DIJ Forum

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | bis 2004

Seit März 1997 lädt das DIJ unter dem Titel DIJ Forum zu öffentlichen Vorträgen ein, bei denen international bekannte Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen zu Themen von allgemeinem Interesse referieren.


2013

09.07.2013:
Ellis Krauss, Professor, University of California San Diego

What's Wrong With Japan? ...It's the Politics!

13.06.2013:
Mire Koikari, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa,Women's Studies

Training Women for Disasters: Gender, "Crisis Management (Kiki Kanri)" and Post-Fukushima Nationalism in Japan     

30.05.2013:
Sébastien Lechevalier, Professor, L'ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism (1980-2010)

11.04.2013:
Kenichi Matsuno, Professor, Babson College & Visiting Professor, Josai University & Josai International University

Japanese Companies Respond to the Unforeseen: The 3/11 Disaster, Population Ageing, and Environmentalism

07.03.2013:
Thomas Feldhoff, PD, Frankfurt University

Shrinking Rural Communities in Japan: Community ownership of assets as a development potential?

14.02.2013:
Paul J. Scalise, The University of Tokyo

The Cost of NIMBY: Policy Images, Foreign Blueprints and Civil Society’s Assault on Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Policy     

17.01.2013:
Daniel Aldrich, Professor, Purdue University

Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery     


2012

13.12.2012:
Hiroshi Ono, Professor, Texas A&M University

Welfare States and the Redistribution of Happiness     

15.11.2012:
Satsuki Kawano, Professor, University of Guelph

Who Will Care for Me When I'm Dead?
Ancestors, Homeless Spirits, and New Afterlives in Low Fertility Japan     

18.10.2012:
Yoshitaka Okada, Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts

Sustainable Development, Frontier of Business, and its Application to Tohoku     

27.09.2012:
Dave McCaughan, Director of Truth Central, McCann Worldgroup

The Truth About Mothers     

05.07.2012:
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University, East Asian Studies

Why America Spends While Japan and Europe Save     

25.06.2012:
Bruno Frey, Professor, University of Zurich, Department of Economics

Happiness: The View from Economics     

05.04.2012:
Yukiko Uchida, Professor, Kyoto University, Kokoro Research Center

Happiness in Japan before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake     

08.03.2012:
Franz Waldenberger, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich

The Japanese Economy one Year after Fukushima     

09.02.2012:
Martin Hemmert, Professor, Korea University Business School

Bridging the Cultural Divide: University-Industry Research Collaborations in Japan, the United States and Korea     

12.01.2012:
Paul Midford, Norwegian University for Science and Technology Trondheim

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From LDP to DPJ Rule     


2011

01.12.2011:
Martin Schulz, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI)

The Future of "Old" Industry in Japan: Hollowing Out, Growing with Asia, or Switching to Services?     

02.11.2011:
Naoto Yamauchi, Professor, Osaka University

The Role of Giving and Volunteering for Post-Disaster Reconstruction

13.10.2011:
Christoph Wulf, Free University Berlin / Shoko Suzuki, Kyoto University

What is a Happy Family? German and Japanese Case Studies     

29.09.2011:
Hiroshi Komiyama, Chairman of the Institute, Mitsubishi Research Institute

Sustainability Issues in the Super-Aged Society - Prospecting the “Platinum Society”

31.08.2011:

Aftermath: Religion in the Wake of Aum

09.06.2011:
Midori Nishiura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The Future Hope of Japan - Aerospace Science and Technology Developments of JAXA

19.05.2011:
Hiroshi Shibata, Professor, University of Human Arts and Sciences

The Secrets of "Sūpā Rōjin": Fundamentals of a Successful Aging Society in Japan

03.02.2011:
John Breen, SOAS, University of London / International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Inventing Ise: the Ise Shrines in Meiji Japan


2010

15.12.2010:

Religion and Politics. Japan, Germany and Switzerland in Comparison

18.11.2010:
Jun Saito, Yale University

Explaining the Collapse of the LDP Regime

10.06.2010:
Christine R. Yano, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Post-racial Obama in Japan? Struggles of Blood Ideology Amid Calls for Change     

27.05.2010:
Inoki Takenori, Director-General, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

Where are Japanese universities heading?

01.04.2010:
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ass. Professor, University of Vienna

Policing obesity in Japan. Health politics and Japanese-style risk society

21.01.2010:
Stefan Lippert, Professor, Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business, Tokyo

World Class beyond Toyota – Japanese “Hidden Champions”


2009

17.12.2009:
Noboru Konno, Professor, Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science

Happy Workplace for Innovation in Japanese Companies

19.11.2009:
George Ehrhardt, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University (USA)

Sōka Gakkai and the Politics of Happiness

04.11.2009:
Ilse Lenz, Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Wellbeing in feminism and gender policies in Germany and Japan

17.09.2009:
Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Professor, University of Cologne

Modernization and Life Satisfaction in Japan in a Comparative Perspective - A Theoretical and Empirical Approach

25.06.2009:
Shinichi Tsuji, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University

Towards an Economics of Happiness: From GNP to GNH

14.05.2009:
Janet Shibamoto-Smith, Professor, University of California

Sex and the City: The Search for Kitto, Motto, Zutto Happiness in Manhattan and Tokyo

23.04.2009:
Andrew DeWit, Professor, Rikkyo University

Going Green? Japan and the Energy/Environmental Crisis

19.03.2009:
Kenneth Alan Grossberg, professor, Waseda Business School

Indulgent Parsimony During the Great Recession of 2009 - Is Japan a Special Case?

12.02.2009:
Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, Indiana University

The Japanese State and the Myth of Late Development

22.01.2009:
Yoshimichi Sato, Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai

Stability and Fluidization of the Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan     


2008

13.11.2008:
Akihiko Tanaka, Professor, University of Tokyo

東アジアの国際政治と日本 (East Asia’s International Politics and Japan)

02.10.2008:
Cornelius Herstatt, Professor, Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH

The Silver Market Phenomenon: A German-Japanese Perspective

17.07.2008:
Robert Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington

Electoral Systems and Party Personnel

05.06.2008:
Ulrike Schaede, Professor, University of California, San Diego

Choose and Focus – The Transformation of Japanese Business Strategies     

15.05.2008:
John C. Campbell, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo

Policy for the Elderly in Japan     

17.04.2008:
Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor, Cornell University

Beyond Bush: Japan and Germany in the American Imperium     

27.03.2008:
Kazuhiko Togo, former Ambassador, Professor Temple University

Japan’s Foreign Policy: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Asian Continent

21.02.2008:
Emmanuel Chéron, Professor, Sophia University

Consumer Perception of Cause-Related Marketing

24.01.2008:
Shigeru Hagiwara , Professor, Keio University, Tokyo

日本のテレビCMにおける外国要素の役割 (The role of foreign elements in Japanese television commercials)


2007

06.12.2007:
Jim Raymo, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cohabitation and First Marriage in Japan

08.11.2007:
Alfons Deeken, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University

Evolving Japanese Perspectives on Death and Dying     

11.10.2007:
Naohiro Yashiro, Professor, International Christian University

Labor market reform in aging Japan: A key for the structural reform plan

13.09.2007:
Kensaku Yoshida, Professor, Sophia University

English in elementary schools? An overview of the issues     

21.06.2007:
Keiko McDonald, Professor, University of Pittsburgh

The Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old Problem

31.05.2007:
Patricia G. Steinhoff, Professor, University of Hawaii

Invisible Civil Society: The Effects of 1960s New Left Protests on Contemporary Japan     

12.04.2007:
Yamawaki Keizo, Professor, Meiji University

The Challenges of the Japanese Integration Policy

15.03.2007:
Christian Kirchner, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Comparative Corporate Governance     

15.02.2007:
Taizo Yakushiji, Ph.D., Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office

Japan's Innovation Agendas


2006

14.12.2006:
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Professor, The University of Chicago

Marital Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: A Viewpoint Indispensable to Mitigating Fertility Decline

16.11.2006:
Mayumi Usami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Politeness in Intercultural Communication

22.06.2006:
Satomi Kurosu, Professor, Reitaku University

The Tokugawa Mating Game: Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in Historical Perspective (Das Tokugawa-Paarungsspiel: Heirat, Scheidung und Wiederheirat aus historischer Perspektive)     

18.05.2006:
Professor Richard J. Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Japanese Grand Strategies: Past and Future     

23.03.2006:
Klaus Vollmer, Professor, Munich University (LMU)

Images of Japanese society presented in the ‘New Civic Textbook’ by Tsukuru-kai. Solutions for demographic challenges and social change? (Das Bild der japanischen Gesellschaft, in den neuen „Tsurukai-Sozialkunde-Schulbüchern“: Lösungen für demographischen Wandel und soziale Veränderungen?)     

