Guest Speaker: Ms. Slavica Ninic is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Kobe University Graduate School of Law. In 2012, she earned her MA in Political Science at the same graduate school. After graduating in 2004 from Belgrade University Faculty of Philology, she enrolled Belgrade University Graduate School of Political Science, switching her major from Japanese language and culture to International Relations IR. Her main research interests today are in IR theory and gender issues. Since 2013, she has been a Research Fellow at EU Institute Kansai, and in September 2015 she became a part-time Training Management in Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She actively involved in volunteering activities aimed at the promotion of cultural exchange and understanding and support of persons from socially marginalized groups.

The attractive points of the workshop were that the speaker had both exposed the content of gender equality in Japanese Armed Forces and spotlighted its research process. The workshop especially underlined how the steps of research had been conducted and what kinds of challenge and difficulties raised in the way. As the result, the participants of the workshop could hear the content and the process of the study. Most importantly, the participant could learn a lot that there is no royal road to science to step paths and to have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

The workshop was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on November 5, 2015, hosted by the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO) and Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations.

Approximately 35 participants attended the workshop.