The 9th Kobe University Brussels European Centre Symposium

SMART CITIES,SECURE SOCIETIES:
Breakthroughs in EU-Japan
Research Cooperation
Jointly organised with Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Date: 24 October 2018

Preface
I am pleased to present this report on the 9th Kobe University Brussels European Centre (KUBEC)
Symposium “Smart Cities, Secure Societies: Breakthroughs in EU and Japan Research Cooperation”, which was held in Brussels on 24 October 2018. KUBEC has been holding an annual symposium in Brussels since its establishment in 2010. Since then, we have succeeding in expanding
our academic network in Europe and raising the proﬁle of Kobe University and other Japanese
universities. To further our partnership with Europe, we place a high emphasis on holding
academic workshops and seminars at KUBEC or at partner institutions as well as the annual
symposium in Brussels, featuring guest speakers from both European institutions and Japanese
universities.
This year marked the third time that the symposium was held in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where KUBEC is located. In July 2015 KUBEC relocated to the internationaloﬃce buildings of VUB in order to fulﬁl its role as a base for international collaboration in education and research between Japan, Belgium, and Europe at large. This symposium is part of ourinitiative to strengthen collaboration with European partner universities and to further foster
joint research between Japan and Europe. This year, Kobe University welcomed participantsfrom Japanese and European organisations including the Delegation of the European Union to
Japan and the European Commission in order to bring in the perspectives of policymakers on thepartnership between Japan and Europe.
The theme of the 9th symposium, “Smart Cities, Secure Societies: Breakthroughs in EU and Japan
Research Cooperation”, focused on the shared challenges Japanese and European societies faceas they pursue future development. The latest research results were introduced by both
Japanese and European researchers in ‘Social Sciences’ addressing global challenges anddisaster resilience, ‘Smart Cities’ for energy conservation and improved living standards, and‘Cultural exchange between East and West’ covering historical and contemporary contexts. We
hope this exchange of knowledge will lead to future collaboration using advanced theories andtechnology. Furthermore, welcoming prominent researchers from around the world, we also
discussed perspectives on interdisciplinary research and education with regard to pressing
global issues. As a result of this symposium, collaborative projects are under discussion or havealready begun. This event has strongly cemented Kobe University’s presence in Europe andcontributed to expanding Kobe University’s academic exchange network to enhance Japaneseand European research collaboration for the betterment of our societies.

President
Kobe University

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The 9th Kobe University Brussels European Centre Symposium

Smart Cities, Secure Societies :Breakthroughs in EU and Japan Research Cooperation
Organised jointly with Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
9:15-10:00(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM A)
Moderator
Opening Addresses

Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University
Prof. Hiroshi Takeda, President, Kobe University
Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
H.E. Mr. Kazuo Kodama, Ambassador of Japan to the European Union
Mr. Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR SECURE SOCIETIES

10:00-13:30(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM A)
10:00-11:35
11:55-13:30

Theme 1: Security Challenges in a Changing World
Theme 2: Disaster-Resilient Societies

SMART CITIES, SMART SOCIETIES

10:00-13:30(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM B)
10:00-11:35
11:55-13:30

Theme 1: Smart Cities: Energy and Mobility
Theme 2: Smart Cities: Citizens,Users and Life

10:00-13:30(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM C)

BETWEEN ORIENT & OCCIDENT: CULTURAL MEMORY & CULTURAL TRANSFER
Theme 1: Historical Context
Theme 2: Contemporary Challenges

10:00-11:35
11:55-13:30

14:30-17:00(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM A)

Evidence-based Disaster Medicine: how can technology improve the response?

14:30-17:00(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM B)

Rethinking Mobility, Reinventing Cityspaces: Smart Technologies for Smarter and More Liveable Cities

14:30-17:00(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM C)

Food, Culture and History: a Cultural/Culinary Anthropology of East-West Exchanges

17:00-17:15(U-Residence CONFERENCE ROOM A)
Prof. Matsuto Ogawa, Vice-President, Kobe University
Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen, Vice-Rector, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Organiser: Kobe University
Co-Organiser: Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Opening SpeechProf. Hiroshi Takeda
President of Kobe University (Japan)

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to extend my heartfelt welcome to all of you
to the 9th Symposium of Kobe University Brussels European Centre (KUBEC), entitled ʻSmart Cities,
Secure Societies: Breakthroughs in EU and Japan Research Cooperationʼ, jointly organised with Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB) for the third year in a row.
It is a great pleasure and honour to deliver this opening address in the presence of many
distinguished guests and familiar friends. Please allow me to begin by expressing my sincere
gratitude, in particular to our honourable guests,
1. His Excellency Ambassador Kazuo Kodama (Mission of Japan to the European Union)
and
2. Mr. Patrick Child (Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Research and Innovation,
European Commission), representing Mr. Jean-Eric PAQUET (Director General, Directorate Generalfor Research and Innovation, European Commission).
I would also like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to
3. Professor Caroline Pauwels (Rector, VUB),
4. Professor Romain Meeusen (Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, VUB),
and the International Relations and Mobility Oﬃce of VUB, for their warm support in organising
todayʼs symposium.
Kobe University has been holding its KUBEC Symposium every year since 2011. With the participationof researchers and students from Japanese and European institutions, the annual Symposium is an
important occasion for all the participants to discuss collaboration in research and education. Last
yearʼs Symposium focused on EU-Japan research collaboration in Medicine, Biotechnology and Social
Sciences. The symposium was also the second jointly-organised event with VUB. International
research collaboration among presenters started or expanded after the event, and it strengthened thetight partnership between Kobe University and VUB. Moreover, joint research collaboration has
launched in Biotechnology and Migration. I hope this yearʼs event provides the same opportunities fortodayʼs presenters.
This symposium also introduces and enhances international collaboration between Kobe University
and other European partner universities, such as our Erasmus+ partners Jagiellonian University(Poland), Caʼ Foscari University (Italy), Paris-Nanterre University (France) and Trier University(Germany). I am pleased to also have the participation of researchers from our new partners, such as
RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Tbilisi State University (Georgia), with which Kobe University
signed Memoranda of Understanding last year.

4The 9 th Symposium today includes sessions in the morning focusing on the common societal
challenges and technological innovation taking place in the EU and Japan.
1. Kobe University, as a national university of Kobe, the city struck by the Great Hanshin Earthquake in
1995, has been playing a leading role in disaster management research. In 2017, the Kobe University
Center for Resilient Design was established to promote multidisciplinary projects for creating livable
cities. Today researchers from this new Centre introduce their latest research, which I hope will be ofgreat interest to our European colleagues.
2. In our age, innovative technologies are increasingly in demand in order to better address our needs.
The EU and Japan share many societal problems, ranging from aging populations to growing demandfor energy supply in urbanized areas. Smartness has become highly relevant to our communities,
precisely because such qualities can eﬀectively address the new demands of our societies, be they inthe ﬁelds of technology, or for economic growth. You can also take a closer look at the research
activities in Smart Technology displayed on the panels at the entrance space, and in the afternoon
intensive workshop.
3. As globalization and technological innovation progress, social ﬂuctuation and cultural conﬂict havebeen observed all over the world. The challenges we face here are fundamentally connected tohistorical backgrounds. Today, we examine these phenomena in the historical context of how wetackle and attempt to solve cultural and societal challenges in Asia and Europe. In the afternoon
intensive workshop, we also take up traditional foods in Belgium, Georgia and Japan, and how they
are produced and have been transformed historically through cultural fusion. I hope that the audiencehas the opportunity to think about how we harmonize our diﬀerences while tasting samples of these
traditional cuisines.
It is my sincere wish that todayʼs Symposium will provide a meaningful opportunity for academic
dialogue between participants from the EU and Japan.
Thank you very much for your participation today.

5Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen
Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium)

Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen's opening address began with an introduction to the motto of Vrije
Universiteit Brussel “Thinking must never submit itself , a quote from French mathematician andphilosopher Henri Poincaré as part of a speech in honour of the 75th anniversary of VUB in 1909. Thesewords emphasize the importance of pursuing the facts without being inﬂuenced by preconceptions,doctrines or societal pressures. Professor Dr. Meeusen went on to speak about the essential role ofuniversities in continuing to seek out new challenges and new frontiers of knowledge. He stressedthat in today's climate of fake news and popularism, it is ever more vital to pursue the truths found inscience. The speech ended with an expression of his expectations for a successful symposium andhopes for future pioneering joint research projects with Kobe University and other institutions
worldwide.

H.E. Mr. Kazuo Kodama
Ambassador of Japan to the European Union

Prof. Hiroshi Takeda, President of Kobe University,
Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen, Vice-Rector of VUB,
Mr. Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good Morning to you all,I am delighted to be given an opportunity to speak to you at this opening session.
（Introduction）
Kobe University hosted its very ﬁrst symposium in Brussels in 2011, focusing on Japan- EU education
policy. Todayʼs symposium is the second of its kind being co-hosted by Kobe University and the VUB. I
salute both universities for continuing their academic collaboration in such a steadfast and enduring
manner.

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(Ideological mega-trend: liberal democracy)
Today, I would like to present to you my thoughts on “ideological mega-trends” as the backdrop
against which todayʼs intellectual exchanges take place. My having served as a professional diplomat
for more than 42 years leads me to strongly believe that the ideas of human equality and freedom
have been growing inexorably over the past few centuries. Since the end of WWII in particular, thismega-trend has been ﬁrmly embodied in a political system of “liberal democracy”. Japan and the EU
are united in our shared commitment to liberal democracy, which is the foundation of our politicaland economic strategic partnership for peace, prosperity and a rules-based international order.
(Challenges posed within our own democracies)
Yet, liberal democracy is now confronted by the challenges from within.
To put it simply, Europe is struggling against a populist backlash to liberal democracy which has
traditionally extoled the values of diversity in sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity as well as
encouraging free competition and equality of opportunity for all. The political parties of the center
seem to have lost ground to both far left and far right parties, which together preach anti-EU,
anti-immigration, and anti-globalization rhetoric. In a nutshell, values based on “illiberal democracy”.
(What should we do?)To these challenges, what should we do? My answer is to set our eyes ﬁrmly on the lodestar. I say that
this lodestar is to do more to improve the quality of our liberal democracies.
You may reply: “Yes, but what if the voters continue to support politicians who never cease to show
contempt for the values of liberal democracy?”
One way forward is to respond to the concerns of the economically left-behind in our democracies ina way that goes beyond “throwing money at the problem.” The global recovery is not reaching thepoorest in our societies. It is true that free and open trade has lifted billions across the globe out ofpoverty, yet we must acknowledge that globalization produces losers as well as winners.
Throughout my days at the UN and at the OECD, I have come to be convinced that the concept of“human security” can augment our liberal democracy to meaningfully enrich our conventional ideas
of equal opportunity. In essence, “human security” means “the protection and empowerment of anindividual as “an agent” whose lifetime career trajectory is full of potential at the beginning. I do
believe that the concept of “empowerment” could be a useful policy tool in ensuring freedom,
equality and the dignity of humanity in the liberal democratic system.
(A new Japan-EU joint initiative in academic exchanges)
Before I conclude, let me say a few words about a new Japan-EU joint initiative, namely, a joint
funding program to develop highly integrated master programs and provide scholarships for talented
students from Europe and Japan to study abroad. The joint call is now being published in theframework of the EU Erasmus Joint Master Degree action and the Japan Inter-University Exchange
Project. Your applications are highly encouraged and welcome.

