INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Nihongaku towa nanika
"JAPANESE STUDIES"
– SEEN FROM EUROPE, SEEN FROM JAPAN –
« LES ETUDES JAPONAISES »
– VUES DU JAPON, VUES DE L'EUROPE –

Thursday December 1 – Saturday December 3, 2005

Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
COORGANIZED BY
Hôsei University COE - Institute of International Japan-Studies
Director: Hoshino Tsutomu
FRE 2886 CNRS / EPHE / Collège de France / Paris VII - Civilisation japonaise
Josef Kyburz
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
President: Nakagawa Masateru
WITH THE SUPPORT FROM
The Japan Foundation
La Fondation de France

PROGRAMME

Thursday, December 1
10:00 - 10:05
Words of Welcome by the host,
NAKAGAWA Masateru
President of the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
10:05 - 10:15
Presentation by HOSHINO Tsutomu
Director of the Hôsei University
Institute of International Japan-Studies
10:15 - 10:30
Introduction by Josef KYBURZ
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
FRE 2886 « Civilisation japonaise »
10:30 - 11:15 Harumi BEFU
“Nihonjinron, Endogenous vs Exogenous”
11:15 - 11:30 Pause
11:30 - 12:15
KUWAYAMA Takami
“Transcending the Boundaries:
The Case of the Anthropology of Japan”
12:15 - 12:45 General discussion
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 15:00
Joy HENDRY
“Anthropologists and their Areas: some thoughts on a Euro/Japanese approach”
15:00 - 15:45
SHIMADA Shingo
“Rethinking Japanese Studies. Dimensions of Comparison and Translation”
15:45 - 16:00 Pause
16:00 - 16:45 Josef KYBURZ
“In defence of cultural relativism: the perception of space and time in Europe and Japan”
16:45 - 17:30
CH'OE Kilsung
“Japanese studies in Korea in reaction to the cultural legacy of Japanese colonial rule”
17:30 - 18:00 General discussion
18:30 - 19:45 Reception – Cocktail by la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris

Friday, December 2
10:00 - 10:45 Willy VANDE WALLE
“Sino-Japanese Cultural Junctions and Disjunctions from a European Perspective”
10:45 - 11:30 Steffi RICHTER
“Trapped in the images of “Good Old Europe”:
Difficulties in de-orientalizing Japanese/Area Studies knowledge production”
11:30 - 11:45 Pause
11:45 - 12:30 Jean-Marie BOUISSOU
“How to analyze Japan's growing cultural power: the case of manga in France”
12:30 - 13:00 General discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:15 TANAKA Yûko
“Japanese society of the Edo Period: terms and translation”
15:15 - 16:00 YAMANAKA Reiko
“Is There a Chasm between Western and Japanese Approaches to Noh: Tradition and
Contemporaneity?”
16:00 - 16:30 Pause
16:30 - 17:15 SAWATO Hirosato
“Japanese History and National History: where lies the difference?”
17:15 - 18:00 Annick HORIUCHI
“Nouveaux regards sur l’histoire de la « pensée japonaise »: les débats récents autour des travaux de Maruyama Masao”
18:00 - 18:30 General discussion
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

Saturday, December 3
10:00 - 10:45 SHIRAHATA Yôzaburô
“Is Hanami (Cherry Blossom Viewing) Unique to Japanese Culture?”
10:45 - 11:30 KABAYAMA Kôichi
“Ethnology, Folklore and Nation State – From Yanagita Kunio to the Present”
11:30 - 11:45 Pause
11:45 - 12:30 HOSHINO Tsutomu
“Can Watsuji Tetsurô's Philosophy go beyond its Cultural Particularity”
12:30 - 13:00 General discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:15 ABIKO Shin
“About Two Native Philosophical Thinkings”
15:15 - 16:00 SAGARA Masatoshi
“Can we understand other cultures? The difference of educational systems”
16:00 - 16:30 Pause
16:30 - 17:15 Josef KREINER
“Japanese Collections in European Museums and the Development of Japanese Studies”
17:15 - 18:00 Closing discussion

PARTICIPANTS

FROM WITHIN:
ABIKO Shin Hôsei University, Tokyo
CH'OE Kil-Sung Tôa University, Hiroshima
HOSHINO Tsutomu COE Institute of International Japan studies, Hôsei University, Tokyo
KABAYAMA Kôichi Printing Museum, Tokyo, Director
KUWAYAMA Takami Hokkaidô University, Sapporo
SAGARA Masatoshi Faculty of Sociology, Hôsei University, Tokyo
SAWATO Hirosato Faculty of Letters, Hôsei University, Tokyo
SHIRAHATA Yôzaburô International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
TANAKA Yûko Faculty of Sociology, Hôsei University, Tokyo
YAMANAKA Reiko Nô Institute, Hôsei University, Tokyo

FROM WITHOUT:
BEFU Harumi Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University
BOUISSOU, Jean-Marie Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, CERI, Paris
HENDRY, Joy Oxford Brookes University
HORIUCHI, Annick Université Paris 7, FRE 2886, Paris
KREINER, Josef Japanologisches Seminar, Asienzentrum, Universität Bonn
KYBURZ, Josef Centre national de la recherche scientifique, FRE 2886, Paris
RICHTER, Steffi Ostasiatisches Institut, Universität Leipzig
SHIMADA Shingo Ostasien-Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
VANDE WALLE, Willy Katholieke Universiteit Leuven