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Preface･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 1

1 Research Activities･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 2Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 2
IPCR-CSEAS･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 3Japan-ASEAN Collaborative Research Program on Innovative Humanosphere in Southeast Asia･･････････ 4
Collaborative Research on Transitional Justice and Inclusive Economic Development in Developing
ASEAN Countries････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 5
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Programs･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 6Japan Consortium for Area Studies ( JCAS)･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 11
Global Survivability Studies, GSS Unit･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 12
C-PIER Unit･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 12
Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit (KUASU)･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 13
Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS)････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 13
Mitigating Cyclone and Flood Damage in Myanmar･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 14
Learning Rural Development Problems in Asia and Japan through Mutual Enlightened
Practice-Oriented Area Studies････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 14
Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies ････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 15
A New Microbiology Laboratory Started outside the Campus･ ･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 15

2 Staff Research Interests･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 16
3 Global Academic Networks････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 24
Overseas Liaison Offices･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 26
Visiting Research Scholars and Guest Scholars･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 26
MOU: Memoranda of Understanding･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 27
Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA)･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 27

4 Division of Information and Network for Area Studies･･････････････ 28
Library･ ･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 28
Map Collections･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 29
Databases････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 29
GIS Laboratory･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 30
Information Processing Office･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 30

5 Publications･ ･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 31
Monographs････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 31
Academic Journals･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 33
Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 33
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia･･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 34

6 Education･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 34
Graduate School Education･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 34

7 Community Building････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 35
Social Contributions････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 35
CSEAS Visual Documentary Project････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 36

8 Awards･･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 36
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10 Organization･････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････････ 38

Preface
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) issues an Annual Report in both Japaneseand English that was originally launched as a bulletin of the Center in 1963 and has beenalternating between the two languages biannually since 1987. This English issue therefore follows the one published in 2013. Recent reports from the Center are uploaded to the CSEAS
website as well as KURENAI, the Kyoto University Research Information Repository. Throughthese, you can see the progress of CSEAS and view how it has evolved over the last five
decades.
Southeast Asian societies now face a momentous turning point. The ASEAN Economic Community will soon be established as a consequence of a shared market economy, accelerating
economic growth, and the establishment of modern governance. Southeast Asia, with a population of over 600 million and rich bio-resources, has also come to play a crucial role as a global
hub for the flow of people and goods in recent years, and it is now emerging as an influential
player in the international community. This inevitably changes key questions that Southeast
Asian studies should confront.
Southeast Asia is characterized by immense diversity of its natural environment, multiple ethnic groups, and religions. It also demonstrates complex dynamics driven both by internal andexternal powers. In effect, Southeast Asia is a microcosm of the world. The development processes of Southeast Asia have been sustained by substantial efforts and invisible skills to produce a co-existence of cultures and civilizations, a flexible peace-keeping mechanism, and social
development that overcomes economic disparities. We consider these experiences as fullof seeds that can offer a new form of wisdom for mankind in the 21st century. To formulate
such wisdom should be a challenge for our research agenda in the next phase of Southeast
Asian studies.
After issuing the Annual Report 2013, CSEAS recruited several staff, including three new faculty members: Dr. Mario I. López, migration studies, Dr. Julius Bautista, religion studies, and
Dr. Nathan Badenoch, diversity studies. All of them are employed to teach on the liberal arts
program in English at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) at Kyoto University.
They offer undergraduate courses to first and second year students on issues that the contemporary world is facing. CSEAS also set up several new research programs. Among these,“Japan-ASEAN Collaborative Research Program on Innovative Humanosphere in Southeast
Asia” ( JSPS program, FY 2014–16) focuses on interdisciplinary studies on hybrid growth,environmental recovery, and social security, and offers young scholars the opportunity to stay at
a counterpart university in Southeast Asia for one year. Since 2014, the Visual Documentary
Project, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Asia Center, has been strengthened toorganize public viewings not only in Kyoto but also in Tokyo, and it is attracting an increasing
number of documentaries from Southeast Asia and Japan.
This year, CSEAS will celebrate its 50th anniversary and host the inaugural SEASIA 2015
Conference in December. Now is the time for CSEAS to summarize its development since its
establishment and create a new blueprint for the next generation.
September 2015
Director

KONO, Yasuyuki
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Southeast Asian Studies for
Sustainable Humanosphere
Large-Scale Research Program “Promoting the Study of Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia: Agenda-Setting and
Networking for East Asia Community-Building” funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT) (FY2011–16)
http://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
Overview
This large-scale research program succeeded the outcomes of
the Global COE Program “In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa” (2007–11). It aims toreexamine the Sustainable Humanosphere paradigm that wedeveloped through the Global COE program and elaborate it
further to be a foundation for discussions on the long-termsustainability of human society.
Program Objectives
Southeast Asia has faced and tackled a wide range of problems. People in the region have diverse historical and cultural
backgrounds yet live side by side. Overcoming ethnic and religious diversity and achieving solidarity and collaboration has
been one of the longest and most pressing issues for mostSoutheast Asian societies. Simultaneously, Southeast Asia’s nature is rich and powerful, and people’s livelihoods in the region
have been deeply tied to it for resources. These processes havecreated new types of problems that are difficult to find appropriate solutions for even through the most advanced scienceand wisdom. Through studying these experiences and Southeast Asia’s achievements, we have considered issues such asplural co-existence, environmental harmonization, and energy
and resources economization, all of which are commonly
shared among human societies.
Research Focuses
We have two major research focuses under this program: plural co-existence and biomass society. The plural co-existence
research aims to dynamically connect the global and the local
in order to address the political and economic imbalances ofglobalization. We are pursuing responses to questions such as
how can we transform the region’s social foundations, which
are the basis of people’s everyday lives, into public resources
and how can we connect these in a complementary way with

Participants on the Southeast Asia Seminar field trip to
Ton Le Sap lake, Cambodia, 2014 (Nov. 2014)

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existing systems of governance towards solving the problems
and issues mentioned above. Biomass society research seeksinnovative research topics and methodologies to examine themulti-dimensional driving forces of change in Southeast Asia
through defining high biomass society as a crucial niche for
global survival and sustainability. High biomass societies inthe tropics offer important locales to investigate the transformation of regional landscapes for food production, the development of renewable sources of energy and biomaterials, andthe reduction of carbon emissions. New formulas are duly
needed for better articulation among human communities,
local fauna and flora, geospheric/atmospheric circulations, anda global political economy.
Academic Community Building and
Networking
We also emphasize strengthening academic networks and providing training to young researchers. The establishment of the“Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia” (SEASIA)in October 2013 was one of the outstanding achievements ofthis program. The first conference of SEASIA, called SEASIA
2015, will be held at Kyoto in December 2015. The Southeast
Asia Seminar is a short-term training course mainly for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Since 2010, the seminar has been held in Southeast Asia with an increasing number of participants from Southeast Asian countries. We also
initiated the “Visual Documentary Project” that explicitly examines the contours of Southeast Asian people’s everyday lives
through the power of documentary film. This project aims touse visual forms of expression to complement the growing literature that exists on Southeast Asian societies. From 2014,
the Japan Foundation Asia Center joins this project as coorganizer to help widely promote the richness of Southeast
Asian cultures to people in Japan.

Im Sokrithy conducts a lecture during a Southeast
Asia Seminar field trip to Domdaek and Kampong
Khleang, Siem Reap (Nov. 2014).

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Particulate matter (PM) and Carbon monoxide (CO)are produced during peat fires in tropical peatland
due to incomplete combustion (Feb. 2014).

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IPCR-CSEAS
International Program of Collaborative Research funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT) (FY2010–)
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research/overview-of-program/

In April 2010 CSEAS launched “IPCR: International Program of Collaborative Research” as one of the Joint Use/
Research Centers qualified by MEXT. This system is promoted
under the aegis of MEXT’s policy for nurturing the researchpotential of universities and promoting broad-based
collaborations regardless of national, public, and private
universities affiliations, in order to further the development ofscholarly investigation in Japan. Recognition as IPCR-CSEAS
is due to CSEAS’s important contributions made to Area
Studies over the last 50 years and future expectations as an
outstanding and leading organization in Southeast Asianstudies.
With this responsibility, IPCR-CSEAS started international collaborative research that aims to 1) promote Southeast
Asian studies with an emphasis on the integration of thehumanities and natural sciences and collaboration with local
people and society, 2) strengthen its function as a hub of historical documents and research materials on Southeast Asianstudies in Asia, and 3) publish world class academic journals

and a monograph series. It also provides joint-use opportunities to share facilities and equipment related to Area Studies
such as its library, GIS facilities, and map room. Number of
accepted research proposals increased annually from 19 in2010 to 33 in 2015. During those six years, 19 researchers in
IPCR were awarded prizes in several academic areas.

Leading World Class Collaborative Research Asian Hub for Journals, Book Series, and Historical Materials
Strengthening Materials Hubs in Southeast Asia

Promoting World Class Publications
Academic Journals

Southeast Asian Studies
Tonan Asia Kenkyu⃝Collecting materials invernacular languages⃝World-class academic
journals

Library, CSEAS, Kyoto University⃝Raise awareness of
CSEAS’s academic
publications

Online Multiple Languages
Journal⃝Digitizing and making
available maps andhistorical materials

Kyoto Review of Southeast
Asia⃝Promoting Southeast Asia
in native languages
Map Room, CSEAS, Kyoto University

The Three Seals Law(Kotmai Tra Sam Duang)
Thammasat Version

Area Studies Publications on
Southeast Asia

⃝Strengthening catalogue

Kyoto CSEAS Series on
Asian Studies⃝Multiple language searchand development of
database

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia

⃝Strengthening collaborative publication networks

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Japan-ASEAN Collaborative Research
Program on Innovative Humanospherein Southeast Asia: In Search of Wisdom toward

Compatibility Growth and Community in the World
Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers funded by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JSPS) (FY2014–16)
http://brain-asean.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
This project seeks to produce “innovative humanosphereresearch” with a series of studies that explore new knowledge
concerning the humanosphere resulting from ASEAN’s natural environment and socioeconomic conditions. It serves tobecome a core component of innovative research on thehumanosphere in the world by further deepening Kyoto
University’s top-level research in Japan. Advanced by individual projects in the natural sciences, humanities, and social
sciences, as well as interdisciplinary projects, this research will
be further integrated and expanded by strengthening cooperation with local ASEAN research institutes through bidirectional personnel exchanges. The knowledge and methodologies
obtained will be used to present diversity in the humanospherein the modern world and to create models of international
cooperation that promote such a diverse humanosphere.
The research on the humanosphere in this program,advanced through a transdisciplinary approach across different
departments, can be organized into three orientations:1) The Possibility of “Hybrid Growth”
2) The Possibility of “Environmental Recovery”
3) Realization of “Peaceful Society”
Each of the orientations above presents complex issues
related to ASEAN’s natural environmental and socioeconomic
conditions. The individual joint research studies carried out
under this project seek to produce knowledge about these
multiple orientations.
Tackling these issues under this project will be carried out
by research groups from Kyoto University’s various departments that are demonstrating leadership in research of thehumanosphere and in working with ASEAN countries. They
will share the special characteristic of taking an approach thatcomprehensively integrates the humanities and the sciences by
being organically connected together via the Kyoto University
ASEAN Platform (tentative name).
As part of this original effort, Kyoto University will choose
world-class ASEAN universities as partners for the circulationof talented researchers. These universities are leaders in the
research of local humanosphere in the ASEAN region.
Strengthening ties between these academic institutions andKyoto University’s research groups will deepen “innovative
humanosphere research.” We will present the fruits of thisresearch as internationally co-authored papers.
Furthermore, by organizing Japan-ASEAN academic symposia and strategically presenting the research achievements of
the research groups to the world, the number of journal arti4

cles co-authored synergistically and internationally can beincreased, as can the number of their citations. This will resultin raising the global preeminence of the research groups’“innovative humanosphere research.”
Overseas Partner Institutions
National University of Singapore
Dr. LOH Kian Ping’s research group
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Chulalongkorn University
Faculty of Economics
College of Population Studies
Thammasat University
Pridi Banomyong International College
Faculty of Economics
Chiang Mai University
Research Institute for Health Sciences (RIHES)
Mahidol University
Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR)
Kasetsart University
Gadjah Mada University
Bogor Agricultural University
Universitas Syiah Kuala
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Ateneo de Manila University
University of the Philippines
University Sains Malaysia

Prof. Kihara Masahiro, Head of the Department of Global Health and Socioepidemiology, Kyoto University School of Public Health and team visited the Research Institute for Health Sciences on Jan 27, 2015 to meet with Prof. Suwat
Chariyalertsak, the Director of RIHES. The meeting aimed to plan for future collaboration on HIV/AIDS academic research.

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Collaborative Research on Transitional Justiceand Inclusive Economic Development in
Developing ASEAN Countries
Core-to-Core Program (B) funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JSPS) (FY2015–18)
https://coretocore.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
This project is a medium-size study designed to explore thepossibility of fair and inclusive development of the newly rising ASEAN countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. The
project is pursuing interdisciplinary research on the drasticallychanging political, economic, and social conditions of thosecountries, mainly through following two international joint
research projects and young scholar training events. As a hubof Southeast Asian studies, CSEAS is expecting this project
to promote broader and deeper academic exchange amongscholars in ASEAN countries and Japan.
The First Southeast Asia Network Forum held in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sep. 22,
2015

Counterpart Institutions
Cambodia:
Faculty of Development Studies, Royal University ofPhnom Penh
Myanmar:
Department of International Relations, University of
Yangon; Center for History and Tradition - Southeast
Asia Minister of Education

Seminar “Political and Social Order in Changing Myanmar” on Sep. 22, 2015

International Joint Research
1) Transitional Justice and Social Stability
Project leaders: NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro; KOBAYASHI, Satoru
Members: Specialists in history, political science, sociology,
anthropology and international relations from
Cambodia, Japan, Myanmar, and Thailand

Thailand:Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University

2) Inclusive Economic Development Strategy
Project leader: MIENO, Fumiharu
Members: Specialists in economics, agriculture and forestry
from Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand

A meeting of project members withThai counterparts

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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific
Research Programs
CSEAS scholars receive a wide range of funding for various transdisciplinary topics under Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Projects.
Ongoing projects are presented in this section.

Scientific Research (A)Study of the Vernacularity of Forest Ecological
Resources in the Context of Global Domestication

The Social Bases of Care in Southeast Asia: Study of the
Dynamism of Practice Based on Relatedness

Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI, Shigeo

Principal Investigator: HAYAMI, Yoko

Period: FY2015–17

Period: FY2013–15

The indigenous livelihoods of local communities in marginal

This project aims to find out on what social bases care is prac-

tropical areas are intertwined with forest ecological resources

ticed in Southeast Asia, with special attention to various forms

depend on these FERs for their livelihoods since they have yetsocial security systems has focused on industrialized societies,(FERs). Local communities, especially in Southeast Asia,
to benefit from new approaches after the green revolution andland allocation. With the penetration of economic globaliza-

tion, local communities have to engage in over-gathering andover-hunting of these FERs, especially non-timber forest

products (NTFPs). This in turn causes a decrease in forest
ecological resources and biodiversity, in contravention to several international treaties such as the COP16 REDD+ safeguard and the COP10 Convention on Biological Diversity.

