European Association for Japanese Studies
ヨ-ロッパ日本研究協会

Bulletin No. 82 | August 2011

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eajs Bulletin No. 82 | August 2011ISSN 0308-5139

Editor and Layout:
Office of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Birgit Schwotzer
c/o Frankfurt University
Grueneburgplatz 1
Postbox RuW 71
60629 Frankfurt / Main
Germany
tel.: +49-69-798-34719
fax: +49-69-798-35024
e-mail: schwotzer@eajs.eu
website: http://www.eajs.eu
2Members of the Council (2008-2011)
President
Prof Dr Harald FUESS
University of Heidelberg
Cluster of Excellence ―Asia andEurope in a Global Context‖
Voßstraße 2, Bldg. 4400
69115 Heidelberg (Germany)
tel.: +49-6221-54-4006
fax: +49-6221-54-4012
e-mail: fuess@eajs.eu
Immediate Past President
Prof Dr Viktoria ESCHBACH-SZABO
University of Tübingen
Department of Japanese Studies
Wilhelmstr. 90
72074 Tübingen (Germany)
tel.: +49-7071-29-76894
fax: +49-7071-551486
e-mail: eschbach-szabo@eajs.eu
Treasurer
Prof Dr Cornelia STORZ
Goethe University
Department of Management and Applied Microeconomics
Chair for Japanese Economy
Grueneburgplatz 1 (RuW Bldg. 4241)
60629 Frankfurt / Main (Germany)
tel.: +49-69-798-34811
fax: +49-69-798-35019
e-mail: storz@eajs.eu
Secretary
Prof Dr Reiko ABE-AUESTAD
University of Oslo
Department of Culture Studies andOriental Languages
P. O. Box 1010 Blindern
0315 Oslo (Norway)
tel.: +47-2285-6050
fax: +47-2285-4828
e-mail: abe-auestad@eajs.eu

Extended Council Members
Prof Dr Verena BLECHINGERTALCOTT
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Institute of East Asian Studies – Japanese Studies
Ehrenbergstr. 26-28
14195 Berlin (Germany)
tel.: +49-30-838-53599
fax: +49-30-838-57114
e-mail: blechinger-talcott@eajs.eu
Dr Harald CONRAD
University of Sheffield
National Institute of Japanese Studies
and School of East Asian Studies
Sheffield S10 2TN (United Kingdom)
tel.: +44-114-222-8400
fax: +44-114-222-8432
e-mail: conrad@eajs.eu
Prof Dr Bjarke FRELLESVIG
University of Oxford
Oriental Institute
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE (United Kingdom)
tel.: +44 (0)1865 278 200
fax: +44 (0)1865 278 190
e-mail: frellesvig@eajs.eu
Prof Dr Maria Chiara MIGLIORE
Università del Salento
Dipartimento di Linguistica, filologia e
letteratura
Piazzetta Arco di Trionfo
73100 Lecce (Italy)
tel.: +39-0832-296337
fax: +39-0832-305497
e-mail: migliore@eajs.eu

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Prof Dr Fabio RAMBELLI
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultural Studies
California 93106-7075 (USA)e-mail: rambelli@eajs.eu
Prof Dr Rein RAUD
Tallinn University
Uus-Sadama 510120 Tallinn (Estonia)
tel.: +372-6409-100
e-mail: raud@eajs.eu

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Dr Brigitte STEGER
University of Cambridge
Department of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Asian and Middle EasternStudiesCambridge CB2 1DQ (United Kingdom)
tel.: +44-1223-335140
fax: +44-1223-335110
e-mail: steger@eajs.eu

Honorary Members
Louis Allen, UK, 1922–1991
Frank J. Daniels, UK, 1900–1983
Charles Dunn, UK, 1915–1995
Charles Haguenauer, France, 1896–1976
Wieslaw Kotanski, Poland, 1915–2005
Fosco Maraini, Italy, 1912–2004
Martin Ramming, Germany, 1899–1988
Alexander Slawik, Austria, 1900–1997
Frits Vos, The Netherlands, 1918–2000
Adriana Boscaro, Italy
Eduard Klopfenstein, Switzerland
Josef Kreiner, Germany
Bruno Lewin, Germany
Olof Lidin, Denmark
Mikolaj Melanowicz, Poland
Ian Nish, UK
Brian Powell, UK
Arthur Stockwin, UK

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Contents

Farewell Message of the EAJS President ............................................................... 8
13th EAJS International Conference ....................................................................... 9
Welcome to Tallinn University ................................................................................. 9
Registration ........................................................................................................... 11
Registration Fees .................................................................................................. 11
Conference Schedule ............................................................................................ 12
Conference Programme ........................................................................................ 13
EAJS General Meeting............................................................................................ 68
14th EAJS International Conference ..................................................................... 69
EAJS Council Election 2011-2014 ......................................................................... 70
Procedure.............................................................................................................. 70
Candidates' Self-introductions and Statements ..................................................... 71
Tifo Scholarship Programmm ................................................................................ 98
Reports.................................................................................................................. 98
Announcements .................................................................................................... 109
Call for Applications............................................................................................. 109
Call for Nominations ............................................................................................ 109
Research Fellowships ......................................................................................... 110
Call for Articles .................................................................................................... 111
Forthcoming Events ............................................................................................. 115
Information from our members ........................................................................... 116
Items received ....................................................................................................... 119
Members‘ Information Sheet................................................................................ 121
Change of Address Form ..................................................................................... 122

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Farewell Message of the EAJS President

Dear EAJS Members,
Japan and Japanese Studies no longer
seem the same after the disasters ofMarch 11th. Wherever one goes Japanrelated life appears to be somewhat ina state of limbo as people have returned to their daily pursuits but do getfrequently reminded that Japan and
the Japanese are still labouring underthe burden of what happened and worrying about the long-term implications
for themselves and their country. Mostof us will know someone or of someone who has been personally affected
in one way or another. Often they will
have had Japan activities rescheduledor altered. It is most rare that a single
event in Japan has had such an immediate impact on the political agenda
of other countries. Last but not least,
we all mourn the loss of so many lives
due to the earthquake and the tsunami
and expect that many of the issues
raised by the disasters will be discussed in our upcoming conference inTallinn.
The 13th international conference of
the EAJS will take place from 24-27
August 2011 in Tallinn as planned withmore sections than ever before in
EAJS history, and I hope that you all
found the time to register and will
come to join us in this lovely Estonian
town. As usual, the conference is preceded by the EAJS PhD Workshop,
which again received a record number
of applicants testifying to the vigour ofgraduate education in Japanese Studies and is made possible by the consistent and steady financial support of
the Japan Foundation and the Toshiba
International Foundation. We will an8

nounce the winner of the EAJS bookprize, nominate new honorary members, and discuss the possibility of
supporting a high-quality EAJS Journalof Japanese Studies. We received four
fantastic site proposals for the next
conference in 2014: Bucharest, Paris,
Ljubljana, and Moscow. More scholars
than ever before volunteered to be
candidates for the EAJS council withvery enthusiastic election statements.
By the time you read this message a
new team is likely to have been selected.
After serving over a decade on the
EAJS Council, the last three as yourpresident, I have seen EAJS grow anddiversify its activities with an ever expanding membership from Europe, Japan and the United States. It truly has
become not only the largest international organization of Japanese Studies outside of Japan but one of thegreat hubs of scholarly exchange on
Japan in a pleasant and intellectual
academic environment. In short, I
greatly enjoyed myself working on behalf of EAJS and am fully confident of
its vibrant future as an academic association of what is and will remain oneof the world´s most important and fascinating societies and cultures.
Hereby I would like to thank the all current and past EAJS councils and convenors for their dedication and cooperation over the past years, which had
made my task so pleasant.
Sincerely,
Harald Fuess
EAJS President

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13th EAJS International Conference to be held in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn University, August 24-27, 2011

Welcome to Tallinn University!
It is by the time of this writing alreadyclear that this year‘s EAJS conference
will be the biggest in our organisation‘shistory. More than 700 colleagues fromall over the world will be gathering in
Tallinn to listen to each other, to exchange ideas and to discuss latest issues in their respective fields, and certainly also to enjoy each other‘s company. So we are looking forward tothese days with anticipation, but alsowith a slight trepidation, because making such an impressive audience
happy will most certainly be no easytask.
Our university is young, and proud of
its openness, dynamism as well as its
friendly and international atmosphere.
Established as a merger in 2005, it has
during its short history reached thenumber of 10 000 students, doubled its
research budget and increased thenumber of its top-rated publications to270% of the total of its founding members - as well as doubled the numberof its international students and achieved the situation where just about every tenth member of its faculty has been
recruited internationally. You will also
be visiting us during the time when extensive construction is underway - wehave to apologise for the inconvenience, but the university is growing too
fast.

The Tallinn University is also the hubof Japanese Studies in Estonia andhas the longest tradition of offering Japanese Studies as a specialisation on
all academic levels in the Baltics.
Especially those among you who areinterested in classical literature and thehistory of ideas may have already noted the academic events that are taking place here regularly, or noticed
our representatives at conferences elsewhere. Joint seminars with our Japanese partners and summer schools
on Japan-related topics have now become customary - something we hopeto keep up in the future, so that you,
too, will perhaps find academic reasons to visit us again.
But 2011 is a good year to visit Tallinn
in more than one sense. Our city has
been chosen to act as the European
Capital of Culture, and this has alreadybrought a great number of spectacular
cultural events to our shores, exhibitions, concerts, film festivals and otherevents, some of which will coincidewith the conference, something yourcompanions might enjoy and that perhaps will persuade you to stay for a
few more days. The location of theuniversity campus between the medieval Old City and the Kadriorg Park withthe museum area, both in comfortable
walking distance, will in any case makea quick glimpse of the sights (and tastes) of Tallinn fairly easy.

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Estonians, it is traditionally believed,
are quiet, inward-looking and not very
imaginative people, who are not very
easy to talk to. We will try as hard as
we can to convince you this is not always true, and we hope you are goingto have a pleasant and memorablestay!
On behalf of the organising committee
Rein Raud
Professor of Asian and Cultural Studies, until May 2011 Rector of the Tallinn University

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Registration
In order to join the conference, you have to register with the local organizer (Tallinn
University) and pay a registratino fee. This fee ist he same whether you intend to givea paper or whether you simply want to listen to papers.
However, there is a reduced registration fee for students and a higher fee for nonmembers of EAJS. Therefore, it is highly recommended to join EAJS before registering fort he conference online at: http://registration.tlu.ee/
Please note that it is a rule of the EAJS conference that all the speakers givinga paper must be members of the EAJS.

Registration Fees

Payment in €Category
Until April 15

Until June 30

From July 1

EAJS members

90 EUR

120 EUR

190 EUR

Non-EAJS members

150 EUR

200 EUR

330 EUR

Students

60 EUR

85 EUR

130 EUR

Accompanying persons

50 EUR

50 EUR

50 EUR* All conference participants (except for accompanying person) will receive a bookof abstracts at the end of the conference. Side events and exhibitions during theconference are open to all attendees.

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Conference Schedule
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

10:30

Nichibunken EAJS Workshop

12:30

Coffee break

14:30

Opening Plenary Session and Keynote Speach

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

18:00

End of academic programme

About 19:00

Welcome Reception

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

18:00

End of academic programme

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

18:00

End of academic programme

Saturday, 27 August 2011

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09:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Parallel Sessions in all Sections

12:30

Lunch

14:30

EAJS General Meeting and Closing Ceremony

17:00

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Conference ProgrammeThis is a tentative version of the conference programme as of 10 August 2011 (errors
and omissions excepted). Please note that the programme is still subject to change.
Information about Plenary Sessions ..................................................................... 14
Information about Special Events ......................................................................... 15
Information about Sections ................................................................................... 16
Section 1: Urban and Environmental Studies ........................................................ 16
Section 2: Language and Linguistics ..................................................................... 19
Section 3: Literature .............................................................................................. 22
Subsection 3a: Modern Literature ......................................................................... 22
Subsection 3b: Pre-modern Literature Subsection ................................................ 25
Section 4: Visual and Performing Arts ................................................................... 28
Subsection 4a: Visual Arts .................................................................................... 28
Subsection 4b: Performing Arts ............................................................................. 32
Section 5: Anthropology and Sociology ................................................................. 35
Section 6: Economics, Business and Political Economy ....................................... 39
Section 7: History .................................................................................................. 43
Subsection 7a: A Century of Japanese Democracy .............................................. 43
Subsection 7b: Topics in Japanese History........................................................... 47
Section 8: Religion and History of Ideas................................................................ 51
Section 9: Politics and International Relations ...................................................... 55
Section 10: Translating and Teaching Japanese .................................................. 58
Interdisciplinary Section ........................................................................................ 63
Information about Social Events ........................................................................... 67

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Information about Plenary Sessions

Wednesday, 24 August 2011
14:30 - 16:00

UENO Chizuko keynote speech

Saturday, 27 August 2011
14:30 - 17:00

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Information about Special Events

Wednesday, 24 August 2011
10:30 - 12:30

Nichibunken EAJS Workshop

12:30 - 13:30

Tradition and Creation of Yōkai (monstrous beings) Culture
Nichibunken Buffet

Thursday, 25 August 2011
14:30 - 16:00

Meet the Editors
This event is meant to offer interested conference participants
an opportunity to come together with the editors of five Japan
related and peer reviewed journals:
Asian Ethnology
Contemporary Japan
Japan Forum
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Monumenta Nipponica
Editors will give a short introduction to their respective journal
and take questions from the floor. General issues of publishingin peer reviewed journals can also be discussed.

Friday, 26 August 201112:30 - 14:30

Lunch-time Feedback Session hosted by the JapanFoundation: Short- and Long-term Implications of the Triple
Disasters on the Study of JapanThe event is only for invited guests

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Information about Sections

Section 1: Urban and Environmental Studies
Convenors:
Julian WORRALL ( urban [at] eajs.eu )Ralph LÜTZELER ( urban [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Welcome Address: Environmental Risks
Power plots and risk territorialisation, the political central systeminfluence on flood management in urban environment, Nagoya,Japan (Marie THOMAS)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Transportation & Infrastructure
Global Shipping Networks and Tokyo‘s Urban Form (Carola
HEIN)
A Study on the Right to Transport (Kotsuken) in Japan (IMOTO
Masato, DOI Yasunori)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Cont‘d: Transportation and Infrastructure
Railway-generated
HARRISON)

noise

and

vibration

in

Japan

(BrianRural Areas
Why recent regional policy reforms led to a further peripheralization of rural towns in Japan (Volker ELIS)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Cont‘d: Rural Areas
Rural Transformations in Post-war Japan: Rural Areas, Agriculture and Food Security (Thomas FELDHOFF)
Panel: Spatial Politics of Food Production and Consumption
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The supermarket as political space – Spatial references in thecontemporary discourse on food safety in Japan (Cornelia
REIHER)
Turf wars of taste: Contested spaces in commodity chains andconsumption in the Japanese seafood sector (Sonja
GANSEFORTH)
Urban farming in Japan – new communities, alternative lifestyles and solidarity economics (Katrin GENGENBACH)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Cont‘d: Panel: Spatial Politics of Food Production and Consumption

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Tokyo Changing
Articulation and reticulation in Tokyo‘s changing landscape (PaulWALEY)
Animation workers and the studio as creative space in Tokyo:
time-geographical analysis (YAMAMOTO Kenta)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Cont‘d: Tokyo Changing
The Urban Ecology of Stigma: Dwindling Spaces for the Tokyo
Leather Industry (Joseph HANKINS)
Urban Housing
Single Women and Housing Choices in Urban Japan (Richard
RONALD, NAKANO Lynne)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Cont‘d: Urban Housing
Transformations of the Japanese Housing Market Responding to
the Diversification of Household Structures: Focus on the Supplyof Compact Condominiums for Single Women in Tokyo (KUBO
Tomoko, YUI Yoshimichi)
Marginal Urban Villages in Tokyo: Antimony of Public Housing in
Aoyama (KUROISHI Izumi)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Culture and Space
Communication through Objects: The Asuka and Heijō-kyūseki
National Historical Park and Its Message (Nicole ALTMEIER)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Cont‘d: Culture and Space
Art & The City : The Political Uses of Creativity and Fine Art in
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Urban Japan Today (Adrian FAVELL)
Producing Palces, Consuming Sites at the Echigo Tsumari Art
Triennale (Julian WORRALL)

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10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Summarising Conclusions, Closing Discussion and Organisational Matter Summarising Conclusions

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

EAJS General Meeting and Closing Ceremony

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Section 2: Language and Linguistics
Convenors:
Bjarke FRELLESVIG ( linguistics [at] eajs.eu )Tomoko OKAZAKI HANSEN ( linguistics [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Section Keynote speech「役割語」研究の展望 (New Horizons in Research on 'Role
Language') (Professor KINSUI Satoshi)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Individual papers
ナル表現の内実 -天声人語とその英訳を資料として(SHINYA
Teruko)Subject-Object Contrast‘ and ‗Subject-Object Merger‘ in ‗Thinking for Speaking‘ : A Typology of the Speaker‘s Preferred Typesof Linguistic Construal across Languages (IKEGAMI Yoshihiko)「改善要求」の場面でみられる働きかけのしかたに関する一考察（日本 語 と ウ ク ラ イ ナ 語 ２ ０ 代 母 語 話 者 を 対 象 に ） (Oresta

ZABURANNA)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual papers
矛盾文 (ABE Hiroshi)
Monolingual and bilingual interpretation of the Japanese language structure in lexicography (Romuald HUSZCZA)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Individual papers
A Speaker‘s Cognition Encoded in ‗~No da‘ Sentences in Japanese: Analysis of English translation of the modern Japanesenovel (UJIIE Yoko)
Can a typological approach help understanding the Japanesecase particle ni? (ANDO Yuka)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break
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16:30 - 18:00

Individual papers
Semantic roles and case marketing in Old Japanese (Stephen
HORN and Kerri RUSSELL)
Manifestations of split intransitivity in Old Japanese: A corpusbased study (Zixi YOU)
歴史的資料を対象とした形態素分析辞書によるテキスト解析(OGISO Toshinobu)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Individual papers
Initial Rise of Tonal Phrase Depends on Pragmatic Meaning(UWANO Zendo)
The competitive relationship between Japanese accent and intonation (SADANOBU Toshiyuki)
The Significance of Silence in Japanese, British and MalaysianSocieties: A Comparison (Ngan Ling WONG, Ching Hei
KUANG, Maya KHEMLANI DAVID)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual papers
Judging with telepathic clarity? Folk linguistic beliefs andguidelines for interaction in saiban‘in courtroom (RiikkaLÄNSISALMI, Erik HERBER)
Hairyo-gengo-kodo:(MIYAKE Kazuko)

A

Japanese

communicationalstyle

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: The Scope and Prospects of Kunten Research in Japan
Introduction (Valerio L. ALBERIZZI)Kunten texts of Buddhist provenance (Butten 仏 典 ): Theircharacteristics and actuality (TSUKIMOTO Masayuki)
Kunten texts of secular Chinese provenance (Kanseki 漢籍)(KOSUKEGAWA Teiji)
The features of Japanized written Chinese and its contribution to
the history of Japanese (YAMAMOTO Shingo)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: The Scope and Prospects of Kunten Research in JapanThe role of Kunten materials in the process of Sino-Japanesehybridization (Valerio L. ALBERIZZI)A comparison of glossing traditions in Japan and Korea (John
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Discussion
Individual paper
Transformative Rhetorics of Japanese Buddhist Texts (Christian
STEINECK, Paulus KAUFMANN)
Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Negotiating Gender: Linguistic and symbolic practices among the real, the fantastic, and the printed
Negotiating and Performing Identity: Japanese men‘s linguistic
practices on ‗reality TV‘ (Cindi STURTZSREETHARAN)
Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Identities by Dansho, Male
Prostitutes in the 1940s (ABE Hideko, Colby College / Universityof Michigan)
Women and Language in the Prange Collection (ENDO Orie)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Negotiating Gender: Linguistic and symbolic practices among the real, the fantastic, and the printed
Gendering the Fantastic: Nature, culture, and Kyara ‗characters‘(OCCHI Debra J.)
Individual papers
Gender and Emotion in Colonialism: Affective Attachments to
Women‘s Language in Japan (NAKAMURA Momoko)
What ―Wakamonokotoba‖ – Japanese Youth Language – Can
Tell us about Language Structure and Change: A Study of Playand Stigma in Japanese Language Communities (Goran
VAAGE)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

EAJS General Meeting and Closing Ceremony

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Section 3: Literature
Subsection 3a: Modern Literature
Convenors:
Kristina IWATA-WEICKGENANNT ( modern_literature [at] eajs.eu )Ina HEIN ( modern_literature [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: The Colonial Uncanny: Empire and Literature inModern Japan
Chair: NAKAMURA Miri
The Rhethoric of Sameness in Japanese Imperialism (Robert
TIERNEY)
The Colonial Specter: Twins in 1920s Japan (NAKAMURA Miri)
The Colonial Uncanny in Sôseki‘s To the Spring Equinox and
Beyond (J. Keith VINCENT)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Tangible Narratives: the Significance of Architecture
in Modern Japanese Literature
Chair: Stephen DODD
Discussant: HIDAKA Yoshiki
The Architecture of Transformation: Changing Perceptions ofSpace in Izumi Kyôka‘s A Map of Shirogane (NISHIKAWA
Atsuko)The Architecture of a Novel: Three Images of a Western Housein Tanizaki Jun‘ichirô‘s Some Prefer Nettles (FUJIWARA
Manabu)The Architecture of a City: Memories Unchained in Itô Sei‘s
Streets of Fiendish Ghosts (Stephen DODD)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual papers
Landscapes of Insanity. Spatial Metaphors of Madness in Higuchi Ichiyô‘s Novellas (Katarzyna SONNENBERG)

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The Canard of the Communist Housekeeper: Scandal andCommitment in Women‘s Proletarian Fiction (Samuel PERRY)
Japanese Discourse on the Concept of the Intellectual between
1917 and 1945 and its literary Manifestation (Simone MÜLLER)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:30

Individual papers‖In Defence of our Culture― – Mishima Yukio‘s search for ―Japaneseness― in his essay Bunka bōeiron (Rebecca MAK)
Image and spectacle in Mishima Yukio‘s Spring Snow after Jeff
Wall (SAKAKI Atsuko)
The death of the author considered as one of the fine arts: On
the aesthetics of suicide in Akutagawa, Dazai and Mishima(Thomas HACKNER)
Towards a reconsideration of „postwar― Japanese literature(Roman ROSENBAUM)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Revisiting AMPO: A literary Perspective
Chair: Christopher ISHERWOOD
Discussant: KOMORI Yôichi
Death by Association: Ôe Kenzaburô‘s Seventeen (Devrim
GUVEN)Fukazawa Shin‘ichirô‘s Furyumutan: A New Reading (Michel DE
BOISSIEU)
Treasonous Youths: Mishima Yukio‘s Patriotism (Christopher
ISHERWOOD)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel:
Strategies
of
Women‘s
Empowerment:
Joryūbungaku, Occidentalism, Transculturality
Chair: Paola SCROLAVEZZA
Becoming a Literary Icon: Hayashi
SCROLAVEZZA, Bologna University)

Fumiko(PaolaDoing Gendered Occidentalism: ―Western‖ Mirrors in the Historical Narratives of Shiono Nanami (MIYAKE Toshio, Venice University)
Empowering Migrant Women Writing From Japan to Germany:
Matsubara Hisako, Tawada Yôko and Tsuji Miyuki (Francesco
Eugenio BARBIERI, Bologna University)
12:30 - 14:30

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14:30 - 16:00

Individual papers
Visuality in Literature, Literature in Visuality - Imagination ofModernity (NAKAGAWA Shigemi)
The polyglot text: translingual practice in contemporary literature(Emanuela COSTA)
ライトノベルの媒体共有性-メディアミックスの観点を中心にて(JEON Taeho)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Individual papers
Humour in the Works of Nakajima Ramo (Till WEINGÄRTNER)
Eating disorders and self-harm in Japanese cultural expressions- A social and literary analysis (Gitte Marianne HANSEN)
Literature and Memory: Akazome Akiko and the Akutagawa
Prize (Angela COUTTS)

