In Search ofa New Paradigm:
Sustainable
Humanosphere

CENTER FOR
SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIESKYOTO UNIVERSITY

2007

2008

PrefaceTwo years at CSEAS
1 Research activities

Collaborative Research/Research Networks/
Seminars and Symposia

2 Staff research interests
3 Area informatics

Library/Map collections/Database/GIS Laboratory/
Information Processing Office

4 Global academic networks

Overseas Liaison Offices/
The CSEAS Fellowship Program and Other Visitors/
MOUs/The East Asian Network/The API Fellowship

5 Academic publications

Monographs/Southeast Asian Studies/
Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies/
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia

6 Education

Graduate School Education/Undergraduate Education/
Southeast Asia Seminar

7 International cooperation and mecenat
8 Award winners
9 History of CSEAS
10 Organization

Contents
Preface ....................................................................................q
Two years at CSEAS ...................................................................................w
Chapter 1 Research activities
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

Global COE Program: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa ....................r
Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project1 Scientific Research (S)Development of Area Informatics: With Emphasis on Southeast Asia ....................y2 Scientific Research (S)Infectious Diseases Spreading Across International Borders in Southeast Asia:
TheElucidationofArea-specific Features Based on Multifactorial Analysis ....................uComprehensive Study of Aging Societies in Southeast Asia:
With Special Reference toBuilding Up a Social Safety Net ....................i

3 Scientific Research (A)4 Scientific Research (A)5 Scientific Research (A)6 Scientific Research (A)7 Scientific Research (B)
8 Scientific Research (B)9 Scientific Research (B)10 Scientific Research (C)11 Exploratory Research

Agro-Ecological System and Development in the Brahmaputra River Reaches:
Seeking Possibilities for Sustainable Development .................................................oResearch on Non-Traditional Security Issues in East Asia ....................!0
The Dynamics of Minor Eco-Resources Trade in Asiaand the Eco-Politics of Conserving Traditional Techniques .........................................!1
Mechanism of Land Use Changes in Mainland Southeast Asia:
Fieldwork-based Remote Sensing Analyses ......................................!2
The Labour-intensive Path of Economic Development and the Quality of Labour and Life in India .......!3
Changes in Local Politics and Economic Structurein Democratized and Decentralized Indonesia ....................!4
Impact Assessment of Tank Modernization Project on
Agricultural Water Use and Livelihood of Farmers in Tamil Nadu, India .................... !5Collection and Exhibition of Farming Tools
Based on Local Participant Networks in the Himalayan Circle and Japan ....................!5

12 Exploratory Research

Searching for an Area Studies Approach to Disaster Prevention
and Rehabilitation from Experiences of Involvement in Rehabilitation Work .....................!6
Siamese Relations with China before the Second World War ....................!6Core University Program ....................!7

13 Exploratory Research

Need-Based Program for Global Area Studies ....................!8RESEARCH NETWORKS
Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) ..................... !9The Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS) .................... @0
Kyoto Sustainability Initiative (KSI) .................... @0

SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIAInternational Symposia ....................@1
In-house Seminars ....................@2
Colloquia ....................@2
Special Seminars ....................@3

Chapter 2 Staff research interests .....................................................@4
Chapter 3 Area informatics
Library .........................................$5
Map collections .........................................$7
Database .........................................$8
GIS Laboratory .........................................$8
Information Processing Office .........................................$9

Chapter 4 Global academic networks
Overseas Liaison Offices ..........................................%0
The CSEAS Fellowship Program and Other Visitors .........................................%1
MOUs .........................................%2
The East Asian Network .........................................%3
The API Fellowship ..........................................%3

Chapter 5 Academic publications
Monographs .........................................%4Southeast Asian Studies .........................................%6Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies .........................................%6Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia .........................................%7

Chapter 6 Education
Graduate School Education .........................................%8Undergraduate Education .........................................%9Southeast Asia Seminar ..........................................%9

Chapter 7 International cooperation and mecenat ....................................................^0
Chapter 8 Award winners ....................................................^1
Chapter 9 History of CSEAS ....................................................^2

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Chapter 10 Organization ....................................................^3Preface

Mizuno Kosuke
Director

he Center for Southeast Asian Studies wasestablished in 1963 as a pioneer institution forarea studies in Japan. Upon its creation, thenewly organized Center lost no time in launching
joint research projects in Thailand and Malaysia.
Research was conducted in various fields --- fromdetailed community studies by anthropologists toinvestigation of tropical forests, paddy soils, andagricultural techniques by natural scientists. While
many of its counterparts established in the early
1960s devoted themselves exclusively to the social
sciences and humanities, CSEAS was unique inbeing multidisciplinary and comparative from the
beginning. Relying on intensive fieldwork and joint
research projects, the Center’s unique approachcombined the humanities and social sciences withnatural science disciplines like ecology, agriculture,and medical science. Moreover, while Southeast
Asia remains at the center of its attention, CSEAS
has extended its research activities to adjoining
regions, conducting studies in Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, India, China, and Korea for the purposeof enriching its comparative perspective. The latterhas been spurred by the increasing importance ofviewing Southeast Asia, and area studies itself, in
the contexts of globalization and localization andpromoting inter-regional comparison when
examining themes like Islam, urbanization, andregional economic networks.
Through the years, CSEAS has accumulated a
substantial number of books, journals, magazines,
newspapers, primary documents, and audiovisual
data. It publishes an internationally recognizedjournal, Tonan Ajia Kenkyu(Southeast Asian Studies),
an innovative multi-lingual internet journal,
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, and monographs by
its staff and other scholars. CSEAS has also
undergone periodic reorganization and broadening of
its policies in response to rapidly-changing social andacademic times. Beginning with liaison offices
established in Bangkok (1963) and Jakarta (1970) toTfacilitate field research and interaction withcounterparts, CSEAS today has a network ofcollaboration in Southeast Asian studies withinstitutions stretching from East Asia to Europe. In
1998, together with the Center for African Area
Studies (CAAS), it established the Graduate Schoolof Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) and hassince collaborated with its faculty to promote
graduate education in area studies. And through its
organization of new research networks like the Japan
Consortium for Area Studies, CSEAS is also playing
a key role in designing a new model for future areastudies. Throughout these changes, collaboration
with the region remains a core practice. Whilelearning from their rich and diverse experiences,
CSEAS makes every effort to share new theories
and perspectives with the peoples of Southeast Asia.
Finally, CSEAS has started to develop a newparadigm to strengthen links between academic
disciplines while contributing to solving practicalproblems encountered in the field. Southeast Asia
faces many new challenges as it confronts issues likepolitical democratization, administrative
decentralization and good governance, gender bias,
sustainable development, disaster preparedness, theprevention of infectious diseases, and communitybased resource management. The CSEAS staff isconducting studies on these issues and seeking
solutions in close collaboration with scholars,
farmers, bureaucrats, scientists, and NGO membersin the region. With the help of scholars from the hardsciences and high-technology engineering, it launcheda five-year project in 2007 to promote an areastudies approach to “sustainable humanosphere.”
We hope this Report will give readers a clear
understanding of the Center’s activities and goals,
and we invite you to provide us with constructive
comments and advice so as to further improve
our capacities.
October 20071

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celebrated its 40th
anniversary in
October 2005. It was
not only a time for retrospection but also a steppingstone in the development of our institution. Since
then, CSEAS has further developed its research
activities, entered into new fields of research,
opened new academic networks, and experienced
personnel and institutional changes.
As of 2007, CSEAS had seventeen Kaken
projects, one JSPS Core University program, and one
Global COE program (to replace the 21st Century
COE program). One of the key events of the last
two years was the end of the 21st Century COE
program, “Aiming for Center of Excellence ofIntegrated Area Studies: Establishing Field Stationsin Asia and Africa to Combine Research Activities
and On-Site-Education.” This collaborative programwith ASAFAS, which focused on educating graduate
students in area studies, successfully gave birth to
PhD holders who could work in universities andinternational organizations. Based on this COE
program, CSEAS applied to the new Global COE
program in FY2006. Almost a year of effort inhammering out a smart, attractive proposal bore fruit
and the proposal was accepted in the middle of
FY2007. CSEAS, in collaboration with other eight
departments and institutes in Kyoto University,

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CSEAS celebrated its 40th Anniversary, October 2005.

launched a Global COE program under Professor
Sugihara titled, “In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa.” This was anepoch-making achievement for CSEAS and also forarea studies in general because this program aims tointegrate two different approaches, area studies andfrontier science, to put forward the new paradigm of“sustainable humanosphere.” This five year
program is quite an intellectual challenge for us.
The second phase of the JSPS core university
program between CSEAS and Thammasat
University started in FY1999 with a change of core
members and three new collaborative research
projects, “Entrepreneurship in East Asia,” “TheChanging ‘Family’ in East Asia,” and “The AsianInternational Economic Order: Past, Present andFuture.” The start up workshop in October 2005
was followed by several workshops and seminars.
These projects are expected to forge a newperspective on East Asian political economy, society,and culture.
Kaken projects have had their own
development, too. An area informatics project led byProfessor Shibayama tries to integrate area studies
and informatics in order to create a new academic
approach. It has organized several workshops andsymposia and since June 2006 has issued thenewsletter “Area Informatics.” In FY2007, Professor

The North Buildingin the past

Nishibuchi started the five-year project, “Infectious
Diseases Spreading Across International Borders inSoutheast Asia.” This ambitious project aims toanalyze transnational infectious diseases through aninterdisciplinary approach. Professor Matsubayashi
has intensified his multidisciplinary approach tounderstand “aging” in the project “Comprehensive
Study of Aging Societies in Southeast Asia: With
Special Reference to Building Up a Social Safety
Net.” Associate Professor Ando has been seeking amodel for sustainable development through an areastudies approach in the project, “Agro-Ecological
System and Development in the Brahmaputra River
Reaches: Seeking Possibilities for Sustainable
Development.” And Professor Abinales started a
new project in FY 2007 focusing on non-traditional
security in East Asia; it aims to create a model ofregional cooperation against “non-traditional security
issues” ranging from transnational crime – weapons
smuggling, human trafficking, undocumented
migration – to epidemics like the avian flu.
In the past two years, we have expanded ouracademic networks as well. We concluded five
MOUs with universities and institutes in Southeast
and East Asia and facilitated a conclusion of an MOU
between Kyoto University and the Indonesian
Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in March 2006. CSEAS
also helped organize a Kyoto University alumni

association in Thailand and Indonesia. Our new
challenge, begun in October 2005, is the effort todevelop an East Asian academic network on
Southeast Asian studies. CSEAS is planning to start
several collaborative researches with institutes on
Southeast Asian studies in China, Taiwan, and Korea.
Institutionally, CSEAS chose Professor
Mizuno as director in FY2006 and welcomed as new
staff Professor Sugihara, Professor Shimizu, AssistantProfessor Nakaguchi (in FY2006), AssistantProfessor Kobayashi (in FY2007), and AssistantProfessor (G-COE) Ubukata (in FY2007), while
saying goodbye to Professor Yamada, Professor
Hamashita, and Assistant Professor Nagatsu in
FY2006. A new research center, the Center for
Integrated Areas Studies (CIAS), was established in
April 2006, and three CSEAS staff, Professors
Tanaka and Hayashi and Associate Professor
Yanagisawa were transferred to it at that time.
With the financial support of the Inamori
Foundation, it was decided in February 2007 that a
new building, “Inamori Zaidan Kinenkan,” would bebuilt on the site of the north and south buildings of
CSEAS by the autumn of 2008. This new building
will surely be a firm foundation for the future of
CSEAS, in particular, and of area studies in general.

Reception of 21st Century COE
Program International
Symposium, November 2006

Core University Workshop “Emerging Developments
in East Asia FTA/EPAs,” October 2006
Core University Workshop“Toward a New Model of East
Asian Society: Entrepreneurshipand the Family,” October 2005

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Global COE Program: In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and African July 2007, a major research initiative waslaunched to conduct a wide range ofinterdisciplinary studies on sustainable
development in Asia and Africa from a global, longterm perspective. It is a Global COE (Center of
Excellence) Program, funded by the Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
through JSPS. Nine research institutes, centers, andgraduate schools at Kyoto University collaborate on
this program, and the Center for Southeast AsianStudies acts as the organizing institution. The
program is expected to end in March 2012.

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Background
The Center has been successively involved in
the organization of large-scale research projects inthe past. In particular, the project focusing on areastudies methodology (1993-1996) established its
leading role in the field of Southeast Asian studies byproducing five authoritative volumes, which set thestyle and standard of publication for other branchesof area studies. This was followed by a five-year
COE program on region making in Asia and Africa(1998-2002), which developed an international
network of Southeast Asian studies around theCenter, launched the online journal Kyoto Review ofSoutheast Asia, and built a major multilingualcollection of academic books and source materials forthe study of Asia and Africa, the last in collaboration
with the Graduate School of Asian and African Area
Studies (ASAFAS).
In 2002, ASAFAS launched a 21st Century
COE program, in collaboration with CSEAS, with thetitle “Aiming for Center of Excellence of Integrated
Area Studies: Establishing Field Stations in Asia and4

Africa to Combine
Research Activities and
On-Site-Education.”
By setting up a numberof “field stations,” thisprogram enabledstudents andresearchers to workwith local people andresearchers on the spot
and to engage infieldwork on a longterm basis. As a result,a number of doctoral
Professor Sugihara, convener
theses have beenof the program
completed and someoutstanding research monographs have been
published. The program ended in March 2007.

The Mission

Inheriting the system of education and training
founded by the 21st Century COE program, theGlobal COE program aims to deepen theinterdisciplinary focus in area studies at Kyoto
University, not only by mobilizing the resources offour area studies institutions – CSEAS, ASAFAS, theCenter for Integrated Area Studies, and the Center
for African Area Studies – but by collaborating with
scientists working on frontier technology at otherinstitutes and schools. It puts forward a newparadigm of “sustainable humanosphere” to create aframework under which to address such vital issues
as the impact of global warming upon the local
societies of Asia and Africa and to suggest asustainable path of local and regional development.
To this end, we work withspecialists in wood and materialscience, atmospheric science, spacetechnology, and information
technology at the Research Instituteof Sustainable Humanosphere toextend the scope of our scientificinvestigation. We have also asked
for the participation of the Instituteof Sustainable Science and theInstitute for Research in Humanities,
as well as the Graduate School of
Agriculture and the Graduate Schoolof Engineering, to strengthen our
coverage in research and education.
By bringing knowledge offrontier science and technology into
contact with the conventional area
The first seminar for paradigm formulation was held at Kyodai Kaikan
in September 2007.
studies disciplines of agronomy,

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ecology, politics and economics, sociology andanthropology, history, and medical science, thisprogram aims to train a new generation of areastudies specialists and scientists equipped with amore comprehensive range of humanities, social
science, and science disciplines than hitherto
possible. The outcome of this research will bedisseminated through publications in English and inJapanese, and in some critical cases in several other
Asian languages.

Towards a New Paradigm
To activate interdisciplinary discussion onsustainability, we propose to call the ecological andsocial environment in which local people live
“humanosphere.” Although over the last two
centuries capitalism diffused the institutional basis ofprivate property rights and economic actors
increasingly focused on the efficient use of land andlabor, it is often more important, when looking at
Asia and Africa, to understand the particular options
and priorities available to local societies in reacting
to severe environmental constraints and crises. The

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latter included monsoon failures, energy shortages,
the prevalence of infectious diseases, and othernatural disasters from which social instability andwar could follow. That many societies pursue a pathof development primarily with these concerns inmind can be confirmed on fieldwork sites incontemporary Asia and Africa. This had, in fact,
been the norm for most human societies until a few
centuries ago.
If we wish to understand how to deal with
global environmental concerns and the issue ofenergy supply under the trend of population growthin the tropics in the 21st century, we need to movefrom the perspective of the private property rights
regime, which aims at efficiency and growth, to thatof humanosphere, which takes into account thecomplex interactions of movable, changeable, andtransformable resources (such as air, water, andplants) that affect the sustainability of local
environments. And we need to foster the institutions
that will ensure sustainable humanosphere at the
local, regional, and global levels.

The Sustainable Humanosphere Paradigm

Humanosphere-sustainable path of global development
Share in world
population (%)

Share in world
GDP (%)

2050(forecast)Response to global warming
Response to global energy supply
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2000

The American system ofmass production

The Industrial Revolution
in England
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The East Asian
miracle

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1950

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Globalisation
Destruction of material
and energy flows andbalances

Introduction of Western technology
and institutions
Land and resource constraints

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1820

Regeneration of local material andenergy flows with the use offrontier technology

Regeneration ofmaterial and energy
flows on a global scale

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Measurement of material and energy
flows and treatment of imbalances

Colonialism,
Incorporation into theworld economy,
Deforestation,
Famines and epidemics

Labour productivity driven path(the West)Land productivity driven path
(East Asia)

Capital-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-intensive technology

Labour- and human resource-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-saving technology

Humanosphere concerns have been overwhelmed by productivity concerns.

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Labour-intensive
pattern ofdevelopment
Use of indigenous
energyHumanosphere driven path
(Southeast/South/West Asia, Africa)
Risk reducing devices
Battle against environmental constraints
Labour-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-recycling technology

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Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project1 Scientific Research (S)Development of Area Informatics:
With Emphasis on Southeast Asia

Principal Investigator:

Shibayama Mamoru
Period: FY2005-2009

Informatics can provide area studies with new
approaches and knowledge, but only through thefurther development of the field through its
application to area studies. This five-year project
has the objective of creating and building a new
discipline of “area informatics” that amalgamates
informatics, which is the application of geoinformatics to the humanities, social, and naturalsciences at the interdisciplinary level, with areastudies. The project focuses on the following main
topics: (1) Experimental studies in area studies
based on informatics-like methodology; (2) Research
into advanced information systems in area studies;and (3) Research for sharing information resources
and infrastructure for area studies.
In order to develop area informatics based onthese topics, three core projects are being pursued:
the Thang Long–Hanoi project, the Ayutthaya
project, and individual research by collaborators.
The Thang Long–Hanoi Project itself has threethemes: historical research from an informatics
perspective into the relationship between Japan andthe history of Hanoi, Vietnam; investigation of thepreservation of the Thang Long–Hanoi historical
heritage from the perspective of digital archiving;
and the restoration/reproduction of Thang
Long–Hanoi as a digital museum. Taking thesethree themes as the base, the aim of the Thang
Long–Hanoi project is to explicate the history of theurban development of Hanoi by depicting it in geotemporal space. The Ayutthaya project has mapped
Theravada Buddhist practice with an emphasis on
temples in Northeast Thailand. Individual projects
include a study of the royal road from Angkor,
Cambodia, to Phi Mai, Northeast Thailand, thatapplies RS to field surveys; the digitalization of The
Sarawak Gazette; a study on the transition of socioecological environments in Sarawak, Malaysia, using
RS; and a quantitative analysis of the political
dynamics of Muslim-Filipino separatism.

Special Seminar on Area Informatics at the Vietnam
National University, 21 August 2006

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Hanoi Historical Map of 1898

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2 Scientific Research (S)Infectious Diseases Spreading
Across International Borders inSoutheast Asia:

The Elucidation of Area-specific Features
Based on Multifactorial Analysis
Principal Investigator:

Nishibuchi Mitsuaki
Period: FY2007-2011

Important infectious diseases that spread
across international borders and infect many people
have long been known in Southeast Asia. This
indicates that measures to prevent the spread ofsuch infections are not functioning well; it isnecessary to grasp the actual situation as precisely
as possible to elucidate the reasons. Not only
microbiological factors (the distribution ofpathogens in the area), but also many area-specificfactors are related to the occurrence and spread of
infectious diseases. It is therefore important toclarify these factors and their interaction to help
establish effective measures against the spread of
infectious diseases.
This study will clarify the route andchronology of emerging enteric infections thatspread across international borders in parts ofSoutheast Asia where the infection is prevalent or
the pathogens distributed, or in related areas. In
addition, we will study the transmission of malaria

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mediated by the migration of laborers and otherpeople between Thailand and Myanmar and between
Indonesia and Malaysia. Furthermore, we will try to
elucidate the important factors affecting the
emergence and spread of infectious diseases –including natural environments, life environments,
and cultural, social, economic, and political factors –and the influence of the emergence and spread of
infectious diseases on lives and societies. We willsummarize the unique features of Southeast Asia.
Factors influencing the occurrence and spreadof infectious diseases have been studied from the
medical standpoint, and preventive measures havemainly been studied from the hygienic standpoint.
This study emphasizes other area-specific factors.
We are sure that the findings of our study will be thebasis for establishing practical and effective
preventive measures against the infectious diseases
that fit each area. In selecting internationaltransmission of infectious diseases as the subject of
this study, we hope our approach will be a regionwide model for how to cope with other serious
issues in risk management.

