PAJ 2016 Call for Papers
Annual Meeting 2016 “Linking Past to Present”
Population Association of Japan (PAJ)
Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, JapanJune 11-12, 2016
Deadline for Submissions: February 14, 2016
The program committee is excited to announce that the 68th annual meeting of PAJ willtake place at Reitaku University, Kashiwa Japan during 11-12 June 2016. With thetheme “Linking past to present,” the symposium on population policies and the twosessions on East Asian marriage and family (panel and theme sessions) aim at bridging
population studies of past and present to further our understanding of the population
dynamics from historical and comparative perspectives. In conjunction with othersessions, we hope to have stimulating discussions and exchanges on our pressing
population challenges.
Online registration and submission are now open. Although the deadline forsubmissions is 14 February 2016, we would like to encourage you to register and submit
at your earliest convenience. Please refer to the instructions and information below.

Instructions for Submitting a Paper
All members must be registered for the meeting to participate.
Submissions are made online at the 2016 Annual Meeting website,http://www.paoj.org/taikai/taikai2016/.
All members of the Population Association of Korea, the Thai Population Associationand the Population Association of Taiwan based on our four-country MOU, arewelcomed to participate in or submit papers to the theme or regular sessions.
Authors are asked to submit a short abstract (100-200 words) by February 14, 2016. If
your submission is accepted in a regular session or a theme session, you must upload anextended abstract (2 pages for a theme session, or 1 page for a regular session) by April
30, 2016. Extended abstracts must be sufficiently detailed to allow participants tounderstand the content of your presentation. Optionally, full papers can be uploaded inaddition to extended abstracts. All submitted extended abstracts (and full papers) will bemade available to all on-line via the PAJ web-page. NO hard copies will be produced
for this meeting.
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Important Dates
November 29, 2015
February 14, 2016
February 29, 2016
March 21, 2016
April 30, 2016
June 11-12, 2016

The website opens for registration and submission
Deadline for registration and short abstract submission
Authors are notified of presentation accepted in theme
sessions or regular sessions.
The final version of the program is announced on the website.
Deadline for submitting extended abstracts (or full papers)
PAJ annual meeting

Information
The 2016 PAJ meeting will be held at Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. For
the access to the venue, please refer to the link below.
http://www.reitaku-u.ac.jp/koho/english/about-reitaku/about-reitaku06.html
If you have questions, please contact the Chair of the program committee:
Kohei Wada (Chuo University)
demography2016@gmail.com.
For questions regarding the venue, please contact the Chair of the local organizing
committee: Satomi Kurosu (Reitaku University) skurosu@reitaku-u.ac.jp

2PAJ 2016 Sessions
We welcome you to join us by simply participating in the meeting and/or submitting
papers to Theme sessions 1, 2 or Regular sessions. We attach the list of sessions
followed by the abstracts of the sessions in English.

Working
Title

Organizer

Submission

Language

Population Policies in Comparative andSymposium

Historical Perspective:
Linking Past to Present

Akihiko Kato,Japanese

ClosedSatomi Kurosu

EnglishClosedTomoko SaotomeJapanese

ClosedSaori KamanoJapanese

ClosedMasaaki Mizuochi

Japanese

ClosedEnglishOpen

Satomi Kurosu

Marriage and Family Building
Panel Session 1

in Historical East Asia
Consideration of Fertility Differences

Panel Session 2

by Area Specificity and Each Environment
Sexual Minorities in Population Studies:

Panel Session 3

Current State of Research in JapanThe Present and Future

Panel Session 4

Theme Session 1of Never-married People
Marriage and Family Building

Toru Suzuki,

in Contemporary East Asia

Satomi Kurosu

Population and Development
Theme Session 2

in the 2030 Agenda

Japanese
Reiko Hayashi- Sustainable Development Goals
A regular session consists of several individual presentations.
Regular Sessions

Their themes are freely determined by applicants themselves.

and/orEnglishJapanese
and/orEnglish3OpenOpenPanel session 1 (Closed for submission):

