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DIJ Forum
Since March 1997, the DIJ has been organizing a public lecture series called DIJ Forum where internationally renowned scholars and researchers speak on topics of general interest. The DIJ Forum usually takes place once a month and is aimed at both an academic and general audience alike.
Selected lectures are available as audio or video files. They can be downloaded from our Podcast page or viewed on our YouTube channel.
2004
Tales of Ise: A Short Visual Reception History
Joshua S. Mostow (Professor, The University of British Columbia)
2003
Does E-Commerce Create A Level Playing Field? The Cases of Germany and Japan
Dennis Tachiki (Professor, Tamagawa University)
The Japanese Company: Management, Unions and Financial Performance
Dr. John Benson (Professor, University of Melbourne)
General Nogi's Wife and the Gender of the Modern Nation
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Professor, University of British Columbia)
Japanese Linguistics and Car-Navigation Technology
Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo (Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany)
College Graduates in Japanese Industries
Takenori Inoki (Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in China: From Export-oriented Production to Domestic Marketing
Haruo Horaguchi (Professor, Hōsei University)
Lover of Women and a Friend of Men: A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan
Paul Schalow (Professor, Rutgers University)
The Japanese Sencha Tea Ceremony: History, Aesthetics and Accoutrements
Patricia J. Graham (PhD, University of Kansas)
The Two Faces of the Japanese Economy
Ulrike SCHAEDE (Professor, University of California at San Diego) &
SEKI Takaya (J-IRIS and Reitaku University)
2002
The 'Dark Side' and the Bright Side: Coming to Grips with the New Japan
Alex Kerr
Civilizing Tokyo: Meiji Visions of a National Capital
Peter Duus (Professor, Stanford University)
A New Capital for Japan? The Construction Industry and the Geography of Power.
Winfried Flüchter (Professor, University Duisburg)
Antisemitism and Policies towards Jews in Japanese History
Gerhard Krebs (Guest Professor, FU Berlin)
Hakone Conference Revisited: Modernization and the Civil Society School in Postwar Japan
J. Victor Koschmann (Professor, Cornell University)
2001
The Foreign Side of Fuji: Internationalizing the Mountain in Early-Modern Discourse
Ronald P. Toby (Professor, University of Illinois and University of Tokyo)
Monetary Policy and the Transformation of Japan's Economic Structure
Richard A. Werner (Sophia University and Profit Research Center Ltd.)
Labor Relations in the Japanese Civil Service
Ehud Harari (Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem)
University Graduates’ Employment and Work: A Comparison between Japan and Europe
Ulrich Teichler (Professor, University of Kassel)
The Boogie Woogie Constitution and Postwar Literature: The Creolization of Culture in Occupied Japan
John Treat (Professor, Yale University)
Defining and Locating Japanese Literary Modernism
Janet Walker (Professor, Rutgers University)
Gender Equality and Women's Identity in Japan
Meguro Yoriko (Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo)
Japanese-Chinese Security Relations. The Japanese Way of Engagement
Reinhard Drifte (Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
How to Carve a Wind-Up Bird: Murakami Haruki in English
Jay Rubin (Professor, Harvard University)
2000
Japan and Asia in the New Century
Ezra F. Vogel (Professor, Harvard University)
A Common Past Full of Crimes: Japanese – German Collaboration in the Development of Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons and the War in China
Bernd Martin (Professor, University of Freiburg)
Class Structure and Social Mobility in Japan and Industrial Nations
Ishida Hiroshi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
US-Japan relations in turmoil? A European perspective
Bernhard May (German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)
Embedded Capitalisms Under Siege: Japan and Germany
T.J. Pempel (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle)
Nationalism, Globalism and Culturalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity
Kosaku Yoshino (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
1999
Globalization - on the Road to a New World System?
Erwin K. Scheuch (Professor emeritus, University of Cologne)
The Modernization of Chūshingura: Politics and Media in the Making of Japan's National Legend
Henry D. Smith (Professor, Columbia University)
Tracing the Legacy of Late 1960s Protest
Patricia G. Steinhoff (Professor, University of Hawaii)
The Politics of Memory: The Case of the Military Comfort Women
Ueno Chizuko (Professor, University of Tokyo)
ASEAN and Japan - On the Development of Cultural Relations
Aoki Tamotsu (Professor, University of Tokyo)
1998
Federalism in Japan - Only A Fancy?
Werner Pascha (Professor, University of Duisburg)
A Half Century with the Japanese Intelligentsia
Edward Seidensticker (Professor emeritus, University of California at Davis)
Reading Modern and Contemporary Japanese Autobiographies
Chia-ning Chang (Professor, University of California at Davis)
The Return of the Welfare State - Old Age Care in Japan
John Creighton Campbell (Professor, University of Michigan)
ODA and Human Rights - The Case of Japan
Franz Nuscheler (Professor, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg)
Power, Divinity and Gender in the Imperial Institution of Japan
Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
1997
Contested Regional Identities: What is 'East Asia' and 'Asia Pacific' to Japan?
Glenn Hook (Professor, University of Sheffield)
Encounters with Japan, Wartime and Postwar
Donald Keene (Professor emeritus, Columbia University)
The First Japanese Visitors to Europe: Four Boys as Envoys to Rome, 1582-1590
Michael Cooper (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Reflections on the Asian Model of Democracy
J.A.A. Stockwin (Professor, Oxford University)
Japan and Europe: The Use and Abuse of Comparisons
J. Arnason (Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne)