Sun. Dec 4, 2022 9:15 AM - 10:55 AM F109 (Build. F)

Chair:Hiroaki Ohashi(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

We are now living in the urban era in which urbanization has been taking place with dramatic political, social, economic, and cultural changes in cities, especially in the Asia Pacific region. Cities, which are the driver of prosperity, are confronting various challenges in different national settings and at different phases of urbanization. Given that urbanization is predicted to continue, urban sustainability and planning have increasingly become an essential agenda for sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development. This session will present different cases that address issues related to urban sustainability and planning.

Sun. Dec 4, 2022 1:30 PM - 3:10 PM F109 (Build. F)

Chair:Huong T. Bui(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

A decade is a critical milestone for evaluating the post-disaster recovery of the Tohoku region. When primary resources for production has been severely damaged, post-disaster memorial tourism fulfills both objectives of remembrance of the painful past and education for the future generations. While earlier work has emphasized a scientific systemic approach to examining post-disaster recovery, very little research addresses emotional challenges in the places associated with the massive loss of lives. Also, there is a need to solidify tourism efforts and personal and collective narratives on the disaster. This panel comprises of four presentations from researchers, who have long-term engage in research in post-disaster tourism. The collection of work presented in the panel offers inter-disciplinary perspectives on examining dark tourism through the lens of memory studies, resource economics, and the politics of place-making.

Sun. Dec 4, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F109 (Build. F)

Dr. Tanaka speech addresses general outlooks for post-pandemic economic recovery in emerging Asian countries. The future of sustainable recovery and further development in emerging Asia will be along with the global movement towards the green economy through sustainable resource management, community development and digitalization. Tourism significantly contributes to the economic recovery of emerging Asia, as the industry is important to the region in terms of its potential growth, contribution to GDP and employment. However, critical issues concerning the sustainability of tourism initiatives for the region calls for further attention from policy makers and academia.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F209 (Build. F)

Chair:Yoshiki SHINOHARA(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University), Petrus Willem ROUX(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F209 (Build. F)

Chair:Lailani ALCANTARA(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F207 (Build. F)

Chair:Kaori Yoshida(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

This panel examines visual narratives in different spatial and temporal contexts, produced in the 20^th century Japan, 21^st century Taiwan, and 21^st century Mexican-Spanish (and America), all of which explore contradictory or unsettling memories with different methodological approaches. While each of the papers concerns itself with memories and identities on different levels—individual, national, or post-national—the panel, analyzing specific visual and linguistic manifestations, attempts to demonstrate how visual texts may suture the viewer to communicate difficult (historical) memories and identities. Hung examines a Taiwanese film approaching from the linguistic aspect to discuss collective memories entangled with political ideology. Aviles Ernult, contemplating on the incompleteness of Freudian concept of uncanny in understanding visual narratives, demonstrates how the uncanny cycle of trauma is manifested in a magical realist cinema. Likewise, Yoshida, focusing on the form of manga, demonstrates how the grotesque and ghostly manifestations communicate difficult memories through affective impact.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F107 (Build. F)

Chair:Toshiyuki Takeda(Ritsumeikan University)

Arab-Islamic traditions have a long history of ascendancy as well as a few centuries of decline since the advent of Western modernity. Since the late 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to reconstruct Arab-Islamic traditions as a modern cultural vehicle. Dr. Takeda sheds light upon variations in the writing and reading of the sacred text of Islam, the Qur’an, in Islamic literary tradition. Prof. Kosugi argues the major differences between the traditional mainstream Islamic legal schools in their jurisprudential methodologies on the one hand, and Salafism which claims to go back to the primordial origins, on the other hand, using the religiously important issues around human death and the soul’s journey after death. Mr. Yoneda sheds light upon important Salafist organizations in Egypt through an analysis of their discourses. Dr. Ikehata examines how the “Official Islam” is determined in Muslim countries which constitute the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F206 (Build. F)

Chair:Ammar Khashan(Ritsumeikan University)

The rapid development of capitalism in the last few decades, supported by massive technological innovations, has brought serious questioning of the viability of capitalism as a system to ensure economic security and prosperity, and subsequent human happiness. The economic capabilities of capitalism have turned out to be a menace against humanity for the have-nots. This session brings two papers from philosophical studies and two papers from Islamic economics studies, to examine the plight of modern human society. Dr. Matsui argues for the philosophy based on “common sense” as advocated by the Japanese philosophers. Dr. Wirtz examines the concept of “common sense” by Tasaka Jun and presents its relevance. Dr. Khashan argues for the rise of Islamic welfare as a counter-proposal against the neoliberalist policies in Muslim countries. Dr. Kirihara sheds light on the phenomena of Halal food in Muslim societies focusing on Malaysian initiatives.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F108 (Build. F)

Chair:Gour Gobinda Goswami(North South University), H M Jahirul Haque(Canadian University of Bangladesh)

