SESSIONS
General Session: Northeast Asian Regional Studies: Present and Expectancy
June 26 16:30-18:00
Language: Japanese
Language: Japanese
Northeast Asia experienced radical change during the 30 years after the end of Cold War. While the economic integration between the countries of this region progressed during these years, new challenges are also emerging before us. The study about this region has become increasingly urgent. In this session, we will invite organizations and researchers who have been involved in Northeast Asian area studies during this period to summarize the current state of Northeast Asian research in Japan and discuss the research issues of the region.
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Session A: Environmental Aspects and Dynamic Changes of Northeast Asia
June 26 10:00-12:00
Language: English
Language: English
A1: International Network on Geological Sciences: Perspectives and More
Since late 2015, the Petrotectonics Research Group of CNEAS has been working hard on International Cooperative research projects to improve and revolutionize our understanding of the solid Earth process in convergent plate margin. In over the past five years, several oversea colleagues stayed as visiting professors and they have interacted with students and CNEAS faculties to have expanded international network. We have jointly organized special sessions in international meetings, and published some results in international journals. The outcome have a significant impact in not only Tohoku University but also global geological sciences community. In this online session, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the CNEAS, we invited three professors who worked with us closely in CNES before. This session aims to provide opportunities to invite more people to our international network. This opportunity will also enhance international scientific exchanges and international friendship.
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Session A: Environmental Aspects and Dynamic Changes of Northeast Asia
June 26 12:30-14:30
Language: English
Language: English
A2: Human Evolution and the History of Advances in Human Cultures
Human evolution is one of the most important topics for humans. Recent modern and ancient genomic studies shed light on the human evolution and revealed the evolutionary processes from archaic humans to Homo sapiens. To better understand human evolution, it is also important to investigate cultures that humans have developed. Humans have evolved a variety of modern behaviors, such as the creation of specialized tools and hunting technologies. Moreover, humans have also evolved animals through their domestication. The history of the advances in human cultures would reflect the evolutionary processes of humans. In this session, genetic evidence for human evolution, development of human tools and behaviors, and domestication of animals will be presented and discussed.
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Session B: Cultural preservation and Environment in Northeast Asia
June 27 10:00-12:00
Language: Japanese
Language: Japanese
B1: Intellect and Social Thought in the Early Modern Japan
This session deals with “social thought” in Japan. In general, it is said that social thought was introduced from abroad after the Modern Period. On the other hand, it is considered to have been formed by individuals and groups in Japanese society through mutual agreement and confrontation among their interests. An objective of this session is to consider the characteristics regarding the formation of Japanese social thought by examining historical materials, especially discussing the existence of individuals and groups, and the role of “intellectuals” in the late Edo Period.
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Session B: Cultural preservation and Environment in Northeast Asia
June 27 13:00-15:00
Languages: English and Japanese
Languages: English and Japanese
B2: Born From Disasters: Dealing with Death, Disaster Remains and Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis
B2: Born From Disasters: Dealing with Death, Disaster Remains and Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis
Disasters are often measured and perceived through the looking glass of loss. News report and research reports usually refer to the number of victims, displaced, economic costs, disappearing communities in the context of natural hazards, war, genocide and other manmade catastrophes. These representations involuntarily hide the fact that the destruction following a disaster leaves ‘new’ remains and other traces that human societies must deal with. The most common are left by the dead - their bodies, their souls, their mind/spirits, as well as their bereaved relatives. Societies also find compel to rescue such as documents, personal objects, and other artefacts found among the debris. To feel the gap, this workshop proposed to focus on these things left and born from disasters. Our presenters will look at the process of rescue and construction, and the divide between the two. Through the study of the lives of these remains, we hope to problematize the common assumption that disasters are about death, loss and reconstruction by emphasizing the notion of rescue and care necessary to restore public health, well-being and society as a whole.
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Session B: Cultural Preservation and Environment in Northeast Asia
June 27 13:00-18:00
Language: Japanese
Language: Japanese
B3: Archaeological Survey by
Ground Penetrating Radar
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a subsurface survey method us ing radio waves, that allows us to see the shape of buried buried objects without digging soil. In Jap an, GPR survey for archaeology began around 1985, and even from a global perspective, archaeological survey by GPR in Japan was actively carried out from an early stage. GPR has become widely used due to the deve lopment of radar equipment, data acquisition and signal processing by improving the capacity of PCs, and remarkable progress in imaging. In this session, we will introduce actual examples and results of archaeological surveys by GPR that have been carried out so far, and also look at the development and academ ic development of new measurement methods.
