1. The meeting for RAs and associates in Tsujinaka’s seminar.
25th FEB, 2011.
Hiroyuki TAGAWA, 201030063, D.Course, IAJS.
(a facilitator, tagawashi2010@gmail.com)
1. Mission of the meeting(study/research society) in Tsujinaka-seminar.
<several agendas>
-As an arena of presentation for each research theme
-Review and assistance of research project in Tsujinaka-seminar.
-Share of information, news and so forth
2. Self-proposal with 1minute
-Belong to
-Specialization (and discipline)
-Research theme
-Schedule/plan in next term (since Apr 2011-)
3. Outline of Reseach Project in Tsujinaka-seminar
a. CAJS(Center for International, Comparative, and Advanced Japanese Studies)
-Since 2010
b. JSPS foundation, Basic Research(S)
A Comparative & Empirical Study of the structural changes in Politics and Transformations in
pressure groups, policy networks and civil society in Japan since 2009.
c. Research project (JIGS, 13countries survey with comparative analysis)
1. Japan(1997, 2006-07. Social groups, NPO/NGO, local association and local
government)-------- Comparison large cities in Japan (since 2011)
2. Korea (1997, 2007-09)-------now going, code-book
3. U.S.A.(1999, 2008-10)--------now going, code-book
4. Germany (2000, 2008-09)--------now going, code-book
5. China (2001-03, 2007-10)--------now going, code-book
6. Russia(2003-04)
7. Turkey(2004)
8. Philippines (2005)
9. Brazil(2005-06)
10. Bangladesh (2006-07)
11. Uzbekistan (2008)
12. Estonia (2009)---------- nothing code-book (now going?)
13. Poland (2009) ---------- nothing code-book (now going?)
14. Comparative analysis ---------- now going
* Statistical Analysis, *Running web-sights
*Keyword
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2. -- Social groups,
-- discovering measures of evaluation for Politics/Society relationship,
-- a civil society structure and governance
-- an international comparative research
<Reviewing points>
a. Similarity of each research themes, specialization
b. Confirmation of similar research or JIGS basis analysis since April, 2011.
(Notice: Basically, with Tsujinaka-sensei and each researcher communicating, they should develop
outcomes by each research area.
4. Free-discussion
<Talk themes>
-How to use this study/research society efficiently
As an arena for research proposal in Japanese and English
Associating its research project, or meeting…?
Reading books and discussion?
Conditon of participation (Free, Specialization or..)
-Scheduling
Consideration of each research plan since Apr 2011
90-120minutes per 1session
Where’s space? (This room or Conference space at central library?)
-Languages
English or Japanese, (it’ll depends on proposer’s preference or situation)
-How to announce and communicate
Set a session till 2weeks before the day
Through web-sight/mailing-list or SNS
5. Wrapping up this meeting and announcement next time
-A facilitator will review today’s meeting and set future direction and report by e-mail.
(within February, 2011)
-We’ll take an announcement of next session in April thorough web, mailing-list or SNS.
6. Links
Tsujinaka-seminar web-sight http://tsujinaka.net/
JSPS, Basic research(S) http://tsujinaka.net/kibans/index.html
CAJS web-sight, University of Tsukuba http://cajs.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Datas of JIGS http://tsujinaka.net/tokusui/data.html,
http://cajs.tsukuba.ac.jp/result/
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