EAJS2021 Conference panel and paper abstracts
AntSoc01 Bright futures? Young adults' work-life choices in metropolitan Japan
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Annette Schad-Seifert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel explores the work-life choices of young adults in metropolitan Japan. It focuses on attitudinal changes, the differentiationof gender norms, and new forms of work and family life in the context of changing socio-economic realities.
10:15-11:45
Gendered division of labour in Japanese families between 1991 and 2016
Authors: Dr Ekaterina Hertog (University of Oxford); Prof Man-yee Kan (University of Oxford)
This paper investigates the association between education and the time spouses spend on housework and childcare in Japan between
1991 and 2016. Wives spend much more time on domestic work than husbands. Better educated people are leading a slow shift togreater gender equality at home.
"Househusbands" and breadwinning wives: undoing gender in changing Japan
Author: Prof Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni (Tel Aviv University)
Based mainly on in-depth interviews with men who "proactively" (shutai-teki) define themselves as "househusbands", and with theirbread-winning wives, the paper will lend new perspectives to concepts of "doing" and "undoing" gender, hopefully as a further stepin the study of change.
Young Japanese singles searching for "managing both work and family" as an ideal
Author: Prof Annette Schad-Seifert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
As young Japanese adults increasingly seem to search for "Managing Both Work and Family" as an ideal female life course, thispaper focuses on the impact of social policies in mediating the relationship between women's full-time employment and the decision
to have a family with children.
(Re)negotiating what's 'normal'. practices of intimacy of never married adults in Tokyo
Author: Dr Nora Kottmann (German Institute for Japanese Studies)
Based on ongoing fieldwork in Tokyo this paper focuses on never married adults' 'doing single' and their search for 'normalcy' in asociety where marriage continues to be highly idealized while experts are anticipating the emergence of a 'hyper-solo-society'.
AntSoc02 Feeling fieldwork in Japan: affective environments, imagination and ethnographic skills
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel focuses on doing ethnography about feelings, discussing the necessary reflexive and experimental skills to do fieldwork in
specific environments, the peculiarities of doing fieldwork in Japan, and how the researcher's feelings and imagination can be seen as
methodological tools.
08:00-09:30
Super natural me: imagination and skills to do "feeling ethnography" on spirits in contemporary Japan
Author: Dr Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto University)
While relying on ethnographic data on experiences with spirits, I will show the centrality of feelings and imagination. I will discuss
the role of my feelings, enskilment and imagination during fieldwork, arguing that "feeling ethnography" can create innovativeknowledge also beyond anthropology.
How to become something else: butoh practice and affective ethnography
Author: Dr Caitlin Coker (Hokkaido University)
This presentation will investigate affects and becomings in the avant-garde performance form of butoh by introducing cases from thepresenter's fieldwork on butoh practice in Japan. It will also discuss how the researcher's body is a methodological tool in doing
affective ethnography.
Love X Robot: affective discordance in robot affinity
Author: Dr Daniel White (University of Cambridge)
Documenting fieldwork on a robot designed to facilitate human-machine affection through "emotional" technology, this paper
presents moments of affective discordance between anthropologist and engineer to diversify methodological considerations of affectmore commonly focused on attunement.
Practices transform qigong into kikō：feeling, enskilment, and imagination in contemporary Japan.
Author: Mr 信者 黄This paper is based on fieldwork in Japanese kikō classes. It will discuss how qigong has been localized in Japan, focusing on theperspective of feeling, enskilment, and imagination. It will also take the researcher's bodily experiences into account and discuss theirimportance in ethnography.

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AntSoc03 Crime in Japan from the perspective of offenders
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Stephanie Osawa (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel explores crime in Japan from the perspective of offenders. Based on interviews with people who violate(d) the law, it
addresses the question of how offenders perceive and interpret their own behaviour.
10:15-11:45
A comparision of young people's offending trajectories in Japan and Scotland: their stories of belonging through onset anddesistance
Author: Dr Monica Barry
This presentation focuses on the views of young offenders in Japan and Scotland about why they start and stop offending and theirneeds in the transition to adulthood. It places particular emphasis on their need for recognition and belonging, which can both
encourage and discourage crime.
Negotiating "good" and "bad" - perceptions of "misconduct" among deviant youth in Japan and Germany
Authors: Dr Stephanie Osawa (University of Duesseldorf, Germany); Mx Sarah Schirmer (University Siegen)Cultural and societal contexts shape definitions and perceptions of anti-normative behaviour. From an interactionist, comparative andqualitative point of view, we examine those definition processes and explore how deviant youths in Japan and Germany perceive
their own misconduct.
Crime committed by the elderly in Japan: self-reflection of female ex-inmates
Author: Mrs Ezgi Yasam Bilke (Dusseldorf Heinrich Heine University)
Recently, Japan has been tackling the increase in crimes committed by the seniors. This research focuses on the narratives of threeelderly female ex-offenders, who began their criminal career after 65 and it aims to elucidate how they reconstruct their crime spree,
imprisonment, and reintegration.
AntSoc04 The nation's only hope? Contradictions between idealized motherhood and women's experiences in Japan
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Lynne Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Lin Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Glenda Roberts (Waseda University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel explores the many contradictions between (a) expectations placed on mothers to take full responsibility for their child's
health, behaviour, and social adjustment, and (b) the reality that mothers often encounter low levels of social support andunderstanding in everyday contexts.
08:00-09:30
Motherhood when one's child is viewed as "imperfect"
Author: Prof Lynne Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper considers how ideas of motherhood shape women's views and actions when their children exhibit disabilities such as
autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and how women express the human value of their child at a moment when society expects "perfect"
children capable of able-bodied contribution.
Support for early motherhood in the "super-ageing" Japanese society
Author: Prof Junko Otani (Osaka University)
Recent data shows that suicide is a leading cause of death among pregnant women and new mothers. This paper will report oncommunity programmes in several municipalities in Osaka that provide new mothers with counselling and information aimed toprevent depressive disorders and child abuse.
Motherhood and women's happiness in Japan's "lean in" era
Author: Dr Lin Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper examines how married middle-class young women in urban Japan today imagine and negotiate the notion of motherhoodand marital happiness with families (especially husbands), friends, and (sometimes) health professionals, among others.
Challenges and supports for female doctors with childrearing responsibilities at a regional hospital in Japan
Author: Prof Mizuho Kido (Saga University)
Female doctors, especially during the childrearing period, face difficulties in continuing their professional careers. This paper reportson the work environment for women doctors with domestic childrearing responsibilities at a regional hospital in Japan.
AntSoc06 Contemporary Western migrants in Japan: images, experiences and contestations
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Liliana Morais (Temple University Japan Campus)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel deals with the often overlooked issue of contemporary Western migration to Japan from a qualitative perspective. We will
discuss how Western images of Japan and Japanese images of Westerners are acquired, negotiated and contested through the
migrants' lived experiences in the country.
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Cosmopolitan whiteness and labour market skills in Europeans' migration to Japan
Author: Dr Helena Hof (University of Zurich)This qualitative study examines how images of cosmopolitanism and their association with whiteness in Japan shape white migrants'
employment experiences. Despite the influx of (white) migrants, ambivalence towards whiteness is lasting. The presentation assesses
migrants' and society's role in this.
Whiteness as a facilitator of social and professional integration? The experience of highly skilled Europeans in Japan
Author: Miss Adrijana Miladinović (Better Collective)
The overreaching ambition of this research is to explore whether the narratives of Whiteness and its assumed supremacy andprivileges will prove as an advantage in the integration of white highly skilled Europeans in Japan, or will lead to their isolation as
unassimilable cultural "others".
From living past to utopian future: Western potters in countryside Japan
Author: Prof Liliana Morais (Temple University Japan Campus)
This paper investigates the motivations and trajectories of Western potters living in countryside areas of Japan through the qualitative
analysis of their life-story accounts. We will see how artists negotiate idealized images of Japan with their bodily experiences in theircommunities of reception.
Meanings of Japan as destination and meaning of migration for contemporary Europeans in Japan
Author: Other Miloš Debnár (Ryukoku University)
This paper aims to explore various meanings of Japan as a destination and the meanings of migration for contemporary European
migrants in Japan. Based on an interview survey, the paper analyzes the rationalization of the migration and subjective identificationsof migrants.
AntSoc07 Spaces and hope for sexual minorities in Japanese educational institutions
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Ami Kobayashi (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
Chair: Andrea Germer (Heinrich-Heine-University)
Discussant: Anne-Lise MITHOUT (Université de Paris)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Based on the analysis of ethnographic data collected at universities and schools, as well as ministerial documents and school
textbooks, this panel will discuss the questions of how sexual minority students perceive their heteronormative school setting andhow they can may obtain a safe space.
08:00-09:30
LGBT inclusion at primary schools since mid-2010s
Author: Dr Aline Henninger (Orléans University)
An analysis of MEXT official documents concerning primary schools and fieldwork research (interviews with primary schools
teachers) will present the effectiveness of LGBT-inclusive measures at schools.
Sexual minorities in textbooks and guidelines for secondary schools
Author: Ms Ami Kobayashi (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
In my presentation I will analyse schoolbooks and prefectural guidelines for sex education, and discuss if they encourage schools toopen up spaces for sexual minorities. My research shows that the spaces currently opened up for sexual minorities are too small tochange current school setting.
"Queer spaces" on college campuses in Japan
Author: Mx Tianqi Zhang (Nagasaki University)
By analyzing ethnographic data, we aim to elucidate how "queer spaces", such as the gender-and-sexuality-related facilities situate inJapanese universities and how these spaces are cultivated and maintained.
AntSoc08 Migration and sustainable society: the limits and opportunities of cultural diversity in Japan
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenor: Igor Saveliev (Nagoya University)
Discussant: Apichai Shipper (Georgetown University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The three papers of the panel will explore various dimensions of growing cultural diversity in Japan, paying special attention to therelation of minority groups with the mainstream society and the ongoing debate on migration and migrants' place in Japan's economic
development.
08:00-09:30
Robots or foreign workers?: The new trends in immigration policy and the debate on migration in Japan in East Asian
context
Author: Prof Igor Saveliev (Nagoya University)
The paper will examine the evolution of Japanese immigration policy within the past three decades in the context of migration in East
Asia, explore the transformation of the composition of foreign labor force and analyze the ongoing debate on migration as a way ofsolving the aging problem.

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Indians in Japan: to become visible in closed society
Author: Dr Varvara Firsova (Russian Academy of Sciences)
The present study examines Indian diaspora in Japan, emphasizing its transnational nature and focusing on cross-cultural contacts ofthe members of Indian communities with the mainstream society.
Online 'hate speech' in Japan vs the West: exploring the global applicability of online hate theories
Author: Dr Natalie-Anne Hall (Loughborough University)
Can we apply Western-developed theories of online hate to the Japanese context? Japan's online environment is comparatively
isolated from the English-speaking web, and immigration has not become an issue of national significance. Socio-political context
must be central to understanding online hate.
AntSoc09 Trajectories of change, ethnographies of resistance
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Marta Fanasca (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg); Deborah Giustini (KU Leuven); Marcello Francioni(Oxford Brookes University)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Along macro and structural changes in society, post-growth Japan is both adapting and questioning these processes on a micro level.
Through ethnography, we explore alternative practices —of love, of sex, of work— as forms of status quo resistance and as future
landscapes for societal change.
12:30-14:00
Interpreting the future of women at work: trajectories and practices of temporary employment in the Japanese economy forlinguistic services
Author: Dr Deborah Giustini (KU Leuven)
The emancipatory turn promised by the 'foreign option' entices women to escape Japan's gender-stratified corporate structures for the
language services industry. However, their trajectories clash with failures of work-life balance, discriminatory socio-economic
relations and gender ideologies.
Common frenemies. technologies of service in Tokyo's queer nightlife
Author: Dr Marcello Francioni (Oxford Brookes University)
Using ethnographic material, this paper investigates the trajectory of Japanese queer nightlife by highlighting the interdependent
relationship between Japanese-style gay bars in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ni-chome and competing technologies of service, such as
convenience stores and mobile applications.
Trajectories of intimacy: commodified relationships in 21st century Japan
Author: Dr Marta Fanasca (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
The provision of commodified intimacy such as the one provided by the dansō escort services is a way to create new affective bonds,
in contrast with the shared idea of Japan as relationless and oriented toward substituting human with technology-mediatedinteractions.
AntSoc10 Humans and technology in medical contexts in Japan
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Susanne Brucksch (German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo); Naonori Kodate (University College Dublin);
Patrick Grueneberg (Kanazawa University); Kaori Sasaki (Otaru University of Commerce)
Chair: Susanne Brucksch (German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The panel explores varying socio-technical settings in medical contexts in a specific locale like Japan. Specifically, three papers
reflect on emerging high-technology and the arising requirements and controversies regarding patient security, end-of-life decisions
and evaluation of novel devices.
08:00-09:30
Incident reporting systems to improve patient safety in Japanese hospitals
Author: Dr Naonori Kodate (University College Dublin)
This paper compares how hospitals in Japan and England use their respective reporting systems as a source of learning, andhighlights the importance of cultural and institutional contexts when examining sociotechnical settings in healthcare.
The formulation of Japanese standardised brain-death diagnostic procedure
Author: Dr Kaori Sasaki (Otaru University of Commerce)This presentation explores how the Japanese brain-death diagnostic procedure was formulated in the 1980s-1990s. It considers how
various socio-culturally constructed images of trust and national presages were inscribed in medical device vis-a-vis the brain-death
diagnostic procedure.
Empowering patients by engineering the robotic rehabilitation system HAL
Author: Prof Patrick Grueneberg (Kanazawa University)
Human-machine interaction is gaining increasing importance in healthcare. While ethical considerations usually center around
potential risks to the patient, the Cybernics approach to the robotic rehabilitation system HAL implements a capability-oriented
approach aiming at human empowerment.

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AntSoc11 Young people's lives in precarious Japan: temporality and complexity
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Yuki Asahina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); Kunisuke Hirano (University of Michigan); Jeehwan Park (Seoul
National University)
Discussant: Jiyeoun Song (Seoul National University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel features research on young adults' lives in which the researcher's sensitivity to temporality becomes the foundation for the
analysis of young adults' narratives of self and society in the context of growing economic uncertainty.
08:00-09:30
Three worlds of precarity: narratives of anxiety among young workers in Tokyo
Author: Dr Yuki Asahina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
By drawing on the existing literature and interview data with 43 young adults in Tokyo, this paper offers a typology of various ways
young workers in contemporary Japan manage precarity. The analysis identifies three different responses to precarity.
The pros and cons of positive attitudes among Japanese youth toward their hometown in non-metropolitan areas
Author: Prof Jeehwan Park (Seoul National University)
This paper aims to examine the pros and cons among Japanese youth of their positive attitudes towards their non-metropolitan
hometowns. They wish to have a relaxing life with their families and friends in the hometowns. However, they end up with limited
job opportunities by the very relationship.
A new way to be Korean in Japan? contested imaginations and practices in a newly-built Korean “international” school inJapan
Author: Mr Kunisuke Hirano (University of Michigan)This presentation explores how people at a newly-built Korean international school in Japan are imagining and practicing ideal
education. Ethnographic research shows that the school’s stakeholders tend to retreat to ethnic identity when the school cannot
present a clear alternative value to pursue.
AntSoc12 An AI revolution in health and social care? Trajectories, expectations, and challenges of AI development,
governance, and ethics in Japan
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Giulia De Togni (University of Edinburgh); James Wright (The Alan Turing Institute)
Discussant: Selma Šabanović (Indiana University)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
The Japanese government is vying to lead the world in the development and governance of AI, which it views as a key technology fortransforming the future of public and personal health and care. The panel investigates gaps between hype and reality as theseaspirations begin to be put into practice.
12:30-14:00
Exploring the development of Japan’s AI governance and ethics landscape.
Authors: Dr James Wright (The Alan Turing Institute); Dr David Leslie (The Alan Turing Institute)
This paper examines the development of the Japanese government’s approach to AI governance and ethics, based on an analysis of
official guidelines and policy documents as well as semi-structured interviews with several of the architects of Japan’s AI policies
who helped write them.
Toward acceptable futures for 'caring machines': interrogating techno-scientific imaginaries of socially assistive robotics inhealth and social care
Author: Dr Giulia De Togni (University of Edinburgh)
Drawing on the case of Japan and on 30 interviews with stakeholders, this paper interrogates how those engaged in developing andusing AI and robotic applications in health and social care characterise the future promise, potential and challenges of using thesetechnologies.
Conceptualizing robotic agency: social robots in elder care in contemporary Japan
Author: Dr Anne Aronsson (University of Zurich)
Machines are already embedded in our lives but as we start to treat them as if they are almost human, we may begin to develop habitsthat cause us to treat humans as almost machines. We need to consider not only what social robots can do but also what humans will
become by interacting with machines.
Exploring perceptions toward home-care robots for older people in Japan: a comparative study
Authors: Dr Mayuko Tsujimura (Chiba University); Prof Sayuri Suwa (Chiba University); Dr Naonori Kodate (University College
Dublin); Dr Sarah Donnelly (University College Dublin); Ms Helli Kitinoja (Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences); Dr Jaakko
Hallila (Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences); Mrs Marika Toivonen (Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences); Mrs Camilla
Bergman-Kärpijoki; Dr Erika Takahashi (Chiba University); Dr Hiroo Ide (Institute for Future Initiatives); Prof Mina Ishimaru(Chiba University); Dr Atsuko Shimamura (Toho University); Prof Wenwei YU (Center for Frontier Medical Engineering)This paper reports the findings from a tri-country questionnaire study that was carried out to examine potential home-care robot
users’ perceptions toward development and social implementation of such robots in Japan, Ireland, and Finland. The paper’s focus
will be placed on older people’s views.

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AntSoc13 Japan in the neoliberal world order
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Reto Hofmann (University of Western Australia); Adam Bronson (Durham University); Nana Gagne (The Chinese
University of HK)
Discussant: Janet Hunter (LSE)Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel examines the place of Japan in the global history of neoliberalism. It focuses on three case studies to shed new light on
how Japanese cultural, intellectual, and social milieus became entangled in neoliberal polices from the 1960s to the present.
08:00-09:30
Japan and neoliberal culturalism
Author: Dr Reto Hofmann (University of Western Australia)
This paper examines the interaction of Japanese neoliberal activists with Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. It argues that Japan
was an active reformer of the global neoliberal movement by attempting to reconcile cultural nationalism with economic globalism.
The 1978 Hayek/Imanishi/Kuwabara dialogues and the reception of neoliberal ideas in Japan
Author: Dr Adam Bronson (Durham University)
This paper analyses a series of debates between the economist Friedrich Hayek and members of the New Kyoto School as aphilosophical event relevant to understanding the conflictual reception of neoliberal ideas in Japan outside policy circles.
Challenging Japan’s “sacred cow”: corporate welfare under economic restructuring
Author: Dr Nana Gagne (The Chinese University of HK)
Based on long-term research with Japanese workers, this paper examines how individuals have responded to neoliberal discourses ofrisk and self-management, and reflects on the meanings of employment and unemployment for mid-career and senior workers underneoliberal restructuring.
AntSoc14 History and heritage: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
History and heritage: individual papers
12:30-14:00
Agents of change and ritual transformation within Tenjin Matsuri
Author: Dr Carmen Tamas (University of Hyogo)
The result of four years of fieldwork, this paper looks into the contemporary transformations, both ritual and social, performed by
active members of the Ôtori Mikoshi Group within one of the three great festivals of Japan, Tenjin Matsuri.
The power of a talisman: the popularization of a legend as a means of combatting Covid-19
Author: Dr Gunnella Thorgeirdottir (University of Iceland)
The resurgence of the supernatural creature Amabie has been one of the more notable reactions to Covid-19 in Japan. This paper will
examine how the phenomenon has been appropriated and adapted to the current situation, confluently by the public as well as byreligious institutions and the state.
"Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region": an ethnography of the pre-listing
Author: Miss Raluca Mateoc (University of Geneva)
This paper addresses the pre-inscription phase of the cultural property "Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region" on the World
Heritage List, while revealing a constellation of attachments to the place at the level of residents, state and non-state institutions andnon-native inhabitants.
Globalization is a Small Place from the Past. A Reinterpretation of Okinawan Karate Mythologies set in the Times of the
Ryūkyū Kingdom (1429-1879)
Author: Dr Eduardo González (El Colegio de México)
This paper presents a reinterpretation of two main global mythologies of Okinawan karate pointing to the distant past. By a sociohistorical approach I unveil imaginations and inexactitudes forming those karate myths, and how they speak about Okinawa's
contemporary geopolitical romanticization.
AntSoc15 Migration and mobilities (1): individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Migration and mobilities: individual papers
10:15-11:45
Nine circles of goodness: consumer goods in the lives of Russian-speaking migrants in Japan
Author: Dr Ksenia Golovina (Toyo University)
This paper examines the transformation in relationships that Russian-speaking migrants in Japan have with consumer goods. The
analysis is situated in a discussion about the overall consumer practices and conventions pertaining to the reciprocal exchange ofgoods in Japan during the past 30 years.
6Cultural capital and gender in parental choice and involvement in educational transitions: a case study of Chinese-Japaneseinternational marriage families in Japan
Author: Ms Yan LI (Osaka University)
This paper applies Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to elucidate the public school choice decision-making process of middleclass mothers depending on their intra-family class differences within families, with a concern about mothers’ potential.
Historical memory, shared language and nostalgic emotional fulfillment: an ethnography of ethnic-cultural space for foreignelderly in Japan
Author: Dr Jackie Kim-Wachutka (Ritsumeikan University)
This paper presents ethnography of Japan’s ethnic-minority senior services for Zainichi Koreans, Japanese war-orphan returnees from
China, Vietnamese refugees, and a mixture of Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese elderly, who reveal the interwoven
complexities of multi-ethnic aging and care.
AntSoc16 Migration and mobilities (2): individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Migration and mobilities (2): individual papers
10:15-11:45
From reality to discourse: analysis of the ‘refugee’ metaphor in the Japanese news media
Author: Dr Naoko Hosokawa (University of Tokyo)
This paper examines a recent trend in the Japanese news media of using the term ‘refugee’ as metaphor. It suggests that the metaphor
has shifted the term’s implications from visual to conceptual, and from international to domestic, diverting public attention from thereality of refugee protection.
The challenge of societal recognition of humanitarian and development NGO practitioners in Japan: a volunteer or aprofessional?
Author: Dr Kamila Szczepanska (University of Turku)
This research investigates the ongoing process of creating a category of humanitarian and development practitioner as a profession in
Japan, underlining at the same time the importance of validating this practice and its outcomes through securing recognition ofoutside audiences.
"Surviving in the middle of the jungle?: Precariousness of non-standard forms of employment case study Indonesian parttime workers in Japan"
Author: Ms Yusy Widarahesty (Ritsumeikan University)
Overall 60% of the people worldwide have only part-time work. This change from full-time jobs to part-time jobs is most evident in
the developed countries, particularly in Japan, Many foreign students choose to do part-time work to help pay their tuition or living
expenses.
AntSoc17 Education and self-development: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Education and self-development: individual papers
10:15-11:45
Family-run universities in Japan: sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030
Authors: Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University); Prof Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
This talk examines how family-run universities in Japan have negotiated a major demographic decline since the 1990s. It identifies a
number of 'inbuilt' strengths of family business which help account for the unexpected resilience of the private university sector in aperiod of crisis.
Digital responses of Japanese universities to Covid-19: drivers and barriers to accelerate digital transformation
Author: Dr Iris Wieczorek (The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA))
The paper discusses how Japanese Universities have been responding towards the Covid-19 pandemic in view of their digitalisation
efforts. It analyses the actors, ideas and institutional settings functioning as drivers and barriers to accelerate a digital transformationand its future implications.
The new style of tojisha-kenkyu (self-directed research): between science and art
Author: Prof Makoto YokomichiTojisha-kenkyu (self-directed research) is a form of psychotherapy that is attracting special attention because of its scientific side. In
this study, we reconsider the experiments of tojisha-kenkyu presented as a set of treatises and creations (poetry and novels).
AntSoc18 Memorialization and agency: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45

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Globalized trends in memorializing atrocities and the musealization of the atomic bomb
Author: Dr André Hertrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Global memory trends are highly influenced by the Holocaust. Also the museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki bare similarities withaesthetic trends deriving from Holocaust memorialization. My presentation asks: are these mere aesthetic borrowings or specificJapanese responses to global trends?
Education, conciliation, or entertainment?: A study on nuclear power plant visitor centers in post-Fukushima Japan
Author: Prof Hajime Hasegawa (Meiji Gakuin University)
This presentation will focus on nuclear power plant visitor centers, not nuclear plants themselves. Based on exhaustive surveys formore than seven years, the author attempts to define the actual condition of them through studying their entertainment-focused
exhibitions.
Hierarchies of affectedness and agency in recovery efforts in post-3.11 Japan
Author: Dr Julia Gerster (Tohoku University)
Differences in loss and support in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate Prefectures after the 3.11 disaster lead to "hierarchies ofaffectedness." This paper examines such hierarchies' influence on the social dynamics among the disaster survivors and their abilities
to shape the future of the Tohoku region.
Media perceptions on the concept of Souvenirs and Garbage among Tourists in Old Oyo National Park and Shiretoko
National Park
Author: Miss June Gbadamosi (University of Ibadan)This study investigates factors that influence the change in the state of items that are bought by tourists as souvenirs at the Old Oyo
National Park in Nigeria and Shiretoko National Park in Japan and what items are considered souvenirs and garbage pre-covid andpost covid.
AntSoc19 Minorities and identity: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Minorities and identity: individual papers
12:30-14:00
Opening spaces of hope for minorities? Victims' movements and legislation
Author: Prof Ayaka Löschke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Minorities in Japan have often influenced the government policy as 'tōjisha'. My presentation discusses whether and how 'tōjisha
undō' (victims' movements) open a space of hope for minorities by legislative means, using the Hate Speech Law of 2016 and its
implementation as a case study.
Accommodation vs discrimination: professional trajectories of qualified workers with disabilities
Author: Dr Anne-Lise MITHOUT (Université de Paris)
As access to higher education for people with disabilities has been improving in recent years, the number of qualified workers withdisabilities is increasing. What kind of career can these workers hope for? Workplace accommodation is now improving, yetsignificant forms of discrimination remain.
Impervious to change: legal-policy analysis of the best interests of family children of separated families in contemporary
Japan
Author: Dr Takeshi Hamano
Questioning recent inconsistent and mismatched debates over the achievement of shared parenting of divorced families in Japan, thispaper aims to conduct a sociological analysis of the tension between the emerging idea of the best interests of children and normative
family norms in Japan.
Half-empty or half-full?: Psychosocial study on the role of ‘nation’ in the mind of a far-right activist
Author: Mr Yutaka Yoshida (The University of Manchester)
The rise of the far-right movements has become a major concern in Japan. Analysing the life-story interview with a far-right activist,
the current study psychosocially explores the role of ‘nation’ in one's investment in the far-right discourse.
AntSoc20 Futures: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Futures: individual papers
08:00-09:30
Imagined future, reimagined past and a unique present: images of Japan in global tourism campaigns
Author: Dr Christopher Hayes (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
For 2020, the Japanese government has set a goal of 40 million inbound tourists. To promote tourism, new global campaigns havelaunched almost every year since 2016, when the goal was set. What themes have they promoted? How do the campaigns differ? And
are they guilty of a kind of self-Orientalism?

8Fortune tellers in contemporary Japanese society
Author: Ms Alexandra Humes-Yoneyama (Sophia University, Tokyo)
This paper will present how Japanese divination practices have evolved, how fortune tellers are adapting to societal changes andtechnological advancements, their regional variations, their religious/spiritual dimensions, and how healing (iyashi) is promoted andadministered.
Imagined futures: food allergies at work
Author: Dr Emma Cook (Hokkaido University)
This paper explores how young people with food allergies negotiate workplace expectations to eat and drink together and argues that
their (in)ability to gain their colleagues understanding of their food constraints shapes both daily experiences and how they imagine
their futures.
Aspired future with diversity: contemplating the "ordinary" in post-Korean wave Japan
Author: Dr Yoko Demelius (University of Turku)
This paper explores Japan's process of finding ways to live with ethnic diversity. Residents who find hopelessness in thegovernment's multicultural policy attempt to transform their community into networks of residents to aspire to an ordinary but steadybase of inclusive social disposition.
AntSoc21 Rural depopulation and revitalization: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Rural depopulation and revitalization: individual papers
10:15-11:45
The relationship between residents, out-migrants, and lifestyle migrants at the traditional festival of a rural depopulated
village: the case of Kanmai in Iwaishima Island, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Author: Prof Shunsuke Takeda (Hosei University)
This research investigates the relationships between residents, out-migrants, lifestyle migrants in rural depopulated villages byfocusing on a traditional festival. The research case is the festival called Kanmai in Iwaishima Island, Kaminoseki town, Yamaguchi
Prefecture.
How do residents continue to live in areas affected by disaster, aging, and depopulation? The case of Kotaki and the Nagano
earthquake of March 12, 2011
Author: Dr Kiwa Nakano (Daito Bunka University)
My research on Kotaki in Nagano prefecture shows how people strengthened the bonds among neighbors after the March 12, 2011
earthquake, helping people rebuild their lives quickly. Their approach is also applicable to the many communities facing aging anddepopulation across Japan.
Crafting pottery, crafting hope: romanticizing traditional craftsmanship and making a living of craftsmen in Tamba
Sasayama's revitalization movement
Author: Ms Shilla Lee (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
This paper scrutinizes the recent trend in rural revitalization policy that stress economic potential of local traditional craftsmanship. I
demonstrate how such policy creates hope for a better future in rural provincial areas of Japan from the perspective of local
craftsmen.
AntSoc22 Art: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Art: individual papers
12:30-14:00
Gatan gatan, beats the fragile heart of the music dream
Author: Dr Robert Simpkins (University of Sheffield)
Musicians who find their stage at a train station in Tokyo change tracks to a different future of musicianship in contemporary Japan.
Their reaction to the temporal and environmental circumstances of the station highlights the role that place and urban spaces have infacilitating or impeding hope.
Ecological pasts for ecological futures: a case study analysis of Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
Author: Ms Lana Tran (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Tracing the narrative of socio-ecological resilience constructed by a regional regeneration art project, my paper considers howleveraging cultural frameworks to imagine sustainable futures also imagines a selective past, and whether this practice ideates acollective identity in post-growth Japan.
Grandpas, grandmas, contemporary art: how local residents negotiate with revitalization-oriented art festivals of rural Japan
Author: Mr Shiu Hong Simon Tu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper points to the emergence of Japanese contemporary art festivals for regional revitalization. Based on anthropologicalresearch, it examines the engagement and perception among aged residents of rural regions where art festivals take place, andevaluates the social transformation behind.
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AntSoc23 Masculinity, gender and sexuality: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Masculinity, gender and sexuality: individual papers
14:45-16:15
Image of masculinity in Japanese elementary school textbooks
Author: Ms Sonia Czaplewska (University of Gdańsk)This presentation is an attempt to analyse the image of masculinity in Japanese textbooks used since 2015. The results show that theimage presented in the textbooks is a new type of masculinity model, based primarily on such traits as family orientation and caring.
Engendered conflicts: reading between the lines of transgender existence and the Japanese state
Author: Mr Lyman Gamberton (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK)
This ethnographic paper discusses the current state of transgender communities in Kansai, with a focus on Kyoto and Osaka, since
the passing and revision of the 'Law Regarding Special Treatment for Persons Diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder' in
2003/2008.
AntSoc24 Gender and equality: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Gender and equality: individual papers
12:30-14:00
Japanese women's desire for English: subversion of collectivist norms and identity-in-the-making
Author: Ms Jelena Košinaga (University of Szeged)
The paper aims to understand the circumstances Japanese women encounter upon their decisions of not belonging to a specific socialgrouping and what the novel forms of desire are that emerge out of their 'rebelling' against the traditional principles of uchi (home,in-group).
The promotion of women in the Japanese bureaucracy. When the state has to put its own house in order.
Author: Prof Arnaud GRIVAUD (University of Paris)
Based on twenty interviews, this paper analyzes the careers of Japanese female high rank bureaucrats (obstacles, strategies, etc.). This
paper also shows how some of them have used a window of opportunity to voice their demands to re-assess ministries' organizational
norms and work-style practices.
Can Japanese companies transform to become more gender equal organisations? Findings and discussion from a ten-yearseries of comparative research with European organisations.
Author: Prof Kuniko Ishiguro (Tokyo International University)
This paper presents some conclusions of ten years comparative research between Japanese and European companies on genderequality. Fundamental differences in top management's degree of commitment, effective HR practices, corporate culture towards
gender equality are found to be crucial.
AntSoc25 Fandom and gender: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Fandom and gender: individual papers
14:45-16:15
A beautiful hit: the formative and transcultural aesthetics of kendo’s kakari-geikoAuthor: Mr Sebastián Chávez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Violence can be a vehicle for ethics and aesthetics. Kendo’s kakari-geiko sets behaviours and can both make kendo beautiful andtraumatizing: differences between the Japanese and Chilean context will be explored, showing how the limits between beauty andaggression can be rather thin.
Fantasy strolling beyond the stage: a study of fan-culture geography of Takarazuka Revue
Author: Ms Zuzanna Baraniak-Hirata (Ochanomizu University)
Based on immersive fieldwork in Takarazuka city and in-depth interviews with Takarazuka fans, this paper argues that the
Takarazuka Revue phenomenon offers an example of a distinctive fan culture fundamentally tied to the regional urban development
and a unique geographic city landscape.
The commodification of intimacy: the fandom culture surrounding male porn actors in female friendly pornography in Japan
Author: Ms Maiko Kodaka (SOAS, University of London)
The paper will discuss female fan culture surrounding male porn actors in female-friendly pornography, and face-to-face interactionthat they have with them. In order to shed light on how addiction to simulated intimacy affects female fans' gendered understandingof love, intimacy, and marriage

10Acknowledging transcendental experiences of female martial artists in Japan
Author: Dr Kate Sylvester (Lund University)
This paper illustrates the transcendental experiences of women who engage in hegemonic masculine spaces such as kendo in Japan.
In spite of certain inequalities, women experience unprecedented autonomy and profound personal satisfaction in the dynamic selfexpression of their identities in the dojo.
AntSoc26 Fashion: individual papers
Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter); Fabio Gygi (SOAS, University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00'Adult boys': maturity and immaturity in Japanese men's fashion magazines
Author: Dr Satoshi Ota (Tama University)
The word otonadanshi or adult boys has appeared in Japan recently. This presentation discusses the reasons behind the selection ofthis oxymoronic term otonadanshi, wherein otona connotes maturity while danshi connotes immaturity, and investigates the conceptof maturity and immaturity in Japan.
Negotiating hegemonic femininity through dress: the oiran kitsuke at the coming-of-age day in contemporary Japan
Author: Mrs Carolin Becke (University of Sheffield)
This paper investigates the appeal of the oiran kitsuke towards the gyaru subculture. I will discuss the motives and reasons behind its
popularity, arguing that the practice provides young women with an alternative to the ideal of hegemonic femininity generally
associated with dressing in kimono.
Econ02 Why Has Japan Failed to Achieve the Initiative '202030'?"
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenor: Naoko Oki (Sugiyama Jogakuen University)
Discussant: Annette Schad-Seifert (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
In 2010 the Japanese government announced to increase women in leadership positions in all areas to 30 percent by 2020; a goal thathas clearly not been attained, especially within politics and the economy. The panel examines obstacles to gender equality in Japanand initiatives to overcome them.
08:00-09:30
Harassment as barriers for job-hunting students in Japan
Author: Dr Eriko Hamada (Rikkyo University)
This presentation will answer these two questions: (1) Who experiences, what kind of harassment during job-hunting in Japan? (2)How is it dealt with? Through case studies of sexual harassment experienced by jobseekers, it will assess how such harassment
hinders women's leadership in the workplace.
The Conditions for Developing Women's Union Leadership in Japan and Korea
Authors: Dr Mijin Kim (Daito Bunka University); Dr Kaoru Kanai (Saitama University)
This paper examines the process of leadership development for women in the Japanese labor union. Through comparative analysis
with the Korean case, it will explore the conditions under which labor unions can develop women leaders capable of requesting andapplying gender equality in union practices.
How women become candidates inside/outside political parties in Japan
Author: Dr Naoko Oki (Sugiyama Jogakuen University)
At the Local Elections in 2019, the first nation-wide ones after Act on Promotion of Gender Equality in Politics, the proportion of
women recruited by political parties, almost leveled off. This paper discusses how women become candidates inside/outside politicalparties in Japanese local elections.
Econ03 Author Meets Critiques: Immigrant Japan, by Gracia Liu-Farrer
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Discussants: David Chiavacci (University of Zurich); Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Gabriele Vogt (LMU Munich University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in her 2020 book published by Cornell University
Press, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethnonationalist country.
08:00-09:30
Immigrant Japan
Authors: Prof Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Prof Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University)
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Econ04 Global Business Management
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Quality management of car importers in Japan: understanding current issues and future trends
Author: Dr David Marutschke (Osaka University of Economics)
This paper investigates quality inspection/improvement efforts of foreign-affiliated car importers in Japan and challenges concerning
the growing electric car and IoT market. These findings will help to better understand the global value chains and future implications
in one of Japan's key markets.
Global product development and strategic institution management of Japanese multinationals: Honda Jet vs Mitsubishi
Regional Jet
Authors: Prof Haruo Hagiwara Horaguchi (Hosei University); Prof Reiko Takenouchi
The aircraft manufacturing strategies of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Honda throughout the 2000s show a good contrast of failureand success. Obtaining type certification in the United States was crucial for developing the aircraft. Honda succeeded it bydeveloping its business jet in the US.
HQ-subsidiary conflict over resources: a case of Japanese MNCs overcoming host country's institutional constraints
Author: Dr Joey Soehardjojo (Cardiff University)
This paper explores the human resources and industrial relations practices of the HQs of MNCs that are at variance with theinstitutions, values and practices of the host country. It suggests that Japanese HQs transplant power of meaning across alliances tolegitimize Japanese best practice.
Econ05 Foreign Direct Investment and Trade
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Japanese business reinvention in Europe: the case of Sweden
Authors: Dr Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics); Dr H Richard Nakamura (University of Gothenburg); Prof Claes
Alvstam (University of Gothenburg)
Japanese acquisitions at the periphery of the EU is little known. We are taking Sweden as an example, home of several world-leading
companies. We are analyzing four major Swedish companies acquired by large Japanese MNCs from locational, managerial, andR&D perspectives.
The EU-Japan EPA and the question of formal and informal trade barriers for European businesses in Japan
Authors: Dr Erja Kettunen-Matilainen (University of Turku); Prof Claes Alvstam (University of Gothenburg)
We discuss the international political economy context of the EU-Japan EPA, formal and informal trade barriers, and the response ofEuropean businesses in Japan to the EPA, and find that this broad and deep agreement remains short of tackling informal tradebarriers in Japan.
Return of Japan? Transformation of the balance of power in the Asian theater
Authors: Dr Pawel Pasierbiak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University); Dr Bruce Kibler (Gannon University)
Can Japan once again become a leader in Asia? Or this is more a wish of declining western influence being able to leverage its clout
in Japan to maintain a more prominent role through them as their agent? Authors will examine trade and FDI flows, as well as
multilateral relationships in the region.
Econ06 Cross Border Labor Mobility
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Laboring sexualities and masculinities: male Vietnamese migrants in contemporary Japan
Author: Mr An Huy Tran (University of Duisburg-Essen)This paper investigates the ways in which male Vietnamese migrants in contemporary Japan labor to negotiate their sexualities andmasculinities during and after migration, and thereby contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of labor migrants' lived
experiences.
Foreign white-collar labor in Japan
Author: Dr Parissa Haghirian (Sophia University)
The Japanese labor shortage brings more foreign employees into the classic Japanese firm. This presentation investigates challenges
and chances of corporations and foreigner workers in Japan.
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Purchase when the field is still green? Capital mobilities and cross-border skilled labor market between Japan and Vietnam
Author: Ms Aimi Muranaka (Duisburg-Essen University)
This paper examines the question of capital and labor mobilities between a cross-border skilled labor market between Japan and
Vietnam. The study addresses the role of the government in this market, and how does Japanese private actor begin to establish thecross-border labor market.
Econ07 Corporate Governance and Monetary Policy
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Corporate Social Responsibility and the increase of banks soundness in Japanese banks
Author: Prof Soon Jin Kwon (Kurashiki University of Science and the Art)In modern banks, implementing sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) is essential in order to increase banks of surplus
and soundness. This study is to evaluate the effects of CSR on the increase in banks soundness for Japanese banks.
Central bank communication under unconventional monetary policy: the Bank of Japan during times of crisis
Author: Dr Markus Heckel (German Institute for Japanese Studies)This paper analyses the monetary policy and central bank communication of the Bank of Japan during 2008-2011 with a focus on twocrises: (1) the global financial crises and (2) the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We apply a principal component analysis to reduce thedimensions of monetary policy.
Does Tokyo Stock Exchange appreciate corporate innovations? Role of patents' quality and research productivity
Author: Dr Ovsiannikov Kostiantyn (Kochi University of Technology)
This paper examines the extent to which corporate innovations in Japan contribute to firms' market value. It is based on the data of
600 companies from 2005 to 2016 in pharmaceutical, chemical, machinery and electric industries. It operationalizes innovation as
R&D spending, patents and citations.
Econ08 Employment Relations and Labor Relations
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen); Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Employee voice, silence, and loyalty in the post-bubble Japan
Author: Prof Ryohei Nakagawa (The University of Nagano)This paper pursues to shed light on the trend of retrogression of employee’s “voice” and progression of “silence” after the collapse of
bubble economy from the 1990s in Japan and provide an implication that measures of employees’ involvement in decision-making
process are needed.
Why employees quit their companies - a comparison between Japanese firms and foreign firms in Japan
Authors: Prof Shinji Hasegawa (Waseda University); Prof Rei Hasegawa; Dr Takashi Akiyama (Kansai University)
We try to find out why workers quit the company they are currently employed. Exploring social or personal factors that affectworkers' decision-making processes will reveal how they shape turnover intention. We compare workers in Japanese companies withthose in foreign companies in Japan.
Telework in Japan before and after the COVID-19
Author: Prof Julien Martine (Université de Paris)
In this article we try to study the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the development of telework in Japan. We also seek to explain
why telework has not developed as much as it has in other OECD countries.
Making economic growth and well-being compatible: evidence from Japan
Authors: Dr Hiroshi Ono (Hitotsubashi University); Dr Kelsey O'Connor (STATEC)
We examine microdata from 1990 to 2010, and find that well-being in Japan increased due to improved conditions for elderly people,
people with children, and women, i.e., the primary groups targeted by policy reforms which were put in place during the time period.
Econ09 Entrepreneurs and Innovation
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors: Harald Conrad (University of Duesseldorf); Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45

13International learning and small and medium-sized retailers' survival in the shoe industry in Japan
Author: Dr Sayako Miura (Showa Women's University)
Previous research suggests small and medium-sized retailers can survive by specializing. However, it is difficult to do so since theirresources are limited. This study shows one way of becoming specialized through the case of shoe industry in Japan; shoe retailers
learned internationally together.
Why not internationalization? A longitudinal study of IT start-ups in Japan in comparative perspective
Authors: Dr Franz Waldenberger (German Institute for Japanese Studies); Dr Ying Cheng; Dr Martin Hemmert (Korea University);
Prof Masahiro Kotosaka
Our study of IT start-ups in Japan reveals that most of these firms do not internationalize successfully. We find similary results for
China and Korea. We identify a variety of factors that deter Japanese and East Asian start-ups from internationalizing.
Varieties of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a comparative study of enacted measures in Tokyo and Bangalore
Author: Dr Agata Kapturkiewicz (Waseda University)
I propose a methodological concept of enacted measures of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and examine it empirically in Tokyo andBangalore. I explain variation in the substance and sequence of enacted measures by identifying underlying interaction of old
economy factors and transnational connectedness.
Hist01 Appropriating and expanding court traditions: scholarship practices of late Tokugawa Japan
History
Convenor: Margarita Winkel (Humanities-Leiden University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Evidence-based scholarship flourished in late Tokugawa Japan and brought together researchers from various social backgrounds.
This panel looks at how people collected, investigated, and shared objects and knowledge, and how they came to identify 'Japan' as alocus of culture and tradition.
08:00-09:30
Embodying Classical Court Customs: An Outsider's Enterprise
Author: Dr Maki Nakai (Meiji University)
Antiquarianism and evidential scholarship in the Edo period encouraged outsiders to invest in border-crossing research of customs.
Matsuoka Tokikata and his son Yukiyoshi mastered the practices of both royal and shogunal courts and sought to propagate an"authentic" integrated tradition.
An antiquarian society: Interest in 'ordinary' old artefacts as a complement to traditional court scholarship
Author: Dr Fumiko Kobayashi (Hosei University)
Ōta Nanpo shared an interest in old everyday items at meetings with others, probably inspired by senior scholars of samurai
practices. In line with contemporary projects seeking 'traditions' defining Japan, his interest in popular history expanded theintellectual scope of the time.
Collecting data as a scholarly enterprise: the example of Ōta Nanpo's Ryūkan hyakuzu
Author: Dr Margarita Winkel (Humanities-Leiden University)
Antiquarian and other data as building blocks in evidential scholarship were exchanged, appeared in books and changed meaning in
the course of their scholarly existence. A ms. collection of 'raw' data from late 18th/early 19th century shows the breadth and scope of
topics and practitioners.
Hist02 Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Modern Japan
History
Convenor: Oleg Benesch (University of York)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Drugs in modern Japan have often been very different from popular perceptions. We explore how, from the nineteenth century totoday, Japanese attitudes towards drugs have been shaped by a complex interplay of domestic concerns, imperial agendas, and anawareness of emerging international norms.
12:30-14:00
Opiate Consumption in Prewar Japan
Author: Dr Judith Vitale (UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH)
This paper is about the medicinal use of opiates in prewar Japan. It shows that only in 1934, following the increasingproblematization of drug consumption by doctors and intellectuals, the Japanese government introduced a law aimed at theprevention of drug addiction.
Japan's 'Belle Epoque': Narcotics in Japanese Imperial Fiction
Author: Dr Miriam Kadia (University of Colorado Boulder)
Through the writings of five major Japanese novelists of the high imperial age (1918-1945), this presentation explores the ways inwhich fiction of various genres served as a medium to develop, explore, and challenge orthodox ideologies concerning race andnarcotics.

