The	
  Second	
  EAJS	  Japan	
  Conference	  	
  Faculty	  of	
  Letters,	
  Kobe	  University	
  
24	
  –	
  25	
  September	
  2016	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

Conference	
  Programme	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
Supported	
  by	
  The	  Japan	  Foundation	
  

	
  
	
  

	
  

	
  
	
  

GREETINGS	  AND	
  KEYNOTE	
  SPEECHES	
  Saturday	  (24	
  Sept.	
  2016)	
  13:45-­‐14:45,	
  Rokko	
  Hall	  	  Greetings	
  by	
  Professor	
  Bjarke	
  FRELLESVIG	  (EAJS	  President)	
  Welcome	  Remarks	
  by	
  Professor	
  Noriyuki	
  INOUE	  (Vice	  President	
  of	
  Kobe	  University)	
  	
  Keynote	  Speech	
  by	
  Dr	
  Tamotsu	
  AOKI	
  (The	  National	
  Art	  Center,	  Tokyo):	
  
Age	
  of	
  “Cultural	
  Power”	
  ―Japan,	
  Asia	  and	  World	  「『文化力』の時代―日本とアジア・世界」	
 	  Sunday	  (25	
  Sept.	
  2016)	
  13:45-­‐14:45,	
  Rokko	
  Hall	  	  Introduction	
  by	
  Professor	
  Bjarke	
  FRELLESVIG	  (EAJS	  President)	
  Keynote	  speech	
  by	
  Professor	
  Gabriele	  VOGT	
  (University	
  of	
  Hamburg,	  Germany):	
  Crossing	  Borders:	
  Japan	
  and	
  Europe	
  in	
  a	
  Globalized	
  World	  	
  CULTURAL	  PROGRAMME	  Saturday	  (24	
  Sept.	
  2016)	
  18:45,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	
  1F	
  
	
  

Dinner	  Reception	  and	  performance	
  by	  Kamigata	
  Taiko	
  (pre-­‐registration	
  online	  or	
  on-­‐site)	
  	
  PROJECT	
  DIRECTOR	  LOCAL	
  ORGANIZERS	  Professor	
  Bjarke	
  FRELLESVIG,	
  University	
  of	
  Oxford	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

Professor	
  Noriyuki	
  INOUE,	
  Kobe	  University	  Professor	
  Nobuo	  KAZASHI,	
  Kobe	  University	  Professor	
  Yoshikazu	  SUZUKI,	
  Kobe	  University	  Professor	
  Kiyomitsu	
  YUI,	
  Kobe	  University	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

Kobe	
  University,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters	
  Rokkodai	  Second	  Campus	
  Rokkodai-­‐cho	
  1-­‐1,	
  Nada-­‐ku,	
  Kobe	  6570013,	
  Japan	  Phone:	
  +81	  78	  803	
  5561	  Location	
  on	
  Google	
  Maps:	  https://goo.gl/zACbzZ	  VENUE	  LUNCH	  BOOK	
  CORNER	
  Available	
  at	
  the	
  campus	
  restaurant	
  (Bldg.	
  101)	
  from	  11:00	  to	
  14:00	
  on	
  Saturday	
  and	  Sunday	
  (no	
  registration	
  required)	
  In	
  the	
  east	  side	  of	
  the	
  campus	
  restaurant	
  (Bldg.	
  101)	
  
3	
  

	
  

	
  

Access	
  Information	
  ■	
 To Nearest Stations

  
  

●	
  From Airports【Kobe Airport (神 戸 空 港 )】Take the Kobe New Transit Port Liner Line and get off at the last stop “Sannomiya (三宮)” station(time required: 17 min). From “Sannomiya”，take a local train on Hankyu Railways, Kobe Linebound for “Umeda (梅田)” and get off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 5 min).
【Osaka International Airport (伊 丹 空 港 )】Take the Osaka Monorail to the next stop “Hotarugaike (蛍池)” station. From “Hotarugaike,” takethe Hankyu Railways, Takarazuka Line bound for “Umeda (梅田)”．Get off at “Juso (十三)” andtransfer to a train bound for “Sannomiya (三宮)” or “Shinkaichi (新開地)” on the Kobe Line, thenget off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 1hour).
【Kansai International Airport (関 西 国 際 空 港 )】(1) Take JR Kansai Airport Line and get off at “Osaka” station (time required: 1 hour). Transfer to
JR Kobe Line and get off at “Rokkomichi (六甲道)” station (time required: 25 min).
(2) Take the Limousine Bus bound for “Kobe Sannomiya (神戸三宮)” (time required: 65 min).
From “Sannomiya (三宮)”, take a local train on Hankyu Railways, Kobe Line bound for “Umeda(梅田)” and get off at “Rokko (六甲)” station (time required: 5 min).

	
  

●	
  From Shinkansen Departure and Arrival Stations【Shin-Kobe Station (新 神 戸 )】Take a train bound for "Sannomiya (三宮)" on the Kobe Municipal Subway (神戸市営地下鉄) andget off the next stop “Sannomiya (三宮)” station (time required: 2 min). From “Sannomiya”, take alocal train on Hankyu Railways (Kobe Line) bound for “Umeda” and get off at “Rokko” station(time required: 5 min).
【Shin-Osaka Station (新 大 阪 )】Take the JR Kobe Line (JR 神戸線) and get off at “Rokkomichi” Station (time required: 30 min).

5	
  
	
  

	
  

■	
  Around Rokkodai Second Campus（Please refer to the next page for orientation inside the campus）

	 ●	
  From Nearest Stations【By Bus】
Take a Kobe City Bus No.36 (神戸市バス 36 系統) bound for "Turukabutodanchi (鶴甲団地)" or"Turukabuto-Nichome-Domari (鶴甲 2 丁目)" at Rokko, Hankyu Line (阪急六甲) or Rokkomichi,
JR Line (JR 六甲道) or Mikage, Hanshin Line (阪神御影) station and drop off at "Shindai-	
 Bunnrinougakubu-Mae (神大文理農学部前)" (time required: 10 - 25 min).
【By Taxi】
From Rokko sta. (Hankyu): 5 min., cir. 680 yen; from Rokkomichi sta. (JR): 10 min. cir. 1,000 yen.
From Mikage sta. (Hanshin): 10 min., cir. 1,240 yen.
From Shin-Kobe sta.: 15 min., cir 1,640 yen; from Sannomiya sta.: 20 min., cir. 2,120 yen.
【On Foot】
From Rokko sta. (Hankyu): 15 min.	
  

6	
  
	
  

	
  

Rokkodai Second Campus Map	
  

	
  
● 	
  Main	
  venue	
  and	
  Registration	
  【96～98】Faculty	
  of	
  Letters	
  (Bldg.	
  A,	
  B)	
  
● 	
  Sub-­‐venue	  【90】Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture	
  (Bldg.	
  B)	
  【100】Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall	  (Conference	  Rooms	
  L1,	
  L2.	
  2nd	
  Floor)	
  ● 	
  Keynote	  speeches	  	
  【102】Rokko	
  Hall	  ● 	
  Dinner	
  Reception	
  	  【100】Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall	  (1st	  Floor)	
  ● 	
  Lunch	  【101】Restaurant	  ● 	
  Book	  display	  【101】In	
  the	
  east	  side	  of	  Restaurant	
  
7	
  
	
  

	
  

Faculty of Letters	  ●1st Floor
From Campus Gate or Faculty of Agriculture	
  ●2nd Floor

	
  
8	
  
	
  

	
  

●3rd Floor	
  

	
  

Faculty of Agriculture●1st / 2nd Floor

	
  

WC

WC

	
  
	
  
	
  

1st
Floor

B
101
From Gate or
Faculty of Letters

	
  
	
  

2nd
Floor

Entrance

B
204

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

Disabled
Stall

Disabled
Stall

Men’s Room

Men’s RoomEV

EV

Please	  look	  for	
  local	  signs	
  for	
  d irections	
  to	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall	  Conference	  Rooms.	
  
