Workshop „Okinawa – das ‚andere Japan‘?“, Vienna University, November 10.-12., 2011
November 3, 2011
(In German, sorry!)
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Workshop „Okinawa – das ‚andere Japan‘?“
10.–12. November 2011
Okinawa, die südlichste japanische Präfektur, wurde erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem Teil Japans. Zuvor hatte es als ‚Ausland‘ gegolten – und auch heute noch wird es immer wieder als ‚anders’, als ‚nicht wirklich japanisch‘ bezeichnet.
Die Forschung zu Okinawa besetzt innerhalb der Japanologie bisher nur eine kleine ‚Nische‘. Vielleicht spiegelt diese Situation die Tatsache wider, dass sich das Verhältnis zwischen Japan und Okinawa nicht nur in geografischer Hinsicht, sondern auch politisch, wirtschaftlich und kulturell als hierarchisch strukturierte Zentrum-Peripherie-Beziehung darstellt.
2012 jährt sich die Entlassung Okinawas aus US-amerikanischer Besatzung und seine ‚Rückgabe‘ an Japan zum 40. Mal. Dies wollen wir als Anlass nehmen, um mit dem Workshop „Okinawa – das ‚andere Japan‘?“ gerade dieses ‚Randgebiet‘ ins Zentrum zu stellen.
Die ReferentInnen werden laufende oder abgeschlossene Arbeiten mit Okinawa-Bezug vorstellen und so exemplarisch aufzeigen, was und wie aktuell zu Okinawa geforscht wird – innerhalb der Wiener Japanologie ebenso wie außerhalb. Wie sich das Verhältnis von Okinawa zu Japan entwickelt hat, wie man in Okinawa eine ganz eigene Identität in Auseinandersetzung mit Japan konstruiert, und wie Okinawa gegenwärtig in Medien und Literatur repräsentiert wird – dies sind Fragen, die wir auf dem Workshop gemeinsam mit allen Teilnehmenden diskutieren möchten. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich dazu eingeladen.
PROGRAMM
Donnerstag, 10.11.2011
18:00 – 20:00
Gabriele VOGT (Universität Hamburg)
„Der Mythos des Ryûkyû-Pazifismus. Eine politikwissenschaftliche Annäherung“
Freitag, 11.11.2011
14:00–14:30
Ina HEIN
Begrüßung & Einleitung
14:30–15:30
Stanislaw MEYER (Universität Krakau)
„Okinawa: a different Japan? A historian’s perspective“
15:30–16:00 Kaffeepause
16:00–16:45
Roland DOMENIG
„Das Leben der Anderen – Fragen zur Repräsentanz Okinawas am Beispiel des Dokumentarfilms Motoshinkakarannû“
17:00–19:30
Film und Diskussion
Takamine Gô: Untama Girû (1989)
Samstag, 12.11.2011
10:15–11:00
Ina HEIN
„Mediale Konstruktionen Okinawas als ‚anderes Japan‘: Vermarktung von Exotik vs. postkoloniale Selbstrepräsentation?“
11:00–11:30
Tamara KAMERER
„Wo der Hibiskus blüht – Kritik am dominanten Okinawa-Bild in den literarischen Texten von Medoruma Shun“
11:30–12:00
Dominik STADELMANN
„Die Popularisierung des Karate auf den Ryûkyû-Inseln“
12:00–13:30 Mittagspause
13:30–14:15
YOSHIMURA Sayaka
„Japanisch als Fremdsprache? – Die japanische Standardsprache in der okinawanischen Schulerziehung der Meiji-Zeit“
14:15–15:00
Bernhard SEIDL
„Zwischen drei Stühlen: Fallstudien zum Sprachbewusstsein junger Okinawanerinnen“
15:00–15:30 Kaffeepause
15:30–16:15
Isabelle PROCHASKA
„Okinawa, Insel der Alten? Die obaa zwischen Klischee und Wirklichkeit“
16:15–17:00
Celia SPODEN (Universität Düsseldorf)
„Die Bedeutung des Fremden für die Konstruktion narrativer Identität“
17:00–19:00 Diskussionsrunde
Veranstaltungsort: Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/Japanologie, Universität Wien, AAKH-Campus, Hof 2, Eingang 2.4., Seminarraum 1
お知らせ：復帰40 年記念国際シンポジウム International Symposium ‘Remembering 40 Years Since Reversion’: “Okinawan Studies Until Now, Okinawan Studies From Now On”. Panel Sessions and Individual Presentations【Call for Papers】
Info: "Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa", Article by G. McCormack in Japan Focus
May 27, 2011
An article by G. McCormack on "Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa" has recently been published on Japan Focus. It addresses the US-Japan relationship in light of the Mitsuyaku (secret US-Japan diplomacy) brought to light since 2009, the cache of cables from US Embassy Tokyo (and Consul General Naha) to Washington released by Wiki-leaks in May 2011, the December 2010 "confession" by former Prime Minister Hatoyama, the "Maher Affair" of 2011, and the shock waves of recent (2011) shifts in thinking on the Okinawa question at high levels in Washington.
