Events
2001
Perspectives on corporate reorganisation
Jocelyn Probert, University of Cambridge
Bungaku-eizō kara mita Ajia
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Japan Between Two Asias
Lisa Sansoucy, Cornell University
Japanese-Chinese Security Relations. The Japanese Way of Engagement
Reinhard Drifte (Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Military and Politics in Modern Japan: The Imperial Army during the Meiji and Taisho Era
Sven Saaler, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Ballistic Missile Defence and the Implications for Japanese Security Policy
Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick
Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's "Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle"
Dr. Gaye Rowley, Kyoto University
How to Carve a Wind-Up Bird: Murakami Haruki in English
Jay Rubin (Professor, Harvard University)
Re-locating Civilization. Western Learning, Nationalist Thought and the Discourse on the "Civilized" and "Barbarian" in Late Tokugawa Japan
Susanne Koppensteiner, University of Vienna
The DaimlerChrysler-Mitsubishi Alliance, Any Lessons from the Ford-Mazda Case?
Daniel A. Heller, PhD Degree Student in Business and Market Studies, The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics
Japan and China: Economic Relations in Transition
2000
How to move the hearts of a 100 million - Yamamoto Kajiro's war and propaganda film
Reglindis Helmer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
New Trends in Japanese Social Policy
Asian Discourses of Cultural and Political Self-Assertion in East Asia
Welfare for the State: The Origin of the Private Saving Network in Japan(1873-1925)
Katalin Ferber (Shizuoka Bunka Geijutsu Daigaku)
Cinema, State and "National Culture" in Wartime Japan: Fictional Narratives of Self and Other as Recommended by the Ministry of Education, 1940-44
Harald Salomon, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Human Rights Politics of Japan: Mirror of "Asian Identity?"
Martina Timmermann, Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg
Japan and Asia in the New Century
Ezra F. Vogel (Professor, Harvard University)
Internet and its impact on subcontracting relationships
Friederike Bosse, German Institute for Japanese Studies
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)
Some Literary and Political Considerations of Ri Kai Sei
Elise E. Foxworth, The University of Melbourne
The Logic of Reassurance and Japan's Grand Strategy
Paul Midford, Kanazawa University
The Debate on Monetary Policy: Can and Should a Central Bank Do Structural Policy?
Martin Schulz (Senior Economist, Fujitsu Research Institute)
Class Structure and Social Mobility in Japan and Industrial Nations
Ishida Hiroshi (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan
Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)
Japan and Prussia
China in der WTO: Strategien deutscher und japanischer Firmen im Vergleich (Doing Business in China: A Comparison of Strategies by German and Japanese Firms)
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Japan und China: Perspektiven für die Zeit nach dem WTO-Beitritt Chinas (Economic Relations between Japan and China: Perspectives for the Period Following China's Entry to the WTO)
Current Trends in Japan's Pension Industry: Their Impact on Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Relations
Johann Heidinger, Ph.D. candidate / Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Economics, Tokyo University
A Never-Ending Piggyback Marathon? The Changing Faces of Union Support for the Left in Japan
Sarah Hyde, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
Exhibiting Spirituality: Ōmotokyō and Visual Technologies of Proselytization in the early Showa period
Nancy Stalker, Stanford University
Japanese Security Norms versus Realpolitik: The Coming Collision between Japan's Arms Export Ban and Theatre Missile Defense (TMD)
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
Prospects and Limits of Industrial Policy in East Asia in the Age of Globalization
Tim Goydke, Ph.D. candidate / Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Liquid Diplomacy: Germans and the Meiji Beer Industry, 1869-1949
Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Dying Geese: The International Political Ecology of the Asian Shrimp Aquaculture and Eucalyptus Plantation Industries
Derek Hall, Cornell University
Nation, Modernity and Interior Decoration in the 1922 Peace Commemoration Tokyo Exposition Culture Village
Sarah Teasley
Economic Relations between Japan and China: Current State and Perspectives
National Foundation Day (Kigensetsu; Kenkoku kinen no hi) in Modern Japan
Ken Ruoff, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Portland State University
Growing M&A Activities and their Impact on Japan's Corporate System
Jörg Raupach-Sumiya, German Institute for Japanese Studies
"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
The Image of Women in Japanese Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Katrin Paul (Photographer), Tama Art University
Living in a box: Danchi dwellers as the pioneers of the modern lifestyle in Japan in the 1950's
Katja Schmidtpott, Ph.D. candidate at Bochum University
Fukuoka Domain and the Road to Restoration
Noell Wilson, Harvard University, PhD Candidate
Contested Historiography – Feminist Perspectives on World War II
US-Japan relations in turmoil? A European perspective
Bernhard May (German Society for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)
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
Embedded Capitalisms Under Siege: Japan and Germany
T.J. Pempel (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle)
"Love is Blind: Mothers, Fetishes, Art and Ideology in Masamura Yasuzō´s film adaptation of Edogawa Rampo´s Mōjū."
David Averbach, University of Berkeley