DIJ Social Science Study Group

2020

20. Oktober 2020
Agenda-Cutting in Media News Coverage of Covid-19:
A Case Study from Japan

14. Juli 2020
Future Visions of a (Digital) Public Sphere:
Findings from Japan

9. Juni 2020
Towards a Transnational Sexual Field: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan

27. Februar 2020
The Last Cowboys of Aso? Problems of Grassland Management in Contemporary Commons - POSTPONED -

5. Februar 2020
Assimilation Policies and Ainu Identity
Questioning Japan's Recognition of the Ainu People as Indigenous

29. Januar 2020
Improving Japan’s Disability Employment
From Separate to Inclusive Workplaces

15. Januar 2020
The new Japanese Fishery Policies between Revitalization and Capitalization

2019

14. November 2019
Political Communication in the Age of New Media - Investigating the Reception of Right-Wing Populist Communication Strategies in the Japanese Blog Scene

29. Oktober 2019
Autism in the Workplace - How the Diagnosis of a Developmental Disorder Affects Employment Situations in Japan

18. September 2019
Shrinking but Happy? Investigating the Interplay of Social and Individual-Level Predictors of Well-Being in Rural Japanese Communities

10. Juli 2019
Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools

14. Juni 2019
Local Responses to the Revision of the Seed Law: The Seed Registration System, GMOs and Rice

5. Juni 2019
Farmers, Local Agency, and the Development of Peri-Urban Spaces

3. Juni 2019
Technologies of Presence: Modeling Emotion in Robots with Heart

22. Mai 2019
Merits and Challenges of Deliberative Democracy in Japan

13. März 2019
Autonomy, Belonging and Long-Distance Relationships in Europe and Japan

2018

12. Dezember 2018
“Inner city life, inner city pressure”. Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses

10. Oktober 2018
Sexuality among Marital and Extra-Marital Couple Relationships in Contemporary Japan

26. September 2018
Scientific Advice in Environmental Politics: A Comparative Study of Japanese Policy-Making

25. Juli 2018
Impact of shareholder-value pursuit on labor policies of large companies listed in the Nikkei 400

27. Juni 2018
The Value and Meaning of a “Useless” Robot: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Communication Robots

13. Juni 2018
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Return Migrants in Japan

18. Januar 2018
Politicians and Bureaucrats in Contemporary Japan: New Twists on a Tumultuous Relationship

2017

9. November 2017
Outgrowing the “triple helix” – The effects of international cooperation on the emergence of Japanese regional high-tech innovation clusters

25. Oktober 2017
School’s out Forever – Examining Career Guidance and Transition Mechanisms at Japanese Senior High Schools

20. Oktober 2017
Evolution and Transformations of Japan’s Multilateral Diplomacy

19. Juli 2017
Local Anti-Nuclear Movements in Japan. The Diverging Cases of Maki and Rokkasho

21. Juni 2017
"The Slow Way Home: Civic Engagement and Walkability in Japanese Neighbourhoods"

25. April 2017
Culture at work. On the interplay of cultural change and job satisfaction in a Japanese multinational company

28. Februar 2017
Are the elderly a cost factor for society or its safety net? A comparison of family regimes and National Transfer Accounts data in Germany and Japan

2016

29. November 2016
Between Nostalgia and Utopia: Alternative Lifestyles in Rural Japan

21. September 2016
Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation Processes of Japanese Labour Activism

15. September 2016
Disaster, Law and Justice in Japan: In the Tsunami of Debt and Lost Homes

1. September 2016
Managing One’s Own Death: The Shūkatsu Industry and the Enterprising Self in an Ageing Society

13. Juli 2016
Logics of Liberalization: Tracing Japan's Trajectory of Socio-Economic Institutional Change

6. Juli 2016
Journalism and Disaster from a Cultural Perspective. A comparative reflection of German and Japanese media reporting on 'Fukushima'

29. Juni 2016
Informative Activism and the Blogosphere in Japan after 311

19. Mai 2016
Reproductive Decision-Making in Japan’s Low Birth Rate Society: Education about Family Planning and Fertility as a Remedy?

16. März 2016
Democracy, Diversity, and Disaster Resilience: Towards a Theory of 3-Dimensional (3D) Risk Governance

3. Februar 2016
Language and Institutions: Exploring the Origins of Seniority-Based Hierarchical Relations in Japanese School Club Activities

20. Januar 2016
“Coeds Ruining the Nation”: The Contested Postwar Politics of the Female Student

2015

9. Dezember 2015
Framing and Networks in Japanese Nuclear Power Reporting

30. September 2015
Why do the Young Stay? ‘Home-orientation‘ and Social Capital in Okinawa

24. September 2015
Harmony with Nature? Satoyama Satoumi and Its Impact on Local Communities in Japan

10. September 2015
Nuclear Power in Japan after 3/11: An Inconspicuous Transformation

22. Juli 2015
Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and NPOs: The Case of Food Banks in Japan

24. Juni 2015
A New Dawn for Direct Democracy in Japan? Action and Mobilization Strategies of a Grassroots Movement

26. Mai 2015
Deceleration: Phenomena and discourses in present-day Japan from cultural and literary perspectives

20. Mai 2015
Is Japan Transforming into a “Leisure Society”? Investigating Changes in Work and Leisure Values

15. April 2015
From Solidaristic to Neoliberal Values? Responses to Income Inequality in Japan, Germany, Sweden, and the US