Contents
Contents·································································································································· 1
Preface····································································································································· 2
Global Network of Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University····· 3
1 Research Activities
Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere················································ 5Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA)·············································· 7International Program of Collaborative Research (IPCR-CSEAS)···································· 8
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research················································································ 10Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)····································································· 16
Practice-oriented Area Studies························································································· 16
Asian Core Program (JSPS)····························································································· 17
2 Staff Research Interests····························································································· 18
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3 Division of Information and Networks
Library······························································································································· 25
Map Collections················································································································ 26
Information Processing Office··························································································· 26
Databases························································································································· 27
GIS Laboratory················································································································· 27
4 Global Academic Networks
Overseas Liaison Offices·································································································· 28
MOU: Memoranda of Understanding················································································ 29
Visiting Research Fellows and Guest Scholars································································ 30
API Fellowships················································································································ 30
5 Publications
Monographs······················································································································ 31
	   Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
	   Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies	   Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies	   Kyoto Area Studies on Asia (in Japanese): Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho
Academic Journal: Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies:
Tonan Ajia Kenkyu············································································································ 33
Academic Journal: Southeast Asian Studies···································································· 34

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Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies··········································································· 34
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia······················································································· 34

Graduate School Education···························································································· 35
Award 2012····························································································································· 35
History of CSEAS················································································································· 36
Staff Organization··············································································································· 37
Access······································································································································ 38

Editorial Board•CSEAS PR Committee•CSEAS PR Office
ISHIKAWA, Noboru (Professor CSEAS, Kyoto University)LÓPEZ, Mario Ivan (Program-Specific Associate Professor CSEAS, Kyoto University)
YOSHIKAWA, Sanae (Program-Specific Researcher CSEAS, Kyoto University)
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YAMADA, Isamu (Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University)
Photo1: Mixed dipterocarp forest in Lambir, Sarawak February, 2000
Photo2: Festival in Ubud, Bali March, 2010
Photo3: Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei November, 2013
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Preface
For nearly five decades, the Center forSoutheast Asia and East Asia to promote international research

Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) has

exchange and collaboration. 2015 will be also a momentous year

followed the dynamic developments

for Southeast Asia as it marks the establishment of the ASEAN

in the region, working closely with its

Community. In order to realize this goal, ASEAN has followed

partner institutions and with scholars

a three-pronged strategy to guarantee security and politics,

and intellectuals in Asia as well as increate an economic community, and envisage a socio-cultural

Europe and USA to share knowledge

community. With regional economical integration becoming aand information with scholars andreality, ASEAN has come a long way since the 1960s, when the

publics from Japan and all over theregion struggled to overcome a long period of intense conflict andworld.

wars between nations and ethnicities, from the Vietnam war and

CSEAS was founded in 1963 by Kyoto University and formally

Cambodian Civil war through to the Sino-Vietnamese war.

recognized in 1965 as a governmental “research center.” In April

Now, Southeast Asia is home to more than 600 million people,

2004, the Center attained the status of an institute (although it

exceeding the EU’s combined population. As such, ASEAN has

retained the English name “Center for Southeast Asian Studies”)

become an important political and economic entity. Within thewith the mandate to expand the scope of its research activities.

region, Buddhism forms the religious backbone for the majority

Since its founding, CSEAS has come to embrace not only theon the continental side. The mainland acts as a crossroads

humanities and social sciences, but also other disciplines such

between the Indian Hindu world and the Chinese Confucian andas agronomy, ecology, medicine, and the natural sciences.

Taoist world, while the insular side serves as home to Muslims

The Center stands out from other area studies institutions andand Christians. Co-existence and mutual enlightenment offacilities around the world because of its unique approach tomultiple cultures and ethnicities are spurring social dynamism forcollaboration among the natural sciences and humanities and its

progress across the entire region.
However, we should not forget that the area, located in one

promotion of truly interdisciplinary research.
Over the last decade, CSEAS has continued to activelyof the world’s great tropical regions, possesses an extraordinary

participate in the education and training of young area-studies

wealth of biomass resources provided by abundant solar power.

specialists in collaboration with the Graduate School of Asian

As such, the region has attracted worldwide attention as a place

and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) since its establishment in

where new energy resources can be developed as potential

1998. In 2009, the Center was designated as one of the Joint

alternatives to fossil fuels. At the same time however, the region

Usage/Research Centers in Inter-Universities of Japan by theis vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis,

Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEXT)

volcanic eruptions, typhoons, floods, and droughts. As suchand began its International Program of Collaborative Researchdisaster prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation are one of most

(IPCR) in April 2010. Since then, CSEAS has newly signed overurgent issues we must deal with.

25 MOUs with research centers and institutions and actively held

CSEAS keenly understands the changes that are continually

joint symposiums and workshops which count around 10 to 15

redefining an already dynamic, heterogeneous, and richly

every year.

endowed region. CSEAS focuses on this dynamism andSince 2009, the Center has also hosted a JSPS Asia Core

conducts research on a wide variety of topics and places while

Research and Education Program (2009-13) which has been

simultaneously conducting comparative and comprehensive

active with three core institutions: the Center for Asia-Pacificstudies necessary provide a more complete tapestry of the

Area Studies (CAPAS) in Taiwan, Thammasat University inregion. As such, CSEAS feels that it bears the responsibility

Thailand, and the Political Studies Center of LIPI in Indonesia.

to promote multidisciplinary and collaborative research both in

These efforts are intended to deepen international linkages within

Japan and the region.

the region and further afield and are being supported by the

We are presently engaged in a new large-scale researcharrival of new faculty. In 2012, we welcomed associate professor

program funded by MEXT entitled “Promoting the Study ofPavin Chachavalpongpun (political scientist, Thai Studies) and in

Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia: Agenda-setting

2013, associate professor Nakanishi Yoshihiro (political scientist,

and Networking for East-Asia Community-Building” (2011-

Myanmar Studies). Caroline Hau was promoted to professor

16). This program aims to further strengthen and deepen

and associate professors Kobayashi Satoru (anthropologist,

collaboration and international research ties within East andCambodia Studies) and Mario Lopez (anthropologist, Philippine

Southeast Asia. I hope that both staff and researchers at theStudies) were also promoted from assistant professors.

Center and within the global academic community can continue

In 2015, the Center will officially celebrate its 50th anniversary. In

to provide their invaluable support to achieve this end.

line with our celebrations we launched an international Consortiumfor Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) on October 11,
2013 in collaboration with eight core partner institutions in

Director
SHIMIZU, Hiromu

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1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere

Southeast Asian Studies for
Sustainable Humanosphere
Large-Scale Research Program: “Promoting the Study of Sustainable Humanospherein Southeast Asia: Agenda-Setting and Networking for East Asia Community-Building”
funded by The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

http://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

In 2011, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) initiated a New Large-Scale Research Program “Southeast AsianStudies for Sustainable Humanosphere.” The aims of this program are to strengthen the sustainable humanosphere as aleading principle supporting the construction of an East Asian academic community. In order to overcome the politicaland economical imbalances inherent in globalization and worldwide environmental problems, this program is developing
research that actively makes use of plural forms of diversity that have developed in response to Southeast Asia’s specificcharacteristics and contours.

program continues from the last one to deepen knowledge of a

Overview
The current program was initiated to deal with the futureneeds of the region and examine the interactions between

sustainable humanosphere within the context of Southeast Asia.

the environment, technology and institutions. At the core of

Progr am Objectives

the program is an approach to the “humanosphere” that was

The current program has two main objectives. The first is to lay

developed on an earlier G-COE program hosted at CSEAS,

the foundations for community-building in the region that does

“In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa”

not exclusively depend on economic-orientated development(2007-11). The humanosphere is composed of the geosphere,

models. It aims to propose alternative and agenda-setting

biosphere and human society. Where the geosphere constitutes

models of development from the perspective of sustainability

the geological composition of the earth system includingof the humanosphere. In particular, it aims to place emphasis

the atmosphere, the waters and land, the biosphere involves

on including the global, regional and local environment into

every form of life on earth, incorporating their reproductive,

research agendas to re-conceptualize development paths in Easttransformative as well as ongoing evolutionary processes. OverAsia. The second is to foster the academic community at bothtime, human societies have evolved and arisen through theirregional and global levels, with emphasis on training younginteractions with both of them, leading to specific forms ofresearchers and promoting collaboration among Southeast Asian,plural co-existence. Our human societies as such, can be seen

Japanese, Korean, and Chinese researchers while linking theas technical systems where energy, materials and information

East Asian academic network to the world. Through these twoflow and circulate among these three domains. In sum, theobjectives the program will promote common research themes

humanosphere is the ecological and social environment in whichthat deal with shared concerns within East Asia mainly, social

local people live and formed an important theoretical backgroundrisk, environmental degradation, epidemics, natural disasters,

for multidisciplinary investigations across the disciplines into

ageing societies and energy procurement and management.

Southeast Asia, East Asia and Equatorial Africa. This current

The Historical Evolution of Humanosphere(Years are not to scale)

The earth

4.56 billion years ago
The impact ofbiosphere

Living organisms
4 billion years ago

plants, animals, and fungi
590-570 million years ago
mammals
250 million years ago
The impact ofhumanosphere

Geosphere

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The impact ofhumanosphere

Biosphere

Homo sapiens
200,000 years ago

The agricultural revolution
The industrial revolution

Human Society

Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Photo by SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu
Program-Specific Researcher, CSEAS, Kyoto University)

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1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere

1
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Biomass Society Research

Plural Co-existense Research

Photo by YAMADA, Isamu Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University

Research Focuses
To achieve them, the program offers innovative and concrete

linkages between tropical biomass society and global interests

research approaches that tackle the pressing concerns of humanand the potential impact environmental changes will have on the

security in the region. To investigate and develop a sustainablehumanosphere.

humanosphere, the program conducts research on plural co-

Ultimately, the program hopes to develop social development

existence with a focus on social capital, the strengthening ofmodels attuned to the plural needs of East Asia: to offer

social infrastructures and transnational regional restructuring.

directions to establish sustainable use of the environment andConcurrently, the program also examines how Southeast Asia’s

its energy sources; to push for future energy efficient models of

tropical biomass societies are being reshaped through economic

social development; and most importantly, push for innovation,change as well as state and market orientated demands forpromotion, and expansion of technological, social, and politicalresources. By taking the global capitalization of tropical biomass

institutions which will flexibly deal with the region’s needs.

as a key point of investigation, researchers are examining theAcademic Community Building
and Networking
One of the main focuses of this program is to foster and develop
cooperation among academic communities in Southeast Asia
and East Asia and strengthen Japan’s role as a partner in theregion. The program has sponsored and held a series of monthly
seminars; workshops and international conferences by young
post doctoral researchers; promoted graduate-level education;
trained post-doctoral researchers and encourage collaboration

Visual Documentary Project2013

The 37th Southeast Asian Seminar at
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang October
29-31, 2013

between young and up-and-coming scholars; and sharedworld class research results through publications. One major
networking achievement of this program has been to set up a
Consortium of Southeast Asian Studies (SEASIA). The program
will continue to nurture the consortium with the aim of hosting
an international conference in 2015.

Consortium for Southeast AsianStudies in Asia (SEASIA) wasestablished on October 11, 2013
under the initiative of CSEAS.

Young Researcher’s Workshop on Politics,
Culture, and Migration in Southeast Asia
at CSEAS, Kyoto University November 8,2013 organized by CSEAS, Asian Core
Program and National Chi Nan University

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1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA)

Consortium for Southeast
Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA)
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-networks/seasia/

Over the past few decades, a number of leading academic institutions have been initiating, cementing, and institutionalizing
both regional and global linkages and collaborations. But so far, academic cooperation in the East Asia region has mainly
taken the form of bundles of bilateral (or at most trilateral) exchanges and collaboration, involving great expenditure oftime, energy, and funds. Building on the imperative to promote region-based Southeast Asian studies, Center for Southeast
Asian Studies at Kyoto University, in partnership with nine leading Asian and Southeast Asian Studies institutions in theregion, established a Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) on October 11, 2013.

SEASIA is promoting Southeast Asian

Member Institutions

studies by linking the leading area studies
institutions in the region in a cooperative

Professor Sunait Chutintaranond of Chulalongkorn
University is Chairperson of the Governing Board.

venture to provide a multilateral forum
for holding annual meetings along withThe Governing Board members are:smaller joint workshops or conferences.

Prof. Ikrar Nusa Bhakti (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)

It will also operate as a system forProf. Eduardo Tadem

(University of the Philippines)

Prof. Michael Feener

(National University of Singapore)Prof. Liu Hong(Nanyang Technological University)

sharing information about each other’s
activities and offer opportunities foreducation and training of young andup-and-coming scholars for promoting
collaboration and exchanges among

Signing of SEASIA Charterby CSEAS Center Director,
Shimizu Hiromu October 11, 2013

Southeast Asia and other East Asia-based Scholars. It also seeks to

Prof. Tong Chee Kiong(Universiti Brunei Darussalam)Prof. Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

connect institutions specializing in the natural sciences, social sciences,Prof. Park Jang Sik

and humanities whose scholars have an interest in, and who work on

or in Southeast Asia, but do not necessarily consider themselves area

Prof. Shimizu Hiromu

(Academia Sinica)(Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies)(Kyoto University) Secretarystudies specialists. CSEAS will hold the first international conferenceof SEASIA in 2015 to coincide with the 50 th anniversary of theestablishment of CSEAS.

The Secretariat is based in the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies at CSEAS, Kyoto University.

Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies (SEASIA) International Advisory Committee at CSEAS, Kyoto University October 11, 2013

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1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:IPCRInternational program ofCollaborative Research

1International Program of Collaborative Research
funded by The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT)

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research/overview-of-program/

CSEAS launched “IPCR: International Program of Collaborative Research” as one of the Joint Use/ Research Centers
qualified by MEXT in April, 2010.

This system is promoted under the aegis of MEXT’s policy forseries. It also provides joint-use opportunities to share facilities

nurturing the research potential of universities and promoting

and equipment such as it’s library, GIS facilities; and map room

broad-based collaborations regardless of national, public,

related to Area Studies in CSEAS.

and private universities affiliations, in order to further thedevelopment of scholarly investigation in Japan. Recognition as

International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS
International Collaborative Research

IPCR-CSEAS is due to CSEAS’s important contributions madeSoutheast Asian Forum- Annual Report Meeting/ Web-page

to Area Studies over the last 50 years with future expectations

Type I: Field-based Area Studies by Using Field Stations andas an outstanding and leading organization in Southeast Asianstudies.

