in comparison to native Japanese speakers in choosing
example sentences used to differentiate between self-assertion or neutral remarks.
S10_22 Language education and socio-historical responsibility
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
Japanese language education with social responsibility: engaging with the history of National
Socialism [JP]Yumiko Murata (University of Munich)This presentation introduces a course based on the principles of Content and Language Integrated
Learning (CLIL) targeting advanced learners of Japanese at Munich University and combining language
instruction with a critical approach to the history of National Socialism.
Tracing the voices from Japanese lecturers in pre-war Europe [JP]Yoshimi Ogawa (Yokohama National University)
Focusing on lecturers of Japanese nationality in pre-war Europe, how social background and systems
affected the individual language teaching, and further the significance of Japanese language teaching inEurope through their activities and its influence afterwards will be reported.

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Developing autonomous thinking and assertive communication skills in Japanese: The second stageof the medium-term research project [JP]Yuko Sugita (University of Duisburg-Essen); Yuka Ando (University of Duisburg-Essen)This presentation highlights our intermediate Japanese program designed for the learners to thinkcritically and express the thoughts effectively in the everyday as well as academic contexts. The second
stage of our medium-term research will be discussed based on the qualitative analysis method.
S10_23 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design IV
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Sat 2nd Sept, 11:00-12:30
An investigation of knowledge and ability associated with the accurate production of Japaneselexical accent [EN]
Yukiko Hatasa (Hiroshima University); Kazumi Hatasa (Purdue University); Eriko Takahashi (Merjio
University)
This study examined the relationship among perception, knowledge, monitoring, phonological memory,and production of Japanese lexical accent, and found that native language affected the difficulty of accent
types and relationship among knowledge, monitoring ability, perception and production.
E-learning Materials for Non-native Learners of Classical Japanese [JP]Sekiko Sato (Tohoku University); Keiko Ono (Princeton University); Miki Mushiake (Miyagi University of
Education)
We present a trial edition of e-learning materials for non-native learners of classical Japanese, which wehave developed for the purpose of creating an on-demand-based, systematic, and full-scale program toaccommodate the needs of instructors and students concerned with classical Japanese.
Evaluation of the flipped classroom by Japanese language learners and the change in theirperception of learning: a qualitative analysis by the SCAT method [JP]Tomoki Furukawa (Kansai University); Mayuko Tezuka (Kansai University)
This study analyzes Japanese language learners’ evaluation of flipped classroom teaching model and ways
in which their perception of learning changes over time using SCAT (Steps for Coding and Theorization)
method to verify the effects of the implementation of the flipped classroom qualitatively.
S10_24 Reading and writing in Japanese as a foreign language
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Expressions to describe an unexpected event in intermediate learners’ writing: a comparison withoral story telling tasks [EN］
Yukiko Koguchi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
The purpose of this study is to analyze which expressions do intermediate learners of Japanese use todescribe unexpected events on their writing story telling tasks of the I-JAS corpus. Through comparison
with oral tasks, I will clarify the differences in expressions in terms of planning time.
Development of a reading fluency measurement tool: examination of Japanese-language texts andcontent comprehension problems at the elementary completion level [JP]Tomoko Watanabe (Hiroshima University); Eri Banno (Okayama University); Mitsue Tabata-Sandom(Massey University)
The purpose of this study is to examine the context validity of the reading fluency measurement tool.
From the results of a pilot study was conducted on 308 learners, we made 10 sets of ‘Japanese texts’ and‘10 content comprehension questions’ with high validity at the elementary completion level.

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On the teaching of citation writing for academic Japanese in the humanities [JP]Masao Sanehira (Kobe University)
This paper outlines the teaching of citation writing in humanities papers by int’l students. A theoreticalframework for this has been created recognizing: the style of humanities papers, role of tutors, necessity
for materials development, application of this framework to other research areas.
S10_25 Use of drama, theatre and literature in Japanese language teaching
Torre B, Piso 3, T13: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
How to transform a beginning learner into a Japanese character on the theatre stage:pronunciation training aimed at learning communicative competence [EN]
Motoko Ueyama (University of Bologna)
How can beginning learners of Japanese transform into Japanese characters on the stage? This paper will
introduce the training program of the Japanese language theater group that I’ve been coordinating in Italy
since 2004, reporting results with projection of video clips of our past drama pieces.
A report on intermediate Japanese language class using TV drama: from the viewpoint of thesecond language acquisition theory
Itsuo Harasawa (Shizuoka University)
This presentation reports that teaching Japanese with the recent TV drama is effective in improving alearner’s listening and vocabulary abilities in terms of the Second Language Acquisition Theory.
Effective use of modern Japanese literature for advanced level students in intercultural
understanding: 4th grade students of Bulgaria
Yu Mitsumori (The “St. Klement Ohridski” Sofia University)
An attempt of effective use of Japanese modern literature in 4th grade students’ lessons of the “St.
Klement Ohridski” Sofia University in Bulgaria have been underway. In this attempt, it aims to trainintercultural communication ability. “Text theory” was also applied in the lessons.
S10_26 IT & Language learning and teaching: materials and course design V
Torre B, Piso 3, T14: Sat 2nd Sept, 14:00-15:30
Exploring interactive learning in a synchronous virtual beginning Japanese classroom [EN]Satomi Suzuki (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Concerns regarding online language learning expressed by practitioners and students are addressed. This
presentation will employee videos of learners’ interactive learning in a synchronous online Japaneseclassroom, and survey results which demonstrate students’ positive online learning experience.
Grammar [wa/ga/no] problem? In search of re-constructing learner’s “grammar” throughconstruing authentic texts [JP]Michiko Yazawa (The Japan Foundation)
This paper is about efforts to tackle grammar problems such as “holes” and “fossilized errors” that pairsyntax analysis with construal to examine authentic texts instead of focusing on errors. It will introduce
the procedure for re-constructing learner’s grammar along with materials used.
Video conferencing discussions for cross-cultural understanding and Japanese language education:
adopting deep active learning [JP]Miho Fukagawa (Kanazawa University); Kenji Kawamoto (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University); Kanae
Miura (Kanazawa University)
Adopting the concept of Deep Active Learning, this presentation discusses a practical method for and theeducational benefits of cross-cultural understanding in video conferencing for both Japanese university
students and language education for Turkish Japanese language learners.

