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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject: Japan Studies Association Conference, Honolulu |
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In case anyone wasn't aware, LtDomer presented his paper "Reconstructing the Battle of Nagashino 1575: Understanding Samurai Commander Decision Making Process Through Modern Doctrinal Concepts" at the Japan Studies Association conference here in Honolulu today in "The Politics of War". Here's his lead in:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150491161673985&set=pu.104533213984&type=1&theater
It went over great with everyone there, and people kept grabbing him to ask when he was publishing, so I think it can be considered a success. Good job 'Domer!
We'll be releasing the audio, as well as an interview, etc. on the podcast in the next few weeks. So, if you haven't listened to the podcast yet, now is the time to start.
Also, we're covering the conference on the facebook page linked above, as well as on twitter @samuraiarchives and @toranosukev _________________ Shop Amazon.com, support the Samurai Archives: http://amzn.to/wnDX2j
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Pfffftttt. The paper by the Russian guy on post-Russo-Japanese war Korean policy was SO MUCH BETTER. _________________

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| Pfffftttt. The paper by the Russian guy on post-Russo-Japanese war Korean policy was SO MUCH BETTER. |
Oh, is that what he was talking about? _________________ Shop Amazon.com, support the Samurai Archives: http://amzn.to/wnDX2j
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Congratulations Domer. I hope your paper will be published. Looking forward to reading it. What you did what a big service to the history community as a whole. The real Nagashino has to explained to get rid of all the myths that are out there. Again, congratulations. _________________ You'll Never Walk Alone!
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What kind of group is it? I couldn't find a conference agenda on their home page, and their journal page said the table of contents for after issues after 2004 were unavailable.
Are you going to publish your paper in the journal? It says "Papers presented at the conference regularly appear in the Japan Studies Assocation Journal." Anyway, I am looking forward to the paper. |
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What kind of group is it? I couldn't find a conference agenda on their home page, and their journal page said the table of contents for after issues after 2004 were unavailable.
Are you going to publish your paper in the journal? It says "Papers presented at the conference regularly appear in the Japan Studies Assocation Journal." Anyway, I am looking forward to the paper. |
I'm not going to publish it in their journal. I've had two professors suggest I send it to Monumenta Nipponica, so that's where I'm going to start, and I'll go from there.
The JSA is...how shall I say...an INFORMAL group. Put it this way, if the Association of Asian Studies conference last March/April was the New York Yankees, the JSA conference was your company's rec league softball team. Great people, and lots of good presentations, but overall it was a very low-stress affair, and I didn't really feel out of my league. It was a good confidence booster. In a couple of ways it seemed like it was designed for people who wanted to present their work, but weren't quite ready for prime time--and honestly, that's how I felt going into it. After having done it, I think I would have had a shot at AAS this year, but I had to apply by August, and wasn't ready at that time.
Since AAS was the first conference I attended, I kind of expected a higher level at this one. However, I was a bit surprised at how many of the presenters either didn't speak Japanese or didn't seem to have "Japan" as their focus, but incorporated it into their research so had a connection to present. That's why I got the impression that it was a "not quite ready for prime time" conference--people could float their ideas, get some feedback, but if they tried to do that at AAS without having done significant research in Japanese, it'd be...not well received. Several of the presenters gave the impression that their thought process was "Hey, I've got this paper I've done, and it relates to Japan, and I want to go present at a conference, so...oh, here's this JSA conference, and it's in Hawaii, let's go there!"
For me, like I said, I couldn't get my application in to AAS in time, and AAS being in Toronto this year, it was just a bridge too far (literally). When this one was announced here in Honolulu, I applied as a means of motivating myself on this paper through the course of the semester. It served it's purpose quite well, and I'm happy with how it turned out.
EDIT: Another gauge of how prestigious (or not) the JSA conference was: the only big time person from UH to show up was Dr. Christine Yano from the anthro department, who was the plenary speaker. To my knowledge she didn't stick around for any of the paper presentations. To me that was very telling, that with all the Japan specialists at UH, none of them bothered to go to this conference that was literally less than a mile away.