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Japan's Magic Mushroom Moment: Legality, Morality, and Identity
Author: Dr Oleg Benesch (University of York)This paper uses a case study of magic mushrooms to examine the contemporary history of popular, political, and private discourses
on drugs in Japan. The 2002 ban on magic mushrooms, which were widely sold from the late 1990s, was strongly influenced by anassociation of mushrooms with "foreignness."
Hist03 Transformations in Outcaste Status, Occupation, and Ownership in Japan's Long 19th Century
History
Convenor: Timothy Amos (National University of Singapore)Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel examines the early modern Japanese status order, how it changed over time, and how it was eventually dismantled after
the Meiji Restoration. It specifically analyses changes in relation to outcaste status, occupation, and ownership among communities
in eastern and western Japan.
12:30-14:00
From Shokubun to Shokugyō: Outcaste Status and Leatherwork in Early Modern Eastern Japan
Author: Dr Timothy Amos (National University of Singapore)
This paper explores the long-term transformation in chōri (eta) status during the early modern period in eastern Japan. It highlights
and analyses a historical shift in chōri (eta) thinking about leatherwork from a status-based duty to a more economically-focused
occupational trade.
Land Ownership, Status, and Local Society in Early Meiji Asakusa-Shinchō
Author: Prof John Porter (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
In the 1870s, the Meiji state initiated a nationwide land reform, which abolished the various forms of early modern land ownershipand divided land into public and private property. This presentation examines its impact on Asakusa-Shinchō, a land grant controlled
by outcaste chieftain Danzaemon.
The Reorganization of Outcast Labour in Early Meiji Japan
Author: Dr Michael Abele (University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill)
This presentation examines labour organization in a former outcaste village in the early Meiji period. Using archival documents fromthe village level, I show how former outcastes successfully managed beef production as an occupational group of skilled artisans.
Hist04 Hospitality and Transimperial Mobilities in the Pacific, 1910s-1940s
History
Convenors: Daniel Milne (Kyoto University); Yu Tokunaga (Kyoto University); Andrew Elliott (Doshisha Women's College)
Discussant: Dick Stegewerns (University of Oslo)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel examines the connections between hospitality (Derrida, 2000) and empire to examine the policies, practices, and politics
of hospitality in terms of subjects—specifically tourists and migrants—moving between the Japanese and other empires in the firsthalf of the twentieth century.
10:15-11:45
Whether to Welcome or Refuse: International Tourism and Japan in the 1930s
Author: Dr Daniel Milne (Kyoto University)
Through analyzing tourist-directed media portrayals of Japan and its empire, as well as government archive materials, the paper will
explore notions of hospitality by examining how Japanese state and other actors worked to attract, or alternatively to deter,international tourists in the 1930s.
Anglophone Travelers, Tourism Providers, and Host-Guest Encounters in the Japanese Empire
Author: Dr Andrew Elliott (Doshisha Women's College)
This paper considers touristic host-guest relations in relation to international tourism service provision at a micro level in theJapanese empire from the 1910s to the early 1940s, reading firsthand material produced by industry workers in comparison withvisitors' reports.
Anti-Japanese Exclusionism in the United States and Japanese Imperial Subjects' Search for Hospitality in Mexico
Author: Dr Yu Tokunaga (Kyoto University)
This paper examines Bokukoku Kenkyū Kai, an ethnic Japanese organization in Los Angeles, to consider how Japanese immigrants
in the U.S. envisioned Mexico as a hospitable destination for Japanese imperial subjects after the 1924 introduction of an act thatbanned Japanese immigration to the U.S.A.
Hist06 Debating Memorials and Monuments: Great Men, War Sites, and Animals in Imperial Japan and Beyond
History
Convenor: Lisa Yoshikawa (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Discussant: Oleg Benesch (University of York)Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel examines Imperial Japan's memorial and monument constructions as arenas where regional, national, and international
interests competed to define the Japanese nation and empire. The papers demonstrate processes that were contentious, results
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Making Port Arthur War Sites, 1905 to 1945
Author: Dr Justin Aukema (Osaka City University)
This paper investigates how Port Arthur war sites (Ryojun senseki) from the Russo-Japanese War were, through various
representations, performances, and discourses from 1905 to 1945, made into powerful sites of memory utilized to justify Japanesecolonial rule in perpetuity.
International Monumentalism: Memorials of "Great Men" (ijin) in Modern Japan
Author: Dr Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
In this presentation, I will analyze how global currents influenced the representations of national history and of narratives of "GreatMen" in public space in Meiji Japan. In particular, I will look at the process of planning and building public statuary and memorials.
Making Animals Japanese: Natural Monument Designation in Imperial Japan
Author: Dr Lisa Yoshikawa (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)This paper explores how imperial Japan's zoologist-activists negotiated science, nation- and empire-building, and local interests toselect state-protected Natural Monuments, when dealing with animals and their habitats that did not fit the political boundaries thecentral government sought to draw.
Hist07 Military and Diplomatic Networks in Franco-Japanese Relations: Key Figures in the French Military Missions to
Japan
History
Convenor: Noriko Berlinguez-Kono (University of Lille)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel aims to explore the impact of transnational military networks in the nineteenth century, using case studies on key figureslike Brunet, Du Bousquet and Sameshima to assess how the French military missions influenced the creation of the modern Japanesearmy and other Meiji reforms.
10:15-11:45
Jules Brunet's teaching to Meiji Japan in transnational and international perspective
Author: Prof Shinko Taniguchi (Waseda University)
This paper examines the process of imposing punishment on Jules Brunet, a member of the French military mission to Japan. It
explores how the Meiji government understood foreign consuls' jurisdiction in international law in the mid-19th century and theimportance of transnational military networks.
Sameshima Naonobu in Paris: A Meiji Diplomat's Role in the French Military Missions to Japan
Author: Dr Andrew Cobbing (University of Nottingham)
As Japan's first resident diplomat in Paris from 1871, Sameshima Naonobu (1845-80) found himself at the heart of a Franco-Japanesemilitary network already emerging since the last years of Tokugawa rule, and played a formative role in planning the second French
military mission to Japan (1872-80).
A revolution in the middle : The French military mission, from Edo to Meiji
Author: Dr Grégoire Sastre (Center for Japanese Research at EHESS)
Even though the French authorities sided with the Bakufu regime, sending military mission in 1867, they still got asked for a second
military mission by the new Japanese leaders in 1872. I will discuss the relation between these two missions and the role they playedbuilding the Japanese Army.
Albert du Bousquet's contribution to Franco-Japanese relations: Japan's Politico-Judicial Modernization and Cultural
Cooperation
Author: Prof Noriko Berlinguez-Kono (University of Lille)
This paper focuses on Albert du Bousquet's immense contribution to modernizing Japan's institutions not only in the military domain
but also in the judicial, political and cultural sphere. With an excellent command of Japanese, he also played a key role in promoting
Japanese studies in France.
Hist08 Economic relations between Japan and Korea before and during the East Asian War of 1592-1598
History
Convenor: James Lewis (University of Oxford)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel narrates economic relations between Japan and Korea from the early 1400s into the East Asian War of the 1590s by
establishing the general framework of trade, examining the disruption of Japanese silver exports, and offering a rare example ofresource extraction during wartime.
10:15-11:45
Japanese silver smuggling in Korea and beyond before and after the Imjin war
Author: Prof Guillaume Carré (EHESS)
Studies of Japanese silver exports in the sixteenth century have focused on its effects in China, but large amounts of Japanese money
have also been spilled on Korea before and after Hideyoshi's invasions. This paper will examine the effects of Japanese silver
smuggling in Korea and Liaodong.

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War and resources: Conflicts over timber on Kǒje Island during the Imjin War
Author: Dr Baihui Duan (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Though the war shattered the peacetime trade regime, Hideyoshi's daimyos still needed high-quality timber for the war. They usedviolence and negotiations to acquire this significant military resource, leaving environmental damage on Kǒje island.
Economic relations between Korea and Japan and Chosŏn's responses, 1394-1451
Author: Mr Yiu SiuChosŏn protected its economy and society from excessive Japanese trade in the early fifteenth century by imposing complicatedregulations for trade and diplomacy at the border, but this was more than a by-product of its policy on border security;it hadsignificant origins in economic considerations.
Hist09 Carriers of Cultural Capital: The exchange and use of cultured individuals in warrior society in the early modern
periodHistory
Convenor: Rebekah Clements (ICREA Autonomous University of Barcelona)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel explores the movement, exchange, and use of human cultural capital by high ranking Japanese warriors, from Toyotomi
Hideyoshi and the Shimazu daimyo of the Satsuma domain in the late sixteenth to mid seventeenth centuries, to Yanagisawa
Yoshiyasu in the eighteenth.
08:00-09:30
Captured Human Capital: Korean Potters and the Satsuma Domain
Author: Prof Rebekah Clements (ICREA Autonomous University of Barcelona)
This paper discusses potters taken to Satsuma during the invasions of Chosŏn, 1592-1598. I examine ceremonial displays that took
place during visits made to the potters' village by the Satsuma daimyo and discuss the relationship between these holders of cultural
capital and their captors.
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu's Human Capital: The Women
Author: Prof Gaye Rowley (Waseda University)
In my paper I shall discuss several of the women "collected" by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi's
long-serving chief adjutant, with the aim of showing how the cultural capital they embodied was an essential aspect of their value tohim.
Cultural Commerce Between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Kaoku Gyokuei
Author: Dr Akihiko Niimi (Waseda University)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's carefully cultivated relationship with the regental Konoe house also extended to connections with Kaoku
Gyokuei, author of two commentaries on The Tale of Genji, and her niece Chaa. My presentation examines these relationships andthe literary products they gave rise to.
Hist10 A Frontier Problem? Placing Japan's Modern Experience in the Age of Industrial Alienations
History
Convenor: Jonas Ruegg (Harvard University)
Chair: Sheldon Garon (Princeton University)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
This panel seeks out three instances of Japan's experience with modern alienations. It connects the reliance on ever-expanding
resource frontiers to scientific abstraction of warfare, thus calling for approaches to empire that encompass both the material andintellectual spheres.
14:45-16:15
Opening up New Fisheries Frontiers in Indo-Pacific Waters and Beyond: The Tuna Commons, Japanese Environmental
Migrants and Transimperial Race for Fish
Author: Prof Nadin Hee (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper explores how environmental change and Japanese fisheries labor migration in the Indo-Pacific in the first half of the 20th
Century were reinforcing each other embedded in a transimperal race for fish.
Early Modern Japan and the Tragedy of the Pelagic Commons: Whaling and the Unending Scramble for New Frontiers
Author: Mr Jonas Ruegg (Harvard University)
This paper explores the potentials and limitations of writing a history of early modern knowledge, technology, and environmental
transformation through 19th century Japan's experience with the globally connected expansion of whaling frontiers.
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: Situating the Bombing of Japan in Global History
Author: Prof Sheldon Garon (Princeton University)
Scholars commonly assume that the bombing of Japanese cities resulted primarily from racism and even genocidal motivations. This
paper situates the bombing of Japan in a decades-long process of transnational learning that involved a re-imagining of the place ofthe modern city in warfare.

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History
Convenor: Andrea Revelant (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Discussant: Urs Matthias Zachmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Our panel examines the history of relations between imperial Japan and the Republic of China, taking public narratives to discuss therole of different actors in the formation of mutual images between the two countries. Each paper addresses one of four successive
phases within the common timeframe.
08:00-09:30
2. Peripheral Voices on Foreign Policy: The Sino-Soviet Conflict of 1929 in the Local Press of Japan
Author: Dr Andrea Revelant (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
The Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 was a major trial for "Shidehara diplomacy" and affected subsequent relations between China andJapan. Research on the Japanese press, presented with a focus on local newspapers, takes that regional crisis as a case study ofcompeting discourses on Nationalist China.
4. Between Propaganda and Communication: The Role of Radio in the Sino-Japanese War
Author: Prof Shin Kawashima (The University of Tokyo)
Both China and Japan made intensive use of radio propaganda during the war of 1937-45. Long thought lost, documents on thecontents of broadcasting have recently reemerged from the archives. The paper discusses these contents and points at the legacy of
propaganda in the postwar era.
3. Cooperation between Japanese and Chinese Journalists before the Second Sino-Japanese War: Ōta Unosuke (Asahi
Shinbun) and Zhang Jiluan (Ta Kung Pao)
Author: Dr Daisuke Shimada (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Zhang Jiluan of Ta Kung Pao and Ōta Unosuke of Asahi Shimbun were comrades who shared a concern about Japan-China relationsin the 1930s. Their writings shed light on little-known cooperation between Japanese and Chinese journalists who strove earnestly toprevent escalation of conflict into war.
1. The emergence of Japan's "Monroe Doctrine for Asia": stereotyped criticisms of the 21 Demands to China by the Japanese
media in 1915
Author: Prof Sochi Naraoka (Kyoto University)
It is well-known that Japan's 21 Demands to China were criticized all over the world. But the reasons of criticism have been
neglected in previous studies. An analysis of why Japanese newspapers and magazines criticized the Demands reveals one aspect of"Information warfare" in the negotiations.
Hist12 A Social and Cultural History of Memories of Empire in Post-war Japan
History
Convenor: Misato Shimizu (Rikkyo University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel examines how the memory of the Japanese empire was retained, rediscovered and rewritten in post-war Japan, in order toreview Japan's relationship with Asian countries, using as examples representations of Colonial Taiwan, 1960s Singapore and a film
about a Japanese female anarchist.
08:00-09:30
Two Memories in Parallel: Visual Materials from Taiwan and Japan on Hatta Yoichi
Author: Dr Misato Shimizu (Rikkyo University)
Through visual materials produced in Japan and Taiwan,this paper analyses representations of Japanese civil engineer Hatta Yoichi,
known for constructing irrigation facilities in Colonial Taiwan, in order to elucidate differences in his images' 'mythification'.
A Whitewashed Memory of the Occupation of Southeast Asia in Post-war Japanese Popular Media
Author: Dr Masakazu Matsuoka (Ohtsuki City College)
This paper examines the reimagination of the post-war Japanese people's memories of the occupation of Singapore during the Second
World War, analysing both the story and the production process of the Japanese film Under the Stars of Singapore (1967) and thesong on which the film is based.
Colonial Memory's Variations in Korea and Japan: Analysis of the Film Anarchist from Colony and Its Reception
Author: Ms Yijin Kim (Hitotsubashi University)
This paper examines a film's functions within the context of Korean and Japanese historical understandings, focusing particularly on
the representation of 1920s Japanese anarchist Kaneko Fumiko in the Korean film Anarchist from Colony (2017) and its reception.
Hist13 Popular Representations of Science and Technology in Pre-war Japanese Magazines
History
Convenor: Giuseppe Strippoli (Edinburgh University)
Discussant: Andrea Germer (Heinrich-Heine-University)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel will analyse different types of texts that related to and popularized technology and science within the then modern mass
medium of the magazine, with the aim of unfold the ways in which the medium reflects, expresses and co-produces 'modernity'
through themes of science and technology.
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Technologies of Gender: Hormone Advertisements in Wartime Japan
Author: Ms Jasmin Rückert (University of Düsseldorf)
This paper explores the use and advertisement of hormonal products in 1930ties and 1940ties Japan. It will show how the popular
discourse on so-called sex-hormones influenced the understanding and definition of sexed bodies and aided pronatalist and eugenic
policies of imperial Japan.
An icon in the (re)making: Takahama Kyoshi's "Marunouchi"
Author: Dr Gala Maria Follaco (L'Orientale University of Naples)My paper examines Takahama Kyoshi's (1874-1959) notion of urban modernity in the essay "Marunouchi" (1927) while situating itin the broader context of the teito fukkō (Imperial Capital reconstruction) rhetoric and emphasising his assessment of architecturaldesigns and technological development.
Popularizing Science: Unno Jūza and the 'Popular Scientific Literary Movement'
Author: Mr Giuseppe Strippoli (Edinburgh University)
This paper will analyse Unnō Jūza's (1897-1949) attempt to organize a "popular scientific literary movement" in the scientificmagazine Musen Denwa, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between science and literature that shaped the scientific popular
discourse of the dawn of the Shōwa era.
Marie Curie as Pioneer and Woman: Gender and Science in Pre-war Japan Public Discourse
Author: Dr Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University of Rome)This paper will analyze the changing presentation of Marie Curie to the Japanese public through articles published in various
magazines from 1910s to 1930s. In particular, it will deal with the intersection of the two images of Curie as a scientist and as awoman.
Hist14 What was the Yayoi? Refining Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Japanese Past
History
Convenors: Mark Hudson (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History); Martine Robbeets (Max Planck Institute for the
Science of Human History)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
The Yayoi has been studied as the most interdisciplinary period in Japanese history but what issues remain under-theorised in thegaps between the different disciplines? This panel will evaluate the successes and problems of interdisciplinary research as applied to
the Yayoi.
12:30-14:00
From Xinglongwa to Yayoi: How language, agriculture and genes reached the Japanese Islands.
Author: Other Martine Robbeets (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
This paper will integrate linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence on the ultimate origins of Yayoi culture. It will trace Yayoi
language, agriculture and genes languages back to the beginning of millet agriculture and the early days of the Amur genome inNortheast China.
Shaken not stirred? Cultural admixture and the Yayoi
Author: Dr Mark Hudson (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
The paper compares different interdisciplinary understandings of admixture in the Yayoi period and proposes a new diverse culturalmodel for the Yayoi.
Yayoi rituality from an Anthropological and Gender perspective
Author: Dr Irene M. Muñoz Fernández (GIA (Grupo de Investigación Asia), Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Archaeology provides archaeological remains within ritual contexts in Yayoi Japan. Recurring to disciplines like Anthropology is key
to reach an understanding. Besides, research has traditionally excluded feminine aspects. Fortunately, gender studies represent an
improvement for research.
Good neighbors and distant friends: relations between dialects along the Japan Sea coast
Author: Prof Elisabeth de Boer (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum)
Certain regions along the Japan Sea coast share both agreements and differences in segmental and tonal phonology. These can be
explained as resulting from migrations that can be dated with reasonable certainty, based on comparison with archaeology, genetic
research and Japanese historiography.
Hist15 Developmental Transformations in the Japanese Empire
History
Convenors: Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Bath Spa University); Ernest Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chair: David Fedman (UC Irvine)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This transnational panel explores developmental transformations and intersections with private enterprise and State Capitalism
around the Japanese Empire, including Chōsen (Korea) and Manchukuo, and considers post-war legacies in the capitalist andsocialist developmentalism of Northeast Asia.
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Empire’s Failed Dreams and the Damming of the Yalu River
Author: Dr Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia)
This presentation examines dam projects started by Japanese imperial engineers on the Yalu River and finished by postcolonial
regimes decades later, showing how the logics of state-led hydrological engineering spanned the ideological and historical divides ofNortheast Asia’s twentieth century.
Cotton, capital, colonialism, and the re-organization of the rural economy in Korea
Author: Dr Holly Stephens (University of Edinburgh)This paper examines cotton cultivation policies in colonial Korea to explore the changing rural economy. I highlight the role of semigovernmental organizations (SGOs) as a vehicle for colonial interventions in agriculture to change production practices and link
Korean farmers to global markets.
Kolkhoz Dream Under the Imperial Sun – Agricultural Collectivisation in the Japanese Empire
Author: Mr Ernest Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
This paper argues that the roots of agricultural collectivisation in Northeast Asia are in the State Capitalist and total war ambitions ofImperial Japan, and experiments in Manchukuo, Korea and North China, and have left legacies for post-1945 policies in Northeast
Asian nations.
Transforming Korean Mineralogical Spaces for the Empire: From American Oriental to Nippon Kogyo
Author: Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Bath Spa University)
This paper explores transformations of mineralogical extraction in northern Chōsen (Korea), between 1910-1945, from an industry
rooted in entrepreneurial efforts led by foreign investor, to one enmeshed in the State Capitalist nexus of Imperial Japan and led byenterprises such as Nippon Kogyo.
Hist16 War and the Modern Media: Exploring Japanese Popular Magazines at the Turn of the 20th Century
History
Convenors: Shiho Maeshima (University of Tokyo); Kana Matsueda (Kyushu University); Irina Holca (University of Tokyo)
Chair: Irina Holca (University of Tokyo)
Discussant: Yukiko Tatsumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Attending to various modes of textual and visual expression at the turn of the 20th century with a particular focus on war, this panel
seeks to demonstrate the potential of popular magazines—a previously untapped historical and cultural resource— for allowing a
fresh understanding of modern Japan.
08:00-09:30
Animals of War: Textual and Visual Representations in Graphic Magazines of the Meiji Period
Author: Dr Irina Holca (University of Tokyo)
This presentation looks at text-and-image sets featuring animals in the coverage of the Sino- and Russo-Japanese Wars by Japanesegraphic magazines, shedding light on how they work to expose a less well-known side of war, one that transcends the humannonhuman divide as well as national borders.
Shifting Realisms in Japanese Journalism at the Turn of the Century: Focusing on Pictorial Magazines around the RussoJapanese War
Author: Dr Shiho Maeshima (University of Tokyo)
Around the turn of the century, Japan observed the industrialization of publishing and shifts in modes of expressing “reality.”
Analyzing reporting articles in pictorial magazines published around the Russo-Japanese War, this paper examines ideas andperceptions of the “realities” expressed there.
Beyond Hostility: Representations of Russia in Japanese General Magazines during and after the Russo-Japanese War
Author: Dr Kana Matsueda (Kyushu University)
By examining the representations of Russia in Japanese general magazines during and after the Russo-Japanese War, this paper
shows how Japanese conservative and moderate intellectuals understood Russia and its people and promoted Japanese-Russian
relations beyond the international hostility.
Survive to be Critical: The Wartime Graphic (Senji gahō) as a 'masquerading' media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Author: Dr Yu Sakai (Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies))
By focusing on unconventional imagery of the Russo-Japanese War and the role of chief editor Kunikida Doppo in The Wartime
Graphic, a widely popular pictorial war magazine in Japan, this paper uncovers an art of publishing critical materials under thedifficult circumstances of modern total war.
Hist17 Environmental History of Japan
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
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From Conflict to Cooperation: The Impact of Citizen Protests on Japanese Waste Management in the Early 20th Century
Author: Dr Rebecca Tompkins (Senshu University)
This paper will examine the relations between waste management experts, officials, citizens and civil society groups in the first halfof the twentieth century in order to illuminate the role that civil protest had on shaping official attitudes and policies regarding waste
management in Japan.
Shaped by Seismicity: Transnational relations and Science Diplomacy in 20th Century Japanese Seismology
Author: Ms Julia Mariko Jacoby (University of Freiburg)
The Japanese archipelago was crucial for institutionalizing seismology in the 1880s. This kept giving Japanese seismologists a
unique authority within the international scientific community to pursue active roles in science diplomacy and to maintaintransnational relationships based on seismicity.
Pollution from Women's Perspectives
Author: Dr Simona Lukminaite (University of Hyogo)
From looking at various media, I explore the perspectives of women and those who advocated for them to see how the perception ofgendered roles was used as a tool to advocate the protection of nature and to further the Japanese environmental movement in the
Meiji period and beyond.
Hist18 Centres and Peripheries in Premodern Society
History
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The role of mounted warriors in Kofun period Japan
Author: Ms Britta Stein (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
This paper will analyse the role of the horse and mounted warriors during the Kofun period by examining the exchange of objects,
techniques, ideas and beliefs between the Eurasian mainland and the Japanese archipelago.
Unearthing Genealogical Landscapes: Recovering Women and Familial Relations in Early Medieval Japan
Author: Dr Rieko Kamei-Dyche (Rissho University)
Political developments in early medieval Japan can be substantially illuminated when seen through the lens of familial relations inwhich women featured significantly. Their roles have been obscured, but insightful new perspectives can be gained by formulating
women-centered genealogies.
Outcasts or people of skills? Inujinin and kawaramono in medieval Japan
Author: Ms Anna Dulina (Kyoto University)
In my presentation I will examine ambivalent status and social role of inujinin and kawaramono as an important segment of premodern Japanese society. My investigation follows the debate started by Kuroda Toshio and Amino Yoshihiko – were medieval
inujinin and kawaramono outcasts or people of skill?
Hist19 Constituting Modern Japanese State and Society
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The Administrative "Assemblies" in the Early Meiji Era
Author: Miss Jiaxing Yuan (Waseda University)
By focusing on the "assemblies," which pervaded in both the central and prefectural governments in early Meiji, this paper
investigates how the prevailing concept of kōron (legitimate decisions based on public discussions) developed along with theintroduction of western parliamentary principles.
Seeking the Ignored Customs of Marriage: On the Research of the History of Marriage in the Empire of Japan
Author: Mr Tatsuya Kageki (Keio University)
This report discusses how research on the history of marriage in the Empire of Japan provide a logic that justifies the centrality of the
Empire of Japan and the peripherality of other areas (Taiwan, Ryukyu and the Pacific Islands) in terms of marriage customs.
“Malthus or Mars”: Diversification of Population Surveys and the “Population Problem” in Interwar Japan, 1920-1931
Author: Ms Mina Marković (University of Cambridge)
This paper examines the development of demographic knowledge in interwar Japan and its influence on domestic and foreign policy.
It elucidates the connection between statistical data and the “population problem” (jinkō mondai), placing contemporary
demographic issues in a broader historical context.
Hist20 Premodern Religion
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
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Tales of the Un-Dead: Minamoto no Yoshitsune and the Northern Borders of Japan
Author: Ms Sarah Rebecca Schmid (University of Zurich)This paper analyzes the myth of Minamoto no Yoshitsune's survival in relation to the shifting borders to the north of Japan during the
Edo and Meiji periods, and how Yoshitsune acted as a placeholder for the Japanese claim to new territory: through war, marriage, anddescendants.
Jien's view of Japanese history: Buddhist mediaeval approach to study of history
Author: Dr Vladlena Fedianina (Moscow City University, Institute of Foreign Language)
The research is focused on describing history in 13 c. in terms associated with Buddhism. The study aims to analyze a perception ofJapan as a country ruled by its kami on the distant borders of the Buddhist world. The research is based on the "Gukansho" andpoems by the Tendai monk Jien (1155-1255)
Ruling the Dead: Spirit Pacification and Regime Legitimacy in the Muromachi Period (1336-1573).
Author: Miss Chui-Jun Tham (Cambridge)
This paper analyses how Muromachi elites pacified vengeful ghosts. Earlier pacification activities are shown to have been replacedwith ghost-feeding rites adopted from the continent, because they offered an alternative vision of the relationship between thegoverning and the governed.
Hist21 Mind Control in Modern Japan
History
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45"This Cell Looks like a School": An Analysis of Prison Diaries of Liberal Journalists Convicted under the 1875 Censorship
Regulations
Author: Dr Joel Joos (University of Kochi)
Some of the journalists of the liberal press who were imprisoned under the censorship laws of 1875 have left detailed records of theirtime behind bars. I will elucidate how they dealt with their prison experience and how it affected their attitudes toward thegovernment and modernization itself.
Gauging brains - Academic bias and circulation of neuroanatomical knowledge between Habsburg Austria and Japan circa
1900
Author: Mr Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna)
When a series of detailed analyses of human brains was conducted at the Neurological Institute in Vienna, widespread sexist andracist presumptions in academic brain anatomy were challenged. How will Japanese scholars visiting the institution interact with thiscritical discourse?
Fearing the Others: pathologizing shyness and the construction of new individuals in 1930s Japan
Author: Mrs Sarah Terrail-Lormel (Inalco)
This paper explores the changing sociocultural ideals leading to the pathologizing of shyness in Japan in the 1930s through theexamination of popular therapies and testimonies of patients.
Hist22 Late Medieval Foreign Relations
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Ashikaga Rule and Ritual Regime in the Context of Ming Diplomacy
Author: Ms Polina Serebriakova (University of Cambridge)
Based on the analysis of diplomatic ceremonies and secular shogunal rites, this paper reconsiders the ritual regime of Ashikaga
Yoshimitsu. Greater attention is brought to the political rituals of his successors who were able to redefine the Ashikaga rule both
domestically and internationally.
Sakugen Shuryo's experience of legal and illegal trade in Zhejiang around the 1540s
Author: Prof Csaba Olah (International Christian University)
The paper analyzes the trade activities of Japanese tributary missions in China in the 1540s, arguing that Japanese records help us
reveal the connection between Japanese domestic economy and foreign trade, the reasons for changes in the tribute system and theincrease of illegal trade in Zhejiang.
Narrative and Historiography: Tsushima domain’s Perception of Imjin War
Author: Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)
This paper discusses the Tsushima domain’s narrative and historiography on the Imjin War, by analyzing Kihaku Genpo's memoirs on
the Imjin war and his compilation of sources about the Imjin war for the lord of Tsushima domain.

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Hist23 Japanese Relations with Europe
History
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Niigata - The Forgotten Treaty Port
Author: Other Andreas Eichleter (Universität Heidelberg)
Niigata is the forgotten treaty port of Japan, overshadowed by its contemporaries such as Yokohama, who embodied the foreigninteraction of Japan in the 19th century. This presentation will study this smallest treaty port in Japan and put it into context within
the larger treaty port network.
A political consideration on the Japan-Italy Treaty Revision Relations during the Inoue Kaoru Foreign Affairs Era (18791887): Centering on Official Japanese Primary Sources
Author: Prof Carlo Edoardo Pozzi (Osaka University)
The purpose of this research is to analyze as completely as possible the diplomatic relations between Japan and Italy regarding thetreaty revision during the management of the Japanese Foreign Ministry by Inoue Kaoru (1879-1887), using in particular theJapanese primary sources.
Belgium and the Russo-Japanese War: Focusing on the role of Adhémar Delcoigne, Belgian Advisor to the Chosǒn Court
Author: Prof Adrien Carbonnet (University of Leuven (KU Leuven))
The present paper, based on Belgian and Japanese diplomatic archives, examines the role played by Adhémar Delcoigne, a Belgian
advisor to the Korean Court, during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Demarche Declined: Japanese-French Diplomacy after the Manchurian Incident, 1931-33
Author: Dr Seung-young Kim (Kansai Gaidai University)
This paper shows Japanese efforts to revitalize the Japanese-French Entente of 1907 to overcome diplomatic isolation following the
Mukden Incident of September 1931. It also examines why France chose to decline Japanese offers until Japan withdrew from the
League of Nations in February 1933.
Hist24 Edo Society and Politics
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Writing the Ming-Qing Transition in Early Tokugawa Japan
Author: Miss Chui-Joe Tham (University of Oxford)
The Ming-Qing dynastic transition in China captured the imagination of literati in East Asia. This paper will explore the changing
landscape of historiography in Japan through an examination of how early Edo literati received, adapted, and wrote new histories ofthe dynastic conflict.
Ryukyuan Envoys and Samurai Ritual: The Reception of Ryukyuan Envoys as Shimazu & Tokugawa Vassals
Author: Dr Travis Seifman (University of Tokyo)
I examine formal audience ceremonies held in Edo castle to show how the kings of Ryūkyū (via envoys as proxies) were ritually
incorporated into the Tokugawa order not solely or primarily as rulers of a foreign "tributary" kingdom, but rather in a manner which
reaffirmed them as akin to buke vassals.
Idolization through Imagery and Imagination: Popular Portrayals of Ōshio Heihachirō and His 1837 Riot
Author: Dr Jeffrey Newmark (The University of Winnipeg)
This paper explores visual and popular portrayals of Ōshio Heihachirō (1793-1837), a Wang Yangming ideologue whose 1837 riot
incinerated nearly one-fifth of Osaka. It demonstrates how Ōshio's apotheosis began in the immediate aftermath of the event rather
than in the Bakumatsu years.
Hist25 Japanese Empire and Korea
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Debating the "Korea problem": Japanese liberal intellectuals and Colonial activists in Taishō-Japan
Author: Mr Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus (Free University Berlin)
This presentation delves into the debates among Korean activists and Japanese liberals surrounding the so-called "Korea problem"(Chōsen mondai). It discusses the question as to how the voices of Koreans colonial subjects can be situated within the discourse on
empire during the Taishō period.

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Municipal Merger Policies of Imperial Japan in Korea
Author: Dr Sven Kramer (Kyushu University)
Since 1889 Japan is one of those countries which frequently reduced the number of municipalities with municipal merger policies.
Research focuses on the situation in Japan proper, excluding her colonies. This paper examines Japanese municipal merger policy in
her largest colony, Korea (1910-1945).
Hist26 Early Modern Foreign Relations
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Rhythm of International Trading Business in Early Modern Nagasaki: A Seasonal Analysis
Author: Dr Ryuto Shimada (The University of Tokyo)
This paper investigates the seasonality of international trading activities in the port of Nagasaki during the eighteenth century. The
navigation of sailing ships was subject to seasonal limitations, which also gave a verity of impacts on the lives of the people
concerned with the Nagasaki trade.
A Fantastic Sea Adventure in the Japans - 1771 navigation of Benyowsky's crew reconsidered
Author: Dr Szymon Gredżuk (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
A case study of a sea voyage along the Japanese Archipelago by a crew of fugitives in 1771. By cross-referencing various
multilingual sources, several intercultural interactions were reconstructed to present multiple perspectives on these local events on
the background of the global history.
International or local? The Ainu lands as seen in Matsumae and Russian documents
Author: Dr Vasilii Shchepkin (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences)
A significant number of documents related to the Ainu lands were found recently in Russian archives, both in Japanese and Russian
languages. This presentation summarizes some evidences concerning Matsumae officials' view of early modern Japan's realm, its
northern borders and foreign relations.
Reviving Chinese Loyalism in Bakumatsu Japan: The Late Mito School's Strategies of compiling Seichū Shinroku
Author: Mr Sheldon Liu (The University of Tokyo)
By focusing on the editorial process of Seichū Shinroku, a compilation of stories about the renowned loyalist Yuefei in the Songdynasty, this paper elucidates the strategies of the late Mito school to revive Chinese loyalism in Bakumatsu Japan.
Hist27 Japan and the WorldHistory
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Unsheathing the Sword: "Samurai Populism" and National Aspiration in the Taiwan Expedition of 1874.
Author: Dr Alistair Swale (University of Canterbury)
The Taiwan Expedition (1874) was a turning point in mediating what Ravina has characterized as "samurai populism". Building on
Eskildsen (2019) this paper further examines the domestic coverage while also exploring a comparison with British coverage of theFirst Ashanti Expedition (1874).
The US - Japan Doll Diplomacy in the Interwar Period (1919-1938)
Author: Dr Tatiana Berezikova (Osaka University)
This paper explores a brief history of doll diplomacy as a unique way of cultural exchanges between Japan and the US (e.g.,children's doll exchanges through the Junior Red Cross) and after that focuses on the 1935 Goodwill Mission of American Dolls as an
example of involvement of politicians.
Japan's quest for land and natural resources in the South East Pacific-the case of Chile (c. 1930-1942)
Author: Dr Pedro Iacobelli (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
This paper presents a preliminary examination of Japan's presence in South America and south Pacific and the actions taken by
Japanese authorities to obtain Chilean minerals (mainly copper) and gain territorial control of Rapa Nui in the 1930s.
Hist28 Conceptualising Edo Japan
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
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Picturing, Mapping and Transmitting Knowledge in Early Modern European and Edo Japanese Visual Culture
Author: Ms Dayeon Oh (University of Oxford)
My transcultural project investigates historically- and culturally- specific ideas of 'the real' in representational practices in the processof picturing, mapping and transmitting knowledge in early modern Europe and Edo Japan, as well as their interactions in theeighteenth century.
Warriors' architectural and urban regulations in Kanazawa during the Edo period
Author: Dr Delphine Vomscheid (CRCAO (Paris, France))
In this paper we intend to discuss architectural and urban regulations edited by the Maeda clan over their retainers in Kanazawa. We
will study historical documents containing rules about the size and situation of their residential lands, and the restrictions of materials
and forms in their houses.
Edo as canon. On the popularity of some Edo-period tropes in Japanese historical culture
Author: Dr Michael Facius (University of Tokyo)
This paper explores reasons for the enduring popularity of a small set of tropes and images about the Edo period. While previous
accounts mostly saw them as a reflection of the power national history, it proposes instead to situate them in the context of a broader
Japanese historical culture.
Hist29 China in Transwar Japan
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Utilizing the Chinese Language in Japan’s Intelligence Activities 1897–1930s: A case study on MOFA Diplomat Shigemitsu
IwamuraAuthor: Miss Qiuying Wen
This paper examines the intelligence activities of Chinese language specialist and diplomat Shigemitsu Iwamura from 1897 throughthe 1930s, aiming to clarify how the Chinese language was used as a diplomatic tool in MOFA’s information strategy, and its effecton the pre-war Sino-Japan relationship.
Discursive Empire: The Shifting Definitions of Japan’s Empire in Manchuria (1905–37)
Author: Ms Yuting Dong (Harvard University)
I explore how Japanese legal scholars justified Japan’s position in Manchuria, especially in “railway auxiliary zones.” This paper
historicizes the shifting definitions of Japan’s position and shows that Japan’s empire-building in Manchuria is contingent on global
events in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Opening of the Right-Wing’s Eyes: Tsukui Tatsuo, State Socialism, and the ‘New China’Author: Dr Andrew Levidis (University of Cambridge)
This talk illustrates how a rightwing socialist, and self-proclaimed ‘Stalinist,’ Tsukui Tatsuo (1901-1989), recast imperial
anticommunism and wartime commitment to the New Order into postwar admiration for Mao Zedong’s radical reconstruction of the‘New China’
Hist30 War & Memory
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Japanese War Atrocities Reassessed: The Case of the Manila Massacre
Author: Dr Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
This presentation focuses on the factors that led the Japanese Navy to massacre 100,000 civilians in Manila in February 1945. Using
surviving documents of the Imperial Army and Navy, I show that the tragedy in Manila was partially a byproduct of specific battle
tactics.
Between Escapism and Propaganda: Cultural Activities in Soviet POW Camps After World War II
Author: Ms Clara Momoko Geber (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper sheds light on the cultural activities of Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union after World War II. The prisoners had theopportunity to engage in activities such as singing, drawing, and acting, which were also used as propaganda tools to spreadcommunist ideologies.
Not As the Monument of a Grudge: How Okinawan Christians Sought to Redefine the Religious Nature of the Tower ofHimeyuriAuthor: Dr Daigo Shima (Kyoto Sangyo University)
This presentation examines the religious nature of the Tower of Himeyuri. By focusing on how Okinawan Christians sought toredefine the nature of the monument, this presentation aims to clarify the complicated background of the way Okinawanscommemorated the war dead after the defeat.