Saturday, 27 August 2011

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Panel: Pain in transformation: Contemporary Japanese retellings of fairy tales and legends
Chair: Jeffrey ANGELSGrotesquerie in Flux: Pain and Violence in Contemporary Japanese Retellings of the Shûten Dôji Legend (Daniele RESTA)
Shoes, Fingers and Forbidden Chambers: Western Fairy Talesin Ogawa Yôko‘s Kusuriyubi no hyôhon (Lucy FRASER)
Metamorhposes of the Medieval: Uses of History in Contemporary Retellings of the Sanshô Dayû Legend (Jeffrey ANGELS)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: The Wild Sheep Man Chase: Un/Reality in Haruki Murakami‘s Works
Chair: Mark GIBEAU
Discussant: SHIMAMURA Teru
The Vanishing Elephant in the Room – Perforated Realities andthe Individual in Murakami Haruki‘s Fiction (Mark GIBEAU)
From Twin Girls to the Sheep Man – ―Unreal‖ Characters in Haruki Murakami‘s Early Works (KOJIMA Motohiro)
Why the Sheep Man Lives in a High Rise Hotel – Expression
and Chaos in Postwar Japan and the Works of Murakami Haruki(YAMASAKI Makiko)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Subsection 3b: Pre-modern Literature Subsection
Convenors:
Joshua MOSTOW ( premodern_literature [at] eajs.eu )Robert Omar KHAN ( premodern_literature [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Keynote address
南北朝期の無名の天皇のやろうとしたこと-後光厳院の書写行為をめぐって- (Prof. MITAMURA Masako)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: New Study on Japanese Classical Literature-What
We Can Do With Database
Discussant: TAKEI Kyozo (National Institute of Japanese Literature
Study on Illustrated Books, Using Digital Images (KOBAYASHI
Kenji, National Institute of Japanese Literature)
A Study on the Learning Method of Kuzushiji (NAKAMURA
Yasuo, National Institute of Japanese Literature)
An Approach to the Texts of Japanese Literature from Literal Information by Using Database (IMANISHI Yuichiro, National Institute of Japanese Literature)

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30

Coffee break
Panel: At Odds With the World: Reclusion, Reception, andthe Refashioning of an Ideal
Discussant: Richard Bowring
Drunk with Words:
Tao Yuanming, Kaifūsō, and Ōtomo no Tabito‘s ―Thirteen Poems
in Praise of Wine‖ (Jason WEBB, University of Oregon)
Vassals of a Deposed Regime: Archetypes of Reclusion in the
Poetry of Two Bakumatsu Officials (Matthew FRALEIGH, Brandeis University)
Natsume Sōseki‘s Tao Yuanming: Comparing Japanese andChinese conceptions of reclusion(KAWAI Kōzō, Kyoto University)
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Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Readers' Transformations of Ise monogatari
The Supplementary Notes in Ise monogatari: Hints from The
Book of Songs (YAMAMOTO Tokurô, Kansai University)
Kujô Tanemichi‘s Kujô zenkaku shô: Ise monogatari lecturenotes held by the Kuyô Bunko (KIDO Kuniko, Tokai Gakuin University)
Ise monogatari as Reading for Women in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Jamie NEWHARD, Washington University in St. Louis)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: Re-readings and Re-visionings: Interpreting 'The
Tale of Genji'
Discussant: FUKUMORI Naomi (The Ohio State University)
Examination of Scene Selections in Genji Paintings and theTreatment of Poetry Exchanges in Accompanying Textual Passages (TAKAHASHI Toru, Nagoya University)
The Tale of Genji and ―karamono‖ (KAWAZOE Fusae, Tokyo
Gakugei University)
The Psychological State Expressed by the Term ―itohoshi‖ in
The Tale of Genji (JINNO Hidenori, Waseda University)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Tales of the Genji and Heike: interpretations, criticisms, parodies
Transformations of Heike monogatari (KOSUKEGAWA Genta,
Ehime University)
Anonymous voices and scurrilous graffiti: negative criticism in
Heike texts (Michael WATSON, Meiji Gakuin University)
Parodies of Heike monogatari in the Edo Period (ITO Shingo,
Jissen Women‘s University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: The Transmission of the Classics and the Commentary Tradition of the Muromachi and Edo Periods
The Tradition of the Classics as Seen in the Old Commentaries
of Genji Monogatari: Kakaishō and Subsequent Works (KŌNOKimiko, Waseda University)
The Transmission of Knowledge and the Formation of a Classical Corpus in the Medical Treatises (MACHI Senjurō,
Nishōgakusha University)
The Use of Chinese Popular Novels in Commentaries (Shomono) of the Han Shu (NAGAO Naoshige, Sophia University)

12:30 - 14:30
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14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Genji monogatari as cultural nexus: Genji commentaries in the Edo period
Discussant: Mack HORTON
The ―Genji-ology‖ of a Prison Governor: The Formation of Ishide
Jōken‘s Kigenshō (YOKOMIZO Hiroshi, Tohoku University)
Reading Genji ethically: traditional values, Confucian discourse,
and the Tale of Genji (UNNO Keisuke, National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Widening cultural horizons: popular readers and their selfcultivation (MIDORIKAWA Machiko, Meijigakuin University)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: Translation in the Edo period
Translation theory and practice in the Edo Period (Rebekah
CLEMENTS)
Translated
MORETTI)

texts

in

seventeenth-century

Japan(LauraHayashi Razan‘s Jōgan Seiyō genkai (Peter KORNICKI)
Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Ihara Saikaku‘s katari or narration
The Real Saikaku (Paul SHALOW, Rutgers University)
Literary irony and narration in some of Ihara Saikaku‘s works(Kōshoku ichidai otoko and Nanshoku ōkagami) (Gérard SIARY,
Montpellier University)
Why does Saikaku appear in Nanshoku ōkagami? (HATANAKA
Chiaki, Keiai University)
Saikaku‘s narration in his early prose works (Daniel STRUVE,
Paris Diderot Paris 7 University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual papers
Nioizuke – reconsidering verse linking in haikai no renga(Herbert JONSSON, Högskolan Dalarna)
Anatomy of Nostalgia (Rein RAUD, Tallinn University)"Meshi wo kuōka? Kokoha torojiro no meibutsuda!": about theevolution of the advertisement in Jippensha Ikku‘s narrative(Mario Talamo, Naples University of Oriental Studies)
Closing discussion

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 4: Visual and Performing Arts
Subsection 4a: Visual Arts
Convenors:
Amaury GARCIA RODRIGUEZ ( visual_arts [at] eajs.eu )Donatella FAILLA ( visual_arts [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Section Keynote Speech
デジタルイメ-ジを使った研究潮流-何がもたらされるべきか-(AKAMA Ryo, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Rethinking the Development of Style in Japanese art:
Tools and materials as catalysts
Discussant: John CARPENTER (SOAS, University of London)
Rethinking the pictorial expression – styles defined by the brush(MURATA Takashi, Osaka International University)
Golden styles of Japanese calligraphy paper and lacquer art: thetechnical development of gold leaf and metal powder application(Monika BINCSIK, Ritsumeikan University, MAEZAKI Shinya,
Ritsumeikan University, MURATA Takashi, Osaka International
University, John CARPENTER, SOAS, University of London,
TOMIZAWA-KAY Eriko)
Weaving bamboo into the history of Japanese art: the present
state of Japanese bamboo art research (MAEZAKI Shinya,
Ritsumeikan University)
The Innovative Use of Pigments and Painting Materials in Nihonga: The Case of Hishida Shunsō (TOMIZAWA-KAY Eriko,
SOAS, University of London)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Group of papers
Kyūshū c. 1600: A new visual culture in early modern Japan‖(Alexandra CURVELO, Centro de História de Além-Mar,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Angelo CATTANEO, CHAM)

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European views of East Asia, past and present (ITANI Yoshie,
Tama University)
Iconological analysis of the rocks depicted in Sesshu‘s landscape paintings (HAIJIMA Agnese, Latvia University)
Parallel Session:
Group of papers
Lost pages in Japan´s art history (Svetlana RYBALKO, University of Ukraine)
Seven key figures of methodology to the study of lacquerware(Leonor LEIRIA, Oxford Brookes University)
About the listening to odour: May olfactory memories be detected through material artifacts? (Chantal WEBER, University of
Cologne)12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Displaying ‗Japan‘ in the West: Nineteenth century to
the present
Discussant: Angus LOCKYER (SOAS, University of London)
Panelists
What is the History of Japanese Art? – Displaying JapaneseAntiquities in the British Museum – (Princess Akiko of Mikasa,
Ritsumeikan University)
Japan at International Exhibitions, 1873-1933 (ITŌ Mamiko,
Sacred Heart University)
How Japan has been exhibited outside Japan? (YOSHIDA Kenji,
National Museum of Ethnology)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Group of papers
Prices and values of Japanese art in the Meiji period: The
Chiossone Museum Collections and their historical inventory
dated 1898 (Donatella FAILLA, Edoardo Chiossone Museum ofOriental Art)
The mingei undō in the collections of the Ethnology Museum ofBarcelona (Muriel GOMEZ, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
A Japonism artwork collector and cork industry in Catalonia(SHIRAISHI Minoru, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona )Travelling textiles: ‗Foreign‘ elements in a Japanese textile sample book (Petra HOLMBERG, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities)

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Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Shunga in its social and cultural context I
Discussant: Amaury GARCIA RODRIGUEZ (El Colegio deMéxico)The physical properties of shunpon (shunga books) (Ellis
TINIOS, University of Leeds),
Characteristics of Sexual Representation in Ukiyoe Shunga:
Faces and Genitals of Men and Women drawn in a Parallel line
(HAYAKAWA Monta, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)/Yo^butsu kurabe/ (Phallus Competition) handscrolls‘ place inthe history of /shunga/ (YANO Akiko, SOAS, University of
London)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Shunga in its social and cultural context II
How did Nishikawa Sukenobu‘s Shunpon Depict Various
Castes?: A Case Study of /Iro hiinagata/ (ISHIGAMI Aki,
Ritsumeikan University)
Could Sex get Polemic? The Shunpon of Nishikawa Sukenobu(Jenny PRESTON, SOAS, University of London)
Is There Polemical Intent in Shunga Parodies (/mojiri/yatsushi/)?
(Andrew GERSTLE, SOAS, University of London)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Shunga in its social and cultural context III
The private lives of kabuki actors as revealed in prints andillustrated books (MATSUBA Ryoko, Ritsumeikan University)
Intended for the female gaze? Utagawa Kunisada‘s /Shunshoku
hatsune no ume/ (Spring Love: Six women of the First Cry,1842) (Monika HINKEL, SOAS, University of London)
Erotica in the Meiji Era (Rosina BUCKLAND, National Museumof Scotland)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Group of papers
Hokusai Manga: Reconstructing the composition
STEINER, SOAS, University of London)(Evgeny―For women or for men? Japanese pre-modern illustrated
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Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Visual satire in Japan: A genre in decay?
Discussant: Sepp LINHART (University of Vienna)
明治初期の風刺錦絵 (Noriko BRANDL, University of Vienna)
Prime-minister Koizumi Junichiro in Political Cartoons – On
Characteristic Features of Contemporary Japanese Cartoons(Yulia MIKHAILOVA, Hiroshima City University)
The Limits of Humor - a Comparative Study of Satire in Recent
Japanese Cartooning (Ron STEWART, Prefectural University ofHiroshima)

Parallel Session:
Group of papers
What is considered fine art in Japan?: A historical review of thesituation in the early 20th century focusing on Takehisa Yumeji(Sabine SCHENK, German Institute for Japanese Studies)
Aesthetics and political agency: Natori Yōnosuke, a Japanese
Riefenstahl? (Andrea GERMER, Hiroshima City University)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Group of papers
Avant-garde art and fashion: Artists, critics and their clothes in
Meiji and Taisho Japan (Toby SLADE, University of Tokyo)
Between ‗real‘ history and ‗realistic‘ painting: The making of Meiji
Shrine Memorial Art Gallery, 1912-1936 (IMAIZUMI Yoshiko,
Meiji Jingu Research Institute)

Parallel Session:
Group of papers
Rethinking Japanese visual culture: Japanese contemporary art
in relation to anime and popular visual representations (John
CLAMMER, United Nations University)
The postmodern notion of tradition in contemporary Japaneseart: The case of Makoto Aida and Akira Yamaguchi (Ievgeniia
BOGDANOVA, Heidelberg University)
The study of Japanese art in Brazil (OKANO Michiko, Federal
University of Sao Paulo)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Subsection 4b: Performing Arts
Convenors:
Andreas REGELSBERGER ( performing_arts [at] eajs.eu )Peter ECKERSAL ( performing_arts [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Sectional Keynote Speech
能・パトロン・観客 (TAKEMOTO Mikio)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Nô Space and Space for Nô (1)Discussant: Stanca SCHOLZ-CIONCA
Spaces of Crisis - On the Tomb in Medieval Nô (Pia SCHMITT,
Trier University / Waseda University)
Memory and Revelation - Utamakura as Liminal Spaces in Nô(Ramona TARANU, University of Trier)
The Goddess Emerges: Sacred Space in a Secular Art Form
(Hanna McGAUGHEY, Tokyo University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break
Panel: Nô Space and Space for Nô (2)Discussant: Stanca SCHOLZ-CIONCA
Contemporary Japanese Theatre as a Space for Developing
Fresh Approaches to Nô (Barbara GEILHORN, Freie Universität
Berlin)Theatrical Space into Film Space: Shindô Kaneto‘s Onibaba andKuroneko (Titanilla MATRAI, Waseda University)

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Spectres and Spaces in the Noh Drama
Discussant: Roberta STRIPPOLI, Binghamton University
Human Trafficking in Echigo Province as Reflected in Noh(Susan MATISOFF, University of California, Berkeley)
The Father-Lord-Son Plot in the Noh play Shichi-ki ochi
(Vyjayanthi SELINGER, Bowdoin College)
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テクストの亡霊的構造化と忠度の記憶-遍在化する忠度のウタ(TAKAGI Makoto, Sagami Women's College)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Single Presentations
The Construction of Japanese Noh Theatre as an Abstract Art :an Analysis of its Traditional and Modern Discourses (AOKI
Ryoko)―Inequality― and ―Inattention― as method in Noh (Luciana
GALLIANO)
Construction and Deconstruction of a Myth: The vision of Komachi from traditional Noh to the contribution of Mishima and Enchi(Daniela MORO)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Performing the Space of the Sixties: Folk, Jazz, andArtistic
Intervention
intheHigh-Growth
World
The Jazz Café and the Cultural Underground in 1960s Japan(Michael MOLASKY, Hitotsubashi University)
Performing Politics: Exploring the Full and Empty Space of Protest in early 1960s Japan (William MAROTTI, UCLA)Japanese Folk and the Authenticity Blues (Alan CUMMINGS,
University of London)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Single Presentations
Chair: Peter ECKERSALL
Discussant: Katherine MEZUR
Kūkan wo tsukuru—Constructing Space. Displacements ofBody and Memory Enacted by Alessio Silvestrin and Tsumura
Reijirō (Katja CENTONZE)
Butoh, cinedance and intermedia performance in 1960s Japan(Peter ECKERSALL)
Dancing the Past: Representing Pre-modern Affair in Modern
Japanese Dance (OKADA Mariko)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Single Presentations
Nostalgia, Space and Memory: the Tokyo Kabukiza, 1951 2010
(Helen S. E. PARKER)
Aspects of the Place and the Memory in ―Ballad Film‖ in the
1930s (TOMITA Mika)

16:00 - 16:30

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16:30 - 18:00

Panel: Location is Everything (or is it?): Geographic Specificity and Translocality in the Japanese Folk Performing
Arts
Passing on the Rengeemai: Place, Community, Translocality(Susanne KLIEN, German Institute for Japanese Studies)
Reconciliations Between Local Ritual and Centralized Policy as
Seen in the Kagura of Shimane Prefecture (Terence
LANCASHIRE, Osaka Ohtani University)
Horohasan Shimotsuki Kagura and the Rehabilitation of Kami
Worship (William LEE, University of Manitoba)
A Syncretic Survivor of Meiji Period Religious Reforms: The
Case of kagura on the Japanese Island of Aogashima (JaneALASZEWSKI, Bukkyo University)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Variations on the Shishi-Lion Dance in Haikai Poetry,
Kabuki, and NôChair: Shinko KAGAYA
Visions of Nô among Commoners in the Tokugawa Period – asExpressed through Haikai Poetry (KETA Keiko)
The Nô play, Shakkyô: Points of Contact with Kabuki (HAIKAWA
Mika, Tokyo University of Arts)The Evolution of Variant Stagings of the Nô play, Shakkyô,
during the Meiji Period (MIURA Hiroko, Musashino University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Single Presentations
Culture, memory, identity – The videogame as a lieu demémoire (Wolfgang BÄCKER)Space and life-action roleplay in Japan (Bjoern-Ole KAMM)
Face, Affect and Sexuality in Ando Momoko's Kakera: A Pieceof Our Life (2009) (Livia MONNET)

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12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 5: Anthropology and Sociology
Convenors:
Anemone PLATZ ( anthropology [at] eajs.eu )Griseldis KIRSCH ( anthropology [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

13:30 - 14:30

JAWS business meeting

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Memories of Historical Events
Memories of New Left Protest (Patricia STEINHOFF)
How the Past Shapes the Future: Depiction of World War II in
Contemporary Manga (Gaël KERVIZIC)
Censoring Collective Memories: The Treatment of Sensitive Historical Imagery in the Rating of Videogames in Japan and ofJapanese Games (William KELLY)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Politics of Cultural Production: Memory and Representation(panel)Panel Co-ordinator: Artur
MARTINEZ, Blai GUARNÉLOZANOMENDEZ,

Dolores

Consideration and Explorations of Memory in the AnimatedWorks of Oshii Mamoru, Satoshi Kon and Kamiyama Kenji (Artur
LOZANO MENDEZ)
Recreating Memory? Looking at the Politics of Memory in the
TV Drama Watashi wa kai ni naritai and Its Remakes (Griseldis
KIRSCH)
Sweet Poison: The Representations of Shōwa Nostalgic Media(HIDAKA Katsuyuki)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Politics of Cultural Production: Memory and Repsentation(panel)Panel Co-ordinator: Artur LOZANO MENDEZ
The Death of Certainty: Post-war Japan, Guilt and Responsibility in Kurosawa's Ikiru (Lola MARTINEZ)35

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Nostalgia and Myth: Two Reinterpretations of Bushidō in Contemporary Japan (Maria Teresa RODRIGUEZ)
Overthrowing the ‗Tragic Hero‘ Myth: Re-making, Parody andGender Politics in the 1960s -1970s Female yakuza Films Cycle(Laura TREGLIA)
Discussant: Blai GUARNE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Sites of Pilgrimage, Sites of Memory: Anime, Television
Dramas and Historical Figures as Tourist Resources (panel)
Panel Co-ordinator: Philip SEATON
The Rise of Otaku Tourism: Contemporary Myths and Pilgrimage in Japan (OKAMOTO Takeshi)―Contents Tourism‖ in Contemporary Japan: Anime Induced
Tourism and Re-Evaluations of Local Traditional Culture by
Young Generation (YAMAMURA Takayoshi)
Heroes of Bakumatsu: Contemporary Representations in Hakodate‘s Tourist Sites (Philip SEATON)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Living Spaces as Treasure Chest of Memories
Post-war Danchi Housewives(YAMAGUCHI Kiyoko)

and―Average‖Happiness

Memories of Homes: Housing Biographies of Older People Living in Communal Houses (Maren GODZIK)
Shōwa in My Home (Anemone PLATZ)
Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Nostalgic Rediscovery of Asia
Representations of Japan in Shanghai Expo:
Performing Arts (NAKAMAKI Hirochika)

Exhibition andアジア‖へのノスタルジ-：アジア地域向け旅行ガイドブック
における「懐かしさ」の考察 (IWATA Shinsuke)
Factors behind Recent Japanese Migration to Shanghai(AOYAMA Reijiro)
Parallel Session:
Children of Today vs. Children of Yesterday in Japan: between Reality and Invention (panel)
Panel Co-ordinator: Christian Galan
Violence as a (New) Means for Interpreting Contemporary Japanese Teenagers? (FUJIWARA Dan)
Images of Childhood in Japanese Movies of the 2000s: Nostalgia and No Future? (Isabelle MARTY)36

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The Rights of the Child in Japan: Between Nostalgia and Fear
(Christian GALAN)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Nostalgic Images as Promoters of Tourism
Forgetting Shōwa: Furusato Okinawa and the Ryūkyū Restoration (Gerald FIGAL)
Satoyama:
Emotional
PROCHASKA)

Environmentalism(Isabelle

Individual paper
Memory and the Abduction Issue: Remembering through Remediation (Antti SZURAWITZKI)
Parallel Session:
Insights into Contemporary Society―Kimi wa petto‖: Redefining Gender Roles in Japanese TV Dramas (Hilaria GOESSMANN)
Working Women and Women's Magazines (Marissa MAURER)
Caregiving in Contemporary Japan (Barbara HOLTHUS)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Living Death: Making Meaning and Memory of the Dead
Through Experience in Contemporary Japan (panel)
Panel Co-ordinator: Andrea De Antoni
Encounters with the Dead in Japan (John TRAPHAGAN)
Searching for People‘s Own Graves in Iwate Prefecture: Agency, Instrumentality and Memory in a Tree Burial Cemetery(Sebastien BORET)
Whose Dead? Remembering the(Christopher HOOD)

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Crash

The Dark Side of the Tour: Negotiating Meanings and History of
Haunted Places Through Social Networks in Contemporary Kyoto (Andrea DE ANTONI)
Parallel Session:
Individual papers
Intricacies of Memory: Zainichi Korean Women in Japan (Jackie
KIM-WACHUTKA)
Nikkei in Japan and Aussiedler in Germany-A Comparative
Analysis Regarding Nationality Acquisition and Language Proficiency as Factors for Returnees‘ Social Integration (Ana
SUEYOSHI)
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16:00 - 16:30

Coffee breakSaturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30 Re-inventing Japan through Popular Culture
From Folktale Hero to Local Symbol: Transformation of the Momotaro Story in the Creation of a Local Culture (KAHARA Nahoko)
ポップカルチャ-を巡って交錯する/せめぎあう境界- ルポルタ-ジュ「日本マニアの幾つかの肖像」へのコメント分析- (YAMAMOTO
Saeri)
Parallel Session:
Myth Making and Social Memory
Framing Homelessness: Shifting Memories in Japanese Newspapers(Brad VISGATIS)
A Myth of the Showa Period: Democratisation of the European HighClass Brand, Louis Vuitton, in Japan (KOMA Kyoko)
Middle Class Myth-making, Memory, and Nostalgia in Contemporary
Japan (Maya KELIYAN)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Individual papers
Bringing Back the Good Times: Managing Nostalgia and Memories ofHarmonious Civil-Military Relations in a Garrison Town (André
HERTRICH)
The Burden of Memories: The Case of the Taiwanese-Japanese Relations (Attila KIRALY)
Parallel Session:
Individual papers
Towards an Anthropology of Fate: Field Notes from the Velodrome(Wolfram MANZENREITER)―One Soup, Two Vegetables‖: Longevity, Health, and Return to Tradition in Japan (Jessica SIPOS)
To Forget or not to Forget: The Question of Cultural Diversity in National-state through the Memories of Immigrants in Slovenia and Japan (Natasa VISOCNIK)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
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Section 6: Economics, Business and Political Economy
Convenors:
Iris WIECZOREK ( economics [at] eajs.eu )David CHIAVACCI ( economics [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Opening Session: Keynote
Chairs: Iris WIECZOREK, David CHIVACCIJapan´s Double Disaster: Impact of the Economic Bubble Burstand 3.11 Earthquake on the Youth Labour Market (HONDA Yuki, University of Tokyo)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Economic Crisis and Reform
Chair: Iris WIECZOREKDiscussant: Sébastien LECHEVALIER (L’École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales)
Does Coordinated Capitalism still Work? Labour Market Policy inGermany and Japan after the Global Financial Crisis (Steffen
HEINRICH, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Japan: From Sunrise to Sunset? Economic Reform Attempts
with Hesitation (Istvan KIGLICS, Ryukoku University)
Economic Crisis, Neoliberalism and the Transformation of theState in Japan (SUZUKI Taka, Ohio University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Japan‘s Changing Position in the World Economy
Chair: Iris WIECZOREKDiscussant: TACHIKI Dennis (Tamagawa University)
Foreign Exchange Reserves and Crisis: The Case of Japan(Frank RÖVEKAMP, University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen)
Japan, Venice and the Netherlands: Comparing the Rise andPotential Fate of Peripheral Trading Powers (Werner PASCHA,
University of Duisburg-Essen)
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The Tohoku Earthquake: Economic Consequences for Japan(Franz WALDENBERGER, Munich University)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: The Inequalities in Japan, Revisited
Chair: Sébastien LECHEVALIER (L’École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales)
Discourses of New Inequalities (kakusa shakai) and the Change
in Power from LDP to DPJ (David CHIAVACCI, University of Zurich)
The Aftermath of the Golden Age – Status Anxiety and Vulnerability in Contemporary Japan (Carola HOMMERICH, German
Institute of Japanese Studies)
Inequalities in Japan: Investigating the Gap between Objective
and Subjective Perspectives (KAMBAYASHI Ryo, Hitotsubashi
University and OECD)
Understanding the Rising Employment Security Inequalities inJapan: The Hypothesis of ‗Re-Segmentation‖ of the Japanese
Labour Market (Sébastien LECHEVALIER, L’École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Law and Regulation of Japanese Economy
Chair: David CHIAVACCI
Discussant: Florian KOHLBACHER (German Institute of Japanese Studies)
Suicide Damages: New Frontiers of Civil Liability in Japan(Giorgio Fabio COLOMBO, University Ca' Foscari Venice)
The Regulation of Japanese Consumer Credit Market (19832010) (Adrienne SALA, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales)Ubiquitous Work in Japan: Supply and Demand for E-Skills(TACHIKI Dennis, Tamagawa University)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Individual Economic Actors in a Changing Economy
Chair: David CHIAVACCI
Discussant: Werner PASCHA (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Effects of Filial Piety on Latent and Actual Entrepreneurship:
Evidence from the 2007 Employment Status Survey (Georg
BLIND, University of Zurich)

