ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN, IN JAPAN (AJJ)
FALL 2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, YOKOHAMA CAMPUS
Saturday, November 30, 2019
11:00am – 1:00pm
Panel A: Maladies and Healing
Chair: Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University)
Che Sohee (Minpaku) A comparative study of Hieshō (susceptibility to chills) in Japanwith Sanhupung (symptoms of postpartum illness) in Korea
Huang, Jie (Kyoto) A Comparative Study of the “Ghost” Performing in the Ceremony to Drive out Evil Spirits (“tsuina”) in Japan and China
Sugimoto, Hiroshi (Niigata University of Health and Welfare) The Development of Performance Events by Individuals with Mental Illness in Niigata City
Panel B: Identity and soft power
Chair: Robert Aspinall (Doshisha University)
Chiba, Kaeko (Akita International) The future of Japanese traditional arts
Ai Yu (Tohoku) An Ethnographic Study of Muslim Women in Sendai
Oshima, Takaaki (Tokyo Metropolitan) Pachinko Play and “Okaruto” Acts in Contemporary Japan
2:00 – 4:00
Panel A: Religion and Personal Experience
Chair: Michael Shackleton(Osaka Gakuin University)
Huang, Xinzhe (Ritsumeikan) The Embodiment of “kimochi-ii”: Experience from aQingong Class inJapan
Sun, Xiaoru (Ritsumeikan) Exit Door from Limbo: how mizuko kuyō as a religiousritual conducted in Sonyōin nunnery in Kyoto?
Triola, Ivan (Cambridge) Religion To your Doorstep: The Role of Print Media in the Development of Taishō and Early Shōwa Religions in Japan
Yuan, Mingyang (Ritsumeikan) Constructing a Market inside a Temple: A Case Study of the Tezukuri Market in Chionji, Kyoto, Japan
Panel B: New Voices in Anthropology of Japan: Undergraduate Panel
Chair: David Uva (Doshisha University)
Chrysler, Ashley (Doshisha) Language and the Multiplicity of Identity in an Eikaiwa (English Conversation) Community
Malpas, Anna (Doshisha) An Investigation of Interpretive Practice in Kyoto National Museum
Worachat, Sivapol (Doshisha) Japanese Subculture and the Limits of Soft Power for Cool Japan
Kim, Yong-Gyum (Dōshisha) Deconstructing the Politics of Memory: how the ‘Comfort women’ issue polarized gender representation across East Asia.
Wen, Luguma (Temple Japan) Some Preliminary Thoughts on Ainu Culture in Tokyo
4:00 – 5:30
Plenary Session: Compulsive Gambling in Japan
Tom Gill and Tsuyoshi Nakamura, founder and director of One Day Port
Short lecture, then Q&A in Japanese with interpretation
* A 2014 survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare estimated that there were5.36 million compulsive gamblers in Japan. This has not deterred the government from pressing ahead with plans to legalize casinos, and the problem remains under-researched and largely under the radar. Tsuyoshi Nakamura, himself a reformed gambler, founded One Day Port in April 2000, as Japan’s first residential facility dedicated to supporting compulsive gamblers. He is uniquely qualified to discuss this issue and has a number of controversial theories about it. This session will start with a brief introduction by Tom Gill, followed by some remarks by Nakamura san and then a Q&A session.
Sunday, December, 2019
10:00 – 11:30
Plenary Panel: Technology and Minority Communities
Chair: Mary Reisel (Rikkyo University)
Bookman, Mark (Tokyo) Mega Events and the Politics of Access Making: Case Studiesin Collaboration from Japan
Galbraith, Patrick (Senshu) Character, Culture, Platform: Locating EmotionalTechnology in Contemporary Japan
Mondelli, Frank (Waseda) Twisted Transistors: Deaf Assistive Technologies and the Development of Popular Music
12:30 – 2:30
Plenary Panel: Ecology and area studies
Chair: John Mock (Temple University)
Numazaki, Ichiro (Tohoku) On the Relevance and Irrelevance of Area Studies Today
Rausch, Anthony (Hirosaki) Local Japanese Studies are the Relevance of Japan to Area Studies Today.
Sprague, David (National Agriculture and Food Research Institute, Tsukuba) Harnessingvirtual and real worlds created by ubiquitous geospatial media in Japan
Obari, Mariko (Tsukuba) Thinking about sustainability: the anthropology of satoyama and agroecology
2:45-4:15
Plenary Panel: Education and Class
Chair: Ichiro Numazaki
Aspinall, Robert (Doshisha) The Bourgeois Boys: Middle class boys’ schools in England and Japan
Yoder, Robert Stuart (Lakeland University) Rebellion of Students at Low Ranked High
Schools in Japan