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Integrated Area Studies • Area Studies Support Facilities • Area Studies Informatics

Welcome to CIAS..............................................................................................1
A New Approach to Area Studies.......................................................................3
Development of Area Studies in Japan................................................................5
Integrated Area Studies at CIAS.........................................................................6
Supporting Area Studies.....................................................................................8CIAS Nationwide Joint-use Facility . .................................................................9
Kyocera Collection of British Parliamentary Papers at Kyoto University...........10
Area Informatics Project...................................................................................11
Health GIS as an Application of Area Studies...................................................12
International Research Cooperation.................................................................13
CIAS International Visiting Scholars Program..................................................13
CIAS Academic Staff........................................................................................15
CIAS Staff Research Projects............................................................................16
CIAS Publications............................................................................................18

Welcome to CIASThe Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) was established in
April 2006. The objectives of CIAS are to promote and conduct areastudies, to integrate and share information resources on area studies
as well as knowledge from particular areas and to make them available
to other universities and institutions nationwide. As a “national
joint-research base,” CIAS pursues these objectives in collaboration
with sister institutions engaged in area studies at Kyoto University
and by serving as the secretariat of the Japan Consortium for Area
Studies (JCAS), which was founded in 2004 and as of January 2011
has 92 member institutions.
CIAS consists of five research divisions: the Division ofIntegrated Area Research, Division of Information and Knowledge,
Division of Area Informatics, Division of Visiting Research Fellows
and Division of Japanese Visiting Scholars. CIAS undertakes
various joint-research projects, mostly as collaborations between
CIAS researchers and researchers at other institutions, with thespecific purpose of promoting inter-regional and interdisciplinary
area studies approaches. CIAS projects focus on two dimensions ofintegrated area studies: 1) research on area studies methodologies and2) research on selected issues of crucial importance in particular areas
and globally. Project findings are disseminated through publications,
websites, workshops and symposiums organized by CIAS.
While “area studies” can be defined in many different ways,
depending on the research institution or individual researcher, ingeneral, the research methods and research results are very muchinfluenced by person-to-person interactions. In that sense, an area
always connotes both the global and the local. An area is not primarily
demarcated by geographical and national boundaries, but by sets oflocal and non-local variables that are transformed, interconnected
and influenced by each another. Therefore, CIAS attempts tounderstand contemporary issues and problems in particular areas byexamining phenomena that cut across regional boundaries and byusing cross-regional perspectives.
Already in its fifth year of existence, CIAS has launched a new“Area Informatics Project,” which is expected to produce innovative
databases and mapping systems, among other outputs, to contributeto the development a new horizon of area studies in Japan andabroad.
HAYASHI, Yukio (Ph.D.)
Director and Professor
Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University

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A New Approach to Area Studies
After World War II, national governments realized that theyneeded to know more about the different regions in the world
where they held economic and political interests. For that purpose,many universities, including Kyoto University, established areastudies centers. Area studies have matured since then and become
an established yet ever-evolving academic discipline.
CIAS was founded in 2006 and aims to bring a new dimension toarea studies at Kyoto University and in Japan. Its primary objective isto promote integrated area studies. Area studies traditionally focus onconfined regions and explore issues that are particular to that region,
but that are of concern or interest to an academic or wider audience.
Area studies are driven by questions that emerge from the regions
themselves and not questions to advance a particular discipline.
They are by definition inter-, multi- or supra-disciplinary.
CIAS research projects explore issues related to certain regionsthat might be typical topics for area studies. However, where possible,
these issues are researched in multiple locations simultaneously, atmultiple scales, or using innovative methods to represent informationand knowledge.
There are a number of scholars in various research fields at Kyoto
University whose research focuses on geographic areas. The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and the Graduate School of
Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) at Kyoto University arecollaborating to promote the research activities at CIAS. Several
scholars of CSEAS and ASAFAS are staff at CIAS concurrently.
CIAS has a mandate to foster collaboration between Japanese
universities. Japan’s area studies centers have joined forces andestablished the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS). One of

The primary objectives of CIAS are to promote andconduct integrated area studies and to integrate and share
information resources on area studies to make them available
to other universities and institutions nationwide. CIAS
operates as a national joint-use facility and serves as thesecretariat of the Japan Consortium of Area Studies (JCAS).

