Former Senior Research Fellows

Adult Guardianship in Japan

Norbert R. Adami Humanities

September 1990 - August 1993

Barbara Altmiks DIJ Comprehensive Japanese-German Dictionary

October 2005 - December 2006

Junko Ando History

May 2001 - November 2015

Completed DIJ Projects

Die Zulassung der weiblichen Thronfolge in Japan

Die Diskussion um die Änderung der japanischen Verfassung und der Kriegsverzichtsartikel (Artikel 9)

Diversität, Körper und Gesundheit: Bioethische Diskussionen in Japan

Miki Aoyama-Olschina Philosophy, Japanese Studies

January 2014 - April 2016

Completed DIJ Projects

Effective Multinational Teamwork in the Japanese Context (EMTJ Study)

Diversität und ethische Probleme in der Kultur- und Sprachpolitik Japans: Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft

Happiness and Unhappiness in Bioethical Questions: Decision Making for Organ Donation and Organ Transplantation in Germany and in Japan

Peter Backhaus Linguistics

September 2005 - March 2010

Completed DIJ Projects

Politics and the Internet

Verena Blechinger Politics

February 1997 - January 2002

Completed DIJ Projects

Japan in Asia

Politics in Japan

Richmod Bollinger Japanese Studies

May 1998 - April 2001

Principal Researchers

Susanne Brucksch Social Science
Innovation Studies, Science & Technology Studies (STS)

June 2016 - March 2022

Current DIJ Projects

COVID-19: Japan’s handling of a new challenge in international comparison

Completed DIJ Projects

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts in Japan (book project)

Aging in Japan: Domestic Healthcare Technologies in Place

Technical Innovation and Research Collaboration / Clusters: Biomedical Engineering in Japan

Katja Caßing DIJ Comprehensive Japanese-German Dictionary

September 2000 - December 2006

Harald Conrad Economics/ Social Science: Social Policy

July 2000 - March 2007

Completed DIJ Projects

Wandel der Entlohnungspraktiken japanischer Großunternehmen bei alternden Belegschaftsstrukturen

Jüngste Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland – Mögliche Lehren für Japan

Helmut Demes Economics

October 1989 - September 1994

Completed DIJ Projects

Enterprises and Management

Daniel Dirks Economics

December 1994 - December 1998

Completed DIJ Projects

Harald Dolles Business Administration

August 2001 - July 2006

Completed DIJ Projects

International HRM: Expatriate Selection, Training, Assistance and Repatriation Strategies on International Assignments to Japan

Management of Cross-Cultural Cooperative Ventures: On the Relationship between Trust, Control, Problem-Solving Strategies and Success

Isa Ducke Politics

May 2001 - May 2006

Completed DIJ Projects

Politics and the Internet

Knowledge Society and Demographic Change in Japan

Environmental Movements in Germany and Japan

Volker Elis Business and Economics, Geography

April 2006 - March 2011

Completed DIJ Projects

Employment of the Elderly, the Ageing Workforce and HRM

Demographic Change and its Regional Implications for Municipalities in Rural and Urban Areas

Harald Fuess Social History, Gender Studies

July 1995 - June 2000

Sonja Ganseforth Social Sciences, Human Geography
Head of research group 'Future of Local Communities'

March 2017 - September 2022

Completed DIJ Projects

Japan’s “blue economies”? Japanese firms in the restructuring of the global seafood trade

Fishing communities between growth and demise

What is the "local"? - Rethinking the politics of subnational spaces in Japan

Lisette Gebhardt Japanese Literature

December 1994 - August 1998

Andrea Germer Gender Studies, History

September 2001 - June 2007

Completed DIJ Projects

Images of the Nation: Gender, Race, and Culture in Women’s

Geschichtstheorien der Historischen Frauenforschung

Maren Godzik Japanology, Sociology

November 2006 - March 2013

Completed DIJ Projects

Older people’s housing situation and future prospects in the Tōhoku region

Housing and living arrangements in Japan's ageing society

Hilaria Gössmann Japanese Literature

November 1992 - October 1995

Completed DIJ Projects

Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual

Ines Günther Liaison Office/Economics

January 1998 - September 2004

René Haak Business Administration, Management and Technology

September 1999 - October 2005

Kazue Haga Business and Economics

May 2013 - April 2016

Completed DIJ Projects

Entrepreneurship and Employment in Demographically Ageing Societies

Peter Hartmann DIJ Comprehensive Japanese-German Dictionary

January 2005 - December 2005

Steffen Heinrich Political Science

September 2014 - August 2019

Completed DIJ Projects

The political regulation of minimum wages in Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom

The political consequences of employment diversification in Japan

Privatisation and diversification in the Japanese welfare state: Toward a new safety net through regulation?

Martin Hemmert Economics

October 1993 - May 1998

Completed DIJ Projects

Innovation Strategies and Technology Policy

Hanns Günther Hilpert Economics

July 1999 - February 2002

Phoebe Stella Holdgrün Japanese Studies, Political Science

January 2012 - January 2015

Current DIJ Projects

Social movements and gender in post-3.11 Japan

Completed DIJ Projects

Political participation and well-being: A case study of political activists after 3/11

Parents against Radiation. A case study

Political Participation and Happiness in Japanese Community Groups

Political Participation and Happiness in Japan

Barbara Holthus Sociology

March 2007 - November 2013

Current DIJ Projects

Regional diversity of well-being in Japan

Social movements and gender in post-3.11 Japan

Completed DIJ Projects

Parental well-being in the rural periphery of Germany and Japan: Choices, challenges, and considerations

Parents against Radiation. A case study

Social Aspects of Low Fertility in Japan

Marital Happiness and Discord: Discourses in Japanese Women’s Magazines

Parental Well-Being - Germany and Japan in Comparison

Childcare and Work-Life Balance in Low Fertility Japan

Fertility and Social Stratification

Carola Hommerich Sociology

April 2008 - August 2015

Completed DIJ Projects

Trust and Subjective Well-being after 3/11 – results of a DIJ-survey

Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities

Comparatively Happy – Objective Precarity and Subjective Exclusion in Germany and Japan

Negotiating Nuclear Disaster: Cultural Representations of “Fukushima”

Matthias Hoop Editor

October 2002 - November 2004

Robert Horres Economics

August 1995 - October 1996

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Literature and Media

April 2008 - September 2013

Completed DIJ Projects

Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities

Imaging the Lost Generation: Representations of Japan’s “Unequal Society” in Popular Culture Media

Harvesting State Support – Endogenous Institutional Change and the Role of the “Local” in Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime

Edzard Janssen Economics

April 1995 - November 1996

Hanno Jentzsch Social Science

October 2016 - March 2020

Completed DIJ Projects

What is the "local"? - Rethinking the politics of subnational spaces in Japan

The Changing Political Economy of “Rural Revitalization”

Axel Klein Japanese Studies, Political Science

June 2007 - September 2011

Completed DIJ Projects

Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities

Religious organizations and the politics of happiness

Political Responses to Low Fertility in Japan

Fertility and Social Stratification

Susanne Klien Modern Japanese Studies, Cultural Anthropology

December 2009 - August 2013

Completed DIJ Projects

Volunteering in Tōhoku

The Appropriation of Traditions in Contemporary Rural Japan: Pursuit of Happiness?

Population History of Japan: Past, Present, and Future

Matthias Koch Social and Economic History of Japan, Business History, Germany and Japan in Comparative Studies, German-Japanese Relations

October 2001 - February 2008

Completed DIJ Projects

Letters from Japan by a German Geographer: Johannes Justus Rein, 1873–1875

Consumption and economic sustainability after March 11

Glossary of Demography

Florian Kohlbacher Business and Economics

April 2007 - August 2014

Completed DIJ Projects

Happiness in Japan before and after 3/11: An economic approach

Employment of the Elderly, the Ageing Workforce and HRM

The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities and Responsibilities in an Era of Demographic Change

