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Books

• Fukunishi, T. & T. Yamagata, 2013. Slow and Steady Wins the Race: How the Garment Industry Leads Industrialization in Low-income Countries. IDE Discussion Paper No. 412. Institute of Developing Economies, Makuhari.
• Fukunishi, T. & T. Yamagata, 2013. Employment and Wages in Export-oriented Garment Industry: Recent Trends in Low-income Countries under the Trade Liberalization. Background Paper to Industrial Development Report 2013,United Nations Industrial Organization.
• Yoshida, K. & S. Yamada, 2012. Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work Aid to Skills Development: Case Study on Japan’s Foreign Aid Program. Background Paper Prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012. UNESCO.

Papers

• Abe, T. 2013. Perceptions of the Khmer Rouge tribunal among Cambodians: Implications of the proceedings of public forums held by a local NGO. South East Asia Research 21 (1): 5-26.
• Kaneko, M. & M. Shigeta, 2013. Preface: Gender-based knowledge and technology in Africa. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue 46: 1-3.
• Minami, Y. and M. Shigeta, 2013. Women’s housewares and their usage among the Aari. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue 46: 155-173.
• Soga, T. 2013. Perceivable “unity”: Between visible “group” and invisible “category.” (K. Kawai ed.) Groups, pp. 219-238. Kyoto University Press, Kyoto.
• Cross, K. 2013. The limits of trials in dealing with the past: Seeking holistic transitional justice approach towards proactive genocide prevention. Comparative Genocide Studies 3: 39-46.
• Tsuda, M. 2013. Kenya after the 2007 “post-election violence”: Constitutional reform and the National Accord and Reconciliation Act. IDE Discussion Paper 381: 1-22.
• Asuayama, Y., D. Chunn, T. Fukunishi, S. Neou & T. Yamagata, 2013. Firm dynamics in the Cambodian garment industry: Firm turnover, productivity growth, and wage profile under trade liberalization. Journal of Asia and Pacific Economy 18 (1): 51-70.
• Yamada, S. 2013. Domesticating democracy? Civic and ethical education textbooks in secondary schools in the democratization period of Ethiopia. (J. H.Williams ed.) (Re) Building Memory: School Textbooks, Identity, and the Pedagogies and Politics of Imagining Community. Sense Publishing (in print).
• Abe, T. 2012. Reconciliation as process or catalyst: Understanding the concept in a post-conflict society. Comparative Sociology 11: 785-814.
• Oyama, S. 2012. Land rehabilitation methods based on the refuse input: Local practices of Hausa farmers and application of indigenous knowledge in the Sahelian Niger. Pedologist 55 (3) Special Issue: 466-489.
• Shigeta, M. 2012. African studies in Kyoto: From primatology to area studies. Africa in Asia & Asia in Africa: Asian Experiences and Perspectives in African Studies:25-29.
• Shigeta, M. 2012. African studies and “development” in Japan: In search of a fruitful relationship between research and practice. Africa in Asia & Asia in Africa: Asian Experiences and Perspectives in African Studies: 30-41.
• Matsuda, M. 2012, Beyond romanticization of community-based knowledge and institutions. Kyoto International Seminar 2012 Nov. 24: pp. 75-81. Kyoto University, Kyoto.
• Goto R, G. Yamakoshi, & T. Matsuzawa, 2012. A novel brood-site pollination mutualism? The root holoparasite Thonningia sanguinea (Balanophoraceae) and an inflorescence-feeding fly in the tropical rainforest of West Africa. Plant Species Biology 27: 164-169.
• Kaji, S. 2012. Monolingualism via multilingualism: A case study of language use in the West Ugandan town of Hoima. African Study Monographs 34 (1): 1-25.
• Takada, A. 2012. Pre-verbal infant-caregiver interaction. (A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. B. Schieffelin eds.) The Handbook of Language Socialization, pp. 56-80. Blackwell, Oxford.
• Yamada, S. 2012. Determinants of “community participation”: The tradition of local initiatives and the institutionalization of school management committees in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education 42 (6): 1-24.