10:30 - 11:00

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11:00 - 12:30

Economic Periphery and State Policy
Chair: David CHIAVACCI
Discussant: Cornelia STORZ (University of Frankfurt)―The Foreign Trainee Problem‖: Subject Construction throughLabour Immigration Policies and Advocacy in Japan (Daniel
KREMERS, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Gender Perspectives on Japan's Social Safety Net (OSAWA
Machiko, Japan Women's University)
Politics of High Poverty in Contemporary Japan (WATANABE
Hiroaki Richard, University of Sheffield)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Strategies and Potential Economic Sectors
Chair: Iris WIECZOREKDiscussant: Franz WALDENBERGER (Munich University)
Aircraft Industry in Japan: Niche Construction and Patent Portfolio Strategy (HORAGUCHI Haruo, Hosei University)
Ethical Consumption in Japan: A New Consumer Trend?
(Florian KOHLBACHER , German Institute of Japanese Studies)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Labour Market between Adaptions and Continuities
Chair: Iris WIECZOREKDiscussant: KAMBAYASHI Ryo (Hitotsubashi University andOECD)
Inflexibilty of Labour Markets? Why Japanese Game Software
Firms Keep Long-Term Employment (Cornelia STORZ, University of Frankfurt & Federico RIBOLDAZZI, Universitat di Bologna)
Contract Law in Japan: Critical Assessment and New Approaches (Andrea ORTOLANI, JSPS / University of Tokyo)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Japan in Global Economy
Chair: David CHIAVACCI
Discussant: Frank RÖVEKAMP (University of Applied Sciences
Ludwigshafen)
Sino-Japanese Relations through the Prism of Official Development Aid (ODA): The 1980s-2000s (Evgeny KOVRIGIN, Seinan
Gakuin University)
Global and Regional Economic Strategy of Japan: Developing
Cooperation with Countries Rich in Natural Resources (Tagir
KHUZIYATOV, Far Eastern Federal University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

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11:00 - 12:30

The Shortage of Coins in Early-Modern and Modern Japan:
Towards an Explanation for the Structural Contradictions(panel)Chair: KATO Kei‘ichiro
Circulation of Securities as Medium Denomination Currency inJapan: The Gold Standard, Local Economy and Settlement,
1897-1917 (KATO Kei'ichiro, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences)
Evidence from the Collection of Japanese Coins in the British
Museum (SAKURAKI Shin'ichi, Shimoseki City University)
Currency Control by the Bakufu in the Light of Requests from
Akita Domain (KATSUMATA Takazu)

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12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 7: History
Subsection 7a: A Century of Japanese Democracy
Convenors:
Dick STEGEWERNS ( history [at] eajs.eu )Hans Martin KRÄMER ( history [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Keynote Lecture:「日本の民主主義と天皇-明治・大正・昭和の三天皇」 (ITŌYukio, Kyoto University)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Organised Panel: Autocracy, Meritocracy or Democracy?:
Political Debates on Jinzai (人材) and Access to Government from Late Tokugawa to Meiji Period
Chair and Organiser: MATSUDA Kōichirō (Rikkyō University)
The Politics of Classics: Rhetorical Strategies in the Genre ofMemorandum on Government in the Later Tokugawa Period(David MERVART, Heidelberg University)
The worship of Confucius in the Bakumatsu period (JamesMCMULLEN, University of Oxford)
Shibano Ritsuzan and the - sentiments of the masses? in late
Tokugawa governance (Kiri PARAMORE, Leiden University)
Feudal Society‘ and ‗Public Spirit‘ in Modern Japanese Political
Discourse (MATSUDA Kōichirō, Rikkyō University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Organised Panel: Continuities in Japan‘s Democratization
From Taisho Democracy to TV Democracy: A Systematic Analysis of a Century of Japanese Democracy, 1912-2011 (Dick
STEGEWERNS, University of Oslo & Kyoto University)
Some Thoughts on Japan‘s Prewar and Postwar Democracy(Ian NISH, London School of Economics)

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Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Organised Panel: Back to Politics: Rethinking Visions andNetworks for Cooperation During ―Taishō Democracy‖
Organiser: Andrea REVELANT, Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Taxation under Party Cabinets: Preparing for Mass Politics,
Heading to Democracy? (Andrea REVELANT, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
After the War is before the War? – ‗Taishō Democrats‘ and their
Visions and Politics for the Postwar Era, 1916–1921 (JanSCHMIDT, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
From Conflict to Compromise: The Changing Relations of Party
Politics and Ministerial Bureaucracy in Interwar Japan (SHIMIZU
Yūichirō, Keiō Gijuku University, Tokyo)
The Subversive Internationalist – Rethinking Japan‘s Visions ofInternational Cooperation during the ―Taishō Democracy‖(Matthias ZACHMANN, University of Heidelberg/University of
Munich)16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Grouped Panel: Social and Economic Democracy
Democratizing Leisure: Camera Clubs as "Mini-Republics" andthe Popularization of Photography in Early 20th-Century Japan(Kerry ROSS, DePaul University)
The Evolution of Discourses on Economic Equality from InterWar Period up to the Present (Noriko BERLINGUEZ-KONO,
University of Lille 3)
Consume or Perish! : Consumerism and Democracy in Modern
and Contemporary Japan (Jan SÝKORA, Charles University
Prague)Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Organised Panel: Rehabilitating the East Asian Community:
Recent Historiography on Pan-Asianism
Organiser and Chair: Sven SAALER, Sophia University
The Pan-Asian Roots of postwar Japan‘s Peace Movement(Christopher W. A. SZPILMAN, Kyūshū Sangyō University)
From Boom to Taboo and Back? Japanese Geopolitics before
and after 1945 (Christian W. SPANG, University of Tsukuba)
Asian integration ‗from below‘? Popular participation in regional
identity formation and visions of an East Asian Community(Torsten WEBER, Jacobs University Bremen)

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The ―Re-Discovery‖ of East Asia by Korean Intellectuals (Eunjeung LEE, Freie Universitaet Berlin)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Grouped Panel: (Post-) Occupation Democracy
Civil Code, Family Register Law and democracy in US occupied
Okinawa (Stanislaw MEYER, Jagiellonian University Krakow)
The Time of the Remote-controlled Democracy in 1945–1952:
Searching the roots of Japan‘s Postwar Political Practices (Juha
SAUNAVAARA, University of Oulu)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Organised Panel: Japan‘s Search for a Cultural Identity:
Communist Utopia as an Alternative to Western Democracy
Organiser: Anastasia FEDOROVA, Kyoto University
The Reception of Soviet Culture in Japan During the Occupation
Period (YOSHIDA Noriaki, Rikkyō University)
Russian Song in Postwar Japan: Utagoe as Social Movement
and Café Pastime (Irina MELNIKOVA, Dōshisha University)
The Soviet Cinema and Postwar Japan (Anastasia FEDOROVA,
Kyoto University)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Grouped Panel: Postwar and Contemporary Democracy
Prefectural governors and local democracy in post-war Japan(Ioan TRIFU, University of Lyon)
The Iemoto System in Democratic Japan: Adaptation & Resistance (Nancy STALKER, University of Texas Austin)
Japanese Democracy within the New World Order (1991-2003):
Crisis and the Management of Politics through Media Populism(Alistair SWALE, Waikato University Wellington)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Organised Panel: The Spaces of Democracy in Postwar Japan
Organiser: Julia Adeney THOMAS, University of Notre Dame
‗Cultural improvement‘ and democratic decline in postwar local
Japan (Martin DUSINBERRE, Newcastle University)
The automobile and auto-democracy: Redefining private andpublic space in Japan‘s cities 1955-1973 (Susan C.
TOWNSEND, University of Nottingham)
Photography, Civic Space, and the 1960 Crisis of Democracy(Julia Adeney THOMAS, University of Notre Dame)

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Morito Tatsuo‘s 1946 Bunka Kokka-ron: State Power, Democracy, and the ―Nation of Culture‖ in the Postwar Era (Peter
SIEGENTHALER, Texas State University)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Concluding Discussion: A Century of Japanese Democracy
Including a discussion on continiuity and discontinuity inJapanese society and democracy before and after the Great
Tōhoku Earthquake (ITŌ Yukio and others)46

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Subsection 7b: Topics in Japanese History
Convenors:
Dick STEGEWERNS ( history [at] eajs.eu )Hans Martin KRÄMER ( history [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
Chizuko UENO keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee breakThursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Grouped Panel: Theoretical Enquiries into the Non-Human
Realm
The Things in and out of History (Dennitza GABRAKOVA, City
University of Hong Kong)
Of Androids and other Man-Machines: The Non-Human in Recent Science Fictional Discourse (Fabian SCHÄFER, Leipzig
University)
Conservation in Early Modern Japan: Ecological Maintenance in
the Settsu Countryside (Jeffrey NEWMARK, University of Winnipeg)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Organised Panel: We Object! Artefact Agency in Modern
Japanese History
Pliant Plywood? Materiality in Postwar Japanese Furniture
Manufacturing (Sarah TEASLEY, Royal College of Art)
The Agency of Things: Theorizing the Hari Kuyō (Christine
GUTH, Royal College of Art / Victoria and Albert Museum)
The Objects of Golf: Matter, Form and Manner in Contemporary
Japan (Angus LOCKYER, School of Oriental and African Studies)
Assembling Your Doppelganger: The Diary in Modern East Asia
(Aaron William MOORE, University of Manchester)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Grouped Panel: Modern Political History
Restoration of National Relations between Japan and Hungary
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The Japanese Orphans who Remained in China (chūgoku zanryū koji) and their Representations in two NHK Dramas from1995 and 2009 (Karl Jakob KROGNESS, Nordic Institute For
Asian Studies)
Contextualizing the Centennial of Japanese Colonial Rule in
Korea (Jeff KINGSTON, Temple University Japan)
Japan and the Far Eastern Championship Games: InternationalSports Events, Pan-Asianism and Nation-Building, 1913–1934(Stefan HÜBNER, Jacobs University Bremen)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Organised Panel: Japan and the Sea: Shipping History,
Whaling Ships and Shipwrecks
Organiser: Harald FUESS (Heidelberg University)
Commentator: Sheldon GARON (Princeton University)
The NYK Story: Manufacturing a Modern Maritime History forContemporary Japan (Chris GERTEIS, School of Oriental andAfrican Studies)Japanese Whaling Ships and the Production of the Antarctic
Ocean Space (Lars SCHLADITZ, Erfurt University)
Shipwreck in the Courtroom (Harald FUESS, Heidelberg University)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Organised Panel: Tokugawa Networks: Crossing Barriersand Establishing Links
Organiser: Bettina GRAMLICH-OKA, Sophia University
Chair and Commentator: Kate NAKAI, Sophia University
A Village Headman‘s Network and the Ideology of ―National Interest‖ (OCHIAI Kō, Shudo University, Hiroshima)
Following One‘s Father‘s Aspiration: ―Know the Way‖ (Bettina
GRAMLICH-OKA, Sophia University)
Seeking Fame in Kyoto: Hirata Atsutane‘s Use of Social Networks (Anne WALTHALL, UC Irvine)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Organised Panel: Mending the Broken Line: Imperial Sovereignty and Historical Reason in Prewar Japan
Chair and Organiser: UEDA Kiyoshi, Hōsei University
Mobilizing the Southern Court: Dainihon Kokutai Yōgo Dan andits Legacies (Lisa YOSHIKAWA, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)48

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Restoring the ―Legitimacy‖ of the Southern Court in the 1930s:
From Meiji Imperial Loyalists to Hiraizumi Kiyoshi (UEDA
Kiyoshi, Hōsei University)
The Crux with Amaterasu‘s Mirror: Inoue Tetsujirō and the Sovereignty of Hegelian Reason in Imperial Japan (Michael
BURTSCHER, University of Tokyo)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Grouped Panel: Heian and Medieval History
平安貴族と自然環境 -平安京における「道」と貴族社会(TANAKA Makoto, Ritsumeikan University, KAWAHARA Azumi,
Ritsumeikan University)
GIS を利用した中世京都合戦の分析 (HANADA Takuji, Ritsumeikan University)
Violence and Village Conflict Management in Medieval Japan(Morten OXENBØLL, University Of Copenhagen)16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Organised Interdisciplinary Panel: Japanese Children andChildhood: Historical Approaches
Organiser: Michael KINSKI, Frankfurt University
Images of Childhood from Heian period Japan: Mothers andChildren in the Utsuho monogatari (Eike GROSSMANN, Frankfurt University)
Notions of Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Harald
SALOMON, Frankfurt University)
Material Representations of Childhood: Japanese Robot Toys in
the Shōwa-Heisei Era (Cosima WAGNER, Frankfurt University)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Grouped Panel: Japan‘s Modern Wars
East Asia‘s First Modern War and Western Modernity: Images of
the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 from China and Japan(Judith FRÖHLICH, University of Zurich)Dichotomy of Japanese Aggression: ―Southward Advance‖ or―Northward Advance‖ (UENO Takao, Wako University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Grouped Panel
The Philosophic Underpinnings of a Political Fait Accompli: Kūkai on Body, Speech and Mind (Ian ASTLEY, Edinburgh University)
Contextualizing Christian Martyrs: Education for Martyrdom andTokugawa Rule (Andres PEREZ RIOBO, Ritsumeikan University)
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King Solomon and Jinmu Tennō: Ethiopia and Japan in WorldHistory (Gerhard KREBS, Berlin)
Gathering for Tea in Meiji Japan (OSHIKIRI Taka, School ofOriental and African Studies)50

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 8: Religion and History of Ideas
Convenors:
Anna ANDREEVA ( religion [at] eajs.eu )Susanne FORMANEK ( religion [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 16:30

Opening and Address by the convenors

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: Early shrine cults: celebrating power or averting
danger?
The bizarre origination myth of Ise shrines (Mark TEEUWEN,
University of Oslo)
Ghostly Vagabonds and Spiritual Ecology in Ancient Japan(Michael COMO, Columbia University)
Hachiman‘s hōjō-e as an appeasement rite (Bernhard SCHEID,
University of Vienna)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Spiritual Healing in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism:
Cures for Suffering in Genshin‘s and Shinran‘s Thought
Terminal Care Practice in Heian Pure Land Buddhism: the Caseof the Nijugo zammaie (Robert F. RHODES, Otani University)
Medicinal Metaphors in a Soteriology of Transformation:
Shinran‘s View of the Power of the Nenbutsu (Michael
CONWAY, Otani University)
A True ―Healing‖ in Amida‘s Compassionate Light: The cure forincurable diseases in the Nirvana Sutra and the Zenkôji Engi(INOUE Takami, Otani University)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: The embryological discourse in medieval Japan: a
new soteriology of the human body
Discussant: Professor ABE Yasurô (Nagoya University)
The acceptance and development of the theory of five-stage
gestation in medieval Japan (ITÔ Satoshi, Ibaraki University)
Charting the embryonic generation of the ritual body: visual exegeses from Ninnaji material (Lucia DOLCE, SOAS)
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An accomplished body: the five stage theory of the Tantric monk
Yôsai (YONEDA Mariko, Kôbe gakuin daigaku)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Individual papers
The healing strategy of dream incubation and its depiction in
illustrated scrolls (Ive COVACI, Fairfield University)
Bodies to be beaten, Bodies to be enlightened (Claudio
CANIGLIA, University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Japanese Roots, Indian Flowers: Images of India in Medieval
Shinto Texts (Fabio RAMBELLI, Santa Barbara)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: The Dead, The Living and The Gods as the Driving
Forces of History
The Changing Figure of Kami and Vengeful Ghosts (SATÔHiroo, Tôhoku University)
Buddha‘s Will, Karma and Vengeful Spirits: the possibility ofhuman will in the world of The Tale of Genji (SATÔ Sekiko,Tôhoku University)
Fate and Retaliation in the medieval war tales (Vyacheslav
ONYSCHENKO, Tôhoku University)

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Healing throughout the Six Realms: Transformative
Rituals in Japanese Buddhism
Discussant: Anna ANDREEVA (University of Heidelberg)
Healing through the six syllables: body, cosmos and medicine in
the Rokujikyō-hō (Benedetta LOMI, SOAS)
Liturgical chanting for healing the dead (OUCHI Fumi, Miyagi
Gakuin Daigaku)Curing the wounds of hell: the kugi(nuki) nenbutsu 釘(抜)念仏 of
Nikko (Gaynor SEKIMORI, SOAS)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual Papers
Healing Talismans in Early Modern Japan: Uses in Mt. Fuji
Devotionalism (Janine Tasca SAWADA, Brown)
Planting Trees and Healing Sites: Sakuteiki, Hoki naiden, andTaishiden gyokurinshō (Ellen van GOETHEM, Hosei University)
The Story of the Stone: Memorializing the Benevolence of Usuisensei, Founder of Reiki Ryōhō (Justin STEIN, Toronto)

12:30 - 14:30
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14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Tokugawa Medicine at the Crossroads
Discussant: Peter KORNICKI (Cambridge)
Don‘t Waste the Oil in the Lamp: Controlling Sexuality and the
Body in the Edo-period Discourse on ‗Nurturing Life‘ (yōjō 養生)(Angelika KOCH, Cambridge)
Medical Knowledge in Literature: Didactical Texts and Playful
Writings in Tokugawa Japan (Alessandro BIANCHI, Cambridge)
Tokugawa YoshimuneHÜBNER, Cambridge)

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Coping with Syphilis in Early Nineteenth-Century Japan (Daniel
TRAMBAIOLO, Princeton University)
Parallel Session:
Panel: Magic, Oracles and Tales of Love and Renunciation:
A Reappraisal of the Priest Keisei and Kamakura Buddhism
Kamakura jidai no sangaku shinkô – Keisei no shoji shita―Shosan Engi‖ wo megutte - 川崎剛志「鎌倉時代の山岳信仰-慶政の所持した『諸山縁起』をめぐって-」(KAWASAKI Tsuyoshi,
Shujitsu Daigaku)
Senryakuteki gensetsu to shite no engi to takusen – Keisei ni
okeru jiin no kanjin, shûzô wo megutte- 近本謙介「戦略的言説としての縁起と託宣-慶政における寺院の勧進・修造をめぐって」(CHIKAMOTO Kensuke, Tsukuba Daigaku)
Amorous Desire and the Paradox of Attachment in Keisei‘s Kankyo no Tomo (Rajyashree PANDEY, Goldsmiths College)
Setsuwa as self-writing: Keisei and Ren'in (Alari ALLIK, Tallinn
University)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Individual Papers
Chinese Medicine in Japanese Buddhism: Premodern Curative
Rituals as Transcultural Vector (Dominic STEAVU, Heidelberg)
Seeing Worms in a Sixteenth-Century Medical Manuscript(Elizabeth KENNEY, Kansai Gaidai University)
Symbology of Corporeal Representation: The introduction of theWestern Medicine to Japan in the early Meiji Period (Carlos
Hugo SIERRA HERNANDO, Keele University)

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Panel: Transformation of Christianity in the 16th and 17th
Centuries in Japan
Strategies of Translating Christian Terminology into Japanese:
The Problems Concerning Buddhist Vocabulary in 16th and 17th
Century Christian Literature (YOSHIDA Shin, Heidelberg)
Discourse analysis on the "Immortality of Soul" in the ChristianMission in Japan during the 16th and the 17th centuries (ORII
Yoshimi, Nihon University)
The XVI Century Jesuit mission in Japan: adaptation as a
strategy for the promotion of the faith (Sonia FAVI, Ca’Foscari
University, Venice)
The transformation of information about Japan: from ‗‘real‘‘
Japanese to that written in Europe (TAKAYOSHI Kisaki, Tokyo
University)
Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: AFTERMATH: Religion in the wake of the 1995 Aum
AffairIntroduction: Ian READER (Manchester)
The Neo-Nationalist Response to the Aum Crisis: A Return ofCivil Religion and Coercion in the Public Sphere? (Mark
MULLINS, Sophia University)
Media Representation, Re-presentation, and Innovation after the
1995 Aum Incident (Benjamin DORMAN, Nanzan University)
Hikari no Wa: the birth of a (non) New Religion (Erica
BAFFELLI, University of Otago)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Psychotherapy from a Religious Perspective: SoulHealing Rituals in Japanese Religions
Discussant: OKUNISHI Shunsuke (Center for Japanese
Language and Culture, Osaka University)
Shinto, the Way of the Gods—Fundamental Healing Practices inJapanese Religion (TONGU Masaru, Nara University of
Education)
Where Do We Turn when Everything Else Fails: Healing
Practices within the Nichiren Sect (Carmen SAPUNARUTAMAS, Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Osaka
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12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 9: Politics and International Relations
Convenors:
John SWENSON-WRIGHT ( politics [at] eajs.eu )Marie SÖDERBERG ( politics [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech
Section Keynote address
Has Changing the Party in Power made a real difference?
(Professor Arthur STOCKWIN)

16:30 - 18:00

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

The Yoshida Doctrine and Japanese Foreign Policy
Potential Chair: Marie SÖDERBERG
Potential Discussant: John SWENSON-WRIGHTThe Yoshida Doctrine and the autonomy of Japan‘s foreign
policy during the Cold War (Valdo FERRETTI)Japan‘s Foreign Policy in a Multipolarizing World (Bert
EDSTRÖM)The 'Territorialisation' of the sea: Maritime Boundaries andJapan's conflict with her neighbours (Winfried FLÜCHTER)j

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Japan‘s Response to the Changing World Order
Potential Chair: John SWENSON-WRIGHT
Potential Discussant: Linus HAGSTRÖM‗Down and out in Tokyo and Washington‘: Japanese views on
US hegemonic decline and the future of US-Japan alliancecooperation (Chris HUGHES)
The View from the Summit: Japan, the Changing Global World
Order and a Gaggle of Gs (Hugo DOBSON)
Mosaic Regionalism in Asia and Japan‘s Role (TERADA
Takashi)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Japan and Northeast Asian Security
Potential Chair: Christopher HUGHES
Potential Discussant: Hugo DOBSON
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Problematizing structural shifts in Sino Japanese Relations: The
Senkaku/Diaoyu Island issues as context (Linus HAGSTRÖM)
Emerging rivalry between China and Japan: Sources and
Implications (MIYASHITA Akitoshi)
Trilateralism enhanced: Japan-ROK-US relations and thechallenge of the DPRK (John SWENSON-WRIGHT)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Japan‘s Relations with Russia and Central Asia
Potential Chair: Hugo DOBSON
Potential Discussant: Bert EDSTRÖMAn International dispute through a domestic lens. Domestic
politics in Japan and the Northern Territories dispute (Tina
BURRETT)
Japan's Energy Diplomacy towards China and Russia: Current
situation and future perspectives (Olena MYKAL)
Japanese Developmental Finance in Central Asia: geopoliticalstrategy or disinterested sponsorship (Nikolay MURASHKIN)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Policy Making in Japan
Potential Chair: Hugo DOBSON
Potential Discussant: Arthur STOCKWIN
On the system
STRELTSOV)

ofpolitical

decision-making(Dmitry

Domestic Processes to Meet International Goals: Japan joins
the International Criminal Court (Kerstin LUKNER)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Environmental Policy
Potential Chair: Bert EDSTRÖM
Potential Discussant: TBA
Range of Environmental Regionalism in East Asia: Japan's
prospective regional-economic partnership agreements (Aysun
UYAR)
How environmental collaboration cases between companies andcivil society organizations affect the (im)balance of power inJapan? (Susanne BRUCKSCH)
Behind Green Politics: A comparative analyses of Biofuel
policies in the United States and Japan (SASADA Hironori)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Social policy, immigration and discrimination
Potential Chair: Arthur STOCKWIN

