Friday, 8 January 2016
8:15am-4:00pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
8:45-9:00am
Presidential address
Joseph Overton, JSA President
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-10:00am
Keynote Address
Michael Broderick, Murdoch University (Australia)
Hibakusha Traces: Digital Remembrance amid the Traumascapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Introduction: Maggie Ivanova, JSA Vice President
10:00-10:15am Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
8:45-9:00am
Presidential address
Joseph Overton, JSA President
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00-10:00am
Keynote Address
Michael Broderick, Murdoch University (Australia)
Hibakusha Traces: Digital Remembrance amid the Traumascapes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Introduction: Maggie Ivanova, JSA Vice President
10:00-10:15am Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
10:15am-11:45am
Panel 1. Critical Interventions and Resistance: On Modernity, Colonial Capitalism, and Proletarian Literature
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
Telling the Story of Taoka Reiun and the Turn Against the Modern
Michael Hayata, University of Wisconsin-Madison – winner Paul Varley Award
Visions of Redemption: Time, History, and Resistance in Ainu Literature
Quillon Arkenstone, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Sowing the Seeds? The Journal Tane maku hito and the Emergence of Proletarian Literature
Panel 2. Nuclear Legacies and Community Redevelopment: Japan in a Global Context
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Jennifer McDowell, University of Pittsburgh
Yasuhito Abe, Doshisha University
Shaping Nuclear Power with Rhetoric: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasuhiro Nakasone’s Political Speech in 1955
Anna Vainio, University of Sheffield, University of Tohoku
Socially Constructed Recovery: Community Development as a Route to Transformation and Sustainability
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
3.11 Fiction and the Global Nuclear Experience
Panel 3. Film and Literature: Adaptations and Inter-Asian Comparative Approaches
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair and discussant: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Robert Feleppa and Vivien Minshull-Ford, Wichita State University
Hiroshima and the Heart/Mind of Sherlock Holmes
Susan Meiki, Okayama University
A Comparison of Ibuse’s Black Rain: Film, Novel, Facts, and Actual Places
Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Literary Adaptation and Cinematic Modernisms: Akutagawa, Kurosawa, Lu Xun, and Revolutionary-Era Chinese Cinema
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
Telling the Story of Taoka Reiun and the Turn Against the Modern
Michael Hayata, University of Wisconsin-Madison – winner Paul Varley Award
Visions of Redemption: Time, History, and Resistance in Ainu Literature
Quillon Arkenstone, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Sowing the Seeds? The Journal Tane maku hito and the Emergence of Proletarian Literature
Panel 2. Nuclear Legacies and Community Redevelopment: Japan in a Global Context
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Jennifer McDowell, University of Pittsburgh
Yasuhito Abe, Doshisha University
Shaping Nuclear Power with Rhetoric: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasuhiro Nakasone’s Political Speech in 1955
Anna Vainio, University of Sheffield, University of Tohoku
Socially Constructed Recovery: Community Development as a Route to Transformation and Sustainability
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
3.11 Fiction and the Global Nuclear Experience
Panel 3. Film and Literature: Adaptations and Inter-Asian Comparative Approaches
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair and discussant: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Robert Feleppa and Vivien Minshull-Ford, Wichita State University
Hiroshima and the Heart/Mind of Sherlock Holmes
Susan Meiki, Okayama University
A Comparison of Ibuse’s Black Rain: Film, Novel, Facts, and Actual Places
Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Literary Adaptation and Cinematic Modernisms: Akutagawa, Kurosawa, Lu Xun, and Revolutionary-Era Chinese Cinema
15-min lunch set-up; lunch in Pua Melia Ballroom
12:00-1:15pm
Lunch Plenary I
Lonny Carlile, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Mainstreaming Japan’s Periphery: Hokkaido and Okinawa as Pedagogical Devices
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Introduction: Joseph Overton, JSA President
Lunch Plenary I
Lonny Carlile, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Mainstreaming Japan’s Periphery: Hokkaido and Okinawa as Pedagogical Devices
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Introduction: Joseph Overton, JSA President
1:15-1:30pm Coffee/tea break (incl. lunch take-down): Pua Melia Ballroom
1:30-3:00pm
Panel 4. (Trans)Cultural Diffusion: The Politics of Popular Culture and Cool Japan
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: James Peoples, Ohio Wesleyan University
Lisander Martinez, University of Tsukuba
Coolhunting Knowledge: An Understanding of the System of Diffusion of Cool Japan
Xiaofei Tu, Appalachian State University
Pop Culture Fandom, Yasukuni, and the Sino-Japanese Relationship
Tets Kimura, Flinders University – winner Paul Varley Award
Japan’s Renowned Corporate Creative Industries and Their Presence in Asia: A Case Study of Uniqlo and AKB48 as a Vehicle of Soft Power
Panel 5. Linking by Displacing: Zurashi in Nō, Rakugo and Contemporary Performance