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area studies more relevant to society’s needs for knowledge. CIAS
operates as the secretariat of JCAS in collaboration with other areastudies centers and institutions.
CIAS has developed important resource materials, which it isconstantly upgrading. These resource materials include multiple
databases that are valuable sources for area studies academics. CIAS
holds, for instance, a complete copy of the British parliamentary
papers from between 1801 until 1922, which were acquired in their
entirety in 1998, and which are now stored in the Kyoto University’sCentral Library and also available online.
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studies. Because areas studies requires the multidisciplinary analysis
of often complex issues, there is a need for innovative ways to not
only analyze, but also to present area studies results. This issue isaddressed in the CIAS Area Informatics Project. Innovative ways ofrepresenting area studies results are explored in close collaboration
with the centers at Kyoto University and elsewhere in Japan.
CIAS’s integrated approach to area studies promotes a new
impetus and relevance to area studies for researchers and audiencesthat have interests beyond a single region.

Development of Area Studies
in JapanThe development of area studies in Japan after the Second World
War was inspired by similar trends in the United States and Europe.
Area studies in Japan integrated various disciplines and researchmethodologies, emphasizing empirical studies and reviewing
original materials. In Japan, area studies was also influenced by anethos of self-examination to build deeper knowledge of Asia before
and during the War.
Several area studies research institutions have been establishedsince 1950s, including the Research Institute for Languages andCultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,
the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, the Center forSoutheast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, and the Institute ofDeveloping Economies at the Japan External Trade Organization.
Towards the late 1970s, it grew clear that a national center wasneeded to network existing area studies centers. In 1993 the Japan
Center for Area Studies was established in response to that need. It
was initially hosted by the National Museum of Ethnology, which
is located in Osaka on the grounds of the 1970 Expo in Osaka. In
2006, the Japan Center for Integrated Area Studies was transferred to
Kyoto University and became the Center for Integrated Area Studies(CIAS). CIAS plays a pivotal role in building networks among areastudies researchers and research institutions, both domestically andinternationally.

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Integrated area studies pursues research topics that are typicalof an area studies portfolio. However, the projects are carried out
at multiple locations, focusing on unusual geographic units, orusing innovative research approaches. There are a number of reasons
why such integrated area studies are relevant within area studies ingeneral.
The field of integrated area studies examines present-day issues
facing every part of the world from a cross-regional perspective.
In today’s world, the different regions of the globe are constantly
deepening their interconnectedness; the various individual areas
are quickly metamorphosing, linking up together and developing
mutual influences on one another. To understand these areas morethoroughly, it is essential to have a clear idea about the particularcharacter of each area. This is achieved by drawing comparisonsand questioning how each area fits into the world scenario while itinteracts with and influences other areas. By making comparisonsand examining relationships, researchers in integrated area studies
attempt to conduct comparative studies, rather than just looking
independently at individual regions.
The concept of area in area studies is subject to reflection andmodification. Societal changes over the last decades, usually identified
as globalization, have reconfigured the politico-geographic landscapein many locations in the world. While nation-states still remain the
primary politico-geographic unit, their role, mandate and influence
have changed. Countries unite into unions in all continents, but at
the same time regions within many countries or even across country
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CIAS pursues a number of integrated area studies in collaboration
with national and international partners. The research theme
Assessing Areas – Area Profiles for the 21st Century, zooms in on thetrend of peoples conducting activities across national and regionalboundaries, and in the process establish new “communities.” This
theme hosts four specific research projects, described below.
The Area Viewed Through Inclusion and Exclusion project reviews
how dynamics of inclusion establish these new communities. Some“nationals” may become a minority, for instance in the case of certain
Muslim communities. These new minorities can become empowered
through international networks that they establish. Because these newcommunities can be physically located on different continents, theirarea is no longer geographically confined, but becomes politically,socially and culturally defined.
The Area Profiles Viewed Through Religions project aims todetermine area profiles from the perspectives of local people byfocusing on religious practices. This research project will review
three major aspects: 1) holy sites and religious facilities, including
ritual spaces that attract believers of a specific religion and holy
scriptures and icons that are distributed beyond regional boundaries;2) videos as media used to record religious practices performed ina specific space, and 3) religions institutionalized through political,
educational and tourism policies. The research intends to clarify themultifaceted reality of religious practices as personal and regional aswell as being the outcome of social powers that use religion to build
social systems. The research also seeks to elucidate the dynamics bywhich such events constitute area profiles. Furthermore, the projectwill integrate various sets of data to illustrate the foundations ofnations that stem from regional and cross-border practices.
The research project The Spread of Neoliberalism and Its Social
Impacts has become particularly relevant with the 2008 global
economic crisis. The research seeks to understand to what extent
neoliberalism has permeated areas of the world, and then analyzes its
subsequent political and social impacts. Equally important are thereactions to neoliberalism and how they have influenced its spreadand public opinion. A simultaneous study in multiple areas will
establish the groundwork for the creation of an analytical framework
for comparative studies.
The project Historical Regional Development Viewed ThroughInteractions Between Humans and the Natural World compares
historical changes in societies and economies in macro areas, suchas Southeast Asia and the Amazon basin. Theories that adhere tonatural determinism insufficiently consider how much nature has
been manipulated by human influences and how this in turn has
shaped development. Nature and humans have both experienced
changes by means of their mutual influences over each other, afact that has been revealed in many fields of research. Generally,
however, human activities are described in a standardized mannerin natural science fields, while the understanding of nature hasremained unchanged in the fields of humanities and social science.
This combined joint-research project aims to provide a platform
for blending the two approaches, and thereby combining researchin the fields of humanities and science related to nature-humaninteractions in order to establish a deeper understanding of theseareas by researchers.

