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Symposia and Conferences
2024
Innovation for GX – dream or real?
VSJF Annual Conference 'Sustainability in Japan'
How to deal with China － A Dialogue between European and Japanese experts on China
Sixth Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network (JEN)
2023
Mediated Social Touch. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Digital Touch to Connect Humans
Transnational Research in a Multipolar World
International Conference of the Max Weber Foundation
Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan
2022
Inclusion of elderly citizens in German and Japanese Communities: civic engagement and the COVID pandemic
Art in the Countryside
Symposium on Art and Regional Revitalization through Case Studies from Japan
The Future of Liberalism
Japan, France and Germany in global context
2021
Globalizing the Social Sciences
German-East Asian Entanglements in the 19th and 20th Century
Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region
Knowledge, Policies, and Transfers (1970s – Present)
VSJF Annual Conference 2021: Continuity and Change 10 years after 3.11
2020
Symposium on the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Japanese Parliament
Global Views of Japanese Parliamentarism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
2019
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
– Engaging civil society in social science and humanities research –
The Politics of Migration in Japan
Studying Japan: The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation on methods, fieldwork and research ethics
2018
What is the ‘local’?
Rethinking the politics of subnational spaces in Japan
2017
From Flexible Rigidities to Embracing Diversity? - Work-Related Diversity and its Implications in Japan and Beyond
Rural Japan Revisited: Autonomy and Heteronomy in the Peripheries
Demographischer Wandel als kommunalpolitische Herausforderung – Lösungsstrategien japanischer und deutscher Gemeinden
2016
Corporate Governance – Comparing Japan and Germany
The Relevance of Area Studies for the Sciences and Public Policy: Examples from Europe & Asia
Deutsch-Japanisches Symposium zu Klimaschutz und regionaler Entwicklung
Mothers and Social Movements in Postwar Japan
2015
Klimapolitik als Chance für die Regionalentwicklung: Erneuerbare Energien in Japan und Deutschland
100 Years of “Risikopolitik” and Risk Paradoxa. Joint Conference of the Japan Risk Management Society (日本リスクマネジメント学会JARMS) and the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ), Tokyo, Japan
The Politics of Energy Transition Post-Fukushima: Anthropological Lessons from Europe and North America
Institutionalizing Regional Financial Stability Mechanisms
2014
Deciphering the Social DNA of Happiness: Life Course Perspectives from Japan
2013
Civil Society, Political Participation and Happiness
2011
Happiness – Does Culture Matter?
2010
Life Courses in Flux
Betreuungsrecht
Human Resources Policy for Ageing Workforce
2009
Religious Organizations and the Politics of Happiness
Communication in Institutional Elderly Care: Cross-cultural Perspectives
Imploding Populations – Global and Local Challenges of Demographic Change
2008
Fertility and Social Stratification - Germany and Japan in Comparison -
The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities and Responsibilities in the Ageing Society
2007
Migration and Integration – Japan in a Comparative Perspective
2006
Biotechnologie-Cluster in Deutschland und Japan: Beispiele für erfolgreiche Innovation und Industriepolitik (Biotech Cluster in Germany and Japan: Examples of Successful Innovation and Industrial Policy)
Corporate Strategy and International Harmonization of Accounting, Finance and Law
Family Policy in the Aging Society - A German-Japanese Comparison
Mergers & Acquisitions – Reshaping the Industrial Landscape in Japan and Germany
Environmental Dialogue Between Civil Society Groups Germany – Japan
2005
Demographic Challenges for Human Resource Management and Labor Market Policies - A German-Japanese Comparison
The Economic Impact of Nanotechnology in the EU and Japan
Management: Japan and Germany
Language Regimes in Transformation. The Future of Japanese and German in Science, Economy and Politics