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


Saturday, 5 January 2019

8:30am -- 2:30pm  

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

​Plenary Session
Keynote Address: Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
"From Cold War Coeds to Pioneering Professors: The Forgotten Story of Japanese Women Who Studied in the United States, 1949-1966"
 
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​10:00-11:15 am
Panel 19: Alternative Christian Movements in the Post-Aum Era
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Jeremy Rapport, The College of Wooster
 
Greg Wilkinson, Brigham Young University: Alternative Christian Movements in the Post-Aum Era
 
Andrew Reed, BYU: The Photography Collection of Jay Jensen: Early 20th century Japan under the Christian Missionary Gaze
 
Kerry Hull, BYU: New Sake in Old Bottles: Excising Buddhist and Shinto Ideology from Early Translations of the Japanese Bible

Panel 20. Images and Imaginings in Japanese Literature
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College
 
Sumi Cho, Myongji University: Positive stereotypes and their reversal in Okinawan representation in Japanese popular texts
 
Qiuyue Lu, University of Arizona: Interaction Between Sōseki’s Literary Theory and Fictions: Inter-Textual Context For “Distance” And “Tragedy” In Kokoro
 
Steve Corbeil, University of the Sacred Heart: The Ethos of the Literary Translator in Japan after 1945

​Panel 21: Japanese Security Policy in New and Changing Domains
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Lonny Carlile, University of Hawaii at Manoa
 
Kristi Govella, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Responding to Security Threats in the Global Commons: Japan’s Evolving Middle Power Approach to Outer Space, Cyberspace, and the High Seas
 
Deirdre Martin, University of California, Berkeley: Explaining Variation in Japanese Indigenous Development of Space-Based Security Capabilities
 
Benjamin Bartlett, Harvard University: Japan as a Middle Cyber-Power

11:15-11:30 am  ​Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor

​11:30am -- 12:45pm
Panel 22: Japan Becoming Part of the World
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Kristi Govella, University of Hawaii at Manoa
 
Hanae Kramer, University of Hawaii at Manoa: The Discovery of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands in 1670
 
Sergey Tolstoguzov, Hiroshima University: Considering the State of the Tokugawa Bakufu’s Readiness for the Opening of Japan by Perry in 1853-54
 
Karli Shimizu, Hokkaido University: Pioneer Deities and Shinto Shrines in Hokkaido

Panel 23: Redefining Space and Spaces in Japan
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Greg Wilkinson, Brigham Young University
 
Akiko Mori, Community College of Philadelphia: Determination and Boldness: Life and Art of Toko Shinoda
 
David Jones, Kennesaw State University: Entering Stone: Death and Being in Isamu Noguchi’s Sculpture
 
Hilson Reidpath, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Active Acts, Passive Pasts: Passing in the work of Yamanokuchi Baku

​Panel 24: A History of Things Unremarked, yet Remarkable
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Koichi Mera, University of Southern California
 
Shuko Takeshita, Aichi Gakuin University: Betrothal Gifts in Japan: Focusing on the History and Regional Variations
 
Brent Ferguson, Washburn University, TJ Laws-Nicola, Texas State University: Globalized Tropes: Representations of Pipe Organ in Japanese Multimedia
 
Mitsuko Takahashi, Nihon Institute of Medical Sciences: The Japanese word that came from the warrior's feelings and intentions: The derivation of the adverb kesshite

12:45-1:30 pm  Lunch: Pick up outside Pua Melia Ballroom; eat in Ballroom.

1:45-3:00 pm​
Panel 25: Voices of Empire
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University
 
Moxi Zhang, Seoul National University: Representing the Empire’s Space: Travel Writing of the Japanese Imperial Subjects
 
Catherine Tsai, Harvard University: The Temple Reorganization Movement in Colonial Taiwan, 1937-1945
 
Mari Ishida, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard: The Resonance of Silenced Voices in the Japanese Empire: Multiple Colonial Historicities in Kim Sa-Ryang’s The Taebaek Mountains (1943)

Panel 26: Fear of a Wet, Lost Planet; Horror in Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
David Jones, Kennesaw State University
 
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University: Fears of a Lost Decade: Junji Ito’s Horror Manga and Japanese Social Anxieties
 
Colleen Laird, Western Washington University: Eastern bodies in a Western world: Post-Human Selves and Japanese Others in HBO’s Westworld
 
Jennifer Yoo, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Monstrous Wives, Murderous Lovers and Dead Wet Girls: Examining the Feminine Vengeful Ghost and the Role of the Monstrous Feminine in Japanese Theatre and Horror Cinema

​Panel 27: Sometimes, the Old Ways Are Best
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Brent Ferguson, Washburn University
 
Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia: Warriors’ Laughter in The Tale of the Heike:  Considering Yoshitsune
 
Dylan McGee, Nagoya University: The Spectacle of Commoner Beauty in Ame-uri Dohei-den (1769)
 
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia: Tea and Power: Hideyoshi and Rikyū in fiction and film

3:00-3:15 pm  Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom

​3:15-4:30 pm
Panel 28: Follow the Money! Japanese Politics and Household Management
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Reed Knappe, Harvard University
 
Nathan Cisneros, University of California, Irvine: Quantitative text analysis and the study of Japanese politics
 
Igor Prusa, Oriental Instute, Czech Republic: How to Understand Japanese Scandals
 
Olga Kormush, Ochinomizu University: Who is in charge? Income Management Responsibility within Japanese Households

Panel 29: Okinawa: Island of Conflict, Identity, Opportunity
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Colleen Laird, Western Washington University
 
Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University: The Return of the ‘Japanese Army’ to Okinawa
 
Sri Ayu Wulansari, University of Indonesia: BEING HUMAN IN OKINAWA: Okinawan Women’s Active Acquisition of Identity through the Struggle Against United States Military Bases
 
Aiden Kosciesza, Community College of Philadelphia: “But What About the Dugong?”: Teaching Argumentation Using Marine Corps Station Futenma

​Panel 30: Negotiating the End(s)
Chair: Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
 
Diego Oliveira, Waseda University: Ending Notes and scripts for the “good” death in Japan
 
Jeremy Rapport, The College of Wooster: Japanese Christianity: Old Religion, New Religious Movement
 
Thierry Rakotobe-Joel, Ramapo College of New Jersey:  Sustainability Discourse, and Cultural Differentiation. The Case of Multi-National Japanese Firms

​4:30-5:15 pm





​6:00pm --
Plenary JSA Membership Meeting and Closing Remarks
Everyone is welcome
 
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President

​Dinner on your own


Best Wishes for a Peaceful and Prosperous New 2019 and Safe Travels!