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

Bulletin No. 84 |  March 2014

EAJS Bulletin No. 84 | March 2014

eajs Bulletin No. 84 | March 2014
ISSN 0308-5139

Editor and Layout:
Office of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
c/o Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany
tel.: +49-30-838-50929
fax: +4930-838-4-50931
e-mail: office@eajs.eu
website: http://www.eajs.eu

2Members of the Council

Members of the Council (2011-2014)
President

Treasurer

Prof Dr Rein RAUD
University of Helsinki
Department of World Cultures
PO Box 59
SF-00014 Helsinki(Suomi Finland)tel.: +358-9-191-22224
e-mail: raud@eajs.eu

Prof Dr Verena
BLECHINGER-TALCOTT
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: blechingertalcott@eajs.eu

Secretary
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

Immediate Past President
Prof Dr Harald FUESSHeidelberg University
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

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Extended Council Members
Prof Dr Reiko ABE-AUESTAD
University of Oslo
Department of Culture Studies
and Oriental Languages
P. O. Box 1010 Blindern
0315 Oslo (Norway)
tel.: +47-2285-6050
fax: +47-2285-4828
e-mail: abe-auestad@eajs.eu
Prof Dr Judit ÁROKAY
Heidelberg University
Institute for Japanese Studies
Akademiestraße 4-869117 Heidelberg (Germany)
tel.: +49 (6221) 54-7660
fax: +49 (06221) 54-7692
e-mail: arokay@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

4Prof Dr Yulia MIKHAILOVA
Hiroshima City University
3-4-1 Ozuka-higashi
Asa-Minami-ku,
Hiroshima (Japan)
tel.: +81-82-8301668
fax.:+81-82-8301657
e-mail: mikhailova@eajs.eu
Dr Laura MORETTI
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Asian andMiddle Eastern Studies
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA (UK)tel: +44-1223-335106
fax: +44-1223-335110
email: moretti@eajs.eu
Dr Brigitte STEGER
University of Cambridge
Department of East
Asian Studies
Faculty of Asian andMiddle Eastern Studies
Cambridge CB2 1DQ(United Kingdom)
tel.: +44-1223-335140
fax: +44-1223-335110
e-mail: steger@eajs.eu

Honorary Members
Augustin Berque, France
Adriana Boscaro, Italy

Louis Allen, 				UK, 1922–1991

Eduard Klopfenstein, Switzerland

Frank J. Daniels, 			
UK, 1900–1983

Josef Kreiner, Germany

Charles Dunn, 			
UK, 1915–1995

Olof Lidin, Denmark
Mikolaj Melanowicz, Poland
Ian Nish, UK
Jacqueline Pigeot, France
Brian Powell, UK
Arthur Stockwin, UK

Charles Haguenauer, 		France, 1896–1976
Wieslaw Kotanski, 			
Poland, 1915–2005
Bruno Lewin, 			
Germany, 1924–2012
Fosco Maraini, 			
Italy, 1912–2004
Martin Ramming, 		Germany, 1899–1988
Alexander Slawik, 		Austria, 1900–1997
Frits Vos, 			
The Netherlands, 1918–2000

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Contents
Members of the Council (2011-2014)������������������������������������3
Message from the President�����������������������������������������������10
News from the EAJS Office�������������������������������������������������12
14th EAJS International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
August 2014��������������������������������������������������������������������������16

List of convenors for the 14th EAJS International Conference
2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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14th EAJS International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
August 2014�������������������������������������������������������������������������20
Calls for Papers for the EAJS International Conference 2014 20
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies (SECTION 1)

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Language and Linguistics (SECTION 2)

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Literature

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Subsection 1: Modern Literature (SECTION 3a)25

Subsection 2: Pre-modern Literature (SECTION 3b)27

Visual and Performing Arts

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Subsection 1: Visual Arts (SECTION 4a)29

Subsection 2: Performing Arts (SECTION 4b)31

Anthropology, Sociology & Media Studies

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Subsection 1: Anthropology and Sociology (SECTION 5a)34

Subsection 2: Media Studies (SECTION 5b)36

Economics, Business and Political Economy (SECTION 6)

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History (SECTION 7)

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Subsection 1: Japan in World History

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Subsection 2: Reorientation: Alternative Sources for Japanese
History
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Religion & Philosophy

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Subsection 1: Religion (SECTION 8a)43

Subsection 2: Philosophy and the History of Ideas (SECTION8b)
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Politics and International Relations (SECTION 9)

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Japanese Language Education: Association of Japanese
Language Teachers in Europe e.V. (AJE) (SECTION 10)49

Interdisciplinary Panel Section

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Elections of the new EAJS Council������������������������������������ 54
EAJS General Meeting��������������������������������������������������������� 56
15th EAJS International Conference Call for Conference
Site Proposals���������������������������������������������������������������������� 57
Constitutional Change��������������������������������������������������������� 59
9th EAJS PhD Workshop, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
March 7 - 9, 2013 ������������������������������������������������������������������ 60
Report by Academic Organizer

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Reports from the EAJS PhD Workshop Participants

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1st EAJS Japan Conference, Kyoto����������������������������������� 83
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Message from the President

Forthcoming Events�����������������������������������������������������������104

10th EAJS PhD Workshop for Doctoral Students, Ljubljana,
Slovenia 2014
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Information from our members�����������������������������������������108
Items Received�������������������������������������������������������������������109
Members’ Information Sheet��������������������������������������������� 111

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Message from the President
Dear Colleagues,

It is time to start preparations for the time most of us will see eachother again, in less than half a year in Ljubljana. Our Slovenian
friends have been busy for quite some time already, and, as wewere happy to observe during the Council meeting last spring, withremarkable results, so that we can expect a truly memorable andfruitful conference. The convenors of all sections have also been
preparing for what we hope will materialise in a flood of remarkableabstracts, and more academic activity in Japanese Studies will beforeseen adjacent to our conference, now that some smaller specificassociations are planning to hold their meetings also in Ljubljana
immediately before we all gather.

In the meantime, it is my pleasure to let you know that, thanks tothe efforts of our immediate past president Harald Fuess, the firstever meeting of EAJS and Japanese scholars took place in Kyoto in
September 2013. Held at Kyoto University and supported by a premeeting symposium at the Nichibunken, the event turned out to bea major success and discussions about making this a tradition are
already underway. Thanks to the EAJS mailing list, more information about opportunities and activities reaches our members, so thatbeing a part of our association is meaningful in many respects.

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I hope that many of you will be able to make your way to Ljubljana
not only to talk about matters related to research, but also to
discuss new ideas about how our organisation can be useful to ourmembers. In the meantime, however, I wish you a good start into thespring of 2014 and look forward to seeing you in Ljubljana in August!

Rein Raud11

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News from the EAJS Office
Dear EAJS members,
I hope all of you had a good start into 2014 and are now enjoying
balmy spring days. Thank you all for your ongoing support of the
EAJS and its office in 2013. Since the last year marked the beginning of many preparations for important EAJS events, such as thenext EAJS International Conference in August 2014 in Ljubljana
while at the same time launching new events, such as the first EAJS
Conference in Japan in Kyoto in September 2013, the EAJS Officeand I have been working hard.
The year 2013 brought some changes to the staff members of the
EAJS Office. Katrin Gengenbach, who had been a wonderful sourceof support for EAJS activities and who launched the EAJS presence
on social media such as facebook and twitter, has moved to a newposition in May 2013. Also, Susanne Brucksch, who took chargeof the organizational side of the Ph.D. Workshops in Newcastle in2012 and in Frankfurt in 2013 and who also did a wonderful job incoordinating the EAJS side of the first EAJS Conference in Japan in
September 2013, has left the EAJS Office to focus on her research.
Ronja Meising and Lorenz Denninger are our new office representatives who will work with me to guarantee a smooth work flow for the
association and continuing service to our members. Ronja Meising
will take care of conference liaison, administrative matters, the
PhD Workshops and the maintenance of the EAJS website. Lorenz
Denninger will be in charge of the 2014 Council elections and also
be involved in the organization of our next conference in Ljubljana.
12Both are supported by Christoph Reichenbächer who is our student
RA and who is especially helping with membership administration.
In May 2013, the EAJS Council met in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to holda preparatory meeting for the 14th EAJS International Conference,
which will be held from August 27-30, 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
We visited the conference venue and discussed organizational
matters with the local organizing team. The Office is working closelywith the organizing team at the host University of Ljubljana and thesection convenors to ensure a high quality conference. Ljubljana isa charming city and a wonderful place for an academic conference,as the conference venue is in the center of town and can easily bereached by a short walk from all parts of the old town, where ourconference hotels are located. The local organizing team is highly
motivated and supported by a professional team of conference
organizers. The conference website went online on March 1, 2014,
and participants may benefit from early bird registration. As always,
room contingents have been reserved for the EAJS conference andcan be booked via the conference registration website.
In September 2013, all Calls for Papers were made available toapplicants and on October 1, 2013, the online submission systemfor paper and panel proposals opened. This year, EAJS hosted
the application process for conference papers and panels throughthe EAJS website. For this, we adapted the platform that was
programmed for the Ph.D. workshops. We have received over 450
proposals for all sections, and the selections for most sections
have been finalized. We expect to have all results ready at the endof March, 2014. We are now also working on ways to improve theonline submission system even further. Any comments or recommendations from EAJS members would be highly welcome.
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EAJS Bulletin No. 84 | March 20142014 will also be the year of the EAJS Council elections. We are
accepting nominations until March 24, 2014 and would like toencourage you to nominate candidates you find suited for our next
Council and thank you for your support in advance.
In September 2013, the EAJS held its first EAJS Conference inJapan which was hosted by Kyoto University and combined with aninternational panel discussion at Nichibunken. While the local organizers were in charge of conference registration, hotel reservations
and local conference logistics, the EAJS office took charge of organizing the online submission system for the conference papers andpanels and to cooperate with the section convenors in setting up theconference program. We had over 140 submissions and more than
155 participants from all over the world attended the conference.
Another issue the EAJS office has worked on is the change of the
EAJS constitution which is due to legal requirements stated by the
newly revised German Law on Associations. The office is co-operating closely with a lawyer specialized in association law. The draftof the new constitution will be made available to you for consideration and suggestions in the next bulletin No. 85, to be published in
May 2015. It will also be made available on the EAJS website, andwe will notify you by email via EAJS-L so that all members have time
to read and consider the draft prior to the decision making at theGeneral Assembly in Ljubljana on August 30, 2014.
The next EAJS Bulletin will also include an introduction of the nominated candidates for the Council election.

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The organization of the 10th EAJS PhD Workshop, also to be held in
Slovenia, is keeping us busy as well. We are grateful to David Chiavacci from Zurich University who volunteered to be the organizer ofthe next EAJS PhD Workshop. We have found a quiet and inviting
location for the workshop in the mountains of Slovenia, less than 50
kilometers away from the city of Ljubljana. Here, we would like tothank Nataša Visočnik from the local organizing team for her kind
support in finding the location. We hope that it will be a rewarding
experience for everyone.
All of the work of the EAJS would not be possible without thegenerous and continuing support by the Japan Foundation and the
Toshiba International Foundation. We are delighted and grateful toreport that our applications to the Japan Foundation and the Toshiba
International Foundation for 2013/14 were successful, and that the
EAJS received important grant money to fund the EAJS Office aswell as key activities such as the EAJS PhD Workshop in 2013 andthe Toshiba International Foundation Fellowships in 2013/14. We
have also submitted grant applications to both foundations for the
coming fiscal year 2014/15 and are awaiting the results.
The EAJS Office is looking forward to seeing many of you in
Slovenia in August. Also, please feel free to let us know if you want
to stop by when you are in Berlin and – as always – please do nothesitate to contact us in case of questions and inquiries.
Verena Blechinger-Talcott
EAJS Treasurer, and the EAJS Office Team15EAJS Bulletin No. 84 | March 2014

14th EAJS International Conference, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, August 2014

List of convenors for the 14th EAJS International
Conference 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Section 1: Urban & Environmental Studies
Richard Ronald, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Maren Godzik, Fukuoka University, Japan+++
Section 2: Language and Linguistics
Sven Osterkamp, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Tomasz Majtczak, Jagiellonian University, Poland+++
Section 3: Literature
Subsection: Modern Literature
Ina Hein, University of Vienna, Austria
Simone Müller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
16Subsection: Premodern Literature
Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia, Canada+++
Section 4: Visual and Performing Arts
Subsection: Visual Arts
Ewa Machotka, Leiden University, Netherlands
Amaury García Rodriguez, El Colegio de México, Mexico
Subsection: Performing Arts
Peter Eckersal, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Andreas Regelsberger, Western Michigan University, USA+++
Section 5: Anthropology, Sociology & Media Studies
Subsection: Anthropology and Sociology
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies,Japan
Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, Austria

