DIJ Social Science Study Group

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 and earlier

(Organizers: Maren Godzik / Barbara Holthus)
  godzik@dijtokyo.org / holthus@dijtokyo.org

The DIJ Social Science Study Group is intended as a forum for young scholars and Ph.D. candidates in the field of Social Sciences. To facilitate discussions between participants of all nationalities, English was chosen as the language of discussion.

Meetings are scheduled at the DIJ on the last Wednesday of a month at 6:30 PM. In every session, one researcher presents his or her work in progress in a 45 minute talk, which is then discussed by the participants.

All are invited to attend. As seating is limited, those interested in attending are asked to register with the organizers.


2010

September 29th 2010:
Björn-Ole Kamm

‘Modern’ Labels and ‘Postmodern’ Roleplaying? Stereotyping the ‘otaku’ vs. learning from the stranger

September 15th 2010:
Maria Sachiko Baier, University of Vienna
Haruno Katō, Ochanomizu University

Conservative contestations over gender equality and feminism: Discourses and practices

June 30th 2010:
Allison Alexy, Lafayette College

What Makes it OK to Leave: Explaining Divorce in Contemporary Japan

March 31st 2010:
Gitte Marianne Hansen

“Contradictive Femininity” and Self-harm – A Social and Literary Analysis

February 24th 2010:
Shizuka Jäger-Dresen

Blurring Boundaries: An Analysis of (In)dependent Contractors in Japan


2009

December 2nd 2009:
Kai Schulze

The Rise of China and Changes in Japan’s Identity Construction

September 9th 2009:
Adrian Favell, UCLA

Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Tokyo and London in comparative regional perspective

July 22nd 2009:
Dan Tidten

Equality-oriented policies in Japan

April 1st 2009:
Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia

Playing Education Markets: Small Juku Operators, Ideology, and Resistance

March 11th 2009:
Frauke Kempka, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Civil Society Activities and the Social Integration of Immigrants: Juxtaposing Beppu and Halle

February 25th 2009:
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ochanomizu University

Making Careers in the Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan’s Transnational Business

January 28th 2009:
Carmen Schmidt, Osnabrück University

Governing Beyond the Center: How Japan’s Local Democracy is Changing


2008

December 10th 2008:
Phoebe Holdgrün

Aiming for Gender Equality: Strategies of Policy Implementation in Japanese Prefectures

October 29th 2008:
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College

After the Trials: War Criminals and Social Integration in 1950s Japan and Germany

September 10th 2008:
Kerstin Lukner, Duisburg-Essen University

Better late than never! Making Sense of Japan’s (belated) accession to the International Criminal Court

July 23rd 2008:
Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University

The Role of Social, not Physical, Infrastructure: Civil Society and Post-Disaster Recovery

June 18th 2008:
Stephanie Assmann, Tohoku University, Sendai

Reinventing Culinary Heritage in Northern Japan: Slow Food and ‘Traditional Vegetables’

May 28th 2008:
Nancy Stalker, University of Texas, Austin

Ikebana, Gender and International Identity

April 23rd 2008:
Kimiko Osawa, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Apron-Advocacy for the Good of the Nation State? Patterns of Political Participation among Nationalist Women in Contemporary Japan

March 19th 2008:
Adam Komisarof, International Christian University (ICU)

Intercultural Synergizers or Lost in Translation? American-Japanese Coworker Relations

February 20th 2008:
Alexandra Wittig

Defying predictions: Germany and Japan as regional actors in the post-Cold War era

January 30th 2008:
Falk Schäfer, Free University of Berlin

Competition and Regulatory Politics in Japan’s Newspaper Market


2007

December 12th 2007:
Ekaterina Korobtseva, University of Oxford

“I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion” – A study of unwed mothers in Japan -

October 31st 2007:
Steffen Heinrich

The politics of flexible labour markets in Germany and Japan: Evaluating the impact of globalisation on national social policy

September 19th 2007:
Andrew Conning, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The other demographic time bomb: Japan's last generation of witnesses to war and its fading message

August 22nd 2007:
André Hertrich, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg

Military History and Memories in Japan's Post War Armed Forces

July 25th 2007:
Sherry L. Martin, Cornell University

The national rate of (re)production: gendered discourse in Japanese policy-making

June 4th 2007:
Kate Dunlop, Sophia University

“Natural Principles of Law?” Reformist Governors Redefine the Local Sphere

May 23rd 2007:
Stephen Robert Nagy, Waseda University

Multicultural Coexistence: Japanese Roadmaps to a more inclusive and pluralistic society?

April 18th 2007:
Carola Hommerich

Freeter and “Generation Praktikum” - Changing attitudes towards working life in Germany and Japan

March 7th 2007:
Rieko Kage, Kobe University

Civic Engagement and Postwar Reconstruction in Japan

February 21st 2007:
Kristin Surak, University of California at Los Angeles / Atsuko Abe, Obirin University

Migration and Citizenship in Japan

January 24th 2007:
Christopher Bondy, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Backgrounds and Beyond: Identity Management Among Minority Youth


2006

July 19th 2006:
Patricia Boling, Purdue University

What role for women in shaping Japanese social policies?

