!!!Presentations !!2012 '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Book Review from the Perspectives of Women's History and Gender History: "Japanese Sei, Myoji and Name: Japanese History through Names of People" Written by Osamu Ooto," The Joint Review Meeting of the Tohoku Society of Early Modern History, Tohoku University, March 2, 2013 ---- '''Makiko Nakamuro''', "Estimating Economic Returns to Education Using the Sample of Twins", "Are TV/ video games really harmful for kids?", (15th Environmental & Resource Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, February 13, 2013¡Ë ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Women's Positions and Roles in Early Modern and Modern Japan," Georgia Association of Historians 41st Annual Meeting, The King and Prince Hotel on St. Simon's Island, USA, February 7-9, 2013 ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Social Change and Women's Roles from Early Modern to Modern Times in Japan," 2013 International Symposium on Society, Tourism, Education, and Politics, Pullman Bangkok King Power, Thailand, January 26-28, 2013 ---- '''Makiko Nakamuro''', "Estimating the Returns to Education Using a Sample of Twins - The Case of Japan -," Empirical Micro Research Seminar 2012, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, January 28, 2013 ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Former Feudal Lord Family and Women's Roles in Modern Times: The Case of the Shimazu Family," The Annual Meeting 2012 of the Tohoku Historical Society, Iwate University, October 6-7, 2012 !!2011 '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Noble Family and Women's Roles in Modern Times: The Case of the Shimazu Family," The Spring Seminar of the Tohoku Society of Early Modern History, Tohoku University, March 18, 2012 ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Positions and Roles of the Women of the Noble Family in Modern Times: The Case of the Shimazu Family," The Autumn Meeting 2011 of the Society for Comparative Family History, Momoyama Gakuinn University, November 5, 2011 ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', Discussant for the session 7 "Religion and Thoughts," The 8th International Annual Meeting of the Japan-Korean Next-generation Academic Forum, Dong-A University, Pusan, Korea, August 22¡Ý23, 2011 !!2010 '''Imai Jun and Yusuke Hayashi''', 'New segmentation of labor market in Japan: deregulation and the increase of risky mobility,' Expert workshop 'New employment risks in east Asia: political and social consequences of non-standard employment expansion,' at DIJ (German Institute for Japanese Studies), Nov. 26, 2010 ---- '''Imai Jun''', 'The Deregulation of Working Time: the Discretionary Work System and the Individualization of Workplace Control,' The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Society, at Nagoya University, November 6, 2010 ---- '''Imai Jun''', 'Discussant for the session ¡ÇWork and Life Courses,¡Ç at the international conference ¡ÆLife Courses in Flux: New Opportunities and New Constraints,¡Ç organized by Deutsches Institut fuer Japanstudien (DIJ) and Gender Center at the School of Information and Communication, Meiji University, at Meiji University, October 22, 2010 ---- '''Imai Jun''', Discussant for the session ¡ÆNew Development of the Study of Social Stratification and Social Mobility,¡Ç The 38th Annual Meeting of the Behaviormetric Society of Japan, at Saitama University, September 23, 2010 ---- '''Shohei Yoda''', "Educational Attainment Process of Children from One-Parent Family: How do Family Structure and Gender generate Social Inequality ?" The 83rd Annual Meeting of Japan Sociological Society, November 6th, 2010 ---- '''Kohei Tsubota''', The 62th Japan Society of Educational Sociology,"How Should We Study a Cognitive Framework of Teacher?: Focusing on a Strategy of Mother-Tongue Supporter," Kansei University, September 18, 2010. ---- '''Kohei Tsubota''', The 57th Tohoku Sociological Society,"Volunteer strategy in conveying motivation for learning: A case of activity in educational support for foreign pupil," Niigata University, July 25,2010. ---- '''Kimura, Kunihiro''', "Social Stratification and Relative Risk Aversion in the Japanese Context." XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 17, 2010. