Directorate

Franz Waldenberger Director, Economics and Business Phoebe Stella Holdgrün Deputy Director, Japanese Studies, Political Science Joachim Röhr Administrative Director

Senior Research Fellows

Torsten Weber Head of Humanities Section, Modern East Asian History, Japanese Studies Phoebe Stella Holdgrün Deputy Director, Japanese Studies, Political Science

Susanne Brucksch Social Science, Innovation Studies, Science & Technology Studies Isaac Gagné Managing Editor of Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology Sonja Ganseforth Social Science, Human Geography Steffen Heinrich Political Science Hanno Jentzsch Social Science Daniel Kremers Japanese Studies, Political Science Ronald Saladin Literature Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Gender Studies Tobias Söldner Personality and Cross-Cultural Psychology

PhD Students

Katharina Hülsmann Transcultural Phenomena in Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Fan Studies, Media Culture in the Age of the Internet Reik Jagno History Jana Katzenberg Japanese Studies, Sociology, Fashion Vincent Lesch Japanese Studies, Sociology Sarah Tanke Political Science, International Relations, Japanese Studies

Administration

Keiko Asano Secretary Marga Dinkel Secretary Sven Eichelberg Digital Media & Public Relations Claus Harmer System Administrator Yoko Horikoshi Assistant Librarian Elisabeth Jakubassa Administrative Assistant Nami Nishioka Secretary