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ドイツ日本研究所

ドイツ日本研究所は東京に拠点を持つドイツの研究機関である。現代日本をグローバル化する世界というコンテキストにおいて研究することがDIJの研究課題である。

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2025年10月14日

Hybrid DIJ Forum on Japan in Global History

Although the Second World War was truly global, historians of the war have been remarkably Eurocentric and America-centric. They fail to appreciate that one of the key belligerents was a non-Western society and that the Asia-Pacific theater constituted one half of the war. This talk argues that by integrating scholarship on Japan into the history of the Second World War, we may ask better comparative and transnational questions about war and society. Wartime Japan should no longer been seen as an exceptional, bizarre case, but as a part of the global history of 20th-century warfare. This lecture reveals the important role of Japan in the transnational circulation of ideas that resulted both in a “global war on civilians” and in efforts to construct “home fronts” that mobilized civilians. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and a small reception. Details and registration here

Speakers: 
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Sebastian Conrad, FU Berlin
主要著作
2025年9月19日

New issue of Contemporary Japan published

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The new issue of Contemporary Japan includes six original research articles plus our book review section, covering topics ranging from religion and politics to education, women’s empowerment, elderly workers, and Takarazuka fans. The research articles include “faith talk” in Japanese political rhetoric (Ernils Larsson), the “afterlife” of prime ministers, particularly Satō Eisaku (Taro Tsuda), an ethnographic study of a Korean international school (Kunisuke Hirano), literacy movements and female empowerment among Buraku (Chiara Fusari), elderly reemployment (Kazue Haga), and a spatial analysis of Takarazuka fandom (Zuzanna Baraniak-Hirata). Our book review section includes a monograph on the history of the Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (reviewed by Samuel P. Porter) and a handbook on postwar Japan (reviewed by Florian Coulmas).

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2025年9月22日

Open access publication studies communicative places in rural Germany and Japan

This open access volume (in German; English and Japanese translations forthcoming) contains four short research articles presenting approaches to communicative places in Germany and Japan, as well as seven essays by researchers involved in the projects, local actors, or visitors to these places. The publication facilitates both a conceptual discussion of communicative places and a deeper understanding of practical social projects in both countries. The authors understand the concept of communicative places as an umbrella term for the spatial aspects of (re)vitalisation practices in rural communities – that alternatively are also referred to as ‘social places’ or ‘places of resilience’. The volume’s theoretical texts complement the case studies and excursion reports. The publication is co-edited by Claudia Neu, Norio Okada, Yoshiyuki Yama, and DIJ’s Sebastian Polak-Rottmann who also contributed a short research article on places of resilience in rural Japan.

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2025年9月4日

Neue DIJ-Monographie untersucht Kulturelles Übersetzen in der japanischen Literatur

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Übersetzungen sind niemals nur Übersetzungen von Wörtern, sondern umfassen auch kulturelle Bezugshorizonte. Als Beitrag zur Bildung, Abgrenzung und Konsolidierung kultureller und sozialer Identitäten bietet das Kulturelle Übersetzen verschiedene thematische, theoretische und methodische Ansätze für die literatur- und textimmanente Forschung und regt zur Reflexion über disziplinäre Grenzen an. Der Sammelband „Schwarze Löcher im Gewebe der Sprachen“: Kulturelles Übersetzen in der japanischen Literatur, herausgegeben von DIJ-Literaturwissenschaftlerin Carolin Fleischer-Heininger und Kevin Schumacher-Shoji, untersucht das Kulturelle Übersetzen anhand von neun Fallstudien, darunter auch zu Japans Verlagspluralismus und Praktiken der Retranslation von DIJ-Forscherin Nicole M. Mueller. Das Buch ist erschienen bei Iudicium als Band 68 der DIJ-Monographienreihe.

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2025年10月18日

Deutschsprachiges Kaffeekränzchen „Philosophie-Jause“

Die Jause geht weiter! In Frankreich ist das café philosophique eine Veranstaltung zum Philosophieren, an der jede Person teilnehmen kann. Auch in Japan gibt es bereits ähnliche Programme auf dem Land. The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP) und das Deutsche Institut für Japanstudien (DIJ) organisieren nun gemeinsam ein philosophisches Café auch in Tokyo, allerdings mit einer kleinen Besonderheit: Wir möchten deutschsprachigen Personen die Möglichkeit des Austauschs bieten und daher das Café auf Deutsch abhalten. Das Organisationsteam (Yukiko Kuwayama, UTCP und Sebastian Polak-Rottmann, DIJ) freut sich, Sie dieses Mal ins DIJ Tokyo einzuladen, um gemeinsam in entspannter Atmosphäre über ein Thema zu diskutieren. Fachliche Vorkenntnisse benötigen Sie nicht. Bei Interesse melden Sie sich bitte bis zum 16. Oktober an. Weitere Informationen hier

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2025年9月2日

DIJ research on the legacies of World War Two in East Asia quoted in German media

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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia, DIJ historian Torsten Weber was interviewed by several German media. For German radio Deutschlandfunk, he explained why the day of Japan’s official surrender, September 2, only plays a minor role in Japan’s commemoration of World War Two. In articles published by Deutsche Welle and German newspaper taz on the occasion of the emperor’s declaration of defeat on August 15, he commented on differences in addressing war guilt between postwar Germany and Japan. An article published by science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft introduced Torsten’s research on historical revisionism in Japan and history politics in East Asia. Also in August, an article co-authored with Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus on the impact of Japan’s defeat on postwar and contemporary East Asia (“Divided States, Divisive Memories”) was published on the Max Weber Foundation’s The Ends of War blog. It had first appeared in German in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “Beschönigung der Kriegsverbrechen”

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2025年9月1日

Meat, Expo, and Resilience: New articles on ‘Sustainability in Japan and Beyond’ blog

What does sustainability mean in Japan and how can it be researched? The multidisciplinary blog ‘Sustainability in Japan and beyond’ highlights current research on sustainability in Japanese society. The blog posts are based on projects by members of the DIJ research cluster ‘Sustainability in Japan’ and contain reflections and reports from ongoing research. Sebastian Polak-Rottmann, head of the research cluster and editor of the blog, also invites contributions from external researchers dealing with sustainability in Japan or other countries and regions. The first five blog posts include reports on research excursions to post-disaster areas in Ishikawa, rural parts of Tokyo, and to the Expo in Osaka; a report of a conference on sustainability; and an article on meat consumption.

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2025年7月2日

Open access article explains well-being experience of making others happy

A new journal article by DIJ anthropologist Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and DIJ alumnus Dionyssios Askitis (Vienna University) introduces yorokonde morau (making others happy) as a novel concept of well-being originating from lay discourse on happiness in Japan. Their article Yorokonde Morau: the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it)” was published open access in the summer issue of the Social Science Japan Journal. The study explains yorokonde morau as an interactive and reciprocal understanding of well-being. The concept is the outcome of a mixed-methods research project focusing on the ‘positive feedback loop’ of reciprocal well-being observed in high-trust communities. Combining qualitative and quantitative findings, the authors found that the reciprocal experience of yorokonde morau is characterized less by negative social capital and more strongly linked to generalized trust in others than interdependent happiness. Grounded in the real-life experiences of everyday Japanese people, this approach represents a new reciprocal facet of sociocentric well-being.

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2025年10月14日
  • DIJ フォーラム
    18:30 ~ 21:00

    Writing a Global History of the Second World War by Taking Japan Seriously

2025年10月18日
  • DIJ-UTCP Kaffeekränzchen
    15:30 ~ 17:30

    „Philosophie-Jause“, 4. Session

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