Hosei University Institute for Sustainability Research and Education(ISRE) and Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies(HIJAS)

International Symposium on

"Thinking Now, One Year after 3.11"

Sky Hall, Boissonade Tower 26F, Ichigaya-Campus, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan 20th March, 2012

We have severely suffered great damage and had a lot of victims due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. When we face this pain, we have to ask two fundamental questions; what is the nature? and what is the human being that belongs to and works on the nature? Our International Symposium has two parts corresponding to the two questions and we mainly try to discuss two subjects, local culture and Kenji Miyazawa.

Program

PART 1: Co-existence with Nature: in Livelihood Work and Living Culture

Moderator：Motoki Saito (Research Administrator, IRSE, Hosei University, Japan)

09:00-09:30 Registrations

09:30-09:40 Opening Remarks: Harutoshi Funabashi (Director of ISRE, Prof. of Hosei University, Japan)

09:40-10:10 Speech 1: “Thinking after Disaster in Forestry; Ideas from Spreading Apart of Impact Areas”

　　Suehisa Okura (Lecturer of Momoyamagakuin University, Japan)

10:10-10:40 Speech 2: “Agriculture for Post Consuming Society: Livelihood, Market and Consumers”

　　Keiko Yoshino (Associate Prof. of ISRE, Hosei University, Japan)

10:40-11:10 Speech 3: “Things Changeable and Something Unchangeable; Thinking of Sea and Lifestyle”

　　Izumi Seki (Associate Prof. of Tokai University, Japan)

11:10-11:45 Panel Discussion

　　Coordinator: Toshiharu Hasebe (Prof. of Hosei University, Japan)

PART 2: Why We Read Kenji Miyazawa’s Ame ni mo makezu (Standing up to the Rain) Now?

Moderator：Dan Koakimoto (Prof. of Hosei University, Japan)

12:00-12:30 Registrations

12:30-12:40 Opening Remarks: Toshio Masuda (President of Hosei University, Japan)

12:40-12:50 Explanation on the Theme of Symposium "Thinking Now, One Year after 3.11":

　　Yoshinori Kumata (Prof. of Hosei University, Japan)

12:50-13:20 Keynote Speech 1: “Why We Read Kenji Miyazawa’s Ame ni mo makezu (Standing up to the Rain) Now?”　

　　Wan Ming (Prof. of HIJAS, Hosei University, Japan)

13:20-14:00 Keynote Speech 2: “Spiritual Development of »Dust« Flying Apart All Over the Cosmos: Between Life and Death of

Civilization”

　　Gisaburo Suzuki (Prof. of Kyoto Seika University, Auteur, Japan)

14:00-14:20 Coffee Break

14:20-14:50 Speech 1: “Green Medicine to Detoxify our Environment”

　　Chang Yi Hsiang (President and Prof. of World Medicine Institute, USA)

14:50-15:20 Speech 2: “Kenji’s Bonds: A History of the Translations, Introductions and Communications of Kenji Miyazawa in China”

　　Lei Gang (Editor of Center of Texts, Chongqing Publishing Group, China)

15:20-15:50 Speech 3: “Ame ni mo Makezu. On Mutually Complementary Cultural Relationship between China and Japan”

　　Jia Huixuan (Ex-Prof. of Peking University, China)

15:50-16:20 Speech 4: A Study on the Modern Value of Miyazawa Kenji's Life Ethics

　　Kim Yong-Hwan (Prof. of Chung Buk National University, President of the Korean Ethics Education Association, Korea)

16:20-16:50 Speech 5: “Ihatov and Tohoku Power”

　　Tamio Okamura (Prof. of Hosei University, Japan)

16:50-17:20 Panel Discussion

17:20-17:30 Closing Remarks: Yoshiro Fukuda (Managing Director of Hosei University, Japan)