お知らせ：「琉球継承言語会」の設立
Establishment of "Ryukyuan Heritage Languages Society"
January 27, 2011
皆様、
明けましておめでとうございます。本年もよろしくお願い申し上げます。
第３回琉球継承言語シンポジウムの開催まで、あと数週間を残すところとなりまし た。多くの方々に折にふれてお伝えしておりますが，その場をお借りして「琉球継承 言語研究会」（Society for the Ryukyuan Heritage Languages）の設立を予定してお ります。その研究会の規約（案）を先にお送りしたく同封致しました。ご覧になって 設立会員としてご協力いただけるのであれば、幸甚に存じます。
Dear colleagues,
we hope you have had nice holidays, and very best wishes for the New Year.
Already in seven weeks, the 3rd Symposium on Ryukyuan Heritage Languages will be convened. As many of you already know, we plan to establish a Ryukyuan Heritage Language Society (琉球継承言語会) in that occasion. Enclosed we are forwarding you the tentative regulations of the society. We would be pleased to have you being part of the founding members.
The constitutive meeting of the "Society for the Ryukyuan Heritage Languages" will take place at 5 March from 17pm at Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku Satellite Campus in Tokyo. For access to the campus please see the following link:
http://www.kwansei.ac.jp/english/pr/pr_003187.html
Those of you who want to join the society but will be unable to attend, please send a message to Patrick Heinrich. Due to security provisions at the Sapia Tower, all visitors are required to register their visit beforehand. You can also do so in writing to Patrick Heinrich.
We are looking forward to meeting you soon and to continue our work on the Ryukyuan heritage languages.
With very best wishes
Shinsho Miyara & Patrick Heinrich
１２月１３日にお知らせしました１９日開催されました沖縄フォーラム『Where is Okinawa going?』について、Japan Focusのサイトに英語の報告がありましたので、転載します。
Forum Addresses Okinawa’s Future
At the Asia-Pacific Journal (APJ)/Okinawa University co-sponsored forum in Naha on December 19, 2010, the main theme was "Where is Okinawa going?" Speakers at three sessions – environmental, geopolitical, and economic – mixed discussion with nearly 200 participants on goals and ideals while addressing serious contemporary challenges.
Kawamura Masami and Yoshikawa Hideki, leaders of Okinawa BD (Citizens’ Network for Biological Diversity in Okinawa), an NGO that fielded the largest representation at the international biodiversity conference in Nagoya (COP10) in October, emphasized civil society engagement to empower Okinawans to resist violations of the environment and human rights as represented by US military base-building projects promoted and subsidized by Japan's government.
Amid rising tension in East Asia, typified by the China-Japan conflict over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, historian Arasaki Moriteru and APJ coordinator Gavan McCormack spoke of the danger of Okinawans getting caught up in the Japanese national narrative of their islands as “inherent territory” of Japan. Arasaki stressed Okinawa's significance as a "space of livelihood" for people in the area's fishing community, while McCormack presented an international vision of Okinawa as a place in the Asia-Pacific notable for its tradition of serving as a peaceful bridge between China, Korea, Japan and insular areas.
Political scientist Shimabukuro Jun pointed out that Okinawa’s history of "economic development” has only reinforced its status as a military colony and made it an integral part of the post-war AMPO (US-Japan security treaty) system, in which the US military overrides Japan's peace constitution. Shimabukuro called for a redefined local autonomy and legislation that would provide Okinawa with "regional sovereignty."
Miyagi Yasuhiro, a former Nago assembly member who led the 1997 plebiscite that said "no" to the Henoko base plan, explained that Nago never prospered under the system of subsidies (bribes) from the Japanese government in exchange for hosting military bases. He urged Okinawans to unite in opposing military base expansion, and to engage in new environmentally sound forms of economic and social planning.