02.03.2006:
Carolin Funck, Professor, Hiroshima University

Ageing tourists, ageing destinations: tourism and demographic change in Japan (Alternde Touristen, alternde Reiseziele: Tourismus und demographischer Wandel in Japan)

09.02.2006:
Jean-Pascal Bassino, Maison Franco-Japonaise

Regional Inequality in Japan: Income, Health, Life Style, and Stature (Regionale Ungleichheit in Japan: Einkommen, Gesundheit, Lebensstil und Körpergröße)

16.01.2006:
Katsuyuki Yakushiji

Foreign Policy and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan (Außenpolitik und Nationalismus im gegenwärtigen Japan)


2005

15.12.2005:
Glenda Roberts, Professor, Waseda University

Work/life balance in corporate Tokyo: Whose Work? Whose Life? Whose Balance? (Ausgewogenheit von Arbeit und Familienleben in Tokyoer Unternehmen. Wessen Arbeit, wessen Familienleben, für wen Ausgewogen?)

27.10.2005:
Harald Fuess, Professor, Sophia University

German Origins of Japanese Beer: Business and Consumption in Prewar Japan (Deutsche Ursprünge in japanischen Bieren. Geschäft und Konsum im Vorkriegsjapan)

22.09.2005:
Makoto Atoh, Professor, Waseda University

Lowest-low Fertility in Japan: Causes, Policy Responses and Related Value Change (Niedrige Geburtenrate in Japan: Ursachen, Gegenstrategien und der damit zusammenhängende Wertewandel)

05.07.2005:
Ito Peng, Professor, University of Toronto

Postindustrial Pressures, Political Regime Shifts, and Social Policy Reform in Japan and South Korea (Postindustrielle Spannungsverhältnisse, Veränderungen im politischen System und sozialpolitische Reformen in Japan und Südkorea)     

16.06.2005:
Vera Mackie, Professor, University of Melbourne

Gendering the Culture of 1960s Japan (Geschlechtsidentität in der japanischen Kultur der 1960er Jahre)

26.05.2005:
Masahiko Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

What is the corporation? How is it changing? A German and Japanese Comparison (Was ist das Unternehmen und wie verändert es sie sich? Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich)

31.03.2005:
Shirahase Sawako, Professor, Tsukuba University

Marriage in Japan in an Era of Declining Fertility Rates and Aging Society (Die Ehe in Japan in Zeiten zurückgehender Geburtenraten und alternder Gesellschaft)

03.03.2005:
Sepp Linhart, Professor, University of Vienna

The Japanese Family Revolution (The Japanese Family Revolution)

11.01.2005:
Ulrike Schaede, (Professor, University of California, San Diego)

Private Debt and Social Welfare in Japan: Consumer Finance, the "Middle-Risk Gap", and Japan's Social Contract (Private Verschuldung und soziale Sicherung in Japan: Verbraucherkredite, „Mittlere Risiko Lücke“ und Japans Gesellschaftsvertrag)


2004

07.12.2004:
Steven R. Reed (Professor, Chūō University)

Japan's New Party System

27.05.2004:
Dr. Brian Victoria (University of Adelaide)

The Role of Religion in World War II - As seen in Germany, Japan and the US

22.04.2004:
Gavan McCormack (Professor, Australian National University)

Difficult Neighbors: Japan and North Korea

01.04.2004:
Michael Pye (Professor, University of Marburg)

Japanese Pilgrimage: Shinto Variations on a Buddhist Theme

03.03.2004:
Dr. Karen A. Shire (Professor, Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary Work

05.02.2004:
Dr. Philipp Osten (Ass. Prof., Keio University Tokyo)

国際刑法からみた東京裁判 (Der Tokyoter Kriegsverbrecherprozeß und das Völkerstrafrecht)

15.01.2004:
Joshua S. Mostow (Professor, The University of British Columbia)

Tales of Ise: A Short Visual Reception History


2003

09.12.2003:
Dennis Tachiki (Professor, Tamagawa University)

Does E-Commerce Create A Level Playing Field? The Cases of Germany and Japan

20.11.2003:
Dr. John Benson (Professor, University of Melbourne)

The Japanese Company: Management, Unions and Financial Performance

23.10.2003:
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Professor, University of British Columbia)

General Nogi's Wife and the Gender of the Modern Nation

02.10.2003:
Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany)

Japanese Linguistics and Car-Navigation Technology

17.06.2003:
Takenori Inoki (Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

College Graduates in Japanese Industries

29.05.2003:
Haruo Horaguchi (Professor, Hōsei University)

Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in China: From Export-oriented Production to Domestic Marketing

20.05.2003:
Paul Schalow (Professor, Rutgers University)

Lover of Women and a Friend of Men: A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan

22.04.2003:
Patricia J. Graham (PhD, University of Kansas)

The Japanese Sencha Tea Ceremony: History, Aesthetics and Accoutrements

10.02.2003:
Ulrike SCHAEDE (Professor, University of California at San Diego) &
SEKI Takaya (J-IRIS and Reitaku University)

The Two Faces of the Japanese Economy


2002

20.06.2002:
Alex Kerr

The 'Dark Side' and the Bright Side: Coming to Grips with the New Japan

30.05.2002:
Peter Duus (Professor, Stanford University)

Civilizing Tokyo: Meiji Visions of a National Capital

11.04.2002:
Winfried Flüchter (Professor, University Duisburg)

A New Capital for Japan? The Construction Industry and the Geography of Power.