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S10_27 On teaching Japanese in wider Europe: the status quo and prospects in Central Asia,
Bosnia and Hercegovina, Denmark, and Portugal [AJE Invited panel]
Chair: Noriko Iwasaki (SOAS University of London)
Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2: Fri 1st Sept, 09:00-10:30
Current situation and issues of Japanese language education in Central Asia [JP]Yumi Onishi (Japan Foundation/Kazakh National University)
Central Asia countries are “isolated Japanese language learning environments” with little economic
personnel exchanges with Japan. But the number of educational institutions and learners have expandedin these countries. It is said that Japanese education in Central Asia is in a time of change.
The current situations and issues of Japanese education in Bosnia and Hercegovina [JP]Nozomi Miyanoya (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo)
In this presentation, I introduce the current situations of Japanese education in Bosnia and Hercegovina(BiH). I then introduce the current issues and “Blog project by Japanese language course in Sarajevo”
which has started as one of the solution of this issues. Lastly, I mention what is expected to the network of
AJE.
Japanese language education in Denmark [JP]Jiro Tomioka (Aarhus University)
Brief history of Japan Studies in Denmark as well as the status quo of Japanese language education inother Scandinavian countries will be introduced. Furthermore, the newly implemented program called
Aarhus Model will be introduced and the analysis on its effectiveness will be discussed.
The current state of Japanese language teaching in Portugal [JP]Keiko Amakasu (University of Porto)
This presentation argues that to increase the current state of Japanese language teaching in Portugal
one needs to fostering capacity building of Japanese language teachers and stresses the importance ofconstructing a collaboration system among European countries teaching Japanese language.
S10_posters Japanese language posters
Torre B, Piso 3, T13 & T14: Fri 1st Sept, 14:00-15:30
Research on occurrence of frequency of 3,000 Kanji on Japanese websites [JP]Yasuyo Tokuhiro (Nagoya University)
Outside of Japan, the chance to see Japanese Kanji occurs more often on Internet websites than on paper.
This study examines the frequency of 3,000 kanji’s on a Japanese website using the National Institute forJapanese Language and Linguistics Web Japanese Corpus.
“Language use situations” and “Hiroshima tourism can-do list” in Japanese language learningmaterials for inbounds to Japan [JP]Sugako Iseki (The Japan Foundation - Japanese-language Institute, Urawa); Yuka Kawakami (Hiroshima
Shudo University)
Present study is to report what we examined to identify specific “language use situations” and “Hiroshima
Tourism Can-do List,” focusing on activities in Hiroshima, a popular tourist destination in Japan during
the course of developing the teaching materials.
A comparative study of the expressions of laughter in Japanese and Russian: from examples in“Crime and Punishment” [JP]Yukiko Shukuri (Kobe University)
This study extracted expressions of laughter from a Russian novel and its Japanese translation, andperformed a questionnaire for both native speakers to ask who the laughing person is. The result showedthat Japanese has more expressions of laughter, related with the laughing person, than Russian.

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A study on the use of request email strategies by advanced Japanese learners: through comparisonof Chinese speakers, Korean speakers and native Japanese speakers
Huijuan Dong (Teikyo University)
This study clarifies the influencing factors faced by advanced learners of the Japanese language whenemailing. We conducted tests with Chinese, Koreans and Japanese university students. As results, thesocial distance, burden for the sender, and influence of native cultures were clarified.
Learning skills and practices for question-and-answer sessions in presentation teaching material[JP]
Hiromi Nishina (Yamagata University)
This study focuses on developing teaching materials for improving response in Q&A sessions ofpresentations for learners of Japanese. These materials consist of four stages: 1. Mental preparation, 2.
Understanding questions, 3. Answering questions, and 4. Showing consideration for the audience.
Function and treatment of modal adverbs in Japanese reading comprehension activities [JP]Seiko Ito (Japanese Education Center)I extracted adverbs for Japanese reading materials and analyze the relationship with the context ofsentences. I tested learners by creating questions. - Modal adverbs appear in places that act as hints insentences. Learners who understood the effects of them understood the thinking of the writer.
What does “being able to advance short conversations” mean? An analysis based on actual NS and
NSS interactive classroom data [JP]Hiroko Fujimori (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)This study examines “interactive classes” with Japanese and Non-Japanese students, analyzing how theybuild conversations in terms of conversation management. Differences by proficiency level between basic
and intermediate levels were examined, focusing on “being able to advance short conversations”.
Developing students’ awareness of vulnerable people and issues in a Japanese language class basedon CBI [JP]Michie Yamamori (Yokohama National University)
This poster presentation reports on a Japanese language class based on CBI that aimed to raise students’awareness of vulnerable people and issues behind the disaster. It is important to consider how to develop
students’ such attitudes in Japanese classes not only in Japan, but also in Europe.
From tears to pleasure: Simon’s personal and linguistic development through Japanese class. Whatdid going to class change? [JP]Yuka Kito (École Polytechnique); Mika Momma (Sciences Po Le Havre campus)
Our paper uses the example of a child who has been learning Japanese as a heritage language at our
school for 3 years. It will demonstrate language development in a global context through interviews withthe child and its parents and lead to discussion about the role of the classroom.
Analysis of logical structures and contradictory conjunctions in statement-making by Englishspeaking learners of Japanese: in comparison with Japanese native speakers
Chisato Yokoyama (Education)
This research aims to analyze logical structures and conjunctions found in the statement-making task by
Japanese native speakers and English-speaking leaners of Japanese. It was found that native speakers
often used “~kedo” and “~ga” whereas learners mainly used “demo” for counterarguments.

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A comparison between Japanese native speakers’ speech and non-native speakers’ speech fromviewpoint of disfluency [JP]Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kyoto University); Ayse Nur Tekmen (Ankara University)
Through investigating spontaneous and read speech, we show that the disfluent speech by Japanese native
speakers has regularities, and that studying it would enable Japanese language learners to replace thedisfluent quality of their own speech with a natural disfluency like that of native speakers.
Japanese educational materials for children from the perspective of the Usage-based model andpeer learning theory [JP]Yukari Hashimoto (Yokohama National University)
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of teaching materials based on the Usage-based Model andpeer learning theory in Moscow’s workshop for teachers. I suggest what tasks help children participate
actively in learning and how tasks can be prepared, as well as key points to remember.
On adding grammatical function to the online database HAGOROMO [JP]Keiko Hori (Toyo University); Makoto Yamazaki (National Institute for Japanese Language); Sumire
Gouda (Japan Women’s University)
The usage database of function words in Japanese HAGOROMO was released in 2015, aiming tosupport Japanese language teachers and autonomous learners. In order to show clearly the function of thedirection word in a sentence, we will add information of grammatical function of each item.
Multimodal analysis of web lecture discourses: on the function of meta-language [JP]Takami Mohri (Waseda University); Tomoki Furukawa (Kansai University); Yoshio Nakai (Doshisha
University)
This paper reports multimodal analysis results of 9 web lectures. Features such as non-linguistic or paralanguage cues were observed corresponding to the places where meta-language has a “stress” or “topic”
function, leading to an understanding of a lecture.
Learning connected to outside the classroom: examine the meaning of “can-do” based learning
approach
Kaoru Fujinaga (The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute Urawa)
The objective of this presentation is to examine the meaning of “can-do” based learning approach and to
discuss the possibility to realize it in the language classroom for adult learners at B1 level, based on thefindings through lessons conducted by the presenter.
How to meet adult learners’ needs in general Japanese courses: a case in a Japanese language
school, Poland [JP]Gohei Ide (Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology)
This presentation focuses on how to meet adult learners’ needs in general Japanese courses in private
schools. They usually study Japanese as a hobby and hope to develop communication skills. What course
design and classroom activities suitable for them? A case in Poland will be presented.

