{"id":9492,"date":"2021-08-30T11:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:14:46","slug":"online-workshop-report-the-current-status-of-globalization-in-japanese-studies-from-the-viewpoint-of-history-in-east-asian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2021\/08\/30\/9492\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Workshop Report: \u201cThe current status of Globalization in Japanese Studies -From the viewpoint of history in East Asian Culture-\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Online Workshop: &#8220;The current status of Globalization in Japanese Studies -From the viewpoint of history in East Asian Culture-&#8220;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Date and time: July 24, 2021, 10:00 \u2013 12:00 (JST) \/ July 23th, 2021, 21:00\u2013 23:00 (NYT)<\/li>\n<li>Speaker: Kazuaki Komine, Tomoyuki Someya, Haruo Shirane, Bunkyo Kin<\/li>\n<li>Moderator: Sungsi Lee, Kimiko Kono<\/li>\n<li>Language: Japanese<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Online<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored by: Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture, Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University Top Global University Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On July 24 (Sat.), the workshop \u201cThe current status of Globalization in Japanese Studies \u2013 From the viewpoint of history in East Asian Culture\u2013\u201d took place online via Zoom, and the following four researchers presented to a virtual audience of around 100.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was planned and held to commemorate the publication of the four volumes of <a href=\"https:\/\/bungaku-report.com\/eastasia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Higashi Ajia Bunka K\u014dza<\/em><\/a> [Lectures on East Asian Culture] in March 2021 by Bungaku Tsushin. These volumes were edited by Tomoyuki Someya, Bunkyo Kin, Kazuaki Komine, and Haruo Shirane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9609 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/60b6332571f8a85bc28cdfef91889c18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/60b6332571f8a85bc28cdfef91889c18.png 773w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/60b6332571f8a85bc28cdfef91889c18-610x342.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/60b6332571f8a85bc28cdfef91889c18-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event began with opening remarks by Lee Sungsi, professor at Waseda University. As part of these remarks, Lee described how these lectures gathered together a diverse array of authors, numbering over 150, who engaged in a grand project to show what the internationalization of Japanese studies should look like by reconsidering Japanese literature and culture through the lens of the broader East Asian cultural sphere. Lee also explained that the workshop was in commemoration of the publication of these lectures and that each of the editors of the four volumes would be speaking. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ftWbhmkuVVc&amp;t=15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2460<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9517 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_1248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\" \/>The next part of the workshop consisted of a keynote address by Kazuaki Komine (Rikkyo University), who edited volume 3, <em>Higashi Ajia ni Ky\u014dy\u016b Sareru Bungaku Sekai: Higashi Ajia no Bungaku-ken<\/em> [The Literary World Shared by East Asia: The East Asian Literary Sphere]. Komine touched upon the rapid development of Japanese studies outside Japan and presented what he regarded as a sense of crisis concerning the limitations of Japanese studies conducted in Japanese only\u2014research limited to within one country and inward-facing. Komine went on to note the importance of collaborative research\u2014conducted against a backdrop of competition between the current global lingua franca of English (the de facto universal language) and regional and local languages\u2014within East Asia, a broad cultural sphere comprising the areas where writing systems employ Chinese characters or where there is a history of reading and producing texts in classical Chinese. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJ6F25S9S4M&amp;t=1219s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2461<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8bf4342b0de8c161c27997599e21cd56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8bf4342b0de8c161c27997599e21cd56.png 1262w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8bf4342b0de8c161c27997599e21cd56-610x385.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8bf4342b0de8c161c27997599e21cd56-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8bf4342b0de8c161c27997599e21cd56-940x594.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/>Following the keynote, the other three editors spoke about the aims of their respective volumes. Tomoyuki Someya (Ibaraki Christian University), editor of the first volume, <em>Hajime ni K\u014dry\u016b Ariki: Higashi Ajia no Bungaku to Ibunka K\u014dry\u016b<\/em> [First There Were Exchanges: Intercultural Exchanges of East Asian Literature], focused on the perspectives of the periphery and outer periphery in respect to East Asian cultural exchanges and mentioned the issue of when economics within the context of globalization first came to form the foundation for culture and civilization. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gGSNgAqM2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2462<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9534 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ae4825a5752124c16577685b7d3ffe8b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ae4825a5752124c16577685b7d3ffe8b.png 1347w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ae4825a5752124c16577685b7d3ffe8b-610x408.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ae4825a5752124c16577685b7d3ffe8b-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ae4825a5752124c16577685b7d3ffe8b-940x628.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Haruo Shirane (Columbia University), editor of the fourth volume, <em>Higashi Ajia no Shizenkan: Higashi Ajia no Kanky\u014d to F\u016bzoku<\/em> [The East Asian View of Nature: The Environment and Mores of East Asia], mentioned the importance of interdisciplinary research and described his experience with interdisciplinary courses on East Asia taught at Columbia University. He provided the specific example of a course concerned with both the <em>Otogi-z\u014dshi<\/em> group of illustrated Muromachi-era narratives and disability studies. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eRzL4JuUKvI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2463<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/452e603391de8eab06a33b3426a1ed67.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/452e603391de8eab06a33b3426a1ed67.png 1405w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/452e603391de8eab06a33b3426a1ed67-610x394.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/452e603391de8eab06a33b3426a1ed67-768x496.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/452e603391de8eab06a33b3426a1ed67-940x607.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/>Bunkyo Kin (Kyoto University), editor of the second volume, <em>Kanji wo Tsukatta Bunka wa D\u014d Hirogatteita no ka? Higashi Ajia no Kanji Kanbun Bunka-ken<\/em> [How Did Culture Employing Chinese Characters Spread? The Chinese Character and Classical Chinese-Based Cultural Sphere of East Asia], presented transformations in attitudes toward Chinese characters and writings in classical Chinese, which differed by time and place and were sometimes influenced by political factors. For example, Kin expressed concerns about the increasing usage of arbitrary readings for Chinese characters that he attributed in part to decreased proficiency with these characters, noting a growing deviation from the norm that Chinese characters belong to a category of written symbols that possess a certain prescribed set of readings. A representative example of this phenomenon that Kin gave was that of so-called <em>kirakira n\u0113mu<\/em> in contemporary Japan. The term, literally \u201cglittery names,\u201d refers to given names for children that do not follow customary readings associated with the Chinese characters used to write them and that are sometimes the subject of mockery and controversy. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_UiLa-9SBP0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2464<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9621 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/b1d447e8cea92639024431281055c8d0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/b1d447e8cea92639024431281055c8d0.png 1008w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/b1d447e8cea92639024431281055c8d0-610x228.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/b1d447e8cea92639024431281055c8d0-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/08\/b1d447e8cea92639024431281055c8d0-940x352.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/>At the end of the workshop, those who attended the event in real time had an opportunity to engage in a question and answer session with the four presenters. This session was moderated by Waseda University\u2019s Kimiko Kono. There were queries from researchers as well as students, all of which led to lively and important discussions that held the possibility of leading to resolutions to points of contention concerning studies of Japan and East Asia in the current Japanese research climate. Thus, the workshop concluded with anticipation of further developments in the internationalization of, and move toward interdisciplinary approaches to, Japanese and East Asian studies. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VObNq294hU8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie \u2465<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Workshop: &#8220;The current status of Globalization in Japanese Studies -From the viewpoint of history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[97,111],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-en-gj","tag-report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}