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Potential Discussant: Marie SÖDERBERG
Discrimination after the Dowa Projects (Ian NEARY)
Japan's immigration policy in the 21st century with emphasis on
the law reform of July 15th 2009 (Manfred RINGHOFER)
Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Cultural diplomacy
Potential Chair: TBA
Potential Discussant: Ian NEARY
Major shifts in Japan's culture diplomacy in the 21st century(Aurelijus ZYKAS)Japanese culture diplomacy and tourism as a part of image
policy (Olena SHAPOVALOVA)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Identity Politics & New Directions
Potential Chair: Ian NEARY
Potential Discussant: TERADA Takashi
Japan in the Mena (Middle East and North Africa) area: beyond
Shigen Gaiko (Noemi LANNA)
Yamaguchi Yoshiko: Negotiating Transnational Identity Politics
in Wartime Japanese Films (Chia-ning CHANG)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Section 10: Translating and Teaching JapaneseConvenors:
Suzuko ANAI ( translating [at] eajs.eu )Anna SZÉKÁCS ( translating [at] eajs.eu )Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:30 - 18:00

Panel
翻訳を取り入れた書くための理論の構築 (Hiroko COCKERILL,HAYASHI Keisuke, Yasuko CLEARMONT)

Parallel Session:
Individual papers
Contrastive analysis between word-accent systems in standard
Japanese and Bulgarian, and its implications for language
teaching (Anton ANDREEV)
コ-パスに見る「てある」の意味と語用-日本語教育の観点から(ANDO Setsuko)
談話標識「で」の語用論的機能 (TAKAMORI Emi)
Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel
評価の「個人差」に着目することの意味-より深い自己認識につなげるための評価論 (USAMI Yo, TANAKA Mari, TOKUI Atsuko)

Parallel Session:
Individual papers
ジグソ-学習法を応用した教室活動 (YAMAMOTO Yoshino)
学習者は多読という「読む活動」をどう捉えているのか(IKESHIRO Keiko, NISHIZAWA Kaori)
リフォ-ミュレ-ション(reformulation)の効果-自己訂正との比較を通して (KUDARA Masakazu)

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10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Section Keynote Speech:
評価とコ-スデザイン(Prof. ITO Sukero)

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14:30 - 16:00

Panel
CEFR 文脈化のための教師研修を考える-課題からの出発(OKUMURA Minako, FUKUSHIMA Seiji, MITSUYA Mayumi,
ODA Chie)

Parallel Session:
Positive intereference in "L2" aquisition and interpretation? - withparticular reference to definiteness and anaphora (Yoshiko
ONO-PREMPER)
Roundabout
MICKOVA)

Expressions

inModernJapanese(Lubica

ウェブのニュ-ス記事を用いたクリティカル・リ-ディング: 複言語主義的アプロ-チによる中級日本語学習者の気づき (IWASAKI
Noriko, KUMAGAI Yuri)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Posters
Language Education for Democratic Citizenship (FUKUSHIMA
Seiji)
日 本 語 教 育 を 媒 介 と し た 大 学 連 携 の 新 た な 試 み (HAYASHI
Toshio)Good Practices to Ensure International Students‘ Success in a
New Cultural Environment (Ruth VANBAELEN, Jonathan
HARRISON)TV 会議システムを用いた総合的日本語教育 -多文化・多言語サイ バ - コ ン ソ - シ ア ム の 成 果 と 可 能 性 (MORIYAMA Shin,OKUMURA Minako, MORITA Momoru)
Can-do とリソ-スの関連づけの試み – JF 日本語教育スタンダド・CEFR Can-do リストと E ラ-ニング (ARISUE Jun)
韓国における日本語教育の現状と展望 - e ラ-ニングから m ラニングへ (Young Cheol YIM, Jong Wan KIM, Yoon Heul KIM)
Implementation, success and challenges of teaching Japanese
online (Mariya AIDA NIENDORF, INOSE Hiroko, KUMAGAI
Yoko, MIZUFUNE Yoko)
日本語学習者のための平和教育の試み：批判的思考能力と文化
リテラシ-を高めるための活動報告 (YOKOTA Toshiko)

Parallel Poster Session:
CEFR 準拠口頭産出能力のテストと評価法：テスト基準（OJAE
スタンダ-ド）、基準ビデオ、テスト実践、評価具体例 (SAKAI
Yasuko, Yoriko YAMADA-BOCHYNEK, WATABE Atsuko,
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非漢字圏の漢字教育：21 世紀 IT 世代に対応する (TOKUHIRO
Yasuyo)
積極的に「聞く」ためのスピ-チ (TAKAMURA Megumi)
日本語非母語話者と母語話者間の会話における話題開始連鎖(HAJIKANO Are)
携帯情報端末を用いた漢字授業-自律学習のためのツ-ルとしての iPod touch の活用 (SUZUKI Satoko, SAITO Nobuko)
Research on Communication Stragies in Japanese as a Foreign
Language: focusing on reduction strategies (Kilyong LEE, Minsu SON, Min-sun LEE)
Processing subject and object relative clauses in Japanese by
Turkish speaking learners (Barış KAHRAMAN)
18:00 - 19:00

AJE General Meeting

Friday, 26 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Individual papers
シャド-イングによってどのように日本語の発音矯正がなされるのか (Mariko FELLNER)
日本語発話末イントネ-ションの知覚における母語転移の可能性—日本語母語話者および中国人・ドイツ人・フランス人日本語
学習者デ-タの比較から- (YABE Hiroko, NISHINUMA Yukihiro,
HAYASHI Akiko)
身体性を重視した日本語音声習得における音声的特徴-JaFIX を用いたリラックス・テクスト産出結果の分析 (HAYASHI Ryoko)

Parallel Session:
Individual papers
多文化共生社会実現にむけて-日本語教師への異文化理解教育(HARASAWA Itsuo)
民主的市民性概念から日本語教育実践を考える (ARAI Hisayo)
日本語学習者の日本文化理解のレベルと日本語の間違いについて (Anca FOCSENEANU)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Individual papers
CEFRB1 レベルの言語活動・能力を考えるプロジェクト-カリキ
ュ ラ ム 作 成 へ 向 け て の 多 面 的 ア プ ロ - チ (SAKURAI Naoko,
HIGASHI Tomoko)
CEFR 準拠初級教材『できる』を用いたハンガリ-での実践(SAKAIDA Toru, Júlia GERGELY, SATO Noriko, AnnaSZÉKÁCS, MIYAZAKI Reiko, YANAGATSUBO Sachika)

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CEFR を 基 に し た異文 化 間 学習 の 実 践報告 (SUZUKI Yuko,
FUJINO Hanako)
Parallel Session:
Individual papers
Gender and Japanese Language Textbooks: Use of Feminine
Sentence-Final Particles and Descriptions of Women‘s Lifestyles(MIZUMOTO Terumi)
サハリンにおける継承語としての日本語教育の現状 (SAKAUE
Ayako)
Learners‘ beliefs about Japanese language learning and how
the learning experience affects it. - An example from Damascus
University, Syria (MATSUMOTO Koji, ARIMA Yoshie)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Individual papers
Active Learning of Kana Writings through Silent Way in Novice
Japanese Classes (KAWAGUCHI Yoshikazu, NEMOTO
Sawako)
日本語学習者の「テクスチャ-表現」の使用について(SOEJIMA Kensaku, MUTO Ayaka)
漫画を取り入れた日本語学習-和綴じ本を作る (NAGAMINE
Takako)Parallel Session:
Individual papers
コミュニケ-ション言語活動のための語彙習得と運用力育成に関する考察 - インタビュ-に見られる日本語学習者(CEFR/JF ス
タンダ-ド B1/B1+レベル)の語彙及び語彙代替表現の観察と分析を通して (USHIYAMA Kazuko)
JF 日本語教育スタンダ-ド「みんなの Can-do サイト」を用いた
レベルチェックテストの作成 (ISOMURA Kazuhiro, Mayumi
MITSUYA)
自律的学習支援のための Can-do-statements コンピュ-タ版の開発 (MURAKAMI Kyoko)
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Individual papers
話し言葉コ-パスの構築とその活用-プロフィシェンシ-研究と自然会話の教材化を中心に (USAMI Mayumi)
日本語教科書コ-パス,Google N-gram そして日本語均衡コ-パス(SHIBANO Kohji)

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Development of a Web based system for determining the levelof sentence difficulty in Japanese language texts (KAWAMURA
Yoshiko)
Parallel Session:
Individual papers
日本語学習者の発話に対する印象形成過程についての一考察-部
分的な印象と全体的な印象の関係に注目して (NOHARA Yukari)
Obstacles in Japanese Communication (the case of Slovak
students of Japanese) (Viktoria MARKOVA)
Japanese in Anime & Manga Websites: Language-learning
motivation for anime/manga fans (KUMANO Nanae)
Saturday, 27 August 201162

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Interdisciplinary Section

Wednesday, 24 August 2011
09:00 - 18:00

Registration

12:30 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 16:00

EAJS 2011 Opening Plenary Session
UENO Chizuko keynote speech

16:00 - 17:30

Panel: Changing Times: Time Measurement and Perception in
Nineteenth-Century Japan
Disucussant: Birgitte STEGER (University of Cambridge)
The Meiji calendrical reform and its attempt to neutralise time andspace (Gerhard LEINSS, Cambridge University)
Recognizing the Unfamiliar Face of the Clock (Yulia FRUMER,
Princeton University)
Telecom Time(s): The Telegraph and Telephone in Meiji Japan(Kerim YASAR, Princeton University)

17:30 – 18:00

Individual paper:
The Movement to Improve Daily Life (Seikatsu kaizen undō) and
its activities to promote punctuality in Japan after the First WorldWar (Katja SCHMIDTPOTT)

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Cultural Power Japan: Japanese Popular Culture andSoft Power in East and Southeast Asia
Organizer: Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Japanese Popular Culture and Soft Power in East and Southeast
Asia: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Implications (Nissim
Kadosh OTMAZGIN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Italy as a Special Case Study in the Arrival and Success ofJapanese 'Cultural Power' through Anime and Manga (Marco
PELLITTERI, London Metropolitan University)―Cool Japan― and pop culture tourism: Soft Power as seen throughFrench Fans‘ Trip― (Clothilde SABRE)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40

Panel: Life Course of Contemporary Japanese Women 1 and 2
Chairs: YUI Yoshimichi and KAMIYA Hiroo
Spatial trajectories of the life course of women in postwar Japan(NAKAZAWA Takashi)

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Family formation and labor force üarticipation of Japanese married
women across the life course (KATO Akihiko)
New work style of Japanese women working abroad (KAMIYA
Hiroo)
Japanese women during post-war period: between Advert andReality (longing for „Happiness― via „Goods―) (Olga KHOMENKO,
University of London)
Who will mind the baby?: Working mothers facing the problem ofthe „child-care refugee― and institutional dysfunction in Japan(KUKIMOTO Mikoto, The University of Tokyo)
Changing life course of women and feminization of labour force inJapan: Fragmentary women‘s works (YUI Yoshimichi, Hiroshima
University, MIYAUCHI Hisamitsu)
12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Contemporary Population(s) of Japan„Back in town―: demographic recomposition of Japanese
megacities‘ central districts (Remi SCOCCIMARRO,University of
Toulouse)
Legal family in a plural form: deconstruction in view ofreconstruction? (Isabelle KONUMA, National Institute of Oriental
Language and Civilization, Paris)
More Poor, Fewer Homeless? A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry on
Limits of Official Survey (David-Antoine MALINAS, Tohoku University)
From Ainu to ―former aborigines‖ to Ainu, Japan‘s indigenous ethnic
margin and its judicial, political and institutional fight for recognition(1990-2008): a historical and legislative case study (Noémi
GODEFROY, National Institute of Oriental Language andCivilization, Paris)
Families and the irrational (Mathieu CAPEL, National Institute ofOriental Language and Civilization, Paris)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: EU-Japan Policies: What‘s going on in domestic, foreign and economic policies? Organized by EJARN
Chair: Linus HAGSTRÖM
Discussant: Christopher HUGHES
Where is the EU-Japan Relationship Heading? (MarieSÖDERBERG)
Japan‘s and EU‘s counter-piracy deployments (Paul MIDFORD)
Alternative Patterns of Industry Emergence – Implication for Innovation Policy (Cornelia STORZ, co-authors NISHIMURA Junichi,
Sebastien LECHEVALIER)

18:00 - 19:00
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Friday, 26 August 2011
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Pre-modern Literature and Pre-modern Information
Flow
The methodes of communication in early Japanese literature(MIZUGUCHI Motoki)
Heroes and heroins of the Bunroku and Keichô era – how Non
Gae and Hayamura Rokusuke turned into legends (IWAYA
Megumi)Money, gossip and gifts – management of the Kabuki theatre as
seen in the diary of Ichikawa Danjûrô II (Tove BJOERK)About Hayashi Funanushi and other Akinari and Norinaga
students of Japanese Literature (TAKAMATSU Ryota)
Expressions of nature in the Ryûkyûan literature of the earlymodern – focusing on Heshikiya Chôbin`s Under the Moss(TERUNUMA Maiko)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: Capturing a Past
Reconsidering the Artistic Past in Kuzu no hakama(Thomas
HARE)
Kabuki‘s Precious Objects: Transmission and Circulation (Katherine SALTZMAN-LI)
Representing a Poetic Past: Early Edo Histories of SinoJapanese Poetry (Ivo SMITS)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Panel: Antecedents of Racial Conflict: The Japanese ‗Race‘
and Europe
The Birth of a Racial Outlook: Early European Views of the Japanese (Rotem KOWNER, University of Haifa)
Race, Culture and the Evolution of Anglo-Japanese Relations,
1854-1900 (Antony BEST, London School of Economics)
Race, War and the Evolution of Anglo-Japanese Relations,
1900-1941 (Saho MATSUMOTO-BEST, Nagoya City University)

Saturday, 27 August 2011
09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Christianity in Japan – In History and Literature
Organizer and Chair: Diana DONATH (Ochanomizu Daigaku
Tokyo)
Discussant: Mikolaj MELANOWICZ (Warsaw University)
Early Christianity and the Prosecution of Christians in Japan – A
Historical Overview (Wojciech NOWAK, Poznan University)
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Kaga Otohiko‘s <Takayama Ukon> - A Historical Novel on the
Persecution of Christians in Early 17th Century Japan (Eduard
KLOPFENSTEIN, Zurich University)
Literary Globalisation? Endô Shûsaku and the Issue of Religious
Pluralism (Mark WILLIAMS, University of Leeds)
The Integration of Christian Thought in Modern Japanese
Literature – Sono Ayako and Miura Ayako (Diana DONATH,
Ochanomizu Daigaku Tokyo)
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel: Mythologising Youth Problems in Japan: A
Sociology of Japanese Youth from Returnees to NEETs The
Myth of Antisocial Youth (IMOTO Yuki, Keio University andTuukka TOIVONEN, Green Templeton College, University of
Oxford)The Metaphor of Compensated Dating and the Myth of theSexual and Greedy Independent Young Lady (Sharon
KINSELLA, University of Manchester)
The Changing Status of Corporeal Punishment in Contemporary
Japan (Aaron MILLER, Kyoto University)
How to Problematise Japanese Youth Problems: From
Kikokushijo to Child Abuse (Roger GOODMAN, University Of
Oxford)Hikikomori (social withdrawal) and ‗crises‘ of family and society
in contemporary Japan (HORIGUCHI Sachiko, Japan Campusof Temple University)

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12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 17:00

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Information about Social Events
Sunday, 21 August to Monday, 22 August 2011
09:00

Pre-tour to Tartu and Southern Estonia

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
17:00 – 18:00

Tallinn city tour

Wednesday, 24 August 2011tba

Guided tour to KUMU (for accompanying persons)

19:00 – 21:00

Welcome reception

Thursday, 25 August 2011
09:00 – 16:00

Full day tour to Lahemaa (for accompanying persons)Gathering point – Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5

Friday, 26 August 2011
13:00 – 15:00

Marzipan painting workshop (for accompanying persons)

19:30 – 22:30

Conference dinner

Sunday, 28 August to Monday, 29 August 2011
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EAJS General Meeting
Time: 27 August 2011, 14:30-17:00
Place: Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
As a part of the 13th EAJS International Conference in Tallinn the Council invites all
ordinary members of the European Association for Japanese Studies to a General
Membership Meeting according to § 6 (2) of the current Constitution. The General
Meeting of the EAJS will be held on Saturday, 27 August 2011, on the last day of the
13th EAJS Conference in Tallinn.
(1) As required by the Constitution, items for discussion will include: Report on activities of the association
 Financial report and budget
 Appointment of Council members
 Amount, due date and means of payment of the membership fees(2) Constitution modification:
In order to simplify and make the code of conduct of the association more efficient,
several matters need to be discussed and finally presented for approval.
 Modification of § 3 (3) Modification of § 5 (2) Modification of § 6 (4) Modification of § 7 (5) Modification of § 6 (2)(3) EAJS conferences:th Site of 14 EAJS Conference in 2014
 Structure and organisation of future EAJS conferences(4) Matters arising from Council discussions

Please note, due to § 6 (2), every ordinary member has the right to bring forward additional items for consideration prior to one week of the meeting. Urgent applications
may be put on the agenda retrospectively.
In case of any further suggestions to be made, could you be as kind as to send themto the EAJS Secretary: abe-auestad@eajs.eu.

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14th EAJS International Conference
Call for Conference Site Proposals

The EAJS would like to invite bids for holding the 14th International Conference of
EAJS to be held in 2014. The EAJS conferences take place every three years andusually more than 500 scholars from Europe, but also from other countries such as
the United States and Japan, attend these conferences. Bids are geographically limited to Europe (not just the EU). Also, there should be an institution of JapaneseStudies in the country where the conference is to be held that is able to take on thelocal organisation of the conference. Up to now EAJS Conferences have been held in
Zurich (1976), Florence (1979), The Hague (1982), Paris (1985), Durham (1988),
Berlin (1991), Copenhagen (1994), Budapest (1997), Lahti (2000), Warsaw (2003),
Vienna (2005), Leece (2008). The conference in 2011 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia.
The selection of the next conference site by the EAJS Council will take place on thebasis of the following set of guidelines:
1. the likely costs to the participants in terms of participation fee and hotel charges;
2. the appeal of the proposed location as an interesting place to visit;
3. the levels of commitment and expertise underlying the proposal, particularly relating to the financial management;
4. the possibility of raising funds locally;
5. the need to ensure that EAJS holds its conferences all over Europe, not just in a
few selected countries;
6. ease of communications and transport;
7. the presence of Japanese studies in the country.
Please send your bid, including a statement addressing the seven aspects mentioned above, a budget estimate and possible sources of funds to:European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
c/o University of Frankfurt
Grueneburgplatz 1
Postbox RuW 71
60629 Frankfurt/Main
Germany
We should point out that the EAJS Council will expect you to introduce your proposal
at the 13th International Conference in Tallinn.
Deadline for proposals is 30 June 2011.
We are looking forward to your interesting proposal!
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EAJS Council Election 2011-2014

Procedure
As required by the constitution, a new
EAJS Council will be elected to serve
during the period 2011–2014. EAJS
members vote for the Officers (President, Treasurer, and Secretary) andthe Members of Council by postal vote.
The constitution allows each member
one vote for President, one for Treasurer, one for Secretary and one for a
Member of the Council. Eligible voters(personal, institutional and student
members, paid-up at least until 2011)
have received a ballot sheet by post.
Those members whose names appear
on the ballot sheet – and in the list below – have confirmed that they are willing to accept the nomination.
The candidates are as follows:
Section 1: President
Prof. Dr Romuald Huszcza
Prof Dr Rein RAUD
Section 2: Treasurer
Prof Dr Verena BLECHINGERTACOTT
Section 3: Secretary
Prof Dr Bjarke FRELLESVIGDr Maya KELIYANProf Dr Rotem KOWNER
Dr Margaret MEHL
Section 4: Member of Council
Prof Dr Reiko ABE AUESTADDr Anna ANDREEVAProf Dr Judit ÁROKAY
Dr Ana M. GOY YAMAMOTODr Sébastien LECHEVALIERProf Dr Michael A.R. LUCKENDr Peter MATANLE
Prof Dr Maria Chiara MIGLIORE
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Prof Dr Yulia MIKHAILOVADr Laura MORETTI
Prof Dr Hirochika NAKAMAKIProf Dr Fabio RAMBELLIProf Dr Ekaterina K. SIMONOVAGUDZENKOProf Dr Ivo SMITSDr Brigitte STEGERDr Dick STEGEWERNSProf Dr Raji C. STEINECKDr Jan SÝKORA+++++Elections of the new EAJS Council

Candidates' Self-introductions andStatements
For a detailed description of the candidates, especially their list of publications, please visit www.eajs.eu.
(errors and omissions excepted)
Nominees for President

Prof Dr Romuald HUSZCZAUniversity of Warsaw and Jagiellonian
University in Krakow(Linguistics)
Statement
The EAJS and Japan: Hopes for the
FutureWe are all deeply moved by the tragic
consequences of the recent natural
disaster in the Tōhoku region, where
so many people lost their family members and homes. Our Association will
be marked by this great tragedy, thisyear and in the years to come. There
are many persons in the region, including our friends or people close to us,
who have been directly affected by theearthquake and the tsunami, and our
feelings of solidarity and compassion
are now directed toward them all, andto all the people of Japan who are now
engaged in the difficult, arduous workof reconstruction.
We can be a part of this great movement of supporting Japan in many

ways. During my brief recent trip toTokyo and Sapporo, I could see thateven small tokens of sympathy are important in demonstrating that theJapanese people are not alone now,and that, indeed, they have all become
even closer to us. Our activities in thisparticular area of bringing Japan and
us together, including research projects engaging our colleagues fromacademic institutions in Tōhoku, must
therefore be continued and strengthened.
The Association is an important forum
for academic exchange in all fields ofJapanese studies, and its role of research-stimulating and unifying centre
should be expanded through the development of new centres of university
education, including language teaching
and research on all aspects of old andmodern Japanese civilization. This role
can be stimulated if, in addition to ourregular triennial conferences, we could
be able to encourage workshops andseminars devoted to particular fields
and topics most methodologicallypromising for the development ofJapanese studies in Europe.
Curriculum Vitae
Educationb. 1950;– studied Polish philology(1968-1973) and oriental (Japanese)
philology (1970-1975, with Korean as aminor) at University of Warsaw, received M.A in both majors, continued
Ph.D. course (1974-1978) in linguistics,
received doctorate in 1981 and habilitation in 1997, university professorshipin 2000 (Warsaw) and 2001 (Krakow).
Research area
Japanese, Korean and East Asian(Vietnamese, Chinese) linguistics:
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systemism and co-systemism in Japanese and Korean, Sinoxenic subsystems in East-Asian languages, Japanese and Korean honorifics, pragmatics and semantics, lexicology, lexicography and graphemics, recently engaged as a head of editorial board in
the preparatory work on great Japanese-Polish dictionary.
Didactic work in Japanese and Koreanstudies
1977~ until now: University of Warsaw,
1988-1999 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 2000~until now: Jagiellonian University, taught subjects:
modern and classical Japanesegrammar, Korean grammar, history of
the Korean language and script, practical Japanese and Korean, seminars
on Japanese and Korean linguistics,
East Asian linguistics, including lectures on the circle of East Asian languages: contacts, influences, grammaticalisations, supervised 50 B.A., 95
M.A. and 9 Ph.D. theses (3 doctorates
in progress).