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Conceptions of Empire and East Asia in Japan's new history curriculum
Author: Dr Juljan Biontino (Chiba University)
This paper introduces the debate on the new Japanese history curriculum to be implemented in 2022. Using concepts of East Asia andEmpire found in the curriculum plans and textbook drafting reports, problems arising from these conceptions in regard to theexamination environment are discussed.
Hist31 Invented Pasts and Idealised Futures
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15"To break down the barriers between East and West": Meiji-period English-language travel guidebooks to Japan
Author: Dr Sonia Favi (The University of Manchester)
The paper analyses Japanese Meiji-period English-language travel guidebooks to Japan, published in the wake of John Murray's
pocket guide. Focusing in particular on the "Japan Guide" by the Kihinkai, it discusses their diplomatic aims, in the context of thefirst wave of inbound tourism in Japan.
Learning Tea in Meiji Japan
Author: Dr Taka Oshikiri (University of the West Indies, Mona)
This presentation examines the transnational characteristics of the tea ceremony and how it was significant, for both men and women,in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century modernisation of Japanese society.
Expansions of elementary school trips to Ise jingu shrine and Kshihara jingu shrine in the beginning of the Showa era
Author: Mr Akimasa Suganuma (Kyushu Sangyo University)
This article aims to examine how elementary school trips expanded to Ise jingu and Kshihara jingu from the interbellum period andinto wartime, mainly focusing on the changes caused by the regional communities' events and the economic activities of a railway
company.
The development of the idealistic concept of Expo 1970 Osaka "Progress and Harmony for Mankind" by a group of young
intellectuals, and continuity and discontinuity from Expo 1958 Brussels
Author: Mr Kenji Saotome (Suita City Museum, Osaka)
This paper spotlights an independent group of Japanese intellectuals who drafted the basic concept for Expo 1970 Osaka ("Progressand Harmony for Mankind"), which has not been discussed academically, with particular attention to the continuity and discontinuity
from Expo 1958 Brussels.
Hist32 Notions of Race and Belonging
History
Convenors: Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh); Noémi Godefroy (Inalco)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Sino-Japanese childern born during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War: identity and belonging of children who'returned' to Japan
Author: Dr Kuramitsu Kanako (University of Birmingham)This study focuses on children born of Japanese fathers and Chinese mothers who had consensual relationships in China during andafter the Second Sino-Japanese War and who migrated to Japan after 1972. It explores the life-long impact of their origin on theirexperiences, identity and belonging.
"Making Workers in Postwar Okinawa" Economic Reform Policies by the US, Japan, and Okinawa, and subjectivity ofworkers, 1945-1972
Author: Ms Akino Oshiro (Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg)
This research revisits the economic reform policies applied to post-war Okinawa and examines a process of proletarianisation of local
citizens. It tries to untangle a triangle power relationship among the US, Japan, and Okinawa on the postwar economic reform
policies and examine the responses.
"Race" and beauty in post-war Japan: an analysis of cosmetic advertisements from the 1960s to the 1980s
Author: Ms Elisa Pellicanò (Hokkaido University)
This paper deals with the role of "race" in the construction of beauty ideals in cosmetic advertisements. The material analyzed will
span from the 1960s, when modeling became a popular occupation for "mixed-race" people, to the moment when this trend started tofade in the 1980s.
Ling01 New insights on ethics in translation and interpreting
Language and Linguistics
Convenor: Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45

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This panel presents new insights on ethical issues in translation and interpreting by drawing on historical and contemporary cases in
the Japanese context, concerning interpreters as war criminals, the practice of untrained translators and interpreters, andmisconceptions about machine translation.
10:15-11:45
Diplomacy, Interpreting and Translation in the Case of Co-ordinators for International Relations Working for Local
Governments in Japan
Author: Mr Shane Forde (Dublin City University)
The paper looks at a group of mostly untrained translators and interpreters working for local Government bodies in Japan. Following
a textual analysis of ethical codes for diplomats and translators, data from focus groups and interviews is used to show theincompatibilities between the two roles.
Translation process model and ethical issues
Author: Prof Masaru Yamada (Rikkyo University)
This presentation focuses on how the lack of shared understanding among different parties of what translation (by machine or human)is can lead to ethical issues in translation-mediated communication, and how it can be addressed by constructing meta-language fortranslation.
Interpreters' joint responsibility in war crimes
Author: Prof Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University)
This paper discusses ethical concerns around interpreters involved in criminal acts by drawing on historical cases of interpretersconvicted as war criminals at post-WWII British military trials against the Japanese, focusing on complex issues of interpreters'
visibility and joint responsibility.
Exploring the concept of 'post-editing effort' to safeguard translators from exploitation in the automated translation
environment
Author: Dr Akiko Sakamoto (University of Portsmouth)
The paper explores the concept of 'post-editing effort' and challenges the misconception that post-editing is 'easier' than translating.
The aim is to safeguard translators' fair working conditions and professional status in the increasingly technologised industry
environment.
Ling02 Studies of Early Modern Japanese Based on the Corpus of Historical Japanese
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Okabe (Chiba University); Toshinobu Ogiso (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Discussant: Sven Osterkamp (Ruhr University Bochum)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
At the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, the construction of the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ) is
proceeding apace. This panel will first give a brief overview of the CHJ and then present three research papers on Early Modern
Japanese based on the CHJ.
08:00-09:30
Tendencies in the Appearance of Fusion in Early Modern Japanese
Author: Dr Miwako Murayama (Fukuoka Women's Junior College)
In this presentation, I report on tendencies in the occurrence of fusion in the spoken language of the Edo period using a corpus
annotated with information on the regional differences and social status of speakers.
Layered Structure of Subordinate Clauses in Early Modern Japanese
Author: Dr Yuho Kitazaki (Kochi University)
Subordinate clauses in Japanese have a layered structure that contains different items. However, details are unknown except for the
Heian Period and for present day Japanese, and it might be an error to link them together. This paper describes subordinate clauses inthe Edo Period, using the CHJ.
Utilization of Speaker Information Annotated in the Share-bon corpus and the Ninjo-bon corpus
Authors: Dr Taro Ichimura (Tokoha University); Prof Yoshiyuki Okabe (Chiba University)
In this presentation of a case study using speaker information annotated in the Share-bon and Ninjo-bon corpora (sub-corpora of the
CHJ Edo period series), we will show which words and expressions are related to the gender of the characters.
Ling03 Japanese scientific language in the global age
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (University Tuebingen); Akiko Hayashi (Chuo University); Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (Freie
Universität Berlin); Judit Hidasi (Budapest Business School)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The panel discusses the state of the art of lexicography and the question what should be done in Europe and in Japan to develop
Japanese in scientific contexts. It will address the issue of dictionaries and databases between languages of Europe and Japanese forscience and education at universities.
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Dictionaries and scientific databases between European languages and Japanese
Author: Prof Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (University Tuebingen)
The paper will address the issue of dictionaries and databases between languages of Europe and Japanese for scientific work andeducation at universities in humanities and natural sciences. Which languages are well connected to Japanese and which projects arenecessary for the future?
How to Create a Comprehensive Bilingual Dictionary - Conceptual Issues
Author: Prof Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (Freie Universität Berlin)
The paper addresses dictionary production from various angles. Starting from the necessity of dictionary production in the 21st
century, it discusses functions served, for whom, and in what range and depth. Choice of material and sources, technical questions,
including digitalization, are detailed.
Digital lexicon, Digital glossary
Author: Prof Judit Hidasi (Budapest Business School)
Japanese web-sites of start-ups offer exciting samples of digital lexicon by successfully combining the semantic and pronounciation
specifics of each English lexical item with their own language-bound repertoire and possibilities significantly modulated by the strict
rules of katakana transcription
How to learn Japanese and German as a "scientific language"?
Author: Prof Akiko Hayashi (Chuo University)
Every language has its specific variant to acquire or present academic knowledge. Here we consider the process of learning Japaneseand German as a "scientific language" by Japanese university students learning German.
Ling04 Beyond sententialism
Language and Linguistics
Convenor: Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kyoto University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
While the term 'discourse' is widely used in linguistics, the nature of its components is often unquestioned. This panel reconsiders thisissue through a critical examination of sententialism, a wide-spread view that discourse consists of sentences, and that only sentences
are its basic components.
08:00-09:30
Is “one-word sentence” a sentence?: An examination of sententialism from pragmatic and phonological perspectives.
Author: Prof Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kyoto University)
In this presentation we examine the sentence qualifications of single-noun utterances in Japanese from pragmatic and phonologicalperspectives. The conclusion is that single-noun utterances are not sentences from either of these two perspectives, contrary to strong
version of sententialism.
‘Structural incompletion’ as a communicative strategy: What motivates utterances starting in the middle?
Authors: Dr Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); Dr Fumino Horiuchi
In this presentation, we will examine the functional and formal motivations that gave rise to the particle-initiated construction andshow that different discourse contexts justify and call for different forms of linguistic expressions, including those deviating from thewell-formed ‘sentence’.
Sentence bias in the analysis of ‘co-construction’ in Japanese conversation
Author: Mr Tsuyoshi Ono
Co-construction (defined as joint construction of a sentence) examples in the literature are found to not form grammatical units. The
sentence analysis of these examples stems from a bias in that utterances by separate speakers are atemporally patched together in aquest to find sentences.
Why are “unfinished” utterances complete? The case of Japanese –te ending utterances
Author: Dr Shigeko Okamoto (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Utterances that end with the particle –te ‘and’ appear frequently in Japanese discourse. They may be deemed unfinished, but analysesof their formal and functional properties demonstrate that they are complete utterances, constituting several different types ofgrammatical constructions.
Ling05 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics I
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
A corpus-based approach to personal deixis in Japanese benefactives
Author: Ms Natalia Solomkina (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow City University)
In this paper we observe the criteria that different researches use to explain the choice of an auxiliary verb in Japanese benefactive
constructions focusing on direct/inverse alignment. We verify this approach using data from the BCCWJ and the NPCMJ corpora.

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Showa Speech Corpus: Design, Compilation and Analysis
Author: Dr Takehiko Maruyama (Senshu University, NINJAL)
Showa Speech Corpus (SSC) is a speech corpus which consists of monologue and dialogue recorded from 1952 to 1974 in NINJAL,
a total of 50 hours. I will introduce the corpus design of SSC, and the procedure of compilation, how the sound material was
gathered, transcribed, and annotated.
JFLCorp (Japanese as a Foreign Language Corpus): Building a new L1 Spanish - L2 Japanese digital learner corpus
following CEDEL2 standards
Authors: Dr Nobuo Ignacio López-Sako (University of Granada); Dr Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
The Japanese as a Foreign Language Corpus (JFLCorp), featuring L1 Spanish, is presented. The design criteria will be introduced, as
well as the data collection method and data management. Preliminary data will be reported and a demonstration will be done of the
open-access search engine to be used.
Ling06 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics II
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Making "digital" linguistic ethnography of Myaakufutsu (Miyakoan) ―――An approach of raising awareness of the
speakers in the endangered Ryukyus
Author: Dr Sachiyo Fujita-Round (International Christian University)
This presentation addresses the potentials of "digital" linguistic ethnography, based on the author's making a documentary film on
Miyako Island. The outcome appeared 1) to raise awareness of the speakers and 2) may well provide the platform of new"interactional sociolinguistics".
The Dialectal Varieties of the Tsushima Island: A Fieldwork Based Study
Author: Dr Vít Ulman (Palacky University Olomouc)This paper deals with the current state of the Tsushima dialectal varieties of Japanese based on the data gathered during two
fieldwork trips taken in 2018 and 2019. Their major features, internal variation, and the level of language attrition will be discussed.
A historical study of a Japanese dialect in the 18th century using manuscripts translated into Russian.
Author: Prof Ai Kubozono (Aichi Prefectural University)
Studies on the history of Japanese dialects have not been deepened. This paper examines manuscripts written in Cyrillic script
reflecting the Kagoshima dialect in the 18th century, and identifies features of the manuscripts through an analysis of the passive
affix.
Ling07 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics III
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Exploring the interplay of resources for affective stance display in Japanese conversational interactions
Author: Ms Halina Zawiszová (Palacký University Olomouc)
Based on analyses of actual face-to-face and online conversational interactions, I explore and show how Japanese speakers produce
and make interpretable affective stance displays in their everyday interactions by means of contextually situated combinations of
verbal, vocal, and visual resources.
Narrative voices in the translations of contemporary Japanese fiction [Trans from LitMod]
Author: Ms Raisa Porrasmaa (Helsinki University)
I focus on the translation of contemporary Japanese fiction, especially two topics: 1) the general ambiguity of Japanese language and2) different “voices” that can be detected in these texts. The examples are drawn from my translations of Haruki Murakami, Hiromi
Kawakami and Sayaka Murata etc.
The corpus-driven approach to the analysis of press and social media reaction to nuclear phase-out in Japan, 2011-2014
Author: Ms Olena Kalashnikova (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Through the examination of the corpus built from Yomiuri, Asahi and Twitter data from 2011 to 2014, this paper aims to contribute to
the understanding of the Fukushima effect in Japan's media focusing on a discussion of nuclear phase-out from the point of view ofcorpus-driven discourse analysis.
Shifting Shades of Victimhood Discourse and the Atomic-Bomb Survivors
Author: Dr Luli van der Does (Hiroshima University)
This paper examines the emergence and developmental trajectory of Japanese victimhood discourse using the texts of 74 years ofHiroshima's Peace Declarations and 20,000 atomic-bomb survivors' questionnaire responses.

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Ling08 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics IV
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Towards a Typology of Temporal Description Strategies in Contemporary Japanese
Author: Dr Maria Telegina (University of Tokyo)
This study presents a typology of Japanese temporal description strategies. The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses ofexperimental data suggest that there are four description strategies: Linear Limited Time, Non-limited Linear Time, Endless Linear
Time, Non-Linear Time.
The Ecology of the Japanese Verb 'naru' in Crosslinguistic Perspective
Author: Prof Yoshihiko Ikegami (The University of Tokyo, Komaba)
A crosslinguistic survey reveals that the Japanese verb 'naru', in contrast to its corresponding verbs in other Asian languages, tends
markedly towards 'transition' ('(X ga) Y ni naru': "haru ni naru" as in Japanese) rather than 'emergence' ('(X kara) Y ga naru': "haru ga
naru" as in Korean).
Event/Thing Homomorphism of V-N Compounds in Japanese
Author: Prof Naoyuki Ono (Tohoku University)
This paper provides a lexical-semantic analysis of verb-noun compounds that ambiguously denote an event and a thing, e.g. 'wasuremono' (forget-thing) 'a lost property'. I will explicate how the denoted meanings are created and disambiguated in the combinatory
process of verbs and their arguments.
Adjective or No Adjective? The Hybrid Category of Japanese 'No-Adjectives' and Its Role in Nominal Modification
Author: Mr Viktor Köhlich (Goethe University Frankfurt)
In this paper, I take the category of no-adjectives as a starting point to reevaluate the traditional claim that Japanese does not exhibit
direct modification. Besides its role in nominal modification, I focus on the conditions for class membership and the hybrid nature ofthis adjectival subgroup.
Ling09 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics V
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
A comparative study of grammatical voice system: Contemporary Japanese, Early Middle Japanese and Contemporary
SpanishAuthor: Ms Ayako Shiba (Nagoya University)
We compare the passive, potential and spontaneous clitic -(r)are- in Japanese with the middle voice clitic se in Spanish. The common
character between
them is that both have developed passive and potential constructions from the spontaneous meaning.
Japanese aspect marker -te i- and its multiple interpretations in an aspectual analysis of psych verbs
Author: Dr Ayumi Shimoyoshi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
An aspectual analysis of psych verbs leads us to a better understanding of the Japanese aspect marker -te i-. The multiple
interpretations of -te i- can be explained by means of the type of "boundary", i.e. beginning, beginning=ending or ending, thatappears in the denotation of the predicate.
Emotional attitudes of speakers in exceptional usage of personal pronouns
Author: Ms Ayaka MAKI (Tokyo International University)
The basic function of personal pronouns is to indicate the object, but sometimes it functions as a strategy to convey the emotional
attitude. By examining the usage of the personal pronouns as a communication strategy, we aim at clarifying the characteristics of thepersonal pronouns in Japanese.
Understanding of Japanese Case in Modern Japan :The Incorporation of Dutch Studies and Kakarimusubi Studies from
Kokugaku
Author: Dr Noriko HattoriThis presentation discusses the relationship between the notion of 'cases' found in the research of the Dutch language and the researchof kakarimusubi in Kokugaku in the modern realm of grammar studies in Japan. The achievement of understanding of cases inmodern grammar will show.
Ling10 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics VI
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
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Revised text and note making of Chinese-Japanese character dictionaries compiled in early Japan: A case of Ruijumyogisho
Authors: Other Shoju Ikeda (Hokkaido University); Dr Yuan Li (Hokkaido University)
This paper introduces the construction of revised text and note making of Chinese-Japanese character dictionaries compiled in earlyJapan. We have provided a detailed report of Kanchi'inbon Ruijumyogisho, which recorded many Japanese readings by katakana
written in the Heian period.
Poetic "names of things" and the Classical Japanese language
Author: Prof Tomasz Majtczak (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
The paper is going to examine to what extent the Classical Japanese poems called mono no na 物の名, i.e. 'names of things', canbe used as a source of linguistic information. This will discussed by means of two examples, one lexical and one phonetic.
The Use of the Letter K in Japanese Romanization in Late Middle Japanese
Author: Dr Atsuko Kawaguchi (Mie University)João Rodriguez's Arte Breve da Lingoa Iapoa (1620, Macao) is the first example of using 'K' in Japanese romanization. To point out
the origin of his methods, I will compare examples of the Japanese romanization in Pater-Noster by Andre Palmeiro to the Chineseromanization by Matteo Ricci.
On the loss of kakari-musubi with koso in Late Middle Japanese: a comparative corpus-based analysis of the language ofChristian materials and kyōgen plays
Author: Dr Giuseppe Pappalardo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)The paper aims to conduct a comparative study between the language of Esopo no fabulas and Feiqe monogatari and that of
Toraakirabon, analysing all the collocations with koso extracted from the Corpus of Historical Japanese in order to describe the lossof kakari-musubi in Late Middle Japanese.
Ling11 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics VII
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
esting the predictive power of historical Japanese tonology: a comparison with synchronic descriptions
Author: Ms Melissa Boiko (Ruhr-University)
In this paper we compare synchronic and historical theories of Japanese tonology, testing both against actual data and examining
exceptions and problem cases. We discuss what it means for a historical account to have explanatory power, and how it can help us
understand inter-dialectal relationships.
Tense-Mood System of Early Middle Japanese based on reality, pastness, and assertiveness
Author: Dr Kunihiko Kuroki (Kobe Shoin University)
This study clarifies the tense-mood system of Early Middle Japanese, which has 8 tense-mood suffixes. They are classified into thefollowing five groups:[realis, past, assertive] suffixes[-, -, 0] -m-, -zi[-, +, 0] -mase[+, -, -] -ram[+, +, +] -tu-, -se-, -ker[+, +, -] -kemAbout a compound verb of Japanized Chinese style in Heian Period --, with a vew from the degree of later verb's derivation-Author: Mrs Etsuko Yanagihara (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
In "wabun"(the colloquial style in the Heian Period,),later parts of compound verbs frequently took derivative meanings. They often
express aspects, feelings, and so on. However, in case of "kirokutai" (Japanized Chinese style) later parts of compound verbs rarely
had derivative meanings.
Predicate Morphology and Narrative Structure in Early Heian Japanese Renditions of Sinitic Buddhist Texts
Author: Mr John Bundschuh (The Ohio State University)
This study examines early Heian Japanese renditions of Sinitic Buddhist texts to determine how tense, aspect, and modal auxiliaries
were used to foreground events in narrative, provide background information, and to frame narration on two levels: the overarchingsutra and embedded parables within.
Ling12 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics VIII
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
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Unburying Tokieda Motoki for the 21st century: Reading Kokugogaku genron as a thesis rather than an antithesis
Author: Mr Jonathan Puntervold (Aarhus University)
In 1941, Tokieda Motoki published Kokugogaku genron, a failed attempt to refocus Japanese linguistics as an ontological alternative
to Western theory. This paper examines Tokieda’s legacy and proposes a recontextualisation of an otherwise overlooked chapter inthe global history of linguistics.
From the Pages of Jugaku Akiko's Diary: The Pioneer of Gender Research in the Japanese Language
Author: Dr Orie Endo
This presentation attempts to trace the ideas and anxieties regarding "onna-rashisa" (femininity) held by Jugaku Akiko ( 壽岳章子,
1924-2005), pioneering researcher on gender in Japanese language, through introducing diary excerpts from 17 years of her life.
L'esprit de celui qui parle - Wilhelm von Humboldt on the Japanese language and its speakers
Author: Dr Patrick Heinrich (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)This paper discusses Humboldt's unpublished notes on Japanese. They are limited to 18 pages. Based on his view of language as ateleological phenomenon, Humboldt notes on Japanese deal with the genesis of linguistic phenomena as an expression of the feelings
and thoughts of their speakers.
Ling13 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics IX
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Operationalizing topic models for writing conceptual history: the evolution of "data" (dēta) as observed in speeches in theJapanese National Diet
Author: Mr Harald Kuemmerle (German Institute for Japanese Studies)
For Japan, parliamentary records are an understudied source highly rich in context. Using topic models and grounded theory,
analyses on how concepts evolve with time can be carried out. The approach is applied to the concept of data, giving insight into thediscourse on the digital transformation.
Chanting sutras in the National Diet: The linguistic analysis of the birth and the growth of Kokkai Jargon
Author: Dr Kenjiro Matsuda (Kobe Shoin Women's University)
Analyzing the formation and growth of Kokkai jargon(words/expressions used by National Diet representatives), we will
demonstrate that they are used with hedge expressions, then extend their grammatical environments, showing how a jargon becomes
a complete item within the representatives' lexicon.
Ling14 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics X
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Re-finitization of incomplete predicates in Japanese: motives for language change
Author: Prof Sunghee Youn (Kwansei Gakuin University)
This study examines truncated predicates in Japanese. By investigating various texts, I will argue that morphologically or
syntactically incomplete predicates are becoming established within the language as a strategy for efficiency, by overcoming
syntactic limits through re-finitization.
Generational change in Kagoshima Japanese syllable weakening
Author: Dr Connor Youngberg (LLING (UMR 6310) Université de Nantes)
This paper examines syllable weakening in Kagoshima Japanese. Final high vowel loss and lenition gives rise to final consonants,
e.g. Tokyo [kaki], Kagoshima [kaʔ] 'persimmon'. I discuss generational shift where this pattern is partially lost or lost entirely aswell as reasons for such a shift.
Reito, Reina, Rei: The Influence of the New Reiwa Era on Current Name Selection
Author: Dr Ivona Barešová (Palacký University Olomouc)
Since 1912 the start of each new era had an immediate impact on baby names. This paper discusses the more muted influence of the
Reiwa Era, explores its manifestations in currently bestowed names, and explains this phenomenon in the light of the major changes
in name selection over the last decades.
Ling15 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics XI
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
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Washes whiter than white: Disassociative kata-kana and the Japanese cultural phenomenon of externalisation, a theoreticalperspective.
Author: Dr A.R. WOOLLOCK (岐阜聖徳学園大学)
Kata-kana is one of the two syllabries forming part of the triad of logogram/phonogram used to write the Japanese language.
Historically it performed one of two functions, however, in its contemporary form, it is often used as a way to white-wash negative
words, externalising their ownership.
Loanwords from Japanese in European languages - with a focus on the case of the Romanian languageAuthor: Dr Anca Focseneanu (University of Bucharest)
In this paper I discuss the influence of Japanese on the European languages. Recently, an increasing number of borrowings fromJapanese has entered the European languages. I focus on Japanese loanwords in Romanian language. My analysis is based on words
collected from dictionaries and newspapers.
Ling16 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics XII
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Onomatopoetic expressions in formal interactions in Japanese: An analysis from a pragmatic-discursive approach
Authors: Dr Chisa Matsukawa (University of Central Lancashire); Dr Mareike Hamann (University of Central Lancashire)
This paper explores the use and sequential position of onomatopoetic expressions in interactions in a formal setting in Japanese froma pragmatic-discursive approach by taking a closer look at their role as interactional tools.
The patterns of compliments and compliment responses in Japanese
Author: Dr Yuko Yoshinari (Gifu University)
This study examines the pattern of compliment responses in Japanese by analyzing the adjacency pair data from Japanese university
students. We found the typical patterns of compliment responses depending on the types of compliment, and discussed the motivation
coming from the politeness strategies.
Ling17 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics XIII
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
The voice quality of anime as a sociocultural register
Authors: Prof Ichiro Ota (Kagoshima University); Mr Yoshitaka Ota (Kagoshima University); Dr Akira Utsugi (Nagoya University)
This paper examines the acoustic quality of voice of anime characters, performed by female college students in a voice actor course
as well as by professional voice actresses, and discusses the sociocultural meaning of anime voices as a register in the sociolinguistic
context of contemporary Japan.
Impact on short-term mood by two factors of browsing "kawaii" objects and linguistic communications
Author: Ms Masako Nunokawa (Hokkaido University)
While browsing "kawaii" objects or not "kawaii" objects, I compared the two cases with or without communication by utterance. As
a consequence of the analysis in those two factors showed that the communicating group significantly felt positive no matter which
objects they were browsing.
How digitalised has communication become? - An investigation through the analysis of 'Requests' on LINE chats
Author: Dr Kazuko Miyake (Toyo University)
This study focuses on 'Requests' on LINE communiation to investigate the pragmatically and interactionally unique features of thismedium, such as interactional structures, use of visual language, handling the 'switch-back' interaction, and gender representation.
LINE stickers in Japanese digital communication
Author: Dr Michaela Oberwinkler (University of Tübingen)This study investigates the structure and function of LINE stickers. The sociolinguistic analysis revealed specific gender differences
not only in the images chosen but also in functional aspects, why and to what purpose LINE stickers are used.
Ling18 Individual papers in Language and Linguistics XIV
Language and Linguistics
Convenors: Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics); Romuald Huszcza (Jagiellonian University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
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Zoonyms and Zoomorphysms in Japanese Language
Author: Prof Nataliia Kutafeva (Novosibirsk State University Humanitarian Institute)
We have studied zoonyms and zoomorphysms used in different constructions. All samples in according with the emotional andevaluative components are divided into 4 groups. Each group has own peculiarities and is based on national and cultural associations
understood by the Japanese community.
The less unit-ness of grapheme in the Japanese writing system
Author: Dr Kazuhiro Okada (Hokkai-Gakuen University)
The graphemic nature of the Japanese writing system from a comparative perspective is addressed. Recently proposed criteria ofgrapheme are too strict for the Japanese writing system. It is proposed that those insufficiency can be solved to allow variation ofreferencing to the linguistic units.
LitMod01 Literature and Globalization before WW2 (1920-1940) : Japanese Characters and Images of Cosmopolitanismand Mixed Race (konketsu).
Modern Literature
Convenor: Cecile Sakai (Université de Paris)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Japanese writers of both highbrow and popular literature wereconfronted with foreignness, perhaps as never before. Their response was to explore different ways of expressing this new paradigm
by creating characters and writing styles characterized by hybridity.
10:15-11:45
Hisao Jûran and French Stories: Travel Narratives and New Spaces - Around Nonchalant Dôchûki (Travelling Nonchalant,
1934)
Author: Prof Cecile Sakai (Université de Paris)
Hisao Jūran wrote widely in various genres, from detective stories to non-fiction. After five years in France (1929-1933), he began to
publish short stories in Shinseinen inspired by his experiences. How and why did Jūran construct these global plots? Nonchalantdōchūki will provide some clues.
Strolling Through the American Modern City with Tani Jōji's Kaleidoscopic Modan Dekameron (The Modern Decameron,
1929)
Author: Mr Gérald Peloux (CY Cergy Paris Université)
During the 1920s, Tani Jōji published short stories exploring the Japanese American community. In one of these collections, Modan
Dekameron (1929), he presents a multifaceted America featuring heavy use of hybridized styles, languages, characters and images.
A Detective with 'Mixed-blood' Looks: Transformation of the Detective Genre as a Transcultural Text, from the 1920s to the
1940s
Author: Prof Kenko Kawasaki (RIKKYO UNIVERSITY)
Edogawa Ranpo created detective Akechi Kogoro, with 'mixed-blood' looks and cross-border origins. During the Asia-Pacific war,transcultural writing was censored; Ranpo studied sexuality and discovered similarities in the relationships between men in
Tokugawa period and ancient Greek philosophers.
Giving "Mixed-Blood" a Voice: Literary Representation of the Contact Zone in Prewar Japan
Author: Prof Yoshitaka Hibi (Nagoya University)
People qualified as "mixed blood" often appear in modern literary writings in Japan. They have been portrayed as being burdenedwith the conflicts of the contact zone in each era. I shall consider the representation of such figures through analysis of literary texts
from the 1920s-1940s.
LitMod02 Exploring Literary Polyphony: Contemporary Japanese literature between cultural appropriation, writing
back, and transnationalism
Modern Literature
Convenors: Michiko Mae (University Dusseldorf); Ina Hein (University of Vienna)Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Focusing on expressions of multilingualism in contemporary literature, we explore the invigorating challenges the increasing
diversity of literary voices poses to hegemonic concepts of Japanese literature as written in standard Japanese and tied to ahomogenizing understanding of Japaneseness.
10:15-11:45
Mother Tongue, 'Motherland's language' and 'Language Mother'? -- Tawada Yoko and On Yūjū
Author: Prof Michiko Mae (University Dusseldorf)
Tawada and On, writers of exophonic transcultural works, expose the unity of nation, cultural identity and national language as an
ideology and aim at deconstructing it. They highlight not just the plurality of national standard languages, but also the diversity
within each language itself.
Inscribing voices from the margins: On the politics of non-standard speech in post-Fukushima literature
Author: Prof Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya University)
Taking the work of Kimura Yūsuke, Yū Miri, and Arai Takako as examples, my presentation outlines an important literary strategy toinscribe, resist, and inadvertently reconfirm marginality in post-3/11 literature, namely the use of non-standard dialectal speech.

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Levy Hideo's Literary Multilingualism as a Strategic Challenge to Nationalist Notions of 'Japanese Literature'
Author: Dr Ina Hein (University of Vienna)
This paper discusses how U.S.-born author Levy Hideo, who has adopted Japanese as his literary language, employs a multilinguistic
strategy to explore the relation between identity, migration, and language(s), thereby challenging the notion of Japanese 'national
literature' (kokubungaku).
LitMod03 Political Conversion and Its Narratives: Tenkō in Transwar Japan
Modern Literature
Convenor: George T. Sipos (West University of Timisoara)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
While well-known and researched in Japan, tenkō (political conversion) remains largely under-studied in Western languages. Thispanel will revisit the concept itself, as well as the corpus of narratives usually identified as tenkō literature.
14:45-16:15
Coming to Terms with Tenkō: Towards a New Conceptual History of Tenkō
Author: Dr Max Ward (Middlebury College)
This paper proposes a new approach to the conceptual history of tenkō in modern Japan, one that can account for all the diverse
practices, political positions and theoretical investments the term accrued across Japan's transwar history.
Tenkō Literature as a Category: Common Tropes and Themes
Author: Prof George T. Sipos (West University of Timisoara)
The identity of tenkō literature, narratives produced by former proletarian writers forced to undergo a political conversion, remains
contested today and glossed over as an offshoot of proletarian literature. Is there more that research can reveal about commonalities
between the tenkō narratives?
The Disjointed Narratives and Destructured Subject of Takami Jun
Author: Dr Irena Hayter (University of Leeds)
The paper explores Takami Jun's 1935 novel Kokyū wasureubeki (Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot) and its formal inventions as
symptoms of the aporias of tenkō and their effects on the structures of narrativity, subjectivity and psychic temporality.
LitMod04 Voices in Literature and Law: Adulteries and Incestuous Affairs in Modern Japanese Literature
Modern Literature
Convenor: Noriko Hiraishi (University of Tsukuba)
Discussant: Daniela Moro (Ca' Foscari University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Literature is a vehicle to present 'voices', when law fails to represent it. The panel aims to explore the 'voices' represented in modern
fiction in relation to adultery and incest laws where not often these works included the 'contaminated voices' reproduced to intact thecultural normativities.
08:00-09:30
Incest Taboo in Meiji Literary Discourse: The Voice of the (Male) Writer and the the Voice of the Niece in Shimazaki Toson's
Vita Nova
Author: Dr Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Osaka University)
Shimazaki Toson's Vita Nova was his apologia for the scandalous relationship with his niece, in which the perspectives of the female
participant were carefully excluded. This paper, by exploring other contemporary references, seeks to recuperate a marginalized voicein the patriarchal taboo system.
Female Writers and Infidelity: 'Unfaithful Wives' around 1910
Author: Dr Noriko Hiraishi (University of Tsukuba)This paper examines the representations of unfaithful wives written by female writers. Although the Japanese modern penal code of1880 considered criminal conversation punishable, the literary world was transgressing the bounds of decency, glorifying adultery in
the name of 'true love'.
ReDiscovery of 'Adultery' as a Neta: Stumbling between 'Natural and Criminals Laws' in Meiji Literature
Author: Dr Raj Lakhi Sen (Shirayuri University)
This paper examines how Meiji literati comprehended the natural and criminal laws by unfolding the mechanism of Kosugi Tengai's'Hayari-uta' (1902) in which the voice of a married heroine's adultery is illustrated as an 'urge for the love' that is absurdly arepercussion of the natural law—genes.
LitMod05 Voicing Empire:Transnational Communications and Canonizations in Modern Japanese Literature
Modern Literature
Convenor: Christina Yi (University of British Columbia)
Chair: Christina Yi (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Shoya Unoda (Osaka University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel highlights moments of transnational literary exchange between Japan and Korea from the 1920s to the 1970s in order tointerrogate the ways in which "voice" itself was a key site of contestation and change in national literary canonization.

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Class, Ethnicity, and Genius in the Early Canon-Building of Proletarian Literature: The Case of Chŏng Yŏn-gyu (1899-1979)
Author: Dr Pau Pitarch Fernandez (Waseda University)
This paper analyzes the interactions between class, ethnicity, and genius in the reconfiguration of discourses about literary authorshipand value in 1920s Japan, through the media debut as a proletarian writer of Chŏng Yŏn-gyu, the first Korean writer to publish in
Japanese in the metropolis.
Imperial Testaments: Repatriation and Reconstruction in Postwar Japan
Author: Dr Christina Yi (University of British Columbia)
This paper looks at the circulation and translation of Fujiwara Tei’s The Shooting Stars are Alive (Nagareru hoshi wa ikite iru, 1949)
in order to illuminate the gendered process whereby Japan was reconstituted from “multiethnic empire” to “peaceful nation-state.”
Japanese spectres: “business novels”, economic growth and the role of Japanese popular literature in 1970s South Korea
Author: Dr Nadeschda Bachem (University of Bonn)
This paper investigates the reception of “business novels”, a Japanese popular fiction genre, in 1970s-South Korea. Analysing thecompilation Human management based on Kajiyama Toshiyuki’s work, I argue that this genre reflects the complicated relationship toformer coloniser Japan.
LitMod06 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature I
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The translator’s voice of Mrs. Kashi Iwamoto: An analysis of Wakamatsu Shizuko’s English translations of Japanese classics
Author: Dr Paula Martínez Sirés (Nihon University)
Through a textual and paratextual analysis, this paper explores the ‘translator’s voice’ that Wakamatsu Shizuko adopted when, as
Mrs. Kashi Iwamoto, she inverse-translated the Japanese classic “Ends not meeting at the last reckoning of the year” (1894) by Ihara
Saikaku into English.
Some remarks on literature of Ogawa Mimei - the father of modern Japanese children literature author
Author: Dr Marcelina de Zoete-Leśniczak (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)
Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) is undoubtedly recognized as the most important founder and writer of children's literature in Japan. The
purpose of this paper is to trace a representation of dōshin-shugi in Mimei's children's literature together with his essays.
Abe Yoshishige, Taishô kyôyô shugi (self-cultivation through education), and zuihitsu
Author: Other Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)
This paper will examine writings by Abe Yoshishige and others to rethink zuihitsu of the time as a hybrid historical product that
demonstrates emotional struggles through which they tried to accommodate the legacy of their traditional upbringing while
confronting the challenges of the new age.
Tongues on Strike: Proletarian Voices and Esperanto Letter Writing in Imperial Japan
Author: Mr Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto)
This paper examines how proletarian cultural movements utilized the international language Esperanto through literary and cultural
media to give voice to proletarian struggles and to circumvent imperial borders that curtailed communication among proletarians andleftist activists.
LitMod07 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature II
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Japanese Writers and the Pax Americana
Author: Dr Kendall Heitzman (University of Iowa)
Japanese poets and writers who traveled to the United States during the Cold War developed connections and approaches to art
completely unanticipated by their host organizations. This is a look at the new voices developed by four major Japanese writers in
response to their foreign experiences.
Poetics After the Total War: Ayukawa Nobuo and Arechi group
Author: Dr Mana Taguchi (Meiji University)
This paper examines ways in which Japanese postwar poetry describes the experience of total war, focusing on Ayukawa Nobuo andArechi (The Waste Land) group.Ayukawa treated the war period as a material to think about fanatic totalitarianism, and I attempt toclarify the uniqueness of his works.

