Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2001 Events

Tempest in a Textbook: the Historical Revisionism and Political Controversy of the Atarashii Rekishi Kyoukasho (New History Textbook)
John Nelson, Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco
September 13, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Japanese Religions in and beyond Japanese Diaspora
Keynote Speaker: Robert Bellah
September 21, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

The Japanese Socialists and Anarchists in San Francisco Bay Area
Kaoru Ohara, Law and Political Science, Kokugakuin University
October 11, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

This talk will outline the activities of the Japanese socialists and anarchists in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early 20th century, focusing on the activities of the Social Revolutionary Party and its support by Kotoku Shusui. While Kotoku is recognized as a major figure in the history of Japanese political thought, there has been little research thus far on his followers in the U.S.

The author will consider how social forces in the U.S. and Japan, including changing attitudes toward Japanese immigration as well as increasing scrutiny of the activities of socialist organizations by both the Japanese and U.S. governments affected the development of the Japanese socialist efforts in the Bay Area.

'I Love Peace!' Reinventing the Military in Present-Day Japan
Sabine Fruhstuck, Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara
October 25, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Sabine Fruhstuck will argue in her talk that since the end of the Cold War the SDF has begun to use a complex set of strategies to address its problematic status in contemporary Japanese society and to manage its connection to organized violence in new ways. These strategies include details of language and uniforms; the control, regulation and aesthetization of information about the SDF for public consumption; policies related to recruitment; the creation of an organizational history; activities that project intimacy and similarity with civil society by consciously adopting roles that do not pertain to the use of organized violence; and attempts at linking the SDF to international efforts of good will.

The 9th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会) 
October 29, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Agenda

2:15 - Panel 1

• • "Empiricism and Emotion: Representing and Interpreting Voice Pitch" — Ikuko Patricia Yuasa (Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
  • "Size of Local Government and Administrative Capacity in Japan" — Yasuyuki Motoyama (Graduate Student, City and Regional Planning)
  • "The Dynamics of Interorganizational Networks: Strategic Structural Changes and Firm Performance in the Japanese Electronics Industry 1980–2000" — Didier Guillot (Graduate Student, Haas School of Business)
  • "Anti-competition in the 'Competitive' Japanese Party System" — Robert Weiner (Graduate Student, Political Science)
  • "Summer in India: In Search of Biography of Radhabinod Pal's Dissentient Judgement" — Yuma Totani (Graduate Student, History)
  • Meiji Protestants, Moral Cultivation, Imperialism — Yosuke Nirei (Graduate Student, History)
  • "Environmental Cultural Study on Food and Agriculture: Japan and the World" — Koyu Furusawa (Visiting Scholar at the College of Natural Resources)

4:15 - Panel 2

• • "Reflections of Terute: Searching for a Hidden Shaman-Entertainer" — Susan Matisoff (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
  • "Jomon Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology: Changes in Subsistence, Settlement and Cultural Landscape at Sannai Maruyama" — Junko Habu (Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
  • "Ana Bortz, Japan's Rosa Parks: A Breakthrough for Ethnic Minority Rights?" — Keiko Yamanaka (Lecturer, Ethnic Studies/Institute for the Study of Social Change)
  • "The Gods Left First: Imperial Collapse and the Repatriation of Japanese from Northeast Asia, 1945–1956" — Andrew Barshay (Professor, History)
  • "The Burdens of Cultural Literacy" — Mary Elizabeth Berry (Professor, History)

5:30 — Further Questions / Closing Comments

On The Tale of Genji and Translation
Royall Tyler
November 6, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

With the publication by Viking Press of his new translation of The Tale of Genji, Professor Royall Tyler will discuss the challenges of translating Genji and reflect on a translator's experience of the work.

This event will be followed at 7:30 PM by a book signing at Cody's, 2454 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley. This event is free and open to the public.

Wolf Killing and Subjugating Nature in Nineteenth-Century Japan: From 'Slaves of Living Things' to 'Supreme Spirits of Living Things'
Brett Walker
November 15, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Through a survey of writing of early Meiji conservationists and intellectuals, Bret Walker will explore changing Japanese attitude towards their place within the natural and political world order as represented by the increased prevalence of wolf killing during the 19th century development of Hokkaido.

Treaty-bound: Japanese Politics and International Diplomacy, 1853–Present
November 16–17, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Experts on modern Japanese and East Asian history, international and intercultural relations will offer a series of public lectures on the major treaties that have marked Japan's involvement with the modern world, their impact on Japan's own politics and society, and vice-versa.

Friday, November 16, 2001

1:00 pm–3:00 pm — Panel I
Opening Remarks: Andrew Barshay (UC Berkeley)

• • "Gunboats, Steamtrains, and Tsunami: Treating with the Japanese, 1852–1859", William McOmie (Kanagawa University)
  • "Japan's Entry into a Changing International System, 1858–72", Michael Auslin (Yale University)

Discussant: Irwin Scheiner (UC Berkeley)

3:20 pm–5:00 pm — Panel II

• • "The Washington Conference and East Asia, 1921–1922", Ryuji Hattori (Takushoku University)
  • "The Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis Reconsidered: From the Anti-Comintern Pact to the Plans to Assasinate Stalin", Nobuo Tajima (Seijo University)

Discussant: Michael Gruttner (Technical University of Berlin)

5:15 pm–7:00 pm — Reception

Saturday, November 17, 2001 

10:00 am–12:00 noon — Panel III

• • "Britain and the San Francisco Peace Treaty", Yoichi Kibata (University of Tokyo)
  • "The Role of Japanese Politics in Shaping Bilateral Security Cooperation: The Case of the San Francisco Treaties", Leonard Schoppa (University of Virginia)

Discussant: William Kirby (Harvard University)

1:15 pm–3:00 pm — Panel IV

• • "The 1972 Japan-China Normalization Agreement in Historical Perspective: Was There a 'Bandit of Law'?", Daqing Yang (George Washington University)
  • "The Problem of Normalization of the Soviet-Japanese Asian Hostilities", Haruki Wada (University of Tokyo)

Discussant: William Kirby (Harvard University)

3:15 pm–4:00 pm — Roundtable Discussion