Functions
Head of the Department of Japanology
and Sinology, Jagiellonian University(2004~), Head of the Department ofGeneral and East-Asian Linguistics belonging to the Chair of General Linguistics, East Asian Comparative Linguistics and Baltic Studies, Faculty ofPolish Studies, University of Warsaw(2009~), including the Center of PolishJapanese Lexicography as a subsidiary unit within the Department, Head of
the former Department of General Linguistics and Baltic Studies (1999-2006),
member (2003-2006) andvicepresident of the Committee of Oriental
Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences(2007-2010), President of the European Association for Korean Language
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Education (2007-2010), member of theBoard, Polish Association for Japanese Studies (2006~) .
Received decorations
Medal of Commission of National Education (2005)
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia
Restituta (2009)+++++

Prof Dr Rein RAUD
Tallinn University(Literature)
Statement
The EAJS has evolved into the largest
academic organisation dealing withJapanese Studies outside Japan itself,
and is fully capable of performing thetask of uniting scholars from various
disciplines, countries and parts of theworld into a fruitful dialogue. The possibility to run for the office of the president of this organisation is an honour
that I am very grateful for, and I hope
to be able to maintain and enhance theposition our society has attained.
There is indeed room for more activities than we are currently engaged in:
the EAJS is active mainly before andduring its triennial conferences, whileduring the years inbetween we tend tokeep more to ourselves. It would therefore be possible to initiate new activities, such as more communication be-Elections of the new EAJS Council

tween students, especially graduate
students, and to put our communication activities on a more secure footing,especially in distributing information
about available scholarships, open
academic positions and forthcoming
conferences which want to attract
more participants. I hope to be able toput my administrative experience tothe service of the society for the coming years.
Curriculum Vitae

Library of Estonia into Tallinn University in 2005, was elected the first rectorof the new university, a post that I held
until 15 May 2011. I have written
mostly on Heian and Kamakura period
Japanese literature and thought, more
recently concentrating especially on
the thought of Dōgen. I am also, or
perhaps primarily, a writer, and in addition to my own novels and poetry collections I have translated into Estonian
numerous classical Japanese texts
from waka by many authors to the essays of Kenkō and the kanshi of Ikkyū.

Self-introduction
I studied Japanese in the beginning of
the 1980s in the University of
St.Petersburg (a.k.a. Leningrad at thattime), which was the main centre forthe studies of classical Asian cultures
where I was able to go. After graduation, which more or less coincided withthe start of major political processes in
Eastern Europe, I became involved
with many projects, including a translation series of the world classical literatures into Estonian and the reform of
higher education and cultural politics.
The Estonian Institute of Humanities,of which I was one of the founders,also became the first university in theBaltics to offer Japanese as a major
subject and, presently integrated into
Tallinn University, continues to be theleading centre for Japanese Studies in
the area. In the meantime I also enrolled in the University of Helsinki for
my graduate studies and defended mydissertation on the role of poetry inclassical Japanese literature in 1994.
Already the next year I was elected theprofessor of Japanese Studies in the
University of Helsinki. I also continued
to be associated with the Asian andCultural Studies programmes in Tallinn
and, after the merger of several universities, institutes and the Academic

Educationborn on 21 December, 1961, in Tallinn,
Estonia
1988-1994 University of Helsinki, PhD
in Literary Theory
1980-1985 University of St.Petersburg(Leningrad), MA in Japanese Studies
Career2006 - 2011 Tallinn University - Rector
1989-… Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University - various academic positions incl.
Professor of Cultural Studies
1995 - ... University of Helsinki - Professor of Japanese Studies
1995 - ... University of Tampere - Docent of Literary Theory
Other academic responsibilities
2010 - … Vytautas Magnus University,
council member
2008 - ... European Association forJapanese Studies, council member
2007 - ... UNICA network, steeringcommittee member
2003 - ... Bulletin for the Museum of
Far Eastern Antiquities, member ofeditorial board
2003 - ... Keel ja kirjandus, member ofeditorial board
2002 - ... Akadeemia, member of editorial board
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Honours and awards
Doctor honoris causa, University ofLatviaEduard Vilde Literary Award, 2008
Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual
Award for Best Novel, 2004
White Star Order of Merit, III class (Estonia)
Commander‘s Cross ―For Services to
Lithuania‖
Commander‘s Cross of the Order of
Leopold (Belgium)+++++

Nominee for Treasurer

Prof Dr Verena BLECHINGERTALCOTTFree University Berlin(Political Science)Statement
I feel honoured to have been nominated as treasurer of the EAJS, and I
am pleased to accept this nominationand to continue my service for the
EAJS. Currently, I am a member of the
EAJS council, a task which I am taking
very seriously as a service to theJapanese studies research communityin Europe.

In my view, EAJS plays an importantrole linking national associations ofJapanese studies in Europe. At thesame time, EAJS forms a nexus between European Japan specialists andthose in the United States and Japan.
If elected, I would like to continue towork towards strengthening and expanding these networks. As a social
scientist and a Japan specialist, I am
also keen on expanding the Association‘s networks with associations devoted to the social science and humanities disciplines. I see it as an important task for Japanese Studies tocommunicate with the disciplines andto promote joint discussions about research questions of mutual interest.
As a member of the EAJS Council, I
have been responsible for organizing
and leading the 2011 Ph.D. Workshop
in Tallinn. In the next period of the
EAJS Council, I would like to serve as
treasurer and Director of the EAJS office. In that role, I intend to continue
and expand the excellent service offered by the EAJS office to its members. I would like to emphasize building networks with funding organizations to increase the amount of money
the EAJS can spend on research fellowships and training workshops, especially for junior scholars.
My own research interests include
Japanese politics in comparative perspective, institutional change in Japanesepolitics,
andgovernmentbusiness relations in both domestic
politics and international relations.
Most recent research has focused on
issues of corporate social responsibility
and the relationship between businessand society.
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History and Cultural Studies (20092011). From 2007 to 2009, I was Associate Dean of Department and in
charge of the Department's academic
programmes. Since 2009, I have also
been head of our university's Center
for Area Studies. Currently, I am amember of my university's extended
academic senate.
I also am active in serving the researchcommunity interested in East Asia andJapan. Currently I am Head of the Advisory Board for Japan and Korea in
the German Association of Asian Studies (DGA) (since 2011) and a memberof the Editorial Advisory Board of Japan Forum (since 2011). From 2007 to
2011, I was a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of Pacific Affairs (University of British Columbia), and from2000 to 2002, I was a member of the
Editorial Board of Social Science Japan Journal (University of Tokyo).
From 2000 to 2009, I was serving as aboard member of the German Association for Social Science Research on
Japan (VSJF).

09.2003-12.2004 Assistant Professor,
Department of Government, Hamilton
College02.1997-01.2002
Research Fellow,
German Institute for Japanese Studies,Tokyo (2001-2002: Deputy Director,
1999-2002: Head of Social Science
Section)02.1993-01.1997
Research Fellow,
Institute of Japanese Studies, Munich
University
Honours, Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2008 Visiting professor, University ofTokyo, Institute of Social Science
2002-2003 Advanced Research Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations,
Harvard University
2003- Associate in Research, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies,
Harvard University
1999 Tamaki Award for best article on
Japan in the social sciences, University of Vienna
1995-1996
Graduate Student Research Grant, German Institute forJapanese Studies, Tokyo
1985-1991
Konrad-AdenauerFoundation Scholarship

Curriculum Vitae
Education
02.1997 Dr. Phil. Munich University,
Faculty of Political
Science02.1991
M.A.
Munich University,
Faculty of Arts andCulture+++++Professional Experience04.2009- Dean, Department of History
and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität
Berlin12.2004- Professor of Japanese Politics and Political Economy, Freie Universität
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Nominees for Secretaryof Oxford, and am currently serving as
Vice-Chair of the Faculty of Oriental
Studies and as Director of the University‘s Research Centre for Japanese
Language and Linguistics. I would liketo continue to contribute the institutional, organizational and administrative experience I have to the work of
the EAJS and its Council.

Prof Dr Bjarke FRELLESVIG
University of Oxford(Linguistics)

Oxford has a large body of researchand teaching staff within JapaneseStudies, covering most subjects within
Japanese Studies, from pre-historicalarchaeology to contemporary economics. Academically and intellectually,
this environment is in many ways similar to the EAJS. I believe that the continued success and progress - and indeed justification - of the EAJS depend
on supporting and promoting equally
all areas within Japanese Studies. I
also strongly believe that progress forJapanese Studies in Europe cruciallyhinges on reinforcing a truly global
perspective on what we do.

Statement
I am honoured to have been nominated as Secretary to the Council forthe current election to the EAJS Council. I am currently serving as Ordinary
Member of the Council and am
pleased to accept this nomination andwould be happy to continue to contribute to the best of my ability to thework of the Council and of the EAJS.

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My own research and teaching in Japanese Studies is within the fields oflinguistics and philology. These areareas which historically underpin muchof Japanese Studies and in my opinion
they are well worth having represented
on the EAJS council. I am an active
academic, both as a researcher, having for example recently published A
history of the Japanese Language from
Cambridge University Press, and as an
editor of individual books and an editorial board member of book series,
and journals. I am also the director of alarge collaborative research project on
pre-modern Japanese syntax, with
contributing members from Europe, theUS and Japan.

It is on this background that I would
like to continue to contribute to thework of the EAJS Council.

More generally, I have had a numberof administrative roles at the University

Fellow in Oriental Studies (from 1999),
Hertford College, Oxford.

Curriculum Vitae
Present positions
Professor of Japanese Linguistics(from 2008), Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.
Director (from 2009), Research Centre
for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Oxford
Vice-Chair (from 2009), Board of theFaculty of Oriental Studies, Universityof Oxford

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Adjunct Professor (from 2004), Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
Education
1993 Ph.D. in Japanese Linguistics(University of Copenhagen).
1990 MA (Danish: cand.mag.) in Japanese and in General Linguistics (Copenhagen).
Research project
Principal Investigator of the project
Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese, funded
by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) of approximately £990,000.
Past positions
1999-2008 University Lecturer (Japanese Studies), Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
2001 (April - July) Visiting Professor,
Kwansei Gakuin University.
1997 - 1998 Professor, Department of
East European and Oriental Studies(Oslo).
1996 - 1997 Associate Professor, Department of East European and Oriental Studies (Oslo).
1996 (January - July) Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies(Copenhagen).
1993 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Aarhus.

Service to the profession
Member of the Council of the European Association for Japanese Studies(from 2008).

Member of the Board of the Nordic Association for Japanese and KoreanStudies (1995-8).
Member of the Peer Review College,
the Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil, UK.
Co-editor of the book series Conceptual History and Chinese Linguistics(Brill).
Associate Editor of the book series
Languages of Asia (Global Oriental).
International editor, the journal Gengokenkyû.
Member of the Editorial Board, thejournal Acta Linguistica Hafniensia.
Selected invited lectures
2009 " 日本語史研究の展望 (Some
Perspectives for the Historical Study ofJapanese)", National Institute for theJapanese Language Inaugural Forum:
Future Perspectives on Japanese Linguistics, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo.
2008 ―Exploring the pre-history of theJapanese language‖, invited lecture,
Japan Forum, Edwin O. Reischauer
Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
University.
2008 ―Did proto-Japanese have a distinct Adnominal verb form (rentaikei 連体形 )?‖, invited lecture, Department ofLinguistics, Kyoto University.
2007 ―Case marking in Old Japanese(8th century)‖, invited lecture, Center
for Linguistics, Nanzan University.
2006 "The verb morphology of Old Japanese", keynote lecture, XXèmes
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tale/Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, L'École des hautes études ensciences sociales, Paris.
2005 "On reconstruction of protoJapanese and pre-Old Japanese verb
inflection", invited lecture, Osaka University.
1997 "The tonology of Kyoto Japanese
in a historical perspective", the Phonology Association in Kansai.

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Japanese experience and rational
practices, and sharing this knowledge
with wider public society. If elected, Iam keen to work on this practicalapplied aspect of our work as Japanese studies specialists.
Curriculum Vitae
MA (1979) Philosophy and Sociology,
The University of Sofia ―St. KlimentOhridski‖
Ph. D. (1990) Sociology, Institute ofSociology at Bulgarian Academy of
SciencesDr. of Sciences in Sociology (2009)
Institute of Sociology at Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Dissertation
thesis ―Consumption Patterns andMiddle Strata: Bulgaria and Japan‖

Dr Maya KELIYAN
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
The University of Sofia ‗St. Kliment
Ohridski‘(Sociology)

Currently Associate Professor at Institute for Study of Societies and Knowledge at Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences (former Institute of Sociology
where I have been employed since1985) and part time lecturer at Department of Sociology and Department
of Japanese Studies at The Universityof Sofia ―St. Kliment Ohridski‖.

Statement
According to my opinion EAJS plays
very important role linking different
kinds of specialist working on the areaof Japanese studies; for me the Association has crucial significance for exchange of experience between different generations of scholars in the field.
If elected, I would like to contribute on
behalf of strengthening mutual exchange of experience between various
areas of Japanese studies and also
between different generations of specialists. As a sociologist for me it isvery important not only to study but also to learn from provenly effective78

I have been working in the area ofJapanese studies since 1994 when I
first visited Japan as The Japan Foundation fellow, affiliated for one year at
Kyoto University. My second stay inJapan was for 10 months in 1997-1998
at Kyoto Institute of Science andTechnology as JSPS fellow. During
2004-2005 I was visiting professor at
Kyoto University. During my stays inJapan I conducted 5 empirical sociological surveys. I have published numerous articles comparing Japaneseand Bulgarian societies, their ruralcommunities, agricultural development,
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tions, social structures, stratification
systems, middle classes, life styles
and consumption patterns, etc. My firstand second books were published withthe financial support of The JapanFoundation. Since 2006 I have beenteaching part time at The University of
Sofia ―St. KlimentOhridski‖ 5 different
subjects in the area of Japanese Studies both at Department of Sociology
and at Department of Japanese Studies.
I have been head of Department―Community and Social Stratification‖
at Institute of Sociology (2008), member of editorial board of journal ―Sociology‖ (2008-2010), member of Academic Council of Institute of Sociology(2008-2010), member of ScientificCouncil of Sociology at High Testimonial Committee (2010-2011), Bulgarian representative at MOST Programat UNESCO (2009), and since 1998 –vice president and PRP of Bulgarian
NGO ―Association for Middle Class
Development‖.

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Prof Dr Rotem KOWNER
University of Haifa(History, Culture)
Statement
Since my first participation in an EAJS
meeting some 14 years ago, I havebeen greatly impressed by the organization‘s positive spirit and ever expanding activities. I believe it shouldplay a pivotal role in shaping thecourse of Japanese studies in Europe
and beyond as well as promote cultural
exchange among its members. As an
EAJS officer I will seek to enhanceacademic cooperation between European and Japanese scholars, promoteannual workshops for students andseasoned scholars on the methodological and thematic aspects of our field,
and expand the publication venues offered by the organization.
Curriculum Vitae
Training and Career
I obtained my Ph.D. (in psychology)
from the University of Tsukuba, Japan,
and completed my post-doctoral studies at Stanford University under thesupervision of Prof. Harumi Befu. I was
the co-founder of the Department of
Asian Studies at the University of Haifa
and served as its first chair (20022008). I was also a co-founder of theAnnual Asian Studies Conference inIsrael and a member of the first editorial board of H-Japan (1994). I currently serve on the editorial boards ofseveral international academic journals
dealing with Japan or East Asia.
Research Interests
When I was still a student, I became
fascinated with the cultural encounters
between Japan and the outer worldand by the way Japan has responded
to them, particularly in modern times.
Since that time, my research has focused on the various historical andpsychological aspects of these encounters, such as the promulgation ofrace theories and racism, Japanese
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communication with foreigners, body
image and national self-esteem, questions of national identity (nihonjinron),and the use of foreign vocabulary inJapanese.

University of Copenhagen
Current position
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen (since 2003)

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Dr Margaret MEHL
University of Copenhagen(Sociology)

Nominees for Extended Council

Statement
As a strong believer in European cooperation, who has taught at universities in three European countries I welcome the chance to contribute to theorganization of Japanese studies on aEuropean level. Many researchers
have their own independent networks;
however, I think there is still a place foran organization like EAJS. I would likethe EAJS to strengthen its ties to bothnational associations of Japanese studies and other international scholarly
associations with an interest in Japan,
and to continue its work in support of
Ph.D. students.

Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
M.A., University of Bonn, 1987
Ph.D., University of Bonn, 1991
Dr. Phil. University of Copenhagen,2005
Previous Appointments
1991
Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
1994 to 1995 Lecturer in JapaneseStudies, University of Edinburgh
1995 to 2000 Lecturer in JapaneseStudies, University of Stirling
2000 (Summer) Visiting
Professor,
Free University of Berlin
2001 to 2003 AssistantProfessor,
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Prof Dr Reiko ABE AUESTAD
University of Oslo
(Literature)
Statement
I have enjoyed working together with
our international colleagues in the
council for the past 6 years, and would
very much like to continue doing so foranother term, which will be my last.
Having lived in Norway for over 25
years as Japanese expatriate, I havegained some insight into Japan, Norway and Europe toward which Norway
has held an ambivalent attitude. I believe it is in the interest of the EAJS
that the council includes minority voices, which I very much feel I represent.
Curriculum Vitae
MA, University of Wisconsin, 1982
Ph.D, University of Oslo, 1995
Associate Professor/Professor at the
University of Oslo since 1994
List of Selected Publications (last 5
years)“Kirino Natsuo's Grotesque: Epistle,
Memoir and Diary as Narrative Instru-Elections of the new EAJS Council

ments” in Etudes japonaises, textes
et contextes, eds. Sekiko MatsuzakiPetitmengin / Cécile Sakai / Daniel
Struve Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises, Edition du Collège deFrance, forthcoming 2011
“Long-Term Care Insurance, marketization and the quality of care: Good
time living in a recently establishednursing home in a suburb of Tokyo”
Japan Forum, 2009
“The Problematic of Border-Crossingin Murakami Haruki’s Kafka on the
Shore: Between Metaphor and Reality”
Essays in Honour of Irmela HijiyaKirschnereit on the Occasion of her
60th Birthday, eds. Judit Árokay / Verena Blechinger-Talcott / Hilaria
Gössmann, München: Iudicium Verlag,
2008“Implications of Globalization for the
Reception of Modern Japanese Literature: Murakami Haruki" The Global Literary Field. Eds. Michel Hockx,
George Paizis, and Anna Goodman.
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
2006.
"Ibsen's individualism in Japan: John
Gabriel Borkman and Ôgai Mori's Seinen (Youth, 1910)" Ibsen+++++

Dr Anna ANDREEVAHeidelberg University(Religion)

Statement
Now it is particularly important to invest
in the future development of JapaneseStudies. As a council member, I would
like to work on promoting the possibilities for dialogue and exchange between the early-career scholars in allareas of Japanese Studies and on
building a fruitful intellectual collaboration between Japanese and European
scholars. For example, I would like tojoin forces with the Council and help
out with organization of cost-effective
summer schools and PhD workshops
and encourage greater mutual awareness of recent research trends in Japanese Studies both in Europe and Japan. Working within the EAJS as aconvener of Section 8, ―Religion andHistory of Ideas‖ at the EAJS Conference in Tallinn has convinced me that
there are great opportunities forachieving these goals.
Curriculum Vitae
CareerOriginally from Siberia, I spent several
years in Japan where I studied for an
MA in Japanese education at Kanazawa University. I subsequently earned
my MPhil in Japanese pre-modern literature and PhD in Japanese premodern religions from University ofCambridge in 2002 and 2006, respectively. After spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, I
returned to Cambridge as Margaret
Smith Research Fellow in Japanese
Religions at Girton College in 2007. In
2010, I have taken on a position of a
research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence ―Europe and Asia in a Global
Context‖ at University of Heidelberg,
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nese pre-modern religions, history andculture.
Research
In my recent work I focus on the relationships between kami cults and different strands of Buddhism, the cultureof secret transmissions and dynamics
of ritual and symbolic systems seen atparticular cultic sites in pre-modern
Japan. This involves a consideration oftransmission, appropriation and circulation of religious concepts as well as
broader theoretical issues concerning
the economies of the sacred. I am alsointerested in the history of science in
East Asia and Europe, particularly, inthe development of medico-religious
discourses in pre-modern China andJapan.

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tween European and Japanese researchers in the field of pre-modern
literary studies, encouraging especially
young colleagues to participate.

Curriculum Vitae
Judit Árokay teaches at Heidelberg
University where she is Director of theInstitute for Japanese Studies and Director of the Centre of East Asian Studies. Born in Budapest, she has studied English and German literatureand linguistics and Japanese Studies
at Eötvös-Loránd University in Budapest and at Hamburg University. She
holds a doctoral degree in JapaneseStudies from Hamburg
University and a “Habilitation” from
Berlin Free University. Her researchinterests are in the field of pre-modern
literature, especially poetic discourse,
the rhetoric of waka poetry from the
Heian to the Edo period and literary
theory.

+++++Prof Dr Judit ÁROKAY
Heidelberg University(Literature)
Statement
As a member of the Extended EAJS
council I would like to contribute to thefurther expansion of activities of Japanese Studies through EAJS and networking for doctoral candidates andscholars. My aim is to intensify research activities and joint projects be82

Dr Ana M. GOY YAMAMOTO
Autonomous University of Madrid(Economics)
Statement
I have gladly accepted the nomination
for the EAJS council member position
as I believe it is crucial to increase theElections of the new EAJS Council

awareness of Japanese studies research in Europe, specially in countries
where it is just taking the first steps.
My aim is to help building up the networks among European, Japaneseand other countries‘ institutions tocreate a platform for young scholars toachieve quality in their research andmastery in the language, if possible
through collective works that shed lightin new areas of study.

Dr Sébastien LECHEVALIER
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales(Economics)

Curriculum Vitae
Self-Introduction and Statement
Dr. Ana M. GOY YAMAMOTO is Associate Professor of Japanese Economy
and Business Studies and Member of
the Centre for East Asian Studies at
the Autonomous University of Madrid(Spain) since 2001. She holds a PhD
in Economics and Business Administration by the same university (2002), a
Master’s degree in Sociology of Consumption by Complutense University of
Madrid (1999) and has done postgraduate research studies at Hitotsubashi
University (Tokyo) and Erasmus University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
She is also a board member of the European Research School Network ofContemporary East Asian Studies(EastAsiaNet) and member of the experts’ panel of OPEX (Observatorio
de Política Exterior – Foreign Policy
Observatory) part of the Fundación Alternativas Think Tank. She has published extensively on Japanese economics, consumer behaviour, socialchange and East Asian youth lifestyles.

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Dr Sébastien Lechevalier (Ph.D.,
EHESS, 2003, Economics), Associate
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales (Paris), President of EHESS Paris 日仏財団.
My major research interests are Inequalities; Diversity of capitalism; Innovation (firms‘ strategies, public policies, firms-universities collaborations;determinants of firms‘ performance).
Among my publications, one canquote:
Besides these research activities, I
have established in late 2009 EHESSParis 日仏財団 , whose aim is to promote collaboration between Japanese
researchers (or foreign specialists ofJapan) and French scholars who are
not specialists of Japan but doing theirresearch on topics for which the Japanese case is of particular interest (inequalities, ageing, youth issues, global
crisis, etc.). We are currently developing a research programme on deindustrialization with a focus on industrial
dynamics in Japan and Korea, in comparison with Germany and France. In
the future, we would like to develop
more relations with other European
scholars. Our website can be found at:
http://ffj.ehess.fr/
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If elected, I would like to contribute to agreater involvement of French scholars
within EAJS, to promote the activitiesof young scholars and to help EAJS inattracting more external funding.
Curriculum Vitae
Born
in
1973,
Sébastien
LECHEVALIER is Associate Professor
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris)
since 2005, where he teaches about
the Japanese Economy. He is also
President of Fondation France-Japon
de l’EHESS (EHESS Paris 日仏財団 ,http://ffj.ehess.fr/), whose goal is topromote intellectual exchanges between Japan and France/Europe. He
has been a researcher at Maison
Franco-Japonaise (2005-2008, Tokyo).
He has also been visiting researcher at
Hitotsubashi University (Institute of
Economic Research) and The University of Tokyo (Faculty of Economics).
His research focuses on contemporary
Japanese economy and society; diversity of capitalism; inequalities; innovation; firms‘ strategies and performance.
As a whole, he lived more than six
years in Japan. His second passion,
after research, is exploring the Japanese countryside.
Research Interests
My major research interests are Inequalities; Diversity of capitalism; Innovation (firms‘ strategies, public policies, firms-universities collaborations;determinants of firms‘ performance).
Besides these research activities, I
have established in late 2009 EHESSParis 日仏財団 , whose aim is to promote collaboration between Japanese
researchers (or foreign specialists ofJapan) and French scholars who are
not specialists of Japan but doing their84

research on topics for which the Japanese case is of particular interest (inequalities, ageing, youth issues, global
crisis, etc.). We are currently developing a research programme on deindustrialization with a focus on industrial
dynamics in Japan and Korea, in comparison with Germany and France. In
the future, we would like to develop
more relations with other European
scholars. Our website can be found at:
http://ffj.ehess.fr/+++++

Prof Dr Michael A.R. LUCKEN
National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures(Modern art history, Visual culture)
Statement
Specialist in modern Japan‘s visual
culture, professor at INALCO (Paris), I
wish to develop links between European scholars on Japan. I have sevenyears‘ experience as an academic
journal editor and I have had several
administrative responsibilities in recent
years, including director of INALCO‘s
Japanese studies department. In 2009,I‘ve been appointed IUF (French University Institute) Chair of Japanese culture and civilization, which allows me
to focus on research. I also would liketo support Paris‘ bid to host 2014 EAJS
symposium.