People crossing the border fromIndonesia to Sarawak to sell their products. Photograph taken during ourstudy trip to Sarawak in June, 2007.

The traditional food “Umai” contains
uncooked seafood and may becomea source of seafood-borne infection.
Photograph taken during our study
trip to Sarawak in June, 2007.

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Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project3 Scientific Research (A)Comprehensive Study of Aging
Societies in Southeast Asia:
With Special Reference to
Building Up a Social Safety Net

Principal Investigator:

Matsubayashi Kozo
Period: FY2005-2007

Aging populations are growing not only indeveloped countries but also in Southeast Asia.
While developed countries grew old after becomingrich, however, developing countries are growing old
before becoming rich. The aim of this project is toclarify actual features of health issues and caresystems for the community-dwelling elderly inSoutheast Asian countries. The human aging agenda
focuses on how to prevent the functional dependenceof old people as well as how to provide efficient andeffective care to the frail elderly. It is also an agenda
concerned with non-communicable diseases such as
diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stroke, anddementia, which cause functional dependence rather
than death. We have carried out medical andgeriatric surveys of community-dwelling elderly inWest Java, Indonesia; Phuto district, Vietnam;
Maubin, Myanmar; Khon Kaen, Thailand; andSavannakhet, Laos. We found an increasing
prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the elderly

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populations of Khon Kaen and Savannakhet and ahigh prevalence of hypertension in the elderly ofWest Java. We also found that the development of
metabolic syndrome in the community-dwellingelderly was closely associated with the presence ofeconomic transition.
Each community has its own care system forthe elderly, based on familiar, community, andreligious relationships (Geriatrics and Gerontology
International 2004, 2005; Am J Geriatric Soc2004,
2005; Lancet 2007). Our findings suggest that noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes,
hypertension, stroke, dementia, and heart disease in
the community-dwelling elderly have similarly
diverse features among Asian countries. To control
them, diverse and bottom-up interventions such as
education to increase awareness of disease, change
life-styles, or introduce medication might be needed;such interventions should be planned not only
according to the physical condition of the elderly
individuals, but also to the socio-economical situationof the community in which they live. Preventive“field medicine” is more important than hospitalbased medicine, especially for community-dwellingelderly living in the developing world.

A female centenarian with diabetes
came to our medical camp supported
by her great-great-granddaughter,other family, and community neighbors in Savannakhet, Laos.

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4 Scientific Research (A)Agro-Ecological System andDevelopment in the
Brahmaputra River Reaches:
Seeking Possibilities for Sustainable
Development
Principal Investigator:

with hygiene and medicine; and, (5) planning actionresearch towards rural development for problem
solving, including how we can link with various localorganizations that are involved in rural development
such as local administration, NGOs, civilian
organizations etc.
Fig. 1 Brahmaputra River Reaches
Brahmaputra River
Brahmaputra River Reaches

Ando Kazuo
Period: FY2005-2008

This research looks at areas in Bangladesh,northeastern India, and Burma (Myanmar) as one
region of the Brahmaputra River reaches, and links
changes in global climatic and environmental
conditions to transformations in the agro-ecologicalsystems at the village level, with the end in view of
exploring the possibilities for sustainable
development in the region. We attempt to look at
the characteristics of the agro-ecological system atthe village level based on the (1) influence ofmonsoonal movements on the aquatic and otherenvironment of the region; (2) recent changes in theagro-ecological system (agricultural, silvicultural andaquatic production systems, supporting social
systems, infrastructure) which have been the major
factors in environmental changes in the region; (3)local villagers’ understanding and modes of dealing
with recognized problems in the environmental andagro-ecological sustainability; (4) socioeconomic
problems in the villages, and how the villagers deal

China

India
MyanmarBangladesh

Fig. 2 Schematic Figure of the Agroecosystem inthe Brahmaputra River Reaches
Agriculture,
Forestry, Fishery
Floodplain Agriculture,
Shifting Agriculture,
Terraced Rice Field,
Periodical Market

Agroecosystem

MonsoonHeavy Rainfall
Environment

Social Life

Flood Problem, Soil Erosion,
Deforestration,
Social Infrastructure
Development

Life Style,
Health Problem,
Village Community System,
Local Government

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya State, India,
which has one of the heaviest annual
rainfalls in the world. Despite 8,000
mm of rain per year, the landscapeincludes rocky and grassy expanses.
February 2003
Mukutapur Village, Kamrup District,Assam State, India. This Ahomiya farmer
is irrigating his rice field manually after
the very small rainfall of the 2006 rainyseason. The irrigation tool he is using is
widely distributed throughout South andSoutheast Asia. August 2006

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Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project

5 Scientific Research (A)Research on Non-Traditional
Security Issues in East Asia

Principal Investigator:

Patricio N. Abinales
Period: FY2007-2010

The aim of this joint research is to create amodel of regional cooperation on “non-traditional
security issues” ranging from transnational crime –weapons smuggling, human trafficking,undocumented migration – to epidemics like theavian flu. These problems are often accorded lesspriority than the “arms race” or “global terrorism”
because their impact on communities is less direct
and often not immediately felt. Yet they can exact ahigh cost in human lives and social resources inmuch the way violence associated with “traditional
security issues” does. What distinguishes “nontraditional security issues” is the degree to which
their effects transcend national boundaries.
Transnational crimes cut across nations and regions,and in the case of human trafficking, for example, arereproduced in all regions of the world. To
understand them, one must focus beyond a given
nation-state and utilize the lens of area studies andthe comparative perspective.

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This research project will investigate thefollowing issues: illegal arms smuggling within andbeyond Southeast Asia, particularly the flow of arms
between conflict zones; the movement of avian flu
and other epidemics across regions and national
responses to the disease, including a comparative
study of agricultural and health agencies of East
Asian states; the legal and illegal flow of humans(both migration and trafficking) and thetransformation of out-migrant and destination areas;and cross-border trade and power in Southeast Asia.
While research on transnational crimes has
recently increased to rival studies devoted to“traditional security issues,” our project’s
contribution to this growing field is to promote a
multi-disciplinary area studies approach. Thisapproach, combined with the comparative
perspective, will help explain how these crimes
spread in the East Asian region, what actors are
involved in their promotion, and how states respondto the spread individually and as parts of collective
associations (e.g., ASEAN). The end result, wehope, will be a model of analysis on transnational
crime. Another goal is a database of crime and state
resolution in order to aid in formulating policy. All
findings and analyses will be published in a book.

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6 Scientific Research (A)The Dynamics of Minor EcoResources Trade in Asia and the
Eco-Politics of Conserving
Traditional Techniques
Principal Investigator:

Yamada Isamu
Period: FY2007-2010

The purpose of this study is first to focus on
the dynamics of minor eco-resources which are now
facing difficulty because of overexploitation in many
areas in Asia and, second, to think “eco-politically”
about how to conserve traditional cultural techniques
remaining in the first nations groups in the region.
The areas of research spread from originating tocommercial areas in the wider region in Asia.
Project members consist of ecologists,
anthropologists, and area specialists, and joint
researches with Asian counterparts are beingscheduled in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,
Myanmar, Laos, China, India, Syria, Bhutan, andOman. The basic important resources to be studied
include Agar wood, several marine products, rare
Chinese medicinal plants, and other rare resources.

Agar wood plantation among the pepper garden (East
Kalimantan Tanah grogot)

Agar wood in East Kalimantan (Suka madju)

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7 Scientific Research (B)Mechanism of Land Use
Changes in Mainland
Southeast Asia:

Fieldwork-based Remote Sensing Analyses

Principal Investigator:

Kono Yasuyuki
Period: FY2006-2009

Environmental conservation and poverty
mitigation are, in theory, the two wheels of ruraldevelopment. Environmental conservation
programs enrich natural resources such as land,
water, and forest, which in turn provide the basis of
the livelihood system of rural populations. Poverty
mitigation programs upgrade the rural economy toprevent short-sighted misuses of natural resources
and promote their sustainable management.
However, in many rural areas of Mainland Southeast
Asia, environmentalism and poverty mitigation havebeen contradictory. Many case studies report thatrules and regulations implemented forenvironmental conservation restrict the customaryaccess of local people to natural resources andthreaten the sustainability of their livelihood
systems, while poverty mitigation programs usually
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goods, and commercial products.
The most severe confrontation can beobserved in the area of land use. Land is a common
resource for a wide range of activities, including biodiversity conservation, water harvesting,subsistence farming, and many economic activities.
Scarcity of land resources makes synthesizing
environmental conservation and poverty mitigation
more difficult.
This project aims to review long-term changes
in land use by reconsidering the mechanism behindthe scarcity of land resources and to propose afeasible synthesis of environmental conservation andpoverty mitigation. We focus on village-level land
use changes at selected sites in Vietnam and Laos inorder to identify changes precisely and relate themto socio-economic events. Major materials for
identifying land use change are aerial photos, highresolution satellite images, and gaiho-zu (mapspublished by the Japanese army mainly in the 1940s).
These images are interpreted based on informationcollected through field surveys. We have to dateselected Tan Minh village, Da Bac district, Hoa Binhprovince; Chieng Dong village, Yen Chau district,
Son La province; Ngoc Quan village, Doan Hung
district, Phu Tho province; and Chau Khe village,
Con Cuong district, Nghe An province in Northern
Vietnam; and Napa Tai, Samkhang, Oudom, and Ay
villages in Oudom Xay province, Northern Laos, forthe study sites, and are conducting field survey and
GIS analysis.

Land use changes in Napa Tai village, Oudom Xay province, Northern
Laos. We can see drastic changes in land use, particularly of forest
area, just after the revolution in 1975 when the social order was recovered. The impact was much more significant than that of the spread ofmarket economy in the 1990s.

The expansion of paddy field in Ay village,
Oudom Xay province, Northern Laos. Paddy
fields have gradually expanded during the lastsix decades of war, socialization, and chintanakanmai, the Lao version of Perestroika.

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8 Scientific Research (B)The Labour-intensive Path of
Economic Development and
the Quality of Labour andLife in India
Principal Investigator:

Sugihara Kaoru
Period: FY2006-2008

India today is undergoing economictransformation on an unprecedented scale. It has
stimulated an international academic debate on how
to interpret this change against the traditional
understanding of India, in which some scholars
suggest the need for a fundamental rethinking of theeconomic history of the country, including its
colonial past. The purpose of this project is toreexamine the historical origins of India’s economic
development and suggest a new perspective.
The English-language historiography of thissubject has been overwhelmingly concerned with therelationship between Britain and India. For example,
both the British view – that British rule brought thebenefit of the industrial revolution to India – and theIndian view, represented in A. K. Bagchi’s thesis of“deindustrialisation” – that India’s industrial decline
was the other side of the coin of British success – infact shared the notion that the influx of Lancashire
cotton textiles ruined traditional industries.
However, in recent years Tirthankar Roy had
challenged this notion by showing growth andincreases in productivity in the cotton hand-weaving
sector in the early twentieth century. He has also
demonstrated the survival of a number of otherlabour-intensive industries, including gold thread

RESEARCH(jari ), brassware, leather, shawls and carpets, as wellas their ability to respond to technological change
and create employment.
One of the key concepts of Roy’s study is thelabour-intensive path of economic development,
which has been developed through his academic
interactions with Japanese scholars. Among themembers of this project, Sugihara and Yanagisawa
have discussed industrial and agricultural aspects ofthis path, respectively, and three of us share theview that the labour-intensive path, widely observedin Asia, offers a clue to understanding thecontemporary Indian economy. In this project,seven Japanese scholars with established records ofempirical research examine the data, mainly of thecolonial period, to test this perspective.
India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh, awell-known economist and central figure who
pushed the economic liberalization in the 1990s, hasadvocated the need to foster the industry which could
generate employment; he also used the term “labourintensive industrialisation” in his 1997 speech. Underglobalisation and the spectacular development of the
IT industry in India, he has consistently reminded
those who ignore the significance of rural employment
and the development of appropriate technology of theurgent need to increase the production of labourintensive goods. It is hoped that this project will
clarify the historical context in which to place such apressing issue.
During the first year, three workshops were
held in Kyoto to discuss the present state ofscholarship and our analytical framework, while
individual members made research trips to India,
Southeast Asia, and Britain to collect data and otherrelevant materials. Sugihara reported on his
thinking at international conferences at Helsinki(August 2006) and Washington, DC (September2006) and received valuable comments.
Loom operated
by young apprentices, Shaikh
Gulam Hussun’s
factory, Amritsar,
c.1915.

Tanning house, Cawnpore Tannery, c.1915.

Adapted from Tirthankar Roy, Traditional Industry in the
Economy of Colonial India (Cambridge University Press)
with author’s permission. The original pictures derivefrom Somerset Plane, The Bombay Presidency, the United
Provinces, Punjab, etc.: Their History, People, Commerceand Natural Resources (London, 1917-20).

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9 Scientific Research (B)Changes in Local Politics andEconomic Structure in
the Democratized andDecentralized Indonesia
Principal Investigator:

Mizuno Kosuke
Period: FY2005-2007

Department ofInternal Affairs
poster announcing
the direct election of
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heads

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The Governor of
Gorontalo Province, who
won popular support
through the implementation of “entrepreneurial
governance”

After the collapse of the Suharto Regime in1998, certain fundamental changes took place inIndonesia’s political and economic structure. In thisresearch we examine empirically the changes
brought about by democratization and administrative
decentralization. We look at the underlying
dynamics as seen from the local level, focusing on
the social profiles of local politicians and theconcrete impact of decentralization on village
administration in several localities. We also seek toanalyze the structure of local elections and politicoeconomic structure.
This project is the second phase of a larger
project on “Indonesian democratization.” The firstphase concentrated on gathering data on the 1999
election, and in this second phase we are enriching
this database by adding information on the 2004
election and the social profile of those who were
elected. So far, the data collected cover 135 districts
and 24 municipalities. We have also conducted casestudies on a number of village administrations. The
results were published in Southeast Asian Studies.

Rank-and-file members of South Sulawesi
Province government attending a workshop on
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10 Scientific Research (C)11 Scientific Research, Exploratory Research

Impact Assessment of
Tank Modernization Projecton Agricultural Water Use andLivelihood of Farmers
in Tamil Nadu, India

Collection and Exhibition of
Farming Tools Based on Local
Participant Networks in the
Himalayan Circle and Japan

Principal Investigator:

Principal Investigator:

Sato Takahiro

Ando Kazuo

Period: FY2007-2008

Period: FY2006-2007

Tamil Nadu is a state at the southern tip of the
Indian subcontinent whose climate ranges from dry
sub-humid to semi-arid. Most of the state’s
irrigation activities, except in big river basins likeCauvery, has been heavily dependent on the tanksystem. As this system is designed to harvest
surface water runoff, maintenance of the tank isessential for its continuous use. In ancient times,
there was a maintenance system called
kudimaramathu , which was based on village social
structure. However, changes in the kind of crops
grown in the tank command area and the movementof people to cities has encouraged well-water use
and resulted in the decline of tank performance.
Since the 1980s, local NGOs and someinternational organizations have been trying to
improve tank performance by promoting a water
users’ association. This research aims to assess theimpact of such projects on agricultural water use andthe livelihood of farmers. Fieldwork in selectedvillages is being conducted to analyze water
distribution in the tank command areas, and thesocial simulation technique will be applied to assess
future sustainability.

This joint research looks at the impact of theshift in plough use from the Indian plough to theChinese plough in traditional farming in Tibet and
Nepal. With the participation of local inhabitants,
we are also collecting, examining, and cataloging thefarming tools used by local communities in
Bangladesh, Assam (India), Burma (Myanmar), andLaos, and preparing exhibits of these implements.
Finally, we are examining Japanese village revival
enterprises led by local administrations, such as
the Kameoka Cultural Information Museum andthe Miyama Folk Exhibit Museum in the thatchedroof village. We will consider the possibility ofapplying the Japanese model to the other regions in
the project and assisting in the formation of a
network of collaborating institutions. This thirdpart of the project is also conducted with active
community participation.

Agricultural tools exhibited in the Museum

Lao Farmer
Traditional Tools
Project Museum,
Faculty ofAgriculture,
National Universityof Laos
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Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project

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13 Scientific Research, Exploratory Research

Searching for an Area Studies
Approach to Disaster Prevention
and Rehabilitation from
Experiences of Involvement inRehabilitation Work

Siamese Relations with China
before the Second World War

Principal Investigator:

Principal Investigator:

Shimizu Hiromu

Koizumi Junko

Period: FY2007-2008

Period: FY2007-2008

Insular Southeast Asia is repeatedly hit by
natural disasters including typhoons, earthquakes,
tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. The toll of theSumatra tsunami of December 2004 reached 130,000
in Indonesia and more than 180,000 in all, including
Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The Central Java
earthquake of May 2006 caused more than 6,000
victims. This project searches for smooth andeffective ways for area study specialists to contributeto disaster prevention, mitigation, and rehabilitation.
All project members have some sort of commitment
to emergency aid and rehabilitation programs after adisaster. Reflecting their own experiences,members will try to find a way to combine academic
researches and practical contributions to areas
vulnerable to natural disasters.
The main project site is Gesikan Village in
Bantul, Central Java, which was severely hit by the2006 earthquake. We will construct a small house ina village-pekarangan (home garden) as an activity
center and will make a hazard map of the area andother module kits in corporation with villagers to be
used for disaster prevention and mitigation activities
and education.

Given the long and close historical relations
between Thailand (Siam) and China, the fact that thetwo countries had no formal diplomatic relations foralmost a century between 1854 and 1946 isseemingly a paradox. Relations between the twocountries during this crucial period of time havebeen neglected by historians. This neglect leaves
many important questions unexplored, such as how
Siam and China, two of the few countries in Asia thatremained independent in the period of highcolonialism, related to each other without any formal
channel for negotiation during the many turbulent
and crucial events that affected the region. Based onarchival documents written in Thai, Chinese, andEuropean languages, this research aims to reexamine Siamese relations with China during thisperiod to raise questions about the existing nationstate-based framework for modern diplomacy.

Japanese voluntary students introduce themselves andtheir activity plan to villagers at the launch party of thePekarangan Project in Gesikan, Bantul Regency, Special
Region of Yogyakarta, 29 April 2007.

King
Chulalongkorn
Source:Phraratchawang
Bangpa-in (1980)

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Core University Progamn 1986, the JSPS-NRCT Core University
Program was established; since the beginning,
CSEAS of Kyoto University and Thammasat
University have been its core institutions. When thefirst phase of the program ended in 1998, theprogram had successfully invited scholars not only
from Thailand but also from Malaysia, Indonesia, thePhilippines, and other countries in order to promote
Southeast Asian studies by Southeast Asian scholars
themselves. In 1999, the second phase started with
the invitation to Chulalongkorn University to
become a counterpart institution. The main themeof this phase is “Region Making in East Asia,” as
CSEAS, in collaboration with these two Thai
universities, tries to apply interdisciplinary

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Democratization in
Asia,” Bangkok,
February 2007

approaches to understand important political,
cultural, and economic topics of East Asia such as
markets, middle classes, and flows. We clarify theroles of market and government, investigate regional
cooperation in East Asia, and present the status quo
and the future. At the same time, we analyze theemergence of the East Asian middle class as a social
formation and trace the dynamic flow and movementof goods and services and every other object
crossing national boundaries. In all the subprojects,
we try to enhance the network, deepen joint
research, and publish working papers and books todisseminate our study results.
At this stage, we have finished six joint
researches and have three ongoing joint researches:
Joint Research Projects in progress
Project 7 Entrepreneurship in East Asia (FY2005-2008)
Project 8 The Changing “Family” (FY2005-2008)
Project 9 The Asian International Economic Order:

Past, Present and Future (FY2006-2008)

Completed Joint Research Projects
Project 1 Structural Change of Hegemony: Comparative

History on Network (FY1999-2001)
Project 2 Structure of Intellectual Hegemony: Technocracy

A scene ofInternational
Workshop “The Thai
Coup d’etat andPost-AuthoritarianSoutheast Asia: The
Shifting Balance ofSocial Powers,”
Kyoto, March 2007

(FY1999-2001)
Project 3 State, Market and Society: Logic of Regional

Integration and Asian Economy (FY2000-2003)
Project 4 Rise of Middle Class: What’s the Implications of

the Rising Middle Class as Mass Class for the
Political, Economic, Social and Cultural
Significance of East Asia? (FY2002-2004)
Project 5 Dynamism of Social Flows in Southeast Asia

(FY2002-2004)
Project 6 Market and Economic Partnership (FY2004-2006)

International Workshop“Security and Violence inContemporary Southeast
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Core University Progam

Each project organizes one or two seminars a
year and the Japanese side invites several
researchers from abroad, mainly from Thailand, toconduct research and make presentations in Japan,
while the Thai side invites several Japanese scholars
a year to conduct collaborative researches and makepresentations based on the preliminary research
results. We also usually invite the researchers topresent their findings at a large-scale internationalseminar in Thailand or in Kyoto, the results of which
are published as a proceeding. The final year of eachproject is closed with a wrap-up seminar, which leads
to the publication of an edited book. The list of
published proceedings and edited books are as follows:
Edited Books
Shiraishi Takashi and Patricio Abinales, eds. 2005.
After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance inSoutheast Asia. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University
Press and Trans Pacific Press.
Shiraishi Takashi and Pasuk Phongpaichit, eds. 2008.
The Rise of Middle Classes in Southeast Asia. Kyoto andMelbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press.
Abe Shigeyuki and Bhanupong Nidhipraba, eds. 2008.
East Asian Economies and New Regionalism. Kyoto andMelbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press.
Ishikawa Noboru, ed. 2008.
Flows and Movements in Southeast Asia: New Approaches toTransnationalism. Kyoto and Singapore: Kyoto University
Press and National University of Singapore Press.

