Galapagosizing J a p a n ? The Challenges of Participation

and the Costs of Isolation

The Third Bi-Annual Conference of The Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS)

May 12-13 2 0 1 5

Tel Aviv UniversityGilman-Humanities Building

Room 496

Language of the Conference: Japanese, English, Hebrew

Tuesday, May 1209:00-09:30 Gathering and Registration

09:30-09:45 GreetingsProf. Galia Patt-Shamir, Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel H.E. Mr. Shigeo Matsutomi, Ambassador of Japan to IsraelDr. Nissim Otmazgin, Chair of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies, Israel09:45-11:15 Keynote Address (Japanese and English)Chair: Michal Daliot-Bul, The University of Haifa, IsraelEiji Otsuka, Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan 日本サブカルチャーにおける、サーガへの逃走 [Escape to Saga Stories in Japan’s Subcultures]

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-13:30 The Galapagos Syndrome in the Economic Sphere (English)Chair: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University, IsraelCarin Holroyd, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CanadaKen Coates, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada The Digital Galapagos: Japan’s Digital Media and Digital Content Economy

Israel Drori, College of management Academic Studies, Israel Masaru Karube, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan Overcoming the Tension between International and Domestic Pressures: Responses of Audit Firms in JapanHiroaki Richard Watanabe, University of Sheffield, UK We Cannot Use Japanese ATMs! Japan’s Developmentalist Legacy and Galapagos Retail Banking 13:30-14:30: Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 IAJS Annual Meeting

הענקת תעודת הוקרה על מפעל חיים לפרופסור מירון מדזני

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:15 Cross-Cultural Encounters in Film Arts (English)Chair: Shalmit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelAnastasiya Skavysh, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Voluntary Death in the Japanese Film after World War II: Transformations of the Suicide AestheticsRaz Greenberg, The Orthodox College, Jerusalem, Israel The Toei-Tezuka Trilogy: Three Films that Paved the Way to the Global Appeal of AnimeAyelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University, Israel De-Glapagosization: Adachi Masao and Eric Bodelaire, Boundary-Crossing Collaboration 17:15-17:45 Break

17:45-19:00 Unwrapping Japan’s International Politics in a Changing World (English)Chair: Raquel Shaoul, Tel Aviv University, IsraelAlon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Japanese Defense Policy in a “Brown Bag” Kai Schulze, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Beyond East Asia:Sino-Japanese Rivalry in the Middle East

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Wednesday, May 1309:30-10:45 Cross Cultural Readings of Philosophy and Critical Theory (English)Chair: Rotem Kowner, The University of Haifa, Israel Raji C. Steineck, University of Zurich, Switzerland The Conundrums of Tetsugaku, or: Why Japanese Philosophers are Always Wrong(ed)Elena Louisa Lange, University of Zurich, Switzerland Marx and the Fate of Critical Theory in Japan

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15- 13:00 Japanese Architecture: Beyond and Within Japan (Hebrew)

11:15-13:00 Our English speaking guests are invited to a guided tour of the exhibition:

Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the RepressedThe Genia Schreiber University Art GalleryWith the currator, Dr. Ayelet Zohar

14:00-15:15 The History of Science from a Japanese Perspective (English)Chair: Helena Grinshpun, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelYona Siderer, Independent Researcher, Israel Chase after Tools and Sources for Studying Japanese History of ScienceMasanori Kaji, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan The Transformation of Organic Chemistry in Japan: From Locality to Universality

15:15-15:30 Break

סיגל גליל, חוקרת עצמאית, ישראל

השיח על מורשת מודרנית בנויה לפני אולימפיאדת 2020

יו”ר: ליאורה צרפתי, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, ישראל ארכיטקטורה יפנית: מעבר ובתוך יפן 13:00 -11:15

אדריכלות יפנית כשגרירה בילאומית למדיניות " ":מקרה הבוחן של קישו קורוקאווה במוזאון ואן גוך באמסטרדאם

ארז גולני סולומון, אוניברסיטת ווסדה, טוקיו, יפן; בצלאל, האקדמיה

כריסטיאן דימר, אוניברסיטת טוקיו, יפן

Cool Japan

אדריכל אריה קוץ, מוסמך המכון הטכנולוגי של טוקיו; החוג ללימודי

"בתי גלפגוס": בתים יפנים עכשווים, העידן הפוסט מודרני

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

לאמנות ולעיצוב, ירושלים, ישראל

מזרח אסיה, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, ישראל

Wednesday, May 13Panels in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary

of the End of the Pacific Warמושבים לציון 70 שנה לסוף מלחמת האוקיאנוס השקט

15:30-17:15 Part 1: Japan as a Multilayered Democracy (English)Chair: Alon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelSigal Ben Rafael-Galanti, Beit Berl College, Israel What is Multilayer Analysis? The Case of JapanOfer Feldman, Doshisha University, Japan Failures in Leadership: How and why Politicians Equivocate on Japanese Televised Political Interviews?Ayala Klemperer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Building Democracy through “Pink Power”: Dynamic Gender in Japan’s Women’s PoliticsWered Ben-Sade, Bar Ilan University, Israel The Japanese Labor Tribunal System as a Litmus Test of Japan’s Democratization

Discussant: Ehud Harari, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

17:15-17:45 Break

17:45-19:00 Part 2: Round Table: 70 Years after the War: Opportunities and Challenges (English)Chair: Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Ben-Ami Shillony, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelSigal Ben Rafael-Galanti, Beit Berl College, IsraelWered Ben-Sade, Bar Ilan University, IsraelMichal Daliot-Bul, The University of Haifa, IsraelOfer Feldman, Doshisha University, JapanEhud Harari, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelAyala Klemperer, Tel Aviv University, IsraelRotem Kowner, The University of Haifa, IsraelAlon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel