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DIJ Social Science Study Group
The DIJ Social Science Study Group was a lecture series for early career researchers and Ph.D. candidates in the Social Sciences. Since May 2024 it has been part of the DIJ Study Group.
1999
The Competing Conceptions of "East Asia" and "Asia Pacific" within Japan's Foreign Policy
Petra Gebetsberger, University of Sheffield
Information Technology, Language, and the Nation State
Jonathan Lewis, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Sometimes an Electoral System is Just an Electoral System: What SNTV Does and Doesn't Explain about Japanese Politics
Robert Weiner, University of California, Berkeley
1998
Teaching National Identity - Education in Postwar Germany and Japan
Julian B. Dierkes, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan
Katharina Heyer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Placards and Colored Pavement: Retail Democracy and the Power of the Associational Field in Local Politics
Darryl Flaherty, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University
Japan and the Development of Siberia and the Russian Far East: The Evolution of the Large-Scale Economic Cooperation Projects (1968- 1995)
Frank Robaschik, Duisburg University
Foreign Pressure and the Japanese Policy Process: a Global Prohibitory Norm on the Use of Large-Scale Driftnets
Isao Miyaoka, Institute of Social Science, Tōkyō University
Channeling the Cash Flow: The New Regulations for Political Donations in Japan and their Influence on Political Corruption
Verena Blechinger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Changing Patterns of Political Participation and Values in Japan
Wilhelm Vosse, University of Hannover, Germany
Learning To Face The Past. Japanese Students In Malaysia
Andreas K. Riessland, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
In Regional Embrace or Global Change? Japanese and Foreign Assistance to Post-Marcos Philippine Development
Ben Warkentin, Dokkyō University
Fueling the Dream Machine: Japan and the Emerging Politics of Tourism Development Assistance
David R. Leheny, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo