Authorship：Coinvestigator(s) 

Authorship：Coinvestigator(s) 

This research project analyzed accountability reforms and the rise of populist politicians in Southeast Asia and examined the impact on democracy. As an outcome, it published the book "Southeast Asian Politics in the era of Social Media" (in Japanese, Akashi Shoten, March 2020). It demonstrated that the negative impact of social media because of the increasing usage and abuse of social media by political elites and various social groups.

Authorship：Coinvestigator(s) 

Considering that democracies have not always supported promotion of sexual minorities’ rights in Southeast Asia, we came up with two arguments. First, inconsistent and diverse ways that the states treat sexual minorities can be understood by focusing how dominant forces utilize sexual minorities as a symbol to boost their legitimacy when they exercise hegemony of “good nation, citizens, and families” over civil society. Since sexual minorities can be used as a symbol of either progress, market profits and democracy, or moral decay, they are convenient for dominant forces. Second, diverse practices of sexual minorities for dignity, rights, and livelihoods can be understood from the perspective of how they are trying to address the hegemony of “good citizens, citizens, and families.”It ranges from participation, redefinition, and destruction.

Authorship：Other 

Our project has created a lot of research results through joint research
activity for three years under the titled theme. Summing up the figures in the respective annual reports of us and others, we have had 47 articles, 59 reports and speeches at several meetings of academic societies and seminars, and so on. The characteristic ones among those are as follows,
(1)We have contributed 7 articles to the special issue of 'Social Sciences' vol.48 no.2 published by the Institute for the Study of Humanities & Social Sciences, Doshisha University, as the platform of our project.(2)We have planed and performed a symposium titled, 'The Interests between ASEAN and Japan, and the Future of East Asia: From the Viewpoints of Natural Resource Development, Primary Products Trade and Territrial Rights' as the 92nd open lecture held by the Institute.

Authorship：Principal investigator 

Grant amount：\4160000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 、 Indirect Cost：\960000 ）

This project researches the relationship between authoritarian regime and political scandal with the case study of Malaysia. The research reveals that influence of political scandal on the political regime depend on the framing of the scandal by political elites. In addition, social movements which continues in a certain period is necessary to make the framing work.