Asian Studies

Current Status of Education for Mongolian Guide-Interpreter -Japanese Language Standard–

2025-01-24T18:11:56+08:00

This study was carried out in connection with the development of a procedure for assessing the professional skills of tourist guides and interpreters. The purpose is to clarify how training for interpreters is conducted. In the future, in order to improve the quality of training for Japanese-language interpreters, it is necessary to conduct broader research on advanced training programs.

Impact of Urbanization on Health Education: A Case Study of Dietary Improvement Initiatives in Mongolia Inspired by Family Gardens in Japan

2025-01-24T18:14:50+08:00

This paper examines the impact of urbanization on health education through a case study of a dietary improvement initiative in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in-spired by family gardening models in Japan and Western countries. The pro-ject aimed to enhance the nutritional status of the urban poor by promoting vegetable gardening in the Ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, where traditional diets were predominantly based on animal products. The initiative ran from 2016 to 2019 and provided seeds and technical guidance for vegetable cultivation. Surveys conducted over three years revealed that vegetable production was more successful among middle-income households than low-income ones, with the latter facing barriers such as insufficient water access, limited gar-dening knowledge, and a lack of motivation. The findings indicate that while the project succeeded in encouraging vegetable consumption among middle-income residents, it struggled to sustain participation in lower-income house-holds. This research underscores the challenges of implementing Western-style urban gardening projects in Mongolia and highlights the need for a more integrated approach that combines nutritional initiatives with income-enhanc-ing strategies for the urban poor.

Some Issues of Trade and Economic Cooperation Between The Mongolia and China

2025-05-08T17:13:45+08:00

Economic and trade cooperation is an important manifestation of global economic development and an inevitable choice for all countries to follow the trend. Since 1999, Mongolia and China have maintained close economic and trade cooperation, and China has become Mongolia’s trade and investment partner. Especially in 2013, since China proposed the “OBOR” initiative, it has brought new opportunities for Mongolia China economic and trade cooperation.

Based on the research, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) The overall development trend of Mongolia China economic and trade cooperation is good, and it has experienced three stages of cooperation initial, cooperation development and cooperation deepening. (2) The policy factors, legal environment factors, international environmental factors, social factors and economic factors have impact on economic and trade cooperation. (3) Through the empirical analysis of the influencing factors of Mongolia China economic and trade cooperation, it is studied the influence of factors on each other. Among them, the level of economic development, Population size, urbanization level, degree of opening to the outside world, infrastructure construction, and railway transportation mileage a significant role in promoting the scale of Mongolia China trade, while industrial structure, import tariffs, and inflation rate indexes all have negative effects. In addition, the level of economic development, inflation rate, infrastructure and transportation volume of the two countries have promoted Mongolia China investment cooperation, but inflation rate and unemployment rate have hindered it.

Meme Culture in Mongolia: Examining It’s Positive and Negative Impacts on Society

2025-05-16T12:02:37+08:00

Due to the influence of digital evolution, meme culture has developed, allowing individuals to creatively express their ideas, foster social awareness, and ultimately build public relationships. This paper explores the dual impacts of meme culture by examining its positive contributions to contemporary society through the lens of 20th-century socio-cultural theory and its negative consequences through philosophical and ethical frameworks. The rise of meme culture, driven by the digital revolution, has transformed communication, enabling individuals to creatively express ideas, foster social awareness, and build communities. This research will examine meme culture as a contemporary form of interpersonal communication and discourse, drawing on the socio-cultural theories of Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan. While memes are recognized as a significant cultural phenomenon of the digital age, their pervasive nature presents substantial ethical challenges for society. Consequently, this study will integrate modern philosophical concepts to critically assess ethical issues associated with the spread of misinformation, stereotypes, and harmful ideologies. This analysis aims not only to elucidate the primary functions of memes but also to evaluate the positive and negative perceptions they foster within the public sphere. Ultimately, the research will conclude with an examination of several popular memes that have emerged among Mongolian internet users in recent years, with a particular focus on the common ethical concerns they raise.

Republic of Korea’s Environmental Diplomacy towards Mongolia and its Achievements

2025-05-16T12:05:38+08:00

ROK’s environmental diplomacy towards Mongolia has made remarkable progress, gradually becoming one of the priorities in Korea-Mongolia’s partnership, arguably contributing to Mongolia’s environmental crisis mitigation and its socioeconomic development. It is analysed in this article that the evolution of such diplomacy is featured with an increasing systematisation, for the emphasis of cooperation shifting to integrate environmental issues with human development, and the participants and approaches diversifying. ROK’s environmental diplomacy towards Mongolia is revealing that, first, Korea’s strengths in technology play role in bolstering an in-depth environmental cooperation; second, the promising bilateral relations guarantee the governments’ consensus and willingness and further promote the effectiveness of addressing transnational environmental issues; third, Korea has made improvements in multilateral institutions as an approach to address the critical environmental crisis. This article concluded that the evolution of ROK’s environmental diplomacy to Mongolia reflects that how Korea, as a middle power, maximizes its national interests through multilateralism.

Japanese Language Education in Central Asian Countries - Examples from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia

2025-06-25T18:15:09+08:00

While the Soviet Union was once a powerful influence in the Central Asian region, many countries in this region are now strengthening their ties with third countries such as China and the United States. Among them, the nomadic countries with similar values and deep historical and cultural ties are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. Japanese-language education in these three countries began at approximately the same time and has been developing steadily. Japanese language education, which used to be taught in a few specialties in so-called “isolated Japanese language learning environments” (Onishi:2004), is now expanding as Japanese language courses are offered to primary and secondary school students and adults (Bayarmaa:2005), but there are still many problems, such as the employment of students studying at the postgraduate level and the training of teachers (Sugiura:2007). Given the current changing international context and the goals and scope of Japanese language education abroad, we aim to review the importance of Japanese language teaching in Central Asian countries and explore how we can jointly contribute to Japanese language education in the region.