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It is our shared belief that, through such programs, the intellectual exchanges between our
universities will enrich the people-to-people ties between Japan and Europe.
(Closing)
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am impressed by the rich selection of timely and interesting topics on the agenda today, covering
subjects such as “Research and Innovation for Secure Societies”, “Smart Cities, Smart Societies” and“Between Orient & Occident: Cultural Memory & Cultural Transfer” to name a few. I can foresee awonderful inter-disciplinary dialogue among todayʼs participants. Let me conclude by wishing
every success in achieving closer academic
partnerships and cooperation between Europe and Japan.
Thank you for your attention.

Mr. Patrick Child
Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission

Openness to the world is one of the three priorities of Commissioner Carlos Moedas for science,research and innovation as it is essential for excelling in science and technology, getting research
results faster to the market, and creating new business opportunities;
EU strategy on international cooperation in research and innovation (2012) includes cooperation
with strategic partner countries such as Japan
Agreement on S&T Cooperation (2011). Focus on higher impact of research, promotion of
innovations and growth, strengthening of the capacity to tackle global societal challenges;
Focus now on implementation of EU-Japan Strategic Partnership in Research and Innovation(endorsed by the EU-Japan Summit 2015);
A very solid cooperation in thematic areas such as ICT, Aeronautics and Advanced Materials
research;
In November 2017 new areas identiﬁed for future cooperation: Renewable Energy Research,
Automated Driving, Health research, Arctic Research, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) (including
Nature based solutions and Earthquake Early Warning System), and Quantum Technology.
Implementing Arrangement to provide opportunities for collaboration between European andJapanese researchers signed on 7 October between the European Commission and Japan Scienceand Technology Agency (JST). Focus on promoting researchers' mobility. [This is the second suchcooperation arrangement we also have ERC and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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(JSPS) from 2015];
Importance of co-funding . The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) is co-funding Japanese
partners in advanced materials research, and will do for ﬁrst responders (in security research), which
is one of the topics of this symposium;
In July, the political agreement for a new EU-Japan joint initiative, to develop highly integrated
joint master programmes. EUR € 6 million to deliver a joint master programme of the duration of 1
to 2 years and oﬀer scholarships to students;
The new action will be published in few days under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree
action of Erasmus+ and the Japanese Inter-University Exchange Project (IUEP).

Civil protection is a newly emerging area of bilateral security cooperation between the EU andJapan, adding to long-standing cooperation in multilateral fora, such as the United Nations World
Conference on Disaster Reduction (Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 and Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015);
FP7 project SYNER-G is a good example of the successful cooperation between Japan and Europe.
The project SYNER-G developed an innovative methodological framework for the assessment ofphysical as well as socio-economic seismic vulnerability at urban and regional level;
In Horizon 2020 WP 2018-2020, there are 22 calls encouraging cooperation with Japan, such as in
the INCO ﬂagship on “Operational forecasting of earthquakes and early warning capacity for more
resilient cities”. There is strong potential for mutual beneﬁts from R&D collaboration on Crisis
Management in general, and more speciﬁcally on the equipment of ﬁrst responders where
cooperation with Japan is targeted in the Horizon 2020 WP 2018-2020 INCO ﬂagship on“Technologies for ﬁrst responders”.
Projects have been funded under the 2018 EU-Japan Joint Calls on ʻAdvanced technologies for a
hyper-connected society in the context of Smart Cityʼ and on ʻLeadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies Information and Communication Technologiesʼ to foster interoperability of Internetof Things devices/platforms and promote collaboration between business operators and platforms;
To address the food, energy and water nexus, we fund the ERANET Sustainable Urbanisation Global
Initiative (EN-SUGI) to promote collaboration between the Joint Programming Initiative Urban
Europe and the Belmont Forum that associates several international partners, Japan, US, Argentina,
Brasil being some of them;High Level Expert Group on innovative cities to formulate a new EU Strategic R&I Agenda. The SRIA
will be coherently linked to the Global Covenant of Mayors Strategic Agenda on cities, the IPCC
cities Agenda and the Sendai Framework priorities for synergies and collaboration opportunities.

We look forward to forging an even stronger cooperation with Japan under “Horizon Europe”, the
new EU R&I Framework Programme for 2021-2027. It has an unprecedented ambitious EUR €100
billion budget;
Horizon Europe will be open for participation to the rest of the world. Oﬀer more opportunities for
association to countries like Japan. There will be even greater opportunities for targeted joint
actions under Missions and the European Innovation Council, the two big novelties of Horizon
Europe.

910Parallel Session 1 10:00-13:30

Research and Innovation for Secure Societies

Interactive Workshops
and Brokerage Events A 14:30-17:00
Evidence-based Disaster Medicine:
how can technology improve the response?

Report on Session 1-1: Research and Innovation for Secure Societies -Security Challenges in a
Changing WorldPart 1 of Parallel Session 1 was held on the theme of “Security Challenges in a Changing World”. As
noted in the symposium opening address by the Ambassador of Japan to the European Union, this
topic is closely linked to the recent debate surrounding security in East Asia, and it is also related toissues of climate change and the recent succession of disasters.
Based on this division, two sub-themes were established within Theme 1 of Session 1. The ﬁrst
focused on security issues surrounding the political and social landscape of East Asia in recent years,
and the second explored connections between security and disasters. Speaking on the former theme
were Professor Kan Kimura (Kobe University), Professor Joanna Guzik (Jagiellonian University, on
behalf of Rector Adam Jelonek), Professor Piotr Kłodkowski (Jagiellonian University), and Professor
Alexander Mattelaer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Professor Hiroshi Okumura (Kobe University) spoke on
the latter theme, and Professor Kristian Cedervall Lauta (University of Copenhagen) was alsoscheduled to speak but unfortunately unable to attend. The session was moderated by Professor
Kiyomitsu Yui (Executive Director of the Centre for EU Academic Collaboration, Kobe University).
Professor Kimura, one of Japanʼs leading specialists in this area, analyzed the recent security situationin East Asia with a focus on the Korean peninsula. From Jagiellonian University we heard apresentation on security issues surrounding the relations between Southeast Asia and Europe fromthe perspective of a former diplomat (Professor Kłodkowski) and immigration-related issues in Eastern
Europe (Professor Guzik on behalf of Professor Jelonek), while Professor Mattelaer provided acomprehensive analysis of recent world aﬀairs from a European viewpoint. Based on a wealth ofpractical experience, Professor Okumura argued the pivotal importance of successive disasters andour responses in the context of security issues in todayʼs world.
All the presentations were of a very high standard based on the accumulation of investigative
research. To ﬁnish, we had time for a general discussion, allowing us to delve further into a multifaceted look at security issues in todayʼs world of rapid upheavals, as well as providing suggestions tolink the two sub themes.

Report on Session 1-2: Research and Innovation for Secure Societies -Disaster-Resilient Societies
The session opened with a general overview from Dr. Ives Hubloue on how technology can help in
disaster medical response (for example Google Glass, patient tracking, and use of drones). Dr Gerlant
van Berlaer then gave a lecture on the importance of medical data gathering during humanitarian
missions by Emergency Medical Teams, emphasizing the essential aspects of user-friendly technology
and cultivating local resilience. This was followed by Professor Osamu Tsukihashiʼs introduction to the“Lost Homes Project” related to The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in the Tohoku area,
Japan on March 11, 2011. The project aims to recreate lost towns and villages as 1:500 scale models inorder to inherit and preserve memories accumulated in local scenery, environment and life. In theﬁnal presentation of the morning, Professor Akihiko Hokugo discussed the potential of assistive
technologies to enhance the resilience of community-based disaster preparedness, addressing
documented evacuation cases of vulnerable people, and experimental cases of community-based
evacuation drills in urban environments. He showed the results of a study that aims to develop amethodological model to evaluate the eﬀectiveness of evacuation planning for coastal hazards.
During the brokerage workshop in the afternoon we were able to discuss how diﬀerent technologies
can be implemented during disaster medical response (and preparedness). Participants in theworkshop included Emergency Medical Teams from various European countries including Belgium,
and a company involved in the development of diﬀerent technologies for disaster medical response.

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Parallel Session 1
Prof. Kiyomitsu Yui

Moderator

Executive Advisor to the President, Graduate School of Humanities,
Kobe University (Japan)

Kiyomitsu Yui is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Humanities, Executive Adviser to the
President in Charge of International Collaboration, and Executive Director, Centre for EU Academic
Collaboration, Kobe University. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and Asian Chair at
Sciences Politiques Paris.
His main research subject is about sociological theory from G.H. Mead via T. Parsons to U. Beck. He is
also interested in the process of modernization, second modernization, and popular culture in thecomparative and global context. His publications include From ʻThis is Not a Pipeʼ to ʻThis is Not
Fukushimaʼ: Global Disaster and Visual Communication, in The Consequences of Global Disasters,
ed.by A. Elliott et.al.,2016, Routledge, and Multiple Modernities and Japan: Nagai Kafū and H.G. Wells,in New Steps in Japanese Studies, Caʼ Foscari Japanese Studies Series 5, 2017.

Prof. Kan Kimura
Director, Centre for Asian Academic Collaboration, Graduate Schoolof International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University (Japan)

Professor Kan is a professor at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe
University and has previously been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Australia National
University, the Sejong Institute, and the University of Washington. He has published thirteen books
and numerous articles and is an expert on the relationship between Korea (both North and South) andJapan.

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Northeast Asia is rapidly changing. North Korea suddenly changed their political stance and started
negotiation with international society. The historical summit meeting between President Trump andChairman Kim Jong-un is a result of this, and now the world is watching how their negotiation willchange the Korean Peninsula situation.
However, such dramatic change in Korea is just a part of the structural change in Northeast Asia. Then
how is the region changing and what are the reasons for this change? This presentation analyzes thechanging situation in Northeast Asia by two elements: the rising of China and US populism.

