Events
1998
Distant Friends: Britain and Japan in the Age of Globalization, 1958-1998
Chris Braddick, Musashi University
Following in the Footsteps of World Literature: A Symposium on German-Japanese/Japanese-German Translation
Inoue Tetsujirō and the Ideology of Shinkoku (Divine Country) in Early Showa
Johann Nawrocki, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan
Katharina Heyer, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Regional Cooperation in Asia: Will Japan stand up toa Leadership Role?
Federalism in Japan - Only A Fancy?
Werner Pascha (Professor, University of Duisburg)
Business Venture Creation and New Human Resource Management Strategies in Japan, Europe, and the USA
Placards and Colored Pavement: Retail Democracy and the Power of the Associational Field in Local Politics
Darryl Flaherty, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University
A Half Century with the Japanese Intelligentsia
Edward Seidensticker (Professor emeritus, University of California at Davis)
Politico-Business Relations in Taisho- Early Showa Japan: An Explanatory Framework
Peter von Staden, London School of Economics
Japan and the Development of Siberia and the Russian Far East: The Evolution of the Large-Scale Economic Cooperation Projects (1968- 1995)
Frank Robaschik, Duisburg University
Political Reform in Japan - Entering a New Era of Japanese Democracy?
Ethnographic Methods in Education and Sociology: School Life from an Intercultural Perspective
Tradition and Law in Conflict: Farm Tenancy Conciliation in Interwar Japan (1924-1938)
Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kyūshū University
Foreign Pressure and the Japanese Policy Process: a Global Prohibitory Norm on the Use of Large-Scale Driftnets
Isao Miyaoka, Institute of Social Science, Tōkyō University
Reading Modern and Contemporary Japanese Autobiographies
Chia-ning Chang (Professor, University of California at Davis)
Japanese Trade Diplomacy with East Asia: The Bakumatsu Period
Robert Hellyer, Stanford University
Channeling the Cash Flow: The New Regulations for Political Donations in Japan and their Influence on Political Corruption
Verena Blechinger, German Institute for Japanese Studies
The Return of the Welfare State - Old Age Care in Japan
John Creighton Campbell (Professor, University of Michigan)
Children, Consumer Culture, and the Middle Class, 1908-1922
Mark Jones, Columbia University
Changing Patterns of Political Participation and Values in Japan
Wilhelm Vosse, University of Hannover, Germany
Meiji Philosophers and the State
Michael Burtscher, Harvard University
Learning To Face The Past. Japanese Students In Malaysia
Andreas K. Riessland, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
ODA and Human Rights - The Case of Japan
Franz Nuscheler (Professor, Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg)
Transforming the Countryside in Postwar Japan
Simon Partner, Duke University
Diskurs über den Körper in Japan
Futurism and Dadaism in the Taishō Period
Thomas Hackner, Universität München
Power, Divinity and Gender in the Imperial Institution of Japan
Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
In Regional Embrace or Global Change? Japanese and Foreign Assistance to Post-Marcos Philippine Development
Ben Warkentin, Dokkyō University
Fueling the Dream Machine: Japan and the Emerging Politics of Tourism Development Assistance
David R. Leheny, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Philosophy and Practice of Fatherhood in Modern Japan
Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies
1997
German-Japanese Relations in the Meiji Period
Rolf-Harald Wippich, Sophia University
Contested Regional Identities: What is 'East Asia' and 'Asia Pacific' to Japan?
Glenn Hook (Professor, University of Sheffield)
Psychoanalysis and its Ends: The Disappearance of Psychoanalytic Theory and the Rise of National Psychology in 1930s Japan
Jonathan Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz
Between External Shocks and Internal Evolution: Towards a New Phase in Japanese Management Practices
Aging and Social Policy - A German-Japanese Comparison
Aging and Social Policy - A German-Japanese Comparison
The Japanese Empire in East Asia and its Postwar Legacy
Encounters with Japan, Wartime and Postwar
Donald Keene (Professor emeritus, Columbia University)
The Birth Control Movement in Prewar Japan
Karen Callahan, University of California, Berkeley
Japan als Fallbeispiel in den Wissenschaften (Placing Japan in Paradigmatic Perspective)
Ōyama Shinkō: A Mountain Cult in Early Modern Japan
Barbara Ambros, Harvard University
Japan - Konkurrent und Partner im globalen Wettbewerb (Japan - Rival and Partner in Global Competition)
The Japanese Employment System in Transition
お化けと近代化―不思議と科学的思考の間で (Ghosts and modernization – between the miraculous and scientific thinking)
Labor Relations in Transition: A Comparison of Japan, Germany and the United States
Japan's Ministry of Education: Strategic Schooling and the State
Brian McVeigh, Tōyō Gakuen Tokyo
The First Japanese Visitors to Europe: Four Boys as Envoys to Rome, 1582-1590
Michael Cooper (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Establishing Education in Early Meiji Japan: The Myth of Monbushō Management
Abby Schweber, Harvard University
Public and Private: The Secondary Budget in Japan
Kate Ferber, Tokyo University