Chris Winkler
Head of Social Science Section
Japanese Studies, Political Science
Since December 2010
(Senior Research Fellows, December 1, 2010 - August 31, 2015)Chris Winkler received his PhD degree from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Munich in 2009. His doctoral research was about “Constitutional Reform as a Symbol for Postwar Conservatism”. Following a stint as visiting researcher at Chuo University’s Faculty of Policy Studies, he joined the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in December 2010. At the institute, his main research interest is related to how political parties have historically dealt with the topic of happiness.
DIJ Projects
Completed DIJ Projects
Happiness in Japan: Continuities and Discontinuities
Selected Publications
Books
2011
[With: Klein, Axel; Winkler, Chris] Analyse politischer Systeme: Japan. DIJ Publications. Schwalbach: Wochenschau Verlag. 208 p.
[With: Klein, Axel; Winkler, Chris] Analyse politischer Systeme: Japan. DIJ Publications. Schwalbach: Wochenschau Verlag. 208 p.
2010
[With: Winkler, Chris] The Quest for Japan's New Constitution: An Analysis of Visions and Constitutional Reform Proposals 1980-2009. Abingdon: Routledge. 240 p.
[With: Winkler, Chris] The Quest for Japan's New Constitution: An Analysis of Visions and Constitutional Reform Proposals 1980-2009. Abingdon: Routledge. 240 p.
Editorship
2014
[With: Tiefenbach, Tim] Contemporary Japan 26, No. 1. Contemporary Japan. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 169 p.
[With: Tiefenbach, Tim] Contemporary Japan 26, No. 1. Contemporary Japan. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 169 p.
Articles
2014
Between Pork and People: An Analysis of the Policy Balance in the LDP’s Election Platforms
In: Journal of East Asian Studies. 14:3. pp. 405-428.
Between Pork and People: An Analysis of the Policy Balance in the LDP’s Election Platforms
In: Journal of East Asian Studies. 14:3. pp. 405-428.
2013
Right Rising? Ideology and the 2012 House of Representatives Election
In: Reed, Steven R.; Pekkanen, Robert; Scheiner, Ethan (Ed.) Japan Decides. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 197-215.
Right Rising? Ideology and the 2012 House of Representatives Election
In: Reed, Steven R.; Pekkanen, Robert; Scheiner, Ethan (Ed.) Japan Decides. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 197-215.
2013
Neue Führer – alte Politik? Die Präsidentenwahlen von DPJ und LDP und ihre Auswirkungen auf Japans Politik (New Leaders - Old politics? The leadership elections of DPJ and LDP and their implications for Japanese politics)
In: Perspective - FES Tokyo.
Neue Führer – alte Politik? Die Präsidentenwahlen von DPJ und LDP und ihre Auswirkungen auf Japans Politik (New Leaders - Old politics? The leadership elections of DPJ and LDP and their implications for Japanese politics)
In: Perspective - FES Tokyo.
2012
The evolution of the conservative mainstream in Japan
In: Japan Forum. 24:1. pp. 51-73.
The evolution of the conservative mainstream in Japan
In: Japan Forum. 24:1. pp. 51-73.
2012
Consistent Conservatism in Changing Times: An analysis of Japanese conservative intellectuals' thought
In: Social Science Japan Journal 2011. (Winter 2012) 15 (1). pp. 93-110.
Consistent Conservatism in Changing Times: An analysis of Japanese conservative intellectuals' thought
In: Social Science Japan Journal 2011. (Winter 2012) 15 (1). pp. 93-110.
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyr032
2009
Die Unterhauswahl 2009: Als der Wandel nach Japan kam!? (The Lower House election 2009: When change came to Japan!?)
In: Chiavacci, David; Wieczorek, Iris (Ed.) Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. pp. 47-62.
Die Unterhauswahl 2009: Als der Wandel nach Japan kam!? (The Lower House election 2009: When change came to Japan!?)
In: Chiavacci, David; Wieczorek, Iris (Ed.) Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. pp. 47-62.
2009
Der G-20 Gipfel von Pittsburgh: Die Japanische Perspektive (The G20 Summit of Pittsburgh: The Japanese Perspective)
In: Wahlers, Gerhard (Ed.) Erwartungen an den G20-Gipfel in Pittsburgh. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. pp. 43-44.
Der G-20 Gipfel von Pittsburgh: Die Japanische Perspektive (The G20 Summit of Pittsburgh: The Japanese Perspective)
In: Wahlers, Gerhard (Ed.) Erwartungen an den G20-Gipfel in Pittsburgh. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. pp. 43-44.
2008
Die Japanische Innenpolitik 2007/2008 und Japans Parteien (Japanese domestic politics in the years 2007/08 and Japan's political parties)
In: Pohl, Manfred; Wieczorek, Iris (Ed.) Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. pp. 27-42.
Die Japanische Innenpolitik 2007/2008 und Japans Parteien (Japanese domestic politics in the years 2007/08 and Japan's political parties)
In: Pohl, Manfred; Wieczorek, Iris (Ed.) Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft. Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung. pp. 27-42.
