Revisiting Southeast Asia - Japan Relations
Japanese Studies Program
In Cooperation with the
International Studies Department
with the Support of
The Japan Foundation
DATES: 31 January - 1 February 2020
OVERVIEW:
It has been ten years since the Japanese Studies program convened a conference and published a compiled volume that interrogated complex Philippine-Japan relations beyond economic and political structures. Edited by Dr. Lydia Yu-Jose, "Past, Love, Money and Much More" features articles exploring Philippine-Japan relations and issues surrounding World War II, Japan's cultural diplomacy, intercultural marriages, and migration.
Honouring Dr. Yu-Jose’s leadership and scholarship, the conference aims to revisit the issues explored in this volume while expanding its themes through new approaches and perspectives stemming from a new generation of scholars and students who are interrogating shifting relationships between the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Scholars are encouraged to reevaluate pre-war and post-war relationships through various approaches, examine Japanese culture, politics and economy in an increasingly transcultural and hybrid global landscape, and survey the various structures that influence movements between Southeast Asia and Japan.
a. How does Southeast Asia understand Japan? How has it changed through the years?
b. Is Southeast Asia still interested in Japan? In what ways? How has it changed through the years?
c. What are (some of )the new approaches and perspectives that explain (or define) Southeast Asia-Japan relations?
d. How would Southeast Asia-Japan go beyond the capital transfers as well as the cultural diplomacy?
e. How would Southeast Asia possibly change Japan?
f. How would these affect Japanese studies in Southeast Asia?
PROGRAMME
8:30 Registration and
Coffee Break
9:00 Welcome Remarks
Joel E. Tabora, S.J.
Yoshiaki Miwa
Opening Remarks
Hiroaki Uesugi
9:30-11:00 Plenary
Session 1: History
A
Comfort Zone? The late 20th Century Japanese Experience in Southeast
Asia
11:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 Plenary
Session 2: Migration
Platforms, Practices and Politics:
Interrogating Intimate performativity of Filipina-Japanese marriage on YoutTube
Transnational Mobility, Love, Money and Much
More
14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break
14:15 – 15:15 Japan in Mindanao: Revisiting Pre-War and
War Time History
Colonialism and the Japanese Settler Society
in Mindanao: N.Y.K. – Migration Nexus and the Tourism Industry
The Role of Salipada Pendatun in Organizing
the Bukidnon – Cotabato Force During World War II: An Archival Survey
Japanese Interregnum in NLSA Settlement: 1939
– 1945
Panel Chair: John
Harvey D. Gamas
15:20 - 16:00 Paper
Panel 1: Indo-Japan Relations
Behind
the Rising Sun: Unveiling India’s National Interests in the Convergence of the Indo-Japanese
Nuclear Strategic Partnership
Navigating
Japan’s Foreign Policy from Within: Domestic Politics and its Impact on the
Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy
16:00 – 16:30
Housekeeping Announcements
Day 2: 1 February 2020
Venue: ADDU
9:00 Registration and
Coffee Break
9:15 – 10:15
Japanese Schools in Davao in US Colonial Philippines, ca. 1920s – 30s
Operation Victor: A Reassessment of the
Mindanao Campaign during the Second World War
Historical Notes on Japanese Bunkers in
General Santos City, Philippines
Rebino Batoto
Paper Panel 2.2: Soft Power
Venue: F-213
Thailand’s
New Strategy towards International Relations at the Local Level: Applying from
Fukuoka’s model
Curating
Japanese Identity through Film Festival Diplomacy: A Case Study on Eiga Sai,
the Japanese Film Festival in the Philippines
Paper Panel 2.3: Migration
Exploring the Dynamics in Singapore-Japan
