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Session 10
Social Aspects of Low Fertility in Japan
Uncomfortable Bedfellows and “Walking the (Pillow) Talk”: State Strategies to Increase Japan’s Birthrate, Lisa Kuly
Does Having It All Make Women Want to Have More?, Glenda S. Roberts
Parents and Daycare: Constraints, Challenges, Limitations, Possibilities, Barbara G. Holthus
Politicians as Fathers and Husbands: How Individual Social Values Shape Fertility Policy, Axel P. Klein

Session 11
Realizing Voice and Identity through Style-Shifting in Japanese
Japanese Plain Forms and Different Levels of "Psychological Closeness" in Sociolinguistic Interviews, Yumiko Enyo
Public Signs as Narrative in Japan, Patricia J. Wetzel
Japanese Style Shifts as Resources for Identity Construction: A Case of University Professors in Academic Consultations, Haruko M. Cook
Style-Switching in Japanese Story-Telling, Fumiko A. Nazikian

Session 12
Reform, Rebellion, and Imperialism: Political Conflict in 1870s Japan
Imperial Afterthoughts: Reevaluating the Debate over Whether to Invade Korea, Robert Eskildsen
Reactionary or Progressive? Eto Shinpei and Political Conflict in Early Meiji Japan, Mark Ravina
Loyalism, Liberty, and Protest in Early Meiji Japan: The Case of Oe Taku (1847-1921), Daniel V. Botsman

Session 13
Interpreting Traumatic Reenactment in Modern Japanese Literature and Film
Destruction, Reconstruction, and Transformation: Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross and Traumatic Reenactment, William Ashbaugh
Underground Dreamscapes: Repetition, Trauma, and Healing in Murakami Haruki’s Kafka no Umibe, Patricia Welch
Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son: Transgenerational Transgression in Imamura Shôhei’s Vengeance is Mine, David C. Stahl

Session 21
Roundtable: Bringing Culture Back In? Japanese Political and Business Studies in the 21st Century

Session 32
Center/Periphery in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Center and Periphery in the Estate of Hineno, Izumi Province, 1500-1504, Lee Butler
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Daimyo Gods and Tokugawa Authority, Luke S. Roberts
The Diaspora of Kyoto's Buddhist Sculptors in Tokugawa-Period Japan: To Osaka, Edo, and Beyond, Patricia J. Graham
Mitsuhiro’s Sketches on the Road to the Eastern Capital, Elizabeth Lillehoj

Session 33
Holy Feasts and Unholy Beasts in Premodern Japan
The Morning Repast of a Meditating Saint: The Daishi Gozen of Kôbô Daishi, William Londo
The Sashimi Sutra: Purifying Animal Consumption in Premodern Japan, Eric C. Rath
The Tale of the War between the Shôjin and the Animals (Shôjin gyorui monogatari): Animal versus Plant Foods in a Medieval Japanese Parody, David A. Henry
Swine Imagination: Representation of the Chinese during the Tokugawa Period, Akira Shimizu

Session 34
Apocalypse Then: Interpretations of Disaster and Calamity in Late Tokugawa Japan - Sponsored by Early-Modern Japan Network
Blue Fear: The Cholera Epidemic of 1858, Bettina Gramlich-Oka
The Sky is Falling: The 1858 Comet, Laura Nenzi
Mold Poisons and Plum Poisons: Concepts of Syphilis in Early Modern Japan, William Johnston
Depicting Upheaval: The 1855 Namazu-e and the 1862 Hashika-e, Gregory J. Smits

Session 35
Restoration Losers: Vilified People, Places, and Politics in Modern Japan
The Specter of the Shogunate: Restorationism in Japanese Political Rhetoric from the Late Meiji through Early Showa Eras, Robert G. Kane
From Revelry to Irrelevance: The Loser’s Plight in Nineteenth-Century Japan, William Puck Brecher
There’s Gold in Those Hills: The Tokugawa Buried Treasure Legend in Local Japan, Michael Wert

Session 51
Theorizing Poetry in Premodern Japan
Voice, Person, and Subject in Early Japanese Poetry, Torquil Duthie
Confucianism and Emotionality in Tokugawa Literary Thought, Peter Flueckiger
Sound and Vision in Verse, Gustav Heldt

Session 52
Youth in Japan
Changing Masculinity and Policymaking in Japan, Yumiko Mikanagi
The Road from Atarimae to Wakaranai: Disrupted Identities among Japanese Youth, Mary C. Brinton
Gender and "Youth Problems" in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Nationalist Women's Organizations' Discourses, Kimiko Osawa
“All of a Sudden, I Started Wanting to Work”: Speed, Familiarity, and Konbini Employment, Gavin H. Whitelaw

