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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 28/09/2026

Join our upcoming #DIJStudyGroup “Serial Solitudes: Exploring Loneliness in Japanese Discourses and Screen Culture” 🎤 Denis Newiak (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg) 📆 Wed, October 7 / 6.30 pm (JST) 🏠 onsite only @DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/serial...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 22/09/2026

Day 2 of our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia with papers by @jdimoia.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @nadinhee.bsky.social, Sabine Frühstück, Nicolas Schillinger, Hoi-eun Kim, @bmleitner.bsky.social, Akihito Suzuki

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 18/09/2026

Great start to our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science & Technology in Transwar East Asia, organised by @daneuhaus.bsky.social @bmleitner.bsky.social & N. Schillinger, with papers by Jin-kyung Park, Akira Hashimoto, Jaehwan Hyun, Ping-Heng Chen, Harry Yi-Jui Wu

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 17/09/2026

Thank you for attending our DIJ talks at the #EAJS2026 @eajs.eu with papers by Isaac Gagné on magical practices in Tokyo, @nicolemmueller.bsky.social on metaverse narratives of the future, @daneuhaus.bsky.social on industrial education for Koreans & @torweber.bsky.social on Japanese Asia discourse

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 16/09/2026

Thank you to the @scripts-berlin.eu team for visiting the DIJ and the stimulating exchange with DIJ researchers on the future of liberal democracy, sustainability & resilience, and the global order. We look forward to intensify our exchange, bringing together our expertise in comparative perspective

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 14/09/2026

It was a great pleasure to meet Aimée Dornier of Iudicium Verlag at the #EAJS2026 @eajs.eu & to learn that Iudicium is the first foreign publishing house ever to be awarded the prestigious Japan Foundation Award. Congratulations to our long-standing publishing partner! www.jpf.go.jp/e/about/awar...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 11/09/2026

International Symposium "Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia" 📍 @ DIJ Tokyo & online 🗓️ 17-18 Sept 2026 ℹ️ Programme & registration details www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang... Supported by Toshiba International Foundation & DWIH Tokyo (1/2)

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 10/09/2026

In der neusten Folge „Tokyo“ der ZDF-Reihe „Weltstädte“ spricht DIJ-Soziologin @barbtokyo.bsky.social über Einsamkeit junger Menschen in der japanischen Metropole. 📺 www.zdf.de/video/dokus/... (1/2)

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Weltstädte - mit Leon Windscheid: Tokyo | Terra X Doku

Tokyo ist eine der jüngsten Weltmetropolen. Die Stadt besticht durch ihre Ruhe, Präzision und Sauberkeit. Woher kommt der Sinn für das Gemeinwohl?

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 10/09/2026

NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Encountering Sustainability at the Setouchi Triennale (2025) in Japan“ by Carolin Fleischer-Heininger, exploring how the art festival addresses social, cultural, and ecological aspects of sustainability ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2963 (1/2)

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Encountering Sustainability at the Setouchi Triennale (2025) in Japan

This blog article is the second part on my trips to regional art festivals in Japan in 2025. In the first part, I focused on the Aichi Triennale. This time, I will share my observations of the Setouch...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 24/08/2026

We look forward to meeting friends, colleagues & alumni at the #EAJS2026 in Poznań, incl papers by Isaac Gagné (Religion & Religious Thought), @nicolemmueller.bsky.social (Anthropology & Sociology), @daneuhaus.bsky.social (History) & @torweber.bsky.social (Intellectual History & Philosophy) @eajs.eu

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 12/08/2026

#OpenAccess book edited by DIJ Visiting Fellow Sébastien Lechevalier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Kayo Takuma Capitalism, Innovations, and Health after Covid-19. An Asian Perspective @springernature.com examines alternative health innovation models link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 06/08/2026

We are delighted to announce our new director from October 1, 2026: Verena Blechinger-Talcott @verenabt.bsky.social, Professor of Japanese Politics and Political Economy @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. We are looking forward to welcoming you back at the DIJ in October!