Liaison Offices

Type II: Intensive and Strategic Area Studies in Collaboration with

With this responsibility, IPCR-CSEAS started international

CSEAS Visiting Fellows

collaborative research aiming at 1) promoting Southeast AsianType III: Document-sharing through Use of the CSEAS Repository

studies with an emphasis on the integration of the humanities andType IV: Exploratory Area Studies Aiming at Larger-scale Research Projects

natural sciences and collaboration with local people and society,2) strengthening its function as a hub of historical documents
and research materials on Southeast Asian studies in Asia, and3) publishing world class academic journals and monograph

International Publications/ Web-page
Type V: Publication of “Kyoto Area Studies on Asia”

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

Promoting World Class Publications
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
Protection and Power in Siam:
From Khun Chang Khun Phaen to the Buddha Amulet

Nobpaon Rabibhadana and Yoko Hayami
Seeking Haven and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers’ Networks in Two Thai Locales

Noboru Toyoshima

Emergent Processes of Language Acquisition: Japanese Language Learningand the Consumption of Japanese Cultural Products in Thailand

Yunita T. Winarto et al.

Agrometeorological Learning Increasing Farmers’ Knowledge
in Coping with Climate Change and Unusual Risks

Mizuno Kosuke et al.

Talun-Huma, Swidden Agriculture, and Rural Economy in West Java, Indonesia

Bounthanh KeoBoualapha et al.

Imperata Grassland Mapping in Northern Uplands of Lao PDR:
Area, Distribution, Characteristics, and Implications for Slash-and-Burn Cultivation

・Collecting materials in
Vernacular languages

・World class academic
journalBook Reviews

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Vol.51 No.1
July 2013

ISSN 2186-7275

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・Raise awareness of
CSEAS’s academic
publications

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Southeast Asian Studies

Academic Journals

Vo1. 2 No. 2 2013

Vol.51 No.1

Online Multiple Languages
Journal・Digitizing and making available
maps and historical matierals

Kyoto Review ofSoutheast Asia
・Promoting Southeast Asia
in native languages
Map Room, CSEAS, Kyoto University

The Three Seals Law(Kotmai Tra Sam Duang)
Tammasat Version
・Strengthening Catologue
・Multiple Language Search andDevelopment of Database

Area Studies Publications on
Southeast Asia

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
Kyoto CSEAS Series on
Asian Studies
・Strengthening collaborative
publication networks

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIESIPCR-CSEAS

IPCR-CSEAS

1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1Joint Research and Publication

Joint Research and Publication
Subject of Research

Project Leader

Affiliation

Term

Type I : Field-based Area Studies by Using Field Stations and Liaison Offices
Study on International Migration to Thailand from Neighboring Countries: What
Impact will Economic Integration Have?

YAGURA, Kenjiro

Faculty of Economics, Hannan University

20132014

Research on the Chinese Commercial Network in Batavia-Jakarta, 1930’s-50’s

IZUMIKAWA, Hiroshi

Faculty of Liberal Arts, Hiroshima Jogakuin
University

20132014

Study on Resource Chains of Agro-forest Products and Land-use Change in
Mekong Region

YOKOYAMA, Satoshi

Graduate School of Environmental Studies,
Nagoya University

20122013

Structural Analysis of Built Environment in Jabodetabek Based on Classificationof Residential Type

HAYASHI, Kengo

Research Department, Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature

20122013

Type II : Intensive and Strategic Area Studies in Collaboration with CSEAS Visiting Fellows
Comparative Study on Validity of Local Tourism for Supporting Disadvantaged
Population

ISHII, Kayoko

Faculty of Political Science, Toyo Eiwa
University

20132014

Study on East-West Cultural Corridor— From Myanmar to Thailand and Cambodia

SHIBAYAMA, Mamoru

Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto
University

20122013

Type III : Document-sharing through Use of the CSEAS Repository
Improvement of the Infrastructure for Utilization and Preservation of Periodicals
in North Vietnam during Indochina War

IWATSUKI, Junichi

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The
University of Tokyo

20132014

New Perspective of Colonial Office Records: Searching for the States of“Singapore and Malaysia” in the Colonial era

KAWANO, Motoko

Graduate School of Policy Studies, National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

20132014

A Study of the Historical Source Materials on the Society and Economy ofIndonesia in the Late Colonial Era

UEMURA, Yasuo

Hiroshima University

20122013

Type IV: Exploratory Area Studies Aiming at Larger-scale Research Projects
Towards Further Development of the Humanosphere Potentiality Index (HPI)

SATO, Shiro

Faculty of International Communication,
Osaka International University

20132014

The Role of the Judiciary in Democratization: Comparison of Thailand andIndonesia

TOYAMA, Ayako

Graduate School of Asian and African Area
Studies, Kyoto University

20132014

Collaborative Research for the Long Term Acquisition and Practical Use of the
Resources on Southeast Asia

YANO, Masataka

Graduate School of Economics, The
University of Tokyo

20132014

Transition and Resilience of the ‘War Affected Society’ of Inland Southeast Asia

SETO, Hiroyuki

Nagoya University

20132014

Thai Cultural History in the 21st Century: A Preliminary Study

SAKAGAWA, Naoya

Graduate School of Asian and African Area
Studies, Kyoto University

20132014

Toward a Meta Study of Inter-discipline in Natural and Social Sciences:
From Experiences of Sustainable Humanosphere Project

UBUKATA, Fumikazu

Graduate School of Environmental and Life
Science, Okayama University

20132014

Comparative Studies on Social-Ecological Resilience in Southeast Asia

NAITO, Daisuke

Center for Research Promotion, ResearchInstitute for Humanity and Nature

20132014

Secular Ecological Transition in Neurodegenerative Diseases in Papua inIndonesia

OKUMIYA, Kiyohito

Research Department, Research Institutefor Humanity and Nature

20132014

Reconstruction of Local Knowledge by Using Informatics in Cultural Properties

TSUMURA, Hiroomi

Faculty of Culture and Information Science,
Doshisha University

20122013

Study on Roadmap and Policy Towards Economic Development of Myanmar

OKAMOTO, Ikuko

Area Studies Center, Institute of Developing
Economies-JETRO

20122013

Contemporary Significance of Local Knowledge Inherited in Japanese Swidden
Agriculture View from the Perspective of Southeast Asian Studies

SUZUKI, Reiji

Faculty of Bio-environment, Kyoto Gakuen
University

20122013

Rehabilitation of Landscape after the Eruption of Mt. Merapi

SHIMAMURA,Tetsuya

Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University

20122013

Study on Sustainable Agriculture in Terraced Rice Cultivation and Rice Terrace
Conservation in Asia

ANDO, Kazuo

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University

20122013“The Long Nineteenth Century” in Southeast Asian Trade History

SUGIHARA, Kaoru

Graduate School of Policy Studies, National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

20122013

A Study on Transmission Method of Information to Disclose Outbreaks of and to
Mitigate Infectious Diseases in Urban and Tourist Areas in Indonesia

YOSHIKAWA, Minako

Center for Promotion of Interdisciplinary
Education and Research, Kyoto University

20122013

War Memories in Southeast Asia and the Rebuilding of Relations over Post-war
Reconciliation

MATSUNO, Akihisa

Osaka School of International Public Policy,
Osaka University

20122013

Looking Back on 30 Years of the Look East Policy: Evaluation of the Social
Impact of Industry, Government and Academia Network in East Asia throughthe Exchange of Education and Research

KANEKO, Yoshiki

Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo
University

20122013

Reconsidering of Pastoralism Concept from the Perspective of Milk Utilization—Its Comparison Between the Old and New Continents —HIRATA, Masahiro

School of Agriculture, University ofAgriculture and Veterinary Medicine

20122013

TAKADA, Youko

Faculty of International Studies, Keiai
University

20132014

Type V: Publication of “Kyoto Area Studies on Asia”
A Study on the Large Land-Ownership in the Mekong Delta during the French
Colonial Period

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIESBy Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/category/grant-in-aid-funding-en/
CSEAS Scholars got widely varying and transdisciplinary topics of Grants-In-Aid for Scientific Research Projects. We
achieve a lot of fruit research in Southeast Asia.

Scientific Research（S）

Scientific Research（A）

Planted Forests in Equatorial Southeast
Asia: Human-nature Interactions in High
Biomass Society
Principal Investigator : ISHIKAWA, Noboru
Period : FY 2010-15

Articulation between
Natural and Social Systems

Solar radiationenergyOil Palm
Plantation

Movementof Animals

Carbon/Phosphorus/
Nitrogen cycle
Plantation
economyLocalecosystem

Hydrological
cycle

NaturaleconomyRiver
SoilHigh Biomass Society

The tropics have the highest potentiality to reproduce biomass
due to greater solar radiation and active heat and water cycle.
The region has also been the most fertile ground for bio-resourcecommodification in human history. With the changing status ofbiomass as forest and agricultural products, bio-materials, andfinancial instruments, the tropical zone has undergone fast-paced
metamorphoses from extensive, environment-dependent, resource
utilization to intensive agro-industrial production, including largescale plantation of oil palm and Acacia mangium. Defining
high biomass society as a crucial niche for global survival andsustainability, this project examines the multidimensional driving
forces of change in northern Borneo. High biomass societies offer
important locales to investigate the transformation of regionallandscapes for food production, development of renewable sourcesof energy and biomaterials, and reduction of carbon emission.
Formulas for better articulation among human community, local
fauna and flora, geospheric/atmospheric circulations, and global
political economy are duly needed.

The Social Bases of Care in Southeast
Asia: Study of the Dynamism of PracticeBased on Relatedness
Principal Investigator : HAYAMI, Yoko
Period : FY2013-16

This project aims to find out on what social bases care is practiced
in Southeast Asia, with special attention to various forms of
relatedness, both new and old. The argument on care and social
security systems have been centered on the industrializedsocieties, while that in Southeast Asia was simply considered
lagging behind and unsystematized. Public support systems andpolicy have indeed only recently become an issue in the region.
Meanwhile, in the social formation of Southeast Asian societies,“the private domain” has never constituted a closed separate
space. In Southeast Asian societies, the opposition of “public vs.
domestic” or the foursome division of “public, domestic, market
civilian” sectors as bearers of care cannot be considered aspredetermined separate domains. How is care practiced and who
is expected to take the burden in such societies? Where aging andmobility is recently becoming a rising issue, what kinds of needs
are arising, and how is care practiced? This, we hope will throw
light on alternative ways of practicing and distributing care. We
will first perform a country-based comparative study of policies
related to care and security in the various countries, and thenstudy on-the-ground relationships and loci of care. This will makeus aware of new and old forms of social movements, activities
and relationships in the region, and to reconsider the dynamics
of Southeast Asian societies through the concept of care and its
social bases.

Elderly home facility located in a community for Hansen’s disease patients inNorthern Thailand

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Development of an Easy, Sensitive, andQuantitative Method to Detect EntericPathogens of Global ImportancePrincipal Investigator : NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki
Period : FY2012-15

The amount of exported/imported food is increasing year by
year and it is a global activity. It is therefore an issue of a global
importance to secure the necessary amount and safety of foodtraded. WHO and FAO are collaborating in establishing appropriate
world standard levels of food-poisoning microbial pathogens
in selected foods based on the results of risk assessment toavoid unnecessary trade friction. Sensitive quantitative detection
methods are necessary for this purpose. In addition, the methods
have to be easy to perform so that they can be carried out in all
countries in the world including developing countries. The principal
investigator and his collaborators have been studying international
epidemiology of three food-poisoning bacterial enteric pathogens.
They include Vibrio parahaemolyticus, enterohemorrhagic
Eschericia coli O157, and toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. The foods
contaminated by these pathogens are likely to become those needdue attention when traded across international borders. In that
this study, unique techniques are employed to develop the abovementioned detection methods and the newly developed methods
will be subject to validations in various parts of the world.

maritime world and tighten their connections. Eight researchers
including ecologists, botanists, and anthropologists are involvedin central Asia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore,
South East Asia, and South Pacific islands for basic eco-resource
research and attending international treaty meetings. China’s roleis quite important at the moment. For instance, Agar wood found inSoutheast Asian forests were mostly sent to the Arab world before,
but now gradually more and more Chinese people are interested
in this rare resource. Various maritime resources are also sent
to major Chinese markets. After the destruction of primary rain
forests in South East Asia, drastic changes in forestry and people’s
movement are occurring in the area. How to maintain the original
diversity of ecosystem in the area and how people create better
life will be the big issue in the near future.

Local market in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Many eco resources are sold andtransported.

Comparative Area Study on Healthcare
Designs for the Community-Dwelling Elderly
Associated with Ecology and Culture
Principal Investigator : MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo
Period : FY2011-14
My graduate students found the conditions of people’s life, including theireating habit, and the environment around Prince of Songkla University in
Hat Yai, Thailand are suitable for their study on new methods for detectionof pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus in molluscan shellfish (Oscar
Roberto Escalante Maldonado, the photographer of this picture) andenterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in beef (Yaman Kayali originally from
Syria, object of this picture). This picture was taken in the laboratory of an
excellent long-term collaborator, Prof. Varaporn Vuddakul.

Comparative Area Studies of Eco-politics
Over Eurasian Continent Frontier andMaritime Coastal Area Eco-resources

Elderly persons living a satisfying, purposeful later life followed
by a peaceful death: this is the ideal, but it poses a challenge as
to whether we are able to create a society in which this can beachieved. The aim of the project is how to create healthcare designfor community-dwelling elderly optimal to each area associatedwith unique ecology and culture. How to promote the health ofcommunity-dwelling elderly based on the assessment of thecomprehensive actual health situations of the elderly, and how toprovide efficient and effective care for the frail elderly, and effectsof the community-based geriatric intervention will be compared in
Kochi Japan, Khalin in Bhutan and Khon Kaen in Thailand, whose
natural, cultural, and societal environments are all very different.

