What a week! #buildingbridges 🇯🇵🇩🇪

Strawberry delight! 🍓🍓🍓

Are you ready for the adventurous path? 📌 13th century Schelztor Tower Gate & 1980s addition of #Skywalker #keepyourheadup #offthebeatenpath #charmsofEsslingen

#Powerwalking nach der Vorlesung. So kann das #SoSe25 weitergehen. 🌳💙☀️ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München #EnglischerGarten #KleinhesseloherSee #Oe67office #munichlove #countmyblessings

💡Pls. join us: Ellis S. Krauss, UCSD on “Reluctant #Warriors No More? #Japan and #Germany Before and After #Ukraine” 👉 Guest Lecture at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social April 24, 2025, 4.00 pm, at IBZ, Amalienstr.38 🤝 Co-hosted by JapanCenter & GSI No registration necessary. 👉 www.kw.lmu.de/japan/de/akt...

Evening beauty of #Tokyo #東京 🗼🌕

Rainy night in #Shinjuku #新宿

Had the honor of giving a keynote lecture on #Japan’s #activeaging strategy to Gov. #Oberösterreich 🇦🇹 Mayoral Office City #Linz & local #eldercare network. Deeply impressed by OÖ „Betreuugsarchitektur 2040“ (architecture of care) & many best practice examples that I learned about today. Chapeau!

Another semester is in the books. Sending #mondaymorningvibes and #munichlove to students and colleagues near and far. お疲れさまでした！

🎉 Some glimpses into fieldwork data from ongoing research into the political participation of young Japanese. Join me for tomorrow’s u:japan lecture, onsite in Vienna or online via Zoom. (Jan. 9, 2025, 6.00-7.30 pm CET) Looking forward to the discussion! 👉 japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/e...

As the old year marks a frosty but sunny exit, it is time to bundle up and give a cheerful welcome to 2025. May it bring joy and happiness to you and yours, and hope and peace around the globe. 🎆🍾 新年あけましておめでとうございます｡2025年は皆様にとって幸福であり、ハッピーである一年になりますように。世界中に平和や前向きの暖かい心が広がるようにお祈りいたします。✨🎍

What a shoutout, @dynamics.bsky.social! Thank you for hosting me & for engaging with my research with so much enthusiasm! Let’s keep the discussion going. #Japan #demography #democracy #youth www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/fo... @hertieschool.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

There can’t be enough cherry blossoms in the world, now can there? #桜満開 #京都大原三千院 🌸

"[...] while national-level politics in Japan seems almost immune to change, in some unlikely rural places there is plenty of potential for innovation and change." ➡️ grateful to JJS for invitation to review “Betting on the farm” by Patricia Maclachlan & Kay Shimizu muse.jhu.edu/pub/44/artic...

Now at LMU Japan-Center: poster exhibition showcasing 2yrs MA students’ research project of LMU Munich & Waseda Univ. on how youth in Munich & Tokyo remember WWII. 📢Stop by this week! Grateful for support by DAAD #WeRemember www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/2024/01/22/p...

📣 8.2.24, 18.15h (Oe67/151) Zum Ende des WiSe23/24 Gastvortrag am LMU Japan-Zentrum: "Spektakel und Machtdemonstration: Das Toyokuni Fest von 1604 als politische Propaganda" mit Anton Schweizer (Kyushu Univ.) Spektakel - Macht - Politik - Geschichte -Japan www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

Why is the shortage of candidates (なり手不足) in local elections in Japan increasing and what impact does this trend have on Japan's democracy? Join Anne-Sophie König on Feb. 1, 6.15 pm CET (Oe67/151 + Zoom) at LMU Japan-Center for a discussion. www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortra...

"Japan‘s Covid-19 response and the recalibration of East Asia" 📣 Pls. join us (1/25, 6.15pm, Oe67/151, onsite only) at LMU_Muenchen / Japan-Center for lecture + q&a with Dr. Harald Kuemmerle / DIJ Tokyo. #Japan #COVID19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #Politics www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

#niewiederistJETZT #gemeinsamstark #gegenRechts #demokratieverteidigen #muenchen

📣 Excited to announce that Igor Prusa will be giving a book talk about "Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual" at LMU Japan-Center on Jan. 18, 2024, starting 6.15pm at Oe67/151. #Japan #media #scandal #performance #ritual #politics www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/2024/01/13/v...

Five more weeks of teaching this winter for us at LMU Munich and five more guests in the Japan-Center‘s lecture series! Next up: 11 Jan. 2024, 6.30pm, Juljan Biontino on history classes in Japanese high schools. (Lecture in German language, online only) www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/2024/01/08/o...

🎉Series of events on Japanese Politics @LMU_Muenchen on Dec. 18-20, 2023. Speakers include Mari Miura, Koichi Nakano, Laura Seelkopf, Karl-Rudolf Korte, @verenabt.bsky.social & more! #Governance #Democracy #Politics #Crisis #Genderparity #Activism www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/2023/12/04/s...

The Groupe d'études sur le politique au Japon kindly invited me to talk about: "Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of their Political Dimensions" Please join the discussion if you can: 11/30 Thu, 10.30 am (CET) / 6.30 pm (JST) Registration: seiji.hypotheses.org

The 31st Japanese-German Forum was in session in Berlin this week. What an honor to serve as a member to this 🇯🇵🇩🇪group, and exchange views on how to cooperate in light of manifold challenges ahead. So good to reconnect with friends!

Huge thanks to the outstanding faculty & brilliant students at Cambridge for a cherished opportunity to discuss my work on Okinawa. Structural injustices of the “reversion” 50yrs ago translate into Okinawan identity politics and regional opposition until today. 👉 online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

🎉 Very excited about my upcoming trip to Cambridge! Pls. join me for a discussion of "Japan's Failed Nation Building: Okinawa 1972-2022" at Selwyn College (10/30, 5pm). Huge shoutout to the wonderful Vicky Young for hosting me. 🙏 www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/eas...

✨ Job opportunity in the Faculty for the Study of Culture / Japan-Center at LMU Munich ✨ We are looking for a new colleague (Full Professor / Chair (W3)) with strong research agenda / teaching portfolio broadly related to 🇯🇵 culture and history up to late 19th century.👇 Come and join us!

Back to Uni! On this spooky morning we kick off the fall term 23/24 at LMU Munich (and elsewhere). Have a good one, everybody! 🍂