Prof. Alexander Mattelaer
Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Prof Dr Alexander Mattelaer is the director of the European Aﬀairs programme at Egmont ‒ the RoyalInstitute for International Relations ‒ and an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His
research interests include the politics of European integration, transatlantic relations, defence
policy-making, and the ongoing redeﬁnition of state sovereignty. Earlier he was the Assistant Director
at the VUB Institute for European Studies as well as a Fulbright Schuman fellow at Harvard University
and at the National Defense University. His teaching portfolio includes courses on the European
Union, international security, and defence policy-making. He obtained his PhD in Political Sciencefrom the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Master degrees from the University of Bath and the Universityof Leuven.

During the period following the conclusion of the Cold War, the international system revolved aroundthe expansion of multilateral institutions and the so-called rules-based order, which was ultimately
underpinned by preponderant US power. With the ʻunipolar momentʼ fading into history, however,
the international system is entering a period of increasing tension and instability. As allies and trading
partners of the US, European countries and Japan have largely beneﬁtted from the past expansion ofthe ʻliberalʼ rules-based order. Correspondingly, the crumbling of the latter would confront them withmajor economic, military and geopolitical challenges of their own. The rise of China and the domestic
political developments within the US thus raise major questions for the future of the international
system. In turn, this is prompting Japan and Europe to reﬂect on their own position in the world thatlies beyond the ʻpost-Cold Warʼ period. This paper paints an overview of European responses to theongoing calibration of the international system. It does so with a view to exploring the question towhat extent common interests and concerns can be found in Europe-Japan relations. The paper
concludes with a set of observations on how the relationship between Japan and the European
continent can be strengthened and consolidated.

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Prof. Kristian Cedervall Lauta(Unable to attend)

Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)Kristian Cedervall Lauta is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen andchairperson of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE). He is a leading expert within
disaster law in general, the intersection of disasters and human rights in particular, and the main
author of numerous international peer-reviewed articles and books on law and disaster risk. He is amember of the steering committee of the University of Copenhagenʼs Center for Sustainability
Science and a co-PI of several international research projects, hereunder the H2020-project ESPREssO.

Over the last 30 years, societies have become increasingly eﬃcient at managing natural hazards.
Nevertheless, global vulnerability has increased dramatically because of population growth,urbanization and the increasing dependence on infrastructure. Europe is no exception in this regard.
In order to reduce risks further in the future, Europe needs to address a new set of challenges. “Frommanagement to governance” is an often used dictum, and is embodied in priority two of the Sendai
Framework. This is increasingly becoming clear as the ﬁeld of actors in disaster risk management is
becoming larger and more complex, and as the private sector and civil society will play larger roles in
the future, not least because of the focus on resilience. Disaster risk governance means using
governance measures to support disaster risk management and risk reduction activities. Thus, rather
than only addressing disasters by strengthening technical emergency capacities, disaster risk
governance focuses on arranging, coordinating and organizing activities, priorities and strategies
across all sectors and domains of society with the intent of reducing and managing disaster risks. The
key message of the talk is how governance measures are needed to optimize disaster risk reduction,
preparedness, prevention, response, and how such measures might look.

Prof. Piotr Kłodkowski
Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations,
Jagiellonian University (Poland)(born in 1964) Professor at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian
University in Cracow, Poland. A former diplomat and the Ambassador of Poland to India (2009-2014).
A member of the Committee for Asia and Paciﬁc, Ministry of Foreign Aﬀairs, Poland, a member of the15Advisory Board of “Muslim Perspectives” published by the Muslim Institute (Islamabad/London). In his
research he focuses on international relations in South Asia and the Greater Middle East. From 2015 to2017 he delivered lectures on South Asia at the NATO Defense College in Rome, and since January
2019 he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Rochester (USA).

In the 21st century Asia is commonly believed to be a centre stage player in global policies. Although
China and the United States are likely to dominate in the Asian Big Game for the next decade, otherplayers, especially India, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam or South Korea may exert a serious impact on theprocess of redeﬁning the continental Realpolitik. The most crucial challenge for China and India is tomeet their own energy security needs in the politically volatile environment, where the diversiﬁcation
options are quite limited. Beijingʼs plans to control the strategic transportation corridors on the Indian
Ocean will be opposed by New Delhi, whose energy security depends to a large extent on the Middle
East. Both Asian superpowers have clashing interests and ambitions in the region and both of them
are ready to pursue their policies despite the vetoes of their mighty opponents. Another challengethat many Asian big players may face in the next decade is constructing a regional security
mechanism which could prevent any serious military conﬂicts, especially in a situation when theAmerican role in global aﬀairs is likely to become more restrained.

Prof. Johanna Marta Guzik(on behalf of Prof. Adam Jelonek)
Institute of Middle and Far East Studies,
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Poland. Awarded MA and Philosophy Doctor from Jagiellonian University in 2004 and 2010,
respectively. Since 2006 has been working at the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies, Jagiellonian
University as a Lecturer and since 2011 as an Assistant Professor. In 2013 received a special award
from JU Rector for her publication in Polish “Japanʼs policy towards Jewish issue 1932-1945”. The
research focuses on: contemporary Japanese society, Japanʼs social policy, Japanese minority policy,
history of Japan, Korea ‒ Japan relations, Poland, V4 and EU migration policy and multiculturalism.

The number of immigrants coming to Poland has been growing steadily posing a challenge not onlyin the sphere of cultural relations, but in security in general, especially when some individuals commit
crimes. The scope of the acts against the law is vast ranging from oﬀences and minor crimes to theserious ones. The presentations is designated to show the issue of crimes committed in Poland in the
21st century by foreigners with emphasis on Asia-born individuals.

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Prof. Adam W. Jelonek (Unable to attend)
Institute of Middle and Far East Studies,
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Professor in Social Science (University of Warsaw). Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Poland to Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines during 2010-2014.
Director of the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 2005-2010, andfrom 2016. Rector's Representative for Internationalization, Jagiellonian University in Krakow from
2017.
Visiting Professor at Columbia University (US), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Universiti Utara
Malaysia, Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (Sweden) 2001, Beijing Academy of Social Science (China).
His research focuses on sociology of social change and transformation, world system theory,dependency theories, political systems of South-East Asia, political anthropology of South-East Asia.

According to the UN data, there are more than 210 million international migrants in the world today,
and their number is growing. This constant process of international migration is one of the mostimportant challenges of our times, as seen from political, economic and social perspectives of both
host and home countries. Immigrants establish families, participate in political life, create networks,
work, or create jobs for others. This is why, entrepreneurship of immigrants is one of the important
aspects of migration, and a research area that attracts growing attention of scholars and policy makers
from around the world. Recently, the economic side of immigration has also become one of the key
issues for public institutions and policy makers in Poland. The presentation focuses on the current
situation of selected Asian-born communities in Poland, with special attention given to theirentrepreneurship.

Prof. Hiroshi Okumura
Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan. His research focuses on JapaneseModern History and Historical Materials Study. Commissioner of the National Task Force for the17

Japanese Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Mitigation Network.

This presentation is made based on “memory” preservation activities in disaster areas from theHanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. In an area hit by alarge-scale disaster, there are two types of recoveries the community there should pursue: one is therecovery of hardware (such as rebuilding houses) the other is recovery of software, which is to recover
the culture underlying the community. The community culture is based on historical records,
documents, and memory. Therefore, to keep the memory of disaster areas, two kinds of preservation
activities are possible. The ﬁrst one is to ʻrescueʼ and preserve damaged old documents and books, aswell as memory of families and individuals. The second one is to collect and preserve records about
the recovery process in disaster areas.

Prof. Dr. Ives Hubloue

Moderator

Department of Emergency Medicine UZ Brussel and ResearchGroup on Emergency and Disaster Medicine,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel)and of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine at the Medical School of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (ReGEDiM Brussels). He graduated in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium) in 1988 and started a residency in Internal Medicine (ﬁnished in 1993) followed by a training
in emergency, intensive care and disaster medicine (ﬁnished in 1995). In 2003 he obtained his PhD in
Medical Sciences. As a full professor at the medical school of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel he isinvolved in the teaching program for medical students (graduate). He is also the program director forthe residency training in emergency medicine training (postgraduate) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Besides this he is a Faculty member and Chair of the Strategic Management Board of the European
Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM, www.dismedmaster.com) course.

Thousands of people are killed every year in natural and man-made disasters. Preparedness, response,
recovery and mitigation are widely accepted steps of the disaster management cycle and aredesigned to aid emergency managers to plan for and minimize the impact of major incidents. Moreand more Emergency Medical Teams are relying on technologies to conduct their rescue missions and18

help those who have been aﬀected. For instance, drones and robots have been used to locate
survivors and transmit information to emergency teams. They have also been used to drop
humanitarian aid. Not only in the response phase but also in the preparedness phase of disasters
technology is playing a crucial role. For example fatalities from natural disasters can be reduced if thedisaster can be predicted and advance warning given to people in the danger zone. Several disasterprediction technologies have been developed over the years (ex. Wildﬁre Prediction, Flood Prediction,
Earthquake Prediction). A brief overview of some of these new technologies will be presented.

Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer
Department of Emergency Medicine UZ Brussel and ResearchGroup on Emergency and Disaster Medicine,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Gerlant van Berlaer is a pediatric emergency physician, pediatric intensivist and master in disastermedicine. He is Chief of Clinic for Pediatric Critical Care at the University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium.
He is lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Brussels University and for the European Master in Disaster
Medicine, and participated in Humanitarian Medical Aid in Banda Aceh, Gaza, Haiti and Switzerland.
He is member of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, course director for(Prehospital) Advanced Pediatric Life Support and invited Professor at several University Associationsin Belgium. He obtained his PhD in Disaster Medicine in 2017 with a dissertation on "Disaster andhumanitarian emergency response: the importance of ﬁeld medical data registration". Next to that he
was foster father of ﬁve, father of two, elected City Council member in his home town Grimbergen in
Belgium and founder of PICARO (Pediatric International Catastrophe Aid and Relief Organization) thatbuilt the ﬁrst earthquake proof schools in Haiti.

The importance of (new) technologies in facilitating the gathering of data at all levels cannot be
overestimated, but we must make sure all developments enhance knowledge that can be used to
improve preparedness and response, resilience of disaster-prone countries, in order to be of beneﬁt to
the aﬀected populations.
User-based and ‒friendly developed technology must allow ﬁeld health workers in and from all overthe globe to collect data without interfering with their ﬁrst priority: caring for and treating patients
under time restraints.
Nevertheless, those data are needed for diﬀerent reasons: timely surveillance, accountability ofemergency medical team personnel, professionalization and improvement of team composition andthe accuracy of drugs and materials and logistics during emergency humanitarian interventions,building resilience in disaster-prone countries and regions, mitigation, for training and simulation19

purposes, and for scientiﬁc research aiming to improve the humanitarian response.
The ﬁnal goal is to make the need for international EMTʼs fade, as the focus shifts towards building
local preparedness and resilience, allowing regions at risk to be optimally prepared for most sudden
or unexpected events.

