Dear JSAC Members and Friends,

Table of Contents
President’s Letter

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Where in Japan?

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JSAC Annual Meeting 2018

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JSAC Annual Meeting 20192

Millie Creighton Field Work

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Retirement Musings - Pendleton

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Journal of International andAdvanced Japanese Studies
Member News

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Welcome to the Spring 2019 JSAC newsletter! It is great toread everyone’s exciting news and stories about work on sucha wide range of Japan-related topics.
We last met at JSAC 2018 at the University of Alberta. Thankyou so much to Aya Fujiwara and X. Jie Yang for a wellorganized, interesting conference with great papers,
fascinating guest speakers and an introduction to theJapanese-Canadian community in Edmonton.
JSAC 2019 will be held at Mt. Allison University in Sackville,
New Brunswick October 3-6, 2019. Thanks much to Owen
Griffiths and Tim Reiffenstein. JSAC has not been in Atlantic
Canada for quite a few years so it will be great to be back! The
Japan Foundation is again generously supplying funding for ourannual conference and permits a portion of the funding tocover domestic travel again so that it is great news!

Have a great spring and summer. I look forward to seeing you all in Sackville in October!
With best wishes,
Carin Holroyd, President, JSAC
Congratulations to Fumiko Ikawa-Smith on the occasion of her Beiju (88th) Birthday!

米寿のお祝.
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Where was this?
We recognize the 2018 JSAC conference diners but what was the name of the restaurant?

Photo supplied by Brian Pendleton
Japan Studies Association of Canada’s 31st Annual Conference, October 11-14, 2018
Funded by the Japan Foundation, the Consulate-General of Japan in Calgary, and the University of Alberta, the
PTJC and the University of Calgary co-hosted this year’s Japan Studies Association of Canada’s Annual
Conference at the University of Alberta. The theme was “Japan’s World/World’s Japan: Images, Perceptions andReactions.” Mr. Shigenobu Kobayashi, Consul-General of Japan in Calgary and Dr. Laura Beard, Associate VicePresident Research, University of Alberta, gave the opening remarks. Keynote presentations were “Revival ofIndigenous Ainu Culture and Ethnic Harmony” by Professor Teruki Tsunemoto of Hokkaido University, “Put tothe Test: Abjection and Sexual Citizenship in Japan” by Professor John W. Treat of Yale University, “Transmedia
Storytelling within the Media Mix system in Japanese Pop Culture” by Professor Akinori Nakamura of
Ritsumeikan University, and “Japan’s Ambivalent Pursuit of American-Style Capitalism” by Professor Stephen
Vogel of University of California, Berkeley. We also invited Professor Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University as a
special guest for this conference. Her talk dealt with Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan afterWorld War II. The conference concluded on the final day with a community roundtable discussion regarding
Edmonton and Japan. We had approximately fifty presenters, including faculty members, students, andcommunity members participated in this conference.
JSAC Annual Meeting 2019
I’m pleased to announce that the 2019 JSAC Conference will be held at Mount Allison University in Sackville
New Brunswick October 3-6, 2019. The 2019 conference will mark only the second time JSAC has held theconference down east. Early October is a lovely time of year to come to the Maritimes so I do hope to see
many of you here. The conference will be jointly sponsored by Departments of History and Geography andEnvironmental Studies.

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Our theme this year will be “Japan and the Environment: Lessons for the World.” With the ominous warnings
coming from the IPCC, Northern Canada’s accelerated warming, and ongoing debates over the new carbon
tax, an environmental theme for the conference seems most fitting. Japan is no stranger to cataclysmic
environmental disasters, both natural and human-made. Its experience with the externalities of rapid
industrial development at two points in its modern history may offer valuable insights into understanding how
we have arrived at this point in world history and may also offer suggestions as to how we can address thechallenges that lie before us.
Japan also has deep aesthetic and spiritual connections to the natural world that are reflected in its literary,philosophical, and artistic traditions. We encourage individual and panel submissions for papers in these areas
as well. Japanese diverse engagements with the natural world may also provide thoughtful reminders of ourinterconnectedness with the environment as we move further into the 21st century.
In addition to soliciting participation from scholars in the field of Japan studies, we also want to encourage
submissions from graduate students in Canadian and American universities. We hope to have funding to
defray the costs of travel and accommodation and there will be more information on that to follow.
Finally, through the generous support of the Japan Foundation, we will have an exciting line-up of keynote
speakers from Japan, Canada, and the United States. For further information, please contact me at
ogriffiths@mta.ca.
See you in October.
Owen Griffiths, Department of History
Mount Allison University
Call for Papers
2019 Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference“Japan and the Environment: Lessons for the World”
The Departments of History and Geography and the Environment at Mount Allison University(https://www.mta.ca/Prospective/Default.aspx) are pleased to host the 2019 Japan Studies of Canada (JSAC)
Annual Conference, October 3-6, 2019. Mount Allison is one of Canada’s premier undergraduate universities,
located in beautiful Sackville New Brunswick, 10 km from the Nova Scotia border (https://sackville.com/).
Scholars, students, and all interested parties are welcome.
Our theme will be “Japan and the Environment: Lessons for the World.” At this point in the early 21st century,
we confront the threat of climate change that is both immediate and historically unprecedented. As a nationthat is part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is therefore no stranger to extreme climactic and seismic events,
Japan’s experience both historically and contemporarily may offer valuable insights in understanding how wehave arrived at this point and provide suggestions as to how we can address the challenges that lie before us.