9	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Anthropology	  Anthropology	
  (JAWS)	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Carmen	
  Tamas	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE	
  (Saturday,	
  24	
  September)	  	
  Panel	  I:	  The	
  shifting	
  structures	
  and	
  salience	
  of	
  homes,	
  families	
  and	
  households	
  in	
  Japan	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  Chair:	
  Richard	
  Ronald	
  (University	
  of	
  Amsterdam,	  Netherlands)	
  
•

•
•

Richard	
  Ronald,	
  Oana	  Druta	
  (University	
  of	
  Amsterdam)	
  &	
  Maren	
  Godzik	
  (Fukuoka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Japan’s	  Urban	
  Singles:	
  Negotiating	
  Alternatives	
  to	
  Family	
  Households	
  and	
  Standard	
  Housing	  Pathways	  Lynne	  Nakano	
  (The	  Chinese	
  University	
  of	
  Hong	  Kong,	
  Hong	  Kong):	
  Single	
  Women	
  and	
  Housing	
  Choices	
  in	
  Tokyo,	
  Hong	  Kong,	
  and	
  Shanghai	  Oana	
  Druta	
  (University	
  of	
  Amsterdam):	
  Young	
  adults’	
  pathways	
  into	
  homeownership	  in	
  Tokyo:	
  shifting	
  practices	  &	
  meanings	
  

	
  

Session	  1	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  •••Charly	  Poisson	
  (University	
  Lyon	
  3	
  -­‐	
  Jean	  Moulin,	
  France):	
  Three	
  representations	
  of	
  the	
  family	  in	
  the	
  2000s	
  Japanese	
  cinema	  Nathalie	
  Close	  (Sophia	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Film	  as	
  research	
  methodology:	
  a	
  case	  study	  Maria	
  Ibari	  Ortega	
  (Australian	
  National	
  University,	
  Australia):	
  The	  mothers	
  of	
  men’s	
  tradition.	
  Transmitting	
  local	  heritage	
  from	  the	
  margins	
  in	
  Japan	  	  Session	  2	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	  •••Noriko	  Fujita	
  (Waseda	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  “Hatarakikata”	
  as	
  Discourse:	
  For	
  Whom?	
  For	
  What?	
  Ludgera	
  Lewerich	
  (Heinrich-­‐Heine-­‐University	
  Duesseldorf,	
  Germany):	
  Searching	
  for	  and	
  finding	  a	
  better	  life	  in	
  the	
  countryside?	
  Migration	
  stories	
  from	  rural	
  Japan	
  Gurvan	  Maillard	
  de	
  la	
  Morandais	
  (Hiroshima	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  A	
  study	  of	
  the	
  retiree	
  contribution	
  aspects	
  to	
  the	  revitalization	
  process	
  of	
  Higashi-­‐Hiroshima	
  city	  rural	  areas	
  

10	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Anthropology	
  •Matthew	
  Henry	  Wickens	
  (Toyo	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Work	  as	
  a	
  Survival	
  Strategy	
  for	
  Homeless	  Men	  in	
  Tokyo,	  Japan	  	  Session	  3	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  
•

•
•
•

Andrea	  de	
  Antoni	  (Ritsumeikan	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Call	  Me	
  a	
  Dog:	
  Ritualized	
  Affective	  Correspondences,	
  Inugami	  Possession	
  and	
  Exorcism	
  in	  Contemporary	
  Tokushima	
  Prefecture	
  Alina	
  Radulescu	
  (University	
  of	
  the	
  Ryukyus,	  Japan):	
  Praying	
  for	
  Rain	  in	
  the	  Yaeyama	
  Islands	
  –	
  from	  state	  ritual	
  to	
  revival	
  of	
  tradition	
  Natasa	  Visocnik	
  (University	
  of	
  Ljubljana,	
  Slovenia):	
  Festival	
  as	
  a	
  social	
  movement	
  –	
  Higashi	
  Kujo	  Madang	
  in	
  Kyoto	
  Christian	
  Goehlert	
  (LMU	
  Munich,	
  Germany):	
  Japanese	
  Rituals	
  of	
  Pregnancy	
  and	
  Childbirth	
  between	  Resurgence	
  and	
  Re-­‐Interpretation	  	  Session	  4	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	  •••Björn-­‐Ole	
  Kamm	  (Kyoto	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  Power	
  of	
  100	
  Yen	  –	
  Larp	
  in	
  Japan	  Clothilde	
  Sabre	  (Hokkaido	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  A	
  trip	
  to	
  cuteness	
  or	
  a	
  cute	  trip?	
  The	
  promotion	
  of	
  ‘Kawaii	  Tourism’	
  Kyoko	
  Koma	  (Meiji	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  ‘Legitimation’	
  of	
  Kawaii	
  as	
  a	
  Japanese	
  Culture	
  through	  Perpetual	  Acculturation?:	
  A	
  Case	  of	
  Lolita	  Fashion	  Representations	
  in	
  Tokyo,	  Paris,	
  and	  Otaru	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO	  (Sunday,	
  25	
  September)	  	
  Panel	
  II:	  Creating	  a	
  Sense	  of	  Belonging,	
  Community,	
  and	
  Self	
  at	
  Schools	
  in	
  Japan	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	
  Chair:	
  Jennifer	
  McGuire	
  (University	
  of	
  Oxford,	
  UK)	
  ••Gregory	
  Poole	
  (Doshisha	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Creating	  Community	
  at	  Daycare:	  Deflecting	
  the	
  power	
  of	
  the	
  state	
  	
  
Yuki	
  Imoto	  (Keio	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Revisiting	  International	
  Preschools	
  in	
  Japan:	  Reflections	
  on	
  the	
  evolvement	
  of	
  the	
  self	  and	  the	
  field	
  in	
  ethnographic	
  research	
  

11	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Anthropology	
  ••Jennifer	  McGuire	
  (University	
  of	
  Oxford):	
  Integrated	
  Education	  and	  Integrating	
  Worlds:	
  Deaf	
  and	
  hard-­‐of-­‐hearing	
  Japanese	
  youth	  and	  the	
  creation	
  of	
  ibasho	
  Maki	
  Tsuruta	
  (Soka	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  “Was	  Medicine	
  Taken?”:	
  The	
  function	
  of	
  the	
  category	
  “medicine”	
  and	  the	
  social	
  construction	
  of	
  ADHD	  in	
  Japanese	
  schools	  	  Panel	
  III:	
  Rural	  areas	  in	
  Japan—between	
  decline	
  and	  resurgence	  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  Chair:	
  Ralph	  Lützeler	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna,	
  Austria)	
  
