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Future Uncertain: Economic, Environmental, Social and Political Challenges Facing Japan

THURSDAY OCTOBER 12TH – SUNDAY OCTOBER 15TH, 2017THE VIVIAN AND DAVID CAMPBELL CONFERENCE FACILITY, 1 DEVONSHIRE PLACE

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Welcome to the 30th annual Japan Studies Association of Canada conference!

We are delighted to be in Toronto and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. We greatly appreciate their gracious hospitality.

JSAC is the only academic organization in Canada devoted to research and discussion on Japan, with a particular emphasis on identifying the country’s place in the world. JSAC members come from a range of disciplines and universities across Canada and share a deep passion for Japan. The annual conference offers a wonderful opportunity to get together and discuss and debate important Japan-related issues and topics.

My best wishes to you all for a wonderful JSAC conference and a happy 30th anniversary!

Dr. Carin HolroydAssociate Professor of Political StudiesUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Congratulations to Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith on her award for Lifetime Service to the Japan Studies Association of Canada

This award is made to honour an outstanding contribution to the mission of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC). Initiated in 2017, the award recognizes exceptional service and commitment to JSAC and to the study of Japan in Canada. The award acknowledges and publicly celebrates these outstanding contributions and the integrity and dedication the recipient has brought to the association.

Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting 2017

Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place

October 12 – 15, 2017

OctOber 12

12:00 – 16:00 Professional develoPment A seminar for graduate students and junior faculty members» Room 108N, North House

» Registration required: http://munkschool .utoronto.ca/csgj/event/23594/

15:00 – 18:00 JsaC ConferenCe registration

» Munk School, South House

18:00 – 21:00 oPening reCePtion

» Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South House

Koto PerformanCe:

Linda Kako Caplan Koto Music Dai Shihan (Grandmaster)

WelComing remarKs

Master Of CereMONies:David A. Welch CIGI Chair of Global Security and Professor of Political Science, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of WaterlooProf. Randall Hansen Director, Munk School of Global AffairsProf. Louis Pauly Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of TorontoProf. Carin Holroyd President of JSAC

oPening Keynote

Maria Toyoda Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Government, Suffolk UniversityThe Political Economy of Things: Some Considerations for Japan’s Infrastructure Aid to Developing Economies

OctOber 13

08:30 – 09:00 BreaKfast

09:00 – 10:30 session 1: Keynote


Master Of CereMONies:Carin Holroyd Associate Professor of Political Studies, University of SaskatchewansPeaker: Joseph Caron Former Ambassador of Canada to JapanBeing Ambassador to Japan

10:30 – 10:45 BreaK

10:45 – 12:15 session 2a: PolitiCs


Chair:Seung Hyok Lee Lecturer, Department of Political Science, and Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of TorontoPaNeLists:Scott Harrison Program Manager, Asia Pacific Foundation of CanadaAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Japan-Canada Relations

Jacob Kovalio Associate Professor of History, Carleton UniversityJapan in the 21st Century: A Model Pacifist Liberal- Democracy Coping with a Corporatist Chinese Regime’s Lebensraum Foreign Policy

Matthew Linley Designated Professor, International Education and Exchange Center, Nagoya UniversityExplaining the Gap in the Provision of Disaster Preparedness Information to Foreign Residents in Japanese Cities

Yves Tiberghien Associate Professor of Political Science, UBCBetween Charybdis and Scylla: Japan’s Global Economic Strategy in the Face of a Rising China and Angry America

DisCussaNt:

David A. Welch CIGI Chair of Global Security and Professor of Political Science, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo

session 2B: soCiety and Culture (i)

» Room 108N, North House

Chair aND DisCussaNt:Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, McGill University

PaNeLists:Owen Griffiths Associate Professor of History, Mount Allison UniversityIwaya Sazanami, Alfred Harmsworth, and the Militarization of Children’s Media

Mark Rowe Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster UniversityGhosts and Spirits in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Josh Trichilo Ph.D. Candidate, Humanities, York University3.11, Interspecies Trauma, and Kawakami’s ‘Kami-sama’ Story(ies): Mobilizing Limits to (Not) Represent What it is Like to Whisper Across Finitudes

James X. White Ph.D. Candidate, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UKJosei no(!) osake no(!) nomikata--How Women Drink: The Perception and Evaluation of Women’s Alcohol Consumption in popular media

Sheri Zhang Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of OttawaInspiration of Japan: Silence, Avoidance and Positive Approach Tackling Prejudice and Racial Discrimination

12:15 – 13:30 lunCh

» Sponsored by Bento Sushi



Master Of CereMONies:Carin Holroyd Associate Professor of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan

sPeaker:Atsushi Sunami Vice President and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)‘Society 5.0’ as Japan’s Science and Technology, Innovation Strategy

15:00 – 15:15 BreaK

15:15 – 16:45 session 4a: disaster reCovery


Chair aND DisCussaNt:Thomas Waldichuk Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Thompson Rivers University

PaNeLists:Millie Creighton Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British ColumbiaDifficulties, Disasters, Dams and the Backside of Japan: Re-Ordering People, Place, and Pollution in Precarious Times

David Edgington Professor, Department of Geography, University of British ColumbiaThe Road Back: Arrangements for Recovery of Population and Jobs in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture

Shinya Nagasaki Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Management, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster UniversityUncertainty in nuclear policy in Japan: a comparison of Japanese and Ontarians’ opinions on nuclear energy

