Fieldwork

June 15, 2016

Today, we were very pleased to invite students of GSID to share their fieldwork experiences in the Philippines with OFW2016 participants. We invited Ms. Natsumi Yoshida, Razel Navalta, Mew Aunticha, and Luiza Nakamura, the WG2 of OFW2015 to share their experiences of OFW2015. The presenters provided a detailed introduction about their activities at each stage of OFW in 2015. Their interesting stories about their OFW motivated OFW2016 participants to raise many questions. In the 2nd presentation, we were pleased to have Mr. Rodmyr Datoon, D3 students at GSID, to share his tips in conducting fieldwork in the Philippines. Mr. Datoon introduced many practical methods for conducting fieldwork in his homecountry. The skills for conduting data collection sounded very important and helpful for our participants. He also gave many advices for preparing the fieldwork. We hope those know-how about fieldwork can provide references for participants in OFW2016. Thousands of thanks go to our presenters!

Maraming Salamat!

June 8, 2016: Rural/Community Development in Japan as An Alternative Development Approach

“Welcome back to GSID! And thank you very much for your interesting and informative lecture!” This is a meesage we would like to send to Prof. Yoshiaki Nishikawa who kindly offered a lecture for DFW2016 yesterday.

Prof. Nishikawa is a former faculty member of GSID. Currently, he is teaching at Graduate School of Economics, Ryukoku University. As a speicalist in agriculture and rural development, Prof. Nishikawa provided us a unique and comparative perspective of agriculture and rural development in the beginning of the lecture. Then, he introduced history of Japan’s agriculture and uniqueness of agriculture in Japan. The lecture became more interactive with hot discussion as Prof. Nishikawa shifted his talk to current practices in Japan’s agricultural modernization. He vividly presented the importance of “locality” and diversity in agriculture and rural development. We hope our participants can be inspired by this lecture and consider more deeply for their study in Toyota this year.

June 8, 2016: A Contemporary Look at Local Development and Local Governments in The Philippines

Dr. Aser Javier from UPLB gave us a lecture about updated information and discussion on local development and govenance in the Phillipines. His talk started with introduction about background of local situation in the Philippines. Then Dr. Aser applied Structured Contingency Theory to his talk regarding practices of local development and local government. Dr. Aser also provided detailed explanation about outcomes of these practices by LGUs. The session closed with an interactive Q & A between Dr. Aser and participants.

June 1, 2016: Introduction to Philippine and Rizal

We were pleased to invite Dr. Aser Javier, visiting professor from University of Philippines Los Banos, to introduce Philippine and our destination Municipal of Rizal, Laguna Province. Dr. Aser used diverse data to let us understand the situation of the country and the city where our participants will visit in this September. Fieldwork always starts with knowledge and understanding of the field and its people.

June 1, 2016: Japan’s Education Development

In today’s seminar, Prof. Liu at GSID introduced historical trajectory of Japan’s education development and current issues in education sector which Japanese society is facing to.

He also specifically introduced some critical issues and practices in Toyota City which were considered as concerns shared by each working group of DFW2016.

May 25, 2016: Japan’s Eco-Model City: Toyota

Toyota, as a city which is famous for automobile industry, also has rich natural resource. How to balance urbanization, social development and environment protection is a focus of the city’s development strategy. Prof. Kiyoshi Fujikawa, introduced policy and practice of Toyota as Japan’s Eco-Model City in today’s lecture. How to balance urbanizaitoin with rural development seems like a big challenge for this city. Understanding the delimma and exploring solution will become a possible topic for the DFW groups.

May 25, 2016: From Fieldwork Experiences in the Philippines

Today we were very pleased to have a Philippine specialist, Prof. Kusaka at GSID to give us a lecture on his experienece in fieldworks in the Philippines. Prof. Kusaka shared his experience and insight about how to behave in a fieldwork as a fieldworker. The experience and talk are very important and helpful for our participants. They may not be able to fully understand now. We wish they can experience and feel in Rizal City in the coming September.

May 18, 2016: Japan’s Local Administration and Governance

Prof. Kusaka at GSID gave us a lecture about Japan’s local administraion and governance.

His talk was not limited to the descriptive introduction of the history change of politics and governance in Japan. Rather, it included critical analysis of the interaction among stakeholders, power relations change and challenges.

May 18: Poverty in Rural Philippines

Today we are very pleased to have Prof. Jonna Estudillo from GRIPS to give us a lecture about poverty and poverty reduction in the Philippines. Prof. Estudillo introduced a clear definition and measures of poverty worldwide and in the Philippines. She also talked about strategies of poverty reduceion applied by the Philippine government in recet years.

Dear All,

Please find the following group lists of OFW2016 & DFW2016.

OFW2016: Group List

DFW2016: Group List