Japan Studies Association (JSA)
  • Home
  • History
  • Members
    • JSA Officers
  • JSA 2025 Conference
    • Submit 2025 JSA Conference Proposal
    • Payment 2025 JSA Conference
    • Registration 2025 JSA Conference & Membership Info
    • Conference Program 2025
    • 2025 Conference Handouts and Other Presenter Materials
  • Workshops 2013-2023
    • 2024 Workshop on Hokkaido >
      • Application Hokkaido 2024 Workshop
      • LoR Hokkaido 2024
      • Hokkaido 2024 Resources (password required)
      • Hokkaido Workshop Deposit Payment
      • Hokkaido Payment Portal
    • JSA Workshop October 6-8 at JCCC (and Japan Festival) >
      • Final Program JCCC Workshop
      • Payment Registration
    • 2019 Philadelphia Workshop >
      • Payment registration
      • Workshop Resources (password required)
    • 2018 Workshop at JCCC >
      • Tentative Program JCCC Workshop
    • 2018 Workshop at Hendrix College
    • 2017 Workshop on Okinawa >
      • Workshop on Okinawa Program
    • 2016 Freeman Foundation Summer Institute
    • 2015 JSA Hiroshima-Nagasaki Workshop >
      • Hiroshima-Nagasaki Workshop Program
      • The Workshop in Photos
    • 2014 Kyoto Workshop and Study Tour
    • 2014 JSA BELMONT WORKSHOP: April 2-5
  • Conferences 2014-2023
    • 2024 JSA Conference in Hawai'i >
      • 2024 Conference Handouts and Other Presenter Materials
    • 2023 JSA Conference in Hawai'i >
      • 2023 Conference Program
      • Payment 2023 JSA Conference
      • Submit 2023 JSA Conference Proposal
      • Registration 2023 JSA Conference & Membership Info
    • 2022 JSA Conference, Hawai'i (virtual online) >
      • Plenary Abstracts
    • ARCHIVE 2020 JSA Conference, Hawai'i >
      • 2020 Keynote Presentations
      • 2020 Conference Program
    • ARCHIVE 2019 JSA Conference, Hawai'i >
      • 3 Jan 2019 Conference Program
      • 4 Jan 2019 Conference Program
      • 5 Jan 2019 Conference Program
    • ARCHIVE 2018 Conference Program
    • ARCHIVE 2017 Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i >
      • 2017 Keynote Speakers
      • 2017 Conference Program >
        • Thursday, January 05 2017
        • Friday, January 06
        • Saturday, January 07
    • ARCHIVE 2015 JSA Conference Program
  • Journal
    • Aims and Scope
    • Journal Guidelines
    • 2025 Journal
  • Contact Us

25th Anniversary Japan Studies Association Conference
3-5 January 2019, Honolulu, Hawai'i


Friday, 4 January 2019

8:30am -- 2:30pm 

​8:30-8:50 pm


​9:00-9:50 am 
​Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​Opening Remarks, President of JSA Joe Overton
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​Plenary Session
Keynote Address: Andrew Gordon, Harvard University      
"Remembering Japan’s 2011 Disaster:  The Challenge and Opportunity of Digital Archives.”
 
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​10:00-11:15 am
Panel 7: Images and Imaginings in Japanese Film
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Kelly McEnany, Asheville-Buncombe Tech CC
 
Sean O’Reilly, Akita International University: An Onna Nobunaga Concerto at the Honnoji Hotel: How Recent Japanese Cinema Has Humanized Oda Nobunaga
 
Yuko Shibata, Meiji Gakuin University: Japanese Nuclear Films and the End of the Cold War: Kurosawa and Imamura
 
Masahide Kato, University of Hawaii at West O’ahu: Nakamura Ryugo’s cinema and the emerging generation of Uchina consciousness

Panel 8: Hard and Soft Realities in Japanese Relations
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Steve Corbeil, University of the Sacred Heart
 
Ivan Gonzalez Pujol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/Senshu University: The hedging strategy as a response to the uncertainty: the case of Japan
 
Anand Rao, SUNY Geneseo: Soft Power, Hard Gains: Japan's New "Rich Nation, Strong Army?"
 
