All meeting rooms are on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt Place.
Wednesday, January 8th
8:30-11:00 am
JSA Board Meeting
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
11:30-1 pm
Executive Board Meeting
1:30-5:00 pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
5:30-7:00 pm
Conference meet and greet
Meet in conference hotel reception gallery (in the lobby) for welcome drinks
7:00-
Dinner on your own
JSA Board Meeting
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
11:30-1 pm
Executive Board Meeting
1:30-5:00 pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
5:30-7:00 pm
Conference meet and greet
Meet in conference hotel reception gallery (in the lobby) for welcome drinks
7:00-
Dinner on your own
Thursday, January 9th
8:30am-2:30pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-9:30
Opening Remarks, President of JSA Joe Overton
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:30-10:30
Plenary Session
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Keynote Presentation: Frederick R. Dickinson
University of Pennsylvania Reiwa in the Making of a 21st Century World
Introduced by Paul Dunscomb
10:30-10:45
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
10:45-12:00
Panel 1 The Ainu, in and beyond Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Lonny Carlile
Jennifer Welsh, Eastern New Mexico University, Tribute, Trade, and Labor: The Matsumae and the Ainu in the Tokugawa Era.
Wade Huntley, Naval Postgraduate School, Sovereignty and Self-Determination: The Ainu Saga in Global Perspective.
Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco, Disaster Archaeology: Hokkaido and Beyond.
10:45-12:00
Panel 2: Games, Pictures and Pedagogy: Publishing One’s Identity in Japan
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Estella Qiming Zhang
Pieter Van Lommel, Tokyo Keizai University, Progressive Educational Journalism in Interwar Japan: The Magazine Kyōiku no Seiki and Its Literary Contributions.
Andrea Thimesch, Johnson County Community College, Unlikely Cultural Immersion: Stamp Passports for exploring Yo-Kai themes.
10:45-12:00
Panel 3: Finding Yourself and Being Found in Writing (and Drawing).
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover
Kotoko Grass and Christina Wolff, Johnson County Community College, Reflection of Japanese Culture in Manga: Perception of Japanese culture among French readers.
Andrea Nakazawa-Csendom, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Cross-Culturalism from Edo to Reiwa? Japanese Identity in Popular Literature.
12:00-1:15
Lunch on your own
1:15-2:30
Panel 4: Improvising Identity Through Planning in Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Dylan Plung
Anna Wozny, Tokyo College (University of Tokyo/Princeton University), Navigating the boundaries of marriageability in ‘marriage-hunting’ (konkatsu): gendered standards, normative family, and exclusion in the Japanese dating market.
Toake Endoh, Josai International University, Japan’s Imagining of a National Identity and Immigration.
Estella Qiming Zhang, University of Michigan, Harmonizing Culture and Growth: Insights from Machizukuri’s Approach to Cultural Asset Utilization in Japanese Urban Planning.
1:15-2:30
Panel 5: Roundtable Discussion: Japanese Culture and Partnership as a Force in the Transformation of Kapi'olani Community College:
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Stacia Bensyl
Leon Richards, American Business Management and Technology College, and Kapi'olani Community College.
Joseph Overton, Kapi'olani Community College,
Takashi Miyaki, Honda International Center, Kapi’olani Community College.
1:15-2:30
Panel 6: What One Can Find in the Library
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover
Ping Situ and Rachel Castro, University of Arizona, Innovative Instructor-Librarian Partnerships: Embedding Maker Literacy competencies into Curriculum and Classroom.
Arpita Mandal, Belmont University, Witnessing Humanity in Demon Slayer.
2:30-2:45
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
2:45-4:00
Panel 7: Finding a Place for the Ainu in Contemporary Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Thimesch
Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage, Comparative Perspectives of Alaska Natives and Hokkaido Ainu.
Lonny Carlile, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Embedding Identity in an Altered Landscape: The Politics of Dam Construction and Culture Retrieval in 21st Century Biratori, Hokkaido.
Erik Glowark, Johnson County Community College, More than Hokkaido: Ainu Cultural Continuities Across the Sea of Okhotsk and the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples.
2:45-4:00
Panel 8: Old Consumption in New Media in Japan
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Barbara Lass
Stevie Poppe, KU Leuven, Unraveling Post-Assassination Disinformation and Conspiracies on Japan’s Online Media.