Prof. Osamu Tsukihashi
Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University (Japan)

Associate Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan. Awarded The Prize of
AIJ 2015 from Architectural Institute of Japan, and D. of Eng. from Kobe University, Japan, in 2014.
After working for the Tohoku Institute of Technology as a lecturer, joined Kobe University as an
academic member. His research focuses on Architecture and Urban Design. Deputy director of Kobe
University Center for Resilient Design from 2017.

The Great East Japan Earthquake destroyed many towns and villages in seconds at the coastal area of
the Paciﬁc Ocean in the Tohoku area, Japan on March 11, 2011.
“Lost Homes Project” aims to restore lost towns and villages by 1:500 scale models in order to inheritand preserve memories accumulated in local scenery, environment and life. Volunteer architecture
students throughout Japan make the models to represent the lost towns which existed on the land
before.
“Town of Memories Workshop” aims to construct models of “Town of Memories” with memories ofvictims of the disaster. Bringing blank, white architectural models to the venues of workshop, we ask
local participants of the workshop about the memories they remember by seeing the models. Then,
we describe their memories on the models. Remarks on memories about towns, told by theparticipants through the models, are registered as “tweets”, which turn into “Memory Flags” and add
colors on the models. The scenery of a town of memories is formed gradually by participants who canpaint the models and comment on the models. The models make the locals remember the lost
sceneries with a variety of memories, which do not appear on maps.

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Prof. Akihiko Hokugo
Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
Director, Center for Resilient Design, Kobe University (Japan)

Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan. Awarded Ph.D. from Kobe
University, Japan, in 1985. After working for Institute for Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness, Japan asa researcher, joined as Senior Researcher and Head of Smoke Control System Research, Building
Research Institute, Ministry of Construction, Japan. From October 1997, he has been associate professor
and professor of Kobe University. He has been conducting research activities on ﬁre safety for urban &built environments and disaster risk management. His core areas of research include evacuation safety,
with focus on the wide-scale urban evacuation of vulnerable people, such as infants, the elderly andpersons with reduced mobility.

On 11 March 2011, Japan was aﬀected by one of the most destructive earthquakes and tsunami everrecorded in the modern era. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake took place in the worldʼs most
hyperaging country, where one person in four is considered elderly: the earthquake, followed by atsunami, resulted in about 16,000 casualties, of which 65% were 65 years and older, besides those whodied while assisting their older relatives and neighbors in last-mile evacuation. Overall, elderly, infants
and anyone with reduced mobility that needs special assistance for evacuation constitute what we
could call as vulnerable people. Understanding the survival experiences of vulnerable people and theirsupporters is crucial to design more eﬀective strategies for the evacuation safety based on inclusive
disaster risk reduction priorities. In this presentation, we will discuss the potential of assistive technologies to enhance the resilience of community-based disaster preparedness, by addressing evacuation
cases of vulnerable people that have been documented in recent disasters, and experimental cases ofcommunity-based evacuation drills by elderly and infants in urban environments, as the results ofresearch that aims for the development of a methodological model to evaluate the eﬀectiveness ofevacuation planning from coastal hazards.

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Interactive Workshops andBrokerage Events A

Prof. Ives Hubloue

Department of Emergency Medicine UZ Brussel
and Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Session producer/leader

Prof. Hakan Altintas

Haceteppe University (Turkey)

Mr Gino Claes

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Mr Anthony De Backer

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Dr. Hilde De Clerck

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Mr Frank de Jong

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Ms Justine Debosschere

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Ms Vanessa Debreyne

B-FAST Health Department, Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Dr.Trevor Jain

University of Prince Edward Island (Canada)

Ms Klara Leroy

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Mr Raman Madan

Federal Public Service Health (Belgium)

Prof. Garik Markarian

Rinicom Ltd (United Kingdom)

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Prof. Thomas Neumuth
University of Leipzig (Germany)

Dr. Ionut Olaru
SMURD (Romania)

Dr. Raido Paasma

University of Tartu (Estonia)

Dr. Alina Petrica
SMURD (Romania)

Prof. Akihiko Hokugo

Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University (Japan)

Dr. Marcelo Farah DellʼAringa

CRIMEDIM ‒ Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy)

Prof. Osamu Tsukihashi

Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University (Japan)

Dr. Harald Veen

International Committee of the Red Cross/WHO (Switzerland)

Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer

Department of Emergency Medicine UZ Brussel and Research Group on Emergency and Disaster
Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Prof. Johan von Schreeb
Karolinska Institute (Sweden)23

Ms Vanessa Debreyne
B-FAST Health Department, Federal Public Service Health(Belgium)

Vanessa Debreyne has been working at the Federal Public Service Health Belgium for twelve years,
and since May 1st sheʼs co-coordinating the project “EMT2”. The aim of this project is to upgrade theﬁeld hospital of the FPS Health to an Emergency Medical Team Type 2 (EMT 2) that will be deployableas part of the European Emergency Response Capacity (EERC). The upgrade of the ﬁeld hospital to an
EMT 2 will run according to the Guidelines and Standards of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Besides this project, sheʼs coordinating a number of projects for B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and SupportTeam), such as generic function, training for volunteers, and B-FAST interdepartmental.

Dr. Trevor Jain
University of Prince Edward Island (Canada)

Dr Jain graduated from Dalhousie medical school in 1999. After completing specialization in
Emergency medicine he initiated and subsequently became the Director of Paramedicine Programs
both at Holland College as well as University of Prince Edward. He completed his Masters in Disaster
Medicine in 2013. He has over 30 years experience in the Army deploying to multiple locations andenvironments. He works at a Canadian provincial referral center as an Emergency Medicine Specialist.
He is currently completing his PhD with a focus on Disaster Medicine. His current research is on theuse of unmanned aerial vehicles by emergency medicinal services at mass casualty incidences.

Introduction
The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has the potential to change thesituational awareness of incident commanders. The aim of this study was to compare UAV to standardpractice (SP) in hazard identiﬁcation using paramedic students during a simulated MCI.

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Methods
A randomized controlled study was conducted with twenty-one paramedic students randomized in
an UAV group or SP group. All were given a lecture on UAV technology and scene hazards. Subjects
entered a multi vehicle MCI scenario having been informed that there were 7 hazards to be identiﬁed.
The UAV group remained at the UAV ground station while the standard practice group approached
the scene. Time to identiﬁcation and order of hazards was recorded.
Results
The mean time (SD, range) to identify the hazards were 3ʼ41ʼʼ (1ʼ37ʼʼ, 1ʼ48ʼʼ-6ʼ51ʼʼ) and 2ʼ43ʼʼ (55ʼʼ,
1ʼ43ʼʼ-4ʼ38ʼʼ) in UAV and SP groups respectfully corresponding to a mean diﬀerence of 58ʼʼ(P=0.11). A
non parametric permutation test showed a signiﬁcant (P=0.04) diﬀerence in the hazard identiﬁcation
order driven by two hazards; fuel and workplace hazardous material information system placard.
Conclusion
This study demonstrated no diﬀerence in time to hazard identiﬁcation. A statistical diﬀerence in theorder of hazard identiﬁcation was identiﬁed.

Dr. Marcelo Farah DellʼAringa
CRIMEDIM ‒ Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy)

Medical doctor, graduated from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (2008), he specialized in Intensive
Care Medicine and worked as an intensivist at the Trauma ICU of the same University from 2014-2017.
He is also a graduate of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (2016).
Since 2017, Marcelo works at the CRIMEDIM (Research Centre in Emergency and Disaster Medicine), in
Italy, as a researcher and advisor in educational projects. He has been a collaborator in manyeducational projects held in Italy, India, Brazil and Portugal and his main ﬁelds of studies are theimpact of disasters on health systems and disaster risk

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Parallel Session 2 10:00-13:30
SMART CITIES, SMART SOCIETIESInteractive Workshops
and Brokerage Events B 14:30-17:00

Rethinking Mobility, Reinventing Cityspaces:
Smart Technologies for Smarter and More
Liveable Cities

Report on Session 2: Smart Cities, Smart Societies
With the rapid development of ICT technologies, there are high expectations for managing city
infrastructures such as traﬃc and transportation systems, power supply systems, and information
systems more safely and eﬃciently, in order to provide human societies and every citizen with highquality city facilities that improve the community services as well as peopleʼs health.
By cooperating with MOBI ‒ Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre of Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Graduate School of System Informatics at Kobe University succeeded inorganizing the session titled “Smart Cities, Smart Societies” followed by an open interactive workshop.
Before the opening of the session, researchers from Kobe University visited MOBI of VUB and enjoyedintroductions by Professor Joeri Van Mierlo and Professor Thierry Coosemans, followed by technicaldiscussions and a laboratory tour. MOBI is an internationally recognized research center with morethan 100 researchers, performing a vast range of research related to vehicles power, train design,battery research, environmental assessments, socio-economic evaluations and standardization.
The session was divided into two parts. The ﬁrst part focused on the smartness of social
infrastructures. Professor Tamaki, Dean of the Graduate School of System Informatics, reported his
research on “Energy grids: Towards self-sustainable decentralized energy systems”. He introduced the“Nushima project” and the “Santica project”, on how to construct a prototype of a self-sustainable
decentralized energy system based on DC power. Both projects were supported by the Ministry ofEnvironment, Japan. Professor Joeri Van Mierlo presented “Sustainable mobility: breakthroughs in
e-vehicles technologies”. From the communication point of view, Professor Chikara Ohta showed his
interesting research on eﬃcient and reliable packet transfer protocol for wireless multi-hop
bidirectional communications, and Professor Thierry Coosemans presented the perfect match
between electric vehicles and decentralized energy production in real social applications.
The second part of the session focused on how to improve the community services as well as citizensʼ
health. Professor Cathy Macharis discussed how to rethink mobility to create a human city. She
pointed out that a city that should be liveable and healthy for everyone; pleasant to stay or visit;
where human activities are supported by a mobility system and not vice versa, i.e. it is not the mobility
system that deﬁnes how people should live. How can we achieve new technologies that areanswering real problems rather than being promoted out of commercial interest or generating
unnecessary needs that are counterproductive? This should be seriously considered. From this pointof view, Professor Zhiwei Luo proposed to face the coming aging society by promoting innovations inhealth robotics for the peopleʼs health and medical services, and Professor Nobutada Fujii introduced“Urban design through the festival 078”, a platform for research and education by Kobeʼs citizens. Dr.
Klein-Hessling from RWTH Aachen University of Germany also reported her research on fast charging
services.
In the open interactive workshop in the afternoon, novel technologies related to smarter and more
liveable cities were displayed and closely discussed, such as the development and ﬂight test of atilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle by Professor Takateru Urakubo, sensing human mobility on a
day-event via Wi-Fi probe request signals by Dr. Takeshi Uchitane, as well as human-robot interaction
by Dr. Cao Sheng. Notably, Professor Dr. Pieter Ballon talked about his social practices of smart
technologies in the EU and Mr. Kenji Matsuno, Mission of Japan to the European Union reported his
work on smart city design in Japan.
More than 30 participants from the EU and Japan joined the session and engaged in active
discussions of related technologies, platforms, as well as further possibilities for closer cooperation
between the EU and Japan. It was clariﬁed through the session and the interactive workshop that,since research on smart cities related to vast range of studies from engineering to social applications,such as the development of aging societies, cooperative research between the EU and Japan on smart
cities should be our urgent task towards the realization of more eﬃcient, safe, convenient and healthysocieties.
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Parallel Session 2
Prof. Hisashi Tamaki

Moderator

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Hisashi Tamaki received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University
in 1985, 1987 and 1993, respectively. From 1990 until 1995, he was with Kyoto University, Japan. Since
1995, he has been with Kobe University, Japan, and currently he is a Professor at the Graduate Schoolof System Informatics. His research interests include system optimization, emergent computation andagent-based simulation. He is a member of IEEE, IEEJ, SICE, ISCIE and ISIJ.