Therefore, we have proposed to research 1) the dynamics ofindigenous livelihoods and forest ecological resources, 2) traditional knowledge of livelihoods and conservation of biodi-

versity, 3) global domestication of forest ecological resources,and 4) the sustainable management of FERs and NTFPs for

local community livelihoods. We seek to identify solutions forsustainable forest ecological resource management, the guarantee of livelihoods for local communities, and complimentary
understanding of the REDD+ safeguard.

Medical doctor (man with hat) and domestic medicinal plants

6of relatedness, both new and old. The debate around care andwhile Southeast Asia was simply considered lagging behind.
Public support systems and related policy have only recently
become an issue in the region. Meanwhile, in the social for-mation of Southeast Asian societies, the opposition of “publicvs. domestic” or the foursome division of the “public, domestic,
market, civilian” sectors as bearers of care cannot be considered

as predetermined separate domains. Where aging and mobility
is recently becoming a rising issue, what kinds of needs are
emerging, and how is care practiced? We hope these questions
will throw light on alternative ways of practicing and distributing care. First, we perform a country-based comparative

study of policies related to care and security in the various
countries, followed by on-the-ground field research on rela-tionships and loci of care. This has made us aware of new andold forms of social movements, activities, and relationships in

the region, and led us to reconsider the dynamics of Southeast
Asian societies through the concept of care and its social bases.

Visiting a day care center in a multi-ethnic society, Northern Thailand

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Longitudinal Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases in
Papua, Indonesia
Principal Investigator: OKUMIYA, Kiyohito
Period: FY2013–16
Only one previous follow-up study of Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinsonism in Papua, Indonesia has
been carried out since a survey was undertaken in 1962–81 by
Gajdusek and colleagues. Therefore, to clarify the clinical epidemiology of ALS and Parkinsonism in the southern coastal
region of Papua, the clinical characteristics and prevalence ofthe diseases in this region were examined and assessed.
Cases of ALS and Parkinsonism were clinically examined
during a 2001–15 survey in Bade and other villages along theIa, Edera, Dumut, and Obaa rivers in Papua. While the prevalence of ALS has decreased over the past 30–35 years, itremains higher than the global average. There was a high prevalence of overlapping ALS and Parkinsonism, which has also
been previously been reported in Guam and Kii.

Research team in a village along the Edera River in Mar. 2015

metropolitan development processes. The research hypothesizes
that contrary to the weakening role of the state in urban areas in
EU countries, the state still plays a significant role in metropolitan development in Southeast Asia’s urban areas.

Exploring the Sustainable Humanosphere in Rural Cambodia through Interdisciplinary Research on Changing
Connectivity and Livelihoods
Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI, Satoru
Period: FY2015–17
This study aims to explore the condition and direction of sustainable humanosphere in rural Cambodia. The sustainablehumanosphere is an analytical concept developed by CSEAS
colleagues that helps examine human lives on the earth in thepast, present, and future from a comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective. This study provides an illustration of the concept. Japanese researchers specialized in anthropology, agricultural ecology, crop science, rural economy, forestry, fisheries,
and land use collaborate with Cambodian researchers to conduct field research in rural communities in Pursat province,
Cambodia. This area has a rich diversity in agro-ecologicalfeatures and livelihoods: namely, fisheries, rice cultivation,
farming, collection of NTFP, off-farm business, and economic
migration. In addition to livelihood changes, similar to communities in other Southeast Asian countries, Pursat’s ruralcommunities are currently experiencing a rapid expansion andintensification of connectivity in various forms. This produceschanges in the ways of social life of the people. Through aholistic review of the information collected in Pursat province
and careful integration of insights both in social and naturalscience, the study will try to contribute to the understandingof the transformation of rural societies in Cambodia andSoutheast Asia in the 21st century.

Scientific Research (B)Governance of Development and Transformation ofStates in Metropolitan Southeast Asia

The Growth Mechanism in Next Generation Southeast
Asia and the Challenge to Its Political Economy

Principal Investigator: OKAMOTO, Masaaki

Principal Investigator: MIENO, Fumiharu

Period: FY2015–17

Period: FY2013–16

This research project aims to analyze the governance of metropolitan development in the globalizing Southeast Asia. With
rapid economic development, Southeast Asian countries havebecome more and more urbanized. Now 45 percent of the total
population in Southeast Asia is living in urban areas. Metropolitan areas are the center of the economy, politics, and culture, and the inter-connectedness between metropolitan areas
has been deepening and expanding. The rise of the neo-liberal
economy, democratization and decentralization, and the rapid
expansion of information technology have made metropolitan
development more and more complex. The role of the state in
metropolitan development has been seemingly shrinking withmore actors involved in this process. This research chooses Jakarta,
Bangkok, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur for the research sites
and analyzes the multi-layered collaborations and conflicts
among central government agencies, local government
agencies, and the domestic and foreign private actors in the

In Southeast Asia, the growth strategies of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand have achieved substantial
success in recent years. However, growth mechanisms are
slowly showing restraints, reflected by the changing circumstances of labor and demography, and the surplus of capital.
This is strengthening the necessity for reform in the cycle
between consumption and investment.
A newly emerging mechanism may be linked to environmentalrelated technology that can potentially shoulder next generation growth in the region. It will also help generate potential
solutions to newly emerging conflicts within societies over the
distribution of new wealth from economic growth.
Based on such concerns, this research project tries to capture the overall picture of the emergence of a next generation
growth mechanism and of the accompanying social transformation through cooperation among various fields in economics and political science.

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Study on Myanmar’s “Opening Up” Process and Obstacles to Democratization
Principal Investigator: CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin
Period: FY2013–16
This project will examine the opening up process in Myanmar
in political, economic, and social spheres in order to determine
whether Myanmar is democratizing or if it is moving towards
a new form of authoritarianism, perhaps one more consonantwith other contemporary authoritarian regimes in Asia. It
aims to 1) elucidate some “hidden facts” in the process of the
opening up of Myanmar, particularly the remaining power of
the army and the complicated ethnic politics, 2) explore obstacles to Myanmar’s democratization, 3) investigate the impactof the opening up process on the region, and 4) identify lessons for Myanmar that scholars and policy-makers alike candraw from democratization theory, and from comparisonswith other countries in the region.
After several decades under military rule, the generals
decided to open themselves to the world and beg for the endof the economic “sanctions” that had been “in place” for sometime. Soon, signs of democracy emerged. But some observers
are not so confident in the opening up process. Resurgent civil
war, communal conflict, and constraints on the burgeoning
print news media cast doubt on certain short-term prospects.

Establishing an Alternative Asian Rural Development
Model that Respects Traditional Culture and History
through Practice-Oriented Area Study

Towards a Paradigm Shift in Asian Agricultural FinanceResearch: Regional Comparative Study Focusing on
Differences in Rural Social Structure
Principal Investigator: FUJITA, Koichi
Period: FY2012–15
This research aims to conduct a regional comparative analysis
on the performance of agricultural/rural institutional financein major parts of Asia. It consists of historical research of agricultural finance in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and contemporary analysis in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia,
Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India.
The major hypothesis is that the performance of agricultural
cooperatives in each region had a close relationship with thestructural characteristics of rural society that were formed overa long period of time. In East Asia, we analyze why agricultural
cooperative finance was successful to varying degrees in the
pre-war period by connecting it with the difference/similarityof rural social structure within the region. In contrast, inSoutheast and South Asia, we analyze and criticize the current
quite high interest rate of around 3 percent per month in rural
microfinance lending. This has come to be under financial liberalization carried out since the 1980s and the flourishing of
microfinance on a wider scale. The ultimate purpose of theresearch is to critically analyze the current paradigm of agricultural/rural institutional finance that allows a high interest
rate structure, and thereby try to facilitate a paradigm shift ininstitutional credit supply in rural areas of developing countries.

Principal Investigator: YAJIMA, Kichiji
Period: FY2013–15
Asian villages have maintained diversified and individual cultures rooted in their local communities. However, until now
existing rural development approaches with the aim of economic development and modernization of livelihood have
paid little attention to these diversified and individual cultures.
Underrating traditional culture and history, which has been
passed down from one generation to the next in the community, discourages villagers from feeling fulfilled and taking
pride in living in rural communities. The spiritual bond of thecommunity has been weakened and problems of depopulation
and aging have emerged. Now, we think many rural communities may face disintegration.
This research aims to establish an alternative rural development approach that appreciates and encourages the importance of traditional culture and history in the local community
in Asian countries using the method of practice-oriented areastudies.
After two years of project implementation, villagers in the
project area have already begun keeping a record in writing
related to matters of the village, livelihoods, memories of thepast, and so on. We are sure this work will go a long way
toward better maintaining community in the village.

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American Intellectuals’ Changing Perspectives and the
U.S. Regional Strategies toward Asia during the Cold
War Period
Principal Investigator: KOIZUMI, Junko
Period: FY2012–15
This research project examines how American intellectuals
perceived Asia during the Cold War period by taking theCouncil on Foreign Relations and related organizations into
perspective. Drawing on archival records at various think tanks
and philanthropic organizations, it examines how Asia, particularly East Asia and Southeast Asia, was discussed and analyzed in a political and intellectual forum that brought policymakers, business elites, journalists, academics, and the generalpublic together.

Scientific Research (C)Cohort Study of Advance Care Planning of End of Life
from the Viewpoint of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Principal Investigator: WADA, Taizo
Period: FY2015–18
In 2025, the baby boomer generation will be over 75 years old,
and the estimated numbers of death per year will be 1.6 million, twice as much as the total number of births. Advancecare planning is a process of discussion regarding end of life
care among family, care givers, and medical staff to share

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patient’s values and preferences. Rather than simply writing
advance directives and living wills, the process of planning
itself is vital and essential for better end of life care. Advancecare planning might decrease the psychological burden of careand hopefully promise a better quality of life for patientsthemselves.

have promoted cooperation with institutions in Indochina
with the following objectives: 1) Update bibliographical datain the Southeast Asian Periodical Database, 2) Construct local
versions of the periodical database in Indochina, and 3) Establish a cross-institutional network among libraries.
Young Scientists (A)The Emergence of the Counter-Elite and Regime Change
in Southeast Asia
Principal Investigator: TOYAMA, Ayako

Effects of Rapid Environmental Changes in Tropical Peat
Swamp Forests on Material Cycling and Greenhouse Gas
Dynamics

Period: FY2015–17

Principal Investigator: ITOH, Masayuki

This research aims to compare the similarities and differencesof political systems in Southeast Asian countries by focusing
on the emergence and demise of their powerful political leaders. It examines the factors that cause regime change in developing democratic countries in this area.
So far, many powerful political leaders have emerged inSoutheast Asian countries. Despite gaining legitimacy byelected, some of them received a counterattack from the traditional elite and were finally ousted. In such cases the politicalregime then can also fall back to an authoritarian one. In thisstudy, we highlight Thaksin, former prime minister of Thailand, Mahathir, former prime minister of Malaysia, andEstrada, former president of the Philippines, and clarify the
structure of political regime changes by comparing these threepolitical leaders.

Period: FY2015–17

From Frontiers to Boundaries: How Was the Borderline
Drawn between British Burma and China (1886-1941)?
Principal Investigator: IMAMURA, Masao
Period: FY2015–17

The project will uncover how the territorial borderline wasdrawn between China and Myanmar (Burma). Between 1886
and 1941, Britain and China conducted a series of investigations and negotiations to demarcate the boundary. By examining recently published archival documents, this research will
reveal how the British and Chinese eventually used ethnolinguistic mapping to divide the border region into two state
territories. This research will bring new insights into the making of modern territorial states in Asia as a phase in global
history.

Tropical peat swamp forests have played an important role inboth water and carbon storage on a global scale. However,rapid environmental changes from the development of plantations has caused irreversible degradation. This study elucidates
the effects of human induced land-use change on the environment through hydrological and biogeochemical observations. I
especially focus on the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide andmethane) dynamics in the area while considering the effects ofdrainage. By comparing the natural forest with several stagesof degraded forests, during the few years of the project we canobserve the temporal changes in tropical peat swamp in
Southeast Asia.

Interaction of Lower Swamps and Hydrological Systems
in the Equatorial Southeast Asian Region
Principal Investigator: KOZAN, Osamu
Period: FY2013–15
This project aims to enhance the theoretical and empirical
understanding of the interaction between lower swamps andhydrological systems in the equatorial Southeast Asian region.
Based on in situ observational meteorology, and peat, groundwater, water quality, and CO2 emission data, a hydrologicalland surface model will be developed. This model will be coupled with a non-hydrostatic atmospheric model for numericalsimulation to estimate the impact of water drainage and largescale tree plantations on the hydrological system. Finally, thiscoupling model will be used to evaluate the role of lower
swamps on hydrological systems in the equatorial region.

Young Scientists (B)Research on Cross-Institutional Network Construction
through a Periodical Database in Three Countries in
Indochina

Reconsideration of the Relationship between HunterGatherers and Farmers in the Globalizing World

Principal Investigator: ONO, Mikiko

Principal Investigator: KATO, Yumi

Period: FY2014–16

Period: FY2015–18

Serial publications, such as newspapers and magazines, arevaluable materials that reflect each nation’s society. This projectbuilds cooperation between library staff and researchers inJapan and countries in Indochina, and reaches beyond theboundaries of institutions and countries. It aims to construct asystem of shared information, centering on a comprehensive
bibliography and database of Southeast Asian periodicals. We

This research explores the contemporary relationship between
post hunter-gatherer’s communities and farmer’s communities
in Southeast Asia. It mainly focuses on societies in Borneo but
also presents a comparative research with societies in peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The relationship between farmers and hunter-gatherers in previous
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their ties in forest products trade in Borneo. However, thecontemporary relationship between these two groups is changing, as both hunting and gathering and farming decrease, wages
for urban labor increases, and inter-marriage increases. The
research considers the new relationship between these groups
amidst contemporary changes and in the context of globalization.

Linguistic Diversity vs. Biodiversity in AustronesianAreas
Principal Investigator: NISHIMOTO, Noa
Period: FY2015–17

This study aims to 1) analyze and describe Tandroy Malagasy(spoken in the southern part of Madagascar) and Rurutu (spoken in French Polynesia, Austral islands), and possibly otherlanguages of the Austronesian family for a comparative perspective, 2) find the linkage between biodiversity and linguistic
diversity in my field areas by gathering data on the natural
world such as plants, animals, natural resources, and their uses,and 3) observe the number concept while conducting the fieldwork above, so as to sketch the non-literate world from ethnomathematic perspectives.

Study of the Corporate Interest of Myanmar’s Military ina Time of Transition
Principal Investigator: NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro
Period: FY2014–16

The aim of this research project is to examine civil-military
relations in Myanmar after the 2011 political transition fromthe military regime to the new government, focusing on the
military’s changing political role and security policy. Since themilitary’s rule seemed to be strong and durable with repressive
ways of governance, Myanmar’s political and economic
reforms after 2011 have surprised people in the country andthe world. This research project analyzes the impact of thereform process on the military’s corporate interest by criticallyreconsidering conventional understanding of the Myanmar
military’s interest.