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| YOSHIMURA Sakuji（Higashi Nippon International University） | |
| Utilization of High-tech Technology in the Egypt Survey (1) -Example of the Great Pyramid Survey- | |
| KUROKOUCHI Hiromasa (Higashi Nippon International University） | |
| Utilization of High-Tech Technology in the Egypt Survey (2) -Example of the Second Solar Ship Survey- | |
| Gad El-QADY (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics) | |
| Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys for Culture Heritage, Case Studies from Egypt | |
| JOUKURA Masayoshi（Waseda University） | |
| Non-Destructive Investigation of Archaeological Sites and Remains Using GIS / GPR-Focusing on Analysis Cases of Tombs, Temples, and Walled Cities | |
| Dean GOODMAN（Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory） | |
| Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging of Important Archaeological Monuments | |
| KANEDA Akihiro （Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) | |
| Possibility of Archaeological Exploration by GPR-Practice and Trends | |
| NAWABI Yama（Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds) | |
| Practice and Possibility of GPR Exploration in the Special Historic Site, Saitama Kofun Group | |
| HIGASHI Noriaki (Miyazaki Prefecture Archaeological Center) | |
| Practice of GPR Exploration in Saitobaru Burial Mounds (Saito City, Miyazaki Prefecture) | |
| SATO Motoyuki (Tohoku University) | |
| Application to GPR Development and Archaeological Survey at Tohoku University | |
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Session C: Politics and Society of Northeast Asia
June 27 10:00-12:00
Language:Japanese
Language:Japanese
C1: Energy and Environmental Issues in the Northeast Asia
In Northeast Asia, energy and environmental problems are threating the region. First, air pollutants such as PM2.5 from fossil-fuel use are increasing the risk of respiratory problems and lung cancer. In addition, water issues include: 1) excessive grazing and cultivation in areas with severe natural environments and low water resources, and 2) increasing total discharge and water consumption while the treatment rate of industrial and domestic wastewater remains low. Furthermore, as a waste problem, mountains of garbage are beginning to surround cities in many areas. On the other hand, the incineration of garbage is worsening air pollution. Extreme weather due to global warming, i.e., drought and floods, is causing more damage. The global warming issue has also become a blame game over "fairness" between developed countries and developing countries such as China. In this session, four researchers will review the current status of energy and environmental issues in the Northeast Asian region considering the green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and present and discuss with participants various attempts by various stake-holders to improve the situation.
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Session C: Politics and Society of Northeast Asia
June 27 13:00-15:00
Language:Japanese
Language:Japanese
C2: Interacting East Asia and Africa
East Asia and Africa, even though there is a long geographic and ontological distance between them, have developed a relationship that has deepened their commitment to each other. In this session, we discuss what the exchange between these two regions has created and how it changes the “self” and “other.” While Chinese immigrants in Africa rarely changed their ways of living in other domestic places, they, as “others” who came in flocks, sometimes built walls and on another occasion, polarized estimation between Chinese cheap products that ravaged local markets to spread various commodities throughout the country. In contrast, African immigrants in Japan, where compatriot and Muslim population is scarce, obtain freedom to some extent and face the “self” and belief of Islam subjectively. Considering the exchange of pragmatism and sentiments is expected to present some significant implications for harmonious co-existence.
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Session C: Politics and Society of Northeast Asia
June27 15:30-17:30
Language: English
Language: English
C3: Social Sustainability of Coastal Communities: Transitions and Transformations
The Center for Northeast Asian Studies was founded as an interdisciplinary research center focused on the region of Northeast Asia from the view of social science, the humanities, and natural sciences. In particular, the interdisciplinary nature of the research focused efforts on the environment. As a response to the 25th Anniversary Symposium’s focus on Dynamism in Changing Environments, Societies and Peoples, this session is designed with the view of exploring not only the dynamism in coastal communities, but also considering what lessons coastal communities can take from outside sectors, people, and the world.
Coastal communities share the same attributes as all communities, especially when thinking of culture: governance is found in some form, religious beliefs are held, social networks and capital connect people, and interactions between people and the environment form local socio-ecological systems.Coastal communities also share specific attributes with other natural resource-based communities, particularly in regard to risk and natural hazards: risks such as in the form of climate change and change in species distribution and over-harvesting are faced; natural hazards such as from tsunami, typhoons, and storm surges.
Communities are also found within broader social and political frameworks with outside events and higher-level decision-making impacting their own, local-level functioning and futures. Coastal communities in the Tohoku region of Japan, for example, find themselves not only within the aging, “grey-zone” of Japan (32% elderly versus 23% in society in general), with few family successors and high population loss, but they are also living in the on-going “recovery” from 3.11, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake with its subsequent tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown. The effects of 3.11 are still felt; the recovery is still on-going.
Post-3.11 coastal (Pacific) Tohoku is an extreme example, but communities are always faced with pressures and risks. The question is what strengthens sustainability and resilience in the face of such challenges and pressures. With this in mind, this session brings together examples from both inside and outside of Japan and provides cases which look at topics such as landscape and well-being, local indigenous knowledge, fishers-forests movements, women’s roles, and transitions in depopulated communities. The goal is to review these examples to find important “lessons learned” and discuss ways in which they could provide a path towards sustainable transitions and transformations for coastal communities.
Coastal communities share the same attributes as all communities, especially when thinking of culture: governance is found in some form, religious beliefs are held, social networks and capital connect people, and interactions between people and the environment form local socio-ecological systems.Coastal communities also share specific attributes with other natural resource-based communities, particularly in regard to risk and natural hazards: risks such as in the form of climate change and change in species distribution and over-harvesting are faced; natural hazards such as from tsunami, typhoons, and storm surges.
Communities are also found within broader social and political frameworks with outside events and higher-level decision-making impacting their own, local-level functioning and futures. Coastal communities in the Tohoku region of Japan, for example, find themselves not only within the aging, “grey-zone” of Japan (32% elderly versus 23% in society in general), with few family successors and high population loss, but they are also living in the on-going “recovery” from 3.11, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake with its subsequent tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown. The effects of 3.11 are still felt; the recovery is still on-going.
Post-3.11 coastal (Pacific) Tohoku is an extreme example, but communities are always faced with pressures and risks. The question is what strengthens sustainability and resilience in the face of such challenges and pressures. With this in mind, this session brings together examples from both inside and outside of Japan and provides cases which look at topics such as landscape and well-being, local indigenous knowledge, fishers-forests movements, women’s roles, and transitions in depopulated communities. The goal is to review these examples to find important “lessons learned” and discuss ways in which they could provide a path towards sustainable transitions and transformations for coastal communities.
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| Alyne DELANEY (Tohoku University) |
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