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ITASIA 128 “Surviving Cancer in Asia”

Asia Cancer Barometer:
Challenges and Outlook I

SONODA, Shigeto
GSII and IASA,The University of Tokyo2

Outline
1.Challenges in “Asian Studies”
2.What is AsiaBarometer?
3.Intellectual Contribution by AsiaBarometer
4.Health Issues in Asia in Comparative
Perspective
5.Summary
6.Questions to the Students
7. Information
31. Challenges in “Asian Studies”
1) Definition and Scope of “Asia”
2) “Asia” for Whom?
3) Is “Asia” a Meaningful?
4) Asianization of Asia?: Social Sciencein the Age of Globalization and the Riseof Asia

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Which is Japanese Image of Asia?

52. What is AsiaBarometer?
 Prof. Takashi Inoguchi’s Provocative Paper(2002) “To the Establishment ofAsiaBarometer,” Chuo Koron< Asia as a “Desert of Database”< The Age of Asia and the Importanceof Cross-national Analysis of Asian Societies< EU and EuroBarometer: Regionalism andRegional Survey
62) Between “Universality” and “Uniqueness”:
Myth and Reality of Database Construction
 From Data Collection to Theory Building Too many “First Data,” too few “SecondData” (Figure 1)
 Scope and Limit of Traditional Area Study
3) Who designs Questionnaire? : Politics ofInitiative among Researchers

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Figure 1 Anti-Nepotism across Ageand Academic Background：Comparison of China and Malaysia（Unit：％）

Source: 園田茂人（2006）「中国研究から比較研究へ：「問い」を問い直すための制度構築とアジア・バロメーターの役割」（Sonoda, Shigeto, “Chugoku Kenkyu kara Hikaku Kenkyu e ‘Toi’ wo Toinaosu Tameno Seido Kouchiku to AsiaBarometer no Yakuwari”）
AsiaBarometer Project Series 4: How Can Area Studies Specialists Assist the AsiaBarometer Survey?, 2006, pp. 14-18.
8https://www.asiabarometer.org/files/ABPS4.pdf

4) AB Integrated Dataset as a Database Covering 23 Countries/Area with more than

5,200 samples
 Concrete Questions: Quality of Life, Political
Attitude and Consciousness, Social Life,
Image toward Foreign Countries, Gender
Issues, Expectation toward theGovernment, and so on.

93. Intellectual Contribution byAsiaBarometer
1) Data Collection and Widening Horizon ofthe Research
2) Finding “Regional/National Traits” in“Universal” Concepts of Social Science Middle class (Sonoda), Media nationalism(Nam), Asian-type Welfare System (Zhang),Familism (Lee) ….
3) Renovation of Traditional Area Studies10

4. Health Issues in Asia inComparative Perspective
1) Health in Asia in Comparative Perspective
 Importance：Figure 2
 Satisfaction：Figure 3
 Great Concerns：Figure 4
 Necessity of Governmental Expenditure:Figure 5
 Institutional Trust：Figure 611

Figure 2：Importance of Health（MA: 5 Options）

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

12Figure 3：Satisfaction with Health(5 Point Scale)

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 4 Great Concerns withHealth: (MA)Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 5：Necessity to Governmental
Expenditure for Health:(5 Point Scale)

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 6： Trust with Public Health
SystemData from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

162) Aging Society and the Public Health as aCommon Concern Stronger Interest and Dissatisfaction
toward Personal Health among Elderly:
Figure 7, 8
 Younger Generation’s Stronger Concernswith Health in China: What does it mean?:Figure 9
 Different Expectation to Governmental
Expenditure for Health from Different
Reasons: Taiwan and China Compared:
Figure 10 and 11
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Figure 7： Importance of Health:
Cohort Analysis in East Asia

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 8：Satisfaction with Health:
Cohort Analysis in East Asia

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 9：Great Concerns with Health:
Cohort Analysis in East Asia

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 10：Necessity to Governmental
Expenditure for Health:
Cohort Analysis in East Asia

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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Figure 11： Trust with Public Health
System: Cohort Analysis in East Asia

Data from AsiaBarometer Survey (https://www.asiabarometer.org/)
AsiaBarometer is a registered trademark of Takashi Inoguchi, President of the Universityof Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Director of the AsiaBarometer Project.

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5. Discussion
How to Capture Commonalities andDifference among Asia
2) Cancer as a Public Health Issue: Howto approach Cross-cancer Studies
3) Increasing Number of Dataset, but Its
Effective Reuse is rare: Why?
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6. Questions to the Students
In Asia Cancer Barometer, whoshould be the target of the research?
Ordinary people, patient (and/or)
family, medical doctor, or somethingelse?
2) What should be asked in Asia Cancer
Barometer to facilitate regional
collaboration in Asia?
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7. Information
Useful URL for Collecting Data(set)Asia-Pacific Values Survey
http://www.ism.ac.jp/editsec/kenripo/contents.html
East Asian Social Survey
http://www.eassda.org/modules/doc/index.php?doc=intro
AsiaBarometerhttps://ricas.ioc.utokyo.ac.jp/aasplatform/download/25