| 1．Date and Time | December 8, 2012 (Sat.) 13:30～16:00 |
| 2．Venue | Kitakyushu Municipal Gender Equality Center, MOVE |
| 3．Organizer | Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women |
The Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women (KFAW) conducts surveys and research on a wide variety of issues related to gender and women around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacifi c region. At the 23rd Seminar on KFAW Research, KFAW researchers and visiting researchers presented the results of their research carried out in fi scal 2011 and fi scal 2012, and exchanged various opinions with the seminar participants.
| Report 1 | “Comparative Research on Effective Child-Raising Support Measure to Deal with Declining Birthrates in Japan and Korea” |
| Masami Shinozaki, Chief Researcher, KFAW Bae Hae-Sun, Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Faculty of Literature / Faculty of Human Sciences, Chikushi Jogakuen University | |
| Report 2 | “Examining Education Trajectories and Views on Employment and Marriage: A Case of Female Students in Higher Education in Trivandrum, India and Kitakyushu, Japan” |
| Masako Ota, Senior Researcher, KFAW | |
| Report 3 | “Research Analysis and Network Development to Support Businesses of Rural Female Entrepreneurs” |
| FY2011/12 KFAW Visiting Researcher Kayo Okabe, Adjunct Lecturer, Hosei University Mayumi Dan, Adjunct Lecturer, Keisen University | |
| Report 4 | “A Study on Women Marriage Migration from Transition Countries in Asian Region to Japan: Case Studies from Indo-Chinese Refugee Families and Chinese Families in Japan” |
| FY2011/12 KFAW Visiting Researcher Mika Hasebe, Lecturer at the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
