DIJ Forum

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Since March 1997, the DIJ has been holding open lectures called DIJ Forum. In these lectures, internationally established scholars discuss topics of general interest.


2010

June 10th 2010:
Professor Christine R. Yano, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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

May 27th 2010:
Inoki Takenori, Director-General, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

Where are Japanese universities heading?

April 1st 2010:
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ass. Professor, University of Vienna

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

January 21st 2010:
Stefan Lippert, Professor, Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business, Tokyo

World Class beyond Toyota – Japanese “Hidden Champions”


2009

December 17th 2009:
Noboru Konno, Professor, Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science

Happy Workplace for Innovation in Japanese Companies

November 19th 2009:
George Ehrhardt, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University (USA)

Sōka Gakkai and the Politics of Happiness

November 4th 2009:
Ilse Lenz, Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Wellbeing in feminism and gender policies in Germany and Japan

September 17th 2009:
Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Professor, University of Cologne

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

June 25th 2009:
Shinichi Tsuji, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University

Towards an Economics of Happiness: From GNP to GNH

May 14th 2009:
Janet Shibamoto-Smith, Professor, University of California

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

April 23rd 2009:
Andrew DeWit, Professor, Rikkyo University

Going Green? Japan and the Energy/Environmental Crisis

March 19th 2009:
Kenneth Alan Grossberg, professor, Waseda Business School

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

February 12th 2009:
Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, Indiana University

The Japanese State and the Myth of Late Development

January 22nd 2009:
Yoshimichi Sato, Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai

Stability and Fluidization of the Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan     


2008

November 13th 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)

October 2nd 2008:
Cornelius Herstatt, Professor, Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH

The Silver Market Phenomenon: A German-Japanese Perspective

July 17th 2008:
Robert Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington

Electoral Systems and Party Personnel

June 5th 2008:
Ulrike Schaede, Professor, University of California, San Diego

Choose and Focus – The Transformation of Japanese Business Strategies     

May 15th 2008:
John C. Campbell, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo

Policy for the Elderly in Japan     

April 17th 2008:
Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor, Cornell University

Beyond Bush: Japan and Germany in the American Imperium     

March 27th 2008:
Kazuhiko Togo, former Ambassador, Professor Temple University

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

February 21st 2008:
Emmanuel Chéron, Professor, Sophia University

Consumer Perception of Cause-Related Marketing

January 24th 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

December 6th 2007:
Jim Raymo, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cohabitation and First Marriage in Japan

November 8th 2007:
Alfons Deeken, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University

Evolving Japanese Perspectives on Death and Dying     

October 11th 2007:
Naohiro Yashiro, Professor, International Christian University

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

September 13th 2007:
Kensaku Yoshida, Professor, Sophia University

English in elementary schools? An overview of the issues     

June 21st 2007:
Keiko McDonald, Professor, University of Pittsburgh

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

May 31st 2007:
Patricia G. Steinhoff, Professor, University of Hawaii

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

April 12th 2007:
Yamawaki Keizo, Professor, Meiji University

The Challenges of the Japanese Integration Policy

March 15th 2007:
Christian Kirchner, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Comparative Corporate Governance     

February 15th 2007:
Taizo Yakushiji, Ph.D., Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office

Japan's Innovation Agendas


2006

December 14th 2006:
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Professor, The University of Chicago

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

November 16th 2006:
Mayumi Usami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Politeness in Intercultural Communication

June 22nd 2006:
Satomi Kurosu, Professor, Reitaku University

The Tokugawa Mating Game: Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in Historical Perspective     

May 18th 2006:
Professor Richard J. Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Japanese Grand Strategies: Past and Future     

March 23rd 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?     

March 2nd 2006:
Carolin Funck, Professor, Hiroshima University

Ageing tourists, ageing destinations: tourism and demographic change in Japan

February 9th 2006:
Jean-Pascal Bassino, Maison Franco-Japonaise

Regional Inequality in Japan: Income, Health, Life Style, and Stature

January 16th 2006:
Katsuyuki Yakushiji

Foreign Policy and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan


2005

December 15th 2005:
Glenda Roberts, Professor, Waseda University

Work/life balance in corporate Tokyo: Whose Work? Whose Life? Whose Balance?

October 27th 2005:
Harald Fuess, Professor, Sophia University

German Origins of Japanese Beer: Business and Consumption in Prewar Japan

September 22nd 2005:
Makoto Atoh, Professor, Waseda University

Lowest-low Fertility in Japan: Causes, Policy Responses and Related Value Change

July 5th 2005:
Ito Peng, Professor, University of Toronto

Postindustrial Pressures, Political Regime Shifts, and Social Policy Reform in Japan and South Korea     

June 16th 2005:
Vera Mackie, Professor, University of Melbourne

Gendering the Culture of 1960s Japan

May 26th 2005:
Masahiko Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

What is the corporation? How is it changing? A German and Japanese Comparison

March 31st 2005:
Shirahase Sawako, Professor, Tsukuba University

Marriage in Japan in an Era of Declining Fertility Rates and Aging Society

March 3rd 2005:
Sepp Linhart, Professor, University of Vienna

The Japanese Family Revolution

January 11th 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


2004

December 7th 2004:
Steven R. Reed (Professor, Chūō University)

Japan's New Party System

May 27th 2004:
Dr. Brian Victoria (University of Adelaide)

