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Das Deutsche Institut für Japanstudien wünscht erholsame und frohe Festtage und einen guten Start in ein erfolgreiches Jahr des Pferdes!

The German Institute for Japanese Studies wishes you a happy holiday season and a successful Year of the Horse!

ドイツ日本研究所一同、皆様のご多幸と来るべき新年が成功の年になることを祈念いたします。
January 2, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Innovation, games, machizukuri, climate & ‘the mouse’: check out the winter issue of our #DIJNewsletter for the latest on our institute, research, publications, events, alumni, jobs & more @barbtokyo.bsky.social @nicolemmueller.bsky.social @paul-jokr.bsky.social
📑 www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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DLF-Radiofeature "Leerstand in Japan - Ideen für verlassene Häuser" von Felix Lill
🎤 DIJ-Anthropologe Sebastian Polak-Rottmann erklärt das Phänomen der verlassenen Häuser (akiya) in Japan: "ein Symptom des demographischen Wandels und von Wanderungsbewegungen"
www.deutschlandfunk.de/leerstand-in...
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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🗑️Waste disposal rules in Japan are complicated. The board game Gomi-Gē helps people understand the disposal system through play
▶️ “Gomi-Gē” – A Game for Workshops on Waste Management by Shinichi Ichino, Chika Hirashima, Nodoka Tsuru (Tokyo Metropolitan University) sustainability.hypotheses.org/1736
December 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Why Japan's economic woes spark global market concern @deutschewelle.dw.com
DIJ director Franz Waldenberger comments on Japan's debts and the country's high share of net foreign assets: "I call it 'rich country, poor government'" www.dw.com/en/japan-san...
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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REMINDER Join us for this year's last #DIJStudyGroup, this Wednesday, 17 December, 6.30 pm JST onsite at the DIJ and online www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-co...
dijtokyo.org DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · Dec 2
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...
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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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...
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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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...
dijtokyo.org DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · Nov 14
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...
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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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
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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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...
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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...
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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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!
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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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...
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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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...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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💴"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...
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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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
dijtokyo.org DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · Nov 5
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...
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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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
dijtokyo.org DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · Nov 10
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...
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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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...
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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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
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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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...
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM