Distance, Interconnectedness and Sharing”

2nd International Colloquium of Mexican and Japanese Studies “Distance, Interconnectedness and Sharing”

Organized by: ● The University of Tokyo ● UTokyo Latin American and Iberian Network for Academic Collaboration ● Global Studies Initiative ● National Autonomous University of Mexico ● Coordination for Humanities ● University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa

Date: January 31st – February 2nd, 2021 (Mexico) February 1st -3rd, 2021 (Japan)

Virtual platform: Zoom

Panels:

1. East Asia and Latin America 2. Robotics and Our Future 3. Rise of the Commerce and Industry in Post COVID Times 4. Climate Change and Sustainable Development 5. Geoeconomics and Geopolitics in Trans-Pacific Relationships 6. Earthquakes in the Ring of Fire of the Pacific 7. Mobility, Interconnectedness and Learning 8. Galaxies and Earth 9. Inequalities and New Challenges

Program

January 31, 2021 (February 1, 2021)

17:30 – 18:00 (8:30-9:00, Feb 1) Inauguration (30 minutes)

● Hiroyuki Ukeda The University of Tokyo Director of LAINAC

● Takashi Manabe Embassy of Japan in Mexico Charge d’Affaires ad interim (Minister)

● Melba Pría Embassy of Mexico in Japan Welcome words Ambassador

● Ken Oyama National Autonomous University of Mexico Secretary of Institutional Development

● Guadalupe Valencia National Autonomous University of Mexico Coordinator, Coordination for Humanities

Moderator: Alicia Girón (PUEAA, UNAM)

18:00-18:50 (9:00-9:50, Feb 1) Keynote: Social Sciences and Humanities (50 minutes)

● Kazuyasu Ochiai President, Meisei University Keynote speaker Nations imagined through photographic albums: Mexico and Japan in the early 20th century

Moderator: Alicia Girón (PUEAA, UNAM)

19:00-19:50 (10:00-10:50, Feb 1) Panel 1. East Asia and Latin America (50 minutes)

Moderator Takahiro Miyachi (UTokyo) ● Alicia Girón PUEAA, UNAM Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Latin America, Financial Fragility and Instability

Presentations ● Hiroyuki Ukeda Graduate School of Arts and Science, UTokyo Weak, Forbearing or Strong, Unforbearing? Informality and the State in Latin America and East Asia

Simultaneous Questions and Panels answers 19:00 – 19:50 (10:00-10:50, Feb 1)) Panel 2. Robotics and Our Future (50 minutes)

Moderator Hugo Delgado (UNAM)

● Jesús Savage Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM Robotics, AI, and machine vision Presentations ● Yoshihiko Nakamura Senior Researcher, School of Engineering Robotics and Human-Motion Data Science

Questions and answers

February 1, 2021 (February 2, 2021) 17:30 – 18:20 Panel 3. Rise of the Commerce and Industry in Post COVID Times (8:30-9:20, Feb 2)

Simultaneous (50 minutes) panels Moderator Hiroyuki Ukeda (UTokyo)

● Vania de la Vega Shiota PUEAA, UNAM Mexico – Japan commercial relations after the pandemics: The show must go on

Presentations ● Naoko Uchiyama Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Performances of Japanese Automobile Industry in Central Mexico under Covid-19 Questions and answers 17:30 – 18:20 (8:30-9:20, Feb 2) Panel 4. Climate Change and Sustainable Development (50 minutes)

Moderator Satoshi Ide (UTokyo)

● Paola Vera Facultad de Contaduría y Administración, UNAM Resilience and capacities of firms for sustainable development Presentations ● Ryoichi Imasu Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, UTokyo Satellite observation and budget analysis of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of the earth Questions and

answers

18:30 – 19:20 Panel 5. Geoeconomics and Geopolitics in Trans-Pacific (9:30-10:20, Feb 2) Relationships (50 minutes)

Moderator Naoko Uchiyama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Simultaneous panels ● Carlos Uscanga Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM A military treaty between Mexico and Japan: fact or fiction? Presentations

● Tomoo Marukawa Institute of Social Science, UTokyo

Export Restrictions in the Japan-China-U.S. Trilateral Relationship

Questions and

answers 18:30 – 19:20 (9:30-10:20, Feb2) Panel 6. Earthquakes in the Ring of Fire of the Pacific (50 minutes)

Moderator Ryoichi Imasu (UTokyo)

● Hugo Delgado Instituto Geofísica, UNAM Finding common ground in earth science research between Mexico and Japan Presentations ● Satoshi Ide Department of Earth and Planetary Science, School of Science, UTokyo Collaborative study on slow earthquakes in Guerrero, Mexico

Questions and

answers

19:30-20:45 (10:30-11:45, Feb 2) Panel 7. Mobility, Interconnectedness and Learning (75 minutos)

Moderator Shunsuke Matsuo (UTokyo)

● Alejandro Méndez Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM Mobility and migration of students from Mexico to Japan Simultaneous panels ● Ryuki Nakano School of Education, Meisei University Presentations Language socialization in the field (Bolivia) and at home (Japan): An autoethnographic commentary on learning and teaching languages across contexts

● Kazuko Nagao Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción, UNAM

Self-directed elements in the learning journals of teletándem

Questions and

answers 19:30-20:20 (10:30-11:20, Feb 2) Panel 8. Galaxies and Earth (50 minutes)

Moderator Mamoru Doi (UTokyo)

● Irene Cruz-González Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM Extragalactic Studies at UNAM ́s Instituto de Astronomía

Presentations ● Kotaro Kohno Institute of Astronomy, School of Science, UTokyo Uncovering obscured galaxies using Large Millimeter Telescope and ALMA Questions and

answers

February 2, 2021 (February 3, 2021) 17:30-18:45 (8:30-9:45, Feb 3) Panel 9. Inequalities and New Challenges (75 minutes)

Moderator Vania de la Vega Shiota (UNAM)

● Verónica Montes de Oca Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM Inequalities and ageing in Mexico and Japan. Covid-19 as a

turning point in Life Course Analysis

Presentations ● Yuko Okura Escuela Nacional Antropología e Historia Posgrado en Antropología Física y Departamento de Lengua Relationship between the female body and the dress in Guatemala: approaches from the Japanese cultural perspective”

● Masahiko Hosokawa School of Business Administration, Meisei University Impact of US-China Technology Warfare in Japan Questions and

answers

19:00-19:50 (10:00 -10:50, Feb 3) Keynote: Natural Sciences (50 minutes) ● Jaime Humberto Urrutia Fucugauchi Emeritus Research, Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM Keynote speaker Japan-Mexico Cooperation in Earth and Marine Sciences

Moderator: Hiroyuki Ukeda (UTokyo)

20:00 – 20:15 (11:00-11:15, Feb 3) CLOSING (15 minutes) Naoto Sekimura - Vice President, UTokyo Alicia Girón – PUEAA, UNAM Modera: Vania De la Vega Shiota – PUEAA, UNAM