Advertising to the Silver Market in Japan

Claudia Kolatek Economics

September 1991 - May 1992

Gerhard Krebs History

July 1990 - June 1995

Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg Education

May 1995 - May 2001

Daniel Kremers Japanese Studies, Political Science

July 2015 - June 2020

Completed DIJ Projects

Temporäre internationale Arbeitsmigration und lokaler Arbeitsmarkt in Japan am Beispiel des Technical Intern Training Program

Industrial Trainees from China and Vietnam in Japan: An Entry Point into the Key Issues of International Labour Migration and Skill Transfer

Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in Japan – Local Strategies vs. National Policies

Andreas N. Küppers Geology

March 1989 - August 1992

Jochen Legewie Economics, Economic Geography

October 1996 - February 2001

Completed DIJ Projects

Japan in Asia

The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy

Nicola Liscutin Japanese Literature

October 1998 - September 2001

Ralph Lützeler Geography, Population Studies

March 2007 - August 2010

June 1993 - May 1998

Completed DIJ Projects

Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual

Politics in Japan

Heinrich Menkhaus Law

February 1989 - December 1993

Completed DIJ Projects

State and Enterprises: The Structural Change of Japan's Consumer Goods Distribution

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle Economics

February 1995 - January 2000

Completed DIJ Projects

The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy

Andreas Moerke Business Administration

September 2001 - August 2006

Completed DIJ Projects

Service Engineering as the Systematic Development of Services: The Japanese Case

Knowledge Society and Demographic Change in Japan

Ulrich Möhwald Social Science

May 1989 - September 1993

Completed DIJ Projects

Johann Nawrocki History

August 1998 - September 2000

Christian Oberländer Medicine

June 1995 - August 1998

Hans Dieter Ölschleger Ethnology

March 1990 - February 1995

Annelie Ortmanns Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft

April 1989 - March 1994

Completed DIJ Projects

Beate von der Osten Kulturgeschichte

April 1997 - April 1998

Birgit Poniatowski Wirtschaftswissenschaft/Verb. Büro

June 1994 - May 1996

Bettina Post-Kobayashi Social Science

July 1988 - June 1993

Completed DIJ Projects

Discussions of Diversity in Fiction and the Media - Work and the Workplace in the Context of Alternative Concepts of Life

Jörg Raupach-Sumiya Economics

July 1999 - December 2000

Sven Saaler Modern Japanese Political History, History of Foreign Relations

November 2000 - April 2005

Ronald Saladin Literature Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Gender Studies

August 2016 - December 2017

Completed DIJ Projects

Annette Schad-Seifert Social Sciences

March 2005 - November 2006

Completed DIJ Projects

Generational Conflict and Social Disparities behind Japan’s Low Fertility Society

Monika Schrimpf Study of Religions

September 2002 - November 2004

Jürgen Stalph Librarian

January 1998 - December 2009

Completed DIJ Projects

DIJ Comprehensive Japanese-German Dictionary

April 1989 - May 1992

Harald Suppanschitsch DIJ Comprehensive Japanese-German Dictionary

January 2004 - March 2006

Tobias Söldner Personality and Cross-Cultural Psychology

February 2014 - February 2019

Completed DIJ Projects

Sexism and career aspirations of Japanese university students

Effective Multinational Teamwork in the Japanese Context (EMTJ Study)

Happily Different? On Happiness and Norm Deviation in Japan

Hiromi Tanaka Sociology

April 2008 - March 2011

Completed DIJ Projects

Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities

Life Course Changes in Contemporary Japanese Society: A Study of Single Working Women in Tokyo

Political participation and happiness: The public-private divide and its implication for gender equality

Parental Well-Being - Germany and Japan in Comparison

Tim Tiefenbach Economics and Ethics

October 2011 - December 2016

Completed DIJ Projects

Happiness in Japan before and after 3/11: An economic approach

Political Participation and Happiness in Japanese Community Groups

Temporary Employment in Japan and the Economics of Happiness

Gabriele Vogt Political Science

January 2005 - April 2009

Completed DIJ Projects

Civil Society and Population Ageing in Japan