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Japan-China Women's Studies Conference

The Japan-China Women's Studies Conference was held at Josai International University on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009. The conference was held with Josai International University as the venue and attended by many researchers invited from South China Normal University, which is one of the sister universities of Josai International University, following the “Japan-China Women's Studies Conference to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic ties” held at South China Normal University in Guangzhou in December 2007. 

As the overall theme of the Woman’ Studies Conference is to study the “declining birthrate and aging population as well as gender and women’s studies,” the conference received the support from Chiba Prefectural Collaborative Conference for the Promotion of Gender Equality, Obayashi Corporation, and Takasago Thermal Engineering Co., Ltd.

Both Japan and China are becoming societies with a declining birthrate and aging population for the first time in history, and there are various potential themes of gender issues involved in a society with a declining birthrate and aging population. It is essential to discuss, among others, the issue of women being members of a socially disadvantaged group in the provision of nursing care, treatment of women as low-wage workers, socialization of nursing care that has so far been provided mostly by domestic works, improvement of the national pension system and health insurance system, and others from a variety of viewpoints. We believe that efforts to reduce gender disparity made by countries that will play major roles in the future world’s economy and culture in the future such as Japan and China will serve as major guidelines to lead the direction of the world in the 21st century.

Keynote lectures were made by speakers from both universities: Wang Hong wei, Professor of School of Politics and Administration and Director of Women’s Studies Center, South China Normal University, with the title, “Imbalance between the rate of the number of baby boys born and the rate of the number of baby girls born each year in China and its social issues,” and Professor Hiroko Hara, Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Josai International University, with the title, “Globalization and human migration/gender and women’s studies in the changing population structure.”

In the afternoon, presentations and exchanges of opinions on mutual studies were made in three sections of meetings, respectively on “Gender equality and education,” “Expressions and cultures,” and “Labor and families.”

It is our greatest hope that the analyses and discussions made during the conference by women researchers from the two universities for the reduction of disparity in a society with a declining birthrate and aging population will produce meaningful results to lead to the further development of international researches.

Chancellor Mizuta Noriko delivering an address at the Opening Ceremony

Chancellor Mizuta Noriko delivering an address at the Opening Ceremony

Keynote speech by Professor Wang   Hong  wei

Keynote speech by Professor Wang Hong wei

At the panel discussion

At the panel discussion


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