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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
