Events overview

Connecting Siberia with the West: A.V. Baikalov’s Thoughts on the Cooperative Movement and the Northern Sea Route

“Reluctant Warriors No More? Japan and Germany Before and After Ukraine”

Prof. James Farrer, Ph.D (Sophia University): "Small-scale Tokyo eateries as community spaces: from vigilance to mobilization"

Migration to Japan in documentary filmmaking - Filmscreening II

Migration to Japan in documentary filmmaking - Filmscreening I

The Japan Center cordially invites you to the following lecture as part of the research colloquium in the Winter Semester 2024/25:

A hybrid lecture by Prof. Dr. Giulio Pugliese, Oxford University: "Leadership and Japan’s China Policy: From Diplomacy to Grand Strategy"

Die Bedeutung des Hirsches im japanischen Altertum – Mythologie, Religion, Alltagsrealität

『不思議なクニの憲法』film screening + q&a with the director Hisako Matsui (http://fushigina.jp/)

A hybrid lecture by Prof. Dr. Raymond Yamamoto, Aarhus University: "Japan’s Foreign Assistance: From Economic Cooperation to Miliary Capacity Building"

Haga Yaichi and the kokuminseiron: a study on how Japan was imagined in the Meiji period

A hybrid lecture by Prof. Dr. Helene Tenzer, LMU München: "From Professional Aspirations to Identity Confirmation and Transformation: The Case of Japanese Career Women Working for Foreign Subsidiaries in Japan"

Die neue Frauenbewegung in Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich

Managing passenger conduct on Tokyo’s urban railway network: transport provider “vigilance” or customer service?

A hybrid lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt, LMU München: "Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of Their Political Dimensions"

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Alexandra Sakaki, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Berlin: "Japan’s Zeitenwende in Security Policy"

A hybrid lecture by Annika Clasen M.A., Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf: "Current trends of pro-gender norms in Japan’s foreign policy"

„Liberal Democracies under Demographic Pressure: Insights from Germany and Japan“ in the JDZB-Series „The Future of Democracy“, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin

Symposium "Liberal Democracies under Demographic Pressure: Insights from Germany and Japan“

Erinnerung an Erdbeben, Tsunami und Atomunfall: Bericht einer Studienreise nach Tōhoku unter der Leitung von Dr. Anna Wiemann

A hybrid lecture by Jane Khanizadeh, M.A., LMU München "Sports and International Relations: The Soft Power of Major International Sporting Events"

Spektakel und Machtdemonstration: Das Toyokuni Fest von 1604 als politische Propaganda

"Remembering the War - How Museums and Memorials of WWII Resonate with the Youth in Tokyo and Munich"

"Remembering the War - How Museums and Memorials of WW II Resonate with the Youth in Tokyo and Munich

The so-called narite busoku problem: Understanding why the shortage of candidates for town and village assembly elections in Japan is worsening

Japan‘s Covid-19 response and the recalibration of East Asia

Darstellungen von Behinderung in Werken der japanischen Gegenwartsliteratur: Projektvorstellung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Murata Sayakas Konbini ningen (2016)

Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual

Probleme und Chancen des neuen Geschichtsunterrichts an japanischen Oberschulen seit 2022

The Japan Center cordially invites you to the following special lectures on Japanese politics and accompanying events with guest scholars from Japan and Germany.

The Japan Center cordially invites you to the following special lectures on Japanese politics and accompanying events with guest scholars from Japan and Germany.

Sportökonomie in Japan: Mikro- und Makroökonomische Perspektiven zur Strukturanalyse, Maßnahmenentwicklung und Zukunftschancen

Lesung und Gespräch mit Shaw Kuzki, einer Vertreterin der Atombombenliteratur

Tradition & Innovation in Contemporary Japanese Religions: A Case Study of Japanese Zen Buddhism & American Mindfulness

Moralunterricht des „Denkens und Diskutierens“? – Eine Schulbuchanalyse

Pioneering Female: Japanese Female Physicians in Germany during the Meiji Era

Das Japan-Zentrum lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2024 zu folgendem Vortrag herzlich ein:

Reality Representation on NHK Television News: Change, Continuities, and New Ways of Legitimizing the Social Order

This workshop explores the diversity of tools of governance in Japan today.

