Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Area Studies, Media Studies)
Ever since childhood, I have loved the Ultraman television series that features the Ultra superheroes. I vividly recall a scene
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Masayuki Yanagisawa (Environmental History in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese Studies)
In the 1990s, when I would tell people that I was doing a rural village study in Vietnam, they would respond with, “Oh, I see, I understand,” but today …
Caroline S. Hau (Cultural Studies)
In my childhood during the 1970s, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriages called kalesas were ubiquitous in Manila’s Chinatown. They brought denizens to and from school, the movie house, restaurant, clinic, store, church, and temple. Their cousin, the spacious karitela, transported goods in bulk from the markets of …
Interview with Professor Patricio N. Abinales
My research project is about everyday forms of authoritarianism as these were enforced in the University of the Philippines (UP) during the 15-year dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos. …
On May 26, 2025, a special lecture was held at the Inamori Center at Kyoto University, featuring former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. …
Tomohiro Machikita (Labor Economics and Industrial Development)
Increasing numbers of stores are installing self-checkouts recently. The customer places the basket with the goods on one side of the self-checkout and hangs a shopping bag on the hooks on the other side. The barcode …
Research division and affiliation: Environmental Coexistence, Research Associate
PhD, Materials and Informatics
Research areas: Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning, Digital Healthcare, Smart Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring
Mingalaba! (That’s “hello” in Burmese!) I am Ye Htet from Myanmar …
Hiroshi Ishii (Maritime Archaeology, Modern Conflict Archaeology)
Chuuk is a state of the present-day Federated States of Micronesia. As one of …
Nathan Badenoch (Linguistics)
Living in Japan, your surroundings talk to you—along the Kamo River, in the local Lawson, walking up to Yoshida Shrine, or on the 205 bus—through onomatope, or onomatopoeia. …