Abstract:
Japanese scholars have advantages as well as disadvantages when we try to work in international academia, which is different from Japanese academia in many ways. In this presentation, I will talk about what I experienced in my thirty years of struggle for publication in international journals. As an example, I will focus on how my study on group diffusion effect (i.e., a tendency to feel safer with more risk companions without normative grounds) was treated by foreign researchers, to my dismay as well as to my pleasure. I will conclude my talk with some suggestions for young and ambitious scholars/students in Asia.