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The Japan Consortium for Area Studies(JCAS), hosted by CIAS, is a new type of
consortium established within the academic
community. Members are mainly research
institutions conducting area studies. However,educational institutions that are training thenext generation of area studies researchersand private organizations, which utilize the results that emerge fromarea studies programs in the real world, are also important members.
The Consortium is novel in that its members come from a varietyof organizations beyond the boundaries of the university, including
research institutions, graduate schools and globally active NGOs.
The Consortium is an open organization. New members are always
welcome.
JCAS makes it possible to construct firm inter-boundary
networks among academic, business and governmental circles and to
conduct effective trans-regional project research through the sharingof academic and technical resources accumulated in cooperation
with member organizations. JCAS also hopes to make an intellectual
contribution to the public as it designs future-oriented programsfor postgraduate education and training schemes that move beyond
existing structures. CIAS institutionally serves as the secretariat of
JCAS.
Continued dialogues regarding the subject of research, or, in otherwords, interactive dialogues between local peoples and researchers ,are the bedrock of area studies programs. The aim of JCAS is todevelop a system whereby the knowledge and resources that belong
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All members benefit from a heightened knowledge base and greater
vitality in their programs from interactions beyond the boundaries
of any one organization. These partnerships catalzye and enhanceresearch, nurture the development of next-generation researchersand promote a wide range of social collaborations.
These active intellectual networks are driven and enhanced by
the core organizations of JCAS. The core organizations presently
include four cooperative international research institutions: CIAS,
the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, theResearch Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and the Slavic Research Centerat Hokkaido University.

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CIAS Nationwide Joint-use Facility
One of the core CIAS institutional projects includes electronicallysharing research resources and publications. Both historical andcontemporary information constitute resources for area studies.
Written documents (in print or manuscript form), films, pictures,
satellite imageries, recorded voices, music and digital data can all beutilized. Because they are stored at scattered institutions around theworld, CIAS aims to interlink and integrate these resources using
the latest informatics tools and to build systems to share them withresearchers and others concerned with the contemporary world.
CIAS is developing various original databases for area studies,mainly from its own holdings. At the same time, CIAS is creating asystem, both technical and institutional, for sharing the knowledge
base and information relating to area studies, known as the“Resource Sharing Database for Area Studies,” which integrates not
only printed documents but also a wide variety of other materials
including maps, photographs, videos, and leaflets.
An important holding of the CIAS Library is a collection of
British parliamentary papers covering the House of Commons,
1800-1986, and the House of Lords, 1800-1922. The collection,“Kyocera Collection of British Parliamentary Papers,” was donatedby Kyocera Inc. to the Japan Center for Area Studies and transferredto the CIAS in 2006. The collection is also open to the public at the
Kyoto University Library, as well as at the internet site “House ofCommons Parliament Papers Online”, available through the Kyoto
University network.
The CIAS Library opened in March 2007. Its holdings include
books, periodicals, maps, and audio visual materials on the modern
history of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. All

holdings are open to the public at the CIAS Library as well as
through the inter-library network system.
Databases accessible at the CIAS homepage:• Resource Sharing Database for Area Studies (test version)• British Parliamentary Papers Database: Maps (1st phase)• Qalam Article Database• CIAS Tamil Films Database• Thai Database of Three Seals of Law