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Curriculum Vitae

Statement

Position
Professor, Japanese Language andCivilization Department, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO, Paris) / French University Institute (IUF)

Within EAJS I would like to pursue thefollowing activities; to work within Europe for closer relationships between
our members and institutions, and towork between Europe and Japan forthe same ends. In addition, I would liketo use my 25 years of experience inthe publishing (paper and electronic)
industry as a producer, owner, editor,
and writer to help develop EAJS publishing activities and, in particular, research publications and electronic information.

Birth dateFebruary 13, 1969, Chêne-Bougeries,
Geneva (Switzerland)
Research field
Second World War: memorializationand visual arts
The question of imitation in Japanese
art discourse and practice
Main academic responsibilities
2010-: Board of Directors member,
INALCO
2007-2010: Director of the Japanese
Language and Civilization Department,
INALCO
2001-2009: Managing editor of theacademic journal Cipango, Cahiersd’Etudes japonaises+++++

Dr Peter MATANLE
University of Sheffield(Sociology)

Curriculum Vitae
Currently I am Director of the University of Sheffield’s Doshisha Centre in
Kyoto (2010-11) and Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Sheffield’s School of
East Asian Studies. I gained my PhD
from the University of Sheffield in 2001
while working at Niigata University. I
have worked at Sheffield since thattime, teaching and researching in economic sociology and cultural geography; on issues to do with work, employment, environment, and regionalsociety in Japan and Europe. I havepublished various books and refereed
articles on these subjects, with more tocome. I first went to Japan in 1987 as
a young English teacher. Since then I
have lived on and off for 12 years inTokyo, Kyoto, Shikoku and Niigata,and visited many other places. My ambitions are to complete walking the 88
Temple pilgrimage in Shikoku and to
spend at least one night in every prefecture in Japan.
I came to Japanese studies with theaim of helping to connect Japan andEurope more deeply, and I have always pursued my research, teaching
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and other activities with that in mind. I
am currently working with the Japan
Local Government Centre in London to
help develop information flows between Japan and the UK at the local
authority level, and to help develop
strategies to cope with regional shrinkage in Japan and Europe. Within the
UK I have worked in the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS)
for some years, focusing recently on
developing a new BAJS website andmaterials for teenagers wishing toknow more about Japanese studies atuniversity (Discover Japanese Studies- www.discoverjapanesestudies.org.uk).
I am the founding general editor of theelectronic journal of contemporary
Japanese studies, the owner of Paulownia Press Ltd., and an editor on the
BAJS house journal, Japan Forum.
You can find more information about
me at my website: www.matanle.net.

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Prof Dr Maria Chiara MIGLIORE
University of Salento(Literature)
Statement
I have always seen EAJS as a hub ofinternational networking among scholars indispensable for the further scientific and human growth of each member. This was why I accepted the job of
convenor for the Pre-modern Literature
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Session for the 11th Conference inVienna, and this was why I proposed
University of Salento in Lecce for the
12th Conference, accepting the role oflocal organizer. Thanks to EAJS, Japanese Studies in Europe could experience a new expansion, and my maincommitment could be the enlargementof the network to peripheral areas of
the European scientific community,
where really good research and teaching are being carried out. Considering
EAJS as a trigger and a protection for
new centres of Japanese Studies andfor young scholars, we could hope foran on-going development of Japanology all around Europe and beyond.
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. (1996) in Eastern Asia Studies at‗L‘Orientale‘ University of Naples, I
have also studied at Hitotsubashi University and Keiō University in Tōkyō, atthe Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Kyōto, and at Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Université Paris VII Denis Diderot in Paris.
Maitre de Conférence Associée at Université Paris VII Denis Diderot in
1999–2000 and Contract Professor at
Lecce University in 1998–1999 and‗L‘Orientale‘ University of Naples in
2001–2002, since 2002 I have been
researcher and lecturer at Salento
University (Lecce), Italy. Since 2005 I
am visiting Professor at Daitō Bunka
University in Tōkyō, and since 2010
researcher at Tōyō Kenkyūjo of thesame University.
Research topics
My main area of research is classicalJapanese literature and philology, withspecial regard to Japanese literary
production in Chinese of Old and Classical periods. In particular, I am interested in the analysis of those texts relevant to understand the process ofElections of the new EAJS Council

transmission and reception in Japan ofChinese culture and literature, focusing
on anecdotic production (setsuwa),
considered, for its didactical aim, themost suitable one to recognize any
common cultural models. At the moment I am working as co-editor of the
Italian translation of Man’yōshū.

+++++Prof Dr Yulia MIKHAILOVA
Hiroshima City University(History)

Statement
I have been an active participant of
EAJS conferences since 1988, organizing panels several times. Throughmy personal experience I know thatEAJS plays an important role linking
national associations of Japanese studies in Europe and disseminatingknowledge. Still some countries, suchas Russia or NIC, are not sufficiently
integrated into this European network.
If elected, I would like to work towards
strengthening such connections, aswell as those between specialists on
Japan working in Europe and Japan
itself. I would also like to contribute to
the Association‘s activities on behalf ofyounger scholars, more so that recently this trend is gaining force in EAJS
activities.

Curriculum Vitae
Education
・ B.A. with honours, 1972 in Japanese History, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State
University
・ Ph.D., 1979, Institute of Oriental
Studies, Moscow, Russian Academy of
Science, Dissertation on the Movement for Freedom and Popular Rights
in Japan (1870s and 1880s).
Positions held
Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy of Science(1972-1992); Lecturer, Faculty ofOriental Studies, St. Petersburg State
University (1982-1988); Visiting Professor, Leiden University, Center ofJapanese and Korean Studies (1992);
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Asian andInternational Studies, Griffith University,
Australia (1993-1996); Professor, Faculty of International Studies andGraduate School of International Studies, Hiroshima City University, Japan.
Research areas
I have developed my career in Russia
studying the intellectual history of late
Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan. At
that time I obtained knowledge andappreciation of Japanese written
sources and traditional culture. During
the last twenty years, since I havebeen working in Australia and Japan,
my research interest lies in the field of
mutual images between Japan andforeign countries with particular attention to their visual representations. I
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balization. I am currently writing a book
―Japanese political cartoons: past andpresent.‖+++++

Dr Laura MORETTI
Newcastle University(Literature)
Statement
There are four aims I would like to pursue if elected a member of the EAJSCouncil. First, I intend to work hard inorder to consolidate and/or to promote
integration and collaboration between
EAJS and other European associations (e.g., The European Associationof Japanese Resource Specialists, The
Association of Japanese Language
Teachers in Europe). Second, I would
like exploit all the potentialities of EAJS
(e.g., regular triennial conference,
workshops, web pages, etc.) in orderto enhance the development of newscholarly networks and researchgroups through which members or institutions from Europe, USA and Japan
can work together on new and relevant
research projects. Third, I intend tosupport on-going activities, such as the
EAJS PhD workshop, that aim at interaction between, and the formation of,younger scholars. Fourth, I would liketo explore ways to give visibility to new
and/or growing institutions where firstquality teaching and cutting-edge re88

search in the area of Japanese Studies
are carried out despite limited staff resources.
Curriculum Vitae
I teach Japanese literature and Japanese language at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University(UK). I studied Japanese Language
and Culture at Università Ca‘ Foscari
Venezia (BA and MA) and got my Ph.D.
in Japanese literature there in 2003.
While doing my Ph.D, I was a MEXT
research fellow at Tokyo University
from 1999 to 2001. Before moving to
Newcastle University in September
2010, I taught mainly at Università Ca‘
Foscari Venezia (2003-2010; from2005 as Lecturer) and at Universitàdegli Studi di Bergamo (2006-2010 as
Adjunct Professor). In addition, I havebeen Visiting Assistant Professor at the
University of British Columbia (200809) and Visiting Scholar at Leiden University (February 2009), Keio University (November 2009), Leuven University(March 2010) and the Art ResearchCentre of Ritsumeikan University(2010 and 2011). In 2008 I was appointed Secretary of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists. I have organized many conferences and workshops, among themthe 17th Annual Conference of EAJRS(Venice, 2006), the international workshop ―Japanese Antiquarian Materials:
an introduction to printed books andukiyo-e of the Edo period‖ (Rome,
2010) and an international conference
on 'Nara ehon' and 'emaki' with Keio
University (Newcastle University, 2011)
My field of research is Japanese earlymodern literature, with a focus on seventeenth-century popular prose but I
have also published on eighteenthcentury kusazōshi. Since 2010 I havebeen a member of the Research
Project on Shunga Japanese Erotic Art,

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run jointly by SOAS, the British Museum, Nichibunken and Ritsumeikan
University.

Curriculum Vitae
1986 D. Litt. in Science of Religion,
Tokyo University+++++
1973 M.A. in Science of Religion,
Tokyo University
1970 B.A. in Cultural Anthropology,
Saitama University
1995-present Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

Prof Dr Hirochika NAKAMAKINational Museum of Ethnology, Osaka(Anthropology)

Statement
My main areas of research are Japanese religions, corporate religiosity,
Brazilian religions and calendar studies.
I may be classified as a native anthropologist of Japan. And as such, I have
served as President of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) since 2001.
Also I was appointed as Hon. Japanese Representative of the Japan
Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) in
2008, at the occasion of the Lecce
Conference of EAJS.
As I am retiring from my present position in March, 2012, it was a surprise
to be nominated as a candidate for theextended EAJS Council during the period 2011-2014. But I wondered
whether it might be a ‗call‘ to do something good towards the mutual promotion of Japanese studies between Europe and Japan. This task may turn out
to be my ‗swan song‘ for EAJS as well
as JAWS and AJJ. So I decided to follow the judgment of Vox Populi, Vox
Dei.

1986-1995 Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology
1977-1986 Research Fellow, National
Museum of Ethnology
Specialization: Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Administration
Main Research Field: Japan, Brazil+++++

Prof Dr Fabio RAMBELLI
University of California(Religion)
Statement
As a member of the EAJS council forthe past three years, I have appreciated the spirit of collegiality withwhich several new initiatives havebeen implemented. In the next term, I
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would like to continue to offer my contribution toward a further expansion of
the Association‘s activities. I amstrongly committed to promoting forms
of international cooperation and joint
research activities among scholars ofJapan both within and outside Europe.
The further expansion of graduate students‘ workshops and seminars, andcloser collaboration with other Japanese studies organizations in various
countries will be among my priorities.

hism not just as a religious system but
as a complex vehicle of Indian discursive formations that developed also
outside and/or against Buddhism itself.

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Curriculum Vitae
Current Position: Professor and ISF
Chair of Shinto Studies, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara
I studied Japanese Language and Culture at the Università di Venezia (BA,1988), and hold a doctoral degree in
East Asian Studies (1992), after carrying out research at the Università diVenezia, the Istituto Universitario
Orientale, Napoli, and Tokyo Universityof Foreign Studies. In the past, I havetaught and/or held visiting professorships in Italy (Italian Institute for Middle- and East-Asian Studies, Rome,
Turin University, and Bologna University), the United States (Stanford University, Williams College), Germany(Munich University), and Japan (Sapporo University, Nagoya University, Fuji
Women University).
I specialize in Japanese religious andintellectual history, especially Shinto
and Buddhist studies, but I am also interested in issues of cultural identity
and representation. I am currently
working on the interactions of Buddhism with local cultural traditions, bothin Japan and in other parts of Asia, andon the impact of Indian civilization on
Japanese culture by looking at Budd90

Prof Dr Ekaterina K. SIMONOVAGUDZENKO
Moscow State University(History)
Statement
I accepted candidacy for the Council of
EAJS since I am convinced that networking between specialists of Japanese Studies in Europe still is below its
potential. I would like to develop thelinks between European scholars on
Japan and their Russian colleagues.
As a council member I see my aim in
the promotion and integration of young
scholars especially of those who study
or work in the East European countries.
Considering EAJS as a protection andtrigger for the new centres of JapaneseStudies and for young scholars we canhope for the development of Japanology all around Europe and beyond.
Self-Introduction
Dr Ekaterina K. Simonova-Gudzenko,
professor, head of the chair of Japanese history and culture in the Instituteof Asian and African Countries Moscow
State University, Russia.
I was trained in Moscow University

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where I got my PhD degree; the themeis: ―Japanese myth as a source for reconstructing ancient Japanese history‖.
In 2006 I gained a Doctor of Science
degree in World History: ―Representations of the archipelago‘s space in thewritten culture of Japan 7-9 centuries‖.
I am an associate member of the Centre Japon UMR 8173 Chine-CoreeJapon CNRS-EHESS, France.
My main research interests are in
Shinto and mythology, different aspects of spatial representations, historical geography and history of cartography of Japan.
At the moment I am working on thetheme of the history of Japanese cartography, being especially interested in
the influence of far-eastern spatial traditions on the representation of Japanese Islands on European maps.
Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: January, 30. 1951. Moscow
Educational background1975 - Moscow State University, Institute of Asian & African Studies. Diploma in oriental history. ―Some Problemsof Reconstruction of Japanese Myths‖.
1980 - Post graduate studies. Moscow
State University, Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Ph.D. degree: ―Japanese myth as a source for reconstructing ancient Japanese history‖.
2006 – Doctor of Science, degree inWorld History: ―Representations of thearchipelago‘s space in the written culture of Japan 7-9 centuries‖.
Employment
Sept.2002- to date: Moscow State Uni-

versity Institute of Asian & African Studies, Head of Department of Japanese
History and Culture.
Sept.1993 – Sept. 2002: Moscow State
University Institute of Asian & African
Studies, associate professor of Japanese History.
June 1979 - Sept. 1993: Moscow Institute of International Relations, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor of Japanese History.
Research Interests
Shinto and mythology
Historical geography3) History of Japanese Studies in Russia
4) History of cartography
Research Programmes
University
exchange
programme
08.1997-05.1998, Waseda University,
Tokyo, Japan
University
exchange
programme
10.2000-12.2000, Waseda University,
Tokyo, Japan
Japan Foundation Visiting Researcher
Programme 2002-2003 Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.
Maison des sciences de l‘homme, sejour de recherches 1.06-1.08.2006,
Paris, France.
Maison des sciences de l‘homme, sejour de recherches 1.04-15.05.2009,
Paris, France.
University
exchange
programme
20.10.- 20.12.2009, Waseda University,
Tokyo, Japan
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Prof Dr Ivo SMITS
Leiden University(Literature)

Dr Brigitte STEGER
Cambridge University(Anthropology)

Statements
As a member of the EAJS council hewould like to help strengthen joint research activities of EAJS members,
increase the visibility of Japan studies
within the academic institutional field
and further facilitate PhD student related projects.

Statement
As a council member, my main aim is
to promote and integrate ‗early stage
scholars‘ and to facilitate networking
among them, in particular when they
study/work at institutions in the periphery. I also interested in improving therelations between EAJS and the Japan
Anthropology Workshop, JAWS. In
2005, I was convener of the society
section at the Vienna EAJS conference,concurrent with the JAWS conference.
In 2010 I organized the EAJS PhD
workshop at the University of Cambridge.

Curriculum Vitae
He is Professor of Arts and Cultures atLeiden University, The Netherlands,
and former Academic Director of the
Leiden University Institute for Area
Studies (LIAS). He teaches on literature and film in Japan. He studied at
the universities of Leiden, Cambridge
and Tokyo, as well as Waseda University, and was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University. He specializes in traditional Japanese literature,especially classical court poetry in both
Japanese and Chinese, although he
has translated the work of several contemporary Japanese poets into Dutch.
His research focuses on issues of multilingualism, socio-political contexts
and questions of imagination in relation
to texts and poetic practices of premodern literature in Japan.

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Curriculum Vitae
Career
I earned my M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees
in Japanese Studies (with minors in
Sociology and Political Science) fromthe University of Vienna. After working
as Asst. Professor in Vienna for several years, as well as at Karoli Gaspar
University in Budapest (teaching), University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia(teaching and research) and Japanese
Universities (Kyoto, Meiji, Sophia; research), I have moved on to a permanent position (university lecturer) at the
University of Cambridge in 2007,
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Research
I have always been intrigued by questions of the cultural and social embeddedness of seemingly natural, bodily
matters and daily life, such as childbirth and midwifery, hygiene and sleep.
Currently, I am about to submit one lastbook manuscript on sleep. I am also
dealing with time in everyday life, writing a history of the timing of day andnight in which I investigate how people
in pre-modern Japan dealt with themarshalling of time according to dailyschedules. I want to contribute not only
to a better understanding of Japanesesociety, but to the theoretical discourse
on sleep and time outside the context
of Japanese Studies by communicating this research to different academic
and general audiences. My forthcoming research project is about notions
and practices of cleanliness in daily life,
especially in the kitchen.

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Dr Dick STEGEWERNSUniversity of Oslo
(History)
Statement
As a council member he would like tohelp in bringing down the walls that stillseparate academics, institutions andorganizations in various European
countries and do away with the situa-tion that we are often more aware ofwhat is going on in the US and Australia than in neighbouring countries. He
would like to pursue a policy of actively
involving more people in the EAJS andturning it into a truly European platform
for Japanese studies, with an informative website and its own high-quality
academic journal to unite and promote
European studies on Japan.
Curriculum Vitae
Dick Stegewerns (1966) was trained at
the department of Japanese Language
and Culture at Leiden University andthe Department of Contemporary History at Kyoto University. He finishedthe PhD programme at the latter university when there was yet no way(and internal need) to obtain a PhD
degree, so he got his degree at his
Dutch alma mater. In total he lived fifteen years in Japan, conducting research and being employed at Kyoto
University and Osaka Sangyō University. In 2007 he relocated to Europe,
where he teaches various courses onmodern and contemporary Japanese
history, politics, culture, society andinternational relations at the Universityof Oslo.
Current Positions
Associate Professor, University of Oslo,
NorwayVisiting Professor, Kyoto University,
Japan
Research Interests
His research interests are wide. Starting out with Meiji and Taishō politics,
his research projects concerning Japan have ranged from prewar views of
the outside world, democracy, nationalism
andinternationalism,
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ducts a project on postwar Japanese
war films at Kyoto University. He has
published extensively both in English
and Japanese on topics relating to theabove-mentioned fields, his main publications being Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan (2003),
Adjusting to the New World – Japanese Opinion Leaders of the Taishō
Generation and the Outside World(2007) and Yoshida Kijū – 50 Years of
Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Postwar
Japan (2010).

pean level. I am especially interested
in developing programmes on the M.A.
and Ph.D. level that would support theeducation of young scholars competent in dealing with ancient and medieval Japanese sources. Although alarge part of my research is dedicatedto religious texts, I would also like tofoster the study of secular intellectual
history as a necessary complement tothe study of religion.

Curriculum Vitae
Apart from teaching and conducting
research, he has also been very activein organising conferences, workshops,
film retrospectives, etc. He is thefounder of the Kansai Modern Japan
Group, an academic platform for foreign scholars in West-Japan. An active
member of the EAJS for more than two
decades, he has functioned as convener of the History, Politics and International Relations section since 2006.

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Prof Dr Raji C. STEINECKUniversity of Zurich(Intellectual History / Religion)

Statement
As a convinced European, I would liketo work on strengthening cooperationin research and teaching on the Euro94

I was trained at Bonn University, where
I obtained an M.A. degree in Japanology in 1993 and a Dr. phil. (PhD) in
philosophy in 1999 as well as the venia
legendi in Japanology in 2006. I alsostudied at Ritsumeikan University and
Kyoto University, and have taught invarious functions at Bonn University,Frankfurt University, Kyoto University,
and Adam Mickiewicz-University in
Poznan, before starting in my current
position as professor of Japanology at
the University of Zurich. My main research interests are in Japanese philosophy and ethics, and in medieval
Japanese Buddhism, especially theworks of Dōgen. Current projects include a history of modern Japanesephilosophy and the rhetorical analysisof classical Japanese Buddhist texts. I
am also currently the director of University of Zurich's East Asian Studies
Institute, and member of the steeringcommittee of its university research
priority programme "Asia and Europe".

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Dr Jan SÝKORACharles University, Prague(History)
Statement
Although I was originally trained ineconomics (M.A. in international economics in 1984 from Prague School of
Economics and in economic and monetary policy in 1994 from Saga University), later I shifted my interest to the
problem of how economic phenomena
influenced the values and norms ofvarious cultures, particularly Asian
ones (PhD. in history and culture of
Asian and African societies in 2002
from Charles University). I am specialized in Japanese economic, social andintellectual history with special focus
on Japanese economic thought in early modern and modern Japan. I am
currently dealing with the impact ofWestern economic thought on themodern Japanese intellectual milieu,
mainly in the Meiji period.
My other field of study is Japanese paleography and diplomatics (komonjogaku), which is a major requisite forwork with primary sources. During
more than 8 years spent in Japan (International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Osaka University, Seinan gakuin University, Saga University) I collected over 5,000 photosof manuscripts and documents from
Tokugawa period and I am currently
working on the Introduction and Reader to the Japanese Diplomatics.

