Institute of Comparative Culture

AJJ Fall Workshop

Registration: 8:30 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Session 1A: Researching the Lives of Adolescents (Roundtable)

Session 1B: Global Encounters

Paul D. Barclay, Lafayette College and Keio Gijuku University: “The Policy Science that Failed? Meiji Anthropologists in Colonial Taiwan”
Harumi Befu, Stanford University: “Some Processes of Japan’s Globalization”
Dalit Bloch-Tzemach, The Hebrew University: “A Home Away From Home: emotional aspect of dwelling-tourism in Japan”
J.M. Holden, Tohoku University: “Hail Japan’s Conquering Heroes: sports reports and the discourse of national efficacy”
Chair: T.J.M. Holden, Tohoku University

Lunch: 11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m.

Session 2A: Margins

Matt Allen, University of Auckland: “Identifying Illness in Okinawa: Mental health and shamanic practice”
Shana Fruehan, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian University and Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago: “No Sexual Revolution: Understanding (non)Response to the Pill in Japan”
Erick Laurent, Gifu Keizai University: “Gays on Japan’s Margins”
Ai Kristine Mizutani, Saitama University: “Returning Diaspora: Post-Postwar Nikkei and Kikokushijo Identity in Japan”
Chair: Erick Laurent, Gifu Keizai University

Session 2B: Media / Popular Culture

Miki Kawabata, Mejiro University: “Examining Tabloidization of TV News Programs in Japan: entertainment, information or news?”
Mark McGeady, University of Waikato: “The Cage that Technology Built: The Fragility of Japanese Society in the Films of Shinya Tsukamoto”
Brian McVeigh, Tokyo Jogakkan College: “’Consumutopia’: Hello Kitty, Cyberspace, and the Production of Place”
Alistair Swale, University of Waikato: “Miyazaki Hayao Renegotiating the Japanese Aesthetic: Mask and Persona in the Ghibli World”
Debra Occhi, Miyazaki International College: “Nature and Gender in Japanese Media
Chair: Debra Occhi, Miyazaki International University

Coffee Break: 2:30 p.m. – 3:00

Session 3A: Spaces and Places

Ron Carle, University of Edinburgh: “懐かしい日本と私 (natsukashii Nippon to watashi): heritage, and the race for space in place”
Jeffry T. Hester, Kansai Gaidai University: “Walking through the Past: The Historical Ordering of Space in Osaka, Japan”
Tomoko Kurihara, London School of Economics and Political Science: “The Politics of Use of Normative and Virtual Spaces: Power, control and community in a Japanese white-collar office”
Ayumi Sasagawa, Oxford Brookes University: “Social World of University-educated Mothers in a Japanese Suburb”
Yun Hui Tsu, National University of Singapore: “The Violent and the Benign: How Kobe Remembers its Rivers”
Chair: Tomoko Kurihara, London School of Economics and Political Science

Session 3B: Works in Progress

Section 1:

Hakan Ergul, Anadolu University (Turkey) and Tohoku University (Japan), “ ‘Mediated Globe’: sources of knowledge and infotainment as a cultural filter”
Luminita Gurita, GSICS, Tohoku University: “The Salaryman in Japanese Television Commercials”
Nathaniel Smith, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University: “Hardcore Punk in Japan and Intercultural Exchange”
Fumitaka Wakamatsu, Department of Anthropology, Sophia University: “Global Flows of Gospel Images into Japan”
Discussants: T.J.M. Holden, Tohoku University; Miki Kawabata, Mejiro University

Section 2:

Rie Ito, GSICS, Tohoku University: “Foreign Brides in a Japanese Rural Area: an analysis of the family lives of intercultural couples in Miyagi prefecture”
Katsunobu Shimizu, Oxford Brookes University: “Mentally Ill or Critics of Society?: The Labeling of Children Who Refuse Mainstream Schooling”
Elmer Veldkamp, Anthropology Department, University of Tokyo: “Man/animal relations in Japan – why memorialize and commemorate animals?”
Discussants: John Clammer, Sophia University; David Slater, Sophia University

Coffee Break: 5:00 p.m. – 5:15

Business Meeting: 5:15 – 6:00