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[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

KineJapanners will especially be interested in Panel No. 20.

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From: Patricia Sippel <psippel at icu.ac.jp>
Subject: Asian Studies Conference Japan

Fourth Annual Meeting - Asian Studies Conference Japan
June 24-25, 200
Sophia University (Ichigaya Campus)
Tokyo, Japan


All scholars of Asia are invited to participate in the fourth annual
meeting of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), which will be held 
at
the Ichigaya campus of Sophia University on June 24-25, 2000.

ASCJ was founded in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary scholarly exchange 
in
an English-language format and to broaden communication among Japan-based
scholars of Asia.  In March 1999 it was formally affiliated with the
Association for Asian Studies as the first regional conference of the
Association based outside North America.  This year, for the first time,
ASCJ will extend over two days. Professor Susan Mann of the University of
California at Davis, past president of AAS,will give the keynote address
on Saturday June 24.  Her talk will be followed immediately by a reception
to which all participants are invited.

Because we anticipate a significant increase in the number of participants
this year, we ask you to pre-register.  The conference fee for those who
pre-register is 3,000 yen.  An additional 2,500 yen is required for the
reception on June 24.   If you are currently in Japan, please pay the
registration fee of 3,000 yen by June 14, 2000.  Include an additional
2,500 yen if you plan to attend the reception.  Payments should be made by
bank transfer (ginko furikomi) to the following account: Tokyo Mitsubishi
Bank, Mitaka Branch, Ordinary (futsu) account number 1106823.  After
completing the transfer, please send an e-mail message (subject "confirm")
to ascj at max.icu.ac.jp and let us know your name, affiliation,
discipline/region of research, and the amount you have paid.  (If you do
not have access to e-mail, you may send the relevant information by fax
(0422-33-3633) or by regular mail.)  If you are not currently in Japan,
simply send an e-mail message (subject "confirm") telling us whether or 
not
you will attend the reception and confirming that you will pay on the day
of the conference.  In order to encourage pre-registration and 
pre-payment,
we have instituted a 500 yen surcharge for Japan residents who register on
the day of the conference.  This surcharge does not apply to 
out-of-country
participants.

Registration and distribution of materials will open at 9:15 a.m. on June
24.  Please come early.  Light refreshments will be available.  The
conference will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m.

For the complete program, list of inexpensive hotels close to the
conference site, and other relevant information  see the ASCJ homepage at
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/ascj01.htm  or contact the executive
committee at  ascj at max.icu.ac.jp

Executive Committee Members:
Linda Grove, Sophia University (President)
Yoshiko Ashiwa, Hitotsubashi University
Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
John Clammer, Sophia University
Junko Koizumi, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University
Robert Seward, Meiji Gakuin University
Patricia Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
M. William Steele, International Christian University
David Wank, Sophia University

PROGRAM: FOURTH ANNUAL ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN
June 24-25, 2000

I. SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS  10:00 A.M. - 12:00 NOON

1. Immigration Policy Towards East Asians in the United States and the
Russian Far East: A Comparative Perspective
Chair:  Yasuo Sakata, Osaka Gakuin University
1) Yasuo Sakata, Osaka Gakuin University.  "Conflicting Attitudes Toward
Overseas Migration of Japanese Laborers during the Meiji Period"
2) Toshihiro Minohara, Kobe University.  "Japanese Exclusion and Domestic
Politics: A Reevaluation of the Enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924"
3) Igor R. Saveliev, Niigata University.  "Russia's Regional Policy 
Towards
East Asian Immigrants 1860-1916"
Discussant: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University

2. Frightening Women: Women's Agency and the Production of Fear in
Twentieth Century Japan
Chair: Michael Dylan Foster, Stanford University / Kanagawa University
1) Michiko Suzuki, University of Tokyo.  "Modernity's Monstrous Bildung:
Naomi's Education in Chijin no ai"
2) David Averbach, University of California, Berkeley.  "Edogawa Rampo's 
Moju"
3) Takashi Lep Ariga, Kanagawa University.  "Teasing Societies: Male
Rhetorical Strategies in Response to Female Activism"
4) Michael Dylan Foster, Stanford University / Kanagawa University.  "'Am 
I
Pretty?' Rumors, Fear and the Legend of Kuchi-sake-onna"
Discussant:  Gretchen I. Jones, University of Maryland.