The last but not the least field of interest is closely related to my teaching
duties at Charles University, i.e. contemporary Japanese affairs (politics,
economic and social problems etc.). I
focus particularly on the role of institutions in the Japanese political andeconomic system and their transformation since the 1990s.
As a member of the EAJS council I
would like to concentrate my effort on
closer cooperation with the national/local associations of Japanese studies. I would devote myself particularly
to the enhancement of the relationshipwith the associations and academic
institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, which is still below its potential,
and to the building of an intellectual
network between EAJS and young researchers and scholars in this part ofEurope.
Curriculum Vitae
Education, Academic Qualification
2002 PhD. (Charles University) in History (specialization History and Cultureof Asian and African Societies).
Dissertation: Making of the Economic
Society and the Origin of Economic
Thought in Tokugawa Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Oldřich Kral, Charles University).
1996 The Japan Foundation, Japanese Language Center (Urawa, Japan)- Training Program for teachers of theJapanese language.
1994 M.A. (Saga University, Japan) inEconomics (specialization in Monetaryand Economic policy).
M.A. thesis: 正司考祺の経済論と幕末の佐賀藩：「倹法富強録」を中心として[Economic theories of Shoji Koki and95

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Saga domain in the late Tokugawa period: With the focus on ‗Kenpo fukyoroku‘] (Supervisor: Prof. Susumu Nagano, Saga University).
1988 – 1992 Czechoslovak Academyof Science, Institute of Economics(PhD. studies). Final PhD. examination
passed in May 1990; the studies temporarily left in January 1991 becauseof the Japanese Government Scholarship (1991 - 94) and in 1992 annulled
because of the dissolution of the Institute of Economics.
1984 M.A. (Prague School of Economics) in Economics (specialization in International Economics and Theory ofForeign Trade)
M.A. thesis: Specific Factors of the
Economic Growth of Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Štěpan Muller, Prague
School of Economics).
Employment, Professional Experience,
Academic Positions
1992 – hitherto Charles University in
Prague, Faculty of Arts, Institute of
East Asian Studies (associate professor)
1992 – present Head of the JapaneseStudies Program2007 – present Director of the Instituteof East Asian Studies
2005 – present Charles University in
Prague, Faculty of Social Studies (lecturer)
Visiting Professorship, Fellowships (selected projects)
1997 – 1998 International ResearchCenter for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) Kyoto, Japan (Visiting Asso96

ciate Professor)
2000 – 2001 Seinan Gakuin University,
Fukuoka, Japan (The Japan Foundation, Visiting Research Fellow)
2003 Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan (Visiting Lecturer)
2005 Vilnius University, Centre ofOriental Studies, Vilnius, Lithuania (Visiting Associate Professor)
2005 – 2006 Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters (Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, Visiting
Research Fellow)

2003 Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan (Visiting Lecturer)
2009 Ruhr Universitat, Fakultat fur Ostasienwissenschaften, Bochum, Germany (Intensive Course of Lectures„Introduction to the Japanese paleography and diplomatics (komonjogaku)―)2010 Joetsu University of Education,
Naoetsu, Japan (Visiting Research Fellow and Lecturer)
Membership in Editorial/International
Advisory Boards
2001 – present
Japan Review (International ResearchCenter for Japanese Studies, Nichibunken, Kyoto) - member of the International Advisory Board
2006 – present
Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, (Centre ofOriental Studies, Vilnius University,
Vilnius) - member of the Editorial
Board

Elections of the new EAJS Council

2006 – present
Acta UP Orientalia (Palacky University,
Olomouc, Czech) - member of the Editorial Board
2007 – present
Archiv Orientalni: Quarterly Journal of
African and Asian Studies (Czech
Academy of Science, Oriental Institute,
Prague) - member of the Editorial
Board
2009 – present
Dvacate stoleti/The Twentieth Century(Charles University, Faculty of Arts) member of the Advisory Board
2010 – present
Anthropologia integra (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech) - member of the
Editorial Board
2011 – present
Japan Forum (British Association forJapanese Studies) - member of theInternational Advisory Board

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Tifo Scholarship Programme
Reports
From Isolation to Living Together HIV Prevention Strategies in Japan
The issue of HIV in Japan has received little international attention. Infection rates are considerably lower
than in other developed nations (there
are currently estimated to be around
10,000 people living with HIV in Japan)
and consequently, the focus tends tofall on neighbouring Asian nations
where HIV is spreading rapidly. Domestically, HIV also receives little media attention and many believe it to bea risk limited to certain sections of society such as gay men or migrant sex
workers. However, official statistics recorded by the National AIDS Surveillance Committee show that new casesof HIV/AIDS continue to increase year
on year and a considerable number ofthese are only diagnosed once symptoms of AIDS become evident, indicating that people do not attend HIV testing even if they have engaged in risk
behaviour (HIV/AIDS SurveillanceCommittee 2010). With testing rates
low, epidemiologists have suggested
that the actual number of people livingwith HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) could be considerably higher than is reflected in theofficial statistics and that the virus
could spread rapidly without an effective prevention strategy (Kihara, OnoKihara et al. 2003). A strong stigma
still exists towards HIV which prevents
those people living with the virus fromdisclosing their status publicly and inhibits open discussion of the social issues involved. My thesis focuses on
Japanese HIV prevention strategies
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carried out by both the state and nongovernmental organisations. With abackground in the history of medicine,
I am interested in how these strategies
have changed over the course of theepidemic, and the reasons for suchchanges.
HIV/AIDS was not considered a major
issue in Japan until a number of years
after the initial outbreaks were observed in the US and Europe. The firstrecorded case came in 1985, but as
the patient was a gay man who had
been living in the US, AIDS remained a
disease concerning foreigners and minority groups in the eyes of the authorities and general public. Although firsthand accounts report a lively gay
scene in Tokyo during the 1980s, Japan had not experienced the gay liberation movements seen in the US andEurope and it was unusual for people
to come out publicly as homosexual.
Consequently, the strong reaction to
AIDS by the US gay community which
demanded protection from discrimination was not observed in Japan. Indeed, Japan‘s gay community itself
considered AIDS to be a foreign problem, and defined safe sex as avoiding
sexual contact with foreigners (Treat
1999).
HIV/AIDS was not taken seriously until
1987 when a series of female deaths
from AIDS related illnesses caused
widespread panic across the country.
The threat to the heterosexual population was suddenly thrust into the spotlight, and the public bombarded local
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tests. It was this short period of panicthat first prompted the government tocreate HIV policy. AIDS panic soon
died down, but in the early 1990s HIVentered the public consciousness once
again as a result of the tainted bloodscandal in which high ranking members of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the chief executives of several large pharmaceutical companies
were sued by a large group of haemophiliac patients who claimed that they
had been infected with HIV because of
a deliberate delay in the introduction ofheat-treated blood products. The trial
continued until 1996, and the haemophiliac plaintiffs received a great dealof public support, often portrayed as‗innocent victims‘ in the media. As
Feldman and Yonemoto (1992), whohave written in detail on the tainted
blood scandal comment, the tainted
blood trial dominated AIDS discourse
in Japan to such an extent that when
the trials came to their conclusion,
many Japanese assumed the issue of
HIV to be over.
Since the conclusion of the tainted
blood scandal, the epidemiology of HIV
in Japan has changed, and now the
overwhelming majority of new infections occur through sexual contact.
The virus is spreading fastest amongst
young people aged between 15 and 30
and homosexual transmission accounts for over two thirds of new cases(HIV/AIDS Surveillance Committee2010). I am particularly interested in
how prevention strategies have
evolved subsequent to the tainted
blood scandal in response to these
epidemiological changes and how information about HIV is distributed tothese most affected populations.
The TIFO/EAJS Scholarship I gratefully accepted in Autumn 2010 allowed
me to carry out three months fieldwork

in Japan, during which I was able toobserve first-hand awareness raising
activities and attempts to overcome
discriminatory
attitudes
towards
HIV/AIDS. The dates of my trip weretimed to coincide with some important
HIV awareness events, such as the
AIDS Cultural Forum, an annual event
in Yokohama which gathers community groups, students, public health officials to discuss the social aspect of
HIV in Japan, Tokyo Gay Pride, atwhich HIV campaigners were well represented, and the Plus+ event in
Osaka, a HIV awareness festival
aimed at the gay community. I also attended more regular events such as
the Living Together Lounge, a monthly
club night where PLWHA and those
without can socialise and talk openly
about their experiences, and a numberof seminars and study sessions arranged by various HIV organisations.
Through these events I became familiar with the groups and individuals
working in HIV prevention, and thekinds of activities they engaged in. I
also carried out interviews with those
involved in AIDS policy, representatives from community based organisations (CBOs) and individuals working
in the field. Some interviewees werekind enough to allow me to participate
in their activities, and I had experiences as diverse as observing latenight testing in a Roppongi club, talking to middle school students about
HIV, and distributing information andcondoms in the street. I was also able
to utilise the materials in the National
Diet Library through which I was able
to map the history of official HIV/AIDS
policy and analyse the coverage of HIV
in the media. Although mainly based inTokyo, the scholarship also allowed
me to travel to Kansai to investigate
how the style and scale of prevention
activities varied outside of the capital.
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Through my fieldwork it became clearthat government led Japanese HIV
prevention strategies have changed
considerably over the last 25 years.
Initial policies attempted to keep thedisease out of the country, and Japan‘s first HIV legislation was widely
criticised for its failure to take into account the rights of those people already living with HIV (Ohama 1988).
From the mid 1990s treatment advanced and HIV began to be considered a chronic condition, while at thesame time the epidemiology in Japan
shifted so that the majority of newcases were a result of sexual transmission rather than infected blood
products. Correspondingly, strategies
began to emphasise the importance ofan environment free of stigma and discrimination where PLWHA can live andwork openly, and targeted prevention
for those groups most affected by HIV
began. I was struck by the prominenceof the phrase ‗Living Together‘, which
originated as a slogan used by one of
the CBOs but now features heavily ingovernment HIV awareness campaigns, and was interested to investigate the role of these CBOs in HIV
prevention and determine to what extent they had been able to influence
government policy.
Scholars have noted that Japanese notfor profit groups tend to be small andless professionalised in comparison totheir western counterparts, and assuch they lack the ability to engage inadvocacy (Pekkanen 2006). Certainly,
in my experience, groups working in
the field of HIV tend to be small, withvery few able to employ more than one
or two paid staff, and they work withlow budgets – usually small grants
from the Ministry of Health, Labour andWelfare or the money they have beenable to fundraise for themselves. Many100

groups reported lack of manpower andlack of resources as the main obstacles to achieving their goals. Perhaps
not for profit groups in this field suffer
further as issues around confidentiality
restrict their use of volunteers, and thestigma still associated with HIV limits
the amount of donations they receive.
However, over the course of my fieldwork I have observed a number ofmethods these groups have employed
to increase their effectiveness. Important networks have been formed between groups specialising in different
aspects of HIV care and support, butalso with local government, the media,
the medical system and the bureaucracy which facilitate more effective
support and awareness activities andalso allow these small groups a greaterlevel of involvement in the policy making process. The cooperation between
CBOs and local authorities to provide
HIV testing is a good example. Although free and anonymous HIV testing has been available at public healthcentres nationwide for a number ofyears, members of minority groups affected by HIV, particularly gay men,have been reluctant to take advantage
of such services, fearing that their privacy may not be adequately protected
and that the counselling available isnot suitable for their specific needs. By
working in collaboration with CBOs experienced in working with gay men amore suitable environment has beencreated, and consequently the numberof gay men attending testing has increased (Ichikawa 2006). Although theestablishment of such relationships
has not been without problems, good
links with local government can also
lead to funding for further activities andthe provision of services for minority
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Recognising that groups working inthese minority communities may be ina better position to implement targeted
HIV prevention programmes, representatives from such groups are now invited to sit on advisory committees in
the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and contribute to policy decisions.
Many of the groups I spoke to also receive funding from the Ministry to carryout research related to effective HIV
prevention, the results of which are fed
back. I am looking forward to analysing
in more detail the exact processes
through which community groups andministry officials interact to create a
HIV policy which protects the needs ofthose already living with the virus.
Empowerment of PLWHA seems to be
key in current HIV prevention strategies in Japan. Patient support networks have been developed for
PLWHA regardless of route of infection,and these groups advocate that therights of their members are reflected in
HIV policy. Despite the stigma that still
exists towards HIV, PLWHA are
gradually becoming more visible in society and CBOs have devised a number of ways to support those who wish
to disclose their status through peer
support, social events, positive speaking events at schools and universities,
publications which report the experiences of those affected and the provision of scholarships to increase thecontribution of PLWHA in national andinternational conferences. Representatives from these groups have been incorporated into the design process ofnational prevention campaigns to ensure that the messages put across do
not perpetuate the stigmatisation ofHIV.
Of course, different CBOs use different
strategies to achieve their goals. Somelarger groups have been able to use

government funds to create community
centres at which HIV prevention cantake place, for example. Other groups
with fewer funds work at a grassroots
level providing services for those affected by HIV. Using the wealth of materials these groups provided during
my fieldwork trip I intend to look further
into these diverse methods and evaluate which strategies have been mosteffective.
Having spent time with those involvedin HIV prevention in Japan, I cameaway with the feeling that awarenessof HIV in those communities most affected, particularly among gay men,has increased dramatically as a resultof the work of CBOs. The government
has also started to provide funding
specifically for these activities. However, the budget allocated to HIV prevention has been in decline over recent years, and many groups are uncertain as to whether their funding willcontinue, impacting on their ability to
expand even the most successful ofschemes. Outside of these targetedcommunities HIV is rarely covered in
the media, and the perception remainsthat HIV is somebody else‘s problem.
Although more and more PLWHA are
finding the courage to disclose theirstatus, I also heard numerous accounts of discrimination in the workplace or in hospitals, indicating that
there is still work to be done before theideal of ‗Living Together‘ can beachieved.
I would like to take this opportunity tooffer my appreciation to all those who
took time to talk to me, and involve mein their activities, and once again thankthe Toshiba International Foundationand the European Association forJapanese Studies for the opportunity
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my research would not have beenpossible

Hannah Waterson
University of Manchester

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PhD. Research Travel Final reportThanks to the kind funding and supportof the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) and the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) I was
enabled to undertake a research trip toJapan in order to collect material formy doctoral thesis on ―Hokkaidô as aplace of Japanese literature‖, which
focuses on the rather unresearchedfield of regional literature by the example of Japan‘s northern island Hokkaidô. My travel started directly in Sapporo as one of the cultural centres of thearea, where I spent four weeks (February 11th until March 13th) in order
to compile relevant material needed forfurther analysis and to do first handresearch on the geographical conditions of Hokkaidô. Originally I had
planned to visit Hakodate, to spend a
few days in Aomori and Tôkyô each,and lastly one week in the Kansai area.
But due to the terrible Tohoku Earthquake on Friday 11th, I decided tochange my further plans and returned
to Germany two weeks early. Yet, thistravel proved to be of invaluable help
especially for the early phase of mystudies. I feel very grateful for being
able to present the results of my research in the form of this report. Therefore, I will start with a short introduction
to my project, then explain the scientific situation I found in Japan and lastly
conclude my report with the new perspectives I gained during my stay in
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Up until now literary works have only
been looked at as subjects of chronological or periodical classification. Inspired by Barbara Piatti‘s pioneering
work Die Geographie der Literatur(The geography of literature, 2008) I
wish to persue the idea of inner- andtranstextual geographical factors as
determining characteristics of literature.
Based on the assumption, that the setting of every literary production is chosen intentfully by the author, the following questions became the starting
point of my research project: ―Where
does literature take place?‖ and ―Why
did the author set his work in a certain
area/city/place?‖
In order to deal with these questions, aselected sample of literary works has
to be searched for topographical markers. By assembling this information
on a map, two accomplishments canbe achieved: Either the geographicalstructure of a certain work or the literary structure of a certain region canbe visualized and thus prepared forfurther interpretation.
Within this context Hokkaidô is an ideal
model region, not only within Japan: Itfeatures different kinds of landscapesin a relatively small area (sea shores,
mountains, metropolises, border regions) and is not just geographically
but also historically clearly framed. It
would be an impossible task to research on the literary geography of, forexample, Tôkyô, since the corpus ofworks concerning the city is almost innumerable. Systematical settlement on
Hokkaiddô however started not much
longer than 150 years ago, which limits
the number of works concerning thisregion naturally. For my project I am
especially interested in the early settlement and city development, so that I
further narrowed my sample to worksof the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishôperiods (1912-1926). Because most of
the relevant materials (even thoseconcerning well known writers such as
Kunikida Doppo ( 国 木 田 独 歩 , 18711901) or Arishima Takeo ( 有島武郎,
1878-1923) are still only available inJapanese, translation will be needed,since for the process of literary mapping exact information is absolutely
necessary. This time consuming work
further limits the corpus to short stories.
It is to be noted, that in reaction to thepolitical treatment of Hokkaidô during
and after the Second World War, in theearly 1950s a series of essays proclaimed the individuality of a so-called
Hokkaidô literature ( 北 海 道 文 学
hokkaidô bungaku) based on the topographical features of its origin. Thanks
to this so-called ―Hokkaidô literature
movement‖ (Hokkaidô bungaku undô)Hokkaidô literature even managed toestablish itself as an independent genre, or at least promote itself as such.
As a result, with the support of local
publishers, mainly the Sapporo Shinbunsha, a number of greater projects
could be realized, as the Hokkaidôbungaku zenshû (Complete works of
Hokkaidô literature, 23 volumes, 19791981), the Hokkaidô bungaku shi (History of Hokkaidô literature, 3 volumes,
1975-1982) and the Hokkaidô bungaku
jiten (Dictionary for Hokkaidô literature,1984).1 Especially the Complete works
proved to be a splendid starting point
for the assembly of a representative
sample of Hokkaidô literature. Further,1

For a compact and profound description of
the Hokkaidô literature movement see Kita
Kaori(2005): Sengo ―Hokkaidô bungaku‖-ronno naka no hokkaidô. Pyûritanizumu, Yôroppateki na fûdo, shokuminchisei [Hokkaidô
within the postwar discussion on ―Hokkaidôliterature‖. Puritanism, European landscapeand colonialism]. Hokkaidô daigaku daigakuin
bungaku kenkyûka kenkyû ronshû Nr. 5.

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since 1995 the Museum for Hokkaidôliterature ( 北 海 道 立 文 学 館 Hokkaidô
ritsu bungakkan) in Sapporo collects
and archives material concerning Hokkaidô literature, such as literary publications,
officialandindependent/private journals, documents (letters, diaries) and other secondary/scientific works on its history andcharacteristics, which of course arealso another great help in finding andhandling relevant material.
With all these preconditions given it
seems an equally attractive as well as
difficult undertaking to do research on
the interaction between literature andits underlying topography in Hokkaidô:
On the one hand the ongoing efforts of
the Japanese research on Hokkaidôliterature offer a great deal of scientificmaterial easily to be found and used
for further analysis. On the other hand,
this field of studies follows a completely different course of interest, whichmight distract and even mislead a researcher. Primarily, work on Hokkaidôliterature discusses the definition ofwhat Hokkaidô literature actually consists of, how it can be further categorized and how its characteristics canbe explained. These however are irrelevant questions to a topographic approach that limits the sample according
to the one and only criterion, which isthe setting of the literary works. Nonetheless the achievements of the
movement, such as the Complete
works, are highly valuable as reliable
sources.
Preparing my trip to Japan I contacted
several institutions and specialists formy field of research. Yet the support I
received was absolutely overwhelming.
Shortly upon my arrival I was able tomeet Mr. Hirahara, Executive Directorand Executive Curator of the above104

mentioned Hokkaidô Museum of Literature. He allowed me to do as muchresearch as I wished and use the archive of the museum, which compiles
an amazingly interesting stock of material. Especially the comprehensive
collection of secondary literature on
writers not much known outside of
Hokkaidô was of great help for my studies. The permanent and temporary
exhibition provided me with very interesting insights into the historical periodization of Hokkaidô literature (lateEdo period, early settlement, pre- andpostwar literature) and further categorization concerning the writers, such as
literature written by the Ainu (ainubungaku アイヌ文学), by writers whocame to Hokkaidô (raidô sakka 来道作家) or writers born in Hokkaidô (dôsansakka 道産作家). I was especially honoured to meet Prof. Kamiya Tadataka,board chairman of the Museum andco-editor of the Complete works aswell as the Dictionary, who kindly answered all of my questions and provided
me with recommendations for further
studies.
A very beneficial extension to mysearch for material at the archive of the
Hokkaidô Museum of Literature is theNorthern Studies Collection of Hokkaidô University. This collection has nocertain interest in literature, but assembles books on all fields connectedto Hokkaidô (regional history, religion,
geography, etc.), and also comprises
partly even unpublished historicalmaps and photographs. Due to theComplete works it is quite simple tofind and access primary literature, but
for the reconstruction of the topographies mirrored in those works the needfor a profound knowledge of historicalcity planning and scenery is a precondition not so easily fulfilled. Therefore
one of my goals was to gather asTifo Scholarship Programmemuch material as possible on the history of Hokkaidô and its cities of major
literary importance (primarily Sapporo
and Hakodate). This led me to theArchive of Hokkaidô at the so called―Red Brick Government Office Building‖(Akarenga chôsha 赤 レ ン ガ 庁 舎 ),another well classified source at theheart of the city. The former Government Building is now used as a museum as well as an archive collecting
documents on the history of Sapporo
city and the settlement of Hokkaidô ingeneral.
One last institution in Sapporo I verymuch enjoyed visiting is the HistoricalMuseum of Hokkaidô (Hokkaidô kaitaku kinenkan 北海道開拓記念館). Aftera very interesting introduction to thedepiction of Hokkaidô in early maps,
paintings and illustrations of travel diaries I was guided through the parts ofthe exhibition especially dedicated tothe early settlement times. On thesame day I also visited the close by
Historical village of Hokkaidô (Hokkaidô kaitaku no mura 北海道開拓の村), where different historical buildings
are assembled. Unluckily for a researcher on historical literary settings,
Sapporo, like many Japanese metropolises (except maybe Kyôto) is a very
fast changing city. The rapid developments in cityscape at best result in themoving of even historical buildings according to the needs of new architectural projects. One of the best examples is the moving of the house of thefamous Arishima Takeo. In 1904 thehouse was originally built close to thecity centre of Sapporo on one side of
Toyohira River.2 The house is of major
literary importance, not only because
Arishima Takeo, as one of the most
2 The original address was: Sapporo-shi Shiroishi-ku kukusui 1 jô 1 chôme.

prominent writers not just of Hokkaidôliterature, but also of Japanese literature in general, lived there from May
1910 until July 1911, but also because
he used it as a setting for two of his
novels, namely Umareizuru nayami(The Agony of Coming into the World,translated by Fujita Seiji 1955) andChiisaki mono e (―To my little ones‖).
Due to an initiative to move the houseto the Historical Village of Hokkaidô inthe outskirts of Sapporo, the house
could be de- and reconstructed between 1974 and 1979 and thus was
saved from permanent destruction. 3
Apart from the literary importance ofthe house of Arishima Takeo, visiting
the Historical Village was also highly
enlightening. Because of the assemblyof so many historical houses in one
place it gives impressive insights into
daily life in Tohoku and Hokkaidô inthe Meiji- and Taishô-era as well as
the early cultivation of the northern territories.
For the moment I am still in theprocess of viewing and classifying all
the material I have gathered during mystay in Japan. I gained many new insights not only in regard to work on
Hokkaidô literature, but also in many
fields connected to my studies, suchas the history of the settlement, architecture, city planning and publishers(which played a major role in supporting regional literature).
Lastly I have to express my thanks to
TIFO and EAJS for making this research travel possible and opening myeyes to so many new perspectives. I
am sure my doctoral thesis will profit
very much from my experiences in

3 The data above is taken from the pamphlet
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Sapporo. I thank you so much for yoursupport.
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An Exploration of Split Intransitivity
in Old Japanese

Right after the 20th Japanese/Korean
Linguistics Conference (1 - 3 October2010), I travelled from Oxford to Osaka
to undertake my research in ―Split Intransitivity in Old Japanese‖ with generous financial support from the Toshiba International Foundation. The
visit to Japan has been very importantand beneficial to my research.
‗Split intransitivity‘ refers to a fundamental dichotomy within intransitive
verbs. It has received a great deal ofattention among linguists since theformulation of Perlmutter‘s Unaccusative Hypothesis, which divides intransitive verbs into two classes; namely‗unaccusatives‘ (whose subjects originate as direct objects) and ‗unergatives‘ (whose subjects originate as subjects). However, most studies on split
intransitivity so far have been focused
mainly on modern European languages, with few studies examining Asian
languages or dead languages. My research fills the gap through a comprehensive study of split intransitivity in
Old Japanese, investigating the lexicalsemantic aspects of split intransitivity
in relation to its morpho-syntactic expression, and also exploring to what
extent intransitive verbs can be classified as unaccusative and unergative in
Old Japanese.
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During my stay in Japan, I was mainly
based in the School of Letters, Osaka
University. On my first day in Japan, I
met Professor Kinsui Satoshi, whokindly invited me to Osaka University,and provided me with academicrelated support and guidance. He introduced me to his researchers, colleagues and students, who were allvery friendly and helpful to me during
my stay in Osaka University.
It was the end of the first week of thesecond semester when I arrived in
Osaka University. From then on, I attended Professor Kinsui‘s weekly lectures and seminars on the history ofJapanese language, which were extremely informative and strongly relevant to my research. I was also kindly
allowed to audit lectures and seminars
led by several other professors, who
also worked on linguistics. These lectures/seminars helped me familiarize
myself with Japanese perspectives
and approaches to linguistic topics
mostly (but not limited to), Japanese
language. Some were, and some werenot, identical with western perspectives
which I study.
I was very satisfied that I managed tofind all materials that I wished to readbut was not able to access from Oxford.
The books in libraries and research
offices in Osaka University were abundant in quantity and good in quality.
Furthermore, during my visit to Kyoto
University, Tokyo University, and the
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, I was also allowed to access their libraries. I also
visited several museums and exhibitions in Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo
that were related to my research. In
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Mokkan, a Buried Treasure Trove‖,which commemorated fifty years of Nara Palace site excavations (held at the
Nara Palace Site Museum). The booklets with detailed pictures and explanations helped expand my scope anddeepen my understanding of the language in that period. In addition to myown reading list, I also read books,
dissertations and articles suggested
from other scholars during our discussions.
Alongside individual research andweekly lectures/seminars, I was alsoable to participate in various linguistics
events in and around Osaka. For example, the Linguistics Meetings held
regularly in Osaka University, theWorkshop on the Phonology of Old
Japanese (Osaka University, 11 December 2011), the Symposium "Research into 'Role Languages' [social
roles and language] -- Cartoon Characters, Pet Phrases and Speaking
Styles" (Osaka University, 6-7 February 2011), the 9th Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic
Manifestation (Kyoto University, 11-12
December, 2010), and others.
In January, I went to Tokyo and spent
one week in the National Institute forJapanese Language and Linguistics,
where I had the chance to attend thesymposium (on degrammaticalization
by Professor John Whitman) and a talkon semantic role mark-ups in Old Japanese Corpus by Dr Stephen Horn,and also had the pleasure of attending
the bi-monthly lunch salon held by Sakoda Kumiko, where researchers froma variety of fields could discuss theirwork in a very relaxed atmosphere.
Before my visit to Japan, I proposedseveral possible syntactic diagnostics
for Old Japanese, for example, thenumeral quantifier, deverbal nominalization, resultative construction tests
that were observed to show split intransitivity in modern Japanese, andthe auxiliary selection test which
seemed to be specific to Old Japanese(compared with other stages of thelanguage). My list has now been revised to ―perfective auxiliary selection,
VV-compounds, NV-compounds, resultative construction, the light verb suru
construction and VP-preposing‖. It wasvery important to deepen my understanding of Japanese literature, getting
inspiration from lectures and talks,finding new correlations and interestingdata during my visit to Japan. It wasalso extremely helpful discussing myexample sentences with Japanese linguists in detail.
On 17 December 2010, I gave a 90
minute presentation on my research atProfessor Ishi‘s weekly seminars in
Osaka University, and received positive feedbacks from the audience. I also submitted abstracts of two papers
based on my research, and they were
accepted for presentation in the 3rd International Corpus Linguistics Conference (which will be held in Spain in
April) and the 2011 EAJS Conference(which will be held in Tallinn in August2011) respectively. The results of myresearch are expected to contribute toa detailed description of Old Japaneseverbs, and also have implications forlinguistic theory in general.
The visit to Japan not only benefited
me as an individual research student,
but also had a positive impact on future research in Japanese linguistics ingeneral. In the Research Centre forJapanese Language and Linguistics at
Oxford University, we are developingthe ‗Oxford Corpus of pre-modern
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‗Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese‘, which
my D.Phil. research was situated in. It
aims to provide a variety of linguistic,
especially syntactic, information withthe texts (in the form of xml tags) that
permits a comprehensive search. I
hope that with what I have learnt in Japan, I can contribute to the Corpus
with even better knowledge and amore insightful understanding.
In November 2010, I was kindly visitedby Ms Ohbayashi, senior programme
officer of TIFO, and in January 2011, I
went to report to TIFO in Tokyo, andwas warmly welcomed by both Ms Ohbayashi and the president of TIFO, Mr
Fumihiko Namekawa. I wish very muchto extend my deep gratitude to TIFO
and EAJS for their generous support
for my research visit to Japan, to mysupervisor, Prof Bjarke Frellesvig, for
his prompt replies to my emails during
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tive directions, and to Prof Kinsui Satoshi in Osaka University for his kind
invitation and academic guidance. I am
also grateful to Prof Kageyama Taro,
Prof Watanabe Akira, Prof Takubo Yukinori, and Prof Sakoda Kumiko for
their kind invitations to NINJAL, Tokyo
University, Kyoto University and Hiroshima University, respectively. Particularly, I would like to thank Prof John
Whitman and Prof Wesley Jacobsen,
who were visiting NINJAL from Cornell
University and Harvard University, fortheir time meeting me and giving me
valuable advice on my research. I am
also thankful to Dr Kinuhata, Dr Seida,and all the other members of the Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Literature research team that created such anice and friendly atmosphere in the
joint research office.
Zixi You
University of Oxford

