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DIJ Study Group talk discusses Japan’s economic management
Back in the 1970s, Japanese policymakers earned the reputation of being the most competent within advanced economies for successfully weathering the second oil shock. Where has this reputation gone? The high growth of the late 1980s proved to be transient as a succession of financial crises led to the „lost decade“ of the 1990s. Ben Bernanke (1999) famously described the initial measures to fight deflation that would dominate the 2000s as „a self-induced paralysis“. A more forceful set of policies called „Abenomics“ in the 2010s ultimately failed to achieve its ambitious goals of 2% GDP growth and 2% inflation, a shortcoming blamed on either error in design or pusillanimity in implementation. This presentation focuses on three cases (the lost decade, Abenomics, Covid-19) to discuss to what extent the narrative of a never-ending crisis reflects hindsight bias, theoretical assumptions, and narrowly defined comparisons. Details and registration here
Speaker:
Brieuc Monfort, Sophia University
Web Forum Series ‚DT‘ session on Governance in the Digital Age
Kaori Hayashi (University of Tokyo), Melike Şahinol (OI Istanbul), and DIJ director Franz Waldenberger will be the speakers in the second session of our MWS Web Forum Series ‚The Digital Transformation‘ on September 30. Their presentations will address the theme Governance in the Digital Age from different perspectives. Kaori Hayashi’s paper „Toward a Gender-Equal Society in the AI Era: A Distant Goal for Japan?“ will introduce a new initiative that strives to create a more gender-equal media and information culture. In her presentation „Digital Cultures of Health“, Melike Şahinol will question how digital transformation in healthcare has led to empowerment (and for whom) and what new challenges have arisen as a result. Franz Waldenberger’s paper „Regulation in the context of dispersed and contested knowledge“ will discuss how regulation strategies to cope with dispersed and contested knowledge are influenced by the new challenges and opportunities caused by the digital transformation. Details and registration here
DIJ lecture on Kawabata Yasunari and his writing of adolescents
Kawabata Yasunari’s (1899–1972) literary works have often been discussed in relation to the objectification of the (female) body as well as his orphan background. Having witnessed a number of deaths in his early life, Kawabata’s acute attention to the loved object seems inseparable from his fundamental awareness of its unreachability. In this talk, Fusako Innami will examine how writing as a medium functions as a mode of connection through special attention to Kawabata’s writing of adolescents. Often attracted to the untouched, not yet touched, or unreachable, his writing creates and re-creates the loved object while extending the self with an extent of reciprocity. This session of the DIJ History and Humanities Study Group is part of the DIJ Gender and Sexuality in East Asia Lecture Series. Details and registration here
Speaker:
Fusako Innami, Durham University
New Web Forum Series explores ‚Digital Transformation‘
The new MWS Web Forum Series ‚The Digital Transformation‘ (DT) will kick off on September 23 with three lectures on Knowledge Production in a Data Driven Society. The speakers Yoshiaki Fukami (Gakushuin University/Keio University), Itty Abraham (National University of Singapore), and Nadin Heé (Osaka University) will address the limits of big data and AI, knowledge as a commons in the digital age, and the boundaries between the public and private spheres. The event will be moderated by DIJ director Franz Waldenberger. The event series explores opportunities and risks resulting from the digitalization, connectivity, and virtualization of our social, political, economic, and cultural life. The speakers will discuss the implications of DT from an international and multi-disciplinary perspective. They will also analyze the likely consequences for knowledge production and governance, and compare different national strategies. The next events in this series are scheduled for September 30, October 14, 21, 28, and November 4. Details and registration here
Workshop on International/Global Japanese Studies
The study of Japanese culture, the Japanese economy, and Japanese society by foreign scholars can be traced back as far as the Edo period. However, it was not until the early 21st century that such external perspectives began to attract significant academic attention and public interest inside Japan. Research institutes, faculties, and departments named “International Japanese Studies” or “Global Japanese Studies” have gradually emerged in Japanese higher education and opened up innovative areas of research. As a new field of study with an interdisciplinary and highly international nature, International/Global Japanese Studies is confronted by many challenges and uncertainties. On September 27, the DIJ, together with the Center for Japanese Studies of Fudan University (Shanghai) and the Global Japanese Studies Education and Research Incubator (GJS-ERI) of Osaka University will hold an online workshop to approach International/Global Japanese Studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and cultural backgrounds. Details and registration here
DIJ lecture on the making of transnational spaces in Tokyo
Conceiving mobile corporate professionals as part of the growing transnational migrant population is a rather novel turn in migration research. Likewise, research on their families – including their trailing spouses and third culture kids – is an emerging field. Based on interviews with 43 male transnational corporate professionals in Tokyo, this lecture paper presents their take on the effects that their marrying and starting a family had on their socio-spatial patterns within the urban space. This session of the DIJ Social Science Study Group is part of the DIJ Gender and Sexuality in East Asia Lecture Series. Details and registration here
Speaker:
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Nora Kottmann presents COVID survey findings at JSAA conference
DIJ researcher Nora Kottmann will present her paper „Space, place and the pandemic: First insights into changing spatial configurations of singles’ intimate practices“ at this week’s Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) 2021 Conference. It is part of the panel „Singles and Intimate Practices in COVID times: Perspectives from an Original Survey“ which also includes presentations by her cooperation partners Laura Dales and Akiko Yoshida. The panel presents findings from the analyses of the survey data, with an aim to better understand the lives and non-familial relationship worlds of unmarried adults, and the experiences and practices from COVID-19 related changes to lifestyle and social practices. This research is part of Nora’s project COVID-19 and its effects on singles in Japan: Personal relationships and practices of intimacy in the time of ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-discipline’. The panel session takes place on Thursday, September 30th, from 11.30 am JST. Conference programme here
Journal article reviews studies on new venture entrepreneurship
DIJ director Franz Waldenberger and DIJ alumnus Martin Hemmert (Korea University) are authors of a new open access article that systemically reviews studies on new venture entrepreneurship in East Asia. „New venture entrepreneurship and context in East Asia: a systematic literature review“ (Asian Business & Management, online first), jointly researched and written with Adam R. Cross, Ying Cheng, Jae‑Jin Kim, Masahiro Kotosaka, and Leven J. Zheng, examines articles published in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journals between 2000 and 2020. It finds that the research body is highly unbalanced: most articles are single-country studies focused on China, apply a quantitative methodology, and concentrate on topics such as entrepreneurial strategies and new venture entrepreneurs’ personal attributes and networks. More contextualized research on countries such as Japan and South Korea and on less studied themes such as culture, entrepreneurial financing and teams, new venture internationalization and entrepreneurial intention is desirable. The article is an outcome of the DIJ research project Start-ups in Asia – the role of agglomerations and international linkages.
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DIJ Study Group
18:30 ~ 20:00Sustainability at Risk: Unraveling Yakushima's Complex Layers of Realities
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Check out the 2024 #SDGs 17 Partnership Fair and our DIJ booth with @barbGhawaii & Sebastian Polak-Rottmann who will introduce our sustainability research cluster https://www.dijtokyo.org/project/sustainability-and-resilience/ at Musashi University this Wednesday from 12:30-18:00
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Reminder: You can still register for tomorrow's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup "Sustainability at Risk: Unraveling Yakushima's Complex Layers of Realities" with Mathieu Gaulène (University of Nîmes)
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unravel Yakushima's complex layers of realities to understand the threats to sustainable coexistence on the island. Online & onsite at the DIJ, 26 Nov, 18.30 JST https://www.dijtokyo.org/event/sustainability-at-risk-unraveling-yakushimas-complex-layers-of-realities/
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