Events
1999
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
The Faces of Skin
Writing minority/Reading minority
Tracey Gannon, Ritsumeikan University
The "Other Hara": Hara Yoshimichi, the Imperial Lawyers Association,and the Politics of Compromise
Darryl Flaherty, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Pluralismus der Sprachen und Globalität der Wissenschaft
Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Japanese Security Policy
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
Economic Crisis and Transformation in Southeast Asia: Strategic Responses by Japanese and European Firms
And Now For Something Completely Different? Reforming Japan's "Socialist" Tax Regime
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?
Katja Cassing Nakamura, Universität Trier
Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations(1900-1945)
Christan Spang, Freiburg University
Social Science Workshop: "Immigration Control? Japanese Law and Policy towards Foreign Residents 1899-1999"
Japan's role in APEC: a European View
Carsten Otto, Mainz University
Tracing the Legacy of Late 1960s Protest
Patricia G. Steinhoff (Professor, University of Hawaii)
The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System
Bettina Gildenhard, Universität Heidelberg
Andere Welten? Jugend in Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich (Another world? Comparing youth in Japan and Germany)
"Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando
Ruth Jäschke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Competing Conceptions of "East Asia" and "Asia Pacific" within Japan's Foreign Policy
Petra Gebetsberger, University of Sheffield
Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert
Dr. Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek, FU Berlin
The Politics of Memory: The Case of the Military Comfort Women
Ueno Chizuko (Professor, University of Tokyo)
The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan
Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
ASEAN and Japan - On the Development of Cultural Relations
Aoki Tamotsu (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Information Technology, Language, and the Nation State
Jonathan Lewis, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Religious Desputes in Medieval Japan
Claudia Romberg, Leiden University
Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"
Ina Hein, Universität Trier
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
Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German)
Susanne Phillipps, Freie Universität Berlin
Enomoto Takeaki and Emigrant-led Colonization: Overseas Expansion in Meiji Japan
Henry Todd, Sophia University
1998
Festakt anläßlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des DIJ
Teaching National Identity - Education in Postwar Germany and Japan
Julian B. Dierkes, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Disability and Culture - New Issues in Japanese Studies
Distant Friends: Britain and Japan in the Age of Globalization, 1958-1998
Chris Braddick, Musashi University
Following in the Footsteps of World Literature: A Symposium on German-Japanese/Japanese-German Translation
Inoue Tetsujirō and the Ideology of Shinkoku (Divine Country) in Early Showa
Johann Nawrocki, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan
Katharina Heyer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Regional Cooperation in Asia: Will Japan stand up toa Leadership Role?
Federalism in Japan - Only A Fancy?
Werner Pascha (Professor, University of Duisburg)
Business Venture Creation and New Human Resource Management Strategies in Japan, Europe, and the USA
Placards and Colored Pavement: Retail Democracy and the Power of the Associational Field in Local Politics
Darryl Flaherty, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University
A Half Century with the Japanese Intelligentsia
Edward Seidensticker (Professor emeritus, University of California at Davis)
Politico-Business Relations in Taisho- Early Showa Japan: An Explanatory Framework
Peter von Staden, London School of Economics
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
Political Reform in Japan - Entering a New Era of Japanese Democracy?
Ethnographic Methods in Education and Sociology: School Life from an Intercultural Perspective
Tradition and Law in Conflict: Farm Tenancy Conciliation in Interwar Japan (1924-1938)
Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kyūshū 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