{"id":5239,"date":"2024-07-08T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:07:08","slug":"projects2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/projects2023\/","title":{"rendered":"IGS Research Project 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

IGS Research Project 2023<\/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\n\n\n\n
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Gender Analysis in the History of Anti-pollution\/environmental Movements<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nNiina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Gender in the Transformation of Global Governance and the Restructuring of Nations<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nHisako Motoyama (Project Research Fellow, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Literary\/artistic Cultural Representation and Gender<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Researcher<\/td>\nYoko Totani (Director, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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External Funds 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Working Conditions and Agency of Migrant Female Domestic and Care Workers in Japan<\/p>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 23H00888<\/a>]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Aya Sadamatsu (Keisen University) [Principal Investigator]\nFumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-investigator]\nKeiko Hirano (Yokohama National University, Affiliated Researcher, IGS) [Co-investigator]\n<\/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
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Constructing a New Theory of the State through Feminist Theory: From the Concept of Care and the Resonception of Security<\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23H03654<\/a>]
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Period<\/td>\n2023 \u2013 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nKi-young Shin (Professor, IGS) [Co-Investigator]\u00a0
\nHisako Motoyama (Project Research Fellow, IGS) [Co-Investigator]\u00a0
\nYayo Okano (Professor, Doshisha University) [Principal Investigator]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Changes in Life Order and Gender in Rural China During the People’s Commune Period<\/strong><\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 21KK0033<\/a>]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2021 \u2013 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\n\n

Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-Investigator]\u00a0
\nTadashi Horiguchi (Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University) [Principal Investigator]\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
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Exploring Aspects of Mobility, Sex, and Power in “Karayuki-san”<\/h4>\n[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 23K11676<\/a>]\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Period<\/td>\n2023 \u2013 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Researcher<\/td>\nNiina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)<\/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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