Gretchen Jude, University of Utah, The Geisha Kashu Recording Stars: Their Post-war Concert Tours of Hawaii and Beyond.
Hanae Kramer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, New Technologies for Old Vices: The Rise of Video Mahjong.
2:45-4:00
Panel 9: Comparative Cultures and Experiences
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Kendra Sheehan
Sean O'Reilly, Akita International University, Convergent Cultures: Charting Similarities between Medieval Japan and Ancient Sparta.
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley University, Ellis Island v. Angel Island.
4:00-4:15
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
4:15-5:30
Special Plenary Session: Roundtable Discussion: Coming Full Circle: 100 Years of English-Language Kabuki at the University of Hawaiʻi
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair and Discussant: Julie Iezzi, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Robert Morris III, Isabella OʻKeeffe, Justin Fragiao, Celena Carlsberg, Arlo Rowe, Jill Sanders, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
6:00
Dinner on Your Own
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-9:30
Opening Remarks, President of JSA Joe Overton
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:30-10:30
Plenary Session
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Keynote Presentation: Frederick R. Dickinson
University of Pennsylvania Reiwa in the Making of a 21st Century World
Introduced by Paul Dunscomb
10:30-10:45
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
10:45-12:00
Panel 1 The Ainu, in and beyond Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Lonny Carlile
Jennifer Welsh, Eastern New Mexico University, Tribute, Trade, and Labor: The Matsumae and the Ainu in the Tokugawa Era.
Wade Huntley, Naval Postgraduate School, Sovereignty and Self-Determination: The Ainu Saga in Global Perspective.
Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco, Disaster Archaeology: Hokkaido and Beyond.
10:45-12:00
Panel 2: Games, Pictures and Pedagogy: Publishing One’s Identity in Japan
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Estella Qiming Zhang
Pieter Van Lommel, Tokyo Keizai University, Progressive Educational Journalism in Interwar Japan: The Magazine Kyōiku no Seiki and Its Literary Contributions.
Andrea Thimesch, Johnson County Community College, Unlikely Cultural Immersion: Stamp Passports for exploring Yo-Kai themes.
10:45-12:00
Panel 3: Finding Yourself and Being Found in Writing (and Drawing).
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover
Kotoko Grass and Christina Wolff, Johnson County Community College, Reflection of Japanese Culture in Manga: Perception of Japanese culture among French readers.
Andrea Nakazawa-Csendom, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Cross-Culturalism from Edo to Reiwa? Japanese Identity in Popular Literature.
12:00-1:15
Lunch on your own
1:15-2:30
Panel 4: Improvising Identity Through Planning in Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Dylan Plung
Anna Wozny, Tokyo College (University of Tokyo/Princeton University), Navigating the boundaries of marriageability in ‘marriage-hunting’ (konkatsu): gendered standards, normative family, and exclusion in the Japanese dating market.
Toake Endoh, Josai International University, Japan’s Imagining of a National Identity and Immigration.
Estella Qiming Zhang, University of Michigan, Harmonizing Culture and Growth: Insights from Machizukuri’s Approach to Cultural Asset Utilization in Japanese Urban Planning.
1:15-2:30
Panel 5: Roundtable Discussion: Japanese Culture and Partnership as a Force in the Transformation of Kapi'olani Community College:
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Stacia Bensyl
Leon Richards, American Business Management and Technology College, and Kapi'olani Community College.
Joseph Overton, Kapi'olani Community College,
Takashi Miyaki, Honda International Center, Kapi’olani Community College.
1:15-2:30
Panel 6: What One Can Find in the Library
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover
Ping Situ and Rachel Castro, University of Arizona, Innovative Instructor-Librarian Partnerships: Embedding Maker Literacy competencies into Curriculum and Classroom.
Arpita Mandal, Belmont University, Witnessing Humanity in Demon Slayer.
2:30-2:45
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
2:45-4:00
Panel 7: Finding a Place for the Ainu in Contemporary Japan
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Thimesch
Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage, Comparative Perspectives of Alaska Natives and Hokkaido Ainu.
Lonny Carlile, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Embedding Identity in an Altered Landscape: The Politics of Dam Construction and Culture Retrieval in 21st Century Biratori, Hokkaido.
Erik Glowark, Johnson County Community College, More than Hokkaido: Ainu Cultural Continuities Across the Sea of Okhotsk and the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples.