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''' , "Social Stratification and Gender in Early Modern and Modern Japan,"The 7th International Annual Meeting of the Japan-Korean Next-generation Academic Forum, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, 2010.6.26¡Ý27. ---- '''Jun Imai''', "The limit of equality by 'company citizenship': the politics of labor market segmentation in the case of regular and non-regular employment in Japan," Annual Conference of Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Waseda University, June 19-20, 2010 ---- '''Jun Imai''', Chair and organizer of the panel ¡ÈVisions and Strategies of Labor Movements in Post-Deregulation Era,¡É Annual Conference of Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Waseda University, June 19-20, 2010 ---- '''Jun Imai''', "The deregulation of working time and the individualization of workplace control in Japan," Annual Meeting of the SASE, Labor market, education and human resource network, Philadelphia, USA, June 26, 2010 !!2009 '''Le Huong Linh''', "Investment in IZs and the development of regional economy", Tohoku Stanford summer school at the CSSI, Tohoku University, Japan July 7-13th 2009. ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', "The effect of industrial cluster and the reduction of regional inequality with the case of textile and garment enterprises in Vietnamese IZs", The Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference in Taipei, Taiwan July 2-5th 2009. ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', "Clusters in industrial zones", Workshop at the CSSI, Tohoku University, Japan, June 22nd 2009. ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', "Do clusters exist in Vietnamese industrial zones?", Workshop at East Asian Research Division, CSSI, Tohoku University, Japan, June 19th 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Freedom and Achievement of Well-being in the Adaptive Dynamics of Capabilities", Workshop of The Fairness Research Division "International Workshop for Young Scholars", Tohoku University, March 5, 2010. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Freedom and Achievement of Well-being in the Adaptive Dynamics of Capabilities", Economics Workshop for Alumni of Tohoku University, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, February 26, 2009.. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Freedom and Achievement of Well-being in the Adaptive Dynamics of Capabilities ¡½¡¡A Critical Case for Distributive Justice", The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics, Waseda University, December 26, 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Inequality and economy in Japan: Professor Tachibanaki's Analysis", CSSI Workshop, Tohoku University, October 26, 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama and Kenji Mori''', "Freedom and Achievement of Well-being in the Adaptive Dynamics of Capabilities ¡½¡¡A Critical Case for Distributive Justice", Workshop on Technological Innovation and Distributive Justice, Tohoku University, September 30, 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Evaluating freedom: capability approach and its ranking problems", Summer school with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Tohoku University, July 14, 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', "Evaluating freedom: capability approach and its ranking problems", CSSI Workshop, Tohoku University, June 25, 2009. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Family and Gender in the Meiji Period - A Case Study of the Shimazu Family –", CSSI Workshop, Tohoku University, June 8, 2009. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Family and Gender Inequality in the Edo Period and Early Modern Japan", SEAA TAIPEI 2009 Society for East Asian Anthropology American Anthropological Association, Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2-5, 2009. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Family and Gender in the Edo Period and Early modern Japan", Tohoku-Stanford Summer School 2009, Tohoku University, July 13-17, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi''', "How do community residents determine cooperation to community activity?: Influence of social unfairness and commitment to community," The International Symposium of Center for the study of social stratification and inequality, Tohoku University Global COE program "Frontiers of Sociological Inquiries by Young Scholars in Asia," Sendai Excel Hotel Tokyu, March 14, 2010. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi, Ken-ichi Ohbuchi, and Toshiaki Aoki''', "Promotion of Cooperation among Community Residents: Effects of Familiarity with Local Historical Heritages and Commitment to Community," The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, U.S.A., January 28-30, 2010. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi''', "Promotion of Cooperation to Community Activities: Effect of Commitment to Community and Its Formation Mechanism," Workshop of Japanese Environmental Psychology Association, Nihon University, December 5, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi, Toshiaki Aoki, and Ken-ichi Ohbuchi''', "Promotion of Cooperation among Community Residents: Effects of Familiarity with Local Historical Heritages and Commitment to Community," The 40th Conference of Infrastructure Planning and Management, Kanazawa University, November 21-23, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi''', "Promotion of Cooperation among Community Residents: Effects of Familiarity with Local Historical Heritages and Commitment to Community," nternational Symposium of Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University Global COE program "How do people react when they face social justice / injustice?: Determinants of cooperation and integration," Tohoku Institute of Tecnology, November 10, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi, Ken-ichi Ohbuchi, and Toshiaki Aoki''', "Promotion of Cooperative Behavior in Community: Effects of Local Historical Heritages and Commitment to Community," Joint Conference of The 50th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society of Social Psychology and The 56th Annual Conference of The Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Osaka University, October 10-12, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi, Ken-ichi Ohbuchi, and Toshiaki Aoki''', "Promotion of Cooperative Behavior in Community: Effects of Local Historical Heritages and Commitment to Community," The 73rd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University, August 26-28, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi and Ken-ichi Ohbuchi''', "Effect of Familiarity of Local Historical Heritages toward Commitment to Community," The 63th Conference of Tohoku Psychological Association, Hirosaki University, June 20-21, 2009. ---- '''Hiroyuki Hikichi''', "Encouraging Factors for Cooperative Behavior in Residence: The Effects of Historical Heritage and Attachment to Residence," Workshop of Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University Global COE program, April 27, 2009. ---- '''Shuji Tobishima''', Japan Society of Educational Sociology, "How Should We Study a Change of Pedagogy?: Focusing on the Duality of Pedagogy in Basil Bernstein's Theory," Waseda University, September 12, 2009. ---- '''Shuji Tobishima''', Tohoku Sociological Society, "The Change of Pedagogy and the Debate on Scholastic Ability in Recent Japan," Tohoku Gakuin University, July 20, 2009. ---- '''Kawashima, N''', (2010). Who feel a sense of unfairness: The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Micro Unfairness in Japan. Verbal presentation at the Fourth International Symposium on Frontiers of Sociological Inquiries by Young Scholars in Asia. Japan, Sendai Excel Hotel Tokyu, March 14. ---- '''Kawashima, N., Ohbuchi, K., Kumagai, T., & Asai, N''', (2010). Perceptions of unfairness and social protests among Japanese: Effects of the immutability belief. Poster presentation at The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Las Vegas, January 30. ---- '''Kawashima, N''', (2009). Multidimensionality of social unfairness and social protests among Japanese. Verbal presentation at the Lind Seminor for Young Social Scientists. Tohoku University, November 13. ---- '''Kawashima, N., Kumagai, T., Asai, N. & Ohbuchi, K.''' (2009). Determinants of social protests in Japan: The effects of perceptions of unfairness, the immutability belief of and self efficacy for the society, and costs of protests. Poster presentation at the Joint Conference 2009 of the 50th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology and the 56th annual meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Osaka University, October 11. ---- '''Kawashima, N., Ohbuchi, K., & Sato, Y.''' (2009). Justification of Social Inequalities in Japan: The examination of system justification theory. Poster presentation at the 73th annual convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University, August 28. ---- '''Kawashima, N''', (2009). Perceptions of unfairness and social protests among Japanese: Effects of social-economic and social psychological variables. Tohoku-Stanford Summer School, Japan, Sendai, July 14. ---- '''Kawashima, N''', (2009). Determinants