•
•
•
•

Ralph	
  Lützeler	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna):	
  Living	
  conditions	  in	
  Japanese	
  rural	  areas:	
  Stuck	
  
in	
  a	
  downward	
  spiral?	
  Barbara	
  Holthus	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna):	
  Parental	
  well-­‐being	  in	
  Japan:	
  Regional	
  differences	
  Wolfram	  Manzenreiter	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna):	
  Rural	
  well-­‐being	  in	
  Japan:	
  Reexamining	
  the	
  Aggregate	
  Kumamoto	
  Happiness	
  Index	
  Johannes	
  Wilhelm	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna):	
  Vulnerability	
  and	  resilience	
  as	
  seen	
  in	
  a	
  
post-­‐disaster	
  rural	  environment	  	
  Session	  5	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  
•
•
•

Anya	
  Benson	
  (Chuo	
  University):	
  Becoming	
  Purikyua:	
  The	
  creation	
  of	
  commercialized	
  identity	
  spaces	  in	
  the	
  marketing	
  of	
  Purikyua	
  Nicola	  Pietro	
  Bonaldi	
  (University	
  of	
  Milan-­‐Bicocca,	
  Italy):	
  Male	
  at	
  Play:	
  Understanding	  Japanese	  Bishōjo	
  Gēmu	  William	
  H.	
  Kelly	
  (University	
  of	
  Oxford,	
  UK):	
  Religious	
  Encounters	
  in	
  the	
  Rating	
  and	
  Censorship	
  of	
  video	
  games	  in	
  Japan	
  and	  beyond	  	
  Session	  6	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	
  
•
•
•

Eyal	
  Ben-­‐Ari	
  (Kinneret	
  Academic	
  College,	
  Israel):	
  Good	  Repose	
  for	  the	  Military	  Dead:	  Japan	  in	
  Comparative	  Perspective	  David	
  Lewis	
  (Yunnan	
  University,	
  China):	
  Rituals	
  of	
  Sacrifice	
  and	
  Safety	
  in	
  a	
  Japanese	  Factory	
  Sebastien	
  Penmellen	  Boret	
  (Tohoku	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Remembering	
  Disasters	  in	  Japan:	
  Memorials,	
  religion	
  and	  the	
  State	
  

12	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Anthropology	  	
  Session	  7	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B331	
  
•
•
•
•

Emma	
  Cook	  (Hokkaido	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Food	  Rituals	
  and	
  Food	  Allergies:	
  School	
  Lunches	  in	
  Contemporary	
  Japan	
  Garcia	  St.	  Aubyn	
  Chambers	
  (Toyo	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  Ritual	
  of	
  Communal	  Bath	  in	
  Japan:	
  Perspectives	
  from	  a	
  Participant-­‐Observer	
  Marta	
  Elzbieta	
  Szczygiel	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  “We’re	
  cleaning	
  up	
  Japan”	
  -­‐	
  Western	
  Role	  in	
  the	  Social	
  and	  Cultural	
  Construction	
  of	
  Excrement	
  in	
  Japan	  Adrian	  Ovidiu	  Tamas	
  (Osaka	  Electro-­‐Communication	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  Ritual	
  of	
  Hygiene	  and	  the	
  Practice	
  of	
  Purity—Daily	
  Routines	
  of	
  Cleanliness	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

13	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Economy	  Economy	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Simon	  James	
  Bytheway	
  (Nihon	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  

Session	
  1	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	
  	
  
•
•
•

Simon	  James	
  Bytheway	
  (Nihon	
  University):	
  Yasuda	  Zaibatsu:	
  Dissolution,	  Reorganization,	
  and	
  Beyond	  David	
  Rear	
  (Nihon	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Weakening	
  the	
  hegemony	
  of	
  Japanese-­‐style-­‐management:	
  discourse	
  intervention	
  through	  keywords	
  James	  Brady	  (Asia	
  Pacific	
  Institute	
  of	
  Research	
  Osaka,	  Japan):	
  Firms	
  on	
  the	
  farm:	  an	
  ideational	
  political	
  economy	
  analysis	
  of	
  corporations	  in	
  Japanese	
  agriculture	  	  Session	  2	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	  ••Pawel	
  Pasierbiak	
  (Maria	
  Curie-­‐Sklodowska	
  University,	
  Poland):	
  The	
  Role	  of	
  Japan	
  in	
  
East	
  Asian	  Economic	
  Regionalism	  Joey	
  Soehardjojo	
  (Warwick	
  Business	
  School,	
  United	
  Kingdom):	
  Transplantation	  or	
  transforming?	
  Bringing	
  Japanese	
  Management	
  Systems	
  to	
  Indonesia	  	
  Session	  3	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	
  •••Lenka	
  Vyletalova	
  (Sophia	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Adjustments	
  to	
  the	
  neoliberal	
  market:	  ‘global	  human	  resources’	
  development	
  in	
  Japan	
  Ryohei	  Nakagawa	
  (Kyoto	
  University	
  of	
  Foreign	  Studies,	
  Japan):	
  On	
  wage	  negotiation	  power	
  and	
  flat	  wages	
  after	  the	
  2000s	
  in	
  Japan	  Philippe	
  Debroux	
  (Soka	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Elderly	
  workers	
  in	
  Japan	
  and	
  Germany	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

14	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Economy	  Session	  4	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	  ••Claude	  Levi	
  Alvares	
  (University	
  of	
  Hiroshima,	
  Japan):	
  Teachers	
  professionalization	  paradigm	
  in	
  question	
  Kai	
  Macyowsky	  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Precarious	  Employment	
  at	
  Japanese	
  Universities	
  -­‐	
  About	  the	  Work	  and	
  Life	  of	  Hijōkin	
  Kōshi	
  

	
  

15	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
History	
  History	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Harald	
  Fuess	
  (Heidelberg	
  University,	
  Germany)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Session	
  1	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  
•
•
•

Harald	  Fuess	
  (Heidelberg	
  University,	
  Germany):	
  Kobe	  and	  the	
  Meiji	  Restoration:	
  Diplomats,	
  Merchants,	
  and	  the	
  Global	  Arms	  Trade	  Giulio	
  Bertelli	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  role	  of	
  Italian	
  diplomats	  in	
  Japan	
  from	  the	
  end	  of	
  the	
  Edo	  period	  to	
  early	
  Meiji	  era	  (1866-­‐1870)	
  Ian	
  Ruxton	
  (Kyushu	
  Institute	
  of	
  Technology,	
  Japan):	
  Ernest	
  Satow's	
  visits	
  to	
  Japan	  from	
  Siam	  	  Session	  2	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  
•
•

Jürgen	  Paul	  Melzer	
  (Yamanashi	  Gakuin,	
  Japan):	
  From	  Zero	  Fighters	
  to	
  Cherry	
  Blossom	
  Suicide	  Attackers:	
  Japanese	
  Aeronautical	
  Innovation	
  During	
  World	
  War	  II	
  Judit	  Erika	
  Magyar	
  (Waseda	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Advertising	
  in	
  total	
  war:	
  changes	
  in	
  government	
  directives	
  between	
  1938-­‐1945	
  depicted	
  in	
  Shashin	
  Shuho	  	  Panel	  I:	  Ordinary	
  Women	  in	
  Extraordinary	  Times	  	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  Chair:	
  Michiko	
  Ikuta	  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan)	
  Discussant:	
  Yulia	
  Mikhailova	
  (Hiroshima	
  City	  University,	
  Japan)	
  •••Katsumi	  Fujiwara	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Women	
  as	
  Consumers	
  in	
  Harbin	
  –	
  Focusing	
  on	
  Department	
  Stores	  Naho	
  Igaue	
  (Chuo	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Interethnic	
  Marriages	
  in	
  Japanese	
  Novels	
  Set	  in	
  “Manchukuo”:	
  Relationship	
  between	  Russian	  Migrants	
  and	
  Asian	
  People	
  Michiko	
  Ikuta	  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  Imprisonment	
  of	
  Women	  in	
  Siberia	
  

	
  

16	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
History	
  Session	  3	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  
•
•

Sergey	  Tolstoguzov	  (Hiroshima	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Takashima	
  Shūhan	
  and	
  finance	  problems	
  in	
  Japan	
  in	
  Tenpo	  period	
  Petra	
  Palmeshofer	
  (University	
  of	
  Vienna,	
  Austria):	
  The	
  Visualization	
  of	
  History	  in	
  Aesop´s	
  Fables	  in	
  Japan	  -­‐	
  Victorian	
  Illustration	
  versus	
  Kawanabe	
  Kyōsai´s	  Depiction	  of	
  Meiji	
  History	
  in	
  Caricatures	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO:	
  Sunday	  (25	
  September)	  	
  Panel	
  II:	
  East-­‐Asia	  and	  the	  International	
  Order	
  after	  the	  Great	
  War:	
  Prospects,	
  Hopes,	
  and	  Disappointments	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  Chair:	
  Tosh	  Minohara	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  Discussant:	
  Torsten	
  Weber	  (DIJ	
  German	
  Institute	
  for	  Japanese	
  Studies,	
  Tokyo,	  Japan)	
  	
  
	
  
• Clinton	
  Godart	
  (Hokkaido	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Future	
  War	
  and	  Future	
  Peace	
  after	  1919:	  Military	
  Affairs	
  and	
  Religion	
  in	
  the	
  Thought	
  of	
  Ishiwara	
  Kanji	  •Junghoon	
  Lee	
  (University	
  of	
  Ulsan,	  Republic	
  of	
  Korea):	
  The	
  Shanghai	  Provisional	
  Government	
  and	  the	
  Myth	  of	  an	
  Emergence	
  of	
  a	
  Modern	
  Nationalist	
  State	  in	
  Korea	  •Aleksandra	
  Babovic	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  International	
  Order	
  after	  the	  Great	
  War	
  and	  Creation	
  of	
  the	  International	
  Military	  Tribunal	
  for	  the	
  Far	
  East	  	  Session	  4	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  
•

Egas	
  Moniz	  Bandeira	  (Tohoku	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Japanese	
  stances	
  towards	
  Chinese	  constitutionalism,	
  1906-­‐1909	
  Panel	
  III:	
  The	
  structure	
  and	
  function’s	
  transfiguration	
  of	
  the	
  nationalism	
  in	
  Japan	  Chair:	
  Katsuji	  Nara	  (Ritsumeikan	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  ••Katsuji	  Nara	  (Ritsumeikan	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Aizawa	
  Seishisai’s	
  thought	
  of	
  order	
  in	
  
the	
  Bakumatsu	
  Period:	
  through	
  the	
  analysis	
  of	
  mails	
  to	
  his	
  nephew	  Takuma	  Sato	  (Hanyang	  University,	
  Republic	
  of	
  Korea):	
  The	
  Seduction	
  of	  "Nuclear-­‐Nationalism":	
  A	
  Page	  of	  Anti-­‐Americanism	
  nationalism	
  

17	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
History	  	
  Session	  5	
  15:00-­‐17:00	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L1	
  
•
•
•

Takahiro	
  Yamamoto	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	
  Balance	
  of	
  Favour:	
  The	
  emergence	  of	
  territorial	
  boundaries	
  around	
  Japan,	  1861-­‐1875	
  Sigfrid	
  Östberg	  (University	
  of	
  Oxford,	
  UK):	
  Between	  Crisis	  and	
  Innovation:	
  Japanese–
Korean	  Frontier	
  Diplomacy	
  in	
  the	
  Mid-­‐Nineteenth	
  Century	
  Marco	
  Tinello	
  (Hosei	
  University,	
  Japan):	  	
  The	
  Annexation	
  of	
  Ryukyu	
  to	
  Japan	
  through	  the	
  lens	
  of	
  the	
  Ryukyuan	
  International	
  Treaties	  	
  Session	  6	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L2	
  
•
•

Giovanni	  Borriello	
  (Tuscia	
  University,	
  Italy):	
  Women	
  in	
  Japanese	
  medicine.	
  A	
  comparative	
  analysis	
  of	
  women's	
  role	  in	
  medicine	  between	
  East	  and	
  West	  Astghik	
  Hovhannisyan	
  (Hitotsubashi	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  A	
  Rational	
  Coalition?	
  Ōta	
  Tenrei’s	
  Defense	  of	
  Birth	  Control,	
  Eugenics,	
  and	
  Euthanasia	
  

	
  

18	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Interdisciplinary	
  Interdisciplinary	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Bjarke	
  Frellesvig	
  (University	
  of	
  Oxford,	
  UK)	  	  DAY	  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Panel	  I:	  Mapping	
  Trends,	
  Mapping	
  Identities:	
  Material	
  Cultural	
  Exchange	
  Between	  Japan	  and	
  its	  Neighbours	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	
  Chair:	
  Jennifer	
  Coates	
  (Kyoto	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  •••Ikuko	
  Wada	  (Okayama	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Designing	
  National	
  Aesthetics:	
  Seventeenth	
  Century	
  Textile	  Trade	
  between	  Japan	
  and	
  India	  Katsura	
  Koishi	
  (Kyoto	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Cho-­‐cho	
  san	  no	
  kibō:	
  Considering	
  Japan’s	
  Hopeful	  Attitudes	
  to	
  International	
  Encounter	
  Jennifer	
  Coates	
  (Kyoto	
  University):	
  Imported	  Trends	
  on	
  Japanese	  Bodies:	
  American	
  Aesthetics	
  in	
  Postwar	  Japanese	
  Cinema	  	  Panel	
  II:	  Film,	  Journal	
  and	  the	  Japanese	  Empire:	
  Imagining	
  the	  Other	  and	  the	
  Self	  in	
  the	  20th	
  century	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	
  Chair:	
  Fei	
  Chen	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo,	  Japan)	
  •••Jihye	
  Chung	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo):	
  The	
  Imagination	
  of	
  Koreans	
  in	
  Moving	
  Images	
  in	
  Early	  Postwar	  Japan	  Le	
  Wang	  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo):	
  Negotiation	
  between	
  Propaganda	
  and	
  Entertainment:	
  the	
  Imagination	
  of	
  Manchukuo	
  in	
  “National	
  Policy	
  Films”	
  Fei	
  Chen	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo):	
  Locating	
  Yunnan	
  in	
  the	  Qing	
  Empire	
  and	
  Asia:	
  the	
  Geographical	
  Imagination	
  of	
  Chinese	
  Provinces	
  among	  the	
  Chinese	
  Students	
  in	
  Japan,	  1906-­‐1911	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
19	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Interdisciplinary	
  Session	
  1:	
  Cheerleading	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L2	
  
