DIJ Forum
Since March 1997, the DIJ has been holding open lectures called DIJ Forum. In these lectures, internationally established scholars discuss topics of general interest.
Selected lectures are available as audio files and can be downloaded from our Podcast page.
2013
April 11, 2013Japanese Companies Respond to the Unforeseen: The 3/11 Disaster, Population Ageing, and Environmentalism
Kenichi Matsuno, Professor, Babson College & Visiting Professor, Josai University & Josai International University
March 7, 2013
Shrinking Rural Communities in Japan: Community ownership of assets as a development potential?
Thomas Feldhoff, PD, Frankfurt University
February 14, 2013
The Cost of NIMBY: Policy Images, Foreign Blueprints and Civil Society’s Assault on Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Policy
Paul J. Scalise, The University of Tokyo
January 17, 2013
Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
Daniel Aldrich, Professor, Purdue University
2012
December 13, 2012Welfare States and the Redistribution of Happiness
Hiroshi Ono, Professor, Texas A&M University
November 15, 2012
Who Will Care for Me When I'm Dead?
Ancestors, Homeless Spirits, and New Afterlives in Low Fertility Japan
Satsuki Kawano, Professor, University of Guelph
October 18, 2012
Sustainable Development, Frontier of Business, and its Application to Tohoku
Yoshitaka Okada, Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts
September 27, 2012
The Truth About Mothers
Dave McCaughan, Director of Truth Central, McCann Worldgroup
July 5, 2012
Why America Spends While Japan and Europe Save
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University, East Asian Studies
June 25, 2012
Happiness: The View from Economics
Bruno Frey, Professor, University of Zurich, Department of Economics
April 5, 2012
Happiness in Japan before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Yukiko Uchida, Professor, Kyoto University, Kokoro Research Center
March 8, 2012
The Japanese Economy one Year after Fukushima
Franz Waldenberger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
February 9, 2012
Bridging the Cultural Divide: University-Industry Research Collaborations in Japan, the United States and Korea
Martin Hemmert, Professor, Korea University Business School
January 12, 2012
Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From LDP to DPJ Rule
Paul Midford, Norwegian University for Science and Technology Trondheim
2011
December 1, 2011The Future of "Old" Industry in Japan: Hollowing Out, Growing with Asia, or Switching to Services?
Martin Schulz, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI)
November 2, 2011
The Role of Giving and Volunteering for Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Naoto Yamauchi, Professor, Osaka University
October 13, 2011
What is a Happy Family? German and Japanese Case Studies
Christoph Wulf, Free University Berlin / Shoko Suzuki, Kyoto University
September 29, 2011
Sustainability Issues in the Super-Aged Society - Prospecting the “Platinum Society”
Hiroshi Komiyama, Chairman of the Institute, Mitsubishi Research Institute
August 31, 2011
Aftermath: Religion in the Wake of Aum
June 9, 2011
The Future Hope of Japan - Aerospace Science and Technology Developments of JAXA
Midori Nishiura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
May 19, 2011
The Secrets of "Sūpā Rōjin": Fundamentals of a Successful Aging Society in Japan
Hiroshi Shibata, Professor, University of Human Arts and Sciences
February 3, 2011
Inventing Ise: the Ise Shrines in Meiji Japan
John Breen, SOAS, University of London / International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2010
December 15, 2010Religion and Politics. Japan, Germany and Switzerland in Comparison
November 18, 2010
Explaining the Collapse of the LDP Regime
Jun Saito, Yale University
June 10, 2010
Post-racial Obama in Japan? Struggles of Blood Ideology Amid Calls for Change
Christine R. Yano, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
May 27, 2010
Where are Japanese universities heading?
Inoki Takenori, Director-General, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
April 1, 2010
Policing obesity in Japan. Health politics and Japanese-style risk society
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ass. Professor, University of Vienna
January 21, 2010
World Class beyond Toyota – Japanese “Hidden Champions”
Stefan Lippert, Professor, Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business, Tokyo
2009
December 17, 2009Happy Workplace for Innovation in Japanese Companies
Noboru Konno, Professor, Tama Graduate School of Management and Information Science
November 19, 2009
Sōka Gakkai and the Politics of Happiness
George Ehrhardt, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University (USA)
November 4, 2009
Wellbeing in feminism and gender policies in Germany and Japan
Ilse Lenz, Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
September 17, 2009
Modernization and Life Satisfaction in Japan in a Comparative Perspective - A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Professor, University of Cologne
June 25, 2009
Towards an Economics of Happiness: From GNP to GNH
Shinichi Tsuji, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University
May 14, 2009
Sex and the City: The Search for Kitto, Motto, Zutto Happiness in Manhattan and Tokyo
Janet Shibamoto-Smith, Professor, University of California
April 23, 2009
Going Green? Japan and the Energy/Environmental Crisis
Andrew DeWit, Professor, Rikkyo University
March 19, 2009
Indulgent Parsimony During the Great Recession of 2009 - Is Japan a Special Case?
Kenneth Alan Grossberg, professor, Waseda Business School
February 12, 2009
The Japanese State and the Myth of Late Development
Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, Indiana University
January 22, 2009
Stability and Fluidization of the Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan
Yoshimichi Sato, Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai
2008
November 13, 2008東アジアの国際政治と日本 (East Asia’s International Politics and Japan)
Akihiko Tanaka, Professor, University of Tokyo
October 2, 2008
The Silver Market Phenomenon: A German-Japanese Perspective
Cornelius Herstatt, Professor, Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH
July 17, 2008
Electoral Systems and Party Personnel
Robert Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington
June 5, 2008
Choose and Focus – The Transformation of Japanese Business Strategies
Ulrike Schaede, Professor, University of California, San Diego
May 15, 2008
Policy for the Elderly in Japan
John C. Campbell, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
April 17, 2008
Beyond Bush: Japan and Germany in the American Imperium
Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor, Cornell University
March 27, 2008
Japan’s Foreign Policy: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Asian Continent
Kazuhiko Togo, former Ambassador, Professor Temple University
February 21, 2008
Consumer Perception of Cause-Related Marketing
Emmanuel Chéron, Professor, Sophia University
January 24, 2008
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)
Shigeru Hagiwara , Professor, Keio University, Tokyo
2007
December 6, 2007Cohabitation and First Marriage in Japan
Jim Raymo, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
November 8, 2007
Evolving Japanese Perspectives on Death and Dying
Alfons Deeken, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University
October 11, 2007
Labor market reform in aging Japan: A key for the structural reform plan
Naohiro Yashiro, Professor, International Christian University