Former Migakazuba Researchers

Keywords：Ancient China、Marriage、Family、Legal history

The purpose of my research is to rethink “family” in the Qin and the Han periods in China. Of particular interest is how “family” was established. My research has found that the internal relationship of “families” was not unconditionally established by blood and marital relationship but was determined by the legal system set by the Dynasty at that time. I aim to clarify “family” and its changes from the Qin period to the Han period through analysis and reconstruction of “family law” of each period. 

Keywords：women writers, migration, Latin America, comparative literature

The objective of this study is to explore how women writers who immigrate on their own initiative write in multiple languages. Through analyzing and considering the characteristics of representations regarding the boundaries of language, gender, race, and nationality in their works, I will examine how their narratives would be classified among the world literature.

Keywords：departure melody, listening practice, tourism

The subject of this research is sound or music in the everyday life in recent Japan, especially departure melodies at the train stations and the listening practice towards them. Departure melodies have various aspects such as public, local and commercial, that is to say, they reflect the relationships between sound/music and human beings, or among people that is constructed based of sound/music. I approach this theme from the perspective of tourism, soundscape studies, and semiology.

Keywords：personal pronouns, de se, anaphora, control, binding

Previous literature in the areas of syntax and semantics has observed that an English sentence like “John hopes he will win.” gives rise to at least two readings. One reading describes a situation where John is hoping he himself will win (de se reading); the other expresses that John is hoping John will win, without John being aware that he is hoping something for himself (non-de se reading). The goal of my current research project is to identify structural (morphosyntactic) factors behind these interpretations.

Keywords：Yokohama scarf, textile prints, representation of nation and ethnicity

This study addresses the design of the Yokohama scarf, which developed into a prominent local industry in the postwar period. In view of scarf designs, it examines the cultural, political, and economic background. It was confirmed that various scarves such as ornaments, commemorative items, souvenirs, and scarves for advertisements were exported. It can be argued that each design is represented more or less the nation-state system based on the modern Western thoughts.

Keywords：Vocational training, Empowerment, Employment support

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the job-seeker support training program introduced in Japan in 2011 on work, life, and awareness of female participants. To analyze these effects, I used the concept of empowerment, which is defined by Naila Kabeer as a process of acquiring power. I analyzed the current training subjects and their contents, life history of female participants, and effects of public vocational training and job-seeker support training on women from a gender perspective.

Keywords：human geography, mental health and welfare

I am interested in the relationship between the construction process of the subjectivities of the people concerned and the action of power toward the people with bodies who are separated from society and made invisible in a specific space, such as long-term patients of psychiatric hospitals and long-term foreign detainees of the asylum. In addition, since I am also a psychiatric social worker, I am currently examining the possibility of constructing a “flexible” community care system that “ensures that all people do not fall through the cracks” together with the people concerned and supporters by utilizing the network I have built through fieldwork.

Keywords：western clothes、tailoring、foreign settlement、modern Japan、Qing

The purpose of my research is to reveal the organization and development of the tailor of Western garments in modern Japan based on historical materials from the view point of things and human being and the technique. As being focused on the fact that Qing tailors taught Japanese their techniques in the foreign settlement where Western tailoring established, I also clarify their historical position.

Keywords： roles of mothers, children leaving home, self-independence

I study aimed to reveal shifts in the roles of mothers, especially the decreased awareness of mothers' roles and changes in their lives after their children leaving home.
More recently, I have been conducting research on what mothers expect from school education and home economics learning to improve their children's self-independence.

Keywords：The Republic of China, child welfare, charitable enterprise

I am proceeding with comparative study of child welfare in the 1920s of China, which is considered to be a transition period from traditional charitable enterprises to modern social welfare. Based on the financial conditions of the child welfare facilities of Beijing at that time, which I have already elucidated, I intend to analyze how child welfare changed into modern social welfare in Shanghai and Nanjing, and clarify its characteristics and significance. I also aim to clarify, through comparative studies of these cities, how child welfare adapted itself to regional diversities.