FY2008 is the final year of the second phase of
the program and three on-going projects are geared
to show new perspectives on East Asian politics,
economy, and society. All information related to theprogram can be seen on the HP:
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/core/index_en.htm.

Published Proceedings
From Project 1 and 2

Hegemony, Technocracy, Networks. 2003.
Hamashita Takeshi and Shiraishi Takashi, eds.
From Project 3

State, Market, Society andEconomic Cooperation in Asia. 2004.
Abe Shigeyuki and Bhanupong Nidhiprabha, eds.
From Project 4

Middle Classes in East Asia. 2004.
From Project 5

Flows and Movements in East Asia. 2004.
From Project 6

Emerging Developments in East Asia FTA/EPAs. 2006.
Abe Shigeyuki and Bhanupong Nidhiprabha, eds.
From Project 7 and 8

Toward a New Model of East Asian Society:
Entrepreneurship and the Family. 2005.
From Project 7 and 9

The Thai Coup d’etat and Post-Authoritarian Southeast Asia:
The Shifting Balance of Social Powers. 2007.

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Need-Based Program for Global Area Studies
EXT has started a program for new areastudies that can respond to global issues
such as the environmental problems caused
by development, and social problems caused by the
movement of people. The proposal from CSEAS was
accepted with the following title:

M

Study of “Social Software” for Development
and Environmental Preservation in Peripheral
South Asia:Finding Solutions throughStakeholder Participation
Principal Investigator: Ando Kazuo
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This action-oriented study aims to suggest a
useful social software model for Japan’s development
cooperation in the South Asian region. Like othercountries, Bangladesh and Nepal are facing trade-offs
between development and environmental
preservation. To determine how to mitigate thetrade-off, we will work with development
practitioners in the two countries, such as local
NGOs, in order to analyze, compile, and mutuallylearn the social needs and knowledge based on thepractical experience of local people.
The findings of the case studies will be sharedat social software building workshops in Bangladesh
and Nepal and will be presented at seminars in Japan.

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Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)
In order to share ideas and knowledge amongscholars of area studies and area study organizations,
CSEAS, in collaboration with the former Japan
Center for Area Studies of the National Museum of
Ethnology, the Research Institute for Languages andCultures of Asia and Africa of Tokyo University ofForeign Studies, and the Slavic Research Center of
Hokkaido University, established Japan Consortium
for Area Studies (JCAS) in April 2004. The major
purposes of JCAS are the promotion of trans-regional
area studies, the development of a transorganizational education system, the promotion of

RESEARCH NETWORKS

http://www.jcas.jp/

collaborative works with government agencies andNGOs, and the dissemination of academic
achievements of area studies to society.
JCAS organizes annual meetings, symposia,
next-generation workshops, vernacular language
workshops, and seminars. The topics of annual
symposia were “Academic societies and areastudies” (2004), “Educating area studies” (2005),
and “History of area studies in Japan” (2006).
Research groups on area-informatics andinformation sharing are also organized under JCAS
and members are actively exchanging theirresearch outcomes.
Member organizations have gradually
increased, reaching 70 as of April 1, 2007. These
now include research institutes, graduate schools,
large-scale research projects, academic societies,
and NGOs. Since the Japan Center for Area Studies
was transferred to Kyoto University and Kyoto
University has established the Center for Integrated
Area Studies, the new center serves the secretariat
of JCAS.
CSEAS, as a leading area studies organizationin Japan, has been playing a key role in the
management and development of JCAS since its
establishment. JCAS is an effective and usefulchannel for the staff of CSEAS to expand theirresearch fields to other regions and to introduce
new approaches.

Annual symposium “History of Area
Studies in Japan” was held atCampus Innovation Center in Tokyo,
November 2006.

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NETWORKS
A series ofinterdisciplinary seminars
held at the IIS
headquarter on
the Uji campus

The Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS) http://iss.iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp/iss/jp/index.html
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, incollaboration with the Chemical Research Institute,the Institute of Advanced Energy, the ResearchInstitute for Sustainable Humanosphere, and theDisaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto
University, established the Institute of Sustainability
Science in April 2006. The objective of the new
institute is to incubate “science for society” seeds
that will grow closely and extensively with humansustainability and “frontier science” seeds that will
nurture young researchers to assume vital roles in
the future of scientific and technological powerhousein Japan. This institute creates an undefined utopian,or freely transforming, space for a wide range of
researchers to carry out trans-disciplinary andproblem-solving research work.
CSEAS has already launched several research
projects under the new umbrella, including“Technology integration and institutional reform forsustainable use of mountain resources in and around
Southeast Asia” and “Development of area
informatics uniting geological and ecological studies:With emphasis on urban areas in Southeast Asia.”
We have also joined several research projects: “A

Kyoto Sustainability Initiative (KSI)20

The Kyoto Sustainability Initiative (KSI),
started in FY2006, is a 4-year research and education
program at Kyoto University that is part of theIntegrated Research System for Sustainability
Science (IR3S) led by the University of Tokyo,
Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Ibakraki
University. Sustainability science comprehensively
explores problems related to the sustainability of theearth and human society, and its ultimate purpose is
to contribute to the maintenance and improvementof these interrelated systems.
The main theme of KSI is “The vision anddevelopment of global sustainability: The reform ofsocio-economic systems and the role of science andtechnology.” Various institutions within the
University – the Institute of Advanced Energy, theInstitute of Chemical Research, the Institute of
Economic Research, the Institute for Research in
the Humanities, the Research Institute for
Sustainable Humanoshere, the Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, the Center for Southeast AsianStudies, and the Graduate School of Global
Environmental Sciences – are participating in KSI
to construct a “Kyoto Model” for solving problems
through flexible research and education that bridges

survey of seeds and needs on new energy
development in Asia and Europe,” organized by theInstitute of Advanced Energy; “Database
construction for simulation analyses of sustainable
Humanosphere,” “Basic studies towards molecular
breeding of tropical fast growing trees,” and“Reforestation: A scenario from destruction toregeneration,” organized by the Research Institutefor Sustainable Humanosphere; and “Creation of
Asian cropland dataset through satellite data analysis
toward water resources management” and“Evaluation and prediction of meteorological andclimatic impact on epidemic diseases and humanactivities,” organized by the Disaster Prevention
Research Institute.
The Institute of Sustainability Science is
CSEAS’s first challenge in collaborating withresearchers in the fields of advanced science andtechnology. We are expecting this challenge to yieldwidening approaches to area, deepening perspectives
on the future, and an evolution of area studies.
A series of interdisciplinary seminars were
held at the IIS headquarter on the Uji campus.

http://www.kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ksi/

existing disciplines. As a participating institute,
the Center is expected to contribute the resultsof its integrated area studies and its human network,
utilizing its overseas liaison offices in Bangkok
and Jakarta.
Thus far, CSEAS has sent staff to the KSI
Planning and Strategy Building Committee, theFlagship Project Committee, and international
symposia held in China. We have contributed themeans for realizing remote video conferencing
system and have held a lecture for graduate
students on “Environment and Society in Southeast
Asia” in the Graduate School of Global
Environmental Sciences.
Demonstrationof the videoconferencing
system for communication anddocument sharing, Bandung
Institute ofTechnology,
Indonesia

Research activitiess an internationally pioneering research
institution, CSEAS has initiated and organizedpanels in international seminars and symposia
and domestic and in-house seminars in order toA

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promote academic and intellectual exchange withresearchers and activists in Japan and Southeast Asiaand to disseminate our original ideas and concepts tothe world.

International Symposia
Date

Theme

Host Institution

Place

2007.
07.18-19

International Workshop on “Security and Violence inContemporary Southeast Asia”

JSPS Core University Program, Institute of Asian Studies,
Chulalongkorn University, CSEAS

Chiang Rai

2007.
03.27

International Seminar “Local Politics and Local
Administration in Comparative Perspective”

JSPS Core University Program

Kyoto

2007.
03.21

Kyoto Philippine Forum “The May Elections and Peace
Prospects in Moro Mindanao”

CSEAS

Kyoto

2007.
03.14

International Symposium “Building East Asian Networks on CSEASSoutheast Asian Studies”

Kyoto

2007.
03.12-13

International Workshop “The Thai Coup d’etat and PostAuthoritarian Southeast Asia: The Shifting Balance ofSocial Powers”

JSPS Core University Program

Kyoto

2007.
02.17-18

International Workshop “(In)Formal Violence and
Democratization in Southeast Asia”

JSPS Core University Program, Institute of Asian Studies,
Chulalongkorn University, CSEAS

Bangkok

2007.
01.15-16

International Symposium “Global Sustainability:
Social Systems and Technological Strategies”

Kyoto Sustainability Initiative (KSI), Kyoto University,
Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science(IR3S), Society for Environmental Economics andPolicy Studies

Kyoto

2006.
11.23-26

8th Kyoto University International Symposium“Towards Harmonious Coexistence within Human and
Ecological Community on this Planet”

Kyoto University: Institute of Advanced Energy,
Faculty/Graduate School of Agriculture, Faculty/Graduate
School of Science, Graduate School of Asian and African
Area Studies (ASAFAS), CSEAS, The Research Institutefor Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Institute of
Sustainability Science

Bangkok2006.
11.17-18

Joint Symposium on Sustainability Science

Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science(IR3S)

Beijing

2006.
11.09-13

International Symposium “Crossing Disciplinary
Boundaries and Re-visioning Area Studies: Perspectives
from Asia and Africa”

21st Century COE Program “Aiming for Center of
Excellence of Integrated Area Studies: Establishing Field
Stations in Asia and Africa to Combine Research Activities
and On-Site Education”

Kyoto

2006.
10.27-28

JSPS Core University Program Conference “Emerging
Developments in East Asia FTA/EPAs”

JSPS Core University Program

Kyoto

2006.
07.01

International Workshop “New Perspectives on ChineseBusiness, Family, and Changing Regimes in Indonesia”

JSPS Research Program on the Transformation of Local
Kyoto
Politics in Indonesia’s Post-Democratization,
Decentralization Era, JSPS- NRCT Core University Program,
NIOD (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation)
Indonesian Chinese Programme

2006.
03.22-23

IR3S-AIT Joint Symposium on Sustainability Science

Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science(IR3S)

Bangkok2006.
03.15-18

International Workshop “Indigenous Eco-knowledge andDevelopment in Northern Laos”

CSEAS, The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), The National Agriculture and Forestry ResearchInstitute (NAFRI)

Oudumxay(Laos)

2006.
03.06

JSPS Core University Program Seminar “Network Theory
in Asian Studies: Its Performance and Challenges to
Next Steps”

JSPS Core University Program

Kyoto

2006.
01.18-20

International Workshop “Comparative Analysis of Local
Level Studies on Land Use and Cover Change in theUplands of Mainland Southeast Asia”

CSEAS, East-West Center, Khon Kaen University

Khon Kaen

2005.
11.23-24

7th Kyoto University International Symposium“Coexistence with Nature in a ‘Glocalizing’ World:
Field Science Perspectives”

Kyoto University, 21st Century COE Program “Aiming forCenter of Excellence of Integrated Area Studies:
Establishing Field Stations in Asia and Africa to Combine
Research Activities and On-Site Education”

Bangkok2005.
11.12-14

International Symposium “Geo-Informatics for Historical
Studies in Asia” and Open Symposium“Digital Preservation of Historical Heritage in Thang
Long-Hanoi Based on Area Informatics”

GASR-S, Development of Area Informatics Project

Hanoi

2005.
10.28

CSEAS 40th Anniversary International Symposium“Southeast Asian Studies: Institutions and Interventions”

CSEAS

Kyoto

2005.
10.14-15

JSPS Core University Program Seminar “Toward
a New Model of East Asian Society: Enterpreneurshipand the Family”

JSPS Core University Program

Kyoto

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In-house Seminars
In-house seminars are initiated by CSEAS
researchers to study and discuss research topics
which are in their preliminary stages. They are
undertaken with support from CSEAS fund. After aseries of discussions, seminar members then turnthese into a concrete advanced research project for
which they will attempt to obtain external funding(like the Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research Project).
Around ten in-house seminars are being organized
every year and each holds a few meetings a year.
We are organizing the following in-house seminars
in FY2007:
1. State, Market and Community(Organizer: Mizuno Kosuke)
2. Politics, Economics and History of Asia
(Organizer: Sugihara Kaoru)
3. Seminar for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene(Organizer: Nishibuchi Mitsuaki)

4. Regional Characteristics of Rural
Development (Organizer: Ando Kazuo)
5. Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective(Organizar: Okamoto Masaaki)
6. Special Interest Group for Area Studies
Resource Sharing (Organizer: Kitamura Yumi)
7. Let’s Watch Movies Together(Organizer: Kitamura Yumi)
8. New Voices from Area Studies(Organizer: Endo Tamaki)
9. New Era of Continental Southeast Asia
(Organizer: Kobayashi Satoru)
10. Historiography in Southeast Asia
(Organizer: Koizumi Junko)
11. Natural Disaster in Southeast Asia:
Commitment and Area Studies(Organizer: Hamamoto Satoko)

Colloquia
The Colloquium takes place once a month after
the Staff Meeting. The Center’s research staff andvisiting research fellows present topics in turn. It is
expected to function as a forum for brainstorming
among the staff about area studies. The following is
the list of colloquium since Semptember 2006.

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A. Topic: “The Implementation of PRA(Participatory Rural Appraisal) Method for
Sulawesi Rural Development: Reaching the
Poor.” Dorotea Agnes Rampisela (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS), July 9, 2007
B. Topic: “Development of Novel TranscriptionReverse Transcription Concerted (TRC)
Method for Quantitative Detection of SpecificmRNAs of Pathogens and Application to Risk
Assessment of Food for Vibrio
parahaemolyticus.” Nakaguchi Yoshitsugu(CSEAS) , June 28, 2007
C. Topic: “Assessment of Spatial and Temporal
Land Use/Cover Changes in Northern
Mountainous Region of Laos Using Satellite
Data.” V.M.Chowdary (JSPS Fellow), May 21,
2007
D. Topic: “Spoilers, Provocateurs, Advocates:
Muslim-Christian Relations, Islamic
Resurgence and Civil Society Dynamics andTheir Impact on the Current Mindanao Peace
Process.” Rufa Cagoco-Guiam (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS), April 24, 2007

E. Topic: “Occupational Change and Upward
Mobility of Urban Low-Income Residents in
Bangkok.” Endo Tamaki (JSPS Fellow), March
22, 2007
F. Topic: “3-D Modeling of Geologic Structuresand Its Practical Use.” Yonezawa Go (CSEAS),
February 22, 2007
G. Topic: “Spatial Revelations.” Caverlee Cary
(Visiting Research Fellow, CSEAS ), January 25,
2007
H. Topic: “The Museum as the Representation of‘Ethnicity’: Visualization of ChineseIndonesian Culture in Post Suharto Era.”
Kitamura Yumi (CSEAS), December 21, 2006
I. Topic: “Plant Diversity in Paddy Field
Landscape in Central Laos.” Kosaka Yasuyuki(CSEAS), November 24, 2006
J. Topic: “The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade
Towards a New Perspective of NineteenthCentury Global History.” Sugihara Kaoru(CSEAS), October 26, 2006
K. Topic: “Labor Conflict in Colonial Burma: The
Making of the Anti-Indian (Coringhee) Riot of
May 1930.” Adapa Satyanarayana (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS), September 28, 2006

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Special Seminars
Besides the larger symposia and seminars, theCenter also holds special seminars featuring lecturesby visiting research fellows and visitors to theCenter. The following is the list of special seminars
since October 2006.
A. Topic: “New Knowledges, Old Problems:Resource Management along the Stueng
Saen(Saen River), Kampong Thom Province,
Central Cambodia.” Lye Tuck Po (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS ), June 25, 2007
B. Topic: “Dam Development ; Solving or
Creating Problems Study Case : Bili-bili Dam
Issues and Facts.” Dorothea Agnes Rampisela(Visiting Research Fellow, CSEAS ), June 15, 2007
C. Topic: “The Situation of Elderly People in
Thailand.” Kovit Khampitak (Visiting Research
Fellow, CSEAS), May 17, 2007
D. Topic: “Letters of Contestation: Leke Religious
Cult among the Karens in Myanmar andThailand.” Kwanchewan Buadaeng (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS), March 23, 2007
E. Topic: “Agrarian Relations in Upland
Sulawesi: The Case of Tana Toraja.” Dias
Pradadimara (Visiting Research Fellow, CSEAS),
January 22, 2007

F. Topics & Speakers: “Researching Big
Business in Malaysia: A Social Network
Perspective.” Chan Kim Ling (Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia); “Disaster Preparedness
and Natural Disaster Victim Services: Lesson
Learned from Japan and Indonesia.” Heru
Susetyo (University of Indonusa Esa Unggul);“The Importance of Tradition: Trying to
Discover the Other.” Jyothi Kukathas (TheInstant Cafe Theatre Company, Malaysia); “New
Indonesian Films: Revival or Just Another
Downturn.” Krisnadi Yuliawan Saptadi(Journalist from GATRA, Indonesia); “The Fictionof Science in Asian Science Fictions: A
Reading of Japanese Science Fiction andPhilippine Future Fiction.” Alwin Aguirre(University of the Philippines), November 2, 2006
G. Topic: “Legalizing Shari’a (Islamic Law) and
Its Impact on the ‘Pancasila State’ inIndonesia: The Case of Shari’a Regulations(Perda Shari’a).” Abubakar Eby Hara (Visiting
Research Fellow, CSEAS ), October 17, 2006

International Workshop“Security and Violence inContemporary Southeast
Asia,” in Chiang Rai, July 2007

21st COE Program “Aiming for COE of
Integrated Area Studies” joined the 7th
Kyoto University Symposium“Coexistence with Nature in a ‘Glocalizing’
World: Field Science Perspectives,” inBangkok, November 2005.

International Symposium “GeoInformatics for Historical Studies in
Asia,” in Hanoi, November 2005

International Workshop “Indigenous
Eco-knowledge and Development inNorthern Laos,” in Oudumxay, Laos,
March 2006

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Division of Integrated Area Studies

Mizuno Kosuke

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Nishibuchi Mitsuaki

Professor

Professor

People’s organizations (such as labor
1 unions),
institutional change, and goodof interrelationships between
1 Elucidation
the natural environment and human activ-

2
3

governance
The possibility of sustainable humanosphere development in Indonesia
Small-scale businesses in the development of the Indonesian economy

I have employed both institutional and historicalapproaches in my study of the Indonesian economy aswell as the area study approach when examining land,
labor, and capital as integral parts of the economy. My
research interest also includes studying thedevelopment and the role of people’s organizations,and how social capital is attained or lost in communities.
I have conducted a number of case studies on
the non-farm sector and rural industries in theIndonesian countryside, the results of which havebeen published in my book Community-Based Industry
in Indonesia: What Is a Path to the Recovery of Asian
Economies?(Kyoto University Press, 1999). This study
delved into the characteristics of community-basedindustry, which is the main form of small-scale industry
in Indonesia. One of its findings point to “regional
units like neighboring households, neighboringorganizations, hamlets, and administrative villages [asforming the] social basis to some extent for thedevelopment of economic networks of the people who
participated in the community-based industries.”
My research on rural industrialization, publishedin Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Studyof Community-Based Weaving Industry in West Java
(IDE, 1996), likewise showed that rural industry andthe non-firm sector improved income distribution
among rural peoples, but did not change the income
distribution hierarchy.