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The issues surrounding climate change and global warming manifest themselves at all levels of society, from
cultural and social practices to economic activity and domestic and foreign policy. In choosing this theme, we
encourage research that is comparative, interdisciplinary, and that connects Japan with the larger world.
Papers on any subject related to Japan are welcome but we especially encourage submissions related but nor
restricted to the following subthemes: Philosophy, Religion, and Aesthetics, Language and Literature, Fine andPerforming Arts, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Environmental Studies, Economic Development andSustainability, Energy Policy, Security, and Safety, Education, Agriculture and Foodways
Those interested in presenting a paper at the 2019 conference should send Owen Griffiths (ogriffiths@mta.ca)
the following by May 31, 2019:
Full name(s) as you would like it to appear in the program••

Affiliation (including co-presenters)
Paper title and 250-500-word abstract
Field Reports by Millie Creighton

Dr. Millie Creighton, professor in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and consultant
faculty member of the Center for Japanese Research or CJR at UBC, participated in the large-scale 6th annual
Egycon Cosplay event and competition held in Cairo, Egypt on February 8, 2019 as part of participant
observation in Japanese transnational popular culture flows and the influence of Japanese popular culture.
She is shown in this photo in her 'original character' Momohime, Peach Princess or Pink Princess. The photo isvery similar to one that was published in Cairo Zoom an online magazine published in Egypt. Out ofapproximately 150 competing participants, Millie Creighton was one of the winners in the category 'Most
Creative Cosplay' and received a certificate for this. She was also named on the Egycon 6 website as receiving
the 'cutest cosplay costume' recognition.

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Basant Ahmed Sayed also participated in the Egycon 6 major Cosplay Event and Competition held Feb. 8, 2019as a character from the anime 'Ghost in the Shell'. She is shown in this photo next to the Japanese Ambassador
to Egypt (as 'Mario') and two others involved in the Cairo cosplay event. Ms. Ahmed Sayed is pursuingresearch on Japanese popular culture's popularity in Egypt and the Middle East, and Egyptians in Japan. She
presented at a previous JSAC conference.

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Here, Millie Creighton, anthropology professor and Japan specialist at the University of British Columbia, isshown on the left, while MA student in anthropology Basant Ahmed Sayed is shown on the right, both
involved in participant observation research and participating as contestants in the major Egycon Cosplay
Event and Competition now held annually in Cairo, Egypt on February 8, 2019. In-between the two is anotherCosplay contestant in an elaborate self-made outfit.
The Japanese Tea Ceremony course, created by Millie Creighton at the University of British Columbia (UBC),
the first credit course of its kind in Canada, was taught in spring 2019 under its one course code and title (Anth435 Japanese Tea Ceremony: The Ethnography of Performance and Ritual). The class culminated with anauthentic chakai or Tea Gathering in the Japanese Tea House within Nitobe Memorial Garden at UBC in which
students participated, after learning the practice in the class, along with invited guests. Pictured here left toright are: Erin Wu, Anastasia Gornostaeva, Evgenia Ignatenko (students in Anth 435 during the term), Aspen
Ono (a graduate student at UBC and niece of UBC President Santa Ono), and Millie Creighton (course creatorand instructor).

This photo shows the Anth 435 Japanese Tea Ceremony course at UBC with the creator/instructor of thecourse, and invited guests for the final session. Pictured left to right: Millie Creighton (creator of the course
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Spring 2019 Newsletterand instructor), Wendy Yip (UBC Ambassador and wife of UBC President Santa Ono), Masayo Tada (The
Honourable Deputy Consulate General of Japan in Vancouver), and Patrick Lewis (Head of UBC Botanical
Gardens which includes the Nitobe Memorial Garden).

Students had the option of wearing kimono or yukata for the final tea ceremony event of the Japanese Tea
Ceremony credit course, created by Millie Creighton at the University of British Columbia as the first suchcourse in Canada, by either bringing their own or wearing one brought in by the instructor and kimono
promoter, Tomoko Peters, for the event. This photo shows students in the background hectically preparing forthe tea ceremony, while Shaula Wong a student in the course shows the yukata she purchased previously tothe class and is finally getting a chance to wear because of the course. Ms. Wong wrote in an email to the
instructor (Millie Creighton): "In regards to my yukata, ... it was my first time being able to wear it out of thehouse. I purchased it at a local Japanese festival in Vancouver many years back. I was really happy and excited
to finally put it to good use! Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to experience Japanese tea ceremony andfor continuing to spark my interest in Japanese culture in general throughout my time at UBC!"
Retirement Musings – Number 2: First Trip to Japan by Brian Pendleton
As I continue in retirement to dig through boxes of years-old memorabilia (must take these to recycling oneday), and in response to a steadily declining number of requests, this Retirement Musings No. 2, revisits myfirst trip to Japan. Perhaps this will spur JSAC members to recall that first-time-in-Japan experience that so
influenced each of our subsequent career paths.

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And so, to musing No. 2 … a box filed with details of a 27-day trip organized by long-standing JSAC member,
Professor John Howes (1924-2017) of UBC, called “The Backroads of Japan.” Many of you will know that
Professor Howes was a railroad buff and so the month-long journey involved travelling on all-manner of trains:from one-car, rural locals, to four-car, somewhat faster regionals, and even once in a Shinkansen guriin-sha.
Readers may recognize some of the trains: Kintetsu Express, Hikari, Kodama, Oki, Sambe, Nagato, Midori,
Ariake, Yamabiko, Hatsukari, Hokuto, Okhotsk, Kaikyo and Tazawa. In addition, buses and ferries were used toreach John’s chosen locations.
Predating the internet and Google, each evening we were given the next day’s, hand-written travel scheduleand arrival location, complete with bilingual directions (train options were listed for those wishing to explore
local areas, but I recall that most of us kept together for many of the journeys) – see a sample itinerary here.