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Abad de los Santos, Rafael -- S7_27

Benesch, Oleg -- S7_01

Centonze, Katja -- S4b_10

Abe, Hideko -- S2_14

Bergmann, Annegret -- S4a_09

Cervelli, Filippo -- S3a_11

Abe, Hiroshi -- S2_04

Berlinguez-kono, Noriko -- S7_28

Chance, Linda -- S3b_10

Abe, Shin -- S10_02

Berndt, Jaqueline -- S4a

Chappelow, Christian -- S3a_15

Abe, Yasuro -- S8a_07

Bertalanic, Bostjan -- S7_34

Chiavacci, David -- S6_12

Adolphson, Mikael -- S7

Best, Antony -- S7_12

Chiba, Tomomi -- S10_17

Aguoru, Adedoyin -- S4b_09

Beth, Suzanne -- S4a_07

Clements, Rebekah -- S3b_02

Aikawa, Takako -- S10_03

Bhatte, Pallavi -- S7_25

Close, Natalie -- S5a_27

Akashi, Motoko -- S7_05

Bianchi, Alessandro -- S3b_06

Cobbing, Andrew -- S7_11

Aksoy Sugiyama, Ceren -- S5a_23

Biontino, Juljan -- S5a_09

Colin, Corentin -- S5a_11

Akune, Susumu -- S8b_04

Bjoerk, Tove -- S4b_01

Colla, Elisabetta -- S7_16

Alexandre, Ricardo Santos -- S5a_25

Black, Lindsay -- S9_04

Colombo, Giorgio Fabio -- S6_01

Amakasu, Keiko -- S10_27

Blanco-Perales, Jose -- S7_30

Conrad, Harald -- S6_09

Amos, Timothy -- S9_02

Bloch, Dalit -- S5a_21

Conway, Michael -- S8b_12

Anai, Suzuko -- S10_09

Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice -- S7_15

Cook, Emma -- S5a

Anchordoguy, Marie -- S6_11

Bodiford, William -- S3b_07

Corbett, Rebecca -- S7_32

Ando, Yuka -- S10_22

Bondy, Christopher -- S9_02

Cosa Fernandez, Diego -- S1_09

Andreeva, Anna -- S8a_05

Bordilovskaya, Anna -- S2_10

Curley, Melissa -- S8b_12

Andro-Ueda, Makiko -- S3a_08

Borggreen, Gunhild -- S4a_05

Curvelo, Alexandra -- S8b_04

Aono, Tomoya -- S7_27

Bowring, Richard -- S7_05

Cushman, Carrie -- S4a_06

Aoyama, Reijiro -- S5a_16

Boyle, Edward -- S9_11

D. Marques, Sabrina -- S4a_08

Araki, Hiroshi -- S3b_07

Breen, John -- S7_11

Dal Corso, Elia -- S2_05

Armendariz-Hernandez, Alejandra -S5b_18

Bride, Jérémie -- S10_20

Dales, Laura -- S5a_23

Brightwell, Erin L. -- S7_19

Dasgupta, Romit -- S5a_16

Brisset, Claire-Akiko -- S4b_03

Daugherty, Cynthia -- S7_26

Brown, Phillip -- S7_15

Davis, Julie Nelson -- S4a_02

Brucksch, Susanne -- S5a_04

De Antoni, Andrea -- S5a

Bruno, Tino -- S5b_08

de Bary, Brett -- S3a_03

Buckland, Rosina -- S4a_03

De Pieri, Veronica -- S5b_09

Bugno, Maria -- S3b_14

Debroux, Philippe -- S6_08

Bull, Jonathan -- S7_02

Deneckere, Mick -- S8b_05

Burenina, Yulia -- S8a_10

DeWitt, Lindsey -- S8a_13

Burrett, Tina -- S5b_01

Di Febo, Aura -- S8a_10

Bytheway, Simon -- S6_14

Didvalis, Linas -- S1_01

Cabral Bernabé, Renata -- S7_08

Dodd, Stephen -- S3a_04

Campagnola, Francesco -- S8b_05

Dolce, Lucia -- S8a

Caniglia, Claudio -- S8a_20

Domenach, Elise -- S5b_02

Caprio, Mark -- S7_18

Dong, Huijuan -- S10_posters

Carvalho, Guida -- S1_09

Dor, Laili -- S4a_07

Casey, Kumi -- S10_10

Drewing, Michael -- S1_04

Castel-Branco, Cristina -- S1_09

Dufourmont, Eddy -- S8a_04

Castiglioni, Andrea -- S8a_13

Eckersall, Peter -- S4b_07

Cather, Kirsten -- S3a_09

Eder, Andreas -- S9_09

Cattaneo, Angelo -- S8b_04

Edström, Bert -- S7_25

Arokay, Judit -- S3b_13
Asahi, Yoshiyuki -- S2_10
Asahi, Yoshiyuki -- S2_10
Asahina, Yuki -- S5a_07
Asplund, Andre -- S9_05
Assmann, Stephanie -- S5a_03
Astley, Ian -- S8b_10
Auerbach, Susanne -- S9_03
Auestad, Reiko -- S3a_09
Averbuch, Irit -- S4b_13
Bader, Niels -- S7_22
Baffelli, Erica -- S8a
Balmes, Sebastian -- S3b_17
Bandanwal, Katherine -- S9_07
Banno, Eri -- S10_24
Baraniak-Hirata, Zuzanna -- S4b_12
Barbetta, Tommaso -- S1_10
Barbosa Cepeda, Carlos Andrés -- S8b_11
Barrento, António -- S7_29
Bednarczyk, Adam -- S3b_17
Bekeš, Andrej -- S2_14

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List of convenors, discussants and presenters			Eerolainen, Leena -- S5b_12