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The Oppressed Repatriate's Voices and Ideology in Japanese Post-World War II "Repatriate Literature"
Author: Mr Xie Fang (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
The study clarifies how the repatriates' works have been excluded as the darkness of modern Japanese literature by analyzing theconflicts between the repatriates' perpetrator consciousness and victim consciousness.
LitMod08 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature III
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Literary/Philosophical Connection of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Shi Zhecun: Aestheticism and Early Psychological Theories
through Jules Baby d'Aurevilly
Author: Dr Qi Xia (osaka university)
This paper is an attempt at establishing a literary/philosophical connection between Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and his literary disciple in
China, Shi Zhecun, both of whom received inspiration from Jules d'Aurevilly and Western psychological theories through historicalresearch and textual analyses.
The first contemporary attempt of constructing an “own voice” between men who love men: Mishima Yukio and his model oftimeless love in Adonisu.
Author: Dr Damaso Ferreiro Posse (Hiroshima University)
This presentation will compare Mishima’s “Ai no shokei” with Hagakure and Nanshoku Ookagami to explore how Mishima
understands gay love and updates the shūdō tradition in his attempt to create an autonomous voice for the gay collective in Japan.
Reconsidering Dysfluent Speech in Modern Japanese Literature
Author: Mr Shota Iwasaki (University of British Columbia)
Dysfluent speech, such as stuttering, has often been used as a narrative and literary device in modern Japanese literature. Focusing on
representations of stuttering in Mishima Yukio's Kinkakuji (1956), this paper examines how textual dysfluency functions therein.
LitMod09 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature IV
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Primitive Voices: Modernism, Regionalism, and Exoticism of Japanese Literature in the 1930s
Author: Prof Tsuyoshi Namigata (Kyushu University)
The purpose of this presentation is to reconsider, through the voices of "minor" modernists, the situation of Japanese literature in theera of an "emergency" after the Manchurian Incident and the suppression of proletarian literature.
Writing Like a Girl: Male Authors and the Performance of Female Narrative Voices in 1930s Japanese Literature
Author: Dr Isabelle Lavelle (Nihon University)
In the late 1930s, prominent Japanese male authors published several texts narrated in a young woman’s voice. The paper analyzes
the literary performance of the opposite gender within the changing landscape of colonialism, militarism, censorship, and theredefinition of masculinity that followed.
"Mother's Voice: Speaking the Maternal in Postwar Japanese Women's Fiction"
Author: Prof Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)
This paper is an exploration of "the voice" of the mother in postwar Japanese women's fiction--not the mother as background to thedaughter-protagonist, but a mother-protagonist speaking her own experience. Ôba's "Yamauba no bisho," and Tsushima's _Yama ohashiru onna_ will be be the central texts.
Degenderig the space: women writers’ self-representations within their studio in modern Japanese literature
Author: Dr Marco Taddei (University of Bergamo)
Portraits of male writers in their studios are very common in modern literature, while those of female writers in a room of their own
are rare. This paper studies the appearance of modern women writers’ self-representation in the studio with a focus on Hayashi
Fumiko’s works.
LitMod10 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature V
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
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Does Toki Speak?: Recovering Prostitute's Voices in Yoshiya Nobuko's Toki no koe
Author: Dr Sarah Frederick (Boston University)
Lesbian writer Yoshiya Nobuko's Toki's Voice (1964) is a history of the Japanese Salvation Army's anti-prostitution movement. The
paper considers her diverse rhetorical styles for recovering the voices of prostitutes given the limited documentation available to her.
Contemporary Women's Voices Against Misogyny: An Analysis of The Sustainable Use of Our Souls by Aoko Matsuda
Author: Dr Letizia Guarini (International Christian University)
The aim of this paper is to explore feminist voices in Japanese contemporary literature vis-à-vis recent feminist movements. I will
focus in particular on Jizoku kanō na tamashii no riyō (The Sustainable Use of Our Souls, 2020) by Aoko Matsuda.
Voices of Abused Children in the Works of Contemporary Japanese Female Writers
Author: Dr Katalin Dalmi (Hiroshima University)
Through a textual analysis, this paper will explore the way contemporary Japanese female writers like Murata Sayaka and Imamura
Natsuko approach different aspects of child abuse in their works by giving voice to traumatized children. Hoochigo and otherrelevant phenomena will be explained as well.
LitMod11 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature VI
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Masaoka Shiki Finds his Voice
Author: Prof J. Keith Vincent (Boston University)
In 1895, the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki traveled to China to cover the Sino-Japanese War, coughed blood, and found his voice as apoet. In this paper, I ask how the story of Shiki in 1895 can help to queer our understanding of gender and genre in Meiji Japan.
A New Movement of 'Japanese Sonnets': from Ariake Kambara to Shuntarō Tanikawa
Author: Dr Miho Takahashi (Kansai University)
This paper focuses on the centennial process where European sonnets have been adapted to Japanese verse, and developed into
'Japanese Sonnets'. From the viewpoints of versification and musicality, all the achievements by Japanese modern poets should beanalysed and summarised as a new movement.
Itoh Hiromi, writer as a transfer--weaving other voices-Author: Dr Wakako Taneda (Fuji Women`s University)
This study aims to analyze Itoh`s Togenuki shin Sugamo Jizo engi (2007) through her distinctive, unconventional style in which she
cites, at times explicitly, other`s texts. Herein, I interpret her work as a "transfer genre", both in terms of the narrative and theweaving together of other`s voices.
LitMod12 Individual papers in Modern Japanese Literature VII
Modern Literature
Convenors: Nozomi Uematsu (The University of Sheffield); Filippo Cervelli (SOAS University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The Enemy is Us: Twenty-First Century Anxieties and the Imperial past in Asai Inio’s Dead Dead DemonsAuthor: Prof Christopher Smith (University of Florida)
Asai Inio's manga Dead Dead Demons creates an alternate world where a UFO over Tokyo sends out waves of "invaders." However,associations between the alien invaders and WWII-era Japan hint that the invasion to be feared the most is that of lingering ideology
from Japan's colonial past.
The Quest for a Voice - Narrative Deferral in Abe Kazushige's Film Criticism after 9:11
Author: Ms Maria Roemer (University of Leeds)
This presentation analyses a series of 19 criticisms by Abe Kazushige, which appeared after 9:11. Their narrative experiments
problematize the critic's quest for finding a voice after trauma through infinitely delaying speaking about the tragedy and, ultimately,
not speaking about it all.
Voices of Hope: Taguchi Randy’s shifting paradigm: or from ‘victim’ to ‘survivor’
Author: Miss Giulia Baquè (Ca' Foscari)
A paradigm shift from ‘victimhood’ to ‘survivor’ enables a new perspective on disaster literature. Investigating modes of survival in
In the Zone challenges the understanding of disaster as a paralyzing event to frame it as a starting point for recovery from previous
traumas.
LitPre01 Illustration as the Intersection of Culture and Information
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Shoji Yamada (NICHIBUNKEN)
Discussant: Jieling Li (Hainan Normal University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30

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How did illustrated books connect information from the West, China, and Japan? Referencing historical works, encyclopedias, andChristian readers from early modern to modern Japan, this panel will discuss the roles of illustrations that have conveyed knowledge
across time, age, and social strata.
08:00-09:30
How Did People of the Edo Period (1603-1868) Learn Japanese History?
Author: Dr Takatoshi Kiba (Kyoto University of Advanced Science)
This report will discuss how did the people of the Edo period learn their own history through publications. From the standpoints ofthe transmitter and producer as well as the reader and consumer of history text, this report considers the acquisition of historicalknowledge meant for people.
"Unfortunate" Representations of Japanese Culture: A Study Focusing on the Uses of Illustrated Encyclopedias
Author: Prof Mitsuru Aida (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This report will primarily discuss Kinmōzui (1666), Japan's first illustrated encyclopedia, to highlight and analyze the humorous but"unfortunate" realities of cultural adoption resulting from cultural exchange, as observed in both Germany and China despite
differences in time and location.
Illustrations in Kyōkai shogaku tokuhon, published by Japan's Orthodox Church
Author: Dr kayoko yamasaki (Filoloski fakultet u Beogradu)
This report will focus on the Kyōkai shogaku tokuhon (1903), published by a member of the Orthodox Church in Japan. Throughclarifying sources of illustrations by foreign artists, this report will analyze how foreign culture was understood through images,
which were likely drawn by Japanese.
LitPre02 Education and Transmission of Knowledge in Nara Period: Official, Private and Religious SettingsElite
education and the transmission of knowledge from China were the standing points supporting the Nar
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Maria Chiara Migliore (University of Salento)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Elite education and the transmission of knowledge from China were the standing points supporting the Nara period State. The panel
will analyse several aspects related to State officials educational system, low ranks officials' technical knowledge, private education,teaching of Buddhist texts.
10:15-11:45
The Teaching of the Flower Garland Sutra in preparation for the Eye-Opening Ceremony of the Tōdaiji Great Buddha
Author: Dr Shinobu Kuranaka (Daito Bunka University)
The paper will focus on the lectures on the Flower Garland Sutra (Jap. Kegonkyō 華厳経) that took place at the Konshuji (named
Tōdaiji in 742) in preparation for the Eye-Opening Ceremony of the Tōdaiji Great Buddha.
Officials' Learning in Nara Period: Ideological Debate in the Examination Essays (taisaku) of the Keikokushū
Author: Prof Maria Chiara Migliore (University of Salento)
The paper will analyse the State officials' examinations essays contained in Keikokushū (Collection for Ruling the Country, 827).
Dated from 707 to 757, they all deal with ideological questions, and are essential to the understanding of the Confucian paradigms
applied in the Nara period.
The Yōshi kangoshō and the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Nara Japan
Author: Dr Antonio Manieri (University of Naples L'Orientale)
The paper will deal with the Yōshi kangoshō (Notes on Chinese Words by Master Yako, 720 ca.). It will be argued that its lexical
domains are all related to technical and practical knowledge and that it was of particular interest for some low-rank officials working
as clerks in specialized offices.
Inside and Outside the Daigakuryō: Kibi no Makibi's Views on Education
Author: Mr Arthur DefranceThis paper aims to show another side of the transmission and production of knowledge in the Nara period, that of the privatetransmission of knowledge, as embodied by Kibi no Makibi (695-775), a promoter of both Chinese-style state-run education andeducation outside the ritsuryô state.
LitPre03 Remembrance and Renewal: The Afterlife of Heian Kanshi and Kanbun
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Yoshitaka Yamamoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature); Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford); Kimiko Kōno
(Waseda University)
Discussant: Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel will examine how classical Chinese texts produced and/or compiled in Heian-period Japan were remembered, studied, anddisseminated in later periods, and consider the ways in which those texts helped shape new cultural, literary, and intellectual trends inmedieval and early modern Japan.
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Reimagining an anthology: Wakan rōeishū in the age of print
Author: Dr Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford)
This paper explores how the eleventh-century anthology Wakan rōeishū (Japanese and Chinese-style Chanting Collection) and its
medieval commentary tradition were reworked into calligraphic and literary models for early modern readers.
Heian kanshibun in early modern Japan: Hayashi Gahō's Honchō ichinin isshu
Author: Prof Kimiko Kōno (Waseda University)
This paper will focus on Honchō ichinin isshu (One Poem Each by Poets of Our Court, prefaced 1660), an anthology of Japanese
kanshi compiled and annotated by Hayashi Gahō, a leading Confucian scholar of the early Edo period, and examine Gahō's attitude
toward Heian-period kanshi.
Early Edo antiquarianism: Hayashi Gahō's imitation of Heian court kanshi
Author: Dr Yoshitaka Yamamoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This paper will examine the poetic vocabulary and imagery Hayashi Gahō and his colleagues employed to imitate and glorify the
Heian period in their kanshi composed in 1666, and attempt to explain how Edo-period antiquarianism developed in its early stages.
LitPre04 The Future of Manuscript Studies: (Re-)Evaluating methods
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Berenice Möller (University of Hamburg)
Discussant: Laura Moretti (The University of Cambridge)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Into which direction are Japanese manuscript studies moving with the improvement of digital and scientific methods? This panel
illustrates directions that codicology, statistical character frequency analysis and material analysis take, providing case studies of the
Genji monogatari and Nara ehon.
08:00-09:30
Scientific Material Analysis in Japanese Manuscript Studies: Overview and Case Study
Author: Mrs Berenice Möller (University of Hamburg)
Even though scientific material analysis has become a staple in manuscript studies, it has hardly been used to explore the still unclear
production circumstances of 16th- and 17th-century manuscripts known as Nara ehon. This presentation will present first steps intothat direction.
The Future of Bibliographical Manuscript Studies: Focusing "Teika's Genji monogatari"
Author: Dr Takahiro Sasaki (Keio University)
The news reports on the recently discovered Genji monogatari manuscript contained false information. This presentation will explain
where exactly the news reports were wrong from the perspective of codicology and how this can influence research on the Genjimonogatari text in the future.
Getting Closer to Scribes and Dates of Manuscripts via their hentaigana: Method and Case Study
Author: Mr Tetsuya Saito (Shukutoku University)
How can digital methods help to identify scribes and production dates of manuscripts, or even clarify the relationships between
them? This presentation will demonstrate this with the help of statistical character frequency analysis in several Genji monogatarimanuscripts.
LitPre05 The Tale of Sagoromo: Influence, Exegesis, and Illustration in the Reception of the "Other" Tale of Genji
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Charo Detcheverry (University of Wisconsin Madison); Atsuko Tange (Showa Women's University); Sachiko Kawasaki(Ritsumeikan University)
Discussant: Michelle Kuhn Hirano (Yasuda Women's University)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
The Tale of Sagoromo is known for its debts to The Tale of Genji, but this panel argues that Sagoromo's own influence, exegesis, andillustration reflect radically different interests. We show that this multifaceted response, a key theme in current research, dates to the
Edo period and earlier.
12:30-14:00
Murata Harumi's Research on The Tale of Sagoromo
Author: Dr Sachiko Kawasaki (Ritsumeikan University)
This paper explores how Nativist scholar Murata Harumi (1746-1811) viewed Sagoromo. He compared the 1654 printing and othertexts, adding his own interlinear notes. I argue that he was both aware of the tale's variants and interested in them; indeed, creating avariorum was his goal.
Crowds and Carriages: The Tale of Sagoromo in 1654
Author: Dr Charo Detcheverry (University of Wisconsin Madison)
The Tale of Sagoromo (ca. 1070) stars a forlorn courtier. Even on the throne, he is gloomy; even his name signals loneliness. Still, thetale's 1654 printing is cheerful; pictures stress the hero's retinue and wealth. The paper ties these tropes to a social change: respect for
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The Tale of Sagoromo in The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu
Author: Dr Atsuko Tange (Showa Women's University)
This paper examines the reception of Sagoromo's Asukai subplot by Kenreimonin Ukyo-no-daibu, a late Heian or early Kamakura
period poet. Lady Daibu experienced the Gempei War (1180-1185). I consider how she used fiction (Asukai's attempted suicide) to
describe suicides linked to the war itself.
LitPre06 Narratology and Interpretation of the Heike Narratives
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Saida Khalmirzaeva (Aichi Shukutoku University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
We are proposing a panel that, applying major techniques and methods of narratology, will examine and re-interpret some of theperformative, contextual, and textual aspects of The Tale of the Heike's narrative from various perspectives.
08:00-09:30
Old Stories, Original Retellings: The Heike-related Tales in the Repertory of the Blind Biwa Players of Kyushu
Author: Dr Saida Khalmirzaeva (Aichi Shukutoku University)
This paper will attempt to identify the source of the Heike-related tales in the higobiwa repertory. It will also trace the developmentof these stories across the genres and elucidate the traditional and original elements in each genre applying narratology and reception
theory.
The Image of Chōgen in The Tale of the Heike
Author: Ms Takana Shioyama (Takasaki City University of Economics)
Based on the previous research focused on Chōgen in The Tale of the Heike, this paper will apply the major techniques and methodsof narratology to the interpretation of the image of Chōgen and re-evaluation of the role he plays in the narrative.
The Tale of The Heike and its Dramatic Narrative Style
Author: Dr Makoto Takagi (Sagami Women's University)
This paper will apply the major techniques and methods of narratology to the analysis ofThe Tale of the Heike and the interpretationof the phenomena peculiar to literary text representing the genre of katarimono.
LitPre07 Writing and Remembrance in the "oboegaki" Genre: Battle Accounts, Literary Techniques, and the Reimaginingof War Tales
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Pier Carlo Tommasi (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa); Chie Nakane (Aichi Prefectural University); Akira Suzuki(RIKKYO univ.)
Chair: Ganta Kosukegawa (Ehime University)
Discussant: Vyjayanthi Selinger (Bowdoin College)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Our panel looks at oboegaki written from the late-16th to early-18th centuries, arguing for the literary significance of texts often
glossed as simple battle accounts. The panelists will introduce hitherto undiscussed works and highlight how "warrior literature" wasreimagined during this period.
12:30-14:00
Of Swords and Scribbles: Narrative Features of Family Sagas and the Rhetoric of History in the Mōri Domains
Author: Dr Pier Carlo Tommasi (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)In my presentation, I will turn the spotlight on some lesser-known memoirs written in Western Japan under the auspices of the Mōrifamily to illustrate what features and functions historiographic narration assumed at the outset of the early modern period.
Transmitting the Voices from the Battlefield: New Perspectives on "oboegaki" as Literary Culture
Author: Prof Akira Suzuki (RIKKYO univ.)
My paper aims at questioning the traditional approach to the study ofoboegaki by reassessing the significance of this genre in the history ofliterature. For this purpose, I will consider a set of case studies from17th-century Satsuma and Sendai domains.
The Art of Retelling the Battles of Old: A Case Study from Owari Domain
Author: Prof Chie Nakane (Aichi Prefectural University)
In this talk, I will tackle the issue of orality and historiography through the example of Mukashibanashi, a mid-Edo period collectionof war anecdotes by Chikamatsu Shigenori. I will also determine the influence of traditional war tales in the re-imagining of Owari
domain's past.
LitPre08 The Past and the Present: Medieval Japanese Narrative and Time
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Sebastian Balmes (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
In medieval Japanese literature, the past is brought into the present by a number of methods: by allusions to earlier texts, by narrating(fictional) past events as if they were occurring in the present, and by linking narratives to the reality of the audience. Four papers
explore time in narrative.
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Inscribed Temporalities - The Past in the Present in Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura)
Author: Prof Simone Müller (Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies)
By way of an analysis of Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura, end 12th c.), this paper aims at demonstrating how
intertextual and narrative techniques are used in order to inscribe the past into the present in a literary text of medieval Japan.
Fusion of the Real and the Fictional in the Medieval Digest Genji kokagami
Author: Dr Kei UMEDA (JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists)
Examining differing manuscripts of Genji kokagami, a famous medieval digest version of the classic work, this paper uses theperspectives of narratology and deixis to reveal premodern narrative strategies by which later readers sought to link fictional worlds
with the world of actual history.
Linguistic Fluidity of Time, Staged: A Cognitive Narratological Approach to the Dual Temporality in Noh
Author: Prof Akiko Takeuchi (Hosei University)
Mugen-noh sometimes offers moments when its dual temporality is resolved. This paper analyzes this fluidity of time in noh byapplying a cognitive narratological approach, paying special attention to the linguistic characteristics of Japanese and issues ofgestures and language in drama.
"Now is the Past": Time as Narratological Category and Its Realizations in Setsuwa Literature
Author: Mr Sebastian Balmes (University of Zurich)
Drawing on examples from medieval setsuwa literature, this paper discusses time as a narratological category, which has traditionallybeen closely linked to other categories. By examining characteristics of setsuwa regarding time, it is shown why they are especiallypertinent to time research.
LitPre09 Tradition and Canon in Chinese-derived Setsuwa and Kirishitan Literature
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Patrick Schwemmer (Musashi University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Kirishitan literature is usually excluded from the canon of Japanese literature, but we examine it together with stories borrowed from
Confucian classics into the uncontroversially canonical Tales of the Heike, with attention to the many "futures of the past" in which
our texts are implicated.
08:00-09:30
The Medieval Japanese Life of St. Alexius of Edessa
Author: Prof Patrick Schwemmer (Musashi University)
The Japanese Life of Alexius of Edessa survives in Roman-script print and manuscript (1591), as well as in a 1614 kana manuscript.
We consider its Iberian sources and evidence of oral transmission which is visible in the three versions, in light of the canonicalissues raised by the panel topic.
Christian Stories and the Tenchi hajimari no koto Manuscripts
Author: Dr Renata Cabral Bernabé (Tohoku University)
This paper the manuscripts of Tenchi hajimari no koto—a collection of oral Christian narrative written by some communities ofkakure kirishitan—and the changes these stories underwent since their introduction to Japan by Catholic missionaries.
From Filial Exemplar to Chaste Woman: Liu Xiang through a Heike Lens
Author: Dr Naoyoshi OOHASHI (Wakayama University)
The story of Monk Mongaku's conversion in certain versions of the Tales of the Heike features a story of female chastity
conspicuously lifted from the Chinese tradition. We explore the process by which it was imported and the ways in which it is being
presented and appraised here.
LitPre10 Edo Satire and Knowledge Production in Tokugawa Japan
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Alessandro Bianchi (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford); Doreen Mueller (Leiden University); Angelika Koch
(Leiden University)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel brings together perspectives from literary studies, cultural and art history to examine the link between satire andknowledge production in Tokugawa Japan, arguing that writers and artists resorted to satirical expression to convey new ideas andinsights.
12:30-14:00
Unkind Laughter: The Nature and Forms of Political Satire in Early-modern Japan
Author: Dr Alessandro Bianchi (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
In this paper I take broader look at the practice of satire in early modern Japan, exploring how writers drew on different literary forms
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Medicine as Metaphor: The Satirical Medical Body in 1790s kibyōshi
Author: Dr Angelika Koch (Leiden University)
This paper explores the satirical potential of the medical body in 1790s kibyōshi, with a focus on Jippensha Ikku's Hara no uchi yōjōshuron 腹内養生主論 (1799). In it, I show how such works engaged with medical knowledge, as well as moral andeducational discourses on the body in 18th-century Japan.
The Brave and the Petty: Satirising Edoites in Nineteenth-century Fire Broadsheets
Author: Dr Doreen Mueller (Leiden University)
This paper explores how printed broadsheets that satirised poems and pictures from the Hyakunin Isshū pointed a self-reflexive gaze
onto the inner nature of the Edoite, providing an alternative view to the often-celebrated disaster resilience of Edo's residents.
LitPre11 Uses and Re-creations of "Literary Heritage" in Premodern Japan
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Edoardo Gerlini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Discussant: Rebekah Clements (ICREA Autonomous University of Barcelona)Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Inspired by the idea of "heritage as practice", this panel aims to stimulate a general rethinking of the concept of koten (classics),
giving evidences of how premodern cultural producers actively used and re-created the "literary heritage" to answer new needs intheir contemporary society.
08:00-09:30
The Genji monogatari from "Literary Heritage" to entertainment - Fictionalization of classical learning during the Edo
periodAuthor: Prof Yoichi Iikura (Osaka University)
Since medieval times, the Genji monogatari has been a subject of study for the upper classes as a form of "literary heritage". In the
mid-Edo period authors of lower extraction made the characters of their novels talk about the Genji monogatari transforming andreusing it as a form of entertainment.
Envisioning texts through historical remains, creating realities through classical canons - Heritage and creativity in medieval
Japanese literature
Author: Dr Hiroshi Araki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
How do archaeological evidences affect our understanding of classical texts? How do literary canons influence the intellectual
framework of posterity and instances of "modernity"? The idea of "Projecting Classicism" I suggest may help to reconceptualize themeaning of "Literary Heritage".
Kōkaku Tenno and Genji monogatari - An Edo period example of political restoration based on the "literary heritage"
Author: Prof Teiko Morita (Kyoto Sangyo University)
After the Great Fire of Tenmei (1788), Emperor Kōkaku restored the imperial palace and its rites imitating emperor Murakami's
Heian court, probably using the Hana no en chapter of the Genji monogatari as a model to inform his idea of restoration.
LitPre12 The Genji, its Author, and her Patron: The Strategies of Murasaki and Fujiwara no Michinaga
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Hiroshi Yokomizo (Tohoku University); Hiroshi Yokomizo (Tohoku University); Carolina Negri (Ca' Foscari Universityof Venice); Satoko Nakanishi (Waseda University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Given Murasaki Shikibu's status as an artist, much research on the Tale of Genji has focused on her intentions. This panel insteadorients itself around relationships between her and her patron, Fujiwara no Michinaga, as a framework from which to explore the
text's production and circulation anew.
08:00-09:30
The Tale of Genji, Victorious: Techniques of Household Encomium in the "Picture Contest" (E-awase) Chapter
Author: Prof Hiroshi Yokomizo (Tohoku University)
In the "Picture Contest" chapter of the Tale of Genji, Genji's Suma diary defeats scrolls of several famous literary works, representing
a victory for both Genji himself and the Tale of Genji, strategically allowing Murasaki to implicitly glorify both her work and her
patron, Fujiwara no Michinaga.
In the shadow of Fujiwara no Michinaga. Political strategies and the idealization of women in Murasaki Shikibu nikki
Author: Prof Carolina Negri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)In a close reading of Murasaki Shikibu nikki, I will discuss the qualities that Murasaki Shikibu - who is supposed to speak for her
patron, Fujiwara no Michinaga - belives are admirable for women and the central role they play in Heian society by responding to thedemands of a political agenda.
The Tale of Genji and its Production Environment: Fujiwara no Michinaga, Murasaki Shikibu, and Other "Authors"
Author: Dr Satoko Nakanishi (Waseda University)
In this presentation, going beyond the framework of Murasaki Shikibu the individual, I explore the problem of the Tale of Genji's
circumstances of production, seeing it as part of the larger political projects centered around Fujiwara no Michinaga and his daughter
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LitPre13 The Historical Structure of "Heian Literature": Excavation of a Fait accompli
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Jeffrey Knott (National Institute of Japanese Literature)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Though criticized as a modern construct, Japanese literary studies entered the modern era with the triumph of "Heian Literature" afait accompli. Our panel sees this as a distorting premodern Heian-centrism, whose remedy lies in the excavation and rediscovery ofa forgotten historical groundedness.
08:00-09:30
Gallery of Variants: Dueling Portraits of the Feminine in Pillow Book Manuscript Lines
Author: Dr Yuki Yamanaka (Toyo University)
The Pillow Book is famous for high textual variance, yet read today mostly in a single textual line. Showing how much portrayals of
women differ between textual lines, this paper demonstrates the degree of variance, arguing that this diversity is the better mirror of
how the work was actually read.
A Question of Character: The Genji Commentary Revolution in Human Psychology
Author: Prof Jeffrey Knott (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This paper seeks to demonstrate and trace the quiet revolution that took place in interpretations of the Tale of Genji during the latemedieval period, when an interest in Murasaki Shikibu's fictional characters for their own sake becomes an explicit feature ofcommentary and lectures on the work.
Tsukuri-monogatari: An Archaeology of Premodern Literary Analysis
Author: Dr Yoko Ogawa (Gifu University)
This paper will consider in detail a number of usage examples of the term tsukuri-monogatari, from the Heian period up to themodern era. By examining the history of the word's usage, I hope to shed light on the changing literary environments in which texts
of tale-literature have found themselves.
LitPre14 Promoting online resources to enhance understanding of Edo-period illustrated books.
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan University); Ellis Tinios (Ritsumeikan University); Jonathan Zwicker (University of California,
Berkeley)Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Virtual exhibitions offer scholars exciting opportunities to make public their on-going research free from the fiscal and practicalconstraints. We will assess the digital resources now available for the construct virtual exhibitions with particular emphasis onpresenting Japanese illustrated books.
14:45-16:15
Towards a Digital Atlas of Nineteenth-Century Edo
Author: Prof Jonathan Zwicker (University of California, Berkeley)This paper will introduce preliminary work done using the collections of the University of California to create a digital atlas of thecity of Edo/Tokyo during the nineteenth century and raise questions about what theories and methods can be used to underpin suchan effort.
Developing Virtual Exhibitions
Author: Dr Ellis Tinios (Ritsumeikan University)
Virtual exhibitions offer scholars exciting opportunities to make public their research free from the fiscal and practical constraints.
We will assess the digital resources now available for the construct virtual exhibitions with particular emphasis on presenting
Japanese illustrated books.
Necessary and ideal functions on the virtual exhibition system, and effective usages for education.
Authors: Prof Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan University); Dr Ellis Tinios (Ritsumeikan University); Prof Jonathan Zwicker (University ofCalifornia, Berkeley)
In the ARC's virtual institute system, I have developed ideal functions different from the other websites. Already, some research
projects have made good examples of online exhibition. In this paper, I will report how the system is effective for students and young
scholar on education.
LitPre15 Dueling Dimensions: Notions of the Literary and the Spoken in Vernacular Poetry
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: James Scanlon (Yale University)
Chair: Ivo Smits (Leiden University)
Discussant: Mariko Naito (Meiji University)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
How did notions of literature and spoken language inflect the construction of knowledge, textual production, and writing? This panel
explores the dynamic relationship of language and text and the implications of those dynamics in intellectual history.
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Literary Dialect and Regional Song: Linguistic Symbolism in Heian Period Regional Songs
Author: Mr James Scanlon (Yale University)
Fuzoku uta were regional songs that represented the power of the sovereign and central court through their performance as offerings
to the emperor upon his/er enthronement. This paper explores instances of dialect variation as symbolically potent features oflanguage in these songs.
How the "Heard" Became the "Written:" Textualization of Oral Teachings about Court Poetry in Early Medieval
Commentaries
Author: Dr Malgorzata Citko (University of Texas at Austin)
Early medieval poet-scholars started to textualize parts of their waka knowledge as a result of their urge to stabilize their own line ofknowledge transmission as the most legitimate one. Therefore, they produced commentaries (karon) and circulated them asadvertisements of their poetic expertise.
Poetics of Voices: Metaphysics of Presence in Medieval Japanese Poetry
Author: Dr Mariko Naito (Meiji University)
This paper investigates how Japanese poetry, waka, was defined by medieval Japanese poets and intellectuals. I will argue thatJapanese poetry was not conceptualized in the same terms that Chinese poetry was. Instead, Japanese poetry was conceived as thepresence of a voice, rather than of writing.
Directness as Coherence: Seijutsu Shincho Poems of Man'yōshū
Author: Miss Nina Farizova (Yale University)
In this paper I will argue that the "direct expression of feelings" in seijutsu shincho poems of Man'yōshū means heightened
coherence. These poems represent the beginnings of written poetry as opposed to oral tradition; within the corpus of waka they
belong on the "prosy" end of the spectrum.
LitPre16 The concept of copyright in early-modern Japan
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Christian Dunkel (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin); Ryoko Matsuba (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures); Takaaki Kaneko (Ritsumeikan University)
Discussant: Ellis Tinios (Ritsumeikan University)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel seeks a better understanding of the concept of copyright in the early modern publishing industry. We argue that themodern idea of copyright does not apply to early-modern Japan and seek to point out those options that were availa-ble to publishers
for protecting their business interests.
10:15-11:45
Producing Facsimile Reproductions (Fukusei): the Case of Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Author: Dr Ryoko Matsuba (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
I will explore the production of facsimile reproductions of Hokusai's most famous print series in the context of 'copyright' in the print
industry in the 19th Century. This paper demonstrates how print producers republished designs and deepens our understanding of
copyright issues at that time.
Coexisting rival books and publishers: the case of the Kyoto Guidebooks
Author: Dr Takaaki Kaneko (Ritsumeikan University)
This paper analyses a discussion between the publishers who published similar Kyoto guidebooks including Miyako Meisho Tebiki
An'nai. This study reveals how they survived in the constraints of copyright and contributes to understand of the circumstances of the
publishing industry in the Edo-period.
Quarrelling over a few sketches - The dispute over publishing Bunpô soga
Author: Mr Christian Dunkel (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
The paper will analyse a dispute between two publishers of Edo and Nagoya over the publication of an illustrated book, the Bunpôsoga, its background, settlement and the aftermath. I hope to thereby contribute to the understanding of the idea of copyright in thesecond half of the Edo-period.
LitPre17 Frauds, Forgeries, and Newfound Works
Pre-modern Literature
Convenor: Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel presents new discoveries and emerging research on the forgery of medieval and early modern texts and objects. What do
falsification and authentication tell us about the production and reception of literary works, historical documents, and masterpieces ofart?
12:30-14:00
The Birth of a Forged Waka Treatise: Fujiwara no Teika's Maigetsushō
Author: Dr Yumiko Watanabe (Rissho University)
This paper considers the method and historical background behind the production of forged poetic commentaries in medieval Japan.
Focusing on the Maigetsushō, purportedly by Fujiwara no Teika, I will consider show how Teika's poetic authority and epistolary
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Law or Order?: Forgery and Falsity in Medieval Japanese Documents
Author: Dr Paula R. Curtis (Yale University)
This paper addresses legal and cultural attitudes toward documentary forgery in premodern Japan. It examines late medieval forgeries
on artisanal privileges to consider ideas of forgery/falsity and how laws were (at times openly) transgressed to maintain institutional
order and economic survival.
The State and Stakes of 'Masterpiece': Utamaro and the Case of the Snow, Moon, and Flowers Paintings
Author: Dr Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
The rediscovery of a long-lost painting attributed to Utamaro stunned the art world in 2014 and sparked an international controversy
about the triptych to which it may belong. After an overview, I will discuss the evidence and offer an analysis of authenticity for theseukiyo-e paintings.
LitPre18 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature I
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Man'yōshū: From notational iconicity to phonographic dogma - Observations on the original text in contemporary research
Author: Dr Robert F. Wittkamp (Kansai University)
The Man'yōshū was originally written entirely with Chinese characters, and the text can be understood as a hybrid of speech andpicture. The talk examines the problems of kaki-kudashi, the rewriting of the original text into a composition written in hiragana
phonograms and Chinese characters.
Visual aspects of textuality: Japanese poems of the Heian period and the graphological legacy of the Man'yoshu
Author: Mr Gordian Schreiber (Ruhr University Bochum)
Based on an examination of early extant manuscripts of the Kokin wakashū, this talk highlights aspects of the continuity between the
Nara and Heian periods in regard to writing style and argues for the need of reconsidering both our perception and modern ways oftranscribing Heian period poetry.
Envoy Poetry and the Yuan-Bai Style: The Reception of Bai Juyi in Heian Japan
Author: Mr Dario Minguzzi (Sapienza University of Rome)In this paper, I discuss the poetic exchanges between Japanese literati and the envoys from the Korean kingdom of Balhae (698-926)
in order to demonstrate the latter’s role as the driving force behind the reception of the collected works of the mid-Tang poet Bai Juyi
in Heian Japan.
"But then an illustrious governor came": The Politics of Text and Context in Sugawara no Michizane's Provincial Poetry
Author: Mr Niels van der Salm (Leiden University)
I examine fifteen poems by Sugawara no Michizane and their place within his literary collection to investigate their use as
documentary evidence for his governorship. My case study helps us think about text versus context and the possibilities and pitfallsof selective and comprehensive reading.
LitPre19 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature II
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Utsusemi/ Genji vs. Nezame/ The Emperor: Yoru no nezame as Transformative Fan Fiction
Author: Dr Otilia Milutin (Middlebury College)
In this paper, I apply contemporary research and theories on the production and consumption of fan fiction and on fandom
communities to late Heian period court tale Yoru no Nezame, in order to analyze its relationship to its illustrious predecessor, The
Tale of Genji.
Commentaries and adaptations beyond Genji monogatari: canonization, alteration, or loss?
Author: Ms Martina Sorge (Sapienza University of Rome)This paper aims to analyze the canonization, popularization and politicization process of Genji monogatari in order to proof that its
status of classic has not been altered by the collateral literature – commentaries, digests, translations, and adaptations – it gave birth
to throughout centuries.
LitPre20 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature III
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
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Popular Literary Literacy, Visual Interpretation, and Online Access
Author: Prof Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia)
I will introduce an online data-base of Edo-period materials related to the Haykunin isshu. The focus is on woodblock print editions
aimed at the broadest possible audience, chū-iri e-iri-bon that include a simple textual commentary accompanied by pictorializationsof the poems.
#CancelIzumiShikibu: Pre-Modern Constructions of Socio-literary Comunity and Persona through the lens of Youtube
Author: Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (Kobe University)
This paper discusses approaches to the construction of socio-literary comunities and personae through a comparative study including
different online platforms and social media, and Heian period texts, opening new possibilities and tools for pre-modern Japanese
literary research.
Digital commentary and preservation: A 17th century calligraphy album case study
Author: Miss Mary Gilstad (Yale University)
This paper presents ongoing collaborative research on a 17th century Japanese album of calligraphy samples and excerpts (tekagamijō) held at Yale University and raises issues related to digital commentary and preservation of pre-modern texts.
LitPre21 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature IV
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Poetry, social grace, and popular humor in medieval narrative tales for commoners
Author: Prof Ariel Stilerman (Stanford University)
A discussion of the use of waka poetry in entertaining medieval otogizôshi tales which simultaneously transmit and parody theculture of the aristocracy for an urban merchant readership, while satirizing the merchant's illusions of social mobility attained
through cultural education.
Engaging Catalogues: The Theme of Dispute between Nonhuman Beings as a Form of Monozukushi
Author: Ms Elena Follador (University of Cambridge)
This paper focuses on a corpus of premodern Japanese texts usually referred to as irui-gassen mono. It argues that theanthropomorphism of the characters and the theme of dispute were used not as a way of ridiculing war tales, but as devices thatallowed to display list of nouns (monozukushi).
Making literary animals visible – a novel look at the human-animal relationship in Early Modern Japan
Author: Other Melissa Ann Kaul (Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies University of Zurich)
In order to develop a new approach to researching the human-animal relationship in Edo Japan, a theriotopological look at earlymodern literature is essential. This paper shows how said methods derived from the new field of Literary Animal Studies could beapplied to Japanese literary research.
LitPre22 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature V
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The Rediscovery of the Poems of the Playwright Namiki Sōsuke
Author: Dr Jonathan Charles Mills (Osaka University of Economics and Law)
Namiki Sōsuke (1695-1751) was a major creative force behind the vibrant ningyō-jōruri theatre of eighteenth-century Osaka, hisworks including the masterpiece Kanadehon Chūshingura (1748). I shall here suggest how his rediscovered poems can enrich ourappreciation of his dramatic oeuvre.
Relighting the Peony Lantern: Strategies of Adaptation in Santō Kyōden’s 'Kabuki no hana botan tōrō'
Author: Mr Frederick Feilden (University of Cambridge)
In 1810, Santō Kyōden adapted the Peony Lantern story, which he decided to rewrite – and thereby ‘relight’ – as a gōkan
picturebook. This paper explores why he did this and for whom, and how the multiplicity of his approach drew together theatre andliterature, as well as creativity and commerce.
The Powers controlling the Voice over the incomplete Death (Yūrei) throughout Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
Author: Mr Frank Chu (University of Edinburgh)
Using yūrei Kasane's different version tales as an example to analyse how was the contest between Confucian study and Buddhist
didactic dogma was reflected in the development of Yūrei's narrative throughout Tokugawa Japan.
LitPre23 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature VI
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45

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Late Edo tales of vengeance and the impact of new intellectual paradigms
Author: Dr Mario Talamo (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
Late Edo tales of vengeance were a prolific literary production born out of the Kansei Reform to disseminate neo-Confucian tenets
supported by the Bakufu. These theories evolved over time, and so did the typical structure of tales of vengeance, under the pressureof the new paradigms.
Splendor and Spectacle: Early Modern Nagoya Through the Illustrated Albums of Kōriki Enkō’an (1756-1831)
Author: Prof Dylan McGee (Nagoya University)
Samurai painter Kōriki Tanenobu (1756-1831), as known as Enkō'an, produced nearly one hundred works about early modern
Nagoya. This paper will examine his strategies for visualizing urban spaces and reporting on religious festivals, dance performancesand other public spectacles.
Methodological reflections on ephemera, scrapbooks and theheritagisation of the "everyday" in Edo period Japan
Author: Mr Luca Domenico Artuso (Japan Foundation Office in Rome)This paper focuses on nineteenth-century scrapbooks’ materiality as a site that both represents an ephemeral record constituting
textual heritage, and a material practice of documentation that allowed an heritagisation process of the ephemeral.
LitPre24 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature VII
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
The Reiwa Daijoe byōbu uta
Author: Dr Edward Kamens (Yale University)
How did the poems composed for and inscribed on the presentation screens for the November 2019 Daijōe conform with and departfrom the precedent? In what ways are the eight poems treating topoi in the yuki and suki prefectures, Tochigi-ken and Kyōto-fu, bothtraditional and contemporary?
The Present and the Future of the Past: Manuscripts in Classical and Neoclassical Renga
Author: Dr Heidi Buck-Albulet (University of Hamburg)
This paper has two aims: First, it approaches renga poetry from the viewpoint of written artefacts. Second, it focuses on the question
how contemporary renga positions itself towards the tradition of premodern classical renga. I will also introduce findings fromresearch trips in 2018 and 2020.
How To Enjoy A Book
Author: Ms Helen Magowan (University of Cambridge)
This paper reintegrates materiality and text to show meanings lost in the separation. Expanding the act usually called ‘reading’ to thehand and eye, a 1713 calligraphy book, an item typically thought to offer women a means to better themselves, will be shown to be asource of aesthetic enjoyment.
LitPre25 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature VIII
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Literary Parody as a Method of Canonization in Premodern Japan
Author: Dr Yuliya Osadcha Ferreira (Bonn University)
Appropriation of cultural heritage through re-thinking and giving new meanings to cultural codes of previous epochs was one of theways of self-identification in Edo Japan. The assimilation of aristocratic literature resulted in burlesque and led to canonization ofparodied works, genres and styles.
Heterosexuality, Shudō and Samurai Prestige in Ihara Saikaku's Fiction
Author: Dr David J. Gundry (University of California, Davis)
This presentation examines the counterpoint between the spiritual and the physical in Ihara Saikaku's portrayals of sex and love inheterosexual and shudō contexts, focusing on the redeployment in heterosexual, chōnin contexts of elements rooted in a samurai
ethos of devotion and self-sacrifice.
Creation and Recreation of the Genealogy of Shōsetsu in Edo and Modern Japan
Author: Dr Shan Ren (University of Oregon)This paper explores the genealogy of shōsetsu from a sociohistorical and transnational perspective. First, I trace the origin of shōsetsu
to ancient China. Next, I explore how it was redefined by Kyokutei Bakin and Tsubouchi Shōyō. Last, I explains the significance forcontemporary popular culture.
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LitPre26 Individual papers in Pre-modern Literature IX
Pre-modern Literature
Convenors: Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania); Susan Klein (UC Irvine)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The Boy Who Lived: Yoshitsune in Early Modern Books for Children
Author: Miss Aafke van Ewijk (Leiden University)
Following a discussion of a concept of ‘books for children’ in the (late) Edo period, this paper will analyze several kusazōshi about
Yoshitsune that try to engage an audience of children and offer social guidance for life lived in the present and the future.
Let's Do America: creating popular knowledge of the world beyond Japan in Osana etoki bankoku banashi, a late Edo gōkan
Author: Dr Stephen Forrest (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)
Knowledge of the unfamiliar and exotic was in high demand in late Edo Japan, yet also strictly controlled. How could content
creators satisfy demand without violating government sanctions? This paper explores the use of gōkan, a pictorial fiction genre, tointroduce foreign worlds to common readers.
The Three Trials of Flora Best Harris: Her Translations of Tosa Nikki in the Developing Years of Japanology
Author: Prof Robert Ono (Hosei University)
This paper documents, for the first time, the precise print history and development of three translations of Tosa Nikki, an exemplary"diary literature" of Japan written in the 10th century, attempted by Flora Best Harris between 1882-1910, which coincides with thedeveloping years of Japanology.
Media02 Queering Kōhaku: The cultural politics of gender and sexuality in NHK's Red and White Song Contest
Media Studies
Convenor: Mark Pendleton (The University of Sheffield)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel explores the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in NHK's Red and White Song Contest, which marked its 70thedition in 2019. Queering Kōhaku opens up an opportunity to further critically assess the cultural and social position of one ofJapan's most prominent postwar media outputs.
10:15-11:45
The nation's utahime? Divas at Kōhaku Utagassen through the eras
Author: Ms Dorothy Finan (University of Sheffield)
This paper examines two Japanese divas (utahime), who are emblematic of particular eras, within the history of Kōhaku Utagassen. I
will consider to whom these diva figures 'belong', and what role the contest has played in validating their status as era-defining
utahime in a changing media landscape.
From Kiyoshi to Kii-chan: an analysis of gender performance at the 70th Kōhaku Utagassen
Author: Dr Shelley Brunt (RMIT University)
What can a song performance tell us about a singer's gender or sexuality? Based on fieldwork observations at Tokyo's NHK Hall, thispaper considers Hikawa Kiyoshi's landmark 20th performance at the annual Kōhaku Utagassen (2019) as a disruption to thetelevision show's masculine/feminine binary.
A Queer Cultural History of Popular Music: Drag, Parody and Performance in an alternative Kōhaku Utagassen
Author: Dr Mark Pendleton (The University of Sheffield)
Queer people and spaces adapt popular media and culture. This paper explores one example, a long-running drag version of NHK's
Kōhaku Utagassen, arguing that this presents both a challenge to a singular national story of Japanese media, and an example of theradical potential of queer spaces.
Media03 Japanese Television in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change
Media Studies
Convenors: Forum Mithani (SOAS University of London); Elisabeth Scherer (University of Duesseldorf); Emma Horsley-Heather(School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Discussant: Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS, University of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Producers of Japanese television are responding to the changing social and media landscape in diverse ways. While some are making
adaptations, others are sticking to familiar formats. This panel examines how Japanese television has evolved in recent years byfocusing on three genres of programming.
08:00-09:30
Japanese Children's Television - cutting edge future or nostalgic memory
Author: Ms Emma Horsley-Heather (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
A brief look at how Japanese children's television has changed, or not, through its nearly seven decades of history. From Sazae-san toSuper Shiro! What does this mean for the early audience? What might it say about the society it exists in?