2

ities (cultural, social, economic, etc.)
specific to Asia through analysis ofenteric infections
Prevention of cholera among children in
Asia by utilizing symbiotic bacteria

Most bacteria responsible for entericinfections inhabit natural environments, but they aresparsely distributed. However, the eutrophication ofenvironments due to increases in human population,
human activities, and climate change stimulates
bacterial propagation. The propagated bacteria cancause infection through consumption of water andfood. Culture – including hygienic concepts, eating
habits, ritual ceremonies, and other factors – caninfluence the frequency of contact between thebacteria and humans. Humans differ in theirresistance to infection by the pathogenic bacteria
due to differences in their immunity induced by past
infections. Once infected, humans become “culture
bottles of the pathogen” and bacteria propagatedthere are released into the environments. Politicaland economic activities such as the movement oflabor harboring pathogens and the import/export offood contaminated with pathogens mediate thespread of infections. As such, we can look at thehuman-nature interaction through an analysis of theepidemiology of infectious diseases. Molecularepidemiological tools such as DNA fingerprinting can
be a very powerful tool in the analysis, helping toprove in a objective manner the subjective hypothesis
put forward in field study. The puzzles I have beencollaborating with scientists in Asia to solve are
infections caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio
cholerae, and Escherichia coliO157.

Indonesianlabor union
SBJ, organized after
the fall of
Suharto24

A new type of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that is responsible
for a pandemic spread of infections: Demonstration by DNA
fingerprinting method (right) that the bacterial strains isolated from bivalves harvested from the aquatic environment ofsouthern Thailand (left) are identical with human strains.

*As to research activities of each division, please see descriptions in p.64.

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Okamoto Masaaki

Caroline Sy Hau

1 Local politics
2 Decentralization
3 Privatized violence

1 The Chinese in the Philippines
2 Pan-Asianism(s) and revolutionary networks
Cultural flows and the formation of
3 “EastAsia”

Associate Professor

My intellectual interest is how to understandlocal politics in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia,
where democratization and decentralization havebrought about radical changes in local politics. I havedone research for several years in Indonesia and am
now tracing and describing the newly emerging local
political pattern and structure in several provinces. I
am interested, first, in how political actors try to
seize and maintain political power at the local level.
Second, the state overwhelmed society during theauthoritarian Suharto era and its fall liquidated thatstate-society relationship. Each region now shows aunique state-society relationship, and I am analyzing
their differences and similarities.
The main outputs of my research are articles
on a politically ascendant violent group in Banten
province and on the local politics of Gorontalo
province, a comparative analysis of the local politicalstructures of Banten and Gorontalo provinces, andan analysis of the impact of introducing directelections for regional head in 2005.
Campaign
poster showing
candidates forthe 2006 direct
gubernatorial
election in
Bantenprovince

Associate Professor

I am currently working on two projects. One
is a book manuscript on the history and politics of
the “Chinese Question” in the Philippines. This
project critically examines the ways in which“Chineseness” is historically constructed andnegotiated in the Philippines over the last hundredyears as documented in literature, film, popular
culture, academic debate, public policy, and everyday
practices. Special emphasis will be given to themutations and reinventions “Chineseness” isundergoing within the context of deepening East Asian
economic and political integration and regionalization
over the past two-and-a-half decades. The second
project is an “archeology” of Asianisms that seeks to
map and analyze the networks and ideologies ofanticolonial, communist, and capitalist interaction
and cooperation from the eras of anticolonial
revolutionary solidarities and anti-imperialist
struggle to the forms of Asian identification
currently emerging out of East Asian regional
integration. This archeology is meant to show thecomplex, multistranded natureof Asianism
while developinga regionalframework ofanalysis that
goes beyond
single-nation orbilateral studies.

Philippine national
hero Mariano Ponce(standing) andChina’s Sun Yatsen, in Ponce’s residence in Yokohama,c. 1899.

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Division of Integrated Area Studies

Nakaguchi Yoshitsugu
Assistant Professor

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Ubukata Fumikazu
Assistant Professor (COE)

Analysis of genetic information of patho1 genic
bacteria which cause enteric infections
Development and application of methods
to detect infectious pathogens based onfood risk assessment

Social change, institutions, and environ1 mental
governance in Southeast Asia

The relationship – the fight – between humans
and pathogens is age old. In Southeast Asian
countries, enteric infections are one of the mostimportant infections and are related to local foodculture. Now that millions of people travel abroad
and foods are imported from many Asian countries,
we have additional problems with infectious disease.
When we protect our life in this environment, it isimportant to have a broad perspective on infectious
diseases and the hygiene situation.
What is the concept of food safety? Essentiallythis means safety from infection by pathogens.
Designing a food risk assessment system on a global
scale is important for the food circumstances of ourcountry today. The various pathogens causing
infectious disease contaminate foods imported from
Asian countries; when brought into Japan via
imported food, infectious diseases can spreadquickly. This type of spread of infectious diseases
through the movement of humans and things issomething that has been repeated throughout humanhistory. I use the techniques of molecular biology
and molecular epidemiology to analyze pathogens
which cause infectious diseases and aim tounderstand their dynamic movement.

Many current social phenomena can beunderstood as a result of actors’ interactions on
local, national, and global levels. For example,
national and regional implementation processes
toward free trade, democratization, and local
empowerment are diverse across countries, although
they are acknowledged as the global trends. Of
course, local influences are much more diverse
because they largely depend on how various actors,
such as firms, local people, government, and NGOs,interact to create culture, rules, and institutions.
I am currently engaged in inter-disciplinary
research on how such actor interactions affect thecreation of institutions related to environmental
governance and its performance, and how regional
peculiarity affects its pathways. I am investigating
this issue in the following two concrete situations
concerning resource production and conservation inSoutheast Asia:
1. Reconciliation processes between local people,
government, and entrepreneurs on raw material
production in the pulp and paper industry
2. Policy formulations, implementations, and local
responses in “Community-based Resource
Management”

Sampling seafood for food risk assessment in southern Thailand

Community Forest: Villagers collectively making a firebreak in their community forest. How have such institutional arrangements arisen?

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Sato Takahiro

Researcher of Scientific Research (COE)1

Temporal-spatial changes in land andwater use in Southern India

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Endo Tamaki

Researcher of Scientific Research (COE)1 Informal economy
2 Urban development

In Tamil Nadu state at the southern tip of the
Indian subcontinent, the Southwest monsoon, which
can provide abundant rainfall from June to
September, is blocked by the Western Ghat
Mountains. As a result, only 800-1,000 mm annual
rainfall falls, the lower limit necessary for paddy
production. To use this limited rainfall effectively,
people at least 500 years ago developed a tankirrigation system which is designed to capture
surface runoff water. Frequent tank maintenance isessential for its sustainable use, but many factors,
such as urban migration, have weakened thecommunity-based tank management system andresulted in a decline in tank performance.
To cope with such problems, not only
technological innovation but also the establishmentof a tank management system taking into
consideration socio-economical criteria may beneeded. To suggest the needed intervention forsustainable water use in this area, I have been
studying temporal-spatial changes in land and water
use in recent decades through a combination of
RS/GIS technique and fieldwork.

My work so far is focused on the issues ofurban development and informal economy indeveloping countries – mainly Thailand – from theperspective of Urban Economics and Development
Economics. Incorporating the perspective of areastudies in my work, I have been conducting
empirical studies and urban analysis, in the context
of globalization, at both the macro and micro levels.
Macro analysis includes empirical analysis on
the urban economy and space, as well as policy
analysis. On the micro level, long-term field surveys
have been conducted in communities to investigate
how macro restructuring of urban areas affects lowincome residents of the city, their occupations, andtheir habitation, and how they respond to thesechanges. It became clear that low-income groups areclosely connected to the dynamism of the urban
economy. At the same time, disparities within theurban lower class are widening. Some people
manage their risks better than others under certain
conditions. The risk management process (in case offire, lay-off, illness, etc.) and the factors which affectthese processes are also investigated, such asindividual conditions, household conditions, and thefunction of community.

Tank view from the air

Fire is one of the biggest risks the urban poor confront ineveryday life.

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Division of Integrated Area Studies

Nishi Makoto

Kono Yasuyuki

Researcher of Scientific Research (COE)

Professor

Community-based HIV/AIDS prevention
1 programs
2 Fair distribution of development resources

1 Land and water resources management
Dynamics of land use and land
2 management
sustainable livelihood
3 Area-specificsystems

I have been engaged in research in Ethiopia
since 1995. Based on my fieldwork with the Gurage
people, I have published papers on the formation of
their ethnic identities and on their activities incommunity-based rural development projects. In mystudy I demonstrated that a community-basedorganization could play an important role in forming
alternative social relationships, thus helping to realize
a fairer redistribution of development resources.
Currently I am working on the issue of
HIV/AIDS prevention among the Gurage. I am
following the activities of community-basedorganizations that promote solidarity among people
who are living with the virus. I will also examine therole of customary Gurage laws and practices thatmay promote social care for AIDS patients at thecommunity level. Through this research I try to findout how they interpret the risks related to HIV/AIDS
and secure sustainable basis for their livelihoods.

Classroom of a school constructed by a community inrural Gurage

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The rural village is a source of knowledge andideas. This village headman in Northern Laos (second from left) told me (far left) his experience ofrevolution in the 1970s, new market economy in the
1990s, and trade with China in the 2000s.

I study the transformation of rural livelihood
systems, land and water resources management, andenvironmental conservation and development
programs in Mainland Southeast Asia. The study
sites cover a wide range of ecological settings, fromdeltaic areas of the Red River and Mekong River in
Vietnam, Chaophraya River in Thailand, andAyeyarwady River in Myanmar, to plateau areas ofNortheast Thailand, Upper Burma and Tamil Nadu
State in India, and mountainous areas of northern
Vietnam, northern Laos, northern Thailand, andYunnan Province of China. Fieldwork combinedwith remote sensing and GIS analyses are the major
tools of the research.
My major research concern is to develop an
area-specific synthesis of technology, institutions,and natural environment for land and water
resources management in a globalizing environment;
I am presently studying forest dynamics and land
management systems. The impact of the spread ofthe market economy and internationally standardized
programs for rural development and environmental
conservation suggest that land is the major
competing resource. In order to overcome thiswidely recognized scarcity, both substantial andexpected, technology and institutions to support
multi-layered and multi-purpose land use systems
derived from the long-term development process ofeach area should be developed.

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Division of Human-Nature Dynamics

Matsubayashi Kozo

Ando Kazuo

Longitudinal follow-up study based on
1 comprehensive
geriatric assessment for

Changes in agricultural technologies and1 thedevelopment of village societies in

Professor

23community-dwelling elderly in Japan andother Asian countries
Study on neurodegenerative diseases in
Papua New Guinea
Comparative study on human aging anddisease in Himalaya highlanders

I have been continuing the longitudinal study
on comprehensive geriatric assessment forcommunity-dwelling elderly living in Kochi, Japan,
since 1990.
To compare with these findings, I have carriedout geriatric surveys of community-dwelling elderly
living in West Java, Indonesia; Phuto district,
Vietnam; Maubin, Myanmar; Khon Kaen, Thailand;
and Savannakhet, Laos. The findings included anincreasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus in theelderly population of Khon Kaen and Savannakhet
and a high prevalence of hypertension in the elderlyof West Java. A close association was also foundbetween metabolic syndrome in the elderly andeconomic transition. In addition and in comparison
with the above, two special interests inneurodegenerative diseases in Papua New Guinea
and the health of high altitude populations in
Himalaya have also led to cooperation with researchersof the Research Institute of Humans and Nature.

Associate Professor

2Southeast and South Asia
People’s subjective participation in ruraldevelopment projects by village communities, and local government learned
through Practical Area Studies or Actionin Asia and Japan

Since April, 2001, I have mainly been involvedin the following two projects: the JICA Joint Study on
Participatory Rural Development Project (PRDP)
and the JSPS Study on Agricultural and Rural
Development among the Minorities of Bangladesh
and Myanmar (SARD-BM). The first project is acontinuation of two previous JICA joint studies onrural development in Bangladesh. In these JICA
study projects, I tried to develop alternative researchmethods that are suitable for rural development andalso applicable to area studies. One of thesemethods foregrounds the standpoint andconsciousness of persons living in the study area. I
call this study Practical Area Studies or Action
Research Area Studies. The second project is also
based on my previous individual studies on locallyexisting technologies and rural societies in thedeltaic regions of Bangladesh, Myanmar, andNortheast India including Assam and Arunachal
Pradesh. The study area – between Chittagong Hill
Tracts in Bangladesh, Irrawaddy in Myanmar, andNortheast India – was re-opened in the late 1990s to
foreign scholars, and I am now in the process ofcollecting primary data on that region mainly
through the JSPS grant projects (KAKEN). In
addition, since 1999 I have conducted fieldwork on
rural development and agricultural technologies inrural Japan, especially in Kyoto Prefecture, and also
in the hilly regions of Yunnan in China and in Laos inorder to formulate alternative options for agriculturaldevelopment for rural Japan.

Visiting by medical team using a boat through a river tohome village of patients with neurodegenerative disease
in Papua in New Guinea.

Harrowing with a tun (a uniqueharrow shaped like a comb) in afield near the Buddhist ruins ofPagan, Myanmar, July 2006

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Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Hayami Yoko

Professor

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Shimizu Hiromu

Professor

The historical development of ethnic rela1 tionships
and mobility in mainland
Southeast Asia, rethinking the uplandlowland axis
Family in Southeast Asia2and ethnicity among minority
3 Genderethnic groups
Religious movements and Buddhist
4 practicein Burma

My research interests have evolved since I
began research among the Karen in Northern Thai
hills two decades ago on religion, ethnicity, andgender. Changes in my orientation, in anthropology,
and in the area have constantly demanded me torethink my understanding. My focus has widened
spatially and temporally. From the time of
Thailand’s modern nation building to national
policies under the Cold War, and subsequently in theage of globalization, how have the foundations of life
for the people transformed? Representations of thehill minorities, both by others and by themselves,
have gone through processes of negotiation. Rather
than remain at the level of discourse analysis, I havepursued the taken-for-granted categories of ethnicity
on the ground and in history. In the past several
years, I have also been conducting research in
Myanmar, looking at the everyday practices of the
Karen since colonial times. I am pursuing two major
topics across the Thailand-Myanmar border: theethno-religious movements among the Karen; andthe domestic sphere as a locus of cultural
reproduction amid experiences of ethnic conflict aswell as cross-border mobility for labor and refuge.
Through these topics, I aim to reconsider modernist
frameworks of “family,” “ethnicity,” and “religion.”of indigenous communities in
1 aResiliency
remote area against globalization
retirees’ migration to
2 JapaneseSoutheast Asia
Socio-cultural history of Yokosuka City
3 underthe shadow of the US Naval BaseOne of my research topics is the resiliency ofindigenous communities in a remote area against
globalization. Almost every year since 1997 I havevisited Hapao village and surrounding areas in Ifugao
province of northern Luzon to study people-initiatedprojects of reforestation, cultural revitalization, andsocio-economic development. Anthropologically, theIfugao are well known not only for rice terraces,
inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as aliving cultural heritage in 1995, but also forcustomary laws, myths and rituals, woodcarving
production, and so forth. Today more than 150
villagers have gone global, mainly women who havegone abroad to work as domestic helpers.
Hapao is located at the center of amountainous area where the main force of theJapanese army led by General Yamashita entrencheditself in the final phase of the Second World War.
Mr. Lopez Nauyac, a native intellectual and thepresident of a small NGO (Ifugao Global Forest City
Movement) in Hapao, insisted that world peace
finally descended on Hapao at the cost of villagers’
suffering and death, and he succeeded in obtaining
funds for his projects from several Japanese agencies
including JICA. The total amount exceeds 50 million
yen. I am interested in the signifying practice of Mr.
Nauyac as well the global connections of villagers.
My other research topics are an investigationof the migration of Japanese retirees to Southeast
Asia and a socio-cultural history of Yokosuka City
under the shadow of the US Naval Base.
Mr. Nauyac
talks with a
JICA inspection team at
a reforestation site,
August 13,
2005.

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A newly-married couple making their marital oath in Paan,
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Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Ishikawa Noboru

Koizumi Junko

1 State-making and transnationality
2 Culture and power
3 Global ethnography

1 Modern Thai history and historiography
2 History of gender relations in Thailand
3 Diplomatic history of Thailand

As a social anthropologist, I have maintained astrong interest in political economy and relationships
between human and environment in insularSoutheast Asia. I have thus explored social forces
shaping the region through the articulation of history
and ethnography both from macro and micro
perspectives. More specifically, my research
focuses on the material bases of socio-culturalconfigurations in maritime Southeast Asia, analyzing
them in both their local and global contexts andlooking into their interaction. I have been engaged
in interdisciplinary research on the Malay world andon present-day Malaysia and Indonesia, with special
attention to the role of cultural interpretations in the
reproduction and maintenance of power, identity
politics, nation-making, ethnogenesis, socio-cultural
dislocation, and the mobilization of social labor.
My current research themes include thetransnational process at a state border in western
Borneo, the social history of a riverine society inNorthern Sarawak, Malaysia, commodity chainsconnecting Southeast Asia and Japan, and the sociocultural construction of “nature” in the industrialized
environment of Southeast Asia.

My research has been focused on the historical
study of Siam (Thailand) in the Early Bangkok
period. I have conducted extensive archival researchconcerning the various aspects of pre-modern
Siamese society and state administration and theirtransformation from the late 19th century. Basedupon insights obtained through reading thoseprimary source materials, I have also tried to pursue
a critical reexamination of modern Thai
historiography, raising questions about existing
history writing and representation in both official andpopular historical discourses that are mostly framed
by a modern nation-state cum royalist framework. In
this relation, I regard the question of gender as animportant field of history that has been marginalized
in the major masculinist discourse of Thai history.
Another field of importance that needs criticalreappraisal is the historical place in Siam of China
factors, which have hitherto been confined within theassimilation perspective. Through such historical
explorations, I hopeto broaden thepossibilities ofhistory writing andpropose thesignificance of along-term historicalperspective forunderstanding
present-day
situations in the
post-Cold War era.

Associate Professor

A log pond in Northern Sarawak, Malaysia

Associate Professor

Anna Leonowens
Source: Leslie Smith
Dow. 1991. Anna
Leonowens: A Life
beyond “The King andI.” (Nova Scotia:
Pottersfield Press), p.61

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Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Kobayashi Satoru

Fujita Koichi

Local characteristics of Cambodian vil1 lage
societies in the era of globalization
history of the region around Tonle
2 Social
Sap Lake since the early twentieth century
Comparative studies of Theravada
3 Buddhist
societies in mainland Southeast

1 Irrigation economy in Asia
2 Microfinance in rural Asia
3 Rural poor and their livelihood in Asia
Agricultural development in various
4 countries(Bangladesh, India, Myanmar)

Assistant Professor

Asia

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Professor

How have the state, society, and local
communities of Cambodia declined and rebuilt sincethe 1970s? This has been my major research interest
during the past several years. It has long been thoughtthat the country suffered a dramatic destruction ofalmost all aspects of people’s life under the totalitarianstate rule of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to
1979. Undoubtedly, the continued international
isolation and warfare during the almost following 10
years accelerated the diffusion of this stereotypicalunderstanding of Cambodian society and culture. My
research, based on fieldwork in a rural community ofthe eastern Tonle Sap Lake region since around 1999,
explores local people’s present lives in their specificecological and socio-cultural settings, as well as thereality of changes within their lives, not only during
and after the DK era, but since the early 20th century.
These efforts have resulted in several ethnographic
analyses of socio-cultural changes. I have recently
started research on institutional reconstruction after
the DK for the purpose of reviewing the meaning andsignificance of the modern nation-state in the local
inhabitants’ life-world as well as the interwoven
relationship of socio-political institutions andhistorical inherited features in the locality.