Formulation of Health Check-Up System for the Elderlyin the Kingdom of Bhutan
Principal Investigator: SAKAMOTO, Ryota
Period: FY2013–16
We would like to introduce a health check-up for the elderly
because it is an important opportunity to grasp problems thatthe elderly may be facing and to prevent the elderly from future
diseases, disabilities, and deaths. The elderly should be cared
for through collaboration among family, neighbors, village
heads, medical facilities, schools, and so on. We should include
not only people who come to medical facilities but also people
who do not come to the facilities because some elderly people
cannot come to the facilities even if they want to. We hope theprogram will trigger and help to build up the bond and harmony in the communities.

10“Field Nutrition” Research on Lifestyle-Related Diseases
and Diet among Elderly People in Himalayan Highlands
Principal Investigator: KIMURA, Yumi
Period: FY2013–15
The increase in lifestyle-related diseases is becoming one of
the most serious health problems worldwide. Especially indeveloping countries, health systems and medical resources are
not yet adequate, so it is very important to address healthproblems through daily diet. This research focuses on the
Himalayan area, in particular high remote areas, where
lifestyle-related diseases are currently increasing through rapid
urbanization. The aim of this study is to evaluate these diseases
and their background through examining dietary habits and tosuggest possible interventions for their prevention. This study
is designed with “field nutrition,” a new research methodologythat combines nutritional assessment and cultural anthropology.

Challenging Exploratory Research

Sir Ernest Satow, Siam, and Asia
Principal Investigator: KOIZUMI, Junko
Period: FY2015–17
Ernest Satow is well known to the Japanese for his diplomatic
career in Japan first as an interpreter at the British legationand later as the British Minister Plenipotentiary, and for his
scholarly works on Japan. But it is less known that he also
served in Siam between 1884 and 1887, the crucial period of
growing European colonial expansion. This project explores
the diplomatic activities of Ernest Satow when he was in Siamby focusing on the role he played in Siam’s relations with East
Asia.

What Do China-India Encounters Bring About? Preliminary Research on Socio-Economic Transformations
among “Zomia”
Principal Investigator: FUJITA, Koichi
Period: FY2015–16
Expansion to the south by China and to the east by India isapparent in recent years and the two gigantic countries areconfronting each other at the northern part of continental
Southeast Asia, where many ethnic minorities live in themountains.
The aim of this research is to prepare for a larger research
project on socio-economic transformations of ethnic minorities (“Zomia”) in the future by undertaking two preparatory
tasks. One is to build an academic network among researchers
through organizing a series of seminars. The other is to conduct preliminary fieldwork focusing on Kachin ( Jinpaw) people in China, Myanmar, and India, with special emphasis on
unveiling their political, economic, social, and cultural strategies under different regimes in the three countries.

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Issues of Today
Principal Investigator: SHIMIZU, Hiromu
Period: FY2014–15
This is an attempt to explore and widen the scope of engaged
anthropology in two different directions. One is to tackle,
within a globalizing world, contemporary and common issues
at home such as environmental damage, sustainable development, human security, and social justice. The other is todevelop collaborative research and activities with local people
in the field to make contributions to finding means to deal
with, and if possible to solve, problems there. This is a preliminary and small project to re-imagine/re-invent cultural
anthropology for its own future as well as for the bettermentof civil society, coming about through making connections
inside and outside of each home country.

Study of a Site-Specific Rural Development Modelthrough Alternative Zaichi (existing locally) Cultural
Formation
Principal Investigator: ANDO Kazuo
Period: FY2014–15

People tend to think that depopulation, aging, and the abandonment of farming in mountainous areas are phenomenon
particular to developed countries like Japan, but that’s not thecase. Such problems are also becoming apparent even in devel-

oping countries in Asia such as Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Laos.
This project will try to reveal how new creative culturalactivities in the village are more important than economic
activities of urbanization in halting these problems. For thispurpose the project will implement collaborative research on
the current situation in domestic and foreign villages. Villagers
and/or related NPO members join academic researchers toengage in practice-oriented area studies. Through pilot programs by villagers who attend to the program spontaneously,
we can understand their reactions and the efficiency of the
program. Thus this project aims to ultimately establish analternative rural development model that is not achieved byurbanization.

Sino-Siamese Economic Relations without Tributes or
Treaties
Principal Investigator: KOIZUMI, Junko
Period: FY2012–15
This research project explores the development of economic
relations between Siam and China from the mid-19th to early
20th centuries when both countries had no formal diplomatic
relations. It does this by focusing on how both countries managed and regulated the growing flows of goods and people
without any formal institutional arrangements or channels fornegotiation.

Japan Consortium for Area Studies(JCAS)
http://www.jcas.jp/en/index.html
The Japan Consortium for Area Studies ( JCAS) is a new formof organizational collaboration consisting of research and educational institutes and learned societies engaged in studies on
various regions, as well as private-sector organizations closely
related to area studies. The consortium was founded in April
2004, integrating numerous organizations and groups ofresearchers dedicated to area studies independently operating
within universities and research institutes. In line with theoriginal purpose to promote information exchanges and joint
research activities across organizational borders, it has continued its efforts and has now developed into an academic community. As of 2015, there are 99 member institutions including CSEAS, which was one of the founding members. JCAS
continues to capitalize on the area studies network it has built
up over the years and is actively fostering collaborative projects. Since 2006, the Center for Integrated Area Studies(CIAS), Kyoto University has played a pivotal role as theheadquarters for the secretariat and promotes the following
activities: creation of area studies networks; promotion of collaborative research; linkages with academic societies; sharing
results with society; and promoting activities within Japan.
CSEAS actively participates with member institutions to continually foster and develop JCAS.
No.17 2014.10

No.17 2014.1
00No.17 2014.1■地域研究コンソーシアム■地域研究コンソーシアム――2014～2015年――2014～2015年度活動方針・計画■高校と大学の連度活動方針・
携計画■高校と大学の連携－JCASとスーパーグローバルスクール
ＪＣＡＳオンデマンド・セミナー
ンソーシアム
計画■地域研究コ
度活動方針・ 「災害・防災から見た東南アジア」～2015年■2014年度次世代ワークショップ支援――2014携ール■高校と大学の連ーグローバルスク－JCASとスーパプログラム採択結果について

ンド・セミナーＪＣＡＳオンデマ
見た東南アジア」
支援「災害・防災から代ワークショップ
■2014年度次世
果についてプログラム採択結活動の紹介者・■JCAS社会連携
法曹界・地域研究
難民支援に関する
ロジェクト
の連携プ
市民社会
■シンポジウム
き合ってきたかとどう向から世界はレイシズム
ーナリズムの現場―地域研究とジャセンター■加盟組織紹介
地域公共政策支援
特定非営利法人・紹介
移民政策学会ーシアム幹事組織■地域研究コンソ
もやいネット
人間学専攻
NPO法人平和環境
研究科グローバル
大阪大学人間科学■JCAS社会連携活動の紹介
難民支援に関する法曹界・地域研究者・
市民社会の連携プロジェクト■シンポジウム
世界はレイシズムとどう向き合ってきたか―地域研究とジャーナリズムの現場から■加盟組織紹介
特定非営利法人・地域公共政策支援センター
移民政策学会■地域研究コンソーシアム幹事組織紹介
NPO法人平和環境もやいネット
大阪大学人間科学研究科グローバル人間学専攻－JCASとスーパ
ーグローバルスク
ＪＣＡＳオンデマール
ンド・セミナー「災害・防災から見た東南アジア」■2014年度次世
代ワークショップ
プログラム採択結支援
果について■JCAS社会連携
活動の紹介
難民支援に関する法曹界・地域研究
市民社会の連携プ
者・
ロジェクト■シンポジウム
世界はレイシズムとどう向き合って―地域研究とジャきたかーナリズムの現場■加盟組織紹介から
特定非営利法人・
地域公共政策支援
移民政策学会センター■地域研究コンソーシアム幹事組織
NPO法人平和環境
紹介
もやいネット大阪大学人間科学
研究科グローバル
人間学専攻

国土のほとんどが乾燥地帯のオース
の農業地
国土のほとんどが乾燥地帯のオーストラリアで、南東部のMurray川やMurrumbidgee川沿いは、河川水を高度に利用した有数トラリアで、南東帯が広がる。水が部のMurray川や豊富なこの流域にロッパからの入植 数の農業地帯が広がる。水が豊富なこの流域にかつて居住していたアボリジニーのひとつWiradjuriの人たちは、19世紀以降、ヨーMurrumbidgee川
かつて居住してい者によって大きな高度に利用した有沿いは、河川水をたアボリジニーの灌木もまたその恵
ロッパからの入植者によって大きな迫害を受けた。水は、Wiradjuriの人たちにも入植者にも豊かさをもたらし、道沿いに生える
迫害を受けた。水沿いは、河川水を、ヨー
高度に利用した有ひとつWiradjuri
は、Wiradjuriのは、19世紀以降 みを享受する。
Murrumbidgee川
数
灌木もまたその恵みを享受する。
の人たちは、19
える人たちにも入植者
iradjuriの人たち
部のMurray川や世紀以降、ヨーらし、道沿いに生
ジニーのひとつWにも豊かさをもたトラリアで、南東
Photo by YANAGISAWA Masayukiにも豊かさをもた住していたアボリ
らし、道沿いに生
乾燥地帯のオース
人たちにも入植者の流域にかつて居える
国土のほとんどがMasayuki
は、Wiradjuriのる。水が豊富なこ
YANAGISAWA
Photo by
迫害を受けた。水Photo byの農業地帯が広がYANAGISAWA
て大きな
者によっ
Masayuki
ロッパからの入植みを享受する。
灌木もまたその恵JCAS Newsletter No.17, Oct. 2014

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Global Survivability Studies, GSS Unit
Inter-Graduate School Program for Sustainable Development and Survivable Societies
http://gss-sv01.gss.sals.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en.html
GSS is the designation for the program called “Leading Graduate School (LGS) or Super Doctor” Educational Program for
Sustainable Development and Survivable Societies, involving
industry, government agencies, international organizations,and domestic and overseas universities. It aims to educate
selected graduate students so that they obtain the ability to see
and analyze things from global and multidisciplinary standpoints,
and to make flexible decisions by holistic approaches. GSS is
supported by nine graduate schools and three research institutes, including CSEAS, and accepts graduate students interested in the field of safety and security of humans. Two professors of CSEAS and three graduate students under direct
guidance of CSEAS faculty members joined the GSS programin the academic year 2014.
CSEAS also contributed to GSS by offering a course conducted overseas (categorized as an international exchange program) that deals with infectious diseases and food safety. The
participating GSS students experienced teaching at a workshop on seafood safety held at Andalas University in association with Indonesian Society for Microbiology (ISM). The
GSS students also attended the 7th International Seminar of

ISM to learn, exchange opinions, and discuss the current status of infectious diseases and food safety in Indonesia, a ruralcountry in Southeast Asia. The GSS students subsequently
visited the Environmental Health Institute and Environmental Health Department of the National Environment Agency
in Singapore, the most urbanized country in Southeast Asia.
GSS students learned the situation of infectious diseases andfood safety there and then were asked to think about the gap
in these subjects between Indonesia and Singapore.

A snapshot during the workshop held at Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia on
Oct. 13–15, 2014. Prof. Nishibuchi’s group conducted the workshop as an international exchange program of GSS.

C-PIER Unit
Human Security Development Educational Unit for the ASEAN University Network (AUN)-Kyoto University (KU) Student Mobility Program
http://www.hsd.cpier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html
Since fiscal year 2013 this unit has carried out a student mobility program between Kyoto University (KU) and the ASEAN
University Network (AUN) in the fields related to humansecurity development under the JSPS-funded “Re-Inventing
Japan Project.” AUN was established in 1995 for promoting
educational and research collaboration among leading universities in ASEAN countries and currently consists of 30 universities in 10 ASEAN countries. The student mobility program, managed by the academic consortium KU-AUN, aims
to nurture future leaders to be able to work across nationalboarders and connect with individual regions, to create positive synergetic effects. On the KU side, the Graduate Schoolof Energy Science, the Graduate School of Agriculture, theDivision of Southeast Asian Area Studies in the Graduate
School of Asian and African Area Studies, the School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, the Instituteof Advanced Energy, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies,and the Organization for the Promotion of International
Relations team up.
In the program, various courses, lectures, summer schools,
as well as a double degree program, in subjects related to human
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security, including environment and energy, food and water,
and public health, are developed and offered to graduate students as well as undergraduate students. The courses, lectures,and summer schools incorporate the characteristic strengths ofeach participating region, and are eligible for credit transfer atparticipating universities. They provide participating students
with opportunities to realize a sense of mission, master anissue, and create a solution to global issues.

Visiting a geothermal power station on the Dieng Plateau, Indonesia through asummer school arranged by Gadjah Mada University

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Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit (KUASU)
http://www.kuasu.cpier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/
KUASU is a center for interdisciplinary integration of researchon the Asian region, yet it maintains the uniqueness of eachresearch discipline. We are taking the lead in realizing the systematization and integration of Japanese studies and Asianstudies in collaboration with partner universities and research
institutions. CSEAS jointly runs KUASU with eight departments in Kyoto University.
KUASU conveys an International collaborative programfor graduate studies that realizes the education and researchsupervision of graduate students through international collaboration with partner universities. Joint courses, workshops,
field work, internships, and other joint undertakings are
implemented. Students can carry out a part of their course
work at partner universities and write their theses under jointsupervision from professors from partner universities. Professors are dispatched in both directions, and course development
and accreditation are carried out jointly.
KUASU focuses on reinforcing international ties between
academic institutions to jointly explore the economic, social,and cultural diversities and commonalities among Asian coun-tries. In particular, KUASU is laying the foundation for further international joint research activities in the Asian region.
For example, KUASU is collecting, translating, and sharing
fundamental data sets and important research achievements
published in different languages in the region, and building
databases for international comparative research.

Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS)
http://iss.iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp/iss/index_en.html
The Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS) was organized in2006 to promote integrated transdisciplinary studies free fromthe existing academic boundaries of faculties and fields inorder to pursue a new type of science for the sustainable existence of humankind. The ISS has made an effort at the groupand individual level to encourage discussion between researchers and to study different fields so that we can overcome interdisciplinary challenges.
The institute started as a joint research unit that combined
the four research institutes on Uji campus (the Institute for
Chemical Research, Institute of Advanced Energy, ResearchInstitute for Sustainable Humanosphere, and Disaster Prevention Research Institute) and CSEAS. In 2010, the Institute of
Economic Research and the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies joined the unit.

In 2007 the unit started the “Mobile Site Type Researchon Sustainability Science” to pursue practical solutions, implementation, and application as a practical site. Since then
CSEAS has implemented the “Practical Oriented Area Studyon the Revitalization of Networking Society by ‘Zaichi’(indigenous rural community) and Local Town” in Shiga andKyoto prefectures. Many unique programs were implemented
in collaboration with local people (such as that with Moriyama
City office), mainly by Dr. Ando’s project.
In 2012 ISS selected the theme of “lifespan of the humanspecies, society, and the environment” as its basic concept. Prof.
Matsubayashi’s group from CSEAS primarily developed theidea and subsequent research along this theme.

Misaki-cho residents’ association in Moriyama City has a monthly meeting forrevitalization of the area.