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We rarely stayed in one place more a night, while experiencing business-hotels, homestays, a university
dormitory, ryokan, minshuku, and an overnight ferry sharing communal tatami mats with Japanese travelers(but with little sleep, much drinking and singing). After travelling for nearly two weeks, we arrived in Amami
Oshima, Okinawa, and a planned three-day, rest and recovery time on the beach – however, being used totravelling almost daily, several in the group grew restless on day two.
I don’t remember exactly how many were in the group, twelve or so -- grad students, a few couples, friends ofJohn, his wife Lyn and her sister from Florida (the latter two were quite insistent that happy hour began lateafternoon each day, usually with gin and tonics, somehow magically produced from their travel bags). Most in
the group came with backpacks, a few with suitcases which proved a challenge on more than one occasion -particularly when we were dropped off from a bus at a lonely remote stop and immediately headed up awinding trail for two km to an isolated, rustic onsen. In those days, rotenburo were often konyoku (mixed,
unsegregated bathing) -- unfortunately rarely found these days.
Most memorable events? Difficult to recall all these years later, but we travelled the length of Japan from
northern Hokkaido to Okinawa. We spent a few days in the big cities, but it was the small towns and villages
that I remember most: Tsuwano, Tamae, Hagi, Sasebo, Hirado, Minamata and Kitami (the places John thought
we needed to see to fully appreciate the historical-Japan he had followed in his career). The shortest journey,a few hours. The longest, May 22: Hakata (07:27 am) to Hakodate (22:06 pm). We survived that day … and theexperience of Professor Howes “Backroads” vision has inspired me ever since. I think this is one box I won’t
take to recycling.
*Disclaimer: while this trip was clearly the definitive introduction to Japan that charted my subsequent career,
it was not my first visit to Japan. My early academic graduate training was in China-studies and a few years
before, shortly after Canada-China diplomatic relations were established, I was travelling on the mainland witha sports and education group. On returning to Canada, we had a brief stopover in Tokyo … and to our surprise,
were met at the airport by representatives of the resident North Korean community (Chongryon), who took us
to a demonstration of the Arirang Festival Mass Games with group-gymnastics events and choreographedcard-displays. Clearly, our hosts in Beijing had informed Pyongyang, who then contacted their comrades inJapan who were more than happy to have us as guests. But that’s another story, if only I can find that box ofmemorabilia.
Journal Seeking Submissions: The Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies of the Master's
and Doctoral Programs in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities andSocial Sciences, University of Tsukuba is currently seeking new manuscripts for its 2019-2020 issue to be
published in February 2020. For more information, please refer to the attached file or access the following
link: http://japan.tsukuba.ac.jp/2019/04/call-for-papers-journal-of-iaj.html
JSACの皆様、
筑波大学大学院人文社会科学研究科
国際日本研究専攻紀要『国際日本研究』第12号（2019-20）の原稿を募集します。添付ファイルもしくは下記のリンクをご確認ください。http://japan.tsukuba.ac.jp/2019/04/12.html

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Member News
Welcoming a New Member!!
Chris G. Pope (Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women's University)
At present I am organizing a collaborative and transnational project on climate change adaptation and politics
in the Asia-Pacific, with the hope of bringing in interested researchers from Canada and elsewhere. I recently
published a co-authored book entitled "Translation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Cultural Contexts
in China and Japan." In terms of Japanese research, I am continuing my work on the Abe administration as wellas Japanese politics.
I have recently joined JSAC and am really looking forward to meeting you all!"Ken S. Coates (Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public
Policy, University of Saskatchewan)
The papers presented at the December 2016 Japan Futures Initiative gathering in Narita, Japan, were
published as K. Coates, K. Hara, C. Holroyd, and M. Söderberg (Eds.) Japan's Future and a New Meiji
Transformation: International Reflections, London, Routledge, 2018. My paper was titled “Does Rural Japan
Have a Future?” I am continuing my research on several themes: the challenges facing rural Japan and thesocial and economic impacts of scientific and technological innovations. I anticipate spending a month ormore in Japan in Winter 2020.
Millie Creighton (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
Millie Creighton (University of British Columbia) has been involved in furthering international cross-culturalcomparative research involving Japan. This has resulted in four pertinent talk or conference presentations
placing Japan in a global context since last spring. Among these were a presentation on Japan – Africa
relations for a special conference dealing with Asia – Africa connections at the University of Dar es Saleem inTanzania in September 2018; a conference panel on disasters and their aftermath in various world locations
presented at the International Association of Asian Studies conference in Biskek, Kryghistan in August 2018
and one at the American Anthropology Association meetings in Biskek, Kryghistan in November 2019 and atalk for a special invited workshop at the Sami Cultural Center in Tromso, Norway in October 2018 on
Indigenous Internationalism of Ainu an Okinawans. In addition to these talks (listed below) she and a graduate
student participated in the 6th Annual Egycon major Cosplay Event and Competition held in Cairo, Egypt on
February 8, 2019. She also won one of the established prizes for this competition (from about 150
participating competitors independent of those attending the event but not competing) entitled: “Most
Creative Cosplay” for her Original Character, Momohima (Peach Princess or Pink Princess), and was
additionally named as having the: “Cutest Cosplay Costume” (see field report above). She had two publicationsin the period, one on the Japanese diaspora in Latin American countries published in, The Harvard Review of
Latin America, and one on Japan in relationship to cultural comparisons of shame and guilt published in the