Das Japan-Zentrum lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2024 zu folgendem Vortrag herzlich ein:

Witnessing the Tae-Han Empire: Texts and Photographs by Isabella Bird, Burton Holmes, and Jack London

Die Faszination eines Fandoms: Fans der Takarazuka Revue und ihre eigene Geschichte

Between international students and refugees: Research methodology in migration studies

日本の地域社会の見えない壁：沖縄の山原（やんばる）を事例として

Gender in Japanese mayoral elections – qualitative content analysis of campaign posters

Max Webers „Politik als Beruf“ (1919) im Spiegel deutscher und japanischer Politiker:innen

Einblicke in das Projekt "Digitales Tsingtauarchiv": Deutsche Soldaten im Kriegsgefangenenlager Narashino (Japan), 1915-1920

Aspirations and Capabilities of Further Mobility among Middle-Class European Migrants to Japan

The Demand for Legalism: Changing Governance and Social Policy in Japan

Multilevel Tensions and Cleavages in Japanese Subnational Elections

Deviance and Norms in Times of Change in Japan

Das Japan-Zentrum lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2024 zu folgendem Vortrag herzlich ein:

Prof. Dr. Ina Hein (Universität Wien) und Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt (LMU): Politics and Culture in Contemporary Okinawa

Dr. Hanno Jentzsch (Universität Wien) - Book Talk zu „Harvesting State Support“ Harvesting State Support – Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture

Akiko Sasaki Hiratsuka (IDE-JETRO): "Just energy transition on the ground: what can we now learn from the former coal-producing region in Japan?"

JProf. Dr. Ronald Saladin (Universität Trier): "Raum, Norm, Individuum – Dystopische Raumkonzepte bei Murata Sayaka"

Barbara Thornbury (Temple University, Philadelphia): "Gender, aging, and family in Kore-eda's Kiki Kirin Films"

"How to Analyze Qualitative Empirical Data?"

„Art and Voice in the Memorialization of 3.11“ with Fuyubi Nakamura (UBC), Julia Gerster (Tohoku University) and LMU students

Kevin Schumacher (LMU München): "Schriftsteller und Künstler der Meiji-Zeit (1868-1912) – Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Natsume Sōseki, Hashiguchi Goyō und Tsuda Seifū"

Assoc. Prof. Erin Aeran Chung, PhD (Johns Hopkins University): "Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies" (Book Talk)

Jennifer M. McGuire (Doshisha Universität, Japan): "Equal Study" and Sign Bilingualism in Japan

Prof. Reiko Ogawa (Chiba University): "When Local Meets Global: The Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan"

Assoc. Prof. Nana Oishi, PhD (University of Melbourne): "COVID, Migration, and Nationalism in Japan"

Mina Qiao (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): "Fantastical spaces in contemporary Japanese literature: From Murakami Haruki to Ogawa Yōko"

Prof. Yuko O. Hirano, PhD (Nagasaki University) and Prof. Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, PhD (University of Shizuoka): "Japan's Scope of Nursing Viewed by Foreign Nurses" (Book Talk)

Assoc. Prof. Yoshiaki Kubo, PhD (University of the Ryukyus) and Assoc. Prof. Isamu Okada, PhD (Nagoya University): "COVID-19 Health Certification Reduces Outgroup Bias: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Japan"

Nathaniel M. Smith (Ritsumeikan Universität, Japan): "Kabukichō – Tōkyō: Anthropogical perspectives"

Polina Ivanova, PhD (Ritsumeikan University and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies): "Reimagining International Students’ Social Engagement and Support in Japan During the Pandemic: The Role of Civil Society Groups"

Christoph Rupprecht (Ehime Universität, Japan): "Imagining Japan’s sustainable futures through food and urban planning"

Asst. Prof. Hilary J. Holbrow, PhD (Indiana University Bloomington): "Temporary Migration and Ethnic Inequality in Japan

Jane H. Yamashiro, PhD: "Japanese Colonization and Okinawan Diaspora Strategies: The Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival"*

Dr. Zi Wang: "Migration and Integration of Chinese and Japanese Residents in Germany: The Role of Community Heritage Educational Organisations"

Dr. Sakura Yamamura: "Migrant-led Diversification in Japan: Urban Superdiversity in Tokyo 2021?"

