Information for on-site and online participation:
The 8th EU-Japan Young Scholars Workshop on Transnational Japan
‘Revisiting’ Transnational Relations between Japan and the West
日本と西洋のトランスナショナルな関係［再訪］

Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies will hold an international workshop, “‘Revisiting’ Transnational Relations between Japan and the West” at Hosei University Ichigaya Campus between November 28th ~ 30th, 2025. We welcome observers to join us on-site and online. For those interested, please register through the application form below.

■Theme:
‘Revisiting’ Transnational Relations between Japan and the West
日本と西洋のトランスナショナルな関係[再訪]

■Organizers:
・Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS)
・Consortium for Global Japanese Studies (CGJS)
・European Center for Japanese Studies in Alsace (CEEJA)

■Date and Time:
November 28th (Friday) ~ November 30th (Sunday)

■ Location: Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus
November 28th (Friday): Boissonade Tower Meeting Room A
November 29th (Saturday) & 30th (Sunday): Kudan-kita (North) Building 4th FL Meeting Room
Campus map:
https://www.hosei.ac.jp/ichigaya/gaiyo/map/?auth=9abbb458a78210eb174f4bdd385bcf54

▶ Workshop program ▶ Abstract for presentations

▶Poster

■Language:
English (a mix of English and Japanese for Q&A)

■ Event format:
Hyflex (Presentations will be mainly given on site. Participants can participate on site or online.)

◆ Registration for participation:
If you wish to participate, please fill in the Google form below.
We will send a Zoom link via email to those who wish to participate online.

https://forms.gle/hqgjtKUa3YUhXjLu8

■ Registration Deadline:  November 27th(Thursday)AM9:00(JST)  /  November 27th(Thursday)AM1:00(CET)

■Fee:Free

■ For inquiries, please contact the HIJAS office
E-mail: hijas-ws@ml.hosei.ac.jp

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Timetable
➢ Presentations: 40 minutes (approx. 20 minutes presentation + 20 minutes discussion)
➢ Time Zones:  JST (Japan)/ CET

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Day 1 (Friday, November 28th)
— Japan and the West in Culture and Literature —

9:30 – 10:00 (JST) / 1:30 – 2:00 (CET)
Reception

10:00 – 10:50 (JST) / 2:00 – 2:50 (CET)
Welcome and Opening

10 Minutes Break

11:00 – 12:00 (JST) / 3:00 – 4:00 (CET)
Keynote
Claire-Akiko Brisset (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
“Cinema as a Transnational Phenomenon: The Case of the Reception of Japanese Cinema in France before
1945”

60 Minutes Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:40 (JST) / 5:00 – 5:40 (CET)
Dingding Wang (Nagoya University, Japan / UC San Diego, USA)
“Modernity, Japaneseness, and the Creation of Framed Spaces: (De)Coding Nature in Ozu Yasujiro’s The
Munekata Sisters”

13:40 – 14:20 (JST) / 5:40 – 6:20 (CET)
Daniele Durante (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
“The Relationship Between Girls as the Relationship Between Japan and the West: A Study of Wasurenagusa
by Yoshiya Nobuko”

10 Minutes Break

14:30 – 15:10 (JST) / 6:30 – 7:10 (CET)
Yan Chang (Waseda University, Tokyo / Stanford University, USA)
“Strategy of Performing Animality: On Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s ‘Shōnen’”

15:10 – 15:50 (JST) / 7:10 – 7:50 (CET)
Momoe Hamachi (Waseda University, Tokyo)
“Transnational Dolls: From Blue-eyed Dolls to Ball-Jointed Fantasies”

10 Minutes Break

16:00 – 16:40 (JST) / 8:00 – 8:40 (CET)
Wrap-Up Discussions
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Day 2 (Saturday, November 29th)
— Japan and the West in Political and Religious Histories —

10:00 – 10:10 (JST) / 2:00 – 2:10 (CET)
Opening for Day 2

10:10 – 10:50 (JST) / 2:10 – 2:50 (CET)
Qiaoyu Han (University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Transborder Buddhist Responses to Christianity: Sessō Sōsai and the Reception of Chinese Anti-Christian
Texts”

10:50 – 11:30 (JST) / 2:50 – 3:30 (CET)
Alberto Zizza (University of Munich, Germany / DIJ Tokyo, Japan)
“Modern, All Too Modern: Reversing Civilisational Hierarchies in Japan–West Intellectual Exchange
through Haga Yaichi and Okakura Yoshisaburō”

10 Minutes Break

11:40 – 12:20 (JST) / 3:40 – 4:20 (CET)
Enrique Mora Roas (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
“The Development of Early Japanese Socialism: From the Canon to the (European) Peripheries”

60 Minutes Lunch Break

13:20 – 14:00 (JST) / 5:20 – 6:00 (CET)
Daniel Wollnik (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
“Japanese Foreign Correspondents as Transnational Mediators in Berlin, 1933–1945”

14:00 – 14:40 (JST) / 6:00 – 6:40 (CET)
Gundė Daukšytė (Heiderberg University, Germany)
“Siberia as a Shared Memory: Transnational Commemoration of the Siberian Internment and Stalinist
Repressions”

10 Minutes Break

14:50 – 15:30 (JST) / 6:50 – 7:30 (CET)
Wrap-Up Discussion
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Day 3 (Sunday, November 30th)
— Transnational Relations in Post-War Japan —

10:00 – 10:10 (JST) / 2:00 – 2:10 (CET)
Opening for Day 3

10:10 – 10:50 (JST) / 2:10 – 2:50 (CET)
Wolfgang Gerhard Thiele (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
“The 1968 Deportation of Taiwanese Exiles from Japan in Global Context”

10:50 – 11:30 (JST) / 2:50 – 3:30 (CET)
Mariia Kravets (Tohoku University, Japan)
“Walking to America: Distance in Japanese-American relations Depicted by Kojima Nobuo and Murakami
Ryū”

10 Minutes Break

11:40 – 12:40 (JST) / 3:40 – 4:40 (CET)
Keynote
Thierry Hoquet (Paris Nanterre University, France)
“Greek Philosophy or Transnational Philosophy?”

60 Minutes Lunch Break

13:40 – 14:40 (JST) / 5:40 – 6:40 (CET)
Round-Table Discussions

14:40 – 14:50 (JST) / 6:40 – 6:50 (CET)
Concluding Remarks

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Keynote Speakers
◆ Claire-Akiko Brisset (University of Geneva)
“Cinema as a Transnational Phenomenon: The Case of the Reception of Japanese Cinema in France before 1945”
◆Thierry Hoquet (Paris Nanterre University)
“Greek Philosophy or Transnational Philosophy?”

Organizers / Chairs / Commentators
◆ Christophe Thouny (Ritsumeikan University)
◆ Erich Pauer (CEEJA)
◆ Hideto Tsuboi (Waseda University)
◆ Josef Kyburz (CNRS)
◆ Kei Takata (Hosei University)
◆ Masashi Oguchi (Hosei University)
◆ Nozomi Takahashi (Strasbourg University)
◆ Regine Mathias (CEEJA)
◆ Shin Abiko (Hosei University)
◆ Tsutomu Hoshino (Hosei University)
◆ Yasuko Yokoyama (Hosei University)
◆ Yusuke Suzumura (Meijo University)

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◆Reports of our past workshops on Japanese transnationalism.

● 2024「Transnational Japanese Spaces」
● 2023「 Transnational Change in Contemporary Japan」
● 2022「Japanese Transnationalism and Empire」
● 2021「Japanese Studies and Transnationalism」

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