GARC
Research Activities
Second Half
of 2023 ~
[Research Articles]
Carlos, M. R. D. (2023). Career pathways, long-term settlement policies and stepwise migration aspirations of Philippine-educated nurses in Singapore: Lessons for policymakers. In R. Adhikari & E. Plotnikova (Eds.), Nurse Migration in Asia: Emerging Patterns and Policy Responses. London: Routledge.
Hamashita, T. (2022). Climate and Local Disease from the Medical Report of the Chinese Maritime Customs: 1872-1910. Memoirs of Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 80, 35-59.
Hamanaka, S., & Tani, M. (2023). State reconstruction, political actors, and expectations of Syrians regarding development assistance from foreign countries. Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, 39(1), 1-22.
Krickel-Choi, N. C., & Chen, C.-C. (2023). Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking. The Pacific Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2023.2166978
Ohtani, Y. (2023). "Monks as Soldiers and Non-Killing." Journal of Historical Studies, 1040, 18-29.
Saito, F. (2023, June 10). Unearthing a New Concept of "Prosperity" from the Local Perspective: Lessons from the Initiatives in Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, after the Great East Japan Earthquake. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Development Studies Association. (Conference Proceedings)
Shimizu, K. (2024, August). Buddhism and Global IR. E-International Relations.
Tomonaga, Y. (2024). Dispute over the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples in the Lawsuit Calling for the Return of the Ryukyuan Remains. International Journal of Human Rights. (Accepted after minor revision by peer review). DOI information pending.
[Books]
Būchānī, B. & Tofīgīān, O., Morris Suzuki, T. (Commentary). (2023), Ichitani, T. & Tomonaga, Y (Supervision & Translation Supervision). (2024). Yama no hoka ni tomo wa inai ― aru kurudo nanmin no kangoku monogatari. [No Friends Besides the Mountains: The Prison Story of a Kurdish Refugee]. Akashi Shoten.
Iwata, M. (2023). The Potential of Buddhist and Gender Studies: Focusing on Jodo Shinshu. In "Extracurricular Lectures at Anko in Reiwa 4th Year," published by the Office of Administration, Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha, July 2023, pp. 71.
Sueki, F. (2023). Kinsei Shisō to Bukkyō [Early Modern Thought and Buddhism]. Hōzōkan.
[Conferences & Workshops]
Chen, C.-C. (2023). "Becoming normal": Making sense of Japan's security policy transformation in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Paper presented at the East-West Forum, National Chung Hsing University.
Chen, C.-C. (2023). How to construct more resilient political communities? An East Asian medical approach to rethinking the state body. Paper presented at the International Studies Association - Asia Pacific Conference.
Chen, C.-C. (2023). Why is relationality inherently embodied? An East Asian medical approach to theorizing relations. In Korean Political Science Association (Ed.), Proceedings of the World Congress on Political Science.
Hamanaka, S. (2023). Polarization, Policy Preferences and Democratic Decay in Israel? Paper presented at the International Political Science Association Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hamanaka, S. (2023). Saudi Prime Minister's Power and People's Preferences for the National-Immigrant Plural Society. International Studies Association Asia-Pacific, Waseda University.
Ikeda, M. M., Carlos, M. R., & Kim, V. (2023). Foreigners in Japan Coping during COVID-19. Paper presented at The 8th Japan-ASEAN Conference, Chiang Mai University.
Iwata, M. (2023). Possibilities of Modern Shin Buddhism and Women's Studies. Keynote address presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the Shin Buddhism Federation, Kyoto Women's University.
Saito, F. (2023). Possibilities and Limitations of Student Climate Assembly for Decarbonization in Japan. Paper presented at the 9th CIRIEC Conference on Social Economy, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Saito, F. (2023). Unearthing a New Notion of "Abundance" from the Local Perspective: Initiatives in Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, after the East Japan Great Earthquake. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Spring Conference of the International Development Studies Association.
Shimizu, K. (2023). On war and the idea of nothingness: The possibilities and dangers of the philosophy of contingencies. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Conference.
Shimizu, K. (2023). War and Nothingness: The Possibilities of Buddhism. Paper presented at the East-West Forum, National Chung Hsing University.
Shimizu, K. (2023). What does Non-essentialist Ontology and Ethics look like? Through collaboration between Mahayana Buddhism and Quantum Theory. Paper presented at the Korean Political Science Association World Congress.
Yamada, N. (2023). Confronting the women who have experienced the 'comfort women' system: The idea of engi as a theoretical core. Paper presented at the Korean Political Science Association World Congress.
Yamada, N. (2023). How can we restore the original purpose of the Japan-South Korea 'comfort women issue'? An attempt by using the idea of engi in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Paper presented at the International Studies Association - Asia Pacific Conference.
Yamada, N. (2023). Reconsidering the post-war responsibility in the Japan-South Korea 'comfort women issue': The idea of engi as an ontological assumption. Paper presented at the East-West Forum, National Chung Hsing University.