My major research interest is rural institutions
and economic development in Asia. In an abstract
sense, rural institutions mean the various socioeconomic and cultural organizations and systems
that determine how factors of production (land, labor,
and capital) are combined and function in a market.
The most fundamental question is to inquire into therelationship between such rural institutions andeconomic development. My research areas aremainly Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, andLaos. The research methodology is to collectprimary data by doing intensive fieldwork in alimited number of villages and to make socioeconomic analysis.
My major research topics in recent years are1) the “Green Revolution” and its impact on therural poor in Bangladesh; 2) efficiency and income
distribution effects of groundwater market (by tube
wells) in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India; 3) rural
informal credit markets and the Grameen Bank in
Bangladesh; 4) the growing village saving groups inVientiane Municipality, Laos; 5) agriculturaldevelopment and the rural landless in Myanmar; 6)
the transformation of the tank irrigation system andrural economies in Tamil Nadu, India.

A meeting of core members of the Theravada temple community in the Tonle Sap Lake region of central Cambodia.
The head monk had severely questioned a subordinate monk
about wrong behavior, and the “achar vat” (layman who takes
a leading role in temple activities) is voicing his opinion.

At Bamyan village in Afghanistan

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Division of Economic and Political Dynamics

Sugihara Kaoru

Patricio N. Abinales

1 The East Asian miracle in global history
2 The history of intra-Asian trade
A comparative history of labor-intensive
3 industrialization
study of the historical path of
4 Ahumanosphere-sustainable
developmentclass and elite violence in the
1 Middle
Philippinesof armed zones in the southern
2 MappingPhilippines
as a non-traditional security
3 Epidemics
issue in Southeast and East Asia

Professor

Professor

The first project concerns the formation of anew paradigm of global economic history. I am
currently writing a book in Japanese on the theme of
the East Asian miracle, which discusses what the
postwar experience of high economic growth in East
Asia suggests for the understanding of global history.
Second, I work on the statistics of intra-Asian tradeduring the first half of the nineteenth century to
clarify the nature of the western impact and the roleof regional trade in Asia’s economic development.
Third, I study aspects of the history of laborintensive industrialization in comparative
perspective, with particular reference to South andSoutheast Asia. Finally, I am investigating the pathof economic development in Asia (excluding East
Asia) and Africa, which has produced neither theEuropean miracle nor the East Asian miracle, but
has sustained the life of half the world’s population.
This is an attempt to relate global economic history
to global environmental history.

I continue my research on middle class andelite violence in the Philippines even as I startresearch in two new areas: mapping the armed zones
in the southern Philippines using advances in GIS
technology combined with traditional maps; andepidemics, especially those caused by rodents, as a
non-traditional security issue in Southeast and East
Asia. The first of these will hopefully provide
scholars, policy analysts, and peace groups a sense ofwhat is in store for communities in these areas when
peace is signed between the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front and the Philippine government. The second
will apply existing medical, ecological, andagricultural approaches to studying rodents withpublic health and politics.

The coast of Porbandar, Gujarat, India, which once prospered in Indian Ocean trade, and the remains of the rulerof its princely state

At the Thai-Burma-Laos border

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Japanese Visiting Scholar

Shiraishi Takashi

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Japanese Visiting Scholar

Nagafuchi Yasuyuki

Professor

Professor

rise of China and the transformation
1 The
of its vicinities
2 The formation of East Asia
Macro-comparative history of state
3 formations
in Southeast Asia

1 The fate of fetishizing culture

I am currently working on the topic, “The Riseof China and the Transformation of Its Vicinities.” In
this research, I examine the ways in which
Southeast Asian countries engage China both
multilaterally and bilaterally while keeping in mind
the broader transformation in the regional order.
In the longer term, I am working on threebook projects. The first is concerned with theformation of East Asia (with special emphasis on
Southeast Asia) over a period from the mid-1980s to
the late 1990s. During this time the Cold War cameto an end, China transformed itself into a socialist
market economy, the Japanese economy boomed andbusted, and de-facto economic integration of East
Asia proceeded with the deepening and expansion ofbusiness networks. The second project is a macrocomparative history of state formations in Southeast
Asia, particularly Malaysia/Singapore, Indonesia, thePhilippines, Thailand, and Burma. This book projectbuilds on my previous collection of essays, Umi no
Teikoku (Empire of the Seas: The Making of a
Region). My third project takes up where An Age in
Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java 1912-1926 left off
by investigating the historical origins of surveillance
politics in Indonesia from 1927 to 1941.

Power, violence, money, and religion are
deeply rooted in human imagination and desire. As I
have engaged in research on the institutionalizationof a minor religion, Hinduism, within Indonesia withthe largest Muslim population in the world, I havebeen interested in the relationship between theseelements for my next research. For example,
making money is strongly connected with God,because the most salient cash product in Bali is its
culture rooted in religion, as commoditized for the
tourism industry. On the other hand, some Balinese
violently exploit immigrant labor on the ground thatthe immigrants themselves exploit Balinese culture,even though the industry inevitably depends on theirlabor. Culture is also the most important base forpolitical campaigning, sometime developing into
violent confrontations. Balinese and Hindus outside
Bali are increasing critical of this situation, especiallythe fetishism of culture. This controversy has led tothe disruption of the representative organization of
Hindus in Bali, indicating the predicament of culture
under capitalism and exposing the real nature ofimagination and desire for power, violence, money,
and religion.

Scene of the July 2004 presidential election in
downtown Jakarta

At a souvenir shop in Kuta, Bali

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Shibayama Mamoru
Professor

Division of Area Informatics

Igarashi Tadataka

Associate Professor

GIS in Southeast Asia,
1 Humanities
particularly in Hanoi, Vietnam, and2
3

Ayutthaya, Thailand
Mapping maritime exchanges between
Southeast Asian countries and Japan
Resource sharing for historicalinformation in area studies and meta data
management

For more or less two decades, the major topic
in my research has been the application of
informatics to historical studies, particularly of theearly modern period in Japan. My recent research
focuses on the application of geo-informatics tohistorical, cultural, and archaeological studies withemphasis on Southeast Asia. As can be seen fromthe utilization of Geographical Information Systems(GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) in such studies, geoinformatics is already being actively incorporated
into advanced research. However, the case studies,
experiences, and research results that are currently
available are insufficient.
Since these circumstance are important for
both area studies and informatics, the aim of myresearch is to work to creating and building up a new
discipline – Area Informatics – which explores
regional dynamics through synthetic and holistic
approaches based on geo-informatics in area studies.

Traditional calendrical systems in
1 Indonesia
Particular knowledges and technologies topredict seasonal changes, or “traditional calendricalsystems,” are quite commonly used in farming andfishing activities in developing areas. I continue tocollect such cases in Indonesia, especially in theProvinces of Bali and West Nusa Tenggara, in orderto clarify their structure and compare them with
examples from other parts of Indonesia.
There is area-to-area variation in the cases I
have so far collected: (i) systems depending on
particular natural events or phenomena that people
observe keenly; (ii) systems of calculation relying on
simple formulae without observation of natural
phenomena; and (iii) systems combining types i and ii.
Calendrical accuracy in each type is mainly dependent
upon the degree to which intercalation (correction of
the gap between calendrical months and particularseasons) is performed properly and routinely.
Apart from these systems, calendrical
practices in daily life are important. For example:
some fishermen in Lombok have their own way of
predicting the appearance of the palolo worm for
spawning that differs occasionally from thegovernment’s prediction (that often fails); and when,on occasion, natural events observed by farmers inBali do not agree with “modern” Balinese calendricalmonths (because the “modern” calendar is devised bycomputation alone, not by observation, as previously),
some farmers follow their own observation.

3D Modeling with
Shrine Mapping in
Kyoto City

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Division of Area Informatics

Kitamura Yumi

Yonezawa Mariko

1 Library network and information sharing
2 Chinese Indonesian cultural identity
linguistic landscape of Jakarta in the
3 The
post-Suharto era

characteristics and transition of the
1 Thequarterly journal Southeast Asian Studies
2 Publishing in the information age

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

My activities consist of two components:
library management and research on contemporary
cultural issues in Indonesia with a focus on ChineseIndonesians.
1. Library networks and information sharing
My recent focus is on the establishment of library
networks and information sharing among related
libraries in Japan and Southeast Asia.
2. Chinese Indonesian cultural identity
Chinese Indonesians are currently in the process ofreconstructing their cultural identity after the fall of
Suharto in May 1998. They are undertaking this in
the context of two contradictory experiences – on
the one hand, a sense of liberation with thedownfall of Suharto, and on the other hand,
becoming once more a “targeted ethnic group” byrioters. For the past two years, I have approachedthis process through the issues of museum
representation and Confucianism.
3. The linguistic landscape of Jakarta in the
post-Suharto era
The linguistic landscape of Jakarta has been changing
dramatically, most notably in the number of displays ofChinese characters, which were forbidden to be usedin the public spherethroughout the Suhartoera. In addition,bilingual signs(English/Indonesian,Indonesian/Arabic, etc.)
seem to be increasing.
I hope to capture thesocial changes of thecity through these signs
in multiple languages.

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At the one of the
Tridarma temples in
Surabaya after Chinese
New Year, 2007

The quarterly journal Southeast Asian Studies,of which I am managing editor, has a history of 44
years. In the early years of the journal, the staff of
CSEAS were eager for Japanese scholars tounderstand Southeast Asia and to introduce theirknowledge to the rest of Asia and the world.
Currently, the increasing number of papers bySoutheast Asian authors is the most striking
characteristic. In order to understand the journal’s
characteristics and its transition over time, I will study
the submissions and published papers by Southeast
Asian scholars and the trends in their research topics.
Over the past several years great improvement
in information procedures has caused people torethink the concept of publishing and to speculate onits future. Development from oral tradition to
handwritten letters, then from handwritten letters toprinted matter has made it possible to isolate words
from their context, which has ushered in the
combination of database and computer withoutstanding capacities of modification and search.
By using the computer, we can search any document
quickly, but we still face the question of how tocarefully select and polish words without becoming
stupefied in the diversification of media. Based onthese considerations, I would like toconsider publishing inJapan and Southeast
Asian countries.

The quarterly journal Southeast Asian Studies:
the increasing number of Southeast Asianauthors is its most striking characteristic.

Division of Area Informatics

Junior Research Fellow

Kitani Kimiya

Kosaka Yasuyuki

Approach to ease of information
1 transmission
Connectivity and sustainability for2 videoconferencing

Plant diversity in agricultural landscape
1 inrelation to human use and manage-

Assistant Professor

An important keyword in area studies iscommunication with and in the field. Although
information technology has rapidly innovated, the useof the latest technology is still difficult in the context
of area studies fieldwork. Since I arrived at theCenter, I have improved the on-site support system,
which has proved more difficult than expected. In
addition, there are two main types of support
requests: 1) to easily handle information transmission;and 2) to communicate seamlessly for discussion andlecture. My activity in response to the first type has
mainly been centered on the web during this fiscal
year. Various web editing tools (such as blog) are now
easily obtained, but the more we hope for originality,
the more difficult they become to use and construct.
Therefore, I have been researching a good mix of blog
tools and established editing systems while considering
cost performance. My activity in support of thesecond type of request is mainly to find tools that areeasy to operate. There are many video conference
systems, but I have tried to use open source software.
Of course, on a large scale or in a special case, we mayneed to use expensive equipment, but generally I
think it is not necessary. Therefore, I will continue toexplore various approaches while participating in
projects involving video conference.

GIS-IDEAS 2006 and 21st COE International Symposium
between Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, andMemorial Clock Tower in Kyoto University. Right side ofphoto is the Vietnam side. November 11, 2006.

ment in Laos
Human-managed ecosystems have attracted
increasing attention in line with rising concern about
the conservation of biodiversity. Such ecosystems
are also culturally important within local
communities. My research is on the agriculturallandscape of Laos, where a diversity of wild andcultivated plants is used in daily life. I aim to create
an inventory of vegetation in villages, to describe
relationships between local people and plants, and to
estimate the process of change in vegetation andland-use in villages, in order to discuss suitable plantresource management for local communities.
My research has also progressed throughcollaboration with researchers in other fields since2006. For example, field surveys were conductedwith nutrition scientists to evaluate the importanceof wild edible plants in Lao diets. In addition, thestand of trees within a paddy field, a characteristic
landscape of central Laos, has been studied withagronomists in terms of productivity andsustainability of rice cultivation.

Survey of useful plants at a local market in Mahaxay
District, Khammouane Province, Laos

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Junior Research Fellow

Junior Research Fellow

Nakanishi Yoshihiro

Hoshikawa Keisuke

1 Civil-military relations in Myanmar
economy of Chinese influence
2 Politicalon Myanmar
3 Comparative study of state failure

1 Traditional agricultural engineering
management in irrigated agricul2 Water
tural areas
3 Local community and disasters

I study civil-military relations in Myanmar andSoutheast Asia. My Ph.D. dissertation, which
examines the nexus between the military and thepolitical “revolution” in Ne Win’s Myanmar (19621988), demonstrates how the formal network ofofficer corps expanded to state organizations through
Ne Win’s “tohlanyei”(revolution) and argues that thisexpansion has contributed to the long duration of themilitary regime since 1962. In the context of current
debates around democratization in Myanmar, mywork suggests that any analysis of Myanmar politics
must examine not only democratic movements, butalso intra-military politics.
Two new projects continue my interest in
Myanmar and civil-military relations. The project on
Chinese businessmen in Myanmar, funded by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science, explores
the economic and political roles of Chinese
businessmen after 1988 and investigates immigrants,
economic investment, and diplomatic relations between
Myanmar and China. A second project looks at state
failures in Asian and African countries in order tocompare Myanmar with other countries. The aim of
this project is to make a model of the patterns andpathways of state failure in countries like Pakistan,Iraq, Somalia, and so on.

With such tools as numerical modeling, GIS,
remote sensing, and surveying, as well as interviews
with local people, I am examining the relationshipbetween human activities and the naturalenvironment in various parts of Asia. Types ofrelationship include the adaptation of people toenvironment, the effect of human activities onenvironment, and the impact of environmental
changes on human life.
Traditional earthen weirs for rice cultivation,
called “thamnop,” have been widely constructed
and used by farmers in Northeast Thailand. One of
my research topics is how the traditional weirs fit
topographical and hydrological conditions and how
they have been important for rice production in
the region.
Climate changes accompanying global
warming are affecting agricultural production
systems. I am simulating agricultural production
and hydrological circulation under changed climate
conditions in a command area of the Lower Seyhan
Irrigation Project, Turkey, using a quasi-3
dimensional hydrological model (IMPAM)
developed for better irrigation water management.
On May 27, 2006, an earthquake killed morethan 5,000 people around Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I
am now analyzing the detailed causes of deaths withdata showing the spatial distribution of death andhouse collapse. In addition, methods for monitoring
recovery processes are being researched.
An old thamnop(traditional
earthen weir) in
Siemriap,
Cambodia38

The cover of the Myanmar military magazine, People’s
Military Magazine, in the late 1960s. It represents the military’s historical view in the sky and its socialist dream on
the ground.

JSPS Fellow

Miyanishi Kaori

Researcher of Scientific Research

Hamamoto Satoko

Socio-economic mobility among fishing
1 communities
in the Makassar Straits underIndonesia’s Regional Autonomy Policy
Distribution of hand-woven textiles
among the Bugis-Makassarese in the
Wallacea area

1
2 Cross-cultural marriages

2

I am currently doing research on the multifaceted relationship between U.S. militaries and local
society in Okinawa from the point of view of gender.
There are U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine
Corps bases in Okinawa. I focus on the U.S. Marine
Corps to explore the following topics: 1) dating andmarriage; 2) base employment; and 3) “Base Town.”
I will compare my findings in Okinawan base towns
with base towns in mainland Japan, Korea, and PuertoRico. In addition, I hope to modify the simplistic
view of “local women as victims” and thus contributeto gender studies. I pay attention to how women
who are related to U.S. military bases are perceived
in contemporary Okinawa and how Okinawan viewsof them have changed historically. Previous studies
have studied relationships between Okinawan
women and military bases in the framework of“militaries and women” with women depicted as
victims, but I would like to approach the lives of
Okinawan women with attention to their agency.

I conduct area studies research on socioeconomic and socio-cultural dynamics among thepeople of the Spermonde Archipelago, South
Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Archipelago straddles theprovinces of South Sulawesi and East Kalimantan.
The south end of this area faces the historical port
towns of East Java, while the opposite end of thismaritime area faces the international boundaries of
Malaysia and the Philippines. The SpermondeArchipelago is not a large or historically famous area;
however, if we look into the dynamics of its
everyday life in human mobility and natural
resources transaction, the interfaces of the area canbe surprising. The Makassar Straits, South
Sulawesi, and its famously highly-mobile population
are still major keywords to be observed and clarified
in order to understand the social, economic, andcultural transformation and diversity of the entire
area of eastern Indonesia under the Regional
Autonomy Policy.

U.S. Marines participating in local dragon boat
racing in Okinawa

A traditional back-tension weaving loom in the SpermondeArchipelago. Sarongs spun with this type of loom havebeen dispersed throughout the coastal area of theMakassar Straits and eastern Indonesia as commodities ina weaving maritime network.

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Researcher of Scientific Research

Yonezawa Go

Researcher of Scientific Research

Yajima Kichiji
Practical studies on participatory ruraldevelopment in developing countries in
Asia, including:
Local administration and extension services for rural development
Community museum of culture, tradition,and indigenous knowledge

Construction of 3-D geologic model of
1 HanoiCity, Vietnam
Spatial distribution of land subsidence in
2 Hanoi City, Vietnam, using GIS and RS

1
2

Hanoi City is located in a flood plain of the Red
River, the average elevation being less than 10
meters. In this city, where people depend on the
groundwater to sustain life, the recent rapid increaseof population is increasing demand of groundwater aswell. This has caused a remarkable and serious land
subsidence over the whole urban area. To
comprehend what happens around a serious land
subsidence area, it is necessary to understand the
distribution of groundwater in the subsurface
structure. Because 3-D geologic modeling is usefulfor solving this kind of problem, I will introduce thistechnique into area studies and propose to establish
this method as a special analysis using area
informatics. The linked research between thesubsurface information and aboveground information
will become a new type of knowledge in area studies.

As a member of both joint study andimplementation teams on rural development projects
in Bangladesh, I have developed an alternative
community development approach called the “LinkModel.” This approach bridges the gap between
village communities and service providers, such as
local government, administration, and NGOs, andhas demonstrated effectiveness in encouraging
community people to participate in processes of ruraldevelopment. The Government of Bangladesh has
adopted and begun implementing the “Link Model”
as a pilot project.
Present development paradigms, which maketoo much of modernization of rural livelihood andeconomic growth, tend not only to undervalue but
also to ignore culture, tradition, and indigenous
knowledge accumulated in the community throughgenerations. This discourages people fromcontinuing to live in the community and weakens anddestroys the functions of rural communities and theunity of people. Unless these tendencies arereversed, people will continue to migrate from rural
to urban areas, hence undermining the sustainabilityof rural livelihoods. My current interest is in
searching for an alternative rural development
paradigm that encourages people to live together inthe community spiritually as well as economically. A
proposed community museum that conserves
indigenous knowledge and technologies at thecommunity level through local participation might bea possible solution.
An elderly farmer
happily demonstrates how to use
an indigenous
fishing trap.

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Example of visualization of 3-D topographic map in
Hanoi City, Vietnam, using GRASS GIS

Researcher of Scientific Research

Researcher of Scientific Research

Yasuno Osamu

Ishine Masayuki

development and sustainable
1 Ruraldevelopment
2 Action research on agricultural education

syndrome in community1 Metabolic
dwelling elderly in Southeast Asia
of life among community-dwelling
2 End
peoples in Southeast Asia

It is the current fashion to take a “participatory
approach” and to organize “self-help groups” tosupport ongoing rural development projects.
Prominent examples of self-help groups are groupsof micro-credit projects, agricultural cooperatives,water users groups, groups for the poorest of thepoor, and women’s groups. The direct beneficiaries
are the members of the group, and in this sense,
they are based on “egoism.” We should scrutinize
the content of participation and reconsider adefinition of “self-help” based on “altruism.” From
this perspective, I am now seeking an alternative
paradigm for rural development in Pakistan.
In the field of agricultural education,
conventional agricultural practices are recognized as
the target to be “improved.” There is a large gap
between high-level agricultural research institutions
and farmers, who lack the capacity to judge and adopt
methods scientifically. As a result, people in villages
are losing confidence in being farmers. To foster
confident farmers who can make judgments about
farming methods, Pakistani colleagues and I havestarted a project to establish an agriculture school
through which “action research” is being conducted.
Related studies are also being carried out.

