Thursday 17 March 2005, Venue: Graduate House & KK Leung Building 14th Floor

14.00 - 17.00

Workshop for M.A./M.Phil and Ph.D. students: 'How can we do successful fieldwork in Japan?'
Brian MOERAN, Copenhagen Business School.

16:00 - 19:00

Registration and informal welcome reception
(Eliot Room, K.K.Leung Building 14 th Floor)

Friday 18 March, 2005 Venue: Graduate House (see map)

8:30 - 9:00

Registration for latecomers

9:00 - 9.30

Welcome speech by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, Professor Tsui Lap-Chee
Welcome speech by the Head of the Department of Japanese Studies, Dr. Peter Cave
Welcome speech by the Secretary-General of JAWS.

9:30 - 10:45

Plenary lecture: 'Aesthetics, Idealism, and their Betrayal: Japan's Militarism in Cross-Cultural Perspective'.
Professor Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin.

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Culture and Translation:
Chair: Kirsten REFSING, The University of Hong Kong

•  Cindi STURTZSREE-THARAN, California State University, Sacramento: 'Translating Boundaries: Metalinguistic Explanations of "Us" versus "Them" in Japanese men.'
•  ZHOU Weihong , The Beijing Center for Japanese Studies: 「 甘え、こだわり、わだかまりなどの翻訳不能な日本語について」.
•  Ron CARLE, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka : 'Manly men doing manly things in manly ways, or anthropology as a kind of roofing' l Festivals'.

Matsuri
(Panel Convener: Hirochika NAKAMAKI):

•  Hirochika NAKAMAKI, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka: 「 祭りの経営人類学：問題提起」.
•  Hitoshi UNO, Hosei University: 「 東北三大祭りと観光・広告業」
•  Yoshiyuki TAKEUCHI, Osaka University: 「 祭りの経済効果」.
•  Izumi MITSUI, Nihon University: 「 社縁文化としての祭り ― 企業と都市との関係」.
•  Tatsuya DEGUCHI, The University of Tokushima : 「企業と祭り — 阿波踊りにおける企業と都市の連携」

Education ( 1 ):
Chair: David SLATER, Sophia University  

•  Alfredo VARELA, School for International Training: 'The Ritual Life-Cycle of Japanese School Festivals'.
•  Marina LEE-CUNIN, Shiga University : 'An Overview of International Students' Perceptions of their Academic and Non-Academic Experience in Japan'.
•  Brian MCVEIGH, University of Arizona: '"Exchange Dramatics": Dramatizing One's Own Self-worth in Japan's "Examocracy"'.

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

Translation, Borrowing, Identity:
Chair: Kirsten REFSING, The University of Hong Kong

•  Evgeny STEINER, State University of New York: 'Translating God: why the mission of St. Nikolai failed'.
•  Genaro CASTRO-VAZQUEZ, Keio University: 'Language matters: informed consent for HIV+ Latin Americans in Japan'.
•  Yohko TSUJI, Cornell University: 'We Are What We Eat: Food as an Idiom of Social Relationships in Japan and Thailand'.
•  Tina PENEVA, Kyoto University: 'Constructing Local Identity through Food Import: The Invention of the Tradition of the Olives on Shodoshima.'

Anthropology of Japanese Companies (Panel Convener: Dixon Wong):

•  Dixon WONG, The University of Hong Kong: 'Why Globalizing with an Unconservative Corporate Culture still inhibits Localization of Management—The Telling Case of Yaohan'.
•  Mitchell W. SEDGWICK, Oxford Brookes University: 'Ten Years of Socio-technical Relations and Technology Change at a Japanese Subsidiary in Thailand'.
•  Noriya SUMIHARA, Tenri University: 'The Role of Cross-knowledge: Interaction between action and system observed in the workplace of a Japanese corporation in the USA.'

Education (2):
Chair: David SLATER, Sophia University

•  Roger GOODMAN, Oxford University: 'Kingship, Kinship and Kyōjukai: An anthropological analysis of why university reform is so difficult in Japanese Universities'.
•  William BRADLEY, Ryukoku University: 'The Role of Iinkai in Re-Structuring Japanese Higher Education'.
•  Robert ASPINALL, Shiga University: 'How cultures of teaching and learning inhibit improvements to the English language curricula in Japanese universities'.
•  LI Shangbo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: 「 日本における短大の使命の終焉を考える」.

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Making Popular Culture:
Chair: KUSUMOTO Wakako, Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation

•  THANG Leng Leng, National University of Singapore: 'Playing the other sex: Gender and Cosplay in Singapore'.
•  Carolyn STEVENS, University of Melbourne: 'Uncovering meaning: Cover Songs in Japanese Pop Music'.
•  Silke NIEHUSMANN, SOAS, University of London: 'Manga – Changing over time and space'.

Translation, Tension and Violence in Japanese Companies:
Chair: Dixon WONG, The University of Hong Kong

•  Glenda ROBERTS and Yasuko OKADA, Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies: 'Power Harassment as Workplace Violence'.
•  Fiona GRAHAM, National University of Singapore: 'Nissan: translating language, transforming culture'.
•  John A. VOLKMAR, Gettysburg College: 'Westerners working in Japan: Gender, the gaijin effect, and the role of support networks '.

Migration, Migrants, and Identity:
Chair: CHAN Yeeshan, The University of Hong Kong

•  Ruth MARTIN, Oxford Brookes University: 'East Meets West: Japanese Housewives in the UK '.
•  David CHIAVACCI, University of Zurich: 'From a Non-Immigration Country to an Immigration Country: Japan and the East/Southeast Asian Migration'.
•  Hyun Sun LEE, Oxford University: ''Changing flags': what does it stand for to the Koreans in Japan?'

19:00: Departure from Graduate House for Conference Dinner.

Saturday 19 March, 2005

9:00 - 10:30

Gods, Ghosts and Demons:
Chair:James NICKUM, Tokyo Jogakkan College

•  Jutta HAUSSER, University of Munich: 'When the demons are calling on Buddha - recreating experience in modern urban life'.
•  Anna SCHLEGOLEVA, SOAS, University of London: 'Dimensions for Imagination: Sense of Space in Ghost Stories of Japanese Youth'.
•  Masazumi OKANO, The University of Hong Kong: 'New Movements of Religious Cooperation in Japan'.

On Screen:
Chair: Jane BACHNIK, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan

•  D. P. MARTINEZ, SOAS, University of London: 'Measuring identity: global success and Akira Kurosawa'.
•  QIN Gang, Beijing Center for Japanese Studies: 「母胎における浄化・再生のファンタジー ―― 宮崎駿『千と千尋の神隠し』」.
•  Jeffrey MARET, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 'Watching Hikaru & Hearing Pleas for a More Inclusive Japan'.

Material Culture:
Chair: Carolyn STEVENS, University of Melbourne

•  Anthony RAUSCH, Hirosaki University: 'Anthropological Interpretations of Japanese Lacquerware'.
•  Mutsumi YAMAGUCHI, Tohoku University: 'Gift-Receiving in Japan: An Analysis of Gift Records between 1772 and 1974'.
•  Hikaru SUZUKI, Singapore Management University: 'Reincorporating Tradition: The Product Cycle of Japanese Funerals Negotiation of Tradition: Are there limits to the commodification of rituals?'