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German magazine Zeitschrift KULTURAUSTAUSCH. She continued the work of teaching and orchestrating thespecial credit Japanese Tea Ceremony at UBC (see field report below).
Conference Presentations:
Creighton, Millie. 2018. “Ainu Internationalizing Towards Recognition of Indigenous Status and Its Relevancefor Okinawan Claims to Indigeneity,” presented at invited/funded workshop on Indigenous Internationalism at
the Artic University of Norway; Tromso, Norway, Oct. 18, 2018 (invited/funded by a grant under held under
UIT).
Creighton, Millie. 2018. “Revivals, Remembrances, and Resourcefulness Among Ruins: Tohoku as a Japanese‘Borderland’ and Communities’ Responses to the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disasters.” IIAS
conference in Biskek, Kryghistan, August 2018. (funded by an Arts grant)
Creighton, Millie. 2018. “Japan and Nigeria’s Abuja Project: Envisioning a New African Identity and Global City
via Tange Kenzo as an Architectural Visionary,” presented at the Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge 2
conference, in Dar es Saleem, Tanzania, Sept. 2018. (funded by a Catalyst grant).
Creighton, Millie. 2018. “Recovery, Remembrance, and Revival Among Ruins: Continuing Counter Narrative ofJapan’s Triple Disasters Among Tohoku Communities and National Entities.” American Anthropological
Association 117th annual meetings, Nov. 17, 2018, San Jose, California.
Publications:
Creighton, Millie. 2018 (Fall). “Nikkei Latin America: Highlighting Histories, Diversities,
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/nikkei-latin-america.
Creighton, Millie. 2019. “Die Grenzen der Moral,” Zeitschrift KULTURAUSTAUSCH 69.2:
22-23. (https://we.tl/t-dIDhYe2h0A)
David W. Edgington, Emeritus Professor, University of British Columbia
Presentation: Edgington, David W. (October 2018). “Forty Years After the 1978 China-Japan Treaty of Peaceand Friendship: Reflections on Changing Economic and Commercial Relationships,” The 31st Japan Studies
Association of Canada Annual Conference, “Japan’s World / The World’s Japan: Images, Perceptions andReactions”, Edmonton, Alberta.
Field Work: (September 2018) Interviews with government officials, local residents and entrepreneurs related
to research into factory and residential condominium conflict in the city of Higashi Osaka.
Publication: Edgington, David W. (April 2019) "Natural Disasters in Japan", in K. Coates, K. Hara, C. Holroyd,and M. Söderberg (Eds.) Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections, London,
Routledge, 182-1.

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Scott Harrison, Program Manager, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Presentation: “Japan's and China's Role in Fostering Indigenism,” Association for Asian Studies, Denver, CO(March 24, 2019)
Publications: "Enhancing Trans-Pacific People-to-People Ties: Japan-Canada Twinning (Sister) Relationships"
Canada-Asia Agenda. Nov. 2018
“Meiji inspired diplomacy and politics for Japan’s future,” in Coates, Hara, Holroyd and Soderberg,
Japan’s Future (Routledge, 2018)

Co-author with Charles Labrecque. “Canadian Provinces and Foreign Policy in Asia.” International Journal 73,
no. 3 (September 2018): 429–48. doi:10.1177/0020702018791583.

Kimie Hara, University of Waterloo, Professor and the Renison Research Professor in East Asian Studies
Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections, Routledge, 2019. (Edited with Ken
Coates, Carin Holroyd and Marie Söderberg)“Introduction: Japan’s Future: International Reflections on the Prospects for a “New Meiji” Transformation,”in Coates, Hara, Holroyd and Söderberg eds., Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International
Reflections, Routledge, 2019. (With Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd and Marie Söderberg).
“Japan and Security in East Asia: Finding Connections with Europe and Canada” in Coates, Hara, Holroyd and
Söderberg eds., Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections, Routledge, 2019.
“The San Francisco System: Origins, Developments and Connections with the ‘West’,” 旧金山和约与东亚国际

秩序的演进国际学术研讨会 Beyond the San Francisco System: Exploring East Asian Peace and Cooperation
System-The Third Symposium on the San Francisco Peace Treaty System – Proceedings, Wuhan University,
China, October 2018, 26-33.
“Japan-China ‘Island Questions’ in the Japanese, Chinese and US Government Records” 一带一路”背景下边海

治理与国际合作学术研讨会・第四届边界与海洋研究国际论坛 ／ Boundary and Ocean Governance andInternational Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative・the 4th Annual International Symposium on
Boundary and Ocean Studies- Proceedings,・Wuhan University, China, September 2018, 26-33.
Interview: 読売新聞「一般的でない「固有」表現」 (“Uncommon ‘koyu (inherent)’ expression”), Yomiuri
Shimbun, February 27, 2019.
Presentations“Japan-China ‘Island Questions’ in the Japanese, Chinese and US Government Records”, International Studies
Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2019, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 27-30, 2019.