The global burden of cardiovascular disease isspreading rapidly worldwide, not only in developed
but also in developing countries, including Southeast
Asian countries. I am involved in the ongoing (since1990) longitudinal study on comprehensive geriatricassessment of community-dwelling elderly in Kochi
Japan, which measures the incidence of metabolic
syndrome associated with cardiovascular risk factors.
To compare with our findings of Japaneseelderly, we carried out geriatric surveys ofcommunity-dwelling elderly in Southeast Asian
countries. We found increasing prevalence of
metabolic syndrome among the elderly in Khon
Kaen, Thailand, but low prevalence among theelderly in Savannakhet, Laos, and among ethnic Isanelderly in Khon Kaen, Thailand. In addition, we
started programs to prevent diabetes and metabolic
syndrome in Tosa (Japan), Khon Kaen, andSavannakhet, and conducted an education program topromote awareness and exercise among the elderly
in Khon Kaen and Savannakhet in order to prevent
metabolic syndrome.
In another comparison, we found higher
subjective happiness (quality of life) among theelderly in a nursing home in Myanmar than among
those living in a welfare home in Osaka, Japan. We
will continue to survey and compare what the elderly
prefer in the end-of-life stage in Southeast Asia
compared with Japan.

A medical teamvisiting a 93-yearold woman withmetabolic syndrome in her home

With earthquake-affected villagers in
Battagram, Pakistan, January 2007

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Researcher of Scientific ResearchNissim Kadosh Otmazgin

Watanabe Kazuya

Regionalization in East and Southeast
1 Asiamusic and TV industries in East
2 Japaneseand Southeast Asia
Cultural production and cultural policy in
3 Japanand in East and Southeast Asia

Ecological management techniques for
1 ruralenvironments

My academic background is Political Scienceand East Asian Area Studies. Throughout mystudies, I have been fascinated by the possibility to
combine social science methodologies and area
specialty in analyzing and explaining social
phenomena. My research relies on these two
disciplinary pillars.
My research is about the political economy ofJapanese popular culture in East and Southeast Asia.
My attempt is to explore the expansion of Japanesecultural industries by using some of the same
analytical and conceptual tools that were used to
examine the oversea expansion of other Japaneseindustries, such as automobiles and electronics. In
particular, I examine the creation of regional
markets for Japanese music and TV programs, theexternalization of Japanese cultural production
formats, and the overall influence Japanese popular
culture has on the development of the local culturalindustries. As a part of this research, I conducted
repeated fieldworks in Hong Kong, Singapore,
Shanghai, Bangkok and Seoul. In each city I closely
examined the creation of markets for Japanesemusic and TV programs and the overall influence
Japanese culture has on the development of the local
cultural industries.
Recently, I have been conducting acomparative study of the emergence of culturalindustries in East and Southeast Asia and theirimpact on the regionalization process. I am also
studying the Japanese government response to thesuccess ofJapanese popular
culture abroad andthe corresponding
policy it initiates.

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Researcher of Scientific Research

Mao and
Doraemon,Shanghai,August 2004

I have been studying ecological management
techniques for rural environments, which in applied
ecology, is called adaptive management. I discuss
the guidelines of habitat planning and management
for coexistence between man and wildlife. My fieldsites include mountain streams, rice fields, andagricultural channels. These environments areimportant not only for us but also for wildlife such as
fish and amphibians, and the purpose of this researchis to think about how we should conserve their rural
environments. To observe their habits and hear
their voices, I undertake strenuous field work – inorder to know their life, it may be necessary toinvestigate all day and night, sitting in the sameplace as long as 8 hours – which is full of surprises
and discoveries.

Man’s existence is an insignificant blip in the vastness ofthe environment. The environment is maintained in precarious balance.

Researcher of Scientific Research

Researcher of Scientific Research

Toyota Hideo

Wada Taizo

Rural finance and poverty alleviation in
1 Bangladesh
in Bangladesh and West
2 Governance
Bengal, India

study of depression in
1 Cross-cultural
older people in Southeast Asia and Japanof cardiovascular-risk
2 Epidemiology
factors in Southeast Asia

My research interests include rural finance,
poverty alleviation, and governance in South Asia,
mainly Bangladesh and India. In South Asian
countries, formal and semi-formal financial
institutions have been increasing their lending torural populations because rural finance is considereda vital tool for poverty alleviation and ruraldevelopment. But there are still many informaltransactions, which indicates a large unmet need forfinancial services. I have focused my research on
the interactions between the formal and informal
financial sectors.
Governance matters because it affects the
economic performance of a society. If corruption is
rampant and judicial and law enforcement
institutions do not work, developmental efforts arehampered as a result of increased transaction costsof the economy. I am now focusing on ongoingchallenges in improving governance in Bangladesh
and India.

We have been studying depression in older
people living in Southeast Asian countries and Japan.
Depression is not only a major threat to the mental
health and well-being of the elderly but also a matterof concern to any caregiver treating such patients andtheir families. Although depression is expected to be
the second-leading cause of disability worldwide by
2020, reports of prevalence of depression inSoutheast Asian countries are still very few. One of
the reasons is that reliable screening methods havenot been established in those areas. We havereported that depression is associated with disability
and lower quality of life among community-dwellingolder people in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Japan.
However, the effect of traditional lifestyles or religion
on depression is not clear. We would like to developa screening tool for depression and to clarify how
lifestyle and spirituality are associated withdepression in Southeast Asian countries. Treatabledepression should be effectively detected and treatedas there is no health without mental health.
A Burmese medical
student examining
manual dexterity
using a button test.
Depression is associated with lower
activities of dailyliving. November
2004, Maubin,
Myanmar

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Researcher of Scientific Research

Retno Kusumaningtyas

Postdoctoral Fellow (KSI)

Furuichi Takahisa

Natural resource management by local
1 communities
living adjacent to nationalparks in Sumatra
Progress analysis of co-management at
Tesso Nilo National Park
Changes in Javanese home garden system at transmigration village in Sumatra

1 Sediment budgeting of lake catchments
Land and water management in
2 Southeast
Asia

Having received academic training in bothforestry and environmental ecology, my current
research focuses on the possibilities of realizing asustainable natural resource management systemthrough collaborative management, in particular forthe area encompassing the Tesso Nilo National Parkin Riau Province, Sumatra.
It is a complicated backdrop for problems thatcan be found throughout Indonesia, where a wide
range of actors seek a balance between naturepreservation, the demands of economic
development, and social and cultural issues, most ofwhich depend to a large degree on available natural
resources. By studying the influence of the different
stakeholders on the process of forest and natural
resource management, trying to identify the risks
and opportunities they present, I aim to findtheoretical and practical solutions to implement andmaintain an inclusive system of co-management,
involving and benefiting all stake-holders in a given
area without harming remaining natural resources.
As many studies conducted in Southeast Asia
have found the role of local communities to be
critically important to the successful implementationof co-management, I pay special attention to thisgroup, studying their agricultural practices, theirsocial and economical position, and their generalapproach to natural resource management.

The Environmental Policy of AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB) in 2002 wrote that “soilerosion is Asia’s most serious natural resource
problem.” The livelihood of rural people inSoutheast Asia still largely depends on agriculturethat requires soil and land. This is the reason why
the ADB defined this policy in the context of themainstreaming of “poverty reduction” in theinternational development community. Hydrological
data indicate that suspended sediment yield fromSoutheast Asian land to the oceans is the second
largest in the world. Considering the ongoing
deforestation in Southeast Asia, soil erosion is likely
to have been accelerated in the region.
Sediment budgets are a useful and powerfulconceptual framework to quantify sediment
movement in various forms and scales, depending on
which form and scale of budgets will be mosteffective for addressing particular scientific ormanagement questions. My previous study showedthat the combination of sediment sourcing, sediment
dating, and hydrological monitoring allows theconstruction of sediment budgets that aremeaningful for lake catchment management. The
provision of a guide for land and water management
based on sediment budgets, contextualized by local
and regional socio-economic situations, is mycurrent research interest.

2
3

Hydrological monitoring at
a gauging station newly
established in the Lake
Inle catchment, Myanmar

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Library
Overview
Since its establishment in 1968, the CSEAS
library has been a most essential foundation in the
promotion of research activities in the field ofSoutheast Asian studies. As the result of ongoingcollection development focusing on academic
publications on Southeast Asia, the library holds over
200,000 items (as of March 2007) and assures accessby both domestic and overseas patrons through its
open access policy and reference services.
Especially in the past ten years, the library has
shifted its aim from functioning as a rather closed
institutional library to establishing a regional
information stronghold for Southeast Asian Studies
in Asia. Three factors have supported thesustainable development of this informationstronghold. The first was the contribution of largescale research grants to the goal of libraryacquisition. Between 1983 and 2002, the acquisition

Reference desk

program focused on Indonesia and Thailand, and thesubsequent Center of Excellence projects --- “Making
Regions: Proto-Areas, Transformations, and New
Formations in Asia and Africa” (1998-2002) and the
21st Century COE Project “Aiming for COE of
Integrated Area Studies” --- have vastly expanded thecountries and types of materials targeted for
acquisition. The second factor was the incorporationof the library into the division of Area Informatics,
which made it possible to promote information
sharing in both multi-language and multi-media
settings with the application of information
technology. Finally, the foundation of the Graduate
School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS)
in 1998 redefined activities from that of a pureresearch-oriented library to a more educationoriented library in terms of collection development
and user education.

Users in the reading room

Cataloging of Indonesian books

CSEAS Librarymain building

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Collection

The collection of the library has doubled in thepast ten years as shown in Table 1. In addition,
1,270 journal titles, approximately 40,000 maps, and
3,000 satellite images comprise the collection.
Among the materials in Southeast Asian
languages, Thai and Indonesian together represent
over 75 percent of the collection (see Table 2).
Special collections are as follows:
Charas Collection
The personal collection of a Thai government
officer, Mr. Charas Pikul, consisting of 9,000
volumes of monographs. The outstanding feature of
the Charas Collection is 4,000 volumes of cremation
volumes “Nagsue Ngan Sop.” Cremation volumes
are a unique form of publication in Thailand, usually
published on the occasion of cremation rites of animportant figure. Cremation volumes not only
include information on the deceased person, but also
selected texts of various genres. The cremation
volumes in the Charas Collection are considered thelargest collection of such volumes outside Thailand.

monographs and various other materials on
Philippine history. The materials include prayers andunderground publications from the Marcos years.
Ocampo Collection
The personal collection of well-known historianand professor at Ateneo de Manila University, Mr.
Ambeth Ocampo, consisting of 1,000 volumes ofmonographs and periodicals on Philippine history.
Includes prayers and government publications.
Indonesia Islam Collection
Collection of recent Islamic publications inIndonesia. Approximately 1,000 volumes.

Dissemination
The CSEAS Library disseminates information
via the CSEAS Library HP (http://www.cseas.kyotou.ac.jp/library/), databases, and publications.

Staff Members
The library staff consists of an assistantprofessor, five staff members, and a visiting
researcher.

Foronda Collection
The personal collection of a famous historian,Dr. Marcelino Foronda, late professor of De La Salle
University, Manila, consisting of 7,000 volumes ofTable 1: Number of Books Acquired 1997-2006
Chinese/OthersFiscal Year Japanese/Korean(Roman Script)
1997
1998

19,593
20,27066,60969,331

Table 2: Distribution of SEA Language Materials
Total
86,20289,601

Language

Volumes%

Thai
Indonesian languages

23,16920,236

40.12
35.04

1999

21,90775,33897,245

Vietnamese

8,923

15.45

2000
2001

22,69923,406

79,816
97,637

102,515
121,043

MyanmarIndian languages

1,847
1,341

3.20
2.32

2002
2003

23,474
24,125111,930
119,446

135,404
143,571

Philippine languages
Malay

1,258
412

2.18
0.71

2004

24,755

125,373

150,128

Laos

403

0.70

2005
2006

25,40525,784

169,995
172,836

195,400
198,620

Khmer
Arabic

145
22

0.25
0.04

Total

57,756100.00200,000

Philippine languages
2.18%
Khmer 0.25%
Myanmar 3.20%

175,000
Others
CJK

150,000

Indian languages
2.32%
Laos 0.70%
Arabic 0.04%

125,000

Vietnamese
15.45%

100,000
75,000Thai 40.11%

Malay 0.71%

50,00025,000

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0

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

FiscalYear

Indonesianlanguages
35.04%

Map collections
CSEAS holds about 40,000 sheets of maps ofSoutheast Asia and its surrounding areas, the second
largest collection of overseas maps in Japan. About
16,000 of them are historically valuable topographicalmaps and nautical charts called “overseas maps”(gaihouzu) covering South, Southeast, and East Asia;
these were prepared by the Japanese Survey
Department before and during World War II. An
integrated database of overseas maps is now being
constructed in cooperation with all universities that
hold such maps.
Digital archiving of maps is also progressing
through the construction of a DVD map image
library and a digital map browsing system. All maps
held by CSEAS can be searched on the web(http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/maproom_ja.html).
Satellite images
CSEAS holds 3,500 scenes of MOS-1 MESSR,
JERS-1 SAR and Landsat-MSS/TM images that coverareas around Southeast Asia, including Eastern
India, Bangladesh, Southern China, and Japan.
Satellite images have become an importantmaterial for CSEAS research activities organized asarea informatics; this combines IT technologies,
including satellite image analysis and GIS, withfieldwork and literature studies.

Aerial photograph collections
Thousands of aerial photographs taken byPeter Williams-Hunt in Mainland Southeast Asiaaround the time of World War II were organized by
Dr. Elizabeth Moore at the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies (SOAS), University of London,
England, in the 1980s. CSEAS obtained a complete
copy of these 5,804 photographs, called the“Williams-Hunt Collection,” and is presently
digitizing it. The collection consists of 1,258 photosof Cambodia (mainly the Angkor area), 1,671 ofThailand, 821 of Myanmar, 2,632 of Malaysia, and
240 of Singapore.
In addition, CSEAS also holds aerial photos ofa part of Lao PDR(628 sheets), Indonesia(1,635 sheets
taken in 1976 and 1982), and Japan (3,513 sheets).
Human Ecology Files (HEF)
Articles about human ecology in the abstractsof congresses, bulletins, reports, and journals
throughout the world were collected and compiled
into 5,600 files by the East-West Center, Hawaii, andwere transferred to CSEAS by the kind offices ofProf. Terry Rambo (then Professor at the East-WestCenter) in 2000. A total of 8,400 files (including theabove-mentioned 5,600 files, 1,600 Agroforestry
files, and 1,200 Watershed files) are called the“Human Ecology Files (HEF).” A web searchsystem for HEF is now being constructed.

Angkor Wat, photographed by Williams-Hunt in 1946

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Database
CSEAS has been building an advanced andunique database for its holdings on Southeast Asia,
as well as continuing to collect such researchmaterials. Descriptions of the database follow:

Photo Collection
http://aris.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/photolib/perl/photolib_welcome

Thai Database of Three Seals Law
and Palm Leaf Text

Pictures taken during the course of fieldwork by
CSEAS staff. More than 2,000 pictures cover naturalenvironment, agriculture, forests, fishery, politics,
economy, culture, and history in Southeast Asia.
CSEAS Thai OPAC

http://gissv.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ktsd/

http://library.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/cseas/

Thai full-text database composed of the “Law ofThree Seals” (Kotmai Tra Sam Duang, 239,576
examples) compiled in 1805 and 60,000 examples ofancient documents written on palm branches (onedocument consisting of 6 lines on a 60 cm leaf). The
development of this database in 2004 and 2005 was
supported by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid of Scientific
Research (Database).
ARIS Southeast Asian
Topographic Map Database

Bibliographic database of CSEAS library holdings in
Thai. Approximately 9,000 records are searchable asof January 2006.
Map (Map Collection) Database

http://aris.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mapserver/index.html

Topographical map image database (about 2,260
images) using GIS. Cross-searching several
databases with key word available based on
Z39.50/Dubrin Core standard. Databasedevelopment in 2004 and 2005 was supported by a
JSPS Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research (Database).

http://aris.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/map/

Nearly 40,000 sheets of maps concentrating on
Southeast Asia and surrounding regions.
Space Satellite Image Database
http://aris.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/map/

Approximately 3,500 satellite images includingLandsat MSS, Landsat TM, MOS, and JERS-1.
Agricultural Statistics Collection ofMainland Southeast Asia (Agro-SEAD)
http://sead.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.htm

Statistical data collections of life and environment in
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Data collection comprises 3,884 sheets and 101
statistical books.
Space Satellite
Image Database

Thai Database of Three Seals Law
and Palm Leaf Text

GIS Laboratory

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The GIS Laboratory (GIS Lab) was establishedin 2004 to nurture and foster skills in Geographical
Information System (GIS)/Remote Sensing (RS) in
the education and research of area studies. The GIS
Lab is equipped with eight PCs installed with
GIS/RS-related software, including ArcGIS. Also,
the Linux Operating System (OS) allows FOSS (Freeand Open Source Software) GIS functions, such as
Minnesota Map Server, Z39.50 Gateway Server, andSQL Servers, to be customized in support of training

and education in area studies.
The GIS Lab can be used by CSEAS staff,
visiting scholars, and ASAFAS students, as well as inconjunction with special lectures and training classes
organized by JCAS, JICA, and other institutions.
Current Activities●Area Informatics and Agricultural Ecology courses,

ASAFAS, Kyoto University.
●Seminar on GIS software (GRASS, MapServer, andJICA training,
2 September 2006

other FOSS) for ecological and agricultural
application in Southeast Asian countries, organized
by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).
●Training Courses for introduction to GIS/RS,
organized by JCAS (Japan Consortium for Area
Studies).
●Workshop and Special Seminar on GIS/RS
technologies, organized by CSEAS.

Contact
Liaison Office of Research Department
E-mail: liaison@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Information Processing Office
The Information Processing Office handles
information infrastructure and has established acoordination system with the managers of
information technology at CSEAS. In this capacity,
the Office has a wide range of activities, from themaintenance and improvement of infrastructure to
the recovery of important data. In addition tohandling researchers’ IT-related requests, the Officejoins research activities relating to area studies.
Research Support
We provide support and improvement of thecomputing environment, including hardware andsoftware, for public information transmission not
only within our Center but also with relatedorganizations. We advise on the handling ofintellectual property rights on the web, such as
copyright and privacy information. We developed
the system, design, and layout of the CSEAS website
and established an integrated system of information
security for our organization, including consulting
and support.
Video Conferencing
Our aim is the establishment of a system thatcan be used easily and safely anywhere in the world

our researchers work through the use of portableequipment. In FY2006, we successfully establishedhubs in Vietnam and Thailand, and we plan to establish
another in Indonesia in the coming fiscal year.
Our major demonstration of our hub and its
application took place as follows:
July 2006● Bangkok Liaison Office, CSEAS, Kyoto University
in Thailand -- CSEAS.
● Media Center of Osaka City University-- CSEAS.
● Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Media
Center of Kyoto University.
September 2006
● Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia –CSEAS.
● Bangkok Liaison Office, CSEAS, Kyoto University
in Thailand -- ASAFAS of Kyoto University(Workshop of 21st Century COE Program).
November 2006
● Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Media
Center of Osaka City University.
● Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -Memorial Clock Tower in Kyoto University (GISIDEAS2006 -- International Symposium of 21stCentury COE Program).

Left: 21st Century COE Program Symposium site: Memorial Clock Tower, Kyoto University, November 2006
Right: GIS-IDEAS2006 site: Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 2006

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Global academic networks

ne of the most important factors inmaintaining the status of CSEAS as a major
center of Southeast Asian studies is its
emphasis on academic exchange with scholars fromboth Southeast Asia and other parts of the world.
These exchanges are often done through the various
institutional arrangements CSEAS has had withacademic and research institutions, as well as
contacts with individual foreign scholars. Scholars
who come to CSEAS, whether through our visiting
research fellows program or via another grant, areO

asked to become involved in the Center’s daily
activities. Staff meetings are conducted in English to
enable visiting foreign researchers to participate in
the discussions.
Institutionally, our most important settings for
global academic exchanges are: 1) Overseas Liaison
Offices in Bangkok and Jakarta; 2) the CSEAS
Fellowship Program and the hosting of visitors onother fellowships; 3) MOUs; 4) the East Asian
Network; and 5) the API Fellowship.

