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Country： Japan

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Country： Japan

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Committee type：Academic society

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Committee type：Academic society

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4 2013 - 3 2017

Grant number：25550107

Grant amount：\4160000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 、 Indirect Cost：\960000 ）

Investigating various development policies and projects in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, we delineate political economic process how the powerful transfers environmental risks into the marginalized. In Japan, safety dogma of nuclear power had long been maintained, while its government and utility companies had distorted communication of nuclear risks. In Indonesia and the Philippines, unequal power relations between development agencies and local people, and/or central government and local government make environmental assessment insufficient and externalize environmental risks into locals.
Both in developed and developing world, neo-liberal development policies bar environmental risks from been internalized and transfer them into the marginalized under the name of structural reform. Those policies make political space for rent-seeking for the powerful so that capital accumulation can be pursued even though under the climate of today's economic stagnation.

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4 2005 - 3 2008

Grant type：Competitive

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2005 - 2007

Grant number：17252008

Grant amount：\19240000 （ Direct Cost: \14800000 、 Indirect Cost：\4440000 ）

Our studies tried to compare the international migration politics of EU and those of East Asia from the viewpoint of human rights and clarify the differences and their problems. In recent years, the number of influx of foreign workers and brides increased considerably in Japan and Korea as well as in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. However, differing from the EU countries, in these countries the term of stay of foreign workers is short, application of labor law is sometimes limited and particularly the female workers in domestic works and care giving remain in worse conditions. And in certain countries, for example in Singapore, foreign workers are not admitted neither to marry with a national nor to acquire the nationality, and are thus forbidden to access to the citizenship of their staying country. On the other, the massive entry of Chinese workers into Japan in the name of “trainees"(kenshusei) constitute a salient migratory movement in East Asia results in the formation of a category of temporary workers working and living in worst conditions.
Our studies, based on the field work researches, pointed out the three major factors which define the problems mentioned above : 1) too pragmatic and“national interest oriented“immigration politics of these countries, 2) non participation into or negligence of international treaties on human rights and workers rights, 3) relative weakness of the civil activities for the human rights. In these points, Asian countries should and could learn from the immigration and integration politics of EU countries, such as the politics of free circulation of person, the guarantee of the rights of social protection and the easier access to the citizenship, etc. However, nowadays European countries themselves are weakening their human rights regime of immigration and integration in limiting, for example, the right of free movement of EU citizens after the enlargement of EU in 2004 and imposing more severe requirement of assimilation upon the immigrants demanding long stay. In this sense, EU is also faced with the problems concerning the reconstruction of its own human rights regime.

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2004 - 2006

Grant number：16203010

Grant amount：\22880000 （ Direct Cost: \17600000 、 Indirect Cost：\5280000 ）

The Peace and Community Research Institute at Rikkyo University is producing three volumes, Peace and Community, Asian Migration, and Peace Strategies in Local Communities. Each volume includes chapters that examine various issues under the umbrella theme of comprehensive security. These volumes are to be published by early 2007. Also, Igarashi Akio teamed with Miranda Scheurs to interview Japanese female political figures on the topic of women political participation and environmental issues. They plan to publish their research results in both English and Japanese. Projects conducted under this research grant also examined the influence of globalization on comprehensive security. Members considered this issue at both the theoretical and the practical level. A practical application focused on the "citizen." Namely, from local, to regional, to global, a shared set of cosmopolitan values exists at every level regarding comprehensive security. Examining the role of concerned individuals, NGOs, and other local o rganizations is thus critical to our gaining an understanding of the dynamics of comprehensive security. In this regard, the citizen's perspective occupied an important focal point of this research.

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4 2002 - 3 2003

Grant type：Competitive

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