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Ikuko Okamoto

    Department of Regional　Development　Studies　Professor
    Center for Sustainable Development Studies　Researcher
    Course of Regional Development Studies　Professor
Last Updated :2025/04/19

Researcher Information

Degree

  • Bachelor of Arts（1990/03 Sophia University）

Research funding number

  • 00450487

J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • resource management   International Cooperation   Agriculture and Rural Development   ミャンマー   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Economic policy
  • Humanities & social sciences / Agricultural and food economics
  • Humanities & social sciences / Local studies

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2014/04 - Today  Toyo UniversityFaculty of Global and Regional StudiesProfessor
  • 1992/10 - 2014/03  Japan External Trade Organization, Institute of Developing Economies研究員
  • 2009/04 - 2011/05  Australia National UniversityResource Management in Asia and the PacificVisiting Research Fellow
  • 1998/03 - 2000/03  Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and IrrigationDepartment of Agricultural PlanningVisiting Resesarch Fellow

Education

  •        - 2006/03  Kyoto University  Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
  • 1991/09 - 1992/06  Stanford University  Food Research Institute
  • 1986/04 - 1990/03  Sophia University  Faculty of Foreign Studies  Department of English Language and Studies

Association Memberships

  • JAPAN SOCIETY FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES   JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES   

Published Papers

Books etc

  • 東洋大学国際共生社会研究センター (「フィールドワークとは」（中村香子と共著）、「途上国の農村経済・社会を理解するためのフィールドワーク」)朝倉書店 2024/09 9784254180664 v, 149p
  • Myanmar: Politics, Economics, Society 2nd ediction A.Simpson, N. Farrelly eds
    A.Simpson, N. Farrelly eds (Joint workAgriculture and Rural Livelihoods: Incipient Progress Aborted" (Co-authored with Duncan Boughton, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Cho Cho San , Nilar Aung, Ikuko Okamoto))Routledge 2024
  • Myanmar: Politics, Economics, Society
    A.Simpson; N. Farrelly eds (Contributor“Agriculture and the Rural Economy: The Struggle to Transform Rural Livelihoods” (Co-authored with Duncan Boughton, Ikuko Okamoto, Siu Sue Mark, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Theingi Myint and Tin Htut Oo))Routledge 2020
  • Chambers, Justine; Galloway, Charlotte; Liljeblad, Jonathan (Contributor’Myanmar’s Rural Economy at a Crossroads”)ISEAS Publishing, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute 2020 9789814881043 xii, 386 p.
  • 『ロヒンギャ問題とは何か-難民になれない難民』
    日下部尚徳; 石川和雅編著 (Contributor「ラカイン州の経済-貧困と資源開発」)明石書店 2019
  • 『東南アジア地域研究入門 1 環境』
    井上真 (Contributor転換期を迎えた水田稲作)慶應義塾大学出版会 2017/02 4766423941 368
  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar
    Simpson, A; Farrely, N; Holiday, I. eds (Contributor“Agriculture”)Routledge 2017
  • Myanmar in Post-military rule
    Ikuko Okamoto (Contributorミャンマー新政権下の農業改革)Institute of Developing Economies 2015/11 101-131
  • Shinichi Shigetomi; Ikuko Okamoto (Joint editorOrganizing community forestry in rural Myanmar: Capability and functions of villages)Edward Elgar Pub 2014/09 1783474378 256
  • Figures of Modernity in Southeast Asia.
    Johan Lindquist; Joshua Barker; Erik Harms (ContributorSex worker in Thailand)University of Hawaii Press 2013
  • Monique Skidmore; Trevor Wilson (Contributor“Transforming Myanmar's Rice Marketing")ANU E Press 2011/09 0731538110 322
  • Ruling Myanmar: From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections
    Nicholas Cheesman; Monique Skidmore; Trevor Wilson eds (ContributorThe Movement of Rural Labour in Myanmar: Rakhine Case Study)Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2010
  • Fumiharu Meino; Koichi Fujita; Fumiharu Mieno; Ikuko Okamoto (Joint editor)NUS Press 2009/03 9971694611 340
  • Ikuko Okamoto (Single work)Singapore University Press 2009/02 997169431X 264
  • ミャンマー経済の実像－なぜ軍政は生き残れたのか－
    工藤年博編 (Contributorミャンマーの食糧問題-体制維持と米穀政策-)アジア経済研究所 2008
  • グローバル化と途上国の小農
    重富真一編著 (Contributor「ミャンマーにおけるエビ輸出拡大と小規模漁民―ヤカイン州一漁村の事例から－」)アジア経済研究所 2007
  • 岡本, 郁子 [Ikuko Okamoto] 2006 288 p.
  • Toye, J. F. J.; 渡邉, 真理子; 児玉, 由佳; 岡本, 郁子; 熊倉, 正修 (Joint translation)ジョン トーイ 同文舘出版 2005/02 4495864912 viii, 402p
  • ミャンマー移行経済の変容－市場と統制のはざまで－
    藤田幸一 (Contributor開放経済移行下のミャンマー農業)アジア経済研究所 2005
  • ミャンマー移行経済の変容－市場と統制のはざまで－
    藤田幸一 (Contributorミャンマー市場経済移行期のコメ流通)アジア経済研究所 2005
  • アフリカとアジアの農産物流通
    高根務編 (Contributorミャンマーにおける農産物流通自由化と農家経済－リョクトウ産地の事例から－)アジア経済研究所 2003
  • 東南アジアの経済開発と土地制度
    水野広祐; 重冨真一編 (Contributor植民地期ビルマの地租制度と土地所有権)アジア経済研究所 1997
  • Weeks, John; 山本, 一巳; 岡本, 郁子 (Joint translation)ジョーン ウイークス 御茶の水書房 1996/09 4275016386 xiii, 350p
  • ミャンマーを知るための60章
    田村克己; 松田正彦 (Contributor農村と都市と海外と)明石書店

