Global Economy and Labor Force Migration: The Case of Iranian Workers in Japan

Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, (2010), pp. 31-52, Ritsumeikan Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (RCAPS)

Asgari, Behrooz; Yokoyama, Orie; Morozumi, Akiko & Hope, Tom

I will be teaching the course "Innovation, Sustainability and Uncertainty" again this Spring term.

Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Hope, Hideaki Takeda, and Takuichi Nishimura

Book chapter in Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang (Eds.) (2010) Social Computing and Virtual Communities, Taylor & Francis.

This chapter discusses, using two case studies, some issues of user-generated content and intellectual property, and argues for the development of technological infrastructure to support original authors' rights.

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Recently I was a facilitator at the Tokyo Tech "Creative Flow" Science and Culture cafe.

The guest speaker was Frank Schwalba-Hoth, visiting from Brussels, who spoke about European policy, the environment, and the importance of international experience for students. We had a discussion with participants in the audience about relationships between science and art, whether scientists should strive to have "general" views or be focused only on their research topics etc.

It was a great opportunity personally to hear some of the thoughts of young scientists, and encouraging in relation to the possibilities of science cafes held in English in Japan.

Download a pdf of the poster (Japanese)