Registration is open for our hybrid #DIJForum "Writing a Global History of the Second World War by Taking Japan Seriously" 🎤Sheldon Garon @princeton.edu & Sebastian Conrad @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 📅Oct 14, 6.30-8pm, onsite&online ➡️https://dij.tokyo/globalhistory #EndsOfWar @maxweberstiftung.de

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zur 4. Session des deutschsprachigen Kaffeekränzchens „Philosophie-Jause“, organisiert von Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (DIJ) & Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP) 📅 Samstag, 18. Oktober 2025, 15:30-17:30 Uhr 🏢 DIJ Tokyo Details & Anmeldung ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/kaffee...

Gerade erschienen: Band 68 der #DIJMonographien „Schwarze Löcher im Gewebe der Sprachen“: Kulturelles Übersetzen in der japanischen Literatur, hg. Carolin Fleischer-Heininger und Kevin Schumacher-Shoji, untersucht das Kulturelle Übersetzen anhand von neun Fallstudien www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

The second panel broadened the view and included global perspective with presentations by Sirupa Roy (Göttingen), Richard Steigmann-Gall (Kent State), and David Malitz (@dijtokyo.org), who where discussing memory politics in MAGA-USA, India and Japan.

Du willst Auslandserfahrung sammeln und dir fehlt noch das passende Praktikum? Dann bewirb dich jetzt noch für ein Praktikum an einem unserer Institute! 🌎💻📚 #WeltweitForschen 🔗 Infos zu den aktuellen Fristen gibt es unter gab.hypotheses.org/p...#WeltweitForschen #Auslandspraktikum #Praktikum #MWS

Vielen Dank an die interdisziplinäre Studiengruppe @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, geleitet von Aki Narutomi, für den Besuch am DIJ. Wir haben uns gefreut, unser Institut vorstellen zu können & über den spannenden Austausch zum demographischem Wandel, Nachhaltigkeit, Höflichkeit uvm @barbtokyo.bsky.social

NEW on our YouTube channel 📽️ @barbtokyo.bsky.social "Stumbling upon furry friends in Aso: Transitioning to studying Japan’s urban-rural divide" youtu.be/HAq8dszJSKk 📽️ S. Polak-Rottmann "From well-being to spaces of resilience in the Aso region" youtu.be/ZQaSla0KnUQ Thanks @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social

You are invited to join the next session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series, a FRIJ-MFJ, DIJ, Waseda, Rikkyo, Sophia & Temple collaboration 🌊 History of Human-Water Interaction in Tokyo during the 20th Century 🎤 NAKAMURA Shin'ichirō (Nagoya U) 📅 5 Sep, 6-8pm, MFJ www.mfj.gr.jp/evenement/hi...

Heute vor 80 Jahren kapitulierte das Japanische Kaiserreich & der 2. Weltkrieg endete. Warum spielt der 2. September in Japan heute im Vergleich zu den Jahrestagen der Atombombenabwürfe kaum eine Rolle? DLF-Kalenderblatt mit DIJ-Historiker @torweber.bsky.social www.deutschlandfunk.de/japan-zweite...

Now available #OpenAccess 📖Wie politische Partizipation Freude bereiten kann (Iudicium 2024) ▶️DIJ political scientist Sebastian Polak-Rottmann's book shows that mutual enjoyment is a core element of the well-being of politically active people in rural Japan www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

How are sustainable consumption, health & animal welfare connected and what are recent trends in meat consumption in Japan, Germany & globally? Find out in "Meat consumption and sustainability" @barbtokyo.bsky.social on our Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog sustainability.hypotheses.org/1037

New #OA in @dialogueshg.bsky.social @journals.sagepub.com 'The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... resulting from joint ARI & DIJ workshop Rethinking the Indo-Pacific Beyond Mainstream IR with H. Cheng, P. Chacko, @davidmmalitz.bsky.social, F. Karib & Y. Yang

Last day of #Japanologentag @goetheuni.bsky.social with presentations by DIJ researchers @torweber.bsky.social on historical revisionism, @barbtokyo.bsky.social on pets & loneliness, S. Polak-Rottmann on rural places of resilience, C. Polak-Rottmann on Game Design, and I. Gagné on Aging Communities

Great start to the #Japanologentag @goetheuni.bsky.social with section and panel sessions incl. DIJ researchers Nicole M. Mueller on "Agentic AI in the Metaverse", Alberto Zizza on "Haga Yaichi and the kokuminseiron" & @daneuhaus.bsky.social on "Postwar Japan's technical aid for Asia"

Join our DIJ researchers #Japanologentag @goetheuni.bsky.social on Friday 9.30- @torweber.bsky.social on historical revisionism 11.30- @barbtokyo.bsky.social on pets & demographic change 14- S. Polak-Rottmann on places of resilience, C. Polak-Rottmann on game design 16- I. Gagne on aging community

Preview DIJ research #Japanologentag 📅 Fri, 11.30 am - 1 pm, Sociology section @celiaspoden.bsky.social 🎤 Barbara Holthus @barbtokyo.bsky.social www.dijtokyo.org/people/barba... ➡️ "Pets, Demographic Change, and Loneliness" www.dijtokyo.org/project/the-...

Preview DIJ research #Japanologentag 📅 Thu, 9.30 - 11 am (Media section @b-ok.de) 🎤 Nicole M. Mueller www.dijtokyo.org/people/nicol... ➡️ "Agentic AI im Metaverse – Beziehungen zur Künstlichen Intelligenz, antizipiert im japanischen Onlinediskurs" www.dijtokyo.org/project/japa...

Heute eröffnet der 19. #Japanologentag @goetheuni.bsky.social mit einer keynote @ken21abe.bsky.social zu Ōe Kenzaburō. DIJ-Vorträge am Donnerstag: 9.30-11: N. Mueller "Agentic AI im Metaverse" 11.30-13: A. Zizza "Haga Yaichi &the kokuminseiron" 16-17.30: @daneuhaus.bsky.social "Transforming Empire"

Gracia Liu-Farrer offers a critical analysis of the “discourse of ‘no-immigration’ and of the “identity-binary of ‘Japanese’ versus ‘foreigner’”, and argues that “the normalization of exceptions and the acceptance of differences” is transforming Japan into an immigrant nation doi.org/10.1080/1869...

This week @goetheuni.bsky.social: triennial #Japanologentag with latest research in Japanese Studies incl. by DIJ researchers @barbtokyo.bsky.social, @daneuhaus.bsky.social, @celiaspoden.bsky.social, @torweber.bsky.social www.uni-frankfurt.de/156255174/Pr...

What is the role of documentary literature 記録文学 in narratives of Japan’s colonial war & military defeat? Sejin Jeong explores the relationships between individual memories, subjective narratives & collective history through the stories and receptions of 国境物語 and 流れる星は生きている doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Flucht vor der Verantwortung? Zum 80. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes im Pazifik zitieren Deutsche Welle & @taz.de DIJ Historiker @torweber.bsky.social zur Erinnerungskultur in Ostasien &dem Zögern japanischer Politiker, sich für den Krieg zu entschuldigen taz.de/80-Jahrestag... www.dw.com/de/80-jahre-...

Through pioneering research of underground wartime Chinese newspapers, writings of former labor activists, documents at the National Archives of Thailand & personal interviews, Katsuyuki Takahashi traces the activities of Japanese companies in Thailand during the Pacific War doi.org/10.1080/1869...