Conference Activities & Talks

  • Current situation of Myanmar students in exile in Thailand
    Current situation of Myanmar; students in exile in Thailand
    European Association of Southeast Asian Studies （Euro SEAS）2024European Association of Southeast Asian Studies （Euro SEAS）2024  2024/07
  • The multi-sited struggle of the Myanmar students displaced after the 2021 coup
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Academic Council on the United Nations System（ACUNUS) 2024年年次大会  2024/06
  • シャン州山間部農民の生計活動と土地利用ーインレー湖周辺の環境への示唆ー  [Invited]
    岡本郁子; 柴田京子
    日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会  2022/05  Oral presentation
  • Myanmar's rural economy at a crossroads  [Invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Myanmar Update 2019  2019/03  Invited oral presentation  Canberra, Australia  Australia National University
  • “Fade Away or Persist? Labor-credit Interlinked Transaction in Rural Myanmar: Case of Agricultural Labourers in a Delta Village” （共著：Hnin Yu Lwin, Koichi Fujita）  [Not invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    The 24th International conference for Agri-food Research Network  2017/12  Oral presentation  Bandung  Bandung Institute of Technology
  • Village organizational capability and collective actions in Myanmar”  [Invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    UY-ANU Myanmar Update Forum  2017/03  Nominated symposium
  • “Rural finance in Delta”  [Not invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    The Emerging Myanmar and the Resurgence of Traditional Agrarian Questions. Southeast Asian Studies in Asia 2015 Conference  2015/12  Oral presentation
  • “The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar: Profitability and the Changing Resources,”  [Not invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Panel 16:Impact of Globalization on Economy International Burma Studies Conference 2010.  2010/07  Oral presentation  Kyoto  The Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia
  • “Issues Affecting the Movement of Rural Labour in Myanmar: Rakhine Case Study”  [Not invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Myanmar/Burma Update Conference 2009  2009/08  Oral presentation  ACT  Australian National University
  • 「ミャンマー・サイクロン災害-政治化された災害と不信の連鎖-」
    岡本郁子
    アジア政経学会全国大会 共通論題「アジアにおける自然災害と政治経済変動」  2008/10  神戸大学
  • “Expanding Export, Profitability and Changing Resources: A Case Study of Small-scale Shrimp Fishing in Rakhine Coastal Area”.  [Invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    7th Annual Conference of Myanmar Academy of Agricultural, Forestry and Livestock and Fishery Sciences.  2008/07  Nay Pyi Taw  Myanmar Academy of Agricultural, Forestry, Livestock and Fishery Science
  • “Transforming Myanmar’s Rice Marketing System”  [Not invited]
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Myanmar/Burma Update Conference 2006.  2006/07  Oral presentation  Singapore  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  • “Agricultural Marketing Liberalization and the Changes of the Farm Economy: A Case Study of a Green Gram Producing Area in Lower Myanmar”
    Ikuko Okamoto
    Burma Studies Conference  2004/10  Northern Illinois University
  • Agricultural Marketing Reform and the Rural Economy in Myanmar: A Case Study of a Pulse Producing Area in Lower Myanmar”
    Ikuko Okamoto
    5th Annual Global Development Network Conference  2004/01  Nominated symposium  GDN-Network
  • 「農産物流通自由化と農家経済－ヤンゴン近郊マメ産地の事例から－」
    岡本郁子
    アジア政経学会東日本大会  2003/05  神田外国語大学
  • “Rice Economy of Myanmar”  [Invited]
    Conference on ”Achieving High Growth: Experience of Transitional Economies in East Asia”  2001/10  Nominated symposium  ACT  Australian National University

