People

Organizing Committee

Dr. Shigenori Matsui Professor, Peter Allard School of Law, UBC Co-Director of CJR and conference chair	Dr. David W. Edgington Professor, Department of Geography, UBC President of JSAC
Dr. Yves Tiberghien Director of the IAR, UBC	Dr. Christina Laffin Associate Professor Classical Japanese Associate Head, UBC
Dr. Joshua Mostow Associate Head and Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC	Dr. Julian Dierkes Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Research, UBC Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research Co-ordinator, Program on Inner Asia
Dr. Stefania Burk Associate Dean – Academic, Faculty of Arts, UBC Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC	Dr. Millie Creighton Associate Professor, Faculty of Anthropology, UBC
Savannah Li UBC student, CJR Student Assistant	Natasha Fox Ph.D. student, UBC
Junna Hagiwara UBC student, CJR Student Assistant	Emi Ikai UBC student, CJR Student Assistant

Sponsors

The conference will not be made possible without the generous support of various organizations and individuals, including:

Japan Foundation of Canada
Institute of Asian Research (IAR) UBC	Peter A. Allard School of Law UBC
Department of Asian Studies UBC	Museum of Anthropology (MOA) UBC
Liu Institute for Global Issues UBC	Nitobe Memorial Garden UBC
Blue Tree Management (Canada) Limited Hiro Okamoto 岡本裕明, President	Skyland Travel Inc.