19th Annual International e-Conference on Japanese Studies

Japanese Studies Program

Ateneo de Manila University

In Cooperation with the

International Studies Department
De La Salle University

with the Support of

The Japan Foundation

Sporting Japan: Manifestations of a Society in Transition



DATES: March 4-6, 2021
VENUE: Online
Registration is FREE

OVERVIEW:

Sport is a rule-governed activity that often emphasizes the traits that society values, such as physical exertion, skill, pleasure, competition, and aesthetics as well as reflecting its changing identity, gender relations, and nationalism.


In the beginning of the 20th century, Japan’s nation-state building efforts coincided with its enthusiasm towards baseball and marathon when Japanese found out that their athletes were able to compete with the West after its long-period of international seclusion. Decades later, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics not only showcased Japan’s postwar economic recovery but also effectively boosted industrial capitalism and shaped its postwar identity. In recent decades, the 2002 FIFA World Cup drastically changed the sentiment of the South Korea-Japan relationship while the unexpected victory of the Nadeshiko Soccer Team in the 2011 World Cup revealed the contesting notions of gender and sports. Furthermore, renowned Japanese athletes with mixed descent such as Yu Darvish (baseball), Mashu Baker (judo), Akira Takayasu (sumo), and Naomi Osaka (tennis) obscure the line between ethnicity and national identity in the sportscape. Indeed, as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, various political issues have come forth: hosting the Olympics as a respite from the still unresolved 3/11 twin disasters, the cancellation of the architectural design of the new stadium, the disagreement among the citizens of Tokyo about the benefits and costs of hosting of the Olympic games and, above all, the socio-political implications of continuing the Olympics during the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, despite its relative neglect as a social science subject, sports has become increasingly central to discussions of the complex social reality of Japan.


Exploring the emerging scholarship on sports in Japan, this conference aims to revisit previous approaches and expand into new perspectives that better explain how Japan is trying to come to terms with the expanse and velocity of change both in the domestic and international sphere. Scholars are encouraged to rethink the confluence of sports and Japanese society by examining the themes related to sports, such as Japanese national and ethnic identity, multiculturalism, gender relations, tourism, public diplomacy, history, and the consumption of sports.


Tentative Programme (Schedules and speakers are still subject to change)


Webinar 01: Opening Plenary Session

“Sporting Japan, Ethnicity, and International Affairs”

March 4, Thursday, 13-1430 (Philippine Time)

March 4, Thursday, 14-1530 (Japan Time)

March 3, Wednesday, 21-2230 (Pacific US Time)

    

    • Opening Remarks – Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University

    

    • Welcome Speech – Japan Foundation

    

    • Plenary Speaker

      Dr. Sachi Takahata, University of Shizuoka

      “Jumping over the National Border: Filipino-Japanese Athletes Now and Beyond”

    • Discussion and Q&A


Webinar 02

“Prospects of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics”

March 5, Friday, 10-1200 noon (Philippine Time)

March 5, Friday, 11-1300 (Japan Time)

March 4, Thursday, 18-2000 (Pacific US Time)

    

    • Dr. Jules Boykoff, Pacific University in Oregon

    “‘A Safe Pair of Hands’?: The Tokyo 2021 Olympics and the Anti-Games Activist Challenge”

    • Dr. Sonja Ganseforth, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo)

    “Spectacle and disaster – Opposition against the Tokyo 2020+1 ‘Recovery Games’”

    • Discussion and Q&A


Webinar 03

“History, Remembrance, and Representation of the Olympics”

March 5, Friday, 13-1500 (Philippine Time)

March 5, Friday, 14-1600 (Japan Time)

March 4, Thursday, 21-2300 (Pacific US Time)


    • Dr. Torsen Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo)

    “1940, 1964, 2020: Tokyo’s Olympic Pasts as Selective Memory, Nostalgia, and Denial”

    • Nick Pozek, Columbia University

    “Tokyo Olympiad: Spectacle, Humanity, and the Image of Modern Japan”

    • Discussion and Q&A


Webinar 04

“Philippine-Japan Relations and Sports”

March 6, Saturday, 13-1500 (Philippine Time)

March 6, Saturday, 14-1600 (Japan Time)

March 5, Friday, 21-2300 (Pacific US Time)


    • Dr. Suguru Norimatsu, Portland State University

    “Revisiting the History of Philippines-Japan Relations through Boxing”

    • Dr. Severino R. Sarmenta Jr., Ateneo de Manila University

    “Women’s Volleyball As Lens: Reflections And Images Of Japanese Sport And Society

    by the Philippine Volleyball Community”