Galvane, Linda -- S3a_10

Hastings, Sally -- S7_03

Eglinton, Andrew -- S4b_10

Ganseforth, Sonja -- S1_13

Hasunuma, Keisuke -- S8b_11

Elis, Volker -- S1

Garcin, Thomas -- S3a_08

Hatasa, Kazumi -- S10_23

Endo, Orie -- S2_11

Garon, Sheldon -- S7_07

Hatasa, Yukiko -- S10_23

Endo, Riichi -- S1_12

Gebhardt, Lisette -- S3a_11

Hayashi, Akiko -- S5b_16

Epstein, Ben -- S5a_08

Geilhorn, Barbara -- S4b

Hayashi, Makoto -- S8a_18

Essertier, Joseph -- S2_01

Germer, Andrea -- S5b_05

Hayek, Matthias -- S8b_03

Facius, Michael -- S7_22

Gerster, Julia -- S5a_14

Heckel, Markus -- S6_14

Failla, Donatella -- S4a_11

Gerstle, Andrew -- S4a_10

Hedinger, Daniel -- S7_07

Fanasca, Marta -- S5a_23

Ghidini, Chiara -- S8a_20

Heidt, Vitali -- S6_06

Fang, Xie -- S3a_17

Giannoulis, Elena -- S3a_15

Hein, Ina -- S3a_06; S3a_12; S8a_06

Farkas, Mária Ildikó -- S7_28

Gill, Tom -- S1_07

Hein, Laura -- S7_31

Favell, Adrian -- S1_04

Giolai, Andrea -- S5a_24

Heinrich, Patrick -- S2; S10_04

Favi, Sonia -- S7_33

Giordano, Giuseppe -- S10_20

Heinrich, Steffen -- S5a_01

Feldhoff, Thomas -- S1_02

Giustini, Deborah -- S5a_18

Hendry, Joy -- S5a_13

Fernandes Pinto, Ana -- S8a_01

Godzik, Maren -- S1_03

Hennessey, John -- S7_13

Ferrao dos Santos, Diogo Rafael -- S9_04

Goehlert, Christian -- S5a_20

Henninger, Aline -- S5a_11

Finke, Michael -- S3a_07

Goessmann, Hilaria -- S5b_16

Hertog, Ekaterina -- S5a_20

Flores, Linda -- S3a_04

Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra -- S5a_22

Hidaka, Katsuyuki -- S5b_16

Focseneanu, Anca -- S2_08

Golob, Nina -- S2_03

Higuchi, Daisuke -- S3b_05

Fogel, Joshua -- S2_01

Golovina, Ksenia -- S5a_05

Hijino, Ken -- S9_09

Fongaro, Enrico -- S8b_09

Goto, Hiroko -- S4b_01

Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela -- S3a_03

Fraleigh, Matthew -- S8b_05

Gouda, Sumire -- S10_posters

Hioki, Takayuki -- S4b_01

Freedman, Alisa -- S5b_03

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina -- S7_03

Hirafuji, Kikuko -- S8a_09

Frellesvig, Bjarke -- S2_02

Grau de Pablos, Tomás -- S5b_11

Hiraishi, Noriko -- S3a_10

Friedrich, Daniel -- S8a_14

Gregus, Adam -- S3a_16

Hirama, Michiko -- S7_26

Fröhlich, Judith -- S7_07

Grieser, Michael -- S1_04

Hirano, Tae -- S3b_03

Fuchs-Shimizu, Michiyo -- S10_02

Grinshpun, Helena -- S1_10

Hiranoi, Chieko -- S4b_14

Fuess, Harald -- S7_02

Grossmann, Eike -- S4b_08

Hirasawa, Caroline -- S8a_06

Fujihira, Manami -- S2_05

Grover, Bruce -- S7_04

Hirataka, Fumiya -- S2_13

Fujii, Kiyomi -- S10_18

Grubacic, Marko -- S4a_07

Ho, Swee-Lin -- S5a_12

Fujimori, Hiroko -- S10_posters

Guarné, Blai -- S5b

Holca, Irina -- S3a_01

Fujimoto, Akari -- S2_08

Guest, Jennifer -- S3b_16

Holdgrün, Phoebe Stella -- S5a_01

Fujimura, Keiji -- S6_17

Gustafsson, Karl -- S9Holthus, Barbara -- S1_13; S5a_07

Fujinaga , Kaoru -- S10_posters

Gygi, Fabio -- S8a_06

Honda, Eiko -- S8b_06

Fujita-Round, Sachiyo -- S10_04

Hadley, James -- S7_05

Hood, Christopher -- S5b_10

Fujiwara, Dan -- S3a_12

Hagiwara, Takae -- S10_12

Hori, Keiko -- S10_posters

Fukagawa, Miho -- S10_26

Hagström, Linus -- S9_10

Horiguchi, Sachiko -- S5a_12

Fukuoka, Asako -- S3a_06

Harada, Masatoshi -- S8a_19

Horiuchi, Annick -- S8b_03

Fukuoka, Maki -- S4a_01

Harasawa, Itsuo -- S10_25

Hoshino, Futoshi -- S8b_05

Fulco, Flavia -- S5a_03

Hardacre, Helen -- S8a_02

Hoshino, Seiji -- S8a_18

Funck, Carolin -- S1_13

Harrison, Richard -- S10_20

Hosokawa, Naoko -- S5b_09

Furukawa, Tomoki -- S10_23; S10_
posters

Haruka, Oba -- S4b_06

Hudson, Seán -- S5b_14

Hasegawa, Rei -- S6_09

Hyodo, Hiromi -- S3b_05

Hasegawa, Shinji -- S6_09

Iancu, Oana -- S9_07

Hasegawa, Tomoko -- S7_12

Ichinose, Tomohiro -- S1_05

Hashimoto, Yukari -- S10_posters

Ichishima, Noriko -- S10_06

Fuwa, Makiko -- S6_03
Gaitanidis, Ioannis -- S8a_21
Gallese, Chiara -- S6_17

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Ida, Kumiko -- S6_04

Kamiyoshi, Uichi -- S10_06

Konami, Setsuyo -- S10_10

Ide, Gohei -- S10_posters

Kanai, Kaoru -- S6_07

Kono, Tomoaki -- S2_02

Ido, Misato -- S4a_04

Kanai, Keiko -- S3a_05

Koppenborg, Florentine -- S5a_04

Igawa, Kenji -- S7_16

Kaneoka, Rie -- S3b_03

Koppensteiner, Susanne -- S4a_07

Ii, Takayuki -- S6_01

Karlsson, Mats -- S5b_06

Kottmann, Nora -- S5a_21

Ikai, Takamitsu -- S3b_12

Katada, Fusa -- S2_06

Kowner, Rotem -- S7_07

Ikeda, Shoju -- S2_09

Katagiri, Shizuko -- S5a_02

Koyama, Yohei -- S5b_09

Imai, Hiromi -- S10_20

Kato, Masato -- S8a_12

Krämer, Hans Martin -- S7_04

Imoto, Yuki -- S5a_12

Kato, Tomoyasu -- S7_23

Krawczyk, Mariusz -- S6_14

Inaba, Miho -- S10_19

Katsumori, Makoto -- S8b_09

Kreitman, Paul -- S1_08

Inagaki, Midori -- S10_16

Kavedzija, Iza -- S5a_19

Kumano, Nanae -- S10_17

Inoue, Nobutaka -- S8a_09

Kawaguchi, Atsuko -- S2_02

Kumayasu, Kimie -- S6_04

Iori, Isao -- S10_11

Kawaguchi, Yoshikazu -- S10_12

Kuno, Mariko -- S2_12

Iseki, Sugako -- S10_posters

Kawaji, Takeshi -- S6_17

