Università
Ca’Foscari
Venezia
International Conference
The event is organized by the School of International
Relations in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari Cinema
and the Department of Linguistics and Comparative
Cultural Studies.
Under the auspices of The Embassy of Japan in Rome
and The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome.
Ca’ Foscari
School of
International
Relations
Ambasciata del Giappone
in Italia
Università
Ca’Foscari
Venezia
Dipartimento di Studi
Linguistici e Culturali
Comparati
1952-2012:
The American
legacy in Japan
sixty years
after the Occupation
在イタリア日本国大使館
Auditorium Santa Margherita
3-4 May 2012
3 May (Thursday)
10.30-13.00: Special Screening:
Sayonara (1957) directed by Joshua Logan
14.00-14.30: Opening Ceremony
14.30-15.50: Occupation, Occupations
Chair: Marcello FLORES (University of Siena)
Akira IRIYE (Harvard University)
The U.S. Occupation of Japan: A Transnational Perspective
George BLAUSTEIN (Amsterdam University)
Redeemer Nation/Remedy Nation: American Studies and Military
Occupation
Ilaria POGGIOLINI (University of Pavia)
The Price of Defeat and Occupation: Italy and Japan
15.50-16.20: Coffee break
Michael MOLASKY (Hitotsubashi University
Tale of Two Cities: The Occupation’s Legacy in Tokyo’s Western
Suburbs
Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Glimpses of Unfamiliar America: The Occupation’s Legacy in
Japanese Literature
10.50-11.10: Coffee break
11.10-12.30: Security and Geopolitics in Asia and the Pacific
Chair: Franco MAZZEI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Ronald DORE (London School of Economics)
The Occupation Institutionalized and Getting Ready for Imperial
Consolidation: Japan 1950-51
Glenn D. HOOK (The University of Sheffield)
Counting Decades, Counting Costs: America’s Military Legacy in
Okinawa
Noemi LANNA (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Reconciling Asianism with Bilateralism: Japan and the East Asia
Summit
16.20-17.40: Exporting Democracy: A Comparative Perspective
Chair: Glenn D. HOOK (The University of Sheffield)
Franco MAZZEI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Japan’s Post-war Democratization: Endogenous and Exogenous
Factors
Giovanni BERNARDINI (Italian German Historical Institute- FBK)
Occupation, Americanization, Westernization: Lessons from the
German Case?
Federico ROMERO (European University Institute) Neoconservative
Fantasies and the Japanese Analogy
14.00-15.20: Japan’s Path of Economic Development
Chair: Federico ROMERO (European University Institute)
Carlo CARRARO (Ca’ Foscari University)
The Sustainability of Japan’s Economic Development
Carlo FILIPPINI (Bocconi University)
Invisible Hand or Visible Fist?
Duccio BASOSI (Ca’ Foscari University)
From Reconstruction to Uneasy Partnership: Japan-US Economic
Relations
17:40-19.00: America’s Echoes in Japan, Japan’s Echoes in
America
Chair: Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Roberta NOVIELLI (Ca’ Foscari University)
In the Realm of Signs: Hybridism in Japanese Everyday Life
Federica CARLOTTO (Ca’ Foscari University)
Towards the Emergence of Mass Fashion in Post-war Japan:
Assessing the Nature and theExtent of the American influence
Alide CAGIDEMETRIO (Ca’ Foscari University)
Love among the Ruins: American Fictions of Occupied Japan in the
1950s
15.20-15.40: Coffee break
4 May (Friday)
9.30-10.50: The Early Decades of Post-war Japan
Chair: Ronald DORE (London School of Economics)
Kyoko HIRANO (Temple University Japan Campus)
The Emperor and Kissing: The US Occupation Censorship on
Japanese Cinema
15.40-17.00: The Memory of Occupation in Japan and in the U.S.
Chair: Michael MOLASKY (Hitotsubashi University)
Marcello FLORES (University of Siena)
Occupier, Occupied: The Double Reality of Japanese Identity after
World War II
Alan NADEL (University of Kentucky)
The Americanization of Difference in the 1950s: Sayonara and
Teahouse of the August Moon
Rosa CAROLI (Ca’ Foscari University)
Cleavages of Memory in Japan: The Occupation
17.00-19.30
Eugenio DE ANGELIS (Ca’ Foscari University)
Quoting the Past: Setouchi shonen yakyu dan
Special Screening:
Setouchi shonen yakyu dan (MacArthur’s Children, 1984)
directed by Shinoda Masahiro
19.30: Closing remarks