MISC

Research Grants & Projects

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Date (from‐to) : 2020/04 -2024/03 
    Author : 岡本 郁子
     
    本研究は、ミャンマーの山岳地域において、中央権力をはじめとする外部者が権威主義的な方法で資源を収奪していく「フロンティア資本主義」の展開と住民の生計戦略の変化を、特に慣行的土地利用の変化に焦点をあてながら明らかにすることを目的としている。 少数民族が多く居住する山岳地域は、長年にわたり中央政府との対立が続きそれは時として武力衝突の形をとった。とりわけ、本研究の主な調査対象地域であるカチン州は戦闘が断続的に続いてきた地域である。一方で、中央政府、国軍、また中国資本による資源収奪が民政移管後の経済開放路線の下で、むしろ加速化した地域でもある。そうした中で、実際に住民は生計戦略をどのように変えているのか、いないのか、また具体的にどのような問題が生じているのかを、地域住民への聞き取り調査を通じての解明を目指そうとしている。 しかし、2021年度も、2020年度に引き続き、新型コロナ感染症の拡大の影響が継続したため、現地調査が実施ができず、現地機関でのみ得られる統計的な情報、また全体的な状況把握のためのヒヤリングができなかった。加えて、2021年２月にクーデターが発生し、その後政治・社会状況が極端に不安定化したことも、情報把握をより困難にした。ミャンマーのいくつかの地域ではミャンマー国軍と住民が武装した人民防衛軍との戦闘が継続している。本研究課題の主な対象地域であるカチン州もその一つであり、国軍との緊張関係はかつてなく高まっている様子である。そのため、本研究課題に関連する情報もきわめて入手しにくい状況が続いている。
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2020/03 
    Author : Okamoto Ikuko
     
    The purpose of this research is to identify the significance of microfinance in Myanmar, which was promoted as a part of economic reform starting 2011, especially focusing on the impact on poverty reduction and the problems in the system design. It was found that expansion of microfinance has relaxed credit constraints of some economic class both in urban and rural areas in Myanmar. However, there were some issues such as an imbalance in the targeted area and the households and non-conformity of system design to the real condition of the households economic activities. Given the scarcity of the research on the working of current Myanmar's financial market based on the household data, especially focusing on microfinance, this research provides some baseline information for further research on the financial market.
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Date (from‐to) : 2011/04 -2016/03 
    Author : OKAMOTO IKUKO
     
    This research aims to clarify the acceptance and response of Myanmar’s rural society toward the introduction of community-based forest resource management (community forestry), in terms of the organizational capability of villages. In line with this objective, field surveys were conducted in the main areas (mountainous area, dry zone, and delta) where the community forestry program was introduced by the government. In these surveys, in which 52 villages were visited, the process of introducing and organizing community forestry, maintenance conditions, and the structure of local societies that support the organization were identified. It was found that the length of a village’s history and its population mobility influences the organizational capability of villages; therefore, the community forestry program was developed in different ways depending on the areas.
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
    Date (from‐to) : 2010 -2012 
    Author : TORII Takashi; OBONAI Hiroko; SAWADA Yukari; KIZAKI Midori; OKAMOTO Ikuko; NAMBU Kazuka
     
    The purpose of this research is to find new tendency for the international human mobility in East, Southeast Asia and Pacific regions in recent years. We arrive at the conclusion that labor market in this region would become the stratified strucuture.In addition, we can find out the new tendency for the human mobility such as unskilled labor (house maid and construction worker) to skilled labor and new comers to this region from Myanmer, and cross border marriage. These new movement caused the dwindling birthrate, aging societies among these region, commercialization of higher education and the development of LCC.

Teaching Experience

  • Issues in Agricultural and Development
    Graduate School of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University
  • Asian Economies/Southeast Asian Economies

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