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10:00 Opening Ceremony Moderator
Timothy D. Kern
, Nichibunken
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10:00
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
Dean, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
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10:10
Motoko Katakura
Director-General, Nichibunken
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10:20
Ali Abd al-Rahman
President, Cairo University
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10:50 Session 1 Moderator Japan and the Arab world: Comparative Studies in Civilizations
Mohammed Hamdy Ibrahim
, Cairo University
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10:50 Presentation 1 “Japanese Civilization: Japan’s Linkages with the Modern World System, 16th - 20th Centuries”
Heita Kawakatsu
, Nichibunken
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11:20 Presentation 2 “The Cultural Dimensions of Arab-Japanese Relations with Special Reference to the Japan-Muslim World Dialogue among Civilizations”
Mohammed El-Sayed Selim
, Kuweit University
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12:00 Presentation 3 “Discourses on and Against Civilization in Pre-war Japan”
Kei Ushimura
, Nichibunken
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12:30 Presentation 4 “Comparative Value Systems and the Arab-Japanese Dialogue”
Hassan Hanafi
, Cairo University
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13:00 Comments
Mansour Abu El-Azm
, Al-Ahram Newspaper
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13:00 Comments
Satoshi Ikeuch
, Nichibunken
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14:30 Presentation 1 “Modernity Thorough Westernization:The Japan’s Case in Comparative Perspective”
Hidehiro Sonoda
, Nichibunken
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15:00 Presentation 2 “Morality and Secularization in Modern Japan: on “Bushido Spirits”
Ala Ali Zein al-Abidin
, Cairo University
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15:30 Presentation 3 “The Beginning of Philosophy of Science in Japan: Comparative Approach”
Yomna El-Kholy
Nichibunken Visiting Scholar, Cairo University
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16:00 Comments
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
, Cairo University
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16:00 Comments
Khalil Darwish
, Cairo University
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16:00 Comments
Kei Ushimura
, Nichibunken
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17:00 Session 3 Moderator New Trends in Japanese Studies: Dissemination of Japanese Popular Culture and Representation of Japan in Arab media
Kawakatsu Heita
, Nichibunken
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17:00 Presentation 1 “Anime and Manga in the World
Shoichi Inoue
, Nichibunken
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17:30 Presentation 2 “Advertisement as a Resource for Japanese Studies”
Shoji Yamada
, Nichibunken
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18:00 Presentation 3 “Japanese Women in the Texts of Advertizement”
Chavalin Svetanant
, Chulalongkorn University
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18:30 Presentation 4 “Influence of Japanese Anime in Arab Media”
Shuji Hosaka
, Kinki University
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19:00 Comments
Ibrahim El-Desouki
, Al-Ahram Newspaper
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19:00 Comments
Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa
, Cairo University
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9:30 Session 4 Moderator Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Timothy D. Kern
, Nichibunken
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9:30 Presentation 1 “Paradoxical Discourse on Body and ‘Beauty’ Among Male Intellectuals in Early 20th Century Japan”
Ayu Majima
, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Nichibunken
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10:00 Presentation 2 “The ‘Post War Phenomena’ and the ‘Defeated Nation Syndrome’ in Japanese Literature: Has It Really Come to an End?”
Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa
, Cairo University
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10:30 Presentation 3 “Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Modern Japanese Language”
Maher El-Sherbini
, Cairo University
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11:00 Presentation 4 “Model of language Reform in Japan: Its Significance to Egyptian Language Condition”
Adel Amin Saleh
, Cairo University
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11:30 Presentation 5 “Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature”
Karam Khalil
, Cairo University
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12:00 Comments
Hidehiro Sonoda
, Nichibunken
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12:00 Comments
Shoji Yamada
, Nichibunken
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14:00 Moderator
Ahmad Hassan Ibrahim
, Cairo University
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14:00 Presentation 1 “Observations on the introduction of Catholicism to Egypt and Japan: A Comparative Approach”
Muhammad Afifi
, Cairo University
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14:30 Presentation 2 “Syncretism or Alternativization? Some Thoughts on the Reception of Christianity and Religious Trends in Modern Japan”
Timothy D. Kern
, Nichibunken
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15:00 Presentation 3 “Sufism and Islamic Philosophy in the Work of Izutsu Toshihiko: A Japanese Way of Understanding Islam”
Satoshi Ikeuchi
, Nichibunken
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15:50 Moderator
Hidehiro Sonoda
, Nichibunken
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15:50 Presentation 4 “The Five Temples (Gozan) and the Ruling Authority during the Muromachi Period: A Comparison with the Court of the Mamâlîk Sultan of Cairo”
Akira Imatani
, Nichibunken
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16:50 Presentation 5 “Islamic Thought and Neo-Confucianism: Mapping Intellectual History: Chu His, Wang Yang-ming, and the Sorai Schools as seen in the Mirror of Isloamic Thought”
Yasunori Kojima
, International Christian University
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17:20 Comments
Shoichi Inoue
, Nichibunken
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17:20 Comments
Isam Hamza
, Cairo University
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18:20 Concluding Remarks
Karam Khalil
, Cairo University
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18:20
Hidehiro Sonoda
, Nichibunken
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Dinner Speech
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
Dean, Faculty of Arts Cairo University
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Concluding Address
Motoko Katakura
Direcor-General, Nichibunken