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"This paper addresses issues related to family caregiving, as one of the areas of caregiving in which problems are currently arising in Japan. Family caregiving is presently inseparable from the gender relationship between men as the breadwinners and women as the caregivers. The perspective of gender equality is therefore extremely important when discussing issues related to family caregiving. This paper focuses on the increasing number of male caregivers in Japan, and looks at the actual circumstances of caregiving by male caregivers to investigate what significance the increase in male caregivers may have for achieving gender equality in family caregiving. As men engage in caregiving, they are forced to confront their own masculinities. The difficulties that they experience demonstrate that care and masculinities are not simply conflicting aspects of their identities. In order to achieve gender equality in family care-giving, it is necessary to carefully decipher the complex interplay between care and masculinities. "

"A mathematical model was developed for evaluating CO2-reduction technologies in power generation, residential, commercial and road transport sector in Japan. The existing and new power generation technologies evaluated included 34 centralized and 8 dispersed power generation technologies in the resedential and commercial energy demand sectors. To take into account the varieties of useful energy and of its demand duration patterns among entities in the demand sectors, the hourly mean power and heating and cooling demand-supply balances in one residential and four commercial representative entities were considered for each month. The road transport sector addressed five types of automotive use. The useful-energy demands are exogenously given; the model calculates the technology installations that satisfy the demands to minimize the total systems cost for each year up to 2030. The availability of the new technologies, i.e., the first years they are installable, is derived from research and development (R&D) process analyses on the basis of surveys to experts. As a result of the model calculation, dispersed molten carbonate and solid oxid fuel cells and onboard gasoliene reforming-type fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technologies are expected to have the largest economic values, approximately 60-120 billion constant 1998 yen (460-920 million U.S dollars (USD)) among the evaluated new CO2-reduction technologies. One of the implications from our calculations is that extending electric power corporations' commercial coverage to dispersed power generation, in addition to centralized power generation, is desirable to help lower overall costs in society, as well as to secure industry profits. "

"The purpose of this presentation is to share the theoretical framework of our collaborative research entitled "Migrant Networks as a Survival Strategy for Minorities in the Global Transborder Migration of Minorities in Mainland Southeast Asia".Our multidisciplinary research group aims to determine how globalization affects the life course of minorities by focusing on the extension of their transborder migration networks. This three-year project comment in June 2012 and is scheduled to end in January 2015. The research group consists of five researches: Prof. Masami Fujimaki (Japan), Dr. Nisakorn Klanarong (Thailand), Dr. Suttiporn Bunmak (Thailand), Dr. Mala Rajo Sathian (Malaysia), and Kayoko Ishii (Japan), who is the group's organizer."