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Subsection: Media Studies
Griseldis Kirsch,SOAS, University of London, UK
Blai Guarné Cabello, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Spain
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Section 6: Economics, Business & Political Economy
Sebastien Lechevalier,Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, FranceDavid Chiavacci, University of Zurich, Switzerland+++
Section 7: History
Hans Martin Krämer, Heidelberg University, Germany
Ellen van Goethem, Fukuoka, Japan+++
Section 8: Religion and Philosophy
Subsection: Religion
Erica Baffelli, University of Manchester, UK
Anna Andreeva, Heidelberg University, Germany

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Subsection: Philosophy and the History of Ideas
Raji Steineck, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Wim Boot, Leiden University, Netherlands+++
Section 9: Politics and International Relations
Ian Neary, University of Oxford, UK
Paul O’Shea, Lund University, Sweden+++
Section 10: Japanese Languange Education
Noriko Iwasaki, SOAS, University of London, UK
Anca Focseneanu, University of Bucharest, Romania+++
Interdisciplinary Panel Section
Brigitte Steger, Cambridge University, UK
Laura Moretti, Cambridge University, UK

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14th EAJS International Conference, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, August 2014
Calls for Papers
for the EAJS International Conference 2014
Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies(SECTION 1)
Convenors:
Richard Ronald, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Maren Godzik, Fukuoka University, Japan
Theme: Disparities in and between urban and rural spaces
Keywords: urban, rural, housing, disasters, environment
This section considers itself an interdisciplinary forum that deals
with a variety of issues and subject areas normally associatedwith social geography and urban studies: space and place, urban
and regional differences, architecture and the built environment,sociology, architecture, anthropology, cultural geography etc. Oneof our long-standing concerns has been the interaction betweensocial, political and economic change and spatial transformations inJapan. The triple disasters that hit Japan in the spring of 2011 havedrawn particular attention to issues beyond the major cities and theongoing polarization between conditions in the regions and ruralcommunities, and the metropolitan centers of economic and political20

activity. Transformations in the regions have an important impact onwhat goes on in the center, but also reflect common socioeconomictransformations in substantively and manifestly different ways. For
example, policy restructuring and demographic change has had
markedly different impacts in urban and rural places and spaces, as
attention to post-disaster Tohoku has illustrated in the last few years.
The theme of our forthcoming meeting focuses on the differences
between the urban and rural, allowing discussion of metropolitan
and rustic spheres in there own terms, but also in context of eachother and the interactions between.
Call for papers
In our section call for the 2014 EAJS conference, we invite panels
as well as individual papers that address urban and regional topics
in general, but particularly welcome papers that specifically engage
with questions surrounding growing disparities within and between
urban and rural areas. Papers that address the following themes are
particularly encouraged:
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3.11 and its consequences
Housing issues and/or homelessness
Trends and developments in Japanese suburbia
Socioeconomic hot spots and cold spots
Social and economic exclusion
City planning
Architecture and shifting landscapes
Public and private interactions
The market as an engine of spatial change
Urban and spatial disparities in health and welfare
Traffic and transportComparative research, esp. within Asia
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Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at urban@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Richard Ronald
Maren Godzik

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Convenors:
Sven Osterkamp, University of Bochum, Germany
Tomasz Majtczak, Jagiellonian University, Poland
The section “Language and Linguistics” aims to provide a forum forthe presentation of research pertaining to the languages of Japan –Japanese, Ryukyuan, Ainu – and related fields of study. As such weparticularly welcome contributions
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addressing any specific segment in the attested history of theselanguages, from the first extant texts to the present day, or also
their prehistory;
exploring contact situations with neighboring languages or genealogical matters;
concerned with issues in the philological treatment of premodern texts (e.g. critical editions, text encoding, translations);
treating the lexicography of the named languages, both inmodern and pre-modern times, both of the modern language andof the earlier stages;
looking into their written representation – in manuscript form,
print or both –, its diachronic development as well as the interface between language and writing;elucidating the history of the study of these languages, be it inJapan, other parts of East Asia or the West for instance;
as well as contributions belonging to underrepresented areasin general: language stages such as Middle and Early Modern
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tive on e.g. phonetics or morphology also taking into due accountthe interplay of phenomena often treated in isolation, etc.
Needless to say we likewise welcome other contributions thatdeepen our understanding of the structure and history of thelanguages of Japan from e.g. a comparative, descriptive or theoretical perspective.
We especially invite proposals for panels on any of the named topics(usually comprising three related papers), but also abstracts forindividual papers (20 minutes for each presentation, followed by 10
minutes for discussion).
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at linguistics@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Sven Osterkamp
Tomasz Majtczak

Literature
Subsection 1: Modern Literature(SECTION 3a)
Convenors:
Ina Hein, Vienna, Austria
Simone Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
The Modern Literature Subsection invites proposals offering
innovative views on any modern literary authors, texts, genres,
currents and trends, from the Meiji period to the present. We wouldin particular like to encourage contributions which place special
emphasis on reflecting the benefits and limitations of ‘Western’models (such as, for example, naturalism, avant-garde, magicalrealism etc.) and theories (e.g. structuralism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, discourse analysis etc.) for the analysis of modern
Japanese literature.
Proposals for panels are welcome and will be given priority.
However, the section is also open to individual paper proposals.
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There may be up to three presentations and one discussant in a
90-minute panel session. Individual as well as panel paper presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in order to ensure sufficient time
for discussion.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at modern_literature@
eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Ina Hein
Simone Müller

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Subsection 2: Pre-modern Literature(SECTION 3b)
Convenors:
Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Joshua Mostow, UBC, Canada
We cordially invite proposals for papers and panels in the PreModern Literature Subsection. Presentations may be proposed
either as individual papers or as thematically organized panels.
Panels and individual papers will share the program in roughly 50-50
proportion. Proposals from advanced graduate students will beconsidered. Presentations may be given in English or Japanese.
INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS: Individual papers should be no
more than twenty minutes in length. Papers will be grouped by theconvenors, with time allowed for questions and discussion.
PANEL PROPOSALS: A thematically organized panel should consistof three paper presentations of twenty minutes in length followed
either by the comments of a discussant or a longer period forgeneral discussion. It is customary for the panel organizer to act aschair. Your proposal should make clear who will act as organizer andchair. A discussant may not be one of the presenters, but the roles of
discussant and a non-presenting chair can be combined. The panel
should make good use of the 90-minute session and allow time at
the end for questions.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at premodern_literature@
eajs.eu.

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Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Michael Watson
Joshua Mostow

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Visual and Performing Arts
Subsection 1: Visual Arts
(SECTION 4a)
Convenors:
Ewa Machotka, Leiden University
Amaury Garcia Rodriguez, El Colegio de México
Theme: Japan’s visual culture – “national”, “universal”, “local”,“global”, “transcultural”?
The realities of globalization provoke inquiry into the very notion ofculture/art as it questions its classical understanding as a monolithic and hermetic entity, used within the identity politics of nationstates. The efforts to integrate diversity of cultures/arts and cultural
exchanges into an all-encompassing discipline replacing/complementing the Western/modern concept of art history have been developing worldwide. This has resulted in the emergence of the conceptsof “world art studies” (Onians, 1996), “world art history” (Summers,2003) aided by the notion of transculturalism (Welsch, 1997).
But has the discourse on Japan’s visual culture - a classic exampleof the “cultural Other” - reacted to these developments? If and how
has it problematized the notions of “tradition”, “origin”, “authenticity”,“uniqueness”, “appropriation”, “hybridization”, “derivation”, “influence” etc.? How has Japan’s visual culture been narrated, interpreted, presented via academic discourse, writing and curating in
the last few decades? How should it be approached in the future?
Does historicity and a cultural plurality of objects and events allow
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Visual Arts Subsection invites proposals offering innovative views on
the issues revolving around the place of Japan’s visual culture withinglobal art discourse.
Presentations may be proposed as individual papers (20-minutes)
or as thematically organized panels of ca. 90 minutes duration.
Proposals for panels are strongly encouraged. Papers not related tothe outlined topic also will be taken into consideration.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at visual_arts@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Ewa Machotka
Amaury Garcia Rodriguez
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(SECTION 4b)
Convenors:
Peter Eckersall, Melbourne, Australia
Andreas Regelsberger, Kalamazoo, USA
Theme: Dramaturgies of Japanese theatre
Dramaturgy is a term that describes the active processes oftheatre in relation to their historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts.
It describes the means and forms of theatrical expression, thedramatic structure of a play-text and/or performance, and considers
how a play is staged and received by an audience. From the ancient
Greek, dramaturgy relates to some of the world’s oldest theatricalforms and yet is also fundamentally connected to modern andcontemporary performance. In recent times dramaturgy has been
an increasingly important focus of scholarship in theatre and performance studies internationally.
While Japanese theatres of all kinds can be said to have a dramaturgy the term has only recently been introduced in the Japanese
performing arts. Hirata Eiichiro’s Doramaturuku (Sangensha, 2010)
introduced concepts from European dramaturgy to Japanesereaders. Eckersall, Fujii, Takayama and Hayashi have looked at
dramaturgy in the work of the Tokyo based performance collective
Port B (2010). Meanwhile Yoshimi Shun’ya’s Toshi no doramaturugī(Kōbundō, 1987) has focused attention on social dramaturgy in workthat is relevant to addressing civic performances and ritual. Arguably Japan has some of the most important examples of thinking
about dramaturgy: in Zeami’s treaties on Noh, in the development of
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Kabuki and Bunraku, and in the progression of modern and contemporary performances over the last century. Dramaturgical thinking inJapanese theatre can be said to be highly evolved even if the term
itself is ambiguous.
We invite research papers on the dramaturgies of Japanese theatre.
Themes might include:
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The analysis of Japanese theatres from dramaturgical perspectives, including their structures, forms, modes of expression,
semiotics, and poetry.
Rethinking classical Japanese theatres as templates for dramaturgy.
Discussing the forms of Japanese theatre in relation to historical,
aesthetic, political and/or cultural contexts.
How meaning is communicated in Japanese theatres.
Social dramaturgies in history and in the present day, including
civic events, protests, community events and ritual practices.
Popular arts and dramaturgy.
Dramaturgies of modern Japanese theatre in history and in thepresent day.
Global dramaturgies and Japanese theatre and the arts in theworld.
Dramaturgy and contemporary performance including consideration of bodies, dance, media, interdisciplinary performance, newwriting, inter-Asian perspectives.
Dramaturgy and discursive themes in performance including
gender, identity, sexuality, community, globality, capitalism andpower.

Individual papers should not exceed twenty minutes in length.
Panel proposals should be of approximately 90 minutes duration(for example, three twenty-minute papers, followed by ten min.
concluding remarks by a discussant, the remaining minutes being
left for answers and discussion).
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at performing_arts@eajs.
eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Peter Eckersall
Andreas Regelsberger

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Anthropology, Sociology & Media Studies
Subsection 1: Anthropology and Sociology(SECTION 5a)
Convenors:
Barbara Holthus, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Vienna, Austria
Theme: All for the good life - anthropological and sociologicalperspectives on happiness in Japan
What makes life worth living? Ever since in 1961 the OECD beganproviding policy-makers with data and research insight to design
better politics, it emphasized the material aspects of economic
development over the many immaterial factors that shape people’s
more immediate appreciation of life and living. More recently, an
increasing amount of scholarship casts doubt on the equation ofmaterial riches and happiness, both on an individual and a societal level. Nowadays the OECD also concedes that “there is more
to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics”.
Researchers have come to consider citizen’s leisure experience andwork-related accomplishment, their family and social relations, security and environmental standards, welfare issues and religious belief,
among others, to be of utmost importance to balance the materialityof economic factors against social, cultural and other aspects that
equally impact objective conditions and the subjective perceptionsof well-being. But what is the meaning of happiness for Japanese
today and in the past? What is their take on what makes life worthliving? To what degree is the individual’s pursuit of happiness andwell-being constrained or facilitated by society and its institutions?
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We especially invite papers that address the outlined theme andthe cultural variability of happiness and well-being across Japanesesociety and among different social groups. In case of limited timeslots for the session, papers related to the core topic will be preferentially rated. However, other panel and paper proposals are asalways also welcome and will be taken into consideration.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at anthropology@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Barbara Holthus
Wolfram Manzenreiter

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Subsection 2: Media Studies(SECTION 5b)
Convenors:
Griseldis Kirsch, SOAS, University of London, UK
Blai Guarné, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
The newly established section 5b – Media Studies – would like tocordially invite researchers working in the field of Japanese media
and popular culture to submit any proposal dealing with various
media in Japan, stretching from audiovisual to print media and frommanga to anime.
We would particularly encourage submission of thematically co-ordinated panels (consisting of 3 or 4 presenters with or without discussant), but individual submissions will also be considered.
Sessions will normally be 90 minutes long, leaving 15 to 20 minutes
per paper plus 10 minutes of discussion per person.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at media_studies@eajs.
eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.