The renewal of conventional energy systems is an important countermeasure against global warming
eﬀects and natural disasters, and a self-sustainable decentralized energy system is one of thepromising solutions for future sustainable and resilient societies. The “Nushima project” and the“Santica project”, both of which have been supported by the Ministry of Environment, Japan, attempt
to construct a prototype of a self-sustainable decentralized energy system based on DC power
feeding and the utilization of renewable energy, and to investigate a system of controlling the air
conditioning at underground shopping malls by understanding and predicting the environmental
conditions using IoT technologies, respectively. In this presentation, the outline of the projects andthe main results of the experiments are presented.

Prof. Chikara Ohta
Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Kobe University (Japan)

He received B.E., M.E. and Ph. D degrees in communication engineering from Osaka University in 1990,
1992 and 1995, respectively. After graduating, he worked at Gunma University and University ofTokushima. In Nov. 2002, he joined Kobe University. Since 2015, he has been a Professor of the29Graduate School of System Informatics. Since April 2016, he has also been a Professor of the Graduate
School of Science, Technology and Innovation. He was an Editor of the IEICE Trans. on
Communications and an Editor-in-Chief of the IEICE Communications Express. His current researchinterests include wireless access networks and multi-hop wireless networks.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are expected to play an important role to make cities smarter. CPSs are
networked computational systems that interact with the physical world. One such example isintelligent energy-eﬃcient buildings. Wireless multi-hop networks (WMNs) are networks which canconnect devices deployed in a wide area thanks to packet relay functions. In this sense, WMNs could
be an infrastructure for CPS. In CPS, bidirectional communications, e.g., those for sensing andactuating, can occur. In this presentation, I would like to talk about our recent study on eﬃcient andreliable packet transfer protocol for wireless multi-hop bidirectional communications. In the case ofbidirectional communications in WMNs, there is a possibility that packet collision and retransmission
owing to the hidden node problem decrease eﬃciency of throughput. To cope with this problem, we
have proposed a packet transmission scheme named inter-ﬂow network coding with a passive
acknowledgment (IFNCPA). In this presentation, I would like to brieﬂy explain the protocol of IFNCPAand the simulation results that were conducted to examine the eﬀectiveness of IFNCPA in terms ofthe collection ratio and end-to-end delay.

Prof. Joeri Van Mierlo
Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Prof. Dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo is a key player in the Electromobility
scene. He is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, one of the
top universities in this ﬁeld.
Prof. Dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo leads the MOBI ‒ Mobility, Logistics and automotive technology
research centre (http://mobi.vub.ac.be) with a multidisciplinary and growing team of 100 staﬀ
members.
He is expert in the ﬁeld of Electric and Hybrid vehicles (batteries, power converters, energy
management simulations) as well as the environmental and economical comparison of vehicles with
diﬀerent drive trains and fuels (LCA, TCO).
Prof. Van Mierlo is Vice-president of AVERE (www.avere.org), the European Electric Vehicle Association.
He chairs the EPE chapter “Hybrid and electric vehicles” (www.epe-association.org). He is an IEEE
Senior Member.

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He is the co-author of more than 500 scientiﬁc publications. He is editor in chief of the World Electric
Vehicle Journal.

It is an exciting period of time, where the transition towards more sustainable mobility via theintroduction of electric vehicles is taking place. What are the beneﬁts and barriers for the e-mobility
developments? Driving range, charging infrastructure availability and especially cost are perceived asimportant barriers for the market take-up of electric vehicles. Driving range is deﬁned by o.a. battery
performance. The challenge of infrastructure lies in the return on investment. And the cost will evolveby technological improvement, market take-up and in the meantime policy support.
The purchase price of electric vehicles is currently higher than that of conventional vehicles, however
the driving cost is lower. Based on a Total Cost of ownership (TCO) diﬀerent vehicle technologies canbe compared.
How to compare the environmental performance of diﬀerent vehicle technologies? Vehicles withlower tailpipe emissions are perceived as cleaner. However, does it make sense to look only to tailpipe
emissions? Limiting the comparison only to these emissions denies the fact that there are emissions
involved during the production of a fuel and the vehicle itself. Therefore, the complete life cycle (LCA)of the vehicle should be included in order to avoid problem shifting from one life stage to another.

Prof. Thierry Coosemans
Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Thierry Coosemans obtained his PhD in Engineering Sciences from Ghent University in 2006. Afterseveral years in the industry, he became a member of the MOBI research team at the VUB, where heworks now as the ʻElectric and Hybrid Vehicleʼ team leader. He is currently involved in the scientiﬁc
support for the Green Energy Park Zellik, Flanders Make and had an active role in the Living Labs
Electric Vehicles Flanders. On a European level, Thierry was and is involved in the H2020 and FP7
projects SafeDrive, OPERA4FEV, SuperLIB, Smart EV-VC, Batteries20202, GO4SEM, FIVEVB, ELIPTIC,MOBILITY4EU, COLHD, FUTURE-RADAR, OBELICS, REDIFUEL CEVOLVER and GO4SEM, which hecoordinated. His main research interests are electric and hybrid propulsion systems, performances ofelectric-vehicle ﬂeets under real-life conditions, including in a V2G perspective, as well as thedevelopment of CO2-neutral local energy systems. Thierry Coosemans is an active member of EARPA
and EGVIA.

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In order to meet the growing energy needs within the sustainable limits of the planet's natural
resources and to mitigate climate change, energy systems are currently in transition towards moresustainable systems by accommodating higher percentages of renewable resources and evolving
towards more distributed energy generation. To anticipate such changes, industry and market arelooking for solutions for ﬂexible electricity generation and balancing supply and demand. On theother hand, for similar reasons of climate change and local air quality, the transport is in transition
towards electriﬁcation. Electriﬁcation of transport, which involves an integration into the electricity
system, presents various challenges for the grid (such as variable grid demand, peak grid load) and forthe users (such as range restrictions, cost), yet also has great potential to reduce GHG emissions.
Considering that energy storage is costly on the one hand and considering that electric vehiclesʼ
battery capacity is unused for the largest part of the time, electric vehicles can be proposed as moving
energy storage units that can be used for balancing the main electricity grid or local energy system(LES) in potentially an economical viable manner. However, to accustom such functionalities, both
vehicles and chargers must be capable of variable and bi-directional power transmission and require
intelligence and communication with the local grid operator, features that require further research.
Moreover, user acceptance and business models regarding these functionalities are largely unknown,untested and uncertain in the already heavily scrutinized market of electric vehicles. The Green Energy
Park in Zellik, an ambitious new project of the VUB in collaboration with the Brussels Health Campus
will develop a living lab in which innovative V2G concepts will be implemented in real-life
circumstances. The site comprises a local energy system including a thermal and an electric grid
serving 70 companies. The potential of including an electric ﬂeet in a sustainable energy management
strategy will be assessed.

Prof. Cathy Macharis
Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Cathy Macharis is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research group MOBI ‒ (Mobility,
Logistics and Automotive Technology) is an interdisciplinary group focusing on sustainable logistics,
electric and hybrid vehicles and urban mobility. Her research focuses on how to include stakeholders
within decision and evaluation processes in the ﬁeld of transport and mobility. She has been involved
in several regional, national and European research projects dealing with topics such as theimplementation of innovative concepts for city distribution, assessment of policy measures in the ﬁeldof logistics and sustainable mobility, development of a multi actor multi criteria analysis framework,
etc. She published several books and wrote more than 100 papers. She is the chairwoman of Brussels
Mobility Commission and vice-chair of Nectar (Network on European Communications and Transport
Activities Research). Please visit our website: http://mobi.vub.ac.be/32Several technological advancements have recently emerged that create new possibilities and willchange our travel behaviour dramatically. At the same time mobility problems such as congestion andair pollution are on the rise due to urbanisation and other societal trends. The new technologies andmobility concepts, such as autonomous vehicles, ride-sourcing, mobility as a service or free-ﬂoating
car sharing, all have a potentially considerable impact on how people and goods travel around in
urban areas. While these new technologies provide new opportunities to tackle long-standing
problems, they do not automatically lead to better liveability for everyone. The question is: how can
we rethink mobility to create a human city? A city that is liveable and healthy for everyone; where it ispleasant to stay or visit; where human activities are supported by a mobility system and not vice versa,
i.e. it is not the mobility system that deﬁnes how people should live. How can we achieve newtechnologies that are answering real problems rather than being promoted out of commercial
interest or generating unnecessary needs that are counterproductive? Autonomous vehicles, forexample, may lead to more travel demand and longer trips promoting urban sprawl; unfavourable
modal shift from active modes and public transport to individual vehicles. Mobility as a service may
well be the future of multimodal transport systems, but at the same time, without sound regulation, it
may actually lead to a less accessible transport system for speciﬁc population segments (low-income,digitally illiterate). This presentation will highlight how new concepts and innovations should be
combined with accompanying regulatory and policy frameworks to ensure that the smart city of the
future will indeed be a human city. We propose the concept of the 5Ps for a human city: proximity,
place for humans, prosperity for all, participation and ﬁnally passion. We review the potential inhumanaspects of recent technological and other innovations (e.g. autonomous vehicles, mobility as a service,internet and communication technologies, car-sharing, ride-sourcing [e.g. UBER]) through somerecent examples and data and propose mitigation tools to create a human city. We argue that public
policy and regulation can play a crucial role in ensuring that the citizensʼ interests are put in front ofcommercial and technological interests. In addition, the increasing role of digitalised public
participation and crowdsourcing will play a crucial role in inﬂuencing urban development in the near
future.