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

April 22nd 2004:
Gavan McCormack (Professor, Australian National University)

Difficult Neighbors: Japan and North Korea

April 1st 2004:
Michael Pye (Professor, University of Marburg)

Japanese Pilgrimage: Shinto Variations on a Buddhist Theme

March 3rd 2004:
Dr. Karen A. Shire (Professor, Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary Work

February 5th 2004:
Dr. Philipp Osten (Ass. Prof., Keio University Tokyo)

国際刑法からみた東京裁判 (The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and International Criminal Law)

January 15th 2004:
Joshua S. Mostow (Professor, The University of British Columbia)

Tales of Ise: A Short Visual Reception History


2003

December 9th 2003:
Dennis Tachiki (Professor, Tamagawa University)

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

November 20th 2003:
Dr. John Benson (Professor, University of Melbourne)

The Japanese Company: Management, Unions and Financial Performance

October 23rd 2003:
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Professor, University of British Columbia)

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

October 2nd 2003:
Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany)

Japanese Linguistics and Car-Navigation Technology

June 17th 2003:
Takenori Inoki (Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

College Graduates in Japanese Industries

May 29th 2003:
Haruo Horaguchi (Professor, Hōsei University)

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

May 20th 2003:
Paul Schalow (Professor, Rutgers University)

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

April 22nd 2003:
Patricia J. Graham (PhD, University of Kansas)

The Japanese Sencha Tea Ceremony: History, Aesthetics and Accoutrements

February 10th 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

June 20th 2002:
Alex Kerr

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

May 30th 2002:
Peter Duus (Professor, Stanford University)

Civilizing Tokyo: Meiji Visions of a National Capital

April 11th 2002:
Winfried Flüchter (Professor, University Duisburg)

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

March 13th 2002:
Gerhard Krebs (Guest Professor, FU Berlin)

Antisemitism and Policies towards Jews in Japanese History

February 21st 2002:
J. Victor Koschmann (Professor, Cornell University)

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


2001

December 13th 2001:
Ronald P. Toby (Professor, University of Illinois and University of Tokyo)

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

November 8th 2001:
Richard A. Werner (Sophia University and Profit Research Center Ltd.)

Monetary Policy and the Transformation of Japan's Economic Structure

October 4th 2001:
Ehud Harari (Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem)

Labor Relations in the Japanese Civil Service

June 19th 2001:
Ulrich Teichler (Professor, University of Kassel)

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

June 5th 2001:
John Treat (Professor, Yale University)

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

May 17th 2001:
Janet Walker (Professor, Rutgers University)

Defining and Locating Japanese Literary Modernism

April 11th 2001:
Meguro Yoriko (Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo)

Gender Equality and Women's Identity in Japan

March 22nd 2001:
Reinhard Drifte (Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Japanese-Chinese Security Relations. The Japanese Way of Engagement

January 30th 2001:
Jay Rubin (Professor, Harvard University)

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


2000

November 10th 2000:
Ezra F. Vogel (Professor, Harvard University)

Japan and Asia in the New Century

October 17th 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

September 20th 2000:
Ishida Hiroshi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Class Structure and Social Mobility in Japan and Industrial Nations

April 5th 2000:
Bernhard May (German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)

US-Japan relations in turmoil? A European perspective

March 7th 2000:
T.J. Pempel (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle)

Embedded Capitalisms Under Siege: Japan and Germany

February 15th 2000:
Kosaku Yoshino (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Nationalism, Globalism and Culturalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity


1999

November 25th 1999:
Erwin K. Scheuch (Professor emeritus, University of Cologne)

Globalization - on the Road to a New World System?

October 15th 1999:
Henry D. Smith (Professor, Columbia University)

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

May 20th 1999:
Patricia G. Steinhoff (Professor, University of Hawaii)

Tracing the Legacy of Late 1960s Protest

March 4th 1999:
Ueno Chizuko (Professor, University of Tokyo)

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

February 25th 1999:
Aoki Tamotsu (Professor, University of Tokyo)

ASEAN and Japan - On the Development of Cultural Relations


1998

October 7th 1998:
Werner Pascha (Professor, University of Duisburg)

Federalism in Japan - Only A Fancy?

September 17th 1998:
Edward Seidensticker (Professor emeritus, University of California at Davis)

A Half Century with the Japanese Intelligentsia

June 4th 1998:
Chia-ning Chang (Professor, University of California at Davis)

Reading Modern and Contemporary Japanese Autobiographies

May 14th 1998:
John Creighton Campbell (Professor, University of Michigan)

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

March 19th 1998:
Franz Nuscheler (Professor, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg)

ODA and Human Rights - The Case of Japan

January 29th 1998:
Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Power, Divinity and Gender in the Imperial Institution of Japan


1997

November 13th 1997:
Glenn Hook (Professor, University of Sheffield)

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

October 9th 1997:
Donald Keene (Professor emeritus, Columbia University)

Encounters with Japan, Wartime and Postwar

June 19th 1997:
Michael Cooper (Sophia University, Tokyo)

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

April 17th 1997:
J.A.A. Stockwin (Professor, Oxford University)

Reflections on the Asian Model of Democracy

March 13th 1997:
J. Arnason (Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne)

Japan and Europe: The Use and Abuse of Comparisons


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