2:45-4:00
Panel 8: Old Consumption in New Media in Japan
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Barbara Lass
Stevie Poppe, KU Leuven, Unraveling Post-Assassination Disinformation and Conspiracies on Japan’s Online Media.
Gretchen Jude, University of Utah, The Geisha Kashu Recording Stars: Their Post-war Concert Tours of Hawaii and Beyond.
Hanae Kramer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, New Technologies for Old Vices: The Rise of Video Mahjong.
2:45-4:00
Panel 9: Comparative Cultures and Experiences
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Kendra Sheehan
Sean O'Reilly, Akita International University, Convergent Cultures: Charting Similarities between Medieval Japan and Ancient Sparta.
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley University, Ellis Island v. Angel Island.
4:00-4:15
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
4:15-5:30
Special Plenary Session: Roundtable Discussion: Coming Full Circle: 100 Years of English-Language Kabuki at the University of Hawaiʻi
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair and Discussant: Julie Iezzi, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Robert Morris III, Isabella OʻKeeffe, Justin Fragiao, Celena Carlsberg, Arlo Rowe, Jill Sanders, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
6:00
Dinner on Your Own
Friday, January 10th
8:30am-2:30
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-10:15
Panel 10: How to Stand With the Nations of the World? Japan’s Evolving International Involvement.
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Sean O’Reilly
Dylan Plung, The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Social Statecraft and the Arc of Japanese Internationalism: The Influence of Postwar Popular Sentiment, 1945 to Reiwa.
Yun-chen Lai, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, The Implication of EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement to the world trade system.
Kathryn Ibata-Arens, DePaul University, Japan and the Pacific Islands: Doux Smart Power Diplomacy (DSPD) in Environment and Health.
9:00-10:15
Roundtable Discussion: A Multi-disciplinary Discussion of Kayano Shigeru’s Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Dawn Gale, Deborah Williams, Stacy Burbidge, Eve Blobaum, Johnson County Community College, Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western University, Veronica Hendrick, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
10:15-10:30
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
10:30-11:45
Panel 11: Preparing Tea for Superman: (Tea) House, Garden, and Menu in Reiwa Japan.
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Dawn Gale
Michael Giammasi, Thomas Jefferson University, Junzo Yoshimura and the Japanese House and Garden: A History and Cultural-Architectural Analysis.
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia, Teahouses for the Reiwa Era: the Fantastical Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori.
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University, The Culinary Adventures of Superman: Superman vs. Meshi and the Limits of Cool Japan.
10:30-11:45
Panel 12 Defining Oneself and Others in Japan.
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Jennifer Welsh
Kendra Sheehan, University of Louisville, Bridging Eras: Youth Identity and Cinematic Heritage in Reiwa Japan.
Lila Zixuan Wang, University of Macau, The influence of Japan’s unique anti-Semitism during the World War II.
James Henderson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Shinto, Izumo, and the Myth of Japanese Homogeneity.
10:30-11:45
Panel 13 The Evolving Households of Reiwa Japan.
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Anna Wozny
Robert Curl, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Anime Waifus Helped Elect Donald Trump: Shared Identity and Connection Between the Modern Japanese and Western Right Wing.
Hitomi Imamura, University of West London, How do the financial disadvantages experienced by single-mother households in Japan impact upon their children’s educational outcomes? An exploratory qualitative study.
11:45-12:30
Lunch on your own
12:30-1:45
Special Plenary Panel: (PM) Past as Prologue or Past as Past: What is the Relevance of Showa Japan Anthropology for Reiwa Japan Anthropology?
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Gavin Whitelaw
Discussant: Christine Yano
Glenda Roberts Waseda University/East-West Center, From Showa to Reiwa, or, how questions of gender equality, work-life balance, low fertility, and migration policy are one piece of the same cloth.
Lynne Nakano Chinese University of Hong Kong, Looking Back and Seeing the Future: Views of Reiwa Japan Anthropology from Hong Kong.
William Kelly Yale University, Ethnography’s aims in Showa and Reiwa Japan.
Gavin Whitelaw, Harvard University, Konbini Ningen Reiwa and the Showa Self.
Christine Yano (University of Hawai’i), Discussant
1:45-2:00
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
2:00-3:00
Plenary Session
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Keynote Presentation: Nancy Stalker
University of Hawaii.