Kurisaki, Yoshiko -- S10_10

Ishida, Saori -- S5b_04

Kawakami, Ikuo -- S10_08

Kurita, Hidehiko -- S8a_21

Ishiguro, Kuniko -- S6_03

Kawakami, Yuka -- S10_posters

Kurochkina, Ksenia -- S5a_05

Itasaka, Noriko -- S7_03

Kawamoto, Kenji -- S10_26

Kuroishi, Izumi -- S1_06

Ito, Keitaro -- S5a_25

Kawamura, Yoko -- S9_03

Kuroki, Kunihiko -- S2_03

Ito, Kimio -- S5a_06

Kawamura, Yoshiko -- S10_01

Kushner, Barak -- S7_18

Ito, Mamiko -- S7_12

Kawashima, Shin -- S7_10

Kusunoki, Ayako -- S7_34

Ito, Satoshi -- S8a_07

Kawato, Takashi -- S7_16

Kwon, Jaok -- S6_10

Ito, Seiko -- S10_posters

Kayhan, Gulin -- S5a_05

Kwon, Soon Jin -- S6_17

Ito, Yasunobu -- S6_13

Kazuo, Otomo -- S8a_15

Laffin, Christina -- S3b_09

Ito, Yoko -- S8b_12

Kelly, William -- S5b_11

Länsisalmi, Riikka -- S2Ivings, Steven -- S7_02

Kelso-Marsh, Caleb -- S5b_12

Laurent, Erick -- S5a_11

Iwai, Hiroshi -- S8a_09

Keva, Silja -- S9_07

Leca, Radu -- S8b_04

Iwasaki, Minoru -- S7_14

Khan, Robert -- S3b_09

Lechevalier, Sebastien -- S6

Iwasaki, Noriko -- S10

Khosla, Kyoko -- S10_10

Lee, Hyeonjin -- S10_21

Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina -- S3a_06

Kim-Wachutka, Jackie -- S5a_16

Lee, Jaeho -- S10_01

Jabłoński, Arkadiusz -- S2_04

Kimura, Saeko -- S3b_09

Lee, Juhee -- S3a_16

Jackson, Keith -- S6_08

Kingston, Jeff -- S5b_01

Lehtonen, Lasse -- S5b_15

Jacobowitz, Seth -- S7_20

Kinski, Michael -- S7_03

Leuchtenberger, Jan -- S4b_06

Jacoby, Alexander -- S5b_06

Kirsch, Griseldis -- S5b_14

Lewerich, Ludgera -- S5b_19

Jarosz, Aleksandra -- S2_07

Kito, Yuka -- S10_posters

Li, Yuan -- S2_09

Jaussaud, Jacques -- S6_08

Klautau, Orion -- S8a_18

Lill, Felix -- S6_12

Jelbring, Stina -- S3b_04

Klein, Susan -- S3b_07

Lindgren, Petter Y. -- S9_10

Jentzsch, Hanno -- S6_06

Klien, Susanne -- S5a_03

Linkhoeva, Tatiana -- S7_07

Jinno, Kiyoshi -- S7_19

Knaudt, Till -- S7_04

Lomi, Benedetta -- S8a_06

Joo, Woojeong -- S5b_15

Knott, Jeffrey -- S3b_11

Looser, Thomas -- S4b_07

Joos, Joel -- S7_31

Koeck, Stefan -- S8a_11

Lopez Aira, Laura -- S5b_10

Juan, Xueyan -- S3b_01

Koguchi, Yukiko -- S10_24

Loriguillo-López, Antonio -- S5b_07

Kagaya, Shinko -- S4b_09

Kojima, Shinji -- S6_05

Lourenço, Miguel -- S8a_11

Kageyama, Honami -- S1_03

Kolata, Paulina -- S8a_14

Lozano-Méndez, Artur -- S5b_07

Kageyama, Yoko -- S10_02

Kolmas, Michal -- S9_08

Lützeler, Ralph -- S1_05

Kahlow, Luise -- S4b_13

Koma, Kyoko -- S5b_04

Ma, Xiaohua -- S7_18

Kahraman, Cahit -- S4b_13

Komai, Rei -- S10_14

Machotka, Ewa -- S4a_02

Kambe, Naoki -- S1_06

Komori, Yōichi -- S3a_03

Macnaughtan, Helen -- S6_02

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Maeshima, Shiho -- S7_32

Mendonça, Luís -- S4a_08

Murayama, Miwako -- S2_02

Majima, Junko -- S10_18

Mera, Yoshie -- S10_16

Murayama, Yumi -- S8a_12

Majtczak, Tomasz -- S2_09

Mervart, David -- S7_22

Mushiake, Miki -- S10_23

Malick, Mira -- S5a_05

Messerschmid, Léo -- S8a_10

Mustard, Maggie -- S4a_06

Manger, Mark -- S6_14

Meyer, Stanislaw -- S1_08

Nagaoka, Takashi -- S8a_12

Manieri, Antonio -- S3b_16

Mezur, Katherine -- S4a_05

Naiki, Eriko -- S6_11

Mantelli, Alessandro -- S10_03

Midorikawa, Machiko -- S3b_13

Nakada, Koji -- S3b_01

Manzenreiter, Wolfram -- S1_05; S1_13

Migliore, Maria Chiara -- S3b

Nakagawa, Ryohei -- S6_11

Marandjian, Karine -- S7_25

Mihara, Ryotaro -- S6_16

Nakagawa, Shigemi -- S3a_11

Marcus, Marvin -- S3a_07

Miki, Yosuke -- S2_13

Nakahara, Tomoko -- S6_04

Maree, Claire -- S5b_17

Mino, Yukinori -- S8a_15

Nakai, Kate Wildman -- S8a_08

Marino, Giuseppe -- S7_08

Mitsumori, Yu -- S10_25

Nakai, Yoshio -- S10_posters

Mariotti, Marcella -- S10

Miura, Kanae -- S10_26

Nakajima, Akiko -- S10_09

Markovic, Ljiljana -- S10_15

Miura, Mari -- S6_02

Nakanishi, Kumiko -- S10_17

Marotti, William -- S7_17

Miura, Sayako -- S6_17

Nakano, Kiwa -- S1_07

Marran, Christine -- S5b_02

Miwa, Sei -- S10_04

Nakano, Koichi -- S5b_01

Martin, Ruth -- S5a_13

Miyake, Akiko -- S4b_08

Nakano, Lynne -- S5a_10

Martine, Julien -- S6_08

Miyake, Kazuko -- S10_08

Nakao, Maika -- S5b_08

Martinez, Dolores -- S5b_07; S5b_13

Miyake, Toshio -- S5a_06

Nakatani, Nobuo -- S4a_10

Martini, Anna -- S5a_08

Miyamoto, Keizo -- S4b_02

Nakorchevski, Andriy -- S8b_06

Martins, Rafael Vinícius -- S5b_05

Miyanoya, Nozomi -- S10_27

Namba, Kei -- S6_16

Marutschke, David -- S6_13

Miyazaki, Fumiko -- S8a_08

Namiki, Eiko -- S8a_21

Maslow, Sebastian -- S9_01

Miyazaki, Silvio -- S6_15

Namiki, Seishi -- S4a_04

Mason, Michele -- S7_13

Mladenova, Dorothea -- S5a_09

Naraoka, Sochi -- S7_10

Mason, Ra -- S9_08

Moerman, D. Max -- S8b_04

Narita, Ryuichi -- S3a_03

Masuda, Sachiko -- S5b_13

Mohri, Takami -- S10_posters

Navarro-Remesal, Victor -- S5b_07

Matanle, Peter -- S1_01

Molasky, Michael -- S7_17

Neary, Ian -- S9_02

Mathews, Gordon -- S5a_10

Möller, Berenice -- S3b_06

Nemoto, Masaya -- S5b_08

Matisoff, Susan -- S4b_03