Overseas Liaison Offices
The Bangkok Liaison Office was established in
1963, and its present location is in the Sukhumvit areaof central Bangkok. The office also functions as aresidence for the CSEAS research staff stationed there
to manage the office. In recent years, management of
the office has been opened to researchers from otherschools, faculties, and universities.
The office has three major functions. First, it
is a base for information collection. Some of the
major collections are books in the vernacularlanguage, statistics, documents, and maps. The
office maintains regular contact and exchanges
academic information with Thai research agencies
like the National Research Council of Thailand,
Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University,
Kasetsart University, Chiang Mai University, Khon
Kaen University, and Maha Sarakham University.
The office also serves as a channel for inquiries
about local institutes from Japanese and otherresearchers and students. The office also functions
as a publicity base. It organizes workshops andholds receptions for scholars in Bangkok and fromthe region. The most recent international
workshops held by the office were on “Intellectual
Discourses of Southeast Asia” (May 2004), and“Area Informatics 2005: Potential of GIS/RS in Area
Studies” (March 2005). Third, the office provides
logistical support to field surveys, including

assistance in acquiring research visas, negotiatingwith research counterparts, and attending toemergency measures.
The Bangkok Liaison Office has also expandedfrom its original base of Thai studies to the broader
Mainland Southeast Asian studies, reflecting theshift of research interests of CSEAS staff.
The Jakarta Liaison Office was established in
October 1970 at Jalan Rajasa, Kebayoran Baru,
Jakarta, and has been funded by the Japanese
government since 1973. The residence has threemajor functions. First, it promotes joint research
between Indonesian and Japanese or Japan-based
researchers. In this role it has continued to facilitate
research collaboration between CSEAS andacademic institutions in Indonesia. CSEAS hassigned memoranda of understanding (MOU) for
research and educational collaboration with theIndonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), Hasanuddin
University, Bogor Agricultural University, and the
National Coordination Agency for Surveys and
Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL). Second, theresidence is a base for the collection of researchmaterials, with a growing number of documents on
Indonesian statistics and maps. Third, the residence
provides information and service assistance toJapanese researchers and Indonesian scholars. It
has assisted many Japanese researchers to obtainresearch permits andhas supported theirresearch activities inIndonesia. Indonesianstudents andresearchers also
receive information
about studying anddoing research in Japan.

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Bangkok Liaison Office

Jakarta Liaison OfficeLinkages with the region
Vientiane
National University of Laos
Institute for Northeast Asian Studies,
Vietnamese Academy of Social Science

Laos
Yezin Agricultural
University

Center for Integrative andDevelopment Studies,
University of the Philippines

MyanmarHanoi Agricultural
University

SEAMEO Regional
Centre for
History and Tradition Yangon

Faculty of Medicine,
Khon Kaen University

Thailand
ManilaVietnamBangkokCambodia

Liaison Offices Abroad
G-COE field stations
Institutions with academic
exchange agreements with CSEAS,
research project agreements*In other regions
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases
Research, Bangladesh
Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, ResearchCenter for Humanities and Social Sciences,
Acadamia Sinica, Taiwan

Number of foreign research
fellows invited, by country(cumulative)(Those from outside the Southeast
Asian region: 84)0Philippines

＜5
5-10

Phnom Penh

10-50

Faculty of Science,Prince of Songkla University

50-100Brunei＞100

Malaysia

As of October 2007

Faculty ofArts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore

Singapore

Cenderawasih
University

PalembangIndonesia
Sultan Agung
Tirtayasa University

Jakarta

Makassar

Bogor
Bogor Agricultural University
National Coordination Agency for
Surveys and Mapping, Indonesia

The Indonesian
Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

Research Institute and Graduate Programs,
Hasanuddin University

National Islamic University

The CSEAS Fellowship Program and Other Visitors
The CSEAS Fellowship Program started in1975 and currently hosts around 12 researchers per
year. Visiting research fellows have terms ranging
from six months to one year. As fellows, they havethe opportunity to enjoy interdisciplinary discussions
with CSEAS staff and other fellows from different
disciplines and countries. Many have informed usthat such occasions have honed their comparative
perspectives. One hundred sixteen (116) fellows
have stayed at CSEAS since 1996.
The most important change made to thefellowship program in the past decade was theintroduction of an open application system in late
2000. Under this new system, CSEAS’s
international exchange committee biannually
announces the fellowship to universities andresearch institutes internationally and on theCenter’s HP. After receiving the applications, thecommittee distributes the candidate files to thevarious divisions, which submit respective short lists
to the full faculty. The final decision on which
candidates to invite is made at the faculty meeting.
The introduction of the open application
system has led to a dramatic increase in the number
of applications, which have also become morediversified in country of origin and area of work. In
addition, not only academics have applied; we havenoticed an increase in applications from media
people, non-government activists (NGO activists),
and public intellectuals (especially those who workin the dailies). This new system has especiallystrengthened CSEAS’s network in the Philippines,
Myanmar, Laos, and China.
Finally, CSEAS receives visiting researchers,
both Japanese and foreign, who visit on their own
funds or on external fellowships.

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MOUs
MOUs are indispensable in institutionalizing
international exchange. CSEAS now has signed
MOUs with several universities and research
institutes in Southeast Asia and often invites
ASAFAS and CIAS as co-partners in signing. These
MOUs have enabled CSEAS to conduct academic
exchanges with its partners in various activities.
Table below is a list of universities and institutes
with which CSEAS has already concluded MOUs.
The rector of Sultan Agung
Tirtayasa University and the directorof CSEAS signing a Memorandumof Understanding (MOU) in Banten,
Indonesia, October 2007

List of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)

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Date

Institutions

CountryCity

Exchangeof Students

2007.
10.10

Sultan Agung Tirtayasa University

Indonesia

Serang

●

2007.
05.17

National University of Laos
http://www.nuol.edu.la/Laos

Vientiane

●

2006.
04.28

Korea Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Korea

Seoul

●

2006.
04.06

Cenderawasih University

Indonesia

Jayapura

●

2006.
03.14

Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Research Centerfor Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
http://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/english/index.htm

TaiwanTaipei

―

2005.
11.13

Institute for Northeast Asian Studies, Vietnamese Academyof Social Science

Vietnam

Hanoi

―

2004.
09.15

Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University
http://www.md.kku.ac.th/index.php

ThailandKhon Kaen

―

2004.
08.09

National Islamic University

Indonesia

Jakarta●

http://www.uinjkt.ac.id/

2002.
10.26

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/

Singapore

Singapore

●

2002.
10.23

Hanoi Agricultural University
http://www.hau1.edu.vn/homepage.asp

Vietnam

Hanoi

―

2002.
09.17

International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh
http://202.136.7.26/index.jsp

Bangladesh

Dhaka

―

2002.
03.25

The Seameo Regional Centre for History and Tradition
http://www.seameochat.org/

Myanmar

Yangon

―

2002.
03.11

Yezin Agricultural University

Myanmar

Yezin

●

2002.
02. 07

Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University
http://www.sc.psu.ac.th/ThailandSongkhla

―

2001.
09.05

Research Institute and Graduate Programs, Hasanuddin University
http://www.unhas.ac.id/

Indonesia

Makassar

●

2001.
07.23

Bogor Agricultural University
http://bima.ipb.ac.id/

Indonesia

Bogor

●

2001.
07.23

National Coordination Agency for Surveys and Mapping
http://www.bakosurtanal.go.id/

Indonesia

Bogor

●

2000.
11.28

Center for Integrative and Development Studies
University of the Phlippines
http://www.up.edu.ph/cids/index.html

the Philippines

Quezon City―

The East Asian Network
Institutional collaborative research on
Southeast Asia among East Asian scholars has
become a new challenge in Japan. In October 2005,
CSEAS invited Southeast Asia specialists from
China, South Korea, and Taiwan to a workshop on
East Asian networks on Southeast Asian studies.
Among those who attended were Professor Liao
Shaolian, vice director of the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, Xiamen University (China), Professor
Yoon Jin-Pyo, director of the Korea Institute ofSoutheast Asian Studies, Professor Hwang In-Won,division head on international cooperation from thesame institute, and Professor Hsin-Huang Michael
Hsiao of the Research Center for Humanities andSocial Sciences (Taiwan). This workshop resulted in

the signing of MOUs between CSEAS and Taiwan’s
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
and the Korea Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
In April 2006, the director of CSEAS was invited todeliver a keynote speech before an annual
conference on Southeast Asian studies in Taiwan.
This was followed by another CSEAS-organizedseminar on collaboration in Southeast Asian studies(March 2007) and another one in Taiwan (September2007). In 2008, a special issue of the Center’s Kyoto
Review of Southeast Asia will be devoted totranslating recent work by China’s Southeast Asia
scholars, selected in collaboration with Professor
Liao of Xiamen University.

International Symposium “Building East Asian Networks
on Southeast Asian Studies,” in Kyoto, March 2007

International Symposium “East Asian Perspectives on
Southeast Asia: Taiwan and Japan in Focus,” in Taipei,
September 2007

The API Fellowship
The Nippon Foundation established theFellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API
Fellowships) in cooperation with Asian intellectuals
and organizations in 2000. The participating
countries include Indonesia, the Philippines,
Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. CSEAS is the Partner
Institution in Japan, and the Japanese secretariat
operates within the Center. The API Fellowships
aim to promote mutual learning and contribute to thegrowth of public spaces in which effective responses
to regional needs can be generated. It has enabledpublic intellectuals in Asia to pursue academic,
cultural, and professional projects in otherparticipating Asian countries. Since 2001, CSEAS
has organized twelve seminars in which forty API
fellows gave presentations and shared their insights
with staff and students from CSEAS and ASAFAS.

The API seminar at CSEAS, March 2007

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Chapter5

Academic publications

ince its beginning, CSEAS has given priority to
publishing research results. The quarterly
journal Southeast Asian Studies was begun at
the time of its founding, and from the 1960s
monographs have been published in Japanese and in
English. During the past decade, two more series
were started: a monograph series called Kyoto Area
Studies on Asia, both in Japanese and in English;

S

and the multilingual online journal Kyoto Review ofSoutheast Asia(begun during the first COE projectand currently funded by the Toyota Foundation),
which is available at http://www.kyotoreviewsea.org/.
Also, April 2007 marked the debut of the Kyoto
Working Papers on Area Studies. The complete list of
CSEAS publications is available on the HP(http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/edit/index_en.htm).

Monographs
The Center publishes four series for thepresentation of original academic studies contributing
to the development of Southeast Asian area studies.
Our monograph series had originally beenauthored exclusively by CSEAS faculty, but in 2000
it was decided to open the series to outsidecontributors from both within and outside Japan. As
SeriesLanguageof March 2007, two volumes of Kyoto Area Studies
on Asia in Japanese and four volumes in English, aswell as one Monograph of CSEAS in English havebeen authored by outside contributors. The policy
has now become a regular and recognized feature of
our publication program and is supported mainly by
JSPS Grants-in-aid for publication.

Publisher

Number of
Published Titles

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia

Japanese

Kyoto University Press

16

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia

EnglishKyoto University Press andTrans Pacific Press

13

Monographs of CSEAS

Japanese

Sobunsha24

Monographs of CSEAS

English

University of Hawai‘i Press

21

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia (in Japanese)
Rural Development andChanging Class Structurein Bangladesh
Fujita Koichi. 2005

This book deals with the impact of
the “Green Revolution” on ruralclass structure in Bangladesh andWest Bengal Province in India.
The author is concerned with the
dynamics of the birth anddevelopment of what he calls the“groundwater market” and withstructural changes in rural financial
markets. The “Green Revolution”
came in full force to Bangladesh andWest Bengal Province in the 1980s.
Holders of tube wells became themain disseminators, but small andmiddle-scale peasants and landlesslaborers also benefited because of
the changing groundwater market.
The author also discovered thewidespread phenomenon offinancial “backwater,” whichlandless agricultural laborers andsmall-scale peasants lent to middle

and upper-level farmers. This
allowed for the effective
development of poverty reduction
programs likethe Grameen
Bank. Thebook won the
The Okita
Memorial Prize(2005) and theKashiyamaJunzo Award(2007).

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia (in English)
People on the Move: RuralUrban Interactions in Sarawak
Soda Ryoji. 2007

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The Iban, the largest ethnic groupin Sarawak, have been widely
recognized as highly migratory
people. Based on a decade ofparticipant observation andinterviews in both the rural village
and the migrants’ community inurban Sibu, the author asserts that
understanding Iban movement as
migration is insufficient. Instead, itshould be comprehended as part ofan endeavor to expand their living
space. This study, using theconcept of “living strategy” or“human agency” that may go some

way to transform the structure of
migration, contributes to a newtheoreticalframework forunderstanding the
dynamics of ruralurban interactions.

Dislocating Nation-States:
Globalization in Asia and Africa
Patricio N. Abinales, Ishikawa Noboru,
and Tanabe Akio, eds. 2005.

The basic argument of this book isthat there is a process of“dislocation” of “nation-states”
under the present process ofglobalization. While nation-statesin the past strived to “keep thecontradictions between capital andthe people in perpetual suspension”

After the Crisis: Hegemony,
Technocracy and Governancein Southeast Asia
Shiraishi Takashi and Patricio N.
Abinales, eds. 2005

This book is about Southeast Asia--- above all Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, and the Philippines --after the Asian financial crisis.
While there exists much literatureon the Asian financial crisis, theseLaying the Tracks:
The Thai Economy andits Railways 1885-1935
Kakizaki Ichiro. 2005

The significance of the railways toThailand’s economic development
has been underestimated in mostThai economic histories. This
monograph details royalgovernment policies towards
railway development from the end

Searching for Vietnam:
Selected Writings on
Vietnamese Culture and Society
A. Terry Rambo. 2005

This book brings together much ofwhat the author has written about
Vietnam from his arrival during
wartime under a contract for ARPA,
the Advanced Research Projects
Agency of the US Defense
Department to the present. The
lengthy introduction represents asoul-searching by a scholar who
creatively adapted to the various
stages of Vietnam’s modernization.

in the framework of “the national
order of things,” the dislocatedstate today has the difficult duty of
meditating the contradictions
between global capitalism and theways of life of the people—culture
and environment—in a more directmanner. This interdisciplinary
volume directly engages thecomplexities of globalization in
marginal and troubled states. The
last part features long-term worldprospects by Immanuel Wallerstein
and the editors. It is based on

papers read at the international
conference “Regions in
Globalization,” held in Kyoto,
October 2002, as part of the Centerof Excellence(COE) program“Making Regions:Proto-Areas,
Transformations
and New
Formations in Asia
and Africa.”

do not adequately address the
longterm political, economic, andsocial implications of the crisis’s
costs and consequences. In
analyzing the Asian crisis, this booktakes up the complex interactions
and tensions among Southeast
Asian states, markets, and societies
within the context of a regional
order under American hegemony.
The chapters of this book are thefinal version of papers presented at
the Core University Program

Workshop “Networks in
Comparative Historical
Perspective, and U.S. Hegemonyand Questions ofTechnocracy,” heldat Kyoto
University, 25-26
March 2002.

of the 19th century to 1932, when it
was overthrown by theConstitutional Revolution. The
book also assesses the role andimpact of the railways in Thailand’s
economy: firstly, to what degree
they reduced transport time andcost; and secondly, how theyaltered the flows of commodities
and created the Bangkok-centeredeconomy. The author uses
unpublished public documents at
the National Archives of Thailand,

travel books, reports of inspection
tours by officials, and newspaper
articles to make theseassessments. Thisis an English
translation of his
Japanese book, Thai
Economy and
Railways, 18851935, which wasawarded the 17th
Masayoshi Ohira
Memorial Prize.

He admits that new trends inanthropological study would makehim write his study differently, but
he sticks to the basic pattern heidentified during his study of theVietnamese village.
His experience of studying
Vietnam over the past forty years
has confirmed the validity of his
initial sense that Vietnamese
society is incredibly complex anddifficult to comprehend. He thinks
he is still a long way from having aclear picture of how contemporary
Vietnamese society is organized,
and his understanding ofVietnamese culture and the ways inwhich it is changing (or retaining
traditional patterns) also remains
tantalizingly incomplete. That is
why he titled this book Searchingfor Vietnam, but he confesses thatwhat started as theexotic “other” hasbecome aneveryday part of his
own reality and noanthropologist
could hope for abetter outcome tohis career.

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Academic publications

Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Uncultural Behavior: An
Anthropological Investigation of
Suicide in the Southern
Philippines
Charles J-H Macdonald. 2006

The author is a social
anthropologist specializing in thePhilippines and Southeast Asia.
His acquaintance with the Palawan
people in the Philippines dates from1970 and repeated visits convinced
him that among the people of KulbiKenipaqan, who lead an outwardly
peaceful existence in a remotecorner of Palawan island, suicide

was an endemic and enduringphenomenon repeating itself withunusual and stubborn frequency.
Why would they fall victim todespair? To answer this question,
he probes not only the beliefs,
customs, and general disposition ofthis Palawan people, but also
representations and concepts
relating to suicide.
He looks at the phenomenon (astable and high rate of suicide) fromthe point of view of neurobiology
and genetics as well as from a
psychological, social, and historicalperspective and considers that
suicide is a learned behavior. One
could call it “uncultural” since thistype of behavior conflicts with
explicitly stated social and culturalvalues. This study may mean that“culture” as anthropologists look at
it — as a symbolic structure or as aset of rules and values — does notreally explain all aspects of humanbehavior and says little about thereal inner conflicts
that decideindividual fates.

Southeast Asian Studies
The first issue of our quarterly journalSoutheast Asian Studies(SEAS) was published inJune 1963, when CSEAS was first formed as a semiofficial 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,interdisciplinary, and contemporary approaches,
SEAS publishes work from various fields of study on

The cover design of SEAS has
been changed four times.

Southeast Asia, including the natural sciences, social
sciences, and humanities.
The lifespan of the journal has coincided withgreat changes in Southeast Asia. We therefore
strive to contribute to developing new perspectives
on Southeast Asia through in-depth and intrinsic
understandings of Southeast Asian ecology, society,and culture and via the deployment of comparative
methodology to clarify the diverse characteristics ofthe region. Contributions based on original research
are highly appreciated.
In celebration of its 40th
anniversary, CSEAS issued a DVD
edition of SEAS in 2005 containing
all the articles, reports, and reviews
that have appeared in its pages fromthe inaugural issue through Volume
42, Number 4. The DVD can besearched by issue number, article
title, or author name. The contentsof this DVD, along with digital
A DVD edition of quarversionsof subsequent issues, areterly journal Southeast
available on the CSEAS HP.
Asian Studies (SEAS)

Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies

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This is a series published jointly by the fourarea studies institutions on the Kyoto University
campus: the Center for Integrated Area Studies(CIAS); the Graduate School of Asian and African
Area Studies (ASAFAS); the Center for African Area

Studies (CAAS); and the Center for Southeast AsianStudies (CSEAS). Faculty members, young scholars,
and graduate students affiliated with these
institutions are invited to contribute to this series.

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
Since 2002, the mission of the Kyoto Review ofSoutheast Asia (KRSEA) has been to facilitate
exchange among the intellectual communities ofSoutheast Asia and Japan. In each thematic issue,
the internet journal publishes review essays, bookreviews of scholarly work, reprints, original
research, interviews, and other features to help
scholars and others keep up with intellectual trends
within the region (see the following table).
Beginning by translating article abstracts, the journal
moved in 2006 to full translations — in English,
Filipino, Indonesian, Japanese, and Thai — of more
and more of each issue’s content. We are also
pleased to report that the KRSEA website wasaccessed more than 5 million times in FY 2006, a
period that marked the debut of a new website withmore functionality (http://kyotoreviewsea.org/).
The editorial board is now planning issues thatutilize the site’s evolving capability in video, audio,

and interactivity.
In 2007, KRSEA posted a double issue on
culture with essays on Philippine and Thai literature,
modern Malaysian Islamic music and colonial
Indonesian musical culture, Indonesian museums,
theater collaboration between Japan and Southeast
Asia, and Japanese pop culture. It includes shortbook reviews, essays on Indonesian Muslim
intellectuals and Malay culture in southern Thailand,
and reprints by a noted Thai academic, acontroversial Thai essayist, and a highly-respected
Filipina nun-activist. This issue invites you to listen
to a speech given by Prof. Benedict Anderson at thelaunch of the Philippine edition of his Imagined
Communities. And the latest feature is the additionof video; in this issue the Filipino film makers
Moving Images have permitted us to upload their
Kuaresma, a documentary about the celebration ofHoly Week in the Philippines.

No. Topic

EditorYear/Month1

Power and Politics

Donna J. Amoroso

2002/3

2

Disaster and Rehabilitation

Yamada Isamu; Donna J. Amoroso

2002/103

Nations and Other Stories

Donna J. Amoroso

2003/3

4

Regional Economic Integration

Caverlee Cary; Leedom Lefferts; Donna J. Amoroso

2003/105Islam in Southeast Asia

Donna J. Amoroso

2004/3*

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia: Selected
Essays with Summaries in Bahasa Indonesia,
Filipino, Japanese, and Thai (Bangkok)

Donna J. Amoroso

2004/3

6

Elections and Statesman

Donna J. Amoroso

2005/37

States, People, and Borders in Southeast Asia

Alexander Horstmann; Donna J. Amoroso

2006/9Donna J. Amoroso

2007/3 and 10

8/9 Culture* Special print edition featuring essays from Issues 1 through 4.

