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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Prof. Shinichi Aizawa: "What Kind of Class Society Is Japan? Rethinking Social Stratification through Capitals and Lifestyles"
DESCRIPTION:Das Japan-Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2026 zu folgendem Gastvortrag herzlich ein: \nProf. Shinichi Aizawa (Sophia University\, Tokyo) \n07. Mai 2026: 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr  \nHow can we better understand contemporary Japanese society through the re-analysis of existing large-scale survey data? While Japan has often been described as a relatively homogeneous “middle-class society\,” such interpretations have typically relied on single indicators such as income or occupation and have only partially engaged with the rich empirical resources available in quantitative surveys. \nThis paper revisits the question of social class in Japan by drawing on the 2015 Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) survey\, one of the most comprehensive datasets on Japanese society. Adopting a Bourdieusian perspective\, I conceptualize class as a multidimensional configuration of economic\, cultural\, and social capital\, as well as associated lifestyle practices. Using latent class analysis\, I inductively identify several distinct social classes characterized by different combinations of these resources. \nIn contrast to findings from the UK\, the Japanese case does not exhibit a clearly bounded\, affluent elite class. Instead\, the results point to a differentiated structure composed of multiple relatively advantaged groups alongside a large segment of the population with more modest or mixed resource profiles. Notably\, one group characterized by relatively strong economic resources but more limited cultural participation—often associated with manufacturing-based regional economies—emerges as a distinctive feature of the Japanese case. While groups with lower levels across multiple forms of capital can also be identified\, the overall structure appears less polarized than in some Western contexts. \nMore broadly\, the paper demonstrates the analytical potential of secondary data analysis for Japan studies by showing how reinterpreting existing survey data can reveal patterns of stratification that remain less visible in conventional approaches. \nShinichi Aizawa is Professor of Sociology of Education at Sophia University\, Tokyo\, and currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of Japanese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (2025–2026). His research examines the mechanisms of social stratification and reproduction in modern and contemporary Japan\, with a particular focus on the role of education. \nCombining quantitative and historical-comparative approaches\, his work explores topics such as educational expansion\, social mobility\, cultural capital\, and inequality. In recent years\, he has been particularly interested in reinterpreting social stratification through a cominbination of secondary data analysis\, the reconstruction of historical survey data from the 1950s and 1960s\, and original survey research. This approach allows him to examine how social class is structured and experienced in Japanese society across different historical periods and empirical contexts\, including analyses based on large-scale datasets such as the Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) surveys. \nHis publications include the co-edited volume High School for All in East Asia (Routledge\, 2019)\, which comparatively examines the public–private relationships in upper secondary education across East Asian societies\, as well as numerous articles on education\, inequality\, and social change in Japan. He has also contributed to international discussions by introducing Japanese sociology of education to broader audiences and by examining how Bourdieusian concepts have been adapted and reinterpreted in the Japanese context. \nDer Vortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Ort: Japan-Zentrum der LMU\, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten\, Oettingenstr. 67\, 80538 München\, Raum 151. Eine vorherige Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/vortrag-von-prof-shinichi-aizawa-what-kind-of-class-society-is-japan-rethinking-social-stratification-through-capitals-and-lifestyles/
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CATEGORIES:Allgemein,Forschungskolloquium,Vortrag
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SUMMARY:Doppelvortrag von Prof. Machiko Midorikawa und Prof. Michael Watson