••All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Griseldis Kirsch
Blai Guarné

Economics, Business and Political Economy(SECTION 6)
Convenors:
David Chiavacci, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sébastien Lechevalier, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris
Theme: Diversity and Institutional Change in the Japanese Economy
The Japanese political economy system has been perceived ashighly homogeneous (although segmented) and stable, because
deeply rooted in a specific cultural and social environment.
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micro level. More precisely, it has been characterized by liberalization but absence of convergence towards liberal capitalism. It meansthat the research program on Japanese economics, business andpolitical economy has to shift from an analysis of the so-called J
model to a study that aims at understanding diversity and institutional change. This perspective requires new concepts and tools ofanalysis in order to capture discrete forms of heterogeneity and tounderstand the underlying dialectic and conflictual dynamics of institutional change and innovation.
We would like to invite individual papers for the following topics onJapanese economics, business and political economy:
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Evolution of the organizational diversity and performance dispersion
Evaluating institutional change, its mechanisms and its outcomes
Linking organizational diversity and institutional change
Decentralization, liberalization, disorganization and coordination
Interests groups, social dynamics, coalitions, conflicts, and politics
Life courses, gender roles, welfare state, and political economy
Diversity and its impact on inequalities
Forms of cooperation and competition in the world economy
The Japanese trajectory in historical perspective and international comparison

Moreover, clearly focused panel proposals are also welcomed toother topics concerning economics, business and political economy
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Post-conference Publication: We are planning to publish the papers
in a special issue of a refereed journal. As the convenors of theeconomic section we are already in contact with publishers andeditors of refereed journals. This would mean that a revised versionof the conference paper must be submitted soon after the conference for the double-blind review process. In case you are wishing to
be considered for the post-conference publication please submit not
only the abstract but also a full manuscript by July 31, 2014.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at economics@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
David Chiavacci
Sébastien Lechevalier
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History(SECTION 7)
Convenors:
Hans Martin Krämer, Heidelberg University, Germany
Ellen Van Goethem, Fukuoka, Japan

Subsection 1: Japan in World History
How has world history impacted upon the Japanese past? How
has Japanese history impacted upon the world? Taking the world
outside the Japanese archipelago into consideration has not always
been a matter of course in the historiography of Japan. Within thecompeting Marxist and modernization theory paradigms, Japanwas viewed as being subject to clearly definable world historical
processes, although in practice studies based on these approaches
frequently operated within the framework of the nation state. Onlyin the last one or two decades has the outside world been broughtback into mainstream Japanese history, largely due to a fresh focus
on Japan’s position within East Asia. Even more recently, the riseof global history in its many forms has begun to be taken up within
Japan, as well as in historical studies of Japan by scholars based
elsewhere, producing studies of episodes in Japanese history from a
global viewpoint.
From the opposite vantage point of world history more narrowly
defined, Japan has receded in importance at the same time as theglobal has come to the fore within Japanese history. While conventional modernization theory would have been impossible without the
only non-Western “success” case, i.e. Japan, and while the multiple
modernities debate still had an important point of origin in historical40

work on Japan, more recent discussions on the “Great Divergence”
tend to regard Asia as meaning China (and perhaps India). The
slow decline in the importance of Japan in geopolitical and world
economic terms since the 1990s, especially in direct comparison
to its immediate neighbor China, is mirrored by the lessened statusaccorded to Japan in narratives, syllabi, and textbooks of world
history.
At the subsection “Japan in World History” of the History Section
at the EAJS 2014 Conference in Ljubljana, we invite scholars
to engage with both approaches sketched above. We welcome
proposals for panels and individual papers that either present
studies on global aspects of Japanese history, including global
processes mediated by East Asian regional structures, or that think
about the place of Japan within studies of world history.
The keynote speaker for the subsection “Japan in World History” will
be Yamashita Norihisa (Ritsumeikan University).

Subsection 2:
Reorientation: Alternative Sources for Japanese History
Written records are traditionally regarded as the principal sources forreconstructing the past. In recent decades, however, an increasing
number of scholars have begun to recognize the value of non-written
sources in developing new knowledge and interpretations. These“alternative sources” include not only items with physical substance,
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fields as archaeology, cultural anthropology, material and visual
culture studies, and oral history.
Historians of Japan have followed this trend toward utilizing alternative sources in order to pose new questions and investigate topics
for which few or no written sources exist, or to supplement thetraditional text-based understanding of the recent and distant pastwith information gleaned from architecture, arts and crafts, clothing,excavations, film and photography, landscape, oral lore, technology,
and so on.
The subsection “Reorientation: Alternative Sources for Japanese
History” of the History Section at the EAJS 2014 Conference in
Ljubljana welcomes proposals for panels and individual papers thateither address the methodological and theoretical questions of why,
when, and how alternative sources can be used to investigate thehistory of the Japanese archipelago, or provide concrete examples
that look beyond traditional text-based approaches and illustrate thepractical usage of alternative sources.
Other paper and panel proposals are also welcome and will be taken
into consideration.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at history@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together with

••a 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Hans Martin Krämer
Ellen Van Goethem

Religion & Philosophy
Subsection 1: Religion(SECTION 8a)
Convenors:
Erica Baffelli, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Anna Andreeva, Heidelberg University, Germany
The Religion Section aims to provide a forum for the discussionof new and innovative research projects on the study of religion in
Japan. We invite proposals presenting new research or studies inearly stage of their development. Presentations may be given in

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English or Japanese and proposals will be peer reviewed by a boardof experts.
For panel proposals, panels should ideally consist of threepresenters or two presenters and a discussant. Panel proposals
should be of approximately 90 minutes.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at religion@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Erica BaffelliAnna Andreeva

44Subsection 2: Philosophy and the History of Ideas(SECTION 8b)
Convenors:
Raji C. Steineck, Zurich, Switzerland
W.J. Boot, Leiden, Netherlands
In this newly created section of Philosophy and the History of Ideas
we intend to cover broadly all sustained intellectual endeavours
within Japan’s intellectual and religious traditions, ranging from
Confucianism and Buddhist philosophy, through Kokugaku andRangaku, to modern academic philosophy and intellectual discourse.
In terms of subject matter, papers may address ideas about ontology
and metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, as well as politics, law, and the sciences. However, we draw the lines at originalcontributions to philosophy. Papers can also explore the nitty-grittyof intellectual production, e.g. the organisation and structure of thescholarly world, and the means of producing, reproducing, and circulating ideas, as well as their bearing on politics and the social order.
As this is the first time that an EAJS Conference has a Section ofPhilosophy and the History of Ideas, we would particularly wantto encourage papers that deal with the „terms of thought“ in thesources explored, i.e. the sources’ own notions and evaluations of
thinking, thought, and ideas. Questions to ask are: What are theelements of thinking? Does one find the counterpart of “our” ideas,
notions, concepts, feelings, or thought-moments? Is thought structured along the lines of categories, doctrines, and theories? What
areas were deemed to be legitimate objects of thought, and how
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the History of Ideas, but in order to do it properly, we have to explore
how this area is and was constituted in Japanese terms.
The proposals for papers will primarily be considered on the groundsof their originality, the freshness of their approach, their relevancewithin the field, and consistency of argumentation. The papers musthave a solid basis in the original Japanese sources.
Papers may be presented in English or Japanese and should notexceed twenty minutes in presentation time. If the paper is to beheld in Japanese, we kindly ask you to prepare both an English anda Japanese version of the abstract.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at philosophy@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Raji C. Steineck
W.J. Boot

Politics and International Relations(SECTION 9)
Convenors:
Ian Neary, Oxford, UK
Paul O’Shea, Lund, Sweden
Theme: Forward Towards the Past? The Domestic and International
Implications of the Return of the LDP
Paper proposals are invited for the forthcoming conference of
the European Association of Japanese Studies 2014 to be held in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The politics and international relations section proposes to focus
at the forthcoming conference on the recent political developments
in Japan and their domestic and international implications. Specifically we welcome papers dealing with topics such as constitutional
reform, Japan’s ‘shift to the right’, 21st century trends in voting
behaviour and party politics, the period of DPJ rule, ‘Abenomics’,
and Japan’s deteriorating regional relations.
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We also welcome papers dealing with a broader set of related
themes, including political transition, regional security, identity politics and the impact of the ongoing global economic downturn.
We are particularly interested in panel proposals, but also strongly
welcome individual submissions on these and related subjects.
Please direct all inquiries to the convenors at politics@eajs.eu.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted no later thanNovember 30, 2013.
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For individual papers, we kindly ask you to submit an abstract ofnot more than 1500 characters.
For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstract of
up to 1500 characters explaining the overall focus, together witha 300 word abstract from each participant; we also need you to
identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous, but be accompanied bypresenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address(es).
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of January 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
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Japanese Language Education:
Association of Japanese Language Teachersin Europe e.V. (AJE) (SECTION 10)
Convenors:
Noriko Iwasaki, SOAS, UK
Anca Focseneanu, Bukarest University, Romania
Theme: Mediating between Languages and Cultures
The AJE is delighted to take part in the forthcoming conference of
the European Association of Japanese Studies 2014.
The AJE will convene this session as the 18th Symposium of Japanese Language Education in Europe on the theme of “mediating
between languages and cultures”, which represents one of theimportant abilities that we aim to promote among learners of Japanese as a second language.
CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, a guideline that
describes achievements for learners of foreign languages, was originally published for language learners and educators in Europe, but
recently it is increasingly used in other countries, including Japan.
“Plurilingualism” and “pluriculturalism” are key concepts embeddedin CEFR and describe attributes to be possessed by competent
language users who are familiar with more than one language andculture. Not only can they switch between two or more languages
and cultures but they could also play an important role in mediating
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We invite paper proposals in the field of Japanese Language andJapanese Language Education, preferably in the following areas ofinterest, which relate to the theme.
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CEFR and JF Standards for Japanese-Language Education 		2010 Language and cultural understanding
Resources and activities for learning Japanese in a plurilingualand pluricultural society
Translation and interpretation in Japanese language education
Translation studies and implication/application to Japanese 		language education

Proposals in other areas of Japanese language education are also
welcomed.
You need to be a member of AJE or EAJS both at the time of application and presentation. Please direct all inquiries to the section
convenors’ email address.
Applicants may do a maximum of two separate submissions provided that at least one of them is co-authored. This means aparticipant can submit up to one single authored abstract and one
co-authored abstract (co-panelist counts as a single author) or two
co-authored abstracts.
Abstracts and panel proposals, in English or Japanese in PDF
format, should be submitted no later than January 31, 2014. You
need to be a member of AJE or EAJS at the time of application.
Please give us both English and Japanese titles when submitting an
abstract.
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abstract in English or Japanese in PDF format. An English abstract(no more than 300 words) or a Japanese abstract (no more than 800
characters). But please note that accepted presenters who submit
Japanese abstracts will be asked to submit an English abstract by
the end of March.
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For panels, please submit the title of the panel and an abstractof up to 300 words, together with a 300 word abstract from eachparticipant. We also need you to identify a chair.
All proposals should be anonymous (i.e. the abstract should notinclude the author’s name and affiliation, nor shall it be printed
on the author’s private or university letter head), but be accompanied by presenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email
address(es) to be entered into a separate form.
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by
mid-March 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.
Noriko Iwasaki
Anca Focseneanu

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Interdisciplinary Panel Section
Convenors
Brigitte Steger, Cambridge University, UK
Laura Morretti, Cambridge University, UK

First introduced at the 13th EAJS International Conference in Tallinn,
the Interdisciplinary Panel Section provides a forum for discussionof research that combines two or more fields of study and therefore,crosses the boundaries of existing sections.
Responsible for panel selection will be Brigitte Steger and Laura
Moretti (Cambridge University).
Please note that only panel proposals and no individual papers will
be accepted for this section.
We would like to ask the chair of a panel to upload all abstractsof the panel’s participants in one pdf file, including the abstract
explaining the overall focus and the interdisciplinary nature of thepanel.
Panel proposals should be submitted no later than January 31,
2014.
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For interdisciplinary panels, please submit the title of the panel
and an abstract of up to 1500 characters (about 300 words)
explaining the overall focus, together with a 300 word abstractfrom each participant. We also need you to identify a chair.