•
•

•

Hirofumi	
  Iwatani	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	  	
  A	
  Case	  study	
  of	
  changes	
  in	
  Japanese	  styles	  of	
  cheering:	
  Focusing	
  on	
  unique	
  body	  performances	
  of	
  a	
  college	
  cheerleading	
  group	  Norio	
  Niwa	  (National	
  Museum	
  of	
  Ethnology,	
  Japan):	
  Cultivating	  a	
  self-­‐disciplined,	  resourceful	  and	  respectable	
  leader:	  how	
  ritualistic	
  behaviors	
  among	
  cheerleading	  groups	  in	
  Japanese	
  universities	
  have	  changed	  Kayo	
  Yoshida	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Engendering	
  “Cheer	
  up!”:	
  Change	
  of	
  Women’s	
  
Role	
  in	
  the	  Japanese	  College	
  Cheerleading	  Groups	  	
  Session	
  2:	
  Japanese	
  Cinema	  	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	  ••Leena	
  Eerolainen	
  (University	
  of	
  Helsinki,	
  Finland):	
  The	  monstrous	
  masculine	  in	
  Japanese	  kaiki	  eiga	  Fernando	
  Ortiz-­‐Moya	
  (University	
  of	
  Nottingham,	
  Ningbo,	
  China):	
  U-­‐Turn	
  and	  the	  pursuit	  of	
  Happiness:	
  the	
  “back	  to	
  basics”	
  Japanese	
  Cinema	  	  Session	
  3:	
  Place	
  and	
  Heritage	  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	  ••Golani	  Solomon	
  Erez	  (Bezalel	
  Academy	
  of	
  Arts	  and	  Design,	
  Israel)	
  and	
  Christian	
  Dimmer	
  (Waseda	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Heritagisation	
  in	
  pre-­‐2020	
  Olympic	
  Tokyo	  —	
  Discourses	
  around	  the	
  City’s	  Modernist	
  Built	
  Legacy	
  Abhik	
  Chakraborty	
  (Wakayama	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Alpine	
  Tourism	
  and	  Place-­‐Making	  in	
  Contemporary	
  Japan	  	  Panel	
  III:	
  Staying	
  Hopeful	
  in	
  the	  Periphery:	
  Multiple	  Marginalization	
  in	
  Rural	
  Japan	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	
  Chair:	
  Hisako	
  Omori	  (Akita	  International	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  ••Chikako	
  Nagayama	
  (Akita	  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Colonial	  Interpretations	
  of	
  
an	
  Aboriginal	
  Girl	  's	
  Life	  and	
  Death	  Sean	
  O’Reilly	
  (Akita	  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Fighting	
  Blind:	
  Zatoichi	
  as	
  a	
  
Symbol	  of	
  Hope	  for	  the	
  Marginalized	
  in	
  Japanese	  History	
  
20	
  

	
  

	
  
	
  
Interdisciplinary	  •Hisako	  Omori	  (Akita	  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  "There	
  is	
  Something	
  about	  Mary":	
  The	
  Global	
  Prominence	
  and	
  Local	  Marginalization	
  of	
  the	
  Marian	
  Apparition	
  in	
  Akita	  	
  Session	
  4:	
  Old	
  Age	
  and	
  Ageing	  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L2	
  
•
•
•

Steve	
  Chan	  (SIM	  University,	
  Singapore):	
  Ageing	
  in	
  Place:	
  Housing	
  for	
  Seniors	
  in	
  Japan	  and	
  Singapore	
  Celia	
  Spoden	
  (Düsseldorf	
  University,	
  Germany):	
  Differing	
  approaches	
  to	
  terminal	
  care	  for	
  people	
  with	  dementia	
  in	
  a	
  Japanese	
  and	  a	  German	
  nursing	
  home	  Maren	  Godzik	
  (Fukuoka	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Old	
  Age	
  and	
  Ageing	
  in	
  Contemporary	
  Japanese	  Art	  	
  Session	
  5:	
  Art	
  and	  Design	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	
  ••Hitomi	  Asano	  (Nagasaki	  Junshin	  Catholic	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  A	
  New	  Interpretation	  of	
  Western	
  Style	  Paintings	
  Found	
  on	
  Folded	  Screens	
  Delphine	  Vomscheid	
  (Ecole	
  Pratique	
  des	
  Hautes	
  Etudes,	  Japan):	
  Zashiki:	
  the	
  essence	
  of	
  the	  Japanese	
  dwelling?	
  	
  Session	
  6:	
  Disaster	
  and	  Recovery	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	
  
•
•

Anna	
  Vainio	
  (Tohoku	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Un-­‐pausing	  Communities	
  in	
  Tohoku:	
  Social	
  Construction	
  of	
  Recovery	
  and	  the	  Future	
  by	
  Grassroots	
  Actors	
  Flavia	  Fulco	
  (Sophia	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Kataribe	
  tours:	
  performance	
  of	
  storytelling	
  in	
  post-­‐disaster	
  Tohoku	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  
21	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Interdisciplinary	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO:	
  Sunday	  (25	
  September)	
  	
  Session	
  7:	
  Contemporary	
  Issues	
  in	
  Japanese	
  Studies	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	  •••Bojana	  Yamamoto-­‐Pavlasevic	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Child-­‐centrism	
  in	  Japan	
  Wolfgang	  Herbert	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokushima,	
  Japan):	
  Schism	
  in	
  the	  Japanese	  underworld:	
  the	  Yakuza	
  on	
  the	
  way	  to	
  extinction	
  Yasuo	
  Shimizu	
  (Doshisha	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Japanese	  Running	
  Taboo	  	  Session	
  8:	
  Popular	
  Culture	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Takigawa	
  Memorial	
  Hall,	  Conference	  Room	
  L2	
  
•
•
•

Maria	  Grajdian	
  (Nagasaki	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Precariousness	
  and	
  Vulnerability:	
  Love,	  melancholia	
  and	
  anomie	  in	
  Makoto	  Shinkai’s	
  anime	
  works	  Marco	
  Pellitteri	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  From	  muscular	
  to	
  feminine,	
  from	  cool	  to	
  kawaii	
  Shifts	
  in	
  trends,	
  meanings,	
  and	
  audience	
  of	
  anime	  in	
  Italy	
  in	
  the	  1990s	
  Kamila	  Sosnowska	
  (Jagiellonian	
  University,	
  Poland):	
  The	
  faces	  of	
  kawaii	  -­‐	  an	
  aesthetical	
  trend,	
  a	
  social	
  device	
  and	
  globalised	
  culture	  	  Session	
  9:	
  Nikkei	
  and	  Japanese	
  Abroad	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	  ••Yvonne	  Siemann	
  (University	
  of	
  Lucerne,	
  Switzerland):	
  Undokai	
  in	
  the	  Japanese	  diaspora:	
  the	
  example	
  of	
  Bolivian	
  Nikkei	  Ana	
  Sueyoshi	
  (Utsunomiya	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Second	  Generation	
  of	
  South	  Americans	
  in	
  the	  Japanese	  Higher	  Education	
  System	
  and	  their	
  Academic	
  Performance	  	
  Session	  10:	
  Rural	
  Renewal	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B204	
  •Rebecca	
  Ferderer	
  (Nagoya	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Extending	
  the	
  Protection	  of	
  Geographical	
  Indications	
  to	
  Non-­‐Agricultural	
  Products	
  as	
  a	
  Strategy	
  for	
  Rural	  Revitalization	
  in	
  Japan	
  
