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Workshops
2009
"Comparatively Happy" – Objective precarity and perception of social exclusion in Germany and Japan: Discussion of the German and Japanese Questionnaire
「医療・介護の現場におけるコミュニケーション―『福祉言語学』の視点に立って―」(Communication in Japanese Healthcare Contexts: From the Perspective of Welfare Linguistics)
Frontline Innovations in Health & Social Services in Advanced Silver Society
International Migration in Global Governance: A Japanese Perspective
2008
Rural Areas without Hope? Structural Change and Policy Options in Japan and Germany
CSR in Japan, Europe and US
Housing the Elderly in Japan
The Silver Market Phenomenon - Business Opportunities in an Ageing Society
Socio-political and Business Aspects of Care in an Era of Demographic Change
2007
The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities and Responsibilities in an Era of Demographic Change
Language and Script Life in Japan
2006
Representations of Gender, Race and Culture in Wartime Japan and Germany
Managing Personal and Institutional Relationships Across Cultures 『異文化間の人材および組織関係の管理方法』
2004
Linguistic landscaping in changing language regimes – the case of Japan
Intellectuals, Technology, Imperialism
The Normative Core of Modernity and its Cultural Contextualization
Consulting, Counseling, and Healing in Japanese New Religions and New Spirituality Movements
Consultation, Counseling, and Healing in Japanese New Religious and New Spirituality Movements
Die japanische Automobilindustrie – Strategische Herausforderungen und neue Perspektiven
2003
E-Democracy in East Asia? How the Internet Affects Politics and Civil Society in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Management in Japan - Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren für deutsche Produktionsunternehmen in dynamischer Umwelt (Management in Japan - Challenges and Success Factors for German Manufacturing Companies in a Dynamic Environment)
Umbruch von Markt- und Industriestrukturen in Japan – Chancen für die deutsche Wirtschaft (Upheaval in Japan's Market and Industry Structures - Chances for the German Economy)
2002
Globalisierung und Identitätsstiftung in Ost- und Südostasien (Globalization and Identity Formation in East and Southeast Asia)
2001
Making History: The Quest for National Identity through History Education
Foreign Residents in Japan: Immigration, Integration, and Social Change
2000
New Trends in Japanese Social Policy
China in der WTO: Strategien deutscher und japanischer Firmen im Vergleich (Doing Business in China: A Comparison of Strategies by German and Japanese Firms)
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Japan und China: Perspektiven für die Zeit nach dem WTO-Beitritt Chinas (Economic Relations between Japan and China: Perspectives for the Period Following China's Entry to the WTO)
Economic Relations between Japan and China: Current State and Perspectives
Japan-US Security Relations and East Asia
1999
Goals and Reality of Educational Reform in Japan
Social Science Workshop: "Immigration Control? Japanese Law and Policy towards Foreign Residents 1899-1999"
1998
Disability and Culture - New Issues in Japanese Studies
Ethnographic Methods in Education and Sociology: School Life from an Intercultural Perspective
Diskurs über den Körper in Japan
1997
The Japanese Employment System in Transition
お化けと近代化―不思議と科学的思考の間で (Ghosts and modernization – between the miraculous and scientific thinking)
Labor Relations in Transition: A Comparison of Japan, Germany and the United States
Ausstieg aus dem Konsensmodell? Veränderungen im Personalmanagement in Japan und Deutschland (Exit from the Consensus Model? Changes in the Personnel Management System in Japan and Germany)
Globalization of the Automotive Industry: Japan as Model, Competitor, or Bridgehead in Asia?
Die Rückkehr zur "Asiatischen Spiritualität"
1996
DIJ History Workshop: The State on Postwar Japan
Aufwachsen in modernen Gesellschaften. Perspektiven der Jugendforschung in Deutschland und Japan
Structural Changes in the Japanese Technology and Innovation Sysem in the 90s
1994
Sources of Ryukyuan History and Culture in Europe
Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in Europe
1992
Wissenschaftlich-Technischer Gesprächskreis
1990
Ausländische Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland und Japan
Industrielle Innovationsprozesse
1989
Diskussionsforum der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Strukturwandel des japanischen Arbeitsmarktes