••All proposals should be anonymous (i.e. the abstract should notinclude the author’s name and affiliation, nor shall it be printed
on the author’s private or university letter head), but be accompanied by presenter name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email
address(es) to be entered into a separate form.
Any audio-visual equipment requirements you might have need
to be submitted together with your proposal.

Applicants will be informed of the results of their submissions by theend of March 2014. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit ashort, one paragraph biographical statement.

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Elections of the new EAJS Council

Please help us to find nominees for the elections of the officers andother members of the EAJS Council for the years 2014-2017.
The nomination form will be the same as the one for the last elections in 2011. Please give every thought to nominating a suitable
Council.

Nomination form
Use the form on the following page to nominate members of the
Association for President, Treasurer, Secretary or members of theCouncil for 2014-2017. You do not have to fill in all spaces, butplease write in block letters.
Return the nomination form to the EAJS Office by 24 March 2014,
so that we can check whether the candidates are willing to standfor election. Names of the candidates will be announced in the next
issue of the bulletin.
The completed form should be sent to the following address:
Office of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
c/o Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
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Nomination form

I nominate …………………………………………………………………
as a candidate for President of the EAJS.

I nominate …………………………………………………………………
as a candidate for Treasurer of the EAJS.

I nominate …………………………………………………………………
as a candidate for Secretary of the EAJS.

I nominate …………………………………………………………………
as a candidate for membership in the Council of the EAJS.

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EAJS General Meeting
Time: August 30, 2014,
Place: Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia
As a part of the 14th EAJS International Conference in Ljubljana theCouncil invites all ordinary members of the European Association ofJapanese Studies to a General Membership Meeting as outlined in§ 6 (2) of the current constitution. The General Meeting of the EAJS
will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2014, on the last day of the 14thEAJS Conference in Ljubljana.
(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(2) Constitution modification(3) Matters arising from Council discussions
Please note, as stated in § 6 (2), every ordinary member has theright to bring forward additional items for consideration prior to one
week of the meeting. Urgent matters may added to the agenda
retrospectively.
Please direct any further suggestions to the EAJS Secretary:
frellesvig@eajs.eu.

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15th EAJS International Conference
Call for Conference Site Proposals

The EAJS would like to invite bids to host the 15th International
Conference of EAJS to be held in 2017. EAJS conferences takeplace every three years and are usually attended by more than 500
scholars from Europe, but also from other countries such as theUnited States and Japan. 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 the local organisation of the conference. Previous 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), Tallinn (2011). The conference in 2014
will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia
The selection of the next conference site by the EAJS Council willtake place on the basis of the following set of guidelines:
1.

the likely costs to the participants in terms of participation fee
and hotel charges;

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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.

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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 sevenaspects mentioned above, a budget estimate and possible funding
sources to:European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
c/o Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany
We should point out that the EAJS Council will expect you to present
your proposal at the 14th International Conference in Ljubljana.
Deadline for proposals is 30 June 2014.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!

58Constitutional Change
At the EAJS General Assembly in Tallinn in 2011, EAJS members
approved several changes to the EAJS Constitution. Most of thesechanges have become necessary due to some changes in German
Associations Law which is the basis for the EAJS’ non-profit status(the EAJS is registered as a non-profit organization in Germany).
However, the Register of Associations at the Berlin Court had foundsome (minor, but significant) problems with the text of the new EAJS
Constitution, and it declared the 2011 EAJS Constitution invalid. The
EAJS Office thus sought legal assistance and was advised to draft a
new version of the constitution and to ask EAJS members to vote on
it at the EAJS General Assembly in Ljubljana.
As usual, the General Assembly is scheduled for the last day of
the EAJS International Conference. We are currently in the final
stages of completing the draft, which will then be discussed by the
EAJS Council. The EAJS Office will send out the corrected text of
the EAJS Constitution in due time to all members, and we will also
publish it in the next EAJS Bulletin (Bulletin 85) and make it available
on the EAJS Website for your consideration and survey in earlysummer 2014.
Please do not hesitate to comment on the draft. Please also feel
free to contact the EAJS Treasurer, Verena Ble­chinger-Talcott, if you
have any questions or inquiries related to the EAJS Constitution.

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9th EAJS PhD Workshop, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany, March 7 - 9, 2013

Report on the 9th EAJS
PhD Workshop, Frankfurt,
Germany
Organised by: Prof. Dr.
Cornelia Storz
Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Germany March 07-09, 2013

Report by Academic
Organizer
The 9th EAJS PhD workshop took place in Frankfurt
between March 7 - 9, 2013 incooperation with the Goethe
University Frankfurt. The workshop covered all disciplines
in Japanese Studies from
history and literature to thesocial sciences. It was organized into 7 sessions whichwere made up of the following
topics: triviality and distance(session 1), Japan in Asia
(session 2), From pre-modern
to modern Japan (session 3),
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concepts of modernity (session4), dynamism in Japan’s regulatory framework (session 6)
and management and labour
markets in transition. Additionally, we put emphasis on
constructing spaces and time
for informal social interaction, inparticular by a welcome dinneron Thursday, 7th, a dinner on
Friday, 8th, and in-between
coffee breaks. The logic of thesessions followed the topics
mentioned above, but was
additionally among somewhat
similar disciplines. To give an
example, session 6 on the
dynamism in Japan’s regulatory framework was a politicaleconomic session, with contributions from energy policy,
political science and anthropology. Doing so, the papers
were sufficiently close to be
discussed by one or two supervisors, but also, thanks to thisbroad framework, shed light on
the topic from different angles.
In total, seven professors wereinvited to join the workshop as
academic supervisors: Reiko
Abe-Auestad, University ofOslo, for literature, Michael
Kinski,
GoetheUniversity,Frankfurt, for history of thought,
Paul
Midford,Norwegian
University for Science andTechnology in Trondheim, forpolitical science, Karen Shire,
University of Duisburg-Essen,
for Sociology, Sébastien Lechevalier, École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales(EHESS, Paris), for economics;
Moritz Bälz, Goethe University,Frankfurt, for Law and Sven
Osterkamp, Bochum University, for linguistics. I presented
management science. This
broad range of disciplines
allowed us to give very specificcomments on the PhD papers
presented, as the PhD projects
were very close to the ongoing
research of the supervisors.
The PhD workshop participants

came from a wide range ofEuropean, US American andAsian universities and were
working on issues in diverse
academic fields ranging fromJapanese history and literature
to managerial labour markets
in Japan. This year the number
of applications we received forparticipation in the 9th EAJS
PhD workshop reached 47(despite the relative proximity
to the 8th PhD workshop)and resulted in a total of 16
presenting participants (wehad one cancellation at short
notice).
In addition to facilitating
networking and to establishing contacts among young
scholars, the overall aim of thisPhD workshop was to support
the dissertation projects ofpromising PhD candidates andto provide the students withconstructive feedback on theirdoctoral research by multifaceted points of view. We
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tations were structured in a20+10+10 format: 20 minutes
for the presentation, 10 minutes
for comments by the supervisors, and 10 minutes for open
discussion. There was plentyof time for bilateral discussions between supervisors
and PhD students, which werecarried out during the breaks,
including dinner, lunch, coffee
breaks, or at the farewell eventat the end of the workshop. All
PhD students agreed that they
were able to benefit a lot fromthe supervisors’ comments andsuggestions and the discussions among themselves.
In the final round of the PhD
workshop we organised a
feedback session. The PhD
students commented that they
appreciated in particular:•
The detailed commentsof the supervisors, and thecareful way in which they readthe proposals. The supervisorscommented on the content,
relevance of the topic, method,
and the arguments made.
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This helped the PhD students
toformulate their researchquestions more clearly and to
consider how they will continue
to answer them. The fact thatthe workshop is addressed to
PhD students in the middle
phase of their PhD made thecomments particularly valuable.
•
In the final feedback
round, students were also
informed about other organisations that might be of interested
for exchanging their ideas on
their ongoing research. To date,many students did not haveaccess to this kind of information.
•
Another issue related
to general topics of writing a
PhD such as which method
to choose, which journals to
publish in, and how to publish apaper in an international journal. While some advice was also
given in this workshop, it wasrecommended that in future
an additional workshop
beheld, focusing on methods andacademic writing.

•Finally, the students
highly appreciated the opportunity to create a network ofEuropean
students,
doing
research on Japan. As the
project outlines were sent inadvance to all participants,
and all participants were asked
to read the material of allother students, the exchange
between different disciplines
was made easier. As one
student formulated it: “Evenif some topics were from very
different disciplines, I felt thatthey ‘echoed’ what I did”. To
put it differently, the workshop
also opened up the opportunity– besides the discipline-based
comments from the supervisors– to broaden one’s horizon andto link up one’s own researchwith ongoing research in otherdisciplines.
There were several suggestions by the participants, e.g.
to introduce a section on
methods/ academic writing,to have parallel subgroups
with a supervisor and the PhD

students, to make all project
outlines accessible on the
EAJS intranet, and also somelogistical suggestions to havereimbursement in advancefor those who are in needof it. All these suggestions
will be communicated within
the EAJS. At the same time,
the consensus was that thecurrent format - supervisor ofthe discipline, presentations +comments by the supervisor +open discussion, no separationof the workshop into disciplines,
breaks for informal interaction –is the ideal set-up for the PhD
students and should not bechanged.
In my position as organiser,
I wish to add that I am deeply
grateful for the opportunity toorganise the 9th EAJS PhD
workshop in Frankfurt andthat I enjoyed the discussions with the PhD students
and supervisors. I would liketo thank the organisationalteam, in particular Dr. Susanne
Brucksch and Prof. Verena
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Blechinger-Talcott from the
EAJS office (at Freie Universität Berlin), and Elssy Kiradjieva from the University ofFrankfurt. Finally, I would like tothank all sponsors of this PhD
workshop. The workshop was
funded by the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO),
the Japan Foundation and the
Association of Friends andSponsors of the University ofFrankfurt (VFF), and supportedbytheEuropeanJapan
Advanced Research Network(EJARN). We are very gratefulfor this financial support, andare glad to have had the opportunity to hold the 9th workshop
in Frankfurt.
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration /Interdisciplinary Centre for East
Asian Studies,
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Programme Director+++

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Reports from the
EAJS PhD Workshop
Participants
The preparation for the 9th
EAJS project was a good
opportunity for me to re-think
my dissertation as a whole andto find ways to make it palatable for a broader audience. It
was also my first time to givea presentation in English, andtherefore a chance to evaluate
and practise my skills in thatregard.
The feedback given after thepresentations was always very
thorough and helpful, and it
was obvious that the supervisors had put a lot of time andthought into their comments.
Prof.
Reiko
Abe-Auestad
gave me important advice andnew ideas, and also provided
contact with other researchers.
Since she stayed over the duration of the whole workshop,
we had ample opportunity
between the sessions, at lunch
and in the evening to discuss
my dissertation further. Otherparticipants’ supervisors had
to leave immediately after their
session, so unfortunately thetime to discuss their projects
fell short for some of them.
I was glad to get to know aboutsuch diverse and interesting
topics, impressed by the highlevel of the other participants’research and also happy tomake new friends. The experiences I had in Frankfurt andthe comments of advisors andfellow PhD candidates alikehelped me a lot. I want to thankeveryone who made this workshop possible.
Nora Bartels
University of Heidelberg,
Germany / Osaka University,
Japan
+++
When I applied to the 9th EAJSDoctoral Workshop, I wasparticularly looking forward to
the feedback I would receiveon my own PhD project fromexpert scholars in my field
and the other participants.

However, the workshop turned
out to offer far more than that.
First of all, it was a wonderful
networking opportunity. Doinga PhD can be an isolating
experience so it was especially refreshing to be able tosocialize with other doctoralcandidates over the two days.
Moreover, all the participants’presentations provided me withan update of what is currently
going on in the broader field ofJapanese Studies. Whereas I
tend to attend talks related to
my own topic at conferences,
this workshop was organised
so that everyone listened toand discussed each other’s
presentations on topics from awide range of fields, including
linguistics, literature, history,
business,socialsciences,law,international
relationsand policy making. The feedback given by expert scholars
after each of the talks proved
to be useful for me in termsof methodology, formulationof research questions andother general issues related
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to conducting a research
project. This encouraged me tocontinue to think outside of thebox and to engage more withscholars in Japanese Studies
from fields beyond my own.
The workshop was a uniqueplatform that enabled me toexchangeknowledge
andexperience and to befriend
many young scholars who will,in all likelihood, become myfuture colleagues in the scholarly community of JapaneseStudies in Europe or beyond.
I would therefore like to thankthe Toshiba International Foundation and the Japan Foundation for making this workshop
possible. I would also like toexpress my gratitude to theorganisers at Goethe University in Frankfurt, to Professor
Michael Kinski for his feedback
on my presentation and to all
the senior scholars for theirconstructive comments andencouraging attitude towards
all the participants.