DESCRIPTION:Das Japan-Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lädt Sie im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums im Sommersemester 2026 zu folgendem Doppelvortrag herzlich ein: \n„Did I dream it? Was it real? Intertextuality in Ise monogatari and Genji monogatari“ \nProf. Machiko Midorikawa (Waseda University) \nMedieval and early modern commentaries on Genji monogatari discuss the use of techniques that would now be termed forms of „intertextuality.“ Scholars have long studied the influence of the Ise monogatari on Genji monogatari. Some well-known examples are found in the „Waka Murasaki“ chapter\, which makes use of phrases taken from section 69 and other parts of the older poem-tale collection. Section 69 is the episode in which the mukashi otoko (Narihira) breaks a strict religious taboo in having sexual relations with the Ise Priestess. The „Waka Murasaki“ chapter draws on this episode in the depiction of Genji’s forbidden relationship with his step-mother Fujitsubo. \nBeyond the purely literary links between the two texts\, we must also consider the possible influence of gossip that spread about Narihira’s relations with the Priestess. It was rumoured that a son was born of the brief encounter. Early writings hint at this\, while later Ise commentaries even identify the child by name. I will argue that we must look beyond simple verbal links and examine more closely the historical and cultural context for clues about the texts emerged and were interpreted. \nMachiko Midorikawa is an invited researcher of the Institute of Classical Japanese Studies\, Waseda University\, where she received a doctorate in 2005. Her monograph Genji monogatari eiyaku ni tsuite no kenkyū (2010) was awarded the Twelfth Murasaki Shikibu Research Award. Journal publications include “In between interpretation\, commentary\, and literature: the aesthetic sense in English translations of the Tale of Genji” (2024)\, “A World of Indirectness: Notes Toward a Study of Characterization in the ‘Tale of Genji’” (2022) and “Shifting Words from Monogatari to Shōsetsu: The Translation of Internal Speech in Japanese Literature” (2014). \n„Flowing Sands: The Tripitaka Monk in Medieval Japan“ \nProf. em. Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University) \nThe Chinese monk Xuánzàng 玄奘 (602–664) made the long and dangerous journey across central and western Asia to India and returned sixteen years later with hundreds of sutras and other Buddhist texts. His Chinese translations of many sacred texts reached Japan in the Nara period\, together with factual records of his journey. Fictional representations of his pilgrimage became widely disseminated in different genres\, most famously in the Ming-period novel Journey to the West. In this talk we will examine an earlier Japanese work\, a nō play that is recorded as having been staged in 1432. Daihannya 大般若 („The Great Wisdom Sutra“) fell out of the performance repertoire for centuries before being revived in 1983. The play has most recently been performed in 2022 at the Yakushiji in Nara\, a Hossō-sect temple with a long and close connection to the historic Xuanzang. While translating the play\, we were able to study the DVD recording of a performance given in 2006. \nKnown in Japan as the Tripitaka or „Three Treasures“ Monk (Jp. Genjō Sanzō Hōshi)\, Xuanzang is typically represented in Heian and early medieval art with a sutra case on his back. The pilgrim’s statue is often paired with the figure of a sinister supernatural being who wears a necklace of human skulls. These iconographical details are present both in the surviving texts of Daihannya and in modern stagings of the play. Just a few decades before the play was written\, the imperial court in Japan commissioned calligraphers and painters to make a magnificent picture scroll that illustrates many of the dangers that Xuanzang faces\, but not the incident dramatized in the play. On his outward journey to India\, the pilgrim finds his way blocked by the Pamir Mountains and a wide river („Flowing Sands“). This is guarded by a weird figure („Deep Sands“) who reveals that he has met the pilgrim often in past lives\, killing him each time. This time he relents and lets the pilgrim pass\, presenting him with a scroll of the Great Wisdom Sutra. Heavenly Maidens and Dragon Gods open a path across the river for the monk to continue his journey. After discussing aspects of sources\, structure\, style and language\, we will talk about the difficulties of doing research on non-canonical nō plays that have been revived for contemporary performance. \nMichael Watson is Professor Emeritus at Meiji Gakuin University. Trained at the University of Oxford (DPhil 2003)\, his research has focussed on medieval Japanese war tales and nō drama\, with an interest in both canonical and non-canonical plays. He is a contributor to and co-editor of two volumes\, Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War (2013) and A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre (2025). He has published articles on narratology\, Heike monogatari\, and translation history. \nDer Doppelvortrag findet in Präsenz statt. Ort: Japan-Zentrum der LMU\, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten\, Oettingenstr. 67\, 80538 München\, Raum 151. Eine vorherige Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
URL:https://www.blog.japan.uni-muenchen.de/event/doppelvortrag-von-prof-machiko-midorikawa-und-prof-michael-watson/
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