I'll post the agenda here later today, as I've got it saved as a word file. Nothing I say here is meant to take away from the people involved or the experience--it was fantastic, and I really had a great time. The podcasts should be fun for listeners, and we've got a special guest joining us on them. But it is what it is, and it's certainly not on par with AAS or anything. _________________

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The Japan Studies Association
Eighteenth Annual Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
January 5-7, 2012
Program
Thursday, January 5
9:00 – Noon Executive Board Meeting Room 810
2:00 – 4:00 NEW FEATURE: PRE CONFERENCE EVENT
A tour of the Moiliili Hongwangi Temple at 902 University Avenue, easy walking distance from Tokai. The host will be Reverend Earl Ikeda, Moiliili’s clergyman who will invite participants into the temple’s worship space and will discuss the history of Buddhism in Hawai’I and the temples’s vibrant programs and community outreach.
Space is limited to 20 members on a first-come, first served basis. The cost is $10 which will go to an honorarium for Moiliil’s temple. Participants will meet in the lobby of Tokai at 1:15. If you would like to reserve a space, please e-mail JSA Teasurer Stacia Bensyl at bensyl@missouriwestern.edu.
5:00 – 6:30 PM Reception Auditorium 9th Floor
Friday, January 6
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast Ground Floor Cafeteria
8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks
Joseph Overton, President, Japan Studies Association Auditorium, 9th Floor
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speaker
“Japan’s Cute-Cool as Global Wink”
Dr.Christine Yano, University of Hawaii, Manoa Auditorium, 9th Floor
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break Outside Auditorium, 9th Floor
10:15 - 11:30 THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session One Public Spaces, Winners, Losers, and the Pacific War: Remembering Japan
Room 801
Chair: Thomas Campbell, Wabash College, Emeritus
Living Ghosts: POWs, Japan and Ghostly Memories
Matthew Allen, University of Wollongong
Kamikaze, Yushukan and the Cult of Self Sacrifice in War Memory
Rumi Sakamoto, University of Auckland
Manga Interpretation Of Manchuria: Visions Re-examined
Tian Mo, Hiroshima City University
Session Two Japan and Its Green Roots
Room 810
Chair: Jim Peoples, Ohio Wesleyan University
Singing Sustenance: an Ethnographic Account of Village Songs and Rural Sustenance in Kyushu, Japan
Eid-Ul Hasan, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Farming in Japan: Cultural Icon Under Siege
William “Sandy” Pfeiffer, Warren Wilson College
Hikikomori, NEET, and Parasite Single
Masfumi,Takeda, Western Carolina University
Session Three Documenting War Experiences
Room 802
Chair: Susan Mason, California State University, Los Angeles
The Politics of War Memory in Sino-Japanese Relations: Negotiating the Contents of War Exhibitions
Karl Gustafsson, Lund University
Displaying the Nation/Exhibiting the Self in Inter-War Japan
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas
Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Roving Bandits: Are the Farmers Really Safe?
Arthur “Trey” Fleisher, Metropolitan State College of Denver
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch (included)
Cafeteria on Ground Floor
1:00 – 2:15 TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session Four The Politics of War
Room 801
Chair: Yoshiko Dykstra, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Emeritus
Samurai as Commander: The Battle of Nagashino (1575) and the Military Decision-Making Process
Nate Ledbetter, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Russian-Japanese Relations After the Russo-Japanese War and World Politics 1905-1907
Sergey Tolstoguzov, Hiroshima University
Two Styles of Cultural Politics in Pre-War Japan: Nishida Kitaro and Tosaka Jun’s Theories of Cultural Politics
Kosuke Shimizu, Ryukoku University
Session Five Modernism in Japan
Room 802
Chair: Ed Schwerin, Florida Atlantic University
The Birth of Modern Magazines for Children in Japan
Nona Carter, University of the South
Teaching and Researching on Changing Gender Relations in Japan
Manju Parikh, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University
“Japan-ness” in Architecture: International Modernism and Japanese Identity
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
2:15 – 2:30 Break Outside Auditorium, 9th Floor
2:30 – 3:45 THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session Six Literature
Room 801
Chair: Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Discerning Early Japanese Literary Thought Through the Early Kanshi Anthology Prefaces
Jesse Palmer, Lawrence University
Chinese Literature and Poetic “Tourist Site” Themes in the Literati Landscape Painting of Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran
Susan Clare Scott, McDaniel University
Session Seven Tapping the Source: Japan-Related Archival and Manuscript Collections in Three American Universities
Room 810
Chair: John Paine, Belmont University
Peter Nelson, Amherst College
Marie Paiva, University of Utah
James Cartwright, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Session Eight The Power of Pedagogy
Room 802
Chair: Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
How Did an Educator for the US on TQC Change the Economic Reconstruction in Japan After World War II?