3. Social Welfare Movements and Religion in Japan
Chairs:  Stephen Covell, Princeton University and Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya,
University of Tokyo
1) Betsy Dorn, University of Hawai'i.  "Christianity, Patriotism, and
Reform:  A Look at the Japan Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the
Meiji Period"
2) Inaba Keishin, Tokyo University / London University.  "Altruism and
Charitable Activities of New Religions in Japan:  Theoretical 
Perspectives"
3) Ranjana Mukhopadhy, University of Tokyo.  "The Social Activities of
Rissho Kosei kai"
4) Stephen Covell, Princeton University.  "Lighting Up Tendai"
Discussant:  Shimazono Susumu, University of Tokyo

4. Redefining Korean Histories and Identities:  Academic, Literary, and
Media Considerations
Chair:  C. Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne
1) Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University. "The 'New Korean Woman': Japanese and
Korean Images of Liberation"
2) Kristine Dennehy, The University of California at Los Angeles.  
"Postwar
Resident Korean Historical Narratives"
3) C. Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne.  "Kim Sok Pong's
Karasu no Shi: History, Identity and Subjectivity"
Discussant:  Barbara Brooks, City University of New York

5.  Individual Paper Session:  Trans-national Economic Trends in the
Asia-Pacific Region
Chair: To be decided
1) Ishioka Neyede Sati, University of Tsukuba.  "Japan's Role in the
International Political Economy after the Cold War:  A Case Study of ODA 
to
Latin America"
2) Aida Macia Lissa, University of Tsukuba.  "Industrial Restructuring and
Regional Division of Labor:  Japanese Electronics production Networks in
Southeast Asia"
3) Mauricio Lorence, Sacred Heart University (USA).  "The Japanese
Immigration to Brazil and its Contributions to Agribusiness in Brazil"
4) Yasuba Yasukichi, Osaka Gakuin University.  "Assessing the Economic
Growth of the Asian NIEs, 1966-1997"
5) Byung-ok Kil and Richard Robyn, Kent State University.  "Lessons of
European Integration for the Asia-Pacific Economic Area:  A Leadership 
Role
of Japan"

II. SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS  1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.

6. Problems in Introducing Educational Reform and Democratic Content and
Practices during the Allied Occupation of Japan
Chair:  Harry Wray, Nanzan University
1) Harry Wray, Nanzan University.  "Teacher Education Reform During the
Allied Occupation of Japan"
2) Gary Tsuchimochi.  "A Study on the Introduction of 'General Education'
in Postwar Japanese Universities"
3) Reiko Yamamoto, Meisei University.  "Educational Purge Policy During 
the
Allied Occupation"
4) Fumiyo Nakagawa,  Miyagawa Junior High School.  "Teacher Education
Reform During the Allied Occupation of Japan"
Discussant:  Toshio Nishi, Reitaku University.

7. The Politics and Art of Religious Persuasion in Medieval and Early
Modern Japan
Chair:  Lorinda Kiyama, Nagoya University
1) Ive Aaslid, Stanford University.  "Visual Memory and Salvation in the
48-Scroll Honen Shonin Eden"
2) Kevin Gray Carr, Kyushu University / Princeton University.  "Who is
Saved by Shotoku?"
3) Lisa Grumbach, Stanford University.  "Visions of Amida: Scenes and
Stories of Popular Faith in Amida Buddha Depicted in the Oema of Zenkoji"
4) Lorinda Kiyama, Nagoya University.  "Performing Hell in Medieval Japan"
Discussant:  Michael Jamentz, Ritsumeikan University

8. Roundtable:  Doing Social Sciences Research in Japan, Organized by the
Japan Sociologists Network
Chair:  Hiroshi Ishida, Tokyo University
1) Robert S. Yoder, Chuo University.  "Doing Field Work in Japan: Gaining
an Insight into Youth Crime"
2) Aya  Ezawa, University of Illinois.  "Researching Lives on the Margin 
in
Contemporary Japan: Notes from the Field"

9. From Siberian Expedition to Manchurian Crisis:  Political and Economic
Interactions between Russia, Japan, and China
Chair:  Yasutomi Ayumu, Nagoya University
1) Tanaka Reiko, University of Cambridge.  "The Japanese Intervention in
Siberia and the 'Manmo Mondai (Manchurian-Mongolian Problem)'"
2) Yasutomi Ayumu, Nagoya University.  "The Siberian Expedition and the
Manchurian Bubble Economy"
3) Elisabeth Koll, Case Western Reserve University.  "The Manchurian 
Market
and its Impact on the Textile Industry in Northern Jiangsu"
Discussant:  Kubo Toru, Shinshu University