Momma, Mika -- S10_posters

Nemoto, Naoko -- S10_17

Matsukata, Fuyuko -- S7_06

Moniz-Bandeira, Egas -- S7_11

Netsu, Makoto -- S10_11

Matsukura, Rikiya -- S6_12

Monnet, Livia -- S5b_02

Newmark, Jeffrey -- S3b_14

Matsumoto-Sturt, Yoko -- S10_11

Moore, Aaron -- S7_20

Niimi, Akihiko -- S3b_02

Matsumoto, Koichi -- S8a_16

Moretti, Laura -- S3b_10

Nishina, Hiromi -- S10_posters

Matsumoto, Ooki -- S3b_11

Moritoki, Nagisa -- S10_15

Nishina, Yoko -- S2_13

Matsumoto, Saho -- S7_12

Moro, Daniela -- S3a_05

Nishizawa, Kaori -- S10_15

Matsuo, Kaoru -- S10_13

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa -- S7_24

Nishizawa, Naoko -- S7_03

Mazza, Caterina -- S3a_05

Morris, Jon -- S8a_16

Noda, Hisashi -- S10_09

McAuley, Thomas -- S3b_01

Mostow, Joshua -- S3b_10

Nogueira Ramos, Martin -- S8a_15

McCarty, Michael -- S7_19

Motohashi, Hiromi -- S3b_05

Nomura, Takashi -- S2_02

McCormick, Kelly -- S4a_06

Motoyama, Kotona -- S5a_07

Nordstrom, Johan -- S5b_06

McLaughlin, Levi -- S8a_02

Mueller, Nicole Marion -- S3a_13

North, Scott -- S6_05

McLelland, Mark -- S5b_03

Mukai, Yuki -- S10_15

Noyama, Hiroshi -- S10_13

Meade, Ruselle -- S7_05

Müller-Saini, Gotelind -- S2_01

O’Reilly, Sean -- S7_28

Mecsi, Beatrix -- S4a_11

Müller, Simone -- S3aO’Shea, Paul -- S9

Medak-Saltzman, Danika -- S7_13

Mullins, Mark -- S8a_02

Oberlaender, Christian -- S1_07

Meeks, Lori -- S7_09

Murata, Yumiko -- S10_09; S10_22

Oberwinkler, Michaela -- S2_14

Meissner, Florian -- S5b_16

Muratamargetic, Emi -- S10_17

Occhi, Debra -- S5b_03

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Odawara, Rin -- S7_14

Petrov, Svetlin -- S1_02

Saito, Shohei -- S7_07

Ogasawara, Yuko -- S6_09

Petrucci, Maria Grazia -- S7_08

Sakai, Yasuko -- S10_07

Ogawa, Yoko -- S3b_02

Phillips, Nathalie -- S8b_06

Sakai, Yu -- S3a_16

Ogawa, Yoshimi -- S10_22

Picard, Martin -- S5b_11

Sakamoto, Miki -- S3b_15

Ogiso, Toshinobu -- S2_02; S2_09

Pinho Barros, David -- S4a_08

Sakurai, Chiho -- S10_18

Oguma, Hitoshi -- S1_03

Platz, Anemone -- S4a_05

Sakurai, Naoko -- S10_05

Ohashi, Yukihiro -- S8a_15

Poch, Daniel -- S3a_13

Sakurai, Yoshihide -- S5a_02

Okada, Kazuhiro -- S2_08

Pölkki, Miika -- S3b_15

SAKURAKI, Rie -- S6_13

Okamoto, Makoto -- S7_06

Poole, Gregory -- S2_11

Saladin, Ronald -- S5a_01; S5b

Okawa, Eiji -- S7_33

Porath, Or -- S8a_03

Saltzman-Li, Katherine -- S4b_05

Oki, Naoko -- S6_07

Porrasmaa, Raisa -- S3b_04

Sanada, Kie -- S1_10

Okubo, Takeharu -- S8b_08

Posio, Pilvi -- S1_06

Sánchez Saura, Celia -- S7_27

Okumura, Shinji -- S10_19

Poulton, Cody -- S4b_09

Sanehira, Masao -- S10_24

Okuno, Yukiko -- S10_06

Prochaska-Meyer, Isabelle -- S1_08

Sano, Kaori -- S10_14

Okuyama, Michiaki -- S8a_12

Pugliese, Giulio -- S9_01

Sano, Mayuko -- S7_11

Onishi, Nobuyuki -- S7_16

Quinter, David -- S8a_06

Sasada, Hironori -- S9_09

Onishi, Yumi -- S10_27

Quiros, Ignacio -- S8a_09

Sasaki, Aiko -- S10_02

Ono, Keiko -- S10_23Rădulescu, Alina -- S5a_18

Sasaki, Kenichi -- S7_23

Orbaugh, Sharalyn -- S5b_05

Raianu, Ruxandra-Oana -- S10_19

Sasaki, Takahiro -- S3b_06

Ortiz-Moya, Fernando -- S1_01

Rambelli, Fabio -- S8a_07

Sasaki, Yuichi -- S7_34

Ortolani, Andrea -- S6_01

Rapley, Ian -- S2_01

Sasamoto-Collins, Hiromi -- S7_21

Osawa, Machiko -- S6_02

Rappo, Gaetan -- S8a_20

Sastre de la Vega, Daniel -- S4a_11

Osawa, Mari -- S6_07

Raud, Rein -- S8b

Sastre, Grégoire -- S7_34

Osborne, Hannah -- S3a_05

Rausch, Anthony -- S5b_10

Sato, Hiroo -- S8a_03

Oshima, Hiroko -- S10_15

Reader, Ian -- S8a_02

Sato, Machi -- S5a_12

Oshima, Kaoru -- S8a_16

Regelsberger, Andreas -- S4b

Sato, Sekiko -- S10_23

Osterkamp, Sven -- S2_07

Reiher, Cornelia -- S9_03

Sato, Shinji -- S10_04

Ouchi, Fumi -- S8a_13

Renner, Andreas -- S7_07

Satoh, Haruko -- S9_04

Oyler, Elizabeth -- S4b_03

Repeta, Lawrence -- S5b_01

Scheid, Bernhard -- S8b_01

Pacher, Alice -- S5a_21

Revelant, Andrea -- S7_10

Scherer, Elisabeth -- S5b_13

Pandey, Rajyashree -- S3b

Reynolds, Jonathan -- S4a_06

Schermann, Susanne -- S5b_18

Papist-Matsuo, Antje -- S4a_09

Riminucci, Michela -- S6_01

Schley, Daniel -- S7_19

Papp, Melinda -- S5a_13

Ritt, Franziska -- S5a_19

Schoneveld, Erin -- S4a_02

Pappalardo, Giuseppe -- S2_03

Roberts, Luke -- S7_03

Schrape, Wibke -- S4a_03

Pappalardo, Guiseppe -- S2_03

Robertson, Ann -- S10_11

Schulz, Evelyn -- S1Paramore, Kiri -- S8a_04

Rodrigues, César -- S9_04

Schulze, Kai -- S9_08

Parker, Helen -- S4b_14

Romagnoli, Stefano -- S3a_14

Schürkes, Sven -- S4b_14Pașca, Roman -- S8b_08

Rots, Aike -- S1_08

Schweizer, Anton -- S4a_09

Pascha, Werner -- S6_15

Rowe, Mark -- S8a_14

Schwemmer, Patrick -- S4b_06

Patrício, Miguel -- S4a_08

Rowley, Gaye -- S3b_02

Schwenke, Simon -- S9_01

Pellecchia, Diego -- S4b_02

Rückert, Jasmin -- S5b_05

Seidl, Bernhard -- S4b_04

Pendleton, Mark -- S7

Ruoff, Kenneth -- S7_18

Sejrup, Jens -- S9_06

Peng, Hao -- S7_06

Saaler, Sven -- S7_07