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Spring 2019 Newsletter「中華民国、米国、日本の公文書記録と日中“島”問題」、『冷戦期の沖縄と東アジア シンポジウム』琉球大学（Okinawa and East Asia in the Cold War Era Symposium Ryukyu University, Naha, Okinawa,
November 24-25, 2018.
“Continuing Legacies of the San Francisco System,” 3rd Symposium on the San Francisco Peace Treaty System,
Wuhan University, China, October 27-28, 2018.
“Senkaku-Okinawa: Revisiting Government Records,” Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) 2018 Annual
Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 11-14, 2018.
“Government records and island questions”, Teaching and Researching East Asian History in Southwest
Ontario, Western University, September 29, 2018.
“Japan-China ’Island Questions’ in the Japanese, Chinese and US Government Records”, 一带一路”背景下边

海治理与国际合作学术研讨会 ——第四届边界与海洋研究国际论坛 / Boundary and Ocean Governanceand International Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative——the 4th Annual International Symposium
on Boundary and Ocean Studies, China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies, Wuhan University, China,
September 22-23, 2018.
Field Work: Diplomatic Archives, National Archives, Diet Library, Tokyo University, and Okayama University(Japan, multiple visits 2018); Diplomatic Archives and Academia Sinica (Taiwan, November 2)

Carin Holroyd, Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
I was awarded a Commendation from the Japanese Consulate General in 2018
I received a 2019 Japan Foundation fellowship which I will take up in January 2019.
I am taking 14 students to Japan (Tokyo, Tsukuba, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Takayama) in June.
Publications:
Holroyd C with Hara, K. Soderberg, M. and Coates K., Editors. Japan’s Future and New Meiji Transformation:
Routledge 2019.
Holroyd C, and Coates, K. editors The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Palgrave 2019.
Holroyd, C, "East Asia and the Arctic" in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Palgrave 2019.
Holroyd, C and K. Coates, "The Future of the Arctic" in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics,
Palgrave 2019.
Holroyd C and Coates, K. "Europe's North: The Arctic Policies of Sweden, Norway and Finland", in The Palgrave
Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Palgrave 2019.
Holroyd C, (2019). “Planning for Japan’s 21st Century Economy and Society”, Japan’s Future and New Meiji
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Transformation: International Reflections", Routledge.
Holroyd C., Hara K., Soderberg K., and Coates, K. (2019) "Introduction - Japan's Future and New Meiji
Transformation: International Reflections", in Japan’s Future and New Meiji Transformation: International
Reflections", Routledge.
Holroyd C, (Accepted). Digital Content Promotion in Japan and South Korea: Government Strategies for an
Emerging Sector, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (April 14, 2019)
Holroyd C, (2018). “Digital Content Promotion in Southeast Asia: Government Strategies for a New Economic
Sector”, Journal of Asian Public Policy
Holroyd, C (2018). "The Digital Galapagos: Japan's Digital Media and Digital Content Economy", Japan Studies
Association Journal, Volume 15, June 2018.
Presentations
Holroyd C, "Innovation in a Global Digital Environment", Prospects for Japan's G20 June 2019 Osaka Summit
Conference, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, May 8, 2019.
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, Professor emerita, McGill University
Publications: One-page segment of an autobiographical essay, entitled カナダで米寿をむかえました, isappearing in every other issue of the Aruka Newsletter, monthly publication of the Archaeological Laboratory
located in Komoro City, Nagano Prefecture, in a section called 考古学の履歴書. So far 6 segments have been
published, in June, August, October＆ December 2018, and February and April 2019.

Committee Service: A member of the Selection Committee for Historically Underrepresented Groups
Scholarships, Society for American Archaeology. (The purpose of the scholarship is to increase diversity in the
future pool of professional archaeologists).
Presentations:“Paradigm shift in Palaeolithic research of the Japanese Archipelago: From national history to
paleoanthropology”, 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, September 2018, Hue, Vietnam“Introductory Remarks” for the Panel on “The Movius Line 70 years later”, organized by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith,
21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, September 2018, Hue, Vietnam“Changing Perspectives for the Palaeolithic Research of the Japanese Archipelago”, 84th Annual meeting of theSociety for American Archaeology, April 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Jacob Kovalio, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Carleton University
Publications: “The 40th anniversary of the publication of E.W. Said’s Orientalism: its real ideological roots andimpact on Japan scholarship,” in preparation for Proceedings volume of the 2018 JSAC conference at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 12-14, 2018.
Conferences attended: 2018 annual JSAC conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Presentations:“The 40th anniversary of the publication of E.W.Said’s Orientalism: its real ideological roots and impact on
Japan scholarship,” at the 2018 JSAC conference , University of Alberta, Edmonton.
“Making History: Shinzō Abe- Japan’s longest serving prime minister,” October 29, 2018 Lecture no. 1 in theannual Japan Lecture Series at Carleton University.
“2018 in Japan: The Year in Review,” January 22, 2019, lecture no. 2 in the annual Japan Lecture Series at
Carleton University.
Other: Advising students from departments other than history at Carleton University as well as high school
students on Japan-related [from Japan-China relations to Bushi and Yakuza] projects.
Carleton University Department of History presents

Making History

Shinzō ABE : the Domestic
and Foreign Policy of Japan’sLongest Serving Prime Minister

Lecture no. 1 in the 2018-19
Japan Lecture Series at Carleton University
by Professor Jacob Kovalio ,Department of History , Carleton University
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 7:30
303 Paterson Hall
Parking no. 2

Stephen Nagy, Senior Associate Professor. Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal
Arts, International Christian University
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “China-Japan-U.S. triangular geopolitical dynamics and the Emerging Geo-

