ドイツ日本研究所(DIJ Tokyo🇩🇪🇯🇵)のチームメンバーになりませんか？ 💻 事務職員1～2名募集 （正規職員)）、フルタイム（週40時間） 📁 業務内容：イベントマネジメント、秘書業務等 👉 日本語ネイティブで、 ドイツ語・英語ビジネスレベル、類似業務経験者歓迎 勤務開始は2026年4月1日からの予定です。 📅 応募締切日：2026年1月8日 詳細 ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/job-openings/ ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/9...

REMINDER You can still sign up for tomorrow's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup "Rape as a theme in contemporary Japanese women's literature" with Marija Tomic @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social / DIJ ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/rape-a...

Werden Sie Teil des DIJ-Teams! ➡️ Stellenausschreibung Verwaltung (m/w/d) www.dijtokyo.org/de/job-openi... u.a. für Eventmanagement & Sekretariatsaufgaben 👉 Ihr Profil: muttersprachliche Japanisch-, sehr gute Deutsch- & Englischkenntnisse; relevante Berufserfahrung 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 8. Januar 2026

A big thank you to the DWIH Tokyo for bringing together scientists, businesses & policy makers to discuss innovations, research, knowledge in society, future policies & action plans at the 'Sustainable Consumption & Production' symposium, incl. DIJ's @barbtokyo.bsky.social & Sebastian Polak-Rottmann

Can you read hazard maps? Check out the latest article on our Sustainability Blog "Enhancing Resilience Playfully – Designing the Sawakuru! Game" by Rino Ikedo, Sora Kobayashi & Kotaro Shigeta (Tokyo Metropolitan U) whose game helps to improve disaster preparedness sustainability.hypotheses.org/1679

Registration is open for the last #DIJStudyGroup in 2025 "The Coordination State: Industrial Policy & Technology Transfer During Japan’s Postwar Economic Boom, 1950-76" 🎤 Jonathan Krautter, Hitotsubashi Univ 📅 Dec 17 / 6.30pm JST / 10.30am CET 🏚️ DIJ Tokyo & online www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-co...

Schrumpfende Bevölkerung, steigende Erwerbsquote: Im Wirtschaftspodcast „Im Loop“ spricht DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger über den demografischen Wandel, US-Zölle, Konjunkturprogramme, Kampf um Talente und China als zentrale Herausforderungen der Wirtschaft Japans www.finanzfluss.de/podcast/im-l...

2025 SDGs 17 Partnership Fair 📅 Wednesday, Nov 26, 12-18h 🏚️ Musashi University (Bldg 8, 3F in front of Career Services) This year too the DIJ will participate with its research cluster 'Sustainability in Japan' www.dijtokyo.org/project/sust... Meet our team members at the 2025 Fair this Wednesday!

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zur 5. Session des deutschsprachigen Kaffeekränzchens „Philosophie-Jause“, organisiert von Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (DIJ) & Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP) 📅 Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2025, 16:30-18:30 Uhr 🏢 DIJ Tokyo Details & Anmeldung ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/de/event/kaf...

8th EU-Japan Young Scholars Workshop "‘Revisiting’ Transnational Relations between Japan and the West" 📅 online & onsite (Hosei U), Nov 28-30 incl. paper by DIJ's Alberto Zizza on Japan–West Intellectual Exchange through Haga Yaichi & Okakura Yoshisaburō ▶️ hijas.hosei.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

What role did Japan play in World War 2? How does our understanding of Global History change if we consider Japan more seriously? You can now re-watch the #DIJForum with Sheldon Garon (Princeton) & Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin) on our YouTube channel 🎬 youtu.be/7pFlPRW8tHU @maxweberstiftung.de

💴"The Impact of AI on Macroeconomy and Financial Stability" Joint Banque de France-Fondation France-Japon Lab (BdF-FFJ), Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), Bank of Japan & DIJ et al Winter Conference 📅 Dec 1, 13:30-18:00 🏚️ Japan Industrial Club 日本工業倶楽部 ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-im...

Great to catch up with #DIJAlum Jasmin Rückert, Harald Conrad, Ralf Windhab, Sonja Ganseforth, @hajent.bsky.social, Florian Grosser, Frank Rövekamp, Steve Entrich as well as Ina Hein at the #VSJF conference @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social. More Alumni meetings scheduled for 2026! @barbtokyo.bsky.social

Next lecture in the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series Lecture "Reclaiming Tokyo: Design Alternatives Beyond Redevelopment" 🎤Jorge ALMAZAN (Keio Uni) 📅 Friday, Nov 28, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ room 410, Temple Uni Jointly organized by Temple Uni, Waseda Uni, Rikkyo Uni, Sophia Uni, FRIJ-MFJ & DIJ Tokyo

This Thursday! Join our DIJ-Sophia Sustainability Forum "Who Is Scared of the Climate Crisis – And Who Just Doesn’t Care?" with Carola Hommerich and Sighard Neckel, hybrid at the DIJ Tokyo and online

REMINDER You can still register for Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War" with Steven Schwarz (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), hybrid at the DIJ and online

Registration is now open for our next #DIJStudyGroup on "Rape as a theme in contemporary Japanese women's literature" 🎤 Marija Tomic @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social / DIJ Tokyo 📅 December 9, 2025 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 10.30 am (CET) 🏚️ onsite @ DIJ and online ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/rape-a...