Yamada, N. (2023). Toward a seeking of ethics in the Japan-South Korea 'Comfort Women Issue': A consideration from Mahāyāna Buddhist ontology. Paper presented at the Graduate Students Japan Workshop, Doshisha University, Japan.
Yamamoto, A. (2023). Deconstructing (Binary) Human Security. Paper presented at the Japanese Association of Human Security Studies Conference, Kobe University.
Yamamoto, A. (2023). The Coloniality of Human Security: Japan's Superior Self and its Insecure Others. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Conference, Waseda University.
GARC Research Activities
Summer 2023 ~
[Conferences & Workshops]
Chen, Ching-Chang. “‘Becoming Normal’: Making Sense of Japan’s Security Policy Transformation in the Wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War.” International Symposium Presentation, East-West Forum, National Chung Hsing University, July 2023.
———. “How to Construct More Resilient Political Communities? An East Asian Medical Approach to Rethinking the State Body.” Conference Presentation, International Studies Association - Asia Pacific, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023.
———. “Why Is Relationality Inherently Embodied? An East Asian Medical Approach to Theorizing Relations.” Conference Presentation, Korean Political Science Association World Congress, Seoul, South Korea, July 2023.
Iwata, Mami. 15/June/2023. Bukkyo to SDGs: Jyendaa Byodo wo Jitsugen shiyou. [Buddhism and SDGs: Let’s Achieve Gender Equality.] Rinzaishuu Myoshinjiha Jinken Suishi Iin Kyouku Jinken Yogo Suishiniin Godo Kenkyuukai. [Human Rights Promotion Committee and Diocesan Human Rights Promoters Joint Study Group.] Myoshinji Temple. (hybrid distribution).
———. "Kindai Shinsyuu to Jyosei Kenkyuu no Kanousei". [Modern Shin Buddhism and the Potential for Gender Studies.] (Keynote Speech) 69th Annual Conference of the Shinshu Association of Japan. Kyoto Women’s University. June 2023
———. B"ukkyo x Jyendaa x SDGs". [Buddhism x Gender x SDGs.] Otani High School Summer Workshop. Otani High School. July 2023
Saito, Fumihiko. “Possibilities and Limitations of Student Climate Assembly for Decarbonization in Japan.” Conference Presentation, 9th CIRIEC Conference on Social Economy, Seoul, South Korea, July 2023.
Yamada, Naofumi. “How Can We Restore the Original Purpose of the Japan-South Korea ‘Comfort Women Issue’? An Attempt by Using the Idea of Engi in Mahāyāna Buddhism.” Conference Presentation, International Studies Association - Asia Pacific, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023.
Yamamoto, Andrei. “The Coloniality of Human Security: Japan’s Superior Self and Its Insecure Others.” Conference Presentation, International Studies Association - Asia Pacific, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023.
[Books & Book Chapters]
Iwata, Mami. 2023. Nishihonganjikei: Kinsyu kara Kaikaku, soshite Kokusaika he. [Nishi Honganji Lineage: From Temperance to Reform and Internationalization.] In E. Otani, S. Yoshinaga, S. Kondo (eds.). Kindai Bukkyo Sutadiizu: Bukkyo kara mita Mouhitotsu no Kindai (Zohokaitei). [Modern Buddhist Studies: Another Modern Era from a Buddhist Perspective (enlarged and revised version).] Kyoto: Hozokan.
———.2023. Kindai Shinsyushi no Kenkyu: Kindai Bukkyo no Chuushinjiku. [A Study of the Modern History of Shin Buddhism: The Central Axis of Modern Buddhism.] In E. Otani, S. Yoshinaga, S. Kondo (eds.). Kindai Bukkyo Sutadiizu: Bukkyo kara mita Mouhitotsu no Kindai (Zohokaitei). [Modern Buddhist Studies: Another Modern Era from a Buddhist Perspective (enlarged and revised version).] Kyoto: Hozokan.
Sueki, Fumihiko. 2023. Kinseishiso to Bukkyo. [Early Modern Thoughts and Buddhism.] Kyoto: Hozokan.
———.2023. Kaisetsu. [Commentary]. In T. Matsuo. Hakai to Danshoku no Bukkyoshi. [A History of Buddhism in the Age of Breaking the Precepts and Male Homosexuality.] Tokyo: Heibonsha Library. pp. 215-233.
[Research Articles]
Iwata, Mami. 2023. Bukkyo to Jyendaa Sutadiizu no Kanousei: Jyodo Shinsyuu wo Chuushin ni. [The Possibility of Research on Buddhism and Gender: Focusing on Shin Buddhism.] Shinshu Kosho-ha Syumusho.