Keywords： Masculinities, Men’s Household Work

The objective of this study is to examine whether adherence to masculinities, such as the salaryman model of masculinity, influence men’s engagement in housework and parenting. Especially, I focus on “caring masculinities”, which have been emphasized in order to change the role of men and improve gender equity in society

Keywords：children ,consumer education ,welfare

This study focuses on the image of “children as consumers.”
In recent years, consumer education in Japanese school and home education has been actively promoted as a national policy advocating the formation of consumer civil society. However, the main focus is on “consumer problems” and “investment,” whereas the formation of an inclusive society that takes into account consumer rights and human rights is not emphasized. Therefore, this study examines between consumer education for children and their welfare by analyzing related materials

Keywords： religious discrimination, laïcité, Islam, Strasbourg

Interested in the questions about social integration of Muslim immigrants and their descendants in France, I have studied specific place-making practices like constructions of mosques and cemetery, on the basis of my own fieldwork in Strasbourg. In addition, I have started studying on 'radicalization' of Islam, which is now a serious matter of concern to French society, and analyzing the social influences caused by discourses and political measures regarding 'radicalization'

Keywords：male infertility, masculinity, marital relationship

My previous research has focused on the experience of male infertility by analyzing the narratives of Japanese men who have consulted a urologist for treatment and their wives. The findings suggest that, in contemporary Japan, male infertility should be considered in the context of issues related to marital relationships rather than to sexuality. I have currently placed great efforts into understanding effective practices/policies to support infertile people in Japan.

Keywords：Study on Unique Machineries of Plant Membrane Traffic

Cells, the fundamental units of life, function by distributing proteins and membrane lipids at appropriate locations inside the cells. This process is regulated by a system called membrane traffic. Since membrane traffic plays a pivotal role in maintaining homeostasis of eukaryotic cells, the key components executing membrane traffic is well conserved among eukaryotes. Meanwhile, plants, one of the eukaryotic systems, seem to possess their own regulators in addition to canonical components of membrane traffic regulators. This work aims to elucidate the plant-unique machinery of membrane traffic regulations, and understand the importance of membrane traffic for the plants’ unique ways of living.

Keywords：Ancient China、Marriage、Family、Legal history

The purpose of my research is to rethink “family” in the Qin and the Han periods in China. Of particular interest is how “family” was established. My research has found that the internal relationship of “families” was not unconditionally established by blood and marital relationship but was determined by the legal system set by the Dynasty at that time. I aim to clarify “family” and its changes from the Qin period to the Han period through analysis and reconstruction of “family law” of each period.

Keywords： Literature, Gender/Sexuality Studies

The objective of this study is to explore how women writers who immigrate on their own initiative write in multiple languages. Through analyzing and considering the characteristics of representations regarding the boundaries of language, gender, race, and nationality in their works, I will examine how their narratives would be classified among the world literature.

Keywords： gender, arts, representation, social investigation

Keiko Takeda explores the function of arts, especially how it is shaping identities on gender/ sexuality. Research focuses are performance art S/N (1994), an artist Teiji Furuhashi, and social/ art movements on HIV/AIDS in 1990s Kyoto.
She has conducted interviews and participant observation to the participants of the movements and the performance art for more than 10 years, published her first solo book in July 2020.

Keywords：Experience of illness, Taisho and early Showa era, Infectious diseases

My research interests focus on the history of how ordinary people experienced and practiced public and personal hygiene norms in modern Japan. Hygiene is regarded as one of the arts of governance in modern states, and I have tried to reconsider Michel Foucault’s key concepts of docile bodies and subjectivation. I am currently working on a project, which explores the experiences of people who suffered from infectious diseases such as dysentery and the Spanish flu in early-twentieth-century Japan. In doing so, I will explore the diverse practices and experiences of patients and the socio-cultural context at the time.