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Kyocera Collection of
British Parliamentary Papers
at Kyoto University
The British Parliamentary Papers comprise over twelve thousand
volumes of documents submitted to the British parliament between
1801-1922. The collection was owned by the former British Board ofTrade. The Kyocera Corporation donated the collection to the Japan
Center for Area Studies, the forerunner of CIAS. The collection is
now stored at Kyoto University’s Main Library and managed by
CIAS.
During the turbulent times of the 19th and 20th centuries, theUnited Kingdom collected information from every part of the world
and compiled it into these parliamentary papers, which have beenused as primary sources in many research fields. In recent years, thedevelopment of digital search tools and internet services has enabledresearchers to access this huge collection with vast and diverse
content.
The collection is open for use by the public to allow all users toview this magnificent collection first-hand. The collection is now
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Area Informatics Project
In area studies, researchers analayze natural, social and cultural
settings using an interdisciplinary research approach. Since the1990s, when people in even the most remote locations of theworld began to feel the effects of globalization, the number of areastudies researchers increased dramatically, and information on many
locations worldwide was assembled and synthesized.
At this same time as this revitalization of area studies, information
technology to process data greatly advanced, giving a great boost to
the field of informatics, and making it more applicable to appliedsciences like area studies.
Since April 2010, CIAS has launched a new project that aims
to apply state-of-the-art information technology to combine andanalyze data produced in area studies research. This is called the
Area Informatics Project. Its overarching goal is to construct a basic
platform for various area studies data so that it can be shared between
different institutions and used to present the results of area studies
more effectively.
Collaborators in this project will integrate multiple databasesso that more complex questions can be asked and researched.
The application of advanced information technology will make itpossible to expand the use of information about multiple locationsin an integrated fashion by more users.
Several databases will be constructed and linked. The first is adatabase of elections and political parties in the post-Soviet countries
of Eastern Europe. This database consists of two related parts. One
includes the results of elections and the list of political parties
since the 1990s in Eastern European countries. The other part has
information on social, political and economic events of Russia andthe European Union. The two databases originated from news andmagazine articles.
The second database is of the region of Aceh, Indonesia that
captures various aspects of the civil war that has plagued the region
since the 1960s and of the recovery process from the tsunami disasterin 2004.
The third database is of articles from the Turkestan Journal(Turkestanskii sbornik). The journal was edited by Konstantin
von Kaufman, the first governor of Russian Turkestan. The
journal published data comprehensively collected during fieldwork
conducted by researchers on Central Asia from 1868 until 1917.

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Integrated database of West Sumatra earthquake in 2009
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Health GIS as an Application of Area Studies
Area informatics uses information engineering technologies suchas metadata including spatiotemporal attributes, databases, ontology,
geographical information systems/science (GIS), global positioning
systems (GPS), remote sensing (RS) and others in area studies. Area
informatics can also be used in public health research. For instance,
individual health conditions are the result of multiple factors,
including not only a person’s constitution but also accumulated
long-term effects from natural and social environments. With
area informatics it is possible to integrate and analyze a variety ofhealth data allowing for a better understanding of individual healthconditions.
In an ongoing CIAS research, the application of area informatics
in public health is now being tested in Japan. A resource-sharing
database, which is an archival database system, organizes various
kinds of materials collected and created during field research. This
database works as a “data-hub” to link multiple databases. Users ofthe database can retrieve many databases on the web seamlessly witha single query.
Two spatio-temporal tools have been developed to analyze datastored in the resource-sharing database. The first tool is HuMap(Humanities Map). It is a newly designed place-oriented systemthat can overlay many maps and images according to geographic
reference points. It can retrieve features from each layer, retrieve
and import layers from the resource-sharing database, and operate
on features among layers. The second tool is HuTime (Humanities
Time), a revolutionary time-oriented system that can overlay many
chronological tables according their timelines. It can retrieve eventsfrom each layer, retrieve and import layers from the resource sharing

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database, and operate on events among layers. HuMap and HuTime
use the same metadata, and they can access each other seamlessly.
Two ontology databases support spatio-temporal data
organization. One is the “Gazetteer Database on Japanese ClassicalPlaces,” a database of past and present place names with related
attributes (reading of the name, location types, inclusive place
name, etc.) and locations (longitudes and latitudes). The second
is “The Calendar Table,” which organizes all dates (Japanese dates,
Gregorian dates etc.) in accordance with Julian dates. This simple
table can be used to convert a date of one calendar to the date ofanother calendar.