Prof. Zhi-wei Luo

Moderator

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Zhiwei Luo received a B.S. degree in engineering from Huazhong University of Science andTechnology in 1984 and obtained his Master and Doctoral Degree in Engineering at Nagoya University
in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He is now a professor at the Graduate School of System Informatics,
Kobe University and a guest professor of Zhejiang University. He was honored to be a Fellow of theSociety of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) in Japan. He led basic research of bio-mimetic

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control systems at RIKEN, and developed the worldʼs ﬁrst human care robot RI-MAN, which wasselected by TIME magazine as the Best Invention of 2006. Now, he is promoting health engineering,such as robots for human rehabilitation and virtual reality technologies for evaluating human highorder cognitive functions in everyday life. He is pushing a new research ﬁeld called computational
robotics to study super redundant biologic motor control functions and human-robot interface.

Following the industry revolution and modernization, we are now facing the serious challenge of anaging society. Modern science and technology greatly enriched our social life and changed ourviewpoints and values. Aging society will make us aware of the importance of health and social
environment, and thus promote the huge market for health engineering and health services. Facing
the aging society, robotics will not only increase their eﬀort in manufacturing, but also contribute tohealth, medical and social welfare directly in homes and in the street, in turn changing our lives andeven social economy and culture. The Health Renaissance Century is coming. This talk ﬁrst introduces
the development of human care robot RI-MAN, and then proposes to construct a systematic
innovation platform for health robots and scientiﬁc evaluation systems. The talk then presents asystematic structure as well as examples of health robotics and their applications.

Prof. Nobutada Fujii
Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Nobutada Fujii received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Kobe University, and D.Eng. degree fromThe University of Tokyo, respectively. He is an associate professor at the Graduate School of System
Informatics, Kobe University, after being a member of Kobe University and The University of Tokyo
working as a Research Fellow of the JSPS, a research associate and an associate professor. His major
research topics are about Autonomous De-centralized Manufacturing Systems, Emergent Synthesis,
Service Engineering and Open Innovation.

A brand-new festival "078", Zero-Nana-Hachi in Japanese pronunciation, started last year in Kobe tocreate a new platform for research and education where new methodologies can emerge for urban
design. "078" consists of seven domains: music, ﬁlm, interactive, fashion, food, kids and anime.
However, the festival is not a simple aggregation of predeﬁned events; cross or trans-disciplinaryﬁelds can be created, for example new cross-domains of music and ICT can be established. This typeof new-style festival is not only a stimulus to enhance the urban life-style of citizens but also anexperimental platform for research and education. New ideas can be created by crossing domain

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knowledge or applying the latest results to other domains. In turn, the created idea can be also
revealed or tested at the ﬁeld of the festival.
In the presentation, how to use and apply such festivals to design the urban life-style is discussed. The
relationship between the festival and ideathon in the university class, which is a new style ofworkshop, is also discussed from the viewpoints of open innovation, education and research.

Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.Ing.
Annegret Klein-Hessling
ISEA ‒ RWTH, Aachen University (Germany)

Annegret Klein-Hessling was born in Germany in 1986. She received her Diploma degree in electricalengineering and her Diploma degree in industrial engineering from the RWTH Aachen University,
Germany, in 2012. Since October 2012, she has been working as a research associate at the Institute ofPower Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. In 2018,
Annegret successfully completed her PhD studies and started as a chief engineer at ISEA. Her researchinterests include the ﬁeld of electrical drives and their control.

From the perspective of OEMs and users, fast charging is seen as an option to make electric vehicles a
100% alternative to todaysʼ conventional cars. In the presentation, we will analyze typical use pattern ofvehicles to identify the possible demand for fast charging. This results in the demand and technology
for fast charging infrastructure. Furthermore, the impact of fast charging on the design and lifetime ofbatteries is discussed. The second part of the presentation covers the impact on the grid infrastructurein urban environments. In particular, in an urban environment, the installation of fast or high-power
charging stations is challenging. Diﬀerent solutions for ac distribution grids are presented andcompared to modern multi-terminal dc links concepts. Lastly, the impact of fast charging on theelectrical drivetrain is discussed.

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Interactive Workshops andBrokerage Events B

Prof. Hisashi Tamaki

Session producer/leader

Prof. Zhi-wei Luo

Session producer/leader

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Cathy Macharis

Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium)

Prof. Joeri van Mierlo

Session producer/leader

Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium)

Prof. Takateru Urakubo

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Takeshi Uchitane

Center for Computational Social Science & Research Institute for Economics and Business
Administration, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Sheng Cao

Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Thierry Coosemans

Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium)

Mr. Kenji Matsuno

Mission of Japan to the European Union (Japan)

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Prof. Takateru Urakubo
Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Dr. Takateru Urakubo received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. In 2001, he joined Kobe
University, Kobe, Japan, as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently an Associate Professor with
the Graduate School of System Informatics. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Visiting Research Scientist at
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His current research interests include nonlinear
dynamical systems, nonlinear control theory, and autonomous robots.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to do many tasks such as inspection, surveillance,
monitoring, transportation and delivery for making cities smarter. Although multirotor UAVs arewidely spread, their ﬂight speed is not so fast and their ﬂight time is also limited due to the battery
capacity. Tilt-rotor type UAVs can achieve the tasks in a wider range with a higher speed. By switching
the ﬂight mode between rotary-wing mode and ﬁxed-wing mode, they have both the capability ofvertical take-oﬀ and landing as rotary-wing aircraft and that of eﬃcient high-speed cruise asﬁxed-wing aircraft.
We are currently developing a tilt-rotor UAV whose wingspan is about 2.0 [m]. In this poster, we
present several prototypes of tilt-rotor UAV that we have developed so far, and their ﬂight test results.
A pair of coaxial rotors with a tilt mechanism is mounted in the fuselage of UAV to generate lift andpropulsion. Three small rotors are installed in the front nose, left and right wing tips, to stabilize theattitude of UAV in hovering ﬂight. In 2015, by using a prototype of the UAV, we performed its ﬂight
test successfully.

Prof. Takeshi Uchitane
Center for Computational Social Science & Research Institute for
Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University (Japan)

Dr. Takeshi Uchitane received his Bachelor, Master, and Ph. D degrees from Osaka University in 2008,2010, and 2013, respectively. After his graduation, he became a Postdoctoral Researcher in RIKEN
Advanced Institute for Computational Science from April 1, 2013. He joined Kobe University on

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October 1, 2016 as Project Associate Professor and he joined CCSS ‒ Centre for Computational Social
Science in Kobe University at July 1, 2018. He was also a Visiting Scientist in RIKEN Advanced Institutefor Computational Science from April 1, 2017.
He became a member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). He became a main developerof free software named “Organizing Assistant for Comprehensive and Interactive Simulations (OACIS)”
which is a job management software for large scale simulations. His research interests include
summarizing social phenomena via big social data analysis and executing large scale social
simulations. He has published over 50 research articles in International Journals, Domestic Journals,
International Conferences, and Domestic Conferences, and edited books.

According to population concentration to urban cities, it is strongly required to evaluate integrative
city functions among electric power, human mobility and economic money ﬂow both in the
day-to-day and in some special event. However, it is diﬃcult to build an integrated city model to treat
various city functions, moreover it is also diﬃcult to obtain social data per personal unit, although theamount of available data via the Internet is getting larger.
In the poster presentation, I introduce Wi-Fi probe-request signals as a social data per personal unit inurban cities. Recently, most people have mobile devices like smart phone and tablet PC. Such devices
often broadcast the Wi-Fi probe-request signal in several minute cycles to ﬁnd a new Wi-Fi router andto keep the network connection. Because the signal includes device IDs, it is possible to estimate not
only the number of persons but existence time of certain persons on a near ﬁeld of signal receiver
position. This novel measurement method can ﬁnd from 50% to 80% persons on a point. Moreover,gathering such data on several places on an event ﬁeld, some interesting trend like a power-law
distribution of person mobility, are found.

Prof. Sheng Cao
Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University (Japan)

Dr. Sheng Cao received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the Graduate School of System Informatics at
Kobe University under the supervision of Dr. Zhiwei Luo.
He is mainly concerned with problems in system analysis and control, robotic rehabilitation, andbiomechanics analysis.

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With the rapid development of aging society, the robot that can support our everyday life as well as
care and rehabilitation so as to reduce care supportersʼ stress is highly anticipated. In order for the
robot to perform these support tasks in our living environment, the interaction problem inhuman-robot cooperation task is required to be designed circumspectly.
In order to complete the speciﬁed task well in the human-robot interaction, it is necessary to estimate
the objectʼs physical parameter for robotʼs gesture control. For example, in research of nursing carerobot, we estimate the humanʼs center of gravity in full body manipulation in the physical care tasks
with contact forces and contact points in the dual arm of robot.
The robotʼs safety is also required, which may even more serious than the industry robots in
production lines. One of the most important properties of the robotʼs safety is its passivity. The control
law of robot which make the robot satisfy its passivity can be established by considering two factors;
one comes from the robotʼs time-varying desired position and another one comes from the robotʼsmodel uncertainties.
Last but not least, comfortable and high eﬃciency structure of robot for rehabilitation task is required.
In recent years, cable-driven exoskeleton robots became popular to be researched as rehabilitation
devices for their lightweight, low moving inertia, ease of the transformation and cheapness. We
developed a control law considering the cableʼs tension constraint and making robots able tocomplete the tracking task and be passive.

Mr. Kenji Matsuno
Mission of Japan to the European Union (Japan)

Economic Attaché at the Mission of Japan to European Union. After graduating from Hitotsubashi
University (BA, Social Sciences, focusing on administrative laws), he joined Ministry of Land, Transport,
Infrastructure and Tourism of Japan where he engaged in policy development and coordination invarious ﬁelds including urban development, real estate market, civil aviation and disaster risk
management. He was awarded M.A (international relations and international economics) from Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Recent socio-economic challenges such as maintaining public services in ageing communities, labour
shortages in various industries (healthcare, transport, construction, hospitality etc.), intensifying
disasters and terrorism threats put more pressure on policymakers to come up with innovative
solutions.

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At the same time, the progress in automated vehicles, drones, sensing and other technologies has
shown possibilities to provide solutions to these challenges.
Under such circumstances, policymakers in Japan and Europe have been keen in creating anenvironment where these new technologies can be put in place by developing regulatory
frameworks, providing ﬁelds for pilot projects and other assistances.
Japan and Europe can develop better solutions by sharing experiences, technologies and otherresources. In the session, I would like to provide a brief overview of recent policies in Japan related tothe smart city and the status of cooperation between Japanese and European cities.

