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
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Cover page
Yasushi KOSUGI Introduction

Table of Contents

Editorial Information
[Research Article]
Hiroaki MATSUSAKA Empire, Solidarity, Intersectionality: Ishigaki Ayakoʼs Transnational Intellectual History 1
[Review Article]
Fumie MICHIGAMI Trends and Challenges in Japanese Language Education for Skilled Workers 24
[Research Note]
Tadashi NISHIZAWA Trends and Significance of Performance Criticism in Newspapers from 1896 to 1916 46
[Research Reports]
Ryo TSUNODA Considerations on the Imperial Japanese Army and the Self-Defense Forces: A Case Study of the Participation of Former Self-Defense Force Members in Senyukai 62
Shunto KIMURA and Yuko YATO Development of Child-rearing Support Measures in a Society with Declining Birthrates: Social Implementation of a Child-rearing Seminar to Reduce Parenting Stress and Improve the Quality of Parent-child Interactions 67
Yi SUN Problematic Eating Behavior of 1~3 Year-Old Children and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparative Study between Japan and China 72
Jinhye LEE Diasporic Return Migration and Challenge to Multicultural Symbiosis in Host Society: A Case Study of Korean Diaspora from the Former Soviet Union, Koryo Saram 76
Ammar KHASHAN Research Report on the Current State and Prospects for Studies of Revitalized Islamic Economies in Southeast Asia: With a Special Emphasis on the Roles of an Asian Researchers’ Network 82
Emiko SUNAGA Contributions from Islamic Area Studies Using Archives to Digital Humanities: Status and Perspectives 88
Naho NAKAMURA Perspectives on the Transformation of Society and Poetic Language in Contemporary Iran 92
[Book Reviews]
Chiaki KAGAWA Good Death / Just Living (Shinya TATEIWA, Chikuma Shoten, 2022) 98
Kana NAKATSUKA Rural Tourism with Empathy: Creating Human Mobility and Economic Circulation (Ritsuko KAWAMURA, Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Takako NAKAMURA, and Shinji TAKADA eds., Koyo Shobo, 2023) 102
Kenta YAMAMOTO Handbook for Finding Food Materials(Hitoshi ARAKI, Kaoru KAMATANI, and Hiroki KIMURA, Showado, 2022) 106
Hiroyuki HARADA Gastronomy Tourism: Food Culture and Tourism Regional Development (Takeo OIE, Takeshi TAKADA, and Naomi SUGIYAMA, Gakugei Shuppansha, 2023) 108
Kenji NAGASUMI Delicious Kyoto Studies: The Historical Geography of Restaurant Culture(Masahiro KATO and Naomi KAWASUMI, Minerva Shobo, 2022) 112
Hisashi TOKUMITSU Learning About Kyoto [Uji]: Discovering Cultural Resources (Kyoto Studies Research Group ed., Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) 117
Mutsuki YAMAMOTO Resonating Digital Humanities and Digital Archives (Chikahiko SUZUKI ed., Ryo AKAMA et al., Benseisha, 2023) 120
Hideki OGURA Research on the History of Japanese through Text Corpus: Medieval and Early Modern Period (Hirofumi AOKI, Tomoko OKAZAKI, and Toshinobu OGISO eds., Hitsuji Shobo, 2022) 124
Yasuto OKUNAKA Chasing a Dream: The Life of Ai Iwahara, a Meiji Woman who Studied Music, Aya MARUYAMA, Bungeisha, 2024 129
Hiroya NANAMI The Meiji Restoration and “Public Debate”: Parliament, Majority Rule, and Consensus (Takanori IKOMI, Yoshikawa Kobundo, 2023) 132
Ikuno OCHI Establishing and Inheriting Graves: The Disintegration of the “Family System” and the Perpetuality of Rituals (Atsuhiro TSUJII, Koyo Shobo, 2023) 136
Yuri MASUGI Pre-War Japan’s Private Prostitution and Sex Industry in Mass Society: A Modern History of Sex Work and Romance (Yu TERAZAWA, Yushisha, 2022) 141
Aiichiro MOGI Common Forests and Unknown Ownership Issues: "The Distinction between the Two and the Theory of the Right of Admission in the Modern Age", (Gakuto TAKAMURA, Kenzaburo KOZUMI, and Utako YAMASHITA eds., Iwanami Shoten, 2023) 145
Susumu NISHIOKA Bid-Rigging and Democracy: Deals in Public Space (Reiko GOTO, Yoshinao TAMAI, Noboru MIYAWAKI eds., Shigakusha, 2022) 149