of social protests: Perceptions of social and personal fairness, the immutability belief of and self efficacy for the society, and costs of protest. The 8th Workshop in the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Japan, Sendai, June 15. ---- '''Itoe Kaneshiro''', 2009, "Socioeconomic gap in emigrant community: a case study from an emigrant community in China", Society for East Asian Anthropology, and Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology Conference (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Jul. 5, 2009) ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "Relationship between Trust and Commitment: Trust Generating Processes in Japanese Urban and Rural Areas", Mini-conference on Building Asian Sociology: Prospects and Strategies , January 23, 2010. ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "Relationship Between Trust and Commitment: Trust Generating Processes in Japanese Urban and Rural Areas", Seminar of Professor Allan Lind for Young Scholars, Tohoku University, November, 13, 2009. ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "The effect of Social Networks of Central City Revitalization Committee on Local Revitalization Actions", Joint Conference 2009 of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology and 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association, Osaka University, October, 10-12, 2009. ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "Characteristics and Potential of Social Capital: Possible Use of Social Capital in Japanese Local Revitalization" Tohoku-Stanford Summer School, Tohoku University, July 13-17, 2009. ---- '''Gisun Jang''', "Physicians' Social Status in the Edo Era Japan: A Case Study of the Sendai Domain" (paper presented at the 3rd Korea-China Joint Conference on Medical History, January 14-15, 2010, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China) ---- '''Gisun Jang''', "The Establishment of Modern State and the Social Role of Professional Class in Japan: The Case of Physicians" (paper presented at The Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) of the American Anthropological Association & Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) Taipei 2009 Conference, July 2-5, 2009, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Determinants and consequences of causal explanation of Discrimination", The 4th International Symposium on Frontiers of Sociological Inquiries by Young Scholars in Asia. Miyagi, Japan, March 13-14, 2010. ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Recognizing personal experiences of discrimination: Impact of essentialist beliefs of group differences and social structure", Society for Personality and Social Psychology 11th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, January 28-30, 2010. ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Influence of perceived social support on reporting discrimination", The 8th Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, New Delhi, India, December 11-14, 2009. ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Coping strategies for group-based inequality: The role of causal explanation", CSSI International Symposium: How Do People React When They Face Social Justice/Injustice? Miyagi, Japan, November 10, 2009. ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Claiming discrimination: Impact of relationship with an audience," The 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Social Psychology, Osaka University, October 10-12, 2009. ---- '''Nobuko Asai''', "Influence of beliefs of society and group membership on discrimination recognition," The 73th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Ritsumaikan University, August 26-27, 2009. ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai ''', (6th, March, 2010). Social justice, group identification, and intergroup conflict. International symposium ¡ÈSocial justice, social identity, and intergroup conflict¡É, the center of the study for social stratification and inequality, Tohoku university, Sendai, Japan. ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai, Nobuyoshi Kawashima, and Nobuko Asai''', (11th, October, 2009). The effects of intra-group justice on inter-group justice in Japan. The 50th annual conference of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology and the 56th annual conference of the Japanese Group dynamics association (joint conference, 10th-11th, October, 2009, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Paper presentation) ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai''', (5th, September, 2009). Does fair government engender inter-national conflict? The ironical relationship between intra-national justice and inter-national justice. Political Violence and Collective Aggression: Considering the Past, Imagining the Future (2nd-5th, September, 2009, Belfast, UK, Paper presentation). ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai''', (27th, August, 2009). The power and ¡ÈKantian imperative¡É: The effect of power salience on interventional decision in the loop dilemma situation. The 17th annual meeting of the European society for philosophy and psychology (27th-30th, August, 2009, Budapest, Hungary, Poster presentation). ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai, Nobuyoshi Kawashima, and Nobuko Asai''', (16th, June, 2009). The effects of intranational justice on the international justice. 22nd annual international association for conflict management conference (15th-18th, June, 2009, Kyoto, Japan, Paper presentation) ---- '''SHIMA, Mutsuhiko''', "Looking Back at the Starting Stages, and the Developments Thereafter," (Keynote Address), National Museum of Ethnology Research Forum, "Research on Korea in Japanese Anthropology: A Focus on its Historical Presence", Feb. 6, 2010. ---- '''SHIMA, Mutsuhiko''', "Rethinking Patrilineal Descent in East Asia," session organizer/chair, Society for East Asian Anthropology & Taiwan Association for Anthropology and Ethnology, Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2, 2009. ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai, Nobuyoshi Kawashima, and Nobuko Asai''', 2009, (16th, June, 2009). "The Effects of Intranational Justice on The Sense of International Injustice," 22nd Annual International Association for Conflict Management Conference (15th-18th, June, 2009, Kyoto, Japan Paper presentation). ---- '''Hiroshi Hamada''', 2009, "A Rational Choice Model of Educational Attainmen,." The 9th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association,June 13 – 15, 2009 ,Discovery Kartika Plaza, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia ---- '''Shiotani Yoshiya''', 2009, "Distributive Image of Social Stratification and Status Orientation," The 9th Conference of the Asian Pacific Sociological Association, in Kartika Plaza Hotel, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, June 13, 2009 ---- '''Hiroshi Hamada''', 2009, "Mathematical Sociology as the Core of Inductive Research," The 60th Conference of Kansai Sociological Association, May 23-24, 2009, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan ---- '''Mutsuhiko Shima''', 2009, "The position of Korean slaves as seen through their family relations: an analysis of Taegu household registers from the late 17th through the early 18th centuries," Monthly Seminar of the Kanto Division of the Society for Korean History, 2009.5.16. !!2008 '''Yoshimichi Sato''', "Rational Choice of Career Aspirations under Structural Constraints: Comparison of Career Aspirations in East Asia,"The 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 1-4, 2008. ---- '''Yoshimichi Sato''', "Space, Social Stratification, and Social Capital: The Case of Tokyo," ISA-RC21 Tokyo Conference 2008 on Landscapes of Global Urbanism: Power, Marginality, and Creativity, International House of Japan, Tokyo, December 17-20, 2008. ---- '''Yoshimichi Sato''',"Stability and Fluidization of the Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan," DIJ Forum, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, January 22, 2009. ---- '''Komatsu S. & Ohbuchi K''', "Relationship between Interpersonal Conflict Styles and Personality among Japanese undergraduate students",Paper presented at the Invited symposium in the International Conference on Learning Competency ¡ÊJanuary 18, 2008, Sungyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea¡Ë ---- '''Ohbuchi K. & Atsumi E''', "Avoidance as a Long-Range Strategy in Organizational Conflicts: ItsFunctionality and 'Good Fellow' Image",Paper presented at the 2008 Conference of International Association of Conflict Management¡Ê July 5, 2008, Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Chicago, USA¡Ë. ---- '''Ohbuchi K''', Social Exclusion and Maladaptive Behavior: An Approach from Experimental Social Psychology. Invited Address at the 5th Psychology Seminar of Gunma University ¡ÊOctober 23, 2008, Gunma University Muse Hall¡Ë ---- '''Koichi Hasegawa''', 7th World Wind Energy Conference 2008, "Locality, Idealism and Profitability as triggers in Green Energy