This book, which will be published in German by C.H. Beck later this year, deals with the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. It tells the story of how the three fascist powers converged and how, in trying to reorder the world, they plunged it into a war of unprecedented scale. The book proposes a double scope, as an...
In a thriving knowledge economy, universities around the world see international students as a key element in their survival and growth, while employers eye on them as a talent pool gathered from around the world. Japanese universities and business leaders are no exception. However, despite Japan’s efforts in recruiting international students and channeling them into...
This study queries newcomer migrant labor in Japan, from the perspectives of various stakeholders: the government, farmers and other employers, and local communities. Migrant labor schemes have existed in Japan under the guise of homeland visitation (Brazilian Japanese workers since 1990) and ‘Technical Interns and Trainees’ (TITP, widely understood as short-term workers in the guise...
For decades, many of Japan’s communities have seen exodus of the young in search of education and employment opportunities in the major cities. During 2010-2015, 1,419 (82.5%) municipalities out of 1,719 in Japan experienced population decline. The responses to and impacts of such depopulation, mainly but not exclusively in rural areas, have been widely documented...
Japan identifies itself as a nation whose nationhood is founded on the ideology of a common descent (Befu 2001). Japan did not have such a unified ethno-based self-understanding before the modernizing movement known as the Meiji Restoration (1868). Rather, the Tokugawa regime’s “rule by status”—a practice that segregates the ruled by groups—created segmented cultural traditions...
Anarchist theory and practice have global aims of liberation. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, anarchism furnished a comprehensive critique and analysis of state rule, capitalism and imperialism, and it offered alternative models of being in contrast to established regimes of power. As recent research has demonstrated, anarchist thought and practice was a...
This study presents how is a cross-border labour market between Japan and Vietnam is constructed by Japanese private intermediary actors. The Japanese government has been implementing de-facto migration policies and still denies the introduction official migratory measures despite the accelerated drop in the working population. Positioned in the literature of the international migration industry, this...
Contemporary societies are increasingly characterized by the ‘diversification of diversity’ or: superdiversity (Vertovec, 2007), particularly in the urban contexts, where global flows of capital, goods and people are concentrated (Sassen, 2001; Castles et al., 2009). Although this connection between the global phenomenon of transnational migration and the local socio-spatial impacts on the cities appears evident,...
Manga und Anime erfreuen sich in Deutschland ungebrochen hoher Beliebtheit, so dass jedes Jahr Unmengen an Text ins Deutsche übersetzt werden muss. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Übertragung von Wörtern, sondern auch um die Erschließung von kulturellen Eigenheiten und Denkweisen für das deutsche Publikum – sowohl auf textlicher, als auch auf bildlicher Ebene....
Germany is Europe’s largest migrant-receiving destination. Among migrants who hail from more than 100 origin countries across all continents, the Chinese and Japanese groups have some of the longest community-building histories. In addition, they enjoy a high degree of vitality: the Chinese being the fastest-growing non-European migrant group, whereas the Japanese communities command an over-proportionate...
