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Bewerbungsfrist: Sonntag, 9. August 2026. karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1... @maxweberstiftung.de
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · last mo.Zum 1.2.2027 suchen wir wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiterinnen (w/m/d) mit herausragender Promotion, sehr guten Japanischkenntnissen & Forschungserfahrung in Japan für das Forschungsprogramm „Kulturen der Transformation – Japan im Vergleich“ Details karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1...
Thank you to our speaker Simone Decker (@lmu.de / DIJ Tokyo) and all participants who joined Wednesday’s #DIJStudyGroup on “Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan“ ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe... (1/2)
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · last mo.Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" 🎤 Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 / 6:00pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...
NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative“ Sarah Stark examines Sekisui House's "Gohon no Ki" (five plants) initiative, and its ecological & sociological implications ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2898 (1/3)
Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative
In 2001, the Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House began planting five carefully selected native plants in every new home it built. Over twenty-five years, this has resulted in more than 20 million plant...
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REMINDER You can still sign up to join us this Wednesday for the #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" with Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo). Onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · last mo.Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" 🎤 Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 / 6:00pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...
Thank you to our speaker @arnabduttahist.bsky.social and all participants who - despite the heat - came out to join last night's #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" dij.tokyo/anticolonial...
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 2w agoREMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" with MWS mobility fellow Arnab Dutta (Univ of Groningen) 📅 July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST); onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo
Japan’s pet industry is booming -- DIJ sociologist @barbtokyo.bsky.social explains why: “A pet can also replace a partner. After a divorce, people sometimes get pets. After someone gets widowed, they get a pet.” @genmansfield.bsky.social @aljazeera.com ▶️ www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
Brutally hot summers, research positions, travel grants, publications, conferences & other updates in our #DIJNewsletter ▶️ dij.tokyo/nl84 @nicolemmueller.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @barbtokyo.bsky.social @celiaspoden.bsky.social @jppinfo.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social @eajs.eu
REMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" with MWS mobility fellow Arnab Dutta (Univ of Groningen) 📅 July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST); onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 4w agoJoin our #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" 🎤 @arnabduttahist.bsky.social (Univ of Groningen) 📅 Wed, July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-in...
🌱 Ohne Zukunftserzählungen gibt es keine Zukunft. Im Projekt ZumiKu untersuchen Claudia Neu und Marc Weiland, wie Erzählungen die Zukunft ländlicher Räume prägen. Mehr dazu im Blog „Sustainability in Japan and Beyond“ des DIJ Tokyo (@dijtokyo.org) 🔗 sustainability.hypotheses.org/2643
Telling the Story of the Future: Perspectives and Impulses for Rural Areas
We are facing a seemingly peculiar paradox: On the one hand, literature and culture, as well as architecture and energy policy, are increasingly interested in rural areas, seeing development potential...
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Thank you to everyone who joined Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan & South Korea" with Jaein Seol online & onsite. Please join us again for the next sessions: 📅 July 22: A. Dutta dij.tokyo/anticolonial... 📅 July 29: S. Decker dij.tokyo/bookstore
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 3w agoREMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan and South Korea" with Jaein Seol (Leipzig University / DIJ Tokyo)
Last lecture in the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series coming up this Friday! "Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000" 📅 Fri 17 July 2026, 18-20h 📍 Waseda University, Toyama Campus, Room 31-311 🎤 Takane Suzuki (Waseda Univ) www.mfj.gr.jp/evenement/le...
Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000 - Événements - IFRJ / MFJ
vendredi 17 juillet 2026 | This event will be held at Waseda University, not at the Maison franco-japonaise. Why did so many people leave their homes for Tokyo during Japan’s modernization? This talk ...
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NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "'The Society my Daughter is going to live in' – Metaverse Sustainability as a Personal Matter“ by @nicolemmueller.bsky.social ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2861 (1/4)
REMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan and South Korea" with Jaein Seol (Leipzig University / DIJ Tokyo)
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · last mo.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...
Join our #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" 🎤 @arnabduttahist.bsky.social (Univ of Groningen) 📅 Wed, July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-in...
"Japan altert schneller als Deutschland – trotzdem fürchtet niemand den Renten-Kollaps": DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger und DIJ-Alumnus Steffen Heinrich erklären in der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social, wie Japan sein Rentensystem umgebaut hat und ob das Altersarmut verhindert www.fr.de/wirtschaft/j...
Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" 🎤 Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 / 6:00pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...
Please do pop by the Contemporary Japan booth and have a chat with our managing editor, Isaac Gagné, if you’re attending the #ASCJ2026 @asianstudies.org this weekend. Isaac will be happy to advise you on publication opportunities in our journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social ascjapan.org/conference/
Zum 1.2.2027 suchen wir wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiterinnen (w/m/d) mit herausragender Promotion, sehr guten Japanischkenntnissen & Forschungserfahrung in Japan für das Forschungsprogramm „Kulturen der Transformation – Japan im Vergleich“ Details karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1...
«Au Japon, il est socialement admis qu’un chien doit être habillé, toiletté…humanisé en quelque sorte. C’est la preuve que l’on est un bon maître, une impression que le marché a largement contribué à forger», souligne Barbara Holthus, directrice adjointe de l’Institut allemand des études japonaises.
La Croix@la-croix.com · 2mo agoRobes, barrettes, poussettes : au Japon, les chiens de plus en plus « humanisés »
Wer ist der Kopf hinter Japans neuer Nummer 1? Im Focus-Gespräch mit @alexandrek.bsky.social erklärt DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger, wie Softbanks Masayoshi Son tickt und warum er konsequent auf KI setzt. Son sei ein „Stratege, sehr eigen und risikofreudig“. www.focusplus.de/finanzen/sof...
Colonial peripheries, imagining empire, Nō theatre: meet DIJ researchers @merlekar.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @torweber.bsky.social & Francesca Lerz and their research at the #ASCJ2026 Annual Conference @asianstudies.org this weekend at Sophia University Tokyo ascjapan.org/conference/2...
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!
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 2mo agoSave 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...
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...
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 3mo agoRegistration 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...
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/...
DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 11mo agoGerade 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/...
