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DIJ Forum
Since March 1997, the DIJ has been organizing a public lecture series called DIJ Forum where internationally renowned scholars and researchers speak on topics of general interest. The DIJ Forum usually takes place once a month and is aimed at both an academic and general audience alike.
Selected lectures are available as audio or video files. They can be downloaded from our Podcast page or viewed on our YouTube channel.
2009
Modernization and Life Satisfaction in Japan in a Comparative Perspective - A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Professor, University of Cologne
Towards an Economics of Happiness: From GNP to GNH
Shinichi Tsuji, Professor, Meiji Gakuin University
Sex and the City: The Search for Kitto, Motto, Zutto Happiness in Manhattan and Tokyo
Janet Shibamoto-Smith, Professor, University of California
Going Green? Japan and the Energy/Environmental Crisis
Andrew DeWit, Professor, Rikkyo University
Indulgent Parsimony During the Great Recession of 2009 - Is Japan a Special Case?
Kenneth Alan Grossberg, professor, Waseda Business School
The Japanese State and the Myth of Late Development
Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, Indiana University
Stability and Fluidization of the Social Stratification System in Contemporary Japan
Yoshimichi Sato, Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai
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
The Silver Market Phenomenon: A German-Japanese Perspective
Cornelius Herstatt, Professor, Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH
Electoral Systems and Party Personnel
Robert Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington
Choose and Focus – The Transformation of Japanese Business Strategies
Ulrike Schaede, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Policy for the Elderly in Japan
John C. Campbell, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
Beyond Bush: Japan and Germany in the American Imperium
Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor, Cornell University
Japan’s Foreign Policy: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Asian Continent
Kazuhiko Togo, former Ambassador, Professor Temple University
Consumer Perception of Cause-Related Marketing
Emmanuel Chéron, Professor, Sophia University
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
Cohabitation and First Marriage in Japan
Jim Raymo, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evolving Japanese Perspectives on Death and Dying
Alfons Deeken, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University
Labor market reform in aging Japan: A key for the structural reform plan
Naohiro Yashiro, Professor, International Christian University
English in elementary schools? An overview of the issues
Kensaku Yoshida, Professor, Sophia University
The Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old Problem
Keiko McDonald, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Invisible Civil Society: The Effects of 1960s New Left Protests on Contemporary Japan
Patricia G. Steinhoff, Professor, University of Hawaii
The Challenges of the Japanese Integration Policy
Yamawaki Keizo, Professor, Meiji University
Comparative Corporate Governance
Christian Kirchner, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Japan's Innovation Agendas
Taizo Yakushiji, Ph.D., Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office
2006
Marital Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: A Viewpoint Indispensable to Mitigating Fertility Decline
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Professor, The University of Chicago
Politeness in Intercultural Communication
Mayumi Usami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The Tokugawa Mating Game: Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in Historical Perspective
Satomi Kurosu, Professor, Reitaku University
Japanese Grand Strategies: Past and Future
Professor Richard J. Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Images of Japanese society presented in the ‘New Civic Textbook’ by Tsukuru-kai. Solutions for demographic challenges and social change?
Klaus Vollmer, Professor, Munich University (LMU)
Ageing tourists, ageing destinations: tourism and demographic change in Japan
Carolin Funck, Professor, Hiroshima University
Regional Inequality in Japan: Income, Health, Life Style, and Stature
Jean-Pascal Bassino, Maison Franco-Japonaise
Foreign Policy and Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Katsuyuki Yakushiji
2005
Work/life balance in corporate Tokyo: Whose Work? Whose Life? Whose Balance?
Glenda Roberts, Professor, Waseda University
German Origins of Japanese Beer: Business and Consumption in Prewar Japan
Harald Fuess, Professor, Sophia University
Lowest-low Fertility in Japan: Causes, Policy Responses and Related Value Change
Makoto Atoh, Professor, Waseda University
Postindustrial Pressures, Political Regime Shifts, and Social Policy Reform in Japan and South Korea
Ito Peng, Professor, University of Toronto
Gendering the Culture of 1960s Japan
Vera Mackie, Professor, University of Melbourne
What is the corporation? How is it changing? A German and Japanese Comparison
Masahiko Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Marriage in Japan in an Era of Declining Fertility Rates and Aging Society
Shirahase Sawako, Professor, Tsukuba University
The Japanese Family Revolution
Sepp Linhart, Professor, University of Vienna
Private Debt and Social Welfare in Japan: Consumer Finance, the "Middle-Risk Gap", and Japan's Social Contract
Ulrike Schaede, (Professor, University of California, San Diego)
2004
Japan's New Party System
Steven R. Reed (Professor, Chūō University)
The Role of Religion in World War II - As seen in Germany, Japan and the US
Dr. Brian Victoria (University of Adelaide)
Difficult Neighbors: Japan and North Korea
Gavan McCormack (Professor, Australian National University)
Japanese Pilgrimage: Shinto Variations on a Buddhist Theme
Michael Pye (Professor, University of Marburg)
Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary Work
Dr. Karen A. Shire (Professor, Universität Duisburg-Essen)
国際刑法からみた東京裁判 (The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and International Criminal Law)
Dr. Philipp Osten (Ass. Prof., Keio University Tokyo)
Tales of Ise: A Short Visual Reception History
Joshua S. Mostow (Professor, The University of British Columbia)
2003
Does E-Commerce Create A Level Playing Field? The Cases of Germany and Japan
Dennis Tachiki (Professor, Tamagawa University)