Annual Review of Asia-Japan Research at Ritsumeikan
(All contents are in Japanese.)

Annual Review of Asia-Japan Research at Ritsumeikan

ONLINE ISSN 2435-4228  PRINT ISSN 2435-421X
Volume 1: issued on June 30, 2020
Volume 2: issued on July 16, 2021
Volume 3: issued on October 14, 2022
Volume 4: issued on August 30, 2023
Volume 5: Issued on August 30, 2024
Volume 6: Issued on August 25, 2025
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Cover page
Yasushi KOSUGI Introduction

Table of Contents

Editorial Information
[Research Article]
HUANG Xinzhe From Qi to Kimochi-ii: Sensory/Affective Experience of Qigong in Contemporary Japan 1
SUH Sunghyun Assessing the Political Environment for Political Challengers in Japan and South Korea: A Comparative Analysis at the Party Level Using the Political Opportunity Structure Framework 18
JiHyang HEO The Reception of the History of Western Philosophy in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea: Focusing on Yoshishige Abe’s Lectures 37
[Research Notes]
Shanshan OUYANG Relationship between Sexual Minority Movements and Religious Groups in Taiwan 61
Yusuke HORI Establishment Process of the Central Council of Social Welfare during the GHQ Occupation: A Shift in Occupation Policy Perspective 70
[Research Surveys]
Katsuyuki HIDAKA How Asian Researchers Framed, Problematized, and Addressed the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the 8th Association for Asian Studies Conference in Asia 86
Masao SHIMIZU Enhancing Social Education through Aikido: The Role of the Local Dojo in the Community 94
[Research Reports]
HO Thanh Tam Organic Farming and Food Marketing in Japan: Challenges in Transitioning to Green Agriculture and Lessons from Denmark 102
Thi Thuong NGUYEN Constructed Wetlands: A Sustainable Solution for Mine Drainage Treatment in Japan 111
Ryo TSUNODA Veterans’ Newsletters as Media of War Memory: Their Characteristics and the Current State and Challenges of Archiving 115
Marika TSUKAHARA Media History of Military-Technological Development and Techno-Nationalism: From Building Battleships to Post-war Defense Industry Prospects 120
Gaoya CHENG Exploring the Development of Literary Collection Compilation by Physician Scholars: Cases from the School of Evidential Studies of Medicine in Late Edo Period 126
[Book Reviews]
Takehiro YOSHIDA In Search of Liberal Arts Knowledge for the Modern Era (Liberal Arts Education Research Society ed., Kōyō Shobo, 2024) 132
Tatsuo ISO World’s Fairs and “Japan”: Perspectives from Art and Media (Takami KURASAWA, Yutaka Iida, Mitsunori ETO, Takashi KASHIMA, Hideki SABAE, & William O. GARDNER, Keisō Shobo, 2024) 136
Atsushi UDAGAWA Sociology of “Online Public Opinion”: Uncovering the Reality of “Bias” through Data Analysis (Tsukasa TANIHARA, NHK Shuppan Shinsho, 2024) 138
Rikio KIMURA Regionalism in the Post-Capitalist Era: Grassroots Practices of Value Creation (Katsuhiko MASAKI and Yoshio AIZAWA, eds., Akashi Shoten, 2024) 142
Makie KITADE Media of Caring Voices: Hospital Radio as Hope (Akiko OGAWA, Seikyūsha Library, 2024) 145
Taro OKUDA The Ethics of “Life Extension” in Medicine and Nursing (Ikuko KASHIWAZAKI, Kōyō Shobo, 2024) 149
Yoshiyuki KOIZUMI Clinical Practice and Biopolitics: Sociology of the “Medical” (Tatsuya MIMA, Seidosha, 2024) 152
Takaharu YAMAMOTO Practical Research on Elementary School Japanese Language Education Based on “Children’s Logic” (Yu HARUKI, Kazama Shobō, 2024) 155
Hajimu HAYASHI Children’s Minds Grow with Adults: Attachment Theory and Mentalizing (Ikuko SHINOHARA, Kōbunsha Shinsho, 2024) 159
Motoaki OZEKI The Structure of the Party Politics in Imperial Japan: Vision of Integrating Two Major Parties and the “Three Pro-Constitution Parties” (Kazutaka SOGO, Yoshida Shoten, 2024) 163
Toshiya ICHINOSE Postwar History of Army Officers: The Transformation from “Reflection on the Army” to “Historical Revisionism” (Ryo TSUNODA, Shinyōsha, 2024) 167
