Japanese Studies Association of Canada
12-14 October 2001
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Japan in the Age of Globalization
Preliminary Program
Friday 12 October - Conference Hotel
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Japan in a Global Context
Satoshi Ikeda,“Globalization as the Terminator of Japan s Miracle; US Hegemonic
Resurgence and the Future of East Asia.”
Norio Ota,
“The Impact of Globalization on Japanese Language and Culture”
Masao Nakumara,“Japanese Business and the Response to Globalization”
Jolanta Rudzinska, “Failing English Language Teaching and Learning and Some Consequencesfor Globalization.”
3:15: pm to 5:15 pm The Changing World of Japanese BusinessTeri Ursaki,“How Much Change at the Top?Trends in Executive Promotion in Japanese
Stock Market-Listed Companies, 1985-2000.”
Jim Tiessen,“The Use of Japanese and English in Commercial Web-Sites.”
Ken Coates,“The Keitai Revolution in Japan.”
Zaheer Baber,“University-Industry Research Linkages in Japan”
7 - 9 pm Reception:Faculty Club, University of Saskatchewan
Saturday 13 October - College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan
8:30 am to 10:30 am Issues of Japanese Culture and Society
Janice Brown,“Women Writers in Contemporary Japan”
John Howes,“Christianity in Japan”
Brian Pendleton.
“The Globalization of Japanese Architecture: The Contributions of Antonin
Raymond and 'Frank Lloyd'...Who?"
Samantha Rubin,“John Inc.: The Making of Japan s Salaried men into Clients of Teenage
Prostitutes.”
10:45 am to 12:30 pm Language and Culture: Checks and Balances
Kaori Kabata,“Addressing cultural issues through multi-media news-based lesson
Modules”
Jay Goulding,“Tokugawa’s Phenomenal Chiasm: Crossings of Language and Culture.”
Tadao Miyamoto and Josph Kess, “A Discourse Analysis of Japanese Newspaper Advertisements.”
Noriko Yabuki,“Some linguistic and cultural changes observed in translation.”
Tsuneko Iwai,“Teaching Culture: An approach to Japanese teaching.”

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch
Guest Speaker:Canada-Japan Relations: An Update
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Canada-Japan Commercial Relations (Panel Discussion)
John Trevelean, SaskTrade,
Representative of DFAIT, “Canada-Japan Economic Relations.”
Asia-Pacific Foundation
Saskatchewan Business Person
JETRO (to be confirmed)
2:45 pm to 4:45 pm Issues in Contemporary Japanese Politics and Security
Michael Donnelly, “Japanese Politics in Transition”
Paul Scott,“Japan s Self-Defense Force”
Bob Bedeski,“Japan s Strategic Position in East Asia.”
6:30 pmDinner
Dinner Speaker: Dr. Paul Scott, Kansai-Gaidai University, “Explainingthe Koizumi Phenomenon.”
Sunday 14 October
8:30 am to 10:00 am Perspectives on the Japanese Economy
Carin Holroyd,“North American Views of Japan’s Economic Difficulties.”
Dick Beaman,“A New View of the Japanese Economy”
David Edgington,“Japanese Tourism in Canada”
10:15 am to 12:15 pm Research and Scholarship on JapanMark Watson,“Japanese Anthropology as Cultural Critique.”
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, “Nationalism, Mass Media, and the Ancestors of the Japanese People: TheInvestigations into the Production of the Fraudulent ArchaeologicalRecords.”
Tom Waldichuck,“The Development of Geographic Education in Japan and its relation toglobalization.”
Pamela Asquith,“An Historical View of Globalized Education in Early Showa Education as
Evidenced through the Kinji Imanishi Archive.”
12:30 pm JSAC Business Meeting-Ken Coates, Dean
College of Arts and Science
University of Saskatchewan
Room 226, Arts Building
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7N 5A5

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