Welcome to the home page of The Southern Japan Seminar!
The Southern Japan Seminar (SJS) promotes the research and
educational activities of Japan-related scholars in the
Southeastern United States. Drawing upon the strengths
and needs of regional Japan studies, the SJS fosters critical
inquiry, multi-disciplinary discussion, and the dissemination of
knowledge, concerning all Japan-related topics,
both theoretical and practical. The membership is composed
primarily of university faculty, with a few journalists,
businesspersons, and other professionals with strong Japan-
related interests. Members represent the fields of Japanese art,
business management, education, history, language, literature,
philosophy, politics, religion, sociology, and
other disciplines.
The Seminar sponsors two meetings a year, at which members and
guests invited from Japan and other regions of North America
present and discuss their current research
on Japan, and conduct workshops on Japan-related issues.
Occasionally the SJS will sponsor public forums to promote
education about Japan. In addition, the SJS sponsors
the Japan Studies Review,
a journal of scholarly research. The Southern Japan Seminar is
generously supported by a grant from the American Council of
Learned Societies.
It welcomes support from other organizations and institutions
that seek to promote its objectives.
The Southern Japan Seminar was founded in 1988. Ann Wehmeyer (University of Florida) currently serves as Seminar Chair (1999-2001). The Seminar's Executive Board consists of Kiyoshi Kawahito (Middle Tennessee State University), Don McCreary (University of Georgia), Atsuyuki Naka (University of New Orleans), John Tucker(University of North Florida), and John Endicott (Georgia Institute of Technology). S. Yumiko Hulvey (University of Flordia) is the Seminar's Treasurer. The Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida provides a cyberhome for this web site and infrastructural support for the Seminar.
SJS Events: Seminar-sponsored meetings take place twice annually. The Fall meeting is held in late September or early October. The Spring meeting, held in Atlanta, is frequently organized to dovetail with the annual Asia-Pacific Seminar sponsored by the Southern Center for International Studies.
These meetings provide the opportunity for SJS members to present
their Japan-related research findings, meet and interact with one
another, and to exchange information
relating to academic and instructional issues.
The Southern Japan Seminar
Spring Meeting Program
28 April 2001
Regency Suites Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
Business Meeting (9:15 - 9:30)
PANEL 1 (9:30-12:00): The Nanjing Massacre
Chair: John Tucker (East Carolina University) Introductory remarks, as background see "The Najing Massacre: A Review Essay," China Review International, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2000). Try the following link to CRI, and seclect Voolume 2, Number 2, or find link to online text through your library by locating the journal title in the catalogue.
Takashi Yoshida (Columbia University) , "Rediscovery of the Nanjing Massacre in the U.S."
Daqing Yang (George Washington University), as background to presentation, see "Convergence or Divergence"
10:30-10:45 Break
Masahiro Yamamoto (Randolph Macon College), "History or Hysteria: American Historiography of the 'Rape of Nanking'"
Discussant: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (York University)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
PANEL II (1:00-3:00): Expression and Form
Part 1: Prints and Politics
Chair: Steven Heine (Florida International University)
Brenda Jordan (Florida State University), "Censorship and Reception: the Case of Kawanaba Kyoosai."
Discussant: David P. Phillips (Wake Forest University)
Part 2: Emotion and Time
Junko Baba (University of South Carolina), "Pragmatic Function of Japanese Mimesis in Emotive Discourse"
Hiroshi Nara (Florida State University/University of Pittsburgh), "Tense Alternation in Written Narrative Texts in Japanese: A Case Study of Natsume Sooseki's Botchan"
Discussants: Don McCreary (University of Georgia), Ann Wehmeyer (University of Florida)
Break 3:00-3:15
PANEL III (3:15-4:30) Japanese Management
Chair: TBA
Ryusuke "Stanley" Furuta (Kumamoto Gakuen University; Babson College, Visiting Professor), "Entrepreneurship and Japanese Society"
Kiyoshi Kawahito (Middle Tennessee State University), "Japanese Business Schools as Senmon Gakkoo, with Special Reference to the U.S. CPA Examination"
Discussant: Kinko Ito (University of Arkansas)
AdjournSee programs from previous meetings:
Spring 1999, Saturday, 24 April, Regency Suites Hotel, Atlanta.
Fall 1999, October 2-3, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Spring 2000, Saturday, April 29, Regency Suites Hotel, Atlanta.Fall 2000, September 23-24, Edgewater Beach Resort, Panama City Beach, Florida
Japan Studies Review: The Southern Japan Seminar sponsors a scholarly journal that showcases the research of Seminar members and other noted specialists in the field of Japan studies. The subscription rate is $10.00 per volume. Inquires regarding subscription and submission should be directed to editor Steven Heine Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199 (telephone: 305-348-2354). Back issues of Volume 1 (1997), and Volume 2 (1998), and Volume 3 (1999) are available. The contents of Volume 4, 2000, appears below:
Volume 4, 2000
Kinko Ito, The Manga Culture in Japan
Ayako Mizumura, The Aspects of Authoritarianism Among Japanese People in Japanese Culture and Society
Christina Moreira da Rocha, The Appropriation of Zen Buddhism in Brazil
Harry Wray, From the Banning of Moral Education to the Creation of Social Sttudies in Occupied Japan, 1945-1947
Lucien Ellington, The American Education Establishment's Depiction of Japanese Education
Book Reviews
Go to The Japan Project Homepage
Please direct comments and queries to Ann Wehmeyer (wehmeyer@aall.ufl.edu)