Dr. Aimi Muranaka: "Labour Crossings: The Making of Cross-border Labour Markets between Japan and Vietnam"

Dr. Robert Kramm, LMU München: "Trans-Imperial Perspectives from an Imperial Center: Anarchist Thought and Practice in Interwar Japan"

Prof. Gracia Liu-Farrer, PhD: "The Question of Immigrant Belonging in an Ethnonationalist Japan"

Prof. Ken Hijino, PhD, Kyoto University: "Municipal Politics of De/Re-population in Japan"

Prof. Glenda Roberts, PhD & Noriko Fujita, PhD: "Migrant Labor in Japan’s Agriculture: New Schemes and Social Inclusion"

Assoc. Prof. Ryoko Yamamoto, PhD: "Exit Through the Narrow Gate: Compartmentalized Internationalization and Global Talents in Japan"

Privatdozent Dr. Daniel Hedinger, LMU München: "Book talk on 'Die Achse. Berlin - Rom - Tokio 1919-1946'"

Assoc. Prof. Eric Han, PhD: "An Open Empire? Imperial Japan’s Immigration Controls, 1899–1951"

Assoc. Prof. Michael Strausz, PhD: "Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan"

Dr. Zi Wang (Universität Duisburg-Essen): "Book Presentation "The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society: An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs"

Prof. Beata Bochorodycz, PhD (Adam Mickiewicz Universität, Poznan): "Anti-nuclear Movement in the Post-Fukushima Japan: Structures, Mobilization and Framing"

Dr. Barbara Geilhorn (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien Tokyo, Universität Düsseldorf): "Towards a Culture of Responsibility – Relating Fukushima, Chernobyl, and the Atomic Bombings in Setoyama Misaki’s Theatre"

Akino Oshiro, M.A. (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): "The 2019 Henoko Referendum: Exposing US Military Base Issue as 'Japan Problem', not 'Okinawa Problem'"

Dr. Nora Kottmann (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien Tokyo), Prof. Dr. Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin): "Buchvorstellung 'Studying Japan: Research Design, Fieldwork and Methods' (2020)"

Thomas Ulitzka, M.A. (Japan-Zentrum, LMU München): "Der Minamata-Skandal - Von der Systemfrage hin zu der Frage nach dem Umgang mit der individuellen Verantwortung"

Raluca Mateoc, PhD (Social Anthropology Unit, Université de Fribourg, Schweiz): "Everyday Actions and Feelings around a World Heritage Nomination in Nagasaki"

Prof. Dr. Manami Suzuki (Hosei Univerity): "Language Proficiency and Communicative Competence: What is important for us to work in Multinational Corporations?"

Prof. Takamasa Sekine (Graduate School of Management, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (NUCB)): "Japan's Strategy on the Free Trade Agreement: Working as a Connection between Two Major Powers?"

Prof. Takamasa Sekine (Graduate School of Management, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (NUCB)): "Japan's Strategy on the Free Trade Agreement: Working as a Connection between Two Major Powers?"

"Diversification of Japan's Labor Market"

Japan’s Labor Market in Flux: Diversification of Japan’s Labor Market: Risks and Opportunities in a Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective

Miki Dezaki (Regisseur): "Shusenjo – The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue"

Prof. Mark R. Mullins, PhD (University of Auckland): "Neo-Nationalism, Yasukuni Fundamentalism, and Restorationist Politics in Contemporary Japanese Society"