February 21

【FILA】Center for Malaysian Studies - Guest Lecture, 21 February 2024

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

AW927, Global Square, Soka University

Event Detailed Information
Date and TimeDate: Feb 21 Time: 4 PM - 6 PM. (JST)
Form of EventIn Person
VenueAW927, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, SOKA University
SpeakerDr. Normalis Amzah, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities The National University of Malaysia
Inquiriesfilaoffice@soka.ac.jp
AbstractLook East Policy launched in 1981 was implemented in two-fold manner namely external and internal. External includes the involvement of non-Malaysians, in this case, Japanese. Internal involves the in-flow of knowledge or information with respect to Japanese culture, ethics and values and how these aspects are circulated by Malaysians to Malaysians. Logically, the implementation started off with the external implementation. The expatriation of human resources to both countries can be defined as an external implementation of the LEP. The external implementations consist of two categories. First, through the sponsorship of Malaysians trainees to Japan and then second via the flow of technical assistance from Japan to Malaysia. This effort is also known as a strategic exchange of knowledge and value systems. The strategic value exchange is applicable to both Malaysians expatriated to Japan and vice versa. These activities have become the catalyst of academic research which focuses on international relation of both countries. These researches can be divided into two levels namely macro and micro level. Macro level of study is when the study focuses on or analysed data at a national or regional level. For examples studies that analysed the implication of Look East Policy towards the countries’ import and export value or studies that explored the implication of policy implementation towards governance practises. On the other hand, the micro level studies are studies that focuses on community or individual level. For example, studies that explored Malaysians employees’ acceptance towards Japanese managers or studies that explored Malaysian students’ adaptation towards life at Japanese universities. This presentation will explore the attributes of the micro level studies. The subjects, the method and the findings will be explained and as a conclusion, the analysis will provide an overview of Malaysians and Japanese cross-cultural communication and interactions at the community or individual levels. Hopefully it will enrich the scholarly studies of Malaysia Japan relationship from relationship of two countries to relationship of two culture values.
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