日本学国際共同大学院

THE SEVENTH TOHOKU CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL JAPANESE STUDIES

The International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies at Tohoku University is proud to announce The Seventh Annual Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies. This conference will bring together scholars in Japan and scholarly audiences around the world from a range of ages, nationalities, and disciplines to exchange ideas and build possibilities for future collaboration.
 

 

CONFERENCE DATES AND VENUE
Date: 13 December, 2025
Venue:  First Conference Room of the School of Law, Multidisciplinary Research Building (International Humanities) & Zoom
    (文科系総合講義棟2階 法学部第1講義室)
 
Date: 14 December, 2025
Venue:  Main Conference Room, New Humanities Building 11F (文科系総合研究棟11階 大会議室)
 
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
English and  Japanese
 
REGISTRATION
Not required
 ※For online participants only.
    Please register at the link below by December 10. We will send you zoom access information later.
https://forms.gle/FnKxn6HAQ425f7jZ7
 
 
 
POSTER
 
 
PROGRAM
The Seventh Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies  ​​​
"Rethinking the Notion of Possession: Further Insights from Japanese Studies"
所有の意味を再考する:日本学からのさらなる知見
 
Dec.13 (Sat.)
 
 
10:00-10:10      Opening Ceremony
 
Session1
Shōsō-in, Bokjang, and the Dedicated Objects: Aspects of Art as a Collective Entity
正倉院・腹蔵・納入品―群としての美術の諸相                     
10:10-12:10
 ⦿Organizer・Moderator: Ryusaku Nagaoka(Tohoku University) 
 
 LEE Seunghye(Dong-A University)
 
 Ken Shimizu(Tokyo National Museum)
 
 Ryusaku Nagaoka(Tohoku University)
 
Session 2
Problems on possession from a jurisprudence point of view
法理学からみた占有をめぐる諸問題
13:20-15:00
 ⦿Organizer・Moderator :Hiroshi Kabashima(Tohoku University)
 
 Kai Li(Guangxi University, China)
     A comparison of the modern transformation of the Japanese "national constitution" and the Chinese "legal   legitimacy" under the East Asian traditional legal concept of "occupat
 
 Chou Cheng-Yu(National Taipei University)
 
 Chu Yannan(Tohoku University)
     Exploring the legal thinking in view to the bottleneck of natural language processing - focusing on jurisprudential   reflection in the AI era
 
 
Session 3 
The Evolving Household: Consumption, Labor, and Health in Modern East Asia                                                                                 
15:20-17:00
 ⦿Organizer:Yuki Takenobu(Tohoku University)
     Moderator: Tingting Zhang(Tohoku University)
 
 Masayuki Tanimoto(University of Tokyo/Otsuma Women's University/)
     Housework and the labour allocation within household: Evidence from early 20th century Japan
 
 Lillian Tsay(University of Montreal)
     Selling Sweetness: Retailing, the Pursuit of Modern Life, and Popularizing Knowledge in Interwar Japan
 
 Yuki Fukushi(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
     Health, Hygiene and Housework in Modern China: Focusing on Urban Households
 
 
18:00-20:30
 
Reception party @ Meeting room, Kawauchi Hagi Hall
 
Dec. 14 (Sun.)
 
 
Japanese Studies Progress Reports (QE1)     
 
9:00-9:25 Hirotaka Chen The influence of Literary Sinitic translations of Buddhist scriptures on the semantics of Japanese vocabulary: Focusing on the influence of bonnō on nayamu and nayamasu Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
9:30-9:55 Jiehua Xu
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
10:00-10:25 Shogo Bamba The Anglo-Japanese Alliance Problem and Chinese Nationalism: The Response of the British Foreign Office
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
10:30-10:55 Yunshan Xue How do they deal with the “Place of remain”?
-the Case of Japanese “Natural Burial” Ground Scattering-
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
11:05-11:30 Momoka Shibata The Reception of Opera Seria in Tiepolo’s Ascent of Mount Calvary: A Focus on Composition, Christ’s Gesture, and His Expression of Sorrow
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
11:35-12:00 Yucheng Wang Processing Countability in Classifier Languages
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
12:05-12:30 Satoshi Kikumoto Merleau-Ponty and Understanding the Child: From Egology to the Phenomenology of Facticity
 
Graduate School of Education
 
 
Students Session
                                                                                                                     
13:45-14:00 Eva Vaglini Time in Kagerō Nikki
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
14:00-14:15 Minshen Li The Dynamics of Expression in The Tale of Genji: Communication, Relation, and the Limits of Understanding
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
14:15-14:30 Naoto Hayashi New Direction for Modern Japanese Festival-Focusing on Performers at the Akita Kanto Festival-
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
14:30-14:45 Hiroki Nemoto Queer Lives Across Borders: The Experiences of Foreign Sexual Minorities in Japan
 
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
 
14:55-15:10 Ayane Takiguchi Reimagining Education with Japan -Overcoming Borrowing for Co-Creation-
 
Graduate School of Education
 
15:10-15:25 Juni Kabe Beyond Teacher Instruction: How to Encourage Voluntary Practice in Second Language Speaking
 
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
 
15:25-15:40 Haoying Yang Cognitive Mechanisms of Second Language Pragmatic Competence
 
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
 
 
 
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTE
KIYAMA Sachiko (Chair)
NAGAOKA Ryusaku
YUKI Takenobu
KABASHIMA Hiroshi
 
CONTACT
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