10.  Individual Paper Session:  Literary and Cultural Trends in Modern
China and Japan
Chair: Junko Koizumi, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
1)  Li Ying, International Christian University.  "Nihilism of the Absurd"
2) Tachibana Reiko, Pennsylvania State University.   "Women in Two
Cultures:  Transnational Writers of Japan"
3) John Timothy Wixted, Arizona State University / Tokyo University.  
"Mori
Ogai's Sokkyo Shijin and Hans Christian Andersen's Improvisatore:  A Mode
of Translation"
4) Richard Reitan, "Emergence of Ethics as an Academic Discipline"

III.       SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS  3:45 P.M. - 5:45 P.M

11. Envisioning Modern Japan
Chair:  Bruce Suttmeier, Stanford University
1) Shu Kuge, Stanford University.  "Toward Photography:  Seeing as 
Writing"
2) Miri Nakamura, Stanford University.  "The Imagined Metropolis:  the
Representation of Tokyo in Tokyo shinhanjoki"
3) Nancy Stalker, Kokugakuin University.  "Seeing is Believing:
Proselytization and Visual Technologies in Prewar Japan"
4) Bruce Suttmeier, Stanford University.  "Dying for a Picture:  A
Contemporary Critique of Graphic Imagery in Early 1965 Japanese Media"
Discussant:  Robert Eskilsen, Smith College

12. Crisis, Identity, and Nationalism in Pre-Meiji Japan
Chair:  Ethan Segal, University of Tokyo
1) Robert Tierney, Boston University.  "Proto-Nationalism and the Kojiki"
2) Ethan Segal, University of Tokyo.  "Changing Medieval Identity and the
Mongol Invasions"
3) Noell Wilson, Waseda University.  "Domestic Diplomacy and
Proto-Nationalism in Late Tokugawa Japan"
Discussant:  Haruko Wakabayashi, Institute for the International Education
of Students

13.  Roundtable  The Paradoxes of Globalization: The View of Japan
Chair:  Kenneth Grossberg, Tel Aviv University
Participants:
1) Kenneth Grossberg, Tel Aviv University.  "The Political Economy
Perspective"
2) Masaaki Hirano, Waseda University.  "The Management Perspective"
3) Akira Iriye, Harvard University.  "The International Relations 
Perspective"

14.  Individual Paper Session:  Representation and Politics in Modern 
China
Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University
1) Kan Liang, Seattle University.  "War, Resistance, and Popularization of
Literature in China, 1937-1945"
2) Zhiwei Xiao, California State University, San Marcos.  "How to
Appreciate a Film:  Instructional Writings on the Movies in 20th Century
China"
3) Robert Culp, Bard College.  "China--The land and its People:  
Fashioning
Identity in Chinese Secondary School History Textbooks, 1911-1937"
4) Lin Pei-Yin, University of London.  "In Pursuit of Aesthetic Autonomy
and Cultural/Political Identity:  Lu Heruo's Works and Life"
5) S. Louisa Wei, University of Alberta / Josai International University.
"Where have all the Ideal Women Gone?  A Case of Chinese Film"

IV. PLENARY SESSION:   5:55P.M. -  6:40 P.M.
Keynote address by Susan Mann, President of the Association for Asian
Studies: "Engendering the Histories of 'Asian Civilizations'"


RECEPTION  6:45 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.



V.     SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS  10:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M.

15. Reading and Writing Nara Classics
Chair:  David Lurie, Columbia University
1) David Lurie, Columbia University.  "The Preface to the Kojiki and Nara
Period Writing Systems"
2) Anne Commons, Columbia University.  "God of Poetry and Angry Ghost:
Hitomaro in and out of the Man'yoshu"
3) Victoria Stoilova, Tokyo University. "Yoshida Kanetomo and the
Construction of 'Myths of Japan'"
Discussant:  Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University

16. Gender, Sexuality and Post-Coloniality in Taiwan
Chair:  Anru Lee, California State University, Sacramento
1) Fang-chih Irene Yang, Tunghua University.  "The Political Economy of
Sexual Liberation"
2) Paul E. Festa, Cornell University. "The Blue Whirlwind Strikes Below 
the
Belt:  Male Sexuality, Gender Politics, and the Viagra Craze in Taiwan"
3) Scott Simon, Academia Sinica.  "Negotiating Patriarchy and Capitalism:
Life Histories of Taipei Capitalism"
4) Shiu-li Lavphy Lin and Antonia Chao, Tunghai University.  " 'Cultural
Clash' in Everyday Life:  The Gender Politics of Emigrant Household  Work"
Discussant:  Ichiro Numazaki, Tohoku University