Memorial photo after international workshop held by a local NGO coping withcyclone disaster reduction in Hatia Island of Bangladesh

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Mitigating Cyclone and Flood Damage in Myanmar:
Applying Bangladesh’s Successful Experiences

SPIRITS: Supporting Program for Interaction-Based Initiative Team Studies
Principal Investigator: ANDO, Kazuo

The project surveys damage caused by natural disasters(cyclone and flood) to find mitigating measures in Bangladesh
and Myanmar, both of which face the Bay of Bengal, have big
delta areas at river mouths, and face similar natural disasterproblems. Bangladesh has succeeded in overcoming natural
disasters considerably in the past. It is important and valuablethat these success cases should be modified and applied tosimilar disasters in Myanmar. Japanese organizations such as
Kyoto University are in an appropriate position to be able tocoordinate academic institutions such as universities and practical originations such as NGOs to overcome the complicatedofficial relationship between Myanmar and Bangladesh. The

project has the following methodologies and expected outputs:
1) Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) to survey the damageof cyclone and flood affected areas, 2) collection and discussion of the data on the operational system of the Bangladesh
Meteorological Department, in particular the prediction of
cyclones, meteorological data, and transmission system, 3)
determination of the status of cyclone shelters in Bangladesh
by visiting cyclone shelters along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, where severe cyclones land frequently, 4) collection of
information on cyclone shelters, including numbers, specifications, and distribution, and 5) international and internal workshops and seminars to disseminate project findings.

A village house at the edge of the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. It is easily damaged by cyclone and high wave because of the poor surrounding forest.

A village house at Hatia Island in Bangladesh. The forest surrounding the houseis rich and the shape of roof is designed to avoid the window.

Learning Rural Development Problems in Asia andJapan through Mutual Enlightened PracticeOriented Area Studies
COC Project sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Principal Investigator: ANDO, Kazuo

Kyoto University has implemented a COC project sponsoredby the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Scienceand Technology under the government of Japan since 2013,namely the COCOLOIKI Project “Kyoto Future Creation
Center Project: Human Development Project.” CSEAS has
participated in this project through the project “Learning
Rural Development Problems in Asia and Japan throughMutual Enlightened Practice-Oriented Area Studies,” which
is managed by the department of Practice-Oriented Area
Studies in collaboration with ASAFAS. This program consistsof the following four components: 1) practice-oriented areastudies through learning the practices of people living in villages in the areas of Kyoto and Shiga, 2) learning “nature andculture focusing on agricultural activities” by examining worldwide agricultural problems, 3) learning about rural development in Bhutan as a way of analyzing rural development
problems of Kyoto, and 4) learning about the problems ofde-population and agricultural abandonment through partici-

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patory action research at zaichi or local sites. All of these areconducted as part of a regular class, such as Pocket Seminars,
for Kyoto University students. The aim of this program is todevelop the human resources to support rural people facing
the problems of de-population and agricultural abandonment
in Japan as well as Asian countries such as Bhutan throughlearning re-vitalization practices of people and communities.

A distant view of a settlement facing depopulation and abandoned farmland in Bhutan

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Toward the Regeneration of Tropical Peatland Societies:

Establishment of an International Research Network andProposals for a Better Future
Institutional Collaboration Projects with Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Feasibility Studies (FS)
http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/project/FS-2015_6.html

Principal Investigator: MIZUNO, Kosuke

This project focuses on global environmental issues relating totropical peat swamp forest, a very fragile ecological systemthat stores huge amounts of carbon and water. The purpose ofthis project is to offer perspectives for the “futurability” oftropical peat land society by discussing and implementing

appropriate, concrete methods to conserve and utilize the peatswamp. Project research pays marked attention to the ecological and social characteristics of the particular area and local
peoples.

Signboard in the state forest area says “Don’t make forest fires” yet this state forest area has already been extinguished by fire and become a bare land after intensive and repeated peat fires.

Simple dam for rewetting and preventing peat fires in adrainage canal, constructed by our FS and the local community

A New Microbiology Laboratory Started outside
the Campus
For the first time in the history of CSEAS, a full-fledged
microbiology laboratory operated by Prof. Nishibuchi’s groupbecame operational in the summer of 2014. Previously thegroup ran their experiments in the laboratory belonging toand kindly provided by Prof. Masao Mitsuyama, Microbiology
Section, Graduate School of Medicine, where Prof. Nishibuchi
served as a faculty member until he moved to CSEAS.
Prof. Nishibuchi’s new laboratory is a so-called rental laboratory belonging to an incorporated foundation. The foundation’s name translates into English as the “Kinki District
Invention Center” and is located in the basement of the facility.
The building, facing Kawabata Street, is just two blocks (250meters) away from CSEAS to the north.
Prof. Nishibuchi’s laboratory is 90 m2 wide and includes basic
sections where chemicals, reagents, and kits are stored and where
DNA can be analyzed by a real-time PCR, and nucleotide
sequencing, LAMP equipment, and a BSL2 facility where biosafetylevel 2 pathogens such as Vibrio cholerae, enterohaemorrhagic
Eschrichia coli O157, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be handled. In addition to this floor, there is an upper floor, called theloft, where people can relax by enjoying a chat, food, and drink.

Those who are interested in this lab are welcome to visit forscientific and relaxing purposes.
Address: Room B14-4d Kyoto Kagakugijyutu Center,
Hatsumei Center Building, 14 Yoshida Kawaramachi,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-830, Japan
Tel. +81-75-761-2700 Fax. +81-75-761-2701

The western corner of the lab where apart of the main floor and that of theupper floor structure are shown

The lab members having a good timein the loft

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This picture is a courtesy of Dave Lumenta.

The core components of CSEAS are the Research Divisions of Integrated Area Studies, Human-Nature Dynamics,
Socio-Cultural Dynamics, Economic and Political Dynamics, and Division of Information and Network for Area Studies.
The mission of each research division is to promote Southeast Asian studies mainly based on natural sciences, humanities
and social sciences, respectively.

Division of Integrated Area Studies
This division explores the age of information and globalization through synthetic and holistic approaches, and pursues
comparative research on areas within and transcending the boundaries of Southeast Asia, as well as on regional information
systems. In addition, the division integrates and coordinates the research of the Center in collaboration with the otherresearch divisions and the Division of Information and Network for Area Studies.

Division of Human-Nature Dynamics
This division explores the co-existence of humans and their environment. The Ecological Resources section pursues
research on human ecology, environmental management systems, and resources. The Life Environment section studies
food, nutrition, and hygiene in relation to the environment.

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
This division explores the changing interactions of culture, society, and ecology through perspectives that challenge thedisciplinary and geographic boundaries shaping past studies of Southeast Asia. It studies social transformations, cultural
aspects of production, the creation of borderland spaces, and everyday life, as well as religion, knowledge practices, theinstitution of culture, and gender and sexuality.

Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
This division studies the political and economic dynamics of Southeast Asia in the context of globalization and regionalization. The division aims to analyze fundamental transformations in the arena of the political economy in Southeast Asia
such as political-economic regionalization, neoliberal economic trends and its reactions, and democratization.

Division of Information and Network for Area Studies
This division provides various information resources, an information infrastructure based on the Internet, and a support
system for highly utilized resources in area studies. Also, in order to build the concept and discipline of area informatics asa research field at the Center, the division explores a methodology for applying informatics in area studies.
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ITOH, Masayuki

Division of Integrated
Area Studies

Assistant Professor

1. Material cycling in various tropical ecosystems
2. Human impacts on material cycling in tropical forests andpeatlands
3. Methane flux characteristics in tropical peat swamp forests
in Indonesia

KONO, Yasuyuki
Professor, Director

1. Sustainable humanosphere studies
2. Land and water resources management
3. Livelihood transition

BADENOCH, Nathan

Program-Specific Associate Professor
1. Linguistic diversity
2. Anthropological linguistics of Southeast Asia
3. Social adaptation and resilience

HAYAMI, Yoko

Professor, Deputy Director
1. Religion across the border in Thailand and Myanmar
2. Family and social foundations of care in Southeast Asia
3. Upland minorities in Mainland Southeast Asia

TORII, Kiyoshi
Affiliated Professor

Division of Human-Nature
Dynamics

1. Developing regional crisis management models using
scenario-based three-dimensional images
2. Creating topographic maps of study areas through satellite
images and DEM
3. Analyzing the historical development of large-scale irrigation systems using remote sensing images and GIS

KOBAYASHI, Shigeo

MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo

Affiliated Professor

Professor, Deputy Director

1. Comparative area study on the health of the communitydwelling elderly in Japan and in Southeast Asian communities from the standpoints of ecology and culture
2. Healthcare design for community-dwelling elderly in
Bhutan3. Neurodegenerative diseases in New Guinea

1. REDD+ safeguard
2. Incentives for local communities to participate in REDD+
3. Global domestication of NTFPs

WADA, Taizo

Affiliated Associate Professor
1. Cross-cultural survey of older adults’ perspectives on
advance care planning

NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki
Professor

1. Elucidation of interrelationships between the natural environment and human activities (cultural, social, economic,etc.) specific to Asia through analysis of enteric infections
2. Safety of the food traded across international borders in
Asia

KOZAN, Osamu
Associate Professor

1. Sustainability of large-scale tree plantations in peat swamp
forests of Indonesia
2. Wildfire monitoring in the equatorial region of Southeast
Asia

OKUMIYA, Kiyohito
Affiliated Associate Professor

1. Longitudinal study of neurodegenerative diseases in Papua,Indonesia
2. Cohort study of community-dwelling elderly in Tosa town,Japan
3. Interrelationship between hypoxic adaptation andlifestyle-related diseases among high-altitude people

FUJISAWA, Michiko
Affiliated Associate Professor

1. Practice of healthcare design planning for the elderly in
Bhutan2. Aging among elderly highlanders in New Guinea
3. Comparative study of aging among humans and chimpanzees

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NAKAGUCHI, Yoshitsugu
Affiliated Associate Professor

1. Areal infectious diseases in Southeast Asia
2. Enteric infection caused by seafood consumption
3. Evaluation of human health risks in the traditional foods

NAITO, Daisuke

Affiliated Associate Professor
1. Political ecology; Southeast Asian area studies
2. Market-driven natural resource management
3. Global environmental governance

KUWATA, Mikinori
Affiliated Assistant Professor

1. Atmospheric chemistry of haze in Southeast Asia

SAKAMOTO, Ryota

Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)
1. Health promotion for the elderly in the Kingdom of
Bhutan2. History and future prospects of public health in Japan
3. Potential sources of Legionnaires’ Disease

BAO, Maohong

Visiting Research Scholar
1. Philippine studies
2. Environmental history of Southeast Asia
3. Maritime history of Asia

TRAN, Do Van

Program-Specific Researcher
1. Carbon sequestration in tropical forests
2. Recovery of forests in Southeast Asian countries

NOSE, Mitsuhiro
Researcher

1. Rural development in Ladakh, northern India
2. Health care design of physical and productive activities in
Kochi, Japan
3. Utilization of regional products in remote areas

CHEN, Wen Ling
Researcher

1. Social cohesion and health in old age
2. Quality of life of community-dwelling elderly

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SHIODERA, Satomi
Researcher

1. Human-induced disturbance and reforestation of tropicalforests
2. Impact evaluation of drainage canal construction in tropicalpeat swamp forests
3. Adaptation of tree and leaf traits to various environmental
stresses

KAYALI, Ahmad Yaman
Researcher

1. Development of a detection method for enterohemorrhagic
Escherichia coli (EHEC) in retail beef worldwide

KATO, Emiko
Affiliated Researcher

1. Health of pregnant women in Bhutan
2. Maternal and child health in Bhutan

FUKUTOMI, Eriko
Affiliated Researcher

1. Longitudinal study of healthcare for community-dwellingelderly in Japan
2. Effects of practice of medicine and care on the elderly inJapan
3. Healthcare policy in Asia

ISHIMOTO, Yasuko
Affiliated Researcher

1. Fall prevention for community-dwelling elderly
2. Factors related to the decline of activities of daily living(ADL) among elderly people in Bhutan
3. Health of Monpa people in Northeast India

UEYAMA, Toru
Research Fellow

1. Global propagation path analysis of intestinal infectious
diseases
2. Intestinal infectious disease research using genome informatics technology

SHIRAKAWA, Koichi
Research Fellow

1. Theoretical epidemiological analysis of dynamic change inmalaria patients in Sarawak, Malaysia
2. Systems biochemical search for infectious control factors for
Plasumodium spp.
3. Structural biological analysis of host defense and drug resistance mechanisms of malaria

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Division of Socio-Cultural
Dynamics

2. Colonial cities in Southeast Asia
3. Peripheral and marginal history in Asia

JIRATTIKORN, Amporn
Visiting Research Scholar

SHIMIZU, Hiromu
Professor

1. Area studies for mitigation and rehabilitation of natural
disasters
2. Ethno-genesis of the indigenous Pinatubo Aeta after the
1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in Luzon
3. Socio-cultural history of Yokosuka City under the shadowof the US Naval Base for the 7th Fleet

KOIZUMI, Junko
Professor

1. Migration from Myanmar to Thailand
2. Shan ethno-nationalism
3. Media and popular culture

TANGSEEFA, Decha
Visiting Research Scholar

1. Political theory, cultural studies, and critical international
studies, especially in relation to migration and border politics
2. Thai-Burmese borderland
3. Community engagement for medical intervention

CLAUDIO, Lisandro Elias

1. Modern Thai history
2. Intellectual history

Program-Specific Researcher

1. Philippine intellectual history
2. The third world and the global south
3. Comparative Marxist movements

ISHIKAWA, Noboru
Professor

1. Resource frontier of maritime Southeast Asia
2. Plantationocene and Southeast Asia
3. Highland-Lowland relations

SURYOMENGGOLO, Jafar
Program-Specific Researcher

1. Working class narratives in Indonesia
2. Labor unions in 1950s Indonesia

HAU, Caroline Sy
Professor

1. Literature and culture of Southeast Asia (particularly thePhilippines)
2. Chinese overseas in Southeast Asia
3. Nationalism and regionalism in East Asia

BAUTISTA, Julius
Associate Professor

IMAMURA, Masao
Researcher

1. Frontier as a modern imaginary
2. Protestant missions in upland Southeast Asia (the Kachin
region of Myanmar in particular)
3. Vernacularism as a modern historical movement

NAOI, Riyo

1. World religions in comparative perspective
2. The history and anthropology of Christianity in Asia
3. Culture, society, and politics of the Philippines

Researcher

KATO, Yumi

Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)
1. Ethnicity and ethnic minority in Borneo
2. Human-animal relationship
3. Relations between Indonesian migrant workers and local
communities in Malaysia

1. Social relationships surrounding people with HIV in
Northern Thailand
2. Changing lifestyles of Myanmar refugees in a refugee campon the Thailand-Myanmar border
3. A filmmaker’s perspective on representing reality

SAKUMA, Kyoko
Affiliated Researcher

1. Riverine trade in Borneo
2. Leadership and origin myth in Borneo
3. Indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia

OOI, Keat Gin

Visiting Research Scholar
1. War and conflict; the Cold War in East Asia and Southeast
Asia

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TAZAKI, Ikuko
Affiliated Researcher

1. Dynamics of religious practice and socio-economic relationships among Protestant Karen in Northern Thailand
2. Protestantism and its impacts on work ethics
3. Changing concepts of gift and reciprocity under the influence of Christianity

