Research
Research Showcase Archive Updated!
AIU created the Research Showcase (formerly called Research Week) in 2017 to allow AIU faculty and students to present the results of their research to the university’s internal and external community. Starting in academic year 2022, taking advantage of the online format, AIU also invited researchers from our international partner universities to participate.
This is an archive of research week presentations since academic year 2020.
Please find a link to the presentations from the following list.
*All presentations are provided in English.
*Titles and affiliations of faculty members and students are current at the time of the initial release of each video.
Academic Year 2024 Presentations
Fall 2024 Research Showcase: AIU Presenters
Further Adventures in the Lab (WN24/SP24): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Eriko YAMAMOTO, Undergraduate Student
- Sota MINATO, Undergraduate Student
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Aggregate Investment with a Liquidity Trap: A Comparison between Japan and the UK Economies
Presenters:
- Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program
- Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University, U.K.
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Explaining explanation, understanding understanding: Morphisms (should be) everywhere
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Miklós HOFFMANN, Professor, Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University and University of Debrecen
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Ethnographic Research Project: Language, Culture and Identity
Presenters:
- Chris Carl HALE, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- June Ha KIM, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- Queena XU, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
- Wing Yiu LING, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
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Does Service Innovation Lead to Perceived Service Luxuriousness?
Presenters:
- Sungkyu LEE, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
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Changes in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes in Akita: a case of Kujukushima, Nikaho: Nature Positive and Public Works
Presenters:
- Yoji NATORI, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
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“Reflection Session”: A documentary film about seminar research
Presenters:
- Noah Keone VIERNES, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program (Interviewing, Filming, and Editing)
- Collaborators: Shogo KUDO, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program, Luke DILLEY, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program, Florent DOMENACH, Professor/Director, Global Connectivity Program, Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Japan Studies Program, Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program, Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program, Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program, Ki Deuk HYUN, Professor, Global Studies Program, Suppaleuk SARPPHAITOON, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program,
- Presenters: Mao KOKUBO, Connor KENNEDY, Ikumi MASHIKO, Marisa HOWE, Miyu OKUNO, Ayane MIYASHITA, Aika KOZKI, Kiwamu SATO, Kyoko MIYAKE, Kurumi WATANABE, Yuki YOKOGI, Ikumi MOTOMURA, Keisuke KUDO, Ririko IKUTA, Bumpei NAGAYA, Chiharu SUZUKI, Tetsushi KAJIHARA, Nobuharu OMORI, Honoka HASHIMOTO, Ryuji KOBAYASHI, AIU Undergraduate students,
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Multinationality and Cash Holdings: Evidence from Japan
Presenters:
- Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program
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Fall 2024 Research Showcase: Partner University Presenters
Does exercise with or without manual therapy influence sensory characteriscs in people with elbow tendinopathy? A single-blinded, randomised cross-over trial.
Presenters:
- Leanne BISSET, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Australia
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Development and transformation of Eurasianism during the Cold War: Eurasianism in the Soviet intellectual milieu
Presenters:
- Michal RACYN, Postdoc researcher, Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavonic Studies, Czech Republic
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An investigation of the Factors affecting the Users’ Adoption of Social Media Technologies in Public Sector: Case of Egypt
Presenters:
- Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt
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Next Generation Sustainability
Presenters:
- Chng Saun FONG, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Materials:
ESL Teachers’ Learner Autonomy Promoting Strategies in ESL Tertiary Classrooms: Do They Walk the Talk?
Presenters:
- Sharina SAAD, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Mara Kedah Branch, Malaysia
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The Reclaimed Agency of a Prostituted Identity in Meryem Alaoui’s Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
Presenters:
- Rawae KARMIM, Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
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Perception of internal auditing and its effectiveness – the results of research to date
Presenters:
- Lena GRZESIAK, Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, Faculty of Management, Department of Human Resources Management, Poland
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Universal revolutionary pedagogical principles. The Ferrer Guardia´s Modern School
Presenters:
- Antonio NADAL-MASEGOSA, Doctor in Pedagogy, University of Málaga, Spain
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Death Studies at the University of Aberdeen
Presenters:
- Arnar ÁRNASON, Senior Lecturer in social anthropology, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
- Vikki ENTWISTLE, Professor, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Materials:
Stonehenge and Jomon
Presenters:
- Simon KANER, Director, Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, U.K.
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Tracing the money trail: Okinawa as a key site of regional economic competition
Presenters:
- Ra MASON, Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia, U.K.
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Academic Year 2023 Presentations
Fall 2023 Research Showcase: AIU Presenters
Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea
Presenters:
- Yu-Hua CHEN, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program
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Further Adventures in the Lab (WN23): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Chizuru HONDA, AIU Undergraduate Student
- Yuki SHIMIZU, AIU Undergraduate Student
- Kiwamu SATO, AIU Undergraduate Student
Materials:
Digital Archives x Akita Tourism
Presenters:
- Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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Are Risk Premia Time-varying and Can They Be Explained by Economic Policy Uncertainty?
