Events
2018
July 2, 2018Fūdo 風土: From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept
David W. Johnson, Boston College
June 27, 2018
The Value and Meaning of a “Useless” Robot: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese Communication Robots
Keiko Nishimura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
June 21, 2018
Market Reactions to Downsizing Announcements – the Role of Strategy and Knowledge Intensity
Daniel Ehnes, Goethe University Frankfurt
June 13, 2018
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Return Migrants in Japan
Chaline Timmerarens, Freie Universität Berlin
June 7, 2018
History-writing and the Public Sphere in Japan: 1945-1955
Curtis Anderson Gayle, Waseda University
June 6, 2018
Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles
Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Scott North, Osaka University
May 15, 2018
Invited lecture: Global Project lecture series, at Graduate school of sociology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. simultaneously broadcasted at Chung Ang University, Korea
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies
April 25, 2018
Japanese Development Cooperation as a Political Tool
Marie Söderberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Naohiro Kitano, Waseda University
April 5, 2018
space AGE space - Elderly Care in a Digitally Connected World
Thomas Bock, Technical University of Munich
Shuichi Matsumura, The University of Tokyo
March 15, 2018
Tokyo as Fashion Space: Usage Practices, Social Space and Media Discourse
Jana Katzenberg, University of Cologne
March 11, 2018
日本現代史研究会 (第117回研究会), Tokyo, Japan
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
March 1, 2018 - April 10, 2018
Kabuki・Bunraku
March 1, 2018
Informal Figures of Japanese Imperialism: the political activism of the Gen'yōsha
Grégoire Sastre, Waseda University
February 28, 2018
Demographic Change – Challenges and Answers for Local Communities
February 14, 2018
AI/IOT and the Future of Society
February 8, 2018
German Prisoners of War in Japan 1914-1920: towards a new narrative
Frank Käser, JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo
January 26, 2018
Neue Kulturgeographie XV, Freiburg
Sonja Ganseforth, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 25, 2018
Japan's Industrial Policy toward Technology Transfers and Business History: Signalling and Administrative Guidance, 1950-1975
Jonathan Krautter, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 19, 2018
Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
January 18, 2018
Politicians and Bureaucrats in Contemporary Japan: New Twists on a Tumultuous Relationship
Arnaud Grivaud, French National Institute of Asian Language and Civilisation (INALCO)
January 8, 2018
International Conference "Beyond Versailles: Reverberations of the '1919 Moment' in Asia." Fujitsu-JAIMS Hawai`i Campus, Hawai`i Kai, Honolulu
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2017
December 10, 2017AJJ Fall Meeting 2017
Sonja Ganseforth, German Institute for Japanese Studies
December 9, 2017
Shin feminizumu hyōka no kai, Tokyo
Ronald Saladin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
December 7, 2017
Prisons and Forced Labour on Hokkaido
Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
December 6, 2017
OAG, Tokyo
Daniel Kremers, German Institute for Japanese Studies
December 1, 2017
"Work-related diversity in Japan"
Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
December 1, 2017
From Flexible Rigidities to Embracing Diversity? Work-related Diversity and its Implications in Japan and Beyond
Andrea Dorothea Bührmann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Mieko Takenobu, Wako University, Tokyo
November 30, 2017 - December 1, 2017
From Flexible Rigidities to Embracing Diversity? - Work-Related Diversity and its Implications in Japan and Beyond
November 29, 2017 - December 3, 2017
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC
Isaac Gagné, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 16, 2017
Invited lecture: Global Project lecture series, Graduate school of sociology, Ritsumeikan University, simultaneously broadcasted at Chung Ang University, Korea. Via Skype
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 15, 2017
OAG, Tokyo
Ronald Saladin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 10, 2017
Vortrag an der Meiji Universität, Tokyo
Ronald Saladin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 9, 2017
Social Sciences Study Group, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Rabe, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 9, 2017
Outgrowing the “triple helix” – The effects of international cooperation on the emergence of Japanese regional high-tech innovation clusters
Benjamin Rabe, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
November 8, 2017
The transfer of knowledge between Germany and Japan in the late Meiji and early Taishō eras: A case study of Georg Würfel (1880-1936)
Reik Jagno, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 2, 2017
VSJF 2017 Annual Conference
Sonja Ganseforth, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 2, 2017
VSJF Annual Conference 2017, Panel "Institutional Change in Japan’s Peripheries: Rural Areas between Decentralization, Deregulation, and Dependency" chaired by Sonja Ganseforth, Vienna, Austria
Hanno Jentzsch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
November 1, 2017
VSJF Annual Conference, Vienna
Daniel Kremers, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 31, 2017
VSJF 2017 conference, Vienna, Austria; with Ralph Luetzeler
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 31, 2017
VSJF 2017 conference Rural Japan revisited: Autonomy and heteronomy in the peripheries, Vienna, Austria
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 31, 2017 - November 2, 2017
Rural Japan Revisited: Autonomy and Heteronomy in the Peripheries
October 30, 2017
Gender-Workshop der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF)
Ronald Saladin, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 26, 2017
International Conference “Civil Society in East Asian Countries: Contributions to Democracy, Peace and Sustainable Development”, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Jan Niggemeier, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 26, 2017
Japan votes (again): A review of the Lower House election 2017
Koichi Nakano, Sophia University
Chris Winkler, Hokkaido University
October 25, 2017
School’s out Forever – Examining Career Guidance and Transition Mechanisms at Japanese Senior High Schools
Vincent Lesch, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 21, 2017
14th Annual Child Science Conference (Nihon kodomo gakkai), Okayama, Japan
Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 20, 2017
Evolution and Transformations of Japan’s Multilateral Diplomacy
Sarah Tanke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 13, 2017
Robert Bosch Academy on ‘Dealing with the Past – the Difficult Path to Reconciliation’. Berlin, Germany
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies
October 12, 2017
Prolonging Youthfulness: An Investigation of the bimajo Phenomenon in Japan
Satoshi Ota, Tama University
October 9, 2017
University of California Speaker Series. Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan
Torsten Weber, German Institute for Japanese Studies