Relations: Voices from long term Japanese residents in Singapore
Leng Leng Thang
Hiroko Fujita
Nikkei Filipino Workers in the Japanese
Seafood Processing Industry: History, Recruitment and Employment
Keiko Yamanaka
Homebound before Sunset: Cultural Remittances
and Aspirations of Return Migration among Ageing Filipino Immigrants in Japan
10:20 – 11:20
Venue: F - 711 & & 712
Total
War in a Mixed Locality: The Filipino and the Japanese Locals of the Davao
Settler Zone
Kwentong
Bayan sa Panahon ng Hapn: Microhistories of the Ilaguenos in North Luzon
Philippines during the Japanese Occupation 1941 – 1945
There’s
Time for Beauty: The 1944 Lakambini Popularity Contest in Iloilo City,
Philippines
Paper Panel 3.2: Security
Finding
the balance: The Japan – ASEAN Human Security Dynamics
Political,
Economic and Environmental Ramifications of Wildlife Trade from Southeast Asia
to Concurrent Japan in Northeast Asia
Japan’s
Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Southern Philippines: Policy Construction,
Nature, and Significance for Southeast Asia
Paper Panel 3.3: Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration Policy
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Enlightening discourses, unfeasible realities, and a dilemma of policy practices: A Quantitative Text of Discourses and Policies of Japan's Multiculturalism
Toru Oga
Kyushu University
Multicultual Tokyo in 2020: Revisiting Language Policies
Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
Discussant: Benjamin San Jose
Ateneo de Manila University
11:20 – 12:20
A
Wartime Filipino Community in Tokyo, 1943 – 44: The Case of Kojimachi Catholic
Church
Matsui
Yayori: Legacy of Activist Networks Connecting Japan and Asia
Colonial
Convergence Zones: Colonial Meteorological Institutions in Taiwan and the
Philippines as collaborative localities for Scientific Knowledge Production and
Exchange
Paper Panel 4.2: ODA
Competition,
Cooperation, or Containment? Exploring Japan’s Place in China’s Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) Efforts in Southeast Asia
Japan
and India’s Maritime Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Striving for a Free and Open
Indo-Pacific
Paper Panel 4.3:
Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration and Civil Society
Older Migrants in a Diversifying Japan
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Johanna Zulueta
Soka University
Critical Reflection on Multiculturalism and multicultural education in Korea
Jinhee Kim
Korean Educational Development Institute
Discussant: Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
12:20 – 13: 50 Lunch
Break
13:50 – 15:05 Plenary
Session 3: Popular Culture
Are There Any Texts in BL Studies? Rethinking Narrativity of BL Ethnicity and Eroticism in Japan and South East Asia
Kazumi Nagaike
Creative Misreading Across the Asia-Pacific:
Transnational Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Utopian Consumption
15:05 - 15:30 Book Talk
Transnational Identities on Okinawa's Military Bases: Invisible Armies
Johanna Zulueta
Soka University
Comments by:
Ricardo Trota Jose
University of the Philippines - Diliman
Reiko Ogawa
Chiba University
15:30 – 16:00 Closing
Ceremonies and Coffee
b. Is Southeast Asia still interested in Japan? In what ways? How has it changed through the years?
c. What are (some of )the new approaches and perspectives that explain (or define) Southeast Asia-Japan relations?
d. How would Southeast Asia-Japan go beyond the capital transfers as well as the cultural diplomacy?
e. How would Southeast Asia possibly change Japan?
f. How would these affect Japanese studies in Southeast Asia?
PROGRAMME
Day 1: 31 January 2020
Venue: ADDU, Finster Auditorium
8:30 Registration and
Coffee Break
9:00 Welcome Remarks
Joel E. Tabora, S.J.
