Recent Publications

2009

Backhaus, Peter; Coulmas, Florian; Shōji, Hiroshi
Nihon no gengo keikan (Japan’s linguistic landscape)

Coulmas, Florian
The Quest for Happiness in Japan

Hommerich, Carola
„Freeter“ und „Generation Praktikum“ - Arbeitswerte im Wandel? Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich

2008

Schad-Seifert, Annette; Conrad, Harald; Vogt, Gabriele; Coulmas, Florian
The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan

Tanaka, Hiromi
Low fertility, the wish for children, and social inequalities in contemporary Japanese society

Prieler, Michael; Kohlbacher, Florian; Hagiwara, Shigeru; Arima, Akie
The Representation of Older People in Japanese Television Advertising

Holthus, Barbara; Germer, Andrea
男女不平等とワーク・ライフ・バランス — ドイツにおける社会変化と少子化問題 (Gender Inequalities and Work-life Balance: Social Change and Low Fertility in Germany)

Heinrich, Patrick; Sugita, Yuko
Japanese as Foreign Language in the Age of Globalization

Lützeler, Ralph
Ungleichheit in der global city Tōkyō. Aktuelle sozialräumliche Entwicklungen im Spannungsfeld von Globalisierung und lokalen Sonderbedingungen

2007

Vogt, Gabriele; Lersch, Philipp
Migrant Support Organizations in Japan – A Survey

Coulmas, Florian
Die Gesellschaft Japans. Arbeit, Familie und demographische Krise

Osiander, Anja
Der Fall Minamata. Bürgerrechte und Obrigkeit in Japan nach 1945

Harmer, Claus; Koch, Matthias; Coulmas, Florian
Trilingual Glossary of Demographic Terminology: English-Japanese-German, Japanese-English-German, German-Japanese-English.『三か国語対照人口学用語集　英日独・日英独・独日英』Dreisprachiges Glossar der Demographie: Englisch-Japanisch-Deutsch, Japanisch-Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Japanisch-Englisch

Coulmas, Florian
Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences

Feldmann, Thomas
Kultur als Determinante der Wirtschaft? Unternehmensphilosophien in Japan (Does culture influence the economy? Corporate philosophies in Japan)

Backhaus, Peter
Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo

Ogoura, Kazuo
Japan's Postwar Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange Policies

Coulmas, Florian
Language Regimes in Transformation

Saaler, Sven; Koschmann, J. Victor
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

Ducke, Isa
Civil Society and the Internet in Japan

2006

Koch, Matthias; Conrad, Sebastian
Johannes Justus Rein. Briefe eines deutschen Geographen aus Japan 1873-1875ドイツ地理学者ヨハネス・ユストゥス・ライン。日本からの手紙1873-1875年 (Letters from Japan by a German Geographer: Johannes Justus Rein, 1873–1875)

Ando, Junko; Hoop, Matthias; Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela
Japanische Literatur im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen

Moerke, Andreas; Walke, Anja
Japans Zukunftsindustrien

Germer, Andrea
Staat und Nation: Zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und Nationalstaat in Japan, 1918-1945

Backhaus, Peter
Care, control, and communication: Linguistic interaction between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly

Conrad, Harald
Turning Boomers into Boomerangs - Japanese Human Resource Management Practices and the Aging Workforce

Moerke, Andreas
Internationalization Strategies of the German and Japanese Automobile and Supplier Industries

Vogt, Gabriele
Facing the Challenge of Immigration? The State, Civil Society and Structures of Interdependence

Schad-Seifert, Annette
Coping with Low Fertility? Japan’s Government Measures for a Gender Equal Society

Vogt, Gabriele
Doors wide shut? The current discourse on labor migration to Japan

Vogt, Gabriele
Japan’s Green Networks: Going Transnational?

Schad-Seifert, Annette
Japans kinderarme Gesellschaft – Die niedrige Geburtenrate und das Gender-Problem (Japan’s low fertility society – The falling birthrate and the problem of gender)

2005

Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten
Implementing a Professional Football League in Japan - Challenges to Research in International Business

Dolles, Harald; Wilmking, Niklas
International Joint Ventures in China after WTO Accession: Will Trust Relations Change?

Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten
Ahead of the Game - The Network of Value Captures in Professional Football

Haak, René; Pudelko, Markus
Japanese Management. The Search for a New Balance between Continuity and Change

Moerke, Andreas; Kamann, Simon
Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels: Fallbeispiel Automobilindustrie

Conrad, Harald; Heindorf, Viktoria
Farewell to the Seniority Principle? Aging Workforces and the Restructuring of Japanese Compensation Practices

Franz, Edgar
Philipp Franz von Siebold and Russian Policy and Action on Opening Japan to the West in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten
Globalization of Sports - The Case of Professional Football and its International Management Challenges

Ducke, Isa; Moerke, Andreas
Aging Population, Knowledge Spill-Over and Civil Society

Der Russisch-Japanische Krieg 1904/05 im Spiegel deutscher Bilderbogen 日露戦争百周年記念展覧会　『ヨーロッパから観た日露戦争　―　版画新聞、絵葉書、錦絵』

Saaler, Sven
Politics, Memory and Public Opinion. The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society

Haak, René; Bellmann, Klaus
Management in Japan – Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren für deutsche Unternehmen in einer dynamischen Umwelt (Management in Japan – Challenges and Success Factors for German Companies in a dynamic Environment)

Coulmas, Florian
Sociolinguistics. The Study of speakers' choices

Coulmas, Florian
Hiroshima. Geschichte und Nachgeschichte (Hiroshima, history and aftermath)

2004

Germer, Andrea
"The Inner and the Outer Domain" - Sexuality and the Nation-State in Feminist Historiography in Japan

Germer, Andrea
"A History of Woman": Nature, Culture, and the Category of the Slave

Haak, René; Tachiki, Dennis S.
Regional Strategies in a Global Economy. Multinational Corporations in East Asia