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Dialogue beyond Time and Space: The Presence of Lady Rokujō and the Absence of Lady Aoi in the Nō play Lady Aoi (Aoi no ue)
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Nō Dramaturgy in Okada Toshiki’s Ground and Floor (2013)
Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
Funny Business: Humor in the Rakugo Tale Funatoku
Panel 6. Pedagogy (I): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Japan Studies through Literature, Psychology, and Dance
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Robert Feleppa, Wichita State University
Mirari Elcoro, Armstrong State University
Murakami in the Neuroscience Classroom
Seonagh Odhiombo Horne, California State University, Los Angeles
Choreography of Memory: Postwar Avant-Garde Japanese Dance in Intercultural Education
Teresa Winterhalter, Armstrong State University
Beyond the Alibi of Chronology
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: James Peoples, Ohio Wesleyan University
Lisander Martinez, University of Tsukuba
Coolhunting Knowledge: An Understanding of the System of Diffusion of Cool Japan
Xiaofei Tu, Appalachian State University
Pop Culture Fandom, Yasukuni, and the Sino-Japanese Relationship
Tets Kimura, Flinders University – winner Paul Varley Award
Japan’s Renowned Corporate Creative Industries and Their Presence in Asia: A Case Study of Uniqlo and AKB48 as a Vehicle of Soft Power
Panel 5. Linking by Displacing: Zurashi in Nō, Rakugo and Contemporary Performance
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
Nahoko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Dialogue beyond Time and Space: The Presence of Lady Rokujō and the Absence of Lady Aoi in the Nō play Lady Aoi (Aoi no ue)
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Nō Dramaturgy in Okada Toshiki’s Ground and Floor (2013)
Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
Funny Business: Humor in the Rakugo Tale Funatoku
Panel 6. Pedagogy (I): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Japan Studies through Literature, Psychology, and Dance
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Robert Feleppa, Wichita State University
Mirari Elcoro, Armstrong State University
Murakami in the Neuroscience Classroom
Seonagh Odhiombo Horne, California State University, Los Angeles
Choreography of Memory: Postwar Avant-Garde Japanese Dance in Intercultural Education
Teresa Winterhalter, Armstrong State University
Beyond the Alibi of Chronology
3:00-3:15pm Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
3:15-4:45pm
Panel 7. Japan’s Creative Industries: On Film, Anime and Fandom
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Tets Kimura, Flinders University
Renato Rivera Rusca, Meiji University
At the Heart of the 1977-85 'Anime Boom' Revolution
Tamah Nakamura, Chikushi Jogakuen University
Exploring Japanese Fandom
Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
The Representation of the Family in the Films of the ‘Lost Decades’ of the 1990s and 2000s
Panel 8. Negotiating War Memories and Postwar Relationships
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
Hanae Kramer, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Dying for the Nation: Japan's Suicide Soldiers (1932)
Kenneth Rea, Louisiana Tech University
Remembering Oeyama: The Memories of LaMoyne Bleich, M.D.
Zhihai Xie, Kyoai Gakuen University
Barrier to Historical Reconciliation: The Gap between and Japan’s and China’s War Memories
Panel 9. Pedagogy (II): Japan Studies in the Intercultural Classroom: On Campus and Study Abroad
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Dawn Gale, Johnson County Community College
Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Teaching Japanese Essays in an English Writing Classroom
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University
Teaching Japan Through Visual Texts
Matthew Buzzell, Augusta University
Anime to Ozu: A Hidden Gateway to the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Tets Kimura, Flinders University
Renato Rivera Rusca, Meiji University
At the Heart of the 1977-85 'Anime Boom' Revolution
Tamah Nakamura, Chikushi Jogakuen University
Exploring Japanese Fandom
Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
The Representation of the Family in the Films of the ‘Lost Decades’ of the 1990s and 2000s
Panel 8. Negotiating War Memories and Postwar Relationships
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
Hanae Kramer, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Dying for the Nation: Japan's Suicide Soldiers (1932)
Kenneth Rea, Louisiana Tech University
Remembering Oeyama: The Memories of LaMoyne Bleich, M.D.
Zhihai Xie, Kyoai Gakuen University
Barrier to Historical Reconciliation: The Gap between and Japan’s and China’s War Memories
Panel 9. Pedagogy (II): Japan Studies in the Intercultural Classroom: On Campus and Study Abroad
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Dawn Gale, Johnson County Community College
Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Teaching Japanese Essays in an English Writing Classroom
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University
Teaching Japan Through Visual Texts
Matthew Buzzell, Augusta University
Anime to Ozu: A Hidden Gateway to the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema
5:45pm
Meet in hotel lobby at 5:30pm for a 5:45pm sharp departure.
Conference dinner with entertainment at Kapi’olani Community College.
See maps on p. 17 if not travelling with the group.
Dinner starts at 6pm.
Meet in hotel lobby at 5:30pm for a 5:45pm sharp departure.
Conference dinner with entertainment at Kapi’olani Community College.
See maps on p. 17 if not travelling with the group.
Dinner starts at 6pm.