Yoshikazu INOUE Collecting Fragments of War: Distant Soldiers and Our Historical Practice (Ryo SHIMIZU, Shinya SHIRAIWA, and Ryo TSUNODA, Toshoshuppan Migiwa, 2024) 171
Hiroshi ICHIHARA History of Nissan’s Labor-Management Relations in the Early Postwar Period: The Failure of the Production Recovery Route and the Shift in Personnel Structure (Makoto YOSHIDA, Minerva Shobō, 2024) 175
Naoki TAGUCHI The Bicycle Industry and Society in Modern Japan: Toward New Value Creation (Tetsuya KOMAGATA ed., Tadashi NISHIOKA et al., Dōyūkan, 2023) 179
Yutaka IIDA Media Theory of Baseball: The Reality Created Outside the Stadium (Takaya NEGISHI, Seikyūsha, 2024) 183
Shun MITANI Designing the World of Rugby: The History and Work of World Rugby (Takeshi MATSUSHIMA, Kōyōshobō, 2024) 185
Itsuki NAMIKOSHI Foundations and Practices of Sport Management for Beginners (Junji NAKANISHI ed., Mirai, 2024) 189
SHIN Juhyung Board Games Change Society: Toward Playful Care (Jun YONAHA, Takuya ONO, and Sayaka OGAWA, Kawade-shobō-shinsha, 2023) 194
Akira USHIJIMA An Illustrated History of Annexes and Sheds: Another Genealogy of Japanese Folk Houses (Osamu OBA ed., Kashima Shuppansha, 2024) 198
Saki ASANO A History and Topography of Lake Biwa: “Exploring the Old to Know the New” in the Three Cities of the Water System and Various Provinces (Masatsugu HONGO, Hozōkan, 2024) 203
Tomohiro SAEKI The City of Kyoto and Politics in the Insei Period (Kei MIKAWA, Yoshikawa Kōbundō, 2024) 206
Akiko SAJIMA Governance Structure of the Toyotomi Regime (Tetsuya TANI, Nagoya-daigaku Shuppannkai, 2025) 209
Taro FUTAMURA In Search of Kyoto Shokudō (Diners): The Delicious Cultural World of “Noodles and Rice Bowls” (Masahiro KATO and the Taste Map Research Group, Chikumabunko, 2023) 214
Kōtaro SHIBATA Survival Strategies of Postwar Cinema: The Transformations in the 1970s (Kenji TANIGAWA ed., Shinwasha, 2024) 218
Isao OTSUKI Tokyo Tower and the Story of the Early Days of Television: Legendary Dramas that Appeared during the Golden Age of Film (Hiroyuki KITAURA, Chikumashinsho, 2023) 222
Hiroshi TOYA Baths and Patriotism: How the “Clean Citizen” was Born (Miki KAWABATA, Chikumashinsho, 2023) 225
Shizue OSA Lafcadio Hearn’s Ears and Speaking Women: The Murmur of Voices (Kazuhiko NISHI, Rakuhokushuppan, 2024) 227
Yoshirō OGAWARA Japanese Conversation Workbook: Starting from “Reading” (Tōru YOSHIKAWA, Yūki MORI, Wakiko FUTAKUCHI, Junko SATO, Ryōzō SASAKI, and Masami KADOKURA, Alc, 2024) 233
Yūsuke KONDO AI, Machine Translation, and English Learning: The Future Seen from Educational Practices (Tsukasa YAMANAKA, Asahishuppansha, 2024) 236
Hiroshi SUDO Media Remix: Unraveling the “Now” of Digital Culture (Kanta TANISHIMA and Kentaro MATSUMOTO, Minerva Shobo, 2023) 238
Tetsuya USUI Consumer Psychology in a Global Society: Understanding the “Mind” through Country Bias (Shinichiro TERASAKI, Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2024) 245
Yasuhiro YAMADA Consumer Law for the Future: Consumer Education Connecting Society and the Future [2nd Edition] (Keiko TANIMOTO, Toshiya BANDO, and Antonios KARAISKOS, Hōritsubunkasha, 2023) 248
Kōdai SUMIYOSHI Tourism in the Age of Mobility: Moving Tourism Studies (Koji KANDA, Hideki ENDO, Fumiaki TAKAOKA, Ryōtarō SUZUKI, and Kentarō MATSUMOTO, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) 252
Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI Crisis Management and Global Governance (Hiroko MINEKAWA, Ashishobō, 2024) 256
Hiroshi TODOROKI Economic History of Asia, Vol.1 (Kazuko FURUTA and Atsushi OTA, Iwanami Shoten, 2024) 262
Saori ABE A Guide to Modern Chinese Literature: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and More (Chikako KURIYAMA and Kaori UEHARA eds., Hitsuji Shobō, 2024) 266
Shūhei KIMURA Ethnography of the Nepal Earthquake: Responding to Disaster at the Intersection of Communality and Citizenship (Sanae ITO, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2024) 269
Hiroaki SAWA Islamicate Digital Humanities (Emiko SUNAGA and Wakako KUMAKURA, Jinbunshoin, 2024) 272