Wade Huntley, Naval Postgraduate School: Getting Left Behind? Japan and Korean Peninsula Diplomacy in 2018

​Panel 9: Japanese Pedagogy
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Patrick Foss, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
 
Risa Ikeda, Yamaguchi University: Inhibition in English language learning: A case study of Japanese university students in the Philippines
 
Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Sam Rose, Rissho University, Beni Kudo, Rissho University: The realities of global talent in Japan: Educational policies for internationalization on the ground at a mid-tier university

11:15-11:30 am  Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom

​11:30am -- 12:45pm 
Panel 10: Empire and Aftermath
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Dawn Gale, Johnson County Community College
 
Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University: Ingrained Habits: American Wheat Promotion and the Transformation of Japanese Nutrition Science and National Diet, 1954-1960
 
Isaac Chun Kiang Tan, Columbia University: Science and Empire: Tracing the Imprint of Dactylography in Manchuria, 1924 – 1945
 
Reed Knappe, Harvard University: Imperial Entropy: Wartime Japan and the Collapse of Fossil Fuel Civilization
​
Panel 11
: (Lion) Dogs and Cats, Living Together!

Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Susan Castro, Wichita State University
 
Barbara Mason, Oregon State University: Cats in Japanese Fine Arts all the way to Kawaii
 
Susan Mason, California State University. Los Angeles: Why is the Isle of Dogs Set in Japan?
 
Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco: Smiling Vegetables, Happy Cows, and Lovable Lion Dogs: Kawaii (cute) and Okinawan Identity

​Panel 12: Subjects of Empire, Subjects to Empire
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Laurence Mann, University of Oxford
 
Chad Diehl, Loyola University Maryland: Embodying Japanese Empire: Tattooing and Judo in Colonial Taiwan
 
Tomoki Kimura, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Resituating Colonial Ambivalence and Hybridity: Masculinity, Body, and Language in Nakajima Atsushi’s “Toragari”
 
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University: Outsider Within: Performativity in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko

12:45-1:45 pm  Lunch: Pick up Outside Ballroom; eat in Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​2:00-3:15 pm
Panel 13: New Life in Ancient Arts
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco
Susan Castro, Wichita State University and Bob Feleppa, Wichita State University: Kant’s reply to Zeami: Sarugaku, sensus communis, and perpetual peace
 
Laurence Mann, University of Oxford: Contours of rhyme in Eastern Old Japanese: Man’yōshū, Book XX
 
Susan Scott, McDaniel College: Understanding Pictorial Space in the Twelfth-Century Illustrations to the Tale of Genji

​Panel 15: Encountering the Extraordinary Everyday
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Chad Diehl, Loyola University Maryland
 
Ian Roth, Meijo University: The Roninsei Journey
 
Toshiro Goji, Hiroshima University: Experiences of Everyday Cultural Difference by Foreign Employees in Japan who Graduated from a Japanese University
 
Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia: Streets, Corners and Storefronts: The Semi-public Zones in Traditional Japanese Neighborhoods in the Modern City

3:15-3:30 pm  Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​3:30-4:45 pm
Panel 16: Strange Juxtapositions in Japanese Arts
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Thierry Rakotobe-Joel, Ramapo College of New Jersey
 
Marta Rodriquez, University of Houston: Experimentation in Japanese Architecture: From Kazuo Shinohara to Junya Ishigami
 
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas, Into the Cave
 
Tanya Barnett, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Erasure as Self-Fashioning: Reading Intentionality and Performance in Miyazawa Kenji’s Bungoshikō ippyappen

​Panel 17: Teachable Moments and Necessary Lessons, History and Memory
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia
 
Kimiko Akita, Aichi Prefectural University, Rick Kenney: “Yasukuni Shrine and the Ethics of Community”
 
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College: “To Undo a Mistake is Always Harder Than Not to Create One Originally": Memorials and Monuments to Interned Japanese-Americans
 
Koichi Mera, University of Southern California: Teaching "Comfort Women" at American Universities

5:30 pm  Meet in hotel lobby at 5:30 pm for a 5:45 pm sharp departure.
Conference dinner with entertainment at Kapi’olani Community College.


See maps on p. 18 of the print conference program, if not travelling with the group.
Dinner starts at 6:30 pm.