22	
  

	
  

	
  
	
  
Interdisciplinary	
  •Kenji	  Nagasaka	
  (Doshisha	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Can	  Japanese	
  greening	
  NGO	
  be	
  an	
  
integrator	
  of	
  scientific	
  knowledge	
  transfer	
  for	
  afforestation?	
  Case	  of	
  Green	
  Earth	  Network	
  Japan	  	  Panel	
  IV:	
  Imagined	
  Landscapes	
  and	
  Boundaries:	
  Negotiating	
  Cultural	
  Geography	
  through	
  
Film	
  
15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	  of	
  Agriculture,	
  Room	  B101	
  Chair:	
  Anastasia	
  Fedorova	
  (Hokkaido	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  •••Hironori	
  Itoh	  (Kyoto	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Expressway	
  and	  the	
  Shinkansen:	
  Images	
  of	
  Tokyo	
  in	
  the	  Films	
  of	
  Ozu,	
  Wenders,	
  and	
  Kiarostami	
  Mari	  Sugawa	
  (Nara	
  Prefectural	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Struggle	
  of	
  Female	
  Independence	
  in	
  Postwar	
  Kyoto	  Cinema	  Anastasia	
  Fedorova	
  (Hokkaido	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Documenting	
  the	
  Border:	  Imperial	
  Japanese	
  Cinema	
  and	
  Its	
  Depiction	
  of	
  Sakhalin	
  (Karafuto)	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

23	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Language	
  and	
  Linguistics	
  Language	
  and	
  Linguistics	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Anna	  Bordilovskaya	
  (Rikkyo	  University,	
  Japan)	
  
	
  

DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Session	
  1	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B135	
  
•
•

Mark	
  Irwin	
  (Yamagata	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Rendaku	
  and	  Labial	
  Lenition	
  Junko	  Hayashi	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	
  The	
  Types	  of	  Intentional	
  Interrogatives	  in	
  Modern	  Japanese	
  Language	  	
  Session	  2	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B135	
  	
  
•
•

Anna	
  Bordilovskaya	
  (Rikkyo	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Foreign	  Culture	
  Frame	  in	
  Contemporary	
  Japanese:	
  A	
  Corpus-­‐based	
  Case	  Study	
  of	
  Loanword	
  Modifiers	
  Bernhard	  Seidl	
  (Vienna	
  University,	
  Austria):	
  Negotiating	
  description	  and	  prescription:	
  Language	
  criticism	
  in	  Japanese	  newspapers	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO:	
  Sunday	  (25	
  September)	
  	
  Session	  3	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B135	  ••Ekaterina	
  Levchenko	
  (Independent	
  Researcher,	
  Russia):	
  "Kojiki"	  and	  "Nihon	
  Shoki"	
  songs:	
  New	
  academic	
  translations	
  in	
  Russian	
  with	  glossing	
  and	  morphemic	
  analyses	
  Julie	
  Brock	
  (Kyoto	
  Institute	
  of	
  Technology,	
  Japan):	
  How	  to	
  translate	  a	
  poem	  "poetically"	  or	
  "the	  meaning	
  of	
  the	
  meaning"	
  –	
  The	
  example	
  of	
  a	
  waka	  of	
  the	
  Man'yōshū	
  (Book	
  9,	
  n°1778)	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

24	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Language	
  and	
  Linguistics	  Session	  4	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B135	  ••Martin	  Parsons	
  and	
  Mark	  D.	
  Sheehan	
  (Hannan	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Promoting	
  active	
  learning	
  through	  collaborative	
  problem-­‐solving	
  at	
  a	
  university	
  student	  conference	
  in	
  Japan	
  Blanche	
  Sylvie	
  Delaborde	
  (INALCO,	
  France):	
  The	  Expressive	  and	  Narrative	  Power	  of	  Graphic	
  Onomatopoeia	
  in	
  Japanese	
  Comics:	
  the	
  example	
  of	
  Bonobono	
  (1986-­‐Today)	
  	
  Panel	  I:	  Internships	
  for	
  Teaching	
  Japanese	
  as	
  a	
  Foreign	
  Language,	
  Portfolios	
  and	
  E-­‐learning	  	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B135	
  Chair:	
  Richard	
  Harrison	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  •••Masao	  Sanehiro	
  (Kobe	
  University):	
  Internships	
  in	
  Teaching	
  Japanese	
  As	
  a	
  Foreign	  Language	  Miyako	  Kiso	  (Kobe	
  University):	
  Portfolios	
  in	
  Teaching	
  Japanese	
  As	
  a	
  Foreign	
  Language	
  at	
  The	
  University	
  of	
  Hamburg	
  –	
  a	
  case	  study	  using	
  Literary	
  Works	
  Richard	
  Harrison	
  (Kobe	
  University):	
  Portfolios	
  in	
  the	
  Teaching	
  of	
  Japanese	
  as	
  a	
  
Foreign/Second	
  Language	  -­‐	
  E-­‐Portfolios	
  and	  Flipped	
  Classrooms	
  

	
  

25	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Literature	
  Literature	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Paul	  Schalow	
  (Rutgers	
  University,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Panel	  I:	  From	  Modernism	
  through	
  Digital	
  Culture	
  in	
  Japan:	
  Poetry	
  and	  the	
  Visual	  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  Chair:	
  Jordan	
  A.	
  Y.	
  Smith	
  (Josai	  International	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
•

•
•
•

Tanya	  Barnett	
  (University	
  of	
  California,	
  Los	
  Angeles,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America):	
  The	
  
Red	
  of	
  Putrefying	
  Decadence:	
  Landscapes	
  of	
  the	  Interior	
  and	
  Exterior	
  in	
  the	  Works	  of	
  Murayama	
  Kaita	
  Marianne	
  Simon-­‐Oikawa	
  (University	
  of	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	
  Poetry	
  and	  Space:	
  The	
  Collaborative	  Poems	
  of	
  Niikuni	
  Seiichi	
  and	
  Pierre	
  Garnier	
  Andrew	
  Campana	
  (Harvard	
  University,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America):	
  Moving	
  Hands,	
  Still	  Feet:	  Japanese	
  Poetry	
  and	
  Visualizing	
  Disability	
  Jordan	
  A.	
  Y.	
  Smith	
  (Josai	  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Visual	
  Poetry	  of	
  Contemporary	
  Japan:	
  Medium+Message	
  /	
  Analogue+Digital	
  Modes	  	
  Session	  1	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  ••Laura	
  Imai	  Messina	
  (Tokyo	
  University	
  of	
  Foreign	  Studies,	
  Japan):	
  Material/Immaterial,	
  Useful/Useless	
  Dichotomies	
  in	
  Kusuri	
  yubi	  no	
  hyōhon	  by	
  Ogawa	  Yōko	  Elena	
  Giannoulis	  (Free	  University	
  of	
  Berlin,	
  Germany):	
  Forms	  and	  Functions	  of	  Emoticons	
  in	
  Japanese	
  Literature	  	  Session	  2	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  ••Alina	  Anton	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  Asian	  Body	  in	
  North	  American	
  Context:	
  Visual	  and	
  Literary	
  Racialization(s)	
  Tomoko	  Aoyama	
  (University	
  of	
  Queensland,	
  Australia):	
  The	
  Significance	
  of	
  Girls'	
  Intertextuality	
  in	
  Nogami	  Yaeko's	
  Mori	
  

