Strawberry delight! 🍓🍓🍓

Are you ready for the adventurous path?

📌 13th century Schelztor Tower Gate & 1980s addition of #Skywalker

#keepyourheadup
#offthebeatenpath
#charmsofEsslingen

#Powerwalking nach der Vorlesung. So kann das #SoSe25 weitergehen. 🌳💙☀️

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
#EnglischerGarten #KleinhesseloherSee #Oe67office #munichlove #countmyblessings

💡Pls. join us: Ellis S. Krauss, UCSD on “Reluctant #Warriors No More? #Japan and #Germany Before and After #Ukraine”
👉 Guest Lecture at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
April 24, 2025, 4.00 pm, at IBZ, Amalienstr.38
🤝 Co-hosted by JapanCenter & GSI
No registration necessary.
👉 www.kw.lmu.de/japan/de/akt...

Evening beauty of #Tokyo #東京 🗼🌕

Rainy night in #Shinjuku #新宿

Had the honor of giving a keynote lecture on #Japan’s #activeaging strategy to Gov. #Oberösterreich 🇦🇹 Mayoral Office City #Linz & local #eldercare network. Deeply impressed by OÖ „Betreuugsarchitektur 2040“ (architecture of care) & many best practice examples that I learned about today. Chapeau!

Another semester is in the books. Sending #mondaymorningvibes and #munichlove to students and colleagues near and far. お疲れさまでした！

🎉 Some glimpses into fieldwork data from ongoing research into the political participation of young Japanese. Join me for tomorrow’s u:japan lecture, onsite in Vienna or online via Zoom. (Jan. 9, 2025, 6.00-7.30 pm CET) Looking forward to the discussion! 👉 japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/e...

As the old year marks a frosty but sunny exit, it is time to bundle up and give a cheerful welcome to 2025. May it bring joy and happiness to you and yours, and hope and peace around the globe. 🎆🍾

新年あけましておめでとうございます｡2025年は皆様にとって幸福であり、ハッピーである一年になりますように。世界中に平和や前向きの暖かい心が広がるようにお祈りいたします。✨🎍

There can’t be enough cherry blossoms in the world, now can there?
#桜満開 #京都大原三千院 🌸

#niewiederistJETZT #gemeinsamstark #gegenRechts #demokratieverteidigen #muenchen

The Groupe d'études sur le politique au Japon kindly invited me to talk about:
"Reform Initiatives in Health-Care Migration to Japan: A Discussion of their Political Dimensions"
Please join the discussion if you can:
11/30 Thu, 10.30 am (CET) / 6.30 pm (JST)
Registration: seiji.hypotheses.org

The 31st Japanese-German Forum was in session in Berlin this week. What an honor to serve as a member to this 🇯🇵🇩🇪group, and exchange views on how to cooperate in light of manifold challenges ahead. So good to reconnect with friends!

Huge thanks to the outstanding faculty & brilliant students at Cambridge for a cherished opportunity to discuss my work on Okinawa. Structural injustices of the “reversion” 50yrs ago translate into Okinawan identity politics and regional opposition until today. 👉 online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

🎉 Very excited about my upcoming trip to Cambridge! Pls. join me for a discussion of "Japan's Failed Nation Building: Okinawa 1972-2022" at Selwyn College (10/30, 5pm). Huge shoutout to the wonderful Vicky Young for hosting me. 🙏
www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/eas...

Back to Uni! On this spooky morning we kick off the fall term 23/24 at LMU Munich (and elsewhere). Have a good one, everybody! 🍂