Education, Humanities & Social Sciences

Protected: Pedagogical Development and Skill Acquisition in the Age of AI

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Education, Technology

The Future of Education and Skills: Insights from the Forum at ACE2025

Delegates at ACE2025 reflect on how AI reshapes teaching and learning, highlighting the importance of balance among technology, human agency, critical thinking, creativity, and ethics.
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Education, Technology

The Hybrid Teacher of the Future

Teacher-education experts discuss how AI plays a key role in reshaping teacher identity, challenging traditional ways of teaching, and exploring possibilities for a human-AI partnership in the classroom.
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Education, Technology

AI and the Skills Turn

Big Tech experts and university professors explored how AI is accelerating the shift toward skills-based education, emphasising the role of universities in developing essential competencies such as critical thinking and ethical judgment alongside technical proficiency.
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Education

Internationalisation of Higher Education in East Asia Amidst Geopolitical Tensions

Japan-based education experts discuss how rising geopolitical tensions are reshaping the internationalisation of higher education in East Asia, highlighting the need to balance security concerns with collaboration, social responsibility, and intercultural engagement.
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Education

Japan’s Education Reform in an AI-Driven Era

Japan’s Former State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Professor Kan Hiroshi Suzuki outlined Japan’s shift from SDGs to Sustainable Well-being Goals, arguing that education in the AI era must prioritise well-being, agency, authentic assessment, inquiry, and human-centred skills.
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History, Politics, International Relations & Law

Challenging the ‘Big Lies’ of History: The Shōwa Restoration

Professor Brian Victoria of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, United Kingdom, argues that history in Japan was deliberately suppressed by the American occupation forces after 1945, who wanted a capitalist leader to serve as a fortress against Soviet communism in Asia.
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History, Media, Film & Journalism, Politics, International Relations & Law

Political Conspiracy and Propaganda in The Uncounted Enemy and Last Days in Vietnam

The US code of honor is broken by US Intelligence’s dishonesty in The Uncounted Enemy and by US soldiers’ disobedience in Last Days in Vietnam. Wajiha R Rizvi explores the differing motivations and objectives involved, and the implications of the decisions that were made.
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Education, History

To Hanoi University and Beyond

Sara Legrandjacques, PhD candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, explains how student mobility in Vietnam is not a new phenomenon. Large-scale higher education, and the “mobile origins” of tertiary studies is at least a century old in the country.

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History, The Arts & Literature

Art and Everyday Life: Early Avant-Garde in 1920s Japan

Using the example of collage and montage artworks, Olga Isaeva illustrates how found everyday objects and fragments of reality provided 1920s Japanese avant-garde artists with tools to grasp the modern time and the role of art, the artist and the audience.
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Politics, International Relations & Law

Stateless Persons and Climate Refugees in Asia

Dr Mayumi Yamada discusses displaced populations within Asia in terms of their status within international law, questioning who can protect the stateless beyond national boundaries.
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China's Wealth and Happiness Paradox Matthew Monnot
Business & Economics, Cultural & Area Studies, Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

The Goods Life: China’s Wealth and Happiness Paradox

Dr Matthew J. Monnot of the University of San Francisco discusses the contrast between decades of GDP growth in China and stagnant levels of individual life and job satisfaction.
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Education, Language Learning, Technology

Kotoba Miners: Gaming and Language Learning

James York on the virtual language learning environment that he created in the world of Minecraft for students of Japanese as part of his PhD research.

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Cultural & Area Studies, History, Media, Film & Journalism

Boys from Vepery: John Footman’s Journey from the Ravages of “Gorta Mór”

Ireland’s Great Famine, “Gorta Mór”, had far-reaching effects for the Irish population in the mid-nineteenth century, leading millions to migrate in search of a better future. As part of a documentary film project, Dr Ian Michael, Fokiya Akhtar and Dr Michael R. Ogden explore the journey made by Dr Michael’s own ancestor, John Footman, from rural Cork to Madras, India.
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10,000 Hour Rule Language Teaching Frances Shiobara
Education, Language Learning

The 10,000 Hour Rule and What it Means for Language Teaching

Professor Frances Shiobara examines whether Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule can be applied to language learning and examines opportunities for maximising students’ second language acquisition in the context of the Japanese education system.
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Sino-Japanese Relations
Cultural & Area Studies, Politics, International Relations & Law

Mutual Distrust between China and Japan and the Locked Sino-Japanese Relations

Bilateral relations between China and Japan have historically been positive, yet the two countries have formed a situation of mutual distrust regarding both strategic and moral issues. Shi Chen discusses the reasons for the “locked” status of Sino-Japanese relations.

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Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, History

Brian Daizen Victoria: From Conscientious Objector to Buddhist Priest

Professor Frank S. Ravitch of Michigan State University College of Law interviews Dr Brian Daizen Victoria, Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies on his journey from conscientious objector objector to Buddhist Priest.
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Cultural & Area Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences

La Chinesca: A Chinese Community in the Mexico-US Borderlands

Chinese settlements on the border between California and Mexico date back over 100 years and their legacy can still be felt today. Scott Warren, Donna Ruiz E Costello and Wan Yu explore the impact of Chinese immigration to the region, in the context of the ‘hopeful geography’ of Bajalta California.
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Defining haiku Emiko Miyashita
The Arts & Literature

Defining Haiku with Hana Fujimoto, Emiko Miyashita and A. Robert Lee

Dr. A. Robert Lee interviews Hana Fujimoto and Emiko Miyashita of the Haiku International Association on haiku, its history, and its place in literature today. The interview took place at The Asian Conference on Literature & Librarianship 2016 (LibrAsia2016) in Kobe, Japan, where they hosted their annual haiku workshop.
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Business & Economics, Politics, International Relations & Law

Abenomics Rolls On As LDP Secures Historic Upper House Majority

Japan’s election on July 10, 2016 for the House of Councillors saw yet another decisive election victory for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, making him one of the most successful leaders in the democratic world.
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Cultural & Area Studies, Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

Japan’s Modern Ritualized Death System (20/20)

In the final part of Professor Stuart D. B. Picken’s “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph, he explains how Japan’s death system has been developed far beyond that of any Western civilisation, serving the needs of social control, nationalism and militarism, as well as the preservation of the family and the maintenance of the stability of Japanese society.

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Cultural & Area Studies, History

The Death and Burial of Emperor Showa (19/20)

In the penultimate Part 19 of his “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph, Professor Stuart D. B. Picken explains why the events preceding Emperor Showa’s passing away, and the rituals thereafter, created wide-ranging debate in Japanese society.
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Cultural & Area Studies, Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Terrorism, Violence and Tomorrow’s Citizens in Japan (18/20)

Professor Stuart D. B. Picken looks at the mentality of Japanese terrorism and violence, and where its roots lie, in Part 18 of “Death in the Japanese Tradition”.

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Cultural & Area Studies, Media, Film & Journalism

Lingering Images in Japanese Popular Culture (17/20)

In Part 17 of Professor Stuart D.B. Picken’s “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph, he looks at the ways in which Japanese popular culture reflects the nation’s traditional values, and influences those of today.
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