Principal Investigator : YAMADA, Isamu
Period : FY2011-14

At present, the continental frontiers of Eurasia and Asian maritime
areas are heavily affected by globalization. However, there arestill many people who, even throughout living under this global
influence, maintain traditional lifestyles handling and using theirlocal eco resources. The products are sent to major harbor cities
like Hong Kong, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Singapore. Those
harbor city groups have a strong network over the continent and11

Livelihood Transition in Rural Southeast Asia
Principal Investigator : KONO, Yasuyuki
Period : FY2010-13

This project aims at answer ing the question “what is asustainable humanosphere in rural Southeast Asia?” Sustainablehumanosphere studies have been proposed by the Kyoto

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Principal Investigator : ANDO, Kazuo
Period : FY2009 -13

Cyclone Nargis struck far more people in Myanmar in 2008 than
Sidr did in Bangladesh the year before. The lesson of the “tragedyof Nargis” taught us that in order tackle widely affecting natural
disasters, we have to share the experience of local people within
the same “meso-global” area, namely, the periphery of Bengal
Bay. “Nargis” taught us how important it is to network different
areas in the same “meso-global” area which is prone to a sharednatural disaster. However, it has been difficult for governments ofneighboring countries to share information. As such, universities
in Japan are trying to facilitate networking within this meso-global
area. Through exchanging information on local experiences andwisdom, between different actors, it is hoped that different areas
will network within a communal framework. This project aims toshow, as a model, the potential role that Japanese academic
researchers can play in cooperating with concerned parties fromcountries in the meso-global area.

Establishing an Alternative Asian Rural
Development Model Having Respect
on Traditional Culture and History andPractice Oriented Area Study

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Principal Investigator : YAJIMA, Kichiji
Period : FY2013-15

Asian villages have maintained diversified and individual cultures
rooted in the local communities. However, the existing ruraldevelopment approaches which aim of economic development
and modernization of livelihood, have paid little attention to thesediversified and individual cultures until now. Underrating traditional
culture and history, which has been passed down from one
generation to the next in the community, discourages villagers fromfeeling fulfilled and taking pride in living in rural communities. The
spiritual bond of the community has been weakened and problemsof depopulation and aging has emerged. Now, we think many ruralcommunities may face disintegration.
This research aims at establishing an alternative ruraldevelopment approach appreciating and encouraging theimportance of traditional culture and history in the local community
in Asian countries by the means of Practice-oriented Area Studies.

Study on Myanmar’s “Opening Up”
Process and Obstacles to Democratization
Principal Investigator : CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin
Period : FY2013-16

This project will examine the opening up process in Myanmar,in all the political, economic and social spheres to determine
whether Myanmar is democratizing or is it moving towards a newform of authoritarianism, perhaps one more consonant with othercontemporary authoritarian regimes in Asia. It aims primarily to
explore obstacles to Myanmar’s democratization and to investigate
the impact of the opening up process on the region.

Scientific Research（B）

The Growth Mechanism in Next Generation
Southeast Asia and the Challenge to Its
Political Economy
Principal Investigator : MIENO, Fumiharu
Period : FY2013-16

In Southeast Asia, the growth strategies of Indonesia, Malaysia,
Philippines and Thailand have achieved substantial success inrecent years. However, growth mechanisms are slowly showing
restraints reflected by the changing circumstances of labor anddemography and the surplus of capital, which are strengthening
the necessity for reform in the cycle between consumption andinvestment.
A newly emerging mechanism may be linked to environmentalrelated technology which can potentially shoulder next generation
growth in the region, while bringing about adjustment problems for
newly emerging conflicts within society.
Based on such concerns, this research project tries to capture
the overall picture of the emergence of a next generation growthmechanism and of the accompanying social transformation, throughcooperation with various fields in economics and political science.

American Intellectuals’ Changing
Perspectives and the U.S. Regional
Strategies toward Asia during the Cold War
PeriodPrincipal Investigator : KOIZUMI, Junko
Period : FY 2012-15

This research project examines how American intellectuals
perceived Asia during the Cold War period by taking the Councilof Foreign Relations and related organizations into perspective.
Drawing on archival records at var ious think-tanks andphilanthropic organizations, it examines how Asia, particularly
East Asia and Southeast Asia, was discussed and analyzed in
the political and intellectual forum that brought policy-makers,
business elites, journalists, academics and the general public
together.

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University Global COE program “In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa” as a new paradigm toovercome the confrontation of the expansion of human activities
and the capacity of global, regional, and local environments. The
basic approach of this project is to carry out village studies ofmountain, plain and coastal landscapes to grasp opportunities
and risks arising in the transition of livelihood systems whenstakeholders question the existing natural resources management
regime and opportunistically intervene in ecosystems. So far weare carrying out village studies at Yunnan (China), Luang Nam Tha(Laos), Khon Kaen (Thailand), Rayong (Thailand), and Cambodia.

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Ethnographic Studies on Creative
Processes of Construction from Natural
Disasters
Principal Investigator : SHIMIZU,Hiromu
Period : FY2012-15

This project is composed of nine members from different
disciplines ranging from anthropology, sociology, history, areastudies, public health to civil engineering, who have longexperiences of researching on the impacts and influences ofnatural disasters that afflict human communities. Their researchsites and topics cover Japan (Unzen Eruption 1991, Hanshin Awaji
Earthquake 1995), China (Wènchuān Earthquake 2008), Indonesia
and Thailand (Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami 2004),
and Turkey (Izmit 1999).
Natural disasters destroy social and life infrastructures, bring
death to thousands of people, and can lead to the destructionof previous ways of life as well as conventional socio-cultural
institutions. Disasters attack most mercilessly those who aresocially, economically and politically the most vulnerable becauseof being positioned at the lowest social strata or by being the mostmarginalized class.
However, according to observations and understandings ofthe members based on long time research, natural disasters inmany cases create new spaces for victims or survivors to claim
their basic human rights as well as struggles to construct newcommunities in totally different and innovative ways so that theirprevious vulnerability can be alleviated. For all members, this
aspect of the reconstruction process is the most important topic to
explore.
Half a year after this project was initiated, the Great
Earthquake hit east Japan creating a huge tsunami which struck
nuclear power plants along the coast line in Fukushima leading toa major nuclear accident. Accordingly, we revised our original plan
to include this disaster as a study to be prioritized so as to be able
to offer constructive suggestions on rehabilitation.

Towards Paradigm Shift on Asian
Agricultural Finance Research: Regional
Comparative Study Focusing on
Differences in Rural Social Structure
Principal Investigator : FUJITA, Koichi
Period : FY2012-15

This research aims at conducting a regional comparative
analysis on performance of agricultural/rural institutional financein major parts of Asia. It consists of historical research of
agricultural finance in Japan, Okinawa, Korea and Taiwan, andits contemporary analysis in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand,
Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.
The major hypothesis is that the performance of the agricultural
cooperatives in each region had a close relation with the structuralcharacteristics of rural society which had been formed historicallyover a long period of time. In East Asia, in the pre-War period,
we analyze why the agricultural cooperative finance had beensuccessful in various degrees, by connecting it with the difference/
similarity of rural social structure within the region. In Southeast
and South Asia, in contrast, we analyze and criticize the current
status of a quite high interest rate of around 3 per cent per month13

in rural finance under the situations in which financial liberalization
had been carried out since the 1980s and microfinance hadflourished on a wider scale. The ultimate purpose of the present
research is to criticize the current paradigm on agricultural/rural
institutional finance which allows the high interest rate structure
and thereby try to facilitate the paradigm shift in institutional credit
supply in rural areas in developing countries.

A Study on Regional Sustainable
Humanosphere in Indonesia Based on
Long-term Data and Field WorkPrincipal Investigator : MIZUNO, Kosuke
Period : FY 2011-14

The “Comal Project” was conducted in 1990-92 to understand thelong-term social changes taken place in northern coastal area inCentral Java with the way to compare the extensive data of 1904
shown in the book “Desa-People’s Economy Shown by the Figures(De Desa- Volkshuishouding in Cijfers)” by Van Moll in 1913-14,
with data collected by fieldwork in 1990, especially in relation
to the change of agrarian structure, rural elite and livelihood.
The current project will do similar fieldwork in the same area tounderstand the changes that took place in the region during 19902011 in relation to democratization, decentralization, free tradeand economic growth, and try to locate these changes in longterm societal changes. The current project will look at the longterm changes of deforestation, epidemics and natural disasters
since the beginning of 19th century and people’s preparations as
an integral part of people’s survival strategies. It will research thelong-term development of Indonesian society hoping to shed lighton the changes in the geosphere, biosphere and humanosphere.

Multilingual Networks: Diversity andDynamism in the Uplands of Mainland
Southeast Asia
Principal Investigator : BADENOCH, Nathan
Period : FY2011-13

The objective of this research is to demonstrate the value ofmultilingualism for the resilience of society in a rapidly changing
world where economic efficiency is given priority over humanand natural diversity. This research will draw upon evidence frommainland Southeast Asia where multilingual people strategicallyuse language to negotiate their interactions with the regional
economy. The uplands of northern Laos will provide the main
field area for the research. Research activities will document andanalyze the strategic language-based networks formed by local
people as they seek to secure their livelihoods, demonstrating
how language is a key factor in determining how these networks
are created, maintained and adapted. In challenging the common
understanding that linguistic diversity is a barrier to socioeconomic development, the research will make concrete proposals
for how social resilience can be strengthened through institutionsof governance that recognize and support human diversity as asource of flexibility, adaptability and dynamism under the rapid andrisky forces of regionalization.

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Principal Investigator : WADA, Taizo
Period : FY2012-14

In 2025, the baby boomer generation will be over 75 and theestimated numbers of death will be 1.6 million, twice as much as
total number of births. 90% of death cases are projected to beolder people. An increase in Alzheimer type dementia is placing aburden on family members or care givers, but it is difficult to know
their preferences due to lower cognitive functions. In many cases,
nutrition methods or medical treatment are decided by medical
staff and family without the consent of patient themselves. In
Japan, there is no national consensus on using nasal-tube feeding
nor on indication of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy forend stage of degenerative dementia patients. Older people whohave made advance directives with their will might be healthier.
Advance care planning is a process of discussion regarding
the end of life care with family, care givers and medical staff toshare patient’s values and preferences. Process itself is vital andessential for better end of life care rather than making advancedirectives and living wills. Advance care planning might decrease
the psychological burden of care and hopefully promise a better
quality of life for patients themselves.

decreasing. Today, general and scientific knowledge of the safety
and security of food and seafood for imported food is limited, thus
there is an imperative to prepare information that ensures thesafety and security of food for consumers. This study focuses on
microbiological risks of food-borne pathogens in imported seafood.
It hopes to conceptualize the establishment of control policies toprevent health risks caused in imported foods.

Interaction of Lower Swamp and Hydrology
in the Equatorial Southeast Asian Region
Principal Investigator : KOZAN, Osamu
Period : FY2013-15

This project aims to enhance the theoretical and empirical
understanding of the interaction between lower swamps andhydrology in the equatorial Southeast Asian region. Based on insitu observational meteorology, peat, ground water, water quality
and CO2 emission data, a hydrological land surface model will
be developed. This model will be coupled with a non-hydrostatic
atmospheric model for numerical simulation to estimate the impact
of water drainage and large-scale tree plantation on a rainfall
system. Finally this coupling model will be used to evaluate theinteraction between lower swamp and hydrology in the equatorial
region.

Young Scientists（B）
Challenging Exploratory ResearchSino-Siamese Economic Relations under
the Condition of No Tribute and No Treaty
Principal Investigator : KOIZUMI, Junko
Period : FY2012-14

This research project explores the development economic
relations between Siam and China from the mid-19th to early 20th
centuries when both countries had no formal diplomatic relations
by focusing on how both countries managed and regulated thegrowing flows of goods and people without any formal institutionalarrangements and channels for negotiation.

Why Only Ibans Are Infected? : CrossDisciplinary Research towards Emerging
Malaria Disease.
Principal Investigator : MASUDA, Gaku
Period : FY2013-15

The reasons why emerging monkey malaria patients occur among
this specific ethnic group will be clarified through a combinationof anthropological methods, ecological field study and microclimatological observations. This research will deepen the scientificunderstanding of forest malaria and aim at generating optimized
control methods specific to forest malaria, towards which response
has been globally late.

Young Scientists（A）

Ensuring the Safety and Security of
Seafood in Globalization: Advanced
Application of Epidemiological Informationof Food-poisoning Pathogens
Principal Investigator : NAKAGUCHI, Yoshitsugu
Period : FY2013-16

The rate of food imports to Japan has drastically increased throughthe globalization of the food supply. Yet, food safety and security
precautions are insufficient. According to statistics, Japan’s
food self-sufficiency ratio is under 40 percent. Recently manycases involving the safety and security of food were reported.
Japanese consumers take an interest in them. Furthermore,
Japan is surrounded by the sea and has rich fishery resources,
yet the self-sufficiency ratio of fishery products is currently

Formulation of Health-checkup System for
the Elderly in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Principal Investigator : SAKAMOTO, Ryota
Period : FY2013-16

According to United Nations, at the global level, 5 percent of the
population was at least 65 years of age in 1950. By 2009, this
proportion had increased to just under 8 percent. By 2050, 16
percent of the world population is projected to be 65 years orover. According to the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan, thenumber of the aged 65 years or over was 29,745 in 2005 and thenumber will double by 2030. We would like to introduce a healthcheckup for the elderly because it is an important opportunity to
grasp problems with the elderly and to prevent future diseases,
disabilities, and deaths. We will assess disability, dementia,

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Cohort Study of Advance Care Planningin the End of Life —from the View Point ofComprehensive Geriatric Assessment—

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depression, diabetes, dental problems, isolation, hypertension,
alcohol problems, visual problems, ear problems, fall, urinary
incontinence, and nutrition (5 Ds, I HAVE FUN for short) of theelderly. To integrate the project to primary health care, medical
staff and villagers understanding is necessary. The elderly should
be cared for in collaboration with family, neighbors, village heads,
medical facilities, schools, and so on. Chief program officers anddistrict health officers introduced the project to medical staff in
Basic Health Unit (BHU), hospitals, village heads, village healthworkers, and principals in the schools. We should include not only
people who come to medical facilities, but also people who do notcome to the facilities because some elderly people cannot comeeven if they want to. There is the possibility that such people will
have severe diseases who need special attention. Although there
are issues of manpower, medical staff should visit the houses ofthe elderly if needed. We hope the program will trigger and help tobuild bonds and harmony in communities.

