Events
2021
April 19 - April 20, 2021Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region
Knowledge, Policies, and Transfers (1970s – Present)
March 19, 2021
VSJF Annual Conference 2021: Continuity and Change 10 years after 3.11
2020
December 10, 2020Linking Preferential Trade Agreements to Domestic Political and Economic Structures:
A Comparative Case Study of People’s Republic of China and Japan
Aya Adachi, Ruhr University Bochum & University of Duisburg-Essen
December 3, 2020
From New Normal to New Work?
Insights from Japan and Germany
Andrea Hammermann, German Economic Institute
Nobuko Nagase, Ochanomizu University
Michael Johannes Pils, Taylor Wessing
Chisako Takaya, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Moderated by Franz Waldenberger, DIJ
November 26 - November 27, 2020
Symposium on the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Japanese Parliament
Global Views of Japanese Parliamentarism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
November 25, 2020
„Aktives Altern“ im digitalen Zeitalter. Wie kann Digitalisierung soziale Teilhabe und Inklusion fördern? VERSCHOBEN
November 13, 2020
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November 9, 2020
Quo Vadis, Central Banks? Monetary Policy in the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor (2008-2013)
Katrin Assenmacher, Head of the Monetary Policy Strategy Division, ECB
Moderated by Kazuo Momma, Executive Economist, Mizuho Research Institute
October 20, 2020
Agenda-Cutting in Media News Coverage of Covid-19:
A Case Study from Japan
Yosuke Buchmeier, LMU Munich/DIJ Tokyo
September 12, 2020
Film screening and discussion with the film's producer Ian Thomas Ash and one protagonist: Boys for Sale
September 9, 2020
Economic Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis in the Euro Area and Japan
Masaaki Shirakawa, former Bank of Japan Governor (2008-2013)
Volker Wieland, member of the German Council of Economic Experts
Moderated by Yuri Okina, Chairperson of The Japan Research Institute
July 19, 2020
Roundtable on Economy, Society, Polity: Global and National Health(care) Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
July 14, 2020
Future Visions of a (Digital) Public Sphere:
Findings from Japan
Michel Hohendanner, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Chiara Ullstein, Technical University of Munich
July 9, 2020
Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman
Discussing Gender Identity and Society in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Ronald Saladin (Trier University)
June 25, 2020
Cute Masculinity - Investigating the Meaning of Virtual Shōjo and Girl Parody by Young Men in the 2010s
Sharon Kinsella, The University of Manchester
June 18, 2020
How Real Are Numbers?
Making Sense of National COVID-19 Statistics
June 9 - September 12, 2020
Lecture Series: Gender and Sexuality in East Asia – Cultural Studies and Social Science Perspectives
June 9, 2020
Towards a Transnational Sexual Field: Male Vietnamese Migrants in Contemporary Japan
An Huy Tran, University of Duisburg-Essen/Waseda University
May 27, 2020
National Approaches to Systemic Risk
Germany and Japan under the COVID-19 Crisis
March 5, 2020
Learning to be funny: Training and social relationships in Rakugo - POSTPONED -
Sarah Stark, Ghent University
February 27, 2020
The Last Cowboys of Aso? Problems of Grassland Management in Contemporary Commons - POSTPONED -
Johannes Wilhelm, Kumamoto University (Kumamoto)
February 19, 2020
Why Is It So Difficult to Buy a Ticket for the Musical? Adaptive Innovation in Japanese Musical Theater from the 1960s to the Present
Rina Tanaka, Meiji University
February 17, 2020
Money, parenting and happiness: A comparative and historical perspective
Hiroshi Ono, Hitotsubashi University Business School
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
February 13, 2020
US-Japan Relations under Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe
February 5, 2020
Assimilation Policies and Ainu Identity
Questioning Japan's Recognition of the Ainu People as Indigenous
Uwe Makino, Chuo University (Tokyo)
January 29, 2020
Improving Japan’s Disability Employment
From Separate to Inclusive Workplaces
Reiko Nishida, PhD, The University of Tokyo
January 15, 2020
The new Japanese Fishery Policies between Revitalization and Capitalization
Susanne Auerbach, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2019
December 12, 2019User-driven Innovation in Health- & Elderly Care in Japan
Sarah Cosentino, Waseda University
Nobu Ishiguro, Osaka University
November 28, 2019
The Future of Society – German and Japanese Perspectives
November 21, 2019
Image(-Text) correlations in the works of Natsume Sōseki
Kevin Schumacher, University of Munich / DIJ
November 14, 2019
Political Communication in the Age of New Media - Investigating the Reception of Right-Wing Populist Communication Strategies in the Japanese Blog Scene
Katharina Dalko, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
November 13, 2019
Mobilities and the Geographicity of Law. Lessons for Japan
Mathis Stock
November 7, 2019
Leadership in a Digital World: Innovative – Human – Collaborative
October 31, 2019
A New Era of Immigration? Japan’s Guest Worker Programs in Comparative Perspective
Naoto Higuchi, Tokushima University
Kristin Surak, University of London
October 29, 2019
Autism in the Workplace - How the Diagnosis of a Developmental Disorder Affects Employment Situations in Japan
Charlotte Schaefer, University of Heidelberg
October 24, 2019
Environmental Local Scales: Women’s Writing in Northern Tōhoku, Present to Postwar
Eric Siercks, University of California, Los Angeles
October 4, 2019
Universities in the Digital Age
Bernd Huber, President of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Miho Funamori, Strategy Manager at the Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform at National Institute of Informatics
October 1 - October 31, 2019
120. Geburtstag von Yasunari Kawabata
September 26, 2019
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
– Engaging civil society in social science and humanities research –
September 24 - September 25, 2019
The Digital Transformation - Implications for the Social Sciences and the Humanities
September 19, 2019
Renewable Energy in Germany and Japan - Prospects for the Citizen Energy Movement
Carsten Herbes, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany
Jörg Raupach-Sumiya, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka
Eiji Oishi, Minna Denryoku, Tokyo
September 18, 2019
Shrinking but Happy? Investigating the Interplay of Social and Individual-Level Predictors of Well-Being in Rural Japanese Communities
Dionyssios Askitis, German Institute for Japanese Studies
September 17, 2019
The Politics of Migration in Japan
September 12, 2019
Wielding Toxic Discourse: Insanity in the Nuclear Narratives of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
August 1, 2019
The Mountains Belong to Everybody? Conflicts about Recreational Forest Use in Austria and Japan
Yuichiro Hirano, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba
Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna
July 27, 2019
Contemporary Japanese Theatre Workshop
July 23 - July 24, 2019
Studying Japan: The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation on methods, fieldwork and research ethics
July 10, 2019
Negotiating Difference: Educational Experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students in Mainstream Japanese Schools
Jennifer M. McGuire, Doshisha University
June 27, 2019
Between Contributor and Competitor: Recent Trends in how the Chinese Government views Japan
Shi Ming, Berlin
June 14, 2019
Local Responses to the Revision of the Seed Law: The Seed Registration System, GMOs and Rice
Nicole L. Freiner, Bryant University