International Meetings

• Matsuda, M. 2013. Towards Articulation of Permanence and Fluidity of Community A Challenge of Life-Pragmatism. Chiang Mai Seminar “Community Movements in Mainland South East Asia.” March 7, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Takada, A. 2013. Way Finding Practices of the G|ui/G||ana in the Kalahari. NII Shonan Meeting on Multi-activity in Interaction: A Multimodal Perspective on the Complexity of Human Action. February 19, Yokosuka, Japan.
• Sagawa, T. 2013. Forms of Conflict and Cooperation among the Daasanach and Their Neighbor. Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung Workshop: Interrelated Conflicts in a Northeast Africa Border Region (Azomia 1). February 14, Halle, Germany.
• Oyama, S. 2012. The People’s Anger Killed a Chief and His Spirit Protects the Territory: Inequality and Local Resolution of Land Allocation under New 1995 Land Act in Zambia. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution and Coexistence through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 9, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Ohta, I. 2012. Introduction: Purpose of the Harare Forum. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Abe, T. 2012. Lawyer Mandela’s Court Tactics and the Potential Function of South African TRC. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Umino, R. 2012. Living with conflicts: Being “indigenous” in South Africa, and beyond. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Endo, E. 2012. African Potentials in the context of Southern Africa. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Mine, Y. 2012. Sharing and dispersing power in the African perspectives: A research note on African Potentials. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Nagahara, Y. 2012. History as an African Potential: ¬Conflict and Reconciliation in Relation to Namibia’s Colonial Past. 2nd International Forum on Conflict Resolution through Reassessment and Utilization of “African Potentials.” December 8, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• Ito, Y. 2012. Honey Gathering Activities in the Forest Area of Southwestern Ethiopia and Its Significance for Local People. 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. November 30, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
• Takada, A. 2012. Responsibility in Giving and Taking Activity: Analysis of Directive Sequences between Japanese Caregivers and Children. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2012 Inter-congress: Children and Youth in a Changing World. November 26, Bhubaneswar, India.
• Funada-Classen, S. 2012. Post-conflict/genocide Mozambique and Rwanda: Focusing on Cleavage in Rural Communities. International Peace Research Association. November 25, Tsu, Japan.
• Takada, A. 2012. Communicative Musicality and Learning in Caregiver-child Interactions among the San of North-central Namibia. 1st International Conference of Replacement of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning. November 19, Tokyo, Japan.
• Takada, A. 2012. Re-Enacting Birth: The Spread of the Chebama Ritual among the G|ui and G||ana. 111th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association. November 15, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• Takeuchi, S. 2012. Dominance beyond the Border (1)：Rwanda – DR Congo Relations and Their Impacts on Rwanda’s Political Economy after the 1990s. XII International Scientific Meeting on Border Regions In Transition. November 14, Fukuoka, Japan.
• Ogawa, S. 2012. The Trans-Border Trading of Second-Hand Clothing and Copy Products in East Africa. International Workshop: Consuming Textiles Through Their Uses and Reuses. November 7, Osaka, Japan.
• Ogawa, S. 2012. Regaining the Value of “Fashion”: Trans-border Trading of Second-hand Clothes in East Africa. International Workshop: World History of Second-Hand Circulation. November 4, Tokyo, Japan.
• Takada, A. 2012. Gestures in Way Finding Practices among the G|ui/G||ana: Finding a Path and Perceiving Animal Signs. International Symposium of African Linguistics in Southern Africa. November 4, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Nishi, M. 2012. Risk and responsibility in the Era of Global Health: Public Health Interventions and Local Responses among the Gurage. 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. October 30, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
• Shimada, S. 2012. Understanding the Vulnerability of African Farmers Living with Uncertainty. 32nd International Geographical Congress. August 30, Cologne, Germany.
• Kaji, S. 2012. Monolingualism by Multilingualism: A Case Study of Language Use in a West Ugandan Town, Hoima. 7th World Congress of African Linguistics. August 20, Buea, Cameroon.
• Mine, Y. 2012. Preventing Violent Conflicts in Africa. JICA Symposium “Preventing Violent Conflicts in Africa.” July 26, The International House of Japan.
• Takada, A. 2012. An Intersubjective Foundation for Encouraging Morality: Communicative Musicality in Caregiver-child Interactions among the San of North-central Namibia. Satterthwaite Conference/festschrift in Honour of Richard Werbner. July 26, Satterthwaite, U.K.
• Mine, Y. 2012. Arthur Lewis in Ghana, 1957-8: The Peasant Path of Post-Colonial Development Reconsidered. XVIth World Economic History Congress. July 12, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Ogawa, S. 2012. Trans-border Trade of Second-hand Clothing in East Africa. World Economy History Congress. July 12, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Nishiura, A. 2012. Industrial Concentration and Business Groups in South Africa: A Comparison with Japanese Zaibatsu. World Economic Historian Congress. July 12, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Cross, K. 2012. The Limits of Trials in Dealing with the Past: Seeking Holistic Transitional Justice Approach towards Proactive Genocide Prevention. The 3rd Global Conference on Genocide, Genocide: Knowing the Past, Safeguarding the Future. June 30, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• Takada, A. 2012. Socializing Practices and Kin Relationships among the !Xun of Ekoka. 50th Anniversary Conference of the Centre of African Studies. June 8, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Ishida, S. 2012. Author Meets Reader: Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets. International Conference on Law and Society. June 5, Honolulu, U.S.A.
• Ishida, S. 2012. Giciaro: Mutual Expectations and Sanctions among the Igembe of Kenya. International Conference on Law and Society. June 5, Honolulu, U.S.A.
• Maruyama, J. 2012. Land, livelihood, and the Indigenous Peoples Movement: A Comparison of Two Cases of the San of Botswana and South Africa. Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany. June 1, Cologne, Germany.
• Shigeta, M. 2012. Starch for Survival, Fibre for Sale: Community-based Development Using Indigenous Ethiopian Crop, Ensete ventricosum. 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. May 22, Montpellier, France.
• Yamakoshi, G. 2012. Oil Palms May Stabilize the Agricultural System of Tropical West Africa. 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. May 22, Montpellier, France.
• Kimura, D. 2012. Historical Changes of Forest Use and Land Rights: The Case of the Wamba Region, DR-Congo. 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. May 22, Montpellier, France.
• Ito, Y. 2012. Conceivable Changes Triggered by the Forest Conservation Projects on Coffea arabica Growing Forest Area of Southwestern Ethiopia (poster). 13th Congress of International Ethnobiology. May 20-25, Montpellier, France.
• Shigeta, M. 2012. African Studies in Kyoto: From Primatology to Area Studies. The 1st IAS Humanities Korea International Conference in Institute of African Studies (IAS). April 27, Hankuk, Korea.
• Endo, M. 2012. Paradox of Human Security: Collapsed State and Piracy off Somalia. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Human Security. March 29, Chicago, USA.
• Ishida, S. 2012. Legal Pluralism in Kenya: A Three Dichotomy Analysis. Toward a General Theory of Legal Culture in a Global Context. March 26, London, UK.
• Takada, A. 2012. Shaping Intimate Relationships: Developmental Transition in Care-giving Activities for Young Children among the !Xun of North-central Namibia. The SCCR Symposium: Social Learning and Gender Relations in Hunter-gatherer Childhood. February 24, Las Vegas, USA.
• Kimura, D. Diversity of the "Mode of Co-presence": Two Cases from Africa. NII Shonan Meeting, "Multi-activity in Interaction: A Multimodal Perspective on the Complexity of Human Action." February 19, Yokosuka, Japan.
• Kurimoto, E. 2012 Internal Enemies and a Segmentary State: Political Dynamism of the Pari. Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung Workshop: Interrelated Conflicts in a Northeast Africa Border Region (Azomia 1). February 14, Halle, Germany.
• Murao, R. 2012. Successful Economy of Self-settled Refugees? Mobility and Flexibility in Rural Zambia. International Symposium "Mobility, Hibridity and the Way to Co-existence: Re-structuring of Daily Life in Rural and Urban African Societies.” February 9, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Soga, T. 2012. Pastoral Identities for Surviving Neoliberal Era. International Symposium on “Indigenous Identity and the Discourse of Indigeneity in the Age of Neo-Liberalism.” January 27, Tokyo, Japan.

