Fourteenth Annual NAJS Conference

Happiness and the good life in Japan

Nature-Culture Relationships – Chair: Jens Sejrup

• Aike P Rots, University of OsloPines or Oaks? Re-Making Nature in Post-Tsunami Tohoku (Discussants: Gaini, Hayashi)
• Stig Toft Madsen, NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian StudiesBirdwatching in Japan and Denmark: Convergence and Variation (Discussants: Yamamoto-Pavlasevic, Sato)
• Mitsuhiro Hayashi, Cornell University Animism and Technology in Modern Japan (Discussants: Rots, Korshenko)

Children and youth – Chair: Marie Roesgaard

• Bojana Yamamoto Pavlasevic, Kobe University Graduate School of Humanities
  The influence of safety-related anxiety on child-rearing: A sociological case study (Discussants: Rots, Sato)
• Firouz Gaini, University of the Faroe IslandsThe Future Images of Contemporary Oki Islands Youth
  (Discussants: Tamaki, Malashevskaia)

Foreign relations – Chair: Dick Stegewerns

• Raymond Yamamoto, Aarhus University
  China as a new ODA Donor in Southeast Asia – A Challenge to the Japanese Role in the Region? (Discussants: Nagy, Madsen)
• Maria Malashevskaia, Saint Petersburg State UniversityComparative study of Japan-Mongolia and Japan-Russia interaction in the Eurasian megaregional integration in Post-Cold-War (Discussants: Hovhannisyan, Edström)

Conference dinner

Art and architecture – Chair: Marie Roesgaard

• Toyoko Sato, Copenhagen Business School
  Naming Herself: The Hidden Agenda of Ishioka Eiko and Aesthetic Performativity (Discussants: Stegewerns, Sejrup)
• Jens Sejrup, University of Oslo
  The Global Unrealized: Two aborted Japanese-designed extension projects to European art museums (Discussants: Revelant, Gaini)

Parallel sessions

• Room 4A.0.68: Japanese online resources, NIAS Asia Portal
  Naomi Yabe Magnussen, University of Oslo Library 
  Inga-Lill Blomkvist, NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies 
• Room 4A.0.56: NAJS steering committee meeting

Between the Great Powers – Chair: Jens Sejrup

• Stephen Robert Nagy, International Christian University, Tokyo
  A new model of Great Power Relations and sources of insecurity in the region: Third country perspectives (Discussants: Gaens, Tamaki)
• Taku Tamaki, Loughborough University
  South Korea as Japan’s Reality: The Lessons of Ajia shisō Thinkers 
  (Discussants: Stegewerns, Korshenko)
  
• Bart Gaens, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

  Quad pro quo? Japan, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, and Indo-Pacific alignment

  (Discussants: Yamamoto, Madsen)

History – Chair: Annette Skovsted Hansen

• Andrea Revelant, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
  The Northern Expedition and Japanese Public Opinion, 1926–27
  (Discussants: Yamamoto, Malashevskaia)
• Dick Stegewerns, University of Oslo, Nichibunken
  From Chinese World Order to Japan’s Modern Mindset – Japanese Views of the Outside World from the Early Modern Period until the Present Day
  (Discussants: Edström, Gaens)
• Bert Edström, Institute for Security & Development Policy
  New light on “the Onodera kōsaku” (Discussants: Revelant, Hovhannisyan)

Domestic politics and governance – Chair: Dick Stegewerns

• Elena Korshenko, Freie Universität Berlin
  Explaining new parties’ unsustainability in Japan, 2005-2016
  (Discussants: Nagy, Sejrup)
• Astghik Hovhannisyan, Russian-Armenian University
  Who Deserves Human Rights? Eugenic Sterilizations and Human Rights in Postwar Japan (Discussants: Yamamoto-Pavlasevic, Hayashi)

Wrap up

Farewell and a glass of wine