Sekimori, Gaynor -- S8a_13

Perez Riobo, Andres -- S7_30

Sabre, Clothilde -- S1_12

Sen, Raj Lakhi -- S7_21

Perez, Mike -- S1_12

Sadanobu, Toshiyuki -- S10_posters

Senica, Klemen -- S3a_14

Perkins, Chris -- S5b_12

Saeki, Eiko -- S7_33

Service, Jonathan -- S8b_10

Perry, Samuel -- S3a_02

Said Monteiro, Daniel -- S8b_08

Sharko, Anna -- S2_10

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Shchepkin, Vasilii -- S7_24

Suhara, Reiko -- S10_10

Thomas, Julia -- S1_01

Shibutani, Ayako -- S7_27

Sumida, Shoko -- S1_09

Tierney, Robert -- S3a_07

Shikano, Yoshiaki -- S6_11

Sun, Lin -- S5a_10

Tinios, Ellis -- S3b_10

Shim, Mi-Ryong -- S3a_02

Sunakawa, Yuriko -- S10_01

Tkach-Kawasaki, Leslie -- S5b_17

Shimada, Megumi -- S10_19

Surak, Kristin -- S5a_24

Tokita, Alison -- S4b_05

Shimamura, Teru -- S3a_09

Suzuki, Akiyo -- S3a_01

Tokuhiro, Yasuyo -- S10_posters

Shimazu, Momoyo -- S10_21

Suzuki, Ayako -- S5a_17

Tomioka, Jiro -- S10_27

Shimizu, Yuki -- S3a_15

Suzuki, Satomi -- S10_26

Tomishima, Yoshiyuki -- S8a_19

Shimosakai, Mayumi -- S3a_08

Suzuki, Takaaki -- S6_15

Tompkins, Rebecca -- S7_32

Shin, Ki-young -- S6_07

Suzuki, Yuko -- S10_05

Tonomura, Hitomi -- S7_09

Shinoda, Tomohito -- S9_01

Swale, Alistair -- S7_31

Torsello, Davide -- S5a_13

Shirahase, Sawako -- S6_02

Swanson, Paul -- S8a_18

Treat, John Whittier -- S7_20

Shiraishi, Masaki -- S5a_06

Switek, Beata -- S5a_05

Trede, Melanie -- S4a_04

Shiraishi, Minoru -- S10_09Sýkora, Jan -- S6_10

Tremml-Werner, Birgit -- S7_06

Shirane, Haruo -- S3b_03

Szpilman, Christopher -- S7_07

Trenson, Steven -- S8a_06

Shire, Karen -- S6_06

Tabata-Sandom, Mitsue -- S10_24

Trickovic, Divna -- S10_15

Shirota, Nanase -- S5a_18

Tagsold, Christian -- S8b_10

Trifu, Ioan -- S9_11

Shockey, Nathan -- S7_17

Takagi, Makoto -- S3b_05

Trinh, Khanh -- S4a

Shukuri, Yukiko -- S10_posters

Takagi, Michiko -- S10_07

Tso, Christopher -- S5a_22

Siegenthaler, Peter -- S1_01

Takahashi, Eriko -- S10_23

Tsoy, Maria -- S3b_14

Siemann, Yvonne -- S2_06

Takahashi, Kanae -- S5b_04

Tsuboi, Hideto -- S3a_03

Simpkins, Robert -- S5a_19

Takahashi, Nozomi -- S10_05

Tsubone, Yukari -- S10_02

Simpson, Emily -- S8a_03

Takeda, Hiroko -- S6_03

Tsuda, Kaori -- S10_20

Sioson, Erica Paula -- S9_06

Takei, Kyozo -- S4b_01

Tsujii, Satomi -- S10_10

Sippel, Patricia -- S7_15

Takemoto, Mikio -- S4b_08

Tsujinaka, Yutaka -- S5b_17

Smits, Ivo -- S3b_15; S7_22

Takemura, Tomoko -- S5b_17

Tsuta, Kiyoyuki -- S3b_16

Söderberg, Marie -- S9_05

Takenaka, Ayumi -- S5a_17

Tsutsumi, Tomoaki -- S2_09

Soehardjojo, Joey -- S6_16

Takeuchi, Akiko -- S3b_12

Ueda, Atsuko -- S3a

Soeldner, Tobias -- S5a_01

Takeuchi, Yasuko -- S10_10

Uematsu, Nozomi -- S3a_04

Solomkina, Natalia -- S2_05

Tamaki, Taku -- S9_10

Ueyama, Motoko -- S10_25

Sommet, Moritz -- S5b_15

Tamamura, Kyo -- S3b_12

Ulman, Vít -- S2_07

Sonehara, Satoshi -- S8a_16

Tan, Daniela -- S3a_06

Umegaki, Hiroko -- S5a_22

Sørensen, Emil Bach -- S4a_05

Tanaka, Hiromi -- S5b_04

Unkel, Monika -- S10_14

Spafford, David -- S7_09

Tanaka, Mari -- S10_02

Unno, Keisuke -- S8a_05

Spoden, Celia -- S5a_09

Tanaka, Sota -- S2_08

Unoda, Shoya -- S7_04

Stalker, Nancy -- S5a_17

Taneda, Wakako -- S3a_13

Untalan, Carmina Yu -- S9_04

Stanlaw, James -- S5b_09

Taniguchi, Shinko -- S7_01

Usami, Mayumi -- S10_12

Stark, Sarah -- S4b_04

Tasca Sawada, Janine -- S8a_18

Usanov-Geissler, Nora -- S4a_09

Steele, Marion William -- S7_15

Tatsumi, Yukako -- S7_25

Utsumi, Hirofumi -- S5a_06

Steffen, Franziska -- S8a_21

Taube Dayan, Shira -- S5a_14

Vaage, Goran -- S2_11

Steger, Brigitte -- S5a_14

Teeuwen, Mark -- S8a_08

Vainio, Anna -- S5a_08

Steineck, Raji -- S8b

Tekmen, Ayse Nur -- S10_posters

Vallor, Molly -- S8a_19

Steineck, Tomoë I.M. -- S4a_03

Telegina, Maria -- S2_06

van der Does-Ishikawa, Luli -- S5b_19

Steinhoff, Patricia G -- S5a_07

Terado, Junko -- S5a_02

Van Goethem, Ellen -- S8a_04

Strippoli, Roberta -- S4b_03

Teruyama, Junko -- S5a_12

Van Lommel, Pieter -- S3a_01

Sugano, Noriko -- S7_03

Tezuka, Mayuko -- S10_23

Vaporis, Constantine -- S7_01

Sugita, Yuko -- S10_22

Thelen, Timo -- S1_03

Vieillard-Baron, Michel -- S3b_09

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Vincent, J. Keith -- S3a_09

Yamamori, Michie -- S10_posters

Visočnik, Nataša -- S5a_24

Yamamoto, Akihiro -- S5b_08

Vita, Silvio -- S8a_15

Yamamoto, Emi -- S10_13; S10_16

Vodopivec, Maja -- S7_14

Yamamoto, Raymond -- S9_05

Vogel, Benedikt -- S4b_12

Yamamoto, Takahiro -- S7_02

Vogt, Gabriele -- S5a_01

Yamamoto, Tokuro -- S3b_11

Vojtiskova, Kristyna -- S8b_09

Yamamoto, Yoshitaka -- S3b_13

Vu Thanh, Helene -- S8a_01

Yamanaka, Reiko -- S4b_02

Wachutka, Michael -- S8a_09

Yamanashi, Makiko -- S4b_12

Wakabayashi, Haruko -- S4a_04

Yamazaki, Makoto -- S10_posters

Wakai, Seiji -- S10_16

Yanagida, Naomi -- S10_18

Wakita, Mio -- S4a_01

Yano, Akiko -- S4a_10

Waldenberger, Franz -- S6_10

Yashima, Yuji -- S6_17

