Despite labor shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this…
Autor: Tanja Eberl
Fachschaftsvertretung lädt zur Infoveranstaltung für Erstsemester ein
Liebe Studierende, für die „Erstis“ unter Euch organisiert die Fachschaftsvertretung Japanologie auch dieses Jahr wieder eine Infoveranstaltung, die darauf ausgerichtet ist, kurz vor Beginn der Weihnachtspause nochmal einige Tipps zur…
Vortrag am 16. Dezember 2021, 12.30 Uhr: „’Equal Study‘ and Sign Bilingualism in Japan“ (Jennifer M. McGuire)
The recent Olympics and Paralympics have thrust the issue of „accessibility“ in Japan into the spotlight. Accessibility features promote inclusion, but they do not guarantee it. Accessibility is more than…
Vortrag am 13. Dezember 2021, 11.00 Uhr: „When Local Meets Global: The Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan“ (Reiko Ogawa)
Research has revealed that migrants are incorporated differently in the care sector according to the intersection of migration-care regime nexus. Japan’s care sector went through significant structural change in 2000…
Vortrag am 06. Dezember 2021, 11.00 Uhr: „COVID, Migration, and Nationalism in Japan“ (Dr. Nana Oishi)
While nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiments have grown in many industrialized countries, Japan’s situation has been quite different. Although nationalism has been on the rise and the concerns for ethnic and…
Vortrag am 02. Dezember 2021, 12.30 Uhr: „Fantastical spaces in contemporary Japanese literature: From Murakami Haruki to Ogawa Yōko“ (Mina Qiao)
Fantastical spaces, they are ubiquitous in contemporary Japanese literature, hidden, secluded, guarded, and with secretive and limited access, altogether reinforcing then ethereal and labyrinthe quality. A fantastical space resembles and…
Vortrag am 29. November 2021, 11.00 Uhr: „Japan’s Scope of Nursing Viewed by Foreign Nurses (Book Talk)“ (Yuko Ohara-HIRANO und Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes)
Foreign Nurses Working in Japan: Assessments of the EPA Program edited by Hirano and Yoneno-Reyes (2021) discusses the nurse migration from Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam to Japan under the EPAs’ framework,…
Vortrag am 22. November 2021, 11.00 Uhr: „COVID-19 Health Certification Reduces Outgroup Bias: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Japan“ (Yoshiaki Kubo, Isamu Okada)
Psychological theorem supposes that serious threats cause negative attitudes by ingroups to outgroups, i.e., outgroup bias. For example, the behavioral immune system theory claims a chain reaction from infectious threats…
Pre-Opening Japanese Film Festival Online 2022
Filmfans aufgepasst: Als Einstimmung auf das Japanese Filmfestival (JFF) im nächsten Jahr und für all‘ jene, die das Film Festival 2021 verpasst haben oder sich einen Film noch einmal ansehen…
Vortrag am 18. November 2021, 12.30 Uhr: „Kabukichō – Tōkyō: Anthropogical perspectives“ (Nathaniel M. Smith)
As Tokyo readied itself to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, its most infamous postwar red-light district, Kabukicho, was surprisingly proactive in welcoming a growing number of international visitors. Boasting…