2008
９条２項こそは平和主義の証
In: Katō, Shūichi; et al. (Ed.) 法学館憲法研究所双書：憲法９条・新鮮感覚. Kadensha. pp. 95-98.
９条２項こそは平和主義の証
In: Katō, Shūichi; et al. (Ed.) 法学館憲法研究所双書：憲法９条・新鮮感覚. Kadensha. pp. 95-98.
2006
Die japanische Videospielindustrie (The Japanese Videogame Industry)
In: Walke, Anja; Moerke, Andreas (Ed.) Japans Zukunftsindustrien. DIJ Publications. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 225-248.
Die japanische Videospielindustrie (The Japanese Videogame Industry)
In: Walke, Anja; Moerke, Andreas (Ed.) Japans Zukunftsindustrien. DIJ Publications. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 225-248.
2003
The Japanese Videogame Industry – An Overview
In: Waldenberger, Franz (Ed.) Japan Analysen Prognosen (No. 187).
The Japanese Videogame Industry – An Overview
In: Waldenberger, Franz (Ed.) Japan Analysen Prognosen (No. 187).
Academic Awards
Presentations
July 1, 2015
A comparative perspective on Japan’s ‘turn to the right’.
Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference 2015, LaTrobe University.
June 23, 2015
Partnership, Profit or Peril? Changing Depictions of China in the LDP’s Election Platforms.
AAS-in-Asia Conference 2015, Academia Sinica.
May 17, 2015
世界の中の日本の政党 ―政党公約コーディングによる国際比較.
Japanese Association of Electoral Studies Conference 2015, Kumamoto.
July 18, 2014
Getting the Right Drift: Japanese Elites’ Move to the Right: Fact or Fiction?.
AAS-in-Asia Conference 2014, National University of Singapore.
August 21, 2014
The Promise of a Happy Family between Materialism and Modernity: An Analysis of Japanese Party Manifesto.
13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Yokohama National University.
August 8, 2014
The Promise of a Happy Family in the LDP’s election platforms 1956 through 2013.
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) International Conference 2014, University of Ljubljana.
July 29, 2014
Major Political parties’ promise of happiness between materialism and post-materialism – Observations from cross-country manifesto analysis.
Improving the people’s lot? Different conceptions of well-being between promises and reality.
July 29, 2014
Introduction to the workshop.
Improving the people’s lot? Different conceptions of well-being between promises and reality.
February 6, 2014
Introduction, overview.
Hate Speech and Japanese-Korean Relations: Ideology, Implications and Origins.
February 19, 2014
Blast from the Past? A Closer Look at the Rise of Japan’s Political Right.
, Temple University Japan Campus.
February 6, 2014
Who is Right on the Right? The Zaitokukai and the “Old” Right.
Hate Speech and Japanese-Korean Relations: Ideology, Implications and Origins.
November 13, 2013
Der Geist steht Rechts? Rechtsruck in Japan zwischen Realität und Fiktion.
, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Asiens (OAG). Tokyo..
November 1, 2013
日独比較で観た選挙とメディア.
Symposium Politics and Elections in the Digital Media Age – The Present State of Democracy in Japan, Science Council of Japan.
June 30, 2013
Making Voters Happy? LDP’s election platforms between clientelism and post-materialism.
Asian Studies Japan Conference 2013, Oberlin University, Tokyo.
May 19, 2013
国際比較・時系列比較可能な政策コーディング法とその応用.
, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
August 29, 2012
Wähler im Glück? Das „Glück der Wähler“ in den Wahlprogrammen von Japans LDP (Happy voters? „Voters’ Happiness“ in the LDP’s election platforms).
15th German Japanese Studies Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
March 30, 2012
3.11 and the Politics Behind Nuclear Energy.
Presentation to visiting students from Copenhagen University, DIJ Tokyo.
April 14, 2011
Constitutional Reform as a Symbol for Postwar Conservatism.
Conference: Is the Japanese Constitution Suitable for the 21st Century?, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
November 21, 2011
How to make voters happy? An analysis of political parties’ promise of happiness made in election manifestos.
Happiness – Does Culture Matter?.
November 21, 2011
Chair.
Happiness – Does Culture Matter?.
Curriculum Vitae
Since December 2010
Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
2010
Research into intellectual conservatism in postwar Japan as visiting researcher at the Chuo University’s Faculty of Policy Studies
2006 – 2009
Doctoral course at the University of Munich’s Department of East Asian Studies with a major in Japanese Studies and a minor in Political Science. Topic of the doctoral dissertation: “Constitutional Reform as a Symbol for Postwar Conservatism”. From 2007 until 2009 visiting research fellow at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University in Tokyo as a recipient of a MEXT post-graduate scholarship
2000 – 2006
M.A. course majoring in Japanese Studies with minors Political Science and Chinese Studies (both minors) at the University of Munich. One-year language training at the University of Hokkaido funded by MEXT
1980
Born in Munich, Germany