The Development of Objective andSubjective Fall Risk Assessment Tool for
Asian Population
Principal Investigator : ISHIMOTO, Yasuko
Period : FY2013-14

Falls are among the principal causes of functional decline in theelderly. The risk factors of falls have been investigated to prevent
elderly people from being dependent on care assistance. Various
scales for the assessment of sarcopenia, locomotive syndrome,and fall risk have been developed. However, the variety of choices
make it difficult for professionals to decide which scale should bechosen. The aim of this study is (1) to clarify the characteristics ofscales for the assessment of sarcopenia, locomotive syndrome
self-check, and fall risk index (FRI) in two Asian countries: Japanand Bhutan, and (2) to develop a new fall risk assessment
including objective and subjective factors. The development of a
new fall risk assessment tool will contribute to preventive care andfall prevention in Asian countries.

“Field Nutrition” Research on LifestyleRelated Diseases and Diet among Elderly
People in Himalayan Highland

Food Diversity Score Kyoto (FDSK-11) which is applied in addition
to a basic nutritional assessment. Moreover, cultural backgrounds
such as traditional eating culture and its changes, the economic
situation and food availability will be evaluated in the community.
This study aims to reveal lifestyle-related diseases in the elderly
population and its relation to the nutritional situation and cultural
backgrounds in the local population. It will clarify some key factors
to address diseases through diet or lifestyle backgrounds.

Research Activity Start-up

Analysis and Description of Malagasy
Dialects Form an AustronesianComparative Perspective
Principal Investigator : NISHIMOTO, Noa
Period : FY2013-14

There live more than 20 ethnic groups in Madagascar. They
all have their own languages, or dialects, belonging to theAustronesian language family. The main language which I havebeen analyzing and describing is Tandroy dialect, but neighboring
dialects such as Vezo, Antanosy and Merina are also under myscope of investigation.
The objectives of this study are :(1) to analyze the verbal categories of Tandroy dialect of Malagasy,(2) to describe the morphological system of the language (because
derivational morphology in Malagasy is extremely productive),(3) to analyze the gerundive phrase which is used as an abstract
noun and a verbal phrase in the same morphological structure,(4) to compare Tandroy with other Austronesian languages that
I have started to study since 2011, namely Rurutu (in French
Polynesia) and Rapanui (Easter Island), and(5) to observe not only linguistic aspects but also cultural andsocial aspects when carrying out field survey.
I will create a database of the languages under study andpublish their reference grammar as one of my final goals andcontributions.

Effects of Change on Natural Forest to
Plantations Through the Observation ofGreenhouse Gas Dynamics in Southeast
Asia

Principal Investigator : KIMURA, Yumi
Period : FY2013 -15

The increase in lifestyle-related diseases is becoming one of themost serious health problems worldwide. Especially, in developing
countries, health systems and medical resources are not yet
adequate so it is very important to address health problems
through daily diet. This research focuses on the Himalayan area,
in particular, high remote areas, where lifestyle-related diseases
are currently increasing through rapid urbanization. The aim of thisstudy is to evaluate these diseases and their background throughexamining dietary habits and suggest possible interventions
for their prevention. This study is designed with a new researchmethodology, “field nutrition,” a research combination comprisedof nutritional assessment and cultural anthropology. For nutritional
assessment this projects uses a newly developed tool; 11-item

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Principal Investigator : ITOH, Masayuki
Period : FY2012-13

This study focuses on the spatial and temporal variation of major
greenhouse gas fluxes such as carbon dioxide, methane, andnitrous oxide in Southeast Asian forests. In Southeast Asia, rapid
land use change is taking place over a large area. This researchaims to carry out gas flux measurements in both natural forestsites and plantations (Acacia or palm oil plantation) and theresults will be compared. The study hopes to compare the resultsof several phases of human impacts through simultaneous fieldmeasurements in the forests and observe different stages of land
use change.

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http://www.jcas.jp/
The Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) is a new form

with academic societies; sharing results with society; andof organizational collaboration, consisting of research andpromoting activities within Japan. CSEAS actively participates

educational institutes and learned societies engaged in studies

with member institutions to continually foster and develop JCAS.

on various global regions, as well as private-sector organizations
closely related to area studies. The consortium was founded in
April 2004, integrating numerous organizations and groups ofresearchers dedicated to area studies independently operated
within universities and research institutes. In line with theoriginal purpose to promote information exchanges and joint
research activities across organizational borders, it has continued
its efforts and now developed into an academic community.
As of 2013, there are 97 member institutions including
CSEAS, which was one of the founding members. JCAS
continues to capitalize on the area studies network it has built
up over the years and is actively fostering collaborative projects.
Since 2006, The Center for Integrated Studies (CIAS), Kyoto
University has played a pivotal role as the headquarters for thesecretariat and promotes the following activities: creation of areastudies networks; promotion of collaborative research, linkages

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Pr actice-oriented Area Studies
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pas/

Area studies in Japan has arisen especially as a social response

Based Area Studies for the World: Study on “Social Software” forto open alternative frontiers which orthodox academic studies

Development and Environment Preservation in Peripheral South

could not respond to. In particular, CSEAS Kyoto University,

Asia: Trying to Find a Clue through Stakeholder Participation

has incorporated the natural sciences to enrich Area Studies,(JSPS); and the International Networking Project to Cope withintegrating this discipline with the social sciences. Practice-

Natural Hazards on the Periphery of Bengal Bay (JSPS).

oriented Area Studies strongly seeks a way to participate inand learn from people’s practical efforts to challenge their
possibilities in this area. This department officially started in
October 2008, and is, thus, the newest in CSEAS.
The main projects are a mobile site type research forsustainability science. These are as follows: Practice-oriented
Area Study on Re-vitalization of Networking Societies by“Zaichi” (Village-Communities) and Local Towns (Rural Urban)
in collaboration with ISS (Institute of Sustainability Science);an Alternative Rural Development Model on the Basis of
Rural History and Culture: Action for Mutual Learning on the
Significance of Rural Culture through Networking with People in

Practice-oriented Area Studies
Series: No.6

Practice-oriented Area Studies
Series: No.4

Asian Developing Countries and Japan (Asian Neighbors Network

Shifting Cultivation And Tribal Culture Of
Tribes Of Arunachal Pradesh, India

Change of Rural Society and Local
Agro-ecological Knowledge in Myanmar.

TOMO RIBA. 2013

Tun Aung Chain and Ando, Kazuo. 2013.

Program, Toyota Foundation); The Promoting Project for Needs

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIESJapan Consortium for Area Studies

The Japan Consortium for Area Studies

1. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:RESEARCH ACTIVITIES1Asian Core Program

Asian Core Progr am (JSPS)
Southeast Asian Model for Co-existence in the 21st Century

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research/asian-core-initiative/“Asian Connections: Southeast Asian Model for Co-existense inexist. Under the present world order of globalization and neo-

the 21st Century” has been running under the JSPS Asian Core

liberal economy, Southeast Asia has, on the whole, overcome

Program (FY2009-13). Over the centuries, Southeast Asia as a

the Cold War and internal conflicts, demonstrating economic

region, has adopted Hindu, Chinese, Islamic and Euro-Americanand social developments. At the same time, many problems andcivilizations into its history, which has led to the formation of aissues have emerged which transcend national boundaries. In

pluralistic world where multiple ethnic groups and cultures co-order to cope with these, there has been a move toward regional
cooperation and flexible response towards co-existence. Where
state-level institutional arrangements may not be fully functional,
there is a multi-layered and dynamic social foundation that
adapts to these changes. In this program, we look at the
grounded responses that can be found in the region towards
various problems and issues such as in the post-economic crisis
reconstruction, super-regional governance of resources andenvironment, emergence of local powers, social and cultural
reconstruction in the face of mobility and flow. By focusing on
the concrete level, we hope to provide an alternative view of
the region: rather than one of a peripheral region that becomesincorporated in the globalization of the central and powerful

Seminar co-sponsored by LIPI, CSEAS, and Asian Core University Program(JSPS) held in Jakarta, March 9-12, 2013.

regions, we look at Southeast Asia’s own model of development
in re-constituting the region and beyond.

Project I

Project II

Project III

Project IV

Project V

2009–20112009–20112009–20112010–20122011–20132012–2013

Dynamics of the Seven
Seas Links in
Asia Pacific

Deterritorialization of
the State: Transnational
Network and New Regional
Formation in Asia

Re-Considering theEast Asian Economic
Growth Model

Transformative
Politico-Economic
Powers in Local
Southeast Asia

Study on Integrated
River BasinManagement in Asia

Interface, Negotiation,and Interaction
in Southeast Asia

Projects I and II combined their efforts to hold an internationalseminar in January 2011, where Professor James Scott was
invited and the discussion took off from his book The Art of Not
Being Governed. A publication from the seminar papers is now
in progress, which includes works on both Mainland Southeast
Asia and the hills vs. plains dichotomy, as well as Maritime andInsular Southeast Asia to widen the discussion on issues related
to overcoming the state-centered perspective.
Project III considered the East Asian economy and its
response to the economic crisis, and a book is now in progress,
dealing with the emerging alternatives to developmentalism of
the past era. Based on ongoing discussion on localization ofadministration in Southeast Asia, Project IV looked not only at
the state and its administration, politics in urban areas, but also
power at the grassroots and among entrepreneurs that actuallybring changes to society, towards conceptualizing the future of
the region. Numerous seminars and joint sessions were held atinternational academic meetings to present the findings of the
project.

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Project VI

Project V is led by the hard sciences, dealing with water
management in the Asian riverine systems, which has become
an urgent problem in various countries in the region.
Project VI is an offshoot of Project 1 and 2, setting conceptsof flow, interface and boundaries as central to understanding theplurality and interactions over time among different sociocultural,
ecological, and economic factors in the region. Together, the six
projects in one way or another seek alternatives to the paradigmof state-centeredness and developmentalism as ways to envision
the social evolvement and regional reformation in Southeast Asia.
Through projects and seminars, the program has questioned futureorientations for Southeast Asian studies in this age of globalization.
As Southeast Asian studies is now attracting a lot of attention
and energy in Asia, the program has become a valuable arenafor exchanging ideas and rethinking our future scholarly direction,
forming new networks of scholarship in the region. Throughout, theprogram has also supported many of the Center’s existing projects
and programs, especially the Southeast Asia Seminar held in
Thailand (2011), the Philippines (2012), and Malaysia (2013).

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Staff Research Interests
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/staff/

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

Division of Integr ated Area Studies

2
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSThis division explores the age of information and globalization
through synthetic and holistic approaches, and pursues
comparative research on areas within and transcending
the boundaries of Southeast Asia, as well as on regional
information systems. In addition, the division integrates andcoordinates the research of the Center in collaboration with theother research divisions and the Division of Area Informatics.

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

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

Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
This division studies the political and economic dynamics
of Southeast Asia in the c ontex t of glo balization andregionalization. The division aims to analyze fundamental
transformations in the arena of the political economy inSoutheast Asia such as politico-economic regionalization, neoliberal economic trends and its reactions, and democratizationand decentralization.

Division of Information and Network for Area Studies
This division provides various information resources, aninformation infrastructure based on the Internet, and a support
system for highly utilized resources in Area Studies. Also, inorder to build the concept and discipline of Area Informatics
as a research field at the Center, the division explores amethodology for applying informatics in area studies.

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2. STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSDivision of Integr ated Area
Studies

ITOH, Masayuki
Assistant Professor

1. Research on material cycling in various environments
2. Human impacts on material cycling in tropical region
3. Effects of land use changes on tropical forest and peat land
ecosystems

SHIMIZU, Hiromu
Professor, Director

1. Anthropology of disaster and ethnographic studies on
creative processes of reconstruction

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS2SYLAVONG, Latsamay
Visiting Research Scholar

2. Grassroots globalization among indigenous people atperipheral contact zones

1. Legal instruments, policies and institutional arrangements
for local institutions, associations and communities in comanagement and protection of forests/natural resources;

3. Socio-cultural history of Yokosuka City under the shadow of
US Naval Base

2. Local knowledge, traditional practices in protecting thebiodiversity, forests, genetic resources and others

KONO, Yasuyuki

3. Sustainable financing or incentives schemes that benefit
sharing distribution under various agreements for local
participation and engagement in managing and protecting
forests and natural resources for effectiveness of REDD
implementation

Professor, Deputy Director

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

NEOH Kok-boon

Program-Specific Researcher

1. Termite and ant communities associated with agriculturalintensification and urbanization
2. The survival adaptive strategies of termites

Division of Human-Nature
Dynamics

3. Insect pest management program

KIMURA, Yumi
Research Fellow

MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo
Professor

1. Longitudinal study on healthcare for community-dwellingelderly in Japan.
2. International comparative study on healthcare designs forcommunity-dwelling elderly associated with ecology andculture3. Study on neurodegenerative diseases in New Guinea

NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki

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

ISHIMOTO, Yasuko

Researcher of Scientific Research

1. Fall prevention for community-dwelling elderly
2. Health of Monpa people in North east India

Professor

SHIODERA, Satomi

1. Elucidation of interrelationships between the naturalenvironment and human activities (cultural, social, economic,etc.) specific to Asia through analysis of enteric infections

1. Human-induced dusturbance and reforestation of tropicalforest2. Safety of the food traded across international borders in Asia

2. Impact evaluation of drainage canal construction in tropicalpeat swamp forest

KOZAN, Osamu

Researcher of Scientific Research

3. Adaptation of tree and leaf traits to various environmental
stresses

Associate Professor

1. The sustainability of large scale plantations in peat swamp
forests, Indonesia
2. Interactions between the hydrosphere and human activities

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2. STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSTORII, Kiyoshi
Visiting Professor

1. Analysis of the creation of three dimensional landscape
image-based watersheds and hydrological environment
areas through DEM

Division of Socio-Cultur al
Dynamics

2. Observation of overseas large scale irrigation areas land usechange processes through Earth observation satellites

HAYAMI, Yoko

Professor, Deputy Director

NAKAGUCHI, Yoshitsugu

1. Care and relatedness in the reconfiguration of intimate andpublic spheres in Southeast Asia

1. Areal infectious diseases in Southeast Asia

2. Minority issues in Thailand and Myanmar

2. Enteric infection caused through consumption of raw seafood

3. Buddhist saints across the Thai-Myanmar border

2
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Visiting Associate Professor

3. Evaluation of human health risks with traditional food

KOIZUMI, Junko

BADENOCH, Nathan

Professor

Visiting Associate Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. Thai history and historiography
1. Linguistic diversity

2. History of scholarship

2. Anthropological linguistics of Southeast Asia
3. Social adaptation and resilience

ISHIKAWA, Noboru
Professor

WADA, Taizo

1. Plantation and society

Visiting Associate Professor

2. Global Ethnography
1. A cross cultural survey of older adults’ perspectives on
advance care planning

3. Bifocal Area Studies (Japan and Southeast Asia)

HAU, Caroline Sy.

