<Date>
1-3 November 2013

<Venue>
Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Host Organizations>
Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS)
Le Département d’études japonaises de l’Université de Strasbourg
L’UMR 8155 Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO)
Le Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Schedule>
1st November
9:00
Opening Ceremony

9:15-10:00
André Klein (Le Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace [France])
Guerre et paix au XXe siecle: En Europe, au Japon et en Asie

10:00-10:45
Tang Chongnan (Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [China])
A Chinese scholar’s view on the topic of “Asia at the core of Japanese identity”

10:45-11:15
Intermission

11:15-12:00
Philippe Pelletier (Lumière University Lyon 2 [France])
L’Extrême-Orient ou le Japon dans l’Asie, invention de concepts métagéographiques

12:00-12:45
Samuel Guex (Université de Genève [Switzerland])
De l’«Orient» à l’«Asie du Nord-Est»: vers un retour du Japon en Asie?

14:00-14:45
Karine Marandjian (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts Russian Academy of Sciences [Russia])
Role of Japan on the Asian Continent: Soviet and post-Soviet interpretations

14:45-15:30
Yusuke Suzumura (Hosei University [Japan])
‘Japan is not the leader of Asia’: Ishibashi Tanzan’s criticism of Japanese expansionism and his recognition of China

15:30-16:00
Inermission

16:00-16:45
Kawada Junzo (Hosei University / Kanagawa University [Japan])
A critic of Fukuzawa’s arguments on ‘Leaving Asia’ at present

16:45-18:00
General Discussion

2nd November
9:00-9:45
Josef Kreiner (Hosei University [Japan])
Asia in the formation of Japanese culture -Some considerations on 20th century Japanese ethnology and rrehistory-

9:45-10:30
Alice Berthon (Graduate School of Advanced Studies [Japan])
Exposer le Japon au musée national d’histoire et au musée national d’ethnologie : quelle place y occupe l’«Autre asiatique»?

10:30-11:00
Intermission

11:00-11:45
Ohnuki-Tierney Emiko (University of Wisconsin, Madison [USA])
We all share rice and rice paddies: Asian identities of the Japanese through time

11:45-12:30
Inoue Wataru (Peking University [China])
From “Wa” to “Nippon”: the identity of Japan in two names

14:00-14:45
iktoria Eschbach-Szabo (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen [Germany])
Ueda Kazutoshi’ s concept of kokugo and modern-day Japanese

14:45-15:30
Wang Min (Hosei University [Japan])
Let Dayu show the relationship between Japan, China and East Asia-A report on memorial customs of Dayu in Japan

15:30-16:00
Intermission

16:00-16:45
Shin Abiko (Hosei University [Japan])
Between Western philosophy and Eastern thought, where to place Japanese philosophy? -Nishi Amane and tetsugaku (‘philosophy’)-

16:45-17:30
Hoshino Tsutomu (Hosei University [Japan])
The place of Confucianism in modern Japanese thought

17:30-18:30
General Discussion

3rd November
9:00-9:45
Kamigaito Kenichi (Otsuma Women’s University [Japan])
The translation of Trimsatika in East Asia

9:45-10:30
Suzuki Seiko (Univeristy of Tokyo [Japan] / Paris Diderot University [France])
Recherches scientifiques sur la théorie de la musique orientale de Tanabe Hisao: étude sur la musicologie japonaise des années 1920

10:30-10:45
Intermission

10:45-11:30
Miyamoto Keizo (Hosei University Noh Theatre Research Institute [Japan])
Is Nô a quintessentially Japanese performing art? -Discursive shifts regarding its origins-

11:30-12:30
Cloture and Closing Ceremony<Executive Summary>
In this year, there were 18 scholors from Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland, USA and China made their presentation focusing on a relationship between national identity in Japan and Asia. Result of the symposium will be published as a series of research monographs of HIJAS.