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How are the economy, finance, and public policy affected by the ageing population? 'Economics of ageing: Macroeconomics and economic policy, Lessons from the Japanese experience' Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS workshop incl DIJ's Franz Waldenberger & Sébastien Lechevalier ffj.ehess.fr/evenements_a_v…

Join us for the last two #DIJStudyGroup sessions in 2024 with Michel Hohendanner on Perceptions of genAI & Cybernetics-induced Societies (Dec 10, online) dijtokyo.org/event/explorin… and Björn Becker on Hypogamy & Traditional Household Attitudes (Dec 12, hybrid) dijtokyo.org/event/higher-e…

Für die aktuelle Ausgabe #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit Torsten Weber vom DIJ Tokyo über Politisierung der Geschichte und die Erinnerungskultur Ostasiens im Umgang mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gesprochen. 🔗 Zum Artikel: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor-o… #TheEndsOfWar #EndOfWWII #WWII80

Great interest in our DIJ sustainability research cluster dijtokyo.org/project/sustai… at last week's 2024 #SDGs 17 Partnership Fair. Thanks to everyone for visiting our booth and to Brian Masshardt for inviting us to Musashi University 武蔵大学

Die Jause geht weiter! Kaffeekränzchen „Philosophie-Jause“ 2. Session, organisiert von Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (DIJ) & Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP), am 8. Dezember 2024, 15:30-17:30, Komaba Campus 1, Universität Tokyo. Details & Anmeldung: utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2024/12…

Check out CJ36(2) incl articles on national apologies; income inequality; depopulation and local elections Ken Hijino; disability policies; post-3.11 Japanese literature; 2023 VSJF award-winning paper on Japan’s security policy David Adebahr Japan Social Science Research tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/36/2

#OpenAccess Aimi Muranaka Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social analyzes how Vietnamese IT professionals managed their daily work and family lives in Japan during the #COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with pressure to undergo "nearly (im)mobile" work practices Japan Social Science Research Taylor & Francis Group Japan doi.org/10.1080/186927…

W. Manzenreiter Japanese Studies Vienna reviews Women and Martial Art in Japan Routledge Books by Kate Sylvester Perspectives: ethnographic study at university kendo club shows how athletes resist & comply with normative femininity via 'sporting masculinity' Japan Social Science Research doi.org/10.1080/186927…

Submit now to a special issue of The Journal of the Economics of Ageing on the "Economics of ageing: Japan in comparative perspective", guest-edited by DIJ's Sebastien Lechevalier, Hippolyte d'Albis, Takeo Hoshi & Brieuc Monfort. Deadline 15 May 2025. Details: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

REMINDER You can still register for tomorrow's #DIJStudyGroup with Michel Michel Hohendanner on "Exploring Desirable Socio-Technical Futures in Japan: Perceptions of genAI and Cybernetics-induced Societies". Tuesday, 10 Dec, 6.30pm JST/10.30am CET, online only dijtokyo.org/event/explorin…

📣 #Jobs Das Deutsche Institut für #Japanstudien in #Tokyo DIJ Tokyo sucht zum 01. Oktober 2026 eine*n neue*n Direktor*in. 📅 Bewerbungsschluss ist der 10. Januar 2025. 🔗 Zur Ausschreibung: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/3a1…

Muscle training and dementia prevention: DIJ's Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and Mr Shimizu and Mr Aiko of Okutama Town's Welfare and Health Division introduce former Saarland Minister Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs and @timotheus1967 ドイツ大使館🇩🇪 to local programmes for elderly people

REMINDER Join us for the last #DIJStudyGroup session in 2024 with Björn Becker on "Higher Education, Lower Satisfaction: Hypogamy and Traditional Household Attitudes in Japan". Thursday, 12 December, 6.00pm JST / 10.00am CET, online and onsite at the DIJ dijtokyo.org/event/higher-e…

Please note: this session has changed to an online only event.

Thanks to the Houyukai Shirokanenomori community care centre for welcoming the DIJ delegation & our guest Axel Börsch-Supan MPI for Social Law and Social Policy. As Japan's innovative response to the challenges of a ‘super aged’ society, the centre provides comprehensive counseling dijtokyo.org/project/ageing…

DIJ researcher Nicole M. Mueller dijtokyo.org/people/nicole-… sheds new light on the reception of Thomas Mann's literary works by authors Mishima Yukio, Kita Morio & Tsuji Kunio in her contribution to the ed. volume "Thomas Mann produktiv rezipiert" (in German) brill.com/edcollbook/tit…

New book chapter "Korea & the League of Nations: from Versailles to the Manchurian Crisis, 1919–33" by DIJ historian D.-A. Neuhaus 🇺🇦 dijtokyo.org/people/dolf-al…, just published in The League of Nations Experience: Overlapping Readings De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social De Gruyter History ➡️ dgb-history.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/978311…

Wie tickt Japan? Gregory Glanzmann & Maximilian Böger haben DIJ-Soziologin Barbara Holthus für die neueste Folge des Nippon Navigator-Podcast interviewt und Spannendes zur Work-Life-Balance, sozialen Bewegungen, Haustieren, Olympia & Expo erfahren open.spotify.com/episode/7rNTpQ…

What's new at the DIJ? Check out the winter issue of our #DIJNewsletter for updates on our publications, events, team, Alumni & more Max Weber Stiftung D.-A. Neuhaus 🇺🇦 Barbara Holthus Carola HOMMERICH (ホメリヒ　カローラ) Julia Münch Fritz Breithaupt OSAWA, Hirotaka/慶應SFセンター所長/💙💛 DWIH_Tokyo Torsten Weber dijtokyo.org/publication/di…