July 5th 2006:
Susanne Klien, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Japan's National Security Debate in the wake of 9/11: Same Old, Same New?

June 7th 2006:
Andreas Schaumayer, Waseda University

Business Associations in Japan – A network perspective on inter-personal exchange

May 24th 2006:
Mariko Iijima, University of Oxford

Coffee, Culture, and the Ethnicity of Migration

March 29th 2006:
Jane H. Yamashiro, University of Hawai’i

Japanese Americans living in Japan: national and ethnic identity formation in the ancestral homeland

March 1st 2006:
Brigitte Steger, Vienna University

Getting smart by napping in class – Social and cultural aspects of sleeping in the Japanese classroom


2005

December 14th 2005:
Thomas Büttner, University of Heidelberg

The end of LDP factionalism? Examining the decline since 1992

October 19th 2005:
Patrick Köllner, Institute of Asian Affairs/German Overseas Institute, Hamburg

The LDP at 50: Power Resources and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Political Party

June 1st 2005:
Liv Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Building Parents of the Future: Japanese Policies to Boost the Birthrate

April 27th 2005:
Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Tsukuba University

Slipping Through the Net: Regulation of Online Election Campaigns

March 29th 2005:
Masayuki Onishi, University of Sydney

A Glimpse at Language Endangerment in Okinawa

March 9th 2005:
Jan Zeserson, Cornell University, USA

Gained in Translation: An Interpretation of Japanese Women’s Mid-life Health Strategies

February 9th 2005:
Anja Osiander, Visiting Scholar, Osaka University School of Law

Postwar Democracy in Japan as a Set of Stable Disequilibria


2004

December 8th 2004:
Hiromi Nagata, SOAS, London University

Activating the Self-Defence Forces: The Rise of the Positive Military Norm in Japan's Security Policy after the Cold War

June 30th 2004:
Roger Smith, Oxford University / Tokyo University

Explaining Japanese Foreign Policy on Whaling

May 19th 2004:
Manuel Metzler, Daito Bunka Daigaku

Japanese youth crime policy today

February 25th 2004:
Axel Karpenstein

Restoring the "Normal Nation": Japan's Changing International Environment and the Conservative Revolution in Foreign Policy at the Beginning of the 21st Century

January 28th 2004:
H.D.P. Envall, Hitotsubashi University and University of Melbourne

Leaders, Politics and Summits: Japanese Prime Ministers at the G7, 1979–83


2003

November 26th 2003:
Katalin Ferber

Modernizing State Finances in the Meiji Period: Tajiri Inajiro (1850-1923)

October 9th 2003:
Ralph Lützeler, Bonn University

Segregation in a "Homogeneous" City: Tokyo and the New Debate on Fragmenting Urban Societies

September 24th 2003:
Carmen Schmidt, Hitotsubashi University

The Unfreezing of the Japanese Party System: From Alignment to Dealignment

September 10th 2003:
Daniel P. Aldrich, Harvard University / University of Tokyo

Whither the Red Queen: Institutional Co-Evolution in Political Science

July 16th 2003:
Brian J. Masshardt, University of Hawaii

Contesting Peace at Yasukuni Shrine

June 27th 2003:
Brenda Resurecion Tiu Tenegra, Ochanomizu University

Foreign Domestic Workers Under Japan's "Closed-Door" Immigration Policy

May 28th 2003:
Hugo Dobson, University of Sheffield

Mister Sparkle meets the Yakuza: Depictions of Japan in the Simpsons


2002

November 27th 2002:
Aaron Matthews, Australian Defence Force Academy

Missiles and missile defences: the impact on Japan's security dilemma

October 30th 2002:
Brian McVeigh

Exploring the Paradox of Japanese Nationalism

July 31st 2002:
Alexis Dudden, Connecticut College

The Value of Apology to Japan

May 28th 2002:
Kawakami Takahisa, International Peace Cooperation Division, MOFA

United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in East Timor

May 22nd 2002:
Wim Lunsing, University of Tokyo

Free employment and employment free in Japan: individual lives in a time of crisis and globalisation

April 24th 2002:
Isa Ducke

The Internet and Political Activism - The case of the "textbook affair" 2001

February 27th 2002:
Tomonori Taki, University of Warwick

Language Barrier and Migrant Workers in Japanese Courts

January 30th 2002:
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Vienna University

Japan, Football and Governance in World Sports


2001

November 28th 2001:
Jason U. Manosevitz, Keiō University

Bringing in the Brass: Japan-South Korea Military Organizations enter the Security Relationship

November 12th 2001:
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University

The New Political Economy of Japanese Intergovernmental Relations

October 31st 2001:
Annette Erbe, Kyoto University

"Thou Shallst Communicate!" - Reforming Foreign Language Education in Japan

August 2nd 2001:
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University

Cartelization Versus Democratization: What are the Prospects for Cartel Driven Imperial Overexpansion in Japan Today ?

