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Japan the Making of a Nation

Fourth Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, April 19, 1997.

Published: Wednesday, September 01, 2004

The symposium committee welcomes proposals from all academic disciplines which attempt to view Japanese culture, society, politics, and economy in relation to the process of nation-building. Cross-cultural and comparative approaches are welcome.

Panel Participants
Opening Remarks
Making of Japanese Culture
  • Julia Yenne, Art History, University of Washington
    "Meiji Period Reappraisal of late Edo Period Painting: The Building of Japanese National Identity and its Impact on the Meiji Art World"
  • Raymond R. Moser, History, UCLA
    "Confucian Cross-Dressing: The Continuity of the Ideal Victorian Womanhood in Meiji Educational Discourse"
  • Commentator: Professor Ken Brown, University of Southern California
National Identity and Modernity
  • Cris Reyns, University of Colorado
    "Tanizaki's Perverse Historical Un-Making of Japanese Nationalism"
  • James Dorsey, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
    "Kobayashi Hideo's Resurrection of a Pre-Modern Epistemology: Setting the Stage for 'Overcoming the Modern'"
  • Leighanne K. Yuh, EALC, UCLA
    "Education and The Construction of a Colonial Identity in 1920's Korea"
  • Commentator: Professor Michael Boutdaghs, UCLA
Ethnicity in Postwar Japan
  • Ann Kaneko, Production/Directing, UCLA
    "Japanese Media Coverage and the Gaikokujin New Comer"
  • Takeyuki Gaku Tsuda, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
    "Communities Real and Imagined: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration and the Formation of Ethnic Minority Network Enclaves"
  • Marvin D. Sterling, Anthropology, UCLA
    "Cultural Africanity and Internationalization in Contemporary Japan"
  • Commentator: Professor Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah
Public Space, the Media and Subjectivity
  • Matthew Marr, MA, Sociology, Howard University (D.C)
    "Maintaining Autonomy: The Plight of the Japanese Yoseba and the American Skid Row"
  • Scott North, Sociology, UC Berkeley
    "Workplace Pathologies: The Social Epidemiology of Karoshi in Japan"
  • Jayson Makoto Chun, History, University of Oregon
    "A New Kind of Royalty: The Imperial Marriage in Postwar Japan"
  • Commentator: Professor Vistor Koschmann, Cornell University

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