IMAMURA, Jackie
Affiliated Researcher

1. Southeast Asian studies and English
2. Political and social change in Southeast Asia

HAMAYA, Mariko
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

1. Female renouncers’ way of living in contemporary India
2. Re-construction of family and home in the areas aroundpilgrimage centers
3. Indigenous feminism

NARISAWA, Noriko
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

1. Livelihood diversification and gender in rural Africa
2. Gift-giving for developing personal friendships among
women in Africa
3. Women’s agency and development

KOJIMA, Takahiro
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

1. Religious practices of Theravada Buddhists on the ChinaMyanmar border
2. The role of lay specialists who recite Buddhist texts in
Myanmar
3. Upland-lowland interaction through the lens of Buddhist
practice

Division of Economic andPolitical Dynamics

3. Regeneration of tropical peatland societies: Proposals forthe future
4. Endogenous development in Indonesia and alternative
paths of economic development in Southeast Asia

FUJITA, Koichi
Professor

1. Comparative study of rural social structure and economic
development in Asia
2. Socio-economic transformations among ethnic minorities(specifically “Zomia”) in China, Southeast Asia, and India
3. Agriculture and rural development in India and South Asia

MIENO, Fumiharu
Professor

1. Financial systems and corporate finance vis-à-vis thegrowth mechanism of ASEAN countries
2. Economy and economic reform in Myanmar
3. Growth and re-distribution mechanisms in Thailand and
ASEAN4 in a new age

OKAMOTO, Masaaki
Associate Professor

1. Local and urban politics in Southeast Asia
2. Political economy of oil palm plantation development inSoutheast Asia
3. Security privatization in Southeast Asia

CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin
Associate Professor

1. Domestic politics and international relations of Thailand
2. Politics of mainland Southeast Asia and interstate relations
3. Regional integration and ASEAN

NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro
Associate Professor

1. Civil-military relations and violent conflicts in Burma/
Myanmar
2. Transformation of political parties in Burma/Myanmar
3. Security issues in Southeast Asia

KANO, Hiroyoshi
MIZUNO, Kosuke
Professor

1. Resource management by people’s organizations (including
trade unions) and institutional changes under democratizedand decentralized Indonesia
2. Regional sustainable humanosphere in Indonesia based onlong-term data and fieldwork

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Affiliated Professor

1. Economic history of modern rural Java, with special reference to linkage of agrarian change and non-agricultural
economic development
2. Development of oil palm plantation enterprises in Indonesia
3. Change of inter-regional relations in parallel with the economic development of Southeast Asia

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geo-informatics technologies

SUZUKI, Haruka

Affiliated Assistant Professor
1. Ecological resource use in coastal communities in Indonesia
2. Wood analysis of local wooden dwellings in Indonesia
3. Peatland conservation by multiple stakeholders in Indonesia

SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu
Affiliated Assistant Professor

1. Sustainable management of tropical forests
2. REDD+
3. Spatio-temporal variation of ecological phenomena in aseasonal tropics

HAYASHI, Kengo
Affiliated Assistant Professor

1. History of urban residences in modern and contemporary
Indonesia
2. Discovering an ideal house for emerging megacities inSoutheast Asia
3. Creating a City Sustainability Index (CSI)

BONANNO, Gianluca
Affiliated Assistant Professor

1. Pan-Asianism (through a comparative analysis focused on
Southeast Asia)
2. The proliferation of trans-boundary issues in the Greater
Mekong Sub-region
3. Urbanization and ethnic relocation in mainland Southeast
Asia

HANSSON, Eva
Visiting Research Scholar

1. Democratization; political regime change
2. Social movements; state-civil society
3. International politics

Hnin Yu Lwin
JSPS Fellow

1. Rural development and poverty alleviation in the Central
Dry Zone, Myamnmar
2. Toddy palm tenancy and jaggery marketing system under
rapid economic change and development in the Central
Dry Zone, Myanmar

KAWAMURA, Chiyo
Affiliated Researcher

1. Kinship and the community-based industry batik in Yogyakarta, Central Jawa
2. Javanese “Trah”
3. Industry of batik and cooperative associations in Central
Jawa

KONYA, Akari
Affiliated Researcher

1. Narrative art in Palau, Micronesia
2. Oral tradition culture in the Pacific region
3. Cultural/Political relations in the Asia-West Pacific region

FUJITA, Motoko

NISHIMOTO, Noa

Affiliated Researcher

Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. Biodiversity and forest management in tropical Asia
2. Feeding ecology of edible-nest swiftlet and sustainable
management
3. Ecosystem function of birds as nutrient transporters

1. Austronesian studies
2. Number concept in non-literate societies
3. Linguistic diversity vs. biodiversity

MASUDA, Gaku

KONISHI, Tetsu

Affiliated Assistant Professor

Affiliated Researcher

1. Development of mosquito traps for malaria control
2. Muslim and traditional learning networks
3. Use of visual methods and aerial drones for field science

1. Corporate governance, finance, and political connections inIndonesia
2. Monetary policy and financial development in Indonesia
3. Business and politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia

WATANABE, Kazuo
Affiliated Assistant Professor

1. Local community development through the “Area Capability
Approach”
2. Natural resource assessment using satellite and unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV/Drone)
3. Integration of natural and social information by using

KAYANE, Yuka
Affiliated Researcher

1. Politics of natural resources in Indonesia
2. Political process in democratized Indonesia
3. Indonesia’s economic nationalism

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TOYAMA, Ayako
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

1. The role of the judiciary in democratization: A comparison
between Thailand and Indonesia
2. Political regime changes and political leaders in Southeast
Asian countries
3. Bureaucracy in Thailand

IGA, Tsukasa

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
1. The relationship between media and political regime inSoutheast Asia
2. Political scandals in Malaysia
3. Social movements and LGBT politics in Southeast Asia

KAWAMURA, Ai
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

1. Dispute resolution system for Islamic finance in Malaysia
2. Dispute resolution system for Islamic finance3. Conflict of law in Islamic finance

Division of Information and
Network for Area StudiesLÓPEZ, Mario Ivan
Associate Professor

1. Provisioning of care in super-aging societies in Asia and theAsia-Pacific region
2. Transnational migration within Southeast Asia

KITANI, Kimiya
Assistant Professor

1. Resource sharing system for Southeast Asian periodicals
2. Possibility of information transmission utilizing open source
software

SHITARA, Narumi
Assistant Professor

1. Academic publishing
2. Transition of Southeast Asian studies in Japan

ONO, Mikiko
Assistant Professor

1. Collection development in Southeast Asia
2. Construction of co-sharing and co-use system for information resources in Southeast Asia
3. Archiving and digitization of Vietnamese historical materials

SALIM, Muhammad
Distinguished Visiting Professor

ANDO, Kazuo
Associate Professor

1. To identify the significance of the area consisting of TibetoBurma language groups in the area of Bangladesh, Northeast India, Myanmar, and Laos
2. To prepare an alternative paradigm of agriculture and ruraldevelopment through the subjective participation of people
from villages in Japan and Asian countries in order todevelop a concrete action program
3. To develop the practice-oriented area studies or a unique
Area Study methodology through “awareness of zaichi,”“sense of ownership,” and “institutional understanding”

KOBAYASHI, Satoru
Associate Professor

1. Area Informatics approach to the study of religion andsociety
2. Transformation of rural societies in Southeast Asia
3. Construction of “public sphere” in post-war/conflict societies

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1. Participatory approaches and their application in agriculturaland rural development
2. Farmers’ ecological knowledge and wisdom fostering sustainable agricultural development and livelihood improvement
3. Food security through an interdisciplinary approach

UCHIDA, Haruo
Affiliated Professor

1. Rural hydrological analysis of water, environment, and agricultural technology in Bangladesh
2. Natural disaster analysis in the areas surrounding the Bay of
Bengal3. Practice-oriented area study on reduction of cyclone disasters in Bangladesh and Myanmar

HAYASHI, Taiichi
Affiliated Professor

1. Reduction of meteorological disasters in South Asia
2. Impact of weather factors on human activities
3. Water and energy circulation and resources in Southeast
and South Asia

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SUZUKI, Reiji

IMAKITA, Tetsuya

Affiliated Associate Professor

Affiliated Researcher

1. Effects of swidden cultivation on long-term change in forest
soil and vegetation
2. Revaluation of indigenous knowledge inherited from Japanese swidden cultivation
3. Practical approaches to establishing sustainable livelihoodsof local communities

SWE, Khin Lay

1. Historical change in the utilization of mountain forest, bush,and grassland and its regional differences
2. Restoration of the traditional utilization of mountain forests, bush, and grassland in western and northern parts ofLake Biwa
3. Rehabilitation of secondary forest dominated by Quercus
trees and the reconstruction of sustainable livelihood

SHIMADA, Nahoko

Visiting Research Scholar

Affiliated Researcher

1. Satoyama landscapes in Japan and Myanmar
2. Natural resource management and rural development
3. Climate change adaptation in agriculture
4. Low carbon economy and climate smart agriculture

1. Eco-history of sacred places in Southeast Asia
2. Landscape

KIMURA, Yumi

SEIGER, Fiona-Katharina

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

JSPS Fellow

1. Sociology of migration, discourse analysis
2. Japanese-Filipino children and youth in the Philippines andJapan, ethnic identity constructions, cross-border mobility
and processes of rights-assertion
3. NGO activism on behalf of Japanese-Filipinos

1. Diet and health of elderly people in community
2. Dietary changes and lifestyle-related diseases within communities

Japanese Visiting Scholar

YAJIMA, Kichiji
Researcher

1. Preservation of traditional cultures and local nature for
future generations through development of Village Folk
Cultural Museum
2. Community development through collaboration amongresidents, academics, and local administrations
3. Practice-oriented area studies as an alternative method of
research

TOYOTA, Tomoya

Professor

1. Global economic history
2. Environmental foundations of postwar Asian economic
development
3. The history of intra-Asian trade

YOKOTA, Sachiko

Affiliated Researcher

1. Atagoyama pilgrimage post station and expansion of settlement regeneration activities in Kiyotaki, Japan
2. Hands-on activities toward world heritage status for the
Hozu River in Kameoka, Japan

FUJII, Miho

SUGIHARA, Kaoru

Researcher

1. Cross-border marriage of overseas Chinese in Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia
2. Re-migration experience of Chinese Indonesians in theCold War era
3. Hainanese Chinese network in Indonesia

Affiliated Researcher
1. Local people’s wisdom
2. Public river management

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42 1

55

SwedenUnited Kingdom

49 3
58
France29

42 Holland
34

1

38

Germany
Japan

10 20

2

China

South Korea

13
13

22

1

Egypt

14

4

1

16
4

India

100
2

18
22

1
23
9

1

61

1
Madagascar

Visiting Researchers

1（As of Sep. 2015）

1

1 ～ 1011

11 ～ 20

21

21 ～ 5051

51 ～ 100

MOUs

8Australia

53

by year of conclusion

1

National Coordination Agency for Surveys and Mapping2

Research Institute and Graduate Programs, Hasanuddin University

3

Yezin Agricultural University

4

The SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition

5

International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh

6

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

7

National Islamic University

8

Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University

9

Cenderawasih University

24

Ministry of Health, the Kingdom of Bhutan

25

University of Riau

26

The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jinan University

27

Hanoi Agricultural University

28

Gorontalo State University

29

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)

30

Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley

31

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

32

Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Vietnam National University

33

Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi Nan University

10 Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

34

Southeast Asian Studies Program, University of Freiburg

11 Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture,35

Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology

36

The Research Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University

37

Faculty of Political Science, Ubon Ratchathani University

38

The Southeast Asian and Development Studies Programme, Passau University

39

Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University

40

Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong

41

Development Academy of the Philippines

42

The Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm University

43

Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ), Timor-Leste

44

The Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University

Faculty of Social Science, National University of Laos

12 Sultan Agung Tirtayasa University
13 Center for Asian Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
14 The Institute for Research and Community Services, Padjadjaran University
15 Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA)
16 Royal University of Agriculture (RUA)
17 Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
18 Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan
19 Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University
20 The Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University
21 University of the Philippines
22 The Department of Aquatic Food Processing and Preservation,

College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, China
23 Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

24

45 The National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
46

The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University

47

The Malaysian Forestry Research and Development Board

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27

23

30

Nepal

18 24

36

Bhutan59

Bangladesh

11 45

Myanmar

5

3

64

17
19

65

Laos

63
VietnamThailand 37

44 54

15 16

39

25

57

62
35

61
67

Malaysia

47

51

The Philippines

Cambodia

52

66

41
21

8

4

Office 1

Taiwan 33

26 40

32 27

6

31
BruneiSingapore

28

48

50

56

Indonesia

9

12
7

14

1

46

60

2
43

Office 2

Fieldstations

48

The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Tanjungpura University

49

The Department of Geography, University of Leicester

50

The Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Studies, Andalas University

51

The School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University

52

Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

53

The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, The University of Sydney

54

The Graduate School, Silpakorn University

55

The Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University

56

The Faculty of Social and Political Science, Bangka Belitung University

57

Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos

58

SOAS, University of London

59

Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

60 Makassar

61 Ho Chi Minh

62 Phnom Penh
63 Vientiane
64 Yezin

65 Yangon

66 Pekanbaru
67 Kuching（Indonesia）（Vietnam）（Cambodia）（Laos）（Myanmar）（Myanmar）（Indonesia）（Malaysia）

Liaison Oﬃce
Office 1

Bangkok Liaison Oﬃce
19D, GP Grande Tower, 55, Soi 23, Sukhumvit Rd,
Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok, 10110, THAILAND
Tel: +66-2-664-3619 Fax: +66-2-664-3618

Office 2

Jakarta Liaison Oﬃce
Jl. Kartanegara No. 38, Kebayoran Baru,
Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta 12180, INDONESIA
Tel: +62-21-726-2619 Fax: +62-21-724-8584

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Overseas Liaison Offices
Bangkok Liaison Office/Jakarta Liaison Office
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/bangkok-liaison-office/http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/jakarta-liaison-office/
CSEAS has two overseas liaison offices. The Bangkok Liaison
Office was established in 1963, and its present location is in
the Sukhumvit area in central Bangkok. The Jakarta Residence
was established in 1970 at Jalan Rajasa, Kebayoran Baru,
Jakarta, and has been funded by the Japanese government
since 1973. The offices have been managed by researchers thatare selected from CSEAS staff as well as from other faculties,
institutions, and universities in Japan. They were originallyestablished as research lodgings for Japanese researchers in
Thailand and Indonesia, but now perform various functions
and cover the whole region of Southeast Asia.
The offices have been functioning as a base for collecting
research information and materials: periodical publications,

statistics, maps, and various documents in vernacular languages
in Southeast Asian and in European languages. The researchers
collaborate with local researchers in Southeast Asia by organizing
workshops and holding receptions in order to enrich theunderstanding of activities of CSEAS. Moreover, the officesstrongly support the operation of joint research by Southeast
Asian scholars and Japan-based researchers especially the
implementation of “International Program of Collaborative
Research, CSEAS (IPCR-CSEAS).” The offices have recently
come to play a supporting role in the networking of Kyoto
University in Southeast Asia region by cooperating with
Kyoto University ASEAN Center, which was established in
Bangkok in 2014.

