I am part of a team putting together a International Conference on Japan Game Studies. We are organizing this with the Prince Takamado Japan Centre at the University of Alberta and the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies in Kyoto. The deadline for proposals is in two weeks. We are looking for papers on:
- Cross cultural study of games and toys
- Localization of games
- Assessment of educational aspects of games
- Preservation of games and game culture
- Understanding player culture
- Game industry (in Japan and transnationally)
- Games and transmedia phenomena
- Games of chance