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Challenging Taboos? Desire, Sexuality and the Older Heroine in Japanese Television Drama
Author: Dr Forum Mithani (SOAS University of London)
Television drama creators have increasingly sought to produce content that appeals to older, female viewers, including content thatchallenges mainstream perceptions of motherhood and romantic or sexual desire. This paper examines how successful they are inreframing such discourses.
Desperately seeking the national audience: The Japanese Morning drama (asadora) in the digital age
Author: Dr Elisabeth Scherer (University of Duesseldorf)
In times of a changing media landscape, Japan's public broadcaster NHK has to reposition itself. One key factor in this context isthe morning drama (asadora), which is closely tied to the concept of the nation and to 'traditional TV'.
Media05 Nikkatsu Roman Porno - Texts and Contexts
Media Studies
Convenor: Johan Nordstrom (Tsuru University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel engage with specific Nikkatsu Roman Porno cinematic texts, performing close readings while at the same time situatingthem in their historical context, critically examining their form and function, both as sexually transgressive art and exploitationalcommodity.
10:15-11:45
Misogyny/Feminism of Kumashiro Tatsumi: In the Case of Woman with Red Hair
Author: Ms Mio Hatokai (Waseda University)
This paper discusses Kumashiro Tatsumi's Woman with Red Hair. It attempts to challenge the film's reputation as being feminist byaddressing misogynistic elements found in the film text. It also traces Kumashiro's career as a director and situates Woman with Red
Hair as a crucial turning point.
Blonde Animals: The Swedish Sin Through the Lens of Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Author: Dr Johan Nordstrom (Tsuru University)
This paper critically examines the form and function of the early Nikkatsu Roman Porno films marketed as "Sweden Porno" (Suêden
Poruno). Produced by Nikkatsu and filmed on location in Sweden with an all Swedish cast, these films came to capitalize
domestically on the exoticism of the "Swedish sin".
The Womb as a Dark Room: The Nikkatsu Roman Porno Adaptation of Yoshiyuki Junnosuke's Anshitsu
Author: Prof Miyoko Shimura
A critical analysis of how director Urayama Kirio adapted Yoshiyuki Junnosuke's famous novel Anshitsu into a celebrated Nikkatsu
Roman Porno feature film. In the adaptation, as in the book, its frank depictions of sexuality become a means to explore deeper
issues of solitude and despair.
Media06 Competing for the Frame: How Mainstream Media, Political Players and Social Movements Contend forInterpretative Hegemony in Post-Fukushima JapanMedia Studies
Convenors: Yosuke Buchmeier (Munich University (LMU)); Anna Wiemann (LMU Munich)Discussant: Fabian Schäfer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
The Fukushima nuclear accident remains a highly controversial issue that has threatened to leave a deep divide in the Japanesepublic. This panel provides a kaleidoscopic range of perspectives on how mainstream media, political players and civil groupscompete for interpretative hegemony.
10:15-11:45
Smartphones vs. NHK? Social movement media strategies in times of growing media self-censorship in Japan
Author: Dr Anna Wiemann (LMU Munich)Against the background of growing media self-censorship in Japan, this presentation analyses online and offline media strategies ofsocial movement actors in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Cutting the Agenda Does Not Cut the Risk - How NHK Is Containing the Post-Fukushima Discourse
Author: Mr Yosuke Buchmeier (Munich University (LMU))
Given an increasingly oppressive media environment, this paper argues that public broadcaster NHK has positioned itself less by an
overt plea for official policies but rather by a (relatively) subtle eschewal of controversial issues, known as "agenda-cutting" incommunication studies.
The responsibility for the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japanese media
Author: Dr Tobias Weiss (University of Heidelberg)
I will trace the spread of different framings of responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in different media. Using frame
analysis, two major framings of responsibility will be sketched and their dominance in different media platforms and different time
periods will be analysed.
Media07 News Analysis and Anthropogenic Disasters
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
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12:30-14:00
From TÔKAIMURA (1957) to FUKUSHIMA (2011): a media coverage analysis of the launch of Japan’s first nuclear reactor
in the light of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster
Author: Mr Tino Bruno (Kyôto Sangyô University, IFRJ-MFJ)
By formulating the hypothesis that the Fukushima nuclear accident should be analyzed within the scope of a system – the Japanese
nuclear village – that started in Tôkaimura (1957), this paper analyzes how the start-up of the first Japanese reactor was covered by
the Japanese press.
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Ten Years on: Investigating Japanese Newspaper Editorials on Nuclear Power Policies
Author: Prof Katsuyuki Hidaka (Ritsumeikan University)
This year marks ten years since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. This paper is the first attempt at
comprehensively investigating the manner in which Japanese major newspapers have critically responded to the disaster and nuclear
power policies in the last ten years.
The Thalidomide Crisis in Japan: A Reconsideration (Trans from Anth)
Author: Ms Astghik Hovhannisyan (Russian-Armenian University)
The aim of this paper is to revisit the Thalidomide crisis of the 1960s, assessing the impact of this crisis on Japanese society, as wellas analyzing images of "Thalidomide babies".
Media08 Emotion, Cinema, Cinematic Forms
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Individual papers in Media Studies II
12:30-14:00
Erotics of pain: reflections on post-war gay publications in Japan
Author: Mr Corentin Colin (University of Southern California)
I will analyze the ways in which pain and blood participate in gay erotic self-representation in post-war Japan. I will look back into
Yukio Mishima's work touching eroticism as well as how violence is depicted in more recent gay erotic manga.
"Gaman eiga" or the cinema for the soul? On fetishism, recontextualization and temporality in Japanese experimental
cinema of the 70s
Author: Dr Marko Grubacic (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade)
This paper focuses on a diverse group of Japanese experimental filmmakers who directed their attention to a thorough deconstruction
and reexamination of the established cinematic practices in the 70s, abandoning - to a large extent - the ideological imperatives of theprevious decade.
The Paradox of the 'Horror Comic': Translating Theories of Horror to the Pages of Manga
Author: Dr Michael Crandol (Leiden University)
How is it possible for an unmoving cartoon image to convincingly convey the affects of fear, shock, surprise and terror that are
essential to the horror genre? This paper explores the extent to which theories of cinematic horror are translatable to the caricatured
worlds of Japanese manga.
Media09 News(media) and Politics
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Individual papers in Media Studies III
14:45-16:15
Newsworthiness and Untranslatability: A Comparative Analysis of How Japanese Newspapers Quoted Two U.S. Presidents
Author: Dr Kayo Matsushita (Rikkyo University)
This paper explores the often-conflicting relationship between newsworthiness and translatability by analyzing how Japanesenewspaper articles quoted President Trump and President Obama through comparison of their original speeches and the news texts
published in their first 100 days in office.
Framing Ghosn: 20+ Years of Japanese Media Coverage (1999 to 2020)
Authors: Dr Tamara Swenson (Osaka Jogakuin University); Dr Brad Visgatis (Osaka International University)
This paper analyzes the coverage of Carlos Ghosn in Japanese news media. Articles from Nihon Keizai (n = 4,640) and Asahi (n =1,579) from January 1999 to January 2020 were analyzed to determine the framing of his rise, leadership, arrest, and flight.
Constructing Depoliticized Youth in the late 1970s: The Case of Youth Culture Magazines
Author: Dr Kyoko Tominaga (Ritsumeikan University)
This presentation discussed why movement and political interest are hidden in youth culture after the 1970s even though students had
involved in the radical insurgency in the late 1960s from magazines published after the 1970s edited by retired activists who had
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Media10 Gender and Sexuality
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Individual papers in Media Studies IV
12:30-14:00
Discourses on Sexlessness in Japanese Media: A Content Analysis of Sex Advice for Sexless Couples in Japanese Men`s andWomen`s Lifestyle and Health Magazines
Author: Dr Alice Pacher (Meiji University)
This presentation aims to investigate the portrayal of sexless prevention in lifestyle and health magazines from 2000`s to the readers.
Beyond the male gaze? How trendy dramas ushered in a new Japanese woman
Author: Mrs Minerva Terrades (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Japanese television dramas have historically portrayed patriarchal values towards women’s selfhood. However, during the Bubble
Era, ‘trendy dramas’ envisioned novel ways of being a woman. This paper examines how normative ideals of femininity were forged
into a new urban woman.
Beyond the Screens of "LGBT-Friendly" Japanese TV Dramas: Is there Hope or Utopia?
Author: Dr Wei-Jung Chang (Doshisha Women College of Liberal Arts)
Based on discourse analysis of two significantly popular "LGBT-friendly" Japanese TV dramas and audience's responses, thisresearch aims to discuss about media representation and its contribution and limits to gender and sexual equality.
Media11 Characters, Fans and Practitioners
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Individual papers in Media Studies V
14:45-16:15
Who populates in Japanese Visual Media? A census of fictional characters based on fan-created data
Authors: Prof Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University); Mr Zoltan Kacsuk (Stuttgart Media University)
Manga, anime and videogames created in Japan are populated by a wide range of fictional characters. But how can we characterize
this population? How diverse is it? In this paper, I explore a wide range of fan-created data about characters in order to create acensus of the visual media population.
Media literacy in otaku's tourism: the case of butaitanbou practitioners
Author: Dr Antonio Loriguillo-López (Universitat Jaume I (Spain))
Scene hunting in anime pilgrimages reflect the media literacy of its practitioners. I compare the skills demonstrated by butaitanbou
practitioners to the indicators of Media and Information Literacy (UNESCO). The results show that these communities areparadigmatic of the contemporary prosumers.
Unveiling the Giant: a state of the art of the study of Japanese videogames and its current possibilities
Author: Mr Tomás Grau de Pablos (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
The amount of data, knowledge and mediators that we have access compared from 10 years ago, when the study of Japanese video
games underwent significant progress, has increased so dramatically that we need to establish a rough sketch of every venue that we
can take from now on.
Media12 Translation, Appropriation, "East" and "West"Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Individual papers in Media Studies VI
10:15-11:45
Hidden in Plain Sight - Managing the Visibility and Spreadability of Japanese Amateur Comics of Western Media Properties
Author: Ms Katharina Huelsmann (HHU Düsseldorf)
Drawing on an ethnographic case study, this paper examines the practices employed by Japanese fan artists to navigate the visibilityof their own works within the infrastructure of dōjinshi culture and their effects on the spreadability of this form of fan comic in atranscultural context.
Shakespeare in manga, anime and cosplay - questioning West/East, high culture/ pop culture dichotomies
Author: Dr Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba)This paper studies Shakespeare in manga, anime and cosplay, such as Tezuka's "Robio to Robiette". I would argue that such cases
offer insights into Japan's negotiations with the dichotomy between high culture and pop culture, between the global and the local,
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Transnational transformation through translation: translating the hero in the Korean original and Japanese remake of Cainand AbelAuthor: Miss Julia Stolyar (SOAS, University of London)
Through exploring the portrayal of the hero in the Korean original and Japanese remake of the television drama Cain and Abel, I
explore the complex relations between the Japanese television industry and the rise and effect of the Korean media in the region.
What is This Place: HBO's Westworld and Orientalism of the Future
Author: Prof Colleen Laird (University of British Columbia)
This paper analyzes the ironic role that imagined Japan and Japanese bodies play in the HBO series Westworld (2016-present) thatfeatures a supposedly post-racial world in which Western bodies define their identities through a process of the West's optimistic
future-facing Orientalism.
Media13 Spread of New Media, New Media Forms
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Individual papers in Media Studies VII
12:30-14:00
Transmedialising popular music authorship: Matsumoto Takashi and the uses of paratextuality in 1970s-80s Japan
Author: Dr Moritz Sommet (University of Fribourg (Switzerland))This paper examines the lyricist Matsumoto Takashi's career as an example of the transmedial extension of author personae in the
popular music industry during the era of New Music. I show how Matsumoto's authorial self-staging benefited from his systematicuse of both musical and literary paratexts.
Rethinking the 'Expanded' Era: Early Television Reception in Rural Japan
Author: Prof Minako Ota (Niigata University)
This paper aims to clarify the significance to research the early period of television, especially focused on 'rural areas' and'acceptance'. In 1950s, before the cultural form of television was decided in Japan, people accepted television in a variety of ways,
based on their culture.
Analysis of Digital Divide within Elderly people in Japan: Factors Affecting Digital Media Use
Author: Dr Tomoko Takemura (Ritsumeikan University)
The purpose of this study is to explore the digital divide within Japanese elderly people and factors affecting their digital media use.
An interview was conducted with people aged over 65 using the Internet or smartphones. I found that environmental and individual
factors affected their media use.
Media14 Historical Memory and Women in Fiction
Media Studies
Convenors: Björn-Ole Kamm (Kyoto University); Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Individual papers in Media Studies VIII
08:00-09:30
Narratives of WWII through female bodies in peripheries: the analysis of Japanese postwar fiction, the series of himeyuri inthe northAuthor: Dr Kaori Yoshida (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
This paper demonstrates how Japanese women in peripheries, as the subject of narrating, (re)claim their forgotten memories in thenational memory discourse through postwar fictions, using the concept of “abject” body and Cixous’ “écriture feminine” that
explains those women’s storytelling.
Womanhood representation and historical memory in Kōno Fumiyo’s work
Author: Miss Ivette Abulí Federico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
This article seeks to explore the representation of Japanese historical memory as well as the social roles imposed on women between
1930-1945 through the analysis of Urano Suzu, the main character from Kōno Fumiyo’s manga Kono sekai no katasumi ni (‘In thiscorner of the world’).
PerArt02 Butoh-s in Color-s
Performing Arts
Convenor: Hayato Kosuge (Keio University)
Discussant: Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
The purpose of this panel is to discuss the common thread and essential character of "Butoh-s" from the approach of use of "colors."Three presenters will take up various Butoh performances focusing on different colors with an expressive impact but also an artistic
and traditional connotation.
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Quicksilvering the Naked Body against Power: Trans-corporealities from kuronuri miira to ginnuri
Author: Prof Katja Centonze (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)This paper investigates Murobushi Kō's exploration of corporeal art in relation to body-paint, focusing on his silver-body politics
seen as a way to eschew power, surveillance and forms of identity in connection to Guattari and Deleuze's nomadology, andsuggestingreferences to Minamata disease.
Representation of 'Black' or 'Kokujin' in Post-War Japanese Dance
Author: Dr Mariko Miyagawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
In 1950s-60s, many Japanese dancers represented 'black' in various way. There will be the ambivalent feelings to the USA and black
people. This research investigates the context of the emergence of Butoh by focusing on this representation of 'Kokujin'.
PerArt03 Competing Agendas and Agencies: Paths of Japanese Popular Music in the 1970s
Performing Arts
Convenor: Lauri Kitsnik (Hiroshima University)
Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (University of Chicago)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel examines various directions that popular music took in 1970s Japan by looking at agendas and agencies of several players
in the field. In order to provide a pluralist view, the focus is on four cases that represent mainstream industry practices as well as
those going against the grain.
10:15-11:45
Creating a Space for Peaceful Protest: A History of Kyōdai Seibu Kōdō
Author: Dr Lauri Kitsnik (Hiroshima University)
This paper examines the history of Seibu Kōdō, a legendary concert venue at the campus of Kyoto University. In order to chart its
role and significance within the popular music culture of 1970s Japan, the focus is placed on its links to radical student movements
and community-based management model.
Matsutōya Yumi and the 'New' in New Music
Author: Dr Lasse Lehtonen (The University of Tokyo)
Singer-songwriter Matsutōya Yumi is typically associated with the birth of New Music - a hybrid pop genre emphasizing musicians'
authorship and authenticity in the 1970s. This presentation examines the implications of 'new' in Matsutōya's work with an emphasis
on production and textual content.
"Don't Call Me a Folk Singer": Kagawa Ryō and Anti-Folk as Critique of Everyday Life
Author: Dr Scott Aalgaard (Wesleyan University)
This paper addresses Ryo Kagawa (1947-2017), a singer-songwriter who debuted in Japan's critical-folk moment of around-1970.
Kagawa worked to shift the critical impulse of folk away from topical, oppositional critique and toward a broader destabilization of
the terms and conditions of everyday life.
Kitagawa Johnny: Showa Returnee Who Re-imagined the American Musical as Idol Teen Culture for the Heisei Era andBeyondAuthor: Prof Michael Furmanovsky (Ryukoku University)
This paper explores the life and motivations of the Kitagawa Johnny, the recently deceased pop impresario beginning with his
teenage years in the post-war Nisei community of Los Angeles to his eventual status as founder of the most successful idol-producing
agency in pop music history.
PerArt04 Tours, Travels, and Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Japan's International Music Exchanges
Performing Arts
Convenor: Anne Prescott (Five Colleges, Inc.)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel draws on the idea of cosmopolitan modernity, and looks at the ways in which musical fascination, aspiration, and pleasureassociated with international music tours and travels greatly impacted the wider historical, cultural and political discourses of Japan
from the 1920s to the 1960s.
12:30-14:00
Reconsidering "Jazz" Boom within Cosmopolitan Contexts: Emergence of International Live Music Exchange in PostOccupational Japan
Author: Mr Sota CHU (Faculty of Humanities)
This paper examines how Japanese audience shaped the framework of jazz as cosmopolitan music through live music exchange inthe post-occupation era, by tracing the routes of the various musicians to argue that the embodied cosmopolitanism on the stages
paradoxically triggered conservative backlash.
The Impact of European Encounters on the Koto Music of Miyagi Michio
Author: Dr Anne Prescott (Five Colleges, Inc.)
Many of Miyagi Michio's more than 700 compositions for koto and other hōgaku instruments draw on Western music to transform
traditional Japanese music. His career as a performer and composer culminated in a trip to Europe in 1953 where he experienced
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Japanese Tango Musicians in China, 1920s-1940s: International Travels and a 'Continental Longing'
Author: Dr Yuiko Asaba (University of Huddersfield)
This paper examines Japanese Tango musicians in China's popular dancehalls between the 1920s and 1940s. The presentation places
such migration dynamics under the political and historical lens of Japan's longing for and imaginations of 'the continents' at this time.
PerArt05 Behind the Curtains of Theatre History - The Locality of Early Modern and Modern Kabuki Productions
Performing Arts
Convenors: Tove Bjoerk (Saitama University); Mayumi Tsuda (Keio University); Takayuki Hioki (Shirayuri University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel investigates three alternative performance venues, namely private estates, rural stages and overlooked Osaka productions
and their interaction with the main theatres in Edo/Tokyo as a cause for the birth of a unified Kabuki culture spanning the whole ofJapan.
08:00-09:30
Performing Privately - Kabuki entertainment at feudal mansions
Author: Prof Mayumi Tsuda (Keio University)
This paper will consider Kabuki entertainment at feudal mansions, analyzing examples of Chōshū domain lord and Kabuki fan Mōri
Narimoto's activities, and showing rare female Kabuki actors depicted in the kusazōshi novel "Mutsumajizuki fukai nakachō"(Tsuruya Nanboku, 1834).
Theatre on the Trade Routes in Early Modern Japan
Author: Dr Tove Bjoerk (Saitama University)
This paper will look at late 17th and early 18th century Kabuki performances in northern Kyushu and investigate how the travelingperformers connections to the local merchant guilds' economic network impacted early modern theatrical culture.
"Osaka Style" and "Tokyo Style": Mutual Influences in Osaka and Tokyo Kabuki of the Meiji Era
Author: Dr Takayuki Hioki (Shirayuri University)
This presentation will investigate the mutual influences seen in Kabuki productions in Osaka and Tokyo in the Meiji Era, which
contradict previous studies which have not considered the cultural influx between the two performance traditions important.
PerArt06 Nô temporalities and alliances
Performing Arts
Convenors: Peter Eckersall (The Graduate Center CUNY); Poulton Poulton (University of Victoria)
Discussant: Kyoko Iwaki (Goldsmiths, Uuniversity of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 16:30-18:00
In this panel we consider temporal and dramaturgical questions of nô theatre, both in its 'classical' context and in relation to questionsof its influence and its adaptation and applicants in contemporary performance in Japan and elsewhere.
16:30-18:00
Nō is a time machine
Author: Dr Poulton Poulton (University of Victoria)
Nō is an art designed to articulate and manipulate time through tempo, rhythm, dance, and poetry. This paper will focus on a
production of Futari Shizuka in January 2019. Spectator, performer, and enacted characters: each exists in separate temporal planes
that coincide in performance.
Nô sensibilities: ecology, slow dramaturgy and nonlocality
Author: Prof Peter Eckersall (The Graduate Center CUNY)
Artists are turning to devising ecological performances that address questions of climate change by drawing our attention to therapidly changing environment and profound feelings of loss. The sensibilities of nô theatre are sources of inspiration forcontemporary ecological performance.
Phantom Vibration, Phantom Projection: Shades of Nō in Contemporary Slow Dramaturgy
Author: Dr Corey Wakeling (Kobe College)
Nō's influence upon contemporary theatre and performance deserves greater attention. In this paper, I propose a consultation of theconcept of "slow dramaturgy" to consider how mugen nō prefigures the paradoxical emphasis upon virtuality featured incontemporary theatre practices.
PerArt08 "Passion in Stillness": the implications of specialized workshops for new engagements with nohgaku
Performing Arts
Convenors: Helen Parker (The University of Edinburgh); Ashley Thorpe (Royal Holloway, University of London); Fumiko NarumiMunro (The University of Edinburgh)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
The panel examines implications of specialized noh workshops created for UK students on 2 different degree programmes.
Interaction with master performers, including participation in the creative process, transforms learning and motivates further
engagement with noh and its cultural context.
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Seeking stillness, finding failure, reassessing the self: drama student embodiments of noh training.
Author: Dr Ashley Thorpe (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Through experience with master performances, drama students gained a new appreciation for noh that transcended exterior
aesthetics. Rather, students comprehended technique, appreciated complexity in stillness, and even reassessed their own approach toother forms of performance.
Japanese Language Noh Project: transforming learning in Japanese Studies around the theme of noh
Author: Ms Fumiko Narumi-Munro (The University of Edinburgh)
Japanese Studies students from all years studied multiple aspects of noh together on a themed language project. The preparation for
the noh masters' visit gave a practical purpose to their learning, while the workshops enhanced their level of appreciation for noh andits source culture.
Yami no Hana: guided steps towards writing and performing for noh
Author: Dr Helen Parker (The University of Edinburgh)Students were guided step by step through the process of devising a noh play, working from their own storyline. Their understandingof the complex conventions of noh composition, and the reasons for them, increased due to the close interaction with master
performers and their own direct input.
PerArt09 Mapping Tradition in Contemporary Japan: New Production of Traditional Performance
Performing Arts
Convenor: Mariko Okada
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Traditional theater seems to be facing difficulties. This panel introduce representative new works related to Japanese classical danceand discuss how the traditional theater tries to integrate classical elements with modern people's interest and how to make tradition
survive today.
08:00-09:30
From Innovative to Traditional: Inventive Attempts in Changing Traditional Japanese Dance
Author: Dr Mariko Okada
Japanese dance has changed from innovative to traditional after establishment in pre-war Japan. This paper explores historicalattempts of Japanese dance to resist this trend and discusses how the innovative attempts have related to the mainstream of
traditionalization.
Tradition Renewed: Japanese elements in new works of Japanese Classical Dance
Author: Ms Satomi Abe
Examining newly created Japanese dance, this paper explores the tendency of their themes and directions and discusses why and how
these common characteristics were constructed. It also refers to the nationalistic climate which promotes new traditional
performance.
Recreations Repeated: Integration between Japanese classical dance and ballet
Author: Prof Naomi Inata (J.F. Oberlin University)
Introducing ongoing reconstruction project of integrated dance performance between Western ballet and Japanese Classical Dance,
this paper argues how the integration was achieved and how the elements of Japanese traditional dance and western dance were
utilized.
PerArt10 Transmedia and "Other" Performance Breaks, Clashes, and Fabrications
Performing Arts
Convenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel is made up of individual presentation, which are grouped together by theme.
08:00-09:30
Makoto Shinkai's Anime and Japan's Tech Theatrical Identity
Author: Dr Adedoyin Aguoru (University of Ibadan)
Shinkai Makoto engages anime, Japan's tech driven animated visionary media. This transformed mediated form is an expression ofJapanese theatrical digital screen culture. This paper focuses on Shinkai's philosophical and magical themes along with his exquisite
imagery which are universal.
Exploring Hybridity: Kanno Yôko, Takarazuka Revue and the Subversive Dynamics of (Soft) Power in Late-Modern Japan
Author: Dr Maria Grajdian (Hiroshima University)
This presentation focuses on the dynamics of entertainment in the interplay of power and seduction (in Robert Greene’s vision) as
creatively displayed in Takarazuka Revue's performance "Arabesque: Silk Road – The Thief and the Jewels" (snow troupe, 2021) andits music composed by Kanno Yôko.
The transformation of Izumi Kyoka's play "Kaizin Bessou" in the musical play based on the video game "Sakura Taisen"
Author: Dr Aya Suzuki
The play "Kaizin Bessou" written in 1913 was adapted to a musical play in a 2001 performance based on a video game. This
presentation states how the play was adapted into a popular culture performance and elucidates the influences of age, forms, andbackground on both works.

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PerArt11 In-transit Performance Acts and Provocations
Performing Arts
Convenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30"The Modernity of Magic and the Attraction of Shōkyokusai Tenkatsu (1886-1944)"
Author: Dr Charles Exley (University of Pittsburgh)
I propose to examine female magician Shōkyokusai Tenkatsu's career and the importance of the travelling magic show to theformation of mass culture in early 20th century Japan.
Travel and Transformation of Ishinha 維新派の移動と変容
Author: Ms Naoko Kogo (University Osaka, graduate school of letters)

大阪を拠点に 1971 年から 2017 年まで活動した劇団「維新派」の仕事を、人物像のアイデンティティの変化に焦点をあてて考察する。同団は 1990 年代以降、移民背景を持つ住人の多い地域の特性を、パフォーマンスで繰り返し取り上げてきた。海外ツアーを経た後の「20世紀三部作」には、移民の主人公の越境と変容、統語法からの解放されたコロスのシュプ
レヒコールと舞踏に、共同体の同一性を支える言語と行為の統合性を解体する戦略が析出される。三部作に前後する変化を作品の間テクスト性に照らして読むことで、維新派の探求を明らかにし、国家と地域の間で文化の資源化が促がされる今日、その仕事をどう伝えてゆくか問題を提起したい。
Gendering Shakespeare in 21st century Japan: the case of Kaki Kuu Kyaku's "Nyotai Shakespeare" series
Author: Prof Mika Eglinton (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)This paper questions the extent to which the all-female Shakespeare series of Tokyo based Norihito Nakayashiki and the Kaki Kuu
Kyaku theatre company gives women a new voice. If, Nakayashiki represents a new era of Japanese Shakespeare, in what ways does
his work connect with or break from the past?
PerArt12 Performing Pandemic, Olympics, and Neighborhood
Performing Arts
GeneralConvenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel is made up of individual presentation, which are grouped together by theme.
10:15-11:45"Being there"? A pandemic perspective on the audience-space relationship in the Theatre Olympics at Toga Village
Author: Mr Andrew Eglinton (Konan Women's University)
In his director’s note for the 9th Theatre Olympics, Tadashi Suzuki warned of a future in which humans subsist via remoteconnection, knowing and understanding things “without actually ‘being there.’” This paper rethinks the audience-space relationshipat Toga Village from a pandemic perspective.
Creating a Caring Neighborhood for the Elderly - Theatre from the Japanese periphery
Author: Dr Barbara Geilhorn (German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo)
My paper investigates the work of Sugawara Naoki, founder of the theatre group OiBokkeShi and a trained caregiver, who is based in
Okayama prefecture to scrutinize how age-related issues are addressed in selected productions.
Transposition of Life: On Absence of Real Live Performers in "Non-Human Theater" for Depicting Dead/Dying People
Author: Prof Ken Hagiwara (Meiji University)
Recent works by Okada Toshiki, Koizumi Meiro, and Takayama Akira apply technological devices and use few/no real live
performers. Their so-called "non-human theater" seem to be suitable for depicting physically or socially dead/dying peoples in Japan
today.
PerArt13 Interdisciplinary Performance Encounters
Performing Arts
Convenors: Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin); Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel is made up of individual presentation, which are grouped together by theme.
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The dawn of ballet in Taisho Japan: Focus on the activities of ballet master G.V. Rosi
Author: Dr Sayaka YAMADA (Japan Women's University)
This study investigates the activities and background of Giovanni Vittorio Rosi, who was invited to the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo
during the Taisho period. This paper aims to re-evaluate the ballet developed in Japan by Rosi, in relation to the ballet in Europe atthe turn of the century.
Incorporating Foreign Elements in Positive Ways: Historical Analyses of the Changes in Music and Dance in "Awa Odori" inJapan
Author: Dr Atsuko Kobayashi (Meiji University)
This paper examines the changes in music and dance movements of Awa Odori, a traditional folk dance (O-bon dance) in Japan,
through media discourse, videos from the 1950s to 1990s, and field research, focusing on incorporation and exclusion of foreign
performances such as mambo and marching band.
Negotiating Cultural Identities: Okeanos and Nicola LeFanu's Tokaido Road
Author: Ms Moeko Hayashi (University of Oxford)
This paper explores LeFanu's multi-media opera, Tokaido Road (2014), depicting the life of Utagawa Hiroshige. What this opera
achieved is to create a third place that is neither Western nor Japanese, and two cultural identities are negotiated through multilayered agencies and collaborations.
PerArt14 Questioning Traditions
Performing Arts
Convenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel is made up of individual presentation, which are grouped together by theme.
12:30-14:00
At Jacob's Well. On Transcultural Nō Theatre
Author: Dr Jakub Karpoluk (Polish-Japanese Academy of IT)
During last few decades many transcultural nō theatre performances were produced, including "Nekyia Nō", based on Odyssey, and aplay titled "At Jacob's Well", staged by Tessenkai Nō Theatre, in Europe, in 2019. The author would like to trace the origins andgeneral form of this type of dramas.
The Process of Canonization in Meiji Kabuki by Ichikawa Danjūrō IX
Author: Ms Jihye Kim (Osaka University)
This presentation will focus on the process by which Ichikawa Danjūrō IX endeavored to canonize kabuki after Tenran kabuki in
1887. For the canonization of kabuki, Danjūrō employed the method adapting Chikamatsu jōruri plays, or noh and kyōgen dramas
which were perceived as authorized "traditions".
Where is Kabuki going? Tradition or innovation?
Author: Prof Chieko Hiranoi (Hosei University)
The paper refers to innovation in kabuki in the previous 5 years such as anime-originated kabuki and new technologies. Then it
discusses how effectively such challenges have been organized between tradition and innovation to get and raise new audiences aswell as to satisfy existing audiences.
PerArt15 Nation, Music, and French Theory's Butoh
Performing Arts
Convenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Western Pop Acts in Japan: Putting the Cult into Culture
Author: Dr Christopher Hood (Cardiff University)
Most Western pop acts do not enjoy much success in Japan. Yet, many release special editions of their CDs in Japan and these
releases have become highly collectable outside of Japan. Using cases from the 1980s and 1990s, this paper analyses the Japanesemusic market and the importance of nostalgia.
Beyond urbanity: Nationalistic concepts in the popular music genre nyū myūjikku
Author: Ms Anita Drexler
This paper examines nationalistic tendencies in the popular music genre nyū myūjikku. By focussing on the artistic output of singersongwriter Sada Masashi (b. 1952) I will uncover strategies that were used to incorporate cultural policies into mainstream pop musicfrom the 1970s to this day.
Butoh and post-human bodies—on the cases of Min Tanaka and Ko Murobushi
Author: Dr Yuma OCHI (Ehime University)
This paper discusses that the "Butoh" shares problematics posed by French contemporary thought. This study attempts to clarify how
Min Tanaka and Ko Murobushi present their unique post-human bodies responding to the disappearance of modern humansubjectivity as Michel Foucault claimed.

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PerArt16 Closing session. Performing Crises Japan: Critical Responses
Performing Arts
Convenors: Annegret Bergmann (The University of Tokyo); Katherine Mezur (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
In our final session we invite everyone to join in an open discussion on how Japanese performing arts respond to crises, which may
relate to the present COVID-19 pandemic, the 3-11 ongoing triple disaster, and/or historical climatic catastrophes. We encourage
everyone to feel free to discuss any performances (online or live), which you think directly or indirectly addresses a climatic event orassimilates that event into the narrative or central subject/theme of the performance.
This panel has no accepted papers
Phil01 The place of TAISEI-KYŌ in the intellectual history of the Edo Period
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Convenor: W.J. Boot (Leiden University)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Sendai kuji hongi taisei-kyō 先代旧事本紀大成経 (70 kan) is an anonymous text. It was produced in the middle of the 17th
century by authors unknown, and partially printed in 1679. Though quite popular in the Edo Period, the text has hardly been studied
since. With our panel we want to remedy that situation.
10:15-11:45
The Creation of the Image of Shōtoku-taishi in Early Modern Japan
Author: Dr Satoshi Sonehara (Tohoku University)
In Taisei-kyō, Shōtoku-taishi is presented as a wise statesman, who combined the three creeds of Shinto, Buddhism, andConfucianism. Within the intellectual debate of the Edo Period, this implied an opposition to Confucian scholars, who strongly
criticized him for his role in the spread of Buddhism.
The reception of Sendai kuji hongi taisei-kyō in didactic literature
Author: Prof よしこ 湯浅
During the remainder of the Edo Period, Taisei-kyō exerted considerable influence on popular, didactic literature of a religious
nature. From this perspective, we will analyse such texts as Moto-tsu-gusa ( 絵入本津草; 1728), Shinkoku masuhogusa (神国増穂草; 1756), and Shōtoku-taishi den zue (聖徳太子伝図会; 1804).
The significance and influence of Saigen shinto
Author: Mr Marc Buijnsters (School for Asian Studies, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS))
Taisei-kyō advocates three traditions of Shinto: Sōgen, Saigen and Reisō. The one that is peculiar to Japan alone, is Saigen shinto. It
symbolizes the legitimacy of the imperial reign and the Three Regalia. These two characteristics attracted were discussed byintellectuals of the Edo period.
Sendaikuji hongi taisei-kyō and Confucianism
Author: Dr W.J. Boot (Leiden University)
Neo-Confucianism was the opponent the compilers of Taisei-kyō wanted to emulate and defeat. As the text pretended to date back to
the early 7th century, however, Neo-Confucianism could not openly be addressed. Several rhetorical strategies were devised to getaround the problem.
Phil02 The Human Environment between Nature and Technique: A Promenade in Twentieth Century Japanese Philosophy
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Convenor: Francesco Campagnola (University of Lisbon)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The present panel analyses how important Japanese public intellectuals and philosophers (Tosaka Jun, Watsuji Tetsurō, Miki Kiyoshi
and Shimizu Ikutarō) analysed the relationship between nature and technology within the human world. It focuses on the different
systems of coexistence they ideated.
08:00-09:30
Secret and Translation: Revisiting Tosaka Jun's Philosophy of Technology
Author: Dr Futoshi Hoshino (University of Tokyo)
This paper focuses on the view of "secret" and "translation" by Tosaka Jun. The Kyoto School philosopher elaborated his philosophyof technology in the early 1930s. However, by putting these terms forward, I would reveal its hidden development in the writing of
the late 1930s and early 40s.
Nature and Technology: Comparing Watsuji, Nishida, and Miki
Author: Dr Yu Inutsuka (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
The aim of this paper is to show two different understandings of "nature" in Kyoto school philosophers in the early Showa Japan:
Watsuji Tetsurō's "nature" which is included in human world and Nishida Kitarō and Miki Kiyoshi's "nature" which includes humanbeings.

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Human Nature, Culture and Technique in Shimizu Ikutarō. Between the Commoners and Nationalistic Rhetoric.
Author: Dr Francesco Campagnola (University of Lisbon)
I explore the consequences of Shimizu's late reconsideration of the relationship between life and abstraction, in which he pits
technique against the direct relationship to nature and experience of traditional communities and knowledge, and I offer a tentative
rebuke to his nationalistic conclusions
Phil03 The Problem of Meaningful Relations in the Kyoto SchoolIntellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Sova Cerda (Kyoto University); Satoshi Urai (Otani University); Miikael-Aadam Lotman (Kyoto University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
What potential (and potential limitations) can we find through investigating meaningful relations in the Kyōto School? With
presentations that center Tanabe, Nishitani, and the School's overall legacy, we approach this question from the varied perspectives oflogic, society, and intimacy.
08:00-09:30
Nishitani on Familial Breakdowns: Interpersonal Demands and the Unity of the Self
Author: Mr Sova Cerda (Kyoto University)
What can we learn from Nishitani Keiji's understanding of meaningful and sustainable human interaction? By investigating a
fictional work of family tragedy, I argue his position contains suggestions for navigating through our public duties and existential
demands.
Mediation in Tanabe Hajime: Society and Syllogism
Author: Mr Satoshi Urai (Otani University)
The relationship between society and the individual is central to Tanabe Hajime's philosophy. In this paper, I will explore the logicalunderpinnings of Tanabe's social theory. Specifically, I will clarify how Tanabe connects the Aristotelian syllogism with our sociallyinformed perceptions.
The problem of individual relations in the Kyōto School
Author: Mr Miikael-Aadam Lotman (Kyoto University)
In this paper I will contend that the Kyōto School's founding figures based their philosophical views of relations on Aristotelian logic.
This, in turns, renders the nature of relations mysterious, since Aristotelian logic cannot account for two-place predicates.
Phil04 Beings and being in this world: Repossessing malevolent spirits and human agency in early medieval JapanIntellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Cynthea J. Bogel (Kyushu University (Japan)); Takeshi Watanabe (Wesleyan University)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel contends that human and material actors in Heian-early Kamakura Japan had strategies for negotiating the effects ofvengeful spirits. Speakers highlight texts and images that forged agency and restored individual or collective capacity to act in theface of threatening occurrences.
12:30-14:00
Capturing Fears of the Invisible through Painting's Magic
Author: Prof Satomi Yamamoto (Waseda University)
Representations of the Buddhas in medieval Japanese painting embodied hopes. Far less studied is religious imagery of demons andmalevolent spirits that rendered negative agencies like resentments. By making the invisible visible, such representations allowed fortheir grasping and their taming.
Repossessing history through monogatari
Author: Prof Takeshi Watanabe (Wesleyan University)
Eiga monogatari (c. 1092) tells of a turbulent society punctuated by calamities, some attributed to malevolent spirits. But if stories
energized the violence, they also placated. This paper contends that Eiga uses affective tale discourse to exorcise history's hauntings.
The emperor's dreams as a means to repossess the world in late Heian Japan
Author: Prof Asuka Sango (Carleton College)
This paper examines dreams by and about the emperor as recorded and interpreted in courtiers' diaries of late Heian Japan. Dreams
were a precarious site of interactions between humans and spirits, and their interpretation was a means for courtiers to respond tocrises of the imperial authority.
The Human-Haunted World: Illness, Disaster, and Court Hierarchy in the Social Realm of Late Heian Japan
Author: Dr Kristina Buhrman (Florida State University)
This paper uses an account of the 1107 possession of Emperor Horikawa to analyze the ways in which illness was viewed as a crisisof social relationships wherein the relative positions of high and low were reinforced and strengthened.
Phil05 Imagining Capitalism in Interwar Japan: Social Policy, Social Thought, and Social ReformIntellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Chikara Uchida (The University of Tokyo); Yufei Zhou (German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo); Tomoji Onozuka(The University of Tokyo)
Chair: Till Knaudt (Kyoto University)
Discussant: Torsten Weber (DIJ Tokyo)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
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This panel focuses on economists' and entrepreneurs' reflections of capitalism in interwar Japan. By analyzing diverse capitalismimages of social reformists associated with the "Social Policy Association", this panel seeks to re-approach Japan's interwar
capitalism from an intellectual aspect.
08:00-09:30
Natural Resources and Their Use as Capital: The Issue of Interwar Capitalism for Forestry Professor and Investor Honda
Seiroku
Author: Dr Chikara Uchida (The University of Tokyo)
This paper clarifies how Honda Seiroku (1866-1952), a forestry professor, sought to improve society through the use of natural
resources. Through his economic commentaries and activities, it shows that his ideas on the economy during the interwar period
triggered activities for social improvement.
The Ideal of Social Policy: Kawada Shirō's Analysis of Capitalism and Urban Social Problems
Author: Dr Yufei Zhou (German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo)
This paper focuses on Kawada Shirō, a professional economist who contributed to social reforms both in theory and practice. This
paper analyzes Kawada's writings on capitalism and social policy, seeking to shed light on how Japanese economic elites perceived
capitalism in its transitional period.
Between ultra-nationalism and socialism: Changing contours of the Japanese reformist academics and entrepreneur,
TAKANO Iwasaburo, OHARA Magosaburo and HIRAO Hachisaburo
Author: Other Tomoji Onozuka (The University of Tokyo)
I focus on three reformist academics and entrepreneurs in 1920s and 1930s Japan, and follow their contours to proceed in the field ofsocial policy. The main question is the reason why they failed to constrain the right wing ultra-nationalist politics in 1930s and early
1940s.
Phil06 From Naming to Taming Nature: The Evolution of Honzô-related knowledge in Early modern JapanIntellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Matthias Hayek (EPHE-PSL); Nicolas Mollard (Lyon 3 University); Annick Horiuchi (Université de Paris)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The panel focuses on different aspects of honzô-related knowledge in Tokugawa Japan: the impact of the Bencao gangmu (Classified
materia medica; 1596), the stimulus from commercial production and the necessary adaptation to local conditions.
08:00-09:30
The Bencao Gangmu in 17th century Japan: A Book of Nature or a Book of Words?
Author: Prof Matthias Hayek (EPHE-PSL)
This paper looks at the reception of the Bencao Gangmu in 17th century Japan. By doing so, I hope to show that its early influence
relied mostly on its lexicological and illustrative aspects rather than on the application of its classification and worldview to the local
flora and fauna.
Observation of nature in honzō studies : a secondary concern
Author: Prof Annick Horiuchi (Université de Paris)
The paper focuses on the changes in the knowledge of nature, as observed in the works of honzôgaku of the early 18th century. Itshows that Japanese scholars were concerned with identifying local species and with informing about the diversity of regional
products.
From field surveys to commercialization: plant knowledge in 18th century Satsuma domain
Author: Mr Nicolas Mollard (Lyon 3 University)
During his lifetime, Shimazu Shigehide strived to foster botanical knowledge within his domain as an effort to produce materia
medica on a large scale. This paper will discuss how Satsuma's naturalists gathered, identify, cultivate, and commercialized plant
species.
Phil07 Overcoming Modernity, being overcome by Modernity? Towards critical de-naturalization of normative paradigms
and academic disciplinarity in Japanese Studies
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Hirofumi Utsumi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice); Matteo Cestari (Università degli Studi di Torino); Toshio Miyake(Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel is intended to discuss critically the normative and essentialised assumptions concerning Modernity, that have shaped
Japanese Studies in Europe. It aims at disclosing transdisciplinary and reflexive perspectives in social theory, cultural theory andPostcolonial Studies.
12:30-14:00
Strategic Orientalism and 'Japan' as subcultural mainstream: Intersecting bottom-up and top-down neo-Japanism incontemporary Italy
Author: Dr Toshio Miyake (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)This paper will investigate how issues of identity, power and knowledge do intersect in the entangled process between the academic
field of Japanese Studies, students of Japanese Studies and wider glocalising interests for 'Japan', with a particular focus oncontemporary Italy.