13.03.2002:
Gerhard Krebs (Guest Professor, FU Berlin)

Antisemitism and Policies towards Jews in Japanese History

21.02.2002:
J. Victor Koschmann (Professor, Cornell University)

Hakone Conference Revisited: Modernization and the Civil Society School in Postwar Japan


2001

13.12.2001:
Ronald P. Toby (Professor, University of Illinois and University of Tokyo)

The Foreign Side of Fuji: Internationalizing the Mountain in Early-Modern Discourse

08.11.2001:
Richard A. Werner (Sophia University and Profit Research Center Ltd.)

Monetary Policy and the Transformation of Japan's Economic Structure

04.10.2001:
Ehud Harari (Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem)

Labor Relations in the Japanese Civil Service

19.06.2001:
Ulrich Teichler (Professor, University of Kassel)

University Graduates’ Employment and Work: A Comparison between Japan and Europe

05.06.2001:
John Treat (Professor, Yale University)

The Boogie Woogie Constitution and Postwar Literature: The Creolization of Culture in Occupied Japan

17.05.2001:
Janet Walker (Professor, Rutgers University)

Defining and Locating Japanese Literary Modernism

11.04.2001:
Meguro Yoriko (Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo)

Gender Equality and Women's Identity in Japan

22.03.2001:
Reinhard Drifte (Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Japanese-Chinese Security Relations. The Japanese Way of Engagement

30.01.2001:
Jay Rubin (Professor, Harvard University)

How to Carve a Wind-Up Bird: Murakami Haruki in English


2000

10.11.2000:
Ezra F. Vogel (Professor, Harvard University)

Japan and Asia in the New Century

17.10.2000:
Bernd Martin (Professor, University of Freiburg)

A Common Past Full of Crimes: Japanese – German Collaboration in the Development of Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons and the War in China

20.09.2000:
Ishida Hiroshi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Class Structure and Social Mobility in Japan and Industrial Nations

05.04.2000:
Bernhard May (German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)

US-Japan relations in turmoil? A European perspective

07.03.2000:
T.J. Pempel (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle)

Embedded Capitalisms Under Siege: Japan and Germany

15.02.2000:
Kosaku Yoshino (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Nationalism, Globalism and Culturalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity


1999

25.11.1999:
Erwin K. Scheuch (Professor emeritus, University of Cologne)

Globalization - on the Road to a New World System?

15.10.1999:
Henry D. Smith (Professor, Columbia University)

The Modernization of Chūshingura: Politics and Media in the Making of Japan's National Legend

20.05.1999:
Patricia G. Steinhoff (Professor, University of Hawaii)

Tracing the Legacy of Late 1960s Protest

04.03.1999:
Ueno Chizuko (Professor, University of Tokyo)

The Politics of Memory: The Case of the Military Comfort Women

25.02.1999:
Aoki Tamotsu (Professor, University of Tokyo)

ASEAN and Japan - On the Development of Cultural Relations


1998

07.10.1998:
Werner Pascha (Professor, University of Duisburg)

Federalism in Japan - Only A Fancy?

17.09.1998:
Edward Seidensticker (Professor emeritus, University of California at Davis)

A Half Century with the Japanese Intelligentsia

04.06.1998:
Chia-ning Chang (Professor, University of California at Davis)

Reading Modern and Contemporary Japanese Autobiographies

14.05.1998:
John Creighton Campbell (Professor, University of Michigan)

The Return of the Welfare State - Old Age Care in Japan

19.03.1998:
Franz Nuscheler (Professor, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg)

ODA and Human Rights - The Case of Japan

29.01.1998:
Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Power, Divinity and Gender in the Imperial Institution of Japan


1997

13.11.1997:
Glenn Hook (Professor, University of Sheffield)

Contested Regional Identities: What is 'East Asia' and 'Asia Pacific' to Japan?

09.10.1997:
Donald Keene (Professor emeritus, Columbia University)

Encounters with Japan, Wartime and Postwar

19.06.1997:
Michael Cooper (Sophia University, Tokyo)

The First Japanese Visitors to Europe: Four Boys as Envoys to Rome, 1582-1590

17.04.1997:
J.A.A. Stockwin (Professor, Oxford University)

Reflections on the Asian Model of Democracy

13.03.1997:
J. Arnason (Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne)

Japan and Europe: The Use and Abuse of Comparisons


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