Movements", Kingstone College, with Jeffrey Broadbent, June 25, 2008. ---- '''Koichi Hasegawa''', 1st ISA Forum of Sociology, "Local Environmental Movement and Local Governance for ¡ÈClimate Crisis", University of Barcelona, September 7, 2008. ---- '''Koichi Hasegawa''', The International Symposium on East Asian Environmental Sociology, "Environmental Sociology in Japan: Overview and the Next Targets", Hosei University, October 4, 2008. ---- '''Koichi Hasegawa''', 6th East Asian Sociologists' Conference, "Local Governance and Collaborative Process for 'Climate Crisis'", Seoul National University, October 11, 2008. ---- '''Junsuke Hara''', "An Overview of Social Stratification and Inequality Study in Japan: Toward Social Design in ¡ÆMature¡Ç Society," A Tohoku University & NUS Joint Forum of Sociology and Social Stratification Study, National University of Singapore, February 18-19, 2009. ---- '''Mutsuhiko Shima''', 45th Meeting of the Society for Korean History, ¡ÈAnthropology and Korean Social History: Personal Experiences in Cross-Disciplinary Enquiry,¡É Bukkyo University, October 25, 2008. ---- '''Mutsuhiko Shima''', "On the Village Record from Yongsa-ch'on, 1905-1983, in South Cholla Province, Korea," 48th Colloquium on Koreanology Abroad, The Academy of Korean Studies, 2009.3.5. ---- '''Yuichi Akinaga''', Special lecture at the 2nd conference of Japan division of REFLEX Project¡Ê "The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society"Project, Specific Targeted Research Project ¡ÊSTREP¡Ë by European Commission¡Ë, "Institutional analysis of educational organizations: An attempt for the comparative analysis of governance systems" Kyushu University, February 15, 2009. ---- '''Naoki Yoshihara''', "Impact of Mobility and Globalization in Asia," Tohoku University & NUS Joint Forum of Sociology & Social Stratification Study, NUS, February 18, 2008. ---- '''Osamu Ootou''', Sendai-Edo Studies Seminar, "Academia and Education in Sendai Fiefdom: Sendai as an Academic City in the Edo Period, " Osaki Hachiman Shrine, June 2, 2008. ---- '''Iwayumi Suzuki ''', East Asian Association of Religion and Culture, "Progressing of the Concept of 'Folk Beliefs' in East Asia" Dong-eui University, August 2, 2008. ---- '''Iwayumi Suzuki ''', The 67th Annual Convention of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies, "The Development of Folkways which Deify the Dead as Gods" Tsukuba University, September 15, 2008. ---- '''Iwayumi Suzuki ''', The 60th Annual Convention of the Folklore Society of Japan, "Acceptance of a Kotsuso tradition in Tohoku District", Kumamoto University, October 5, 2008. ---- '''Ichiro Numazaki''', International society for gender studies, "Workshop: Talking gender from students' and teachers' perspectives" Rikkyo University, September 13, 2008. ---- '''Ichiro Numazaki''', "Cultual Models of Spousal Abuse: An Examination of Cases from Non-Western Societies", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, 19-23, 2008. ---- '''Ichiro Numazaki''', Japan Association of Gender and Law, "Domestic Violence Homicide and Self-defense II" Ritsumeikan University, December 5, 2008. ---- '''Kunihiro Kimura''', "Marriage, Sex Discrimination, and Inequality within the Sexes: Testing a Simple Model with the Data of Japan, 1965-2000," Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, Redondo Beach, USA, May 30, 2008. ---- '''Kunihiro Kimura''', The 47th Meeting of Private Schools in Tohoku Area ¡ÊSession on Student Guidance¡Ë, "The Normative Attitudes of High School Students Today: From the Results of the 6th Survey on Social Consciousness of High-School Students and Their Parents," Sendai Garden Palace, July 30, 2008. ---- '''Kunihiro Kimura''', The 36th Meeting of Behaviometric Society of Japan¡Ê Special Session: Is Mathematical Representation Necessary for Statistical Analyses?¡Ë, "Graphical and Mathematical Representations in Categorical Data Analysis," Seikei University, September 5, 2008. ---- '''Toshiaki Kimura''', "The Biography of a Missionary's Life: An Analysis of J. Warneck's 'Nommensen –Ein Lebensbild'", September 15, 2008. ---- '''Masahiro Tsujimoto''', "Narrative and Practice", Paper presented at the 5th conference of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology, University of Tsukuba, November 30, 2008. ---- '''Miyuki Shimoebisu''', The Division of Family Relationship, Japan Society of Home Economics, "The Theory of Norms and Institution for Family Support Policies: in the Case of Long-Term Care Insurance" Otsuma Women's University, October 11, 