Presenters:
- Wenti DU, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
- Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University
- Christopher SPENCER, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University
Materials:
Re-examining the Historical Growth of Human Playing Strength in Go Games
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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ChatGPT in Japanese Higher Education: A Case Study
Presenters:
- Irina KUZNETCOVA, Assistant Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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Estimating the Potential Demand for Sharing Transportation: the Case of Toyota Car Sharing Service
Presenters:
- Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Associate Professor, Global Business Program
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Beyond Envy or Sympathy: Overcoming Tropes in the Depiction of Blindness in Japanese Blockbuster Films
Presenters:
- Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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From Crisis to Control: The Role of Emotions, Discourse, Values and Knowledge in Learner Autonomy
Presenters:
- Joe SYKES, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
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Fall 2023 Research Showcase: Partner University Presenters
Unplanned urbanization: The transition of earthquake and flood hazards into major disasters in Kashmir contradicts the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 11
Presenters:
- Afroz Ahmad SHAH, Sr. Assistant Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
- Muhammad Gazali RACHMAN, PhD Candidate, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
- Rajesh KUMAR, Assistant Professor, Sikkim University, India
- Javed MALIK, Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
- SANA, University of Kashmir, India
Materials:
Development and Implementation of a Solar-Powered Smart Charger for EVs: An Integrated V2G-Enabled System with a Focus on Egypt’s Seasonal Solar Variations
Presenters:
- Omar ABDEL-RAHIM, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt
Materials:
Mobile Application for Tourism: The Case of Egypt
Presenters:
- Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt
Materials:
Development of a Measure for Wise Leadership
Presenters:
- Abderrahman HASSI, Associate Professor, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
- Giovanna STORTI, Advisor, Employment and Social Development. Canada
Materials:
Skincare Routine for Soviet People: The Use of Cosmetics in the USSR, 1950-1960s
Presenters:
- Evgenia PLATONOVA, PhD Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
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Understanding the relationship between government financial support to migrant enterprises (MEs) during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental wellbeing of their entrepreneurs
Presenters:
- Charan BHATTARAI, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K. (JSPS Fellow, Waseda University)
- Caleb KWONG, Professor, University of Essex, U.K.
- Cherry CHEUNG, Senior Lecturer, London South Bank University, U.K.
- Gracia LIU-FARRER, Professor, Waseda University, Japan
Materials:
A more resilient food future? The challenges and opportunities of surplus food redistribution in the UK
Presenters:
- Jordan LAZELL, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
- Debashree DE, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
- Ignas ARBACIAUSKAS, Undergraduate Student, University of Essex, U.K.
Materials:
Breaking Down the Islamic State Threat in Asia, a Study of the Current Tactics and Trends
Presenters:
- Rishi SINGH, Undergraduate Student, George Mason University, U.S.A.
- Mahmut CENGIZ, Research Associate Professor, George Mason University, U.S.A.
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Spring 2023 Research Showcase: Academic Year 2022 President’s Fund Recipients
Ikebana Therapy for Dementia Patients
Presenters:
- Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Yuko Abe, Professor, Head of Japanese Language Program
- Ayako Motegi, Manager, Nagoyaka nursing care home
- Ayuk Eyong, Advisor, Sotoasahikawa hospital
Materials:
Developing a “Place” to Support Student Writing at AIU
Presenters:
- Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Ian Hurley, Assistant Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
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Creativity & Wellbeing among Akita Students
Presenters:
- Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Naoko Araki, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Joel Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Tsuyoshi Cuhullan McGivern, Lecturer, Global Connectivity Program
- Naeko Naganuma, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes
- Mary Hoeft, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
- Hiromi Sone, Professor, Akita University of Art
Materials:
Service-learning for Rural Sustainability
Presenters:
- Shogo Kudo, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
- Norihito Mizuno, Professor, Director of Global Studies Program
- Luke Dilley, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program
Materials:
Academic Writing Workshops for Akita High School Students
Presenters:
- Clay H. Williams, Professor, English Language Teaching Practices
- Leigh Bennett, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
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Academic Year 2022 Research Week
AIU Presenters
Ikebana Therapy
Presenters:
- Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing – the creation of a writing centre at AIU
Presenters:
- Rebecca CLEGG-SASAKI, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
Materials:
Adventures in the Lab: Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Sayaka OHIRA, Undergraduate Student
- Mashiho TAKAHASHI, Undergraduate Student
- Kanako TSUCHIYA, Undergraduate Student
Materials:
Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats
Presenters:
- Florent DOMENACH, Professor/Director, Global Connectivity Program
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Recomputing all 4-state computational structures
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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Wellbeing through Creativity (President’s Fund Project)
Presenters:
- Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Naoko ARAKI, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Naeko NAGANUMA, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program/Dean of Students
Materials:
Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank
Presenters:
- Hitoshi HORIUCHI, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program
Materials:
The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
Presenters:
- Sungkyu LEE, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
Materials:
Understanding Externality of Nursery Facilities
Presenters:
- Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Associate Professor, Global Business Program
Materials:
The effect of monetary policy under quantitative easing to the exchange rate in Japan
Presenters:
- Thaya NGAMPRAVATDEE, Exchange student at AIU from Mahidol University International College, Thailand
Materials:
SpeechCraft Akita: a community-initiated adult education for public speaking in English, introduced in northern Tohoku area of Japan as a way to address opportunity gaps.
