<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The Eleventh Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) will be held on June 23-24, 2007, at the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/2007/access.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001EE6"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Shirokane campus of Meiji Gakuin University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, Tokyo. For the conference schedule, please see: <A href="http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/2007/">http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/2007/</A> Below are the panels that seemed of especial interest to those of us in film and media studies. And sure enough, there are some KineJapan members presenting!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Session 10: Room 1456</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Visualizing Asian Modernity: Reality and Fantasy in Japanese and Chinese Films</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Organizer / Chair: Esther Yau, Occidental College</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">1) Naomi Ginoza, Tsurumi University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Japanese Women as Ideological Icons: Japan's 1930s for Wome</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">n</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2) Esther Yau, Occidental College</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Relentless Landscapes and the Crisis of Vision in Chinese Cinema: 1947 to 1948</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">3) Tze-Yue G. Hu, University of Oklahoma</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Animating for "Whom" in the Aftermath of a World War?</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">4) Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Oberlin College</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Screening Taipei with Love: A Comparative Reading of Chen Yuhui's and Chen Kuo-fu's "The Personals"</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Session 15: Room 1453</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Individual Papers: Images and Reception in East Asia</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">1) Joyleen Christensen, The University of Newcastle</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"Pan-Asian Andy": Andy Lau Tak-Wah Between Local and Global Cinema</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2) Dinah Roma-Sianturi, De La Salle University</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Travel Narratives on Japan</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">3) Shuk Ting Yau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Nostalgia and Anticipation: A Case Study of Contemporary Japanese Melodrama</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">4) Nana Okura, Yale University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Cultural Heroes or Social Shame? Recontextualizing Popular Reception of the Japanese Hostages</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">5) Setsuko Buckley, Whatcom Community College</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Teacher Perceptions on Teaching Moral Values in Japan</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Session 17: Room 1456</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Visual Connections of East Asia: Views and Visions</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Organizer / Chair: JungBong Choi, New York University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">1) Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Carleton University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Blood and Bone: Traffic in the Ethnic Film</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2) JungBong Choi, New York University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ennobling the Savage and Savaging the Noble: Biopolitics of Yon Sama</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">3) Jooyeon Rhee, York University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Na Un-Kyu's Film Arirang and the Making of a National Narrative in South and North Korea</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Discussant: Ayako Saito, Meiji Gakuin University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Session 26: Room 1457</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Cultural Data: New Media and Visual/Print Culture in Postmodern Japan</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Organizer / Chair: Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">1) Jennifer Prough, Valparaiso University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Shojo Manga in Cyberspace: The Shojo Manga Industry and New Media Competition</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2) Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Database Consumption and "Animalized" Subjects in Kobayashi Kyoji's Fiction</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">3) Ko Lun Chen, National Chiao Tung University</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Un-working Inclination: An Open Identity in Murakami Haruki's</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> A Wild Sheep Chase</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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