AJJ Spring Workshop 2012

April 21 – 22, 2012 Venue: Osaka Gakuin University http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/ Rooms: 17-B1/2/3 (three rooms). This is the building beneath the ('Rolex') clock tower. Presentation & Discussion: 20 min. & 10 min. respectively; 30 min. in all

Program (as of April 9) Sat., April 21 12:00~ Registration 12:00~13:00 Executive Committee Meeting at Room 17-B1 Room 17-B2 Session 1: The Current Issues of Corporate Culture in Japan Chair: Noriya Sumihara () 13:00 Keiko Yamaki (Tokyo International University) Business Ethnography and Marketing Research in Japan 13:30 Mitsuhiro Nakahata (Hosei University) Company-graphy (Business Ethnography) on the Agony and Ecstasy of Steel Distributors 14:00 金セッピョル Satbyul Kim (総研大 Soukendai) 新しい死に方の模索におけるアソシエーションの位相 －NPO 法人「葬送の自由をすすめる会」を中心に－ ‘The Grave-Free Promotion’ Society and New Burial Associations in Japan 14:30 John McCreery (The World Works, Ltd.) Knowing What We Know: An Ethnographer Looks at Social Network Analysis 15:00 三井 泉 Izumi Mitsui (日本大学 Nihon University) 会社世間における贈与と互酬 －松下電器の「恩顧」「保信」による信用構築－ Gifts and Reciprocity in the Japanese Corporate Community (Kaisha-Seken): A Case of Matsushita (Panasonic) Corporation 15:30~15:45 Coffee Break Room 17-B3 Session 2: Individual Presentations on Corporal Culture Chair: Paul Hansen (Tsukuba University) 13:00 Miho Ushiyama (Waseda University) Steroid Phobia among Patients with Atopic Dermatitis in Japan and the UK 13:30 Takuya Hagiwara () Corporeal Collectivity Generated from Pain-Case of Professional Female Wrestlers in Japan 14:00 Alessia Costa (SOAS, University of London) Japanese Organ Transplants: Moral, Political and Informal Economy 14:30 Steven C. Fedorowicz () Bicultural and Bilingual in Japan: The Face(s) of the Japanese Deaf 2012 15:00~15:45 Coffee Break Room 17-B2 Session 3: On the Brink: Social Science Notes on the Five- Fold Tohoku Disaster Chair: John Mock (Temple University Japan) 15:45 John Mock (Temple University Japan) Scoring Public Policies: Lessons learned (or not) 16:15 Paul Hansen (Tsukuba University) Fly-(In)-Jin: Coming to Japan at a Time of Crisis 16:45 Michael Shackleton (Osaka Gakuin University) The Tohoku Disaster and 'Disaster Anthropology' 17:15 General Discussion 17:40~18:00 AJJ Business Meeting at Room 17-B2 18:00~ Reception at Room 17-B1

Sunday, 22 April, 2012 Room17-B2 Session 4: Individual Presentations on Social Organization Chair: John Mock (Temple University Japan) 10:00 Yugo Tomonaga (Osaka Gakuin University) Buraku Situation after Abolishment of the Law on Special Measures for the Dōwa Projects 10:30 Stephen Robertson (University of Oxford) Vernacular Models for Civil Society and Their Limits: The Case of Japan’s Community Fire Brigades 11:00 Masaya Shijo (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Gōyūkai and Its Function and Possibility: Networks of the Amami’s Immigrants in Urban Cities in Japan 11:30 Gaku Kajimaru (Minpaku) Recruiting Singers to Kakeuta : Recruitment as Renovation of the Social Network 12:00~13:00 Lunch Room 17-B2 Session 5: Individual Presentations on Migration and etc. Chair: Andreas Reissland (Nanzan University) 13:00 Arturo Urena (Waseda University) Brazil in the Land of the Rising Sun: The State of Afro-Brazilian and Brazilian Popular Culture in Japan 13:30 Robert Moorehead () Meet Me in the Middle: The Selective Assimilation of Peruvian Nikkei in Japan into a Cosmopolitan Middle Ground 14:00 Maki Mita () Beyond “Our History”: Multiple Reflections on Japanese Colonial Palau 14:30 Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto University) Chasing Ghosts in the Net: Rumor Spreading, Trust, and the Construction of Haunted Places in the Internet 15:00~15:30 Coffee Break Room 17-B2 Session 6: Teaching Anthropology in Japan Chair: Michael Shackleton (Osaka Gakuin University) 15:30 Michael Shackleton (Osaka Gakuin University) Introductory Presentation 15:45 Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan) & Yuki Imoto (Keio University) A Critical Examination of the Flows of Knowledge in the Anthropology of Japan & Its Implications for Teaching Anthropology in Japan 16:15 Bruce White (Doshisha University) To be announced 16:45 Debra Occhi (Miyazaki International College) To be announced 17:15 General Discussion 17:30 Spring Workshop 2012 closes.