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Plenary Symposium: East meets West in Japanese Anthropology:
Chair: Dixon WONG, The University of Hong Kong
Professor Harumi BEFU (Stanford University), Professor Joy HENDRY (Oxford Brookes University), Professor Takami KUWAYAMA (Hokkaido University), Dr. Okpyo MOON (The Academy of Korean Studies), Professor Emiko OHNUKI-TIERNEY (University of Wisconsin), Dr Dixon WONG (The University of Hong Kong)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

On the Edges of Japan:
Chair: Kirsten REFSING, The University of Hong Kong

•  Ann-Elise LEWALLEN, The University of Michigan: 'Manufacturing Dissent: Ainu Revivalism and Material Culture as Agency'.
•  Mark WINCHESTER, Hitotsubashi University: 'Minding the Gap: Ainu and Academic Practice'.
•  Stanislaw MEYER, The University of Hong Kong: 'The history of Okinawa and the invention of karate'.
•  Johanna ZULUETA, Ateneo de Manila University: 'Constructing the Nisei: The Second Generation Okinawan-Filipinos in Metro Manila'.

Power and Politics (1):
Chair: Gordon MATHEWS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

•  WONG Kam Bill, The University of Hong Kong: 'Judging Japanese Bureaucratic Corruption: Finding the Legal Culture of Judges in Japanese Great Court of Cassation'.
•  WONG Cheuk Yin, Waseda University: 'Repatriation and Community Reorganization: Social Policies of Japanese Military Government in Singapore'.
•  Masato KARASHIMA, Australian National University: 「植民政策学／経済学の歴史人類学 (Japanese Imperialism and South-East Asia) 」.
•  Hideko MITSUI, Stanford University: 'Beyond "Japanese Masochism": Transnational Feminist Responses to the Historiography Debate'.

日本人による中国物質文化研究：日本人類学史における諸事例 (Panel Convener: Satohiro Serizawa):

•  Satohiro SERIZAWA, Nara University: ' 「日本人類学と中国物質文化研究：とくに看板の収集・研究に焦点をあてて」.
•  Ichiko SHIGA, Ibaraki Christian University: 「日本における中国道教研究：道教的辟邪呪物への注目」 .
•  Keisuke MAKIBAYASHI, Hiroshima University: 「 日本人による中国先史農耕の考古学的研究－その学史と展望 」.
•  Soichiro SUNAMI, Gangoji Institute for Research of Cultural Property: 「日本の植民地政策・ 植民地主義としてのモノ研究－農具調査報告書と民芸運動 」.
•  Discussant:Sidney CHEUNG, Chinese University of Hong Kong

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 19:30

Movie: 'A2' , preceded by introduction, and followed by discussion with Director Tatsuya MORI.
Chair: Yoshiko NAKANO, The University of Hong Kong

Sunday 20 March, 2005

9:00 - 10:30

Young People on the Edge:
Chair: Peter CAVE, The University of Hong Kong

•  Mary Louise REISEL, Temple University: 'The Lolita and the Amazon'.
•  Akiko SUMIDA, Ateneo de Manila University: 'Get wild and be sexy: The ganguro trend, the media and the commodification of style'.
•  Sachiko HORIGUCHI, Oxford University: 'Is hikikomori a mental illness?: medicalization and de-medicalization processes of hikikomori in Japan'.

Body and Mind:
Chair: Ofra GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI, Tel Aviv University

•  Melissa MELBY, Emory University and Tokyo University of Agriculture: 'Untranslatable Menopause: The challenges of understanding menopause across cultures'.
•  Jan ZESERSON, Cornell University: 'Midlife Health Strategies: A Tale of Two Sites'.
•  Melissa MELBY, Emory University and Tokyo University of Agriculture: 'Untranslatable Menopause: The challenges of understanding menopause across cultures'.
•  Diana ADIS, The University of New South Wales: 'Nakedness, sexuality and "sukinshippu": the body in Japanese intimacy'.

Japan's Interaction with Asia (1):
Chair: Sylvie GUICHARD-ANGUIS, CNRS/Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne

•  Benjamin NG, Chinese University of Hong Kong: 'Japanese Elements in Cantonese Pop Music in Hong Kong: A Study of Transnational Cultural Interactions and Globalization'.
•  WU Yongmei, Beijing Center for Japanese Studies: 「 コマーシャル映像にみる日本の物質文化と国民アイデンティティ」.
•  Soon-E PARK, Honam University, Korea: 「 日本大衆文化に対する態度が日本製品の選好度に及ぼす影響 — 韓国におけるケース・スターディ — Japan's Interaction with Asia'.

