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 cultural diversity still exist, the Japanese public has become much more open to migration than in the past. The number of migrants hit a record...
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 due to the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI). The care market has expanded rapidly, resulting in a chronic shortage of care workers and migrant workers started...
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 Klausurvorbereitung aufzubereiten. Darin geben wir insbesondere unsere Erfahrungen mit der ersten Sprachklausur an Euch weiter, es kommen aber auch generelle Lernstrategien, die das Japanischstudium in...
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 ensuring the “ability” of people with disabilities to access products, services, structures, and systems. This presentation focuses on the effect of various inclusion efforts on...
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 trajectory, Japan took incremental steps to expand immigrant services at the grassroots level, and South Korea enacted sweeping immigration reforms. How did convergent policies generate...
Liebe Studierende, Liebe Dozierende, die Fachschaftsvertretung Japanologie lädt Euch alle herzlich zur Weihnachtsfeier am 21. Dezember ab 18:00 Uhr ein! Zwar ist es aktuell leider wieder nicht möglich, eine Feier in Präsenz zu veranstalten, jedoch versuchen wir uns dieses Jahr daran, auf der Plattform Discord eine Alternative zu finden, in der es möglich ist, trotz...
Natsume Sōsekis 夏目漱石 (1867-1916) Interesse an Kunst zeigt sich nicht nur in seiner literarischen Verarbeitung von Theorien und Kunstobjekten oder dem Evozieren von Bildern durch Sprache, sondern auch in seinem eigenen künstlerischen Ausdruck sowie den Beziehungen zu Künstlern, insbesondere zu Hashiguchi Goyō橋口五葉 (1881-1921), Nakamura Fusetsu 中村不折 (1866-1943) und Tsuda Seifū 津田青楓 (1880-1978), die allesamt Illustrationen...
Ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) or 3.11, we look at how artists and survivors have dealt with the aftermath of the catastrophe focusing on processes of memorialization through art and voice. Presenters are: Fuyubi Nakamura (UBC) and LMU students with a commentary by Julia Gerster (Tohoku University). For more...
Joint workshop with students and researchers from Düsseldorf (HHU), Kyoto (DWC), and Munich (LMU). Time: 9 am to 1 pm (Germany) / 5 pm to 9 pm (Japan) (including a break) Place: Zoom For more information, please check the announcement here. Registration: Please register for this workshop until January 5, 2022! LMU students at a.wiemann@lmu.de...
A leading figure in world cinema, director Kore-eda Hirokazu (b. 1962) is particularly well known for his fine-grained portrayals of families. Actress Kiki Kirin (1943-2018) played significant roles in six of his family-focused films—beginning with Still Walking (Aruite mo aruite mo, 2008) and ending ten years later with Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku, 2018). Tapping into widespread anxieties in Japan that...