Keywords： gender, security, foreign policy

Given the recent international trend that increasing number of states are upholding “gender” as major focus in their foreign policy, this study examines practices of gender issues in Japanese foreign policy since 1970s, in order to find out the role gender plays in construction of Japan’s identity as one of major “advanced” states and its “national interest”, as well as the ways tensions between domestic conservative gender order are managed.

Keywords：Japanese medieval history, inheritance, Japanese family organization (ie), the ancient-medieval Japanese documents (komonjo)

My research focuses on the Japanese medieval inheritance and Japanese family organization (ie). Current research topics are as follows: (1) Rethinking of the ancient-medieval Japanese documents (komonjo) used at the time of inheritance; (2) The study compares inheritance cases of the court nobility (kuge) and the warrior estate (buke), and the temple community (jike).

Keywords：history of walled city, urban history

Focusing on cities, which are the accumulation of politics, economics and culture, I conduct a research on state and transition of Japanese ancient society. Recently I am making a comparative research on the walled cities of the Six Dynasties of China and the Korean Peninsula, examining their effects on the formation of walled cities in Japan.

Keywords：courtesy stigma, parents, coping, adaptation, genetic counseling

My research focuses on courtesy stigma experienced by parents of children with genetic conditions. Courtesy stigma has negative effects on interpersonal relationships of the parents due to the stigma attached to their children’s attributes. In this study, I examine courtesy stigma experiences and coping strategies of parents of children with genetic conditions, with an aim to provide useful insights for supporting parents in genetic counseling.

Keywords：western clothes、tailoring、foreign settlement、modern Japan、Qing

The purpose of my research is to reveal the organization and development of the tailor of Western garments in modern Japan based on historical materials from the view point of things and human being and the technique. As being focused on the fact that Qing tailors taught Japanese their techniques in the foreign settlement where Western tailoring established, I also clarify their historical position.

Keywords： roles of mothers, children leaving home, self-independence

I study aimed to reveal shifts in the roles of mothers, especially the decreased awareness of mothers' roles and changes in their lives after their children leaving home.
More recently, I have been conducting research on what mothers expect from school education and home economics learning to improve their children's self-independence.

Keywords：Angura theatre, Terayama Shūji, Gender studies

I specialize in Japanese modern theatre in 1960s called Angura theatre. I focus especially on the representation of heroines and girls on the works written by Terayama Shūji. Recently, I am interested in his gender criticism on “For ladies series”(1965-1975).

Keywords：The Republic of China, child welfare, charitable enterprise

I am proceeding with comparative study of child welfare in the 1920s of China, which is considered to be a transition period from traditional charitable enterprises to modern social welfare. Based on the financial conditions of the child welfare facilities of Beijing at that time, which I have already elucidated, I intend to analyze how child welfare changed into modern social welfare in Shanghai and Nanjing, and clarify its characteristics and significance. I also aim to clarify, through comparative studies of these cities, how child welfare adapted itself to regional diversities.

Keywords：gender norms,the changes in Chinese families,the balance between work, housework, and parenting

My primary research interests are gender, the balance between work, housework, and parenting in Chinese youth. in present-day China, where the market economy is developing, along with the advocation of "female-male-equality" trend by the state and the fade of collectivism, individuals became more personalized. In this study, combined with the aforesaid social background, my study viewed the Chinese families from a gender perspective.

Keywords：Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballet, Choreography, Body-modeling method, Dance Score

I study the progress of the body-modeling method in European theatrical dance, referring to the Russian choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), who was working in the early 20th century. By exploring Nijinsky's dance notation system and his original dance scores, I seek to capture how the traditional ballet body was updated to a new style under the influence of the artistic movements of the times.

Keywords：financialization of land, disposition, debt, gender

Since 2008, with the financialization of land deepened, urban family in China bankrupted and forced to suicide. There is no literature explaining this situation from gender perspective. My research analysis why these women from middle-class family became the debtors and the victims of capital accumulation from feminist economical perspective.