26	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Literature	
  •Kathryn	
  M.	
  Tanaka	
  (Otemae	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Literature	
  as	
  Social	
  Activism	  and	
  Reconciliation:	
  Survivor	
  writing	
  and	  the	
  meaning	
  of	
  Hansen’s	
  disease	  in	
  Japan	  	  Session	  3	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  ••Dylan	
  McGee	  (Nagoya	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Cures	
  for	  the	  Common	
  Reader:	  Advertisements	
  for	  Cosmetic	
  and	
  Medicinal	
  Products	
  in	
  the	
  Daisō	
  Rental	
  Books	  (1767-­‐
1899)	
  Mario	
  Talamo	
  (Ecole	
  Pratique	
  des	
  Hautes	
  Etudes,	  France):	
  The	
  sleep	
  of	
  reason	
  produces	
  monsters:	
  katakiuchimono	
  and	  the	
  sunset	
  of	
  Kansei	
  ideology	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO:	
  Sunday	  (25	
  September)	  	
  Panel	
  II:	
  Female	
  Homosocial	
  Bonds	
  in	
  Modern	
  Japanese	
  Literature	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	
  Discussant:	
  Yoriko	
  Kume	  (Nihon	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
•
•
•
•

Junko	  Yamada	
  Noro	  (Ochanomizu	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Female	
  Relationships	
  in	
  Takeo	
  Arishima’s	
  Kurara	
  no	
  shukke:	
  Representation	
  of	
  Christianity	
  in	
  Japanese	
  Literature	
  Yumi	
  Kikuchi	  (Ochanomizu	
  University):	
  The	
  heroine‘s	
  desire	
  for	
  female	
  bonding	  in	
  Nomizo	  Naoko’s	
  novel	  Jojū	  Shinri	
  Shoko	
  Haga	  (Ochanomizu	
  University):	
  Tightening	
  bonds	
  between	
  women:	
  serialized	
  novels	  in	
  women’s	
  magazines	
  of	
  Taishō	
  and	
  early	
  Shōwa	
  Letizia	
  Guarini	
  (Ochanomizu	
  University):	
  Are	
  Women	
  Their	
  Own	  Worst	  Enemies?	
  Female	  Bonds	
  in	
  Kakuta	
  Mitsuyo’s	
  works	  	
  Session	  4	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	
  
•
•
•

Yuko	
  Kawarai	  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  reception	
  of	
  “The	  Tale	  of	  Genji”	  regarding	
  laments	
  for	
  empress	
  consort	
  Kenshi	  Paul	  Schalow	
  (Rutgers	
  University,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America):	
  Memory	
  of	
  Fujiwara	
  no	
  Yorinaga	  (1120-­‐1156)	
  Berenice	  Moeller	
  (University	
  of	
  Hamburg,	  Germany):	
  Practices	
  of	
  re-­‐binding	
  in	
  early	  Edo	
  illustrated	
  manuscripts	
  

27	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Literature	  	  Session	  5	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  ••Irina	
  Holca	
  (Kyoto	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Home	  Is	
  Where	
  Mother	
  Is,	
  and	  the	  Way	
  to	
  a	
  
Man’s	
  Heart	  Goes	  through	  His	
  Stomach:	
  Bodies	
  in	
  the	
  Kitchen	
  (Yoshimoto	
  Banana)	
  Toshio	  Takemoto	
  (University	
  of	
  Lille,	  France):	
  Murakami	
  Haruki	
  and	  the	
  novel	  writer's	
  literary	
  expression	
  of	
  political	
  involvement	  	
  Session	  6	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B232	  •••Larry	  Walker	
  (Kyoto	
  Prefectural	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  “Voice”	
  in	
  the	
  Knopf	
  Translation	  of	
  Mishima	
  Yukio’s	
  Spring	
  Snow	  Stefan	
  Wuerrer	
  (The	  University	
  of	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	
  Negotiations	  on	
  Femininity	
  in	
  the	
  Literary	  Works	
  of	
  Kusama	
  Yayoi	  Azumi	
  Kawahara	
  (Ritsumeikan	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  “Kachiku-­‐jin	
  Yapoo”	
  and	  Post-­‐War	
  Historiography:	
  Relation	
  between	
  Syozo	
  Numa’s	
  Masochism	
  and	  Japanese	  History	  	  Session	  7	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B234	  •••Pieter	  Van	
  Lommel	
  (University	
  of	
  Tsukuba,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  educational	
  novel	  in	
  Meiji	  Japan	  Akiyo	
  Suzuki	
  (Kanazawa	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	
  ingestion	  and	
  rewriting	
  of	
  Japanese	  classical	
  literature	
  inside	
  the	  English	
  drama	  of	
  Torahiko	
  Kori	
  Mami	
  Fujiwara	
  (Yamaguchi	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Plagiarism	
  or	
  Rewriting?—Osamu	
  Dazai’s	
  literary	
  collage,	
  Onna	  no	
  Kettō	  (A	  Woman’s	  Duel),	
  a	
  Re-­‐told	
  Story	
  

28	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Politics	
  Politics	
  Section	  Convenor:	
  Ayako	
  Kusunoki	
  (International	  Research	
  Center	
  for	  Japanese	
  Studies,	
  Japan)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Panel	  I:	  Japan’s	  Postwar	
  Path	  from	  the	  Paradigm	
  of	
  National	
  Security:	
  The	
  Shifting	  Patterns	
  of	
  US-­‐Japan	  Strategic	
  Relations,	
  1950s-­‐1980s	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	
  Chair:	
  Nam	
  Chang-­‐hee	
  (Inha	  University,	
  Korea)	
  Discussants:	
  	
   Yasuyo	
  Sakata	
  (Kanda	
  University	
  of	
  International	
  Studies,	
  Japan)	
  	
  
and	
  Chisako	
  T.	
  Masuo	
  (Kyushu	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
•
•
•

•

Tomoaki	  Hagito	
  (Kobe	
  University;	
  Japan):	
  U.S.-­‐Japan	
  Relations	
  within	
  the	
  Context	  of	
  American	  Security	
  Interests	
  in	
  East	  Asia	  during	
  the	
  1950s	
  Shiro	
  Sato	  (Osaka	
  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Nuclear	
  Disarmament	
  and	
  Nuclear	
  Umbrella	
  in	
  US-­‐Japan	
  Relations	
  Ayako	
  Kusunoki	
  (International	  Research	
  Center	
  for	  Japanese	
  Studies,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Establishment	
  of	
  the	  Japan	  Foundation	  and	
  U.S.-­‐Japan	
  Relations	
  during	
  the	
  early	  1970s	
  Wataru	  Yamaguchi	
  (Doshisha	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Formation	  and	  Development	
  of	
  Reagan’s	  Foreign	  Policy	
  toward	
  Japan	
  during	
  the	
  1980s	  	
  Session	  1	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	
  ••Nissim	  Otmazgin	
  (The	  Hebrew	
  University	
  of	
  Jerusalem,	
  Israel):	
  From	  Colonial	
  Power	  to	
  Soft	  Power:	
  Japan's	
  Cultural	  Policy	
  in	
  Asia	  Tets	
  Kimura	
  (Flinders	
  University,	
  Australia):	
  Japanese	
  fashion	  limited:	
  Its	  soft	  power	  (in)ability	
  in	
  Australia	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

