Events
2000
The Logic of Reassurance and Japan's Grand Strategy
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University
The Debate on Monetary Policy: Can and Should a Central Bank Do Structural Policy?
Martin Schulz (Senior Economist, Fujitsu Research Institute)
Class Structure and Social Mobility in Japan and Industrial Nations
Ishida Hiroshi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan
Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)
Japan and Prussia
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)
Current Trends in Japan's Pension Industry: Their Impact on Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Relations
Johann Heidinger, Ph.D. candidate / Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Economics, Tokyo University
A Never-Ending Piggyback Marathon? The Changing Faces of Union Support for the Left in Japan
Sarah Hyde, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period
Nancy Stalker, Stanford University
Japanese Security Norms versus Realpolitik: The Coming Collision between Japan's Arms Export Ban and Theatre Missile Defense (TMD)
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
Prospects and Limits of Industrial Policy in East Asia in the Age of Globalization
Tim Goydke, Ph.D. candidate / Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Liquid Diplomacy: Germans and the Meiji Beer Industry, 1869-1949
Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Dying Geese: The International Political Ecology of the Asian Shrimp Aquaculture and Eucalyptus Plantation Industries
Derek Hall, Cornell University
Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village
Sarah Teasley
Economic Relations between Japan and China: Current State and Perspectives
National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu; Kenkoku kinen no hi) in Modern Japan
Ken Ruoff, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Portland State University
Growing M&A Activities and their Impact on Japan's Corporate System
Jörg Raupach-Sumiya, German Institute for Japanese Studies
"Let's Play Hard Ball": The Politics of Ishihara's Tax on the Bank
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
Gendered Gazes: A Look at the Use of the Human Face in Japanese Car Advertising
Andreas Riessland, Oxford Brookes University
The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Katrin Paul (Photographer), Tama Art University
Living in a box: Danchi dwellers as the pioneers of the modern lifestyle in Japan in the 1950's
Katja Schmidtpott, Ph.D. candidate at Bochum University
Fukuoka Domain and the Road to Restoration
Noell Wilson, Harvard University, PhD Candidate
Contested Historiography – Feminist Perspectives on World War II
US-Japan relations in turmoil? A European perspective
Bernhard May (German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)
From Pace-Setter to Laggard: Production Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry
Ralph Paprzycki, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The Japanese Environmental Industry - A Future Industrial Core?
Ilona Köster, Marburg University
Embedded Capitalisms Under Siege: Japan and Germany
T.J. Pempel (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle)
"Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."
David Averbach, University of Berkeley
Kanakogi Kazunobu and the Natur of Japanese Radicalism
Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Takushoku University
Changing Japanese Divorce Trends in the 1990s
Sean Curtin, University of Sheffield
Nationalism, Globalism and Culturalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity
Kosaku Yoshino (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
"The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"
David Lurie, Columbia University
Where are the Giants and Monoculi? Knowledge and Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japanese Maps of the World
Robert Eskildsen, Smith College, Assistant Professor
Japan-US Security Relations and East Asia
"What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"
Youngmi Lim, City University of New York
Nakano Seigo and his Fascination with European Fascism
Stefano von Loe (Harvard University)
1999
Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō
Ted Mack, Harvard University
"Whatever it is, it's bad, so stop it!" Political Convictions and Ambivalence in Japan's New Child Sex Legislation
David Leheny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rule by Quotation: The Power of Genroku Culture
Michael Eastwood, Chicago University
Globalization - on the Road to a New World System?
Erwin K. Scheuch (Professor emeritus, University of Cologne)
German Foreign Trade Promotion in Japan: An Attempt to View a Practical Job in Theoretical Terms
Norbert Schultes, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
The dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature
Laura Moretti, University of Venice
The Role of the Japanese Automobile Industry in EU Policy Networks
Sabine Spell, University of Sterling
Inventing Culture: the Formation of the LDP Factions
Hulda Thora Sveinsdottir, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Goals and Reality of Educational Reform in Japan
Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature
Alisa Freedman, University of Chicago
The Modernization of Chūshingura: Politics and Media in the Making of Japan's National Legend
Henry D. Smith (Professor, Columbia University)
The Sexualized Male - Representations of Men in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines
Barbara Holthus, University of Hawaii
Showing off and Hiding out: The SDF’s Strategies to Manage its Place in Japan
Sabine Fruehstueck, Eyal Ben-Ari, University of Vienna, Hebrew University of Jerusalem