Walravens, Tine -- S5a_04

Yazawa, Michiko -- S10_26

Walthall, Anne -- S7_01

Yennie Lindgren, Wrenn -- S9_11

Wang, Wenlu -- S3b_17

Yi, Christina -- S3a_02

Wang, Zi -- S2_12

Yokomizo, Hiroshi -- S3b_11

Washington, Garrett -- S7_30

Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki -- S3a_10

Watanabe, Hiroaki Richard -- S6_12

Yokoyama, Chisato -- S10_posters

Watanabe, Naoki -- S3a_02

Yokoyama, Taro -- S3b_12

Watanabe, Tomoko -- S10_24

Yokoyama, Yuriko -- S7_03

Watanabe, Yuki -- S2_02

Yoneda, Mariko -- S8a_05

Watson, Michael -- S4b_03

Yoshida, Kaori -- S7_29

Wattles, Miriam -- S4a_01

Yoshida, Michiyo -- S5a_20

Weathers, Charles -- S6_05

Yoshihara, Yukari -- S3a_01

Webb, Jason -- S7_23

Yoshikawa, Lisa -- S1_10

Weber, Torsten -- S5b_14

Yoshimura, Takehiko -- S7_23

Weinberg, Irit -- S3a_17

Yoshino, Tomomi -- S3b_03

Weingärnter, Till -- S4b_04

Yoshioka, Shiro -- S5b_07

Weishaupt, Marie -- S5a_14

Youn, Sunghee -- S2_04

Weiss, David -- S8b_01

Yu, Wei-hsin -- S5a_20

Welker, James -- S5b_03

Yui, Yoshimichi -- S1_02

Werth, Silke -- S5a_03

Zachmann, Urs Matthias -- S7_21

Whittaker, Hugh -- S6

Zampol D’Ortia, Linda -- S8a_01

Wilhelm, Johannes -- S1_05

Zawiszová, Halina -- S2_12

Willems, Nadine -- S7_24

Zhang, Tianqi -- S5b_05

Winkel, Margarita -- S8b_03

Zimmerman, Eve -- S3a_10

Winkler, Chris -- S9_06

Ziomek, Kirsten -- S7_13

Wittkamp, Robert F. -- S8b_01

Zöllner, Reinhard -- S7_09

Woehr, Ulrike -- S5b_05
Wu, Pei-Chen -- S3a_12
Wuerrer, Stefan -- S3a_17
Yabe, Hiroko -- S10_19
Yamada-Bochynek, Yoriko -- S10_07
Yamada, Kazuyo -- S6_04
Yamaguchi, Nozomi -- S10_10
Yamaguchi, Tomomi -- S5b_01

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S4a_01

S4b_08

Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T7

Torre B, Piso 5, Auditório 3

Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T6

S5a_01

S5a_13

S5a_09S5b_03

Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.11

Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.12

Bloco 1, Piso 1, Sala 1.10

I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 2

S6_02

S6_01

S6_12

S7_01

S7_02

S7_18

S7_30

S8a_01

Torre B, Piso 3, T11

Torre B, Piso 3, T12

Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.05

Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.06

Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.09

Bloco 1, Piso 0, Sala 0.08

Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 02

S10_01

Torre B, Piso 3, T14

S10 keynote S10_05

Torre B, Piso 3, Auditório 2

S10_06

S9_02

Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 05

Torre B, Piso 3, T13

S8b_06

S9_04

Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 04

S8a_19Torre A, Piso 0, Sala 03

S8a_06

S7_31

S7_22

S7_04

S7_06

S6_11

S5b_10

I&D, Piso 4, Multiusos 3

S5b_04

S5a_02

S5a_16

S4b_09S5a_03

Torre B, Piso 2, Sala T5

S4b_02

S4a_02

S3b_10

S10_12

S10_04

S10_14

S9_01

S8b_08S8a_05

S8a_18

S7_14

S7_03

S7_09

S6_10

S5b_01

S5b_11

S5a_10S5a_17

S5a_12

S4b_03

S4a_05

S3b_04

S3a_08

Torre B, Piso 1, Auditório 1

S3b_06

S3b_02

Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 002

S3a_01

S10_03

S10_08

S10_15

S9_03

S8b_09S8a_07

S8a_04

S7_34

S7_20

S7_03

S7_19

S6_13

S6_07

S5b_08S5b_12

S5a_25S5a_06

S4b_10

S4a_09S3b_15

S3b_14

S3a_02

S3a_09S10_10

S10_13

S10_27

S9_06

S8b_05

S8a_09S8a_08

S7_28

S7_05

S7_08

S6_09

S6_16

S5b_06

S5b_13

S5a_14

S5a_20S5a_23S4b_07

S4a_03S3b_03S3b_05

S3a_05

S3a_06

S2_08

S10_17

S10_16

S10_07

S9_07

S8b_10S8a_11

S8a_10

S7_32

S7_17

S7_10

S7_15

S6_14

S6_03

S5b_15S5b_14

S5a_08

S5a_21

S5a_24S4b_06

S4b_13

S4a_06

S3b_13S3b_12

S3a_10S3a_11

S1_12

S2_09

S10_09S9_05

S8b_12

S8a_15

S8a_14

S7_25

S7_07

S7_27

S5b_17

S5b_07

S5a_22

S5a_19S4b_05

S4a_08S3b_16

S3a_15

S3a_14

S1_08

S2_11

S10_posters S10_19

S10_posters S10_18

S9_08

S8b_11

S8a_13

S8a_12

S7_24

S7_07

S7_16

S6_15

S6_04

S5b_09S5b_16

S5a_04

S5a_11

S5a_05

S4b_04S4a_07

S3b_07

S3a_13S3a_12

S2_10

S10_20

S10_11

S10_02

S9_09

S8b_03

S8a_16

S7_11

S7_23

S6_08

S5b_02

S5a_18

S5a_07

S4b_12

S4a_04

S3b_09S3a_07

S2_12

S10_23

S10_22

S10_21

S9_10

S8b_04

S8a_03

S8a_02

S7_21

S7_29

S7_12

S7_33

S6_05

S5b_19S5b_18

S5a_26

S4b_14S4a_10S3b_11

S3a_16

S2_13

S1_10

S10_26

S10_25

S10_24

S9_11

S8b_01

S8a_21

S8a_20

S7_26

S7_13

S6_17

S6_06

S5b_05S5a_27

S4b_01

S4a_11

S3b_17

S3a_17

S2_14

S3a_04

S2_07

S1_09

Torre A, Piso -1, Auditório 001 S3a_03

S2_06

S2_05

S1_13

S2_02

S2_04

S1_05

S2_01

S1_07

S2_03

S1_06

Torre B, Piso 3, T16

S1_04

Torre B, Piso 3, T15

S1_03

S1_01

S1_02

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Saturday 2 September

Torre B, Piso 3, T10

Friday 1 September

Location

Thursday 31 August

Panel grid

Map ofconference
venues

FCSH/NOVA
Cinema São Jorge
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência
Church of São Roque
Pátio da Galé
Gulbenkian Foundation