Inter Faculty

Foreword

Jun IKEDA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

About Variability, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity

Saburo AOKI — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Qualitative Analysis on the Progress and Difficulty of LGBT Politics in Latin America: Focus on Peru

Saori ISODA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

The Inuit of Greenland: Doing Area Studies on the Compromise between Reciprocity and Utility

Minori TAKAHASHI — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Kay AOKI — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Atomic Bomb Survivor Testimonies as Sociolinguistic Data: An Approach from Discourse Analysis

Ikuko OKUGAWA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

The Intangibility of the Intangible in Cross-cultural Contexts: Assessing the Value Gaps in Heritage Protection

Tinka DELAKORDA KAWASHIMA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

A Quantitative Study of Transitive and Intransitive Constructions in Hindi and Japanese

Anubhuti CHAUHAN — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Previous studies have suggested that, like Japanese, Hindi displays a preference for intransitive constructions that describe events as spontaneous occurrences over transitive constructions that give prominence to the agent. This study compares the frequency of transitive and intransitive constructions in the two languages by using a Hindi novel and its Japanese translation as a parallel corpus. The results show that not only was there no significant difference in the number of transitive and intransitive constructions, the frequency of transitivity pairs (causative/non- causative pairs) is also similar with both languages using more non-causative pairs. The implication of this finding for errors observed in Hindi-speaking learners of Japanese is discussed.

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The Experiences of International Students in Japanese Bachelor Programs

Miho IRIYAMA, Keiko SUGIMOTO — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

This study aimed to understand the experiences of international students in Japanese bachelor programs by exploring factors related to their Japanese language proficiency. A total of seventy-nine international undergraduate students responded to the online survey. In the analysis, descriptive and bivariate statistics were performed for all international undergraduate students, including the JEP (Japan-Expert Program) students who had been educated in the Japanese language. In the bivariate statistics, the relation between Japanese language proficiency against demographics, GPA (Grade Point Average), campus life and health status were examined. As a result, the following two points were revealed: i) among all international students, those with lower Japanese language proficiency faced more difficulty in understanding course contents, having part-time jobs, being in the upper grades, and had poorer perceived sleep quality; ii) in JEP students, those with low Japanese proficiency had a lower GPA. Thus, the Japanese language proficiency of international students in bachelor-degree programs is related to their grades, part-time jobs, and sleep quality, especially GPAs in JEP students. To support these students, it is necessary to provide continuous and comprehensive Japanese language education, including lifestyle and learning support, from the time of admission to graduation.

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Processing Technologies and Production of Food in the Jomon Period

Takamune KAWASHIMA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

During the Jomon period, which lasted about 13,000 years, a variety of food processing techniques were developed. First of all, there is pottery itself, which was the most basic tool for processing food in the Jomon. Early pottery is thought to have been used for cooking and processing fish, but the number of pottery sherds excavated in the Incipient Jomon is quite limited. The number of pottery shapes increased later on, suggesting that pottery was used for various purposes and times during the Jomon period. As for food processing facilities, we can point to a series of earthen pits in the Kyushu region which are thought to have been smoking facilities, and shell mounds as food processing sites that were typically developed in eastern Japan. Each technology had its diversity depending on the period and region. Although not food itself, salt production using salt-making pottery began in the Late Jomon period. From the Late Jomon period onward, the number of water reservoirs associated with wooden structures used for processing nuts, such as horse chestnuts and walnuts, increased in eastern Japan. Although acorn and nuts had been used since the Early Jomon period, the use of lowland storage pits in the western part of Japan suggests that the use and processing of acorn and nuts changed after the Late Jomon period.

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Takashi FURUTA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Metaphysics and Metaphysical Poetry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Nozomi WAKU — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Sun Chuo comprehensively grasped the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism by using the concept of the Dao as a cord. Therefore, Confucian saints, Buddhist buddhas, and Lao Tzu were considered to be on the same ground as those who mastered the Dao. Moreover, Sun Chuo did not only grasp such metaphysical phases intellectually, but he actually aimed to achieve the metaphysical state himself. And in the end, it became an attempt to fly beyond all relative conflicts, although it first relied on both traditional and foreign ideas. In the literary works written by Sun Chuo, his thoughts based on such multiple religions were lying in the background.

Cooperation between Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education

Yu TANAKA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Development of Japanese Language Learning Content Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Hideaki ITO — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in immersive virtual reality (iVR). However, iVR in Japanese language education (JLE) lags behind education for other languages. In this paper, the author reviews iVR Japanese language learning content that is currently under development. Further, the author argues that in order to collaborate with experts in different fields during the development process, it is necessary to accumulate knowledge in those fields and to consider how to reconstruct such knowledge.

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A Comparative Study of Blended Learning and Face-to-Face Instruction in University-Level Chinese Language Education

Tingjie XU — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Archaeology for Disaster Management

Takamune KAWASHIMA — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

While the importance of interdisciplinary studies has been recognized recently, each research field is becoming more subdivided. Expertise in the research field must be assured yet, on the other hand, joint research with other research areas can effectively expand the depth and reach of research. Based on my own experience, this paper introduces an example of interdisciplinary study combining archaeology, geology, and geotechnology. I show that this interdisciplinary study has a wider social significance than isolated studies in each research area would have had.