Voices from the Empire: Japanese Colonialism and its Legacy

Schedule

Opening Remarks
Fred G. Notehelfer, University of California, Los Angeles
Director of Center of Japanese Studies and Professor History

Literature and Music Panel

Complicity and Art in the Era of National Expansionism: Reconsidering Natsume Soseki
By John McClain, San Francisco State University

Modern Love in Manchuria: Race and Romance in Yokota Fumiko's 'Kobumi'
By Kimberly Kono, University of California, Berkeley

To Be or Not to Be Japanese: The Question of Identity in the Literature of Kim Saryang
By Christopher D. Scott, Stanford University

Music, Identities and Agendas: Japanese Colonialism and Pan-Asianism in Indonesia
By Kenneth Lawrence, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Comments by Edward Fowler, Professor of Japanese Literature University of California, Irvine
and Questions

History and Politics Panel

Another Voice of Empire: Enomoto Takeaki (1836-1908) and Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
By Todd Henry, University of California, Los Angeles

The South Manchuria Railway: Maps, Advertising and the Construction of an Empire
By John Treiber, University of Hawaii, Manoa

'Postmodernity' in Manchuria: Japanese Colonialism and the Absence of Nationality Law in Manzhouguo
By Taro Iwata, University of Oregon

Echo of the Empire: Japan's Relations with Southeast Asia, A Vietnamese Perspective
By Duong Quoc Thanh, University of Washington

Comments by Louise Young, Assistant Professor of History, New York
and Questions

Closing Remarks: Hajime Imamasa, Graduate Student in Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles