Miki Aoyama-Olschina

After studying Philosophy, Japanese Studies and History of Religions Miki Aoyama-Olschina received her PhD in Japanese Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since January 2014 she is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies and heads the project “Happiness and unhappiness in bioethical questions: Decision making for organ donation and organ transplantation in Germany and Japan”. She is particularly interested in ethical discussions about medicine and technology, relations between universalism and relativism, theories on cultural and language policies in Japan.