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
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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
Links im Bild ist Melike Sahinol, rechts im Bild Celia Spoden abgebildet. In der Mitte zwei Hände beim Händeschütteln, wobei eine Hand eine Prothese in Roboter-Optik ist. Darüber steht der Text: „Folge 27: Medizin der Zukunft“.
🎧 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
📖 NEW book chapter “Disaster Preparedness and Response for Companion Animals in Japan” by DIJ's @barbtokyo.bsky.social
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions @springernature.com, eds. H. Wu, @drkylebreen.bsky.social @drsarahdeyoung.bsky.social
▶️ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
国際ワークショップ「Digital Capitalism & Varieties of Science デジタル資本主義と科学の多様性」はデジタル技術が現代社会および科学研究に与える影響について、世界各国の研究者や実務家が知見を共有し、議論を深めます dij.tokyo/varieties
開催日時: 2026年3月12日（木）
主催: アーヘン工科大学 (RWTH Aachen), ドイツ日本研究所 (DIJ Tokyo)
形式: オンラインライブストリーム
参加登録: 以下のリンクよりご登録ください (無料）
maxweberstiftung.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
DIJ's @celiaspoden.bsky.social will present her research on avatar robots, work & disability in a panel on the past and present of technology in Japan’s engineering of the future at the #AAS2026 in Vancouver, March 13, 3:30-5:00 PM PDT @shawnbender.bsky.social @otsuki3c.bsky.social @asianstudies.org
Joint DIJ @core-rwth.bsky.social workshop 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 examines digital technologies, digital capitalism&scientific cultures @inqualia.bsky.social @janpassoth.bsky.social @taiyolab.com @nicolemmueller.bsky.social
📅 Mar 12, 10-17:30 JST live-stream
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/worksh...
REMINDER You are invited to join our DIJ Roundtable "Big in Japan? Recruitment & training strategies of German companies in Japan" with Matthias Pilz, Shigeki Egami & Carolina Kawakubo, next Monday, 2 March, 18-20h JST onsite at the DIJ
Registration ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/big-in...
"Sustainability is inherently tied with community resilience and vitality, particularly in the depopulating and aging areas." New post on the DIJ's 'Sustainability in Japan and Beyond' blog by Pilvi Posio (Turku) examines Japan-Finland City Climate Collaboration
➡️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2201
Thank you to the University of Tokyo & organizers of the "Toward New Science with AI and Beyond" symposium for fascinating insights into AI in physics, brain research & society incl. panel discussion “AI and Society: Imagination and responsibility for the future” with DIJ's @celiaspoden.bsky.social
📖 New book chapter "A kingdom 'one and indivisible'. A (non-)history of political decentralization in Thailand" by DIJ's David M. Malitz www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
In: From Empire to Federation in Eurasia @routledgebooks.bsky.social, eds. Ivan Sablin & @egasmb.bsky.social
NEW blog series "De-centering academia: InterAsian Perspectives" on TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research examines recent transformations in higher education across Asia. First article by Claudia Derichs, Riho Isaka & Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka on Shaping Asia network event
trafo.hypotheses.org/64183
Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zur 6. Session des deutschsprachigen Kaffeekränzchens „Philosophie-Jause“, organisiert von Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (DIJ) & Yukiko Kuwayama (UTCP)
📅 Sonntag, 1. März 2026, 15:30-17:30 Uhr
🏢 Komaba Campus 1, Universität Tokyo
Details ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/de/event/kaf...
In Japan stehen 14 Prozent aller Wohngebäude leer. Bis 2030 könnte es ein Drittel sein. Auch Europa droht dieses Problem. DIJ-Anthropologe Sebastian Polak-Rottmann erklärt, wie Menschen im ländlichen & städtischen Japan mit dem "akiya mondai" umgehen @fr-zeitung.bsky.social www.fr.de/panorama/jed...
Thank you to the speakers Sebastian Polak-Rottmann, Timo Thelen, Masahiko Nishioka, @paul-jokr.bsky.social and our in-person & online audiences for stimulating discussions at our Hita Workshop: Machizukuri Initiatives & Adaptive Governance in a Rural Japanese City
▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/hita-w...