Maxime Polleri Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, York UniversityCommodifiable Phantasm: The Politicization of the Native Land in a Post-Fukushima Context of Radioactive Contamination

Natasha Fox Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of British ColumbiaEmerging Solidarities and Spatialities in Post-3.11 Japan: Gender, Sexuality and Transformative Resilience”

session 4B: art and language


Chair aND DisCussaNt:James X. White Ph.D. Candidate, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

PaNeLists:Norio Ota Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York UniversityUncertainties of the future of the Japanese language: a case study of conditionals

Cary Takagi Adjunct Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York UniversityFuture Uncertain for the Early Japanese Diaspora in Canada: Challenges and Responses to Religious Identity

Noriko Yabuki-Soh Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York UniversityImages of Japanese women: An analysis of language use in advertisements

X. Jie Yang Professor, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, University of CalgaryLife Scenes in Classical Painting: A Research Approach with Digital Technology

session 4C: undergraduate roundtaBle: gender equality in JaPan from students’ PersPeCtive


Chair aND DisCussaNt:Seung Hyok Lee Lecturer, Department of Political Science, and Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of Toronto

PartiCiPaNts:Taku Nishumura

Keita Morikawa

Kana Shishikura

Natsuhi Yasuda

18:00 – 21:00 Banquet and Keynote

» Yuzu No Hana Restaurant, 236 Adelaide Street West

» Sake tasting sponsored by the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company

Master Of CereMONies:

Masayuki Tadokoro Professor of International Relations, Keio University

sPeaker:John Nilsson-Wright Fuji Bank University Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University; Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Chatham HouseThe Real and Present Danger of North Korea: Options for Abe and Japan

OctOber 14

08:30 – 09:00 BreaKfast



Master Of CereMONies:Jacob Kovalio Associate Professor of History, Carleton University

sPeaker:Patricia Maclachlan Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at AustinCultivating Institutional Change in Japan: Globalization, Demographic Decline, and the Future of Farming

10:30 – 10:45 BreaK

10:45 – 12:15 session 6a: roundtaBle on the JaPan futures initiative


Chair:Scott Harrison Program Manager, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

Carin Holroyd Associate Professor of Political Studies, University of SaskatchewanSeung Hyok Lee Lecturer, Department of Political Science, and Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of Toronto

Masayuki Tadokoro Professor of International Relations, Keio University

David Welch CIGI Chair of Global Security and Professor of Political Science, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo

session 6B: eduCation and tourism


Chair aND DisCussaNt:Brian Pendleton Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies, Langara College

PaNeLists:Teri Bryant Associate Professor Emerita, Haskayne School of Business

Leighton Wilks Instructor, Haskayne School of BusinessDeveloping cross-cultural skills in undergraduate students through a group study program to Japan: Design and implementation issues

Atsuko Hashimoto Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University

David Telfer Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Tourism StudiesA Comparison of Historic Tourism at the Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

Satsuki Kawano Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of GuelphJapan’s Invisible Educational Challenge: Dyslexia and the Representations of Literacies

Gregory Wheeler Assistant Professor, Center of Medical Education, Sapporo Medical UniversityMorality or Neo-nationalism? Examining concerns over the implementation of moral education as an official subject in the Japanese elementary and junior high schools

12:15 – 13:30 lunCh and JsaC annual general meeting




Master Of CereMONies:Teri Bryant Associate Professor Emerita, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

sPeaker:Andrew DeWit Professor, School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Rikkyo UniversityJapanese Smart Communities as Industrial Policy

15:00 – 15:15 BreaK

15:15 – 16:45 session 8: greening JaPan


Chair aND DisCussaNt:David Edgington Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

PaNeLists:Jay Goulding Professor, Department of Social Science, York UniversityTokugawa’s Environmental Philosophy

Sachiyo Kanzaki Lecturer, School of Modern Languages, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Yusuhara: regional autonomy, revitalization and green energy

Thomas Waldichuk Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Thompson Rivers UniversityGreen space and suburban planning

OctOber 15

08:30 – 09:00 BreaKfast

09:00 – 10:30 session 9: eConomy and Business


Chair aND DisCussaNt:Andrew DeWit Professor, School of Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Rikkyo University

PaNeLists:Derek Hall Associate Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityJapanese overseas agricultural investments

Shigenori Matsui Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBCAirBnB and Uber in Japan: Is Law Killing the Development of New Technology?

James Tiessen Associate Professor and Director, School of Health Services Management, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson UniversityStrategies of Japanese for-profit long-term care providers: How do firms compete?

10:30 – 10:45 BreaK

10:45 – 12:15 session 10: soCiety and Culture (ii)


Chair:Aya Fujiwara Director, Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research, University of Alberta

PaNeLists:Evan Koike Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia‘If the Top Changes’: Nonprofit Organizations’ Attempts to Raise Japan’s Low Birthrate by Educating Company Managers

Brian Pendleton Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies, Langara College‘My generation are lost sheep ... we must worship Democracy’: The 1961 Garden Club of America Tour to Japan

Gregory de St. Maurice Culinaria Research Fellow, Culinaria Research Centre, University of TorontoSecuring a More Certain Future for Traditional Japanese Cuisine

DisCussaNt:Noriko Yabuki-Soh Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

12:15 – 12:30 Closing remarKs

» Campbell Conference Facility

Carin Holroyd President

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