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technological Rivalry/PER TŌKYŌ LA SCELTA È OBBLIGATA,” in The Italian Geopolitical Review (LIMES).
(http://www.limesonline.com/cartaceo/per-tokyo-la-scelta-e-obbligata?prv=true).
Authored editorials, commentary (Abbreviated)
Nagy, S.R. 2019. "A key role for Japan in the Indo-Pacific," in The Japan Times. April 8th, 2019.
(https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/04/07/commentary/japan-commentary/key-role-japan-indo-pacific)
2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “China-US Trade Détente: Structural Problems Will Remain,” in China-US Focus.
March 1st, 2019. (https://www.chinausfocus.com/finance-economy/china-us-trade-dtente- structural-problemswill-remain)2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “The 2nd Trump-Kim Summit: Incremental Progress towards Needed Diplomacy,” inInternational Public Policy Review (IPP Review). February 25th, 2019.
(http://ippreview.com/index.php/Home/blog/single/id/901/feed/1)
2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “Summit won't shift North Korea's strategic calculus,” in The Japan Times. February
19th, 2019. (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/02/19/commentary/world- commentary/summit-wontshift-n-koreas-strategic-calculus/#.XG4fTOj7Qow)
2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “High-Tech Domination and the US-China Trade War: AI Is Cheapening Authoritarian
Governance,” in The Geopolitical Monitor. February 11th, 2019. (https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/hightech-domination-and-the-us-china-trade-war-ai-is- cheapening-authoritarian-governance/)
2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “La Chine et l’ASEAN en Mer de Chine méridionale, entre dangers et opportunités,” inAsie-Pacifiques. February 8th, 2019. (https://asiepacifique.fr/la-chine-asean- philippines-mer-de-chine-danger/)2019 Nagy, S.R. 2019. “AI Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics: Geotechnology & the US-China Trade
War,” in China-US Focus. January 25th, 2019.
(https://www.chinausfocus.com/finance-economy/ai-hegemony-with-chinese-characteristics- geotechnology-the-us-china-trade-war)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “How to Counter China's Ambitions in the South China Sea: ASEAN and the QUAD
need to step up their game,” in The National Interest. December 30th, 2018.
(https://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/how-counter-chinas-ambitions-south-china-sea-40012)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “Geotechnology Meets Geopolitics,” in International Public Policy Review (IPP Review).
December 18th, 2018. (http://www.ippreview.com/index.php/Home/Blog/single/id/856.html)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “Geotechnology meets Geopolitics: US-China AI rivalry and its economic and security
implications,” in a World Commerce Review. Winter. Pp. 1-5.
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “Is Trump Pushing China and Japan Together? Not Quite,” in The National Interest.
October 26, 2018. (https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump-pushing-china-and-japan- together-not-quite34302)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018 “Can Japan-China relations return to ‘normal’?” in The Japan Times. October 24th,2018. (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/10/23/commentary/japan- commentary/can-japan-chinarelations-return-normal/)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. « Réchauffement diplomatique : vers des relations sino-japonaises « Great Again » ?, »in Asie Pacifique News. October 24th, 2018.( https://asiepacifique.fr/japon-chine-relation- stephen-nagy/)
2018 Nagy, S.R. 2018. “Can China-Japan relations return to ‘normal’? Summitry and strategy in the shadow ofa trade war,” in Asia & the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum. October 22nd, 2018.
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Appointments:
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (December 2017 to present)
China Expert, China Research Partnership – Canada (February 2018 – to present)
Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (January 2018 – to present)
Visiting Fellow, Japan Institute for International Affairs (September 2018 to present)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AILA Leadership Fellowship (September 2018)

Norio Ota (2018-19)
On Sabbatical leave (2017-18)
Lecture presentation:‘Searching for innovation beyond standardization – Washback and paradigm
shift’, a professional presentation given at Carleton University as the invited guest speaker,
Ottawa, Canada, March 18, 2018.
Conference sessions:
Organized a session, ‘Governance and Academic Freedom’ and presented a paper, ‘Corporate governance,
neoliberalism and academic freedom: reality check’, at Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences,
University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018.
Organized a session, ‘Japanese as a world language’ and presented a paper, ‘Is the Japanese language conforming
to “universal norms”?’, JSAC2018 Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Oct. 11 – 14, 2018
Event coordination: Hosted the 2018 Japanese Language Proficiency Test at York University on behalf of theJapan Foundation, December 2, 2018
Administrative activity: Chaired the Korean hiring committee (2018-19).
Project in progress: Continued research on Vietnam between 1971 and 1974 for writing a book entitled‘Phantom Japanese Program in Saigon’

