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Saturday, 9 January 2016


 8:30-10:00am 
Panel 10: Interrogating Gender in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
 
Sayako Ono, Independent Scholar 
Dance with Agency: Social Expectations, Social Constraints and Women Dancing for Themselves
Wakako Suzuki, University of California, Los Angeles
Silenced Voice of the Modern Girl in Mizoguchi Kenji’s The Water Magician
Genaro Castro-Vázquez, Nanyang Technological University
Soft Masculinities and the “Herbivorous Man'”(soshoku kei danshi) in Contemporary Japan

Panel 11. Heritage and Migration in the Limelight
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
 
Teresa Rinaldi, National University, San Diego
Dirty Hearts: Japanese Resistance in Brazil
Roxana Shintani, Waseda University
Heritage Language Maintenance among Peruvian Migrants in Japan
Mariko Nihei, Dokkyo University
Japanese Immigrant Society in early 20th century Mexico: The Memoirs of Yoshihei Nakatani

Panel 12. Pedagogy (III): Power to Change: Japan Studies in International Education, Media Ethics and Religious Studies
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University
 
Charles Sasaki, Windward Community College and Institute of International Education 
Global Learning & Campus Internationalization: A Fulbright Scholar’s Experience
Rick Kenney, Augusta University
Applying Tetsuro Watsuji’s Ideas in the Media Ethics Class
Jeremy Rapport, The College of Wooster 
Seicho-no-Ie: Teaching Japanese New Thought in a New Religions Class

10:00-10:15am   Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom

10:15-11:45am 
Panel 13. Japanese Aesthetics: Explorations in Art, Design and Literature
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture
 
Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
The Visual of Japanese Aesthetics from Wabi Sabi to Cute
Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Holy Landscapes, Haunted Landscapes: The Kumano Mountains in Pilgrimage Traditions and the Fiction of Kenji Nakagami
Anri Yasuda, George Washington University 
The Fashion Statements of Dazai Osamu

Panel 14. Contemporary Concerns: On Crisis, Transformation and Security
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: James Peoples, Ohio Wesleyan University
 
Emil Jafarzade, Waseda University 
Japan’s Unfulfilled Desire: Views by Japanese Officials Longing for a Permanent UN Security Council Seat
Yoichiro Sato, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University 
A Crisis Hits the Home Water: Japan and Protecting the Pacific Bluefin Tuna
Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage 
The Internet and Japanese Baseball; Same Game, Different Medium

Panel 15. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa. Reflections on Three Iconic Sites with Implications for Future Developments
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
 
Gloria R. Montebruno Saller, University of La Verne 
The Challenges to the Teaching of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a College Setting. Creating Opportunities by Overcoming Cultural Roadblocks, Questioning Obsolete Historical Data, and Embracing New Voices from the International World Movement to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Dawn Gale, Johnson County Community College 
Continuing the Legacy of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation: Using Comparative Philosophy to Teach and Promote Peace
Akiko Mori, Community College of Philadelphia
Okinawa: From Military Bases to Tourism

15-min lunch set-up; lunch in Pua Melia Ballroom

12:00-1:15pm  Lunch Plenary II
 
Chad Diehl, Loyola University, Maryland
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, History and Atomic Memory
 
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Introduction: Fay Beauchamp, JSA Vice President for Special Projects

1:15-1:30   Coffee/tea break (incl. lunch take-down): Pua Melia Ballroom

1:30-2:30pm  
Panel 16. Orthographic Departures: Spiritual and Secular Implications
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: John Paine, Belmont University
 
Kyoungwon Oh, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Ko-otsu Distinctions in the Bussokuseki ka
William Matsuda, Kyushu University
Sanskrit Calligraphy and Kūkai’s Theories of Language and Statecraft

Panel 17. The Family in Focus: Social and Legal Practices
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Genaro Castro-Vázquez, Nanyang Technological University
 
Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Rissho University 
Japanese Society in Transition: Observations from Recent Naming Practices
William Cleary, Hiroshima Shudo University
The Hague Convention and Parental Kidnapping: A Focus on Japan

Panel 18. New Publications in Japanese Studies: Authors Read and Discuss their Work
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia
 
Yoshiko Dykstra, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
A Skillful Means in the Ghost Story Collection, Otogiboko
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto, Punahou School, Honolulu 
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

2:30-2:45pm  Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom

2:45-4:15pm 
Panel 19. Cultural Verisimilitudes: Exploring Themes of Illusion in Japanese Culture
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Andrea Stover, Belmont University
 
Jennifer McDowell, University of Pittsburgh
“Kokeshi”: Illusions in a Name
Yuka Hasegawa, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Puissance Behind Japan's Civil Society
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas 
The Lure of the Seemingly Real and the Keyhole Effect

Panel 20. Engaging Japan: On History, Aesthetics and Poetry in the Intercultural Classroom
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
 
Jennifer Welsh, Lindenwood University-Belleville
Japan Meets the West, the West Meets Japan: The Tenshō and Keichō Embassies in the Classroom
Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia 
Japanese Aesthetics: A Teaching Module
John Paine, Belmont University 
Sublime Basho

Panel 21: Critical Reflections from the 2015 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Workshop
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair and discussant: Lonny Carlile, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
 
Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia 
The Disappearing Acknowledgement of the Opposing Argument: The Dismantled Exhibit at the Hiroshima Peace Museum
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia 
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial: International Modernism and Japanese Tradition
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College 
Racial Perceptions of the Japanese, Racial Perceptions by the Japanese: Meiji Restoration to World War II

4:15-5:00pm   Business Meeting and Closing Remarks
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President

Dinner on your own