Session 53
Text, Nation and the Battle for Childhood in 20th-Century Japan
The Childlike Child Takes On the Superior Student: Situating Akai Tori in Taishô Japan, Mark A. Jones
Children’s Literature as Oppositional Discourse, Joan E. Ericson
When Children Write: Experiences of Rural Childhood and Seikatsu Tsuzurikata in 1930s Japan, Mika Endo
Teaching Children to Do Things With Words: Yanagita Kunio and the Postwar Education Debate, Melek S. Ortabasi

Session 54
Re-Reading Marxist Philosopher and Cultural Critic Tosaka Jun
Tosaka Jun and the Question of Technology, Takeshi Kimoto
Tosaka Jun’s “On Space” (Kukanron, 1931) and the Materialist View of History, Robert Stolz
Tosaka and the Contemporary Critique of Liberalism, Ken C. Kawashima
Tosaka’s Critique of Journalism and Public Opinion, Fabian Schaefer

Session 73
Roundtable: Translating Japan's Culture: Strategies and Issues of Translation in Premodern Studies

Session 74
Live and Let Die: The Limits of Revenge in Premodern Japan
Blood on the Shrine Steps: The Politics of Revenge in 13th-Century Japan, Ethan Segal
When Mirrors Cloud and Swords Rust: Notes on the 17th-Century Discovery of Katakiuchi, Drake Langford
Alternatives to Vengeance: The Role of Reconciliation in 16th-Century Law, David A. Eason
Virtue and Vengeance: Samurai and Wife-Revenge in Tokugawa Japan, Amy Stanley

Session 75
Singing the Japanese Soul: Postwar Popular Music and Identities National, Personal, and Generational
Creating Japanese Punk and New Wave Music, David Hopkins
Folk Music and the Emergence of Youth Culture in 1960s Japan, Teruyoshi Tanada
Creating New Traditional Music: A Prehistory of Enka, Deborah Shamoon
Authenticity and the Career of Japanese Folk Legend Okabayashi Nobuyasu, James Dorsey

Session 76
Individual Papers: Mapping Early and Premodern Japan
Text and Context: Rereading Prince Shotoku’s "Shomangyo-gisho" through its Paratext, Mark W. Dennis
Learning to be Graceful: Tea in Early Modern Women’s Instructional Manuals, Rebecca J. Corbett
The Center Holds: Mapping Japan, Nanban, and the World in one Edo-period Kirishitan Text, Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Representations of Other Cultures in Arai Hakuseki’s Eighteenth-Century Ethnogeographical Writings, Hyokyung Choi
From Geist to Seishin : A Genealogy of "Spirit" in Modern Japan, Richard Reitan

Session 93
Roundtable: A New Era in Japanese Studies: The 1980s–1990s and Beyond: A Discussion in Honor of Hiroshi Miyaji (1925–2007) - Sponsored by Association of Teachers of Japanese

Session 94
Monarchy and Political Maneuvering in Japanese History: Major Turning Points from Medieval to Meiji
The Meiji Monarchy and the Medium of Imperial Rescript in Making Imperial Subjects, Yeounsuk Lee
The Shrinking Japanese Monarchy: Medieval Continuity and Survival, Suzanne Gay
Monarchy and a New Vision of the Japanese State in the Hideyoshi Regime, Nam-lin Hur

Session 95
Japan and the Future of East Asia
Japan's Investment Agenda in the Future Economic Architecture of Asia, Saadia M. Pekkanen
Between Insulation and Liberalization: Japan's Strategy towards Regional Financial Architecture, Saori N. Katada
Public Diplomacy as De-Asianization, David Leheny

Session 114
Reading Images: The Play of Word and Illusion in Edo Pictures
Visually Valorizing Poetic Masters: Buncho's Portraits of Chinese Writers, Frank L. Chance
Reflecting the Beauty of the "Blue Towers": Publishing and Yoshiwara Networks in the Seirô bijin awase sugata kagami, Julie Nelson Davis
The Sayings of Toba-e, Miriam Wattles

Session 115
Masculinity, Nation, and Urban Space in Japanese Literature and Visual Media, 1967-2007
Counter-culture Coffee Shops and the Construction of Masculinity in Late 1960s Japan, Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
The Masculine Eye of Anime and the Emergence of Male Viewership in 1980s Japan, Kumiko Sato
The Adventures of "Train Man" (Densha otoko): Creating New Media, Marketing Trends, and Men in Twenty-First-Century Japan, Alisa Freedman
A Real Nowhere Man? The Car as Fantasy Screen in Kuroi Senji’s "Running Family", Peter B. Tillack