Akiko Sato, Osaka University
Religion and Politics in Japan: Teaching Across the Divide
James Boyd and Sue Ellen Charlton, Colorado State University
What Anime is…And What Anime Can Teach Media Educators About the Politics of Viewing Anime
Lien Fan Shen, University of Utah
4:00 – 5:15 Session Nine GENERAL SESSION
Song of the Rice, Song of Life: A Tale of Japan: A Staged Reading of the Play by Karen Yamamoto Hackler.
Song of the Rice weaves together Taiko drumming and three Japanese folk tales. Commissioned in 1994 by Honolulu Theatre for Youth, it was subsequently performed as a staged reading at the Kennedy Center and San Jose Repertory Theatre (1996) followed by a world premiere at California State University, Los Angeles (1999). Hawaii based Taiko drummer Kenny Endo composed the play’s music. Joining JSA Members in the 70 minute play reading are actors from the Honolulu theatre community.
Susan Mason, California State University, Los Angeles
Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Saturday, January 7
7:30 - 8:45 Breakfast
Ground Floor Cafeteria
9:00- 10:15 THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session Ten Literature II
ROOM 801
Chair: Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia
Translating Natsume Soseki’s Nowaki: Contrived Melodrama or Blueprint for Future Novels?
William Ridgeway, Independent Scholar
Gender and Modernism: Osaki Midori and “Hatsukoi” (First Love)
Reiko Yonogi, Indiana University-Purdue University
Basho, Whitman, and Negative Capability
Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Session Eleven Comics, Manga, and Film
ROOM 802
Chair: Nancy Hume, Community College of Baltimore County, Emeritus
Autobiographical Comic in Motion: Yamazaki Mari’s Travolgente Famiglia Italiana and the Transnational Clash of Culture
Ikuho Amano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
An Analysis of the Process of Becoming a Professional Manga Artist in Japan: An Approach from Game Theory
Robert Mamada, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Terrible Knowledge: Using Japanese Anime to Teach WWII without Traumatizing Students
Mara Miller, Independent Scholar
Session Twelve Japanese Society
ROOM 810
Chair: Genaro Castro-Vazquez, Nanyang Technological University
The Impact of Internationalization of Minority Language Protection in Japan: Insights for Ainu from Europe
Theresa Savage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Reforms in Japan’s Criminal Justice System
Philip Reichel, University of Northern Colorado
Japan and the Bomb Reconsidered: The Making of a Non-Nuclear “Nuclear State,” 1964-
Takaaki Daitoku, Northwestern University
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break Outside Auditorium, 9th Floor
10:30 - 11:45 THREE CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session Thirteen Japan and War Memories
ROOM 801
Chair: Karl Gustafsson, Lunds University Center for Asian and Southeast Asian Studies
Burning in the Moonlight: Japanese Diaries and Letters from the War Years
Roberta E. Adams, Roger Williams University
Creating the New Normal: Daily Life in Japanese Civilian Internment camps During World War II
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College
Eliza Scidmore and Meiji Japan: A View from National Geographic
Julie Joy Nootbar, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture
Session Fourteen Myth, History, and Culture
ROOM 802
Chair: William Pfeiffer, Warren Wilson College
Captain Francis Brinkley’s Japan, Described and Illustrated: the Propagation of the Myth
Dan Johnson and Julia Stakhnevich, Bridgewater State University
Acculturating the Barbarian: Hideyoshi and “Teahouse of the August Moon”
Fay Beauchamp, Community College of Philadelphia
Mysticism and Orientalism in Late Meiji Japan: The Essays and Thought of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)
Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
Session Fifteen Gender, Sexuality, and Sex
ROOM 810
Chair: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Medical Technologies and Japanese Men: Gender and Sexuality in the Construction of Viagra and Male Circumcision in Japan
Genaro Castro-Vazquez, Nanyang Technological University
“If I Was a Boy”: Perceptions of the Reception of the African American Man and Woman in Japan
Vanessa Dickerson, DePauw University
Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen its Anti-Child Pornography Laws
Alison Rapp, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
11:45 - 12:45 Bento Box Lunch (included)
Auditorium, 9th floor
1:00-2:15 NEW FEATURE GENERAL SESSION
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Cindy Ho, University of North Carolina, Ashville
Discussant: John Paine, Belmont University
This is a new addition to the conference and the session will be a general discussion of the novel, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. Conference participants are encouraged to read the novel in advance and participate in the discussion. Time permitting, we will show clips from the movie, The Professor’s Beloved Equation based on the novel.
