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Record of activities in 2006 at KURCPI

  • Islands ForumェEInternational Symposium , 16th December
    "Strategy on the Asian-Pacific islands and Kagoshima region Outskirts, interdisciplinary and international contribution- "
    13:30-, the United Graduate School of Agriculture Science 3F Floor
    [ABSTRACT] In Kagoshima pref., there is a NGO which plays role initiative grass roots exchanges in the Asia region. There is a lot of research materials accumulated at Kagoshima University. These are not only independent research but also the result of interdisciplinary team research/practical research, indirect or direct technical cooperation, understanding for international exchanges (that is effect derived from investigate and research activity), or concrete examples on bringing up talent/community development. Of course, there are so many examples contributed by Kagoshima prefecture office, local public organizations, NGOs and corporations.ェ@ェ@ェ@Recently, businesses and government related organizations, for example, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), local public organizations, NGOs; universities are working in close cooperation with one another. For strategy on international and local contribution in Kagoshima, it is so important that we look back at those past achievements, connect them and consider those prospects deeply. So, we do consider the Asian-Pacific islands as a target of this symposium. The Asian-Pacific islands are from Kagoshima, which is located at the outskirts of Japan, to islands partly toward the south through the Ryukyu Islands Arc, and also the sea area next to wide Asia region and the Pacific.
    • Resources and prospects of Kagoshima University development history in ASEAN region, and possibility of present and cooperative development
      TAKAMA Hidetoshi (Center for International Planning)

      Since early 1980s, I have been involved in Development in Asia and South Pacific areas. I moved to this position at KU last May. Before then I had worked for technical cooperation among ASEAN countries and Japan. This time I would like to discuss this title with my view which I have conceived through my carrier in Asia.
      KU is characterized as a best study/research place of ocean/island sciences throughout Japan because of its blessed location. Although KU has made much collaboration with ASEAN countries either through receiving students from that area or through sending our personnel to that area, KU managed a large scale project at Malaysia University of Agriculture (UPM) with JICA early 80s. In the project KU sent 9 experts and received several Malaysian young counterparts. KU sent back those students with higher education and degrees to UPM. Today, those ex-KU students actively worked for various universities throughout of Malaysia. Following this project, Phase 2 project at UPM started in 1998 for 5 years and again KU sent its teaching staff as experts.
      However, now not many people know about this project among KU despite its good old day. This is probably because 1) there may be no continuity after its termination such as lack of a proper follow up system, and 2) there may not have been enough information shared in KU.
      Turning our eyes to ASEAN, its socio-economic integration has today been accelerated greatly. Especially GMS, in shorten Greater Mekong Subregion, initiated by ADB is expected to be one of the most prosperous areas in ASEAN. Moreover, BIMP-EAGE Initiative area including Brunei, North/East Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia and Southern Philippines, is also expected to be a possible target of regional development after GMS. That area has a plenty of resources with bio-diversity. However this kind of regional integration borne various problems crossing borders but in other words they are development issues.
      Kagoshima University is one of large scaled national universities with 8 faculties and it is serving to its region i.e. Kagoshima Prefecture as well ASEAN region. It is sure that KU can challenge the development issues in ASEAN through its integrated approach. Research Center for the Pacific Islands should have its initiative to promote integrated projects. I am sure that it is able to do so.

    • Grass roots exchanges in Asia region and Kagoshima
      KUWAHARA Sueo and OZAKI Takahiro (Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities)

      A year ago we started a collaborated research on bullfighting. From our research we found that such peripheral prefectures as Okinawa, Kagoshima, Ehime, Shimane, Niigata and Iwate have been directly connected with each other through bullfighting both in individual and small municipality levels, and actively promoting grassroots exchange by holding National Bullfight Summit Meeting every year. Furthermore this grassroots exchange through bullfighting looks to have an edge of going around the world by being connected to the Korean municipalities which have been regularly holding bullfighting. This is a totally new perspective against the vertical perspective of ・enter-Peripheryヘ, which has long been a dominant perspective of ・ity and Rural Areaヘ. Thus we got the perspective of ・eriphery-Periphery Networkヘ. If we take a look at Kagoshima with this analytical framework, we could realize anew that Kagsohima was a pioneering prefecture for developing this ・eriphery-Periphery Networkヘ by initiating ・araimo exchange programヘ in 1980s and ・aramojia projectヘ in 1990s. That is, Kagoshima was a far front runner in grassroots exchange in Japan. In this presentation we try to discuss on the possibility of the grassroots exchange in Kagoshima in relation to Asia in global age by reevaluating Karamojia project from the viewpoint of ・eriphery-Periphery Networkヘ and the examination of the grassroots exchange by Bullfighting Culture among the peripheral areas.