Selected & Recent GARC Publications
(2021 & 2022)
Agarwal, A., Chen, C.-C., Choi, S., Cruz, F. A., Hoo, C.-P., & Watanabe, A. (2022). Forum: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific. International Studies Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekac007
Blum, M. L., Conway, M., & Payne, R. K. (Eds.). (2022). Chapter 2. Nishi Honganji’s Responses during Japan’s Transition to Modernity. In Adding Flesh to Bones: Kiyozawa Manshi’s Seishinshugi in Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought (pp. 36–52). University of Hawaii Press.
Chen, B., & Chen, C.-C. (2021). Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: Political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations. Third World Quarterly, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1960158
Chen, C.-C. (2022). These islands are ours: The social constructions of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia: by Alexander Bukh, Stanford University Press, 2020, 232 pages, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(3), 657–658. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2046484
Hamanaka, S. (2020). The ground operation sent citizens into a frenzy: The rally around the flag effect during operation protective edge. Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 5(1), 142–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/23779497.2021.1872402
Hamanaka, S. (2021). ‘Rallying round the flag effect’ in Israel’s first COVID-19 wave. Israel Affairs, 27(4), 675–690. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1940560
Hamashita, T., Climate and Local Disease from the Medical Reports of the Chinese Maritime Customs: 1872–1910, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, 2022, pp. 35-59
Iwata, M., & Nakanishi, N. (Eds.). (2020). Kindai Shinshū “josei kyōka” [Modern Shinshu "Instruction of Women"]. Sanninsha Publishing.
Krickel-Choi, N. C., Chen, C.-C., & Bukh, A. (2022). Embodying the state differently in a Westphalian world: An ontological exit for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute. Third World Quarterly, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2152789
Otani, Y. (2021). Tōshōdaiji dai ni jū hachi sei gyōzen daitoku goki kinen gyōzen kyōgaku no keisei to tenkai [Toshodai-ji Temple 28th Ginten Daitoku memorial service Formation and development of Ginten doctrine]. Gyōzen No Kegongaku to Ritsu Mune [Kegon Studies and Ritsu Buddhism], 35–70.
Otani, Y. (2022a). Denkōji shozō shinshitsu bunken ganjou “ Shokai shuruizu” [Newly published literature in the collection of Denko-ji Temple Mototeru “Sekkai Kindu Zu”]. Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū [Indian and Buddhist Studies], 70(2), 722–728.
Otani, Y. (2022b). Ekkyō suru kairitsu mondō [cross-border precept question and answer]. Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Bukkyō Bijutsu Kenkyū Ueno Kinen Zaidan Hōkokusho [Buddhist Art Research Ueno Memorial Foundation Report], 15–27.
Otani, Y. (2022c). Higashiajia niokeru ni hyaku go jikkai no jissen ― nīde shiryō gen akira sen “ shokai shuruizu ” wo tsūjite [The Practice of the 250 Precepts in East Asia: Through the Newly Released Material, Gensho’s “Sekai Ryuzu Zu”]. In Kimata, G., & Chikamoto, K. (Eds.) “Shūkyō isan tekusutogaku no sōsei” tsutomu makoto shuppan [Creation of Religious Heritage Text Studies]. Bennsei Publishing.
Otani, Y. (2022d). Tsubuke no haikei [Background of acceptance]. In Chikamoto, K. (Ed.) “Kotoba hotoke zuzō no kōkyō ― hōe girei to ākaivu ― ” tsutomu makoto shuppan [Symphony of Words, Hotoke, and Iconography: Pujas, Rituals and Archives] (pp. 241–258). Bensei Publishing.
Saito, F. (2021). Jizoku kanōna kaihatsu niokeru no ibasho: “dare ichi nin torinokosanai” kaihatsu e no ōtō [A Place in Sustainable Development: A Response to ‘Leaving No One Behind’ Development]. Shunpusha.
Shimizu, K. (2021). Buddhism and the Question of Relationality in International Relations. Uluslararasiiliskiler/ International Relations, 1–16.
Shimizu, K. (2022a). The Kyoto school and international relations: Non-Western attempts for a new world order. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Shimizu, K. (2022b). A Non-Western Attempt at Hegemony: Lessons from the Second-Generation Kyoto School for International Pluralism and Its Discontents. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(4), ksac073. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac073
Shimizu, K., & Noro, S. (2021). Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: A critical engagement with contemporary international relations. Third World Quarterly, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1891878
Tomonaga Y. (2021). The Repatriation of Ancestral Remains and Secret / Sacred Objects to Indigenous Peoples in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 34, 39–53. https://doi.org/10.20764/asaj.34.0_39
Trownsell, T. A., Tickner, A. B., Querejazu, A., Reddekop, J., Shani, G., Shimizu, K., Behera, N. C., & Arian, A. (2021). Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World. International Studies Perspectives, 22(1), 25–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa008
Yamamoto, A. (2022). Conflict as imbalance: Political healing of and through emotions in Korea. Third World Quarterly, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2090921
Yamao, D., & Hamanaka, S. (2021). Political mobilization and its impact on voter turnout: A survey experiment in Iraq. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 6(4), 421–440. https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911211039631