January 31, 2:00pm – 4:30pm
Asian Centre, Room 604
No other city has lent itself to the spatial imaginary of Japanese cultural production than Tokyo. Capital of Japan, undisputed center of politics and business, home of the publishing industry, most populous metropolis in the world: Tokyo maps itself onto the rest of the nation in ways both profound and pervasive. This workshop will explore some of these mappings in media – literally and literarily – through presentations by four leading scholars of Japan. Presentations will be primarily in Japanese, with Q&A in Japanese and English.
2:00pm Opening remarks by Christina Yi (UBC)
2:10pm Tanaka Yukari & Hayashi Naoki (Nihon University), “‘Edo/Tokyo WebGIS’ and the Smartphone App ‘Edo/Tokyo Monogatari’”
2:40pm Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University), “Tokyo as Protagonist: Stories of the City”
3:10pm Nezu Tomohiko (Ritsumeikan University), “Tokyo Journalism History and the Emperor System”
3:40pm Q&A
Sponsored by the UBC Asian Studies Department and the Centre for Japanese Research
