DIJ History & Humanities Study Group

2002

9. July 2002
A Battle against Tradition? The Establishment of the Air Wing of the Imperial Japanese Navy

27. March 2002
Life History Narratives of First Generation Korean Immigrant Women in Japan

13. February 2002
Reviving Oriental Culture and Cultivating Patriotic Gentlemen: Yasuoka Masahiro, Conservative Political Morality and Right-Wing Nationalism in the Taishō Period

16. January 2002
Feminine Internationalism and the International Body Politic: Consumers as Diplomats in Japan, 1919-1960

2001

4. December 2001
Fighting for Kyoto: Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape in the Former Imperial Capital

7. November 2001
Abe Isoo's Idealistic Views of Switzerland and Democratic Ideas in Late Meiji- and Taisho-Japan

26. September 2001
Report on the Peaceboat North South Korea Voyage – “Setting sail for a new Asia”

11. July 2001
The Japanese National Government Park System - More Than Just Another Public Works Project?

20. June 2001
Miki Kiyoshi and the Crisis of Cultural Consciousness

23. May 2001
Competing Conceptions of Modern Selfhood

16. May 2001
The Bunson-Movement in the 1930s and 1940s:How Japanese Bureaucrats Tried to Bring Millions of Agricultural Settlers to Manchuria

25. April 2001
Television Audiences and National Identity in Postwar Japan

14. March 2001
Military and Politics in Modern Japan: The Imperial Army during the Meiji and Taisho Era

14. February 2001
Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's "Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle"

24. January 2001
Re-locating Civilization. Western Learning, Nationalist Thought and the Discourse on the "Civilized" and "Barbarian" in Late Tokugawa Japan

2000

13. December 2000
How to move the hearts of a 100 million - Yamamoto Kajiro's war and propaganda film

15. November 2000
Cinema, State and "National Culture" in Wartime Japan: Fictional Narratives of Self and Other as Recommended by the Ministry of Education, 1940-44

11. October 2000
Some Literary and Political Considerations of Ri Kai Sei

12. July 2000
Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period

29. June 2000
Liquid Diplomacy: Germans and the Meiji Beer Industry, 1869-1949

21. June 2000
Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village

7. June 2000
National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu; Kenkoku kinen no hi) in Modern Japan

17. May 2000
The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

10. May 2000
Living in a box: Danchi dwellers as the pioneers of the modern lifestyle in Japan in the 1950's

19. April 2000
Fukuoka Domain and the Road to Restoration

2. March 2000
"Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."

1. March 2000
Kanakogi Kazunobu and the Natur of Japanese Radicalism

10. February 2000
"The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"

2. February 2000
Where are the Giants and Monoculi? Knowledge and Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japanese Maps of the World

20. January 2000
"What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"

12. January 2000
Nakano Seigo and his Fascination with European Fascism

1999

9. December 1999
Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō

1. December 1999
Rule by Quotation: The Power of Genroku Culture

10. November 1999
The dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature

21. October 1999
Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature

8. July 1999
Writing minority/Reading minority

7. July 1999
The "Other Hara": Hara Yoshimichi, the Imperial Lawyers Association,and the Politics of Compromise

10. June 1999
Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?

2. June 1999
Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations(1900-1945)

13. May 1999
The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System

22. April 1999
"Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando

18. March 1999
Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert

3. March 1999
The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan

23. February 1999
Religious Desputes in Medieval Japan

10. February 1999
Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"

21. January 1999
Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German.)

13. January 1999
Enomoto Takeaki and Emigrant-led Colonization: Overseas Expansion in Meiji Japan

1998

4. November 1998
Distant Friends: Britain and Japan in the Age of Globalization, 1958-1998

28. October 1998
Inoue Tetsujirō and the Ideology of Shinkoku (Divine Country) in Early Showa

2. September 1998
Politico-Business Relations in Taisho- Early Showa Japan: An Explanatory Framework