Working Papers

Die in loser Folge erscheinenden Working Papers (früher: Arbeitspapiere) informieren in knapper Form über Zwischenergebnisse zu laufenden Forschungsarbeiten am Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien.

2019

Holthus, Barbara; Manzenreiter, Wolfram
Bullseye view: Developing a sociological method for studying happiness

Infrastructural Family Policy in Japan: Parental Evaluation

Dreaming of Being a Chef? The Overseas Mobility of Young Japanese Women and Their Employment in Düsseldorf's Japanese Foodscapes

2018

Ageing in Japan. Domestic Healthcare Technologies. A Qualitative Interview Study on Care Robots, Monitoring Sensor Systems, and ICT-based Telehealth Systems

Bouncing Back After Failure: Perceived and Actual Similarity as a Coping Resource in Multinational Work Teams

The Politics of Balancing Flexibility and Equality: A Comparison of Recent Equal Pay Reforms in Germany and Japan

2017

Eguchi, Takaaki; Waldenberger, Franz
Management Careers, Internal Control and Corporate Governance. Where Japan and Germany Differ

Waldenberger, Franz
Fully reserve backed money – a solution to Japan’s fiscal and monetary challenges

2016

Cheng, Ying; Kotosaka, Masahiro; Loh, Chang-Ti; Waldenberger, Franz; Hemmert, Martin; Kohlbacher, Florian
High-tech Start-up Ecosystems in East Asian Agglomerations: Are They Different From the West?

2015

Waldenberger, Franz
Research on the Corporate Governance of Listed Stock Companies in Japan

Tiefenbach, Tim; Kohlbacher, Florian
Disasters, donations, and tax law changes: Disentangling effects on subjective well- being by exploiting a natural experiment

2014

Waldenberger, Franz
Central Bank Independence in Times of High Fiscal Risk – the Case of Japan

Feeling Disconnected: Exploring the Relationship between Different Forms of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Japan

Gender and Political Participation in post-3/11 Japan

Vorzeigenationen unter Druck? Wahrnehmungen von sozialer Ungleichheit und Statuserwerbsprozessen – Deutschland und Japan im Vergleich

Happiness, Civil Society Participation and Voluntariness: Analyzing the Case of Neighborhood Associations in Japan

2013

Disentangling the Happiness Effects of Natural Disasters: The Mitigating Effects of Charitable Donations

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Scientific social responsibility and happiness

Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Japan by Gender and Age

Happiness from the Viewpoint of Economics: Findings from Recent Survey Data in Japan

2012

Subjektives Glücksempfinden und seine Einflussfaktoren im japanischen Kontext: Eine glücksökonomische Analyse der Ergebnisse des National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences (Fiskaljahr 2010)

2010

Philosophischer Geist an der frühen Tokyo Universität

Bullfighting in Oki: Source of Comprehensive Subjective Well-Being? Tradition, Social Interaction and Personal ikigai

The Advent of Vulnerability. Japans' Free Fall through a Porous Safety Net

The Fertility Rate and the Economic Crisis - Discussing a Theoretical Attempt to Predict Demographic Development in Japan

2009

Gendered Portrayals of Older People in Japanese Television Advertising

The Quest for Happiness in Japan

2008

Low fertility, the wish for children, and social inequalities in contemporary Japanese society

The Representation of Older People in Japanese Television Advertising

男女不平等とワーク・ライフ・バランス — ドイツにおける社会変化と少子化問題 (Gender Inequalities and Work-life Balance: Social Change and Low Fertility in Germany)

2007

Migrant Support Organizations in Japan - A Survey (Organisationen zur Unterstützung von Migranten in Japan. Ergebnisse einer Umfrage zum Thema)

2006

Staat und Nation: Zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und Nationalstaat in Japan, 1918-1945

Care, control, and communication: Linguistic interaction between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly

Turning Boomers into Boomerangs - Japanese Human Resource Management Practices and the Aging Workforce

Internationalization Strategies of the German and Japanese Automobile and Supplier Industries

Facing the Challenge of Immigration? The State, Civil Society and Structures of Interdependence (Herausforderung Immigration. Staat, Zivilgesellschaft und Interdependenzstrukturen)

Coping with Low Fertility? Japan’s Government Measures for a Gender Equal Society (Eine Lösung für die sinkende Geburtenrate? Japans Regierungsmaßnahmen für eine Gesellschaft für die Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen)

Doors wide shut? The current discourse on labor migration to Japan (Die Türen weit geschlossen? Zum aktuellen Diskurs über Arbeitsmigration nach Japan)

Japan’s Green Networks: Going Transnational? (Japans Grüne Netzwerke: Prozesse der Transnationalisierung)

Japans kinderarme Gesellschaft – Die niedrige Geburtenrate und das Gender-Problem

2005

Implementing a Professional Football League in Japan - Challenges to Research in International Business (Gründung einer Profifussballiga in Japan – Herausforderungen für die internationale Managementforschung)

International Joint Ventures in China after WTO Accession: Will Trust Relations Change? (Internationale Joint Ventures in China nach dem WTO Beitritt: Ändern sich die Vertrauensbeziehungen?)

Ahead of the Game - The Network of Value Captures in Professional Football (Vor dem Spiel – Das Netzwerk von Wertschöpfungsaktivitäten im Profifussball)

Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels: Fallbeispiel Automobilindustrie

Farewell to the Seniority Principle? Aging Workforces and the Restructuring of Japanese Compensation Practices

Globalization of Sports - The Case of Professional Football and its International Management Challenges (Globalisierung im Sport – Profifussball und die internationalen Herausforderungen an das Vereinsmanagement)

Aging Population, Knowledge Spill-Over and Civil Society (Alternde Bevölkerung, Wissenstransfers und die Zivilgesellschaft)

2004

"The Inner and the Outer Domain" - Sexuality and the Nation-State in Feminist Historiography in Japan

"A History of Woman": Nature, Culture, and the Category of the Slave