2013 International Conference of Japanese Studies

“The 3.11 Disaster of Japan: Vulnerability, Loss, and Social Transformation”

25-26 January 2013

Ateneo de Manila University

PROGRAMME

Day 1                 Venue: Leong Auditorium

8:30                    Registration

9:30                    Welcome Remarks

             Filomeno V. Aguilar, Ph.D.   

          Dean, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University

          Opening Remarks

          Shūji Takatori

          Director, the Japan Foundation Manila Office

10:00-12:30    Session 1:

Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction for the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Satoshi Tanaka

 Fuji Tokoha University and Graduate School

Business Responses to Crisis: Conflicting Paradigms and Reorientation

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Ph.D

National University of Singapore                                 

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Atty. Violeta S. Seva, 

General Secretary, Earthquakes and Megacities Initiatives                              

12:30-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:30         Documentary Film

                            

                             Can You See the Lights? First Festival after the Tsunami

2:30-2:45         Coffee Break

2:45-4:00         Session 2:

Social Capital, Social Media and Sociality in Post-3.11 Japan

David H. Slater, Ph.D.

Sophia University

Filipino Communities in Tohoku after the Disasters of March 11

Takefumi Terada, Ph.D. 

Sophia University

4:00                    Reminders for Day 2

 

Day 2                 Venue: Leong Hall

8:30                    Registration

9:00-10:30       Session 3:

Reviving Tohoku after 3/11: Food Heritage Preservation and Tourism

Stephanie Assmann, Ph.D

 Akita University

Risk Distribution of Fukushima-related Disaster Waste―From a Risk Governance Perspective

Miori NAGASHIMA, Setsuko ICHIHARA and Etsuko ITOKAWA

Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

        

Medical Disaster in the 3-11 Triple Tragedy in Northeastern Japan: An Analysis of Disaster Response Issues and Problems

        Arnel E. Joven, Ph.D

       University of Asia and the Pacific

                                   

10:30-10:45    Coffee Break

10:45-12:15    Session 4:

                                   

Social Capital and volunteerism after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Cecilia Manoliu

University of Tsukuba

Disaster Vulnerability and Coping in a Foreign Environment: 

The Narrative of the Pinoy Scholars in Tohoku during 3.11

Lisette R. Robles

Sophia University

                 

The March 2011 Japan Disaster: 

Trade and Economic Implications to the Philippines

Ferdinand T. Abocejo

Cebu Normal University

12:15                 Closing Remarks