Events
2000
Kanakogi Kazunobu and the Natur of Japanese Radicalism
Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Takushoku University
Changing Japanese Divorce Trends in the 1990s
Sean Curtin, University of Sheffield
Nationalism, Globalism and Culturalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity
Kosaku Yoshino (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
"The Birth of Written Japanese: 7th Century Grave Markers, Stelae, and Inscribed Statues"
David Lurie, Columbia University
Where are the Giants and Monoculi? Knowledge and Imagination in Nineteenth-century Japanese Maps of the World
Robert Eskildsen, Smith College, Assistant Professor
Japan-US Security Relations and East Asia
"What is Ideal Zainichi? The Social Construction of Korean-ness by Koreans in Japan"
Youngmi Lim, City University of New York
Nakano Seigo and his Fascination with European Fascism
Stefano von Loe (Harvard University)
1999
Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa-shō
Ted Mack, Harvard University
"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
Rule by Quotation: The Power of Genroku Culture
Michael Eastwood, Chicago University
Globalization - on the Road to a New World System?
Erwin K. Scheuch (Professor emeritus, University of Cologne)
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 dynamics of intertextuality: nise monogatari in Edo period literature
Laura Moretti, University of Venice
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
Goals and Reality of Educational Reform in Japan
Strangers on Commuter Trains: Female Students and the Salaryman Who Watched Them in Late Meiji Literature
Alisa Freedman, University of Chicago
The Modernization of Chūshingura: Politics and Media in the Making of Japan's National Legend
Henry D. Smith (Professor, Columbia University)
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
The Faces of Skin
Writing minority/Reading minority
Tracey Gannon, Ritsumeikan University
The "Other Hara": Hara Yoshimichi, the Imperial Lawyers Association,and the Politics of Compromise
Darryl Flaherty, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Pluralismus der Sprachen und Globalität der Wissenschaft
Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Japanese Security Policy
Andrew Oros, Columbia University
Economic Crisis and Transformation in Southeast Asia: Strategic Responses by Japanese and European Firms
And Now For Something Completely Different? Reforming Japan's "Socialist" Tax Regime
Andrew DeWit, Shimonoseki City University
Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) - Moral panic vs. critical discourse?
Katja Cassing Nakamura, Universität Trier
Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations(1900-1945)
Christan Spang, Freiburg University
Social Science Workshop: "Immigration Control? Japanese Law and Policy towards Foreign Residents 1899-1999"
Japan's role in APEC: a European View
Carsten Otto, Mainz University
Tracing the Legacy of Late 1960s Protest
Patricia G. Steinhoff (Professor, University of Hawaii)
The Trajectories of Two "Empty Categories" - The Dichotomy of Pure and Mass Literature in the Japanese Literary System
Bettina Gildenhard, Universität Heidelberg
Andere Welten? Jugend in Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich (Another world? Comparing youth in Japan and Germany)
"Welcome to the Crystal Palace." Living Conditions and Nutrition of German Prisoners in the Japanese POW Camp Bando
Ruth Jäschke, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Competing Conceptions of "East Asia" and "Asia Pacific" within Japan's Foreign Policy
Petra Gebetsberger, University of Sheffield
Grundelemente japanischer Populärlieder am Beispiel von Kawa no nagare no yōni (Wie der Strom der Flüsse), dem populärsten Lied Japans im 20. Jahrhundert
Dr. Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek, FU Berlin
The Politics of Memory: The Case of the Military Comfort Women
Ueno Chizuko (Professor, University of Tokyo)
The Satsuma Habit: Siting Male-Male Desire in Meiji Japan
Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
ASEAN and Japan - On the Development of Cultural Relations
Aoki Tamotsu (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Information Technology, Language, and the Nation State
Jonathan Lewis, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Religious Desputes in Medieval Japan
Claudia Romberg, Leiden University
Vom "bloßen Sex" zur "echten Liebe"? - Die Beziehung von Spoon und Kim in Yamada Eimis "Bedtime Eyes"
Ina Hein, Universität Trier
Sometimes an Electoral System is Just an Electoral System: What SNTV Does and Doesn't Explain about Japanese Politics
Robert Weiner, University of California, Berkeley
Figuren und Erzählmuster in den Manga von Tezuka Osamu (in German)
Susanne Phillipps, Freie Universität Berlin
Enomoto Takeaki and Emigrant-led Colonization: Overseas Expansion in Meiji Japan
Henry Todd, Sophia University
1998
Festakt anläßlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des DIJ
Teaching National Identity - Education in Postwar Germany and Japan
Julian B. Dierkes, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Disability and Culture - New Issues in Japanese Studies