Asia-Japan Today: Researchers' EssaysList of each volume
Asia-Japan Today: Researchers' Essays
The pandemic caused by the Coronavirus is spreading to all parts of the world, and the people of many countries are experiencing a state of crisis. This crisis is also influencing our field of research and education in Japan.
In this context, the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University has decided to publish "researchers' essays" on how researchers of Asian and Japan studies are living and working under these conditions, and communicating with counterparts in their fields as well as colleagues in other countries. We would like to share our ideas with those who share the same concerns on a global scale.
Our hope is that we can convey real voices from the field of research on Asia and Japan and connect with our fellow researchers.
| Essay1 | Asia-Japan Research at this Juncture of History: Facing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis in a Research Institution |
Yasushi Kosugi: (Director, Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University) |
May 13, 2020 | Read |
| Essay2 | Even Globalized, the World is Uneven: The Pandemic and Area Studies |
Kota Suechika: (Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University) |
May 20, 2020 | Read |
| Essay3 | Field Science in the Corona Era: Through Intimate Ties with Farmers in Indonesia |
Fitrio Ashardiono: (Assistant Professor, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University) |
May 27, 2020 | Read |
| Essay4 | In Order to Stay Connected to the World: As a Korean Diaspora Researcher |
Lee Jinhye: (Special Foreign Researcher, J apan Society for the Promotion of Science / Project Researcher, Asia-Japan Research organization, Ritsumeikan University) |
June 3, 2020 | Read |
| Essay5 | Living between Pakistan and Japan: The Struggles of an Area Studies Researcher and a Working Mother |
Emiko Sunaga: Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies） |
June 10, 2020 | Read |
| Essay6 | A New Mode of Jihad and Martyrdom in Iran: The Battle against Covid-19 |
Kenji Kuroda: (Project Assistant Professor, National Museum of Ethnology) |
June 17, 2020 | Read |
| Essay7 | What can COVID19 Imply for Nuclear-Armed North Korea? | Jung Hoon CHOI: (Senior Researcher, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization) |
June 24, 2020 | Read |
| Essay8 | The Joy of Reading Personal Histories from the Primary Sources: Encounters during My Research on Islamic Thinkers in Egypt. |
Ayaka KURODA: (Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization) |
July 9, 2020 | Read |
| Essay9 | Reformulating Religious Tourism after COVI-19: Reflections on Area Studies from the Perspective of Mobility |
Shin YASUDA: (Associate Professor, Department of Tourism Policy, Faculty of Regional Policy, Takasaki City University of Economics) |
July 15, 2020 | Read |
| Essay10 | Contemporary Middle East Studies under the COVID-19 Crisis: Countermeasures to the “Field Survey” |
Shun WATANABE: (Visiting Researcher at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford (Sasakawa Peace Foundation fellow) / Visiting Researcher at Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University) |
July 15, 2020 | Read |
| Essay11 | Life between Searching for the Classic in the Cyber Space and Going to the Field: My Studies on Islamic Economics in the Middle East and Southeast Asia |
KHASHAN Ammar: (Senior Researcher, Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University) |
November 20, 2020 | Read |