This panel will comprise four papers related to financial institutions to assess some management and performance issues in the ex-ante and interim periods of Covid-19. One paper takes up the challenge of the microfinance industry brought in by the introduction of FinTec in Bangladesh. This paper argues that Covid-19 has made it even more urgent for the industry to adopt the latest financial technology to stay in business. The second paper takes up the role of inclusive leadership in the microfinance management industry and finds that institutions with inclusive leadership have done better. The third paper takes up the performance and health conditions of commercial banks in Japan and South Korea in a comparative study. The fourth and final paper tries to measure the capital flight as it could be assessed from the current and capital accounts of the central banks of each country. The paper finds that capital flight is not a phenomenon in developing countries only. It is prevalent in developed countries as well. Together, they provide many lessons and policy implications for similar industries in many countries around the world.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F207 (Build. F)

Chair:Kazutaka Sogo(Ritsumeikan University)

East Asian countries share a long history of interrelationship among them in premodern and modern eras. This session brings presentations that cover such interrelationships between China, Japan, and Korea. Dr. Xiang’s paper examines the influence of “Kampo” medicine in Japan on China during the Edo period. This medicine was developed in Japan in a uniquely Japanese way after it originated in China. Then it was brought back to China, and it had an immense influence. Dr. Jin will deal with cultural interrelationships between China and Japan after the advent of modernity, sharing the same script system. Dr. Sogo’s paper clarifies how Japan’s domestic political structure was impacted by the Japanese power struggle over its economic interests in Manchuria in China during the inter-war period. Dr. Zhang’s paper deals with the prospective remedies to the current global warming by comparing carbon tax pricing in three East Asian countries using the Joint Analysis Method.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F108 (Build. F)

Chair:HO THANH TAM(Ritsumeikan University)

Global warming, problems of environmental destruction, and economic imparity and barriers, among others, pose serious challenges not only in Asia but also globally for sustainable development. This session brings four cases from three Asian countries, namely, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China, and examines important aspects of such challenges. Dr. Tam and Prof. Shimada, and Dr. Ashardiono, examine the impact of climate change. Dr. Tam brings Vietnamese experiences among rice farmers under such challenges, while Dr. Ashardiono discusses Indonesian coffee cultivators’ attempts to utilize Geographic Indicators (GIs). Ms. Duyun examines Chinese projects to utilize green finance, environmental tax, and industrial ecologicalization for the sake of carbon neutrality targets. Ms. Hien sheds light upon household development in Vietnam in relation to the access to credit and its correlation to children’s time allocation and their subsequent development.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F206 (Build. F)

Chair:Yufu Iguchi(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) Discussant:Abdul Rashid(RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus)

This panel examines the practices of female genital cutting (FGC) in areas that scholars have not focused on. Compared to Africa, Southeast Asian countries and destination countries for immigrants have not been focused upon in the study of FGC. This panel’s presenters report on the practices of FGC in minority communities and immigrant communities and argue them from the viewpoints of cultural and religious meanings, women’s consciousness and decisions, and the relations with the majority communities. Rashid discusses the situation of FGC among Cham Muslims in Cambodia, based on a mixed-methods study. Iguchi, examining the practice of FGC among Cham Muslims in Vietnam, explores the cultural and religious meanings of the practice. Afiqah focuses on Cham Muslim immigrant communities in Malaysia and discusses their practice of FGC in terms of the process of assimilation to the Malay majority. Miyachi, drawing attention to Australia, discusses two issues, female genital mutilation (FGM) in immigrant communities and female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) in terms of women’s decision-making on their bodies.

Sat. Dec 3, 2022 3:25 PM - 5:05 PM F107 (Build. F)

Chair:Aoi Mochizuki(Ritsumeikan University)

Human migration and movement have been accelerated in the globalization eras, though national borders and cultural homogenization tendencies in each country pose serious barriers to freedom of movement. Among settled immigrants, both voluntary and nonvoluntary such as refugees, there is an increase in diaspora communities who have mixed identities toward their country of origin and the host country. Dr. Mochizuki examines the current state of global refugee affairs and suggests that resettlement rather than return to the country of origin is becoming the inevitable and only viable solution, based her arguments on the cases of Syrian refugees. Dr. J. Lee argues for a new concept of “returnee diaspora” who become double-diaspora, basing her arguments on the case of the “return” of Korean Diaspora in Central Asia to South Korea. Dr. J. E. Lee discusses the case of South Korean students as transborder immigrants when they go abroad for education.

Sun. Dec 4, 2022 9:15 AM - 10:55 AM F212 (Build. F)

Chair:Hanako Benson(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) Discussant:Paul Sevigny(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

After the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing need for human resources in sustainable development and the tourism industry (Tuyen, 2021). Based on this, universities and vocational schools need to provide specialized knowledge and language education. Currently, there are few textbooks aimed at nurturing resilient, independent language learning for emerging fields in the Tourism and Hospitality sector. To establish a new elective course, English for Tourism and Hospitality, a systematic needs analysis for the English Program was conducted. This involved reviewing existing textbooks and surveying current students and Tourism faculty to identify relevant course objectives. In this panel, the following items will be discussed: 1. English language for tourism and hospitality: An analysis of available textbooks, 2. English language for hospitality and tourism: An analysis of data from local governments, and 3. English language for hospitality and tourism: An analysis of data from within the university context.