July 25th 2001:
Yoichiro Sato, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

Rebuilding Cooperation: Japan in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Regime

May 30th 2001:
Tom Gill, University of Tokyo

When Pillars Evaporate. Structuring Masculinity on the Japanese Margins

March 28th 2001:
Lisa Sansoucy, Cornell University

Japan Between Two Asias

February 28th 2001:
Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick

Ballistic Missile Defence and the Implications for Japanese Security Policy


2000

November 29th 2000:
Katalin Ferber (Shizuoka Bunka Geijutsu Daigaku)

Welfare for the State: The Origin of the Private Saving Network in Japan(1873-1925)

November 14th 2000:
Martina Timmermann, Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg

The Human Rights Politics of Japan: Mirror of "Asian Identity?"

October 5th 2000:
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University

The Logic of Reassurance and Japan's Grand Strategy

September 13th 2000:
Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)

Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan

July 26th 2000:
Sarah Hyde, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford

A Never-Ending Piggyback Marathon? The Changing Faces of Union Support for the Left in Japan

July 11th 2000:
Andrew Oros, Columbia University

Japanese Security Norms versus Realpolitik: The Coming Collision between Japan's Arms Export Ban and Theatre Missile Defense (TMD)

June 28th 2000:
Derek Hall, Cornell University

Dying Geese: The International Political Ecology of the Asian Shrimp Aquaculture and Eucalyptus Plantation Industries

June 1st 2000:
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University

"Let's Play Hard Ball": The Politics of Ishihara's Tax on the Bank

May 24th 2000:
Andreas Riessland, Oxford Brookes University

Gendered Gazes: A Look at the Use of the Human Face in Japanese Car Advertising

March 22nd 2000:
Ralph Paprzycki, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

From Pace-Setter to Laggard: Production Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry

March 8th 2000:
Ilona Köster, Marburg University

The Japanese Environmental Industry - A Future Industrial Core?

February 23rd 2000:
Sean Curtin, University of Sheffield

Changing Japanese Divorce Trends in the 1990s


1999

December 2nd 1999:
David Leheny, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Whatever it is, it's bad, so stop it!" Political Convictions and Ambivalence in Japan's New Child Sex Legislation

November 24th 1999:
Norbert Schultes, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan

German Foreign Trade Promotion in Japan: An Attempt to View a Practical Job in Theoretical Terms

November 4th 1999:
Sabine Spell, University of Sterling

The Role of the Japanese Automobile Industry in EU Policy Networks

October 27th 1999:
Hulda Thora Sveinsdottir, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Inventing Culture: the Formation of the LDP Factions

September 29th 1999:
Barbara Holthus, University of Hawaii

The Sexualized Male - Representations of Men in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines

July 28th 1999:
Sabine Fruehstueck, Eyal Ben-Ari, University of Vienna, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Showing off and Hiding out: The SDF’s Strategies to Manage its Place in Japan

June 30th 1999:
Andrew Oros, Columbia University

Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Japanese Security Policy

June 16th 1999:
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University

And Now For Something Completely Different? Reforming Japan's "Socialist" Tax Regime

May 26th 1999:
Carsten Otto, Mainz University

Japan's role in APEC: a European View

March 24th 1999:
Petra Gebetsberger, University of Sheffield

The Competing Conceptions of "East Asia" and "Asia Pacific" within Japan's Foreign Policy

February 24th 1999:
Jonathan Lewis, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Information Technology, Language, and the Nation State

January 27th 1999:
Robert Weiner, University of California, Berkeley

Sometimes an Electoral System is Just an Electoral System: What SNTV Does and Doesn't Explain about Japanese Politics


1998

November 25th 1998:
Julian B. Dierkes;

Teaching National Identity - Education in Postwar Germany and Japan

October 27th 1998:
Katharina Heyer

Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan

September 30th 1998:
Darryl Flaherty, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University

Placards and Colored Pavement: Retail Democracy and the Power of the Associational Field in Local Politics

July 29th 1998:
Frank Robaschik, Duisburg University

Japan and the Development of Siberia and the Russian Far East: The Evolution of the Large-Scale Economic Cooperation Projects (1968- 1995)

June 24th 1998:
Isao Miyaoka, Institute of Social Science, Tōkyō University

Foreign Pressure and the Japanese Policy Process: a Global Prohibitory Norm on the Use of Large-Scale Driftnets

May 27th 1998:
Verena Blechinger

Channeling the Cash Flow: The New Regulations for Political Donations in Japan and their Influence on Political Corruption

April 22nd 1998:
Wilhelm Vosse, University of Hannover, Germany

Changing Patterns of Political Participation and Values in Japan

March 25th 1998:
Andreas K. Riessland, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University

Learning To Face The Past. Japanese Students In Malaysia

January 28th 1998:
Ben Warkentin, Dokkyō University

In Regional Embrace or Global Change? Japanese and Foreign Assistance to Post-Marcos Philippine Development

January 25th 1998:
David R. Leheny, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Fueling the Dream Machine: Japan and the Emerging Politics of Tourism Development Assistance


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