Lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake: the expected roles of local Japanese language classes for building inclusive and multicultural communities

• Project/Area Number: 25516019
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 震災問題と人文学・社会科学
• Research Institution: Kinjo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Kumi 金城学院大学, 国際情報学部, 教授 (00645632)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 岡本 耕平 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 教授 (90201988)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: 日本語教室 / 国際交流協会 / 東日本大震災 / 防災教育 / コミュニティー / 多文化共生 / 防災情報 / 地域日本語教室 / 社会統合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We visited the international associations and Japanese language classes in the disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake to research the lifestyles and situations of non-Japanese residents. We learnt in Germany that the government focuses on German-language education for immigrants to promote integration in the society.　According to the results of the questionnaires we sent to Japanese language classes throughout Japan, 90% of the classes answered that disaster prevention education for non-Japanese residents should be necessary. We confirmed the Japanese classes run by either paid or volunteer teachers are places for non-Japanese people to learn not only languages but the intercultural understandings to survive in local communities.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] ドイツにおける移民の社会統合政策：バーデン＝ヴュルテンベルク州とザクセン州での聞き取り調査から (2015)
  • Author(s): 佐藤久美
  • Journal Title: 金城学院大学論集 社会科学編 Volume: 12(1) Pages: 22-32
  • NAID: 120005679108
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 日本の国際化政策の進展に関する中央政府と地方自治体の関係性の変化 : ｢国際交流｣から｢多文化共生｣へ （下） (2014)
  • Author(s): 佐藤久美
  • Journal Title: 金城学院大学論集. 社会科学編 Volume: 10(2) Pages: 56-70
• [Journal Article] 日本の国際化政策の進展に関する中央政府と地方自治体の関係性の変化 : ｢国際交流｣から｢多文化共生｣へ （上） (2013)
  • Author(s): 佐藤久美
  • Journal Title: 金城学院大学論集. 社会科学編 Volume: 10(1) Pages: 32-47
  • NAID: 40019932337
• [Presentation] Finding regions where non-Japanese live dispersed in Japan (2016)
  • Author(s): OKAMOTO, K., MORITA, M. and SHIMIZU, S.
  • Organizer: The 33rd International Geographical Congress
  • Place of Presentation: China National Convention Center, Beijing
  • Year and Date: 2016-08-24
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Community, Communication, and Participation: The Role of Regional Japanese Language Classes in Japan for Non-Japanese Nationals (2015)
  • Author(s): Sato,K. and Okamoto,K.
  • Organizer: 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2015
  • Place of Presentation: Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Great East Japan Earthquake and Non-Japanese Residents
  • Author(s): Kohei Okamoto, Kumi Sato
  • Organizer: 京都国際地理学会議
  • Place of Presentation: 京都国際会館
• [Book] 参加型GISの理論と応用：みんなで作り・使う地理空間情報 (2017)
  • Author(s): 若林芳樹、今井修、瀬戸寿一、西村雄一郎、岡本耕平、池口明子、大西宏治、河角直美、佐藤弘隆、鈴木晃志郎、田中雅大、中戸川翔太、古橋大地、矢野桂司、山下潤
  • Total Pages: 174
  • Publisher: 古今書院
• [Book] After 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown, (2016)
  • Author(s): P.P.Karan,U.Suganuma,J.Oikawa, Y.Dejima, M.Umitsu,T.Takano,T.Stradford,T.Yamazaki, R.Sekine, J.Taylor, Y Yotsumoto, S.Takekawa,W.Ikeda-Ohtsubo, T. Seto, Y. Nishimura, J.Tsuchiya, M.Hino, K. Yamazaki,J.Hall, M.Suzuki,K.Okamoto,K.Sato,Y.Ilou, L.Y.Li ,C.H.Wilby
  • Total Pages: 477
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• [Remarks] 多言語情報翻訳システム
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