{"id":5099,"date":"2016-05-25T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:07:09","slug":"projects2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/projects2016\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS Research Project 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IGS Research Project 2016<\/h3>\n<\/i>\n\uff1aResearch Representative<\/p>\n
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The New Middle Class and Gender in Asia<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Researcher<\/td>\n
<\/i>\nMariko ADACHI (Professor) \nEtsuko SAITO (IGS Researcher\/Associate Professor, Ochanomizu Univeristy) \nKaoru KANAI (Saitama University) \nGlenda S. ROBERTS (Waseda University) \nYoshie HORI (Keisen University) \nSusan HIMMELWEIT (The Open University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
This project is a continuation of Gender and the Emerging\/Maturing Economic Societies in Asia since the Global Financial Crisis (Mariko Adachi, Principal Investigator), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) project that ended in the preceding fiscal year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The Social Enterprise and Gender<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/i>\nMariko ADACHI (Professor) \nEtsuko SAITO (IGS Researcher\/Associate Professor, Ochanomizu Univeristy) \nSusan HIMMELWEIT (The Open University) \nT. YODA (Harvard University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the relationship between social enterprise and gender. This research analyzes the relationship from several perspectives including concepts, policy concerns, and comparative systems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Gender and Politics in East Asia<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/i>\nKi-young SHIN (Associate Professor) \nMembers of Research Network on Gender and Diversity in Political Representation (GDRep)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
East Asia has attracted global attention as a region that has achieved economic development, but the path of development of political democracy is not uniform. Above all, Japan has the longest history of democracy, but also the lowest level of women\u2019s participation in politics in the region. Taiwan, on the other hand, already had a high proportion of female members in the parliament before democratization, and the proportion has risen to well above 30 percent since democracy was introduced. In South Korea, as well, there has been a significant increase in female members of the national and local legislature in the dozen or so years since the early 2000s. The aim of the research is to undertake a comparative analysis by surveying both male and female legislators in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, to ask what factors improve or hinder women\u2019s political representation in the East Asian countries, and how to put in place political systems that foster gender diversity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Reexamining Liberal Feminism<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The purpose of this research project is to reexamine the ideas and movements that characterize liberal feminism, the first wave of feminism, which included Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. The general understanding is that liberal feminism must be overcome because it is premised on the public-private dualism of liberalism. However, the public-private spheres, as understood by liberalism, are not simply laissez-faire individualistic spaces, rather, they also justify intervention where injustice exists. This research aims to clarify matters by undertaking a textual analysis of The Subjection of Women<\/em> by J. S. Mill, and to create momentum for a reexamination of liberal feminism by completing a new translation of The Subjection of Women<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Japanese-American Soldiers during the Korean War and Issues of Their Citizenship: Analysis from Gender and Ethnic Perspectives<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Miyuki DAIMARUYA (Project Research Fellow)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
East Asia has attracted global attention as a region that has achieved economic development, but the path of development of political democracy is not uniform. Above all, Japan has the longest history of democracy, but also the lowest level of women\u2019s participation in politics in the region. Taiwan, on the other hand, already had a high proportion of female members in the parliament before democratization, and the proportion has risen to well above 30 percent since democracy was introduced. In South Korea, as well, there has been a significant increase in female members of the national and local legislature in the dozen or so years since the early 2000s. The aim of the research is to undertake a comparative analysis by surveying both male and female legislators in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, to ask what factors improve or hinder women\u2019s political representation in the East Asian countries, and how to put in place political systems that foster gender diversity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The Relationship between Donor Offspring\u2019s Welfare and Receptivity of Family Diversity in Society<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Yukari SEMBA (Project Research Fellow)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
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In recent years, the numbers of infertile couples who are considering using donated sperm\/eggs, or surrogate mothers has been increasing steadily. In some countries, the movement to seek legal permission for same-sex marriage has become active, and in recent years we often see cases in which same-sex couples, single men, and single women use donor conception to have children. In Japan as well, Shibuya and Setagaya wards in Tokyo, and Takarazuka city in Hyogo have started to provide certificates to same-sex couples as an official couple. Japan might come to have more demands for donor conception owing to the emergence of diverse family forms in the future.<\/p>\n
