Asia Pacific Conference 2025
Asia Pacific Conference 2025
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and its RCAPS annually host the Asia Pacific Conference. Since its inception in 2003, AP Conference has provided researchers from around the world with an opportunity to present their research. The conference aims to contribute to the realization of "Shape Your World" through academic discussions on issues facing the Asia-Pacific region and the world surrounding it.
Examples of Panel Titles
- CIL Special Session
- Forgotten refugees: How best to support them?
- Converging or diverging Indo-Pacific Visions: Prospects and challenges for a shared Indo-Pacific approach
- Peace in Times of Conflict: How the Younger Generation Perceives Our World Today
- The International Security of Japan and South Korea
- Sustainability, Environmental Preservation, and Livelihood Development
- Sociology of Identity in Film, Family and Resettlement
- Tourism-based community development in Germany, New Zealand and Portugal
- Decoding visual narratives through Lovecraftian Anti-Mythology, cultural hybridization and the Gramscian subaltern.
- Pseudo-Authenticity and Area Studies: Utilization and Evaluation of (New) Information and Communications Technologies
- Is it possible to bridge ideological divides in remembering?: investigations of gendered and institutionalized traumatic memories
- Transformation and Dynamics in East Asian Political Landscape: AI, Media Narratives, and Political Strategies
- Successful tourism practices for sustainable community development
- Environmental Science and Development in Kyusyu
- Navigating Global Shifts: How India and the Middle East are Transforming
- How Can Human and Artificial Intelligences Merge? Visions of Western and Non-Western Philosophical Perspectives
- China and Global Governance in a Changing World
- Japanese Studies Beyond Dichotomies, between the Global and the National, Pre-War and Post-War, and Identity and Diversity
- International Relations in the Indo-Pacific Region
- Japan Foreign Policy
- Taiwan in the changing Asian-Pacific political landscape
Best Paper Award (Only for Graduate Students)
Past Award-Winning Papers
| AY | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | David Chandra Purnama | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | Effect of Industrialization & Plantation Businesses to Quality of Life: Case Study of Lampung Province, Sumatera, Indonesia |
| Kazi Humayra Rashid | Ritsumeikan University | The Influence of ICT Integration on Academic Performance and Engagement among International Students in Japan | |
| 2023 | Chhay Lim | Ritsumeikan University | Japan as a hedging power in Southeast Asia: Case of Cambodia’s alignment politics towards Japan |
| Mega Cahyanti | Yamaguchi University | Dark Tourism for Post Natural-Disaster Sites Case Study on Tsunami Memorial Museum in Indonesia and Japan | |
| Kazumi Murakumo | University of Tsukuba | The History of the Migration and Immigration of Indonesian Nurses: The Case of the Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement | |
| Miguel Niccolo Veneracion Rallonza | Sophia University | The Role of Coffee Producers in Philippine Specialty Coffee: Looking at the Case of Mt. Apo Coffee in Davao del Sur, Mindanao | |
| 2022 | Jose Rodolfo Aviles Ernult | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | Analyzing magical realist narratives through the Freudian uncanny: decontextualized memories in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) |
| 2021 | Raphaelle Delmas | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | International climbers’ behaviour towards the payment of Mount Fuji’s conservation donation |
| Robin Argueyrolle | |||
| 2020 | Tsz Chit Yui | National Sun Yat-sen University | Exploring the Determinants of Cyberloafing in the Workplace: A Conservation of Resources (COR) Perspective |
| Chiung-Ying Wu | National Sun Yat-sen University | ||
| Chien-Chung Kao | National Sun Yet-sen University | ||
| 2019 | Astha Chadha | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | India's foreign policy towards Japan: Strategic partnership amid regional transformations |
