In this paper, we examine hypotheses regarding the mutually beneficial relationships between universities, companies, and students involved in practicums. Also, the aim is to present perspectives for improving the structure of practicums. The professional college system, introduced in 2019. In the operation of actual practicum courses, there are various challenges. That cannot be solved by the framework of the professional college system alone, as highlighted by Takahashi, Takahashi, Kondo, and Sato ‘2023ʼ. This study posits that a fundamental issue lies in the need for universities, companies, and students to clearly share the placement and expected functions of practicums.
The research analyzed the operational challenges of practicums at CAT by comparing them with other universities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with companies that accept interns from CAT, clarifying the placement of practicums and their relation to recruitment activities within these companies. Based on these findings, the study presents hypotheses on the practicum ecosystem, organizing perspectives for improving the structure of practicums.

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A major theme of topology focused on dance since the twentieth century has been to reveal choreographic aesthetics and practices that cannot be understood in terms of objective, static and euclidean concepts of space. In particular, the contingency and dynamics of the boundary between the interior and exterior of the body have often been explored. This boundary is questioned when modern modes of thought based on various dichotomies are challenged and the concept of the in-between is brought into focus.
However, the modern concept of ability has not been sufficiently questioned from this perspective. The Japanese choreographer and dancer Teita Iwabuchi has developed his own dance method and pursues a ‘body open to possibilities’. This paper reveals the relationship between Iwabuchi’s idea of ‘potentiality’ and the Zen philosophy that influenced him, as well as Aristotle’s ‘dynamis’ and Agamben’s ‘potentiality’. In doing so, it reveals a topology of dance that reexamines what is ‘possible’.

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The city of Toyooka, Japan, promotes regional revitalization through cultural tourism centered on the Toyooka Theater Festival featuring performing arts. However, previous attendees cited a lack of mobility in public transportation in their survey responses. As a case study, this research explored whether linguistic landscape, specifically temporary linguistic landscape fulfilled its role during the Toyooka Theater Festival 2023 to alleviate attendees’ anxiety about mobility. Pre-festival interviews with college students highlighted insufficient traffic signage at train stations and bus stops. Based on this, student-designed signage was installed at stations and bus stops during the festival. The findings suggest that temporary linguistic landscape has the potential to reduce tourists’ anxiety about mobility, but effective information design, particularly considering the proximal, intermediate, or distal perspective concept for placement, is important.

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This study aims to shed light on the interrelationship between theater festival visitors’ past and on-site behavior and their evaluation of the festival and each of the following variables, namely the number of neighboring major visited tourist destinations (the spatial impact) and visitors’ intention to visit outside the festival period (the temporal impact). Responses from 846 non-residents to the official questionnaire of Toyooka Theater Festival 2023 were subjected to analysis. As a result, “the total number of places visited” was found to correlate positively with “the number of annual theater performances attended” and negatively with “the importance of the festival on their trip.” “Intention to revisit the venue” was significantly correlated with a range of factors concerning visitors’ preceding factors and evaluation of their experiences, and also their past visits to the festival and the venue. These results point to the spatio-temporal effects of theatre festival visitors’ past visits as well as the evaluation of their experiences on their behavior.

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This paper examines locally employed Japanese staff who work at the call center of an online travel agency in Malaysia. The Malaysian government is focusing on BPO sectors like call centers, granting them MSC status. Companies with MSC status have the privilege to hire young Japanese staff, such as fresh graduates without working experiences. Under these circumstances, the study conducted interviews with locally employed Japanese staff in their early twenties working at the call center of an online travel agency. The findings indicate that recruitment agencies play a crucial role in securing jobs at Malaysian call centers and supporting locally employed Japanese staff from their arrival to the establishment of a stable life. These staff members work around the clock to handle diverse inquiries from Japanese customers. Given the depreciation of the Japanese yen and the uncertain Japanese economy, it is expected that more young Japanese will consider employment in Malaysia after their graduation.

