I came to CSEAS in April 2024 after leaving the Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University. I study the modern history of Myanmar, particularly its transition from colonial rule to a nation-state. …
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My first engagement with the Center was in mid-2020, during the early stages of the pandemic. As an Indonesian virologist, I wrote for the “Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field” about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Southeast Asia, …
Kisho Tsuchiya (Southeast Asian Studies, Modern History)
During my one-year secondment at Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU), my first priority was undergraduate education. …
Satoru Kobayashi (Area Studies, Anthropology)
My first visit to Kyoto was for a school excursion (to Kyoto and Nara) in the spring of my third year of middle school. The purpose of the trip was …
Kisho Tsuchiya (Southeast Asian Studies, Modern History)
In his Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann quoted the parable below to draw readers’ attention to the vastly different motives …
Interview with Genta Kuno
Jakarta is a complex city of many faces. It features densely populated and incrementally built settlements, or kampungs, alongside …
Caroline S. Hau (Cultural Studies)
As an elementary-school student in Manila, I spent many a recess peering into a long cabinet of zoological specimens …
Rikuo Hara (PhD Student, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Did you know that the CSEAS Library holds a collection of approximately 2,000 (as of April 2024) Arabic-language materials? …
Interview with Mariko Ogawa
As a student in high school and university, I used to climb mountains and often experienced sudden changes in weather. …
Tomohiro Machikita (Labor Economics)
Reading and writing a diary may be the most familiar of literary experiences. …