NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Telling the Story of the Future: Perspectives and Impulses for Rural Areas" by Claudia Neu & Marc Weiland @uni-goettingen.de examines how future narratives impact the social reality of life in the countryside ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2643

#CfA Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant @maxweberstiftung.de for early-career researchers in the humanities & social sciences 👉 conduct your own research project 👉 stay in 2-3 designated countries, incl Japan 👉 max. 1 month per country 📅 deadline 4 Oct 2026 ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/5...

Registration is open for the next #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan and South Korea" 🎤 Jaein Seol, Leipzig University / DIJ Tokyo 📅 July 15, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/transn...

Tomorrow onsite and online!

TOMORROW Join us for Tuesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" with @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

Thank you for joining Wednesday's session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series at the DIJ and for a lively discussion of "Tokyo – how can this possibly turn out well?" with Franz Waldenberger & @barbtokyo.bsky.social We have uploaded photos on our website ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/tokyo-...

NEW on our YouTube channel: #DIJForum "Japanese Labor Imaginaries: From Postwar Working Class Womanhood to Cultural Mediation of Corporate Identity" and 'Working Japan' keynotes @jppinfo.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social by @chelseaszendi.bsky.social & Hiromichi Hasebe ▶️ youtu.be/nuPIBZJ8qoM

Save the date! Registration is now open for the #DIJStudyGroup "Application of Generative AI inside Japanese Companies" 📅 Wed 17 June 2026, 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️💻 DIJ Tokyo & online 🎤 Alissa Kacs, Bonn University / DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/applic...

Ein "innovativer, sorgfältig komponierter und theoretisch ambitionierter Sammelband, der das Feld kulturellen Übersetzens in der Japanologie substanziell bereichert." Vielen Dank an Alexandra Ludewig für die schöne Rezension in Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur 80 www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

Thanks very much to @dijtokyo.org for hosting a lively and intellectually stimulating book launch event for the #OpenAccess book 'Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way: Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China.' bit.ly/4x1ALBa#OpenAccess💙📚 #RersearchPublishing

REMINDER You can still sign up for tomorrow's session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series "Tokyo – how can this possibly turn out well?" 📅 Wed 3 June 2026, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ DIJ Tokyo (onsite only) 🎤 Franz Waldenberger (DIJ), moderated by @barbtokyo.bsky.social ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/tokyo-...

Jetzt bewerben für #Praktika ab Januar '27 und spannende Einblicke in den Arbeitsalltag des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien in Tokyo gewinnen 🎌 Möglich sind freiwillige & Pflichtpraktika für max 11 Wochen in 🗼 Wissenschaft ⛩️ Wissenschaftskommunikation 🗻 Verwaltung ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/praktikum/

Thank you to all participants in Friday's book launch "Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China" @springernature.com with the authors' team and Glen S. Fukushima as commentator Photos of the event are now online ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/book-l...

TOMORROW #DIJForum "Japanese Labor Imaginaries: From Postwar Working Class Womanhood to Cultural Mediation of Corporate Identity" 📅 Tue 2 June, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo 🎤 @chelseaszendi.bsky.social (Aoyama Gakuin U) & Hiromichi Hasebe (Nihon U) ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/japane...

It was a great pleasure to host the student workshop "Russia and Japan: Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific", led & organized by Anke Scherer & Sören Urbansky @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, with presentations on Hokkaido as a frontier, indigenous cultures, economic exploitation & Russo-Japanese relations

Join us this Friday for the book launch "Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China" @springernature.com with the authors' team and Glen Fukushima (Stanford) as commentator 📅 May 29 / 5-8pm 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/book-l...

NEW article by Sébastien Lechevalier on the 'Sustainability in Japan and Beyond' blog introduces the approach of “care-led innovation” and shows how it contributes to the discourse on sustainability in the Japanese context and beyond @agencerecherche.bsky.social ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2580

REMINDER You can still register for Thursday's #DIJStudyGroup "Human Rights Narratives in Japan" with Johanna Fritzi Momm (FU Berlin/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 May 28, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/human-...

