Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University

The Japan Centre holds fortnightly Japan Centre Seminars, on the second and fourth Fridays of each month, with speakers drawn from members of the Centre, including staff, postgraduate students, and Visiting Researchers. This seminar is a public seminar. Everyone is welcome!

For more information please email shunichi.ishihara@anu.edu.au.

Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in room E3.43 of the Baldessin Precinct Building.

Japan Centre Seminars, 2009

Feb. 11, David Chapman, University of South Australia	Bare Life and Invented Subjects: Early History of the ‘naturalized foreigners’ of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands [Abstract]
March 27, Rei Shiratori, Akita International University, Japan	Japanese Politics after Koizumi: Beginning of New-style Politics or End of the Regime? [Abstract PDF PPT]
May 8, Akane Kawamata	Collocations of Japanese Intensifying Adjectives [Abstract]
May 22, Dilhara Premaratne	The Ebb and Flow of Kanji: A Longitudinal Study of Kanji in a Japanese Newspaper [Abstract]
July 3, Kaori Yamamoto, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan	From Foreigners to Community Members: The Integration of Nikkei Brazilians into a Japanese Neighborhood [Abstract]
July 31, Jun Tsutsumi, Ehime University/Monash University	Time Series Analysis of Land-Use Change in Japan -Examples of Sapporo, Matsuyama and Beppu- [Abstract]
August 14, Jun Imaki and Shunichi Ishihara	Automated Essay Scoring Systems: Can We Use Them in a Japanese Language Learning Environment? [Abstract]
August 28, Carly Smith	Attitudes and Perceptions of the Dialects of Kyoto and Osaka [Abstract]
September 11, Tomomi Sato	Umeko Tsuda as an Oriental Missionary [Abstract]
September 18, Angie Yuan Zhi Mei, KUFS, Japan	Functions of Reactive Tokens across Cultures [Abstract]
September 25, Go Ito, AJRC/Meiji University, Japan (BPB E4.44)	Beyond “Asian Values” in Australia-Japan Relations: The Making of Formal and Informal Institutions in the Asia-Pacific Region [Abstract]
November 13, Yuki Itani-Adams and Peter Hendriks (starts at 12:00pm)	Refreshing and Further Developing Language Skills of Non-native Teachers: Refresher Course for Japanese Language Teachers in ACT Primary and High Schools [Abstract PPT Recording]

Japan Centre Seminars, 2008

March 28, Gavan McCormack (2:30pm, Coombs Seminar Room D)	The Travails of a Client State: The Dilemmas of Japanese Identity [Abstract]
April 11, Victoria Eaves	Zen and the Art of Warrior Maintenance [Abstract]
May 2, Kan Kimura (2:30pm, Coombs Extension Room 104)	The Politics of History: the Case of Japan and Korea [Abstract]
June 27, Shun Ikeda	Will the Japan Centre Survive?: An Old Geezer Harps on about the Same Thing [Abstract]
July 18, Ueda Masashi	Mobile Broadband and Media Convergence in Japan [Abstract]
August 1, Carol Hayes	Entertainment or Statement: The Portrayal of the Pacific War in Japanese Film [Abstract]
August 22, Sa-Yeon Yoon, Visiting Scholar from Chung-Ang University	A study of “Campus terms”: Focus on "Campus Terms" that are coined and used mainly by Koreans and Japanese university students [Abstract] (Please note that this talk will be conducted in Japanese)
August 29, Elizabeth Mullan	Interpersonal Relationship Terms and the Study of Japanese Friendship [Abstract]
September 12, Duck-Young Lee	Pragmatic effects of person references in Japanese and Korean [Abstract]
September 26, Cancelled
October 17, Cancelled
November 14, Naomi Ogi	Involvement: 'Incorporative' and 'monopolistic' markers in Japanese [Abstract]
November 21, Mark Gibeau	Medoruma Shun, Takara Ben and the use of Okinawan in contemporary "Japanese" literature Please note new date.[Abstract]
November 25, Kai Tian, Visiting Research Fellow	Okita Saburo, John Crawford and Regionalism: Another History of the Pacific Basin Community Concept Please note this talk will take place on Tuesday the 25th from 12:30-1:30 in BPB3.43. This talk will be conducted in Japanese.[Abstract]
December 19, Cancelled