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Mick Deneckere
University of Cambridge, UK+++
The 9th EAJS PhD Workshop
in Frankfurt was an excellent
event that allowed me to comein contact with very knowledgeable and accomplishedscholars, both experienced
academics and fellow PhD
researchers.
As the first event for me toattend as a PhD student, theworkshop was a great opportunity for me to present myinitial thoughts and plans
for research, and get usefulfeedback from my appointed
supervisor as well as my peers.
I found it extremely useful
to attempt to answer questions that people had when I
presented my research project,
as a way of trying to makesense of what the project is
actually about, and what thestrong and weak points are.

The multidisciplinary characterof the workshop allowed me
to engage with many topics
related to Japan that I do not
usually consider. From thispoint of view it was a very
rewarding experience, though
at times it was challenging tofollow all the different specialized arguments. Observing theinteractions between my fellow
PhD researchers and theirrespective supervisors was, forme, very enlightening in relation to the different styles ofsupervision and different waysof conducting research specificto different disciplines.

very insightful and thoughtfulcomments on my research but
also for offering me the opportunity to join SASE. I would also
like to thank Dr. Cornelia Storz
and her team at Goethe University for their excellent organization of the workshop. Not least
I would like to thank all theparticipants in the workshop forthe stimulating atmosphere andthe in-depth discussions both
inside and outside the formal
sessions, during the two days
we spent together.
My final thanks go to the JapanFoundation and the EAJS forsponsoring this event.

Finally, the workshop was
an excellent opportunity for
networking,establishingconnections
with
other
researchers focusing on Japan,
and also joining wider discussions on welfare and capitalisms in Europe.

Oana Druta
University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands

I am extremely grateful tomysupervisor,
Prof.
Dr.
Sebastien Lechevalier for his+++
I want to thank the EAJS, theToshiba International Foundation and the Japan Foundation
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shop for Doctoral Candidates inFrankfurt.
The feedback and suggestions
I received from the other participants and, in particular, frommy individual supervisor, Prof.
Cornelia Storz, were very valuable for the further progress of
my research project. Since I
am still at an early stage with
my dissertation, the advice that
I received certainly helped me
to direct my focus to important
issues, which in a later phasewithout such advice could
have turned out to be very time
consuming.
In general, I was very
impressed by the extent towhich all supervisors had
prepared
theirthoughtfulcomments and suggestions forparticipants of the workshop.
Finally, meeting other doctoralcandidates
fromdifferent
places, and following theirpresentations on topics from a
broad scope of interesting andimportant fields of researchgave me a lot of exciting and68

inspiring input. Even thoughsome topics were very different
from mine, I was neverthelessable to learn a lot, for instancefromthemethodologicalapproaches.
Summing up, the 9th EAJSWorkshop for Doctoral Candidates in Frankfurt was definitely
a beneficial experience for me.
Again, I want to express mygratitude for the great organization of the EAJS before andduring the workshop and for the
Toshiba International Foundation and the Japan Foundation
for their funding of the workshop.
Jens Eilker,
Ludwig Maximilian University
Munich, Germany+++
The 9th EAJS PhD Workshop in
Frankfurt was a valuable opportunity to meet other doctoral
students and experts working
on topics within the JapaneseStudies field. The campus of
Goethe University and the city

of Frankfurt provided a nicesetting for looking closely ateach research project together
with the other participants. I got
a better understanding of how
my own research topic relates
to the broader field of Japanese Studies, learned about
the subject matter that the other
PhD students are working on
and built networks with theother students and establishedresearchers in the field.
The workshop gave us students
good experiences in presenting
our work and discussing thepapers. We were also able
to talk with each other about
our research informally during
coffee breaks, lunches anddinners. I was particularly
happy to receive guidancefrom Professor Paul Midford
and Professor Cornelia Storz
that was based on a deep
knowledge of my field within
Japanese Studies. I am now
entering
theintermediatestage of my PhD project, andfocusing on the issues that theybrought to my attention should
help to ensure that my thesis
meets the required academic
standards. The feedback fromthe other participants, based on
their rich experience of doing
research on Japan, was very
useful as well.
I hope to be able to meet theworkshop participants again
and to share information on our
research and personal careerswith them. I am very gratefulto the EAJS, Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO), theJapan Foundation, assistants
among the students and staff
of Goethe University and eachscholar involved for making thisworkshop possible.
Eivind Lande
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway+++
The 9th workshop for PhD
students of the European Association for Japanese Studies
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that took place on March
7-9, 2013, in Frankfurt wasa refreshingly pleasant andfruitful experience in my PhD
studies so far, and I expect itwill have a wide-ranging impact
on my future academic career.
Beyond the opportunity of
being able to reformulate
my thoughts on Japaneserenewable energy policy in an
increasingly structured manner,
I particularly welcomed theopportunity to have a dedicated discussant who is anactive established researcher
in my policy field. Faced withbusy supervisors, many nonJapanese PhD candidates at
Japanese universities would
equally welcome the chance tobe able to discuss their topics
at length with experts who canprovide constructive input. I
would therefore like to thankPaul Midford, not only for his
response to my formal presentation, but also for making
himself available for further
in-depth commentary and clari70

fication at various times thereafter during the conference.
It was also very pleasant to beable to interact with peers fromother fields who also work on
Japan-related matters. Having
come to political science firstand foremost from the field ofJapan-specific area studies,
this has been a wonderfulexperience to be able to beat the cutting edge of new
research on Japan – to be literally among the first people to
be exposed to aspects of Japanthat had never before been
discussed. I was therefore very
glad to be able to make many
new friends through intense
cerebral discussions on our
individual topics.
The workshop is already paying
off for me, not only through thecomments on my thesis andthe networking opportunities
that had presented themselves,
but also through concrete
academic work. Paul Midford
and I are currently collaborating
on a chapter on energy for ahandbook on Japanese politics,
and he has also volunteered
to be on my PhD evaluationcommittee, which is a proposition I value very much.
Therefore I would like toexpress my gratitude for the
wonderful opportunity of having
taken part in this workshop, andI would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Toshiba International Foundation and theJapan Foundation for having
created this possibility for me
and people like myself to growand develop themselves.
Alexandru P. Luta,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan
+++
The 9th EAJS workshop hosted
by Goethe University has beenan engaging and thoroughly
exciting experience. I believe
one of the main strengthsof this workshop is that itbrings together PhD students

from different disciplines andat different stages of theirresearch, and allows them tointeract in a highly stimulating
multi-disciplinary environment.
Personally, it is this interdisciplinarity that I enjoyed mostbecause it allowed participants
not just to confront themselves with the difficulties theyencountered and engage indiscussion on various subjects
as well as methods, but also
to somehow ‘test’ the communicability of our research andreceive important feedback
from peers.
The second strength lies, ofcourse, in the presence ofsenior and experienced supervisors who provided usefulfeedback to their individual‘supervisees’ and also insightfulcomments during the discussions as well as giving practicaladvice on how to ‘get on’ with
our research. But what I foundparticularly enriching was thefact that the interaction was
not unidirectional but always
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an open and challenging
exchange.
I also enjoyed and appreciatedthe many occasions offered formore informal kinds of discussions, which made it possible
to get to know each otherbetter and exchange views notdirectly related to our research.
For these reasons, I am
grateful to have had the opportunity to take part in the 9th
EAJS workshop and wish
to thank the organizers, inparticular Prof. Cornelia Storz
for being a great host, and the
Toshiba International Foundation and the Japan Foundation for making this possible.
I sincerely hope many repetitions will follow because thisworkshop is a great opportunity for PhD students togrow as researchers and forthe community of JapaneseStudies to continue to develop
and expand.
Fabiana Marinaro
University of Manchester, UK
72+++
First of all, I want to thankeverybody who made the
9th EAJS PhD-Workshop in
Frankfurt, Germany, possible:
the Japan Foundation and the
Toshiba International Foundation for their generous financial
support, Prof. Cornelia Storz,
Susanne Brucksch and Elssy
Kiradjieva for their hard work,organising this workshop and,last but not least, the student
assistants who saved us fromgetting lost in Frankfurt.
Since the signifier ‘Japan’ isbasically the singular common
point of reference of all our
research, it was hardly asurprise that the range ofdifferent PhD topics wasimmensely diverse. Therefore I really want to thank mycolleagues for the hard work
they put into their presentations to make it possible for us
to learn about their research,even though they came fromcompletely
different
fields.

Equally impressive were thecomments given by the supervisors, which, both in quantityand quality, by far exceeded my
expectations.
It may sound strange, but I
experienced the town of Frankfurt itself as a metaphor for theworkshop: in our short walkfrom the hostel to the university,
we walked through the seedy
red-light district, remnants ofclassical high culture, the glassand steel towers of high financeand the gardens of middleclass suburbia. Just like that,the diverse topics discussed
in the workshop showed me
once again how many aspects
there are to Japanese culture
and society. I believe that thedifferentiation in the modern
scientific system sometimes
obfuscates our views andtherefore I hope that the EAJS
PhD Workshop will continue tobring young and experienced
scholars from so many different
fields and disciplines together
and show them that there

is more to Japan than theirresearch projects and disciplines often allow them to see.
Peter Mühleder,
University of Vienna, Austria+++
First of all I would like toexpress my gratitude for having
been invited to 9th EAJS PhD
Workshop in Frankfurt andhaving been given a unique
opportunity to present anddiscuss my research project toa multi-disciplinary audience
within an academic setting.
This interdisciplinary workshop
brought together participants,
PhD students and seniorresearchers alike, from all over
Europe and from such diverse
fields of research as history,
political science, economics,
literature
andlinguistics
amongst others. It goes without
saying that it’s always nice togain insight into fascinating
research beyond one’s own
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discipline. Moreover, this wide
range of different fields ofacademic research offers the
additional advantage that feedback and comments on thepresentations feature a broadarray of different views, too.
Being at the early stages of mydissertation project the plethora
of approaches and methodologies displayed in the comments
and the discussions enabled
me to better understand thestrong and the weak points ofmy own work.
Another nice feature of theworkshop was the common
lunches and dinners thatoffered the opportunity toconverse about the presentations in more detail than was
sometimes possible during thepanel discussion. Despite thetight time schedule and thefairly short duration of the workshop good group dynamics
developed.

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To sum things up: this workshop was a delightful experience. I am therefore very
grateful to the Toshiba International
Foundation
andthe Japan Foundation thatmade this workshop possible
through their funding. I would
also like to thank the organizers and commentators, Prof.
Cornelia Storz, Prof. Michael
Kinski, Prof. Moritz Bältz, Prof.
Sebastien Lechevalier, Prof.
Paul Midford, Prof. Karen Shire,
Prof. Reiko Abe Auerstad andProf. Sven Osterkamp.
Dolf Alexander Neuhaus
Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany+++First of all, I would like toexpress my deep gratitude
to the EAJS for organizing a
constructive and stimulating
forum of discussions. I am also
very grateful to the Toshiba
International Foundation and
the Japan Foundation forsponsoring the workshop in
general, together with generous
financial assistance with eachparticipant’s travel and accommodation expenses.
One valuable feature of theworkshop is its interdisciplinary nature. Participants delivered presentations on a wide
range of topics from diverse
viewpoints, which broadenedmyacademic
perspective
and helped me to reflect on
my research by locating it ina panorama of humanities
and social sciences. Anotherdistinctive feature of theworkshop is that it provides
each participant with effective opportunities to becomeacquainted with the others.
Each presenter stayed in thesame place, and all participants
had exchanges during coffee
break, lunch, dinner, and so on.
After the workshop, a facebook
page was created, and it will
enhance discussions among
participants even after theworkshop ended.

My specialized area of study islinguistics, and to present mywork for non-linguists was achallenge; I had to deliver coreideas of my research without
resorting to theoretical notions
or assumptions. This challenge,
however, served as goodtraining to explain my research
to non-specialists. Further, itclarified essential points of mywork. My advisor at the workshop, Prof. Sven Osterkamp,
gave me valuable comments on
my presentation and also sentme follow-ups by e-mail after
the workshop. I have greatly
benefitted from encouraging
exchanges with my academic
advisor and the audience of
my talk. The EAJS PhD Workshop this year was run very
successfully. This workshop
series, I believe, will continue tobe a fruitful basis for Japanesestudies in Europe.
Tohru Seraku
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford,
UK

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The 9th EAJS Workshop for
Doctoral Students, hosted by
Goethe University, Frankfurt,
provided a wonderful opportunity for interaction between
different branches of JapaneseStudies. Linguistics, althoughoften included among thesocial sciences, might seemremoved from some of its sister
disciplines in terms of methodology and subject matter.
However, this need not be
so. The study of Japanese isrelevant for all scholars within
Japanese Studies, language
being a crucial part of culture
and society in a larger context.
I would imagine that almost
all scholars working on Japan
have an interest in the Japanese language. Drawing attention to our role within the field isthus the responsibility of Japanese linguists, and I believethat the linguistics session heldat this workshop, while brief,
did achieve this goal.