Participants at a party of the Japanese alumni association of Kyoto University in
Bangkok held at the Bangkok Liaison Office in Feb. 2015

The Jakarta Residence organized a reunion party to introduce the new directorof CSEAS, Prof. Kono, to Indonesian scholars in Jul. 2014

Visiting Research Scholars andGuest Scholars
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/networks/international-networks/gaikokujinshohei-en/
Since 1975, CSEAS has established a visiting scholar program
to promote research activities in and on the region by distinguished scholars. Over 300 scholars—many of them leading
researchers in their respective fields—have availed themselvesof the Center’s considerable scholarly resources to engage inpathbreaking, multidisciplinary research and develop comparative, historical, and global perspectives on Southeast Asia.
Positions for scholars visiting CSEAS are divided into fivecategories: Visiting Research Scholars; Guest Scholars; Guest
Research Associates; Special Researchers; and Short-Term
International Students.
For the Visiting Research Scholar program, 12 scholars arechosen annually on a competitive basis. Scholars can stay for26

up to six months. At present, we receive applications fromSoutheast Asia, as well as South Asia, China, Korea, Taiwan,
the U.S., and Europe. Applicants are not limited to scholars:
CSEAS has hosted government officials, journalists, librarians,
NGO workers, IT specialists, and other professionals on
short-term visits. While in Kyoto, scholars are strongly
encouraged to participate in the CSEAS conferences, seminars, and workshops, and submit articles to the Center’s flagship journal Southeast Asian Studies, the Kyoto Review ofSoutheast Asia, and the CSEAS biannual Newsletter.
CSEAS also accepts international students on short-term
visits to Japan and offers them the use of research rooms andour library facilities.

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3 Global Academic Networks

MOU: Memoranda of Understanding
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/networks/international-networks/mou-en/
CSEAS actively promotes Southeast Asian studies by establishing institutional linkages with leading universities andresearch institutes in the region as well as the world. The Center has signed MOUs aimed at fostering academic exchange
and cooperation through programs of exchange of faculty

members and researchers; exchange of academic information,
including library materials and research publications; and joint
research activities including seminars, conferences, and symposia.

For the institutions with which CSEAS has recently signed

MOUs please refer to the map on pp. 24-25.

Memorandum by Country
Country
Indonesia
Thailand
China
Philippines
VietnamBhutanCambodia
Germany
Korea
Laos
MyanmarTaiwanU.K.

Institutions
12
7
3
5
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

(August 6, 2015)

Country
U.S.
Australia
Bangladesh
BruneiEast Timor
Egypt
Estonia
Malaysia
Nepal
Netherland
Singapore
SwedenTOTALInstitutions
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Consortium for Southeast
Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA)
http://seasia-consortium.org/
Building on the imperative to promote region-based Southeast Asian studies, CSEAS, in partnership with nine leading
Asian and Southeast Asian Studies institutions in the region,
established a Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia
(SEASIA) on October 11, 2013.
The consortium Charter was signed by the Center for
Asia-Pacific Studies, Academia Sinica; the Institute of AsianStudies, Chulalongkorn University; the Indonesian Instituteof Sciences; the Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies; the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University;
the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore;
the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang
Technological University; the Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies; the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti
Brunei Darussalam; and the Asian Center, University of thePhilippines. The Secretariat of the Consortium is based in the
CSEAS.
The establishment of a region-based consortium of Southeast Asian Studies aims to link the regional and global hubs ofarea studies into a cooperative venture that will provide a multilateral regional forum in the form of annual meetings, alongwith smaller joint workshops or conferences; a system for sharing information about each other’s activities; and opportunities
for education and training of young and up-and-coming scholars for promoting collaboration and exchanges among Southeast Asia- and other East Asia-based Southeast Asianists.
The Consortium seeks to connect institutions specializingin the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities—for
example, earthquake science and disaster management, medical research, urban studies, ecology, energy, resource management, industry specialists, creative industries—whose scholars
have an interest in, and who work on or in Southeast Asia, but
do not necessarily consider themselves as area studies specialists.
The inaugural conference will be held in Kyoto on December 12–13, 2015, with former Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda
Yasuo as Guest of Honor, and Prof. Wang Gungwu and Prof.
Pasuk Phongpaichit as Keynote Speakers.

The Institute of Asian Studies,
Chulalongkorn University

Member institutions

Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies (SEASIA) Governing Board Members (Oct. 11, 2013)

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Library
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/library/en/
The CSEAS library has been a most essential foundation forthe promotion of research activities in the ﬁeld of Southeast
Asian studies. As the result of ongoing collection development
focusing on academic publications on Southeast Asia, thelibrary holds approximately 190,000 items and assures accessby both domestic and overseas researchers through its open
access policy and reference services. The library places a strongemphasis on publications published in Southeast Asia and,especially for Thailand and Indonesia, up to date book acquisitions that are operated through the CSEAS overseas liaisonoﬃces in Bangkok and Jakarta.
While the library is devoted to collecting and providing
access to historical documents and academic works on Southeast Asia, it is also keen in responding to the changes inSoutheast Asia and working together with researchers. For
example, the CSEAS co-research program now has a special
slot for document-based research and provides sufficientfunding for acquisition of library materials related to proposed
document-based research. The CSEAS Library looks forward
to working with many researchers in the near future.

Main building of CSEAS Library

Open hours: Weekdays 9:00–17:00
E-mail: libinfo@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tel. +81-75-753-7306 Fax. +81-75-753-7364

Special Collections
The CSEAS Library holds more than 70,000 materials published in various vernacular languages in Southeast Asia, including publications in Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, and so on. The Library also has the following special collections.
Charas Collection (Thailand)This is a personal collection donated to our library by Mr.
Charas Pikul, a former Thai government oﬃcer, consisting of
9,000 volumes of monographs. The outstanding feature of thiscollection is the 4,000 cremation volumes called Nagsue Ngan
Sop. Cremation volumes are usually published on the occasionof the cremation rites of an important ﬁgure and these areconsidered the largest collection of such volumes outside Thailand.
Foronda and Ocampo Collections(Philippines)
These two personal collections of the famous historians Dr.
Marcelino Foronda and Dr. Ambeth R. Ocampo are in Filipino.
The Foronda collection consists of 7,000 volumes of monographs
and various other materials on Filipino history that include
prayers and underground publications from the Marcos years.
The Ocampo collection consists of 1,000 items, namely: rarebooks (from the 17th century to the post-war period), periodicals
including the Congressional Record, and ephemera including
original Filipino sheet music from the early 20th century.

Indonesia Islam Collection (Indonesia)
The collection has approximately 2,000 volumes of recent
Islamic publications in Indonesia that cover a wide range of
topics such as translation of Islamic classics, political ideology,
and introduction to Islam for beginners.
Microform Materials
The CSEAS Library has been acquiring many archival materials from the colonial period up to recent years in microfilm
form. These holdings include historical research tools such as
the Cornell Wason-Echols
Collection, the D utch
East India Company ’s
Mailrapporten, and thecolonial Memorie Van
Overgave for Indonesianstudies, the British Colonial
Office (CO) 273 series
for Malaysian studies,and the United States
De pa r t men t of S t a t e
microfiche collection on
the Marcos years, 1964–86.
The Siam Rashdra Daily News (1934)

Materials from the Ocampo Collection. Viage de Novios: Tanda de Valses (SheetMusic from 19th century)

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4 Division of Information and Network for Area Studies

Map Collections
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/publications-2/maps-materials/
The collection of maps in the CSEAS Map Room covers
Southeast Asia as well as almost the whole area from South toEast Asia and the surrounding regions. Publication dates ofthese maps range from the pre-war period to recent aerial surveys. The Map Room stores not only maps but also othermaterials such as aerial photos. At present, the collection ofmaps comprises nearly 44,000 sheets. In recent years, throughcollaboration with the Center for Integrated Area Studies(CIAS), Kyoto University, CSEAS has also been digitizing its
materials to make them more widely available.
The maps, stored in drawers in the Map Room, are available to the public on a limited basis“Gaihouzu” and Other Maps
Maps called “Gaihouzu” in Japanese are historically valuable
Japanese Army topographical maps and nautical charts covering South and East Asia as well as Southeast Asia. About
19,000 “Gaihouzu” in the CSEAS Map Room comprise oneof the foremost collections inJapan. Besides it, there are about
50 topographical, mineral product,
geological, and vegetation maps
on Japan, the former Manchuria,
Taiwan, and the Korea Peninsula.
The Map Room also houses
24,000 topographic, geological,
land-use, vegetation, administrative,
and road maps.

Aerial Photographs: The Williams-Hunt
Collection
This is a very variable collection of about 5,800 aerial photographs acquired by Peter Williams-Hunt during and afterWorld War II. They were organized by Dr. Elizabeth Moore
at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, in 1982. The collection mainly covers Cambodia(Angkor Wat), Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Singapore.
The Map Room has about 5,000 sheets of the collection.

Gaihouzo

Databases

Aerial Photographs : The Williams-Hunt Collection

Over the past 10 years, CSEAS has been building advanced and unique databases for its holdings on Southeast Asia. Recently,
CSEAS has been collaborating with the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University to expand. Our most widelyused databases are as follows.
Database of Comprehensive Urbanism of
Hanoi, Vietnam
The “Database of Comprehensive Urbanism of Hanoi, Vietnam (HANOIDB)” is a comprehensive database concerning
studies on the urbanization of Hanoi from the 19th to 21st
century. The database iscomposed of a map collection and its GIS data
(1831–2005), and comprises 3,618 files.

Database of Comprehensive Urbanismof Hanoi, Vietnam (HANOIDB)

Thai Database of Three Seals Law
There are two versions of the Kotmai Tra Sam Duang database,the Thammasat University version and the Royal Institute version. The database retrieval of the Thammasat University version has not been in service for a while. The Royal Instituteversion now can be retrieved from the home­
page of the CIAS, Kyoto
University. The database
covers “Computer Concordance of The Law ofThree Seals” (5 volumes,
239,576 examples), which
was published by CSEAS
The Three Seal Law (Kotmai Tra Sam Duang)
Database (Thammasat version)in 1991.

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GIS Laboratory
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/gis-laboratory/
The GIS Research and Education Laboratory was establishedin 2004. At present, ArcGIS English version runs on fourmachines that are utilized for lectures as well as research. In
addition, one workstation was also installed with special GIS
software and image processing software, such as ERDAS
Imagine Professional, Definiens eCognition Developer, and
Adobe Creative Suite. The laboratory also has a B0 plotter andA0 scanner to digitize and output large-scale maps for GIS
analysis.

GIS Laboratory

Users Guide
Open hours: Weekdays 9:00–17:00
Contact: CSEAS Research Liaison Office (Room 101, 1st.
floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall)
E-mail: liaison@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Who can use the Lab: Researchers and staff members of
CSEAS and members of the International Program of Collaborative Research (IPCR), CSEAS
are requested to apply through the professor in
charge.

* Other users not mentioned above need to inquire with
the Research Liaison Office in advance. The Committee ofInformation Processing reserves the right to approve ordisapprove their applications.

Other information: If you wish to use all four computers in
the GIS lab at the same time, you should inform us
in advance.
* Application forms are not required for use of the GIS Lab
as for now, but you are requested to contact the Research
Liaison Office for reservation or any related inquiry.

GIS Laboratory

Information Processing Office
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/info/en/
The Information Processing Office is responsible for providing
support for research and education activities carried out in
CSEAS. Activities include not only the management of information infrastructures and systems, but also participation in
research, cooperation with various research communities, andsuggesting new frameworks that support future researchendeavors. The Office has provided GIS systems to researchdivisions and joint researchers through the provisioning of a
GIS laboratory. Furthermore, on a joint research project, theOffice has helped foster and develop a system of data sharing
and information transmission of information resources in collaboration with Japanese national libraries. In 2015, the Officeparticipated in WordPress (Content Management System)
community activities, served as one of the WordCamp Kansai
2015 (International conference) organizers, and led Google
product support community activities (E-mail: Gmail Help
forum and Cloud service: Google Apps for Work Help forum
in Japan) to improve technical skills and contribute back to30

research communities. The Office is currently working together
with other related communities to provide knowledge to the
public. Furthermore, the Office has developed a new approachfor supporting not only Japanese national libraries but also
librarians and library researchers in Southeast Asia throughthe development of the Southeast Asian Periodical Database.

Explaining the running of multiple multilingual websites at Kyoto University at
WordCamp Kansai 2015, Osaka University Hall

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5 Publications
Publications
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/edit/
Since its beginning, CSEAS has given priority to publishing its research results. The academic journal Tonan Ajia Kenkyu began withthe founding of the center, and since the 1960s monographs have also been published in both Japanese and in English. Keeping up
with the trend of publications we have engaged in various initiatives in publication activities: In 2002 we released the multilingual
online journal Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, which is available at http://kyotoreview.org/; April 2007 also marked the debut of the
Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies; In April 2012 we launched a new English journal, Southeast Asian Studies as a sister journal of
Tonan Ajia Kenkyu. A complete list of CSEAS publications is available on the HP of editorial office.

Monographs
CSEAS publishes four series for the presentation of original academic studies contributing to the development of Southeast Asianarea studies. O ur monograph series was originally authored exc lusively by CSEAS facult y, but since 2000 theseries has been open to outside contributors from both within and outside Japan. The policy has now become a regular and recognizedfeature of our publication program and is supported mainly by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for publication. We include the descriptions ofeach book published in these past two years.
Series
Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies

Language

Publisher

Number of
Published Titles

EnglishKyoto University Press, NUS Press, and partly with
Ateneo de Manila University Press

14

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia

EnglishKyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press

24

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia (Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho)

Japanese

Kyoto University Press

30

Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

English

University of Hawai‘i Press

21

Monographs of the Center for Southeast AsianStudies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu Sosho)

Japanese

Sobunsha

24 (No new publication
since 1991)

Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies
Vol. 10. Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor
Tamaki Endo. 2014.

Living with Risk examines risk response process and upward mobility of urban lower class in the case of communities in the inner city and the urban fringe of Bangkok. The author focuses aspect of “occupation” and “resident”
and draws on two case studies, one considering the situation of women who became self-employed after losing
factory jobs during Thailand’s economic restructuring in the late 1990s, and the second a community displaced
by a devastating fire. The book’s detailed examination of the dynamics of the informal economy makes a substantial contribution to the literature on development economics in urban areas.

Vol. 11. Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood & Class Relations in a Globalized Age
Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. 2014.

Intertwined with global forces, the overseas labor migration of Filipinos has a long history that is traced in thisbook. Contemporary forms of migration since the 1960s–1970s continue to be shaped by the global arena but
also by domestic factors in the Philippines. Amid these macrostructural forces, migrants assert their humanagency. The result of this multilayered phenomenon has been no less than revolutionary in transforming Philippine society. Overseas migration has deepened but also nuanced national identity and national belonging, even as
the social class relations can no longer be fully understood apart from their global and transnational interconnections.

Vol. 12. The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines
Caroline S. Hau. 2014.

The rising strength of mainland China and East Asia more generally has spurred a revival of “Chineseness” in
the Philippines. Perceived during the Cold War era as economically dominant, political disloyal, and culturally
different, the “Chinese” now present themselves as an integral part of the Filipino imagined community. As themeanings of “Chinese” and “Filipino” evolve, intractable contradictions are appearing in the concepts of citizenship and national belonging. The book shows how race, class, ideology, nationality, territory, sovereignty, andmobility are shaping the discourses of national integration, regional identification, and global cosmopolitanism.

