ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN1998 ASCJ PROGRAMSECOND ANNUAL ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
JAPANThe second Asian Studies Conference in Japan (ASCJ) was held at the Ichigaya Campus ofSophia University on June 20, 1998. The ASCJ aims to emphasize interdisciplinary scholarly
exchange in an English language format to broaden communication among Asia scholars ofdiverse disciplines and backgrounds and further discussion between scholars based in Japan
with those elsewhere. The program is listed below.
The registration fee is 1,500 (yen). An additional 2,500 (yen) is required for the reception that
follows the conference.
Hotel Information Conference Venue

Schedule of Activities
MorningSessions
10:00-12:00

Lunch
Session 12:301:30

Afternoon
1:30-3:30

LateAfternoon
3:30-5:30

Evening 5:307:00

1) Rethinking
Approaches toJapanese
Religion:
Movements,
Patriarchs, andRites (Room207)

3) Internet
Resources for
Asian Scholars

4) Discourses
on ModernJapanese
Culture (Room207)

7) Roundtable:
EverydayExperiences of
Sri Lankans:
People'sConsciousness
and SocialIssues (Room207)

Business
Meeting 5:306:00

2) Roundtable:
Learning inJapaneseInstitutions-Towards the5) Political andSocial Change
in East andSoutheast Asia
(Room 208)
6) Asia in theTwenty-first8) Japan andRussia: Mutual
Visions inLiterature,Arts, andReception
6:00- 7:00

21st Century(Room 208)

Century(Room 209)

Mentalities(Room 208)
9) The Social
Organizationof theJapanese
Economy(Room 209)

Note: Individual papers unless otherwise indicated.
I. Morning Sessions 10:00a.m.-12:00 noon
1. Rethinking Approaches to Japanese Religion: Movements, Patriarchs, and Rites
Room 207
Chairperson: Eric Rath, University of Michigan
Presentersa) Sarah Horton, Yale University. "Historiographic Views of Heian Pure Land Buddhism"b) Clark Chilson, University of Stirling. "Kuya in History and Historiography"c) William Londo, University of Michigan. "The Revival of Mt. Koya and the Development ofNew Forms of Religious Expression in Heian Society"d) Eric Rath, University of Michigan. "Deritualizing Ritual Studies - A View from the Noh
Stage"
Discussant: Mark Blum, Bukkyo University
2. Roundtable: Learning in Japanese Institutions--Towards the 21st Century Room 208
Chairperson: Karen Shire, International Christian University
Presentersa) Jane Bachnik, National Institute of Multimedia Education. "Roadblocks on the Information
Highway: A Closer Look at the 'Global Knowledge Revolution' in Japanese Higher Education"b) Brian McVeigh, Toyo Gakuen University. "Students Who Pretend Not to Know: Educationand the 'Official Gaze' in Japan"

c) Karen Shire, International Christian University. "On-the-Job Learning in a Japanese HighTechnology Workplace: Effectiveness from Workers' Perspective"d) Charles Tackney, Bunkyo University. "Industrial Relations, Working Rules and Learning in
the Postwar Japanese Organization"
II. Lunchtime Workshop 12:30 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
3. Internet Resources for Asian Scholars Computer Room, Basement
Chairperson: Michael Huang, SUNY College at Oswego
Discussant: Michael Watson, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin UniversityIII. Afternoon Sessions 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
4. Discourses on Modern Japanese Culture Room 207
Chairperson: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia Universitya) Haruno Yamakami, Northwestern University. "When the Earth Quakes, Rhetoric Awakes"b) Chia-ning Chang, University of California at Davis / Waseda University. "Reading Uchida
Roan: The Making of a Mid-Meiji Critic"c) Mark MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University. "Revisioning Japanese Religion: Osamu
Tezuka's Hi no tori (The Phoenix)"d) Meera Viswanathan, Brown University. "On Shrine Maidens, Mountain Witches, andProstitutes: a Topographical History of Women and the Uncanny in the Writings of OrikuchiShinobu"e) Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies. "Discourses on Fatherhood in Japan"
5. Political and Social Change in East and Southeast Asia Room 208
Chairperson: Teruo Sekimoto, Tokyo Universitya) Duncan McCargo, Kobe Gakuin University. "The Politics of Press Banningin Indonesia"b) Yin-wah Chu, The University of Hong Kong. "Authoritarian Rule and Democratic
Struggles: Taiwan and Korea Compared"

c) Eric Thompson, University of Washington. "A Malay Village in a Tiger Economy"d) Misa Okumura, Sophia University, "The New Middle Class in Malaysia"
6. Asia in the Twenty-first Century Room 209
Chairperson: Walter Hatch, Tokyo Universitya) Etel Solingen, University of California at Irvine. ""ASEAN Past and Future: Domestic
Coalitions and Regional Cooperation"b) Jochen Legewie, German Institute for Japanese Studies. "The Political Economy ofIndustrial Integration in Southeast Asia: The Role of Japanese Companies"c) Verena Blechinger, German Institute for Japanese Studies. "Between Bilateralism andRegionalism: Business and the State in Japan's Relations with Asia"
Comments by Temario Rivera, International Christian University
IV. Late Afternoon Sessions 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
7. Roundtable: Everyday Experiences of Sri Lankans: People's Consciousness andSocial Issues Room 207
Chairperson: Yoshiko Ashiwa,(Hitotsubashi University)
Presenters:a) Kusma Karunaratne,professor of Colombo University "Depiction of Society in Shinhala
Literature"b) K. Balakrishnaiyer, Ph.D. student of the University of Tokyo "As a Student in the North andthe South Sri Lanka, and in Tokyo"c) Siripala Weerakoon, Ph.D candidateof Hitotsubashi University "Drug Abuse in Sri Lanka;
The Changing Factors and People's Everyday Experiences"
Discussants:J.B. Dissanayake, Colombo University
S.T. Hettige, Colombo University
8. Japan and Russia: Mutual Visions in Literature, Arts, and Mentalities Room 208
Chairperson: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City UniversityPresentersa) Elena Diakonova, Hitotsubashi University. "The Myth of the Orient in the Poetry of RussianSymbolism in the Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries"b) Alexander Dolin, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. "'Russian Myth' in Modern JapanesePoetry"c) Lyudmila Ermakova, Okayama University. "Looking From Russia: The Japanese CulturalLandscape"d) Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University. "Why Is The Peril Not Frightening: Japan In
The Russian 'Popular Prints'"Discussant: Ekaterina Morozowa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
9. The Social Organization of the Japanese Economy Room 209
Chairperson: David Wank, Sophia University
Presentersa) Kathryn Ibata, Tokyo University. "The Business of Survival: Local Small and Medium Sized
Enterprise Networks in Japan"b) Ann D. Brucklacher, Hirosaki University. "Regional Identity and Agriculture: An Exampleof Apple Farmers in the Tsugaru Region"c) Keiko Hirao, "Education and Employment Behavior: Work Histories of Married Japanese
Women"d) Heidi Gottfried, Purdue University. "Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese
Economic Miracle"
Comments by Masako Ishii-Kuntz, University of California Tokyo Study Center
V. Business Meeting 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
VI. Reception 6:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.
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