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Kyoto University Center for Integrated Area Studies

Shoichiro Hara

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Toshihiko Takashi

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Hiroyuki Yamamoto

YAMAMOTO Hiroyuki specializes on the modern history of Sabah, Malaysia and its neighboring areas. Prior to his current appointment as Associate Professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University, he had held various appointments including Visiting Research Associate at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in Sabah, Malaysia; Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia; Research Associate at the Consulate-General of Japan at Medan, Indonesia and Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. He is currently a visiting research associate at the Institute for the Philippine Culture (IPC) at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. His current research interest is in the role of theater and cinema in the making of modern concepts of nation in Southeast Asia.

Yoshimi Nishi

NISHI Yoshimi is an associate professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University. Her specialty is Indonesian studies, especially focusing on disaster management in multicultural society and region-based information management in multilingual and multi-religious regions for restructuring of collective memory in post-conflict society. She obtained her PhD in Area Studies from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, after conducting field research since 1997 to 2000 in Aceh, Indonesia. Her works in English include: “Among Bangsa, Keturunan, and Daerah: Peace-Building and Group Identity in the law on Governing Aceh, 2006” in Bangsa and Umma: Development of People-Grouping Concepts in Islamized Southeast Asia (Kyoto University Press, 2011) and "Social Flux and Disaster Management: An Essay on the Construction of an Indonesian Model for Disaster Management and Reconstruction" in Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.7, No.1 (2012).

Masayuki Yanagisawa

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Ryuichi Tanikawa

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尭宙 Kameda

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Hiromasa Nakayama

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Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

展 Shimizu

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Osamu 甲山

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Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies

Shin-ya Takeda

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Takuro Furusawa

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University

Norio Maki

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Naomi Hosoda

Naomi Hosoda is an assistant professor at International Office, Kagawa University, Japan. She obtained her PhD in Southeast Asian area studies from Kyoto University. Her main research interest is anthropological studies on Filipino migration, with a focus on cultural normality, family, and transnational community. She has done extensive research in Calbayog City on Samar Island in Eastern Visayas since 2000. Her works in English include: “2008: Open City and a New Wave of Filipino Migration to the Middle East”, in Eric Tagliacozzo, et al (eds), Asia Inside Out: Changing Times, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2015); “Kababayan Solidarity? Filipino Communities and Class Relations in United Arab Emirates Cities”, Journal of Arabian Studies 3(1) (2013); “The Sense of Pamilya among Samarnons in the Philippines”, in Yoko Hayami, et al (eds), The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press (2012); Connected through “Luck”: Samarnon Migrants in Metro Manila and the Home Village, Philippine Studies 56 (3) (2008); and “The Social Process of Internal Migration in the Philippines: A Case of Visayan Migrants in Manila” Afrasia Working Paper Series No. 26 (2007). She also wrote an article on the typhoon “Yolanda” and emergency and rehabilitation assistance from local communities in Japanese language in 2015.

Kaori Shinosaki

Associate Professor of Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Kitakyushu. Her specialty is Malaysian Studies, especially focusing on Chinese society and its relationship with other ethnic groups in Malaya region (Malaysia + Singapore). She contributed an essay ”Contesting Chineseness: Bangsa and Queue-cutting in the Straits Settlements, 1896-1911”, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Anthony Milner, and others eds, Bangsa and Umma: Development of People-grouping Concepts in Islamized Southeast Asia, Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, 2011. She also contributed an essay relating to Southeast Asian Chinese films “Inheritance and Success: Construction of Family in Chinese Society in Southeast Asia“ (Japanese), Journal in Area Studies, 13(2), 2013. She is an organizing member of Cineadobo.

Atushi Ooyane

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Shosuke Sato

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Eriko Kameyama

Associate Professor of international development studies at Nara Prefectural University. She worked as a development worker in East Timor (2000-2003, 2007-2008) and in Aceh, Indonesia (2008-2010). Her research mostly deals with global aid in post-conflict and post-disaster settings, and tries to understand the meanings of the aid activities for the local societies. She contributed an essay, ‘How can we connect small stories? ―From East Timor 1975-1999’, to International Cooperation and Disaster Preparedness (Kyoto University Press, 2015).

Tsuneki Seki

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Ryuichi Tanikawa

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