Institut français de recherche sur le Japon à la Maison franco-japonaise (Umifre 19, MEAE-CNRS)

Special 100th Anniversary Photography Exhibition

24 Heures du Mans:
To the Limit - and Beyond (1967 - 1971)

June 8 to 22, 2023 | Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00

Free entrance

24 Heures du Mans: To the Limit - and Beyond (1967 - 1971) by Joe Honda brings to life the people, marques and memories that have shaped one of the most iconic endurance races in the world as it marks its centenary. 

Established in 1923 as a "Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency", Le Mans allowed car manufacturers to prove the durability of their machines in competition. The endurance race - famous for its legacy of brutally testing drivers and their teams - has one condition for victory: the car that covers the greatest distance in 24 hours is the winner.

An exhibition of Joe Honda's photographs - held in parallel at the Maison Franco-Japonaise and Fuji Motorsports Museum - reflects back on the "golden age" of Le Mans, marked by the final years of the dramatic Ford-Ferrari duel, until the Porsche's new contender, the 917, arrived on the scene. 

By transporting the viewer back to these years when Europe faced off against America, Honda's photography commemorates some of the people and technology that played a crucial role in shaping the course of today's global automotive industry.

Joe Honda, born in 1939 in Tokyo, is known as Asia's father of motorsport photography. In 1967, he traveled to Europe to document the global motorsport scene and became the first Asian regional representative of the International Racing Press Association (IRPA). His images - captured over close to five decades - range from the visceral to the purely functional, immortalizing the raw experiences, developments and memories of the international world of motorsport through one artist's perspective.

◎Entrance for the exhibition at Maison franco-japonaise is free.

◎Click here to see the exhibition at the Fujimoter Sports Museum held at the same time (article in Japanese)

Program: 
9:30-10:00 - Introduction

Bernard Thomann (French Research Institute on Japan at the Maison franco-japonaise):
Welcoming and Introductory Remarks

Luc Berlivet (CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS) & Claude-Olivier Doron (SPHERE - Paris Cité University): 
Introduction and Presentation of the TranSocGen Network

10:00-12:30 - Session n°1: History of genetics in Japan

Kaori Iida (Sokendai University):
Perspectives on the History of Genetics in Japan: Plants, Radiations and Institutions

Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University):
Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea

Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (Paris Cité University) :
Mooto Kimura & the Japanese School of Populations Genetics (1950-1990)

Discussion

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

ー　Afternoon　ー

13:30-14:30 - Session n°2: Trends in genomic research in Japan
Paleogenomics & the Japanese

Hiroki Oota (Tokyo University): 
Peopling History of East Eurasians and Kinship in the Neolithic Japanese Archipelago Based on Paleogenomics

Discussion

14:30-14:45 - Break

14:45-16:45 - Session n°3: Social and political stakes of human genetics and genomics research in Japan

Eiji Oguma (Keio University):
The Gap between Science and Scientists: Public remarks of Physical and Genetic Anthropologists on the Origin of "the Japanese"

Yasuko Takezawa (Kansai Gaidai University): 
A Comparative Study of DTC Ancestry Testing Companies Websites in Japanese, Chinese and English

16:45-17:00 - Guillaume Ladmiral (MEAE-CNRS):
Concluding Comments

17:00-17:30 - Final discussion

Speakers: Luc Berlivet (CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS), Claude-Olivier Doron (SPHERE - Paris Cité University), Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (Paris Cité University), Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University), Kaori Iida (Sokendai University), Guillaume Ladmiral (MEAE-CNRS),  Eiji Oguma (Keio University), Hiroki Oota (Tokyo University), Yasuko Takezawa (Kansai Gaidai University)

Co-organization: FRIJ-MFJ, CERMES3 - CNRS & EHESS, SPHERE - Paris Cité University

Registration on Zoom is required to attend the webinar.
Applicants will receive a confirmation email from Zoom later.

