Conference Announcement

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-German relations (www.dj150.jp), a symposium will be held on the history of Japanese-German relations in the German Cultural Center (OAG-Haus) in Akasaka, Tokyo, on 4-5 December.

MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS IN JAPANESE-GERMAN RELATIONS:
IMAGES, IMAGININGS, AND STEREOTYPES

Organized by
Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Volkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)

supported by
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES) Goethe-Institut Tokyo Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan

Date
4 - 5 December 2010　

Venue
German Cultural Center / OAG-Haus
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku, 107-0052 Tokyo-to
Location: http://www.oag.jp/kontakt/

Registration
To register for the conference, please send an e-mail with your name, affiliation and mail address to nichidoku@japanesehistory.de or a FAX to (+81-) 03-3238-4046.

Simultaneous translation (Japanese-English) will be provided.

PROGRAM　

4 DECEMBER 2010 (SAT)

13:00 - 13:30 Opening of the Conference
Karin Yamaguchi (OAG)
Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
Volker Stanzel (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan):
Nippon, Old or New? Political Visions of Bakumatsu Japan

13:30 - 15:30 Panel I: Japanese-German Images During the Early Stages of Nation-Building, 1860-1880 (Chair:
Sven Saaler, Sophia University)

1. Fukuoka Mariko (The University of Tokyo):
Prussia or North-Germany? Germany-related Knowledge and the Prussian-Japanese Treaty-Negotiations in 1860-61
2. Sebastian Dobson (Independent Researcher):
Staging Japan at the Plum Blossom Mansion: A Photographic Episode from the Prussian East Asian Expedition of 1860-61
3. Suzuki Naoko (Kanagawa University):
Japanese-German Perceptions in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. With special reference to the experiences of the Eulenburg Mission and the Japanese missions to the West
4. Hakoishi Hiroshi (The University of Tokyo):
The Image of Prussia in Japanese Media during the Boshin Civil War, 1868/69

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 18:15 Panel II: The Meiji Era as a "Golden Era"
in Japanese-German Relations? (Chair: Takii Kazuhiro, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

5. Kato Yoko (The University of Tokyo): The
Japanese Imperial Army’s Image of Germany during the Meiji Period
6. Heinrich Menkhaus (Meiji University): Japan
Images of German Law Experts in Meiji Japan
7. Rolf-Harald-Wippich (Sophia University): The
Japanese in the Cartoonist’s View: Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus in Imperial Germany
8. Peter Pantzer (Prof. emer. Bonn University):
Japan in German and Austrian Collectors’ Postcards,
1880-1914
9. Kudo Akira (Prof. emer. The University of
Tokyo): The First World War and Perceptions of "Total War" in Japan

5 DECEMBER 2010 (SUN)

10:00 - 12:00 Panel III: The 1930s: Re-Affirmation of a "Spiritual Bond"? (Chair: Ishida Yuji, The University of Tokyo)

10. Tajima Nobuo (Seijo University): The Japan
Image of the Elites in Nazi Germany
11. Tano Daisuke (Konan University): The
"Strength through Joy" (KdF) in Japan
12. Nakamura Ayano (Ochanomizu University):
Multiple images of the German Community in Japan seen through the Japanese Police Records -- From Mentor to Spy, from Ally to Enemy
13. Hans-Joachim Bieber (Prof. emer. Kassel
University): Images of German-Japanese similarities and affinities in National-Socialist Germany

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:00 Panel IV: War Propaganda and Beautification of Japanese-German Relationship(s)
(Chair: Christian W. Spang, The University of Tsukuba)

14. Gerhard Krebs: Japanese Heroism in German
Perspective during the Nazi Era
15. Danny Orbach (Harvard University):
Colonialism through the mirror: Japan in the eyes of the SS and the National-Conservative German Resistance
16. Michael Baskett (University of Kansas):
Guaranteed Enlightenment? Charting Japanese/German Cinematic Representations

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30 Panel V: Postwar Japanese-German
Perceptions: Overcoming or Re-Affirming the Past?
(Chair: Ishida Yuji, The University of Tokyo)

17. Kawakita Atsuko (Osaka University): Postwar
Japanese-German Relations: Reconsidering Images of the "Self" and the "Other" in Discussions about the Past
18. Sato Takumi (Kyoto University): Consumption
of Nazi-Images in Postwar Japanese Subculture
19. Matthew Penney (Concordia University): From
Tank Treads to Garter Belts -- Nazi Pop, Media Forms, and Critical Moments in Japan
20. Iwasa Takuro (Osaka University of Economics):
German and European Academic Images of Japan since the 1970s

17:30 - 18:00 Closing Remarks
Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
Nakai Akio (Professor emeritus, Sophia University)
Wolfgang Thierse (Vice-President of the German
Bundestag)

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Sven Saaler
Associate Professor (Modern Japanese History)
Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Kioi-cho 7-1 Chiyoda-ku
102-8554 Tokyo, Japan
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