Session 116
Negotiating New Demands and New Divisions in Japan: Women and the Neo-Liberal/Conservative Turn
Marginalization and Empowerment in the Economic Periphery: Ainu Women’s Challenge, Ann-Elise Lewallen
Debating "Gender-Free": The Gender-Mixed Roll Call Controversy and Anti-feminist Backlash in 21st-Century Japan, Tomomi Yamaguchi
Sporting Neo-Liberalism: Promises and Pitfalls of Life in the L-League, Elise M. Edwards
Marginalized Norm and Normalized Margins: Mizushoubai and the Sex Industries in Japan, Haeng-ja Chung

Session 133
What’s Left? What’s Right? Social Movements and Politics in Contemporary Japan
What’s Left for the Right?, Nathaniel M. Smith
Political Ties of Visible (Right) and Invisible (Left) Social Movements in Contemporary Japan, Patricia G. Steinhoff
Taking It to the Streets: Yasukuni Demonstrations during the Koizumi Years: A Study of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Interaction, Brian J. Masshardt

Session 134
The Conditions for Literary Production in Modern Japan
Producing Literary Genius in 1930s Japan: The Case of Miyazawa Kenji, Hoyt J. Long
Literature for Everyone: The Life Document Movement in the 1950s, Richi Sakakibara
A Utopia of Self-Help: A Media Approach to Late Meiji "Novels of Ambition", Timothy J. Van Compernolle
"Languages" Inscribed in Debates on Orthography, Atsuko Ueda

Session 135
Monks, Maps, Medicine, and Hell: Visualizing Japanese Interactions in Northeast Asia, 1200-1500
Song Chinese Medical Illustrations in Japanese Texts, Andrew E. Goble
The Appropriation of Chinese Paintings of the Ten Kings of Hell in Kamakura and Muromachi Japan, Haruko Wakabayashi
Placing Japan in Korean World Maps, Kenneth R. Robinson
Monk Portraits in Japanese-Chinese Interactions in the 13th-14th Centuries, Shosuke Murai

Session 154
The Boundaries of Law in the Japanese Colonial Empire: Nation, Colony, and the World
From International Law to World Law: Tanaka Kotaro and the Search for a Universal Theory of Justice, Kevin M. Doak
Japan’s Authority in International Law: The Russo-Japanese War, Douglas Howland
Law, Courts, and Colonial Management in Korea, Marie S. Kim

Session 155
Representations of Warriors in Premodern Japanese Narrative and Performing Arts
Strong, Loyal, Outlandish: Benkei as Warrior in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Roberta Strippoli
Masculine Narrative in Warrior Japan: Illustrating the Hero in the Library of Congress’ Soga monogatari, Elizabeth Oyler
Warriors on the Kabuki Stage: Famous Monologues and their Delivery, Katherine Saltzman-Li

Session 156
Two-Party Competition in Post-Reform Japanese Elections: Two? Party? Competition?
The Effect of Partisan Vote Shares on Allocation of Public Funds: Evidence from Japan, Jun Saito
Social Networks and Policy Preferences in Koumeitou Membership, George C. Ehrhardt
Declining Electoral Competitiveness in Japan: Theoretical Pessimism and Post-reform Trends, Robert J. Weiner
Electoral System Reform and the Rise of Party-Centered Elections in Japan, Ko Maeda

Session 175
Who Is a Citizen? The Potentialities and Complications of Citizenship in Contemporary Japan
The Ambiguous Position of Nikkei Brazilian Workers in Japan, Regina Yoshie Matsue
Names and Naturalization in Postwar Japan, Michael Strausz
Gendered Citizenship and Approaches to Equality, Eiko Saeki
"Shimin" and the Development of Civil Society in Contemporary Japan, Simon A. Avenell

Session 176
Faith, Law, and Violence in Medieval Japan
The Judicial Function of Violence in Japan (1280-1467), Tom Conlan
Religious Violence or Violent Religionists? Categorizing Violence in Early Medieval Japan, Mikael S. Adolphson
Bandits and Bakufu: Violent Narratives in Local Disputes in Late Kamakura Period, Morten Oxenboell
Interpreting the Roar of the Sea: the Meanings of Piratical Violence in Late Medieval Japan, Peter D. Shapinsky

Session 177
Roundtable: The Translation and Publication of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Strategies and Resources

Session 193
Reading Shimazaki Toson Beyond Japan
Meat at the Margins: The Nature of Civilization and Enlightenment in Shimazaki Tôson’s The Broken Commandment, Theresa M. Orth
Ushimatsu as Political Problem, Joseph D. Hankins
Before the Dawn: Between Narrative and Historical Description, Eri Watanabe