Announcements

Announcements
Call for Applications
EAJS Book Prizest―1 JLPP Translation competition‖
The AimStarting 2011, the Japanese Literature
Publishing Project (JLPP, sponsoredby the Agency for Cultural Affairs) isorganizing the JLPP International
Translation Competition with a view to
discovering and fostering brilliant
translators who can help introduce andspread modern Japanese literature
throughout the world.
Eligibility
There are no nationality or age-related
eligibility criteria. However, translators
who have already published a translation of a literary or similar work (evenas part of an anthology translated by
two or more translators), or who haveexperience in commercial book publishing may not take part in the competition.
Method of Application
Please follow the instructions given at
the JLPP website and use the JLPP
applicationform:
http://www.jlpp.go.jp/en/competition/ind
ex.html
Application period
1 September – 30 November 2011
(applications postmarked on or before
the deadline will be accepted).
Announcement of the results: April
2012
Translation language:
GermanCall for Nominations

Englishor

In order to strengthen the international
visibility of the EAJS and to highlightthe research achievements of its
members, the association launched
the EAJS Book Prize in 2004. The
prize is awarded every three years to
the author of the monograph on Japanjudged by the selection committee tobe the best among those nominatedfor the prize. Members can nominate
monographs in any European language published during the three-year
period prior to the international conference. They will need to mail a two
page abstract in English and threecopies of the book to the EAJS office.
The winners of the prize will be announced at the annual meeting.
Selection Process and Committee
A selection committee of three seniorscholars and EAJS members nominated by the EAJS Council andchaired by the currently elected EAJS
president will determine which monograph merits the award of the EAJS
book prize.
Conditions:
1. Author is a paid-up member of EAJS.
2. Author works at a European institution or is a European national.
3. The monograph was published after
April 1, 2008 and before 31 March,
2011.
4. Non-European nationals who received a university degree at a university in Europe are also eligible.
Deadline for nominations is 1 April
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Research Fellowships
Canon Research Fellowships to JapanThe Canon Foundation in Europe
grants up to 15 Research Fellowships
annually to highly qualified European
and Japanese researchers.
Candidates should hold a doctorate orat least a Master's degree. They are
eligible during the ten-year period following the successful completion of
their PhD or MA degree. Extensions to
the ten-year rule are possible in principle in case of exceptional circumstances which should be explained in
the application and supporting documents are required. Non-nationals
have to have a permanent citizenshipin either Europe or Japan.
The European Fellowship holders pursue a period of research in Japan
whereas the Japanese Fellows do theirresearch at host institutions in Europe.
The Fellowships are awarded for periods of a minimum three months andmaximum of one year. Applications for
Research Fellowships in all fields ofresearch are welcome.
The aim of the Foundation is to contribute to international understanding,in particular between Europe and Japan.
The annual deadline is 15 September.
Please check our website for the most
up-to-date conditions and for application forms and other information atwww.canonfoundation.org or contact
the Secretariat at:
Canon Foundation in Europe
P.O. Box 2262
1180 EG Amstelveen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31(0)20 545 8934
Fax +31(0)20 712 8934
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E-mail:foundation@canoneurope.com
www.canonfoundation.org
Toshiba International
Fellowship 2012/2013

Foundation

On behalf of the Toshiba
International
Foundation, the EAJSCouncil selects candidates for a fellowship
to undertake research in Japan. The
next application deadline is 31 March
2012.
Applications are invited for Toshiba International Foundation scholarships fora three-month stay in Japan to becompleted by the end of March 2012.
Applicants must be doctoral students,
and they must be specialising in somebranch of Japanese studies at an institution in Europe. Applications should
consist of a CV, a brief statement (notmore than 300 words) of the project for
which they wish to pursue their research in Japan, and a letter of support
from the student‘s supervisor or adviser, who should submit the application on the student‘s behalf. Applications should be sent by e-mail to the
EAJS Office at office@eajs.eu.
Since the purpose of the scholarship isto encourage the academic study ofJapan by those who have not alreadyhad a long-term experience in Japan,
applications by Japanese High School
graduates will not be considered.
The EAJS has been asked by the Toshiba International Foundation to administer these scholarships, and thedecisions will be made by the Councilof the EAJS.

Announcements+++++

Nagoya University Global 30 Undergraduate Scholarship
Nagoya University offers the Global 30
Undergraduate Scholarship to attract
high talented students from all over theworld. Students will be considered foradmission scholarships upon their application on competitive basis.
The maximum total award will be JPY
500,000 per year per recipient. The
total number of scholarships will depend on the qualifications of the applicants based on both merit and financial need. In principle, the scholarshipwill cover the four years of the recipient‘s undergraduate study at Nagoya
University.
The online admissions system will
open
from
September
1st,
2011.Further information are availableat:
http://admissions.g30.nagoyau.ac.jp/en/index.php?option=com_cont
ent&task=view&id=1061&Itemid=1308
In case of questions, please do nothesitate to contact:
Admissions OfficeInternational Programs
International Exchange & Cooperation
Headquarters
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 4648601 Japan
Tel: +81-52-747-6556
Fax: +81-52-747-6526
E-mail: apply@g30.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Website: www.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Sophia University Summer Schoolof Asian Studies
The Summer Session, started in 1951,
is the oldest and most extensive summer programme in Japan. Students of
the Faculty of Liberal Arts attend thesession, but the majority of participantscome from abroad. Offering a highly
accessible way for short-term study inJapan, roughly 10,000 students fromaround the world have attended theSession over the years. Many havegone on to pursue careers related toJapan. In addition to courses, there are
numerous field trips to attend Noh, Kabuki, and other performing arts; the tea
ceremony; Meiji Shrine, the Edo-Tōkyō
Museum, and other sites.
The Summer Session also welcomes
participation by secondary and college
instructors for professional and curriculum development. Over the years,
hundreds of high school and college
teachers have acquired the expertise
to introduce the study of Japan andAsia into the curriculum at their homeinstitutions. High school students who
study in the session can receive advanced placement credits while students who are currently enrolled in the
Faculty can apply credits towards
graduation.
Running from roughly 20 July until 20
August each year, the courses use theFaculty's library, classroom, and computer facilities. The instructors are fromthe Faculty as well as visiting professors from North America and Europe
summering in Japan. Daily class meetings, supplemented with field trips, ensure that the educational experience ofa summer session course is equivalent
to a regular semester length course.
The Summer Session offers students
the opportunity to take two upper-level
intensive courses (6 credits) runningfrom roughly 20 July to 20 August.

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Call for Articles
Contemporary Japan
Contemporary Japan (CJ) is the peerreviewed biannual journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies
Tokyo (DIJ) published by de Gruyter,
Berlin and New York. The editors aresupported by an editorial board thatconsists of internationally renowned
experts in the field of Japanese studies.
Contemporary Japan publishes indepth, original work from all disciplines
as they relate to contemporary Japanand its historical roots. Manuscripts
which cross disciplinary boundaries
and raise larger issues of interest arealso welcome, as are research notes.
All submissions are peer-reviewed byestablished scholars in the field.
What sets CJ apart from other peerreviewed journals in the field is its extensive language support to non-native
English speakers. Submissions are
judged purely for content. Thus, CJ intends to facilitate the publication ofhigh-quality research conducted, forexample, by Japanese and other Asianscholars as well as those from Europe
or the Americas. Request further
pleasevisit
www.contemporaryjapan.org

ing rapid changes, opening borders,exchanging ideas of economy and politics. In addition to the various problems
ensuing from the recent situation, we
have to recognise that we are enteringa new age of lifestyles in which, in everyday life, we are exposed to new social situations with more foreign people
and foreign things around us, ranging
from foods and lifestyle to arts, pop
culture, and information.
It is our wish to display the broad
range of interest of different researchers working in any discipline that addresses one or more aspects of these
topics. The contributors might consider
any of the following questions but are
not limited to them:- How does the globalisation influence on the pluralisation and diversity of the lifestyles in Japan?
- What are the causes and what are
the consequences of this process?
How are lifestyles shaped andtransformed?
- What impact does the transition
have on changing tradition andidentities?
- How does this social change relate
to other shifts and trends, such as
demographic change, urbanization,
digitalization and cultural and socioeconomic developments?

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Asian and African Studies –Vol. XV,
No 3
Lifestyles in Transition: the Context
of Social Changes in JapanThe third number of volume XV, which
will be published in December 2011,
will present a selection of papers on
any topic related to the theme of ―transition in Japan‖. Today‘s world is fac112

We invite all contributors to submit
their manuscripts in English or Japanese language to the following e-mailaddress:
natasa.visocnik@guest.arnes.si to receive further guidelines.
Submission deadline: 30.9.2011+++++

International Conference on Japa-

Announcements

nese Linguistics
Paris,
March(Friday/Saturday)

9

/10,

2012

Call for papers

have occurred at earlier periods in thehistory of Japanese are also welcome
insofar as they shed light on presently
ongoing changes.
Submission―Language change in Japanese‖co-organized by CRCAO (UMR8155)
and CEJ (EA1441)
with the collaboration of CELIJA (Circleof Japanese Linguistics)
Location: Paris Diderot University
Languages of the conference: English,
Japanese or French

Please submit abstracts as ananonymous PDF or Word format file(.rtf/.doc), attached to an email
message. Abstracts may be written
either in French, in Japanese or in
English, and should include references.
Presentations will be about 30 minutes
long, and will be followed by a 15minute discussion.

Please send
Invited speakers:
Haruo KUBOZONO (Professor, National
Institute for Japanese Language andLinguistics)
Other guests: t.b.a.
Topics of the conference
The aim of this conference is to bring
together specialists of the Japanese
language in order to investigate theissue of language change in Japanese,through the identification, description
and analysis of new, emerging
linguistics facts in this language. All
areas of linguistic research areconcerned: phonetics, phonology,
morphology, semantics, the lexicon,
pragmatics, socio-linguistics, syntax,
and so on. The impact of newtechnologies on language use andrepresentations, language policies, aswell as the revival of old or dialectal
forms and structures also fall under thescope of the conference. Whereas theconference mainly focuses on present
day mutations and evolutions, papers
addressing linguistic changes which- a one page abstract of 500 words
maximum[references
excluded](English/French)+ references + five keywords.
or- a one page abstract of 1000
charactersmaximum[references
excluded] (Japanese)+ references + five keywords

by September 25, 2011
following
address
atarashiinihongo@gmail.com

to

the
:

Please indicate in the body of youremail message (but not in yourabstract), the name(s), affiliation(s)and email(s) of the author(s).
Please also use the following subject
header for your email:«atarashiinihongo; Last name, First
initial» (for instance, «atarashiinihongo;
Dupont; P»).
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Accepted proposals should be later
completed by a more detailed abstractof 3 pages maximum (references
included) by January 31 for a draft
version of the proceedings.
Important Dates :September 25, 2011 : paper
submission deadline
November 30, 2011 : notification of
accepted papers
January 31, 2012 : 3 pages abstract
for proceedings draft
March 9/10 2012 : conference
Website : http://www.celija.fr/

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Forthcoming Events

Forthcoming Events
Conference ―Asia-Europe Forum on
Methods and Perspective of Risk
Analysis‖
Time: 17-18 November 2011
Place: City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Hompeage:
http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/new
s/asia-europe_forum/+++++―7th IAJS Conference‖
Time: 29 October 2011
Place: Kyoto Women‘s University,
Kyoto
Homepage: www.iajs.net+++++―24th Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada(JSAC)‖
Time: 18 – 21 August 2011
Place: Saint Mary‘s University Halifax,
CanadaHomepage:
http://husky1.smu.ca/~bsewell/JSAC20
11.html

Homepage:
http://confro2011.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/japan-premodern-moderncontemporary/+++++Workshop ―Taishō – Prewar(Shōwa)‖Time: 11 – 12 Spetember 2011
Place: Centre Européen d`Etudes Japonaises d`Alsace, Kientsheim (Frankreich)Homepage:
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/intel/new/1104/0
4-01.html+++++
Seventh EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students
Time: 22-24 August 2011
Place: University of Tallinn, Tallinn,
Estonia
Application deadline: 30 April 2011
Call for Papers: Please find related
Call for papers earlier in this Bulletin (p.
XX)
+++++
13th International EAJS Conference+++++
Conference ―Japan: Pre-modern,
Modern and Contemporary. A Return Trip from the East to theWest—Learning in, about and fromJapan‖
Time: 30 – 31 August 2011
Place: ―Dimitrie Cantemir‖ Christian
University, Bucharest, Romania

Time: 24-27 August 2011
Place: University of Tallinn, Tallinn,
Estonia
Homepage:
http://www.eajs.org/english/next_confe
rence.html
Call for Papers: Please find related
Call for papers earlier in this Bulletin (p.
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Information from our members

New Books and Articles
Ōno-Descombes, Yasuko: Kensan,
potier ermite – regards sur un artistejaponais de jadis, Paris, L‘Harmattan
2011.
Book Summary: Ogata Kenzan (16631743) belongs to the tradition of the
Rinpa (or Rimpa) School. Famous forhis ceramics, he was also a painterand a man versed in classical poetry
and belles-lettres. Indeed, during hiswhole life, he described himself as a"potter-hermit." In this book, I gathered
the facts about Kenzan's biography(using the writings of Kenzan himself
as a primary source), and tried to address the question of Kenzan's motivation in shaping his life according to themodel of an hermit.

on Shin Buddhism, and is specificallydirected at describing and analyzing
distinctive social aspects of this religious tradition in historical and contemporary perspective. The contributions collected here cover a wide range
of issues, including the intersection between Shin Buddhism and fields as diverse as politics, education, social
movements, economy, culture and the
media, social ethics, gender, and globalization.
++++++
MÜLLER-SAINI, Gotelind (ed.): Designing History in East Asian Textbooks. Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations, Series "Routledge
Studies in Education and Society inAsia", London & New York, Routledge
2011++++++
UJIIE, Yoko: A Speaker’s cognition
Encoded in Japanese – Speech, Mindand Society, Tokyo, Sangensha 2010++++++DESSI, Ugo (ed.): The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism, Numen Book
Series, 129, Leiden, Brill 2010++++++
Book Summary: Shin Buddhism (Jōdo
Shinshū), although weakened in many
ways by secularization, continues to bea stable presence in Japanese society,as is emblematically shown by the very
symmetrical position of the Nishi (Honganji-ha) and the Higashi Honganji(Ōtani-ha) head temples in the centerof Kyōto, and by the recent projects fortheir renovation. This book addresses
the need for more academic research
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Book Summary: This book analyses
the efforts throughout East Asia todeploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular inorder to shape notions of identity. The
chapters also examine the trend of‗common textbook initiatives‘, whichhave recently emerged in East Asiawith the aim of helping to defuse tensions arguably fuelled by existing practices of mutual (mis)representation.
These are analysed in relation to theEast Asian political context, and compared with previous and ongoing endeavours in other parts of the world,
particularly Europe, which have been
keenly observed by East Asian practitioners. Written by a group of international education experts, chapters discuss the enduring focus on the role ofcurricula in inculcating homogenous
visions of the national self, and indeed
homogenized visions of significant'others'.

Information from our members

Including contributions from scholars
and curriculum developers involved
personally in the writing of national andmulti-national history textbooks thisbook will be of interest to students andscholars of Asian education, Asian history and comparative education studies.
++++++SAALER, Sven; SZPILMAN, Christopher W.A. (eds.): Pan-Asianism: A
Documentary History, Volume 1 & 2,
Series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield 2011
Book Summary: This two-volume set
provides the only comprehensive,
Western-language history of PanAsianism through primary sources andcommentaries. The book argues that
Pan-Asianism,
often—thoughunfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril,has been a powerful political and ideological force in modern Asia. It has
shaped national identities and strongly
influenced the development of international relations across Asia and thePacific. Scholars have long recognized
the importance of Pan-Asianism as an
ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and integration but also as an
ideology that justified imperialist expansion and military aggression. Yet
sustained research has been hampered by the difficulty of accessing
primary sources.
Thoroughly remedying this problem,
this unique sourcebook provides a
wealth of documents on Pan-Asianism
from 1850 to the present, many translated for the first time from Asian languages. All sources are accompaniedby expert commentaries that provide
essential background information. Providing an essential overview of PanAsianism as it developed throughout
modern Asia, this collection will be an
indispensable tool for scholars in history, political science, international re-lations, and sociology. Its accessible
presentation makes it a valuable resource for non-specialists as well.
++++++HAGHIRIAN, Parissa: Multinationals
and Cross-Cultural Management: The
Transfer of Knowledge within Multinational Corporations, Series "Routledge
International Business in Asia", London& new York, Routledge 2010
Book Summary: Globalisation makes
our world appear smaller: it is easier toconnect, communicate and do business with people all over the world. But
cultural differences remain and challenge globalized knowledge communication and transfer. This book examines cross-cultural management
within multinational enterprises (MNEs),
focusing in particular on how culturaldifferences influence the transfer ofknowledge between different units
within individual corporations.
Based on detailed empirical analysis of
267 companies in Germany and Japan,
it considers the relative effectivenessof inter-cultural and intra-cultural knowledge transfer; identifies the factorsthat inhibit or facilitate successful
knowledge transfer; and suggests how
management processes of MNEs canbe improved. It demonstrates that although cultural differences do not necessarily influence the selection andtransmission of knowledge overseas,
they do have a strong impact on howthat knowledge is received, integrated
and put into practice locally.
The book shows how knowledge is accepted differently in Europe and Asia
and which factors have the strongest
impact on efficient knowledge transfer.
It suggests that to improve crosscultural management MNEs should focus less on upgrading the technologythat allows knowledge transfer, andmore on the capabilities and beliefs ofindividual employees.
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Consumer Dynamics, London & New
York, Palgrave Macmillan 2011

HAGHIRIAN, Parissa: Understanding
Japanese Management Practices,
New York, Business Expert Press
2010

Book Summary: Japanese consumers
have changed dramatically over the
past fifteen years. From the big spenders of the late 80s bubble economy,
they have become price-conscious,
wealthy and sophisticated shoppers,
demanding the world's best service
and most innovative products. A number of major shifts in Japanese society
further led to the emergence of whole
new consumer groups, such as thebaby boomers, the single market, the
new rich and otaku (enthusiastic) consumers. Today Japan is still the second largest and most important consumer market in the world: the economic crisis has not changed this.
These major changes however, arestill receiving insuffient coverage inmanagement and marketing research.
'Japanese Consumers' fills this gap
and discusses the development ofJapanese consumerism, particularities
of Japanese consumer behaviour andconsumer rights, new consumer
groups and emerging trends in theJapanese market.

118Book summary: Japan has survived amajor recession and Japanese companies have employed numerous new
management strategies to deal with
the new challenges. These strategies
may also be of interest to Western andnon-Western companies alike.
This book outlines the particulars ofJapanese management and how modern Japanese management employs
many practices which are very successful and worth adopting. The main
objective of this book is to illustrate themany teachings that Japanese management practice can offer the rest of
the world. The book thus targets managers who deal with Japanese business partners, or work in Japan, students of Japanese Studies, Asian Studies or International Business.

Items received

Items received

Between July 2010 and June 2011 theEAJS Office received the following
items, which are available for review inthe bulletin.
Books:
KOHNO, Ruxandra Màrginean: Teatrul
No: Traditia creatoare (editie bilingva
romana-japoneza),
Colectia:Thalia,
Scrisul Romanesc, Craiova Romania,
2009.
Grace Nies FLETCHER (Translation:
HIRAMATSU Ryuen): メレル・ヴォ-リズと一柳満喜子 愛が架ける橋 (Original: The Bridge of Love – The Story ofa Marriage That Inspired a Country),
Tokyo, Suiyōsha 2010.

Journals:
MINIKOMI – Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan
No. 79, 2010
Joy HENDRY: Cultural display in museums and theme parks: a deconstruction of Western hegemony / Bernhard
SEIDL: Dialekt als Diskursobjekt: Japanische Varietäten im Spiegel von
Wissenschaft und Medien / Christian
PERNEGGER: Like a rolling stone –Aku Yūs Weg zum Schlagertexter / Karin BRÖTZNER, Stefan FUCHS, FrankHERBERG, Johannes KIENER, PeterMÜHLEDER: Ein Projekt der Selbstgestaltung. Reflexionen über die Organisation und Durchführung desWorkshops "Aktuelle politische Spannungsfelder in Ostasien"

Schwerpunkt: Technikkultur, No. 80,
2011
Cosima WAGNER: Der Astro BoyDiskurs: von einer populärkulturellen
Technikvision zum Roboter-Leitbild /Katja SCHMIDTPOTT: Ein Schlüssel
zu mehr weiblicher Unabhängigkeit –Die Einführung des Türschlosses inJapan in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren / Johanna MAUERMANN: Dasneue techno-literarische Genre desHandyromans / Lisette GEBHARDT:
Nagasaki, ca. 1642 - Die Geschichte
einer Kanone aus Holland oder Techniktransfer Europa – Japan im Spiegel
der zeitgenössischen deutschen Literatur / SUGA Hiroe: Die Nacht desKAIGO (übersetzt von Mickel Fleckenstein)
Others:Japan Foundation: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Program Sep/Oct 2011
Japan Foundation: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Program June/July
2011
Japan Foundation: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Program Jan/Feb 2011
Japan Foundation: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Program March/April
2011
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin: Japan, Deutschland und ihre
Nachbarn – Festvortrag von Altbundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt anlässlich
des 25-jährigen Bestehens des Japanisch-Deutschen Zentrums Berlin, October 2010

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Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo: Berlin – City of Science,
Partner of Japan. No. 92, September
2010
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo: Back to the future –Moving Another Step Forward. No. 93,
December 2010
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo: 150 Years of friendship– 150 Years of Judicial policy Dialog.
No. 94, March 2011
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo: Foolish Ignorance– The
stoicism of the Japanese is not exotic. Our
ignorance toward a foreign culture is
exotic. No. 95, June 2011
Judicum Verlag GmbH: Newsletter
2010
Maison Franco Japonaise, MFJ:
Programs October/November 2010;
December 2010/January 2011; February/March 2011; June/July 2011
Meta Theater Munich: Newsletter: NōTheatre, June 2011
University of Zurich: Brochure,
Sprachdidaktik Japanisch – Certificate
of Advanced Studies (CAS 2011/2012)120

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