Building "Wang Jingwei Research" in the History of Japan-China Relation
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2015.04
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2019.03
A Conparative Study of History Education in the Global Era
Project Year :
2015.04
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2018.03
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This project was to explore the role of history education in the process of confidence building and reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific region. It also attempted to find a new strategy for a history reform in order to educate younger generations to play active roles in the global world
The Rise of China and India and its Impacts on Neighboring Asia: Dialectical Dynamics of Domestic Politics and International Relations
Project Year :
2014.04
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2017.03
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The rise of China and India is the crucial issue in the Asia-Pacific region. Is peaceful rise of China and India possible? How would other Asian states cope with this new situation? This study has challenged to analyze this by bridging the fields of International Politics, Comparative Politics and Asian Studies.Two international symposiums were held: “Emerging New Asian Order? China’s Rise and Power Shift in the Asia-Pacific Region”(June 2015, ICAS9, Australia) and “Globalization and Civil Society in East Asia” (March 2017, Rikkyo U). Based on the latter, a new book will be edited and published in 2018
Economic development is a process in which labor moves from rural to urban areas, but in East Asia, due to high moving cost, such movement has not occurred smoothly. Labor surplus in rural areas and labor shortage in urban areas coexist. Regarding the international migration of unskilled workers, it can be observed that migration has often been made through informal channels including illegal routes. High-cost burden on migrants and poor working conditions are also problems which should be considered. Based on the results of our studies, we recommend that the development of domestic labor market and employment generating development policy should be the highest priority, in order to avoid the unwilling international migration of workers. It is also important that in the case of international migration in the industries which are non-tradable, measures should be taken to reduce the moving cost burdened by workers, and reduce their feeling of alienation in the destination of migration.
Our project has contributed to scholarly investigations on East Asian Community in terms of the collection of historical materials on "Asianism" in postwar Japan, the promotion of mutual historical understandings between Japan and Korea, and the development of new methodologies for Asian Studies. The Construction of the database of Japan Socialist Party documents, the publication of three volume bulletins on "Historical Recognition in Japan and Korea," and three volume book series "Ajiagaku no susume (Introduction to Asian Studies)" are the examples of our accomplishments.
We have developed the teaching program focusing on Chinese language communication skills with Beijing University and National Taiwan Normal University. In 2002,we started the the lesson distribution on Internet and in 2003 we developed the class management platform (http://www.tcwaseda.net/tc/), the instructor training methods, test editing system. In 2004,we have completed the language training programs such as composition drills and the Call drills on the web. In 2004,136 courses of Beijing University and 84 courses of National Taiwan Normal University were broadcasted online at Waseda University as regular credited courses. In 2005,216 courses of Beijing and 144 courses of Taiwan have been delivered to 250 students. These students scored 10% higher on average in 2003 in the assessment test and 20% higher in the following year of 2004. We held the conference named The Symposium on the Chinese Cross-Cultural Distance Learning in December 2003,inviting over 40 scholars from Institute of Computational Linguistics (ICL), Peking University, National Taiwan Normal University, and Korea University. Since 2004,we have held Chinese Corpus Conference five times at Waseda University.
Sino-Japanese relations in Wang Jing-wei government
The information measure of Japanese diplomats and the foreign policies toward China 1925-1945
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There are numerous studies on Sino-Japanese relations during the 1920-1930 period. Most of these studies on Japanese policy regarding China take a political or military approach. However, Japanese policies can not be formed without information provided by Japanese diplomats who resided in China. Thus, it can be inferred that these diplomats' view of China directly affect Japanese policies. Past studies often neglected this point, and my study is an effort to fill in for this failing.During the course of my research, I looked into diplomatic records found not only in Japan but also in Chinese mainland and Taiwan. I have finished several papers on the subject and am currently finishing a monograph. This monograph focuses on Yoshizawa Kenkichi, Sigemizu and other diplomats stationed in China to analyze in depth diplomats' intentions toward Sino-Japanese relations.During the pre-war period when Sino-Japan relation was complex, army's policies were dominant while diplomatic opinions were not the most influential. However, this does not mean that diplomatic attitude had no effect. By analyzing diplomatic policies, we can more fully understand the formation of Japanese policies toward China. This monograph which is the last of my research in this area will be finished within 2006