Social Engagement

• Oyama, Shuichi. 2013, Learning from African Wisdom: Land Rehabilitation of the Degraded Land Based on Indigenous Knowledge, “Japan Women’s University Symposium/ Workshop ‘Ima, Afurikani ikiru watashi (Me, who lives in Africa now)’ ”, March 30th at Japan Women’s University Symposium.
  
• Yamada, Shoko. 2013, Introductory Seminar on Africa for University Students, “JICA Global Plaza (invited lecture)”, February 20th in JICA Ichigaya Building.
  
• Yamada, Shoko. 2013, History of Education in Africa and its Current Challenges, “JICA Global Plaza (invited lecture)”, January 20th in JICA Ichigaya Building.
  
• Mizuno, Kazuharu. 2012, Glaciers Shrinkage and Ecological Changes Caused by Global Warming in Tropical Alpines in Africa, Public Symposium, ‘Global Warming and World Glacier Change’, December 20th in Shinshu University.
  
• Mizuno, Kazuharu. 2012, Global Warming and Changes in the Nature in the World: Lean the Importance and Fun of Travelling the World, ‘Mirai Hakken (Discover the future) Forum 2012”, October 21st in Tokyo International Forum.
  
• Ohta, Itaru. 2012, Encountering Issues on Conflicts and Coexistence in Africa: Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and the Turkana, the Locals, “Forefront of African Research: Series ‘Encounter’ ” for “Kyou No Fumin Daigaku Fiscal Year 2012: The 4th Public Lecture by Center for African Area Studies”, September 15th in Kyoto University.
  
• Shimada, Shuhei. 2012 ’Regional Conflicts’ in Nigeria, “Summer Public Lecture Series by Institute of Developing Economies 2012”, July 27th Institute of Developing Economies. 
  
• Shimada, Shuhei. 2012, Violent Conflicts among Coexistence in Nigeria, “The 32nd Open College by Institute of Social Welfare, Tohoku Gakuin University”, July 21st, Institute of Social Welfare, Tohoku Gakuin University.
  
• Oyama, Shuichi. 2012, Challenges for Combating Desertification in Sahel of West Africa: Land Rehabilitation of Degraded Land Based on Indigenous Knowledge, “Global Environmental Issues and Local Residents in Africa” a Public Lecture in Tokyo by Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, June 2nd in Kyoto University Tokyo Office.
  
• Kimura, Daiji 2012, Actors in Protection of the Bonobo, an anthropoid ape: A Case Study in Wamba in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Public Lecture in Tokyo by Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University”, June 2nd in Kyoto University Tokyo Office.