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Vol. 13. Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture
Ariel Heryanto. 2014.

Through a richly nuanced analysis of expressions and representations found in screen culture (cinema, television,and social media), this book examines what media and screen culture reveal about the ways urban-based
Indonesians attempted to redefine their identity in the first decade of this century. While in-depth analyses ofidentity and political contestation within the nation are the focus of the book, transnational engagements andglobal dimensions are a significant part of the story in each chapter. The author focuses on contemporary culturalpolitics in Indonesia, but each chapter contextualizes current circumstances by setting them within a broader historical perspective.

Vol. 14. Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi. 2015.

In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct
local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam,gender, and social networks have been decisive in their political victories. Islamic ideas concerning female leadership provide a strong religious foundation for their political campaigns. This new trend of Muslim women inpolitics will continue to shape the growth and direction of democratization in local politics in post-Suharto
Indonesia and will color future discourse on gender, politics, and Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Vol. 24. The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia: Golkar and the Transformation of the Suharto Regime
Ayako Masuhara. Translated by Yuri Kamada. 2015.

Motivated by on-the-ground experiences during Indonesia’s period of political turmoil in the early 2000s
following the collapse of the Suharto regime, in this book Masuhara systematically explains the structureof the Suharto regime while revealing its political dynamism. Her primary goal is to account for thetransformations Suharto’s personal rule underwent during 30 years in power and explain its end. The
book focuses on the “personal rule system” that Suharto employed, analyzing its transition and collapse ina groundbreaking thesis that draws on archival materials from major political institutions as well as interviews with some of the key political protagonists.

Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Vol. 21. Uncultural Behavior: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines
Charles J-H. Macdonald 2007.

Macdonald is a social anthropologist specializing in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. His acquaintance with the Palawan people in the Philippines dates from 1970 and repeated visits convinced him thatfor the people of Kulbi-Kenipaqan, who lead an outwardly peaceful existence in a remote corner of Palawan island, suicide was an endemic and enduring phenomenon repeating itself with unusual and stubborn frequency. Why would they fall victim to despair? To deal with this issue, Macdonald probes not
only the beliefs, customs, and general disposition of this Palawan people, but also representations andconcepts relating to suicide. He looks at the phenomenon (a stable and high rate of suicide) from thepoint of view of neurobiology and genetics as well as from a psychological, social, and historical perspective and considers that suicide is a learned behavior. As such suicide could be called “uncultural” since thistype of behavior conflicts with explicitly stated social and cultural values. This study may mean that “culture” as anthropologists look at it─as a symbolic structure or as a set of rules and values─does not reallyexplain all aspects of human behavior and says little about the real inner conflicts that decide individual
fates.

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Kyoto Area Studies on Asia in Japanese (Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho)Vol. 27. The Making of Large LandHolding in the Mekong Delta during
the French Colonial Period
Yoko Takada. 2014.

Vol. 28. Center-Local Relationship in
Lao PDR: Local Administration ofProvincial Governor under the Lao
People’s Revolutionary Party

Vol. 29. Resources, Politics and Violence: Local Politics in Contemporary
Indonesia

Vol. 30. Politics of Violence andAdaptation: Democratization and Local
Politics of Stabilization in Indonesia

Akiko Morishita. 2015.

Masaaki Okamoto. 2015.

Hiroyuki Seto. 2015.

Academic Journals
Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu)
http://kyoto-seas.org/

ISSN: 0563-8682 Published twice a year (July, January)
The center’s first quarterly journal Southeast Asian Studies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu in Japanese) was publishedin June 1963, when CSEAS was created as a semi-official body within Kyoto University to coordinate
the teaching and research of Southeast Asia. SEAS has since grown to be one of the leading journals on
Southeast Asian studies in Japan and abroad. Reflecting the CSEAS principle of fieldwork-based, multidisciplinary, and contemporary approaches, SEAS publishes work from various fields of study on Southeast Asia including the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In 2012 SEAS was reorganized
as an all-Japanese semiannual journal titled Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

Southeast Asian Studies
http://englishkyoto-seas.org/

ISSN: 2186-7275 Published three times a year (April, August, December)Southeast Asian Studies, published as an all-English journal in 2012, aims to promote excellent, agenda-setting
scholarship and provide a forum for dialogue and collaboration both within and beyond the region. SEAS
engages in wide-ranging and in-depth discussions that are attuned to the issues, debates, and imperatives
within the region, while affirming the importance of learning and sharing ideas on a cross-country, global,
and historical scale. An integral part of the journal’s mandate is to foster scholarship that is capable ofbridging the continuing divide in area studies between the social sciences and humanities on the one
hand, and the natural sciences on the other hand.

Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/edit/kyoto-working-papers-on-area-studies/

Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies is a series published jointly by the four area studies institutions on Kyoto University campus: the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies(ASAFAS); the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS); the Center for Integrated Area Studies(CIAS); and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). The series invites faculty members,
young scholars, and graduate students affiliated with these institutions to offer contributions.

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Online Academic Community of Southeast Asia

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
http://kyotoreview.org/

The Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia was launched to promote exchange among theintellectual communities of Southeast Asia. Our primary goal is to bring news ofimportant publications, debates, and ideas into region-wide circulation through lively
and accessible writing. We also want to encourage more sustained engagement
between university-based intellectuals and those working in NGOs, journalism, andcultural production.
Each issue is organized around a theme and reviews recent work, especially books
published in the region and in local languages. Recognizing that mutual inaccessibilityof national languages is an important barrier to deepening knowledge of neighboring
countries, we use translation to facilitate informed discussion.
Kyoto Review also acknowledges the support of the Toyota Foundation, Southeast
Asia Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere, and the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science, Asian Core Program.

6 Education
Graduate School Education
CSEAS has developed graduate education that takes an interdisciplinary approach and incorporates fieldwork into Area
Studies. Since 1981, CSEAS had provided courses at theDivision of Tropical Agriculture of the Graduate School of
Agricultural Science, and since 1993, had kept the program atthe Division of Southeast Asia Studies of the Graduate
School of Human and Environmental Studies. In 1998,
CSEAS contributed to Area Studies by establishing the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS).
Most CSEAS staff teach at ASAFAS, and have educatedmany graduate students through courses in ecology, society
and culture, and political economy.
Aside from our commitment to ASAFAS, we also have
two professors who contribute courses within the Departmentof Field Medicine, the School of Public Health, and the
Graduate School of Medicine through the “Inter-graduate

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School Program for Sustainable Development and Survivable
Societies” program.
Staff actively participate in courses and modules at otherinstitutions outside of Kyoto University, with long-distancelearning functioning as a major service. CSEAS provides faculty members who supply courses on Southeast Asian societies
and the environment as part of the international environmental management courses of the Global 30 Program managed
by the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.
CSEAS offers real-time streaming of courses to the Institut
Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, and allows students
within both Kyoto University and ITB to simultaneously participate in lectures. We also offer a long-distance learning
course titled “Asian Workshop” in collaboration with Keio
University in English. Finally, CSEAS professors are participating in the “Re-inventing Japan Project” that aims to construct an international framework for post-graduate education.

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7 Community Building
Social Contributions
Staff and researchers at CSEAS consistently engage with the general public to provide research results and customs which raiseawareness of issues that are current in Southeast Asia.
Contribution

Name

Lecturer
OKAMOTO, Masaaki

Place

Summary

2015/4/1

Riau, Indonesia“Opposing Local Oligarchies in Indonesia,” public lecture for Faculty of Socialand Political Science, University of Riau

2015/4/25

Osaka, Japan“Learn on Southeast Asia,” lecture for the Super Global High School Program,
Kitano High School

2015/4/1;
2015/6/15

Osaka, Japan“History of Relationship between Southeast Asia and Japan,” lecture for JapanFoundation “Nihongo” Partners Dispatch Program

2015/4/15

Tallinn, Estonia“The Thai Coup and Foreign Policy” at Tallinn University (and others)

2015/4/24

Moscow, Russia

Lecture on current political situation, Moscow at Moscow State Institute forInternational Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

2015/4/27

Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia“Studies on the Food-Borne Pathogens and Its Association with Diarrheal Diseases in Southeast Asia and Its Extension to the World” at Clinical Laboratory
Science department in the College of Applied Medical Sciences, University ofDammam2015/5/14

Yokohama, Japan“International Spread in Asia of Molluscan Bivalve-Mediated Infection by a
Unique O3: K6 clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticis and Its Prevention,” 12th AsianCongress of Nutrition

2015/6/12

Singapore“Traditional Food Habits: a ‘Glocal’ Issue in Global Health,” 2nd One HealthSymposium “Confronting Emerging Diseases & Enhancing Food Safety─A One
Health Approach,” at Matrix Auditorium, Singapore, organized by Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency

2015/10/16

Tokyo, Japan“New Applications of Old Knowledge: Looking Back the Studies on Vibrio parahaemolyticus in 1980s” (presented in Japanese), 49th Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Symposium at Food Hygiene Center

KITANI, Kimiya

2015/6/18

Kyoto, Japan“Japan–Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science: Scheme for Constructing
SEAsia Periodical Database,” lecture for SAKURA Exchange Program in Science by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)NAOI, Riyo

2015/8/20

Kyoto, Japan

Film showing and lecture on life of HIV positive people who live in Thailand,
Kyoto University's Summer School 2015

TOYAMA, Ayako

2015/8/31

Bangkok, Thailand

Lecture on the drafting process of new Thai constitution, Bangkok Southeast
Asia workshop

BAUTISTA, Julius

2015/10/17

Matsuyama, Japan“Holy Week Pilgrimage in the Roman Catholic Philippines,” public lecture forInternational Symposium and Research Meeting organized by Research Center for the Shikoku Henro and Pilgrimages of the World, Ehime University

NAOI, Riyo; LÓPEZ, I. Mario; 2015/10/4
KAWAMURA, Ai

Kyoto, Japan

Introducing Southeast Asia through documentary films, Kyoto University’s
Academic Day 2015

ONO, Mikiko; KITANI, Kimiya; 2015/10/4
SHITARA, Narumi

Kyoto, Japan“Connecting ASEAN and Japan Cooperative Efforts for Multilingual Databasethrough Networks of Area Study Centers,” Kyoto University's Academic Day 2015

CHACHAVALPONGPUN,PavinNISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki

ArticleContributor

Date

CHACHAVALPONGPUN,
Pavin

2015/4/8“Endorsing the Junta Will Erode the Reputation of Thai Diplomats,” Prachatai

2015/4/23“Thailand Plays the Russian Card,” Japan Times

2015/5/16“Thailand’s Coup: One Year On,” Prachatai (and others)

SURYOMENGGOLO, Jafar
Advisor

OKAMOTO, Masaaki

NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki“Kisah cinta sampaguita,” Majalah Historia (magazine in Bahasa Indonesia),
2 (22): 80–83
2014/4–

Osaka, Japan

Advisor to the Super Global High School Program of Kitano High School

2015/4/17–4/30

Dammam, Kingdomof Saudi Arabia

Consultant in the national research project of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia headedby Associate Professor, Dr. Nasreldin Elhadi of University of Dammam (Projectno. 10-ENV 1337–46)

2015/6/8–6/12

SingaporeMember of 6th Review Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Environmental Health Institute established by the National Environment Agency, Singapore

Chairperson

SHIMIZU, Hiromu

2014–

Fukuoka, Japan

Selection Committee on Academic Prize, Fukuoka Prize

Panel ChairNISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki

2015/6/30

Kyoto, Japan

Panel Chair of the conference organized by Japanese Panel of Cholera andOther Bacterial Enteric Infections Panel, United States—Japan Cooperative
Medical Science Program at Kyoto University

2015/6/15–6/23

Kyoto, Tokyo,
Chiba, Japan“Japan–Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science: A Study on the Constructionand Support of Academic Information Infrastructure in Asia,” SAKURA Exchange
Program in Science by JST

2015/8/4

Kyoto, Japan

Visit of Library by Kurate High School (Super Global High School)’s students

2015/10/9

Kyoto, Japan

Group and region-focused training on “Climate Change and Infectious Diseases”
of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Provided trainings to
the participants selected from 14 countries.

2001–

Kyoto, Japan

Comprehensive geriatric assessment and intervention for elderly residents in“Life in Kyoto”

Coordinator
ONO, Mikiko
NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki

MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo;
OKUMIYA, Kiyohito;
FUJISAWA, Michiko;WADA, Taizo;
SAKAMOTO, Ryota

Video
Photographer

MASUDA, Gaku

2001–

Papua, Indonesia

Medical survey and healthcare for patients with neurodegenerative diseases

2004–

Tosa, Japan; Dashe,Taiwan; Nakhon
Pathom, Thailand;
Lhadak, India

Comprehensive geriatric assessment and intervention for community-dwellingelderly

2010–

BhutanIntroduction of healthcare design for community-dwelling elderly

2015/8/3–8/5;
2015/8/6–8/8;
2015/8/9

Sarawak, Malaysia

Aerial movie taken for Rh. Uma Belor Leo Dian; Rh. Bawang Assan; Rh.
Benjamin Angki

2015/8/29–8/30

Xepon, Laos

Aerial movie taken for Savannakhet Provincial Malaria Station

2015/10/26–10/30

Nha Trang, Vietnam

Aerial movie taken for Monkey Island

2015/10/30–11/1

Kan Phoa, Vietnam

Aerial movie taken for Malaria Research Center

2015/11/3

Hanoi, Vietnam

Aerial movie taken for NIMPE (National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology,
Entomology)

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CSEAS Visual Documentary Project
http://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
In 2012, CSEAS, under a large-scale research program “Promoting the Study of Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast
Asia,” set out to examine plural co-existence and the rich ethnic diversity, religious, and cultural composition latent inSoutheast Asia. In order to approach the dynamics of the region,
CSEAS set up a new initiative entitled the “Visual Documentary
Project” to offer a platform to young Southeast Asian filmmakers in the region to express their realities through documentaries.
Academic research on the region (conducted both within
and outside Southeast Asia) is abundant. In order to improveknowledge from a non-academic perspective on how people
capture the everyday nuances of social life through the camera,through story telling, and through the eyes of people on the
ground, the project set out to document Southeast Asia
through the eyes, minds, and imaginations of young filmmakers in the region. Cheap technology and the proliferation ofmobile phones, along with gradual democratization and liberalization across the region, has led to the vibrant growth ofamateur, semi-professional, and professional film industries
across the region. This has had a democratizing effect on documenting social life from the everyday and mundane, frombirth and life, to death and sickness; tracing and chasing political scandals; and highlighting environmental concerns. Eachyear CSEAS has provided a broad framework for documentary
filmmakers to think about issues in the region and let them
explore issues. The first year’s theme was “care” and the project
received thoughtful productions on aging in Bangkok, mater-

nity care in indigenous communities in the Philippines, andclinics on the outskirts of Yangon. For the second year, ourtheme was “plural co-existence” and we had submissions that
dealt with migrant’s lives in Thailand, gender issues in Cambodia, and land dispossession and indigenous community
affirmation in the Philippines. For our third year we focusedon “people and nature” and received notable productions of ahigh professional quality from young directors. The fourth year
will focus on “human flows.” Since 2014, the project has been
supported by the Japan Foundation Asia Center with screenings held in both Kyoto and Tokyo. It continues to strengthen
networks in Southeast Asia and showcase rising talent in theregion.