Marriage and Family Building in Historical East Asia

This session focuses on empirical studies of marriage and reproduction in East Asia during the18thand early 20th century, utilizing micro-level longitudinal data. Evidence reveals that marriage inEast Asia was early and universal although it was not directly connected to an early start ofchildbearing, and that the marital fertility was quite low for the early modern period. While East
Asia shares many features that are distinct from the West, such as collective orientation ofdemographic decisions, age-gender hierarchy in household, importance of family succession, etc.,
there were also variations within the area. What are the similarities and what are the differences?
Together with the discussants who work on contemporary demography in East Asia, we will discuss
the implications of the findings of historical demography and the characteristics of East Asian family
and demographic patterns, going beyond the dichotomous views of East vs. West or pre-modern vs.
modern, and linking past and present.
*The session will be supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (JSPS KAKENHI
Grant Number: 15H03139) "Comparative studies of family and demography in East Asia: An
empirical approach using longitudinal micro-level data bases (PI: Satomi Kurosu)."
Organizer: Satomi Kurosu (Reitaku University)
Chair: Noriko O. Tsuya (Keio University)
Presenters:
Wenshan Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Sangkuk Lee (Ajou University, Korea)
Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
James Z. Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Hao Dong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Reitaku University) andSatomi Kurosu (Reitaku University)
Discussants：
Jim Raymo (University of Wisconsin)
Toru Suzuki (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)

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Theme Session 1 (Open for submission):

Marriage and Family Building in Contemporary East Asia

Focusing on contemporary East Asia, this session compliments the session on "Marriage andFamily Building in Historical East Asia."

East Asian countries experienced dramatic nuptialityand fertility declines after World War II. Some countries showed the lowest levels of TFR in theworld after the turn of century. As a result, the level of aging in these countries will surpass thatof Japan soon, making the region the most aged part in the world. Demographic research isrequired on the rapid changes in union and family formation in this region. Comparative
perspective is preferable, if possible, to identify the uniqueness of East Asian experiences aswell as the differences within the region. Although the main focus is on nuptiality and fertility
declines in the 21st century, studies of long term perspectives on the first and second
demographic transitions are also welcomed.
Organizer: Toru Suzuki (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)・Satomi
Kurosu (Reitaku University)
Chair: Wenshan Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Discussant(s)：Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Tsukasa Sasai (Fukui Prefectural University)

5Theme Session 2 (Open for Submission)

Population and Development in the 2030 Agenda- Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2015, all the member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda – theSustainable Development Goals(SDGs) which replaced the Millennium DevelopmentGoals(MDGs). In MDGs, many goals were related to the health and population such as thecombat against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, reduction of child mortality, gender andreproductive health / rights. In the case of SDGs, the scope are wider with 17 goals covering theUniversal Health Coverage, reproductive health and rights and many new aspects such as birth
registration, decent work for youth, labour rights for migrant workers, better environment for
older persons or sustainable urbanization. However, population dynamics notably population
ageing or international migration were not included as a separate target due to the fact that thenumerical target is not appropriate to these issues.
Among the objectives raised in the Programme of Action of Cairo International Conference on
Population and Development held in 1994, the reproductive health had made a substantial
progress but many countries still suffer from low family planning coverage and high maternalmortality. Furthermore, the reproductive rights or more specifically the sexual rights are not at
all gaining international consensus which proved the difficulty in the international sphere of
how to share the same “human rights” concept between the countries with different valuesystem.
This session is aimed to discuss on the remaining challenges of Cairo Programme of Action andMDGs, the new vision for the SDGs and other relevant issues on population and development
such as population ageing or international migration. Through the discussion, we will see
whether or how the population studies can contribute to the forthcoming 15 years ofdevelopment agenda.

Organizer:

Reiko Hayashi (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)

Chair:

Makoto Ato (Honorary Director-General, National Institute of Population andSocial Security Research)

Discussant(s)：Kiyoko Ikegami (Nihon University)

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