Former Senior Research Fellows
Senior Research Fellows
Yuki Abe Political ScienceCompleted DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Diversität, Körper und Gesundheit: Bioethische Diskussionen in Japan
Effective Multinational Teamwork in the Japanese Context (EMTJ Study)


Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Principal Researchers
Susanne Brucksch Social ScienceInnovation Studies, Science & Technology Studies (STS)
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


Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Challenges of Demographic Change

Completed 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

Head of research group 'Future of Local Communities'

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Older people’s housing situation and future prospects in the Tōhoku region
Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual


Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Entrepreneurship and Employment in Demographically Ageing Societies


Current DIJ Projects
Social movements and gender in post-3.11 Japan
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

Current DIJ Projects
Regional diversity of well-being in Japan
Social movements and gender in post-3.11 Japan
Completed DIJ Projects
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



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

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities
Religious organizations and the politics of happiness

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

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Population History of Japan: Past, Present, and Future
Letters from Japan by a German Geographer: Johannes Justus Rein, 1873–1875

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Consumption and economic sustainability after March 11
Happiness in Japan before and after 3/11: An economic approach

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Work-related Diversity in Japan: New Risks and Opportunities for Whom?
Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in Japan – Local Strategies vs. National Policies
Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Social Transformation in Modern Japan: State, Family and Individual

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

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

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Challenges of Demographic Change
Generational Conflict and Social Disparities behind Japan’s Low Fertility Society


Completed 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


Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Civil Society and Population Ageing in Japan

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects

Completed DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
The Making of Modern Social Sciences in East Asia - Concepts, Agents and Transnational Networks