International Research
Cooperation

The CIAS mission requires extensive international collaboration.
To expand its efforts, CIAS capitalizes on the international networks
of its staff to establish collaborations with research institutions andindividual researchers who share CIAS’s interests and objectives.
Forms of collaboration include joint projects, memoranda ofunderstanding (MOU), international conferences and peer-to-peer
partnerships. Following is the list of current MOUs with researchorganizations worldwide:• The Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia• Faculties of Agriculture, Forestry, Social Sciences, National
University of Laos, Laos
• The Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan• The Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Indonesia• Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University,
Nepal• Tropenbos International, Netherlands• Institute of Peruvian Studies, Peru
CIAS regularly organizes international meetings directly related
to its programs to report research outcomes and to foster academic
debate. Where possible, these symposia are co-organized withnational or international partners. The symposia are presented at
the Inamori building, where CIAS is located, to make use of thebuilding’s state-of-the-art facilities. The symposia are also frequently
hosted by CIAS collaborators.
Under the Division for Visiting Researchers, CIAS invites

researchers from abroad in order to foster academic exchange andcontribute to skill transfer. These visiting researchers are linked toongoing research collaborations where possible. Visiting researchers
have the opportunity to concentrate on their own work for a six
month period during their stay. Where possible, their activities areintegrated with CIAS events such as international symposia.
In addition to their travel to research sites, CIAS staff areencouraged to visit other area studies research institutions abroad tostrengthen collaborative efforts.

CIAS International Visiting
Scholars Program

One of the main objectives of CIAS is to foster exchange
between scholars. To that end, CIAS has developed two exchange
programs. One program invites international scholars from abroad
to CIAS, and the other program invites scholars from within Japan.
The two programs provide opportunities for researchers to pursue
interests linked to area studies while staying at Kyoto University. The
exchanges contribute to the advancement of area studies, and thepresence of visiting scholars at CIAS increases the awareness among
the national and international academic community of CIAS andJapanese area studies in general. Visiting scholars also contributeto the CIAS area studies research activities. The invited candidates
are not only scholars from academia, but are also people in otherpositions relevant to area studies, such as NGO/NPO activists,
staff of international organizations and funding organizations andjournalists/writers, among others.

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KISHI, Tosihiko
Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
East Asian Area Studies; Modern History
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KOMORI, Hiromi
Associate Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Contemporary History and Politics of Estonia;
Multicultural Societies in Baltic and Nordic Countries

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OBIYA, Chika
Associate Professor,
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Areas of Specialty
Central Asian Area Studies;
Modern and Contemporary History of Uzbekistan

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OSHIKAWA, Fumiko
Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
South Asian Area Studies;
Social Inequality in Contemporary India;
Transformation of Gender Relations
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HAYASHI, Yukio
Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Cultural Anthropology;
Practical Religion and Societyin Theravada Buddhist Culturesin Mainland Southeast Asia

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HOSHIKAWA, Keisuke
Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Technical and social adaptation of local people
to natural environment in Southeast Asia

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YANAGISAWA, Masayuki
Associate Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Agro-ecology; Community
Activities in Agrarian Society in Vietnam

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YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki
Associate Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Studies on Ethnicity and Nationalism
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SHINOHARA, Takuji
Assistant Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Area of Specialty
Information Technology

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HARA, Shoichiro
Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Area of Specialty
Application of Information Technology
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DE JONG, Wil
Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Comparative Studies of Latin America
and Southeast Asia: Governance,
Economics, and the Ecology
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MURAKAMI, Yusuke
Associate Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies
Areas of Specialty
Latin American Area Studies;
Comparative Study of Latin American Politics

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CIAS Staff Research Projects
Comparative study of social changes invillages of the Red River Delta in Vietnam

