International Partner

Professor Toru Kiyomiya from the Department of Literature, Seinan Gakuin University, Japan is our international partner.  His research explores how communities affected by the Tsunami 2011 deal with its aftermath, how they find the needed spiritual and economic resources to build from within.  In this context, his research has proposed practical solutions that account for the voices and concerns of the actual people who live and suffer in these localities.  Building on organisational communication approaches in particular discursive formations, his research captures the collaborative attitudes of people under crisis, looking at how they attempt to recover their businesses in this context.