    • International contribution by practical use of community-based island medicine of Kagoshima
      TAKEZAKI Toshiro (Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences)

      Kagoshima University has contributed to community medicine in islands of Kagoshima, and conducted field study there. Department of International Island and Community Medicine is conducting a JICA training course, Community-based Island Medicine・that provides opportunities to improve quality of medical service by development of human resources who will engage community medicine in island and remote area through utilizing various experiences in such community health service and research that Kagoshima has conducted so far under cooperation of administration and university. This 2-month course has been annually conducted since 2002, and seven doctors of the Philippines and Indonesia have participated it.

    • Development and prospects through research of the tropical rain forest zone
      YONEDA Tsuyoshi (Faculty of Agriculture)

      A long-term research project on nature study has been conducted in Sumatra since 1980. The study aims to clarify the ecological structure in this area under a tropical rainforest climate. Major research area is West Sumatra being Andalas University as a counterpart. It is an interdisciplinary project covering not only biology but also soil and social sciences. Around two hundred Japanese scientists were dispatched and fifty Indonesian scientists were invited in total during the period. Our experience about promoting the long-term research will be introduced first, and then perspectives of the international research project under Kagoshima University will be addressed through introducing the pilot project at the South-west Islands of Japan under the sub-tropical climate.

    • Collaboration on Marine Botany in Kagoshima University with Asian and Pacific Countries
      NORO Tadahide and TERADA Ryuta (Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University)

      Since the 1960s, academic collaboration on marine botany has been conducted in Kagoshima University. Emeritus Prof. Tsuyoshi Tanaka did taxonomic studies with Vietnamese marine botanists in the 1960s and reported several new species from South Vietnam. Former Director of R.C.S.P. in Kagoshima University, Prof. Inoue Akio, studied fish poisoning, so called Cigaterra, in Tahiti, French Polynesia and found that the dinoflagellate Gambiediscus produced the toxin. Afterwards, this dinoflagellate was also reported in many Pacific countries. In the 1980s, Prof. Noro started the taxonomic and ecological studies on brown algae genus Sargassum in the Philippines and extended his study in Australia, Indoneshia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Micronesia. Dr. Terada also collected many specimen of Gracilaria in Hawai, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia and now revising the taxonomy of the genus. In the Pacific countries, Gracilaria and Eucheuma are economically important algal fishery products. For example, Eucheuma is exported as a source of the marine colloid named carrageenan. Culture of Eucheuma is one of the important fishery industry in these countries. The Indonesian Ministry of Education nominated Kagoshima University as the counterpart for the training programme of the marine botany and other fishery sciences for the vocational high school teachers in their country.

  • Research Seminar No.74, 13th November
    Yoshifumi KawanoェiDepartment of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University ェj
    "The pediatric medical care system in Kagoshima Prefecture and the role of supportive work for children in the islands area by non-profit organization (NPO: Kodomo-iryo network) "
    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor

    [ABSTRACT] The number of pediatricians per 100,000 children in Kagoshima Prefecture is only 59.2, which is a ranking of 45th in the 47 prefectures in Japan. Since there are many islands with residents, Kagoshima Prefecture would be the last one in respect to supplying medical care for children. About 30,000 children are living on 28 islands, where general practitioners are responsible for child health. Once those children suffer from serious disease, they are required to have advanced medical care by the specialists in the Hospitals in Kagoshima city, separated from other family members. The hospitalization often takes more than half a year and they are obliged to stay in the hospital with their mothers. It creates incredibly heavy stress on both physical and psychological conditions.
    Our non-profit organization (NPO: Kodomo-iryo network) was established in August 2005 by pediatricians, nurses, or co-medical staff in Kagoshima. The main purposes of this NPO are economical and psychological support for children with serious diseases and informing general practitioners of current medical care in pediatrics. We aim at the establishment of a network for sick children with a mission of Appropriate medical care and comfortable hospitalization for all sick children.