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Japanese "Traditions" and Theories of Modernity. A Postcolonial Approach
Author: Dr Matteo Cestari (Università degli Studi di Torino)
This paper will consider various approaches to Japanese Modernity (the convergent Modernity model; Eisenstadt's multiple
modernities and the entangled/postcolonial/hybrid modernities approaches as in Therborn, Bhambra and Kōtō), and will question thevalidity of the dichotomy modernity/traditions.
Modernity, Globalisation and the Experience of Japanese society
Author: Dr Hirofumi Utsumi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)This presentation is intended to reconsider the assumptions concerning Modernity in terms of the experience of Japanese society. It
aims at showing a perspective for analyzing contemporary globalisation based on Japanese Studies.
Phil08 Compiling, Classifying, Translating, Naturalizing: Strange Phenomena and Early Modern Modes of Rationality
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Convenors: Daniel Said Monteiro (Université de Paris); Drisana Misra (Yale University)
Discussant: William Fleming (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel centers on the ways early modern scholars in and outside Japan engaged with new and old knowledge about exotic,
mysterious or inexplicable phenomena. We consider how strange objects of knowledge were categorized and naturalized according toprevalent cosmological frameworks.
12:30-14:00
Rendering Faith into Knowledge: Epistemic Hybridization in Early Modern Japanese and Chinese Christian Texts
Author: Ms Wenlu WANG (The University of Tokyo)
Translating the Christian doctrine into Asian languages involves collisions of different epistemic traditions. The paper, drawing fromthe comparative study of Japanese and Chinese adaptations of Luis Granada’s Introducción del Símbolo de la Fe, traces the epistemic
hybridization in the two texts.
Strange Parallels: Translations of the One-Horned Animal in the Bilingual Dictionary
Author: Ms Drisana Misra (Yale University)
Unicorns often entered the lexicon of early bilingual dictionaries, such as the Dicionário Português-Chinês and the Vocabvlario da
Lingoa de Iapam. This paper examines how lexicographers demystified “the strange,” yet also exposed the strangeness of language
through locating one-to-one equivalences.
Rationalizing Aberrations and Anomalies in Mid-Edo Nagasaki
Author: Mr Daniel Said Monteiro (Université de Paris)
Among the works of Nagasaki scholar Nishikawa Joken popular in mid-Edo Japan, two books on celestial, terrestrial and humananomalies exemplify prevailing trends to classify and rationalize strange phenomena. In these, he promotes the theory of yunqi
against divinatory practices.
Naturalizing Wonders: Kappa and Taxonomical Knowledge in Late Tokugawa Japan
Author: Prof Federico Marcon (Princeton University)
In late Tokugawa, naturalists turned their investigative methods to study weird beasts and uncanny phenomena. This naturalization of“monsters” offers a unique perspective to grasp the taxonomical reason and observational practices that sustained the study of naturein the 18th and 19th centuries.
Phil09 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy IIntellectual History and Philosophy
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
The Indian science of sound in early Heian Japan: Kūkai's reading of a Sri Lankan text collected by Amoghavajra
Author: Dr Ian Astley (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The science of sound became the core of Kūkai's philosophy of cosmos. Here I will explore how he expanded on an Indian text
collected by Amoghavajra in the mid-eighth century, which assigns meaning to each syllable in the Sanskrit alphabet, comprising an
expression of every aspect of the universe.
The opening up and falling apart of an empty flower: impressions from Dōgen's Kūge (空華)Author: Miss Francesca Greco (University of Hildesheim)
The purpose of my presentation is to investigate the "empty flower" imagery in Dōgen's Kūge ( 空華) chapter of Shōbōgenzō (正法限蔵) as expression of the enlightenment of the entire world. According to this, Dōgen's depiction of nature is located between
natural and supernatural.
Natural Disasters as Indications of Human Ineptitude in the Mid- to Late Heian Period
Author: Dr Nathalie Phillips
Natural disasters, epidemics, and uncontrollable events were regarded as reactions to human behaviour by the Heian-period elite.
This paper seeks to investigate this relationship between humans and nature by discussing the centrality of the meta-physicaldiscourse for the conception of the cosmos.

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Changing medical conceptions in History of Early Modern Japanese Medicine
Author: Dr Judit Éva Zentai (ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Institute of East Asian Studies)
Special way of approaching to the novelties is very typical for the history of Japanese medicine. We can find several examples frommedical references for this, therefore I attempt to introduce some cases of the changing medical conceptions through some referencesof Early Modern Japanese medicine.
Phil10 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy IIIntellectual History and Philosophy
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The Mundane Sensitivity of the Ephemeral: On the Link between Aesthetic Appreciation and the Ethical Standpoint inJapanese Philosophy
Author: Dr Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla (The National Autonomous University of Mexico)
This proposal discusses different Japanese notions that refer to the ephemeral from its aesthetic point of view. The aim is to recognizein the ephemeral a necessary source for individual and social consciousness, which implies an ethical understanding.
Natural and supernatural: Japan and the phenomenology of enchantment
Author: Dr Lorenzo Lorenzo (Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Discussions about a philosophy of "nature", in Japan a as elsewhere, ought to include also an imaginary element, the supernaturalenchantment of the natural world. We will frame this problem through Inoue's, Yanagita's and Watsuji's work.
'Iki' as a Philosophical Concept?
Author: Mr Yuta Okada (Kyoto University)
Shūzō Kuki's famous work, "The Structure of 'Iki'," discusses this eponymous Japanese sense of beauty as a philosophical concept
and is still attractive for us to read today. In this presentation, I would like to think, whether taking 'iki' as a philosophical concept canbe justified.
The early socialist movement and intellectuals in the Empire of Japan
Author: Dr Kyoichiro Yoshino (Toyo University)
Since the late-19th century in the Empire of Japan, as industrialization had developed, social problems have become recognized.
While the Social Democratic Party was established, the socialist movement could not progress. To investigate this theme, I note thatsocialists were mostly intellectuals.
Phil11 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy III
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Utamaro Kitagawa (1753-1806) - Wood Blocks and Poems in his "Book of Insects"
Author: Dr Yona SIDERER (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Utamaro Kitagawa (1753-1806) Book of Insects of 1788 contains fifteen beautifully engraved plants, insects and reptiles, and poems
written by Edo poets. The book was given by the Rangakusha Udagawa Youan as a gift to the German doctor of the Dutch delegation
Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1824.
Tokugawa Confucianism in Spatial Terms: The Notion of "City" in Yamaga Soko's Discourse on Urban Planning
Author: Dr Andre Linnepe (Department of Japanese Culture)
This paper discusses the discourse on urban planning by the military expert and Confucian scholar, Yamaga Sokō (1622-85). It
contributes to the wider question of the normative ideas and their conceptual foundation which shaped discourses about urban
government in early modern Japan.
Sufera-no nukigaki (ca. 1595): A Missing Link in the Transmission of Aristotelian-Ptolemaic Cosmology to Japan
Rediscovered
Author: Prof Sven Osterkamp (Ruhr University Bochum)A newly discovered manuscript of the Jesuits' Compendia in Japanese (ca. 1595) is introduced, the first to comprise besides the partson philosophy and theology also that on Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology. To be discussed are the transmission and adaptation of thetext as well as its authorship.
Phil12 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy IVIntellectual History and Philosophy
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
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Queering Civilizational Discourse: Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) and the Emergence of Queer Nature in Modern Science,
1887-1892
Author: Dr Eiko Honda (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
The paper opens a new historical trajectory of modernity by introducing what the author argues as "queer nature," a basis of truth forthe meaning of civilisation. Queer nature emerged in the life and work of the naturalist Minakata Kumagusu who practised
microbiology through Buddhist epistemology.
Early Modern Philosophy in Meiji and Taisho Japan: A case of G. W. Leibniz
Author: Mr Junki Miura (The University of Tokyo)
This paper explores the reception of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz in the Meiji-Taisho period and clarifies that effect on thecontemporary study of philosophy in Japan ever since. Especially, this paper insists on the importance of interpretations of Leibniz's
theory made by Tadayoshi Kihira.
Progress is Neither Masculine nor Feminine: War, Gender, and the Symbiotic Religion of Arai Ōsui in Early 20th-Century
Tokyo
Author: Miss Chinami Oka (University of Oxford)
This paper shows a competing vision of human progress against war, gender inequality, and other products of state-led civilisation inearly 20th-century Japan. Arai Ōsui’s forgotten religion posits a new epistemological idea of the divisible yet indivisible universe,
ensuring equality of all beings.
Fukuzawa Yukichi: an Advocate of Women's Rights?
Author: Miss Daphne van der Molen (Universiteit Leiden)
By deconstructing Fukuzawa Yukichi's narrative about the Edo period's victimization of women by Confucianism, I willproblematize the notion of Fukuzawa as an advocate of women's rights. Through my analysis I comment on history writing in the
Meiji period and the assumptions at play then and now.
Phil13 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy VIntellectual History and Philosophy
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Potentiality of international/global Japanese studies: A post-colonial condition for a new imagining of Japanese studies
Author: Ms Aya Hino (Ca'Foscari University of Venice / Heidelberg University)
This paper explores potentiality of international/global Japanese studies, more specifically its possible conceptual andepistemological contributions to the contemporary debate about area studies, about the relationship between knowledge and thenation state, and about coloniality of knowledge.
Not in our name: Japanese intellectuals question the Meiji Centennial celebrations.
Author: Prof Noemi Lanna (University of Naples L'Orientale)
The presentation will analyze the role of Japanese intellectuals in the debate regarding the Meiji Centennial (1968) with the aim ofcontextualizing the place of the debate in the cultural landscape of Japan in the 1960s and, more generally, in the country's postwar
intellectual history.
Existential form of knowledge in Japan: The Japanese way of holding dialogue (taiwa) as seen in the social sciences inpostwar Japan
Author: Dr Takamichi Sakurai (Keio UniversityGoethe University Frankfurt)This paper reveals some of the characteristics of 'knowledge' (chi) in postwar Japan in terms of the concept of 'dialogue' (taiwa). For
this purpose, it examines the mutual relationship between the knowledge of intellectuals and common-sense knowledge in the
country.
Way(s) between Materialism and Idealism - Maruyama Masao on the Methodology of Intellectual History
Author: Dr Ferenc Takó (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE))
The presentation provides a detailed analysis of Maruyama Masao's 1948 introduction of his lectures on Tokugawa intellectual
history. I focus on his explanation of the possible approaches to intellectual history that provides unique insight into the philosophicalframework of his own thought.
Phil14 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy VIIntellectual History and Philosophy
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Voice of the voiceless: the Kyoto School’s absolute nothingness as an identity claim
Author: Mr Niklas Söderman (Tallinn University and University of Helsinki)
My paper analyses the Kyoto School’s philosophical articulation of the concept of absolute nothingness on two levels: as aphilosophical discourse, and as part of societal discourse it is located within, and seeks to understand the interplay between thecontent and the context of this concept.

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Watsuji, the Confucian ethicist (?)
Author: Dr Alexandra Mustățea (Kanda University of International Studies)This paper will discuss Watsuji Tetsurō's take on Japanese Confucian ethics by focusing on two of his essential writings, 日本倫理思想史 and 倫理学, in an attempt at opening new directions of inquiry both into Watsuji's ethical thought and into thelarger issue of Japanese Confucianism's contemporary legacy.
Sakae Ōsugi Translating Peter Kropotkin: Anarchist Contestation of Human Nature in Global Intellectual Communication
Author: Dr Toru Oda (University of Shizuoka)
Polyglot and polymorphous, Sakae Ōsugi was a provocative popularizer of Western anarchism in modern Japan. This presentation
situates Ōsugi's translation activities in global contexts of cultural communication, examining anarchist conception of human natureand its utopian significance.
Daisetsu Suzuki and Swedenborg. An Introduction.
Author: Dr Federica Sgarbi (Doshisha University)
The article aims to offer an introductory presentation of Swedenborg's religious philosophy and Suzuki's interest in it, focusing on thetwo essays: Swedenborg and Swedenborg: His Views on Heaven and Other-Power.
Phil15 Individual papers in Intellectual History and Philosophy VII
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Economic thought in early 20th century Japan and Poland: a joint study and Marxian influence
Author: Miss Filis Maria Goungor (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
In the history of economic thought, "East and West" examples in the spheres of exchange or accord of ideas can be of particularinterest. Here Japan and Poland; in both Marxism was greatly studied and debated during the early 20th century, when dealing withsimilar national and socioeconomic issues.
Sly Uses of the European Past in East Asia, or Carthage in the Indies
Author: Dr David Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
On the material of the first comprehensive summary of European history produced in Japanese, this paper considers the process of
encounter of two historiographies with their underlying interpretive schemes and conceptual vocabularies. It is an enquiry into theuses of the European past in East Asia.
The Nature of Education in 21st century: Conscious education, self-awareness and interaction with the environment
Author: Prof Gergana Petkova (Sofia Unversity St Kliment Ohridski)
Darwin's theory, Zeami's artistic understanding of 'hana', Ishikawa's method for total quality control, the educational approaches of J.
Dewey, L, Vigotskiy and A. Makarenko, and the zen-Buddhist practices come together to suggest a new path to think on the nature of
education in 21st century.
Pol_IR01 Japan's Widening Strategic Horizons
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Giulio Pugliese (Oxford University - EUI)
Discussant: Arthur Stockwin (Oxford University)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Through novel arguments, extensive fieldwork and primary sources, this panel explores Japan's widening strategic horizons.
Specifically, its engagement with strategic communications, US-Japan policy formulation of forward deployment in Okinawa, newmilitary doctrine and new strategic partnerships.
10:15-11:45
Japan's strategic alignment with India and France: Addressing the deficiencies of the US-led military alliance?
Author: Prof Elena Atanassova-Cornelis (University of Antwerp)
This paper examines Japan's alignment cooperation with India and France in the Indo-Pacific region. It looks at the drivers of thesealignments and achieved levels of cooperation, while also assessing the opportunities and constraints of these partnerships to meet
Japan's security needs.
Sources of Japanese Military Doctrine in the Abe era (2012-2020)
Author: Dr Matteo Dian (University of Bologna)
The Abe period has been characterized by a significant evolution of the Japanese military doctrine. The paper describes thisevolution, looking at the changing objectives and roles of the JSDF and discusses the main external as well as domestic drivers ofchange.
Japan's Strategic Communications Push: The Free and Open Indo-Pacific Goes to Washington DC
Author: Dr Giulio Pugliese (Oxford University - EUI)
Contrary to the academic literature's understanding, Japan has been an active and effective player at government-led strategic
communications, especially under the Abe Shinzo administration. To demonstrate the above, this paper presents the impact of theFree and Open Indo-Pacific in Washington DC.

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The Security Consensus on the US-Japan Alliance: The Role of Think Tanks and "Alliance Managers" in Security Policy
Formulation
Author: Prof Beata Bochorodycz (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
The paper analyzes the formulation of the US "security consensus" towards Japan focusing on a) the US think tanks, b) the "alliancemangers", c) personal networks, d) the personality traits of Policy Entrepreneurs, and the implications of the process for the US
military base issue in Okinawa?
Pol_IR02 New Evidence on Japanese Foreign Policy since World War II: Re-examining the Conventional Wisdom ofJapan as "Pasifist/Antimilitasit" or "Reactive" State
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Chuo University)
Discussants: Tongfi Kim (Vesalius College); Wrenn Yennie Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)/Stockholm
University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel brings together schoalrs who utilizes Japanese and other primary sources to analyze Japan's diplomacy during and after
the Cold War. By doing so, this panel aims to contribute to the debates on the conventional notion of Japan as a"pacifist/antimilitarist" or "reactive" state.
08:00-09:30
Soviet-Japanese Diplomatic Normalization in a Broader Perspective: What Newly Declassified/Discovered Archival
Documents Tell Us
Author: Dr Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Chuo University)
This paper tries to address the unresolved questions regarding the 1956 Soviet-Japanese diplomatic normalization by utilizing newly
available Japanese and other archival documents.
Who Should Pay for the Cost of U.S. Forces in Japan? "Base Politics" in Japan in the 1950
Author: Dr Ayako Kusunoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies (NICHIBUNKEN))
This presentation explains how Japan and the U.S. reached agreements on the management of military bases and Japan's defense
build-up in the late 1950s, by focusing mainly on the defense contribution issue, in which Japanese rearmament and America's use ofbases were most intricately intertwined.
Does a Democratic Peace Exist between Japan and South Korea? New Evidence
Author: Dr Paul MIDFORD (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
This paper examines if the 2006 Japanese-Korean confrontation over competing seabed surveys near the disputed Dokdo/Takeshima
was a near miss at armed conflict. It considers new evidence, and especially from US State Department cables made public by
Wikileaks in 2011 regarding this confrontation.
Pol_IR04 Looking Back at the Japanese Legal System in the Heisei Era
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Takayuki Ii (Senshu University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
In the Heisei era (1989-2019), Japanese laws and justice system were largely reformed. This panel finds and investigates the featureof Japanese legal system, including "hostage justice", in the curious mixture of relatively responsible lawyers and citizens and thequasi-authoritarian regime.
08:00-09:30
A Critical Look at the Lawyer System in the Heisei Era
Author: Dr Kay-Wah Chan
There were many changes in the lawyer (bengoshi) profession in Japan in its Heisei Era, such as a substantial increase in number.
This paper critically evaluates these changes and analyses the prospects of the profession in the new Reiwa Era.
Copernican Change in Criminal Procedure in Japan in Heisei Era
Author: Prof Mari Hirayama (Hakuoh University)
In this paper, I will review the changes and remaining issues in the Criminal Procedure in Japan in the Heisei Era. In doing so, I will
focus victims awareness and lay participations. I will also discuss the future prospect for the Japanese Criminal Procedure in the
Reiwa Era.
The Feature of Japanese Legal System in the Heisei Era: Curious Mixture of Relatively Responsible Lawyers and Citizens
and the Quasi-Authoritarian Regime
Author: Dr Takayuki Ii (Senshu University)
In the Heisei era, under the deregulation, the attention was paid to the individual persons for the better or worse in the lawmaking.
This paper considers a gap between these new laws under the long-standing LDP coalition government and the new judicial system
which was reformed at the same time.
The Impact of Establishment of Japan Legal Support Center (JLSC) in the Heisei Era :The Current Status and Issues of
JLSC
Author: Dr Noriko Hashiba (Seikei University)
This presentation will introduce the judicial reforms in Japan (especially the establishment of Japan Legal Support Center) andconsider the current status and issues of JLSC.

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Pol_IR05 The changing discourses of right-wing: from grassroots supporters to governmental programs
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Arvydas Kumpis (Vytautas Magnus University)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Presentations in this panel analyze right-wing narratives from different perspectives, aiming to unveil hidden and (un)intentional
goals of right-wing supporters by giving special attention to environmental, gender, socio-political fields since 2010s.
14:45-16:15
Japanese Womenomics policy and images of masculinity in the discourse of family-oriented man's role promoting campaigns
Author: Mrs Kristina Barancovaitė-Skindaravičienė (Vytautas Magnus University)
The paper analyses masculinity images constructed in the discourse of Japanese ruling right-wing party initiatives, that promote
men's greater involvement in housework and childcare activities, with reference to the context of their significance in achieving thegoals of Abe's Womenomics policy.
Communication of Japanese Far Right activists: case of Makoto Sakurai discourse in his blog "Doronpa's monologue(Doronpa no hitorigoto)
Author: Dr Arvydas Kumpis (Vytautas Magnus University)
This presentation seeks to unveil the complicated nature of right-wing activism, as depicted in the texts of Makoto Sakurai. The
analysis provides changing trajectories of virtual relations with LDP and PM Shinzo Abe, social and political issues in the society andin the region from 2005 to 2019.
Green conservatism in Japan: developments in environmental protection discourse among right-wing groups since 2011
Author: Dr Linas Didvalis (Vytautas Magnus University)
The paper presents results gathered from discourse analysis which was applied on environment related public statements made byprominent Japanese right-wing organizations. The research seeks to detect changes in the discourse over time and compare
characteristics among the organizations.
Pol_IR06 Forward to the Past: Strong Governance, Neoliberalism and Nationalism in Abe's Japan
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Martina BaradelThu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel considers the role of neoliberal and ultraconservative politics in contemporary Japan through discussions of oftenoverlooked aspects: underground spaces and culture, the yakuza and uyoku groups, and the role of data monitoring and manipulation.
10:15-11:45
Frenemies: how neoliberal governance ruined the friendship between conservatives and organised crime in Japan
Author: Dr Martina Baradel
This paper examines the link between the yakuza and conservative political elites arguing that, although the common ideologicalgrounds have hitherto sustained the nexus, attempts to assert strong governance result in increased policing and surveillance for the
yakuza as well as the population.
Nowcasting Japanese society: data and the strengthening of the Japanese state under Abe
Author: Dr Marco Zappa (Ca' Foscari University Venice)Since 2012, the Abe cabinet has struggled to expand state capacities in "nowcasting" economic and social trends for political ends.
Against the background of recent labor statistics forgery, this presentation will discuss the importance of data for the current Japanese
government.
Pol_IR07 Food Governance in Japan: Between Maintaining National Interests and Internationalization
Politics and International Relations
Convenor: Stephanie Assmann-Terada (University of Hyogo)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Food governance in Japan has oscillated between food security and internationalization. Two papers address nutrition and foodeducation from a historical perspective whereas two papers address Japan's efforts to improve food self-sufficiency while assuming amore active role in trade relations.
08:00-09:30
Farmed for Japan: Japanese foreign agricultural investments within the national food security discourse
Author: Miss Tine Walravens (Copenhagen Business School)
Through a focus on the historical trajectory, policy instruments and governmental narrative related to Japanese foreign agriculturalinvestments (FAI), this paper scrutinizes the characterization of Japan as a new, state-facilitated food-security seeker in the global
land-grabbing debate.
Nutritional Nation, Nutritional Internationalism: The Imperial Government Institute for Nutrition in Japan and the World,
1920-1940
Author: Dr Nathan Hopson (University of Bergen)
Focusing on the Imperial Government Institute for Nutrition (1920-40), I argue that interwar Japan's national nutrition campaign(eiyō rikkoku) simultaneously embodied Japan's modern quest for national strength and, through engagement with the League of
Nations, etc., persistent internationalism.

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Self-sufficiency vs. food exports: the economic diplomacy of Japan's food security
Author: Dr Felice Farina (University of Naples L'Orientale)
Japan's new strategy to increase food exports has led to a significant reconceptualization of the notion of national food security. The
aim of this study is to examine the new concept of food security and how it affected Japan's economic diplomacy in recent years.
Feeding the Nation: Food Education in Japan in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Author: Dr Stephanie Assmann-Terada (University of Hyogo)
In 2005, Japan launched a food education campaign called shokuiku. Through tracing the historical roots, I argue that the foodeducation campaign represents a form of governmentality, which seeks to improve the nation's dietary habits and links national
identity to foodways.
Pol_IR08 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations I
Politics and International Relations
Convenors: Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo); Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Amending the Japanese Constitution: New Directions or Back to the Future?
Author: Dr Chris Winkler (Seinan Gakuin University)
This paper will analyze the LDP's newest constitutional amendment proposals. It will examine 1) how they compare to previous
proposals, especially recent wholesale amendment drafts, and trends in constitutional redesign, and 2) analyze the odds of PM Abe
succeeding in realizing revision.
Reassessing Incumbent Party Leadership Elections in Contemporary Japan
Author: Dr Taro Tsuda (Kansai Gaidai University)
The periodic election of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party’s leader is a significant ritual in Japanese politics. From ahistorical perspective, I reexamine the nature of these leadership contests, investigating the notion that they are largely devoid ofpolicy or ideological substance.
The Liberal Melodrama of Japan's Opposition
Author: Mr Romeo Marcantuoni (Waseda)
In this paper I explore how the progressive opposition consolidated itself after its fall from power in 2012 through a melodramatic
narrative.
Life and death of new parties in Japan: a comparative case analysis
Author: Ms Elena Korshenko (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper seeks to understand the failure of the Japanese new parties to create a credible alternative to the LDP. Using comparative
case studies, it explains why most new actors are short lived, while the strategies of lasting challengers also cannot translate survival
into thriving.
Pol_IR09 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations II
Politics and International Relations
Convenors: Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo); Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The Limits of Abe’s Assertive Security Policy: The example of Japan’s Capacity Building of Southeast Asian Coastguards
Author: Dr Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
The paper focusses on Prime Minister Abe’s capacity building of regional coast guards, arguing that it well represents the situation inwhich Japan’s foreign security policy options continue to be restricted by the regional power structure, domestic interests as well as
the antimilitarist norms.
Japan's Development Cooperation Policy: Gender Equality, Triangular Cooperation and Emerging Partnership in
Afghanistan
Author: Ms Sabina Insebayeva (University of Tsukuba)This article aims to analyze the politics behind Japan's recently boosted efforts for women empowerment and gender equality in
Afghanistan under Prime Minister Abe's administration.
A Comparative Analysis of the Official Development Assistance of Japan and South Korea to the Philippines
Author: Mx Anne Lisette Manliclic (University of the Philippines Diliman)
Japan and South Korea are some of the largest ODA donors to Asia, including the Philippines. This research paper aims to compare& contrast their ODA using the Philippine case. Their strategies on giving out ODA were analysed, and how the Philippines canbetter utilize their aid.
Environmental Challenges of Japan`s Development Aid Framework
Author: Dr Aysun UYAR MAKIBAYASHI (Doshisha University)
This paper looks at how Japan has been shaping its development aid framework with changing forces of economic difficulties andenvironmental disasters both in Japan and in counterpart countries, especially in Southeast Asia.

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Politics and International Relations
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Explaining the political underrepresentation of people with disabilities－Analysis of Japanese Diet member with disabilities from 1946 to 2019－
Author: Dr Sae Okura (University of Tsukuba)This paper examines the political underrepresentation of people with disabilities in the Japanese Diet and the conditions that allow
their participation in the parliament.
A Gendered Social Media Approach? Similarities and Differences in Female and Male Candidate Twitter Use in the 2019
Upper House Election
Author: Dr Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki (University of Tsukuba)This paper examines the similarities and differences among female and male candidates' use of Twitter as a campaign medium interms of informing, educating, and mobilizing voters during the July 2019 Upper House election.
Pol_IR11 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations IV
Politics and International Relations
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
How the political activities of teachers' unions in Japan compare to those in other nations
Author: Prof Robert Aspinall (Doshisha University)
This paper analyses the Japan Teachers' Union (JTU) by utilizing Interest Group Theory to compare the JTU's case with unions inother liberal democracies. This paper will examine the effect of the exclusion of JTU from power on education reform and theemployment rights of teachers in Japan.
Is the recent Japanese labor reform the result of a judicialization of labor? Analysis of the politics of rights in the Japanesecase of karôshi
Author: Dr Adrienne SALA (IFRJ-MFJ)
We analyze the recent Japanese labor reform and, more specifically, the working-time reform by focusing on the judicialization
process. We question the role of the judicial system in policy-making analyzing the factors, procedures and context of judicialdecision implementation.
Assessing the Lessons and Legacies of Abenomics: Monetarism and the Politics of Austerity During the Abe Administration
Author: Dr Taka Suzuki (Ohio University)
While Abenomics has clearly yielded rich political dividends for both the LDP and Prime Minister Abe, I demonstrate in this paper
why and in what way there has been a strong discrepancy between what it proclaimed it will do and achieve and what it has actuallyaccomplished.
Pol_IR12 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations V
Politics and International Relations
Convenors: Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo); Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Border practices: (Re-)Imagining Japanese territory under Abe
Author: Dr Edward Boyle (Kyushu University)
Focusing on the new Museum for Sovereignty and Territory, this paper will examine how Japan is utilizing maps and museums inorder to re-articulate its claims to disputed territory. It will show how these bordering practices stabilize Japan's claims, and thus its
self-identity.
The Third-Party Countries Role in the "Northern Territories" issue
Author: Miss Shakhnoza Eshonkulova (Kobe University)
This study examines the aspects of third-party countries’— the USA and UK—position and interest in relation to the "Northern
Territories" settlement between Japan and the Soviet Union/Russia.
Issues of Historical Memory in Japan's Domestic Politics
Author: Dr Vladimir Nelidov (Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University))
The paper focuses on the positions various forces in Japan's political landscape take regarding sensitive issues of historical memory,
particularly those related to Japan's colonial and wartime past, with the emphasis on politically instrumental and pragmatic way inwhich such issues are used.

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Sharing Blame in Conflict Approach (Kenka Ryoseibai): As Obstacle in Reconciliation of Wartime Sexual Violence
Author: Prof Yoko Sasaki (Nanzan University)
Japanese kenka-ryoseibai means in a quarrel, both parties are to blame; unlike victim blaming, the victim is not clearly defined, nor
the assailant. Both parties sharing the blame diminishes “collective sin”, making reconciliation harder in international wartime sexual
crime cases.
Pol_IR13 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations VI
Politics and International Relations
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Free and Open? The Narrative of “Shared Values” under Shinzo Abe
Author: Mr Erik Isaksson (Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
By examining National Diet debates, this paper analyzes the narrative of "shared values" with Japan's international allies, a narrativethat has come to constitute a hallmark of Japan’s diplomacy but is applied selectively, as is illustrated by Japan’s deteriorated
relations with South Korea.
The concept of “Data Free Flow with Trust” as part of the Abe legacy
Author: Dr Ana Gascon Marcen (University of Zaragoza)
The data economy is increasing its importance and Japan has made a great diplomatic effort to position itself among the countries
that shape the regulation of electronic commerce and the flow of data. This paper will examine the Japanese concept of “Data Free
Flow with Trust”.
How does context determine and drive political diplomatic dialogue? EU-Japan parliamentary dialogue on shared values
Author: Dr Silja Keva (University of Turku)
EU and Japan as strategic partners share fundamental values and principles (democracy, human rights etc.) and pledge to co-promote
them in international fora. This paper studies how these commitments materialize in the interparliamentary dialogue both in bilateraland multilateral contexts.
Japanese smart city initiatives in Russia
Author: Miss Guzel Ishkineeva (University of Tsukuba)
The present research analyses smart cities initiatives in Russia under Japanese assistance. There is joint development of two Russiancities, lead by responsible ministries from Russia and Japan. It unfolds under 8 Point Cooperation Plan defining new streamline in
Russo-Japanese relations.
Pol_IR14 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations VII
Politics and International Relations
Convenors: Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo); Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College)
Sat 28th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The 2018 Fisheries Reform: A Case of Policy Diffusion?
Author: Ms Susanne Auerbach (Freie Universität Berlin)
The 2018 fisheries reform aims to turn Japanese fisheries into a growth sector with a resource management system that is based oninternational standards. The paper examines the genesis of the reform and analyses, based on the concept of policy diffusion, where
the policy content came from.
New Wine in Old Bottles: An Analysis of Changes in Japan's Agricultural Policies (1970-2020)
Authors: Dr Hironori Sasada (Hokkaido University); Dr Takayuki Ito (Hokkaido University)
This paper explores the effects of critical the changes of the meanings of certain key political terms of Japan's agricultural policies in
the last 50 years through a text analysis of the Agricultural White Paper.
Catastrophe in Democracy: The Emotional Politics of Disaster in Contemporary Japan
Author: Dr Ioan Trifu (University of Toulouse)
What does disaster tell us about Japanese democracy? By investigating several recent disasters through the lens of the emotions thatthey produce, this paper explores the political side of disaster (mis)management and provides some new insights on contemporary
Japanese politics.
Did Trump's Hardline Posture Reassure the Public in Japan?: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Authors: Dr Takeshi Iida (Doshisha University); Dr Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Chuo University); Dr Masaki Hata (Kyoto Prefectural
University); Dr Tongfi Kim (Vesalius College)
By taking advantage of a quasi-natural experimental setting, the 2019 North Korea-United States Hanoi summit, we examine whether
Donald Trump's firm and uncompromising posture toward North Korea reassured the Japanese people.
Pol_IR15 Individual papers in Politics and International Relations VIII
Politics and International Relations
Convenors: Gregory Noble (University of Tokyo); Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College)
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The ambiguities of populism and political distrust in Japan since 2012: a study of Prime Minister Abe's personalcommunication strategy
Author: Dr Xavier Mellet (Waseda University)
This contribution aims at analyzing the relationship between the semi-populist communication strategy of Shinzo Abe since 2012,
and the increasing distrust among the Japanese people. How has he successfully adapted his personal style, and which lessons can it
provide to populism theory?
Japan's Mediation in Konfrontasi (1964-65): 'Presidential Premiership' and Extra-Institutional Diplomacy in the Early
Postwar Period
Author: Ms Giulia Garbagni (University of Cambridge)
This paper interprets Tokyo's mediation in Konfrontasi as one of the earliest instances of executive leadership in Japanese foreign
policy, carried out via envoy diplomacy - a tool that bypasses institutional channels and challenges postwar narratives of Japan as animpartial 'bridge' in Asia.
Reiwa Shinsengumi and (post-)political imagination in Japan
Author: Mr Sakari Mesimäki (University of Cambridge)
The left-wing populist Reiwa Shinsengumi party emerged onto the national stage in the 2019 upper house elections. This paper
explores the attempt by the party to politicise widespread experiences of precarity and disenfranchisement, and expand the bounds ofa stagnant political imagination.
Rel01 Reexamining Buddhist Institutions in Early Modern Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Jon Morris (Komazawa Women's University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel presents research contributing to a reexamination of Buddhist institutions kyōdan 教団 in Early Modern Japan. We
examine materials demonstrating the nuanced realities of religious institutions the Edo period; exploring their relationships with local
communities and feudal overlords.
08:00-09:30
Administrative Temples in Early Modern Japanese Buddhist Institutions: The System and its Regional Foundations
Author: Dr Daisuke UENO
This presentation focuses on the system of administrative temples in Early Modern Japanese Buddhist institutions. It discusses thesystem's regional foundations and its connections with feudal lords and confirms the importance of the system to the management of
Buddhist institutions.
Mokujiki Institutions and Affiliations in Pre-Modern Japan
Author: Dr Jon Morris (Komazawa Women's University)
As part of a reassessment of the role of "religious institutions" kyōdan 教団 in pre-Modern Japan, this presentation examinessource materials indicating the extent to which Shingon, Tendai, Sōtō and Rinzai mokujiki 木食 groups existed as independent
institutions and lineages during the Edo period.
The Regulation and Control of Buddhist Temples in Early Modern Japan
Author: Dr Naohide Hozawa (Toyo University)
This presentation is an attempt to reappraise the current discourse on the shogunate's regulation of religions in Early Modern Japan. It
aims to identify key features of this system of control, paying particular attention to the actual regulation of Buddhist institutions,temples and monks.
Rel02 Music and Religion in Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel addresses the role of music in different religious contexts in the Edo and Meiji periods: the diffusion across Japan ofrituals involving Gagaku, the creative appropriation of Bugaku in local festivals, and the Meiji-period creation of new Buddhist
music under Protestant influence.
12:30-14:00
Gagaku Revival in the Edo Period: The Circuit of Ritual, Metaphysics of Music, Cultural Heritage, and Politics
Author: Dr Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
This paper discusses the diffusion of Gagaku throughout Japan in the Edo period for religious and ceremonial purposes, including
discourses on the metaphysics of this music. It presents complex transformations between religious ritual, cultural heritage,
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Theorizing Music and Religion in Meiji-era public discourse
Author: Dr Matthew Gillan (International Christian University)
This paper considers the development of theories of 'religious music' in Meiji era public discourse. In particular it examines theinfluence of Protestant Christian music making on Japanese Buddhist communities, and the ways that religious developed in relation
to the Japanese nation state.
Rain-making and the Future Buddha Miroku: Local adaptations of Bugaku in Tohoku
Author: Prof Fumi Ouchi (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)
This paper addresses local development of Bugaku in northern Japan. Analyzing the pre-modern documents on the Bugaku
performed for rain-making rituals and its canonical sources, it explores the creative processes that transformed Buddhist scriptures togive them a special religious performativity.
Rel03 Power, Praxis, and People: Re-envisioning Political and Religious Realms in Premodern Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Yen-Yi Chan (Academia Sinica); Mikael Bauer (McGill University)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel foregrounds practice in examining the interdependence between political and religious realms in premodern Japan,
investigating how Buddhist activities affected power relations, constructed ideas of governance and legitimacy, and served to obtain
political and economic resources.
12:30-14:00
Monks and Rituals in Local Buddhist Temples of Late Medieval Japan: Focusing on Prayer Temples for the Muromachi
Shogunate
Author: Dr Xiaolong Huang (University of Tokyo)
This paper examines the relationship between local prayer temples and the central government in the early 15th century. It argues that
this relationship contributed to the establishment of local temples as ritual centers in the local society, and their fame and significancethere.
Iconography of Power: The Illustrations of Deer Skin in Copies of the Fukūkenjaku Kannon in the Nan'endō at Kōfukuji
Author: Dr Yen-Yi Chan (Academia Sinica)
This paper shows how Shingon monks in the twelfth century utilized iconographic illustrations to secure patronage from politicalpower, the prominent Northern branch of the Fujiwara clan and proclaim their pivotal roles in the family's worship of the
Fukūkenjaku Kannon in the Nan'endō at Kōfukuji.
Hall of Thirty-Three Bays: The Function of the Mass-Image Hall in Formulating Buddhist Kingship and Lineal Identity
Author: Mr Daniel Borengasser (Harvard University)
Focusing on the temple hall Sanjūsangendō, this paper discusses the historical development of the "mass-image hall" as anarchitectural typology and the key role it played in the visual expression of the religious and political authority of the retired
emperors during the twelfth century.
'The creation of Fujiwara Legitimacy in 8th century Japan: from the Tōshi Kaden to the Yuima'e'
Author: Dr Mikael Bauer (McGill University)
This presentation discusses the writing of the clan history 'Tōshi Kaden' as part of the consolidation of Fujiwara legitimacy in eighth
century Japan. I will explore the relation between the representation of the clan's origins and institutional reform under Fujiwara no
Nakamaro (706-764).
Rel04 Domain Shintō in the Early Edo Period: Causes, Characteristics and Effects
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Stefan Koeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences IKGA); Bernhard Scheid (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Domain Shintō is related to regional Shintō reforms in the mid-17th century. It features aspects like shinbutsu bunri that point beyond
the immediate historical situation. The long-term perspective of local phenomena for larger religious transformations will thus be a
topic of this panel.
08:00-09:30
Domain Shintō's effects on the local level. The case of Noguchi-mura
Author: Mrs Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
This paper focuses on the effects of Mito's religious policies in the late 17th century on the local level. Examining the case of thevillage Noguchi-mura, it aims to shed some light reforms' impact on the population's religious practice and identity.
Prelude to a shift in the early modern Shinto paradigm
Author: Dr Bernhard Scheid (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
My presentation deals with various external factors that influenced the emergence of Domain Shinto, in particular questions of ruler
deification as well as intellectual trends such as Yoshida Shinto and Confucian Shinto.
Aspects of Okayama's Domain Shintō in the Long Run
Author: Dr Stefan Koeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences IKGA)
Religious reforms in the 1660s that separated Shintō and Buddhism in Okayama-han are the first example of shinbutsu bunri
covering a major domain. Shintō emerged by the reforms as a separate religion. The talk will discuss long-term developments of
Okayama's Domain Shintō in the Edo period.
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Rel05 Embryos, Wombs, and Manuscripts: Religious theories of embodiment in medieval Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg University); Yasuro Abe (Ryukoku University)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Focusing on key embryological theories from medieval and early modern Japan, we ask how and why the embryological knowledge
deriving from India and China was adopted, reconfigured, and used in Japanese Buddhist, Shinto, and art primary sources, and how it
impacted on Japan's religiosity and culture
10:15-11:45
Making Good Babies: Buddhist Embryology for Pregnant Noble Women in Medieval Japan
Author: Dr Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg University)
Sanshō ruijūshō (1318), an encyclopedia on childbirth based on Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist sutras, describes pregnancy
as 38 weeks. I ask how early Indian embryological knowledge, pejorative toward women's bodies, was adapted by esoteric monks for
pregnant noble women in medieval Japan.
Cooling the Womb of Stone: Embodying Pregnancy in Late Medieval Tales of Empress Jingū
Author: Dr Emily Simpson (Dartmouth College)
Empress Jingū is held to have conquered the Korean peninsula in the third century while heavily pregnant. Here, I consider how latemedieval origin stories imagine her pregnancy, demonstrating both interest and ambivalence toward the female reproductive body aswell as popular medical knowledge.
Yōsai (1141-1215) and Buddhist Conceptualization of the Human Body in Medieval Japan
Author: Dr Mariko Yoneda (Tottori University)
Focusing on Zen, Shinto and esoteric texts, I analyse embryological imagery, such as "images of the ten months in the womb" (tainai
totsuki zu) and "five stages of embryo" (tainai goi). In this paper, I trace the emergence of such theories to the ideas of the Tendai
monk Yōsai (1141-1215).
The Formation and Development of the "Images of the Ten Months in the Womb" (tainai totsuki zu).
Author: Prof Satoshi Ito (Ibaraki University)
This paper traces the process of formation and change of the "images of the ten months in the womb" (tainai notsuki zu) and theirlinks to medieval Japanese religious thought and embryological theories, found in esoteric Buddhist and Shinto texts from the
Kumano and Goryū Shinto traditions.
Rel06 Construction, Transposition, and Mimesis in Shugendō History
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Caleb Carter (Kyushu University); Carina Roth (University of Geneva); Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University);
Janine Tasca Sawada (Brown Univeristy)
Discussant: Irit Averbuch (Tel-Aviv University)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel takes up pivotal moments in the history of Shugendō. Exploring literary, artistic, and institutional trends from medieval
through modern, the papers seek to dislodge preexisting abstractions about Japan's premier mountain tradition with new theories on
its formation over time and place.
10:15-11:45
Comparisons in the Early Modern Development of Shugendō and Shinto
Author: Prof Caleb Carter (Kyushu University)
This paper identifies common elements in the early modern development of Shugendō and Shinto. Through the case of Mount
Togakushi (Nagano ken), it takes a comparative approach that challenges past misconceptions of either tradition while highlighting
intersecting lines of growth in the Edo period.
Transposing the Mountains: The Sanzan Paradigm from the Kii Peninsula to the Tōhoku Region
Author: Prof Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University)
This paper focuses on the transmission of the "Three Mountains" (sanzan) paradigm from Kumano Sanzan in Kii peninsula to Dewa
Sanzan in Tōhoku region during the medieval period. This analysis sheds light on the peculiarities of Shugendō formative
mechanisms and devotional networks.
En no Gyōja, a Patriarch Forever in the Making
Author: Dr Carina Roth (University of Geneva)
This paper considers moments in the partiarchalization of En no Gyōja, from the latter half of the thirteenth century into the earlytwentieth century, as a means of exploring how the creation of a founder contributed to Shugendō's historical formation.
Rel07 Inclusion and Exclusion in (the Study of) Japanese Religions
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Aike Rots (University of Oslo); Lindsey DeWitt (Ghent University)
Discussant: Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
This panel examines national category formation in (the study of) religion, probing the implications of inclusion and exclusion—
regarding geographic regions and ethnicities, ritual practices, and genders/physical bodies—in considerations of "Japanese religions"and "religion in Japan."73

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From "Folk Belief" to "Maritime Heritage": A Transnational Comparison of Nation-Making Practices
Author: Dr Aike Rots (University of Oslo)
Focusing on ritual practices and worship sites associated with whales, this paper compares ways in which local, "popular religious"
practices in Japan and Vietnam have been reinvented as national religious heritage to serve strategic interests on the part of state andcorporate actors.
The Double Identity of Women's Religious Exclusion (Nyonin kinsei) in Modern Japan
Author: Dr Lindsey DeWitt (Ghent University)
This paper spotlights "women's exclusion from sacred sites" (nyonin kinsei), exposing its double identity as an emblem of nationalcultural continuity and an anachronistic and discriminatory custom. What can an exclusionary practice and its attendant discourse
reveal about national self-image(s)?
Making "Alternative Religion" Japanese: An Analysis of Scholarly Discourse on Supirichuariti
Author: Dr Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University)
This paper explores the history of the field of supirichuariti studies in Japan and shows how local scholarship both reacted to and was
influenced by wider trends in religious studies while constructing a distinctly "Japanese" spirituality as a new site of religious
innovation.
Rel08 A Spatial Approach to Religion: Mythology, Entertainment and Religious Practice in Medieval and Early Modern
Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Markus Rüsch (Ryukoku University); Christoph Reichenbächer (UCSB); David Weiss (Rikkyo University)
Discussant: Kikuko Hirafuji (Kokugakuin University)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This panel reconsiders the role of space in the study of Japanese religions by providing three case studies that focus on spatial change
throughout history. The cases conceive of spatial reconfigurations as expressions of new religious concepts rather than as mere
byproducts of dogmatic changes.
12:30-14:00
Spatialisation of Thought: Constant-Walking in Tendai Buddhism and the Interdependence of Halls for Practice
Author: Dr Markus Rüsch (Ryukoku University)
This paper will analyse how the introduction of new elements for Buddhist practice at Hiei-zan by the third Tendai abbot Enninconnected to a re-consideration of the temple's structure. Emphasis will lie on dynamics of the halls' new coexistences and theirexpression of temporal developments.
Changing Topographies of the Alien: The Shift from ikai to ikoku in Depicting Spaces Outside Japan in Medieval Mythology
Author: Mr David Weiss (Rikkyo University)
The paper traces a shift in otherworld conceptions in medieval Izumo. It argues that the superimposition of the Buddhist notion of the"three countries" onto the ancient Japanese myths resulted in a reconceptualization of space by linking mythical otherworlds withgeographic sites outside Japan.
Expanded Contraction: Religious Space and Sumo Wrestling in Early Modern Japan
Author: Mr Christoph Reichenbächer (UCSB)This paper focus on religious space in Early Modern sumo wrestling by means of analyzing the triad of stage, venture, and thatdeveloped in Edo Japan laid out in printed matter, travelogues and diaries. It will show that sumo was able to expand reach throughcontraction in religiously framed spaces.
Rel09 Exploring the Interplay between Religion and Sport in Japan: Ritual, Sacred Space and the Construction Identity
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Stephen Covell (Western Michigan University)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
In 2020 the Olympics will be held in Tokyo drawing our attention to sport in Japan. Sport has long played a role in Japanese religion.
These essays address aspects of religion and sport in Japan including identity, ritual, and sacred space through examinations of Judo,
Aikido, Sumo and Baseball.
08:00-09:30
Praying for Team and Corporation: Integrating Sport, Religion, History and Prestige at a Prayer Temple for the Seibu Lions
Baseball Team.
Author: Prof Alexander Vesey (Meiji Gakuin University)
By examining Seibu's creation and juxtaposition of the two spheres of sports (Seibu Lions) and religious activity, I show how
Buddhist traditions, samurai expressions of power and authority, and a baseball team were integrated to create a sports-religious
world.
The Aikido of Ueshiba Morihei as Ritual Practice to Reconstruct the World
Author: Other Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)
This essay approaches Ueshiba's aikido as a ritual and performative practice. It argues that the idea of aikido practice as arectification of the problems caused by humanity is not just spiritual metaphorics and speculation but a distinctly political statement.

