Schedule

Conference Locations

  • Embassy of Canada in Tokyo

  • Chuo University - Ichigaya Campus

Conference Schedule

2015-05-20

09:30 AM

  • Opening Ceremoney

10:00 AM

  • JCIRN Disaster Research (DRR) Panel Part I: 

    Chair: Steele

    1. Danzuka
    2. Fox & Yamashita
    3. Lee
    4. Slater

  • Identity and Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy: 

    Chair: Welch

    1. Hara
    2. Tadokoro
    3. Welch
    4. Mito

     

12:00 PM

  • Lunch

01:00 PM

  • JCIRN Disaster Research (DRR) Panel Part 2: 

    Chair: Fox

    5. Edgington 
    6. Osawa
    7. TBC
    8. Steele

  • History and Culture: 

    Chair: Kovalio

    1. Yang
    2. Mamada
    3. Kovalio
    4. JACS

03:00 PM

  • Coffee

03:30 PM

  • Indigenous Peoples in Japan & Canada Part 1: 

    Chair: Ikawa-Smith

    1. Ikawa-Smith
    2. Yamaguchi
    3. Savelle
    4. Honda
    5. Gayman

  • Language Politics: 

    Chair: Ota

    1. Macpherson
    2. Noro
    3. Iwai
    4. Sharp
    5. Inutsuka

07:00 PM

  • [PUBLIC EVENT]: 

    JSAC Keynote speaker: John Heese
    Former City Councillor, Tsukuba


    30 minute
    “English is Spoken Here: The Challenge of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics”

    Followed by Panel Discussion: TBC Dierkes, MacPherson, Enokido, Yazu Norie

2015-05-24

09:00 AM

  • Conference Field Trip: 

    *JSAC 2015 Field Trip to Tsukuba Science City and Mt. Tsukuba*

    *Date: Sunday, May 24*

    *Time: 9am – 9 pm*


    *Objectives:*

    1. Ride the new (2005) Tsukuba Express train from Tokyo to Tsukuba City and observe the urban development along the way.

    2. Learn about the Japanese government’s efforts to decentralize government functions in the periphery of Tokyo.

    3. Experience life in a newly planned city and learn about some of the challenges and benefits that of this endeavour.

    4. Contrast the lifestyle in Tsukuba Science City with life in Tsukuba machi at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba.This trip will involve taking the Tsukuba Express line to Tsukuba Centre.  We will then transfer to a local bus and travel to Mt. Tsukuba and visit Tsukuba Shrine.  Attendees also have the option of taking a gondola or cable car up to the top of Mt. Tsukuba.  We will take the bus back to Tsukuba Centre, visit the Expo Centre, library, Tsukuba Information Centre, and we will have dinner at Hotel Okura or at a restaurant on top of Seibu department store.

     

    *Schedule:*

    9am, meet outside Starbucks at next to Tsukuba Express entrance at Akihabara station

    9:30am, depart Akihabara station for Tsukuba

    10:30am, arrive at Tsukuba Centre

    11:00am, depart by Kanto Tetsudo bus to Tsukuba Shrine

    12:00 noon, arrive at Tsukuba shrine

    Free time

    Lunch

    3pm, depart for Tsukuba Centre

    4pm, arrive at Tsukuba Centre
    - see display at Tsukuba Information Centre
    - visit Tsukuba Expo rocket
    - visit old thatched roof building

    6pm, dinner in Tsukuba at Creo

    8pm, leave for Akihabara station

    9pm, arrive at Akihabara station

     

    *Costs:*

    Akihabara station to Tsukuba Centre station:  Tsukuba Express line: 
    2,300 yen return from Akihabara to Tsukuba Centre (50 min. using kaisoku express)

    Tsukuba Centre to Tsukuba Jinja Iriguchi:  Kanto Tetsudo bus:
    1,700 yen return (50 min.)

    Other costs TBA

     

    For more details contact Tom Waldichuck (Thompson Rivers University): Twaldichuk@tru.ca.