FUJISAWA, Michiko

Professor

Visiting Associate Professor

1. Practice of healthcare design planning for the elderly in
Bhutan1. State formation, elites, and nationalism
2. Cultural Studies
3. Philippines

2. Study on aging of elderly highlanders in New Guinea
3. Comparative study on aging between humans andchimpanzees

SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu
Program-Specific Researcher

SAKAMOTO, Ryota

Visiting Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. Development of biodiversity inventory system for sustainable
management of tropical rainforest

1. Health promotion for the elderly in the Kingdom of Bhutan

2. Spatio-temporal variation of animals in aseasonal tropicalregions

2. History and future prospects of public health in Japan
3. Potential sources of Legionnaires’ disease

3. Evaluation of the ecosystem services of tropical rainforests
through hunting

KATO, Emiko

MORISHITA, Akiko

Affiliated Researcher

Program-Specific Researcher

1. Study on health situation of pregnant women in Bhutan
2. Study on maternal and child health in Bhutan+

1. Politics of natural resources in Southeast Asia in the era ofglobalization
2. Comparative study of local political economy in Indonesia
and Malaysia
3. Politics and social change in Southeast Asia

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2. STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSIGA, Tsukasa

YOSHIMURA, Chie

1. The relationship between media and political regime inSoutheast Asia

1. Everyday social relations between the handicapped in
Thailand2. The enactment process of Freedom of Information Law inSoutheast Asia

2. Networks for the disabled and disabled activities

Research Fellow

3. Transnational social movements in Southeast Asia

AUNG, Zaw

Guest Research Associate

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

2

1. Trans-boundary Investments and Responsibility for Socialand Environmental Justice: Lessons learnt from the Industrial
Development Policies and Practices of Japan and Thailand
2. Development-induced social change, cross-border migrationand human security

HAMAYA, Mariko
JSPS Fellow

1. Female renouncer's way of living in contemporary India

Visiting Lecturer

3. Care systems within Thailand

CHONLAWORN, Piyada
Affiliated Researcher

1. Social and economic history of Thailand, between 16th–19th
centuries
2. Historical and political interaction between East andSoutheast Asia

Division of Economic andPolitical Dynamics

2. Re-construction of family and home in the suburbs ofpilgrimage centers
3. Indigenous feminism

FUJITA, Koichi
NARISAWA, Noriko

Professor

JSPS Fellow

1. Dynamics of Asian agriculture and rural economy

1. Livelihood diversification and gender issues in rural Africa

2. Rural social structure and performance of agricultural/ruralfinance in Asia

2. Gift-giving for developing personal friendships among
women in Africa

3. Rubber industry development in Myanmar and other
Southeast Asia

3. Women's agency and development

KUBO, Tadayuki
JSPS Fellow

MIZUNO, Kosuke
Professor

1. Life strategies of refugees and migrants

1. Democratization and decentralization of community
organizations and institutional change

2. Cross-border activities between Thailand and Burma(Myanmar)

2. Small businesses and future development within Southeast
Asian economic development

3. Refugees’ resettlement to third counties

3. Sustainable Humanosphere development, multiple formsof East Asian development models of local development
under post-authoritarian export-orientated industrializationand Sustainable Humanosphere development as seen fromIndonesia’s regions

CREAK, Simon

Visiting Associate Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. History and historiography of Southeast Asia, especially
Laos
2. Cultural, intellectual, and gender history
3. Sport, Nationalism, and Regionalism

MIENO, Fumiharu
Associate Professor

1. Financial system in Thailand and ASEAN 4
2. Saving union and rural finance in Laos

KATO, Yumi

3. Economic reform in Myanmar

Visiting Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. Social transformation of ‘hunter-gatherers’ with the impact ofdevelopment policy
2. Influence of large-scale plantation on the use of forest resources
3. Ethnic minorities and ethnicity

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2. STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSOKAMOTO, Masaaki

BONANNO, Gianluca

1. Urban politics in Southeast Asia

1. Pan-Asianism (through a comparative analysis focused on
Southeast Asia)

Associate Professor

Research Fellow

2. Political economy of oil palm plantation expansion inSoutheast Asia

2. The proliferation of trans-boundary issues in the Greater
Mekong Sub-region

3. Local politics and decentralization in Southeast Asia

3. Urbanisation and ethnic relocation in mainland Southeast Asia

CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin

SATO, Nao

Associate Professor

Researcher of Scientific Research

1. Domestic politics and international relations of Thailand
2. Politics of mainland Southeast Asia and interstate relations

NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro

2

2. The role of social capital in risk response and poverty
avoidance

KANO, Hiroyoshi

Associate Professor

Visiting Professor

1. Civil-military relations and violent conflicts in Burma/
Myanmar

1. Economic history of modern rural Java, with special reference
to agricultural production and employment structure changes

2. Transformation of political parties in Burma/Myanmar

2. Development of oil palm plantation enterprises in Indonesia

3. Security issues in Southeast Asia

3. Change of inter-regional relations in parallel with theeconomic development of Southeast Asia

KIMURA, Ehito

NISHIMOTO, Noa

Visiting Research Scholar

Visiting Assistant Professor (Hakubi Project)

1. Indonesian and Southeast Asian Politics
2. Political Change and Transitional Justice

1. Analysis and description of the Malagasy dialects

3. Decentralization and Local Politics

2. Number conceptualization in non-literate societies
3. Use of natural resources and human security in Polynesianislands

TREERAT, Nualnoi
Visiting Research Scholar

MASUDA, Gaku

1. The role of media industries on economy, politics anddemocracy in Thailand and other Southeast Asia

Visiting Assistant Professor

2. Senior Executives Networking: impacts on monopoly andwealth accumulation in Thailand

1. Micro-climatological methods for field science

3. Impacts of populist policies on economy, politics and fiscal
burden3. Muslim network study

2. Multidisciplinary approaches to malaria control study

SURYOMENGGOLO, Jafar

KAWAMURA, Chiyo

Program-specific Researcher

Affiliated Researcher

1. Working class narratives in Indonesia

1. Kinship and Community-based Industry Batik in Yogyakarta,
Central Jawa

2. Indonesia's post-Suharto labor activism

2. Javanese ‘Trah’
3. Industry Batik and cooperative association in Central Jawa

FUJITA, Motoko
Research Fellow

TOYAMA, Ayako
Affiliated Researcher

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

1. The role of the judiciary in democratization: a comparison ofThailand and Indonesia
2. The relationship between the army and the judiciary inThailand3. Bureaucracy of Thailand

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STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

3. Regional integration and ASEAN

1. Cross-national study of single mother’s “poverty”

2. STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTSDivision of Information and
Network for Area Studies+ ONO, Mikiko
Assistant Professor

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

ANDO, Kazuo
Associate Professor

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

2

1. To identify the significance of the area built by Tibeto-Burma
lanugage group people considering the area of Bangladesh,
North-east India, Myanmar and Laos in one monsoon areaon the periphery of the Bengal Bay
2. To prepare an alternative paradigm of Agriculture and Rural
Development through peoples subjective participation fromvillages in Japan and Asian countries in order to develop a
concrete action program
3. To develop a unique Area Study Methodology through“Awareness of ZAICHI,” “Sense of ownership,” and “Intuitional
understanding”

KONG, Jianxun

Visiting Research Scholar

1. Labor migration in southern and southwestern Yunnan
Province of China
2. Social capital and social distance in quantitative sociology
3. Identity of ethnicity and nationality in Southeast Asia

POKHREL, Chandra Prasad
Visiting Research Scholar

1. Agricultural technology, livelihood and food security

KOBAYASHI, Satoru
Associate Professor

1. Time-space analysis of Buddhist activities in mainland
Southeast Asia
2. Livelihood changes in Cambodian rural societies
3. Construction of “Public Sphere” in post-war/ conflict societiesLÓPEZ, Mario Ivan

Program-Specific Associate Professor

1. The construction of transnational families in Japan andSoutheast Asia
2. Reconceptualizations of care in ageing societies
3. The role of religion in supporting immigrant workers overseas

2. Crop disease, agro-environment and agro-biodiversity/
homestead biodiversity
3. Rural and eco-tourism

DIFFLOTH, Gérard Félix
Visiting Research Scholar

1. Comparison and historical reconstruction of Austroasiatic
languages
2. Prehistory of Austroasiatic knowledge in zoology and botany
3. Expressives (“Gitaigo”) in Southeast Asian languages

TRAN VAN, Quyen
Visiting Research Scholar

1. Studying pre-modern history of Vietnam

KITANI, Kimiya
Assistant Professor

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

2. Studying vietnamese traditional villages’ society
3. Studying Sino-Nom documents’ bibliographical method

YOSHIKAWA, Sanae
Program-Specific Researcher

3. Availability of prevention system for information security
1. Online and off-line collection, editing and dissemination of
the center’s information to the public

SHITARA, Narumi
Assistant Professor

1. Japanese academic publications in the age of globalizationand the internet
2. Transition of Southeast Asian studies in Japan

2. Ideal forms of PR activity in academic society
3. Transition and trend analysis in launching brands
domestically and internationally

CHAKMA, Shishir Swapan
Researcher of Scientific Research

1. Agricultural technologies and food security
2. Information in farmer decision making
3. Productivity and ecological change
4. Impact of changing jhum (swidden cultivation) on local
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TOYOTA, Tomoya

1. Effects of swidden cultivation on long-term change in forest
soil and vegetation

1. Atagoyama pilgrimage post station and expansion of
settlement regeneration activities in Kiyotaki

2. Revaluation of local knowledge inherited in Japaneseswidden cultivation

2. Following construction of Sumikura building regional
networks based on research on river transportation in Soan

3. Practical approaches to establishing the sustainable
livelihoods of local communities

3. Hands-on activities toward world heritage status for the Hozu
river in Kameoka

Affiliated Associate Professor

Affiliated Researcher

YAJIMA, Kichiji

Research Fellow/ Researcher of Scientific Research

2

Japanese Visiting Scholar

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

SUGIHARA, Kaoru

FUJII, Miho

Japanese Visiting Professor

Affiliated Researcher

1. Global economic history
1. Local people’s wisdom

2. The environmental foundations of postwar Asian economic
development

2. Public river management

3. The history of intra-Asian trade

IMAKITA, Tetsuya

YOKOYAMA, Satoshi

Affiliated Researcher

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

SHIMADA, Nahoko
Affiliated Researcher

Japanese Visiting Professor

1. Changes in land-use, natural resource use and subsistencein the mainland of Southeast Asia
2. The construction of the studies on human-nature interactionsin Japan
3. A cultural geographical study on non-salted fermented
soybean in the lucidophyllous forests of Southeast Asia and
Himalayas

HAYASHIDA, Hideki

1. Eco-historical study of the sacred places in Japan andSoutheast Asia

Japanese Visiting Associate Professor

2. Community development

1. Dynamism and economic mechanism of expansion of oilpalm plantations in Southeast Asia
2. Economic development of the rural areas of Indonesia

POKHREL SHARMA, Sushila

3. Demand-side causes of the development of palm oil
industries in the global market

Affiliated Researcher

1. Satoyama practices in Japan and its prospects of expansion
in rural area of Nepal
2. Agriculture and environmental governance

HAYASHI, Kengo

Japanese Visiting Researcher

3. Rural sociology and social inclusion

1. History of urban residences in modern and contemporary
Indonesia

WAKEBE, Satoshi

2. Discovering an ideal house for emerging megacities inSouth-East Asia

Affiliated Researcher

3. Creating CSI (City Sustainable Index)

1. Awareness of the process of death and thanatology ofJapanese and Southeast Asian people
2. Awareness of diseases and the acceptance of rural healthcare services
3. Corporeal changes and modern lifestyles

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Library

Libr ary

The Library of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/library/en/
The CSEAS library has been the most essential foundation for the promotion of research activities in the ﬁeld of Southeast
Asian studies. As the result of ongoing collection development focusing on academic publications on Southeast Asia, thelibrary holds approximately 180,000 items and assures access by both domestic and overseas patrons through its open
access policy and reference services. The library places strong emphasis on publications published in Southeast Asia andespecially, for Thailand and Indonesia, up to date book acquisitions operated through CSEAS’s overseas liaison offices
in Bangkok and Jakarta. In addition, the library also collects many archival materials from the colonial period in Microﬁlm
form.

While the library is devoted to collecting and providing accessto historical documents and academic works on Southeast Asia,
it is also keen on responding to the changes in Southeast Asia
and working together with researchers. For example, the CSEAS
co-research program now has a special slot for document based
research and provides suffcient funding for acquisition of librarymaterials related to proposed documents based research. This
open and collaborative atmosphere of the library is also createdthe past 20 years since 1986, many librarians from Southeast

DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND
NETWORK FOR AREA STUDIES

by the librarians that the library receives as foreign fellows. Over3

Asia and other countries have spent 6 months at the library andCharas Collection
This is a personal collection donated to our library by Mr. Charas
Pikul, a former Thai government offcer consisting of 9,000 volumesof monographs. The outstanding feature of this Collection is 4,000
cremation volumes Nagsue Ngan Sop. These are a unique formof publication in Thailand, usually published on the occasion ofcremation rites of an important ﬁgure. Cremation volumes not only
include information on the deceased person, but also selected
texts of various genres. These are considered the largest collectionof such volumes outside Thailand.

not only pursued their academic research interests, but also
contributed to the development of the library in various ways.
The library looks forward to working with many others in thenear future.

