CALL FOR PAPERS

Japan Studies Association 29^th Annual Conference

January 4-6, 2023 in Hawaii

From JSA President Joseph Overton (overton@hawaii.com):

The Japan Studies Association (JSA) invites proposals for individual papers, panels or roundtables for its 29^th Annual Conference to be held Wed.-Fri., January 4-6, 2023. Highlights this year include William Tsutsui moderating a Keynote Conversation: “Japan, Hawai’i and the World”, with AAS Past President Christine Yano and Paul Yonamine, a prominent business leader in Tokyo and Honolulu. A second Keynote will be by Prof. Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, on understanding Okinawa’s current relationships with Japan, China, and the U.S. in historical contexts.

The Conference Hotel is once again the Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach Hotel – yes—within a few blocks from that beach! For more information about JSA’s interdisciplinary outreach and Conference lodging and registration, please see www.japanstudies.org.

The deadline for proposals is Friday, Nov. 11, 2022!

For questions, please feel free to write JSA Program Co-Chair Andrea Stover (andrea.stover@belmont.edu) or Paul Dunscomb (pedunscomb@alaska.edu)or email JSA Vice President for Special Projects, Fay.Beauchamp@gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

AAS 2022

Dear Japan Political Studies Group,

We hope that many of you will be able to join us at the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Honolulu! Our business meeting will be on Friday, March 25 at 7:30 pm in the South Pacific IV room of the Hilton.

We will spend some time getting to know one another and then we will have a roundtable discussion of current research on Japanese politics, featuring Saori Katada presenting "States for Markets: Financialisation, Wealth Preservation, and Political Pressure on Central Banks" (a paper co-authored with Gabrielle Cheung and Gene Park), and Michael Strausz presenting "Shy Foreign Labor Supporters? Immigration and Japan's 2019 House of Councilors Election." After these presentations, Anand Rao will lead a discussion.

Following our meeting, interested participants are welcome to join us at a nearby pub as we get snacks and drinks.

Best,

Michael Strausz and Kenneth McElwain