Keywords：W. M. Vories, piano, liberal arts, lifelong education

This study investigates pianos and music activities introduced by W. M. Vories (1880-1964). Vories graduated from Colorado College which is known a liberal arts college. This study has two purposes. First, I build bridge between musicology and music pedagogy which were often considered separate territory. Second, I treat academically lifelong music education which has not thoroughly discussed.

Keywords：Japanese medieval history, inheritance, Japanese family organization (ie), the ancient-medieval Japanese documents (komonjo)

My research focuses on the Japanese medieval inheritance and Japanese family organization (ie). Current research topics are as follows: (1) Rethinking of the ancient-medieval Japanese documents (komonjo) used at the time of inheritance; (2) The study compares inheritance cases of the court nobility (kuge) and the warrior estate (buke), and the temple community (jike).

Keywords：history of walled city, urban history

Focusing on cities, which are the accumulation of politics, economics and culture, I conduct a research on state and transition of Japanese ancient society. Recently I am making a comparative research on the walled cities of the Six Dynasties of China and the Korean Peninsula, examining their effects on the formation of walled cities in Japan.

Keywords：courtesy stigma, parents, coping, adaptation, genetic counseling

My research focuses on courtesy stigma experienced by parents of children with genetic conditions. Courtesy stigma has negative effects on interpersonal relationships of the parents due to the stigma attached to their children’s attributes. In this study, I examine courtesy stigma experiences and coping strategies of parents of children with genetic conditions, with an aim to provide useful insights for supporting parents in genetic counseling.

Keywords：western clothes、tailoring、foreign settlement、modern Japan、Qin

The purpose of my research is to reveal the organization and development of the tailor of Western garments in modern Japan based on historical materials from the view point of things and human being and the technique. As being focused on the fact that Qing tailors taught Japanese their techniques in the foreign settlement where Western tailoring established, I also clarify their historical position.

Keywords： roles of mothers, children leaving home, self-independence

I study aimed to reveal shifts in the roles of mothers, especially the decreased awareness of mothers' roles and changes in their lives after their children leaving home.
More recently, I have been conducting research on what mothers expect from school education and home economics learning to improve their children's self-independence.

Keywords：pianoforte, W. M. Vories, Japan in the first half of the 20th century, (music) education in America, architectures (especially houses)

I investigate the pianos furnished the architectures, for example schools and houses, designed by W. M. Vories(1880-1964), who came from America as a English teacher in 1905(later, was naturalized in Japan). The purpose of this research is to consider the aspects which have been derived from (music) education in America in discussing the diffusion of the Western Music in Japan.

Keywords：lacquer, economic geography, China-Japan relationship, modernity

I pay attention to the merchant who is based on Japan-China relations not the lacquered production, circulation, the chisel representing the route of the consumption from an economic geographical viewpoint, and is engaged in lacquered movement, and prescribe lacquer trade by analyzing the network construction. In addition, I take up cities becoming the trade node from the viewpoint of the place idea and am going to elucidate production space and verbal explanation around the lacquer to produce at a different place through media analysis.

Keywords：Sekkan Period,Nyobo(ladies-in-waiting), woman poet, Shikashu (personal collection), Genji-Monogatari(the tale of Genji)

In the Japanese Heian Period, especially the Sekkan Period (the period ruled by regent),many excellent literary works were created. Nyobo(ladies-in-waiting) were indispensable for the works, because Nyobo were both of authers and readers for them. However, it is hard to say that the studies have empirical approach due to poor unederstanding about Nyobo’s Kansyoku(the position) and Kosyo(the name in the work). My study primarily intends to consider the reality of Nyobo’s positon and desgnation, show their social position. Secondary it inends to deepen understanding of the whole cultural activities performed by Nyobo which are quite unique in the world. And it also makes it possible to interpret their works newly.