  • Research Seminar No.71, 3th July
    Philip HaywardェiMacquarie Universityェj
    "Culture and cultural identities in contemporary island societies "
    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor

    [ABSTRACT] In the late 20th and early 21st Centuries island cultures have been affected in various ways by the spread of global (and inter-local) economies and media operations. The global nature of this phenomenon marks it out from preceding local incidents of change occasioned by external and internal factors.
    Drawing on the speakerヘs research in the Whitsunday archipelago (off mid-north coast Queensland, Australia), south eastern Pacific islands such as Lord Howe and Norfolk; New Britain and Mioko island (Papua New Guinea), Ogasawara and Pitcairn Island, the presentation will examine aspects of the relationship between natural and cultural heritages in Small Island Cultures.
    Discussion will identify the simultaneously fragile and tenacious nature of island cultures and how this balance affects cultural survival and mobility. The paper will go on to develop assertions based on a reading of Jared Diamondヘs 2005 book Collapse: How Societies chose to fail or succeed. After identifying the relevance of Diamondヘs work to small island cultures, the paper will propose a set of related factors to explain and typify the development and re-stabilisation of small island cultures during periods of change. An understanding of the role of periods of cultural turbulence will be proposed, with particular regard to migration patterns across islands. Discussion of various facets of migration to island communities will focus on the nature of change occasioned by new settlers.
    Following on this discussion, the paper will then address parallels between ecology and Green politics in understanding culture. Drawing on the work of geographers such as Eric Carter and his approaches to ・iocultural geographyヘ the paper will explore this notion and its complexities. Through a brief critique, the paper will propose an agenda for engaged and supportive island research with regard to the founding principles of SICRI (as identified at www.sicri.org and in Hayward [2005]).
    In conclusion , the paper will address the role that imagination plays in societies and the manner in which heritage forms can be understood to embody social imagination.

  • Research Seminar No.70, 26th June
    OHTSUKA Hiroyuki (Professor Emeritus of the Kagoshima University)
    "Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates Faunas of the Ryukyu Islands from the Viewpoint of the Paleontology. "
    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor

    [ABSTRACT] Result of study on the pale ontological analysis of terrestrial vertebrate fossils in the Ryukyu islands furnish valuable clues and considerations as to the history and age of animal migration from the continent to its neighboring islands. Geological and pale ontological data suggest that the area of the Ryukyu Islands has been repeatedly connected to the Asiatic Continent and each land connection has been followed by migration of characteristic terrestrial vertebrates from the continent. So long as result of excavations done in past five years in the Ryukyu Islands, five diagnostically different stratigraphic levels containing Late Miocene to latest Pleistocene vertebrate fossils have been delineated in the islands. Among the fossil assemblages found in these five different stratigraphic levels, those from Level 2 (Early Pleistocene) are known to occur in shallow marine deposits underlying the Early to Middle Pleistocene Ryukyu Group. They are named Imadomari-Akagimata assemblage and are considered to be immigrants from the latest Pliocene Renzidong fauna in Anhui Province located in Central China, during the second land connection. This assemblage may be regarded as the oldest post-Miocene fauna and might include the Ancestors of the Pleistocene fossil and living endemic terrestrial vertebrate faunas of the Ryukyu Islands. Among the vertebrates in the Imadomari-Akagimata assemblage, the archetypal derr(=Cervus (Metacervulus), new species) arrived to the islands from the continent as a progenitor and its descendants were flourished in the islands during the Pleistocene together with another cervid and large terrestrial tortoise(=Manouria). These taxa became completely extinct at the end of Pleistocene (ca.15,000years B.P.), after the formation of many morphotypes. It can be said that other animal in this assemblage may serve as the progenitors of the present mammals, reptiles, and amphibians living in the Ryukyu Islands.

  • Research Seminar No.69, 27th May
    "Island road" Project meeting
    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
  • Research Seminar No.68, 22th May
    OZAKI Takahiro (Kagoshima University)
    "Experimental study on recent migration movement in the pastoral area of eastern Mongolia"
    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor

    [ABSTRACT] In Mongolia, the population growth of Ulaanbaatar, which is the capital city of Mongolia, was 43.8% from 1995 to 2004, whereas the national total population growth was only 12.5% in this period. Such a urban concentration of population was usually refereed as ェgexodusェh in Mongolia which was one of the recent severe social problems. But as of pastoral (=rural) area, diversity in the overall trend of population decline was noticeable even in a smaller area than provincial level. To explain this kind of phenomenon, we should investigate the pull factors of emigration as well as the push factors such as zud, which means snow disaster that attacked whole Mongolia severely in 2000 winter. This presentation will be taking up case studies of Darkhan sum and Ihhet sum in the eastern part of Mongolia, where fluoric mines are scattered, as materials to discuss pull factors of migration, to describe the todayェfs survival strategy of people living in Mongolian pasture, and to rethink nuudel, a Mongolian word which means ェgmovementェh or ェgmigrationェh.

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    16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor

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