17. Conversion Religious and Secular:  Asian Perspectives
Chair:  Megumi Takasaki, International Christian University
1) John Clammer, Sophia University.  "Conversion, Performativity and
Transformation of Cultural Identity:  Chinese Buddhism, Christianity and
Japanese New Religions in Southeast Asia"
2) Hideaki Matsuoka, University of California, Berkeley.  "Structure of 
the
Sacred:  How Brazilian Followers of a Japanese New Religion Experience its
Sacred Place"
3) Itoh Masayuki, University of Tokyo.  "Conversion to the New Religions 
in
Japan"
Discussant:  to be announced


18.  Individual Paper Session:  Politics in Japan
Chair:  M. William Steele, International Christian University
1) Nakachi Kiyoshi, Meio University. "Recent Political Movement on the 
U.S.
Military Bases in Okinawa, Japan"
2) Peter Cave, University of Hong Kong.  "Individuality and Educational
Reform in Japan:  A Guide for the Perplexed"
3) Suzuki  Kenji, European Institute of Japanese Studies (Stockholm).
"Rethinking Japan's Bad Loan Management:  Implications from a Comparison
with the Swedish Case"
4) Mika Mervio, Miyazaki International College. "Anthropocentrism in
Japanese Environmental Politics:  Birds and Politics in Japan"

19.  Individual Paper Session:  International Relations
Chair: To be announced
1) Zha Daojiong, International University of Japan. "Economic Security:
Comparing Japanese and Chinese Conceptualizations"
2) Takeuchi Hiroki, University of California, Los Angeles.  "Domestic
Factors in the Taiwan Strait Crisis:  Taiwanese Democracy and Chinese
Capitalism"
3) Lee Seokwoo,  University of Oxford. "The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism
and the Resolution of Territorial Disputes in East Asia"
4) Robert Eldridge, Suntory Foundation.  "The Amami Reversion Movement:
Its Origins, Meaning, and Impact"

VI.       SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS  1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M


20.  From Imperial Subjects to Democratic Citizens:  The Cinema and the
Nation in Japan from the 1930s to the 1950s
Chair:  Mariko Hara, Keio University
1) Mariko Hara, Keio University.  "The Emperor and His Subjects as
Portrayed in Japanese Wartime Newsreels"
2) Jeffrey Isaacs, University of Chicago.  "Historicizing the Aesthetics 
of
Hardship in Japanese Film:  Suffering for the Nation in 1941"
3) Takeshi Tanikawa, Columbia University / Hitotsubashi University.  "The
Formulation and Implementation of US Film Policy Toward Occupied Japan"
Discussant:  Seori Takahashi, Waseda University

21.  Socialist Markets or Free Markets?:  The Emerging Political Economy 
of
China
Chair:  Joel Campbell, Miyazaki International College
1) Joel Campbell, Miyazaki International College.  "The Dragon Shudders:
Major Political Economic Issues Facing China at the End of the Century"
2) Hashida Tan, Tokyo International University.  "No Flash in the Pan:  
The
Political Economy of China's High Tech Industries"
3) Bakhtior Islamov, Hitotsubashi University.   "The Ties that Bind:  The
Development of Economic Relations between China and the Newly-independent
States of Central Asia"
4) Szue-Chin Philip Hsu, National Chengchi University.  "Local States and
Fiscal Extraction: A New View of Central-Local Relations in Contemporary
China"
5) Chin-Wei Lin, Tokyo University.  "Building a Welfare State:  The
Politics of Social Security in Taiwan"
Discussant: Garth Warries, Kita-Kyushu University

22.  Roundtable   Publishing Japanese Social Sciences and Humanities in
English:  What is the Problem?
Chair:  Frank Baldwin, Abe Foundation

23. Individual Paper Session:  Trajectories of Change in China and Japan
Chair:  Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
1) Hasegawa Eiko, Josai International University.  "Colonized Bodies and
the Construction of the Nationhood in Modern Japan"
2) Mary Reisel, Tel Aviv University.  "Japanese High Fashion and the
Reconstruction of Gender"
3) Minjie Zhang,  Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences (Hanghzou).  
"Divorce
in China"
4) Zeng Ying, International Christian University.  "Going Abroad:  The
Lives of Young Chinese Professionals Overseas"
5) Robert Efird, University of Washington / Kanagawa University.
"History, Family, and Identity:  The 'Multicultural Coexistence' of
Chinese Returnees in Japan"


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