Brian Pendleton, Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies, Langara College
August 2018 – served as analyst and guest commentator for the annual tour of eight, private residential
gardens built and maintained by the VJGA (Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association).
September 2018 – joined 300 delegates at the bi-annual International Conference of NAJGA (North American
Japanese Garden Association) in Portland, Oregon. Continuing to serve as Secretary to the NAJGA Executive
Committee and Editor of the NAJGA Journal which is published yearly.
November 2018 - travelled extensively in the Kansai and Kyushu regions to several first-time-visited locations.
Pleased to report that the food, ryokan, onsen and gardens remain as captivating as ever.
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Ongoing in 2019 – research on the upcoming Tokyo Olympics … and searching for reasonably-priced
accommodation in August 2020.
Mark Rowe, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, McMaster University
Mark Rowe received a long-term Japan Foundation Fellowship to conduct research on female Buddhist priests
in contemporary Japan. He will be based in Kyoto from March to September 2020.
Scott Simon, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa
From August 1, 2017, to July 28, 2018, I was a visiting researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology inOsaka, Japan. I worked on my book manuscript (about indigenous peoples in Taiwan), but also did new fieldresearch on human-bird relations in Japan. I am still more active in Taiwan Studies, but I have begun producing
more about Japan.
Following up on my new research, I wrote one short article in Japanese for the local Wild Bird Society.
“カラスと人の関係.”(Crow-Human Relations).むくどり通信 (Mukudori Bulletin, Wild Bird Society of Japan
Osaka Branch)254: 10, August 2018.
While in Japan, I gave some talks in Japanese and in English:「人と鳥の関係」(“The Human-Bird Relation”). Public lecture for the Bird Rescue Salon, Osaka, Japan, April
28, 2018.
「カナダ・台湾・日本』のバードウォッチングの文化」(“Birdwatching Culture in Canada, Taiwan, andJapan”). Public lecture for the Wild Bird Society of Japan Osaka Branch, March 31, 2018.
"What is an Animal? Wandering down Human and Other Pathways in Taiwan and Japan." Invited lecture given
at the workshop "Multispecies Meets Kyosei: Plants, Birds, and People" at Kyosei Studies, Osaka University,
Japan, January 25, 2018.
"Human-Bird Entanglements in Taiwan and Japan," Lecture presented at the Joint Seminar No. 283, National
Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, January 24, 2018.
「北米発・東アジア研究への誘い」(“Coming from North America, the Lure of East Asian
Research”), Invited lecture at Okinawa International University, January 18, 2018.
I have written a few blogs relevant to Japan and to my research there.
“Partnering with Japan for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Blog
(https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2019/03/29/partnering-with-japan-for-a-free-and-open-indo-pacific/), March 29,
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Spring 2019 Newsletter“Sentinels of the Pacific: What Seabirds Tell Us about the Oil Industry,” Centre for International Policy Studies(CIPS) Blog (http://www.cips-cepi.ca/2018/06/08/sentinels-of-the-pacific-what-seabirds-tell-us-about-the-oilindustry/), June 8, 2018.
“Standing Guard on Japan’s Most Western Point,” Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Blog
(http://www.cips-cepi.ca/2018/03/30/standing-guard-on-japans-most-western-point/), March 30, 2018.
“Korean Demilitarized Zone Essential to Thousands of Migratory Birds,” Centre for International Policy Studies(CIPS) Blog (http://www.cips-cepi.ca/2018/02/11/korean-demilitarized-zone-essential-to-thousands-ofmigratory-birds/), February 11, 2018.
I also wrote a review about an important new book about Japanese colonialism. “Outcasts of Empire: Japan’sRule on Taiwan’s ‘Savage Border,’ 1874-1945,” Paul D. Barclay, book review, PacificAffairs https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/outcasts-of-empire-japans-rule-on-taiwans-savage-border1874-1945-by-paul-d-barclay/, 2018.
Academic articles are forthcoming.
I went back to Japan during our Winter Break and did some wildlife photography. I attach my favourite snowmonkey photo from the Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park.

Bill Sewell (Associate Professor, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University

Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45 by Bill Sewell, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.

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Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners,
architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, theirvisions shifting over time.

David Welch, Professor, University of Waterloo
Managing trade and security in the Canada-Japan relationship.” Canadian Global Affairs Institute/U.S.-Japan
Research Institute workshop, Ottawa, ON, March 25, 2019 (participant).
“Japan’s Role in The Global Governance of Non-Proliferation and Outer Space.” Japan Now series lecture by
Kazuto Suzuki, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Studies, University of Toronto,
March 19, 2019 (organizer and discussant).
“Why aren’t Canada and Japan Allies?” Presentation, Japan-Canada Academic Consortium, Queen’s
University, Kingston, ON, February 18, 2019.
“Evolutions in International Relations in the Arctic.” Presentation to the conference Innovations for a
Transformed Arctic: Empowering the Far North for the 21st Century, Arctic Frontiers side event, UiT The Arctic
University of Norway Campus, Tromsø, January 23, 2019.
“History, Psychology, and the Rule of Law in East Asian Security.” Lecture, Japan Institute of International
Affairs, Tokyo, December 18, 2018.
“It’s time to think boldly about Canada-Japan security cooperation.” Paper presented to the Canada-Japan
Symposium on Peace and Security Cooperation, Tokyo, December 12, 2018.
“The G20 in the Asian context.” Presentation, Symposium on “Prospects and Possibilities for Japan’s 2019 G20
Osaka Summit,” Soka University, Hachioji, Japan, December 10, 2018.
“Japan’s Future Global Role: A New Dawn for the Land of the Rising Sun?” Centre for International Governance
Innovation, Waterloo, ON, November 22, 2018 (organizer and participant).
“Japan as a ‘Normal Country’? Retrospect and Prospect.” Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo,
ON, November 22, 2018; Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,
University of Toronto, November 21, 2018 (organizer and participant).
“Regional Dynamics: Asia.” Presentation, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, ON, November 2, 2018
“The Role of Nationalism in Maritime and Territorial Disputes.” Presentation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate
School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, October 5, 2018; International University of Japan, Urasa,
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Spring 2019 Newsletter“Japan, Regional Order, and the Rule of Law.” Presentation to the Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual
Meeting, Edmonton, AB, October 12, 2018; Canadian International Council, Saskatoon, SK, October 4, 2018.
“Security Dynamics in East Asia.” Presentation, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, ON, October 3, 2018.
“Empathy and Threat Perception: North Korea and the South China Sea.” Presentation, Science for Peace,
University of Toronto, September 26, 2018; 53rd Otago Foreign Policy School, University of Otago, Dunedin,
NZ, June 30, 2018.