Dank an die Deutsche Botschaft in Tokyo für die Einladung zum Austausch mit den Kulturreferenten in Ost- und Südasien, weiteren deutschen Kulturmittlern in Tokyo und der Abteilungsleiterin Kultur & Kommunikation @diplo.de, Christina Beinhoff (im Foto neben DIJ-Vizedirektorin @barbtokyo.bsky.social)

Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" 🎤 @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

Welcome to Francesca Lerz who has joined our team in May as a PhD student. She researches the influence of esoteric and Zen Buddhist traditions in Noh and will do archival work, network with performing arts & religious studies scholars & professional Noh performers ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/people/franc...

Lesetipp, Neues und Forschungsporträt: das DIJ ist gleich viermal in der neuen Ausgabe von Weltweit vor Ort @maxweberstiftung.de vertreten. Entdecken Sie unsere Forschung, Publikationen und Events im aktuellen Heft ▶️ publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor... ▶️ www.maxweberstiftung.de/magazin.html

“Korea’s educational system embodies multiple ingrained traditions and reveals distinct yet interconnected strategies of decentring.” New “De-centering Academia” blog article 📖 “Beyond Binaries: Decentring Foreign Knowledge in 20th Century Korea” @daneuhaus.bsky.social ▶️ trafo.hypotheses.org/65491

Next #DIJForum "Japanese Labor Imaginaries: From Postwar Working Class Womanhood to Cultural Mediation of Corporate Identity" 📅 Tue 2 June 2026, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo 🎤 @chelseaszendi.bsky.social (Aoyama Gakuin U) & Hiromichi Hasebe (Nihon U) ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/japane...

DLF Kultur Weltzeit-Feature "Japan - Frauen kämpfen gegen Klischees" von Felix Lill mit DIJ-Alumnus Vincent Lesch und DIJ-Soziologin @barbtokyo.bsky.social im Gespräch mit Katrin Materna: "Männer heiraten immer noch gerne sozial nach unten in Japan." www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/japans-fraue...

Join us for the next session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series "Tokyo – how can this possibly turn out well?" 📅 Wed 3 June 2026, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ DIJ Tokyo (onsite only) 🎤 Franz Waldenberger (DIJ), moderated by @barbtokyo.bsky.social (DIJ) Registration ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/tokyo-...

📖 BOOK LAUNCH Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea & China @springernature.com by Ying Cheng, Adam Cross, Martin Hemmert, Agata Kapturkiewicz, Masahiro Kotosaka, Franz Waldenberger 📅 May 29 / 5-8pm 🏚️ onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/book-l...

REMINDER You can still register for Tuesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Mind’s Shield Against Physical Decline: The Role of Self-Transcendence in the Well-being Paradox of Aging" with GAN Deer (Osaka University) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-mi...

"The fact that we cannot fully understand foreign languages enables us to open our recognition to a world beyond language." Sustainability in Japan blog article by Kyoko Tominaga @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social on field research at demonstrations with language barrier sustainability.hypotheses.org/2608

Do people in Japan care about human rights? Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "Human Rights Narratives in Japan" 🎤 Johanna Fritzi Momm (FU Berlin/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 May 28, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/human-...

“People in Japan just happen to be socialized different ... they learn early on that you don’t want to inconvenience others”: DIJ's @barbtokyo.bsky.social explains why Japanese soccer fans regularly clean up the stadium after a game @apnews.com @swade2020.bsky.social ▶️ apnews.com/article/japa...

Save the date: next #DIJStudyGroup "The Mind’s Shield Against Physical Decline: The Role of Self-Transcendence in the Well-being Paradox of Aging" 🎤 GAN Deer (Osaka University) 📅 May 19, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-mi...

Heute #OrteDesWissens in #Tokyo: Die #Bibliothek des @dijtokyo.org ist eine wichtige Fachbibliothek für die moderne #Japanforschung. Rund 20.000 Bände, ca. 300 Zeitschriftentitel und die Bandō-Sammlung machen sie zu einer zentralen Anlaufstelle für Forschende. 👇 gab.hypotheses.org/18794

In April, Jaein Seol (Leipzig Uni) joined the DIJ as a PhD student. During her stay, she will conduct field & archival research to investigate how right-wing movements in Japan & South Korea produce, circulate & legitimize discourses of “historical truth”. Welcome! ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/people/jaein...