Spatial and temporal mapping of Buddhist
societies in mainland Southeast Asia

YANAGISAWA, Masayuki

HAYASHI, Yukio

Organizing the systematic conservation of
local documents and oral history in Laos

Changes from irrigation to use of rain waterin 20th century rice production in northeast
Thailand

MASUHARA, Yoshiyuki

HOSHIKAWA, Keisuke

This project explores the multi-layered diversity in the socialorganization of villages in the Red River Delta in Vietnam andthe influence of external forces on these communities. External
influences at the communal level determine many aspects of daily
life and ultimately the outcomes of national projects of economic
growth, education, rural development and others.

Laos has a rich treasure of locally-preserved historical documents
and oral histories, materials that are invaluable for ethno-historicalresearch. This project aims to collect, record and store in various
digital formats these historical documents and oral histories andmake them available for local and international researchers and for
civil society in Laos.

Establishment of medical area informatics
HARA, Shoichiro

This area informatics project uses spatial and temporal models
to analyze medical information. The goal is to develop methods andtools that can be used to establish multiple databases to analyze therelationships between health indicators and other environmental
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This project is a five-country study focusing on crossborderinfluences and networks that have shaped contemporary Buddhist
practices. The study focuses on the location and history of temples,
including the history of caretakers and the design and ornamentationof the temples themselves.

This project documents the dramatic expansion of paddy ricein northeast Thailand over the past 100 years. The study relies onhistorical maps, topographic data and satellite images to record andexplain changes in wet-rice cultivation. Government archives also
provide an important source of information for this project.

Diversity and universality of pastoralism inpost-socialist Eurasia
KAZATO, Mari

Many Eurasian countries have experienced a profound change inpolitical regime, from state socialism to neoliberal market economics.
This study analyses how these change have affected pastoralism andpastoral societies in terms of local practices and social changes.

Comparative study of the state and politicalparty change in Central and South America

Study on history and memory in the Baltic
countries

MURAKAMI, Yusuke

KOMORI, Hiromi

This study aims to clarify the transformation, largely driven
by neo-liberal reforms, of Andean and Central American nation
states over the last three decades and how this has affected or been
influenced by a dynamic role and functioning of political parties.

A platform for area disaster information
YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki

This study aims to collect, process, store and disseminate
multiple time and location specific information sources on disasterareas, including newspaper articles, photographs and transcripts ofinterviews. The cases studies for the project are the 2004 tsunami in
Aceh and the 2009 earthquake in West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Transnational natural resource governance inborderlands

This project documents the dramatic social changes following
independence in Estonia and Latvia since the dissolution of theSoviet Union. The post-Soviet era is characterized by various
historical discourses among Latvians, Estonians and Russians. The
project documents multiple sources of historical narratives, including
personal memories, and analyzes their linkages.

Establishment of a digital Turkistanica
OBIYA Chika

This project establishes an international network for thepreservation, publishing and practical use of rare historical documents
and materials for Central Asia studies. The focus is on Uzbekistan,but the project extends peripherally to record and preserve relevantmaterials that have resulted from the intensive historical, culturaland economic exchanges in the Central Asian region.

Wil de JongThis project explores natural resource governance in borderlands,
focusing especially on how lower tiers of governments or otherborderland actors coordinate or cooperate often within a restrictive
or antagonistic bi-national political environment.

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CIAS Publications
CIAS Discussion Papers

Disparities in the globalized world: reality, perception andmovements. Fumiko Oshikawa, ed. CIAS Discussion Paper
16, 2010.
Des expériences transfrontalières à la formation d’une Communauté
Economique en Asie le rôle des investissements directs
extérieurs japonais. Anne Androis. CIAS Discussion Paper
14, 2010.
Forest policies for a sustainable humanosphere. Wil de Jong, ed.
CIAS Discussion Paper 8, 2009.
Tendencias políticas actuales en los países andinos. Yusuke Murakami
ed. CIAS Discussion Paper 5, 2008.
Transborder environmental and natural resource management. Wil
de Jong, ed. CIAS Discussion Paper 4, 2008
Islam at the margins: The Muslims of Indochina. No. 3. Omar
Farouk, Hiroyuki Yamamoto ed. CIAS Discussion Paper 3,
2008
Después del Consenso de Washington: dinámica de cambios políticoeconómicos y administración de recursos naturales en lospaíses andinos. Yusuke Murakami, ed. CIAS Discussion
Paper 2, 2007.
Enduring states: Considering states in light of nations and ethnic
groups. Fumiko Oshikawa, ed. CIAS Discussion Paper 1,
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Monographs and Edited Volumes

