AAS

Panels by Area of Study
182. Designing for Uncertainty and
the Planet’s Geo-Forces: Innovative
Community Reconstruction in Post-
Disaster Japan
349. Digital Pedagogy for the Analog
Past: Technological Tools and
Methods for Teaching Premodern
Japanese Materials
15. Dissemination and Appropriation
of Traditional Chinese Literature in
East Asia
10. Eating Japan
181. Encountering the Nuclear:
Radiation and Its Alternative Histories
in Japan, 1945-Present
350. Establishing, Contesting, and
Dismantling the Tokugawa Order:
The Great Peace, its Discontents,
and its Aftermath
261. From Secrecy to Disclosure:
Doctrinal Repurposing and
Consumption in Japanese Religion
45. Getting a Bad Press: Nationalism,
Revisionism and Declining Freedom in
Japan’s Communications Industries
48. Interstices of Pokemon GO
and Pokemon NO: Intersecting
Chronotopes and Moral Panic of
Augmented Reality
290. Inventing the Author in Early
Modern Japan: Self-Presentation,
Professionalization, and the Nature of
Creative Labor
224. Japan and Its Empire: Sugihara
Chiune (1900-1986) and the
Holocaust
13. Japan at the Crossroads of
Empire: Politics, Violence, Race, and
Ideology in Twentieth-Century Asia
260. Japanese Literature and the
Animal in Person
220. Japan’s Narrative Arts: The
Expressive Voice
50. Lines of Flight: Characters/
Nations/People
120. Marriage and Wellbeing in
Contemporary Japan
183. Merits of the Mundane:
Examining the Everyday in Japanese
History
179. Mobilizing Bodies:
Deconstructing Disability in Japan
180. Monkey Business, Hot
Potatoes, and Fish Stories:
Anthropomorphism in Medieval and
Early Modern Japanese Literature
222. Navigating “Deep River”:
An Interdisciplinary Discussion of
Shusaku Endo’s Last Novel
35. Peripheries and Renegotiations:
Changing Dimensions of Japan-
Southeast Asia Relations
11. Phantoms of Japan’s Empire:
Rethinking Transitions from World
War to Cold War, 1945-1950
258. Positioning Japanese
Imperialism through Recursion,
Triangulation and Relationality
317. Refiguring the National Body:
Towards a Conceptual History of
Kokutai in Modern Japan
259. Reframing Communication:
Conceptual Transformation of
“Culture”, “Mass”, “Public Opinion”,
and “Public Relations” in Postwar
Japan
291. Remaking Urban Life in Post-
Bubble Japan
44. Rethinking Zainichi Temporalities:
Rupture, Continuity, and the
Precarious Present
155. Science and Technology as
Progress in Japan and the World
82. Servicemen in Total War: Racial
Disunity, Disabled Bodies, and
Alienation in the Japanese Empire
320. Shifting Borders: Body/Place/
State
348. Spirituality and the Contested
Nature of Religion, Place, and
Identity in Modern Japan
288. Teaching Translation and
Interpreting in a Global Age –
Sponsored by AATJ
289. The Awakening of the Queer
Mind: Queer Readings of Japanese
Modern Literature of the 1920s and
1930s
122. The City as Representation,
Interpretation, and Memory: Urban
Space in Modern Japanese Literature
347. The Dismantling of the Status
System in Nineteenth-Century Japan
221. The Evolving Japanese Voter:
Women, Participation, and Electoral
Choice in the Abe Era
119. The Precarious Relationship
between Literature and Popular
Culture in Japan: Towards the
Conceptualization of “Pop-Text”
12. The Saga of Japanese Honorifics
(keigo): Persistent Myth, Persistent
Reality – Sponsored by the American
Association of Teachers of Japanese
(AATJ)
87. Urban Interventions: Past
Imaginaries of Urban Futures
85. Vulgar Sounds: The Aural Politics
of Hierarchy and Memory in Modern
Japan
46. War Crimes Trials in Postwar
Asia: Emotional and Linguistic
Insights
262. What’s Left of Identity and
Difference: So-Called Primitive
Accumulation and Transitions to
Capitalism in the Japanese Empire
14. Who’s Studying Japanese?:
Preparing the Next Generation
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