The forum unexpectedly took place between two events that symbolize the unceasing pressure from the Japanese and US governments to accept deepening militarization of Okinawa. On December 17 & 18, Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto visited Okinawa. Kan abjectly apologized to Okinawa’s recently re-elected Governor Nakaima Hirokazu for the failure of the Democratic Party of Japan that controls Japan's central government to honor its pledge to move the Futenma Air Station outside Okinawa. He sought Nakaima's understanding for a May 2010 Japan-US agreement to build a replacement base in Henoko (Nago City). Kan said it was not the “best” plan, but a “better” plan. Nakaima, who was re-elected on a platform of moving Futenma out of Okinawa, replied that all plans to build a replacement base within Okinawa were "bad."
Immediately after the forum on December 22, some 100 members of the Okinawa Defense Bureau (the Okinawan branch of the Japanese Ministry of Defense) arrived in Takae, a village in Yanbaru Forest in Northern Okinawa rich with 4,000 species of wildlife, to re-start construction of new US helipads. The Bureau plans to "relocate" six helipads around Takae in exchange for the US Marine Corps returning half of its massive jungle training facility. The helipad relocation plan, part of the US-Japan SACO agreement reached in 1996, is less well known than the plan to relocate the Futenma base facility to Henoko. But Takae residents and supporters have been protesting the helipad construction plan since 2007 in round-the-clock demonstrations, particularly the planned stationing of the accident-prone V-22 Osprey. On December 23, as if to illustrate the dangers of the new facility, a US helicopter hovered 15 meters above tents sheltering participants in a sit-in, reportedly blowing away the tents and threatening injury to the protesters. Residents have filed a complaint with the Okinawa Defense Bureau.
On January 8, supporters of the Takae protest plan to demonstrate in front of the US Embassy and the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. See the Peace Philosophy Centre for information about the demonstration. Also, see “Voice of Takae,” a brochure produced by Takae activists, and a Foreign Policy In Focus article for more information on what is at stake in Takae.
The struggle of Okinawa’s citizenry against the combined state power of Japan and the US will continue in the wake of new pressures from Japan and the US. APJ has produced several reports on the political, economic and social issues that swirl around the frontline US military bases in Okinawa and will post additional reports in the coming weeks.
お知らせ：Where is Okinawa Going? December 19, at Okinawa University - by Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus and The Institute of Regional Studies, Okinawa University ジャパン・フォーカス/沖縄大学地域研究所フォーラム 『沖縄はどこへ向かうのか』
１．創立大会以来、本学会の発起人は４人増えました。Takara
Kurayoshi (琉球大学法文学部), Kim Yongui(Japanese Language and
Literature Department, Chonnam National Unversity in
Korea), Lee Chiwon(Department of Japanese Studies, Hallym
University in Korea), Joo Eunwoo(Department of Sociology,
Chungang University in Korea)
の四人でございます。最終版の発起人名簿は今年１０月４日の定期総会でまた配布いたします。
Dr. Evgeny S. Baksheev (Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow) informed our Association about the “International Conference: Orientalism/Occidentalism: Languages of Cultures vs. Languages of Description” hosted by the Russian Institute for Cultural Research in Moscow 23-25 September 2010 (see http://langinnovate.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=170549) and proposed us to organize a section on Ryūkyū/Okinawa.
Tentative panel’s titles could be “Nikolai Nevsky and Ryūkyūan culture”, “Ryūkyū/Okinawa and the West”, "Okinawa as Japan's Orient” or “Okinawa between Orientalism and Occidentalism”. Further suggestions are welcomed.
Presenters must be members of the Association (if they are not member, they need to join IAROS by April 1st, 2010. For membership application please see http://www.iaros.org/home/join.html
Presenters are asked to submit an abstract (up to 300 words) highlighting the argument of the proposed paper. Please include affiliation and contact details, and indicate if A/V is needed.
An Application form can be found here (PDF, MS Word.doc)
Proposals are welcome by 13 March 2010.
Kindly submit proposals to:
Evgeny S. BAKSHEEV: evgbak[@]yahoo.co.jp
Rosa CAROLI: caroli[@]unive.it
In case of any questions related to the International Conference in general
please write to the Conference organizer Dr. Evgeny Steiner: evenbach[@]gmail.com
