Program for the Spring 2000 Meeting, April 29, 2000 Regency Suites Hotel, Atlanta Georgia
 

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Business Meeting

9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Politics in Japan
Chair: Jonathan Goldstein  (State University of West Georgia)

"Japan's Parliamentary Elite: Cabinets and Cabinet Ministers, 1945-2000"
Brian Woodall (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Japan's Search for Political Stability"
Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin College)

"The Berlin Wall Has Been Destroyed, the Soviet Union Has Collapsed, but the Japanese Communist Party is Alive and Well"
Peter Berton (University of  Southern California)

Discussants: Richard Matthews (The Atlanta Journal)

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Japan and Asia
Chair: Ann Wehmeyer  (University of Florida)

"Progress Towards a Limited Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in Northeast Asia"
John Endicott (Georgia  Institute of Technology)

"Relocating Okinawa in Asia: The Reversion Movement, 1967-1973"
Franziska Seraphim (Duke University and Columbia University)

"Ethnicity and Gender in Prewar Japan: Korean Women in the Coal Mining Industry"
Donald Smith (University of Alabama)

Discussants: Brian Woodall (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yumiko Hulvey (University of Florida), Joseph Murphy (University of Florida)

2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break

2:45 - 4:00 p.m. Perspectives on Meiji and Taisho Japan
Chair:

"Missionary Versus Athiest: James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911) and Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925)as Foreign Technical Experts in Meiji Japan"
Jonathan Goldstein (State University of West Georgia)

"History of Omoto-kyo Shinto"
Diana Godwin (Nova University)
Discussants: Don McCreary (University of Georgia), Daniel Metraux (Mary Baldwin College)

4:00 p.m. Adjourn