German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo

Im aktuellen Japan-Heft von Forschung & Lehre: DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger erklärt das Paradox "Reiches Land – armer Staat" und wie der demografische Wandel Japans Wirtschaft fest im Griff hat https://lnkd.in/g22zmJZK

New #OpenAccess article "The encounter of Japanese Protestantism with Korea before the first Sino-Japanese War" (in Spanish) by DIJ's Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus analyzes the early interactions between Japanese and Korean Protestants who came to Tokyo to study between 1880 and 1895 https://lnkd.in/gR9F8hqm

This Saturday at Kyoto's Nichibunken and online: symposium on the Future of the Humanities with a focus on Digital Humanities incl. a presentation on "Japan's scientific infrastructure from the aspect of epistemic virtues - insights gained from case studies" (in Japanese) by DIJ's Harald Kümmerle. Details https://lnkd.in/ghhyKgaS

"An intriguing read for scholars of rural Japan, anthropology, sociology as well as science and technology studies": DIJ's Sebastian Polak-Rottmann reviews Paul Hansen's Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan (SUNY Press) for the Japanese Studies Journal https://lnkd.in/grkJKcjC

Today at the joint European Association for the Study of Science and Technology & Society for Social Studies of Science conference in Amsterdam #EASST4S2024: DIJ researcher Celia Spoden will give her paper "Remotely controlled avatar robots for work: new opportunities or technological fixes?" in the Transformed social differentiation through DT panel https://lnkd.in/g8M-DaAf

Reminder: you can still sign up for tomorrow's online and onsite #DIJStudyGroup 'The Role of Imagined Futures in Gendered Educational Trajectories: Adolescents’ Expectations and Uncertainty in Japanese Selective High Schools' with Fumiya Uchikoshi https://lnkd.in/gGwXYArs

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Congratulations to our colleague Dr. David M. Malitz on the publication of his chapter "Beyond the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Taking Stock of Thailand-Japan Relations" in Southeast Asian Affairs 2024. It addresses demographic and technological challenges, the growing influence of the People’s Republic of China, and Japan’s soft power as factors in the changing Thai-Japanese relations

Vielen Dank an die Mitglieder des Bundestagsausschusses für Bildung, Forschung & Technikfolgenabschätzung für den Besuch am DIJ. Wir haben uns sehr über die anregende Diskussion, die vielen Fragen und den wertvollen Austausch gefreut!

Einen Monat lang in Japan forschen? Möglich mit den Feldman-Reisebeihilfen! Jetzt bewerben bis zum 6. Oktober mit einem Forschungsvorhaben in zwei bis drei MWS-Gastländern oder dem Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. Details & Ausschreibung https://lnkd.in/g8Yuqv4K