{"id":5235,"date":"2022-06-05T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:07:09","slug":"projects2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/projects2022\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS Research Project 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

IGS Research Project 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Gender and Politics in East Asia<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nKi-young Shin (Professor, IGS)
\nMari Miura (Professor, Sophia University)
\nJackie Steele (Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\nEast Asia has attracted global attention as a region that has achieved economic development, but the path of development of political democracy is not uniform. 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 find out what factors improve or hinder women\u2019s political representation in the East Asian countries, and how to put political systems that foster gender diversity in place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Women’s Cross-border Activism in East Asia<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nFumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

Today we find many feminist activists raising their voices in various public spaces, such as the streets, squares, public transportation, university campuses, chambers of parliament, media, cyber space, etc. Through activism in such spaces they achieve global solidarity in working towards solutions for common problems. This study will discuss how such activism has evolved in East Asia, especially focusing on (1) The joint labor movement of the local\/migrant domestic workers in regard to the ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (C189); (2) Women\u2019s anti-militarization activism; and (3) The transregional\/transnational activism of Chinese feminists in the 2010s.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Gender Analysis of Capital, Body and Mobility<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nFumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS)
\nMariko Adachi (Visiting Researcher, IGS)
\nHiroaki Itai (Affiliated Researcher, IGS\/Associate Professor, Senshu University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\nThis project analyses changes in the function of capital after the global financial crisis by focusing on Saskia Sassen\u2019s concept of \u2018expulsions\u2019. Examining the \u2018normalisation\u2019 of \u2018expulsions\u2019 from a gender perspective enables comprehension beyond the conventional analytical frameworks of \u2018fragmentation of the body\u2019 and the inclusion\/exclusion dichotomy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Gender <\/strong>Analysis of Sex, Body, and Reproduction<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nNina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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External Funds 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Hurdles of Women’s Political Participation: Surveys of Diet Members and Party Officials<\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 18H00817<\/a>]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2019 \u2013 2021 \u00a0(Fiscal Year 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nKi-young Shin (Professor, IGS)
\nNoble Gregory (Professor, Tokyo University)
\nReiko Oyama (Professor, Komazawa University)
\nMcelwain Kenneth (Professor, Tokyo University)
\nJackie Steele (Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University)
\nMari Miura\u00a0\u00a0(Professor, Keisen University) [Principal Investigator]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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IT-BPO International Division of Labor and Gender in Emerging Asia<\/span><\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 20H01468<\/a>]
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Period<\/td>\n2020 \u2013 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\n\n

Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-investigator],
\nMariko Adachi (Visiting Researcher, IGS) [Co-Investigator],
\nYoshie Hori (Professor, Waseda University) [Principal Investigator]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Summary<\/td>\n\n

This joint research project envisages a new theory of international political economy through empirical study of Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing (IT-BPO) industries developed in different regions of Asia. Comparative analysis of each region will provide insights into many questions, such as ways in which female labor is allocated under the latest modes of the international division of labor; ways in which the emergence of a middle class and their consumption will pan out; the manner they witness the urbanization; and just how democracy will accommodate the shift of socioeconomic relations.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Domestic and Care Workers in Japan in the Age of International Gendered Division of Reproductive Labor: A Genealogy of Solidarity<\/strong><\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 19H01578<\/a>]
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Period<\/td>\n2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nFumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-investigator]
\nKeiko Hirano (Project Lecturer, IGS) [Co-Investigator]
\nAya Sadamatsu (Professor, Keisen University) [Principal Investigator]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

This research project will discuss how Japan is facing an international division of reproductive labor by focusing on the following two topics: (1) Unequal relations of employers\/agencies\/labor; (2) Labor regime surrounding the domestic workers and care workers, arguing that this regime can be changed through workers’ individual\/collective actions based on their limited social capital.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Politics of Gender Quota: Institutionalization and Backlash<\/b>
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Period<\/td>\n2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nKi-young Shin (Professor, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

This study analyzes the effects of the gender quota system, that was introduced to enhance women\u2019s representation in the Korean legislatures. South Korea has introduced a gender quota system in the early 2000s by which parties are required to nominate women to a certain percentage of political party candidates. However, women still make up less than 20% as of 2019. This outcome has raised questions about the effect of the current quota system. Previous studies have pointed out that one of the reasons the quota system did not work was quota backlash, that is, various forms of resistance to quota\u2019s implementation and defamation of the quota women. This study aims at clarifying the reasons why gender quota system does not work in South Korea by analyzing parties\u2019 recruitment pattern, the political career path of women legislators elected by quota, and (in)formal forms of quota backlash over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Migrant Women and the Reproductive Sphere in Hong Kong: Gender Analysis of Hong Kong as a Global City<\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 19K12603<\/a>]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nFumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

This research project will analyze how the reproductive labor power of migrant women has been allocated in Hong Kong by collecting oral histories from Chinese domestic workers, foreign domestic workers, and their employers. Hong Kong has shifted its economic strategy from export-oriented manufacturing in favor of becoming a \u201cglobal city.\u201d While establishing itself as the international financial\/trade center of East Asia in the 1970s-1980s, Hong Kong started to accept foreign domestic workers. This trend coincided with the labor reallocation of Chinese women who migrated from mainland Canton, becoming domestic workers in Hong Kong. Even today, this dynamism of the trans-local and trans-national migration of women has been affecting the socio-economic relations of Hong Kong. By collecting \u201cmemories of care\u201d from the different migrant women and employers in Hong Kong, this project will shed light on the shift of labor in the? reproductive sphere against the background of “global city” development.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Exploring Aspects of Mobility, Sex, and Power in “Karayuki-san”<\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 17K13298<\/a>]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2017 \u2013 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nNiina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

The COVID-19 epidemic made it impossible to travel abroad, which forced me to revise the original research plans. The findings of this study, then, are as follows.
\nFirst, while much attention has been focused on the fact that “Karayuki-san” engaged (sometimes were made to engage) in prostitution in foreign lands, tracing the women after they were taken in by rich people out of the brothel revealed that in some cases, the women remained under some kind of contractual relationship in the form of \u201cservitude\u201d even after leaving the brothel. Second, by focusing not only on the experience of prostituion, but also on women\u2019s reproductive sphere, including biological reproduction and care, I have gained insights into how childlessness has a lifelong influence on women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Norway-Japan: Bridging Research and Education in Gender Equality and Diversity<\/h4>\n

\uff3bNorway Research Council, INTPART, 287699<\/a>\uff3d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nMasako Ishii-kuntz (Trustee and Vice President, Ochanomizu University)
\nRyoko Kodama (Professor, Ochanomizu University\/Researcher, IGS)
\nYoko Totani (Director, IGS\/Professor, Ochanomizu University)
\nYukari Semba (Project Lecturer, IGS)
\nKumi Yoshihara (Project Research Fellow, IGS)
\nJunko Sano (Project Lecturer, Keio University\/Affiliated Researcher, IGS)
\nDerek Kenji Pinillos Matsuda (Lecturer, Center for International Education)
\nThe Center for Gender Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summary<\/td>\n\n

A collaborative project with the Center for Gender Studies of NTNU. This project analyzes the current state of gender equality and diversity in Norway and Japan, considering the social, cultural, historical and political backgrounds of both countries. The aim of the project is to develop new perspectives for researching gender and diversity issues through comparative understanding of the differences and similarities of the two societies. Individual research projects are organized according to members\u2019 research interests.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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