Events

Inter-regional Asian Emigration and the Potential for International Cooperation in East Asia: A Comparative Examination of State Integration Policies in Korea and Japan.

Speaker : Mr.Stephen R. Nagy
Research Associate, Institute of Asian Pacific Studies,Waseda University

This paper aims to comparatively examine the integration practices of Japan and Korea at the state level to help understand the measures being taken to mitigate some of the migratory pressures resulting from deepening Asian regional integration and to enhance human security in the region. Specifically, the author aims to examine the state-led initiatives vis-à-vis Japan and Korea's burgeoning multicultural societies in an effort to comparatively examine their approaches to securing the human rights and security of their growing migrant populations. Through identifying parallels and differences in the approaches of the Japanese and Korean governments in terms of securing human rights and security, the author will outline potential areas of cooperation in dealing with growing trans-border migration between these two countries and in Asia in general.

Date Tuesday, January 13nd, 18：00 - 20：00
Venue Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer WUDSN / Supported by GIARI

Poster [429KB]

Traditional Versus Non-Traditional Security in Japan-China Relations and East Asian Regional Cooperation

The research paper aims to contribute to the understanding of regional identity formation with regard to bilateral and multilateral security cooperation in Northeast Asia. It focuses on the two major Asian regional actors, China and Japan. Mostly centering on questions of traditional national security, Sino-Japanese relations have often been characterized as the result of a ‘power shift’, contentions about history or as a result of conflicting identities.

However, since the 1990s, processes of globalization are dramatically changing the socio-economic and political environment in East Asia. It is thus necessary to analyze bilateral and regional security cooperation comprehensively.

This paper therefore seeks to explain the linkages between questions of traditional and non-traditional security in Sino-Japanese relations. The study evaluates Sino-Japanese policy coordination through bilateral and multilateral channels in the areas of maritime security and energy security against the background of their overall security-political relationship since 1990.

Speaker: Mr. Chris Wirth
(Ph.D candidate at Waseda University)
Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration (GIARI)
Master of International Affairs from the Australian National University in 2005.
Master of Law from the University of St. Gallen in 2001.

Date : Tuesday, January 20th, 18:00 - 20:00
Venue : Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer : WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language : English

Poster [396KB]

Problem Defining the US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act: Perception of Chinese Manufacturing as a Cause

Speaker: Mr. Troy Knudson
(Ph.D candidate at Waseda University)
Research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Master's degree in peace and conflict studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Title: Problem Defining the US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act: Perception of Chinese Manufacturing as a Cause
This paper aims to show why and how the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act appeared on the US political agenda in 2007. Employing the concept of policymaking as a process of problem definition, an analysis of dominant frames within the news media and political discourse is taken to identify the respective perceived causes of the problems addressed in the act. Results show that in the news media as well as in Congressional debates, Chinese manufacturing is emphasized as a major factor leading to certain actions taken by the act, such as increasing the capacity of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 18：00〜20：00
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer: WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language: English

Poster [423KB]

How Japan behaved towards emerging regionalism

Speaker: Ms. Akiko Onodera (Ph.D candidate in Politics and International Studies from University of Warwick, UK. )

Title: How Japan behaved towards emerging regionalism

Thesis outline
• 1. Introduction,
  Introduction of regionalism theory
• 2. General Analysis on Japanese diplomacy and policy making
• 3. The historical perspective of Japanese Foreign Policy towards ASEAN from Fukuda doctrine to Asian Crisis
• 4. How Japan behaved against regionalization after Asian crisis?
  Develop the regionalism theory of the East Asia region
  Touch upon East Asian community and Japanese Foreign policy.
• 5. Case study.
  How Japan behaved against emerging FTA in the region, by analysis on negotiation process of Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement

Date: Tuesday, February 10th, 10：30〜12：00
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 314
Organizer: WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language: English

Commentator: Prof.Urata
Professor of Economics( Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University)
Research fellow, Japan Center for Economic
Research.Faculty fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry

Poster [442KB]

Class, Status and Lifestyle in PRC

Speaker: Mr. Guilherme Kenji Chihaya
2nd year of MA student in International Relations Graduate School of Asia-pacific Studies at Waseda University
Bachelor in Media Studies from Rio de Janeiro State University

This presentation aims at showing how social stratification in the People's Republic of China can be explained through a Weberian framework of Class and Status stratification.

Economic inequality has been the focus of much research on Chinese social stratification. Schemes based on income, employment status and nature of workplace have been used to analyze Chinese society in terms of Class stratification, even though the term used may not be 'Class'.

However, there is a a less explored side of Chinese social inequality. That is a hierarchy of Status which exists in terms of symbolic inequality as a order in which social esteem is distributed. This Status order exists in parallel to the economic stratification, although they are related in many aspects, and is reflected in social relationships such as friendship and marriage.

Using data from nation-wide surveys, this research derives an occupational status measure from patterns of association between Chinese working adults. The same data is then used to demonstrate how aspects of lifestyle such as consumption and political participation relate differently to Class and Status stratification in China.

Date: Tuesday, February 24th, 18：00 - 20：00
Venue :Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room
Language: English

Poster [388KB]