    • Roehl NiƱo Bautista, University of the Philippines, Diliman

    “Kendo as Soft Power and its Role in Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy with the Philippines”

    • Discussion and Q&A


Registration Link


For inquiries:


You may contact us:
https://www.facebook.com/AteneoJSP

japanese.soss@ateneo.edu








19th Annual International E-Conference of Japanese Studies




Sporting Japan: Manifestations of a Society in Transition


CALL FOR PAPERS

Japanese Studies Program
Ateneo de Manila University

In Cooperation with the

International Studies Department
De La Salle University

with the Support of

The Japan Foundation


DATES: March 4-6, 2021
VENUE: Online

OVERVIEW:

Sport is a rule-governed activity that often emphasizes the traits that society values, such as physical exertion, skill, pleasure, competition, and aesthetics as well as reflecting its changing identity, gender relations, and nationalism.


In the beginning of the 20th century, Japan’s nation-state building efforts coincided with its enthusiasm towards baseball and marathon when Japanese found out that their athletes were able to compete with the West after its long-period of international seclusion. Decades later, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics not only showcased Japan’s postwar economic recovery but also effectively boosted industrial capitalism and shaped its postwar identity. In recent decades, the 2002 FIFA World Cup drastically changed the sentiment of the South Korea-Japan relationship while the unexpected victory of the Nadeshiko Soccer Team in the 2011 World Cup revealed the contesting notions of gender and sports. Furthermore, renowned Japanese athletes with mixed descent such as Yu Darvish (baseball), Mashu Baker (judo), Akira Takayasu (sumo), and Naomi Osaka (tennis) obscure the line between ethnicity and national identity in the sportscape. Indeed, as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, various political issues have come forth: hosting the Olympics as a respite from the still unresolved 3/11 twin disasters, the cancellation of the architectural design of the new stadium, the disagreement among the citizens of Tokyo about the benefits and costs of hosting of the Olympic games and, above all, the socio-political implications of continuing the Olympics during the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, despite its relative neglect as a social science subject, sports has become increasingly central to discussions of the complex social reality of Japan.


Exploring the emerging scholarship on sports in Japan, this conference aims to revisit previous approaches and expand into new perspectives that better explain how Japan is trying to come to terms with the expanse and velocity of change both in the domestic and international sphere. Scholars are encouraged to rethink the confluence of sports and Japanese society by examining the themes related to sports, such as Japanese national and ethnic identity, multiculturalism, gender relations, tourism, public diplomacy, history, and the consumption of sports.



QUESTIONS

a. How have sports and society in Japan changed through the years?

b. What are the new approaches and perspectives that explain Japanese society through sports?

c. How are Japanese contemporary issues reflected through sports?

d. How can a sports lens help to better understand the underlying tensions and dynamics of Japanese society?



THEMES

For this conference, we encourage scholars to consider sports in Japan as they address any of the following issues and themes including, but not limited to:


  • Prospects of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

  • Sports diplomacy

  • Pandemic and Sports

  • Nationalism and identity

  • Internationalization

  • Multiculturalism

  • Gender

  • Ethnicity

  • Natural and social environment

  • Barrier-free standards and infrastructure

  • Sports technology

  • E-sports

  • Economics of sports

  • Body and physicality

  • Education

    Other related topics are also welcome. Please submit the abstracts to this link on or before 30 December 2020. All submissions will be refereed. 


    The conference will consist of sessions with 20 min. for each paper 
    (+ sufficient Q&A time)

    Abstracts and bios should be in English. Please include a title, your name, affiliation, contact details (mailing address, email) and an abstract of your paper (maximum of 500 words).   Panel proposal must include 350-500 word panel abstract with abstract of individual papers and their bios. (maximum of 3 speakers)

    Please direct any inquiries (jspadmu@gmail.com )

    18th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies

    Revisiting Southeast Asia - Japan Relations 

    Japanese Studies Program
    Ateneo de Manila University

    In Cooperation with the

    International Studies Department
    Ateneo de Davao University

    with the Support of

    The Japan Foundation


    DATES: 31 January - 1 February 2020
    VENUE: Ateneo de Davao University

    OVERVIEW:

    It has been ten years since the Japanese Studies program convened a conference and published a compiled volume that interrogated complex Philippine-Japan relations beyond economic and political structures. Edited by Dr. Lydia Yu-Jose, "Past, Love, Money and Much More" features articles exploring Philippine-Japan relations and issues surrounding World War II, Japan's cultural diplomacy, intercultural marriages, and migration. 