Toshiya KIMURA Surveying the Historical Scene of Early Modern Japan I: Peace and Integration of the Archipelago in the Early Modern Period (Shigeyuki MAKIHARA and Kazuaki MURA eds., Tetsuya TANI et al., Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2023) 152
Masami ISHII Living Through Disasters: The Power of Stories and Locales From the Great East Japan Earthquake to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Kuniko MURAMOTO ed., Kokusho Kankokai, 2022) 157
Ryu SHIMABUKURO Post-island Post-War History of Okinawa (Kei KOHAGURA, Yushisha, 2023) 160
Jung-Eun LEE U.S. Forces in Korea and the Korean Community: U.S. Base Operations and Civil-Military Relations Policies 1945-1971 (Boun KUN, translated by Chihiro NARITA et al., Kesuisha, 2023) 164
Masato ITO Tourism and Sexuality: Okinawa’s Postwar History of Compliance and Resistance (Misa OGAWA, Sogensha, 2023) 167
Yuting LIU Challenges in Feminist and Gender Studies: Vision for an Alternative Society (Kazuho MUTA ed., Viktoriya KIM et al., Shokado Shoten, 2022) 172
Junko TORIYAMA Victims and Perpetrators of Feminism: Perspectives after #MeToo (KWON-KIM Hyung-yeong eds, translated by Tsuyoshi KAGEMOTO and Didi HAN et al., eds., Kaiho Shuppansha, 2023) 176
Haruyo KUDO The Structure of Grain and Oilseed Value Chains and Japan's Food Security: Trends of the 2020s (Mizuho HAYASHI, Takao NOGUCHI, Kohei YAGI, and Kazuhiko HOTTA et al., Norin-tokei Shuppan, 2023) 181
Shingo TERAOKA Tourism Creates the World: Media, Content, and Reality in Tourism Sociology (Hiroshi SUDO, Hideki ENDO, Makoto YAMAGICHI, Koji KANDA, and Fumiaki TAKAOKA et al., eds., Akashi Shoten, 2023) 184
Liang LI Visualization and Science, Culture and Society (Yuriko TAKESHIMA ed., Koronasha, 2023) 188
Kazuko SAWADA International Students of Science and Engineering in Japan: Education, Research, and Student Life(Toru OTA, Yongsu AN, Takako MURAOKA, and Masami KADOKURA eds., Koko Shuppan, 2023) 190
Tomohiro SEKI Commonalities and Diversities of Family Businesses and Succession in East Asia(Shaojie Dou, Mitsuo KAWAGUCHI, and Seongbong HONG, Bunshindo, 2023) 192
Seongbin HWANG Contemporary History of K-POP: From the Birth of Korean Popular Music to BTS(Joho YAMAMOTO, Chikima Shinsho, 2022 196
Ryo UMIHARA Medicine and Confucianism: A Study on Medical Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Circulation in Early Modern East Asia(Jingjing XIANG, Jinbunshoin, 2023) 200
Tomoe IKEDA A New Wind in Sinophone Literature(Der-wei WANG et al., eds., Yusuke MISU et al., trans., Hakusuisha, 2022) 204
Masaki HAGIWARA Chinese and Japanese Poetry and Ci: A Study of the “Yan Xi Ci” and the Reception of Chinese Ci Poetries by the Japanese(Chunyu JIN, Hōyūshoten, 2023) 208
Xinhua MAO Parenting and Education in Contemporary China: Challenges and Views of the Future from Developmental Psychology(Yuko YATO, Yuanhong JI, and Yi SUN eds., Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) 212
Hideyuki OKANO Contemporary Cataclysmic Shifts in the Philippines: Deepening Neoliberalism, Modernization of Political Systems, and Distortions of Intimacy(Tamiki HARA, Zenta NISHIO, Natsuko SHIRAISHI, and Wataru KUSAKA, Kadensha, 2023) 216
Kensuke YAMAMOTO Refugee Resettlement as a Global Issue: Considerations from the Foundation of the Belonging and Survival of Syrian Refugees in Foreign Countries(Aoi MOCHIZUKI, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2023) 220
Ritsu YONEKURA Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima: Disaster Culture( Katsuyuki HIDAKA, Routledge, 2022) 224
Goki ATOYAMA Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Sciences and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Ran ZWIGENBERG, The University of Chicago Press, 2023) 227
Kengo SHIROGANE Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Community(Toshifumi HIRATA ed., Springer Nature, 2023) 231