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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.
2005
Postwar Democracy in Japan as a Set of Stable Disequilibria
Anja Osiander, Visiting Scholar, Osaka University School of Law
2004
Activating the Self-Defence Forces: The Rise of the Positive Military Norm in Japan's Security Policy after the Cold War
Hiromi Nagata, SOAS, London University
Explaining Japanese Foreign Policy on Whaling
Roger Smith, Oxford University / Tokyo University
Japanese youth crime policy today
Manuel Metzler, Daito Bunka Daigaku
Restoring the "Normal Nation": Japan's Changing International Environment and the Conservative Revolution in Foreign Policy at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Axel Karpenstein, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Leaders, Politics and Summits: Japanese Prime Ministers at the G7, 1979–83
H.D.P. Envall, Hitotsubashi University and University of Melbourne
2003
Modernizing State Finances in the Meiji Period: Tajiri Inajiro (1850-1923)
Katalin Ferber
Segregation in a "Homogeneous" City: Tokyo and the New Debate on Fragmenting Urban Societies
Ralph Lützeler, Bonn University
The Unfreezing of the Japanese Party System: From Alignment to Dealignment
Carmen Schmidt, Hitotsubashi University
Whither the Red Queen: Institutional Co-Evolution in Political Science
Daniel P. Aldrich, Harvard University / University of Tokyo
Contesting Peace at Yasukuni Shrine
Brian J. Masshardt, University of Hawaii
Foreign Domestic Workers Under Japan's "Closed-Door" Immigration Policy
Brenda Resurecion Tiu Tenegra, Ochanomizu University
Mister Sparkle meets the Yakuza: Depictions of Japan in the Simpsons
Hugo Dobson, University of Sheffield
2002
Missiles and missile defences: the impact on Japan's security dilemma
Aaron Matthews, Australian Defence Force Academy
Exploring the Paradox of Japanese Nationalism
Brian McVeigh
The Value of Apology to Japan
Alexis Dudden, Connecticut College
United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in East Timor
Kawakami Takahisa, International Peace Cooperation Division, MOFA
Free employment and employment free in Japan: individual lives in a time of crisis and globalisation
Wim Lunsing, University of Tokyo
The Internet and Political Activism - The case of the "textbook affair" 2001
Isa Ducke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Language Barrier and Migrant Workers in Japanese Courts
Tomonori Taki, University of Warwick
Japan, Football and Governance in World Sports
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Vienna University
2001
Bringing in the Brass: Japan-South Korea Military Organizations enter the Security Relationship
Jason U. Manosevitz, Keiō University
The New Political Economy of Japanese Intergovernmental Relations
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
"Thou Shallst Communicate!" - Reforming Foreign Language Education in Japan
Annette Erbe, Kyoto University
Cartelization Versus Democratization: What are the Prospects for Cartel Driven Imperial Overexpansion in Japan Today ?
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University
Rebuilding Cooperation: Japan in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Regime
Yoichiro Sato, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
When Pillars Evaporate. Structuring Masculinity on the Japanese Margins
Tom Gill, University of Tokyo
Japan Between Two Asias
Lisa Sansoucy, Cornell University
Ballistic Missile Defence and the Implications for Japanese Security Policy
Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick
2000
Welfare for the State: The Origin of the Private Saving Network in Japan(1873-1925)
Katalin Ferber (Shizuoka Bunka Geijutsu Daigaku)
The Human Rights Politics of Japan: Mirror of "Asian Identity?"
Martina Timmermann, Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg
The Logic of Reassurance and Japan's Grand Strategy
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University
Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan
Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)
A Never-Ending Piggyback Marathon? The Changing Faces of Union Support for the Left in Japan
Sarah Hyde, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
Japanese Security Norms versus Realpolitik: The Coming Collision between Japan's Arms Export Ban and Theatre Missile Defense (TMD)
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
Dying Geese: The International Political Ecology of the Asian Shrimp Aquaculture and Eucalyptus Plantation Industries
Derek Hall, Cornell University
"Let's Play Hard Ball": The Politics of Ishihara's Tax on the Bank
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
Gendered Gazes: A Look at the Use of the Human Face in Japanese Car Advertising
Andreas Riessland, Oxford Brookes University
From Pace-Setter to Laggard: Production Networks in the Japanese Electronics Industry
Ralph Paprzycki, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The Japanese Environmental Industry - A Future Industrial Core?
Ilona Köster, Marburg University
Changing Japanese Divorce Trends in the 1990s
Sean Curtin, University of Sheffield
1999
"Whatever it is, it's bad, so stop it!" Political Convictions and Ambivalence in Japan's New Child Sex Legislation
David Leheny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
German Foreign Trade Promotion in Japan: An Attempt to View a Practical Job in Theoretical Terms
Norbert Schultes, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
The Role of the Japanese Automobile Industry in EU Policy Networks
Sabine Spell, University of Sterling
Inventing Culture: the Formation of the LDP Factions
Hulda Thora Sveinsdottir, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Sexualized Male - Representations of Men in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines
Barbara Holthus, University of Hawaii
Showing off and Hiding out: The SDF’s Strategies to Manage its Place in Japan
Sabine Fruehstueck, Eyal Ben-Ari, University of Vienna, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Japanese Security Policy
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
And Now For Something Completely Different? Reforming Japan's "Socialist" Tax Regime
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
Japan's role in APEC: a European View
Carsten Otto, Mainz University