Directors, organizers, and M.Cs at the screening in Tokyo (from left to rightclockwise): Kenji Ishizaka, Pasit Tandaechanurat, Jirudikal Prasonchoom,
Mai Dinh Khoi, Philipp Danao, Riza Andrian, Maggie Lee, Supaparinya Sutthirat,
Darang Melati Z, Khin Myanmar, Phan T. Hai Ly, Tran Thi Phuong Thao, andPham Dai Duong

8 Awards
MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo; OKUMIYA, Kiyoto; FUJISAWA, Michiko; and WADA, Taizo
Prize:	Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
for Their Distinguished Achievements for Science and Technology (Public
Understanding Promotion Category)
Title:	“Public Awareness of Field Medicine to Promote Health of Community-Dwelling
Elderly in Japan and Asia”
Date: Apr. 2015

NAOI, Riyo

Fujisawa, Okumiya, Matsubayashi, and Wada (from rightto left)

Prize: 3rd Refugee Studies Forum Scholar Awards
Title:	“Changing Lifestyle of Myanmar Refugees in a Refugee Camp on theThai-Myanmar Border: Observations Based on Production of DocumentaryFilm”
Date: Jul. 2015

Naoi (the second from right in the front row)

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9 History of CSEAS
Month

Year

Event

Sept.

1959

Kyoto University scholars with an interest in Southeast Asia organize a study group and begin to hold monthly seminars.

Jun.

1962

A planning and preparatory committee for Southeast Asian Studies is established in Kyoto University.

Jan.

1963

Based on the preparatory committee’s report, CSEAS is established as an intramural body.
Inaugural issue of the quarterly Southeast Asian Studies is published.

Jun.
Apr.

1965

CSEAS is officially established under Article 20.2 of the Regulations for Enforcement of the National Schools Establishment Act. Agriculture and Biology Section is established.

Apr.

1967

Social System and the Documentation Sections are established.

Apr.

1968

Culture and History Section is established.

Apr.

1969

Natural Environment Section is established. Operating expenses for the Bangkok Liaison Office are incorporated into
the budget.

Apr.

1971

Life Environment Section is established.
CSEAS moves to its present location, on the site of the former Kyoto Textile Company.

Aug.
Apr.

1973

Operating expenses for the Jakarta Residence are incorporated into the budget.

Apr.

1974

Population Studies Section is established.

Apr.

1975

Economic Development and the Area Studies I (visiting research fellows) Sections are established.

Feb.

1977

The first Southeast Asia Seminar is held.

Apr.

1978

Political Development Section is established.

Mar.

1979

Construction of the East Wing is completed.

Apr.

1980

Area Studies II (Japanese visiting scholars) Section is established.

Apr.

1983

Five-year program of acquisition of Southeast Asian vernacular library materials begins.

Mar.

1984

Construction of the East Wing extension is completed.

Apr.

Hydrologic Environment Section is established (and begins a lecture course in the Division of Tropical Agriculture).

Apr.

1986

Southeast Asian Documentation Section (visiting research fellows) is established. Academic exchanges with developing countries begin under the JSPS Core University Program.

Apr.

1988

The second ten-year program of acquisition of Southeast Asian vernacular library materials begins.

May.

1989

The nine sections (excluding those of visiting research fellows) are reorganized into five larger divisions: EcologicalStudies, Socio-cultural Studies, Integrative Processes, Development Studies, and Human Environment.

1993

The Southeast Asian Studies Major is inaugurated in collaboration with the Division of Culture and Area Studies, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. The four-year project “Toward an Integrated
Approach to Global Area Studies: In Search of a Paradigm for a Harmonized Relationship between the World and Its
Areas” is launched with funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
through a grant for Scientific Research on Priority Areas.

Apr.

Aug.

The first stage of construction of the Joint Research Wing of CSEAS and the Center for African Area Studies is completed.

Apr.

1998

“Southeast Asian Area Studies 3: Environment, Society, and Culture” Unit is inaugurated in collaboration with the Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University.
The five-year Center of Excellence (COE) project “Making Regions: Proto-Areas, Transformations, and New Formationsin Asia and Africa” is launched, in collaboration with ASAFAS, with funding from MEXT. The third, five-year program ofacquisition of Southeast Asian vernacular library materials begins.

Apr.

2001

The five divisions excluding those of visiting research fellows are reorganized into four divisions: Regional Dynamics,
Humans and the Environment, Society and Culture, and Economics and Politics.

Oct.

2002

The five-year 21st Century COE project “Aiming for Center of Excellence of Integrated Area Studies: Establishing Field
Stations in Asia and Africa to Combine Research Activities and On-Site-Education” is launched, in collaboration withASAFAS, with funding from MEXT.

Apr.

2004

CSEAS is raised to the higher status of a research institute over which MEXT has direct jurisdiction. The Division of Regional Dynamics is reorganized into the Division of Integrated Area Studies, and the Documentation Department is also
reorganized into the Division of Area Informatics. CSEAS contributes to the inauguration of the Japan Consortium for
Area Studies, serving as its executive office.

Oct.

2005

CSEAS celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Apr.

2006

CSEAS contributes to the founding the Center for Integrated Area Studies in Kyoto University.

Jul.

2007

The five-year Global COE project “In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa” is launched, in collaboration with eight research institutes, centers, and graduate schools at Kyoto University, with funding from MEXT.

Jul.

2008

CSEAS-granted joint research program is launched.
Construction of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall is completed.

Oct.
Oct.

2009

Quake-proof engineering of the library building is completed.
CSEAS is renewed as a common-use research institute.

Apr.

2011

CSEAS initiates a New Large-Scale Research Program “Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere”(2011–17).

Oct.

2013

CSEAS inaugurates the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA).

Dec.

2015

CSEAS celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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10 Organization
As of September 2015
Director
Professor
Deputy Director
Professor

KONO, Yasuyuki
HAYAMI, Yoko
MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo

Research Department
Division of Integrated Area Studies
Professor/Director
Professor/Deputy Director
Division of Human-Nature Dynamics
Professor/Deputy Director
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Program-Specific Associate Professor
Affiliated Professor

KONO, Yasuyuki
HAYAMI, Yoko

MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo
NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki
KOZAN, Osamu
ITOH, Masayuki
BADENOCH, Nathan
TORII, Kiyoshi
KOBAYASHI, Shigeo
Affiliated Associate Professor
WADA, Taizo
OKUMIYA, Kiyohito
FUJISAWA, Michiko
NAKAGUCHI, Yoshitsugu
NAITO, Daisuke
Affiliated Assistant Professor
KUWATA, Mikinori
Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project) SAKAMOTO, Ryota
Visiting Research Scholar
BAO, Maohong
Program-Specific Researcher
TRAN, Do Van
Researcher
NOSE, Mitsuhiro
CHEN, Wen Ling
SHIODERA, Satomi
KAYALI, Ahmad Yaman
Affiliated Researcher
KATO, Emiko
FUKUTOMI, Eriko
ISHIMOTO, Yasuko
Research Fellow
UEYAMA, Toru
SHIRAKAWA, Koichi
Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
Professor
SHIMIZU, Hiromu
KOIZUMI, Junko
ISHIKAWA, Noboru
HAU, Caroline Sy
Associate Professor
BAUTISTA, Julius
Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project) KATO, Yumi
Visiting Research Scholar
OOI, Keat Gin
JIRATTIKORN, Amporn
TANGSEEFA, Decha
Program-Specific Researcher
CLAUDIO, Lisandro Elias
SURYOMENGGOLO, Jafar
Researcher
IMAMURA, Masao
NAOI, Riyo
Affiliated Researcher
SAKUMA, Kyoko
TAZAKI, Ikuko
IMAMURA, Jackie
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
HAMAYA, Mariko
NARISAWA, Noriko
KOJIMA, Takahiro
Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
Professor
MIZUNO, Kosuke
FUJITA, Koichi
MIENO, Fumiharu
Associate Professor
OKAMOTO, Masaaki
CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin
NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro
Affiliated Professor
KANO, Hiroyoshi
Affiliated Assistant Professor
SUZUKI, Haruka
SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu
HAYASHI, Kengo
BONANNO, Gianluca
MASUDA, Gaku
WATANABE, Kazuo
Affiliated Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project) NISHIMOTO, Noa
Visiting Research Scholar
HANSSON, Eva
JSPS Fellow
Hnin Yu Lwin
Affiliated Researcher
KAWAMURA, Chiyo
KONYA, Akari
FUJITA, Motoko
KONISHI, Tetsu
KAYANE, Yuka
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
TOYAMA, Ayako
IGA, Tsukasa
KAWAMURA, Ai
Japanese Visiting Scholar
Professor
SUGIHARA, Kaoru
Researcher
YOKOTA, Sachiko38

Division of Information and Networks for Area Studies
Associate Professor
ANDO, Kazuo
KOBAYASHI, Satoru
LÓPEZ, Mario Ivan
Distinguished Visiting Professor
SALIM, Muhammad
JSPS Fellow
SEIGER, Fiona-Katharina
・Practice-Oriented Area Studies Office
Associate Professor
ANDO, Kazuo
Affiliated Professor
UCHIDA, Haruo
HAYASHI,Taiichi
Affiliated Associate Professor
SUZUKI, Reiji
Visiting Research Scholar
SWE, Khin Lay
Researcher
YAJIMA, Kichiji
Affiliated Researcher
TOYOTA, Tomoya
FUJII, Miho
IMAKITA, Tetsuya
SHIMADA, Nahoko
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
KIMURA, Yumi
・Library
Assistant Professor
ONO, Mikiko
Assistant Research Staff
IMAI, Toshiko
Assistant Administrative Staff
FURUTA, Yasuko
NAKANO, Hiroko
SUGA, Megumi
・Editorial Office
Assistant Professor
SHITARA, Narumi
Assistant Administrative Staff
YAMAKAWA, Ayano
MATSUMURA, Kayo・Information Processing Office
Assistant Professor
KITANI, Kimiya
Assistant Research Staff
OKUNISHI, Kumi
・Map Room
Associate Professor
KOBAYASHI, Satoru
Assistant Administrative Staff
SHINO, Miyako
・Liaison Office of Research Department
Assistant Research Staff
KAWAI, Tomoko
ABE, Chiaki
KAMATA, Kyoko
Assistant Administrative Staff
TABATA, Noriko
OGA, Minako
KOBATA, Junko
KAWAMIYA, Kumiko・Life and Green Administrative Office
Assistant Research Staff
AKEDO, Masako
・Brain Circulation Office
Assistant Research Staff
TANAKA, Sonoko
・50th Anniversary Celebrations Secretariat
Researcher
YONEZAWA, Mariko
Assistants of Research Department
Research Support Staff
SEO, Uraiwan
Assistant Technical Staff
NAKAMURA, Wakana
Assistant Research Staff
NAKAMOTO, Isao
KOMANO, Kyoko
Assistant Administrative Staff
MAENO, Naoko
IDE, Michiyo
KATAOKA, Toshiko
YAMAMOTO, Aya
ARAKI, Ichiko
WARDHANI, Zavitri Citra
FUJIKURA, Yaho
FUJITA, Masayuki
KITA, Yukiko
Administrative Department
Head
Deputy-Head
General Affairs Section
Chief
Sub-Chief
Staff

Academic Affairs Section
Chief
Staff
South-West Administration Office
University Research Administrator

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ISHIDA, Shinobu
TOYOTA, Kazuhiko
SHIRAISHI, Kenichi
YAMAKAWA, Mie
KASHIHARA, Akira
TOMISAKA, Susumu
HIDAKA, Miki
NAKAJIMA, Yuki
FUKUMURA, Terumi
KANDA, Aiko
YAMASAKI, Kei
KAMIYA, Toshiro

FieldDivision of Integrated
Area Studies
Director

Division of HumanNature Dynamics

Research Departments
Council Meeting

Division of SocioCultural Dynamics

Division of Information and
Network for Area Studies

Faculty Meeting

Division of Economic& Political Dynamics

Environment, Society and Culture,Div. of Southeast Asian Studies,
Graduate School of Asian and
African Area Studies

IPCR Executive
Committee

Interregional ComparisonsRegional Systems
Ecology
Ecological Resources
Cultural Dynamics
Societal Dynamics
Regional Development
Regional Integration

Area Studies Ⅰ(Visiting Research Scholars)

Area Studies Planning andPromotion Office

Area Studies Ⅱ & Ⅲ(Japanese Visiting Scholars)

Sustainable Humanosphere
Studies OfficeSoutheast Asian
Documentation(Visiting Research Fellows)

Bangkok Liaison Office

Practice-Oriented Area
Studies Office
Library

Jakarta Liaison Office

Editorial OfficeInformation Processing
OfficeResearch Liaison Office
General Affairs Section

Map Room

Administrative Department
Academic Affairs Section

AccessFrom JR Kyoto Station

Old Imperial
PalaceKojinguchi
Bus Stop

Marutamachi St.

Nijo Castle
Karasuma
Oike Sta.

Karasuma St.

Nijojo-mae
Sta.
Omiya Sta.

Kyoto
Shiyakushomae
Sta.

Kyoto City Subway
Tozai Line

Kawaramachi St.

Keihan Line

Kamo River

Shijo St.

Kamo River

Kyoto Tower

Jingu Marutamachi
Sta.
Heian Jingu Shrine

Gion Shijo
Sta.

Kawaramachi
Sta.

Kyoto City Subway
Karasuma Line

Gojo Sta.

Center forSoutheast Asian Studies,
Kyoto University

Sanjo
Sta.

Hankyu Kyoto Line

Shijo Sta.

Kyoto University Area

Higashioji St.

Kawabata St.

Marutamachi
Sta.

Head OfficeKojinbashi
Bus Stop

Kyoto Bus
Kojinbashi
Bus Stop

Kyoto City Bus
Konoe
Kojinguchi
Bus Stop Kojinbashi Dori St.
BridgeGojo St.

Kiyomizu
Gojo Sta.

Shichijo St.

Post
Office
Jingu
Marutamachi
Sta.

Shichijo Sta.

JR Kyoto Station
JR Nara Line

Shirakawa St.

Horikawa-dori St.

Imadegawa
Sta.

Take No.17 or No.205 or No.4 municipal bus
and get off at Kojinguchi.
Then walk for 5 minutes to the east.
It takes 30 minutes.

Demachiyanagi Sta.

Imadegawa St.

JR Tokaido Main LineCSEAS

Take No.17 Kyoto bus and get off at
Kojinbashi.
Then walk for 1 minute to the south.
It takes 30 minutes.
Take a taxi and ask the driver to go to Inamori
Foundation Memorial Building at Kojinbashi
Higashizume.
It takes 30 minutes.

From Jingu-Marutamachi Station of Keihan
Railway
Walk for 5 minutes to the north.

From Hankyu Kawaramachi Station
Take No.37 or No.205 municipal bus and get
off at Kojinguchi.
Then walk for 5 minutes to the east.
It takes 15 minutes.
Take No.16 or No.17 Kyoto bus and get off at
Kojinbashi.
Then walk for 1 minute to the south.
It takes 15 minutes.

JR Tokaido Shinkansen

Tofukuji Sta.

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