Welcome to Simone Decker @lmu.de who has joined our team in April as a PhD student. For her doctoral research on bookshops & the self-publishing world she will conduct field research on the emergence, functionality & future of independent bookshops in Japan #独立書店 ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/people/bianc...

REMINDER Registration is still open for Monday's #DIJStudyGroup "From Policy to Practice: The Daily Reality with Self-Checkout Machines in Japan" with Mena Mesenhöller (HHU/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 April 20, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/from-p...

“Socio-ecological sustainability is introduced as a path towards a desirable future.” NEW 'Sustainability in Japan' blog article by Carolin Fleischer-Heininger examines Aichi Triennale 2025 approaches to cultural, social & ecological aspects of sustainability ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2415

In unserem neuen #readme-Interview berichten Carolin Fleischer-Heininger vom @dijtokyo.org und Kevin Schumacher-Shoji von der @lmu.de, wie in der japanischen Literatur kulturelle Bedeutungen beim Übersetzen verloren gehen oder neu entstehen können. 🔗 Zum Interview: gab.hypotheses.org/22431

REMINDER You can still sign up for Thursday's #DIJStudyGroup "Female Mayors and the Practice of Local Leadership in Japan" with Stefanie Schwarte (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 April 16, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo Registration ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/female...

You are invited to join our upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "From Policy to Practice: The Daily Reality with Self-Checkout Machines in Japan" 🎤 Mena Mesenhöller @hhu.de / DIJ Tokyo 📅 April 20, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/from-p...

Stimulating political economy account of startup capitalism in East Asia: S. Lechevalier's review of Startup Capitalism @cornellupress.bsky.social by R. Klingler-Vidra @kingsbschool.bsky.social & R. Pacheco Pardo @bsog.be @csds.bsky.social @hnetreviews.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series "A Section through Tokyo’s Labourscape. Work, Space, and Community in Sumida’s Machikoba Neighbourhoods" 📅 Wed 8 April 2026, 18-19:30  🏚️ Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301 🎤 @remmid.bsky.social (Waseda), David H. Slater (Sophia) www.icc-sophia.com/post/a-secti...

NEW #OpenAccess publication 📖 Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China @springernature.com by Ying Cheng, Adam Cross, Martin Hemmert, Agata Kapturkiewicz, Masahiro Kotosaka, and DIJ director Franz Waldenberger ▶️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Registration is now open for our next #DIJStudyGroup "Female Mayors and the Practice of Local Leadership in Japan" 🎤 Stefanie Schwarte (@lmu.de / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 April 16, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo Registration ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/female...

“In essence, town-building ultimately relies on people & their links among each other.” NEW article "Hita in the World: Creating a Place for Intermingling...." by Masahiko Nishioka on our Sustainability in Japan blog explores bottom-up town development strategies ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2298

Digital capitalism, disability & inclusion, recruitment, ‘akiya’ problem: find these & many more topics in the spring issue of our #DIJNewsletter www.dijtokyo.org/publication/... @cj-jrnl.bsky.social @celiaspoden.bsky.social @barbtokyo.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @nicolemmueller.bsky.social

“Can Western scholars critique Mignolo’s embrace of ’dewesternization’ without being accused of perpetuating epistemic violence?” 📖“Carl Schmitt’s Afterlife in Decolonial Theory: Rereading Walter Mignolo” by Harald Kümmerle (De-centering Academia: InterAsian Perspectives)▶️ trafo.hypotheses.org/64697

New Issue CJ38(1) available online! Includes 6 original research articles ranging from workplace diversity and pandemic governance to refugee representation in print media, war memory, and labor resistance under the Japanese empire @tandfresearch.bsky.social ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...

Thank you to our audience and panelists Matthias Pilz, Shigeki Egami & Carolina Kawakubo at the DIJ Roundtable “Big in Japan? Recruitment & training strategies of German companies in Japan”. You can now watch a recording of the event on our YouTube channel! 🎬 youtu.be/gLX0QAqmtnY

🎧 Folge 27 unseres #Podcast „Wissen entgrenzen“ ist da! 🤖 Wie können Telepräsenz-Roboter & 3D-gedruckte Prothesen Teilhabe ermöglichen? – das fragt Janine Funke unsere Forscherinnen Melike Şahinol vom #OIIstanbul und Celia Spoden vom DIJ Tokyo