The International Academic Forum ACCS/ACAS/IICJ 2016 Art Center Kobe, Japan Official Conference Proceedings iafor ISSN: 2432-3918 “To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions” The International Academic Forum provides new perspectives to the thought-leaders and decision-makers of today and tomorrow by offering constructive environments for dialogue and interchange at the intersections of nation, culture, and discipline. Headquartered in Nagoya, Japan, and registered as a Non-Profit Organization 一般社( 団法人) , IAFOR is an independent think tank committed to the deeper understanding of contemporary geo-political transformation, particularly in the Asia Pacific Region. INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY iafor The Executive Council of the International Advisory Board IAB Chair: Professor Stuart D.B. Picken Mr Mitsumasa Aoyama Professor June Henton Professor Baden Offord Director, The Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Dean, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights & Co- USA Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice Professor Tien-Hui Chiang Southern Cross University, Australia Professor and Chair, Department of Education Professor Michael Hudson National University of Tainan, Taiwan/Chinese Taipei President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Professor Frank S. Ravitch Economic Trends (ISLET) Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law Professor Don Brash Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, The and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law Former Governor of the Reserve Bank, New Zealand University of Missouri, Kansas City Former Leader of the New National Party, New Professor Richard Roth Zealand Professor Koichi Iwabuchi Senior Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Adjunct Professor, AUT, New Zealand & La Trobe Professor of Media and Cultural Studies & Director of Northwestern University, Qatar University, Australia the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia Professor Monty P. Satiadarma Lord Charles Bruce Professor Sue Jackson Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology & Lord Lieutenant of Fife Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender & Pro-Vice Former Dean of the Department of Psychology and Chairman of the Patrons of the National Galleries of Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University Rector of the University, Tarumanugara University, Scotland of London, UK Indonesia Trustee of the Historic Scotland Foundation, UK Professor Sing Kong Lee Mr Mohamed Salaheen Professor Donald E. Hall Director, The National Institute of Education, Director, The United Nations World Food Programme, Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean Singapore Japan & Korea Lehigh University, USA Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Mr Lowell Sheppard Former Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham Research Asia Pacific Director, HOPE International Institute, Cambridge, UK Development Agency, Canada/Japan Professor Chung-Ying Cheng Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, University His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i at of Cambridge Manoa, USA Fellow of the British Academy Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy Professor Keith Miller Professor Mary Stuart Professor Steve Cornwell Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in Vice-Chancellor, The University of Lincoln, UK Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Science, University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan Professor Gary Swanson Osaka Local Conference Chair Professor Kuniko Miyanaga Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S. Director, Human Potential Institute, Japan Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern Professor A. Robert Lee Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA Colorado, USA Former Professor of English at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, previously long taught Professor Dennis McInerney Professor Jiro Takai at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Co- Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social Director of the Assessment Research Centre Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology Professor Dexter Da Silva The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Graduate School of Education and Human Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University, SAR Development, Nagoya University, Japan Tokyo, Japan Professor Ka Ho Joshua Mok Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova Professor Georges Depeyrot Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Associate Vice- President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Professor and Director of Research & Member of the President (External Relations) Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University Board of Trustees Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong French National Center for Scientific Research Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR Professor Yozo Yokota (CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan Professor Michiko Nakano Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Johannes Moenius Professor of English & Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Kensaku Yoshida William R. and S. Sue Johnson Endowed Chair of Professor of English & Director of the Center for the Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Planning Professor Brian Daizen Victoria Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education, The University of Redlands School of Business, USA Professor of English Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Ms Linda Toyo Obayashi Senior Mediation Officer, The World Bank Group Professor Thomas Brian Mooney Washington DC, USA Professor of Philosophy Head of School of Creative Arts and Humanities Professor Arthur Stockwin Professor of Philosophy and Head of School of Founding Director of the Nissan Institute for Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin Japanese Studies & Emeritus Professor University, Australia The University of Oxford UK The International Conference on Japan & Japan Studies 2016 Official Conference Proceedings ISSN: TBA © The International Academic Forum 2016 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Sakae 1-16-26-201 Naka Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Japan 460-0008 ww.iafor.org Table of Contents The “Literature of the Catastrophe” as a Canon: from Genbaku Bungaku to Fukushima Bungaku Veronica De Pieri pp. 1 - 10 Japanese Mythology and Nationalism: Myths of genesis, Japanese identity, and Familism Merin Sever pp. 11 - 18 Kioku: An Analysis on How the Memory of World War II Remains Influencing Social and Political Aspects in Japan Marina Magalhães B. L. da Silva pp. 19 - 28 A Democratic Solution for Japan’s Fading Political Public Space: Constitutional Inquiry into Article 1 Yaya Mori pp. 29 - 42 Framing the Pre-Olympic News Coverage of Tokyo 2020: A Comparative Analysis of Tokyo's Successful Bid and the Olympic Stadium Design Beryl Hawkins pp. 43 - 60 Visual Framing in Ichikawa’s 1964 Tokyo Olympiad Barry Natusch pp. 61 - 78 Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Nation Branding Creates an Opportunity for a New Cultural Narrative for Japan Maria Guajardo pp. 79 - 90 Rites of Passage in Japanese Traditional Culture Kuralay Batkalova Anuar Galiev pp. 91 - 102 Shibata Gô: Filmmaker of a hybrid Japan Maxime Boyer-Degoul pp. 103 - 107 Information Sharing between the Civil Administration and Citizens: An Implementation Proposal of Open Data Strategy in Japanese Local Governments Noriko Kurata pp. 109 - 115 Politeness Strategies among Japanese College Students: Discussion of the Acquisition of Honorifics and Onomatopoeias Yuko Kurata Noriko Kurata pp. 117 - 124 The International Conference on Japan & Japan Studies 2016 Official Conference Proceedings The “Literature of the Catastrophe” as a Canon: from Genbaku Bungaku to Fukushima Bungaku Veronica De Pieri, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy/Paris INALCO, France The International Conference on Japan & Japan Studies 2016 Official Conference Proceedings Abstract The literary responses to Fukushima disaster appeared in the last few years highlighted the similarities with Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing experiences as long as both tragedies were caused by an arguable usage of nuclear power. What is remarkable, is that a seismically active area like Japan subjected to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions ever since has not ever taken a stand on the “literature of the catastrophe” in itself. While the literature about Shoah got a foothold as Holocaust novel, the Japanese genbaku bungaku was instead refused by the Japanese bundan and by hibakusha themselves sounding a critical note for the literary value of the testimonial accounts. Nowadays, the increasing number of post- Fukushima literary works brought to the fore the need to reconsider the traditional literary canon to revalue a production, the one regarding catastrophe, which especially in Japan found literary expressions since the dawn of time: Kamo no Chōmei, Terada Torahiko, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke are just a few of the authors involved in the process of transposing into words the trauma related to disasters that occurred in the country and the necessary efforts to overcome them. This brief paper provides an excursus of the critical debate concerning the relation between literature and canon to define the literary responses to catastrophe. On one hand, it underlines