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 13:00

Power and Politics 2
Chair: WONG Kam Bill, The University of Hong Kong

•  James NICKUM, Tokyo Jogakkan College, and LEE Yok-Shiu, The University of Hong Kong: 'Comparing Environmental Consciousness in Hong Kong and Japan (and Southeast Asia, and the US)'.
•  Ann YAMAMOTO, University of Tokyo: 'The hakomono gyosei syndrome: Connecting culture with community development in Japan'.
•  Richard RONALD, Kobe University: 'Japan as a 'Nation of Homeowners': Understanding Home-Ownership in Eastern and Western Terms'.
•  Iris WIECZOREK, Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg: 'Japanese NGOs and the Internet - an effective tool for political and social mobilization?'

Japan and Its Others:
Chair: Lynne NAKANO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

•  Millie CREIGHTON, University of British Columbia and Ritsumeikan University: 'Japanese Travel and Imaging in Search of the Canadian Geisha and Canadian Samurai'.
•  Yoshiko NAKANO, The University of Hong Kong: 'Turning Japanese Electric Rice Cookers into Chinese: How National/Panasonic has Sold 8 million sets in Hong Kong since 1959'.
•  Cyndi DUNN, University of Northern Iowa: 'Short, Dark-Haired People Riding Bikes? The Negotiation of Cultural Images of Japan by U.S. and Japanese Students'.
•  Eriko YAMATO, University Putra Malaysia: 「 マレーシアの英字新聞における「日本」「日本人」に関する記事」.

Surfing Japanese in the Waves of the World (Panel Co-Sponsored by AJJ [Anthropology of Japan in Japan], Convener, Debra Occhi):

•  Debra OCCHI, Miyazaki International College: 'Hello Surf Kitty! Japanese women in the waves'.
•  Stephen DAVIES, Miyazaki International College: 'Foreign Locals: Gaijin Surfers at Kisakihama, Japan'.
•  Robert YODER, Chuo University: 'Two Subcultures of Surfers in California and Kanagawa'.
•  Paul CHRISTENSEN, University of Hawaii: 'Surfer look, surfer life: The distinction between image, affluence, and surfing among Hawaii's Japanese surfers'.

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:30

14:30-15:00
Workshop:  An Internet Multimedia Tool for Teaching Japanese Culture
Jane BACHNIK, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan

Shifting Imaginative Frontiers: Japan's Cultural Turn Towards Asia and the Relocation of the West (Panel Conveners, Gordon Mathews & Bruce White):

•  Shunta MORI, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture: 'Co-participation rather than Equality: Gender Equality Policy in Japan'.
•  John CLAMMER, Sophia University: 'Salvation from the East? Globalization, New Religions and the Contemporary Re-imagining of Japanese Identity'.
•  Lynne NAKANO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: 'Fashioning Ethnicity and Self-Identity: How Images of Japan Shape an Asian Youth Culture'.
•  Gordon MATTHEWS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: 'Japan's Turn to Asia/Asia's Turn to Japan: Culturally Inevitable But Socio-politically Impossible'.
•  Hilaria GOESSMANN and Griseldis KIRSCH, University of Trier, Germany: 'Television Dramas Uniting Asia? On the Fandom of Chinese and Korean Stars in Japan'.
•  Peter ACKERMANN, University of Erlangen: 'Japan meets Asia with Asian communicative strategies - but do they work?'.
•  B ruce WHITE, Doshisha University: 'Re-Orienting the Occident: How Young Japanese Travellers seek Common Asian Membership beyond Affiliation".