NEW on the DIJ's Sustainability Blog: "Community-based integrated care in rural Japan—Impressions from Okutama (Tokyo)". Jonah Gamarra travels 2 hours by train to Western Tokyo to learn about community-based integrated care in the small & shrinking town of Okutama sustainability.hypotheses.org/1531

Haustierfriseure, Igelcafés, Tieraltersheime: „In Japan ist die Anthropomorphisierung von Haustieren extrem“, sagt DIJ-Soziologin @barbtokyo.bsky.social im Gespräch mit Janosch Schobin @soziopolis.bsky.social Volltext ➡️ www.soziopolis.de/in-japan-ist...

Onsite only lecture in Vienna by DIJ's @barbtokyo.bsky.social "Pets in Contemporary Japan: Between Commodification, Family Membership, and Animal Welfare Challenges" 🏚️ University of Vienna @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social 📅 19 Nov 2025, 18–20h CET ▶️ www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-detail...

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Steven Schwarz @hadw-bw.bsky.social 🎤 "The Political Economy of Trading States and the Renaissance of Japanese Industrial Policy in the Global Chip War" 🏚️ online & onsite at the DIJ 📅 Nov 19, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...

We still have a few seats left for our onsite only #DIJForum "The Politics of the Past and Memory Culture in Germany and Japan" on Monday, 10 November, 6.30 pm at the DIJ. Registration www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...

Harald Kümmerle (Japanese Studies in Tokyo) and Johannes Thumfart (BSoG) have co-authored a new article titled 📄 “From Data Universalism to Data Particularism: Epistemologizing Digital Sovereignty Based on Germany's and Japan's COVID-19 Responses”. 🔗 Read it here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

What does sustainable food look like in #Japan ? A new study offers insights from chefs, farmers, ramen makers, and food entrepreneurs working to reconnect meals with nature, seasonality, and community. The biggest challenge: Busting silos 👇 sustainability.hypot...#Japanvia @dijtokyo.org #SlowFood

Registration is now open for our DIJ-Sophia Sustainability Forum "Who Is Scared of the Climate Crisis – And Who Just Doesn’t Care?" 🎤 Carola Hommerich & Sighard Neckel 📅 November 20, 2025 / 18.30–20.00 (JST) 🏚️ DIJ Tokyo & online ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/who-is...

日本の「合意主導型」デジタル行政、米国やEUと異なる第4モデルへの期待: 　高市早苗首相がトランプ米大統領との初の首脳会談が世界に報じられました。トランプ流は各国のデジタル政策の議論に影響を与え、日本のデジタル政策は「合意主導型」として期待もされています。「日本のデジタル政策は欧米とも中国などとも異なる合意主導型」。こう指摘するのは、東京に拠点を置くドイツの研究機関であるドイツ日本研究所のハラルド・クマレ主任研究員だ。 記事▶️ xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/col... クマレ主任研究員 ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/ja/people/ha...

REMINDER You can still register for Thursday's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup with Liliane Höppe @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social

#CfA "Mobility Fellowships - Global Indo-Pacific" to conduct research for 1-2 months at @arinus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org @ghilondon.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social or IAAS @humboldtuni.bsky.social Details ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7...

Registration is open for our next #DIJForum "The Politics of the Past and Memory Culture in Germany and Japan" 🎤 Norbert Frei, University of Jena & Yoshinori Katori, Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation 📅 Monday, 10 Nov, 18.30h JST 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo Registration ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-po...

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup with Liliane Höppe @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social who will present her research on “The Construction of Culture & Identity in Shimao Toshio's Writings About the Ryūkyū Islands”, online & onsite at the DIJ. 📅 Nov 6, 6.30 pm JST/10.30 am CET www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-co...

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu "Wahr oder Falsch – Eine Schreibexpedition auf der Grenze zwischen Fakt und Fiktion" mit der Autorin & Kulturwissenschaftlerin Regina Klein 📅5. November 2025 / 17:20–19:00 Uhr 🚪Sophia-University, Yotsuya Anmeldung und Details: www.dijtokyo.org/de/event/wah...

Check out the brand-new Autumn issue of our #DIJNewsletter for the latest on our institute, research, publications, events, alumni, and much more @barbtokyo.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @torweber.bsky.social @merlekar.bsky.social @cj-jrnl.bsky.social www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

You can enjoy the Osaka Kansai #Expo2025 even after it will close its doors on Monday: watch our presentation at the German Pavilion and learn about our institute and our research projects in the fields of Sustainability and Digital Transformation @barbtokyo.bsky.social 🎬 youtu.be/NVbOsSdP51s

How can we write a truly global history of WWII? Join Sheldon Garon & Sebastian Conrad at the DIJ Forum on Oct 14 (18:30 JST / 11:30 CEST) – onsite @dijtokyo.org or online. Final event of our series #TheEndsofWar. 👉 dij.tokyo/globalhistory #DIJForum #WWII #GlobalHistory #Japan

Neuerscheinung #OpenAccess Kommunikative Orte für ländliche Räume, hg. C.Neu, N.Okada, Y.Yama & S.Polak-Rottmann, untersucht soziale Prozesse in Japan & Deutschland zur Stärkung sozialer Bindungen & Schaffung eines lebendigen Umfelds für innovative lokale Aktivitäten www.dijtokyo.org/de/project/s...

Beyond ramen and fast food: new blog post by Patricia Hein and Ragnar Riesenkampff introduces a unique approach to reconnect food practices with the land, traditions, and seasons and explains 'What Japanese Chefs Can Teach Us About Sustainability' sustainability.hypotheses.org/1080

NEW CJ issue 37-2 incl articles on faith talk in political rhetoric @ernils.bsky.social, the afterlife of PMs (T. Tsuda), Korean intl school (K. Hirano), Buraku literacy movements (C. Fusari), elderly reemployment (K. Haga) & Takarazuka fandom (Z. Baraniak-Hirata) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...

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