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Parallel Session 3 10:00-13:30
BETWEEN ORIENT & OCCIDENT:
CULTURAL MEMORY & CULTURAL TRANSFER

Interactive Workshops
and Brokerage Events C 14:30-17:00
Food, Culture and History:
a Cultural/Culinary Anthropology of
East-West Exchanges

Report on Session 3: Between Orient & Occident: Cultural Memory & Cultural Transfer
Session 3 was organized by Professor Hiroko Masumoto (Kobe University) with kind support from Mr.
Patrick Vittet-Philippe, Adviser to the Kobe University Brussels European Center.
The catalyst for organizing this session was the new partnership between Kobe University and Tbilisi
State University (Georgia). Traditionally, Kobe University has very close relationships with universities
in the EU countries, and this time we wanted to enhance this connection through the participation of
the EU partner country Georgia. The theme “Between Orient and Occident: Cultural Memory andCultural Transfer” was born from the idea that Georgia functions as a crossroad between Asia andEurope.
In the formation of the memory of a particular culture throughout history, contacts with other culturesand cultural transfer play crucial roles. In our session, we considered forms of interaction andadaptation of cultural inﬂuences leading to the formation of the national cultural memory. Particularemphasis was placed on the consideration of contacts between the cultures of East and West, since
the contrast between their diﬀerent cultural codes gives their interaction a special dynamic.
The session consisted of 3 parts:
1) Session 3-1: Historical Context2) Session 3-2: Contemporary Challenges
3) Interactive Workshop: Food, Culture and History: A Cultural/Culinary Anthropology of East-West
Exchanges
In session 3-1, the theme “Cultural Memory and Cultural Transfer” was treated from a historical pointof view. We dealt with topics from ancient and medieval times. In session 3-2, this frame theme wasdiscussed philosophically and sociologically, and some cultural phenomena in modern andcontemporary society were presented and analyzed. In the interactive workshop, food culture in
Belgium, Georgia and Japan was presented. After the discussion we were able to taste Belgian,Georgian, and Japanese sweets and sake.

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Parallel Session 3
Prof. Hiroko Masumoto

Moderator

Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Professor of German studies at Kobe University.
Awarded MA and PhD from Hiroshima University, Japan. Visiting Scholar with “Swiss Government
Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars” at Bern University, Switzerland from 1994 to 1995. After
working at Himeji Dokkyo University, Japan, from 1987 to 2007, joined Kobe University as an academic
member. My research focuses on modern and contemporary German literature.

Prof. Marc Jacobs
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Prof. Vakhtang Licheli
Faculty of Humanities, Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
2017: Lectures in Ca Foscari University, Italy (invited Prof.)
2015: Lectures in Innsbruck University, Austria (invited Prof.)
2013: Lectures in Leiden University, Netherlands (invited Prof.)
2011: Lectures in Innsbruck University, Austria (invited Prof.)
2011-present: Director of Institute of Archaeology, Ivane
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
2007-2011: Director of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
2002-2005: Lecturer of the Faculty of History, Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University.

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The Grakliani Hill settlement and necropolis are situated in the central part of the South Caucasus, inGeorgia. Chronology of site: 1. The Paleolithic Age. 2. Calcholitic Age. 3. Early Bronze Age. 4. Late
Bronze/Early Iron Age. 5. The “Developed” Iron Age (the 8th-7th centuries BC). 6. The 6th century BC. 7.
The 5th-4th centuries BC. 8. The 4th-3rd centuries BC. 9. The 3rd-2nd centuries BC. 10. The 2nd-1st
centuries. 11. 3rd-4th centuries AD.
On the third terrace of Grakliani Hill in the sanctuary of 10th c BC two signs of diﬀerent scripts werediscovered: the “A inscription” preserved on the western altar and the “B inscription” in the central
part of the building.
It seems that the “B inscription” is one of the local versions of Aramaic script (ﬁrst time discovered on
the territory of Caucasia). Letters of the “A inscription” totally diﬀer from the “B inscription”.
Those inscriptions are the most northern samples of writing of the ﬁrst half of 1st mill. BC, clearly
showing intensive relations with neighboring countries.

Prof. Akira Furuichi
Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan.
PhD from Osaka City University, Japan in 2004. After working for Osaka Museum of History as curator
and for Hanazono University as associate professor and lecturer, he joined Kobe University as an
academic faculty member. His research focuses on issues of political authority and state formation,architectural expressions of authority, and debates over the nature of state authority, with particularfocus on the ancient Japan.

The Japanese Archipelago received not only the inﬂuence of the cultures from the Chinese continent
or Korean Peninsula, but also that of elements like Buddhism, which originated in India. The present
presentation will focus on the development of the Japanese national state from the 3rd to the 7th
centuries, with an emphasis on speciﬁc, as well as imported elements.

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Starting from the existence of the monumental key-hole shaped tombs (3rd century), there are views
that emphasize the despotic character of Wa, Japan; however, the tombs and the shared funerary rites
simply indicate the existence of political alliances. The relationships between the central ruling groupand the power-holding factions from various territories were unstable, and the power of the emperor
was not that of an authoritarian ruler.
In the 6th century, a new royal line, with a much wider support, started to promote the uniﬁcation ofsociety in Wa. However, the rights and interests in the Korean Peninsula were gradually lost. The
creation of an authoritarian power of the ruler of Wa, and the introduction of such a governing systemwere greatly inﬂuenced by the Korean states. Moreover, Buddhism was used as a tool to unify thepolitical system in the Wa society.

Mr. Oscar Wrenn(on behalf of Prof. Simon Kaner)
Master Student, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts
and Cultures, University of East Anglia (United Kingdom)Studied social anthropology at the London School of Economics between 2011 and 2014, before
spending three years as an English teacher in a rural community in Kagoshima, Japan. Has spent thelast year in the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study ofJapanese Arts and Cultures, working on a number of diﬀerent projects relating to Japanesearcheology, and the connections between the cultural heritage of the UK and Japan. Is currently
studying for an MA in International Development at the University of East Anglia.

One of the main justiﬁcations for the inclusion of the ʻSacred Island of Okinoshima and AssociatedSites in the Munakata Regionʼ on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017, was that it is regarded as
testimony to the exceptional continuity of tradition embodied in the component parts of thenominated property. This paper will set this nomination in the context of the role that such sacredsites play in Japanese cultural memory. To this end, we brieﬂy review other sacred World Heritage
sites in Japan and consider some of the challenges such designation can bring. We conclude withsome proposals for enhanced comparative research that places such sites in a global setting.

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Prof. Yoshihiko Shiratori

Moderator

Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Professor of Sociology at Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan. After studying at
Kyoto University, Tokyo University and University of Paris, I, being granted a Research Fellowship for
Young Scientists of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and working for Sugiyama Jogakuen
University, joined Kobe University as an academic member. My research focuses on History ofsociology, French sociology and Higher education.

Prof. Alexander Kartozia
Faculty of Humanities, Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
2013- Full Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University
2005-2012 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Cultural Studies, European
University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
1998-2004 Minister of Education of Georgia
1997-1998 Director of the National Library of Georgia
1989-1997 Head of the Chair of German Philology, Tbilisi State University
1986-1989 Researcher, Experimental Phonetics Laboratory, Tbilisi State University
Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1994-1995; 2005)
Research Fellow of the Thyssen Foundation (2007-2008)
His research focuses on Translation Studies, Caucasian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics andGermanistics.

After Raymond Williamsʼ “Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society” keyword became one of thecentral terms (just keywords) of the Cultural Studies. The Oxford English Dictionary deﬁnes Keyword
as a word serving as a key to a cipher or a word that is of great importance or signiﬁcance. In any
national culture keywords can be found. Usually they are considered as untranslatable and thus
incomprehensible for others. A well-known example of a keyword is the Portuguese ʻsaudadeʼ:“Saudade ‒ only Portuguese people can feel it, because only Portuguese people own this word”(Fernando Pessoa).

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A study of keywords shows that they ‒ at least quite a number of them ‒ are borrowings from otherlanguages.
Tracing the origin of “borrowed keywords” in Georgian, the presentation describes cases both of“falsifying” of a word history via folk etymology and of “reinterpretation” of keywords via using themin modern cultural context.

Prof. Toshio Miyake
Department of Asian and North African Studies,Caʼ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)

Associate professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Caʼ Foscari University of
Venice. After receiving a Phd in Asian Studies at Caʼ Foscari University (2005), he conducted ﬁeldwork
on Japanese popular cultures and representations of Italy in Japan (JSPS Postdoc fellow, Kyoto
University) and in Italy (Marie Curie fellow, Caʼ Foscari University). His main research interests are in
Occidentalism, Orientalism, and self-Orientalism in Italy/Europe‒Japan/Asia relations. He is the authorof monographs on the representations of the “West” (Occidentalismi, 2010) and on monsters (Mostri
del Giappone, 2014) in modern and contemporary Japan.

This talk will address Orientalism of Japan in modern and Fascist Italy in order to explore its relation
with the speciﬁc construction of Italian, European and ʻWesternʼ identity. Moreover, it will address theintertwined process of Occidentalism, Orientalism and self-Orientalism (A. Gramsci 1929-35, F. Coronil
1996, Miyake 2014). Particular attention will be paid to the implications of this process in terms of
cumulative intersection of heterogeneous identiﬁcation and othering categories: civilization(ʻWest/Eastʼ), region (ʻEurope/Asiaʼ), nation (ʻItaly/Japanʼ), race/ethnicity (ʻwhite/yellowʼ).
The overall aim is not only to oﬀer a contribution to a historical investigation of how issues of nation,
culture and race have framed the ideas of the ʻJapanʼ and the ʻEastʼ in modern Italy, but also tostimulate a more critical understanding of the theoretical and methodological assumptions
naturalizing past (and present) discourses and memories about the ʻWestʼ, the ʻEastʼ, ʻItalyʼ and ʻJapanʼ.

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Prof. Andreas Regelsberger
Department of Japanese Studies, Trier University (Germany)

Professor of Japanese studies at Trier University, Germany. Awarded Magister and PhD from Hamburg
University, Germany in 2003 and 2008, respectively. After working for Hamburg University as a
research and teaching assistant, joined Trier University as an academic member. Worked as visiting
professor at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo from 2012 to 2014. Returned to Trier University
in 2014 as professor. His research focuses on Japanese theater, pre-modern Japanese literature andcontemporary Japanese poetry.