    Honouring Dr. Yu-Jose’s leadership and scholarship, the conference aims to revisit the issues explored in this volume while expanding its themes through new approaches and perspectives stemming from a new generation of scholars and students who are interrogating shifting relationships between the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Scholars are encouraged to reevaluate pre-war and post-war relationships through various approaches, examine Japanese culture, politics and economy in an increasingly transcultural and hybrid global landscape, and survey the various structures that influence movements between Southeast Asia and Japan.  

    a. How does Southeast Asia understand Japan? How has it changed through the years?

    b. Is Southeast Asia still interested in Japan? In what ways? How has it changed through the years?

    c. What are (some of )the new approaches and perspectives that explain (or define) Southeast Asia-Japan relations?

    d. How would Southeast Asia-Japan go beyond the capital transfers as well as the cultural diplomacy?

    e. How would Southeast Asia possibly change Japan?  

    f. How would these affect Japanese studies in Southeast Asia?


    PROGRAMME
    Day 1: 31 January 2020
    Venue:  ADDU, Finster Auditorium

    8:30 Registration and Coffee Break

    9:00 Welcome Remarks

    Joel E. Tabora, S.J.
    University President
    Ateneo de Davao University

    Yoshiaki Miwa 
    Consul General
    Consulate General of Japan in Davao

    Opening Remarks

    Hiroaki Uesugi 
    Director
    Japan Foundation – Manila

    9:30-11:00 Plenary Session 1: History
      
    Continuing Japanese Myth on “Benguet Migrants” in the Philippines: Colonial City, Migrants, WWII, and A Hidden Dispute
    Shinzo Hayase
    Waseda University

    A Comfort Zone? The late 20th Century Japanese Experience in Southeast Asia
    Satoshi Nakano
    Hitotsubashi University

    11:00-12:30 Lunch

    12:30-14:00 Plenary Session 2: Migration

    Platforms, Practices and Politics: Interrogating Intimate performativity of Filipina-Japanese marriage on YoutTube
    Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
    Deakin University

    Transnational Mobility, Love, Money and Much More
    Reiko Ogawa
    Chiba University
     
    14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break

    14:15 – 15:15 Japan in Mindanao: Revisiting Pre-War and War Time History

    Colonialism and the Japanese Settler Society in Mindanao: N.Y.K. – Migration Nexus and the Tourism Industry
    Anderson V. Villa
    Mindanao State University – General Santos

    The Role of Salipada Pendatun in Organizing the Bukidnon – Cotabato Force During World War II: An Archival Survey
    Mansoor L. Limba
    Ateneo de Davao Univeristy

    Japanese Interregnum in NLSA Settlement: 1939 – 1945
    Hannee R. Saloria-Badilles
    Mindanao State University – General Santos

    Panel Chair: John Harvey D. Gamas
                        Ateneo de Davao University          

    15:20 - 16:00 Paper Panel 1: Indo-Japan Relations

    Behind the Rising Sun: Unveiling India’s National Interests in the Convergence of the Indo-Japanese Nuclear Strategic Partnership
    Akella Colina
    Czarina Marie Cabagnot
    Joy Olive Manreal
    Masanori Kobashi
    Ateneo de Davao University

    Navigating Japan’s Foreign Policy from Within: Domestic Politics and its Impact on the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy
    Jonald T. Bagasina
    University of the Philippines – Diliman

    16:00 – 16:30 Housekeeping Announcements

     Day 2: 1 February 2020
    Venue: ADDU

    9:00 Registration and Coffee Break

    9:15 – 10:15
    Paper Panel 2.1: Japan in Mindanao 2
    Venue: F-711 & F - 712

    Japanese Schools in Davao in  US Colonial Philippines, ca. 1920s – 30s
    Eri Kitada
    Rutgers University

    Operation Victor: A Reassessment of the Mindanao Campaign during the Second World War
    David O. Lozada III, Ateneo de Manila University

    Historical Notes on Japanese Bunkers in General Santos City, Philippines
    Allan Balaga Castino
    Mindanao State University – General Santos

    Rebino Batoto
    Mindanao State University – Naawan

    Paper Panel 2.2: Soft Power
    Venue: F-213

    Thailand’s New Strategy towards International Relations at the Local Level: Applying from Fukuoka’s model
    Nirithorn Mesupnikom
    Thammasat University

    Curating Japanese Identity through Film Festival Diplomacy: A Case Study on Eiga Sai, the Japanese Film Festival in the Philippines
    Maria Ysabel A. Tangco
    Ateneo de Manila University

