Research Director: ARAKAWA Toshihiko (Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)
Co-researcher: MOROO Akiko (Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)
Zhu Min (Professor Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)
OKUDERA Aoi (Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)
MATSUSHITA Yukio (Associate Professor Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration)

1. Overview of research results
In 2023, in order to investigate views on work in the Islamic world with a view to comparing the representation and changes in views on work on a global historical scale, we visited Istanbul and Bursa in Turkey, which has a tradition of textile industry, and investigated the history of changes in views on work and its contemporary representations in exhibitions in Turkey, which is an Islamic country but has secularism as its national policy (all co-researchers participated for 10 days from February 10, 2024 to February 19, 2024).
In Istanbul, the program included a tour of Hagia Sophia, where participants saw scenes of Islamic worship; the Fine Arts Museum, where participants learned about the historical evolution of clothing and other products; and the various court labor practices, including palace cooking. The program also explored the city's history from Constantinople to Istanbul at the Archaeological Museum, the Basilica Cistern, and the Banking Museum. The program also explored the Grand Bazaar and other bazaars scattered throughout the city, as well as the khans, which were once caravansaries and trading centers. In Bursa, participants viewed the historical displays and changes in Turkey's textile industry at the Merinos Textile Industry Museum, gaining a perspective on connections and comparisons with modern Japan. They also toured a bazaar centered on silk and woolen products, the main industry in Bursa, the terminus of the Silk Road, gaining valuable insights, including connections to Japan's textile industry. Despite Turkey's increasingly secularized society, participants also learned that Islamic teachings emphasize the importance of avoiding laziness when it comes to work.
The results of this research project are scheduled to be compiled in 2024 and published in the Konodai Economic Research Journal.

2. Books, papers, academic presentations, etc.
[Paper (peer-reviewed)]
Yukio Matsushita, "Resource Dependence on Companies That Engage in Outsourcing Transactions and Engage in Custom-Made Production: Inferiority of Small and Medium-Sized Parts and Product Manufacturers," Journal of the Japan Society of Small and Medium Enterprises, Vol. 42, pp. 166-179, Doyukan (2023)
[Books and papers (non-peer reviewed)]
Akiko Shio, "Record of the Earthquake that Struck Antioch," Kaihou (Ancient World Research Society) 156 (2023) 3-5
Akiko Shio, "The Phoenicians who traveled across the Aegean Sea: Focusing on the activities of Sidonian merchants," Shien 84-1 (2024) 109-128
Aoi Okudera, "Representation of Work Perspectives and Human Resource Management: From the Perspective of 'Work-Life Balance'," Chiba University of Commerce Review 61 (1) (2023)
Aoi Okudera, "The reality and core purpose of promoting women's participation in society and work-life balance," Chiba University of Commerce Review 61 (2) (2023)
Aoi Okudera, “Work-Life Integration-Work-Life Integration: Workstyle that opens up the future,” OXFORD DIALOGUE (2023)
Aoi Okudera, "Book Review: Katsuhiko Hirazawa and Tsuyako Nakamura (eds.) (2021) Work-Life Integration: A Way of Working that Opens the Future, Minerva Shobo," Journal of the Japan Society for Labor Theory, No. 32 (2023)
Zhu Min, "China's 'Uniform' Childcare System," Weekly Social Security 77 (3216) (2023) 42-47
Zhu Min, "Trends in China's Poverty Policy," Social Welfare Research (148) (2023) 90-97
Yukio Matsushita, "Dynamic Changes in Interorganizational Relationships from the Perspective of Three Factors of Resource Dependence (Part 1) - Reorganization of Previous Research on Long-Term Continuous Transactions," Chiba University of Commerce Review, 61(2) (2023), pp. 95-123.
[Conference presentations, etc.]
Toshihiko Arakawa, "The Pitfalls of the WHO Origin Story in Well-Being Theory," Japan Society of Social Relations, March 21, 2024, Nihon University
Akiko Shio, "Food and Drink in Sanctuaries: The Case of Ancient Greece," Mediterranean Talks "Food and Drink in Sanctuaries" at the 47th Mediterranean Studies Conference, June 24, 2023, Haguroyama Ideha Hall
Akiko Shio, "From Tropaion to Tropaion: The Construction of Persian War Memorial Monuments and the Enforcement, Correction, and Coexistence of Memory," Parthenon Science Research Seminar 2023, August 7, 2023, Zoom
Akiko Moroo, Reimaging the Past: Athenian Ephebeia's Role in Shaping the Perception of the Persian Wars. International Workshop: The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times, 13 December 2023, Kyoto (Kyoto University Rakuyukaikan Hall)
Akiko Moroo, Troezenian Memories on the Greco-Persian Wars: Revisiting the Themistocles Decree through the Troezenian Perspective. The 5th Euro-Japanese Colloquium on the Ancient Mediterranean World: The Past in the Present: Cultural Memory and Its Agencies in the Ancient Mediterranean World (and Beyond), 21 March 2024, Athens (the National Hellenic Research Foundation).
Zhu Min, "Welfare China: Building a Multi-Layered Social Security System," Social Policy Association, May 23, 2023, Rikkyo University

 

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