During the Edo period (1603-1868) the classical nō drama became the oﬃcial theatre of the
shogunate (shikigaku) and in Europe in the period of nation states during the second half of the 19th
century theatre played a crucial role in many countries such as Germany and Italy but also in France,
England and Spain. After the opening of Japan in the Meiji period (1868-1912) several attempts havebeen made to modernize theatre and to foster the idea of a national theatre. In my paper I would liketo tackle the construction of national identity in theatre(s) in Japan and some European countries andhow aesthetic ideas were transferred into national concepts.

Prof. Anne Sauvagnargues
Department of Philosophy, University Paris Nanterre (France)

Full Professor at Paris West University in 2010, Chair of the Department of Philosophy from 2011 to2015, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Art at the ENS Lyon in 2003: Habilitation, in 2008, andthesis, Aesthetics and Philosophy in the Work of Gilles Deleuze in 2003, cum laude. Actively engaged
in international research in contemporary French philosophy on Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, andFoucault, I am also involved in the relations between French and German aesthetics since the 18th
century, and the anthropological turn of Western metaphysics, and published numerous works,
including Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury 2013), Artmachines: Deleuze, Simondon (Edinburgh UP 2016),
and Deleuze. Lʼempirisme transcendental (PUF, 2010, forthcoming in English).

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How can the concept of deterritorialization help us to conceive relationship between Orient andOccident? I will introduce some key concepts in contemporary French philosophy ‒ such as Deleuzeʼsdeterritorialization, or Simondonʼs and Augustin Berqueʼs conceptions of milieu ‒ in order tounderstand cultural relationship not only in terms of dialectical confrontation or metaphysicalunderstanding, but as an ecological encounter. From this Western point of view, this encounter has
played a role of orientation, forcing us to think beyond our traditionally binary concepts, such as
nature and culture, subject and object, East and West. I will argue that the ﬁgure of Japanese thought(philosophy and art) played a crucial role to open up a conception of subjectivity not only centred onhumans nor limited to Europe, that may be of utmost importance in the age of anthropocene.

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Prof. Hiroko Masumoto

Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Session producer/leader

Prof. Marc Jacobs

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Dr. Rusdan Gorgiladze
Independent Scholar (Georgia)

Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida

Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Vakhtang Licheli

Faculty of Humanities, Tbilisi State University (Georgia)

Prof. Akira Furuichi

Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Toshio Miyake

Department of Asian and North African Studies, Caʼ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)

Prof. Andreas Regelsberger

Department of Japanese Studies, Trier University (Germany)

Prof. Yoshihiko Shiratori

Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University (Japan)

Prof. Anne Sauvagnargues

Department of Philosophy, University Paris Nanterre (France)

Mr. Oscar Wrenn

Master Student, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of East
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Dr. Rusdan Gorgiladze
Independent Scholar (Georgia)
2011-present: Independent Scholar
2007-2010: Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Regional Director
for Eastern Europe
2005-2006: Consultant, UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP),
2000-2004: First Deputy Minister of Education, Republic of Georgia
1998-2000: Head of International Public Relations Oﬃce, State Chancellery, Republic of Georgia
1996-1998: Fellow, Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Aﬀairs
1993-1998: Chief State Advisor to the President of the Republic of Georgia (E. Shevardnadze)
1981-1992: Neuropsychologist, Republican Clinical Hospital Tbilisi/Georgia
Her research focuses on Cultural Studies, Food History

The presentation is about the cuisine and festive traditions of Georgia in the context of the world
culinary culture.
Georgia is an integral part of the Near East, and throughout history it has experienced the inﬂuence ofmany cultures. The country has many unknown treasures, and one of its greatest is the Georgian
ﬂavor. We will follow the trail of the basic foodstuﬀs and spices used in Georgia to create this ﬂavor.
The Georgian feast is a strictly ritualized performance where every detail is of importance: the amountof food and the abundance of dishes, their ﬂavor, their color, their order of serving and their forms ofpresentation. But the Georgian feast, the ʻsupraʼ, is not merely food and carefully selected wines.
Besides being an almost sacred act of hospitality, it is a social gathering where everyone tries todisplay their wisdom and their benevolence towards their fellow-guests.

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Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida
Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation,
Kobe University (Japan)

After a Master obtained at Kyoto University in 1989, he got the position of Assistant Professor at
Fukuyama University in 1990 and obtained a PhD at Kyoto University in 1993. After a Post-Doc
experience at INRA Jouy-en-Josas, France, from 1996 to 97, he moved to Kobe University in 2004 as
Associate Professor, and was promoted to be Professor of Applied Microbiology in 2009. He has
specialized in structural and functional genomics of bacteria including Bacillus subtilis and its relatives
since the very beginning of his career to date. He was once awarded the prize for "Encouragement ofYoung Scientists" (2002) and twice the prize for "Excellent papers" from the Japan Society for
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (2008 and 2014). He received the “Fermentation andmetabolism research award” (2006) from Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA) and the prize fromNAGASE Science Technology Foundation (2009). He served as a Program Oﬃcer (Scientiﬁc Research
Senior Specialist) in the Research Promotion Bureau in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology, Japan (MEXT) (2005-2007). Currently, in addition to his full-professor position, he also
serves as the executive director in Kobe University Brussels European Centre (2014 to date).

Sake is an alcoholic drink made from fermented rice. Often referred to as “Nihonshu” in Japanese (todiﬀerentiate it from "sake" which in Japanese can also refer to alcohol in general), the drink enjoys
widespread popularity and is served at all types of restaurants and drinking establishments. And asinterest in Japanese cuisine has grown internationally, sake has started to become a trendy andrecognizable drink around the world.
The foundations of good sake are quality rice, clean water, koji mold and yeast. They are combined
and fermented in precise processes that have been reﬁned over the centuries. Typically ﬁltered(although unﬁltered products are also available), the resulting clear to slightly yellowish rice wines
have an alcohol content of around 15 percent and relatively mild ﬂavor proﬁles, ranging from lightand crisp to richer, more substantial, fruity notes. Sake pairs well with almost any kind of food but
compliments the delicate ﬂavors of traditional Japanese meals particularly well.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce you the history, culture, and technology in Sake
making. Additionally, an experience of Sake tasting will be kindly oﬀered by one of our local
producers, Kikumasamune.

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Closing Remarks
Prof. Matsuto Ogawa
Vice-President, Kobe University (Japan)

Distinguished guests; colleagues; ladies and gentlemen;
It is a great pleasure for me to be with you at this symposium. On behalf of Kobe University, I would
like to express my sincere gratitude for your support and participation in this 9 th Kobe University
Brussels European Centre symposium. I am conﬁdent that this symposium addressed themescommon to Japan and Europe, and facilitated the exchange of the latest research information among
participants.
Along with numerous collaborations in research, we have been promoting the mobility of students
and researchers between Europe and Japan since Kobe University concluded the ﬁrst Academic
Cooperation Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding for Student Exchange with our 133
European partner universities.
Europe is the most popular destination for our students, and more than 100 students from Kobe
University studied in Europe this year out of 150 total outgoing students.
Kobe Universityʼs participation in the Erasmus+ Programme since 2015 is bringing us increased
opportunities for active staﬀ exchange. I believe active staﬀ exchange is one of the keys to expanding
international collaboration and joint research projects. It leads to a deeper mutual understanding, notonly in research ﬁelds but also in educational ﬁelds. In 2015 Kobe University was adopted by theEuropean Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. This great honor has enabled us tofurther raise awareness about the important role of Japanʼs relations with Europe and to facilitate themobility of students and researchers across the continents. As an Executive Vice President in charge of
Research, I am committed to leading new initiatives for international activities with European
partners, and I do hope participants here today will start discussion on joint research and active
involvement in European and Japanese research funding projects.
Supported by its strong partnerships with European institutions including Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Kobe University shall take a key role as a higher educational institution to tackle societal challenges
and to promote innovation for a better society. I thank you all again for participating in todayʼs
symposium.
Before coming to a conclusion, I have two things to tell you. First of all, I enjoyed the presentations in
Room B, “Mobility, Electric Vehicles, Smart Cities”. Iʼm afraid you are not familiar with the fact that theﬁrst Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Kobe University studied electric vehicles about a century
ago (97 years) before Toyota, Nissan, Tesla and the others began to produce electric vehicles.

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Unfortunately, because he used a PbO2 battery that was much heavier than the present Li battery
cells, he was not successful. But he is still one of the pioneers of the electric vehicle worldwide, andthe history of Japanese electric vehicles traces back to his research. Iʼd be very happy if some of you
collaborate in any ﬁeld with KU.
Secondly, every time I attend an international symposium or conference, it reminds me of the famous
saying by John Donne, priest of England, that goes, “No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is apiece of the continent, a part of the main”. Although populism or a kind of nationalism threatens toprevail, please collaborate with each other, and letʼs look towards a brighter future.
Next year we will hold the 10th anniversary, so please come again and letʼs enjoy more discussions.
This concludes my closing talk.

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Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen
Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel(Belgium)

Dear colleagues,
I was here this morning and now Iʼm back this evening ‒ itʼs not that diﬃcult for me because my lab ison the ﬁrst ﬂoor of this building. This morning the room was full, and this evening the room is still full.
That means something for a program that is so full. You have a big program, a full program, there aremany sessions, and all of you have participated in an intensive way. Because the program was quite
loaded, I must say, but the interactions were there.
I have to thank Kobe University for coming to the VUB and coming to Brussels and having thatinteraction with the VUB. Of course I have to also thank my colleagues and coworkers from theInternational Relations Oﬃce, because for me itʼs easy to give a talk, but they do all the work, and wehave to appreciate that the people behind the stage are really doing the work, while Iʼm actually justdoing the talking.
International collaboration is important: new ideas can only come from diﬀerent minds, because one
mind only has, a lot of, but still only a set amount of neurons, so we need to bring all those neurons
together. As Vice Rector for Internationalization, my plays an important role because internationalization is science, internationalization is education, itʼs innovation, itʼs familiarization, meaning I, or notme, but internationalization and the department, is the cement between the building blocks of a university. Because to reach out, and help, and collaborate with your colleagues from diﬀerent disciplines
so that the cement ﬁts and creates building blocks for our university, can only make it bigger. And weare growing, and Iʼm convinced that internationally, being strategically placed in the center of Europe,
the VUB has a big role in internationalization.
But today also proved that interdisciplinarity is very important, because there were many things goingon, but nevertheless we found each other and a way to discuss diﬀerent topics, and ending with sake,or rather having sake just before my talk, is very good for me. I tasted the diﬀerences between thediﬀerent sakes, so that is already good. I also think, coming back to what I said this morning, thiswould be not bad for my cold that Iʼm having, or I hope itʼs good for my cold, because I have thepleasure, of course, to conclude this very busy, very successful symposium and invite you to a
reception. Thank you.

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