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This paper explores the creative process of the cross-disciplinary theatre work Dance Dance Revolutions (DDRS), written by Shuntaro Matsubara, and directed by Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, to examine the mechanism in which the work’s ontological status is made ambiguous. Regardless of one’s preferred ontological stance, the existence of the original score/text is crucial to the identity of repeatable artworks, as it can indicate the abstract structure of the work, or function as an anchor of the repetition of the practice. However, in DDRS, a troublesome but unique methodology was employed to dismantle the categorization of the work, in which the text and direction/ choreography were created simultaneously in the initial stage of the process. This method makes it difficult to grasp if the text was caused by the performance, or the other way around, and disrupts the identification of the work’s “dominant source”. Through the participatory observation as a performer of the work, this paper portrays how the methodological disruption of causal order in the creative process made DDRS ontologically complex while making it operative in practice.

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In this paper, we have clarified the important elements of the practical program for performing arts activities for infants by comparing the knowledge accumulated from past activities in Japan with the “Baby Meets Theater J” held in Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture.
From the previous cases, the three points are extracted as important elements for the practice program. (1) Provide a variety of stimuli to infants (2) Include theatrical playfulness (3) Emphasis on a sense of unity between parents and infants.
In addition, the following three points have been confirmed by this practice. (1) Creating a comfortable environment. (2) Giving them something that can be used in their daily lives. (3) Recognizing the circumstance of the region.

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This paper aims to focus on and examine the interaction between dance and images on stage.
The use of images in dance works on stage shakes the original sense of live performance by pluralizing time and space. In other words, by creating a space and dimension other than what is happening on stage, the sense of live performance is multilayered. The linkage between the body movements and the images gives the audience the illusion that the boundary between the world in the images and the real world disappears, and the audience feels a sense of immersion and enjoyment in speculating on the timing of the linkage between the images and the dancers in each scene, stirring their imagination and expanding their physical senses and imagination (creativity).

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This paper focuses on the quantity and quality of key performance indicators (KPIs) in ESG activities, which collectively refer to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities, and examines the content and comparability of KPIs from a balanced perspective. The research on KPIs has so far focused mainly on non-financial research, and only a few studies have focused on ESGrelated KPIs. In this paper, we examine KPIs in the ESG disclosure information of companies included in the Nikkei 225 and JPX Nikkei Index 400. S (Society) were fewer than those of E (Environment) and G (Governance). In terms of KPI disclosure rates, only G (Governance) and S (Society) had disclosure rates of 90% or more, while E (Environment) had no items with disclosure rates of 90% or more, and the rates were concentrated in the 30% to 40% range. In terms of KPI quality, about 90% of the E (environment) items were on a proportional scale, with only a few on a nominal scale. On the other hand, about 20% of S (Society) and G (Governance) items were nominal. The number of items in S (Society) remained unchanged. The changes in disclosure rates over time showed large increases and decreases in 2018 for E (environment), 2018 and 2022 for S (society), and 2016 and 2020 for G (governance). From these results, it was confirmed that the disclosure of KPIs in ESG disclosure information is not only a matter of corporate disclosure efforts, but also of time-consuming items such as the establishment of relationships and systems in the supply chain and the recruitment and training of human resources.

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In this study, we would like to verify the hypothesis that local history and culture are effective means of realizing “land-based tourism.” In order to verify this, we conducted an interview survey about the current situation and efforts of Zentan Bus, a public transportation company that is also a tourist business, and an inn in Kinosaki Onsen, a tourist destination.We concluded based on the results and previous research. I would like to derive this.
Travel styles have changed a lot since the era of high economic growth, after the bursting of the bubble economy, and also due to the impact of the new coronavirus. Under these circumstances, until now we have mainly focused on “destination-type tourism” such as bus trips, but as the needs of tourists have changed significantly, there is a need to shift to “destination-type tourism” from now on. be. Therefore, we will derive the effectiveness of collaboration between history, culture, and performing arts in local “land-based tourism.”

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This study analyzes the English reviews posted by Toyooka-based hotel customers on the Tripadvisor website to identify the characteristics of accommodation facilities in the area. First, we created an original linguistic corpus containing 552 online reviews of the top ten facilities in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture over the past 16 years from the Tripadvisor site. Then, using AntConc, we conducted word frequency analysis to extract the top keywords depicting the characteristics of the hotels and ryokans. Cluster analysis was also carried out on the lexeme not in the negative reviews in the self-made corpus in this study. Finally, based on these observations, a look backwards for improvement and a look forward for development will be suggested to attract more foreign tourists and customers to Toyooka City.

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