Rosanjin and Modern Japanese Gourmet Consciousness
Introduced by Lonny Carlile
3:00-3:30
Plenary JSA Membership Meeting
Everyone is welcome
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President
Final Special
Event
Japanese Culinary Experiences with Chef Alan at Kapi’olani Community College
Bus leaves at 3:30
Please meet at bus to transport us to Kapi’olani Community College
3:30- 5:30
Japanese Cooking Demonstration and Tasting at Kapi’olani Community College
5:30
Meet at bus to transport us back to Hyatt Place Hotel
6:00
Dinner on your own
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-10:15
Panel 10: How to Stand With the Nations of the World? Japan’s Evolving International Involvement.
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Sean O’Reilly
Dylan Plung, The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Social Statecraft and the Arc of Japanese Internationalism: The Influence of Postwar Popular Sentiment, 1945 to Reiwa.
Yun-chen Lai, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, The Implication of EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement to the world trade system.
Kathryn Ibata-Arens, DePaul University, Japan and the Pacific Islands: Doux Smart Power Diplomacy (DSPD) in Environment and Health.
9:00-10:15
Roundtable Discussion: A Multi-disciplinary Discussion of Kayano Shigeru’s Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Dawn Gale, Deborah Williams, Stacy Burbidge, Eve Blobaum, Johnson County Community College, Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western University, Veronica Hendrick, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
10:15-10:30
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
10:30-11:45
Panel 11: Preparing Tea for Superman: (Tea) House, Garden, and Menu in Reiwa Japan.
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Dawn Gale
Michael Giammasi, Thomas Jefferson University, Junzo Yoshimura and the Japanese House and Garden: A History and Cultural-Architectural Analysis.
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia, Teahouses for the Reiwa Era: the Fantastical Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori.
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University, The Culinary Adventures of Superman: Superman vs. Meshi and the Limits of Cool Japan.
10:30-11:45
Panel 12 Defining Oneself and Others in Japan.
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor
Chair: Jennifer Welsh
Kendra Sheehan, University of Louisville, Bridging Eras: Youth Identity and Cinematic Heritage in Reiwa Japan.
Lila Zixuan Wang, University of Macau, The influence of Japan’s unique anti-Semitism during the World War II.
James Henderson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Shinto, Izumo, and the Myth of Japanese Homogeneity.
10:30-11:45
Panel 13 The Evolving Households of Reiwa Japan.
Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor
Chair: Anna Wozny
Robert Curl, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Anime Waifus Helped Elect Donald Trump: Shared Identity and Connection Between the Modern Japanese and Western Right Wing.
Hitomi Imamura, University of West London, How do the financial disadvantages experienced by single-mother households in Japan impact upon their children’s educational outcomes? An exploratory qualitative study.
11:45-12:30
Lunch on your own
12:30-1:45
Special Plenary Panel: (PM) Past as Prologue or Past as Past: What is the Relevance of Showa Japan Anthropology for Reiwa Japan Anthropology?
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Gavin Whitelaw
Discussant: Christine Yano
Glenda Roberts Waseda University/East-West Center, From Showa to Reiwa, or, how questions of gender equality, work-life balance, low fertility, and migration policy are one piece of the same cloth.
Lynne Nakano Chinese University of Hong Kong, Looking Back and Seeing the Future: Views of Reiwa Japan Anthropology from Hong Kong.
William Kelly Yale University, Ethnography’s aims in Showa and Reiwa Japan.
Gavin Whitelaw, Harvard University, Konbini Ningen Reiwa and the Showa Self.
Christine Yano (University of Hawai’i), Discussant
1:45-2:00
Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
2:00-3:00
Plenary Session
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Keynote Presentation: Nancy Stalker
University of Hawaii.
Rosanjin and Modern Japanese Gourmet Consciousness
Introduced by Lonny Carlile
3:00-3:30
Plenary JSA Membership Meeting
Everyone is welcome
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President
Final Special
Event
Japanese Culinary Experiences with Chef Alan at Kapi’olani Community College
Bus leaves at 3:30
Please meet at bus to transport us to Kapi’olani Community College
3:30- 5:30
Japanese Cooking Demonstration and Tasting at Kapi’olani Community College
5:30
Meet at bus to transport us back to Hyatt Place Hotel
6:00
Dinner on your own