The Semantics of Development in Asia: Exploring ’Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan

Jin Sato is a professor of development studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Sato focuses on the politics of natural resources and foreign aid in the context of Southeast Asia. He is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University Climate School. He served as a visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Princeton University from 2016-2020. Sato is a former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press) and the ex-president of the Japan Society for International Development (JASID). He is the winner of the Japan Academy Medal in 2013. Sato holds an MPP from the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Tokyo.

キム・ソヤン Soyeun Kim is Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies and Chair of the Graduate Programme in Southeast Asian Studies at Sogang University, Korea. Her research interests lie broadly in the political ecology and political economy of development cooperation, with a particular geographical focus on East and Southeast Asia. She is an associate editor of the journal TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (2015 to date) and served as a civilian non-standing board member of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (2019 - 2020). She has published in Geoforum, Global Environmental Politics, Globalizations, Journal of International Development, The European Journal of Development Research, Third World Quarterly, World Development, and others.