Southeast Asian Vernacular Language
Collections
The CSEAS Librar y holds materials published in various
vernacular languages in Southeast Asia including publicationsin Indonesian, Thai (materials searchable in Thai scripts),
Vietnamese, and so on. The CSEAS Library also has the following
special collections.

Foronda Collection
This personal collection of a famous historian, Dr. Marcelino
Foronda, late professor of De La Salle University, Manila andconsists of 7,000 volumes of monographs and various othermaterials on Philippine history. The materials include prayers andunderground publications from the Marcos years.

Ocampo Collection
The collection of the popular Filipino historian and writer, Dr.
Ambeth R. Ocampo, the former Chairman of the National Historical
Commission of the Philippines and Chairman of the History
Department, Ateneo de Manila University, consists of 1000 items
namely: rare books (from the 17th century to the post war period),
periodicals including the Congressional Record, and ephemera
including original Filipino sheet music from the early 20th century.

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

Indonesia Islam Collection
This collection is of recent Islamic publications in Indonesia andis composed of approximately 2,000 volumes, covering a wide
range of genres such as the translation of Islamic classics, political
ideology, and introductory texts for public.
In addition to the above collections, in recent years, the libraryhas also continued to acquire important research materials in
microform.

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Map Collections / Information Processing Office

Map Collections

The Map Room of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/publications-2/maps-materials/

The map collection concentrates not only on Southeast Asia,
but also includes almost the whole area from South to East Asiaand surrounding regions. Publication dates of the maps range
from the pre-war period to recent aerial surveys. At present, thecollection comprises nearly 43,000 sheets. Of historical value
are topographical maps of South and East Asia prepared by theLand Survey Department of the defunct Japanese Imperial Army
which are on a scale of 1:25,000 and 1:50,000. Also included in
the collection are a small number of thematic maps on land use,geology, and vegetation of Southeast Asian countries. In recent
years, through collaboration with the Center for Integrated
Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University, CSEAS has also been
digitizing its materials to make them more widely available.
About 4,400 topographical maps as well as 4,000 aerial photos,
have now been digitized. The CSEAS Map Room provides
visitors for those digital data as well as about 170 satellite

Gaihouzu
Maps called “Gaihouzu” in Japanese are historically valuable
Japanese Army topographical maps and nautical charts covering
South and East Asia as well as Southeast Asia. They wereprepared before and during World War II. About 19,000 Gaihouzu
in the CSEAS Map Room comprise one of the foremost collectionsin Japan.

Other Maps
Besides the Gaihouzu, there are about 50 topographical, mineralproduct, geological, and vegetation maps on Japan, the former

・Satellite Images
The present holding numbers of satellite images is approximately
3,500 scenes. The area covered includes all regions of Southeast
Asia, the eastern half of the Indian subcontinent, the whole of
Bangladesh, part of South China, and Japan. Scenes from two
or more seasons are chosen wherever possible. The collection
concentrated on black-and-white positive films (bands 4, 5, and
7) which have a scale of 1:1,000,000 at the beginning, then on
color prints with a scale of 1: 250,000, and on digital data in recent
years.

・Aerial Photographs: The Williams-Hunt Collection
This is a very variable collection of about 5,800 aerial photographs
acquired by Peter Williams-Hunt during and after the World War
II, which were organized by Dr. Elizabeth Moore at the School ofOriental and African Studies, University of London. The collection
mainly covers Cambodia (Angkor Wat), Thailand, Myanmar,
Malaysia and Singapore. CSEAS has about 4,000 sheets of thecollection, and their scanned images are also available to the
public on a limited basis.

・Human Ecology Files (HEF)
This is the set of materials on human ecology, which werecollected and compiled into 5,600 files by Professor Terry Rambo
at East-West Center, Hawaii and were transferred to CSEAS
in 2000. It includes various kinds of materials like abstracts ofacademic conferences, bulletins, reports articles of newspapers
and journals throughout the world. In later years, the files on Agroforestry, and Watersheds were added to the original materials andthe number increased to 9,200 files in total. They are collectively
called the “Human Ecology Files” (HEF).

Information Processing Office
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/info/en/

The Information Processing Office is responsible for

the Office has helped foster and develop a system of data

implementing support for research and education activities

sharing and information transmission of information resources

carried out in CSEAS. Activities include not only thein collaboration with Japanese national libraries. In 2013, themanagement of information infrastructures and systems, but

Office participated in WordPress (Content Management System)

also participation in research, cooperation with various researchcommunity activities to improve technical skills and contributecommunities, and suggesting new frameworks that support futureback to research communities. The Office is currently working

research endeavors. The Office has provided GIS systems to

together with other related communities to provide knowledge toresearch divisions and joint researchers through the provisioning

the public.

of a GIS laboratory. Furthermore, on a joint research project,

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DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND
NETWORK FOR AREA STUDIES

images that are stored in DVDs.

Manchuria, Taiwan, and the Korea Peninsula. The Map Roomalso houses 24,000 topographic, geological maps, land-use,
vegetation, administrative, and road maps. Parts of these maps
are digitalized and available to the public on a limited basis.

3. DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND NETWORK FOR AREA STUDIES:

Databases / GIS Laboratory

Databases

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/databases/
Over the past 10 years, CSEAS has been building advanced and unique databases for its holdings on Southeast Asia.
Recently, CSEAS continues to expand on them through the collection of materials to be included in them by partly
collaborating with Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University. Our most widely used databases are as
follows.

DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND
NETWORK FOR AREA STUDIES

3Southeast Asian Topographic Map Database

Photo Collection

This database system accesses the image data on any defined
points on the topographic map. Map-searching from map index
and meta-information is available. An information retrieval (online searching) Z39.50/ Dubrin Core standard is also used. This is
subsidized by the Publication of Scientific Research Results 2004
Database).

The photo collection comprises pictures taken during various
fieldwork trips by CSEAS staff. More than 2,000 pictures are available and they cover the natural environment, agriculture, forests,
fishery, politics, economy, culture, and history in Southeast Asia.

Database of Comprehensive Urbanism of
Hanoi, Vietnam

In the database of The
Kotmai Tra Sam Duang,
there are two versions in
Kyoto University such as
the Thammasat University
version and the Royal Institute version. The databaseretrieval of the Thammasat
University version has notbeen in service for a while. The Three Seak Law (Kotmai Tra Sam
Duang) (Tammasat Version)
The Royal Institute version
now can be retrieved from the homepage of Center for Integrated
Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University. The database covers“Computer Concordance of The Law of Three Seals” (5 volumes,
239,576 examples) which was published by CSEAS in 1991.

The “Database of Comprehensive Urbanism of Hanoi,
Vietnam [HANOIDB]” is acom-prehensive databaseconcerning the studies on
urbanization of Hanoi fromthe 19th to 21st century. The
database is composed ofthe map collection and its
GIS data (1831-2005) andcomprises of 3,618 files.

Hanoi_DB Database of Comprehensive
Urbanism of Hanoi, Vietnam (HANOIDB)

Thai Database of Three Seals Law

GIS Labor atory

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/gis-laboratory/

The GIS research and Education Laboratory was established in

and image processing software, such as ERDAS Imagine

2004. At present, ArcGIS English version runs on 4 machines

Professional, Definiens eCognition Developer and Adobe

and they are utilized for lectures as well as research. In addition,

Creative Suite. The laboratory also has a B0 plotter and A0

one workstation was also installed with special GIS software

scanner to digitize and output large scale map for GIS analysis.

Users Guide
Hours:

9:00-17:00 (Mon – Fri.)

Contact: CSEAS Research Liaison Office(Room 101, 1st. floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall)
E-mail: liaison@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Who can use the Lab:
Researchers and staff members of CSEAS and member’s ofInternational Program of Collaborative Research (IPCR), CSEAS
are requested to apply through the professor in charge.
* Other users not mentioned above need to inquire with the Research Liaison
office in advance. The committee of Information Processing reserves the rightto approve or disapprove their applications.

Others: If you wish to use all four computers at GIS lab at thesame time you should inform us in advance.
GIS Laboratory: 4 PCs for education and one workstation are set.

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* Application forms are not required for use of the GIS Lab as for now, but you
are requested to contact the Research Liaison Office for reservation or any
related inquiry.

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4. GLOBAL ACADEMIC NETWORKS:

Overseas Liaison Offices

Overseas Liaison Offices
Bangkok Liaison Office / Jakarta Liaison Office

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

The first major function is to operate as a base for collecting
research information and materials; periodical publications,
statistics, documents, and maps in Thailand, Indonesia andother countries in Southeast Asia. Both offices are conducting
the acquisition of various materials in vernacular languages inSoutheast Asia and in European languages too. The second is tofunction as a publicity base, organizing workshops, and holding
receptions for scholars in Thailand, Indonesia and from the othercountries in Southeast Asia in order to enrich the understandingof activities of CSEAS. The offices strongly support theoperation of joint research by Southeast Asian scholars andJapan-based researchers especially in the implementation of“International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS[IPCR-CSEAS].” Finally, the offices also serve as a channel forvarious inquiries about local institutes in Southeast Asia fromJapanese and other researchers and students.

Jak arta Liaison Office

Seminar on HOUSE VISION INDONESIA supported by Jakarta Liaison Office

Bangkok Liaison Office4
GLOBAL ACADEMIC NETWORKS

Jakarta Liaison OfficeOpening ceremony of New Office May 2012

AccessAccessAddress: Jl. Kartanegara No. 38 Kebayoran Baru,
Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta 12180, Indonesia

Address: 19D, GP Grande Tower, 55, Soi 23, Sukhumvit
Rd, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok,
10110 Thailand

Tel:
Fax:

+62-21-7262619+62-21-7248584

Te l :
Fax:+66-2-604-3619+66-2-604-3618

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MOU: Memoranda of Understanding

MOU: Memoranda of Understanding
https://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-networks/mou/

Memorandams by Country

CSEAS actively promotes Southeast Asian studies byCountry

Institutions

Country

Institutions

establishing institutional linkages with leading universities andIndonesia

9Singapore2

research institutes in the region as well as the world. The Center

Thailand6

Bangladesh

1

Cambodia

2

Nepal

1

Vietnam

3

Egypt

1

Laos

1

Taiwan2of exchange of faculty members and researchers; exchange of

Myanmar

2

Korea

2

academic information, including library materials and research

China

6

Netherland

1

Malaysia

1

U.S.

2

Philippines

3

Bhutan2

Brunei1Germany2

has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) aimed at
fostering academic exchange and cooperation through programs

publications; and joint research activities including seminar,
conference and symposium.

Total

Signing an agreement on MOU between CSEAS and the International
Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), March 2012

Signing an agreement on MOU between CSEAS and the Institute of Asian Studies,
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, December 2012

-MOUs with 51 Institutions in 20 countries

GLOBAL ACADEMIC NETWORKS

4

Nepal

Faculty of Forestry,
National University of Laos
Institute for Northeast
Asian Studies,Vietnamese Academyof Social Science
Vietnam National
University, Hanoi
Hanoi Agricultural
University

BhutanMyanmarBangladesh

Faculty of Agriculture,
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chiang Mai University

Vientiane

Cambodia

Phnom Penh
Ho Chi Minh

Malaysia

Sultan Agung Tirtayasa University
National Islamic University

The Department of Aquatic Food Processing and Preservation,
College of Food Science and Technology,
Shanghai Ocean University, China
The Research School for Southeast Asian Studies,
Xiamen University

East China Sea

Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies,
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
National Chi Nan University

Southern Institute of Sustainable Development,
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

Philippines

BruneiSingapore

Pekanbaru

The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies,
Yunnan University

The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jinan University
The School of Asia-Pacific Studies and
The School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University

ManilaThe School of Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University

Faculty of Medicine andFaculty of Pharmacy,
Andalas University (Padang)Japan

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

VietnamRoyal University of Fine Arts
Royal University of Agriculture

University of Riau

Korea

the South China Sea

Faculty of Science,Prince of Songkla University

Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences,
National University of Singapore

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Laos

Thailand

SEAMEO Regional
Centre for History
and Tradition
Bangkok
Liaison Affice

The Institute for East Asian Studies,
Sogang University

TaiwanYezin Agricultural
University
Yezin

Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

The Institute forSoutheast Asian Studies,
Yunnan University
Faculty of Medicine,
Khon Kaen University
China

Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies,
Tribhuvan University
Sherubtse College,
Royal University of Bhutan
Ministry of Health,
the Kingdom of Bhutan
International Centre for
Diarrheal Disease Research,
Bangladesh

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Kuching

University of the Philippines
Cebuano Studies Center,
University of San Carlos
Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology

The Institute of Asian Studies,
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Gorontalo State University
Cenderawasih University

Institute of East Asian Studies,
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Indonesia

Research Institute andGraduate Programs,
Hasanuddin University

Jakarta Liaison Office
National Coordination Agency for
Surveys and Mapping, Indonesia
Institute for Research and Community Service,
Padjadjaran University

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Liaison Offices Abroad
Field stations
Institutions with academic
exchange agreements with CSEAS,
research project agreements;
MOU(Memorandum of Understanding)Institutions except in Asia
-The Southeast Asian and Development
Studies Programme, Passau University（Germany）-Southeast Asian Studies Program,
University of Freiburg（Germany）-Center for Southeast Asia Studies,
University of California, Berkeley（USA)-The International Institute for
Asian Studies（Kingdom of the Netherlands）-Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University（USA）-Center for Asian Studies,
Faculty of Economics andPolitical Science, Cairo University（Egypt）

4. GLOBAL ACADEMIC NETWORKS:

Visiting Research Fellows and Guest Schokars / API Fellowships

Visiting Research Fellows andGuest Scholars

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/networks/international-networks/gaikokujinshohei/
Since 1975, CSEAS has established a visiting scholar program toscholarships or funding from the Japanese Society for thepromote research activities in and on the region by distinguished