80 years ago today the Japanese Emperor publicly announced Japan's surrender. DIJ historians @daneuhaus.bsky.social & @torweber.bsky.social explain the significance of Japan's defeat &the end of its empire in postwar East Asia &for historical memory endsofwar.hypotheses.org/6326 @maxweberstiftung.de

How do older people to reconstruct their identities and attitudes regarding work after #retirement? Kazue Haga uses Röpke’s filter model to analyze how post-retirement workers at a job agency pursue self-identity reconstruction, entrepreneurial strategies, and co-learning doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Sie promovieren zu einem Thema mit Japanbezug und suchen ein #Stipendium für einen 3-12monatigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Japan? Dann sind die attraktiven Japan-Stipendien des DIJ Tokyo vielleicht genau das Richtige! Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9. ▶️Ausschreibung karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/b...

Was steckt hinter dem japanischen Kult um Thomas Mann? Unsere Mitarbeiterin und Mann-Expertin Nicole M. Mueller www.dijtokyo.org/de/people/ni... nimmt uns mit auf eine historische Spurensuche rund um "Tonio Kröger" in ihrem FAZ-Gastbeitrag "Kollektiver Kulturschock" www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Independence through diversification: Vincent B. Lesch @uniheidelberg.bsky.social examines how Japanese #NPO Ishintai UNESCO Club has navigated the media & the pandemic through a successful combination of methods to find new ways to communicate with stakeholders #fundraising doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Congratulations to PalgraveMacmillan & to our director F. Waldenberger, #DIJAlum M. Hemmert & F. Kohlbacher, A.R. Cross, Y. Cheng, J.-J. Kim, M. Kotosaka & L.J. Zheng whose article 'The distinctiveness & diversity of entrepreneurial ecosystems in China, Japan & S Korea' is included in the collection

REMINDER Registration is still open for our hybrid #DIJStudyGroup with Bruno Godefroy on "Schmittian Weapons: Legal Theory, Handmaid of Politics", Monday, August 11, 6.30pm JST/11.30am CEST

Kristin Surak @lsesociology.bsky.social analyses a tea ceremony at Yasukuni Shrine as a complex process of myth-making. She examines how values of peace and “Asian universalism” are invoked to override recognition of imperialist aggression and violence through “a cup of tea” doi.org/10.1080/1869...

New on our YouTube channel 🎬 #DIJForum 'Fermenting for the future' with Aya H. Kimura & Yasuhiro Kobayashi youtu.be/0E4SioOQXxo 🎬 ICAS Seminar 'Animals in Japanese Society - The case of companion vs farm animals' with @barbtokyo.bsky.social & Maho Cavalier (Uehara) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRa...

REMINDER You can still sign up for tomorrow's #DIJStudyGroup "Practices and rituals of magical control in East Asia", onsite only at the DIJ, with Dominik Bartmanski and Isaac Gagné. Details & registration www.dijtokyo.org/event/practi...

Registration is open for next week's #DIJStudyGroup "Practices and rituals of magical control in East Asia" with DIJ visiting scholar Dominik Bartmanski @humboldtuni.bsky.social and DIJ anthropologist Isaac Gagné 📅 Wed, August 6, 6:00pm 🈁 onsite only @DIJ Tokyo www.dijtokyo.org/event/practi...

Save the date: Our Conference "Re-Visions of history in right-wing populism and the far right. European and global perspectives" 📆 8-10 September 2025 📍 Schumannstr. 8, 1017 Berlin The conference is a collaboration with @boell.de and @maxweberstiftung.de Register: calendar.boell.de/en/event/re-...

New #OA article “Hampered digitalization: Institutional failure and new instability in Japan” by DIJ's Sébastien Lechevalier & Saori Shibata finds that institutional change is required to increase the benefits of digitalization and mitigate its destructive effects www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In unserer Reihe #MWSInterns stellen wir euch Praktikant*innen und ihre Arbeitsbereiche vor. Heute nimmt uns Stephanie Ivankovic mit zu ihrem Praktikum am @dijtokyo.org 💼☕📚 Was waren ihre Aufgaben? Was hat ihr besonders gefallen? 🔗 Hier geht's zum Interview: gab.hypotheses.org/1...