Japan Centre Seminars, 2007

Feburary 16, Charlie Fox	The Art/-ifice of Translation: Translating Miyamoto Teru [Abstract]
March 9, Peter Hendriks	Computer Aided Learning and Teaching of Reading in Japanese—Unsafe at Any Speed? [Abstract]
March 23, Tomoko Akami	An Attempt to Create an Informal Empire of Information: Domei Tsushin (Japanese 'National' News Agency, 1935–1945) in Southeast Asia during the Asia Pacific War [Abstract]
April 27, Rowena Ward	The Female Civilians in Manchukuo [Abstract]
May 18, Carol Hayes	Practical Benefits and Future Potential for E-teaching and learning in Tertiary Language Education [Abstract]
May 25, Kazuki Onji	How useful is on-line homework software in improving English listening skills? A case study using daily records of self-learning activities of Japanese undergraduate students [Abstract]
August 3, Cancelled	Cancelled
August 17, Shunichi Ishihara	Beyond the Long Term Mean: Multivariate Likelihood Ratio-Based Forensic Speaker Recognition Using F0 Distribution Parameters [Abstract]
August 24, Masahiro Toma	Requests and Refusals by Australian Learners of Japanese [Abstract]
September 28, Shun Ikeda	The Journal of the Association of All Japan Primary School Female Teachers（全国小学校連合女教員会雑誌） [Abstract]
October 12, Kent Anderson	One Educational Reform in Japan: Law Schools and Law Faculties and Bars, Oh My! [Abstract]
October 26, Mark Gibeau	Alienation! What is it Good for? Abe Kôbô and the almost unbearable lightness of being in the long dark night of the modern soul [Abstract]

Japan Centre Seminars, 2006

March 10, Tomoko Akami	What is Revisionism, and is an Attempt to Re-think the "Dark Valley" Revisionist? [Abstract]
March 31, Narangoa Li	Social Well-being and the ‘Kingly Way’: Social and Uplifting Policies in **Manchukuo** [Abstract]
April 28, Carol Hayes	The Hunting of the Snark: the Ills of Contemporary Japan as Portrayed in the Crime Fiction of Miyabe Miyuki [Abstract]
May 12, Sachiko Matsushita	The Overarching Theme of Parts 1-2 of The Tale of Genji [Abstract]
May 26, Roald Maliangkay	Japanese Anime: About Boys, Girls and Other Genders [Abstract]
July 28, Kaining Li and Shunichi Ishihara	Close Encounter: The Le@rning Federation's LOTE Project [Abstract]
August 11, Kent Anderson	Interim Report on Japan's Quasi-Jury System (saiban-in seido) [Abstract]
August 18, Shino Toyoshima	Making Native Place: Japanese Settlers and Community Building in Colonial Korea [Abstract]
September 1, Shun Ikeda	Model Ladies – Moral Stories for Women: Their Targets and Implications [Abstract]
September 15, Masashi Ueda	Optical Country, Japan - A Study for Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) Based Broadband [Abstract]
September 22, Hilofumi Yamamoto	Graph Representations of the Meaning of Place Names in Classical Japanese Poetry [Abstract]
September 29, Cancelled
October 13, Michinori Shimoji	Adjectives in Irabu Ryukyuan* [Abstract]
October 20, Duck-Young Lee	Logic vs. Emotion: In the Case of the Particle Omission in Japanese [Abstract]
October 27, Naomi Ogi	Involvement and Attitude: the Japanese Particles sa and yo [Abstract]
November 24, Toshiyuki Kanewaka	A Hidden Meaning of "Azalea" [Abstract]
December 8, Jeffrey Hanes	Osaka vs. Tokyo: The Cultural Politics of Local Identity in Modern Japan [Abstract] (NOTE: The venue is BPB W1.07)