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"Judo as Authentic Fake: Debates over the Sacred and Profane"
Author: Dr Paul Droubie (Manhattan College)
Decisions made for the survival of judo under the American Occupation and later for its inclusion as an international sport worthy ofinclusion in the Olympics created internal debates about judo that can be understood as a conflict between the sacred (traditionaljudo) and the profane (sport judo).
Rel10 A Sense of Place: Networks of Knowledge and Multiple Topographies in Premodern Japanese Religions
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Marta Sanvido (UC Berkeley); Emanuela Sala (SOAS University of London); Jesse Drian (Hebrew University ofJerusalem)
Discussant: Lucia Dolce (SOAS University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
Our panel looks at the different forms of space elaborated during the medieval years, arguing for the necessity to develop new models
in the analysis of the Buddhist topography. The panelists will introduce hitherto unconsidered works and explore how space was acomplex variable during this period.
10:15-11:45"In China it shall be like this; and in the ten directions, it shall also be like this": time, space and the multiverse in a Medieval
narrative
Author: Ms Emanuela Sala (SOAS University of London)
I explore conceptions of space and time in the mythical narrations of the Yōtenki, a text on the deities of the Hie shrines. Picturing a
Buddhist "world atlas", the text finds within it a place for Japan. I explore the destabilising effect of this emplacement on conceptionsof time.
The Geography of a Ritual: Intertwining Discourses on Space and Secrecy in Medieval Zen
Author: Dr Marta Sanvido (UC Berkeley)
I analyze the secret transmission of a Zen ritual based on the legend of Kataoka depicting the encounter between Prince Shōtoku andBodhidharma. The readaptation of this parable in Zen secret manuals reflects the heterotopic structure of secrecy, in whichheterogeneous forms of knowledge coexist.
Translocal Forms of Local Traces: The Networked Spaces of Origin Narratives
Author: Mr Jesse Drian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
I examine the translocal identities of local gods through an analysis of the Itsukushima Shrine origin narrative incorporated into the
Shōbōrinzō Prince Shōtoku hagiography. The recontextualized legend reveals how Itsukushima's identity was defined throughinterconnections with other sacred spaces.
Rel11 Revisiting the Zen Vernacular Sermon (kana hōgo): Towards a Renewed Study of Literary and Doctrinal Aspects
from the Medieval to the Early Edo Period
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Didier Davin (National Institute of Japanese Literature)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel, by examining from several angles the genre of the vernacular Japanese sermon (kana hōgo), aims to demonstrate theimportance of this corpus to the understanding of Zen Buddhism in Japanese society from the medieval to the Edo period.
08:00-09:30
Re-examination on the author of Twenty-three Dialogues
Author: Mr XINXING YU (The University of Tokyo)
Twenty-three Dialogues（『二十三問答』）has generally been attributed to Musō Soseki(夢窓疎石,1275-1351). This
paper challenges this attribution, arguing that there is a high possibility that Twenty-three Dialogues was written in the Edo period byan author who assumed the name of Musō Soseki.
Seeking Doctrinal Precision in kana hōgo: Medieval Zen Discourses in Early-modern Context
Author: Mr Didier Davin (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
This paper proposes an analysis of the doctrinal contents of those kana hōgo written in the medieval period but published in the earlymodern era. Piercing such texts' apparent simplicity helps us to better trace how particular doctrines of the past spread through Edoperiod Japanese society.
From Sermons to Stories: Kana hōgo and Cross-Genre Influence from Early-Edo Vernacular Publishing
Author: Dr Tomoko KOIDA
Using in particular the case of illustrated scrolls and picture books produced from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period, thispaper explores the cross-genre relationship between kana hōgo (vernacular sermons) published in the early Edo period andcontemporary works of vernacular fiction.
Rel12 The Dragon King's Daughters in Modern Japan: Women and Gender in Nichirenism
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: G. Clinton Godart (Tohoku University); Yulia Burenina (Osaka University)
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This panel examines the role of women and gender in Nichirenism in early twentieth century Japan. This panel juxtaposes the critical
study of perceptions of women among important male Nichirenist leaders with the ideas and social activism of influential individual
Nichirenist women leaders.
10:15-11:45
Matsudaira Toshiko and Nichirenism: A Story of Faith and Practice of a Noblewoman
Author: Dr Yulia Burenina (Osaka University)
This paper brings into focus the case of a noblewoman Matsudaira Toshiko (1890-1985) to examine her religious life and social
activities and show how they were related to Nichirenism.
Nichirenist's View of Women
Author: Dr Ｅｉｉｃｈｉ ＯＴＡＮＩ (Bukkyo University)
This paper examines Nichirenist views of women in modern Japan. Since Nichirenist narratives about women followed that of
Nichiren (1222-1982), I will examine how Nichiren's writings about women were reframed and retold in the context of modern
Japan.
"Without the Salvation of Women, No Living Faith in the Lotus Sutra:" Koizumi Kikue (1904-1992) and Nichirenism
Author: Dr G. Clinton Godart (Tohoku University)
This paper explores the life and thought of the Nichirenist Buddhist, pan-Asianist, and feminist Koizumi Kikue (1904-1992), a
central figure in the East-Asia League, and the implications for Nichirenism in modern Japan.
Rel13 Modern Empire, Transnational Ideas: Japanese Religion in Modern Global Space
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Erik Christopher Schicketanz (Kokugakuin University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Around the turn of the 20th century, existing traditions of religious thought were re-assessed through the lens of global geographic
space. This panel examines the role of Japanese intellectuals in this process, especially in relation to the geographic locations of"Korea," "China," and the "West."
08:00-09:30
The Japanese Empire as God's Kingdom on Earth: Theology, Politics, and the Case for Japanese Missionary Work in
Colonial Korea
Author: Dr Emily Anderson (Japanese American National Museum)This paper examines how missionaries with the Japanese Congregational Church working in colonial Korea deployed to satisfy two,complementary ends: demonstrate the integral role of Japanese Christians for the Japanese empire, and prove their superiority over
American missionaries.
Inventing Chinese Buddhism: Sakaino Kōyō and Buddhist Historiography in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Author: Ms Peiyao Wu (Tohoku University)
Focusing on the work of Sakaino Kōyō (1871-1933), this paper explores the development of "Chinese Buddhism" as ahistoriographical category during the early twentieth-century, examining a heretofore rather understudied aspect of the reimaginationof China in the context of modern Japanese Empire.
The Diamonds in Indra's Net: Monads with Windows and a new Non-Essentialist Theory of Cosmopolitanism
Author: Dr Gereon Kopf (Luther College)
This paper will trace the development of Chengguan's "fourfold dharma world" from the symbolism of Indra's net to Nishida Kitarō's
concept of the "historical world" and Mutai Risaku's humanism. In a second step, this paper proposes an innovative theory ofcosmopolitanism based on these ideas.
The Eastern Small Vehicle - The Construction of “Hīnayāna” at the Crossroads of Japan, Sri Lanka, and Europe
Author: Dr Stephan Licha (Universität Heidelberg)
This paper demonstrates that the encounter with South and Southeast Asian Buddhism since the 1870s was integral to the formationof modern Japanese Buddhist identity through the discovery of the "Hīnayāna" as part of a politically charged yet academically
legitimized taxonomy of Buddhism.
Rel14 Japan and the Others: Islam, India, and Christianity in the Construction of Modern Japan
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenor: Paride Stortini (The University of Chicago)
Chair: Mick Deneckere (Ghent University)
Discussant: Hans Martin Krämer (Universität Heidelberg)
Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
The panel investigates how, in the intellectual history of the Meiji to early Shōwa, the confrontation with religions considered"foreign" to Japan—Christianity, Islam, and the religions of India—shaped ideas of modernity and Japanese identity, informing
nationalist ideologies and policies.
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India beyond Shakyamuni. The Knowledge of India in defining modern Japan.
Author: Mr Paride Stortini (The University of Chicago)This paper analyzes the knowledge of India in the works of Meiji to Taishō Buddhist priests and lay intellectuals, shifting the focus
from ancient Buddhism to aspects of Indian religions and civilization whose reinterpretation intersected with debates on Japanesemodern identity and society.
Japanese Intelligence Officers' Views on Islam, 1920s-1940s
Author: Dr Noriko Kanahara (Waseda University)
This presentation examines how Japanese authorities thought about Islam in the interwar and wartime periods, by examining theintelligence categorization of the Muslim Tatar refugees that arrived in Japan in the early 1920s, after fleeing the conflicts in thewake of the Russian Revolution.
Religion and National Development in Imperial Japan: The nationalist thought of 'The Society of the Great Way' and its
impact on concepts of self-cultivation, community and just governance.
Author: Mr Bruce Grover (University of Heidelberg)
This paper discusses the role of ideological competition with Christianity and liberal thought in the formation of national identity inthe mid-Meiji period and its lasting impact through the thought of an understudied religious nationalist group, 'The Society of theGreat Way.'
Rel15 Individual papers in Religion and Religious Thought I
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo); Monika Schrimpf (University of Tuebingen)Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Framing community resilience: women in faith-based disaster response to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Author: Dr Paola CAVALIERE (Osaka University)
Drawing upon qualitative data (2016~2020) of post-disaster relief and support activities performed by women of Sōka Gakkai and
GLA (God Light Association), results show that religious organizations capitalize women's capacity to transform a condition ofvulnerability into a source of resilience.
Connections (goen) and Temple Management (jiin keiei):
The Importance of Non-Religious Commercial Events to Buddhist Temples in Japan
Author: Mr Mingyang Yuan (Ritsumeikan University)
The paper explores the impact of commercial events held inside religious institutions on Buddhist temples struggling to survive incontemporary Japan. Connection (goen) is also discussed to shed light on the religious dimension of commercial events and temple
management (jiin keiei) in general.
Rethinking Religion in Japan: Kyarafication of Certain Japanese Religious Landscapes
Author: Ms Alisha Saikia (University of Vienna)
Rethinking Religion in Japan becomes inevitable when a ubiquitous category of mascots in Japan called kyara is infused into certain
religious landscapes leading to kyarafication. The focus of this study is to examine the reason and the impact of the infusion of
kyaras in religious spaces in Japan
Rel16 Individual papers in Religion and Religious Thought II
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Monika Schrimpf (University of Tuebingen); Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The Japanese new religion Tenrikyō - a "revealed" religion?
Author: Ms Franziska Steffen (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
This presentation shows how a faith healing group embedded in a Shintō-Buddhist worldview developed its self-image as the'revealed' 'world religion' Tenrikyō in 19th ct. Imperial Japan, negotiated through novel imported Christian-occidental ideas ofreligion and superstition.
Christian Theology and Pollution in Late Meiji Period Japan: Uchimura Kanzō's Theological Reflections on the Ashio
Copper Mine Incident
Author: Dr James Morris (University of Tsukuba)This paper will explore the theological reflections of Uchimura Kanzō 内村鑑三 (1861-1930) on the Ashio Copper Mine
Incident. It will seek to suggest that the theology that Uchimura developed was grounded in the concept that pollution was a humanproblem - created by and detrimental to humanity.
Revisiting Religious Reformation: Shūkyō Kaikaku in Japanese History and Historiography
Author: Prof Orion Klautau (Tohoku University)
Beginning in the Bakumatsu era and going well into the postwar period, this paper examines the reception, by Japanese intellectuals,of the European concept of "Reformation" (shūkyō kaikaku), as well as its comparative application to the Japanese case, especially inreference to Buddhism.
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Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo); Monika Schrimpf (University of Tuebingen)Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Religion on Your Doorstep: The Magazines and Newspapers Craze that Revolutionized Religious Propaganda in Japanbetween the 1920s and the 1930s.
Author: Mr Ivan Triola (University of Cambridge)
Why religions in Japan remained relevant in a secularist state? This paper argues that weekly and monthly papers revolutionized
religious proselytism in the 1920s and 1930s, becoming the most adequate outlets for self-legitimization and expansion of religionsin twentieth-century Japan.
Legacy Visualized and Recreated: The Manga of Risshō Kōseikai's Founder Niwano Nikkyō
Author: Ms Yuxin Qin (Harvard University)
This paper explores the educational role of a manga about the founder of the Japanese new religious organization Risshō Kōseikai
and argues that the manga reveals multiple voices of interest within the group to recreate its founder to educate its younger
generations about his legacy.
Streamlining the ‘noble spirits‘ – the Yûshûkan Museum within the Yasukuni Shrine complex
Author: Dr Frauke Kempka (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Housing the spirits of almost 2.5 million war dead the Yasukuni Shrine is a highly controversial religious site. I will analyze how the“noble spirits” are being framed within the shrine’s onsite museum Yûshûkan and used to streamline and control worshippers’
imagination of the enshrined spirits.
Rel18 Individual papers in Religion and Religious Thought IV
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Monika Schrimpf (University of Tuebingen); Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Ritual Embryology in the Medieval Suwa-ryū Shinto:
A Unique Buddhist-Shinto Syncretization at the Suwa Shrine
Author: Dr Tomoko Iwasawa (Reitaku University)
This paper discusses the ritual embryology developed in the Suwa-ryū Shinto, a reinterpretation of kami worship of Suwa Shrine that
adopted the thought and practice of esoteric Buddhism in medieval times. The study provides a unique case for the dissemination ofritual embryology in medieval Japan.
Recontextualizing the Kinpusen Himitsuden: At the Crossroads of Religious Traditions and Geopolitical Realities
Author: Dr Yagi Morris (UW-Madison)
The paper unravels the dual religious framework of the Kinpusen Himitsuden, composed by Monkan Kōshin in 1337. It argues thatby bringing together the natural/cultic environments of Kinpusen and the Buddhist imperial ritual stage, the text creates amultilayered politically charged sacred landscape.
Suspended over a cliff facing one's own karma
Author: Dr Claudio Caniglia (SOAS, University of London)
The spectacular practice of being suspended over a cliff is one of the most evocative images of extreme ascetic ritual and danger,
often associated with the figure of the yamabushi. Tracing the history of this ritual, this paper aims to open discussion on its role inthe contemporary context.
The Significance of Scatological Themes in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Writings
Author: Dr Rajyashree Pandey (Goldsmiths, University of London)
This paper explores a neglected theme, excrement in medieval Japanese Buddhist texts. Canonical texts, illustrated scrolls andsetsuwa tales all illustrate how bodily excretions were not merely material phenomena, but carried the weight of diverse symbolic
significations within Buddhist discourse.
Rel19 Individual papers in Religion and Religious Thought V
Religion and Religious Thought
Convenors: Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo); Monika Schrimpf (University of Tuebingen)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
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Korean Buddhism in Japan? New perspectives on the role of the Sanronshū
Author: Mr Michael Kinadeter (Japan Center)
The presentation re-evaluates the role of Sanron Buddhism in Japan's sociopolitical, economic and religious history during the sixth
through eight century and offers new perspectives on the significance of the interregional relationships with the Three Korean
Kingdoms.
Practicing uji - time regimes in Dōgen's monasteries
Author: Prof Raji Steineck (University of Zurich)This presentation highlights the practical aspects of Dōgen's famous idea of uji ("being time"). Discussion of the time regimes heestablished in his monasteries reveals how he worked to connect the specific aspects of each moment to his spiritual agenda, andsheds new light on his concept of time.
The concept of time in the earliest commentaries on the Shōbōgenzō
Author: Mr Etienne Staehelin (University of Zürich)This contribution compares Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō Uji to the two oldest commentaries on it. The changes in the conception of timethroughout these three texts are then set in relation to Tendai hongaku thought, which shows that there was a differing amount of
hongaku influence on all three texts.
Teach_P01 JLT Posters I
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Posters
Convenors: Marcella Mariotti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice); Michiko Takagi (The Japanese Saturday School of Brussels); Aya
Mariko (Asian and North African Studies)Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
What Message Tongue Clicks Convey: Through Observations of Visual Data
Author: Dr Takae Hagiwara (Yamanashi Prefectural University)
The purpose of this study is to clarify messages and communicative functions that can be derived from tongue clicks. Throughmultimodal analysis, tongue clicks of Thai can be summarized in 3 categories: 1) cognitive behaviors, 2) emotional expressions and3) operative utterance.
Japanese onomatopoeia teaching materials based on the usage-based model of cognitive linguistics: For context-oriented
syntactic acquisition
Author: Dr Yukari Hashimoto (Yokohama National University)
In this presentation, I propose onomatopoeic game teaching materials based on the usage-based model of cognitive linguistics andexamine the effects of the game to demonstrate the effectiveness of active learning materials that differ from conventional methods.
Cultural Conflicts and Wavering Attitude in Learner's Reports: Collaborative Evaluation through Dialogue between
Teachers
Authors: Dr Wakako Hirose; Dr Noriko Ichishima (Akita University)
This study focused on how teachers should interpret and evaluate cultural conflicts and wavering attitudes in students' reports. The
two authors mutually analyzed each other's class presentation based on multilateral descriptions of the conflicts that arise among
students from diverse backgrounds.
ACTION TUAT! - a multimodal communication website in Japanese university context
Author: Ms Tomoko Hongo (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
The study reports the effects and challenges of "ACTION TUAT!", a multimodal communication website designed for international
students. The study indicates that the learners should move back and forth between the real-life language activities and contextualized
language learning of the website.
The Use of Polite Expressions in E-mails by German Japanese Learners
Author: Dr Kumiko Kaneniwa (Rikkyo University)
This study aims to find and analyse the use of polite expressions in e-mails by German Japanese Learners. The results showed thatlearners actively used polite expressions in most of the e-mail tasks. Learners did not learn the polite expressions explicitly but
acquired them naturally.
Classroom Empowerment and SDGs: Case in a Japanese Elementary School
Author: Ms Hiromi KUBOTSU (東京学芸大学大学院教育学研究科)
In Japanese public school, this practical research focuses on a classroom with about half of the students having a multicultural
background, and reports whether Japanese and multicultural students are able to coexist in harmony and empower each other.
Is it actually important to understand each other? What can be seen from the interviews after the cooperation of researchdata collection
Author: Miss Yuka Kawakami (Aichi University)
In this presentation, we would like to convey what we analyzed focusing on the narratives concerning the possibility of multicultural
understanding. The result of this study could be a small step that contributes to the designing of new learning environments for group
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Author: Ms Haruka Matsumoto
The purpose of this study is to clarify how the emphasis on JLPT by Japanese companies and university career education personnel
works for foreign students who are planning to develop their careers in Japan and to reconsider the role of Japanese language
educators to support them.
Regional Japanese classroom activities aimed at interaction and collaboration through industry-academia public and private
sectors：Aiming for sustainable education of Japanese language and culture
Author: Dr Noriko Matsunaga
The purpose of this practical research is to analyze classroom activities based on the analysis items extracted in previous research andthis practical process, and to present concretely the methodology required for dialogue and collaboration in local Japanese language
education.
The influence of the learner's cultural background and reading comprehension strategies as seen in the reading process andwriting
Author: Ms Kaori Nakamura (Takushoku University)
In this study, we examined the reading comprehension process and the written summaries in Japanese of non-native language
students. We observed that correct understanding was hindered by the reading comprehension strategies gained from their cultural
background or from the L2 learning process.
Teach_P02 JLT Posters II
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Posters
Convenors: Marcella Mariotti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice); Michiko Takagi (The Japanese Saturday School of Brussels)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The significance of using authentic listening texts in language teaching: It's impact on language learners' listening
performance
Author: Miss BEIYU SHEN (Showa Women’s University.)This study asked 26 Chinese JSL learners to listen to both authentic and non-authentic texts and compared the differences in theirperformance. The results showed that authentic texts are not necessarily more difficult, but sometimes help to understand the text.
A survey of Japanese language learners' anxiety among university students in Moscow -A case study of first-year university
studentsAuthor: Ms Ayumi Shimomura
This survey, conducted among first-year university students majoring in Japanese language in Moscow, was about psychologicalanxiety that arises when learning and using Japanese.
Is Providing Recasts Targeting Inappropriate Keigo or Japanese Honorific Expressions Effective? -- An analysis ofParticipants' Stimulated Recall Interviews—
Author: Dr Sachie Sugo-Takahashi (Mejiro University)
The study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of recasts, a type of oral corrective feedback, provided to the speech errors of"Keigo" of 15 Polish university students. The result indicate that recast is more amenable to lexical structures thanmorphosyntactical structures.
Developing student autonomy in collaborative learning and extensive reading: Metacognitive ability in the reports ofJapanese course students
Author: Dr Riko Wakita (Doshisha University)
This study examines the role of collaborative learning and extensive reading in developing students’ metacognitive ability andautonomy. Undergraduate overseas students in Japan were required to prepare a report on their own reading challenges. The results
indicated that reading a book with peers promotes students’ metacognitive ability.
Practice in Japanese-language Class with a Focus on "Coexistence"
Author: Ms Michie Yamamori (Tokai University)
This study reports on a Japanese-language class practice on the theme of 'coexistence' for intermediate and upper-intermediate
Japanese students. The accumulation of such practical examples will enable future Japanese-language classes to foster people having
the ability to coexist with others.
A Japanese Language Education Practice to Cultivate Global Citizenship: By Means of Watching Kamome Shokudô (2006)
Author: Ms Tomoko Yamazaki (Tokyo University of Social Welfare)This is a report on a Japanese language education practice aimed at cultivating global citizenship by means of watching the movie
Kamome Shokudô (2006). We prepared and utilized original teaching materials to proceed smoothly with whole-class and group
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Value of non-Japanese employees in Japanese enterprises as "social agents"
Author: Dr Ryuko Yokosuka (Kokushikan University)
This study examines how non-Japanese employees work as "social actors" in enterprises in Japan. The results indicated that theenterprises consider the non-Japanese employees as beneficial resources for overseas business development despite communication
problems between employees.
Learners' Beliefs on the Use of Intermediary Language in Japanese Classes: A Comparison between Absolute Beginners,
Lower Beginners, and Upper Beginners
Authors: Dr Yoshimi YOSHIDA (Waseda University); Dr Kazumi MATSUI; Dr Jaehee CHUNG (Waseda University)
In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted on the beliefs regarding the use of intermediaries in Japanese classes for a total of
99 students at the 3 levels of absolute beginners, lower beginners, and upper beginners.
Plurilinguals' Beliefs about Japanese Learning - A Case Study of Three Learners in Belgium Author: Ms tomomi yoshinaga
This study focused on three Japanese learners in Belgium (they speak plural languages, they have studied Japanese for 5 years andtheir conversation level of Japanese is C1) and conducted a semi-structured interview to clarify the details of their beliefs. The results
were analyzed using M-GTA.
Teach_SIG1 SIG
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Nagisa Moritoki (Unviersity of Ljubljana)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
1. SIG: Study group for Case based approach to teaching Business communication in Europe
2. SIG: The Network of Japanese as a heritage language in Europe"
This panel has no accepted papers
Teach_T01 What is necessary in Japanese Language Teaching as Education for Democratic Citizenship? Concepts
revealed through Teaching Materials of Politische Bildung (political education)
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Sei Miwa (Tuebingen University)
Chair: Takuya Kojima (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
Claiming that teachers' self-cultivation in democratic citizenship are vital for shaping Japanese language teaching as Education for
Democratic Citizenship (EDC), we explore materials for "Politische Bildung" in Germany and examine practices of Japanese
language education as EDC.
12:30-14:00
Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) in Germany
Author: Mrs Kayoko Noro-Nakahata (Freie Univ. Berlin)
An overview of EDC in German context is given. The role of Japanese language teachers derived from the principle of "BeutelsbachConsensus" of EDC will be discussed. I will present an ideal way of Japanese language education that contributes to democracy inEurope and to enrich learners' plurilingualism.
Intents of “Politische Bildung (political education)” in Teaching Materials for Varying Target Learners in Germany
Authors: Ms Sei Miwa (Tuebingen University); Ms Mie Shiroki (Landesspracheninstitut in the Ruhr University Bochum)
There are introduced three kinds of educational materials for “Politische Bildung” which are aimed at school-age children, young
immigrants and refugees, as well as at immigrant and refugee adults in Germany. Through that, we clarify the aims of “Politische
Bildung” and the importance of development of teachers’ own democratic citizenship.
Teaching Materials for Teachers and Learners to Study Together and Develop Democratic Citizenship
Author: Prof Yoshinao Najima (University of the Ryukyus)
As Kondo (2009) points out, there are few resources for “Politische Bildung” in Japan, so we started to issue teaching materials
focused on the “Beutelsbach Consensus”. The authors are in the process of revising the material. We will examine what the teacher
paid attention to during the trial, what did not go well, and the voice of the learners.
Teach_T02 Case-based Learning in Universities and Companies for Competences for Democratic Culture-CDC
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Aya Kondoh (Showa Women's University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel invites a discussion among the developers and practitioners of Case-based Learning (Kondoh and Kim 2010 et al.) in
Japan and Europe, through demonstrating the various applications and practices at universities or corporations in Japan since 2009
and Europe since 2016.
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Authors: Ms Kyoko Khosla (Hogeschool van Amsterdam); Dr Hyogyung Kim (Reitaku University); Dr Aya Kondoh (Showa Women's
University); Ms Reiko Suhara (Ruhr-University Bochum); Ms Yasuko Takeuchi (Université Grenoble Alpes); Ms Nozomi Yamaguchi(University of Manchester); Prof IKEDA 池田 REIKO 玲子 (鳥取大学)
This panel invites a discussion among the developers and practitioners of Case-based Learning (Kondoh and Kim 2010 et al.) in
Japan and Europe, through demonstrating the various applications and practices at universities or corporations in Japan since 2009
and Europe since 2016.
Practices of Case-based Learning in Universities and Companies for Competences
Author: Dr Hyogyung Kim (Reitaku University)
In this presentation, we would like to discuss (1) Collaborative practice in Universities and corporations, and (2) Corporate training
and its potential with regard to the application of Case-based Learning.
Practical report on Case-based Learning: various attempts at Universities in Europe
Authors: Ms Kyoko Khosla (Hogeschool van Amsterdam); Ms Reiko Suhara (Ruhr-University Bochum); Ms Nozomi Yamaguchi(University of Manchester); Ms Yasuko Takeuchi (Université Grenoble Alpes)
From practicing Case-based Learning, we have come to various conclusions from both the instructors’ as well as learners'
perspectives. Current [Case based learning] materials focus on conflicts amongst Asian nationalities are hard for European leaners tounderstand the situations.
Teach_T03 "Ba" — Afterwards: Our Practice of Reciprocity Across Multi-layered Contexts
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Momoyo Shimazu (Kansai University)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
In this panel, we will focus on "Ba" as a perspective to better understand our activities related with discourse and learning. "Ba"appears and gives us meaningful insights when we consider which aspects of activities we focus on and what kinds of discourse weuse to describe those aspects.
10:15-11:45
Identifying “Where I Belong” — Reconstructing a Voice, Role and Identity: An Interpretive Autoethnography of a Shortterm Immigrant Woman
Author: Dr Momoyo Shimazu (Kansai University)
This study investigates the process in which a female Japanese immigrant in the UK identifies where she belongs through selfobservation. Her autoethnography shows that her voice always negotiates her various social roles and identities, including travelingand other activities, according to “Ba”.
Teach_T04 Democratic Citizenship Education in Europe and the Applicability in Northeast Asia
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Shin Moriyama (Ochanomizu University)
Chair: Marcella Mariotti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The Chinese government is committed to fostering "World Citizens". We analyze the content of the new national standard for foreign
language education in China and characterize the common points and differences between "World Citizens" and "Global Citizenship"in Western society.
08:00-09:30
What are the language competences of citizens responsible for a "democratic culture": drawn in the RFCDC (Reference
Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture)?
Author: Dr YAMAMOTO Saeri (Yamaguchi university)
In this presentation, the characteristics of language competences drawn in RFCDC are compared with that of CEFR. The main reason
for the difference is that CEFR puts importance on what can be done in the target language, whereas RFCDC promotes to relativize
the way of language use.
"World Citizens" and "Global Citizenship"： Focusing on the "New National Standard" for Foreign Language Educationin China
Author: Prof Xiaoyan Li (Kyushu University)
The Chinese government is committed to fostering "World Citizens". We analyze the content of the new national standard for foreign
language education in China and characterize the common points and differences between "World Citizens" and "Global Citizenship"in Western society.
International Student Forum as a democratic citizenship education program from a transnational perspective: centering on
the transformation of participants from abroad
Author: Dr Shin Moriyama (Ochanomizu University)
This presentation deals with the effects of the forum on the coexistence of East Asian countries. The students gradually changed theirattitudes more actively through the forum, which shows the positive effects of the forum as intercultural citizenship education.

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Teach_T05 "Workshop" on CEFR-OJAE: Oral Japanese Assessment Europe: From the assessment of language
proficiency to the observation of communicative behaviors
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenors: Kōji Hagihara (Meijo University); Michiko Takagi (The Japanese Saturday School of Brussels); Yasuko Sakai (Leipzig
University); Rie Oguma (Ghent University, Ochanomizu University); Fumi Omuro (Saga Prefecture International Relations
Association); Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek (European Institut for Japanese Language Education e.V.); Yumiko Umetsu (JapaneseGerman Center Berlin); Aya Mariko (Asian and North African Studies)Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
The OJAE team has developed an assessment method designated as OJAE Oral Japanese Assessment Europe, based on theplurilingual and -cultural ideas of the CEFR. In the present panel the team offers a Workshop on the methodology as a paradigmchange based on its "Communication Observations".
This panel has no accepted papers
Teach_T06 Heritage language and social participation
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Divna Trickovic (Faculty of Philology University of Belgrade)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Field report: Cultural Education and Competence for Heritage Language Learners -Can culture be taught?
Author: Ms Akane Shirata (George Mason University)
Heritage language learning is not only aimed at language ability but also developing communications through an understanding of
culture as well as their identities. What does it mean to learn culture? This presentation focuses on cultural knowledge and teachingin a heritage language program.
Report of teaching practice of Heritage Japanese Language Designing learning for social interaction
Author: Ms Sawako Nemoto (AFJPS)
This presentation is a report on the practice of heritage Japanese language education at a Japanese language supplementary school inEurope. It reports on the practice of capacity building for an intercultural democratic citizenship.
The dialogue method based on the theory of "mutual recognition of freedom" and "common understanding" - the practice of
eidetic seeing in language education
Author: Dr Midori Inagaki (Yamanashi Gakuin University)
This presentation is based on Hegel's principle of mutual recognition of freedom and Husserl's phenomenology principle ofestablishing a common understanding. And will present the practice of eidetic seeing in Japanese language class as a part of practiceof the dialogue.
Teach_T07 Grammar
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Yutaro Odo (Waseda University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Reconsideration: The essence of "Shikashi"
Author: Mr Yukihiro Ohashi (Japan University of Economics)
As for Shikashi that is uttered suddenly without a preceding context like Shikashi atsuina, the author considers that before saying
such Shikashi, a speaker already has an unconscious idea. Contrary to the speaker's expectation, it presents a contradictory
conjunction.
A New Approach to Teaching Grammar from the Plurilingualistic Perspective
Author: Dr Yoko Nishina (Hiroshima University)
This paper will show that learners understand Japanese grammar better in reflection of their own language or foreign languages they
have learned before.
Use of Benefactive Expressions by Japanese Natives and Learners in Storytelling Tasks
Author: Dr Ikuko Okugawa (Keio University)
Japanese retellings of two short, wordless comic strips by learners of various linguistic backgrounds are compared with those ofnative speakers, with attention to differences in benefactive expressions between the two comic strips, in speaking versus writing, andbetween natives and learners.
Teach_T08 Business JapaneseJapanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Kenji Kawamoto (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45

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Task development in Speaking Test-Business Japanese in a multilingual and multicultural society
Author: Prof Sukero Ito (Akita International University)
This test is aimed at business people or students who have plurilingual/pluricultural competence, aiming to measure the functional
language proficiency required in that world. The usefulness and validity of the task will be discussed in this presentation.
Sociocultural Management Processes toward Business Contact Situations of Foreign Students ：Focusing on the ReEvaluation of Negative Evaluations
Author: Prof Mikako Sueta
This research has focused on the causes of negative evaluations and their re-evaluations and analyzed the sociocultural management
toward business contact situations by examining the part-time work experiences of foreign students who have not yet become fullfledged employees.
Enhancement of Student Employability through Resume Writing Activities in a Business Japanese Course
Author: Ms Shoko Nishida (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)This action research examined teaching writing of resume in a business Japanese course for third-year undergraduate students in
Italy. This aimed at enhancing students' employability through the process of interacting with their own thoughts and writing in theirown Japanese.
Teach_T09 Corpus linguistic
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Yumiko Murata (University of Munich)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Learning Academic Kanji Vocabulary and Expressions from the Kanji List of the textbook "Genki" -Introduction of a
Search Tool for Kanji Words and their Example Usages for Assistance in Autonomous Lea
Author: Ms Yuko SUGAYA (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
This search tool provides academic kanji words and expressions for all the kanji in the textbook GENKI. Examples are extracted
from the Science and Engineering Spoken Japanese Corpus. The purpose of the tool is to help the learners for their academic kanji
learning and their autonomous learning.
The Release of a Corpus Analysis System and Its Use in Japanese Language Education: An Example of Use in Teaching
Writing
Authors: Dr Hiroko Yamamoto (Aichi Shukutoku University); Prof Yoshiko Kawamura (Tokyo International University)
The authors have developed a corpus analysis system enabling teachers and researchers to utilize their original data. Through thepresentation, the authors will introduce the basics of the system and demonstrate its practical in Japanese language education, using
real student writing as data.
The Relationship between Awareness of a Grammatical Item and Created Sentences in Autonomous Data-driven Learning
Author: Dr Keiko Hori (Toyo University)
We showed that the degree of awareness of a grammatical item affects created sentences in autonomous data-driven learning.
We propose to show information about the context of the reading materials and to add the learners' corpus examples to the web tool
for a better understanding of the usage.
Teach_T10 Tsunagaru - Networking
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Tsunagaru - Networking
14:45-16:15
Collaborative learning to foster a democratic culture - practice in higher education institutions in Italy and Japan
Author: Dr Miho Tokimoto (Sapienza University of Rome)This presentation describes/outlines a collaborative learning project based on the concept of "acquisition-oriented lessons" and theprinciples of CLIL. I discuss the potential of such a project to raise participants' awareness of democracy and forge democratic
relationships among participants.
Analysis of identity construction in NNS-NNS telecollaboration using Japanese as a lingua franca
Author: Dr Mariya Aida Niendorf (Dalarna University)
To examine identity construction, synchronous and asynchronous telecollaboration was implemented in Japanese courses in the US
and Sweden over a semester. Analysis of data underscores the value of NNS-NNS interaction in enhancing identity (re)construction
and improving intercultural competence.
Autonomous language learners: A project of building a learning community across cohorts
Author: Dr Miho Inaba (Cardiff University)
This paper discusses the project of building a learning community across cohorts with the aim of fostering learner autonomy,
involving 10 students of Japanese at a university in UK, and presents what types of learning occurred in the discussion on theirlearning methods.
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Teach_T11 Writing activity
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Yukihiro Ohashi (Japan University of Economics)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Writing activity
14:45-16:15'A country easy to live in': a comparison of essays written by German, Serbian and Japanese students - towards raising
plurilingual and pluricultural abilities
Authors: Dr Divna Trickovic (Faculty of Philology University of Belgrade); Prof Jaeho Lee (Waseda University); Prof Ljiljana
Markovic (Faculty of Philology University of Belgrade); Ms Yumiko Murata (University of Munich)In the study we investigate plurilingual and pluricultural ability through the analysis of intermediate Japanese learners' essays written
by students in Germany, Serbia and Japan. An analysis reveals that the same word has different meanings and is used in different
contexts in each country.
An examination of Politeness Strategies Used in Request E-Mails Written in Japanese and English by Intermediate andAdvanced Learners of Japanese
Authors: Mr Kazuki Morimoto (University of Leeds); Ms Yuka Oeda (University of Leeds)
The present study investigated e-mails written in English and Japanese based on four tasks with different levels of imposition by 13
native English speakers who were students of Japanese and had spent a year in Japan. The e-mails submitted were analysed from the
aspect of politeness strategies.
On the use of social networking sites in the formation of communicative competences for democratic culture
Author: Mr Yury Panchenko (Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod)
The research deals with the possible ways of implementation of social networks for developing undergraduate students'
communicative competence, which is crucial for a democratic culture. A series of communicative project is described and changes instudents' communicative competence are analyzed.
Teach_T12 Phonetics
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Keiko Yoshioka (Leiden University)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
Phonetics
14:45-16:15
The Developments in Education Practices of Japanese Pronunciation and the Learners' Learning: Focus on Pronunciation
Feedback
Author: Mr Yutaro Odo (Waseda University)
This research deals with education specializing in Japanese pronunciation at the university in France. We focus on the changes inpronunciation of learners due to feedbacks. Learners could not only get noticed but also actually change pronunciation by using
resources and feedbacks.
Does our future truly lie in online education? An overview of the main of risks and challenges of online Japanese language
courses.
Author: Dr Inga Ibrakhim (St.-Petersburg State University)
The study looks at the risks and challenges of adopting an online-based approach to teaching Japanese, and studies the progress andfeedback of students who took a 10-week long online basic course. A lack of interaction was revealed to be the key issue, and wehave several suggestions to present.
Classical Japanese E-Learning Materials "BUNGO-bun GO!" : Revised Version and Its Uses
Authors: Dr Sekiko Sato (Tohoku Tabunka Academy); Ms Miki Mushiake (Miyagi University of Education); Other Keiko Ono(Princeton University)
This presentation will show the revised Classical Japanese e-learning materials titled "BUNGO-bun GO!" in which, we reformatted
the basic lesson structure and created a simpler and more straightforward way of learning. We will make suggestions on how to use it
alongside classical Japanese classes.
Teach_T13 Language policy
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Language policy
08:00-09:30
Are Japanese native-speakers privileged in Japanese society?:Language ideology in the narratives of linguistic minorities
Authors: Mr Kentaro Maruta (Hiroshima University); Dr Yoshio Nakai (Osaka University)
This research explores the monolingual philosophy of spoken Japanese in Japanese society from the perspective of linguistic
minorities, including members of the deaf community.
We would like to share our results of this research with the audience in a multilingual European society.