Transborder governance of forests, rivers and trees. Wil de Jong,
Denyse Snelder, Noboru Ishikawa, eds. Earthscan, London,
2010.
Perú en la era del Chino: La política no institucionalizada y el pueblo
en busca de un salvador. Yusuke Murakami. IEP and CIAS,
Lima, 2007.
Practical Buddhism among the Thai-Lao. Hayashi Yukio. Kyoto andMelbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press,
2003.
Biosphere as a mediator between beosphere and humanosphere.
Masayuki Yanagisawa. Kyoto: Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference of the Kyoto University G-COE
Program, 2009.
National integration and formation of multi-ethnic society:Experiences in Estonia and Latvia after EU enlargement. N.
Hashimoto, H. Komori, eds. Kwansei Gakuin University,92, 2009.

Selected Journal Papers

Forest rehabilitation and forest transition. W. de Jong. Biotropica,
42(1): 3–9, 2010.
Health GIS and Area Studies. S. Hara. International Journal of
Geoinformatics, 5 (1): 49-55, 2009.
Sikkim Himalayan-Agriculture: Improving and scaling up of
the traditionally managed agricultural systems of global
significance. G. Sharma, L. Liang, E. Sharma, J.R. Subba
and K. Tanaka, Resources Science, 31 (1), 21-30, 2009.
Effects of topography on the construction and efficiency ofearthen weirs for rice irrigation in Northeast Thailand. K.
Hoshikawa, S. Kobayashi, Paddy and Water Environment,
7(1): 1-17. 2009.
Future scenarios as a tool for decision making in forest communities.
K. Evans, W. de Jong, P. Cronkleton. Sapiens 1 (2): 39-46,
2008.
Interpretando los años de vigencia del fujimorismo. Y. Murakami.
Argumentos, 2 (4), 2008.
Conflicts on the way to communal forest management in northern
Bolivia. W. de Jong, S. Ruiz, M. Becker. Forest Policy andEconomics, 8, 447-457, 2006.
Genesis and culmination of Uz? Nishiyama proposal of a model coreof a future city for the Expo 70 Site (1960-1973). A. Flores
Urushima. Planning Perspectives. 22: 391-416, 2007.

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Fujimori's controversial decade of government, from his surprise entry into the politicalscene in 1990 until his fleeing to Japan in 2000, has been the subject of many studies andanalysis. Most studies have emphasized the “Fujimori factor” in the study of Peru’s 1990
politics. A monumental study completed at CIAS aims to locate the Fujimori government ina larger Peruvian historical perspective. The volume reviews Fujimori’s origins and his personal
and professional life before entering the political arena. It carefully analyzes the election thatcatapulted him into power and his two periods of governments. The self-coup, through which
he brought order to the country in political chaos, receives special attention. His post-1995
period of government is dealt with separately as a period of institutional decline and setback
of some of the progress achieved during the first five years. The volume demonstrates that an
authoritarian approach, a deep-seated suspicion of political friends and foes and a disregard for
democratic processes were common throughout the Fujimori regime.

Murakami, Yusuke. Perú en la era del Chino: La política no institucionalizada y el
pueblo en busca de un Salvador. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima. 2007.

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Transnational Resource Governance in Borderlands
Natural environments often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. While
this transnational phenomenon can create conflicts when regulating environmental goods andservices, it also generates opportunities for joint multinational efforts beyond single country
capabilities. A study, recently completed by CIAS staff and collaborators, reviews governanceissues of transborder environments in countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.
The case studies on marine resources in international waters, rivers that travel through several
countries and contiguous tropical forests across national borders provide a wide range oftransborder natural resource examples and the diverse regulatory regimes that need to be devised
to achieve successful management. The ten case studies form a basis upon which a synthesisizedtheory on transborder environmental governance could be constructed.

De Jong, W., Snelder D., Ishikawa, N. Transborder governance of forests, rivers
and seas. Earthscan, London, 2010.

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