Reaching SDG6: at what Cost?
A critique of decentralized water initiatives in Asian cities
Tradeoffs between economic, technical efficiency and ecological concerns
Catherine Baron
LEREPS/Political Science Institute, Toulouse, France

Many cities and rural areas in the Global South are often considered as having incomplete infrastructural grids, and centralized piped water systems are not considered as the norm anymore to secure access to safe water. To tackle the limits of centralized piped water systems, off-grid technical devices and other solutions are promoted in the Global South, especially in Asian urban contexts. International institutions including the World Bank and the JMP consider them as an alternative, viable solutions to achieve SDG6 (Cohen and Ray, 2018; Misra and Kingdom, 2019).
New actors and configurations are emerging, from street vendors to water ATMs; from multinational companies selling single-use bottles to "social enterprises"; NGOs selling reusable water gallon containers through community-owned kiosks. Even public entities now sell their own bottled water. New forms of collective action are emerging leading to a "fragmented" governance of water services and the emergence of hybrid governance rules.
The efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility of these off-grid systems are often analyzed, however these analyses rarely take into consideration the ecological perspective. Are these new decentralized governance modes complementary to the centralized vision of water service governance or do they reflect the emergence of a new regime (considering the institutional, organizational, ecological aspects)? How do these socio-technical designs and decentralized governance modes question the articulation between water services issues and water resources management?

Catherine Baron is a full professor at the Political Science Institute of Toulouse, France. She is the director of the Master Program "International cooperation and Development". Her research interests concern Development Studies and Water governance, focusing on two main issues: (1) Urban Water Governance and off grid infrastructures in precarious neighborhoods in the Global South; (2) The analysis of travelling models at the international level as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) models and the gap between formal rules and practices. She refers to institutional approaches (Commons/Commoning) and political ecology as conceptual frameworks. Her work discusses coproduction to analyze participatory water governance in relation with public policies. She also analyzes the interactions between water resource governance and water services (potable water) governance in the context of climate change.

Decentralized Water Treatment and Supply: Technology Options and Beyond
Kumiko Oguma
Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo

The world is now facing challenges to supply safe, stable and affordable water to all in a sustainable manner. Still, it is apparently impossible to achieve 100% coverage of centralized public water supply systems all over the world by the target year of SDGs 2030. This is how small-scale decentralized water treatment and supplies, such as community-based and household water treatment systems including point-of-entry (POE) and point-of-use (POU) devices, would play key roles in the future. This talk will introduce some water treatment technology options designed for decentralized systems in engineering viewpoints, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion beyond technical aspects for our sustainable future.

Dr. Kumiko Oguma, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo. She is the specialist on water treatment technologies with particular focus on UV disinfection, and have been working on the UV technology applications in community-based water supplies and household water treatment systems in Japan and several developing countries in Southeast Asia.

Water Data, Water Governance and Accountability on the Mekong River
Carl Middleton
Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

The low flows on the Mekong River during 2019-2021 focused attention on to intergovernmental water data sharing, gaps within it, and the role of multiple expert studies in explaining the hydrological conditions and its impact on water quality, ecology, and riparian communities. There remain unresolved questions regarding the extent to which recently completed large hydropower dams have influenced the low flows, alongside the drought conditions at the time. In principle, water data underpins transboundary water governance and water diplomacy, including through providing evidence and trust building. However, water data and its analysis has also become politicized in the Mekong basin. This presentation will critically discuss whether existing practices of sharing and publicizing water data have improved public participation and accountability of decision-makers to riparian communities and civil society. It will argue that a diversity of water knowledge beyond scientific water data is required, including situated community knowledge, and civil society and academic research. While existing government and intergovernmental platforms could improve channels to receive information from communities, civil society, and others to strengthen transboundary water governance, I also suggest that there may be limits to this form of accountability mechanism because fundamental questions on the multiple meanings (or ontologies) of water are not seriously acknowledged at present.

Dr. Carl Middleton is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director on the Graduate Studies in International Development Studies (MAIDS-GRID) Program, and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) in the Faculty of Political Science of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Dr. Middleton's research interests orientate around the politics and policy of the environment in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on nature-society relations, the political ecology of water and energy, human mobility, and environmental justice. He has helped establish and now heads the Chulalongkorn University UNESCO Chair on Resource Governance and Futures Literacy, one focus of which is the future of rivers in Southeast Asia.

Closing the Loop of Urban Water System: Advocating for Resilience 
Anindya Nastiti 
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung 

Urban water scarcity is projected to continue to increase due to the dual pressures of rapid population growth and deteriorating available freshwater resources, exacerbated by climate change. By 2050, nearly half of the world's major cities will be in water-scarce areas. By 2050, including Jakarta. Until 2018, access to piped drinking water had only reached 20.14% of all households in Indonesia, and the coverage of centralised wastewater systems is less than <5%. Surface water is highly polluted and susceptible to climate change-induced flowrate variability. Relying on groundwater, the dominant mode of provision in Jakarta, is no longer sustainable as it is often unsafe and leads to an alarming environmental crisis. The linear and centralised approach to urban water systems is no longer viable in facing the upcoming SDG safely managed water target and climate crisis. Diversifying water sources through the promotion of reclaimed water is considered a potential key adaptation strategy for cities. Reclaimed water has been applied successfully in various parts of the world, such as Singapore, with its NEWater program. Technopolitical factors have been identified for the application of reclaimed water in Singapore: strong support from the government, credible reference projects, technology demonstrations in the local environment, rigorous assessment of water safety, endorsement by a panel of experts, and practical public and customer engagement. The hybridisation of reclaimed water systems in urban Jakarta will be discussed from the perspectives of PESTLE (political, economic, social, technology, law, and environment). 

Anindrya Nastiti is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung. She pledges herself to interdisciplinary research. In collaborations with social scientists, she has been working on the field of water security challenges, water governance and stewardship, human rights to water and sanitation, and inclusive WASH. Her recent work is on socio-technical off-grid water solutions in urban areas, diversification of water sources towards urban water resilience, inclusive sanitation for marginalised groups, and emerging pollutants. Together with her peers, she won the PNAS' Cozzarelli Prize 2022. 

Discussant: Amalinda Savirani

Amalinda Savirani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She has published many books and academic articles on civil society movements in Indonesia.

Moderator: Adrienne Sala (FIRJ-MFJ)
Organization: FRIJ-MFJ

To join us on site, please sign up using the red "Inscription" button above.

This lecture will be simultaneously streamed on Zoom.

Registration to attend online (Zoom)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Speaker: Saori N. Katada (Professor of International Relations, Univ. of Southern California)

How is Japan coping with the US-China economic competition, and how has the Japanese government formulated its trade policies and infrastructure investment strategy?  The talk will focus on Japan's geoeconomic strategy in the Indo-Pacific, whose concept has become prominent within Japanese foreign policy since its introduction in the early 2000s. On the one hand, this regional framework has presented distinct opportunities for Japan to shape the regional economic order through enhanced economic connectivity and active rule making. On the other hand, there are looming challenges for Japan to maneuver the delicate balance within the US-China competition.

Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Her book Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific was published by Columbia University Press in 2020, and the Japanese version by Nikkei Business Publications in 2022. She has recently co-authored two other books: The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy (Cornell University Press, 2018). She has a Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science), and a B. A. from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington D.C., and as International Program Officer at the UNDP in Mexico City.

Moderator: Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FRIJ-MFJ)
Organization: FRIJ-MFJ
Co-organization: CCI France Japon
Support: French Embassy in Japan

現代日本の最重要の作家のひとりである古川日出男と、日本文学の翻訳をリードするパトリック・オノレが、原作者と翻訳者という立場から、日本語と日本文学の特質をめぐる対話を行います。それに加えて日仏２言語による、原作者と翻訳者の作品朗読も。他では体験できない＜声＞が生まれる現場に、ぜひ立ち会ってください。

古川日出男（ふるかわ・ひでお）
現代日本の代表的小説家のひとり。『LOVE』で三島由紀夫賞、『女たち三百人の裏切りの書』で読売文学賞など、数々の受賞歴をもつ。『聖家族』から『おおきな森』にいたるギガ・ノベルとも呼ばれる大作群により、つねに日本と日本語の歴史の全体を相手どる、旺盛な創作活動をつづける。『平家物語』の現代語訳も高い評価を得ている。朗読パフォーマンスの圧倒的な力強さは、いまや世界各国で注目の的。2022年、初の詩作品『天音』を発表。

