Time：July 24th (Sun) 15:30-17:00 Venue：Main Hall
| Main Panel 3：Counter Nostalgia | ||
| This panel focuses on memorizing and forgetting, and telling and silence, among Japanese emigrants. Shuhei Hosokawa takes on Tatsuzo Ishikawa’s novel Sobo (Migrant People) and examiens ways in which the patient character figured by a heroine in the novel has drawn deep affection from Japanese community in Brazil. Masahiko Nishi introduces the fairly tale of ‘Urashima Taro’ (Beach Boy)as a story of ‘Japanese Coolies’ who emigrated to Guadeloupe in 1894, which Lafcadio Hearn had witnessed too, then re-examines its significance to ‘Japanese’ memory. This panel’s topic of ‘Japanese/Emigration’ is expected to pose a fundamental question to our recognition of ‘Japanese’. | ||
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Panellist 1：Shuhei Hosokawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) On Tatsuzo Ishikawa’s Sobo (Migrant People) | ||
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Tatsuzo Ishikawa’s Sobo (1935-39) is the best-known Japanese novel on Japanese-Brazilian emigration. The rain in the beginning of the story dominates the gloomy atmosphere of the entire story set in the Immigration Center in Kobe and in the ship to Santos. However, in the third and last part of the novel, the tone changes so drastically that the immigrants live in a Brazilian village, forgetting practically their desire to return home with fortune. This matches with Japan’s immigration policy of the period. The presentation will examine the political implication of this novel. One of the heroines in the novel, Onatsu, is given homage by a haiku poet and his piece is monumentalized in an elderly people’s institution in Sao Paulo. Though Onatsu seems to be too obedient and passive for today’s feminist standard, she is affectionately accepted by the commoners. Which are correct, feminists or common people? | ||
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Panellist 2：Masahiko Nishi (Ritsumeikan University) On Japanese Coolies | ||
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Peach Boy (Momotaro) and Beach Boy (Urashima Taro) are like twins among the well-known heroes of Japanese fairy tales. Historiographically, however, it is important to keep in mind numberless Peach Boys who died at the battlefield or returned depressed after the defeat of Japanese Empire, as well as Beach Boys who disappeared beyond the boundary without settling abroad happily nor having opportunities to be back triumphantly to the native country. One of the topics of my talk will be Lafcadio Hearn who moved from Kumamoto with his family in 1894 to Kobe to be astounded at the news that more than four hundreds “Japanese coolies” had left Kobe two months before for Guadeloupe, a Caribbean island under the French colonial rule, which suffered from shortage of hands after the abolition of slavery... | ||
| Chair:Kunihiko Hama (WASEDA University) | ||
Time：July 23rd (Sat) 10:30-12:00 Venue：Panel Room 4
| Cities under Reconstruction, Memories Buried in Rubble | ||
| Panellist 1 〈Japanese〉 |
Editing Local Urban Neighborhoods: “Danjiri Matsuri” as A Genuine History in the Process of Community Development in Hanshin Mikage Area of Kobe Jun Matsumura (Kwansai Gakuin University) | |
| Panellist 2 〈English〉 |
Looking for the Past : Prozna Project and Memory of the Jewish Ghetto Keita Machida (Kobe University) | |
| Moderator：Naoki Oshiro (Kobe University) | ||
Time：July 23rd (Sat) 13:30-15:00 Venue：Panel Room 1
| Between His-story and Her-story | ||
| Panellist 1 〈Japanese〉 |
Homosexuals in the Anti-racism Movement in 1970s Britain Kenji Inagaki (Kinki University) | |
| Panellist 2 〈Japanese / English〉 |
Unpacking “Priscilla”: Retrospective and Prospective Views on the Queer Theory Miki Kishida (Kobe University / The University of Western Australia) | |
| Moderator：Hideaki Tazaki (Rikkyo University) | ||
Time：July 23rd (Sat) 17:30-19:00 Venue：Panel Room 4
| Nostalgia as Counter-Nationalism | ||
| Panellist 1 〈Japanese〉 |
Chinese and Vietnamese painters in Paris between the 2 world wars Junko Nimura (The University of Tokyo) | |
| Panellist 2 〈Japanese〉 |
Rethinking of Ostalgie: Gest Workers in DDR Shizuka Usui (The University of Tokyo) | |
| Panellist 3 〈Japanese〉 |
Terayama Shuji and Nostalgia in Japanese Subculture Takeru Sasabe (Kwansei Gakuin University) | |
| Moderator：Toko Tanaka （Jumonji University） | ||
Time：July 24th (Sun) 10:30-12:00 Venue：Panel Room 2
| Memories of Wars and Postwar Commemorations | ||
| Panellist 1 〈English〉 |
What It Means to be the Survivors and Witnesses in the Pearl Harbor Nostalgia: On the Renewal of the New Museum at the Visitor Center for the USS Arizona Memorial Mitsuhiro Fujimaki (University of Shizuoka) | |
| Panellist 2 〈Japanese〉 |
The Image of YOKOSUKA: City and Nostalgia Shuichi Tsukada (Keio University) | |
| Panellist 3 〈English〉 |
Memory of the Japanese Defeat at the Pacific War through the New Wave Cinema Marcos Pablo Centeno Martin (Valencia University / WASEDA University) | |
| Moderator：Ichiro Tomiyama （Osaka University） | ||
Time：July 24th (Sun) 13:30-15:00 Venue：Panel Room 4
| Visualised History, Invisiblised Memory | ||
| Panellist 1 〈Japanese〉 |
Lost Memory, History and Documentary: With Film Director Kim-Dong Won's 'Sanggye-Dong Olympic, 1988' as the Center Kim-Joo Hyun (Chung Ang University) | |
| Panellist 2 〈English〉 |
Family Photography: Hidden Absences and Constructed Meanings through the Phatic Dimension of Communication Patricia Prieto Blanco (Ruhr University Bochum) | |
| Panellist 3 〈English〉 |
Searching for Segmentalised Lost Memory: Reconsidering Art Expression in Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Moving images Rie Saito (WASEDA University) | |
| Moderator：Yoshiharu Tezuka (Komazawa University) | ||