2:15-3:15 BUSINESS MEETING
AUDITORIUM
All conference participants are encouraged to attend and participate in decisions about future conferences.
6:00 - 8:15 PM Banquet at the New Otani Hotel.
Special Musical Presentation by Kenny Endo’s Taiko ensemble.
Complimentary bus transportation will leave Tokai for the New Otani Hotel at 5:45 PM and will return immediately after the dinner.
PLENARY SPEAKER
Christine R. Yano is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She has undergraduate degrees from Stanford University in Communication (Film) and University of Michigan (Ethnomusicology), and graduate degrees from University of Hawaii (PhD Anthropology). Her research on Japan and Japanese America is varied, and includes global cute culture, Japanese American delicatessens, Japanese postwar diva Misora Hibari, emoticons, Korean singers of enka, Obamamania in Japan, and ukulele in Japan. Her publications include Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song (Harvard, 2002), Crowning the Nice Girl; Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawaii’s Cherry Blossom Festival (University of Hawaii Press, 2006), and Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways (Duke University Press, 2011). Her forthcoming book from Duke University Press is Kitty Up! Japan’s Pink Globalization and its Trek Across the Pacific. She is also co-editing two books – one on “Modern Girls on the Go in Japan” with Laura Miller and Alisa Freedman (under contract with Stanford University Press), and global country musics of the world with Aaron Fox (under contract with Duke University Press). |
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Sounds about right - the AAS conference presentations were all from completed, or nearly complete papers, and was very formal. This was relatively informal, and I even attended one where the prof basically said "I haven't actually written anything, but I'm going to talk a bit about an idea or two, and a little about what I've written before." _________________ Shop Amazon.com, support the Samurai Archives: http://amzn.to/wnDX2j
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LtDomer: Well said. _________________ My blog on Japanese art & history: http://chaari.wordpress.com
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| kitsuno wrote: |
| Sounds about right - the AAS conference presentations were all from completed, or nearly complete papers, and was very formal. This was relatively informal, and I even attended one where the prof basically said "I haven't actually written anything, but I'm going to talk a bit about an idea or two, and a little about what I've written before." |
Also, the organization was pretty bad, in terms of what papers were on what panel. It could have been organized much better. That said, if it were organized by time period, I'd have been on the same panel as 7 Samurai Bandits (which would be good) and Teahouse of the August Moon (which would have made me kill someone). _________________

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LOL ... I can't shake that visual of Nobunaga's TOC littered with acetate maps, alcohol markers, and power point slides of S2 products, DST's, CCIRs, and COAs. The horror!
All that's missing is porta-potties and noisy generators running non-stop.
Great job MAJ L. Looking forward to hearing the podcast. _________________ You may be whatever you resolve to be.
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LOL ... I can't shake that visual of Nobunaga's TOC littered with acetate maps, alcohol markers, and power point slides of S2 products, DST's, CCIRs, and COAs. The horror!
All that's missing is porta-potties and noisy generators running non-stop.
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That's pretty much my entire concept. At one point I even bought alcohol markers and acetate, and was drawing sittemps on the map. I love that stuff, and the idea of each side having a TOC and how it would be operating was a key inspiration for the whole thing. I had to distill it down, of course, for an academic audience, but you'll recognize everything I did simply by looking at the COA slides (when we release the audio via podcast, I'll also release the youtube link). To you, nothing I did will be all that new, because it's what we do every freaking day. To a room full of academics, it's apparently mind-blowing. _________________

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We've released the audio as a podcast, so I hope people enjoy it. Here's the video of my talk and question and answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9dr4zNWH6A&feature=youtu.be
We'll follow up with a question/answer podcast after people have had a bit of time to watch and think of things to ask, and that will likely finish off Nagashino for us (FINALLY, I KNOW, RIGHT???). _________________

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So you decided to put it on video like I suggested. Excellent.  |
Yes.
Like you suggested. Totally because you suggested it. Completely not because we were planning to do it anyways. Nope, all credit to you.
If people want to post questions for the follow up, here is as good a place as any. _________________

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What an eclectic mix of presentations!
This title caught my attention: Terrible Knowledge: Using Japanese Anime to Teach WWII without Traumatizing Students: Mara Miller, Independent Scholar. This reminds me of what I am against when I do my reviews on Asian American fiction. The Japanese occupation seems to be the main topic or subtopic in all Chinese- and Korean-American novels. How can the novelists portray war with sensitivity and objectivity? Is it possible?
It's good to see your face in your video, Itdomer. Congratulations!
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