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Linguistics can in turn benefit
greatly from interaction withother fields. The interestingpresentations and discussions
held at the workshop brought
to my attention many issues
relating to Japanese culture
and society of which I was notpreviously aware.
In closing I would like to thankProf. Sven Osterkamp for his
helpful and detailed comments
and suggestions. I was fortunate enough to benefit from
Sven’s help as an undergraduate student years ago, andtruly could not have asked for abetter supervisor on this occasion.
My thanks also go to Prof.
Cornelia Storz and the organizers for their efforts, as wellas to the other participants. In
closing, I would like to acknowledge the funding generously
provided by the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) andJapan Foundation, and thankthem for making this workshop
possible.

vice-versa) but even so, interesting comments popped up.

Axel Svahn
Lund University, Sweden

I am grateful for all thecomments I was given and thewhole program which provided
such a rich source of exchange.
My deepest thanks go to The
Japan Foundation and Toshiba
International Foundation for thefunding, to Prof. Cornelia Storz
and to Prof. Sebastien Lechevalier for their personal support,
Susanne Brucksch and Elssy
Kiradjeva for the organization,and to every participant for thehelpful and supportive environment created by the wholegroup.

+++The 9th EAJS PhD Workshop
in Frankfurt was an excellent
and challenging opportunity topresent my research to a publicfamiliar(sometimes
much
more familiar than myself)with Japan. I was absolutely
delighted to be selected for this.
Thanks to this common experience base related to Japan andthe presence of senior scholars
advising us the workshop
became a truly enriching forum.
I feel that in general it israther difficult to evaluate andcomment on academic workfrom a completely different
discipline(i.e.
somebody
with a business backgroundcommenting the work of acolleague doing literature andBalazs Vaszkun
Corvinus University ofBu­dapest, Hungary+++
The 9th EAJS PhD Workshop
at Frankfurt University brought
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disciplinary environment. I amvery grateful for the opportunity to participate in this unique
workshop. The working atmosphere was most inspiring andthe discussion rounds following
the presentations were highly
supportive and provided mewith detailed and professional
advice for the ongoing research
process.
I would like to express mysincere thanks to my supervisor,
Prof. Sebastien L­ech­ev­ a­lier,
for the invaluable feedback I
received on the methodologicalframework of my PhD project.
I also owe a debt of gratitude
to Prof. Cornelia Storz and to
all other supervisors and fellow
participants. I benefited a lot
from the constructive comments
following my presentation on
the foodbank movement as well
as from the fruitful and inspiring
discussions during coffee breaks
and joint meals.
I highly recommend the EAJS
PhD Workshop to doctoral
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students doing research on
Japan. It is a great opportunity to make contact with otherresearchers, to share individual
research, to rethink open questions and to discuss different
approaches and metho­dologies.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge my sincere gratitude to
the EAJS, the Toshiba International Foundation and the JapanFoundation for sponsoring thisoutstanding, challenging andexcellent programme.
Nadine Melanie Vogel
Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany+++
I feel very fortunate to have been
selected to present my dissertation as a work in progress at
the 9th EAJS PhD workshop at
Frankfurt University. Although I
was only able to attend for one
day, I greatly benefitted from thisexperience.
The workshop allowed me toestablish contacts with otherPhD students from several
universities in and outside ofEurope and get an idea of
ongoing research in the fieldof Japanese studies. The wide
variety of topics presented
created a rather interdisciplinary platform and thus fostereddiscussions and feedback thatare difficult to find elsewhere.
I feel like I benefitted a lot notjust from comments directedat my own work but also thoseaddressed to other presenters
since they helped me identify
similar issues in my own project.
I also found it positive to meet
students at various points intheir research thus benefittingfrom the experience of moreadvancedcandidates
while
being able to give some advice
to workshop participants whoare just entering the field. I foundthe atmosphere very friendly,
fear - free and en­couraging andenjoyed discussions with otherstudents and advisers during
and after the single sessions.

I want to express my deepest
thanks and appreciation to the
EAJS, especially Dr. Susanne
Brucksch, for organizing thisworkshop as well as for her flexibility to take individual issues
into account.
I further want to express mygratitude to the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) and theJapan Foundation for making
this workshop possible andfostering intellectual exchange
at different academic levels.
Lastly, of course, I want to thankall the advisers and experts whoshared their knowledge, especially Prof. Cornelia Storz who
opened her department for thisoccasion as well as all the otherpeople involved in the flawlessorganization of this event.
Silke Werth
University of California, Santa
Barbara, US+++

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I work on the history of borderformation around Japan in thelate nineteenth century, andI was fortunate enough to be
admitted to participate in the
9th EAJS PhD Workshop in
Frankfurt on 7-9 March 2013.
I found this to be a particularly fruitful experience inthe following three respects.
First and foremost this was agreat opportunity to discuss
my research out of the usual
crowd of international historians at my home institution,
who do not necessarily possessmuch background context inJapanese history. It was astimulating experience to havediscussions with fellow doctoral
students on similarities anddifferent angles we take in our
research while working on asimilar period (i.e. late nineteenth century).
Secondly the comments from
Professor Michael Kinski of
Goethe University Frankfurt,
who is an expert on Meiji
Japan, as well as from other80

participants proved to be ofimmense help to my project,as it clarified several standing
issues that I need to address inthe coming few years. I would
also like to thank Professor
Paul Midford of the Norw­egian
University of Science and Technology for his encouraging
comments. Thirdly it allowed
me to get to know fellow
doctoral students who are
conducting intriguing researchin various fields of Japanesestudies all across Europe andbeyond. Such interaction is not
the easiest to find in my homeinstitution where the experts inEast Asia, let alone Japan, do
not constitute a sizable cluster.
I therefore appreciate this rareopportunity to be exposed
to a wide range of researchmethods
andapproaches,
which provided me with achance to revisit some of theways of research that I take for
granted as a historian. I hopethat we - the participants - will
be able to stay in touch in thefuture and see each other atother conferences and so forth.
Last but not least, I would liketo show my sincere gratitude to
the organizers and the sponsors, the Toshiba International
Foundation (TIFO) and JapanFoundation, whose generous
support made this very meaningful event possible.
Takahiro Yamamoto
London School of Economics,
UK+++
The 2013 EAJS PhD workshop
in Frankfurt took place at the
midway point of the second
year of my PhD programme.
After a productive first year, I
have found this second year
much more challenging, interms of setting and reaching
milestones and furthering myresearch. This workshop therefore provided a timely opportunity for me to reacquaint myself
with my thesis. Overall, theexperience definitely reinvigor-

ated my enthusiasm and motivation towards my work.
On balance, the other participants were from fields thatappeared quite distant frommy own. Before attending, I
was therefore unsure what
common threads might link us
all, and how we may be able
to relate to one another across
such diverse fields of research.
Unavoidably, there were occasions when it became difficult tofully understand more specialist
terminology or concepts inother presentations. However,I also found great value in thisexposure to other topics, notonly because it allowed me
to see the wealth of research
currently being carried out
in other academic fields, butalso because it enabled us
as a group to come together
and discover common pointsof concern among us as PhD
researchers, irrespective of ourdisciplines. In Frankfurt, I met
people with whom I may never
have otherwise had occasion
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to meet. I am sure that many of
us will remain friends throughout
our careers, and I look forward
to the next occasion when ourpaths might cross again.
I would like to express mysincerest thanks to the participants, students, supervisors,and organisers, all of whom
provided a supportive and stimulating environment in which I
was able to learn a great manythings. I am particularly gratefulto Professor Reiko Abe Auestad,who showed such interest in myproject and was so generous
with her time during session
breaks and dinners to discuss
my ideas further.
Now that I have returned home,
I am excited to begin implementing those comments andother ideas generated by theworkshop into my ongoing
research framework. Finally,
I wish to extend my gratitude
to the Japan Foundation andToshiba International Foundation for continuing to fund this82

rare yet valuable venue forpostgraduate students with ashared interest in Japan to cometogether.
Victoria Young
Leeds University, UK1st EAJS Japan Conference, Kyoto
1ST EAJS JAPAN CONFERENCE
28th Sept (Sat) – 29 Sept (Sun) 2013
FACULTY OF LETTERS, KYOTO UNIVERSITYPROJECT DIRECTOR
				Prof. Dr. Harald FUESS, Immediate
Past President, EAJSLOCAL ORGANISER
				
				
				
				
				

Prof. Emiko OCHIAI, Ph.D., 			
Kyoto University
Prof. Kimio ITO, Ph.D.,
Kyoto University
Prof. Yasuo DEGUCHI, Ph.D.,
Kyoto University

GREETINGS AND KEYNOTE SPEECH
Sunday (Sept 29, 2013, 16:30-18:00, Auditorium 3/2F – 3講2F)
Greetings by Rein RAUD (EAJS President)
Brief Welcome Remarks by Kyoto University, the Japan Foundation,
and Toshiba International Foundation
KEYNOTE SPEECH by Timon SCREECH (SOAS London, UK)
The Gift of King James’ Telescope to Tokugawa Ieyasu and the startof Japan-British Relations in September 1613
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CULTURAL PROGRAMME
Saturday (Sept 28, 2013, 18:20 Auditorium 3/2F – 3講2F)
PERFORMANCE: 泉鏡花『龍潭譚』妖しくつややかな世界 ― 映
像、朗読、音楽
Performance based on the novel „Ryūtandan: Ayashiku tsuyayakana
seikai” (1896, by Izumi Kyōka) with visual projection, recitation andmusical interpretation.
Sunday (Sept 29, 2013, 18:15-20:30 Clock Tower 2F, Hall Ⅰ＆Ⅱ)
CONFERENCE DINNER と篠笛の演奏
Conference Dinner with a musical performance with bamboo flutes
BOOK CORNER 		
Room 2 and 3 (2nd Floor) – 2演、3演
				
(2F)
LUNCH 			Main Conference Hall (1st Basement –				大会議室 (地下1Ｆ)
				(Only after reservation – お弁当を注文
				
した方だけ)
RECEPTION			

Entrance Area (1st Floor)

Congress Secretariat, Faculty of Letter, Kyoto University
Address: Kyoto, Sakyo Ward, Yoshida-honmachi
住所：京都市左京区吉田本町、京都大学
Telephone – 電話: ＋81-75-753-2758

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SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 THEATRE AND CINEMA•••

Bergmann, Annegret (FU Berlin, Germany), Kōgyō ha mizumono: Theatre Productions in Japan – A Matter of Chance
Grajdian, Maria (Citizen Electronics Ltd, Independent scholar),Discourses of Longing: From strategic emotions to emotional
strategies in Takarazuka Revue’s tour in Berlin (2000)
Cvetkovik, Andrijana (Kyoto University, Japan), The Imaginary Asian Other – Chinese in Japanese cinema, Japanese in
Chinese cinema

SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 MUSIC
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Tokita, Alison (Doshisha University / Kyoto University of the Arts,
Japan), Orality, textuality and media in naniwa-bushi
Giolai, Andrea (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), Learning
A-Way: A Comparative Analysis of the Transmission of Traditional Music in Present-Day Italy and Japan
Flavin, Philip (Monash University, Australia / Osaka University of
Economics and Law, Japan), Suzuki Koson (1875-1931): Melancholia and Modern Music for the Koto
Saito, Kei (The Universtiy of Tokyo, Japan), Shinobu Orikuchis
Musical Aesthetics: Ambivalence toward Japanese Tradition andthe Western Concept
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SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART•••

Zank, Dinah (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Japanese-Indian
artistic exchanges and the British perspective: Considering thevalue of early twentieth century intelligence files and private
documents for art historical research
Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia (Heidelberg University, Germany),
Abstraction in Motion: Dialogue between Postwar Japanese
Avant-garde Calligraphy and Euro-American Action Painting
Fanasca, Marta (Tokyo University, Japan), Matsui Fuyuko andthe dark side of the contemporary Japanese art

SESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS•••

Tothill, Vanessa (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Utagawa Hiroshige: Joururi-related series from the 1840s
Steiner, Evgeny (National Research University, Russia), Japanese Art from European Collections Displaced as a Result of the
WWII: The History and the Current State of the Problem
Maezaki, Shinya (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Creating
Jakuchu with Bamboo and Lacquer: “Traditionality” in Japanese
Decorative Arts of the Twenty-first Century

DAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY•

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Schley, Daniel (LMU Munich, Germany), Europe in mind, Japanin sight? Watsuji Tetsurō’s early thoughts about the Japaneseculture•

Deguchi, Yasuo (Kyoto University, Japan), Nishitani on Emptiness

SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 JAPANESE RELIGION•••

Lin, Peiying (Oxford University, UK), The Reincarnation Story of
Shōtoku Taishi: Buddhist Patriarchs in the Mappō Period
Tamas, Carmen (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan), Smiling
Dolls and Growling Demons: Gods, Jesters and Scapegoats
Porcu, Elisabetta (University of Hawaii, US / University ofLeipzig, Germany), Japanese New Religious Movements
Through Manga and Anime

SESSION 7: 14:30-16:00 JAPAN IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE•••

Suzumura, Yusuke (Hosei University, Japan), Okakura Kakuzō
and the Structure of the Argument over Asia in The Ideal of the
East
Gaitanidis, Ioannis (Chiba University, Japan), Contemporary
Western Esotericism in Japan: Transmission, translation, adaptation
Dessi, Ugo (University of Leipzig, Germany), Japanese Religions
and Global Dynamics

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EAJS SECTION 2: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
LOCAL SECTION CONVENOR: TBC (SAN) AND VIKTORIAESCHBACH-SZABO (SUN)DAY ONE: Saturday (Sept. 28)
SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE••

Matsuhashi, Tomomi (Tokyo University, Japan), Japanese
Women’s Sexuality and Identity on Cell-phone Novels
Kawana, Sari (University of Massachusetts Boston, US), Murder
After Print: Textbooks, Visual Adaptations, and Critique Policièrein Sōseki’s Kokoro

SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 MULTIPLE READINGS AND STAGEPERFORMANCES
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Klopfenstein, Eduard (Zurich University, Switzerland), “My heartis burning for the deepest forest” - Western concepts of nature in
Meiji and Taishō Japan: The case of Wakayama Bokusui
Jonsson, Herbert (Dalarna University, Sweden), Haikai poetry
and the Japanese commentary tradition
Yoshikawa, Junko (Kyoto University / Doshisha University,
Japan), Japonisme Admiring the Japanese View of Nature andits Background in France: Viewed through the Writings of Judith
Gautier and Her Father Theophile
Tokunaga, Mitsuhiro (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan),Stage Effects of Shiroi Kyoto

SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 EUROPEAN AND MODERN JAPANESETEXTS (1)•••Brock, Julie (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan), Stendhal’s
reception and the conception of love in the Japan of Meiji andTaishō
Lavelle, Isabelle (Université Paris-Diderot, France / Waseda
University, Japan) Japanese Modern Writers and European Literature: Inspiration or Imitation? Dazai Osamu’s Sarumenkanja
and the Dilemma of Having to Compose with an Overwhelming
Foreign Influence
Holca, Irina (Osaka University, Japan), Shimazaki Tōson’s“Souvenirs from France” and kokugo education at the beginningof the 20th century

SESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 EUROPEAN AND MODERN JAPANESETEXTS (2)•••Fujiwara, Mami (Kyushu Nutrition Welfare University, Japan),
Lafcadio Hearn’s translation, “Clarimonde” and Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s translation, “Kurarimondo”
Hackner, Thomas (Nara Women’s University, Japan), The longshadow of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene’s silent movie and thereception of German expressionism in Japanese literature
Costa, Emanuela (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Space
without place: Reconfiguring the Eurasian landscape in Tawada
Yōko’s travel fiction

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DAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 RADICALS AND MODERNISTS•••

Hartley, Barbara (University of Tasmania, Australia), From poetry
to the radical left: Japan and Europe in the verse and otherselected writings of Ōishi Seinosuke
Kikuchi, Rina (Shiga University, Japan), Modernism and modanizumu: Self-expression and stylistic challenges in the poetry of
Sagawa Chika (1911-1936)
Hayes, Carol (The Australian National University), Saved by
Dostoevsky: Hagiwara Sakutarō’s ‘year of silence’ and the‘Dostoevsky incident’

PLEASE NOTE: SESSION 5 – LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IS
DISPLAYED IN SECTION 6 (INTERDISCIPLINARY)SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 TEXTUAL ENCOUNTERS: CLASSICALAND MODERN JAPANESE TEXTS
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Bartels, Nora (University of Osaka, Japan / University of Heidelberg, Germany), All fun and games? Implications of Inoue
Hisashi’s transtextual references to Edo gesaku literature
Prindle, Tamae (Colby College, US) and Kobayashi, Kayoko(Ikenobo College, Japan), Blown by the Wind of Time
Citko, Malgorzata (University of Hawaii at Manoa, US), Deconstructing the canon within the canon Significance of various
Manyoshu texts for the early medieval Japanese poetic treatises
and poetry

PLEASE NOTE: SESSION 6 – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (1)IS DISPLAYED IN SECTION 6 (INTERDISCIPLINARY)SESSION 7: 14:30-16:00 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (2)•••Vaage, Goran (Kobe Jogakuin University, Japan), A Comparisonof Japanese and English Humour Structure from a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Hovhannisyan, Astghik (Hitotsubashi University, Japan),
Ophthalmologists and Script Reforms in Modern Japan
Irwin, Mark (Yamagata University, Japan), No English Spoken
Here: The Prohibition of English in Japan 1940-1945

EAJS SECTION 3: ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGYLOCAL SECTION CONVENOR: WOLFRAM MANZENREITER
AND BARBARA HOLTHUS
DAY ONE: Saturday (Sept. 28)
SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 MEDIATED IMAGES IN JAPAN•••

Rivadossi, Silvia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), The
Role of Literature and Art in (re)imagining ‘Shamanism’ inContemporary Japan
Pellitteri, Marco (Kobe University, Japan), When Media (Do Not)
MediateMilne, Daniel Jerome (Kyoto University, Japan), Anglophone
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SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 GENDER DEBATES IN POLITICS, ARTS
AND POPULAR CULTURE•••

Ochiai, Emiko (Kyoto University, Japan), Prime Ministers?
Discourse on Gender since the 1980s: Traditionalization ofModernity rather than Confucianism
Weingärtner, Till (FU Berlin, Germany), How Japanese Wallflowers Turn into Idols Self-Mockery and Self-Revelation of theFemale Comedy Duo Harisenbon
Sandrovych, Tymur (Kyoto University, Japan), Images of Japanese Women in Soviet and Russian Popular Literature

SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 OPEN SESSION••

Takeda, Atsushi (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia),
Japanese migrants’ virtual responses to the Great East Japan
Earthquake
Debnar, Milos (Kyoto University, Japan), Contemporary migration from Europe to Japan: Lifestyle and educationally channeledmigration

SESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 MADE IN JAPAN FOR TRANSNATIONALCONSUMPTION
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Suzuki, Keiko (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Kimono for the
Twentieth-Century Global Market
Occhi, Debra (Miyazaki International College, Japan), National
Kyara: Embodying Japan and the USA
Kopylova, Olga (Kyoto Seika University, Japan), GankutsuōFranchise: Across Cultures and MediaDAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 PERFORMING CULTURE•••

Konagaya, Hideyo (Waseda University, Japan), The “Protection”
of “Japanese Culture” in the National Theatre: Cultural Production in Global Processes
Suzuki, Minori (SOAS London, UK), Performing traditional Japanese music in Germany
Close, Natalie (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan), Religion and
Hierarchy in Japanese Festivals

SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 SUBCULTURES AND SUBVERSIVITY•••

Skutlin, John Michael (The Chinese University of Hong Kong),
Goth in Japan: Meanings in a Japanese Subculture
Antonoka, Olga (Kyoto Seika University, Japan), Possibilities andLimitations of the Subversive in Shōjo Manga
Yui, Kiyomitsu (Kobe University, Japan), Visual Turn of Sociology
and Japanese Animation and Manga

SESSION 7: 14:30-16:00 NORMATIVITIES OF YOUTH AND
BEHAVIOR••

Miller, Aaron (Kyoto University, Japan), Corporal punishment inJapan’s Schools and Sports
Yamamoto, Beverley Anne (Osaka University, Japan),
Constructing youth, constructing youth sexuality: An analysisof two national policies framing adolescent sexual behaviour inJapan and UK93

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Jolivet, Muriel Rita Patricia (Sophia University, Japan), Keywords
Best Used to Describe Japanese Youth During the Past 30 YearsEAJS SECTION 4: HISTORYLOCAL SECTION CONVENOR: ELLEN VAN GOETHEMDAY ONE: Saturday (Sept. 28)
SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 ANCIENT JAPAN AND THE TENNŌ
••Shillony, Ben-Ami (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
The Soft Power of the Japanese Emperors
Kawahara, Azumi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Emishi’s
assimilation and the order of Kai under Ritsuryo kokka in the
8-9th century

SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 EDO
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Olah, Csaba (International Christian University, Japan), Diplomatic practice in 16-17th century Japan? Reactions to the arrivalof the Europeans
Perez Riobo, Andres (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Diplomatic
gifts from sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain to the Japanese authorities
Strange, Mark (Australian National University), The reception of
Zizhi tongjian in Japan
McGee, Dylan (Nagoya University), Wandering the Grove ofBooks: The Journals of Nagoya Physician and Bibliophile Hirade
Juneki (1809-1861)

SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 MEIJI CULTURE• Guan, Wenna (The University of Hong Kong), The Son Adoption
Contract and the Culture of Making Contract• Nootbaar, Julie Joy (Oita Prefectural College of Arts & Culture,
Japan), Aburaya Kumahachi and Beppu Onsen: The Bible, theAutomobile, and Western Influences on the Birth of Modern
Tourism in Meiji JapanSESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 MULTIPLE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES••

Nagai, Kazu (Kyoto University, Japan), Making a full transcriptionof the Diary of KURATOMI Yuzaburo by using a New ICT tool,
SMART-GS
Dornetti, Filippo (Keio University, Japan), Land Conflicts, Arbitration and Colonial Power in Manchukuo: the Manchukuo
Concordia Association in Fǔshùn County, 1932-1942

DAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 JAPAN AND GERMANY••

Schmittpott, Katja (Cambridge University, UK), ‘Deutschmarks
for Osaka’: The Cold War and German economic support forJapan
Ueno, Takao (Wako University, Japan), Images Intertwined:
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Melzer, Jürgen Paul (Princeton University, US), Navigating a
Sea of Change: Germany and Japan’s Emerging Naval Aviation,
1919-1937SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 FASCISM••

Szpilman, Christopher (Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan),
Fascism’s Self Representations in Japan and Germany: The
Origins of Fascist Thought in Japan, 1916-1932
Brown, Roger (Saitama University, Japan), Yasuoka Masahiro’s
World Tour: A Japanese Nationalist’s Representation of European Fascism

SESSION 7: 14:30-16:00 WAR AND CULTURE••

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Stegewerns, Dick (Oslo University, Norway), Officers andGentlemen: Postwar Japanese War Films and Biography
Ginoza, Naomi (Meiji University, Japan), Prewar Japanese
Cinema as Endorsement of Imperial Japan’s Capitalist OrderEAJS SECTION 5: POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,LAW, THE ECONOMY AND URBAN STUDIESLOCAL SECTION CONVENOR: VERENATALCOTT AND SEBASTIEN LECHEVALIERBLECHINGER-

DAY ONE: Saturday (Sept. 28)
SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AFTER
3/11
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Holdgrün, Phoebe Stella (DIJ, Japan), Japan after 3/11: The
effects of becoming political activist
Luta, Paul Alexandru (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan),
Policy replacement in the Japanese renewable electricity policy

SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 JAPAN, CHINA, AND THE UNITEDSTATES•••

Teo, Victor (The University of Hong Kong), Friends With Benefits:
Reassessing Six Decades of US-Japan Alliance
López Vidal i Vidal, Lluc (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
and Pelegín, Àngels (University of Barcelona, Spain), Japan’s
hedging strategy towards the rise of China: Beyond the liberalrealist paradigm
Nagy, Stephen Robert (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Territorial Disputes, Trade and Diplomacy: Examining the Repercussions of the Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute on Bilateral Trade97

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SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS•••

Sano, Mayuko (International Research Center for JapaneseStudies), Rutherford Alcock’s Audience with the Shōgun in 1860,
and the Problems Implied
Gaens, Bart (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland),Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Japan
Fält, Olavi (University of Oulu, Finland), Western newspapers asa globalisation network in the 1860s JapanSESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 DEVELOPING FOREIGN RELATIONS OF
JAPAN
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Kumazawa, Eriko (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan), The
Education of the New Nobility in the Meiji Era: Matsudaira Yasutaka’s Agricultural Study in England
Bytheway, Simon (Nihon University, Japan), Reconsidering the
Yokohama Gold Rush of 1859
Lochman, Daniel (Charles University in Prague, Czech
Republic), Czechoslovak-Japanese Interwar Relations: Disparities within Cooperation
French, Thomas (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), The Seizuresof Japanese fishing vessels in the early postwar period: Japan’s
first post 1945 territorial dispute?

DAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 JAPANESE LAW IN INTERNATIONAL AND
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE••

Chan, Kay-Wah (Macquarie University, Australia) and Ii, Takayuki(Hirosaki University, Japan), Two “Brothers” with Different Fate
- A Historical Analysis of the Professionalization Process of Judicial Scriveners and Attorneys
Colombo, Giorgio Fabio (Nagoya University, Japan), Contemporary Issues in ADR: A Comparison between Japan and Europe

SESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 ECONOMICS
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Kim, Dokyun (Seoul National University Asia Center, South
Korea), A Developmental Bargaining? Tax Cut and Saving as a
Welfare-Finance Nexus in Japan
Lechevalier, Sebastien (EHESS, France), The great transformation of Japanese capitalism (1980-2010)
Nakagawa, Ryohei (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Antinomies
of Corporate ‘Westernization’ after the 1990s in Japan
Tiefenbach, Tim and Kohlbacher, Florian (DIJ, Japan), The triple
disaster of March 11 and its effect on the Japanese people

SESSIONSTUDIES•7:

14:30-16:00

URBAN

AND

ENVIRONMENTAL

Chakraborty, Abhik (Mountainous Region Research Center
Shimane, Japan), Complementarity between Nature Conservation Philosophies in Contemporary Japan and Europe:
Comparing Satoyama Discourse and Deep Ecology
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Vafadari-Mehriz, Kazem (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan), Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems(GIAHS) and Branding Green Tourism Destinations in Japan and
Italy
Van Goethem, Ellen (Kyushu University, Japan), Adopting and
Adapting the Paradigm: Gridiron Cities in JapanEAJS SECTION 6: INTERDISCIPLINARY PANEL SESSIONSLOCAL SECTION CONVENOR: DAVID MERVART (SAT) AND
YULIA MIKHAILOVA (SUN)DAY ONE: Saturday (Sept. 28)
SESSION 1: 9:00-10:30 SEXUALITY AND THE BODY
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Linhart, Sepp (University of Vienna, Austria), Friedrich Krauss
and Sato Kuka: A curious research friendship in a difficult
surrounding
Suzuki, Michiko (Indiana University, US), Remade in Japan:
Early Taisho Translations of British Sexology
Formanek, Susanne (Austrian Academy of Science), Japan’s
place in the international scientific community of the interwar
period: The example of the genesis of the Ogino-Knaus method

SESSION 2: 11:00-12:30 MIGRATION AND INTIMATE CARE
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Akashi, Junichi (Tsukuba University, Japan), Japanese Immigration Policy in Demographic Transition
Wako, Asato (Kyoto University, Japan), Multicultural Policy andDiscourse in East Asia: Comparison of Japan, Korea, Singapore
and Taiwan
Switek, Beata (UC London, UK), Working Intimacies: IndonesianCare Worker Experiences in Japan
Vogt, Gabriele (Hamburg University, Germany), Finding a Fitting
Frame: The (Re)Presentations of Migrant Health-Caregivers inJapan. With brief comments by Glenda Roberts (Waseda University, Japan).

SESSION 3: 14:30-16:00 WARTIME IMAGES IN JAPAN••

Chang, Chianing (University of California at Davis, US), Transnational Propaganda in Wartime Japanese Films (1939-45)
Mikhailova, Yulia (Hiroshima City University, Japan), War inContemporary Manga Imagery

SESSION 4: 16:30-18:00 ART, MUSIC, IMAGES•••

Hirama, Michiko (Toho Gakuen College, Japan), The Meaning of
Performance by Native People: “Musicking” in the Ancient Japanese Court
Park, Giryung (Chung Ang University, South Korea), The reception of “Heidi” in Japan and Korea
Ortiz Moya, Fernando (Tokyo University, Japan) and Moreno,
Nieves (Universidad Autonónoma de Madrid, Spain), Collapsed
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DAY TWO: Sunday (Sept. 29)
SESSION 5: 9:00-10:30 LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION••

Focseneanu, Anca (Bucharest University, Romania), The “LoveHate Relationship” with Foreign Languages in Meiji Japan asreflected in some Meiji writings
Ishikura, Yukiko (Osaka University, Japan), Implementation ofEnglish-Medium Programs at Osaka University in JapanSESSION 6: 11:00-12:30 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (1)•••Hidasi, Judit (Budapest Business School, Hungary), How to
Cope with Paradigm Changes in Japanology?
Seidl, Bernhard (University of Vienna, Austria), Public image oflanguage change in Japan, Germany and Austria
Martony, Eva (Osaka University, Japan), The Changes in Translation Methods of Culture-bound Terms in Hungarian Translations of Japanese Literature+++
PLEASE NOTE: SESSION 6 – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (2)IS DISPLAYED IN SECTION 2 (LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)+++SESSION 7: 14:30-16:00 ACCULTURATION•

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Koma, Kyoko (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Representation of the “Other” through the Mutual Acculturation of
Fashion between France and Japan••

Komisarof, Adam (Reitaku University, Japan), Improving Acculturation Outcomes: Westerners in Japan
Manke, Michaela (Seinan Gakuin University, Japan), Thetranscultural task of linking European and Asian citizen movements as seen in the activities of “The German-Japanese Peace
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Forthcoming Events
10th EAJS PhD Workshop for Doctoral
Students, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014

Call for Applications
Venue: near Ljubljana, Slovenia (Tourist Farm)
Date: August 23-26, 2014
Project director: Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci (University of Zurich)
Language for applications and during the workshop: English
Application deadline: February 28, 2014
To apply please use our online submission system.
The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) invites
doctoral students in all humanities and social sciences to apply
for the 10th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students (August 22-26,
2014). The workshop will take place near Ljubljana in Slovenia
and precede the 14th International Conference of the EAJS at the
University of Ljubljana (August 27-30, 2014). EAJS will cover thecosts of travel (up to € 500) and accommodation for the duration of
the workshop for a group of 15-18 doctoral students and 4-5 seniorscholars who will act as advisers. Moreover, EAJS will also waive
the registration fees of the selected PhD students for the 14th EAJSInternational Conference.

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The EAJS Workshops for Doctoral Students aim to create a European multidisciplinary network of advanced graduate students andsenior scholars in Japanese Studies. The informal environment of
the workshop provides a unique opportunity for participants to work
together intensively to enhance individual projects and engage inin-depth discussions of common themes and methods. Throughpresentations and focused sessions, students give and receive
critical feedback on dissertation projects, fieldwork plans and preliminary results. Students will be asked to read the work of their peers
and prepare for workshop presentations linking their own work to thebroader international Japanese Studies field. Students will also get
one-to-one supervision with a senior scholar in their respective field.

Eligibility
Graduate students working on a dissertation topic related to Japan,
regardless of citizenship, who are enrolled at universities in Europe,and students of European nationality who are enrolled in graduate
programmes outside Europe are eligible. Students travelling to
the workshop from outside Europe should expect no more than
500 Euros to be paid towards their transportation costs. Doctoral
Students from European universities that do not have major centresof Japanese Studies are especially encouraged to apply. Applications are particularly welcome from graduate students in the earlyfieldwork phase through the middle stages of dissertation writing. Allapplicants are expected to have studied the Japanese language andto use materials written in Japanese as sources for their dissertations. Applicants are expected to provide evidence of Japanese
language ability in their applications.

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Application and Selection Process
Please be aware that EAJS uses an online system to manage
submissions for its workshop for doctoral students.
In the first instance your application should consist of a:
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CV
short cover letter (about 200 words), indicating why you wish
to attend the workshop as well as the current state of progressof the doctoral worksummary of the dissertation project (maximum 500 words),
explaining topic, relevance, research question, methodology,
and current stage of dissertation project.

These documents must be submitted via the submission
website by February 28, 2014. Selected candidates will be
notified by April 7, 2014.
Short-listed candidates will then be required to send a project
report (about 5000 words) to David Chiavacci (david.chiavacci@
uzh.ch) by July 1, 2014.
This project report should have the following structure:
1. title and author
2. abstract with keywords
3. current state of research (empirical findings and theories) andresearch gap(s)4. research question of project and its relevance respectively
own motivation
5. theoretical framework, methodology of project, and schedule106

6. hypotheses and/or preliminary results
7. (possible) difficulties in realizing research project
8. quoted literature
It goes without saying that this project report should conform to best
academic practice (language, referencing, etc.). It will be the basis
for the group presentations and discussions as well as for the individual supervision. Note that this second application stage will not becompetitive. Each applicant who sends in a complete and properly
elaborated project report by the deadline will be accepted. However,an extension of the deadline will not be possible since all project
reports need to be sent to all participants. Shortlisted candidates
who fail to submit their progress report will not be admitted to
the workshop.
Accepted candidates will also be required to join the European
Association for Japanese Studies.

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Information from our members
New Books and Articles:
Brigitte Steger, Angelika
Koch (eds):
Manga Girl seeks Herbivore
Boy: studying Japanese
Gender at Cambridge. Series:
Japanese Studies, Vol. 3, LIT
Verlag, 2013.
ISBN 978-3-643-90319-8+++
Ugo Dessi:
Japanese religions and Globalization. Routledge 2013.
ISBN 978-0-415-81170-5+++
Gill, Tom/ Slater, David/
Steger, Brigitte (eds):
３・１１は終わってない、東日本大震災の人類学, Jimbun
Shoin 2013
ISBN 978-4-409-53043-6+++
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Julie Brock (ed.):
Réception et Créativité : Le casde Stendhal dans la littérature
Japonaise moderne et contemporaine. Peter Lang 2013.
ISBN 978-3-0343-1041-3+++
Gebhardt, Lisette/ Richter,
Steffi (eds.):
Lesebuch Fukushima (Fukushima reader; German),
EB Verlag 2013
ISBN 978-3-86893-103-7+++
Getreuer-Kargl, Linhart,
Sepp (eds):
Die Republik Österreich undJapan während der Zwischenkriegszeit 1918 - 1938 (1945),
Beiträge zur Japanologie 42,
Universität Wien, Abteilung fürJapanologie, 2013.
ISBN 978-3-900362-25-6

Items Received
Between January 2013 andDecember 2013, the EAJS
Office received the following
items.
Please contact the EAJS Officein Berlin for further information.

Journals:
MINIKOMI – Informationen
des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan: Schwerpunkt
Okinawa,
No. 82, August 2012
Nanzan Institute for Religion
and Culture: Bulletin No. 37,
2013.

Hum­
anitiesandSocialSciences: Language and Information. Vol. 8, 2013
Osaka Prefecture University,
Departmentof
Language
andCulture,School of Hu­
manities andSocialSciences:
Britishand American Language andCultue. Vol. 8, 2013大阪府立大学人間社会学部、言語文化学科
言語文化学研究、日本語に本文
学編、第８号。２０１３年３月。
ISSN: 1880-5922
PHP:
Japan
September 2013

Close-up.

SOAS, University of London,
Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions: CSJR Newsletter. Issue 24-25, 2012-2013
Osaka Prefecture University,
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Others:Japan Foundation: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln,
Program March/April 2013
Japanisch-Deutsches
Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo:
Indien und Japan: Neue
str­
ategische Partner in Asien.
No. 102, März 2013.
Japanisch-Deutsches
Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo:
Ostasien und die deutsch-japanische Zusammenarbeit. No.
103, Juni 2013.
Japanisch-Deutsches
Zentrum Berlin: jdzb echo:
Der Blick in die Fremde schärft
den Blick auf das Nahe­liegende. Effekte deutsch-japanischer Austauschprogramme.
No. 104, September 2013.
日本政治学会 会報 (The JPSA
News), No. 65, June 2013.
Deutsche Gesellschaft der
JSPS
Stipendiaten
e.V.:

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Neues vom JSPS Club, No.
01/2013, Vol 50.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: JSPS Rundschreiben: aus Wissenschaft
und Forschung Japan aktuell.
01/2013, Vol. 84
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: 2012 - 2013.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: JSPS Quarterly, No. 43, Spring 2013
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: JSPS Quarterly, No. 44, Summer 2013
博報財団: にほんごっ子 特集日
本語の子ども、第八号、
２０１３年四月二五発行、編集タイ
ヒバン。
大阪府立大学人間社会学部、言語文化学科:言語文化学研究、日本語日本文学編、第8号、２０１３
年３月。
ISSN: 1880-5922

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