General Theme:

Changing Scene of Contemporary Japan

Kyoto Bunkyo University

March 14-15, 1998

Session 1 (Saturday, 1.30pm – 6pm)

Chair: Harumi Befu

1. John Clammer: “Received Dreams: Capitalism and the Shaping of the Emotions in Contemporary Japan.”
2. Brian Mc Veigh: “Education Change: Reform or Reinforcement of the Status Quo?”
3. Ulrich Moehwald: “Recent trends of value change in Japan.”
4. Jerry Eades: “Recent trends in Japanese urban studies.”
5. Muriel Jolivet: ”’Otokorashisa no Yamai’, or the ‘diseases’ of masculinity.”

Session 2 (Sunday, 9.30 – 12.45)

Chair: David Slater

1. Ronald Carle: “Changing the roof: traditional houses and modern problems.
2. Andreas Riessland: “Esoterics and Economics – Haguro Shugendo Between Spirituality and Commerce.”

3. Keiko Ikeda: “Changing gender and intergenerational relationships of retired couples.”
4. Helmut Morsbach: “Looking at a research method using future autobiographies cross-culturally over a span of 36 years.”

Session 3 (Sunday 1.30 – 4.30pm)

Chair: Tom Gill

1. James Roberson: “Diversity and Change in the Japanese Working Class.”
2. David Slater: “Working ‘class culture'”?
3. Wolfgang Herbert: “The Anti-Gang Law and the restructuring of the Japanese underworld.”
4. John Davis: “The Changing Reality of Buraku Discrimination.”

Concluding discussion (4.45 – 5.45pm)