Former Senior Research Fellows
Yuki Abe Political Science
June 2010 - March 2013
Norbert R. Adami
Humanities
September 1990 - August 1993
October 2005 - December 2006
May 2001 - November 2015
Miki Aoyama-Olschina
Philosophy, Japanese Studies
January 2014 - April 2016
DIJ Projects
Effective Multinational Teamwork in the Japanese Context (EMTJ Study)
Completed DIJ Projects
Diversität, Körper und Gesundheit: Bioethische Diskussionen in Japan
Peter Backhaus
Linguistics
September 2005 - March 2010
Verena Blechinger
Politics
February 1997 - January 2002
Richmod Bollinger
Japanese Studies
May 1998 - April 2001
September 2000 - December 2006
Harald Conrad
Economics/ Social Science: Social Policy
July 2000 - March 2007
Helmut Demes
Economics
October 1989 - September 1994
Daniel Dirks
Economics
December 1994 - December 1998
Harald Dolles
Business Administration
August 2001 - July 2006
Isa Ducke
Politics
May 2001 - May 2006
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Challenges of Demographic Change
Volker Elis
Business and Economics, Geography
April 2006 - March 2011
DIJ Projects
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
July 1995 - June 2000
December 1994 - August 1998
Andrea Germer
Gender Studies, History
September 2001 - June 2007
Maren Godzik
Japanology, Sociology
November 2006 - March 2013
Hilaria Gössmann
Japanese Literature
November 1992 - October 1995
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual
January 1998 - September 2004
René Haak
Business Administration, Management and Technology
September 1999 - October 2005
Kazue Haga
Business and Economics
May 2013 - April 2016
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Entrepreneurship and Employment in Demographically Ageing Societies
January 2005 - December 2005
September 2014 - August 2019
Martin Hemmert
Economics
October 1993 - May 1998
Hanns Günther Hilpert
Economics
July 1999 - February 2002
Phoebe Stella Holdgrün
Japanese Studies, Political Science
January 2012 - January 2015
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Work-related Diversity in Japan: New Risks and Opportunities for Whom?
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
Barbara Holthus
Sociology
March 2007 - November 2013
Carola Hommerich
Sociology
April 2008 - August 2015
Matthias Hoop
Editor
October 2002 - November 2004
August 1995 - October 1996
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Literature and Media
April 2008 - September 2013
Edzard Janssen
Economics
April 1995 - November 1996
Hanno Jentzsch
Social Science
October 2016 - March 2020
DIJ Projects
What is the "local"? - Rethinking the politics of subnational spaces in Japan
Completed DIJ Projects
Axel Klein
Japanese Studies, Political Science
June 2007 - September 2011
Susanne Klien
Modern Japanese Studies, Cultural Anthropology
December 2009 - August 2013
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
The Appropriation of Traditions in Contemporary Rural Japan: Pursuit of Happiness?
Matthias Koch
Social and Economic History of Japan, Business History, Germany and Japan in Comparative Studies, German-Japanese Relations
October 2001 - February 2008
Florian Kohlbacher
Business and Economics
April 2007 - August 2014
Claudia Kolatek
Economics
September 1991 - May 1992
July 1990 - June 1995
May 1995 - May 2001
Daniel Kremers
Japanese Studies, Political Science
July 2015 - June 2020
Andreas N. Küppers
Geology
March 1989 - August 1992
October 1996 - February 2001
Nicola Liscutin
Japanese Literature
October 1998 - September 2001
Ralph Lützeler
Geography, Population Studies
March 2007 - August 2010
June 1993 - May 1998
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual
Heinrich Menkhaus
Law
February 1989 - December 1993
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Economics
February 1995 - January 2000
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
State and Enterprises: The Structural Change of Japan's Consumer Goods Distribution
Andreas Moerke
Business Administration
September 2001 - August 2006
Ulrich Möhwald
Social Science
May 1989 - September 1993
Johann Nawrocki
History
August 1998 - September 2000
June 1995 - August 1998
March 1990 - February 1995
April 1989 - March 1994
Beate von der Osten
Kulturgeschichte
April 1997 - April 1998
June 1994 - May 1996
July 1988 - June 1993
Jörg Raupach-Sumiya
Economics
July 1999 - December 2000
Sven Saaler
Modern Japanese Political History, History of Foreign Relations
November 2000 - April 2005
August 2016 - December 2017
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Annette Schad-Seifert
Social Sciences
March 2005 - November 2006
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Challenges of Demographic Change
Generational Conflict and Social Disparities behind Japan’s Low Fertility Society
Monika Schrimpf
Study of Religions
September 2002 - November 2004
January 1998 - December 2009
April 1989 - May 1992
January 2004 - March 2006
Tobias Söldner
Personality and Cross-Cultural Psychology
February 2014 - February 2019
Hiromi Tanaka
Sociology
April 2008 - March 2011
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities
Life Course Changes in Contemporary Japanese Society: A Study of Single Working Women in Tokyo
Tim Tiefenbach
Economics and Ethics
October 2011 - December 2016
Gabriele Vogt
Political Science
January 2005 - April 2009
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Civil Society and Population Ageing in Japan
Franz Waldenberger
Economics and Business
November 1992 - October 1997
December 2010 - August 2015