85Freedom as a principle of a society "Living Together" -An ethical foundation of PLCC and CDCAuthor: Prof Seiji Fukushima (Waseda University)
With the concept of "freedom", this presentation will consider the ethical basis of the Plurilingual and Pluricultural CompetencesPLCC and the Competences for Democratic Culture-CDC, based on phenomenology, to make Japanese language education morecomprehensive in the society of "living together".
The Proposal of "Easy Japanese" Based on an Investigation of Listening Comprehension Problems Encountered by Learnersof Japanese
Authors: Prof Hisashi Noda (Nihon University); Ms Yumiko Murata (University of Munich); Dr Akiko Nakajima (University ofParis)
Reviewing videotaped dialogues in Japanese between native and non-native speakers, the latter explained, in their native languages,
what they heard. We found patterns of confusion related to specific grammatical features; we discuss these, and propose guidelines
for native speakers.
Teach_T14 Teacher development I
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Hiromi KUBOTSU (東京学芸大学大学院教育学研究科)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
What does the Era of Global Mobilization demand of JSL Teachers?: Reconsidering JSL practices leveraging the CEFR-CV
and the AoA
Author: Dr Junko Majima (Osaka University)
Metrolingualism challenges the view of language as static and enumerable. I pose questions to the fundamental assumptions in thefield of JSL in order to better depict our future challenges. In so doing, I discuss the developmental theory of Vygotsky, the CEFRCV, and the Action-oriented-Approach.
A study on Japanese language assistants in the secondary education: Based on a research conducted in Australia
Author: Prof Kaoru Kadowaki (Setsunan University)
This study discusses how local Japanese language teachers and native Japanese speaker(NJS) assistants work together, what roles NJS assistants play, and how they collaborate with the Japanese language teachers to teachtheir classes at secondary schools in the state of 'A' in Australia.
Exploring Teachers' Competencies for Democratic Culture in Practice: Findings from a life course study of Japanese
language teachers in Europe
Authors: Ms Kaori Nishizawa (University of Oxford); Ms Yuko Fujimitsu (Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris)
This qualitative study explores how Japanese language teachers acquire the attributes and abilities for their own CDC. Based on thefindings from a life course interview with in-service teachers, the study will posit key features of effective professional learning inlight of the CDC development.
Teach_T15 Teacher development II
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Kaori Nishizawa (University of Oxford)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Examining the meaning of online workshops for Japanese language teachers in Europe, focusing on their significance forparticipating members.
Authors: Ms Yuko Suzuki (Language Centre (CSIM) of the University Complutense of Madrid); Miss Nozomi Takahashi (Universityof Strabourg)
Through interviewing five participants, this paper aims to provide a contextual qualitative study and analysis of the multilingual andmulticultural backgrounds of online workshop participants and their relationship with the associations to find out what such activities
mean to them.
Evaluative Strategies in Hungarian and Chinese JFL Learners' Narratives: An Analysis of Frequency and Linguistic Forms
Author: Other Yukiko Koguchi (Hiroshima City University)
The purpose of this study is to analyze what kinds of evaluative strategies Hungarian and Chinese upper course learners of Japanese
use to describe events in oral story telling tasks from I-JAS Corpus, and comparing that with expressions used by native Ja panese
speakers.
Gakka-kaizen (Department Improvement) Project: Learning the importance of continuing dialogue
Author: Dr Seiji Wakai (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
I will introduce the Department Improvement Project. It creates dialogues not only among learners but also between teacher andlearners. This is a Japanese course setting in which the teacher can interact with the learners as an equal, rather than becoming aknowledge transmitter or facilitator.

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Teach_T16 COIL: Pulurilingual collaborative learning
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Kazuki Morimoto (University of Leeds)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Gaining deeper understanding on "Yasashii Nihongo (plain Japanese)" and Japanese language education through COIL:
Japanese students collaborating with European students learning Japanese
Author: Prof Noriko Iwasaki (Nanzan University)
The presentation reports an implementation of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) whereby Japanese students
interested in Japanese education at a Japanese university learned from Italian students about the benefits and potential problems of"foreigner talk" and "Yasashii Nihongo".
The effectiveness of joint facilitation in COIL -Cultivating Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competences using cooperative
facilitation in COILAuthors: Ms Satomi Tsujii (University of Porto); Dr Kumiko Nakanishi (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)This study examines the importance of the role of the facilitator in collaborative online international learning (COIL) and analyses
the role of the COIL facilitator. Our facilitation method is shown to be effective and to lead to positive outcomes.
Fostering Information Literacy in Distant Peer-Learning across Cultures Using Japanese and English
Author: Prof Akiko Honda (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
This presentation will report on the results of an action research study into peer-learning between international and local students.
This research focuses on examining how distant peer-learning can be enhanced by using ICT tools and translanguaging methodology
to foster information literacy.
Teach_T17 Cross-cultural communication
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Miho Tokimoto (Sapienza University of Rome)Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Is the classroom a place to talk democratically?: A study on class communities in video conferencing for cross-cultural
understanding
Authors: Dr Kenji Kawamoto (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University); Prof Miho Fukagawa (Kanazawa University)
In the videoconferencing for Japanese language learning and cross-cultural understanding, differences in knowledge and learning of
the Japanese language and culture can hinder dialogue when the class is working together. This paper discusses how to make acommunity more participatory and democratic.
Fostering Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence That Results in Lifelong Career Building: Talk Analysis of Female
Italian Exchange Students Using Modified Grounded Theory Approach
Author: Ms Masumi Toramaru (Waseda University)
Focused on the speech of female Italian exchange students studying in Japan, this research aimed to clarify the improvement of theirplurilingual and pluricultural competence, as well as examine ideal conditions for lifelong career building in the process.
Longitudinal study on the attrition (extinction) of the second language: between multilingualism and multiculturalism
Author: Prof Hiroshi Noyama (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
In this study, the publisher carried out an interview investigation of OPI for running in response to the request (I want to know theJapanese speaking ability of their own) of the foreign learner who settled down in the Japanese A area from Welfare Linguistics (thewelfare linguistics)-like point of view.
Teach_T18 Pluricultural literacy
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Naoko Sakurai (KU Leuven)
Fri 27th Aug, 14:45-16:15
14:45-16:15
Japanese Language Learners as Bridge Resources with Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competences: Analysis of Bridging
Practices in Workplaces and Local Communities.
Author: Dr Akiko Murata (Hosei University)
This presentation analyzes international bridge engineers' transnational movement, work, and communication skills based on thepresenter's dissertation research that analyses Indian information technology engineers' work and life in Japan.

87Plurilingual education for learning Japanese utilizing pluriliteracy competence: through the production process of French
students with plurilingual and pluricultural competence
Author: Ms Rei Komai (INALCO)In Europe, attempts to practice CLIL are expanding as plurilingual education and its effectiveness has been studied. What about
plurilingual education for learning Japanese, which has a linguistic distance from the European languages? The purpose of study is
examination of this research question.
Translanguaging, Plurilingualism and Japanese Language Education
Authors: Dr Yuri Kumagai (Smith College); Dr Shinji Sato (Princeton University)
We first compare translanguaging and plurilingualism and introduce two different telecollaborative projects in Japanese classroomsin the USA. Demonstrating how students enlist various semiotic resources to communicate, we discuss the merit oftranslanguaging/plurilingualism in language education.
Teach_T19 Senses and language
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Synesthetic Expressions of Taste in Asian Languages
Author: Dr Ayaka Muto (CHUBU UNIVERSITY)
We conducted a questionnaire survey regarding "the expressions of taste" of native speakers of three Asian languages (Thai, Chinese,and Korean) who share a common food culture. how is taste expressed in Asian languages?Is there commonality between the threelanguages in terms of the sense of taste?
Fostering of plurilingual and pluricultural competence through creative drama - A report on classroom practice in adulteducation Author: Dr Kumiko Uehara-Zoellner (Japanese-German Center Berlin)
This report presents a creative drama activity utilizing a Japanese legend "Yamata no Orochi" in an adult education class and its
findings from the viewpoint of fostering of plurilingual and pluricultural competence guided by Byram's model and FREPA.
Comparative Analysis of Domestication in Subtitle Translation of Japanese Anime: Exploring Intercultural Communication
Authors: Prof Toshiko Hosaka (Nihon University); Dr Megumi Shimada (Nihon University)
This study comprised a comparative analysis of the English and French subtitles for Makoto Shinkai's 2016 film "Kimi no na wa."and the investigation of the types of domestication that occur in both in order to clarify aspects of intercultural communication.
Teach_T20 Literature, translation and reading comprehension
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Shoko Nishida (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Incorporating literature in the Japanese language class: Countering domestic beliefs
Author: Prof Vicky Richings (Kobe Shoin Women's University)
As an extension of the debate on innovative pedagogical designs in JFL education within Japan, this study reflects on an alternative
approach to JFL instruction by critically examining it from the perspective of 'literature.'
Translation of unabridged modern Japanese literature texts into English by non-natives: the case of Sofia University(Bulgaria) third year Japanese studies students
Author: Dr Tsvetomira Ivanova (Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria)
The present study investigated the effects of translating modern Japanese literature into English by non-native English speakers. The
results of the above experiment reveal that utilization of such texts contributed to building students’ knowledge and criticalunderstanding of the Japanese language.
Towards a Teaching Model for Independent Reading Which Stimulates Students' Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competences
Author: Mrs Naoko Sakurai (KU Leuven)
The Japanese reading ability is important for JSL learners in terms of plurilingual and pluricultural competences. The aim of thispresentation is to provide suggestions for the further development of a teaching model for independent reading, to be used forEuropean JSL learners.
Teach_T21 Sociocultural approach
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Giuseppe Pappalardo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
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Valuing silence and hearing the voices of silence in an Italian university Japanese language course
Author: Dr Takuya Kojima (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)Being silent is a way of participation, which is often undervalued in language classes despite its potential value for democratic
culture. Using an MA Japanese course at an Italian university, the author will explore how the silence was perceived and discuss why
valuing silence is challenging.
Did the Wall 'Melt'?: Creating Metroliguistic Space at an Academic Conference
Authors: Dr Makiko Matsuda (Kanazawa University); Dr Emi Otsuji (University of Technology Sydney)
Drawing on notions of Situated Learning and Metrolingualism, this paper explores how language barriers were 'melted' at a
multilingual international conference by removing the partitions between rooms. It argues how physical and spatial arrangements canenhance linguistic and knowledge integrations.
A pluricultural perspective on Japanese secondary education in France: Considerations from curriculum and teachers'
attitudes in France and Japan
Author: Ms Yoko Matsuki (Keio University)
This study will examine the degree to which FL educational practices in Japan can contribute to new understandings of FL
approaches to teaching Japanese in France through the use of narrative analysis of Japanese teachers in France and FL teachers inJapan.
Teach_T22 Assessment
Japanese Language Teaching (AJE)
Convenor: Yury Panchenko (Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod)
Sat 28th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Assessment of Academic Speaking Ability in Japanese: L1 & L2 difference in complexity, accuracy, fluency and functional
adequacy
Author: Dr Yukiko Hatasa (Hiroshima University)
This presentation reports preliminary results of the project which aims at (1) identifying features of good academic speaking inJapanese; (2) developing an assessment scale for academic speaking proficiency in order to develop a task-based assessment tool.
Maintaining Language Learning Motivation through Technology-supported Cross-cultural Exchange: Comparison ofStudent Satisfaction in Face-to-face vs. Online Settings
Authors: Dr Ruth Vanbaelen (University of Tsukuba); Mr Gergely Niklai (Meikei High School)
This paper describes how technology-supported cross-cultural exchange helps students maintain their language learning motivation.
Student satisfaction of face-to-face exchanges conducted in 2017 and 2018 versus online exchanges with similar content in 2021 isanalyzed and discussed.
Quantitative analysis of language abilities of plurilingual speakers: what is the difference between plurilingual andmonolingual speakers depending on proficiency?
Author: Prof Jaeho Lee (Waseda University)
In this presentation, I used the I-JAS data to conduct a quantitative analysis of language abilities of plurilingual speakers. It was
found that in the early stages of learning,the plurilingual speakers and monolingual speakers differed,but in the advanced stages oflearning,no difference was found.
Urb01 The art of remaking communities: how mobilities and social networks influence the future of community well-beingin peripheral Japan
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenor: Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
This interdisciplinary panel analyses the impact of population change in rural Japan on gender roles, community relations, traditional
institutions and ritual practice, and the spatial boundaries of the community.
12:30-14:00
From "Hornless Cows" to "Heroines" of Rural Japan - A Study on Women's Engagement in Community Matters
Authors: Mr Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (University of Vienna); Ms Antonia Miserka (University of Vienna)
We explore the formation of social networks and leadership roles in local communities by women in rural Japan. Employing semistructured interviews and participant observation, we will demonstrate how these women make themselves heard and how theyinterpret their impact on their social environment.
"Shrinking, but Happy?" - The Prospect of Interdisciplinary Research on Subjective Well-being in the Aso Region(Kumamoto)
Authors: Mr Dionyssios Askitis (University of Vienna); Mr Stefan Hundsdorfer (University of Vienna)
We propose an interdisciplinary mixed-method approach combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies to demonstrate theassociation of well-being and social capital against the backdrop of Japan's rural communities facing structural and demographic
decline.

89Charming business: Ofuda trade and community relations in a Central Kyushu "village"
Author: Prof Kyosuke Kashiwagi (Kokugakuin University)
This presentation examines the role of Shinto rituals of nature worship for the development of social network relations and economic
opportunities transgressing the conceptional boundaries of the "village".
The role of creative in-migrants in the revitalization of Japan's shrinking island communities
Authors: Dr Meng Qu (Hiroshima University); Dr Carolin Funck (Hiroshima University); Dr Simona Zollet (Hiroshima University)
Fieldwork on 17 remote islands investigated the roles of the new rural creative class for community development. Findings illustrate
motivations and approaches of urban-rural migration, and highlight the challenges of settling down, establishing new business types,
and community integration.
Urb02 Commons, Enclosures, and Heterotopias in Contemporary Japan
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenor: Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo)
Wed 25th Aug, 10:15-11:45
With contributions on the enclosure of natural resources and aging rural communities, heterotopic urban welfare spaces, andemancipatory commoning projects in knowledge production, this panel asks how commons and heterotopic spaces are being
challenged and reasserted in contemporary Japan.
10:15-11:45
Sustainable Growth Discourses and the Decline and Enclosure of Japanese Coastal Fisheries
Author: Dr Sonja Ganseforth (German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo)
Demographic and ecological crises are challenging the viability of Japanese coastal fisheries, still famous for cooperative resource
management. This paper analyzes how fishery reform and global discourses of sustainable growth are driving the enclosure of one of
the last natural resource commons.
Open Science approaches and the creation of knowledge commons in the digital space in Japan
Author: Dr Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin)
This paper introduces Open Science approaches and stakeholders in Japan with a special focus on the Research Center for OpenScience of the National Institute for Informatics in Tokyo and its activities for the creation of knowledge commons in the digitalspace.
San'ya - Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter
Author: Dr Hanno Jentzsch (University of Vienna)
This paper uses document collection, interviews, and participatory observation to capture Tokyo's (former) day laborer quarter San'ya
as a spatially confined enclave within the Japanese welfare state, and analyzes its ongoing transformation.
Urb03 A New Migration Regime? Evaluating Japan's 2019 Immigration Law
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenor: Naoto Higuchi (Waseda University)
Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
The purpose of this panel is to clarify continuity and change regarding Japan's new Immigration Law enforced in 2019. Each paper
analyzes these two sides of the new immigration regime, focusing on policy processes, principles of selecting migrants, policy frameof reference and the gender gap.
10:15-11:45
From 'Blood Ties' to Neoliberal Meritocracy: Who Is Excluded from the New Migration Regime and Why?
Author: Prof Naoto Higuchi (Waseda University)
This paper examines Japan's shifting principle to introduce migrant workers, focusing on Nikkeijin and specific skilled workers. It
argues that differential status to these two migrants suggests that Japan's principle to rely on "blood ties" was replaced byneoliberalism based on meritocracy.
Engendering the New Immigration Law: Assigning Migrant Women with Dead-end Jobs
Author: Prof Nanako Inaba (Sophia University)
I will analyze how Japanese gender regime affects immigration policy and migrant women's life. Migrant women are concentrated in
extremely narrow range of "women's work". Their poor working conditions are reinforced by new immigration policy which
implicitly screens migrants by gender.
From Standstill to Reform: Ideational and Institutional Background of Japan's 2019 Immigration Reform
Author: Dr David Chiavacci
Japan's 2019 reform in immigration policy is surprising in speed and scope. This paper analyzes the policy processes of the reform incomparison to earlier periods of intensive debate around 1990 and 2005. It discusses the changes in ideas, actors and institutionalsetting in immigration policy.
"Datsu-Ou Nyu-A"? The Characteristics of Japan's New Migration Policy and the Country's Ambiguity over It
Author: Dr Sachi Takaya
This presentation argues the characteristics of the new migration policy in Japan by analyzing the policy and media reports on therevision of the Immigration Law. It points out that the policy's dual characteristics reflect Japan's ambiguity with its own position
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Urb04 Migration/mobility
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
Communities in motion in globalizing Japan
Author: Dr Dalit Anna Bloch (Tel Aviv Univ. and The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo)This paper explores recent trends in tourism and migration to Japan, using the case of Israe-lis as an example of the interaction
between native residents and foreigners in motion, and the way transnational mobility serves to re-evaluate home and attachment, in"real" or imagined Japan and beyond
Why the Japanese in Japan Cannot Be Asian: Asianism as Paradox and the Japanese Migrants in Singapore
Author: Dr Etsuko Kato (International Christian University)
Focusing on Japanese migrants in Singapore, this paper argues that Asianism(s) today is better maintained by Anglophone,multiethnic societies than by a mono-lingual, mono-ethnic nation. Asianism requires the intervention of a Western language andmultiethnic policy, which Japan has been lacking.
Brexit and the Japanese Diaspora Network in Europe
Author: Prof Christian Tagsold (Heinrich Heine University)
The upcoming Brexit will impact society on many levels. Tens of thousands of Japanese living in London will face uncertain times.
My research project examines Japanese trajectories and biographies within this network in times of crisis.
(Im)mobility paradox? Time geographical approach to mobility patterns of transnational corporate migrants in the global
city Tokyo
Author: Dr Sakura Yamamura (Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
This paper presents empirical evidence on transnational corporate migrants' paradoxical socio-spatial patterns of global hypermobility and local immobility in Tokyo. Taking structuration and time geography as basis, it proposes a temporal-spatial approach tomobility to contextualize this paradox.
Urb05 Regional Japan
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Celebrating Hope: The Continuation of Local Festivals in Over-Aged Village Communities
Author: Mr Timo Thelen (Kanazawa University)
In the era of shrinking peripheries, the continuation of village festivals is a crucial challenge for many local communities. Based onfieldwork, I look at approaches of how to continue such festivals with limited resources that can provide an important factor of hopefor declining communities.
Revitalization strategies through heritage manipulation in rural Japan. South Ehime case studies.
Author: Mr Diego Cosa Fernandez (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan)
Past and present efforts to reignite declining rural communities by reconsideration and exploitation of their architectural assets.
Agricultural cooperatives' new roles in regional Japan: preventing farmland abandonment and sustaining new entry inagriculture
Author: Mr Niccolo Lollini (Oxford University)
Based on the case of Ueda JA in Nagano prefecture, this paper discusses agricultural cooperatives' role in preventing farmland
abandonment, promoting new entry into farming, and attracting new settlers in rural municipalities.
Sociological Analysis of Non-urban Youths in Contemporary Japan: Diversity in Non-Urban Areas, Mobility and TransLocality
Author: Prof Mikito Terachi (Ibaraki University)
This study aims to summarize the main ideas of recent youth studies in Japan, focusing on those living in non-urban areas, andexamine the presence/absence of disparities in the living conditions, resources and values among those living in different regions oncontemporary Japan.
Urb06 Trains and public transport
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
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Friendly but pervasive - "Train manners" and their regulation on Tokyo public transport
Author: Mr Christoph Schimkowsky (University of Sheffield)
This presentation analyzes the logics of "desirable" passenger conduct and it's solicitation in Tokyo public transport spaces. Drawing
on long-term fieldwork, it explores the conditions and strategies of invoking "order" in a train and subway system operating "beyond
capacity" (Fisch 2018).
Challenges for Local Railways in Japan
Author: Prof Oliver Mayer (Aichi University of Education)
Local railways in Japan are facing a wide variety of challenges, among them demographic change, a higher car ownership andfragmented rail ownership. This presentation will address these challenges and look ahead what local railways will be like in the
2020s.
Trains of Thought: Inquiries into the Social Space of eki-mae through the Everyday Practices of Waiting, Meeting andLeaving
Author: Mr Florian Purkarthofer (University of Vienna)Eki-mae [in front of a station] is more than a simple direction or location, but a social space that serves different purposes and is usedby a broad variety of beings. This paper discusses everyday practices enacted at different eki-mae in Tokyo by drawing on
multisensory fieldwork-data.
Urb07 New mobilities/sustainability/environment
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
But There is Nothing Here, Is There? New Mobilities as an Agent for Sustainable Development in a Postgrowth Society: The
Case of Imabetsu, Aomori
Authors: Dr Fernando Ortiz-Moya (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies); Dr Marco Reggiani (University of Strathclyde)
This paper explores alternative mechanisms to address degrowth in peripheral Japan, focusing on Imabetsu, Aomori. The paperquestions the current pro-growth oriented approach arguing that a radical agenda embracing new mobilities and degrowth could help
to address sustainable development.
Exploring ruins as attaching alternative meanings to urban spaces
Author: Dr Shoko Sumida (Ritsumeikan University)
This presentation focuses on ruins, which became prevalent in early 21st century in Japan, and aims to reposition the activity of
exploring these abandoned spaces as attaching alternative meanings to urban spaces by drawing on play and city theories to describe
how ruins were actually explored.
Environmental Recognition, Participation, and Social Relations in Japan
Author: Ms SHIQI WANG (Meiji University, and The University of Alabama)
Consuming domination, societal isolation and exclusion, and environment careless are turning Japanese society to a fragile region in
front of environmental risks, such as climate change, toxic chemical releases, and radiation.
Urb08 New spaces/community action
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Regional approaches to poverty among children and women in Tokyo: Increasing "Kodomo Shokudo" and community
activities in metropolis
Author: Prof Yoshimichi Yui (Hiroshima University)"Kodomo Shokudo" is a children's cafeteria offering free food to the children of poor families.Their various activities are not only to
alleviate poverty but also to develop communal child-rearing. This study aims to clarify how "Kodomo Shokudo" contribute tocommunity-based revitalization in Tokyo.
The Behavior of Female Entrepreneurship and their Supportive Environment in Hiroshima City
Author: Ms Zi Tao (Hiroshima University)
This study inquiries the support system of women entrepreneurship in Hiroshima City by looking into the measures of each support
organization. And by interview investigation of 18 female entrepreneurs in Hiroshima City, this study clarifies their entrepreneurial
behavior and the factors behind it.
Reinventing single living: Tokyo share houses as commodified, individualized sharing
Authors: Dr Oana Druta (Eindhoven University of Technology); Prof Richard Ronald (University of Amsterdam)
This paper examines share house (shea-hausu), an increasingly popular form of shared private rental housing in Tokyo. We consider
shifting socioeconomic and demographic conditions affecting single, young Japanese adults, their aspirations and life-courses, aswell as housing practices.

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Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
Biophilia and ecocriticism in post-growth Japanese architectural discourse
Author: Dr Catarina Vitorino (PUC-SP)
The paper addresses how Japanese contemporary architects are expressing socio-environmental well-being imaginaries, anchored inbiophilic and ecocritical approaches, in reply to the challenges of built environment sustainability and post-growth urbanisation, in
the Anthropocene.
The Big Brother of Artificial Intelligence: Towards an anti-liberal architectural paradigm in Japan
Author: Mr Danyal Ahmed (Tohoku University)
This paper attempts to re-define the meaning of the word "privacy" in architecture in this age of infinite information andcommunication technologies by approaching it through the channel of artificial intelligence (AI) and its relationship with thecontemporary Japanese architecture.
A Study on the Formation of Landscape and Action of Local Residents: A Case Study of Kitahoricho in Matsue, Japan
Author: Dr Mariko Sugitani (National Institute of Technology, Matsue College)
In this study, I examine Kitahoricho in Matsue, which has a standard of landscaping. This study was developed with two aims:
clarifying the relation between residents' feelings and the development of the housing landscape and outlining the problems andconceptions of landscaping in castle towns.
Urb10 Human/machine
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies
Convenors: Adrian Favell (University of Leeds); Susanne Klien (Hokkaido University)
Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
The power balance of cruise tourism governance in Japanese port cities
Author: Dr Carolin Funck (Hiroshima University)
This paper analyzes the power balance of national, regional and local level public and private actors and the factors that influence thesustainability of cruise tourism in Japan. It compares port governance structure, cruise policies and structure as a tourism destinationin 9 port cities.
Tokyo's Waterfront Renewal and Intrametropolitan Population and Housing Market Dynamics in the Context of the 2020
Olympic Games
Author: Prof Thomas Feldhoff (Ruhr University Bochum)
In the course of the awarding of the 2020 Olympic Games to Tokyo, flagship projects and showcase zones of an entrepreneurial
urban policy have emerged. The spatial and temporal concentration of resources especially on the waterfront of the metropolis hascreated new challenges of social cohesion.
Concrete Life: The Evolution of Tetrapods in Japan's Postwar Coastal Infrastructure
Author: Prof Gerald Figal (Vanderbilt University)
This paper argues for a nuanced understanding of the sea-land and human-nonhuman interface on Japan's developed coastlines
through a historical and discursive analysis of coastal infrastructure, focusing on the extensive use and evolving form of the concrete
coastal armor unit known as the tetrapod.
Health, Hazard, and Hallucination of Intra-City Cycling: Sharing Urban Space with a Machine That Has a Mind of Its Own
Author: Prof Atsuko Sakaki (University of Toronto)
This paper considers how the bicycle—as a prosthesis of the human body, a tool for enhancement of fitness in late capitalist society, amore efficient mode of transportation, and a means to overcome disability—illustrates and negotiates with precarious conditions ofurban hardware and software.
VisArt01 Japanese Art in the Ecological Predicament: Collaborations in the Age of Crisis
Visual Arts
Convenors: Theresa Deichert (Heidelberg University); Xiaofei Guo (The Courtauld Institute of Art)Fri 27th Aug, 12:30-14:00
In an effort to add to the growing field of ecocriticism and to provide visibility for artistic practices hitherto understudied, this panel
combines diverse papers that consider collaboration(s) in Japanese art and visual media that engage with ecological crisis.
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Authors: Miss Xiaofei Guo (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Dr Weida Wang (University of Liverpool)
Conceptualising Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding as a form of socially-engaged practice, the paper investigates the tropes of
ecological crisis posed by the game, and the possibility of tackling climate breakdown both in the virtual world, and in the real life,
by means of multi-level collaborations.
Oceans Connect: Tomiyama Taeko's Seas of Memory and Toxic Seas
Authors: Dr Laura Hein (Northwestern University); Other Rebecca Jennison (Kyoto Seika University)
Tomiyama Taeko's collaborative art incorporates ecological themes in response to 3.11. They evoke "the uncanny" to convey unease,with ghostly fish, fossils, and the marine environment, moving from a "sea of memory" to "toxic seas," and reversing the common
perception of Japan as an island country.
Art Festival in the Age of Crisis: Ichihara Art×Mix
Author: Dr nina murayama (Tamagawa University)
International art festivals in the Japanese countrysides could be characterized by an odd mixture of contemporary art and nostalgia in
the natural environment. This paper explores how Typhoon #15 in 2019 affected the local's perceptions toward nature and meanings
of artworks in their land.
Utopian democracies? Configuring alternative political spaces of exchange in post-3.11 activist artistic practices
Author: Ms Theresa Deichert (Heidelberg University)
Taking Dokuyama Bontaro and Kaihatsu Yoshiaki's works as case study, this paper explores post-3.11 art that dissolves boundaries
between art and activism, and establishes alternative and trans-local spaces of exchange that give voice to disaster victims and foster
unexpected collaborations.
VisArt02 The world of surimono - cultural participation and collaboration in early-modern Japan
Visual Arts
Convenor: Akiko Yano (British Museum)Discussant: Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan University)
Thu 26th Aug, 08:00-09:30
Surimono are a lucrative source on interaction and collaboration in the arts in early-modern Japan. The panel will examine surimono
issued in Kyoto, Osaka and Edo, and assess varying aspects of cultural salons (clubs) and networks to understand the role of art insociety in the 19th century.
08:00-09:30'Shijo' surimono and artistic networks in Kyoto, Osaka and beyond
Author: Dr Akiko Yano (British Museum)'Shijō' surimono, with poems and adorning pictures by artists in the lineage of Maruyama and Shijō schools, are extant in large
quantities, mostly underexplored. This paper will address the question of how we can include this large group of prints in discourses
on late Edo-period art and culture.
Together in the Frame: Poetry Groups in Yashima Gakutei's Framed paintings of women for the Katsushika Circle
Author: Dr Mary Redfern (Chester Beatty)
Edo's kyōka networks were asserted and visualised through pennames and emblems that established group identities. While luxurious
surimono series or kyōka anthologies might be read as a conspicuous form of competition, they can also embody collaboration
between poetry groups.
Surimono as Elegant Advertising: Performing Artists and Haikai Poetry
Author: Prof Andrew Gerstle (SOAS University of London)
I will argue that the use by performers, especially professionals, of the surimono format to promote themselves is significant because
performers were officially considered beneath the status system. The surimono format enabled these individuals to present
themselves as poets and artists - bunjin.
VisArt03 Deciphering Edo Period Designs: The Social and Cultural Context of Early Modern and Modern Kimono
Pattern Books
Visual Arts
Convenor: Aki Ishigami (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)Thu 26th Aug, 10:15-11:45
This panel discusses the history and social context of kimono pattern books. The three papers trace the history of pattern books,
discuss one book's gender structure, and examine the development of kimono dying techniques.
10:15-11:45
Kimono Pattern Books as Merchandise: The Innovation and Universality of the Shōtoku Hinagata
Author: Dr Aki Ishigami (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
In this paper, I consider that the innovativeness of the Shōtoku hinagata is influenced by illustrated encyclopedic dictionaries of thesame period. In addition, through comparing kimono pattern books reprinted in the Meiji period, I discuss the reconnection between
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Marketing Masculinity: Men's patterns in an 18th Century Kosode Pattern Book
Author: Dr Michelle Kuhn Hirano (Yasuda Women's University)
This paper examines the meaning of man-made items featured in men's kimono designs in the Shotoku hinagata (1713). This paper
compares women's patterns and illustrations of men's kimono in contemporary books to show the gender ambiguity implied within
patterns meant for Kabuki actors.
Inheritance and Innovation: Yūzen-dye Designs and Techniques in Hinagatabon
Author: Dr Mizuho Kamo (Mukogawa Women's University Museum)This paper will discuss the process by which yūzen-dyed designs and techniques influenced each other by comparing Edo period
hinagatabon to Meiji period reprints and pattern designs. In addition to considering the historical background of the Meiji period
enthusiasm for new realistic patterns.
VisArt04 Imagining the Capitals
Visual Arts
Convenor: Misato Ido (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Discussant: Seishi Namiki (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Thu 26th Aug, 14:45-16:15
This panel explores how the capitals were represented in different periods and media. We illuminate the "collaboration" of thematerial sources that were interwoven into images of the visualized capitals and aim to interpret the intention of the representation of
the capital as an ensemble.
14:45-16:15
Capital as Meisho: Embedded Material Sources in the Rakuchu Rakugai-zu
Author: Dr Misato Ido (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
This paper reveals how the Rakuchu rakugai-zu envisioned Kyoto after Edo period by identifying the material sources which
Rakuchu-rakugai zu incorporated.
Being associated with ancient meisho, Kyoto could continue to be an eternal capital and differentiate itself from the new capital, Edo.
Visualizing the Eastern Capital in Early Modern Japan: the visual narrative in "Edo Meisho Zue", the Illustrated Books ofFamous Places in Edo
Author: Dr Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam)
This paper interprets the visual representation of the eastern capital in Edo Meisho Zue, The Illustrated Books of Famous Places in
Edo, comparing with the earlier model for Kyoto, Miyako Meisho Zue. It discusses how it portrayed the new capital to appeal to abroader readership of the time.
VisArt05 Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Constructing Female Bodies in the Japanese Empire
Visual Arts
Convenor: Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (University of East Anglia)
Discussant: Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm University)
Wed 25th Aug, 08:00-09:30
This panel examines the relationship between visual representations, racial discourse, and gender in the Japanese Empire. By using
previously overlooked case studies from Manchuria, Taiwan, Okinawa, and Japan, it aims to provide a critical trans-national/regional
perspective on modern Japanese art.
08:00-09:30
The Paradox of Imperial Gaze at Uemura Shōen's Work
Author: Dr Stephanie Su (University of Colorado Boulder)This paper discusses the aspiration and illusion in Pan-Asianism discourse in female artist Uemura Shōen's work, Yōkihi (1922).
Shōen reconceptualized the genre of bjinga (beautiful women) to combine Buddhism and complex visual references that evoked fluid
identities of the female body.
The Painted Okinawan Female Body: The Struggles of Okinawan Identity and Politics
Author: Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (University of East Anglia)
The paper explores how the Okinawan female body has been appropriated not only as a trope of the relationship between subjugatedOkinawa and its ruler, mainland Japan, but also as a site where intricate issues of discrimination, gender, power and Okinawan
identity converge.
Another Look at Wartime Women in a Chinese Dress: Chen Jin`s Salon Paintings (1941-1943)
Author: Dr Magdalena Kolodziej (Toyo Eiwa University)
This paper draws attention to the shifting and ambiguous iconography of a woman in a Chinese dress at the official salon in Tokyo by
focusing on a Taiwanese painter Chen Jin's works, their critical reception, and the cultural diplomacy between the Japanese Empire
and Manchukuo.
VisArt06 Individual papers in Visual Arts I
Visual Arts
Convenors: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); marcos centeno martin (Birkbeck, University of London)
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Imperfect Cats: Collaboration, Female Resistance, and Social Critique in Kawori Inbe's Photography
Author: Mr Pablo Figueroa (University of Barcelona)
This paper interrogates Kawori Inbe's award-winning photobook "Imperfect Cats" in order to untangle new ways of photographic
collaboration in late Heisei Japan. It argues that alienation brought about by capitalism opens possibilities for female resistancethrough artist-subject collaboration.
Navigating gender: women photographers in contemporary Japan
Author: Miss Elizabeth Noble (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
This paper explores the complex relationship between gender systems and women’s experiences in contemporary Japanesephotography. In particular, it looks at gender labels, such as onna no ko shashin (girls’ photography), and the impact these terms
continue to have on photography culture today.
Kusama Yayoi’s creations as symbol of the polysemic “collaboration” concept in art
Author: Miss Sofia Rossatelli (University of Milan)
The orthodox definition of collaboration, i.e. “the action of working with someone to produce something”, is originally revisited byattaching multiple meanings to that “someone” - other artists, spectators, and different aspects of a troubled mind -, as summarised in
the life and works of Kusama.
The Film Star and Her Husband: The Collaboration between Takamine Hideko and Matuyama Zenzō
Author: Dr Till Weingärtner (University College Cork)
Takamine Hideko starred in a number of films directed by her husband Matuyama Zenzō. Analysing both the films and the twoartists' public image, with a focus on their partnership, can help us to gain a better understanding of the perception of eachindividual's persona and their films.
VisArt07 Individual papers in Visual Arts II
Visual Arts
Convenors: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); marcos centeno martin (Birkbeck, University of London)
Wed 25th Aug, 12:30-14:00
12:30-14:00
Question of mutual (self-)transformation - transcultural and transmodern impact of Ukrainian and Russian artists on the"Avant-Garde" movement in 1920s Japan
Author: Ms Olga Isaeva (University Bonn)
This paper will focus on the transmodern character of the Avant-Garde movement in 1920s Japan by paying attention to the exchange
between Japanese, Ukrainian, and Russian artists.
A kabuki pose in sculptures of Rodin
Author: Dr Petra Doma (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
The face of the Japanese actress, Hanako, has been sculptured several times by Rodin, who was fascinated by Hanako's death scene
and attempted to sculpt it. Their encounter is a symbolic example of how the West and the East used each other's preconceptions fortheir own purposes in the early 1900s.
Local universal modernity: The world-heritagization of Le Corbusier's building for the National Museum of Western Art inTokyo
Author: Dr Jens Sejrup (University of Copenhagen)Le Corbusier's building for the National Museum of Western Art (1959) was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 2016. Today,the building carries a double symbolism, representing universal applicability of modernist principles externally while signifying
successful localization internally.
Morality and late-Victorian consumption of Japanese decorative art: naturalism, cosmopolitanism and individualism indomestic advice literature
Author: Mr Massimiliano Papini (Northumbria University)
Considering the enormous popularity of Japanese 'things' among the Victorian middle class, this paper proposes that the moral
interpretation of the Japanese aesthetic promoted by the domestic advice literature was crucial in determining the success of Japanese
decorative art in the United Kingdom.
VisArt08 Individual papers in Visual Arts III
Visual Arts
Convenors: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); marcos centeno martin (Birkbeck, University of London)Thu 26th Aug, 12:30-14:00
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Author: Dr Shalmit Bejarano (Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University)
This paper focuses on a little-studied scroll attributed to Kano Tan'yu, assessed as a "variant version" (Jp: ihon) of the Heian-period"Scroll of Illnesses". Examining Tan'yu's version as an allegorical parody, offers a new approach to the model-book system practiced
at the Kano workshops.
More than the "ukiyo-e quartet": a case study of Yoshitoshi's "Short Illustrated History of Great Japan"
Author: Miss Freya Terryn (KU Leuven)
This paper investigates the artistic and commercial collaboration in the woodblock print series "Short Illustrated History of Great
Japan". Considering its medium, the collective efforts of 1 artist, 5 publishers, 3 engravers, and 4 writers were vital for the
publication of its 11 prints in 1879-80.
(Con)fusion in Meiji Art: Western and Eastern Influences in Hishida Shunsō's Buddhist Paintings
Author: Dr Monika Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University)
Hishida Shunsō's Buddhist paintings show a unique style. It can be regarded as a fusion of aspects of Western and Eastern painting.
Shunsō developed his style through his friendship with the famous benefactor of art education in Japan, Okakura Tenshin, and his
experiences in India and the West.
Hashiguchi Goyō illustrating Natsume Sōseki: The visual and textual references of "Yōkyoshū" (1906)'s book design in its
historical context
Author: Mr Kevin Schumacher (LMU Munich)Sōseki's first publications are deeply affected by pictorial and textual relations. Not just the description of images, but also theillustrations from artists were important. Especially the motifs and sketches by Hashiguchi Goyō can be seen as an indicator forcirculated images in the Meiji period.
VisArt09 Individual papers in Visual Arts V
Visual Arts
Fri 27th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
The Art of Crisis: Autonomies and Heteronomies of Japanese Early-modern Landscape Prints
Author: Dr Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University)
The flourishing of pastoral landscape prints in the 1830s-1850s, in the aftermath of the Tenpō Famine and the Ansei Earthquakes, callinto question the representational paradigm of art and the notion of its autonomy.
Post-Anthropocene Worlds and In/Nonhuman Agency in Seto Momoko's Planet Film Series
Author: Prof Livia Monnet (University of Montreal)This paper argues that filmmaker Seto Momoko's experimental shorts, Planet Sigma (2014) and Planet Infinity (2017) present a
speculative vision of post-extinction worlds while at the same time articulating a subtle immanent critique of anthropocenic
imaginaries in contemporary visual culture.
Making Films 'Right': How collaboration between rightwing novelists and 'apolitical' moviemakers in Japan has re-imagined
wartime history on film
Author: Dr Sean O'Reilly (Akita International University)
This paper examines two Japanese hit films as collaborations between extremist novelists and 'innocent' filmmakers. Both films shift
the window of discourse; these collaborations take extremist rightwing novels out of the fringe and, remade in a less objectionablefilmic form, into the mainstream.
Ideological Contextualization and Differing Interpretations of Japanese New Left Cinema
Author: Dr Ferran de Vargas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
In this paper I will analyze Ōshima Nagisa’s film Kōshikei (Death by Hanging, 1968) as a paradigmatic case of Japanese New Leftcinema. I will discuss the prevailing interpretative lines about the film and propose an alternative one based on an ideologicalcontextualization.
VisArt10 Individual papers in Visual Arts VI
Visual Arts
Convenors: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); marcos centeno martin (Birkbeck, University of London)
Fri 27th Aug, 08:00-09:30
08:00-09:30
The Nagasone school of armour makers: An analysis of the influences, techniques and stylistic elements
Author: Ms Martyna Lesniewska (Samurai Art Museum Janssen Collection Berlin)
This paper addresses the development of the distinctive style of the Nagasone school of armour making during the early Edo period.
A detailed comparison of signed pieces will be conduct, the formal aesthetic and technical features examined and evaluated, theircharacteristic elements determined.

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The “Japaneseness” of Yabu Meizan’s Ceramics— Continuous flower and bird designs —Author: Dr Yoshie Itani (Tokyo University of the Arts)
The life of potter Yabu Meizan (1853 – 1934) closely followed the historical course of Japan’s modern export ceramic industry.
Meizan sought to achieve an overall harmony by utilizing copperplate printing to replicate “patterns” of flowers, birds andlandscapes in a motif.
Raku-yaki (楽焼) – Raku – „Raku”. Western interpretation of Japanese Raku ceramics
Author: Dr Eva Kaminski (Jagiellonian University)
Raku is one of the best known type of Japanese ceramics in the West. Contemporary artists appreciate its technique and aesthetics.
Around 1960 it became a symbol of Japaneseness and since then many workshops and collaborative projects have taken place. This
paper argues the transculturality of Raku.
A Challenge to Authenticity: Ise Jingū's Shikinen Sengū Practice
Author: Miss Manuela Coldesina
The Ise Jingū's shikinen sengū practice involves various national and local communities in the cyclic reconstruction of its woodenbuildings.
This constitutes a challenge to international Authorised Authenticity Discourses, but also a way to reconcile alternative practices withthis discourse.
VisArt11 Individual papers in Visual Arts VII
Visual Arts
Convenors: Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen); marcos centeno martin (Birkbeck, University of London)
Sat 28th Aug, 10:15-11:45
10:15-11:45
How calligraphy became a team sport
Author: Dr Laili Dor (INALCO/Université du Maine)This paper deals with the phenomenon of high school calligraphy competitions in early 21st-century Japan, with particular focus on
its two paradoxical dimensions of collaboration (shift from individual creation to team work) and competition.
Matchbox Labels and Japanese Popular Culture
Author: Mr Ivan Diaz Sancho (Doshisha University)
I will explore the influence of Japanese matchbox labels on the work by artists who were essential to the collaborative spirit of the
1960s. Akasegawa Genpei, who stressed the idea of collectivity, and Yokoo Tadanori, who praised the anonymity of the craftsmen in
opposition to modernist authorship.
A Visual Study of Kamishibai of Interwar and Wartime Japan
Author: Mr Ivan Jaramillo (Nagoya University)
By using a combination of visual methodologies, use of color, and theories of affect, I will carry out a comparative visual study ofKamishibai illustrations from both the interwar and wartime periods in Japan to further determine reasons for the effectiveness thismedium had.
Evolution of yōkai visual media: Tracing the lineage from Medieval roots to Modern times
Author: Dr Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (University of Edinburgh)This paper analyses yōkai visual media. A comparative analysis demonstrates that the cultural memory of traditional yōkai motifs
provides a timeless visual language, which can bridge different media across history, and bring new ideas and traditions to yōkai inmodern media.

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