AJJ 2015 Spring Meeting @ CGS, Seijo University
Building No. 3, Seijo University, Tokyo, 25-26 April 2015
SATURDAY 25 April
Room 311
Room 312
11:00-11:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks／開会のご挨拶(Room 322)
Presentation language: English
Prof. Yuji YUI (President of Seijo University/Seijo Gakuen Academy)
Prof. Tomiyuki UESUGI (Chair of Organizing Committee of 2015 AJJ Spring)
Keynote Address 1／基調講演１(Room 322)
11:20-12:20 Presentation language: Japanese
Room 321
Presenter: Prof. Yoshio WATANABE 渡邊欣雄
Address Title:日本風水史―科学と占いの歴史―
(Japanese Histories of Feng-shui Thought: Science and Divination)
12:30-13:30 Lunch (AJJ Executive Meeting)／昼食（AJJ理事会）(Small Conference Room)
Sessions／個別発表
13:30-14:45 Group Session 1, PartI
Individual Paper Panel #1
Session Language: English
Session Language: English
Organizer: Gregory POOLE
Chair:
Chair: Sachiko HORIGUCHI
Mojianyi (Sou) Cao
What Does a Chinese Student
Experience while Studying Abroad?:
Identity Construction and the Value of
Study Abroad
Yoko KURITA
Is “Endogenous Reconstruction” of
Disaster Area Possible?: A Lesson from
Rural Sendai Affected by the Great East
Japan Earthquake
Steve Jean Pierre
The ‘Eco-religious’ Aspects of Travel
and Tourism: Pilgrimages as Rites of
Passage
Christopher R. KEENER
Entrepreneurs Riding a Global Tsunami
in Mountainous Nagano Prefecture
Yao Yu (David) Teng
What Makes a ‘Good’ Tour Guide?:
How Tour Guides in Japan Perform
the Role of Teachers
14:45-15:00 BREAK
15:00-16:15 Group Session 1, PartII
Session Language: English
Organizer: Gregory POOLE
Chair: Sachiko HORIGUCHI
BREAK
Individual Paper Panel #2
Session Language: English
Chair:
Yun-Hsin (Bunny) Tung
The Purpose of Friendship: How Friends
Influence Our Social Identity
Debra J OCCHI
Yôkai Watch: Anime and the Evolution of
Japanese Yôkai ‘Goblins’
Brandon Smith
Reimagining the Notion of Japanese
Identity: Examining the Narratives of
Hafu (Mixed-race Japanese) Youth
William Bradley
Teaching What is Cool/Not Cool about
Cool Japan to American Students in Japan
Individual Paper Panel #3
Session Language: English
Chair:
Natalie Close
(On Ethnographic Film)
Giancarla UNSER-SCHUTS
Uniqueness, Functionality and the Public:
Japanese Parents’ Reasons for Selecting
New Unusual Names
16:15-16:30 BREAK
16:30-18:00 Special Event Film Viewing／映像民俗学『見世物小屋―旅の芸人・人間ポンプ一座―』の上映
Freak Show: “Human Pump” and His Company (Audio Visual Hall, Library)
18:30Reception／懇親会(Lounge, Building No.7)
AJJ 2015 Spring Meeting @ CGS, Seijo University
Building No. 3, Seijo University, Tokyo, 25-26 April 2015
SUNDAY 26 April
Room 311
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address 2／基調講演２(Room 322)
Presentation Language: English
Room 312
Room 321
Presenter: Prof. Michael Molasky
Adress Title: Writing about Japanese Cultural Space from Inside/Outside
内／外から日本の文化空間を書くことについて
Sessions／個別発表
11:00-12:15 Group Session 2
Individual Paper Panel #4
Session Language: Japanese
Session Language: English and Japanese
Chair:
Chair:
俵木悟
良い踊りの民俗誌―踊りの評価の文化
的構成―
丸山泰明
今和次郎と田園生活―造形の観察と実
践の場としての郊外―
横川 公子
生活の中の手工芸における美と感性の
力
Mahboubeh RAKHSHANDEHROO
English-Medium Instruction Support for
International Students in Japan: A Case Study
of Iranian Students
Chika KITANO
An Exploration of How Japanese Students'
National Identity as 'Jaopanese' is
(Re)Constructed in Relation to the Ethnic
Identities that They Encounter when Studying
Abroad in the UK
楊　小平
原爆資料の展示とアイデンティティの再確認
―広島平和記念資料館の展示とダーク
ツーリズム―
12:15-12:45 11:00-12:15
(Institute of Japanese Folklore & Yanagita Library)
12:45-13:45 Lunch／昼食
Sessions／個別発表
13:45-15:00 Group Session 3: Japanese Studies in the
Era of Cool-Japanization of Japanese
Higher Education
Session Language: English
Chair:
Hiroki Igarashi
How Should Japan Be Presented?:
The Possibility of an Integrated Approach
Using Area Studies and the Disciplines from
English and Japanese Academia
Satoko Shao-Kobayashi
"What I Do," Not "What I Am": A Critical
Aapproach in Reshaping Imagined Academic
Boundaries
Ioannis Gaitanidis
The "Vicious" and "Virtuous" Aspects of
Japanese Studies in Japan: Towards a
Critical Japanese Studies Perspective
15:00-15:15 BREAK
15:15-16:30 Individual Paper Panel #7
Session Language: English and Japanese
Chair:
／成城大学民俗学研究所・柳田文庫見学
Individual Paper Panel #5
Session Language: Japanese
Chair:
Individual Paper Panel #6
Session Language: English
Chair:
小池　誠
インドネシアにおける日本発アイドル・
グループのグローカル化―JKT48とフ
ァンの声援スタイル―
Yoko KUMADA
Looking for Japanese Techniques of Pleasure:
A Study of Overseas Customers at an S/M
Club in Tokyo
小泉優莉菜
かくれキリシタン信仰の世界遺産への
登録推進事業における意義と課題―
信者・住民の語りから―
Ichiro NUMAZAKI
Warrior Baseball and the Manly Empire
Building: A Postimperial View of
the Taiwanese Film "Kano"
川﨑瑞穂
レヴィ＝ストロース『野生の思考』における
「集団心性論」とその応用可能性―日本の
民俗芸能を事例として―
Individual Paper Panel #8
Session Language: English
Chair:
Individual Paper Panel #9
Session Language: English
Chair:
戴　寧
日中国際児が背負う二重性に関する研究―
国際結婚家庭に生まれた子どもの自己形成
プロセスを事例に―
Fabio LEEPEREZ
“Culture-Trotters” and Japanese Society:
Stories of Movement through Glocal Spaces
Sayako Ono
Globalised and Localised Ballet in Japan
Jermaine R. GORDON-MIZUSAWA
Betwixt and Between: Psychoanalytic Theory
and Child Development in Bi-, Multicultural,
and Extra-cultural Japanese Families
John McCREERY
Looking Back to Look Forward:
Benedict, Nakane and Ethnographic
Involution
Michelle Henault Morrone
Doro-asobi in Japanese Preschools and Their
Implications for Cultural Transfer
Pablo FIGUEROA
Possibilities for Japanese Studies in Argentina:
Articulating Migrant Diaspora and
Contemporary Pop Culture into Shifting Glocal
Narratives
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-17:00 Closing Session and Remarks／閉会のご挨拶
Prof. Noriya Sumihara (President of AJJ; Tenri University)

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