Can I access a Scala object's val without parentheses from Java?

Given the following Scala object:

object ScalaObject {
    val NAME = "Name"
}

It appears that the Scala compiler generates a parameterless method to access the NAME field. However, when I try to access this field from Java, it looks like the only way to access this field is as a parameterless method like:

System.out.println(ScalaObject$.MODULE$.NAME());

Is there a way to coax the Scala compiler to allow Java to access the val per the expected Java idiom as:

System.out.println(ScalaObject$.MODULE$.NAME);