Fieldwork

Dec.14, 2016

Three DFW2016 Working Groups made final presentations in Asahi Area, Toyota City.

Oct.26, 2016

Four OFW2016 Working Groups made final presentations on their findings of OFW fieldwork in Rizal, Laguna, The Philippines.

From Oct. 12 to 14, 2o16, three DFW2o16 working groups conducted fieldwork in Asahi area of Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

From Sept.18 to Oct.2, 2016, we conducted OFW2016 fieldwork in Rizal, Laguna Province, The Philippines collaborated with College of Public Affairs and Development, University of the Philippines Los Banos and Government of Municipality of Rizal, Laguna Province, The Philippines.

July 20, 2016

In the last session of DFW2016 Preparatory Sessions, we were pleased to have Dr. Masao Takano from Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University to talk about Satoyama system and its change with people in Japan. After the seesion, participants raised many questions to Prof. Takano. We hope this session could help our students further understand the situation of rural Japan.

July 20, 2016

Time flies. Finally we were very pleased to invite Prof. Hoshino and Prof. Sakai as guest speakers to talk about risk management as the last session of OFW2016 preparatory session. Dr. Aser and Prof. Okada also gave instruction about risk management and health maintenance in this session.

July 13, 2016

In today’s seminar, we are pleased to invite two speakers to introduce survey method based on their own experiences. Prof. Okada briefly introduced us the bacis thinking and logic of quantitative research in the first half of the seminar. In the second half, we had Mr. Ben Huffman, D2 students in DICOS, to share his research experience in conducting quantitative survey and fieldworks in the Philippines and Cambodia.

Even this is no team which plans to conduct quantitative suvery in OFW or DFW, we hope our participants can at least get some ideas about quantitative research and the methods. For sure, it is useful and beneficial for all!

July 8, 2016

By taking almost two hours train and bus, DFW2016 team visited Asuke-cho. And the team also conducted their pre-survey in Oiden Sanson Center. The visit to old street area of Asuke enhanced participants’ understanding of the community. And the lecture and interview in the Center helped our students deepen their understanding of the topics they have concerns. The insights of our informants at the Center will definitely help us to further improve our reserach design for the fieldwork in October.

Today, we are very pleased to invite Prof. Chiho Ogaya to give us a lecture about overseas migration from the Philippines and Feminization of the international migration in the Philippines. Prof. Ogaya introduced overview of overseas migration from the Philippines, government policy and objecitves. She also shared the disparity of females in the Philippines society and care chain at global level and within the Philippines. In the end of the lecture, Prof. Ogaya raised some topics which can be further explored in the future.

Overeseas migration is one of the most important issues in the Philippines. I hope our participants got some hints for their own studies in OFW2016.

As part of curriculum reform of OFW and DFW program, we introduced a couple of joint sessions about skills for fieldwork survey since last year. We tried to enrich contents and activities of preparatory sessions of OFW2015 and DFW2015.

In the session of June 29, Prof. Akiko Ueda organized a special session about how to conduct interview for participants of both OFW and DFW program. The session included lecture, group work, demonstration and feedback. With 3 hours lecture, participants learnd basic concept, skills and know-how about how to conduct interivew. This session helped our participants to understand the difficulties of conducting interviews.

Our thankness goes to TAs of both program and Prof. Isamu Okada, Prof. Aser Javier, Prof. Wataru Kusaka and Prof. Yuki Shimazu.