Noriko Yabuki-Soh, Associate Professor, York University
Publications and Conference Proceedings
Deictic expressions in L2 narratives in Japanese: The case of demonstratives and donatory verbs. Studies in Language
Sciences, 66-91.
Images of Japanese women: An analysis of language use in advertisements. In M. Eby and D. Welch (Eds.), Future
Uncertain: Economic, Environmental, Social and Political Challenges Facing Japan (pp. 23-33). Japan Studies Associationof Canada.
Presentations
オンライン教材と大学日本語コース用漢字教材―より効果的な自律学習の促進のために― [Online resources
and Kanji learning materials for university JFL courses: Toward more effective self-learning]. Paper co-presented with K.
Inutsuka at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE 2018), Huron
University College, London, Canada, August 21-22, 2018.
The global language of manga: Japanese comics’ “visual vocabulary” and its cultural impact. Paper presented at theannual conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC 2018), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada,
October 11-14, 2018.
Community Service
Chair of the Organizing Committee for the 37th Ontario Japanese Speech Contest, University of Toronto, March 2, 2019

X. Jie Yang, Professor, University of Calgary
Classical Japanese in 5 Minutes. A new webpage released in winter 2019. It contains 29 short video scripts andthe same materials as GIF slides to cover the basic grammar and related learning issues of classical Japanese.
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Old Japan Redux. In winter 2019, a new volume of student creative works of short stories and manga, in thetitle of "Old Japan Redux 5", as well as 10 short video scripts, all based on Japanese culture history were added
to this webpage. They represent the learning achievements of students in Japanese Civilization, fall 2018, atUniversity of Calgary. (https://sites.google.com/view/oldjapanredux)
Supported by Japan Foundation, Toronto, the 2nd Canada Japanese Video Contest was successfully completed
in January 2019. 33 works submitted across Canada are released at the Final List, and 12 works received
prizes. (https://sites.google.com/view/canadajapanesevideo)

Table of Contents
1. Introduction Japan’s future and a New Meiji transformation—international reflections,Ken Coates,
Kimie Hara, Carin Holroyd and Marie Söderberg

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Part I: Japan in a Changing World: Security, Economics and Politics
2. New Meiji’s economics and finance: is Abenomics successful and sustainable? Most probably
not, Axel Berkofsky
3. From Datsu-A to development assistance as a way of reaching out to Asia, Marie Söderberg
4. Japan’s "New Meiji" transformation through G7 and G20 governance, John Kirton
5. Japan’s emerging soft power in East Asia? Taiwan as a crucial case, Paul Midford
6. Japan and security in East Asia: finding connections with the West, Kimie Hara
7. Nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula: strategic adaptation, the Abe administration and extended
deterrence in the face of uncertainty, John Nilsson-WrightPart II: Is There a Meiji Model for Twenty-First Century Japan?
8. Japan’s grand strategy: in defense of the liberal western pacific order, Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
9. Learning from Okinawa’s geopolitical history: how easing the burden of the bases makes good
geopolitical sense, Paul O’Shea
10. Meiji inspired diplomacy and politics for Japan’s future, Scott Harrison
11. Effective leadership in Japan: the case of Shibusawa Eiichi, Gil Latz
12. Uses of Meiji: redefining history to repeat a success story, Annette Skovsted Hansen
Part III: Japan’s Strengths and Challenges: A Foundation for Re-innovation?
13. Japan and care in the community: sharing evidence from policy experiments, James H. Tiessen
14. Reviving Japan through internationalization of higher education: is there a "New Meiji"? Wilhelm M.
Vosse
15. Does rural Japan have a future? Ken Coates
16. Natural disasters and Japan, David W. Edgington
17. Planning for Japan’s twenty-first century economy and society, Carin Holroyd

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JSAC EXECUTIVE
President (2016-2019):
Prof. Carin Holroyd
Department of Political Studies
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada
Tel: 1-306-966-5506
Fax: 1-306-966-5250
E-mail: carin.holroyd@usask.ca

Secretary-Treasurer (2012-):
Prof. Norio Ota
Department of Languages, Literaturesand Linguistics
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3Phone: (416)736-2100 ext. 88750
Fax: (416)736-5483
E-mail: nota@yorku.ca

Regular Executive Members:
Prof. Thomas Waldichuk (2014-) Department of Geography & Environmental Studies Thompson Rivers
University 900 McGill Road Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C 0C8 Tel. 1-250-371-5718 E-mail:twaldichuk@tru.ca
Professor Jim Tiessen (2014-) Ted Rogers School of Management Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 E-mail: jhtiessen@ryerson.ca
Prof. David W. Edgington (2016-) Department of Geography University of British Columbia 1984 West Mall,
Vancouver BC, Canada V6T1Z2 Tel: 1-604-822-5612 Fax: 1-604-822-6150 E-mail:david.edgington@ubc.ca
Prof. Shige Matsui (2016-) Peter A. Allard School of Law University of British Columbia E-mail:shigui.matsui@allard.ubc.ca
Prof. David A. Welch (2016-) Department of Political Science University of Waterloo E-mail:david@davidwelch.ca
Professor Aya Fujiwara (2018-) Director, Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research Faculty ofArts - History & Classics, University of Alberta. Email: fujiwara@ualberta.ca
Professor Owen Griffiths, Department of History (2019 - ), Mt. Alison University. Email: ogriffiths@mta.ca

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