Fieldwork

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

May 11, 2016

In the 2nd seminar of DFW2016, we invited Mr. Tatsuyoshi Suzuki, Director of Oiden Sanson Center, Toyota City, to give us a lecture about Center, their activities and situation of Toyota City. Mr. Suzuki introduced many projects promoted by the Center to establish a mechanism which can closely link people in urban and rural areas. The introduction provided us many hints and information for our participants to consider their interests and explore their topics and research questions. We look forward to meeting Mr. Suzuki again in June.

Our special appreciation goes to our TAs, Mr. Motomi Mizutani, Ms. Xuemei Li, and Mr. Shiva Ram Khadka. Without their hard work on the translation and interpretation, we could not make this seminar successful.

May 1, 2016

We are pleased to have Prof. Mamoru Tsuda from Nagoya University of Foreign Studies to take us into brain storm of understanding “The Philippines on the Globe and the Globalized Filippinos”. Prof. Tsuda taught us a way of thinking of issues in the Philipines through diverse and comparative perspetives. He also provided us many hints regarding topics of each team.

OFW2016 Schedule: OFW2016 Overall Schedule

DFW2016 Schedule:DFW2016 Overall Schedule

April 27, 2016 is also the start of DFW2016 program. Participants join the 1st seminar which consisted of gudiance on program schedule and past DFW experience sharing by Ms. Keiko Migliacci and Ms. Rahela Khatun. Participants also raised their questions and conerns in the session.

April 27, 2016 is the real start of OFW2016. The selected participants joined the 1st session consisting of schedule introduction, guidance on document submission, fee payment and vaccination, and team building. In the team building part, each team members introduced each other first. Then, they decided their team spirit and selected Pangunahing Kuordinator (Main coordinator), Pangalawang Kuordinator (Sub-Coordinator), Kalihim (Secretary), Taga-Aliw (Activities Coordinator) and Mediko (Medical caregiver) of each team.

Dear M1 students,

Good morning. This is Jing Liu, Assistant Professor in charge of OFW2016.

As we have a few vacancy for new applicants, we the OFW Committee 2016 is now opening for the second round application.

Those who wish to participate in OFW 2016 in the Municipality of Rizal, the Philippines, and who haven’t applied before, please submit the application form for the 2nd round by May 6 (Friday), 2016.

Please submit the application form via e-mail to Prof. Jing Liu (liujing@gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp).

Word: OFW2016applicationform 2nd

PDF: OFW2016applicationform 2nd

The selection result for this 2nd round will be announced at 14:00, May 10, at the door of Prof. Jing Liu’s office (306).

*There are important cautions. Please read carefully.

Caution 1: This 2nd round application does not affect the already selected participants.

Caution 2: The OFW Committee will decide the allocation of Working Groups.

Caution 3: If you are approved to participate in OFW 2016, you should attend preparatory seminar from May 11, 14:45-16:15.

Caution 4: If you are approved to participate, the class registration will be done by the OFW Committee. This is the exceptional case and you cannot change other class registration because of this.

Thank you very much for your interests in OFW2016 and we are looking forward to your applications and participation!

For any inquiry, please feel free to contact me.

With best regards,