Presenters:
- Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI, Director of Office of Faculty and Staff Support, Administrative Office
Materials:
The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Presenters:
- Noah Keone VIERNES, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
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Arbitrage and Liquidity in Platinum Futures
Presenters:
- Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program
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Partner University Presenters
Humanitarian Response in Urban Settings: Exploring the Role of Community Leaders during Complex Disasters in the Philippines
Presenters:
- Dr. Maria Carinnes ALEJANDRIA, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
Materials:
A Social-theoretical Perspective on Educational Equality and Professional Teacher Training in Japan and Germany
Presenters:
- Dr. Benjamin HEURICH (Research Associate, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany
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Virtual reality and war reporting: uses, potentialities and challenges of 360° video to narrate armed conflicts
Presenters:
- Andrés David Castro LOTERO, PhD Student Communication Sciences, University of Passau, Germany
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Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: An Invitation to Decolonizing Environmental Justice
Presenters:
- Ms. Siti MAIMUNAH, PhD Student, University of Passau, Germany
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From Digital to Spatial Turn in Holocaust Education? (Re)Locating Remembrance and its Requirements and Opportunities for Media Education
Presenters:
- Dr. Kathrin Eveline PLANK, Academic Coucillor, University of Passau, Germany
Materials:
Internationalization@home Promoting virtual mobility – an online group experiment
Presenters:
- Dr. Tamara RACHBAUER, Academic counselor, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany
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The MORALITY POLITICA of SPORKS in 1970s JAPAN
Presenters:
- Dr. Nathan HOPSON, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
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Initial coin offerings (ICOs): Why do they succeed?
Presenters:
- Dr. Jose CAMPINO, Professor, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Materials:
The Cultural Heritage when Programming Cruise Itineraries
Presenters:
- Dr. Antonio PELAEZ-VERDET, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Business,University of Malaga, Spain
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Academic Year 2021 Research Week: All Presentations by AIU members
Adventures in the Lab: Building Analytical Thinking and Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Reona YANAGI, Undergraduate Student
- Ryoka IGUCHI, Undergraduate Student
Materials:
Computational Holonomy Decomposition of Transformation Semigroups
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
- Chrystopher L. NEHANIV, Professor University of Waterloo, Canada
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From Writing Workshop to Community Action: Storytelling as Immigration Advocacy
Presenters:
- Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Naoko ARAKI, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
- Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
Materials:
Syntactic Complexity of Oral and Written Outputs through Story-telling/writing in L2 Japanese: A Case of L1 English Learners
Presenters:
- Hitoshi HORIUCHI, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program
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English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Universities: Focus on the Teacher
Presenters:
- Irina KUZNETCOVA, Assistant Professor, Global Connectivity Program
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[Case study] The temporary use of L1 in an advanced classroom
Presenters:
- Yuto YOKOKURA, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program
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Academic Year 2020 Research Week: All Presentations by AIU members
Traditional Arts in Higher Education
Presenters:
- Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Basic Education Program
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Using Computer-Aided Design and 3D Printing to Investigate Phototaxis in Euglena
Presenters:
- Andy CROFTS, Professor, Basic Education Program
- Kaori FURUKAWA, Undergraduate Student
- Chiharu MORIYAMA, Undergraduate Student
Materials:
Modeling contagion in the Eurozone: A Time-Varying Coefficients Approach
Presenters:
- Wenti DU, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
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Using Go AIs for detecting online cheating with Go AIs
Presenters:
- Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Basic Education Program
- Antti TÖRMÄNEN, Nihon Ki-in
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A Reading of Original Poetry: Merging Research and Creativity
Presenters:
- Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
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Tomioka Taeko’s Poetry of Refusal
Presenters:
- Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
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What Experience Cannot Tell Us About Time
Presenters:
- Akiko FRISCHHUT, Assistant Professor, Basic Education Program
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Intersectionality in Japanese Queer Community ~We Are Not Just Gay~
Presenters:
- Hinako ISHIKAWA, Undergraduate Student
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