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Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

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German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102-0094, Japan


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International workshop

Improving the people’s lot? Different conceptions of well-being between promises and reality

2014年7月29日 - 2014年7月30日

This multi-disciplinary workshop brought together a group of scholars from the fields of political science, history, religious studies and economics to explore how political actors, religions and ideologies have promised to improve the well-being of individuals and how these promises and the policies that may follow, have been perceived by the people. As the establishment of government commissions studying well-being in many industrialized nations including Germany and Japan has shown, these questions have gained significant importance in today’s pluralized societies. In these societies, it has become common knowledge that material wealth alone does not make people happy. Moreover, pre-determined value sets describing how to live a fulfilled life as prescribed by ideologies, unions or churches are not as influential as they used to be. These changes make the aforementioned questions even more relevant for the academic community and society as a whole.


Supported by:
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

発表

1日目          2014年7月29日 (火)

9時半~9時40分
Opening Remarks

フロリアン・クルマス


ドイツ日本研究所

9時40分~10時
Introduction to the workshop

クリス・ウィンクラー


ドイツ日本研究所

10時~12時
Session 1: Ideology, religion and well-being in Japan – Different concepts in past, present and future

The Liberal Conception of the Pursuit of Happiness Reconsidered

Tatsuo Inoue, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

Shinto Concepts of Happiness

Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Imaginations of Well-Being in Imperial Japan

トルステン・ヴェーバー


ドイツ日本研究所

Discussion

14時半~17時15分
Session 2: Voters: Changing perceptions and receptions

Political Parties, Social Groups and Voters’ Satisfaction in Contemporary Japan

Yutaka Tsujinaka, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Unhappy and nationalistic? The Determinants of Anti-Chinese Sentiments in Japan

Rieko Kage, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

How Do Independent Voters Evaluate the Government?

Kenneth Mori Mc Elwain, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Analyzing the link between political participation and happiness: A perspective from Japan

ティム・ティーフェンバッハ


ドイツ日本研究所

Discussion

2日目          2014年7月30日 (水)

9時半~11時半
Session 3: Political parties and the promise of well-being between promises and reality

Insider-Outsider Dilemma: Rengo’s Political Activities under the DPJ Government

Mari Miura, Faculty of Law, Sophia University

Well-being through Welfare? - Komeito and the lot of the "masses"

Axel Klein, IN EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen

Major Political parties’ promise of happiness between materialism and post-materialism – Observations from cross-country manifesto analysis

クリス・ウィンクラー


ドイツ日本研究所

Discussion

13時半~16時15分
Session 4: Public policy and happiness

Public philosophy and happiness

Takao Katsuragi, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University

Local initiatives for improvement of people’s well-beings in Japan: Can local governments collaborate with local people?

Takayoshi Kusago, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University

The Welfare State and Human Well-Being

Alexander Pacek, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M

Between the Promise and Reality of Democracy as a Panacea for Well-Being: Assessing the Consequences of Direct Democracy on Life Satisfaction

(Benjamin Radcliff, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame; together with Gregory Shufeldt

Discussion

16時15分~17時15分
Final discussion

18時半~20時
Panel Discussion (DIJ Forum)

Improving the people’s lot? Well-being between promise and reality

Benjamin Radcliff, Helen Hardacre, Takayoshi Kusago, Kenneth Mori McElwain; Host: Axel Klein

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