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...
In Ihrer Kurzgeschichte Satsujin Shussan (2014) beleuchtet Murata Sayaka wie Gesellschaft und Staat mit Themen wie Liebe und Sexualität in Verbindung stehen. Sie wählt diese Themen jedoch lediglich als Rahmen, um das Spannungsgefüge zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft anhand von Sexualität und Fortpflanzung zu thematisieren und zu fokussieren. In diesem Vortrag werde ich die Kurzgeschichte Satsujin Shussan mit...
As the world urges energy transition towards decarbonisation, it is expected that the cities and regions dependent on fossil-fuel related industries will be greatly affected by the transition. In particular, coal phase-out gives tremendous impacts on the coal industries, workers, and local communities in the coal-producing regions. How can those regions and communities overcome the...
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