Promotion of Science (JSPS), or the Nippon Foundation

scholars. Over 300 scholars—many of them leading researchers

Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API) as visitingin their respective fields—have availed themselves of the Center’s

researchers or guest scholars. Furthermore, CSEAS also accepts

considerable scholarly resources and enjoyed the invigoratinginternational students on short-term visits to Japan and offers

atmosphere of scenic Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan and thethem the use of research rooms and our library facilities.

main repository of the country’s cultural treasures, to pursue their

Scholars who are members of the JSPS Asian Core Programinterests in Southeast Asian studies. CSEAS has provided many

that CSEAS runs with its core partner institutions in East andvisiting scholars not only with opportunities for the exchange ofSoutheast Asia, can also conduct short-term academic exchanges

ideas with Japan-based and other scholars, but also a researchin CSEAS. CSEAS regularly organizes Get Together events

environment that nurtures pathbreaking, multidisciplinary

where staff and visiting scholars can gather to exchange ideas inresearch. CSEAS is an ideal place for writing and for sharing

an informal setting.

comparative, historical, and global perspectives on Southeast
Asia. At first, CSEAS focused on inviting scholars mainly fromSoutheast Asian countries. In recent years, however, CSEAS has
accepted world-class scholars from all over the world.
Positions for scholars visiting CSEAS are divided into fivecategories: Visiting Research Scholars; Guest Scholars; Guest
Research Associates; Special Researchers; and Short-term
International Students.
Apart from the fellowship program, CSEAS offers affiliation
to scholars—both Japanese and international—who receive

Get Together: Regular meeting for both faculty and visiting scholars to cometogether, meet and share ideas, November 2013

API Fellowships

The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals

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The Nippon Foundation established the Fellowships for Asianparticipating countries since 2000 will come to a tentative close

Public Intellectuals (API Fellowships) in cooperation withafter the final batch in 2013. API program is currently in the

Asian intellectuals and organizations in 2000. The participatingphase of re-structuring towards future developments.

countries include Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia,
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Japan. CSEAS is
the partner institution in Japan, and the Japanese secretariat
operates within the Center. The API Fellowships Program aims
to promote mutual learning and contributing to the growth of
public spaces in which effective responses to regional needs canbe generated. It has enabled public intellectuals in Asia to pursue
academic, cultural, and professional projects in the participating
countries. CSEAS has organized API seminars in which visiting
API fellows give presentations and share their insights with staff
and students from CSEAS and other institutions.
The exchange of API fellows that has taken place among the

API Annual Country Workshop in Hearton Hotel Kyoto March 3, 2013

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http://www.api-fellowships.org/body/5. PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs

Publications

The Editorial Office of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/edit/

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

Monographs

Series

CSEAS publishes four series for the presentation of original

Language

EnglishNUS Press andKyoto University
Press

9

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia

EnglishKyoto University
Press and Trans
Pacific Press

23

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
(Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho)

Japanese

Kyoto University
Press

26

Monographs of the Center
for Southeast Asian Studies

English

University of
Hawai‘i Press

21

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

Japanese

Sobunshaauthored exclusively by CSEAS faculty, but since 2000 theseries has been open to outside contributors from both within

Number of
Published Titles

Kyoto CSEAS Series on
Asian Studies

academic studies contributing to the development of Southeast
Asian area studies. Our monograph series was originally

Publisherand outside Japan. The policy has now become a regular andrecognized feature of our publication program and is supported
mainly by JSPS Grants-in-aid for publication. (We include thedescriptions of each book published in these past two years.)

24 (No new
puplications
since 1991)

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
In recognition of the rapid growth of quality scholarship in Eastand Southeast Asia, this series was inaugurated in 2009, inorder to promote and make this fine scholarly output available
globally. Through the NUS Press network, the distribution isquite wide. Due to the width of the targeted audience, we aim to
produce works that will make significant contribution to the fieldof Southeast Asian studies, with clear and concise argumentson relevant questions in the field.

New Publications
No.22 Development Monks inNortheast Thailand

No.23 Politics of Ethnic
Classification in Vietnam

Pinit Lapthananon. 2012.

Ito Masako.
Translated by Minako Sato. 2013.

This study examines the role of Buddhist
monks as development agents in ruralThailand. Through 20 years of fieldstudies, and with a focus on Northeast
Thailand (which is known as Isan andlong classified as the poorest region ofThailand), author Pinit Lapthananon
investigates development in contemporary
Thailand. Although development monks
form a small percentage of the monks in Isan, or in Thailand asa whole, their actions have been highly visible in Thai society
for more than five decades, and they have helped to maintain abalance between modernization and traditional culture.

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Officially, the Socialist Republic ofVietnam has a total of 54 ethnic groups,
including the majority Kinh and 53 ethnic
minority groups. In this book, Ito Masako
examines the history of the ethnic group
determination process, highlighting someof the challenges the official policies
pose to both the state and the affected
peoples. Vietnam has proudly embraced its multiethnic identity,
seeking the equality of all ethnic groups in the interests of national
unity.

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5. PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs

Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies
In recognition of the rapid growth of quality scholarship in Eastand Southeast Asia, this series was inaugurated in 2009, inorder to promote and make this fine scholarly output available
globally. Through the NUS Press network, the distribution isquite wide. Due to the width of the targeted audience, we aim to
produce works that will make significant contribution to the fieldof Southeast Asian studies, with clear and concise argumentson relevant questions in the field.

New Publications

No.8 Strong Soldiers, Failed
Revolution: The State and Military
in Burma, 1962-88

No.9 Organising under the
Revolution: Unions & the State inJava, 1945-48

Yoshihiro Nakanishi. 2013.

Jafar Suryomenggolo. 2013.

In this book, Yoshihiro Nakanishi offersa fresh look at the political role of
the Bur ma/Myanmar Ar med Forces(tatmadaw) through analyzing ideologicaldiscourses and civil-military relations
during Ne Win’s rule (1962–88) basedon propaganda publications, profiles of
the country’ s political elites, and original
documents in Burma’s military archives. Nakanishi’s discussion
reveals many heretofore-unknown facts about this “dark age” in the
country’s political history,and highlights its institutional legacy forthe post–1988 military regime and the reformist government thatsucceeded it. His thought-provoking conclusions are significant forSoutheast Asia specialists and for students of politics generally,and his insights will be useful for anyone seeking to engage with
Burma as it comes to terms with an outside world it once kept at
arm’s length.

No.5 Questioning
Modernity inIndonesia andMalasia
Wendy Mee andJoel S. Kahn, eds.
2012.

The years 1945–48 marked the peakof the Indonesian revolution, but they
were also formative years for statelabor relationship in modern Indonesia.
Drawing on a wide range of historicalsources, Jafar Sur yomenggoloreconstructs labour’s initial drive to form
and orient unions during this critical
period. The historical narrative captures
early unions’ nationalist spirit and efforts to defend members’socio-economic interests, and shows the steps taken by the labor
movement to maintain its independence and build institutional
capacity within the new Indonesia state.
Organising under the Revolution challenges the prevailingassumptions that see labor movements as political arms of
the post-colonial state. The author’s conclusions provide acomparative lens for the study of labour movements in Southeast
Asia, and developing countries in general.

No.6 Industrialization
with a Weak
State: Thailand’s
Development inHistorical Perspective

No.7 Popular Culture
Co-productions andCollaborations inEast and Southeast
Asia

SomboonSiriprachai,
Kaoru Sugihara,
Pasuk Phongpaichit,
and Chris Baker,
eds. 2012.

Nissim Otmazgin
and Eyal Ben-Ari,
eds. 2012.

Monographs of the Center forSoutheast Asian Studies
This series was inaugurated in 1966 at the time of thefoundation of CSEAS, along with the Japanese language
series, Tonan Asia Kenkyu Sosho. University of Hawai‘i Press
has published the titles after Volume 7, and presently there
are 21 titles. As a university press, high readability andmarketability is required for each manuscript in addition toscholarly merit.

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PUBLICATIONS

No. 21 Uncultural Behavior:
An Anthropological Investigation of
Suicide in the Southern Philippines
Charles J-H Macdonald. 2006.

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Monographs / Journal

Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
(in Japanese): Chiiki Kenkyu Sosho
This series was launched on the 30th anniversary of CSEAS (1995),
based on a Memorandum of Agreement between CSEAS andKyoto University Press. It aims to develop new perspectives on
Asia based on informed knowledge of the field, as Asia becomes
an extremely sensitive area due to recent dramatic politicalrealignments and global economic integration. The series hopes
to promote studies that deploy a holistic understanding of Asian
ecology, society, and culture, and critically examine the differing
norms that shaped Asian societies today.

New Publications
No.25 Grass-root Globalization:
Cultural Practice and Life Strategy
at a World Heritage Village inNorthern Luzon. (in Japanese)

Hiromu Shimizu. 2013.
Grass-root Globalization is based onlong-term fieldwork carried out over a 12
year period (1998-2010) in and around
Hapao, a village located in Ifugao, thePhilippines. This ethnography describes
a n d a n a l y z e s h o w v i l l a g e r s h a ve
confronted, experienced, negotiated andactively and aggressively taken their chances in a globalizing
world. It tracks more than 150 villagers mainly women, whotravel to overseas as domestic helpers and caregivers to 27
countries not only in Asia, but also in Middle East, Europe,and north America. Through detailed analysis Shimizu shows
how contestation and cooperation with agents of global powers
have shifted from the village and surrounding areas into a wider
global web. This ethnography vividly shows how villagers are notpassive participants in global processes, but very much active
agents who shape their past, present and future.

No.26 Homesteads and Indigenous
Knowledge: Rural Life and Womenin Bangladesh. (in Japanese)

Keiko Yoshino. 2013.
This book investigates the role andthe change of homesteads in r ural
Bangladesh in two research periods(1988–95 and 2004–2008). The
impor tance of homesteads as living
base, and the existence of various
resources suppor ted by indigenous
k n ow l e d g e i n l i m i t e d s p a c e u n d e r
seasonal dynamic hydrological changes were found. Women
were the chief managers of homesteads, and the nature of
subsistence gives communal characteristics to homesteads. It
highlights the importance of homesteads as a living base forsubsistence production with the progress of segmentation of land”
while detailing how crop patterns changes influenced homestead
vegetation and increased women’s burden. The book argues
the need for fair evaluation of subsistence characteristics andwomen’s role in homesteads with wide views such as rural living
security, environmental healthiness, and enjoyment of rural life notjust economic profitability.

Academic Journal

Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies: Tonan Ajia Kenkyu
http://kyoto-seas.org/
The center’s first quarterly journal Southeast Asian Studies

receive a submission all the year round. And all the article except(Tonan Ajia Kenkyu in Japanese) was published as a bilingual

those in the latest issue can be downloaded from our website.

academic journal in June 1963, when CSEAS was created as asemi-official body within Kyoto University to coordinate theteaching and research of Southeast Asia. Tonan Ajia Kenkyu has

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5. PUBLICATIONS:Journal / Working Papers / Online Academic Community

Academic JournalSoutheast Asian Studies
http://englishkyoto-seas.org/
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit

Protection and Power in Siam:
From Khun Chang Khun Phaen to the Buddha Amulet

English journal, alongside its Japanese sister journal, Tonan Ajia
Nobpaon Rabibhadana and Yoko Hayami

Seeking Haven and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers’ Networks in Two Thai Locales

Noboru Toyoshima

Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit

Protection
and Powerin Siam:
Emergent Processes of Language Acquisition:
Japanese
Language
Learning
From
Khun Chang
Khun Phaen to the Buddha Amulet
and the Consumption of Japanese Cultural
Products
in Thailand

Nobpaon Rabibhadana and Yoko Hayami

Agrometeorological Learning Increasing Seeking
Farmers’Haven
Knowledge
and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers’ Networks in Two Thai Localesin Coping with Climate Change and Unusual Risks

Mizuno Kosuke et al.

Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit

Noboru Toyoshima

The new journal aims to promote excellent, agenda-setting

Protection
and Powerin Siam:
Emergent Processes of Language Acquisition:
Japanese
Language
Learning
Talun-Huma, Swidden Agriculture, and Rural Economy in West Java, Indonesia From Khun Chang Khun Phaen to the Buddha Amulet
and the Consumption of Japanese Cultural Products in Thailand

Bounthanh KeoBoualapha et al. Yunita T. Winarto et al.

Nobpaon Rabibhadana and Yoko Hayami

Imperata Grassland Mapping in Northern Uplands of Lao PDR:
Agrometeorological Learning Increasing Seeking
Farmers’Haven
Knowledge
and Seeking Jobs: Migrant Workers’ Networks in Two Thai LocalesArea, Distribution, Characteristics, and Implications for Slash-and-Burn Cultivationin Coping with Climate Change and Unusual Risks

scholarship and provide a forum for dialogue and collaboration
Book Reviews

Mizuno Kosuke et al.

Noboru Toyoshima

Emergent Processes of Language Acquisition: Japanese Language Learning
Talun-Huma, Swidden Agriculture, and Rural Economy in West Java, Indonesia
and the Consumption of Japanese Cultural Products in Thailand

both within and beyond the region. Southeast Asian Studies

Bounthanh KeoBoualapha et al. Yunita T. Winarto et al.

Imperata Grassland Mapping in Northern Uplands of Lao PDR:
Agrometeorological Learning Increasing Farmers’ Knowledge
Area, Distribution, Characteristics, and Implications for Slash-and-Burn Cultivationin Coping with Climate Change and Unusual Risks

Book Reviews

engages in wide-ranging and in-depth discussions that are

Mizuno Kosuke et al.
Talun-Huma, Swidden Agriculture, and Rural Economy in West Java, Indonesia

Bounthanh KeoBoualapha et al.
Imperata Grassland Mapping in Northern Uplands of Lao PDR:
Area, Distribution, Characteristics, and Implications for Slash-and-Burn Cultivation

attuned to the issues, debates, and imperatives within the region,

Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Studies is published three times a year.
Yunita T. Winarto et al.

Southeast Asian Studies

Kenkyu. Intended for a regional as well as global readership,Southeast Asian Studies

In 2012, CEAS re-launched Southeast Asian Studies as an all-Book Reviewson a cross-country, global, and historical scale. An integral part
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social sciences and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural
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sciences, on the other hand. To this end, the journal welcomes

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accessibly written articles that build on insights and cutting-edge
research from the natural sciences.