Session 194
Accidental Border Crossings: The Production and Reception of Late Edo Period Castaway Accounts
The Figure of the "Native" in Late Edo Castaway Narratives, Michael S. Wood
Representation of Russia by Daikokuya Kodayu, the Shipwrecked Captain, Michiko Ikuta
Describing the Unimaginable: The Emerging Genre of Japanese Castaway Narratives, Stephen W. Kohl
Political Messages to the Readers of Late Edo Castaway Narratives: The Case of the Chôja-maru, Jin Makabe

Session 195
Life on the Margins in 1950s Japan
Regional Avant-Gardes in Early Postwar Japan, Justin Jesty
School For Wives: War Brides Prepare to Go to America, Kim Brandt
Reconsidering the Periphery: Members’ Perspectives on Soka Gakkai in the 1950s, Levi McLaughlin
Geography, Democracy, Culture, Identity: Establishing Hozon-kai in Toyama Prefecture, Peter Siegenthaler

Session 196
Invoking the Founder in Japanese Esoteric Art and Ritual
Replicating Icons and Their Aura: Yakushi Statues of the Tendai-Saicho Lineage, Yui Suzuki
Ito Shinjo and the Formulation of a New Esoteric Iconography, Pamela D. Winfield
Empowerment and Demonization: The "Tachikawa" Monkan and Shingon Ritsu, David Quinter
Ningai, Six Kannon, and the Mandara for the Six Character Sutra Ritual, Sherry D. Fowler

Session 197
Individual Papers: Technology, Law, and Society in Japan
Japan’s Pacifism: The Current Debate on Japan’s Constitutional Revision and Grassroots Peace Movements, Akihiro Ogawa
Socialism, Feminism, and Reproductive Rights in Early Twentieth-Century Japan: Yamakawa Kikue's Advocacy of Birth Control, Karen Lee Callahan
Gendered Citizenship and the Japanese Family Law, Ki-young Shin
White Shirts and Chirimen: Cotton Industry in 19th-Century Japan, Yasuhiro Makimura
Changing Meanings of Aging and Elder Care in Japan under Long-Term Care Insurance, Brenda R. Jenike

Session 213
Inside/Outs: Inventing Foreign Origins for Japanese Traditions
Buddhism, Nichirenism, Outsides, and Other Worlds, Gerald Scott Iguchi
Of a Grecian Mold: Itô Chûta’s Hôryûji kenchiku ron, Tze M. Loo
Becoming MOMA: The Inter/nationalism of Reinventing Japanese Modern Art History in the Postwar Era, So-hyun Park
Inside Out: Ancient Greece for Watsuji's Japan, Noriko Aso

Session 214
Communication, Circulation, and Community Formation in Tokugawa Japan
Business Communications in Tokugawa Japan and the Role of Letter Writing in the Circulation of Information, Charles A. Andrews
Ema Halls and Display in Early Modern Japan, Hilary K. Snow
Invisible College, Visible Community: Book Circulation and Community Formation among Rangaku Scholars in Tokugawa Japan, Terrence Jackson
The Spectacle of Nature: The 1762 Exhibition of Medicinal Substances and the Study of Nature in Tokugawa Japan, Federico Marcon

Session 215
Hyper-Girls and Gothic Lolitas: Feminist Readings in Subculture
The Sacred Sins of Girlhood: Reading Takemoto Novala through Kurahashi Yumiko, Brian R. Bergstrom
Nausicaa as Hyper-girl, Margherita R. Long
Subculture and French-ness from Versailles to Shimotsuma, Anne K. McKnight

Session 216
Migrating Sciences and Technologies of Power in Imperial Japan
The U.S. Technocracy Movement and the Formation of Japanese Wartime Technology Bureaucrats, Aaron S. Moore
Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics, Christian W. Spang
Generating Urban Modernity in Japan: Charles Austin Beard's Impact on Japanese Intellectuals, Nobuhiro Yamane

Session 217
For the Sake of the Nation: Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Japanese Wartime Popular Culture
Taking One for the Team: Sports Celebrity in Militarized Japan, Dennis J. Frost
Mending the Broken Road: Remapping Sacrificial Narratives in Postwar Japanese and Okinawan Ritual Practice, Ellen Schattschneider
The Great Zoo Massacre: Odachi Shigeo and the Logic of Sacrifice in Wartime Japan, Ian J. Miller
Mars Needs Women: Recruiting Wives for Disabled Veterans in Wartime Japan, Lee Pennington