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DIJ Social Science Study Group
The DIJ Social Science Study Group was a lecture series for early career researchers and Ph.D. candidates in the Social Sciences. Since May 2024 it has been part of the DIJ Study Group.
2012
The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010
Patricia L. Maclachlan, University of Texas at Austin
2011
Protecting Biodiversity: Global Challenges at the National Level
Asuka Ashida, Technical University Munich
Are We in Control of Our Choices? Organ Donation in Japan and Germany
Stefan Roesner, University of Bonn
Sexile to the Promised Land: Japanese Gay Migration to North America
Kunisuke Hirano, University of Tokyo
2010
Japan’s Policymaking System under the DPJ: Towards Westminster-Style Government?
Patrick Köllner, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
‘Modern’ Labels and ‘Postmodern’ Roleplaying? Stereotyping the ‘otaku’ vs. learning from the stranger
Björn-Ole Kamm, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Conservative contestations over gender equality and feminism: Discourses and practices
Maria Sachiko Baier, University of Vienna
Haruno Katō, Ochanomizu University
What Makes it OK to Leave: Explaining Divorce in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy, Lafayette College
“Contradictive Femininity” and Self-harm – A Social and Literary Analysis
Gitte Marianne Hansen
Blurring Boundaries: An Analysis of (In)dependent Contractors in Japan
Shizuka Jäger-Dresen, German Institute for Japanese Studies
2009
The Rise of China and Changes in Japan’s Identity Construction
Kai Schulze, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Cool cities, creative economies, global hubs? Tokyo and London in comparative regional perspective
Adrian Favell, UCLA
Equality-oriented policies in Japan
Dan Tidten, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Playing Education Markets: Small Juku Operators, Ideology, and Resistance
Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia
Civil Society Activities and the Social Integration of Immigrants: Juxtaposing Beppu and Halle
Frauke Kempka, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Making Careers in the Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan’s Transnational Business
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Ochanomizu University
Governing Beyond the Center: How Japan’s Local Democracy is Changing
Carmen Schmidt, Osnabrück University
2008
Aiming for Gender Equality: Strategies of Policy Implementation in Japanese Prefectures
Phoebe Stella Holdgrün, German Institute for Japanese Studies
After the Trials: War Criminals and Social Integration in 1950s Japan and Germany
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College
Better late than never! Making Sense of Japan’s (belated) accession to the International Criminal Court
Kerstin Lukner, Duisburg-Essen University
The Role of Social, not Physical, Infrastructure: Civil Society and Post-Disaster Recovery
Daniel P. Aldrich, Purdue University
Reinventing Culinary Heritage in Northern Japan: Slow Food and ‘Traditional Vegetables’
Stephanie Assmann, Tohoku University, Sendai
Ikebana, Gender and International Identity
Nancy Stalker, University of Texas, Austin
Apron-Advocacy for the Good of the Nation State? Patterns of Political Participation among Nationalist Women in Contemporary Japan
Kimiko Osawa, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Intercultural Synergizers or Lost in Translation? American-Japanese Coworker Relations
Adam Komisarof, International Christian University (ICU)
Defying predictions: Germany and Japan as regional actors in the post-Cold War era
Alexandra Wittig, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Competition and Regulatory Politics in Japan’s Newspaper Market
Falk Schäfer, Free University of Berlin
2007
“I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion” – A study of unwed mothers in Japan -
Ekaterina Korobtseva, University of Oxford
The politics of flexible labour markets in Germany and Japan: Evaluating the impact of globalisation on national social policy
Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The other demographic time bomb: Japan's last generation of witnesses to war and its fading message
Andrew Conning, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Military History and Memories in Japan's Post War Armed Forces
André Hertrich, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg
The national rate of (re)production: gendered discourse in Japanese policy-making
Sherry L. Martin, Cornell University
“Natural Principles of Law?” Reformist Governors Redefine the Local Sphere
Kate Dunlop, Sophia University
Multicultural Coexistence: Japanese Roadmaps to a more inclusive and pluralistic society?
Stephen Robert Nagy, Waseda University
Freeter and “Generation Praktikum” - Changing attitudes towards working life in Germany and Japan
Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Civic Engagement and Postwar Reconstruction in Japan
Rieko Kage, Kobe University
Migration and Citizenship in Japan
Kristin Surak, University of California at Los Angeles / Atsuko Abe, Obirin University
Backgrounds and Beyond: Identity Management Among Minority Youth
Christopher Bondy, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
2006
What role for women in shaping Japanese social policies?
Patricia Boling, Purdue University
Japan's National Security Debate in the wake of 9/11: Same Old, Same New?
Susanne Klien, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Business Associations in Japan – A network perspective on inter-personal exchange
Andreas Schaumayer, Waseda University
Coffee, Culture, and the Ethnicity of Migration
Mariko Iijima, University of Oxford
Japanese Americans living in Japan: national and ethnic identity formation in the ancestral homeland
Jane H. Yamashiro, University of Hawai’i
Getting smart by napping in class – Social and cultural aspects of sleeping in the Japanese classroom
Brigitte Steger, Vienna University
2005
The end of LDP factionalism? Examining the decline since 1992
Thomas Büttner, University of Heidelberg
The LDP at 50: Power Resources and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Political Party
Patrick Köllner, Institute of Asian Affairs/German Overseas Institute, Hamburg
Building Parents of the Future: Japanese Policies to Boost the Birthrate
Liv Coleman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Slipping Through the Net: Regulation of Online Election Campaigns
Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Tsukuba University
A Glimpse at Language Endangerment in Okinawa
Masayuki Onishi, University of Sydney
Gained in Translation: An Interpretation of Japanese Women’s Mid-life Health Strategies
Jan Zeserson, Cornell University, USA