Network and Community: Japan in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tianjin and Singapore (Panel Convener, Lee Pui-Tak):

•  LEE Pui-Tak, The University of Hong Kong: 'Encountering Asia in Hong Kong: Japan's Asia Networks, 1860s-1930s'.
•  Naoto KAGOTANI , Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University: 'The Development of the Japanese Cotton Industry and the Chinese Merchant Community in Kobe, 1890 -1941'.
•  CHEN Zu'en, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences: 'The Japanese Town in Shanghai: A Historical Survey'.
Discussants : Peter POST and Takeshi HAMASHITA

15:00-16:30
Marriage -or not? (1):
Chair: Joy HENDRY, Oxford Brookes University

•  Ofra GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI, Tel Aviv University: 'Ethnographic Encounter in Japan: Personal Encounters with Contemporary sengyō shufu'.
•  Scott NORTH, Osaka University: 'From Restraint to Complaint: The Emergence of an Etic Culture of Complaint in Japanese and US Marriages'.
•  Ekaterina KOROBTSEVA, University of Oxford and Sophia University: 'Experiences of Lone Unwed Mothers in Japan. Why do so few women in Japan bear and rear children outside wedlock?'

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

17:00 - 19:00

Marriage – or not? (2):
Chair: Joy HENDRY, Oxford Brookes University

•  HO Swee Lin, Sophia University, Japan : 'Desires and Dilemmas: An Ethnographic Study of Female Infidelity in Modern Japan'.
•  CHAN Yeeshan, The University of Hong Kong : 'Marriage as a Business: The Bringing of Chinese to Japan by Repatriates'.

Evening free

Monday 21 March, 2005

9:00 - 11:00

Uncommon Translations: Refracted Images and Distorted Identities in Japanese Popular Communications (1) Media Translations (Panel Co-Sponsored by AJJ [Anthropology of Japan in Japan ], Convener, Todd HOLDEN):

•  Michael PRIELER, Tohoku University: 'The Alien Prism: How Japan views itself through its "foreign" commercials'.
•  Carlo GUTIERREZ, Tohoku University: 'Refracted Imagery of Work and Play: Visual Translation through Textbooks'.
•  Aristides PEREIRA, Tohoku Univeristy: 'Recreating Japan through the Internet: How foreigners rewrite Japan through Blogs and Photologs'.
•  Miki KAWABATA, Mejiro University: 'Well-guided or mislead?: Considering the influence of visual presentations of Tabloidization on TV'.

Individual Papers:
Chair: WU Yongmei, Beijing Center for Japanese Studies

•  WANG Xiaolin, City University of Hong Kong: 「無縁・公界と『伊豆の踊り子』ーもう一つの日本文化像」.
•  HU Zhen, Fujian Teacher's University: 「日本民族の起源への再アプローチ ― 『竹取物語』と中国の『斑竹娘』と」.
•  Megumi DOSHITA, University of Tokyo: 'Different Perceptions of Rural Environment in a Japanese-style Green Tourism Practice'.

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Uncommon Translations: Refracted Images and Distorted Identities in Japanese Popular Communications (2) Cultural Translations (Panel Co-Sponsored by AJJ [Anthropology of Japan in Japan ], Convener, Todd HOLDEN):

•  Rie ITO, Tohoku University: 'Another Japanese Mirror: kōkō yakyū and the case of Darvish Yu'.
•  Jane BACHNIK, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan: 'Teaching "Untranslatable Culture" on the Web: At Home in Japan: What No One Tells You'.
•  Todd HOLDEN, Tohoku University: 'Conversations About Self, With Itself: Sports exports, imports, media reports and the matter of Japanese identity'.

Japan's Interaction with Asia (2):
Chair: Stanislaw MEYER, The University of Hong Kong

•  NGUYEN Van Kim, University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University: 'Japan: Three Times to Open its Country - Three Times to Choose'.
•  Sylvie GUICHARD-ANGUIS, Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne: 'An Asian Atmosphere in Japanese inns (ryokan) Negotiation of Tradition/Interaction with Asia'.
•  Monir H. MONI, Waseda University: 'Japan-Bangladesh Cultural Connections: Heart to Heart'.

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch and Farewell Words

14:30 - 16:30

JAWS Business Meeting