Left: A special print edition featuring essays
from Issues 1 through 4
Right: The new Kyoto Review of Southeast
Asia website showing Issue 8/9: Culture

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6

Education

Graduate School Education
Department of Southeast Asian Studies(Environment, Society and Culture),
Graduate School of Asian and African
Area Studies (ASAFAS)
ASAFAS was established in April 1998. This
new School was created in order to respond tochanging social demands on academia to promote aninterdisciplinary and integrated approach to areastudies transcending the existing disciplinary
boundaries and producing a more holistic
understanding of divergent areas in the world,
particularly Asia and Africa. We must contribute,
both as citizens and scholars, to the establishment of
a new world order in which the sustainable
development and coexistence of different areas of
the world, including Asia and Africa, are realized.
With this ideal in mind, the new School aims to train
specialists in Asian and African studies who possess
detailed and intimate knowledge of the areas and at
the same time are equipped with a global
perspective. Based on the five-year doctoral
program, the School emphasizes in its curricula longterm fieldwork and holistic understanding of Asianand African ecology, society, and culture and theirinterrelations which have shaped today’s societies.
Besides training specialists in Asian and African areastudies, the School also hopes to produce personnel
capable of working in international aid organizations
and, accordingly, is prepared to issue master’s
degrees when needed.
The School comprises seven departments in
two divisions:
Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies
Department of Ecology and Environment
Department of Society and Development
Department of Environment, Society, and Culture
Department of South and West Asian Area Studies

Division of African Area Studies
Department of Political Ecology
Department of Cultural Ecology
Department of Historical Ecology

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cooperative department and are supervised mainlyby the Center’s staff.
Since overseas field research constitutes the
major part of their study, graduate students are hardpressed to complete all the necessary lectures,
seminars, literature surveys, and other tasks in theirshort time in Japan. From the second year, many try
to stay as long as possible in the field, pursuing theirrespective studies. These include, to note just a
few: Thai nation building revisited, Indonesianpolitical history, Thai corporate management, genderissues in Buddhist practices in Northeast Thai
villages, social changes in Cambodian villages, thepolitical economy of mangrove culture in Vietnam,
Lao traditional farming systems, food and culture in
Yunnan, and rural development in Bangladesh.
Kyoto University School of Public HealthA new division of the Graduate School of
Medicine, the Kyoto University School of Public
Health was established in April 2000. It initiallyoffered a master’s program and has subsequently
added a doctoral program. Two of the Center’s staff
teach courses in the School --- on ecology with anemphasis on the environment and on field medicine--- and supervise graduate students. As of March
2007, eight students have finished master’s degrees
under the guidance of Center staff.
Departments of Microbiology and
Field Medicine of the Graduate Schoolof Medicine
Two of the Center’s staff teach in doctoral
programs in the Department of Microbiology and in
the Department of Field Medicine. The former
department studies enteric infections, commonly
called diarrheal diseases, that are important in Asia,and the latter carries out field medicine forcommunity-dwelling elderly in Southeast Asian
countries. As March 2007, seven students havefinished the doctoral course under the guidance ofCenter staff.

Of the seven departments, the Department ofEnvironment, Society, and Culture (a cooperative
department) is staffed solely by the Center, including
six professors and two associate professors. Allother staff of the Center teach courses on diverse
topics in their specialization in the sevendepartments.
As of April 2007, ASAFAS has 174 graduate
students. Twenty-one ASAFAS students are from
Asia and Africa, some on Japanese government
scholarships. Thirty-nine of them belong to the
An ASAFAS seminar

Undergraduate Education
Faculty of Medicine
Two of the Center’s staff also teach in theundergraduate program of the Faculty of Medicine,
focusing on microbiology and geriatric medicine,respectively. Around 100 undergraduate medical
students take their lectures and practical trainings
every year.
All-Campus Joint Lectures for New Students
Two of the Center’s staff participate in allcampus joint lectures for new students focusing on

politics in Southeast Asia and on geriatric fieldpractical training in Japan. Around ten students taketheir lectures and practical trainings every year.
Kyoto University International
Education Program
One Center staff member teaches a lecture
course on Southeast Asia for foreign undergraduate
students in Kyoto University. Dozens of foreign
students take his lecture course every year.

Thirteen students from five faculties attended a study tour to Thailand
as a part of the all-campus joint lectures in March 2006.

Southeast Asia Seminar
Every summer since 1976, the open
“Southeast Asia Seminar” has been held. Initially,
the seminar ran for two weeks, offering intensive
lectures providing an overview of the nature,
culture, society, economy, and other aspects of theregion and basic knowledge needed to understandthe concept of area studies. Recently, participatorylectures have been introduced and encouraged andthe period has been shortened to one week for theconvenience of the participants. The seminar isopen to the public and has attracted numerous
participants each year, particularly postgraduate
students starting their engagement with Southeast
Asian studies. The 31st seminar, “Looking,Interpreting and Talking about Areas from theStandpoint of Time and Space: Area Studies andSpace Informatics,” was held September 3-7, 2007,
with fifteen participants.

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The 31st seminar in September 2007

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International cooperation and mecenat

SEAS faculty members have poured great
energy into becoming an indispensable link
between Japan and Southeast Asia and making
intellectual contributions to Southeast Asian andJapanese society. We have given lectures andacademic advice to graduate and undergraduate
students in Southeast Asian universities. We havegiven intellectual and policy advice and suggestions
to academic and government institutions both inJapan and Southeast Asian countries and havestarted action research projects in collaboration with
NGOs in Japan and Southeast Asia as well.

C

We have put great emphasis on returning
research results back to Japanese civil society andhave received fruitful feedback from civil society forfurther creative research activities in Southeast Asiaand beyond. In order to smoothen the mutually
beneficial relationship between CSEAS and civilsociety, we have built up various kinds of intellectual
exchanges with universities and central and local
governments and NGOs in Japan. The following list
provides a snapshot of our intellectual contributionsin Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond.

Name

Item

Contribution

Ando Kazuo“Kameoka City in Asia” (A Series of Lectures on Important Cultural Assets in FY2005)

Lecturer

Matsubayashi Kozo

Field Science and Medical Science

Lecturer

Matsubayashi Kozo

Medical Care for Elderly and Medical Field Science in Japan and Asia: Comparative Perspectives Lecturer

Mizuno Kosuke

People’s Organizations and Institutional Change in Democratized Indonesia:
Strengthes and Weaknesses of People’s Organization and Governance

Lecturer

Mizuno Kosuke

The New Society from the Perspective of Sustainability Science

Moderator

Mizuno Kosuke

State-Building Based on Science and Technology and Social Responsibility

Panelist

Shibayama Mamoru The New Area Informatics and the Process of Making Hanoi City

Lecturer

Shibayama Mamoru Training on Open Source Geo-Informatics

Lecturer

Kono Yasuyuki,
Shibayama Mamoru, Intensive Course on Application of Geo-Informatics to Area Studies
Yonezawa Go

Lecturer

Kono Yasuyuki

Bird-Eye’s View Environmental Studies

Lecturer

Sugihara Kaoru

Making International Order in the Era of Skyrocketing Oil Prices

Newspaper
contributor

Okamoto MasaakiIndonesia Nine Years after Democratization: Do Decentralization and Democratization Work?

Lecturer

Okamoto Masaaki

Analysis of the Gubernatorial Election in Banten Province

Radio commentator

Okamoto analyzing the Banten
Gubernatorial Election on theRadio, November 26, 2006

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Kono and Yonezawa
with students of theChinese Academy of
Sciences in 2006

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Award winners

SEAS faculty publications and CSEAS
monographs have gained such historic andhonorable awards as the Mainichi Shuppan
Bunka Prize, the Yomiuri Yoshino-Sakuzo Award,
and the IDE-JETRO Award for Promotion of Studies
on Developing Countries. Recently, Professor
Fujita’s book, Rural Development and Changing Class
Structure in Bangladesh (Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho 16)
won two prizes, the 9th Okita Memorial Award inC2005 and the 1st Kashiyama Junzo Award in 2007.
In 2007, the doctoral dissertations of CSEAS juniorresearch fellows monopolized the 6th Iue Memorial
Asia Pacific Research Award, which was establishedin 2000 by the Asia Pacific Forum, Awaji Conference
Japan, to honor excellent doctoral dissertations in
the humanities and social sciences on the Asian andPacific regions.
All recent award winners are listed below.

WinnerAward and Evaluated Research Activities

Year/Month

Furukawa Hisao,
Nishibuchi Mitsuaki,
Kono Yasuyuki,
Kaida Yoshihiro

The Gold Prize for Fully Co-published Academic Books of The 11th APPA Book Awards
Ecological Destruction, Health, and Development: Advancing Asian Paradigms（Kyoto Area Studies on Asia, Vol.8 ）2005.03

Caroline Hau

Philippines’ 2004 National Book Award for Literary Criticism
On the Subject of the Nations: Filipino Writings from the Margins, 1981-2004(Ateneo de Manila University )2005.09

Fujita Koichi

The 9th Okita Memorial Award
Rural Development and Changing Class Structure in Bangladesh(Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho 16)

2005.12

Nobuta Toshihiro

The 4th Japan Society for Southeast Asian History Prize
Living on the Periphery: Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli of Malaysia(Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho 15)

2006.12

Patricio N. Abinales(with Donna J. Amoroso)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006
State and Society in the Philippines(Rowman & Littlefield)

2007.01

Fujita Koichi

The 1st Kashiyama Junzo Award
Rural Development and Changing Class Structure in Bangladesh(Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho 16)

2007.02

Nakanishi Yoshihiro

The 6th Iue Memorial Asia Pacific Research Award
Civil-Military Relations in Ne Win’s Burma, 1962-1988

2007.08

Endo Tamaki

The 6th Iue Memorial Asia Pacific Research Award
Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Culture in East and Southeast Asia,
1988-2005
The 6th Iue Memorial Asia Pacific Research Award (runner-up)
Informal Economy in Era of Globalization: From Perspectives of Urban Communities in Bangkok

Shibayama Mamoru(with Yamada Shoji)Special Award of the 2nd Monozukuri Linkage Award
Japanese Caligraphic Character Dictionary, CD-ROM Version (Tokyodo Shuppan)

Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin

2007.08
2007.08
2007.12

Fujita at the award ceremony of the
9th Okita Memorial Award
Japanese Caligraphic
Character Dictionary,
CD-ROM version by
Shibayama hasgained Special Awardof the 2nd Monozukuri
Linkage Award.

CSEAS junior research fellows (three persons from right) monopolized the
6th Iue Memorial Asia Pacific Research Award.

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History of CSEAS

Month/Year Events

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Sep. 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.

Jul. 1963

Inaugural issue of the quarterly Southeast Asian Studiesis published.

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.

Aug. 1971

CSEAS moves to its present location, on the site of the former Kyoto Textile Company.

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 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. 1984

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: Ecological Studies,
Socio-cultural Studies, Integrative Processes, Development Studies, and Human Environment.

Apr. 1993

The Southeast Asian Studies Major is inaugurated in collaboration with the Division of Culture and Area Studies, Graduate Schoolof 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, Scienceand Technology (MEXT) through a grant for Scientific Research on Priority Areas).

Aug. 1993

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 ofSoutheast 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 Formations in Asia
and Africa” is launched, in collaboration with ASAFAS, with funding from MEXT.
The third, five-year program of acquisition 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,
Human-Nature Dynamics, Socio-Cultural Dynamics, and Economic and Political Dynamics.

Oct. 2002

The five-year 21st Century COE project “Aiming for Center of Excellence of Integrated Area Studies: Establishing Field Stationsin Asia and Africa to Combine Research Activities and On-Site-Education” is launched, in collaboration with ASAFAS, withfunding 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 of 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 witheight research institutes, centers, and graduate schools at Kyoto University, with funding from MEXT.

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Organization

Concurrent Staff

DIRECTOR
Professor

Mizuno Kosuke

DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Professor

Matsubayashi Kozo
Shibayama Mamoru

RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT

Hayashi Yukio
Hara Shoichiro
Associate Professor Yanagisawa Masayuki
Yamamoto Hiroyuki
Professor

Visiting Research Fellow
Ikrar Nusa Bhakti

Nguyen Thi Xuan Binh
Sauliah Saleh
Zhuang Guotu
Ho Dinh Duan
Eric S. Tagliacozzo

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Mizuno Kosuke
Nishibuchi Mitsuaki
Associate Professor Okamoto Masaaki
Caroline Sy Hau
Assistant Professor Nakaguchi Yoshitsugu
Professor

Researcher of Scientific Research (COE)

Sato Takahiro
Endo Tamaki
Nishi Makoto

Nakanishi Yoshihiro
Hoshikawa Keisuke
Visiting Researcher

Paul Close
Chaiwat Thirapantu
Md. Taufiqul Islam
Dao Minh Truong

Kono Yasuyuki
Matsubayashi Kozo
Associate Professor Ando Kazuo

JSPS Fellow

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Researcher of Scientific Research

Professor

Hamamoto Satoko
Yonezawa Go
Yajima Kichiji
Yasuno Osamu
Ishine Masayuki
Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin
Watanabe Kazuya
Toyota Hideo
Wada Taizo
Retno Kusumaningtyas

Hayami Yoko
Shimizu Hiromu
Associate Professor Ishikawa Noboru
Koizumi Junko
Assistant Professor Kobayashi Satoru
Division of Economic andPolitical Dynamics

Fujita Koichi
Sugihara Kaoru
Patricio Nunez Abinales

Professor

Shiraishi Takashi
Nagafuchi Yasuyuki

DIVISION OF AREA
INFORMATICS
Informatics and Network Laboratory
Professor

Shibayama Mamoru

Associate Professor Igarashi Tadataka

Staff

Furuta Yasuko
Yamada Hisayo
Shiotsu Tetsuko
Hayashi Akiko
Masunaga Kanako

Staff

Kobayashi SumikoNambu Shigeko

Information Processing Office

Okunishi Kumi

OfficerPart-time Officer

Ueda Kazuo
Tanikawa Kanako
Nakamura Miyuki
Nakanishi Aiko
Hidaka Miki
Hamada Mami
Yamamoto SachikoCenter for Integrated Area Studies
Part-time Officer
Tanaka Seiji
International Office
Part-time Officer

Fujii Mai
Yasuhara Satoko
Haruki Tamie

Accounting Section
Chief Officer
OfficerPart-time Officer

Terada Masao
Nakanishi Masanao
Yamasaki Kei
Imai Junji
Nakagawa Masako
Morita Etsuko
Takahashi Sawako
Kimoto Yoshie

Center for Integrated Area Studies
Part-time Officer
Terasawa Akemi

Student Affairs Section
Chief Officer
Officer

Kaku Keita
Imai Tomoko

Furuichi Takahisa
Donna J. Amoroso
Technical Research Assistant

Takeda Yoko
Liaison Office of Research Department
Project Officer
Part-time Officer

Kawai Tomoko
Tabata Noriko
Nishio Masami

Assistant of Research Department
Part-time Officer

Kataoka Toshiko
Ide Michiyo
Saito Akiko
Kodera Junko
Yamamoto Aya
Araki IchikoForeign Scholar’s Lounge
Part-time Officer

Maeno Naoko

Admistrative Office of Global COE
Part-time Officer

Assistant Professor Kitani Kimiya
Staff

Senior Officer

Editor, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia

Editorial Office
Assistant Professor Yonezawa Mariko

General Affairs Section
Chief Officer

Postdoctoral Fellow (KSI)

Library
Assistant Professor Kitamura Yumi

Morikawa Susumu
Kubota Koji

Center for Integrated Area Studies
Specialist
Watanabe Shigeru

Senior Officer

Miyanishi Kaori

Professor

Japanese Visiting Scholar

Senior Specialist

Visiting Project Researcher

Division of Human-Nature Dynamics

Professor

Head

Junior Research Fellow
Kosaka Yasuyuki

Assistant Professor (COE)

Ubukata Fumikazu

ADMINISTRATIVEDEPARTMENT

Project Officer

Matsudaira Atsuko
Abe Chiaki
Naito Chieko
Kamata Kyoko
Komano Kyoko

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Organization

Division of Integrated Area Studies
Division of Human-Nature Dynamics
Deputy Director
Director

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
Research Department

Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
Area Studies I (Visiting Research Fellows)

Council Meeting

Area Studies II (Japanese Visiting Scholars)Faculty Meeting

Southeast Asian Documentation (Visiting Research Fellows)

Executive Meeting

Informatics and Network Laboratory

Staff Meeting

Library
Division of Area Informatics

Editorial Office

Area Studies Planning and Promotion OfficeInformation Processing Office

Administrative Department

Student Affairs Section
Accounting Section

Bangkok Liaison Office
Jakarta Liaison OfficeInternational Office

Division of Integrated Area Studies

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics

Division of Area Informatics

The division explores the age of
information and globalization
through synthetic and holistic
approaches. The division pursues
comparative research on areas
within and transcending theboundaries of Southeast Asia, as
well as on regional information
systems. In addition, the division
integrates and coordinates theresearch of the Center incollaboration with the otherresearch divisions and the Divisionof Area Informatics.

The division explores the changing
interactions of culture, society, andecology through perspectives thatchallenge the disciplinary andgeographic boundaries shaping paststudies of Southeast Asia. The
division studies socialtransformations, cultural aspects ofproduction, the creation ofborderland spaces, and everyday
life, as well as religion, knowledge
practices, the institution of culture,and gender and sexuality.

The division provides various
information resources, aninformation infrastructure based on
the Internet, and a support system
for highly utilized resources in areastudies. Also, in order to build theconcept and discipline of Area
Informatics as a research field at
the Center, the division explores amethodology for applying
informatics in area studies.

Division of Human-Nature Dynamics

The division explores thecoexistence of humans and theirenvironment. The Ecological
Resources section pursues
research on human ecology,
environmental management
systems, and resources, and theLife Environment section studies
human life in relation to theenvironment, including studies offood, nutrition, hygiene, anddisease.

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General Affairs Section

Division of Economic
and Political Dynamics

The division studies globalization,
regionalization, and regional
development. The division isconcerned with the political
economy of Southeast Asia and thebroader East Asian economy;
agricultural and development
economics; and government,
politics, regionalism, and theregionalization of Southeast Asia.

In Search of a New Paradigm:
Sustainable Humanosphere
We aim at creating a new paradigm of “sustainablehumanosphere” in the field of area studies by bringing
knowledge of frontier science and technology into contact
with the conventional disciplines of natural ecology, politics
and economics, sociology and anthropology, and history, andby so doing to train a new generation of area studies
specialists and scientists equipped with a morecomprehensive range of humanities, social science, andscience disciplines than hitherto possible.
Kampong Thom province, Cambodia

Photos and descriptions by Dr. Lye Tuck-Po,
former visiting research fellow

Left: Yi was showing me how to harvest rice. One hand holds a bunch ofrice stalks that she’s just cut with the sickle and the other hand is raised ingesture. These ricefields belong to her and her husband and were among
the earliest harvested that agricultural year. November 2005
Top right: Sat and Yi putting out the rice grains to dry before bagging andstoring them in the granary. November 2005
Bottom right: Shoveling water into a ricefield. All around is Lake
Baklueng, which is mostly drained of water in preparation for dry season
rice. February 2006

A conceptional drawing of the new building, to be called Inamori Zaidan
Kinen-kan. It will be built on the site of the former north and south buildingsof CSEAS by autumn of 2008.
Source: Inamori Foundation.

Access◆ From Kansai International Airport to JR Kyoto Station

By Limsine Bus: 105-minute ride (approximately 2,300 yen)
By Kansai Airport Limited Express (Haruka):
90-minute ride (approximately 3,300 yen)
◆ From JR Kyoto Station to CSEAS

Take No.4, No.17 or No.205 bus (30 min.) and get off at Kojinguchi.
Then walk for five minutes to the east.
◆ From Marutamachi Station of Keihan Railway to CSEAS

Walk for five minutes to the north.

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Ever Evolving, Ever Creative
The New CSEAS Will Lead Innovative Area Studies in the Heart of Kyoto

CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIESKYOTO UNIVERSITY
46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
606-8501 Japan
Telephone :+81-75-753-7302
Facsimile:+81-75-753-7350
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