Japan Studies Association of Canada 2003 Conference Schedule FINAL -- 10/15/2003

Date/TimeOct 17(Fri)Michael G. DeGroote Building (MGD, Business) Room505

12:001:00-1:30
PM

1:30-3:15
PM

Title
Registration

Presenters/Speakers

WelcomeDr. Nasrin Rahimieh, Dean, Faculty ofHumanities

Historicalcrossroads

Dr. Vishwanath Baba, Dean, School ofBusiness“Japan at a Crossroads: A Historical
Perspective”
Cary Shinji Takagaki, University ofWestern Ontario“The M-Word Strikes Back: Japan's
Prewar Empire, Current Dilemmas, and theAllure of the Modern”
Bill Sewell, St. Mary’s University“Children, Media and ‘Japan at theCrossroads’”
Owen Griffiths, Mount Allison University“Bushidô and Japan’s Unfinished Businessin the New Century:
The Search for a Japanese Way in the
Global Context”
Yu Chang, McMaster University,
University of Toronto
Chair: Jim Morrison, St. Mary’s

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3:15-3:45
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3:45-4:45

4:45-5:30
PMTitleBreak

Presenters/Speakers

Government
perspectives:
JapanCanada
activities

Mr. Takashi Koezuka, Consul General ofJapan (Toronto)

Changes inthe Contextof Japanese
Language
Teaching:
Implications
for Teachersand Learners

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Mr. Robert Desjardins, Director, Japan
Division, Department of Foreign Affairs
and International Trade
Shin'ichi Hayashi, Yamaguchi University,
Guest Speaker

6:00-8:00
PM
Oct 18(Sat)8:3010:15
AM

Language
Issues“Psycholinguistic Universals in
Orthographic Systems: How Unique isJapanese?” Joe Kess, University ofVictoria“Japan and Korea: Mutual Language
Learning in 18-19th Centuries”Yi, Kang-Min, Hanyang University, Seoul,Korea

BusinessIssues

Japan Foundation Fellows Reception,
McMaster University Student Centre, Rm.
314/315.
“Changing Agriculture in Japan”
Tom Waldichuk, University of the Cariboo“The Commerce of Aging: Japanese
Innovation in Product Development andService Provision for the Elderly”
Carin Holroyd, University of Saskatchewan"Japan’s Textile Industry: Structural
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Growth"“Images of Japanese Women in the Era ofAsli M. Colpan, Kyoto Institute of
Globalization: An analysis of the Language
Technology, Kyoto University, Japanin Women's Magazines”
Noriko Yabuki-Soh, York University“What’s the beef between Japan andCanada”, Wenran Jiang, University of“Cross-gender Communication and CrossAlberta
cultural Communication: When Malefemale Miscommunication is
Chair: Teri Ursacki, University of Calgary
Cultural Difference”
Tsuneko Iwai, McMaster University
Chair: Norio Ota, York University

10:1510:45
AM
10:4512:00

BreakPanel:
Bioethics inJapan Today

Tsuchida Tomoaki, Nanzan University,Japan, Machida Sōhō, Tokyo University ofForeign Languages, Guest speakers
Chair: G. Victor Hori, Faculty of Religious
Studies, McGill University

12:001:30 PM
1:30-2:30
PMLunch andJSACbusinessmeetingTherevolution inJapanesehigherWilliam K. Cummings, George
Washington University, Guest Speaker

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2:30-2:45
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2:45-4:30
PM

Title
education?
Break

Presenters/Speakers

International
relations andpolitical
economy"Japan and the World: The Meaning ofKurofune 150", Jacob Kovalio, Carleton

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314/315)
Title
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Culture:Ways ofKnowing“Japan and US Hegemony in the post-Iraq
War Period: An Exploration of Alternative
Paths for Japan”
Satoshi Ikeda, Department of Sociology,
University of Alberta“New Radiocarbon Dates by AMS(Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) andChronological Revision of Pre- and Protohistory of Japan”
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, McGill University“Women’s Education in the Changing Meiji
World”
Febe D. Pamonag, University of Alberta"Did Growth Mask Distortions?"
Dick Beason, University of Alberta“Going to a War - Seen from Medieval
Japanese Picture Scrolls “
X. Jie Yang University of Calgary“Kozo Kochiku of Japanese Politics insteadof Kozo Kaikaku”
Takuya Ito, University of Tokushima,Japan“Power of Narratives: Enduring andSurviving Memories”
Yuko Shibata, University of British
Columbia

Chair: Michael Donnelly, University ofTorontoChair: Joe Kess, University of Victoria
Oct 19(Sun)4:30-Dinner

9:0010:45
AM

Japan’sIntegration
with theWorld:

Puddicombe Farms – Bus leaves fromMcMaster – Front of student centre“Does Website Language Localization
Help SMEs Sell to Japan?”James H. Tiessen, McMaster University

Panel -“MeetingCrises:
Cases in

“A Literary Reaction to IdeologicalPressure: An Incident in Imakagami”
Sachie Iwata, University of Toronto

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Interdisciplin
ary Views”

Presenters/Speakers"Japan: A Multicultural County? Evidence
from the Field"
David W. Edgington, University of British
Columbia“Ichiro: A Baseball Hero and Beacon of
Hope: Media Representations and Nationbuilding Discourses”
Yuka Nakamura, University of Toronto“The Impact of Foreign Investment onJapanese Corporate Governance andManagerial Practice”
Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant, University ofCalgary

11:0012:45
PMLanguageand Culture

Chair: Carin Holroyd, University of
Saskatchewan“Are Japanese Honorifics Keigo Not PC?”
Norio Ota, York University“Teaching Tea: Using Experiential
Learning to Teach Culture and Ethos”
Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg
University, Kiyoko Toratani, York
University"Crossroads of Experience: Miyazaki
Hayao’s Global/Local Nexus"

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314/315)
TitlePresenters
Japanese“The Jishu as a Conduit of Social Change”
History”
Caitilin Griffiths, University of Toronto“Meeting Crises: Kawaraban and the Edo
People.”Hidemi Shiga, University of Toronto“Translation of Tanka Poems: Syllables inEnglish and Japanese”
Kozue Uzawa, University of Lethbridge
Chair: Dr. Sonja Arntzen, University ofToronto

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Jay Goulding, York University“Faust in the Eyes of the Japanese
Cartoonist” Yoko Riley, University ofCalgary“The Validity of Change in the Japanese
Garden: Wa shin and Wa fu -- Myths andConcepts in Garden Design”
Brian Pendleton, Langara College (BC)
Chair: Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

12:45
PMCloseMGD Room B105
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314/315)
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