JSPS-NRCT Core University Program: Project 9

Global COE Program: Initiative 1  

Joint Workshop on Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia 

Room 207, East Building

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Kyoto University 

1^st to 2^nd March 2008

Day 1

10.30 am − 12 am: Overview and Comments

• Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
  Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia: A Preliminary Comparative Perspective
• Pasuk Phongpaichit (Chulalongkorn University.)
  Some Thoughts on Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia 

Lunch 

1 pm − 3.30 pm: Round Table: Back to the State?

• Takashi Shiraishi (GRIPS)
  On State Formation
• Chris Baker
  On the Post-developmental State
• Thee Kian Wie (LIPI, Indonesia)
  On Policy-makers, Senior Officials and Businessmen

4:00 pm − 6.00 pm: Indonesia

• Thee Kian Wie
  Indonesia's Industrialisation during and after the Soeharto Era: Aspects of Labour-intensive Industrialisation
• Kosuke Mizuno (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
  A Path to Prosperous Rural Industry in Indonesia: Case of Roof-tile Industry

Discussant: Fumiharu Mieno (Kobe University)

7 pm-: Dinner and Informal Discussion at a room at Fujitei (nearby restaurant)

Day 2

10 am − 12 am: Southeast Asia

• Porphant Ouyyanont (Suhhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand)
  Cheap Labor and the Industrialization of Bangkok after 1945: Some Revision
• Tatsufumi Yamagata (IDE-JETRO)
  Two Dynamic LDCs: Cambodia and Bangladesh as Garment Exporters

Discussant: Koichi Fujita (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

Lunch

1:pm. − 2.30 pm: Japan

• Masayuki Tanimoto (University of Tokyo)
  From Peasant Economy to Urban Agglomeration: The Transformation of ‘Labour-intensive Industrialization’ in Modern Japan
• Haruo Wakimura
  The Decline of Japanese Cotton-weaving Districts in Postwar Japan

Discussion: Akihiko Ohno (Aoyama Gakuin Universiity)

3 pm − 4.30 pm: India and Comparative

• Takashi Oishi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
  Aspects of Labour Intensive Economy around Bicycles in Modern India with Special Focus on the Import from Japan

General discussion

Other participants:

• Nobuko Nagasaki (Ryukoku University)
• Takeshi Onimaru (GRIPS)
• Takahiro Sato (G-COE, CSEAS, Kyoto University)
• Naomi Hosoda (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
• Shinya Ishizaka (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
• Shunsuke Nagaoka (ASFAS, Kyoto University)
• Nao Sato (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
• Kyoko Oga (Osaka Univeristy)
• Shiro Sato (Ryukoku Univeristy)

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