University President
Ateneo de Davao University
Yoshiaki Miwa
Consul General
Consulate General of
Japan in Davao
Opening Remarks
Hiroaki Uesugi
Director
Japan Foundation – Manila
9:30-11:00 Plenary
Session 1: History
Continuing
Japanese Myth on “Benguet Migrants” in the Philippines: Colonial City,
Migrants, WWII, and A Hidden Dispute
Shinzo Hayase
Waseda University
A
Comfort Zone? The late 20th Century Japanese Experience in Southeast
Asia
Satoshi Nakano
Hitotsubashi University
11:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 Plenary
Session 2: Migration
Platforms, Practices and Politics:
Interrogating Intimate performativity of Filipina-Japanese marriage on YoutTube
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
Deakin University
Transnational Mobility, Love, Money and Much
More
Reiko Ogawa
Chiba University
14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break
14:15 – 15:15 Japan in Mindanao: Revisiting Pre-War and
War Time History
Colonialism and the Japanese Settler Society
in Mindanao: N.Y.K. – Migration Nexus and the Tourism Industry
Anderson V. Villa
Mindanao State
University – General Santos
The Role of Salipada Pendatun in Organizing
the Bukidnon – Cotabato Force During World War II: An Archival Survey
Mansoor L. Limba
Ateneo de Davao
Univeristy
Japanese Interregnum in NLSA Settlement: 1939
– 1945
Hannee R.
Saloria-Badilles
Mindanao State
University – General Santos
Panel Chair: John
Harvey D. Gamas
Ateneo de Davao University
15:20 - 16:00 Paper
Panel 1: Indo-Japan Relations
Behind
the Rising Sun: Unveiling India’s National Interests in the Convergence of the Indo-Japanese
Nuclear Strategic Partnership
Akella Colina
Czarina Marie Cabagnot
Joy Olive Manreal
Masanori Kobashi
Ateneo de Davao University
Navigating
Japan’s Foreign Policy from Within: Domestic Politics and its Impact on the
Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy
Jonald T. Bagasina
University of the Philippines – Diliman
16:00 – 16:30
Housekeeping Announcements
Venue: ADDU
9:00 Registration and
Coffee Break
9:15 – 10:15
Paper Panel 2.1: Japan
in Mindanao 2
Venue: F-711 & F - 712
Japanese Schools in Davao in US Colonial Philippines, ca. 1920s – 30s
Eri Kitada
Rutgers University
Operation Victor: A Reassessment of the
Mindanao Campaign during the Second World War
David O. Lozada III, Ateneo de Manila
University
Historical Notes on Japanese Bunkers in
General Santos City, Philippines
Allan Balaga Castino
Mindanao State
University – General Santos
Rebino Batoto
Mindanao State
University – Naawan
Paper Panel 2.2: Soft Power
Venue: F-213
Venue: F-213
Thailand’s
New Strategy towards International Relations at the Local Level: Applying from
Fukuoka’s model
Nirithorn Mesupnikom
Thammasat University
Curating
Japanese Identity through Film Festival Diplomacy: A Case Study on Eiga Sai,
the Japanese Film Festival in the Philippines
Maria
Ysabel A. Tangco
Ateneo
de Manila University
Paper Panel 2.3: Migration
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Exploring the Dynamics in Singapore-Japan Relations: Voices from long term Japanese residents in Singapore
Exploring the Dynamics in Singapore-Japan Relations: Voices from long term Japanese residents in Singapore
Keiko Tamura
The University of Kitakyushu
Leng Leng Thang
National University of Singapore
Hiroko Fujita
State University of New York at Buffalo / Singapore Institute of Management
Nikkei Filipino Workers in the Japanese
Seafood Processing Industry: History, Recruitment and Employment
Sachi Takahata
University of Shizuoka
Keiko Yamanaka
University of California, Berkeley
Homebound before Sunset: Cultural Remittances
and Aspirations of Return Migration among Ageing Filipino Immigrants in Japan
Jocelyn Celero,
University of the Philippines - Diliman
10:20 – 11:20
Paper Panel 3.1: History
Venue: F - 711 & & 712
Venue: F - 711 & & 712
Total
War in a Mixed Locality: The Filipino and the Japanese Locals of the Davao
Settler Zone
Maria
Cynthia B. Barriga
Waseda
University
Kwentong
Bayan sa Panahon ng Hapn: Microhistories of the Ilaguenos in North Luzon
