The Third Bi-Annual Conference of

The Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS)

Galapagosizing

J a p a n ?

The Challenges of

P articipation
and the

Costs of Isolation
May 12-13

2015

Tel Aviv University

Gilman-Humanities Building
Room 496
Language of the Conference: Japanese, English, Hebrew

Tuesday, May 12
09:00-09:30 Gathering and Registration
09:30-09:45 Greetings
Prof. Galia Patt-Shamir, Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
H.E. Mr. Shigeo Matsutomi, Ambassador of Japan to Israel
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin, Chair of the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies,
Israel
09:45-11:15 Keynote Address (Japanese and English)
Chair: Michal Daliot-Bul, The University of Haifa, Israel
Eiji Otsuka, Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan

[Escape to Saga Stories in Japans 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, Israel
Carin Holroyd, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
The Digital Galapagos: Japans 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 Japan
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe, University of Sheffield, UK
We Cannot Use Japanese ATMs! Japans
Developmentalist Legacy and Galapagos Retail Banking
13:30-14:30: Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 IAJS Annual Meeting

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, Israel
Anastasiya Skavysh, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany
Voluntary Death in the Japanese Film after World
War II: Transformations of the Suicide Aesthetics
Raz Greenberg, The Orthodox College, Jerusalem, Israel
The Toei-Tezuka Trilogy: Three Films that Paved
the Way to the Global Appeal of Anime
Ayelet 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 Japans International Politics
in a Changing World (English)
Chair: Raquel Shaoul, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Alon 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 13
09:30-10:45 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)
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13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

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

of the exhibition:

Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed

The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery
With 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, Israel
Yona Siderer, Independent Researcher, Israel
Chase after Tools and Sources for Studying Japanese
History of Science
Masanori 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

Wednesday, May 13
Panels in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary
of the End of the Pacific War
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15:30-17:15 Part 1: Japan as a Multilayered Democracy (English)

Chair: Alon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel
Sigal Ben Rafael-Galanti, Beit Berl College, Israel

What is Multilayer Analysis? The Case of Japan
Ofer 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 Japans Womens Politics
Wered Ben-Sade, Bar Ilan University, Israel

The Japanese Labor Tribunal System as a Litmus Test of
Japans 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, Israel
Sigal Ben Rafael-Galanti, Beit Berl College, Israel
Wered Ben-Sade, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Michal Daliot-Bul, The University of Haifa, Israel
Ofer Feldman, Doshisha University, Japan
Ehud Harari, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ayala Klemperer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Rotem Kowner, The University of Haifa, Israel
Alon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel