2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Rethinking Sakhalin, Hokkaido and the Northern Territories: analysis of sub-regional identities and media discourses in Russia, Japan and the disputed islands
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20K12313
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
BUNTILOV GEORGY 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 助教 (70843449)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Russia / border studies / East Asia / transnational relations |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The empirical aspect of my research on the visa-free program, which was originally presented as research notes in a journal printed by the Division of Multicultural Education (Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University) in March 2020, was completed and became a chapter in a volume that I edited. The book was published in March 2021 by RFMC, Hokkaido University, and includes peer reviewed contributions by international researchers focusing on borderland regions in East Asia and transnational processes that took or are taking place in these regions beyond the contemporary national boundaries of Russia, Japan, China and Korea. The contributions touch upon a variety of local processes and perspectives in such regions, including the Northern Territories dispute, local history and historical memory, discourses on and representations of indigenous peoples, cross-border migration, multicultural societies and cross-cultural historical reenactment.
The chapter that I contributed focuses on the infrastructure, implementation and factors affecting further development of the Northern Territories/Southern Kurils visa-free exchange program and is based on a series of interviews that I conducted throughout 2017-2019.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Due to travel restrictions imposed during the pandemic I have been unable to do fieldwork, and the amount of data I can gather for analysis has been limited. The travel and data gathering activities planned for locations within and outside Japan have not been carried out this year.
Due to the shortage of data I did not hire research assistants to help me process the data. However, using the funds for this project I have acquired secondary sources on Russo-Japanese relations and exchange, which I needed in order to start writing a new article for this project.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The travel schedule for 2021 depends on what international and domestic travel restrictions will be imposed during the year. I intend to visit locations in Japan during the second half of 2021, and locations outside Japan in 2022, if possible.
My main goal for this fiscal year is to produce an article based on the analysis of the data I have gathered so far, and submit it to a peer-reviewed journal.
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| Causes of Carryover |
As all domestic and international travel activity planned for R2 was cancelled, travel expenditures were not carried out.
Due to the shortage of data caused by the cancellation of domestic and international travel I did not hire research assistants to help me process the data. As a result, personnel expenditures were not carried out.
If the pandemic situation allows, these expenditures will be used in the second half of 2021 for domestic travel and data processing.
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Research Products
(1 results)