パトリック・オノレ
日本文学のフランス語訳における第一人者。夢野久作、内田百閒から江國香織、綿矢りさまで、100冊以上の作品を訳してきた。谷口ジローをはじめマンガの翻訳でも他の追随を許さない。古川日出男作品では『サウンドトラック』『ベルカ、吠えないのか？』『馬たちよ、それでも光は無垢で』『平家物語　犬王の巻』を訳している。今回のイベントのためには特別に『天音』の部分訳を準備。

【司会】管啓次郎
明治大学＜総合芸術系＞教授。詩人、比較文学者。英語、フランス語、スペイン語からの翻訳多数。古川日出男とは東日本大震災のあと朗読劇『銀河鉄道の夜』を制作し、各地で上演してきた。

【主催】日仏会館・フランス国立日本研究所、明治大学理工学研究科・総合芸術系

（Le nombre de participants est limité, si vous ne pouvez pas venir, merci de nous contacter pour annuler.)

The European institutions are often described as distant, inaccessible and beyond understanding to citizens. The EU Regional Policies, which begin at the local and regional levels, show that Europe is also a concrete construction. They represent a territorial solidarity action dedicated to territories and citizens in difficulty. The files for EU funds, although often tedious, require local and regional authorities to adopt a proactive and conscious approach and opt for an approach based on cooperation and partnership. Many politicians therefore consider that cohesion policy has helped to bring Europe closer to the citizens, giving the European project a more palpable dimension.

The new EU 2021-2027 cohesion program was launched a few months ago. This conference will first examine the meaning of this policy and its implementation, and then will discuss to what extent the EU cohesion policy operates at the city-level in Europe.

Moderator: Raphaël LANGUILLON-AUSSEL (FRIJ-MFJ)

Organization: FRIJ-MFJ

オンライン参加ご希望の方は、こちらからお申し込みください。

6月28日（水）

◎16:00〜18:00◎日仏会館ホール◎

ドキュメンタリー映画「失われた時の中で　(Long Time Passing)」上映会および討論会

【あらすじ】

写真家だった夫・グレッグの突然の死。
その理由がベトナム戦争時の枯葉剤にあるのではと聞かされた妻・坂⽥雅⼦は夫の⾝に起こったことを知りたい⼀⼼でカメラを⼿に取り、ベトナムへ向かった。そこで⽬にしたのは戦後 30 年を過ぎてなお、枯葉剤の影響で重い障害を持って⽣まれてきた⼦どもたちと、彼らを愛しみ育てる家族の姿だった。
それからおよそ 20 年。ベトナムはめざましい経済発展を遂げたが、枯葉剤被害者とその家族は取り残されている。カメラは癒えることのない戦争の傷痕に向き合い続ける⼈々の姿を記録する。

坂田雅子

映画監督。京都大学で社会学を専攻。
2007年にベトナムの枯葉剤被害の実態を追った映画「花はどこへいった」を発表。以後、ベトナム戦争や原発を主題にドキュメンタリー５作品を制作。国内外で評価を得ている。

山極壽一

総合地球環境学研究所所長、京都大学理学研究科教授を経て、京都大学総長、日本学術会議会長を歴任。アフリカ各地でゴリラの行動や生態をもとに人類社会の由来を探っている。著書に『暴力はどこから来たか』（NHKブックス）、『ゴリラは戦わない』（共著、中公新書クラレ）など。

近藤 誠一

東大卒、1972年外務省入省。ユネスコ大使、駐デンマーク大使。文化庁長官。現在地球システム・倫理学会会長、国際ファッション専門職大学学長等。レジオン・ドヌール・シュバリエ章（仏）、瑞宝重光章等受賞。『外交官のアラカルト』、『近藤誠一全集』I ＆II等書、論文多数。

【討論者】坂田雅子（映画監督）、山極壽一（総合地球環境学研究所所長）

【司会】近藤誠一

【主催】日仏会館・フランス国立日本研究所、地球システム・倫理学会・Wakatakeの会

【協力】（公財）日仏会館、日仏東洋学会、日仏生物学会、日仏教育学会

【後援】日仏薬学会