How relevant are Carl Schmitt's ideas for today's politics? Find out in our next #DIJStudyGroup with Bruno Godefroy (Université de Tours) on "Schmittian Weapons: Legal Theory, Handmaid of Politics" 📅Mon, August 11, 6.30pm JST/11.30am CEST 🖥️🏚️online & onsite @DIJ Tokyo www.dijtokyo.org/event/schmit...

Congratulations to our colleague Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and #DIJAlum Dionyssios Askitis @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social on the publication of their #openaccess article "Yorokonde Morau: the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it)" in @ssjj-jrnl.bsky.social

How sustainable is the #Expo2025? Isaac Gagné takes a closer look at its #SDG promotion & implementation and the Expo's lasting impact in "Searching for Sustainability at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai", the latest contribution to our Sustainability in Japan & Beyond blog sustainability.hypotheses.org/946

Expo, sustainability, tsukemono, loneliness, aging, and Godzilla: check out the summer issue of our #DIJNewsletter with updates on our research, publications, events, Alumni & outreach activities @celiaspoden.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @barbtokyo.bsky.social www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

Was bedeutete der 8. Mai 1945 für Japan und Ostasien? "Geteilte Staaten, geteilte Erinnerungen" von @daneuhaus.bsky.social & @torweber.bsky.social, zuerst erschienen in FAZ Bilder & Zeiten, ist nun als Volltext zugänglich auf dem #TheEndsofWar Blog @maxweberstiftung.de endsofwar.hypotheses.org/6243

In der aktuellen Ausgabe #WeltweitVorOrt sprechen wir mit Celia Spoden und Nicole Marion Mueller vom @dijtokyo.org über den Einsatz von Robotern im Alltag und wie die Sci-Fi-Literatur zu technologischen Entwicklungen inspiriert. 🔗publish.flyeralarm.d...

Join for our next #DIJForum 'Fermenting for the future: tsukemono as a practice of awai' with Aya H. Kimura (University of Hawai`i-Mānoa) & Yasuhiro Kobayashi (Ecological Memes), online and onsite at the DIJ, July 17, 18.30–20.00 JST, 11.30–13.00 CEST Registration www.dijtokyo.org/event/fermen...

Meet DIJ researchers @daneuhaus.bsky.social, @torweber.bsky.social, #DIJAlumn Dorothea Mladenova (Panel Colonial Legacy & Historical Responsibility in Post-War Japan) and @davidmmalitz.bsky.social (Panel Japan in Thailand, Thailand in Japan) this weekend at the #ASCJ2025 conference @asianstudies.org

Who are "The Forgotten Japanese Doctors of Prewar Siam"? Find out in David M. Malitz's @davidmmalitz.bsky.social presentation with a focus on Medicine, Migration, and Imperialism from the 1890s to 1945. Thursday, 24 July 2025 at The Siam Society in Bangkok thesiamsociety.org/activity/for...

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Jan Felix von Alten who will present his research project "In defense of the Core of Japanese Private Law – Public Policy in Japanese Private International Law". Wednesday, 2 July, 18:00h (JST) at the DIJ and online www.dijtokyo.org/event/in-def...

After two DIJ events at the #Expo2025 German & Swiss Pavilions, Sebastian & Christina Polak-Rottmann will discuss "Sharing happiness with others: Exploring rural perspectives on well-being in Austria & Japan" at the Austrian Pavilion, 26 June. LIVE stream: japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/e...

DIJ historian @daneuhaus.bsky.social will introduce his book "Jenseits von Nation und Imperium - Interaktionen koreanischer Studierender und japanischer Protestanten (1880-1923)" www.dijtokyo.org/project/tran... at the next AREA Ruhr Book Talk, 25 June, 10-11h CEST www.area-ruhr.de/202503201336...

Keynote & summaries of papers presented at the Japanese Parliament's 130th Anniversary Symposium www.dijtokyo.org/event/sympos... plus commentaries out now in the International History Review @egasmb.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social @davidmmalitz.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rinh20/4...