29	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Politics	
  Panel	
  II:	  Japan’s	
  Proactive	  Engagement	
  in	
  the	  International	
  Development	
  and	
  Peace	
  Cooperation	  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	
  Chair:	
  Raymond	
  Yamamoto	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan)	
  	
  • Carla	  Bringas	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Japan's	
  aid	
  food	  security	
  strategy:	
  comparing	
  strategies	
  in	
  Cerrado	  and	
  Prosavana	  • Misato	
  Matsuoka	
  (The	  University	
  of	
  Warwick,	
  Japan):	
  Japan’s	
  Proactive	
  Pacifism	  and	  the	
  ODA	  Policy:	
  Changing	
  Foreign	
  and	
  Security	
  Policymaking?	
  • Masumi	  Owa	  (Nagoya	
  College,	
  Japan):	
  Japan’s	
  aid:	
  self-­‐interest	
  or	
  enlightened	
  self-­‐interest	
  • Raymond	
  Yamamoto	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Japan’s	
  Security	
  Reforms—
Implications	
  for	  the	
  Country’s	
  Peacekeeping	
  Engagement	  	
  Session	  2	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	
  
•
•

Jan	
  Niggemeier	
  (Freie	
  Universitaet	
  Berlin,	
  Germany):	
  Embrace	
  the	
  Global,	
  but	
  How?	
  -­‐	  Japanese	  Social	
  Movements	
  as	
  Strategic	
  Agents	
  in	
  Transnational	
  Diffusion	
  Ioan	
  Trifu	
  (Goethe-­‐University	
  Frankfurt-­‐am-­‐Main,	
  Germany):	
  Japan’s	
  Cultural	  Heritage	  Policy:	
  Postwar	  Identity	
  Politics,	
  Residual	
  Tensions,	
  and	
  Emerging	
  Governance	
  

	
  
DAY	
  TWO:	
  Sunday	  (25	
  September)	  	
  Panel	
  III:	
  Civil	  Society	
  and	  Reconciliation	
  in	
  Northeast	  Asia	  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	
  Chair:	
  Sayuri	
  Guthrie	  Shimizu	
  (Rice	
  University,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America)	
  	
  • Lily	  Gardner	
  Feldman	
  (Johns	  Hopkins	
  University,	
  United	
  States	
  of	
  America):	
  German	
  Civil	  Society	
  and	  Reconciliation:	
  Lessons	
  for	  Japan?	
  • Seiko	
  Mimaki	
  (Kansai	
  Gaidai	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Emerging	
  Global	
  Epistemic	  Community?	
  The	  Possible	  Roles	  of	
  Scholars	
  in	
  Northeast	  Asian	
  Reconciliation	  • Andrew	  Horvat	
  (Josai	  International	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Japanese	
  News	  Media’s	
  
Role	
  in	
  Historical	
  Reconciliation	
  –	
  a	
  Question	
  of	
  Sustainability	
  

30	
  
	
  

	
  
	
  
Politics	
  	
  Session	  3	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	  ••Susanne	  Brucksch	
  (DIJ	
  German	
  Institute	
  for	  Japanese	
  Studies,	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	  Innovation	
  Governance	
  in	
  the	
  Field	
  of	
  Medical	
  Technologies:	
  The	  newly	
  founded	
  Japan	
  Agency	
  for	
  Medical	
  Research	
  and	  Development	
  (AMED)	
  Hadas	
  Kushelevich	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Future	
  Reputation	
  of	
  Japan’	
  Pharmaceutical	
  Market	  	  Session	  4	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B231	  ••Tatsuro	
  Chiba	
  (Pompeu	
  Fabra	  University,	
  Spain):	
  Japan’	
  Foreign	  Policy	
  in	
  the	  Post	  Cold	
  War	  Period	  David	
  Adebahr	
  (LMU	
  Munich,	
  Germany):	
  Abe's	
  pivot	
  south	  –	
  implications	
  for	  Japan's	
  current	
  security	
  policy	
  in	
  Asia	
  

	
  
	
  
	
  

31	
  
	
  

	
  
Religion	
  and	
  Philosophy	  Religion	
  and	
  Philosophy	  Section	  Convenor:	
  Christian	
  Hermansen	
  (Kwansei	
  Gakuin	
  University,	
  Japan)	
  
	
  
DAY	
  ONE:	
  Saturday	
  (24	
  September)	
  	
  
	
  
Session	
  1	
  09:00-­‐11:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B334	
  ••David	  Malitz	  (Assumption	
  University,	
  Thailand):	
  Discipline	
  and	
  progress:	
  Thai-­‐
Buddhist	
  modernity	
  and	
  its	
  imaginations	
  of	
  the	  Japanese	
  Christian	
  Hermansen	
  (Kwansei	
  Gakuin	
  University):	
  Shinreisan	
  or	
  the	
  Thomsen	
  Farm	  -­‐	  the	
  story	  of	  a	  mission	
  project	
  in	
  Japan	  	  Session	  2	
  11:15-­‐12:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B334	
  •Michiko	  Hirama	  (Toho	
  Gakuen	
  College,	
  Tokyo,	  Japan):	
  Sumai	  (相撲)	
  Rituals	
  as	
  Imperial	
  Performance	
  Ceremonies	
  in	
  the	
  Ancient	
  Japanese	  Court	  (seventh	
  to	
  tenth	  century):	
  Introduction	
  of	
  the	
  Chinese	  Baixi	  (百戯)	
  Festival	
  and	  the	  Social	  Importance	  of	
  Konoefu	
  (近衛府)	
  Music	
  and	  Dance	  •Paola	
  Cavaliere	
  (Osaka	  University,	
  Japan):	
  Testing	
  the	
  empowerment	
  thesis:	
  a	
  typology	
  of	
  Religious	  Civil	  Society	
  Organizations	  in	
  Japan	
  	
  

	
  
Session	  3	
  15:00-­‐17:00,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B334	
  
•
•
•

Jon	
  Morris	
  (Komazawa	
  Women's	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  Toward	
  a	
  Social	
  and	  Intellectual	
  History	
  of	
  Mokujiki	  Roman	  Pașca	  (Kanda	
  University	
  of	
  International	
  Studies,	
  Japan):	
  Nature	
  as	
  an	
  
ontological	
  principle:	
  on	
  Ando	  Shoeki’s	  concept	
  of	
  gosei	  (“mutual	
  natures”)	
  Jordanco	
  Sekulovski	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  The	  Way	  of	
  Kâta:	
  Rethinking	
  Selfhood	
  through	
  Japanese	
  and	
  Non-­‐standard	
  philosophy	
  

	
  
	
  
32	
  
	
  

	
  
Religion	
  and	
  Philosophy	  Session	  4	
  17:15-­‐18:30,	
  Faculty	
  of	
  Letters,	
  Room	  B334	  ••Claudia	
  Marra	
  (Nagasaki	  University	
  of	
  Foreign	  Studies,	
  Japan):	
  Hanjimono	
  (判じ物	  )	
  leading	
  to	
  Enlightenment	
  -­‐	
  The	  Pictural	
  Heart	  Sutra	
  (般若絵心経	  )	
  Mihaela	
  Lacramioara	
  Sighinas	
  (Kobe	
  University,	
  Japan):	
  On	
  the	  Interpretation	  of	
  Pilgrimage	
  Songs	
  in	
  Early	  Modern	
  Japan	
  

	
  

33