Cairo Conference on Japanese Studies Jointly held by...

Cairo Conference on Japanese Studies

Jointly held by Faculty of Arts of Cairo University and

International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

Cairo University, November 5-6, 2006

Official Language:

(1)English

(2)Japanese with summary in English

PROGRAM

5th of November

9:30-10:00 Registration

Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Timothy D. Kern (Nichibunken)

10:00-10:10 Ahmed Abdallah Zayed, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

10:10-10:20 Motoko Katakura, Director-General, International Research Center for

Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

10:20-10:30 All Abd al-Rahman, President (Cairo University)

10:30-10:50 Break

Session 1: Japan and the Arab world: Comparative Studies in Civilizations

(Language: English) Moderator: Mohammed Hamdy Ibrahim (Cairo University)

10:50-11:20 Presentation 1. Heita Kawakatsu (Nichibunken), "Japanese Civilization:

Japan's Linkages with the Modern World System, 16th - 20th Centuries"

11:20-11:50 Presentation 2. Mohammed El-Sayed Selim (Kuweit University), "The

Cultural Dimensions of Arab-Japanese Relations with Special Reference to the Japan-

Muslim World Dialogue among Civilizations"

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11:50-12:00 Break

12:00-12:30 Presentation 3. Kei Ushimura (Nichibunken), "Discourses on and against

Civilization in Pre-war Japan"

12:30-13:00 Presentation 4. Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University), "Comparative Value

Systems and the Arab-Japanese Dialogue"

13:00-13:10 Comments

Mansour Abu El-Azm (Al-Ahram Newspaper)

Satoshi Ikeuch (Nichibunken)

13:10-13:30 Discussion

13:30-14:30 Lunch at "Dar al-Diyafa"

Session 2: Comparative Studies in Modernizations between Japan and the Arab

World

(Language: English) Moderator: Hasanen Rabi'

14:30-15:00 Presentation 1. Hidehiro Sonoda (Nichibunken), "Modernity through

Westernization : The Japan's Case in Comparative Perspective"

15:00-15:30 Presentation 2. Ala All Zein al-Abidin (Cairo University), "Morality and

Secularization in Modern Japan: on "Bushido Spirits"

15:30-16:00 Presentation 3. Yomna El-Kholy (Cairo University, Nichibunken Visiting

Scholar), "The Beginning of Philosophy of Science in Japan: Comparative Approach"


Ahmed Abdallah Zayed (Cairo University)

Khalil Darwish (Cairo University)

Kei Ushimura (Nichibunken)

16:10 -16: 40 Discussion

16:40-17:00 Break

Session 3: New Trends in Japanese Studies: Dissemination of Japanese Popular

Culture and Representation of Japan in Arab media Moderator: Heita Kawakatsu (Nichibunken) 17:00-17:30 Presentation 1. Shoichi Inoue (Nichibunken), "Anime and Manga in the

World" 17:30-18:00 Presentation 2. Shoji Yamada (Nichibunken), "Advertisement as a

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Program

Resource for Japanese Studies"

18:00-18:30 Presentation 3. Chavalin Svetanant (Chulalongkorn University;

Nichibunken Visiting Scholar), "Japanese Women in the Texts of Advertizement"

18:30-19:00 Presentation 4. Shuji Hosaka (Kinki University), "Influence of Japanese

Anime in Arab Media"


Ibrahim El-Desouki (Al-Ahram Newspaper)

Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa (Cairo University)


6th of November

Session 4: Studies in Linguistics and Literature

(Language: Japanese and English)

Moderator: Timothy D. Kern (Nichibunken)

9:30-10:00 Presentation 1. Ayu Majima (Japan Society for Promotion of Science,

Nichibunken), "Paradoxical Discourse on Body and `Beauty' among Male Intellectuals

in Early 20th Century Japan"

10:00-10:30 Presentation 2. Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa (Cairo University), "The `Post War Phenomena' and the `Defeated Nation Syndrome' in Japanese Literature:

Has It Really Come to an End?"

10:30-11:00 Presentation 3. Maher El-Sherbini (Cairo University), "Transitive and

Intransitive Verbs in Modem Japanese Language"

11:00-11:30 Presentation 4, Adel Amin Saleh (Cairo University), "Model of language

Reform in Japan: Its Significance to Egyptian Language Condition"

11:30-12:00 Presentaion 5. Karam Khalil (Cairo University), "Suicide in Modern

Japanese Literature"


Hidehiro Sonoda (Nichibunken)

Shoji Yamada (Nichibunken)


13:00-14:00 Lunch at "Dar al-Diyafa"

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Session 5: Japanese Religiosity in Comparative Perspectives

(Language: Japanese and English) Moderator: Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim (Cairo University)

14:00-14:30 Presentation 1. Muhammad Aft (Cairo University), "Observations on the

Introduction of Catholicism to Egypt and Japan: A Comparative Approach"

14:30-15:00 Presentation 2. Timothy D. Kern (Nichibunken), "Syncretism or

Alternativization? Some Thoughts on the Reception of Christianity and Religious

Trends in Modern Japan"

15:00-15:30 Presentation 3. Satoshi Ikeuchi (Nichibunken), "Sufism and Islamic

Philosophy in the Work of Izutsu Toshihiko: A Japanese Way of Understanding Islam"

15:30-15:50 Break

Moderator: Hidehiro Sonoda (Nichibunken)

15:50-16:20 Presentation 4. Akira Imatani (Nichibunken), "The Five Temples (Gozan)

and the Ruling Authority during the Muromachi Period: A Comparison with the Court

of the Mamalik Sultan of Cairo"

16:50-17:20 Presentation 5. Yasunori Kojima (International Christian University), "Islamic Thought and Neo -Confucianism: Mapping Intellectual History: Chu His ,

Wang Yang-ming, and the Sorai Schools as seen in the Mirror of Islamic Thought"


Shoichi Inoue (Nichibunken)

Isam Hamza (Cairo University)


18:20- 18:30 Concluding Remarks

Karam Khalil (Cairo University)

Hidehiro Sonoda (Nichibunken)

Dinner hosted by Nichibunken

(At Mariott Hotel)

Speech: Ahmed Abdallah Zayed, Dean, Faculty of Arts (Cairo University)

Concluding Address: Motoko Katakura, Direcor-General (Nichibunken)

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