Events

Title: Retirement Migration in Japan : Critical Study of Previous Studies for Research Design

Speaker: Ms. Sookyung Park

2nd year of PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University

This study highlights the needs for further research on retirement migration in Japan, focusing on critical review of previous studies. It is said that Japanese elderly are unwilling to move out or migrate after their retirement, but recently the interest on retirement migration is growing and also the number of retirement migrants is increasing, especially international retirement migration from Japan. However, the researches on retirement migration in Japan are scarce compared to US and UK which have been conducting studies on elderly migration at both domestic and international level from the 1960's. Further, the scarce researches on retirement migration in Japan usually focus on rural or domestic migration and the impacts at post-migration, i.e. psychological wellbeing.

Therefore, the main goal of this study is to create research design for further studies by studying previous reviews on retirement migration in US and UK, considering whether it is possible to apply US and UK's studies to Japan and what are the different characteristics between Japan and US-UK.

Next step for further research is to conduct fieldwork and employ case study methodology to reveal the reasons of migration and migrants' social network to their family. The retired life is more important because of increasing of life expectancy and therefore this further study is more important considering retirement migrant's independence and care problems at both private and social levels.

Poster [334KB]

Date: Tuesday, June, 9th , 16:30 - 18:30
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 316
Organizer: WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language: English

Title: 現代中国における社会変化と都市社区建設に関する一考察
― 北京市における多様化する居住環境を事例として ―

Speaker: Mr. Yoji Osada (長田洋司)

アジア太平洋研究センター助手

早稲田大学大学院アジア太平洋研究科博士後期過程

改革開放以降、中国都市において様々な社会変化が起こっている。そして、その変化への対応として中国政府は2000年から「社区建設」という基層管理体制の改革をスタートさせた。本報告では、政府が上から設定したコミュニティの形に対して、その実態を考察することに焦点を当てる。特に、中国の新しいコミュニティの可能性を持つ「回龍観文化居住区」の事例を取り上げながら、そこで機能する社会的ネットワーク形成ツールとその背後にいるキーパーソンの存在について分析する。

Poster [317KB]

日時: 2009年 6月 17日（水）16 : 30〜18：30
Date: June, 17th (Wed) 16：30〜 18：30
会場: 早大西早稲田 ビル19号館 316号室
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 316
Organizer: WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language: Japanese

Title: United States News Coverage and Congressional Attention toward China in the post-Cold War: a Time Series Analysis

Speaker: Mr. Troy. Knudson

PHD Candidate at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies

JSPS; Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

This study explores the relationship between the elite press and foreign policy decision-makers in the United States in the context of post-Cold War. Two inquiries are put forth: the first seeks to determine if United States post-Cold War news coverage of China has been congruent with the national interest; the second seeks to statistically determine if patterns of attention paid to China in the United States Congress followed changes in the news media's coverage. Results show that while news coverage of China was only partly congruent with the national interest, it was a very good predictor of Congressional attention over the same time period.

Poster [301KB]

Date: June, 23rd (Tues) 16：30〜18：30
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 316
Organizer: WUDSN / Supported by GIARI
Language: English

Title: Bare Life and Invented Subjects: Early History of the 'Naturalized Foreigners' of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands.

Guest Speaker: Professor. David Chapman

Senior Lecturer in Japanese University of South Australia

Professor. David Chapman is senior lecturer in Japanese at the University of South Australia where he coordinates the Japanese studies program. He is the author of Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity (Routledge 2008). His research interests focus on the history of minority communities in Japan.

His two latest projects continue in this direction. One project is examining the history of identification and documentation through Japan's population registration system (koseki). The other project is an attempt at recording the life histories of the 'Westerners' of the Ogasawara/Bonin Islands.

• Introduction - explaining the early history of the Bonin/Ogasawar Islands and the process of naturalization
• Main Body -
  • Contextualise the Islands in the time of the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period.
  • Introduce the role of the koseki and legislation conected to this community
  • Introduce theoretical concepts of Georgio Agamben's Bare Life'
  • Connect with the Island's early history
• Conclusion
• Extensive Q&A Session

Poster [289KB]

Date: July, 1st (Wed) 16:30-18:30
Venue: Sodai-Nishiwaseda Bldg 19 Room 711
Language: English
Organized by WUDSN
Supported by GIARI