In Japan, there are already more than 15,000 children born through sperm donation, and some of those children say that they would like to know the identity of the sperm donor. However, there is still no law or legislation regarding reproductive medicine and donor conception in Japan. While the necessity of such legislation is recognized, most experts hold negative views on providing the donor\u2019s information to children. When same-sex couples, or single men or women use donor conception to have children in the future in Japan, donor children inevitably will find out that they have biological links to someone other than the parents who have raised them. If Japan still retains the donor anonymity regarding donor conception, more donor-conceived people may demand the right to know their own biological origin.<\/p>\n
In some countries and regions around the world, the foundation for accepting family diversity has been established, and it is not unusual for same-sex couples or singles to have children using reproductive medicine. Many of these areas have legal guarantees of children\u2019s right to know their biological origin. This research project will study laws and legislation concerning the parent-child relationship and reproductive medicine law in several countries, and then analyze the relationship between degree of social acceptance of family diversity and the donor-conceived children\u2019s right to know their origin in each society.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Population Policy versus Women\u2019s Reproductive Rights: Rethinking Government Support for Infertility Treatments in Japan and Korea<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Yukari SEMBA (Project Research Fellow) \nJiso YOON. (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow \/ Assistant Professor, University of Kansas)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Outline<\/td>\n
The availability of assisted reproductive technologies coincided with rapidly declining birthrates in Japan and Korea in recent years. This research focuses on government programs and policies to support infertility treatments as countermeasures to declining birthrates in the two countries, assessing the impact of infertility support policies and studying patients\u2019 emotional distress from social pressure from gender perspectives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\u00a0Specially Appointed Professor Research Project 2016<\/h3>\n
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The Changing Context of Family Life and Early Childhood Education and Care in Japan<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Susan D. Holloway (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS \/ Professor, University of California, Berkeley)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I will pursue ongoing three research themes below: \n1) Work and family in international context \n2) Being a mother in contemporary Japan \n3) Early childhood education and care in contemporary Japan \nBased on the outcomes of these researches, I will organize an International symposium, titled \u201c,\u201d and give a lecture at an English seminar, titled \u201c.\u201d<\/p>\n
I will pursue the following three research themes: \n1) Work and family in an international context \n2) Being a mother in contemporary Japan \n3) Early childhood education and care in contemporary Japan \nBased on the outcomes of my research, I will organize an international symposium titled \u201cFamily, Work, and Well-Being in International Perspective,\u201d and I will give a lecture titled \u201cFamily and Schooling in Contemporary Japan\u201d at an English-language seminar.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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New Religions and Gender in Japan<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Erica Baffelli (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS \/ Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I will conduct the following three research projects: \n1) New Religious Movements in Japan in the Modern Era \n2) Women, Religion, and Violence \n3) Religion in Japan \nI will organize an international symposium titled \u201cWomen, Religion and Violence in International Perspective,\u201d and I will invite a co-researcher as a keynote speaker. I will also give a lecture titled \u201cFinding Your Place\u201d that reflects on my research experience in Japan at an English-language seminar.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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After Dark: The Nighttime in Nineteenth Century Japan<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Laura Nenzi (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS \/ Professor, The University of Tennessee)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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This new research project analyses the perception of the night in early modern Japan, with a focus on the nineteenth century. It then situates late-Tokugawa Japan within a global context. Part of this project looks at the gendered implications of the night. In the realm of popular culture, gender informed the types of fears elicited by the night (e.g., female ghosts). For the authorities, controlling nighttime as well as its spaces and activities were a method for reinforcing the status system and maintaining social order. One method for maintain such control was the management of issues pertaining to gender. In Tokugawa Japan, controlling the nighttime necessitated the replication (and possibly even the reinforcement) of \u201cdaytime\u201d norms pertaining to gender and patriarchy. When tensions erupted (as with the eejanaika<\/em> phenomenon of 1867), the night became the time when the hetero-normative rules enforced during the day were called into question; during the nighttime, ambiguity took center stage, and unorthodox behaviors became possible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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External Funds 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Woman President and Women\u2019s Political Representation in Politics: Park Geun-hye in South Korea<\/strong><\/h4>\n