Vo1. 2 No. 2 2013

Vo1. 2 No. 2 2013of bridging the continuing divide in area studies between theVo1. 2 No. 2 2013of the journal’s mandate is to foster scholarship that is capable

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while affirming the importance of learning and sharing ideas

Vo1. 2 No. 2 2013

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Published third a year (April, August, December)
ISSN 2186-7275

Joint Published Series

Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies
http://englishkyoto-seas.org/
Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies is a series publishedjointly by the four area studies institutions on Kyoto University
campus: the Graduate School for Asian and African Area Studies(ASAFAS); the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS); theCenter for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS); and, Center forSoutheast Asian Studies (CSEAS). The series invites faculty
members, young scholars, and graduate students affiliated withthese institutions to offer contributions.

Online Academic Community of Southeast Asia

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (KRESEA)
http://kyotoreview.org/
The Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is an online journal thatoffers the reader an analysis of debates, news and reviews allpresented in accessible writing. The recently updated mobile/tablet-friendly site is modern, easy to use and more visually5

engaging with social media integration, video clips and galleries.

PUBLICATIONSThe Kyoto Review content remains as substantial as ever; five
key articles in each edition—all in English, Japanese, Thai andIndonesian, plus book reviews. There is also a new column,
Young Academic’s Voice—one article per month, that showcases
up-and-coming young academics of Southeast Asia.

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GRADUATE SCHOOL EDUCATION / AWARD

Gr aduate School Education
Graduate Education that Takes a Multidisciplinary Approach toward Fieldwork

http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/fostering-research/education-in-kyoto-university/asafas/
CSEAS has fostered graduate education that takes a multidisciplinary approach toward fieldwork. Since 1981, CSEAS has
provided courses specializing on tropical agriculture and since 1993, offered courses that specifically focus on Southeast
Asia within the division of human and environmental studies. As specialists in the region, since 1998, CSEAS has also
provisioned courses and Center staff to Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University.
We positively contribute courses that focus on ecology, society, culture and these have fostered many graduate students
in recent years.

Aside from our commitment to ASAFAS, we also have twoenvironmental management courses on the Global 30 Program.

professors who contribute courses within the Department of

CSEAS offers the real-time streaming of courses to the Institut

Field Medicine, School of Public Health and Graduate School of

Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and allows for both students within

Medicine on the “Inter-graduate School Program for Sustainable

Kyoto University and ITB to simultaneously participate in

Development and Sustainable Societies” program.

lectures. We also offer another long-distance learning course

Staff also actively participate in provisioning courses andtitled “Let everyone build tomorrow’s Asia IV” which is run inmodules to other institutions outside of Kyoto University, withcollaboration with Keio University in English. CSEAS also has

long-distance learning functioning as a major service. CSEAS

professors who are participating in the the “Re-inventing Japan

provides faculty members who provision courses on Southeast

Project” which aims at constructing an international framework

Asian societies and the environment as part of international

for post-graduate education.

Mr. Isao Nakamoto with a team of laboratory members, University Putra,
Malaysia, March 2013

Remote Video Lecture to the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), June 6, 2011
(MASUDA, Gaku, Affiliated Assistant Professor, CSEAS, Kyoto University)Award 2012
KUBO, Tadayuki (JSPS Research Fellow)
Minpaku Young Scholar Seminar Award
Title: From Refugee to Citizen: Movement andSettlement of Burmese Refugees

Date: November 2012

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HISTORY OF CSEAS

History of CSEAS
Month

Year

Event

Sept.

1959

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

Jun.

1962

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

Jan.

1963

Based on the preparatory committee’s report, CSEAS is established as an intramural body.

Jul.

1963

Inaugural issue of the quarterly Southeast Asian Studies is 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 the Area Studies I (visiting research fellows) Sections are established.

Feb.

1977

The first Southeast Asia Seminar is held.

Apr.

1978

Political Development Section is established.

Mar.

1979

Construction of the East Wing is completed.

Apr.

1980

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

Apr.

1983

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

Mar.

1984

Construction of the East Wing extension is completed.

Apr.

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
School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
The four-year project “Toward an Integrated Approach to Global Area Studies: In Search of a Paradigm for a Harmonized
Relationship between the World and Its Areas” is launched with funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, 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, Humans
and the Environment, Society and Culture, and Economics and Politics.

Oct.

2002

The five-year 21st Century COE project “Aiming for Center of Excellence of Integrated Area Studies: Establishing Field 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 was reorganized into the Division of Integrated Area Studies, and the Documentation Department was also
reorganized into the Division of Area Informatics. CSEAS contributes to the inauguration of the Japan Consortium for Area
Studies, serving as its executive office.

Oct.

2005

CSEAS celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Apr.

2006

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

Jul.

2007

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

Jul.

2008

CSEAS-granted joint research program is launched.

Oct.

2008

Construction of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall is completed.

Oct.

2009

Quake-proof engineering of Library building is completed.

Oct.

2010

CSEAS to be renewed as a common-use research institute.

Apr.

2011

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

Oct.

2013

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

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STAFF ORGANIZATION

Staff Organization
Director

Professor

As of November 30, 2013

Deputy Director

SHIMIZU, Hiromu

Professor

KONO, Yasuyuki
HAYAMI, Yoko

Research Department
Division of Integrated Area Studies
SHIMIZU, Hiromu
KONO, Yasuyuki

Professor

Division of Human-Nature Dynamics
Deputy Director/Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Visiting Research Sholar
Program-SpecificResearcher
Researcher of Scientific
Research
Guest Scholar
Visiting Professor
Visiting Associate Professor(Hakubi Project)
Visiting Associate Professor

Visiting Assistant Professor(Hakubi Project)
Visiting Assistant Professor

KONO, Yasuyuki
MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo
NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki
KOZAN, Osamu
ITOH, Masayuki
SYLAVONG, Latsamay
NEOH, Kok-boon
ISHIMOTO, Yasuko
SHIODERA, Satomi
SASIWONGSAROJ,
Kwanchit
TORII, Kiyoshi
BADENOCH, Nathan
NAKAGUCHI, Yoshitsugu
WADA, Taizo
FUJISAWA, Michiko
SAKAMOTO, Ryota

Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
Director/Professor
Deputy Director/Professor
Professor

Program-SpecificResearcher
Research Fellow
Guest Research Associates
JSPS Fellow

Visiting Associate Professor(Hakubi Project)

SHIMIZU, Hiromu
HAYAMI, Yoko
KOIZUMI, Junko
ISHIKAWA, Noboru
HAU, Caroline Sy.
SAMEJIMA, Hiromitsu
MORISHITA, Akiko
IGA, Tsukasa
ZAW, Aung
HAMAYA, Mariko
NARISAWA, Noriko
KUBO, Tadayuki
CREAK, Simon

Visiting Assistant Professor(Hakubi Project)

KATO, Yumi

Visiting Lecturer

YOSHIMURA, Chie
CHONLAWORN, Piyada

Affiliated Researcher

Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
Professor
Associate Professor

KIMURA, Yumi

Visiting Research Scholar
Program-SpecificResearcher
Research Fellow
Researcher of Scientific
Research
Guest Scholar
Visiting Professor
Visiting Assistant Professor(Hakubi Project)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliated Researcher

CHACHAVALPONGPUN,
Pavin
NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro
KIMURA, Ehito
TREERAT, Nualnoi
SURYOMENGGOLO, Jafar
FUJITA, Motoko
BONANNO, Gianluca
SATO, Nao
SITI, Sugiah Mugniesyah
KANO, Hiroyoshi
NISHIMOTO, Noa
MASUDA, Gaku
KAWAMURA, Chiyo
TOYAMA, Ayako
KATO, Emiko

Japanese Visiting Scholar
Professor

FUJITA, Koichi
MIZUNO, Kosuke
MIENO, Fumiharu
OKAMOTO, Masaaki

Professor

NINO, Viartasiwi
FURUTA, Yasuko
NOHDA, Katsura
SHIRATA, Yoko
WORRAKITTIMALEE,
Thawatchai

Project Officer

Associate Professor
Researcher

SUGIHARA, Kaoru
YOKOYAMA, Satoshi
HAYASHIDA, Hideki
HAYASHI, Kengo

Division of Information and Networks for Area Studies
Deputy Director/Professor
Associate Professor
Program-Specific
Associate Professor
Visiting Research Scholar

KONO, Yasuyuki
KOBAYASHI, Satoru
LÓPEZ, Mario Ivan
KONG, Jianxun
POKHREL, Chandra Prasad
DIFFLOTH, Gérard Félix• Practice-oriented Area Studies Office
Associate Professor
ANDO, Kazuo
Research Fellow/ ResearYAJIMA, Kichijicher of Scientific Research
Researcher of Scientific
Research

CHAKMA, Shishir Swapan

Guest Scholar

SWE, Khin Lay
SUZUKI, Reiji
IMAKITA, Tetsuya
SHIMADA, Nahoko
FUJII, Miho
TOYOTA, Tomoya
WAKEBE, Satoshi
POKHREL SHARMA,
SushilaVisiting Associate Professor
Affiliated Researcher• Library
Assistant Professor
Visiting Research Scholar

ONO, Mikiko
TRAN VAN, Quyen

Project Officer
Staff

Reseach AssistantStaff• Editorial Office
Assistant Professor
Staff

SHITARA, Narumi
KOBAYASHI, Sumiko
SUGAHARA, Yuka

IIZUKA, Noriko
NAKAMURA, Wakana
NAKANE, Hideki
NAKAMOTO, Isao
TANAKA, Sonoko
IDE, Michiyo
KATAOKA, Toshiko
KITA, Yukiko
YAMAMOTO, Aya• API Office• Information Processing Office
Assistant Professor
KITANI, Kimiya
Project Officer
OKUNISHI, Kumi

Staff

• Liaison Office of Research Department
Professor
KONO, Yasuyuki
Assistant Professor
KITANI, Kimiya
Project Officer
ABE, Chiaki
KAWAI, Tomoko
Staff
MAEDA, Sayuri
OGA, Minako
TABATA, Noriko
YAMAMOTO, Nami

• Life and Green Administrative Office
Project Officer
AKEDO, Masako

MAENO, Naoko• Map Room
Staff

SHINO, Miyako• Brain Circulation Office
Project Officer
SETO, Ryoko• Public Relations Office
Program-SpecificLÓPEZ, Mario Ivan
Associate Professor
Program-SpecificResearcher

YOSHIKAWA, Sanae

Officer

UCHIDA, Hisashi
KATO, Yoko

• Assistants of Research Department
Technical Research
TAKEDA, Yoko
AssistantAdministrative Department
Head
Kyoto University Research
Administration OfficeSouth-West Area

OHTOH, Tokunori
KAMIYA, Toshiro

Staff

General Affairs Section
Head AssistantChief Officer

37

Senior Officer

UEDA, Takashi
TOYOTA, Kazuhiko

SHIBATA, Yuko
NAKAMURA, Miyuki
NAKAJIMA, Miyuki
ASANO, Tomona

Staff

Student Affair Section
Chief Officer

Accounting Section
Chief Officer

ONEDA, Motoko

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (CSEAS) / Annual Report 2013 - 2014

Senior Officer
Staff

FUKUMURA, Terumi
KAWANO, Yusuke
YAMASAKI, Kei

ORGANIZATION CHART / ACCESS

Organization Chart
Field
Interregional Comparisons

Division of Integrated
Area Studies
Director
Council Meeting

IPCR Executive
Committee

Ecology

Division of HumanNature Dynamics

Research Departments

Faculty Meeting

Regional Systems

Ecological Resources
Cultural Dynamics

Division of SocioCultural Dynamics

Division of Information and
Network for Area Studies

Societal Dynamics
Regional Development

Division of Economic& Political Dynamics

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

Regional Integration

Area Studies Ⅰ(Visiting Research Fellows)

Area Studies Planning andPromotion Office

Area Studies Ⅱ & Ⅲ(Japanese Visiting Scholars)

Sustainable Humanosphere
Studies OfficeSoutheast Asian
Documentation(Visiting Research Fellows)

Bangkok Liaison Office

Practice-oriented Area
Studies Office
Library

Jakarta Liaison Office

Editorial OfficeInformation Processing
OfficeResearch Liaison Office
General Affairs Section
Administrative Office

Map RoomFinance Section

Public Relations OfficeStudent Section

AccessNijo Castle
Nijojo-mae
Sta.

Karasuma
Oike Sta.

• Walk for five minutes to the north.
Omiya Sta.

Kamo River

Kawaramachi St.

Keihan Line

Kawaramachi
Sta.

Kyoto City Subway
Karasuma Line

Kyoto Tower

Kyoto City Subway
Tozai Line

Shijo St.

Shijo Sta.

Gojo Sta.

Jingu Marutamachi
Sta.
Heian Jingu Shrine

Gion Shijo
Sta.

Hankyu Kyoto Line

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

Center forSoutheast Asian Studies,
Kyoto University

Sanjo
Sta.

Kamo River

From Hankyu Kawaramachi Station

Kyoto
Shiyakushomae
Sta.

Kyoto University Area

Higashioji St.

Marutamachi
Sta.

Karasuma St.

From Jingu-Marutamachi Station of Keihan Railway

Kojinguchi
Bus Stop
Marutamachi St.
Kawabata St.

• Take a taxi and ask a driver to go to Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building at Kojinbashi Higashizume.
It takes 30 minutes.

Old Imperial
PalaceKojinbashi
Bus Stop

Shirakawa St.

• Take No.17 Kyoto bus and get off at Kojinbashi.
Then walk for 1 minute to the south. It takes 30 minutes.

Head Office

Horikawa-dori St.

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

Demachiyanagi Sta.

Imadegawa St.

Imadegawa
Sta.

From JR Kyoto Station

Kyoto Bus
Kojinbashi
Bus Stop

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

Kiyomizu
Gojo Sta.

Post
Office

CSEAS

Jingu
Marutamachi
Sta.
Shichijo St.

Shichijo Sta.

JR Kyoto Station
JR Nara Line

JR Tokaido Main Line
JR Tokaido Shinkansen

Tofukuji Sta.

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