2008. ---- '''Stephanie Assmann''', 2008, discussant for the Panel "Holy Feasts and Unholy Beasts in Premodern Japan", Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Atlanta, USA. ---- '''Stephanie Assmann''', 2008, "Slow Food and Traditional Vegetables. Reinventing Culinary Heritage in Northern Japan",Talk given to the Social Science Study Group at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. ---- '''Stephanie Assmann''', 2008,¡¡"Advocating the Local on a Global Basis: The Slow Food Movement in Japan", Talk given to the Research Group on Food and Globalization at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. ---- '''Inja Lee''', Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, "Session Meeting: Thinking and Communicating beyond 'Fieldwork': Otherness, Self and Anthropologists in Diversified Worlds" Kyoto University, June 1, 2008. ---- '''Atsushi Ishida, Hiroshi Hamada and Kenji Kosaka''', 2008. "A Simulation Analysis of Effects of Global Redistribution of Wealth on Subjective Well-being in the World," The 38th World Congress of International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-30. ---- '''Hiroshi Hamada''', "A Coalitional Game of n-person Dilemma," The 81st Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Society, November, 23-24, 2008. ---- '''Hiroshi Hamada''', "A Model of Inequality and Educational Attainment in Japan," Inequalities & Disparities in Globalized Asia, Tohoku University & NUS Joint Forum of Sociology & Social Stratification Study, at National University of Singapore, February 18-19, 2009 ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai''', "The effects of implicit self-esteem on moral dilemma." 15th General Meeting of the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia, 13rd, June, 2008. ---- '''Tomohiro Kumagai''', Japanese Association of Social Psychology, "The effect of power priming on moral dilemma ¨¡ the examination of Machiavelli effect by using indirect priming ¨¡" Kagoshima kenmin center, November, 3, 2008. ---- '''Hyun Sun Lee''', "Changing Acculturation Strategies of Ethnic minority in Japan, " Nissan Institute, Oxford University, May 2008. ---- '''Chih-Chia Chuang''', 2009, "Does the Schooling Matter Anymore? Rethinking the Relationshipbetween Schooling and On-the-Job Training offered by Company" Paper will be presented at international symposium. Yonsei University, Korea. March 12-13, 2009. ---- '''Chih-Chia Chuang''', 2008, "Rethinking the viewpoints of Human Capital Accumulation: The Influences of Schooling, Job Tenure and Firm Size on Career Mobility" Paper presented at CSSI¡Ê The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality¡Ë Workshop. Tohoku University, Japan. Dec 22, 2008. ---- '''Chuang, Chih-Chia and Ruey-Ming, Tsay''', 2008, "Who is entitled to the Employer-provided training?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Sociological Association. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan¡Êin Chinese¡Ë, December 13-14, 2008. ---- '''Satomi Era''', Japanese Association of Labor Sociology, "Intersection of labor movement and social movement in America: Organizing undocumented workers in local contexts" Takusyoku University, December 6, 2008. ---- '''Satomi Era''', Inequalities & Disparities in Globalized Asia Tohoku University & NUS Joint Forum of Sociology & Social Stratification Study, "'Misclassification' of Workers: Manual laborers as independent contractors in Japan and other countries," National University of Singapore, February 18-19, 2009. ---- '''Gisun Jang''', "Family Register System and Medical Doctors in the Meiji Era Japan", The 2nd Korea-China Joint Conference on Medical History, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, February 12-13, 2009. ---- '''Tomas Katrnak''', 2008: International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility¡Ê RC 28¡Ë, "The Relationship between Educational Mobility and Educational Homogamy"¡Ê co-author Petr Fučík¡Ë, Firenze May 15-17, 2008. ---- '''Tomas Katrnak''', 2008: MPU MU and FSS, title of presentation: "Trends in Social Stratification and Political Participation in the Czech Republic", Brno,April 25, 2008 ---- '''Lucia Emiko Yamamoto''', "When education makes a difference: Brazilian families' dilemma", X Luso- Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Science, February, 4-7, 2009 ---- '''Makoto Asaoka''', 45th Annual meeting of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, Seikei University, 15 March 2008, "The mechanism of commitment and generating general trust." ---- '''Makoto Asaoka''', Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, Redondo Beach, California, 1 June 2008, "When Do High-Trusters Leave Their Commitment Relationship?" ---- '''Makoto Asaoka''', 81th Annual meeting of the Japan Sociological Society, Tohoku University, 24 November 2008, "The mechanism of generating general trust – Opportunity cost generate three Order forms." ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "Trust and trust generating process in urban areas and rural areas", Fourth joint Japan-North America mathematical sociology conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Redondo Beach, California, May 29-June 1 2008. ---- '''Yusuke Inagaki''', "A study about the change of trust generating processes by using interregional comparison data", Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, Kagoshima Public Access Center, November, 2-3, 2008. ---- '''Nobuyoshi KAWASHIMA, Tin Aung Moe, Ken-ichi OHBUCHI''', The Tohoku psychological association 62nd annual convention. "Values of contemporary Japanese: Effects of two types of immutability beliefs of country on protestant behaviors." 2008.7.20. ---- '''Nobuyoshi Kawashima''', Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, GCOE 13th workshop. "How do People Justify Social Inequality? : An Examination of System Justification Theory with Japanese People", Tohoku University, 2008.12.15. ---- '''Nobuyoshi Kawashima''', Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, GCOE workshop in Fairness Research Division. "Justification of social inequalities: An examination of system justification theory in Japan", Tohoku University, 2008.12.17. ---- '''Kazumitsu Sako''', Tohoku Economic Association, "An experimental study of dual labor market", Iwate University, September 13, 2008. ---- '''Yoshiya Shiotani''', "Perception of Occupational Status and Orientation of Status Attainment", Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, in Redondo Beach, California, May 30, 2008. ---- '''Yoshiya Shiotani''', "Cognition of Social Conditions and Status Attainment Orientation", The 81th Annual Meeting of The Japan Sociological Society, in Tohoku University, November 23, 2008. ---- '''SHIOTANI Yoshiya and SATO Yoshimichi''', "Why Does Difference in Aspiration Exist among Individuals, Explanation in terms of Social Images", Inequalities and Disparities in East Asia: A Tohoku University & NUS Joint Forum of Sociology & Stratification Studies, in Seminar Room B, AS7 Level 1, FASS, NUS @ Kent Ride, 19 February 2009. ---- '''SHIOTANI Yoshiya and SATO Yoshimichi''', "Social Image and Aspiration to Get Higher Social Status", International Symposium on Social Justice, Social Stratification, and Intergroup Conflict¡Ê supported by The Center of the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Global COE Program, Tohoku University¡Ë, in Sendai International Center on February 24, 2009. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', Association of Comparative Family History, "Family and Politics of the Feudal Lord in the Edo period: A Case Study of the Shimazu Family in the Satsuma Domain" Tohoku University, June, 21-22, 2008. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', CSSI Workshop, "Family and Gender in the Edo Period", Tohoku University, December 1, 2008. ---- '''Rumi Matsuzaki''', "Family and Gender in Pre-modern Japan", The Third International Symposium on Frontiers of Sociological Inquires by Young Scholars in Asia, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 12-13, 2009. ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', Hokkaido and Tohoku Section of Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics, "On a connection between Amartya Sen's social choice theory and his normative theory" Tohoku University, August 29, 2008 ---- '''Jun Matsuyama''', Tohoku Economic Association, "Action choice problem under the interferences" Iwate University, September 13, 2008 ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', 2009,"Industrial Zones and Regional Development Policy in Vietnam," International Symposium at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 12-13, 2009 ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', 2008,"Investment in Vietnamese Industrial Zones and Inequality of Regional Development,"Workshop at the CSSI, Tohoku University, Japan, December 1, 2008 ---- '''Le Huong Linh''', 2008, "Development of Industrial Zones in Vietnam, Special Seminar on Modern Society and Enterprises," Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Japan, October 1, 2008