2025 JAAS Autumn Convention Program
November 8, 2025, Saturday
10:00-12:00 Individual Papers 1-3 / Organized Panel 1
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00 Individual Papers 4-5 / Organized Panel 2-3
15:15-17:15 Plenary Session
17:30-19:30 Affiliate Reception
10:00-12:00 Individual Papers 1-3 / Organized Panel 1
Individual Papers 1. Perception and Politics
Chair: OBA Mie (Kanagawa University)
Presentation 1: LIM Jaehwan (Aoyama Gakuin University)
“Researching China from Japan: Preliminary Findings from a 2025 Scholar Survey”
Presentation 2: OU Makiunn (The University of Tokyo)
“Global South as “Thirdspace”: Toward a Conceptual Reconstruction for Dismantling Its Apparent Complexity”
Discussant: HISHIDA Masaharu (Hosei University) OBA Mie (Kanagawa University)
Organized Panel 1. What Does “Socialist” Governance Mean? — The Soviet Factor in China’s Governance System
Chair: ISHIZUKA Jin (University of Yamanashi)
Presentation 1: XU Yue (Keio University)
“Unemployment under Socialism and Its Countermeasures: Soviet and East European Experiences as Viewed from China”
Presentation 2: KOJIMA Kazuko (Keio University)
“Rebuilding the Security System and the Ideology of “Socialism” in 1980s China”
Presentation 3: KUMAKURA Jun (Hosei University)
“The Soviet Factor in China’s System of Ethnic Regional Autonomy”
Discussant: ISHIZUKA Jin (University of Yamanashi) KAWASHIMA Shin (The University of Tokyo)
Individual Papers 2. Examining the Rise of Emerging Powers
Chair: OHASHI Hideo (Senshu University)
Presentation 1: WANG Bing (Jinan University)
“”The Foreign Propaganda” in Xi Jinping’s Era: its aims, media strategies, and actors”
Presentation 2: PHUYAL MOHAN (Soka University)
“Globalization and Economic Liberalization in India under the Modi Administration: Continuity and Transformation from Post-Independence Development Strategies”
Presentation 3: KAJITANI Kai (Kobe University)
“China’s Foreign Aid and “Premature Deindustrialization” of the Emerging Countries: Re-estimation Based on New Data”
Discussant: YAMAGUCHI Shinji (National Institute for Defense Studies) SATO Hajime (Nanzan University) OHASHI Hideo (Senshu University)
Individual Papers 3. Social Policies in Asia
Chair: SAKATA Shozo (Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
Presentation 1: MADONO Hitomi (Josai University)
“Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities in the Post-Moderately Prosperous Era: Focusing on Supported Employment for Inclusive Integration”
Presentation 2: HARA Masatoshi (Business Breakthrough University)
“Higher Education for Economic Development: Contexts of Escaping Low-and-Lower-Middle-Income Trap in ASEAN”
Discussant: YAMAGATA Tatsufumi (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00 Individual Papers 4-5 / Organized Panel 2-3
Individual Papers 4. Politics and Societies in Asia
Chair: NAKAMIZO Kazuya (Kyoto University)
Presentation 1: FUJIWARA Naoki (Graduate School, Hiroshima University, JSPS)
“Spatial Formation and Political Change in Suburbs, Philippines”
Presentation 2: ITAKURA Kazuhiro (National Institute of Technology, Nara College)
“The Rise and Persistence of Muslim-Led Political Parties in Contemporary India: A Case Study of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen”
Presentation 3: MIZUNO Atsuko (Kyushu University)
“The Expansion of Non-Kin Farmland Tenure in Myanmar: A Case Study of Rice- farming Villages in Htantabin Township”
Discussant: KUSAKA Wataru (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) IZUYAMA Mari (National Institute for Defense Studies) KUBO Koji (Gakushuin University)
Individual Papers 5. Reexamining Modern Chinese History
Chair: OSAWA Takeshi (Fukuoka University)
Presentation 1: HAYATA Kan (Keio University)
“Institutional Reform in China during the Early Days of the Opening-up Policy: Relationships between Tiao and Kuai over the local management of the foreign trade”
Presentation 2: CHU Yi (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo)
“Sino-Soviet split and Sino-Japanese relations under Ikeda Administration —— Review of “Two intermediate zones” theory and China’s Japan policy”
Discussant: WATANABE Naoto (Kumamoto University) OSAWA Takeshi (Fukuoka University)
Organized Panel 2. Large language models and Asian studies
Chair: ITO Asei (The University of Tokyo)
Presentation 1: ITO Asei (The University of Tokyo)
“The Panel’s Aim and Large Language Models in Chinese Political Economy Studies”
Presentation 2: YAGI Nobuaki (Graduate School, Kyoto University)
“Large Language Models in Southeast Asian Research Practice”
Presentation 3: GOTO Jun (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
“Large Language Models and the Advances in Development Economics on India”
Discussant: LIM Jaehwan (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Organized Panel 3. “Political Dynasties” in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change (In English)
Chair: NAGAI Fumio (Osaka Metropolitan University)
Presentation 1: MORISHITA Akiko (Doshisha University)
“Democratic Elections, Political Families, and “Political Dynasty” in Indonesia”
Presentation 2: Holmes Ronald (De La Salle Univeristy)
“When Dynasties Collide: The Marcos–Duterte Dispute and the Politics of Elite Continuity”
Presentation 3: Prajak Kongkirati (Thammasat University)
“The Fragile Roots of Political Dynasties in Thailand: Historical and Institutional Perspectives”
Discussant: SUZUKI Ayame (Rikkyo University) ITAYA Taisei (Hiroshima City University)
15:15-17:15 Plenary Session International Japanese Studies and Asian Studies
Chair：LIU Jianhui (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Presenters:SHIMIZU Yuichiro (Keio University)
“Within the Multi-Historiographies of Japan Studies”
SUZUKI Ayame (Rikkyo University)
“How Japan is taught in Southeast Asia”
OCHIAI Emiko (Kyoto Sangyo University)
“Thinking with Asia / Envisioning Japan – Recreating Japanese Studies”