    Paper Panel 2.3: Migration
    Venue: Finster Auditorium

    Exploring the Dynamics in Singapore-Japan Relations: Voices from long term Japanese residents in Singapore
    Keiko Tamura
    The University of Kitakyushu

    Leng Leng Thang
    National University of Singapore

    Hiroko Fujita
    State University of New York at Buffalo / Singapore Institute of Management

    Nikkei Filipino Workers in the Japanese Seafood Processing Industry: History, Recruitment and Employment
    Sachi Takahata
    University of Shizuoka

    Keiko Yamanaka
    University of California, Berkeley

    Homebound before Sunset: Cultural Remittances and Aspirations of Return Migration among Ageing Filipino Immigrants in Japan
    Jocelyn Celero, University of the Philippines - Diliman

    10:20 – 11:20
    Paper Panel 3.1: History
    Venue: F - 711 & & 712

    Total War in a Mixed Locality: The Filipino and the Japanese Locals of the Davao Settler Zone
    Maria Cynthia B. Barriga
    Waseda University

    Kwentong Bayan sa Panahon ng Hapn: Microhistories of the Ilaguenos in North Luzon Philippines during the Japanese Occupation 1941 – 1945
    Amram Jezron B. Inere, Isabela State University – City of Ilagan

    There’s Time for Beauty: The 1944 Lakambini Popularity Contest in Iloilo City, Philippines
    Frances Anthea Redison
    University of the Philippines – Visayas

    Paper Panel 3.2: Security
    Venue: F - 213

    Finding the balance: The Japan – ASEAN Human Security Dynamics
    Jeorge Alarcon, Jr
    Adamson University

    Political, Economic and Environmental Ramifications of Wildlife Trade from Southeast Asia to Concurrent Japan in Northeast Asia
    Monir Hossain Moni
    Bangladesh Asia Institute for Global Studies

    Japan’s Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Southern Philippines: Policy Construction, Nature, and Significance for Southeast Asia
    Mario Joyo Aguja
    Mindanao State University – General Santos

    Paper Panel 3.3: Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration Policy
    Venue: Finster Auditorium

    Enlightening discourses, unfeasible realities, and a dilemma of policy practices: A Quantitative Text of Discourses and Policies of Japan's Multiculturalism
    Toru Oga
    Kyushu University

    Multicultual Tokyo in  2020:  Revisiting Language Policies
    Ron Vilog
    De La Salle University

    Discussant: Benjamin San Jose
                        Ateneo de Manila University


    11:20 – 12:20
    Paper Panel 4.1: History 2
    Venue: F - 711 & 712

    A Wartime Filipino Community in Tokyo, 1943 – 44: The Case of Kojimachi Catholic Church
    Takefumi Terada
    Sophia University

    Matsui Yayori: Legacy of Activist Networks Connecting Japan and Asia
    Lisa Rogers
    Doshisha Women:s College

    Colonial Convergence Zones: Colonial Meteorological Institutions in Taiwan and the Philippines as collaborative localities for Scientific Knowledge Production and Exchange
    Bianca Angelien Aban Claveria
    Ateneo de Manila University

    Paper Panel 4.2: ODA
    Venue: F - 213

    Competition, Cooperation, or Containment? Exploring Japan’s Place in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Efforts in Southeast Asia
    Martin Angelo T. Millete
    De La Salle University

    Japan and India’s Maritime Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Striving for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
    Gaurav Dutta
    Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Paper Panel 4.3: Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration and Civil Society
    Older Migrants in a Diversifying Japan
    Venue: Finster Auditorium
    Johanna Zulueta
    Soka University

    Critical Reflection on Multiculturalism and multicultural education in Korea
    Jinhee Kim
    Korean Educational Development Institute

    Discussant: Ron Vilog
                        De La Salle University


    12:20 – 13: 50 Lunch Break

    13:50 – 15:05 Plenary Session 3: Popular Culture
    Venue: Finster Auditorium

    Are There Any Texts in BL Studies? Rethinking Narrativity of BL Ethnicity and Eroticism in Japan and South East Asia
    Kazumi Nagaike
    Oita University

    Creative Misreading Across the Asia-Pacific: Transnational Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Utopian Consumption
    Thomas Baudinette
    Macquarie University

    15:05 - 15:30 Book Talk
    Transnational Identities on Okinawa's Military Bases: Invisible Armies
    Johanna Zulueta
    Soka University

    Comments by:
    Ricardo Trota Jose
    University of the Philippines - Diliman

    Reiko Ogawa
    Chiba University

    15:30 – 16:00 Closing Ceremonies and Coffee
                            Distribution of Certificates