Philippines during the Japanese Occupation 1941 – 1945
Amram Jezron B. Inere, Isabela State University – City of Ilagan
There’s
Time for Beauty: The 1944 Lakambini Popularity Contest in Iloilo City,
Philippines
Frances Anthea Redison
University of the Philippines – Visayas
Paper Panel 3.2: Security
Venue: F - 213
Finding the balance: The Japan – ASEAN Human Security Dynamics
Finding the balance: The Japan – ASEAN Human Security Dynamics
Jeorge Alarcon, Jr
Adamson University
Political,
Economic and Environmental Ramifications of Wildlife Trade from Southeast Asia
to Concurrent Japan in Northeast Asia
Monir Hossain Moni
Bangladesh Asia Institute for Global Studies
Japan’s
Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Southern Philippines: Policy Construction,
Nature, and Significance for Southeast Asia
Mario Joyo Aguja
Mindanao State University – General Santos
Paper Panel 3.3: Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration Policy
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Enlightening discourses, unfeasible realities, and a dilemma of policy practices: A Quantitative Text of Discourses and Policies of Japan's Multiculturalism
Toru Oga
Kyushu University
Multicultual Tokyo in 2020: Revisiting Language Policies
Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
Discussant: Benjamin San Jose
Ateneo de Manila University
Toru Oga
Kyushu University
Multicultual Tokyo in 2020: Revisiting Language Policies
Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
Discussant: Benjamin San Jose
Ateneo de Manila University
11:20 – 12:20
Paper Panel 4.1: History 2
Venue: F - 711 & 712
A Wartime Filipino Community in Tokyo, 1943 – 44: The Case of Kojimachi Catholic Church
A Wartime Filipino Community in Tokyo, 1943 – 44: The Case of Kojimachi Catholic Church
Takefumi Terada
Sophia University
Matsui
Yayori: Legacy of Activist Networks Connecting Japan and Asia
Lisa
Rogers
Doshisha
Women:s College
Colonial
Convergence Zones: Colonial Meteorological Institutions in Taiwan and the
Philippines as collaborative localities for Scientific Knowledge Production and
Exchange
Bianca
Angelien Aban Claveria
Ateneo
de Manila University
Paper Panel 4.2: ODA
Venue: F - 213
Competition,
Cooperation, or Containment? Exploring Japan’s Place in China’s Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) Efforts in Southeast Asia
Martin Angelo T. Millete
De La Salle University
Japan
and India’s Maritime Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Striving for a Free and Open
Indo-Pacific
Gaurav
Dutta
Jawaharlal
Nehru University
Paper Panel 4.3:
Multiculturalism in Japan and Asia: Migration and Civil Society
Older Migrants in a Diversifying Japan
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Johanna Zulueta
Soka University
Critical Reflection on Multiculturalism and multicultural education in Korea
Jinhee Kim
Korean Educational Development Institute
Discussant: Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
Older Migrants in a Diversifying Japan
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Johanna Zulueta
Soka University
Critical Reflection on Multiculturalism and multicultural education in Korea
Jinhee Kim
Korean Educational Development Institute
Discussant: Ron Vilog
De La Salle University
12:20 – 13: 50 Lunch
Break
13:50 – 15:05 Plenary
Session 3: Popular Culture
Venue: Finster Auditorium
Are There Any Texts in BL Studies? Rethinking Narrativity of BL Ethnicity and Eroticism in Japan and South East Asia
Are There Any Texts in BL Studies? Rethinking Narrativity of BL Ethnicity and Eroticism in Japan and South East Asia
Kazumi Nagaike
Oita University
Creative Misreading Across the Asia-Pacific:
Transnational Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Utopian Consumption
Thomas Baudinette
Macquarie University
15:05 - 15:30 Book Talk
Transnational Identities on Okinawa's Military Bases: Invisible ArmiesJohanna Zulueta
Soka University
Comments by:
Ricardo Trota Jose
University of the Philippines - Diliman
Reiko Ogawa
Chiba University
15:30 – 16:00 Closing Ceremonies and Coffee
Distribution of
Certificates