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 05/08/2026

Bewerbungsfrist: Sonntag, 9. August 2026. karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1... @maxweberstiftung.de

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 31/07/2026

Thank you to our speaker Simone Decker (@lmu.de / DIJ Tokyo) and all participants who joined Wednesday’s #DIJStudyGroup on “Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan“ ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe... (1/2)

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 30/07/2026

NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative“ Sarah Stark examines Sekisui House's "Gohon no Ki" (five plants) initiative, and its ecological & sociological implications ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2898 (1/3)

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Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative

In 2001, the Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House began planting five carefully selected native plants in every new home it built. Over twenty-five years, this has resulted in more than 20 million plant...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 27/07/2026

REMINDER You can still sign up to join us this Wednesday for the #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" with Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo). Onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 23/07/2026

Thank you to our speaker @arnabduttahist.bsky.social and all participants who - despite the heat - came out to join last night's #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" dij.tokyo/anticolonial...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 22/07/2026

Japan’s pet industry is booming -- DIJ sociologist @barbtokyo.bsky.social explains why: “A pet can also replace a partner. After a divorce, people sometimes get pets. After someone gets widowed, they get a pet.” @genmansfield.bsky.social @aljazeera.com ▶️ www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 21/07/2026

Brutally hot summers, research positions, travel grants, publications, conferences & other updates in our #DIJNewsletter ▶️ dij.tokyo/nl84 @nicolemmueller.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @barbtokyo.bsky.social @celiaspoden.bsky.social @jppinfo.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social @eajs.eu

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 21/07/2026

REMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" with MWS mobility fellow Arnab Dutta (Univ of Groningen) 📅 July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST); onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo

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Agrar Fakultät Uni Göttingen @agrarunigoe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🌱 Ohne Zukunftserzählungen gibt es keine Zukunft. Im Projekt ZumiKu untersuchen Claudia Neu und Marc Weiland, wie Erzählungen die Zukunft ländlicher Räume prägen. Mehr dazu im Blog „Sustainability in Japan and Beyond“ des DIJ Tokyo (@dijtokyo.org) 🔗 sustainability.hypotheses.org/2643

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Telling the Story of the Future: Perspectives and Impulses for Rural Areas

We are facing a seemingly peculiar paradox: On the one hand, literature and culture, as well as architecture and energy policy, are increasingly interested in rural areas, seeing development potential...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 17/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined Wednesday's #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan & South Korea" with Jaein Seol online & onsite. Please join us again for the next sessions: 📅 July 22: A. Dutta dij.tokyo/anticolonial... 📅 July 29: S. Decker dij.tokyo/bookstore

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 16/07/2026

Last lecture in the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series coming up this Friday! "Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000" 📅 Fri 17 July 2026, 18-20h  📍 Waseda University, Toyama Campus, Room 31-311 🎤 Takane Suzuki (Waseda Univ) www.mfj.gr.jp/evenement/le...

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Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000 - Événements - IFRJ / MFJ

vendredi 17 juillet 2026 | This event will be held at Waseda University, not at the Maison franco-japonaise. Why did so many people leave their homes for Tokyo during Japan’s modernization? This talk ...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 15/07/2026

NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "'The Society my Daughter is going to live in' – Metaverse Sustainability as a Personal Matter“ by @nicolemmueller.bsky.social ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2861 (1/4)

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 13/07/2026

REMINDER You can still sign up for Wednesday's hybrid #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan and South Korea" with Jaein Seol (Leipzig University / DIJ Tokyo)

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 07/07/2026

Join our #DIJStudyGroup "The Indo-Pacific Knowledge in Indian Anticolonialism: Geopolitical Imaginaries from Pan-Asianism to Pacific Affairs, 1920s–40s" 🎤 @arnabduttahist.bsky.social (Univ of Groningen) 📅 Wed, July 22 / 6.30 pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-in...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 06/07/2026

"Japan altert schneller als Deutschland – trotzdem fürchtet niemand den Renten-Kollaps": DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger und DIJ-Alumnus Steffen Heinrich erklären in der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social, wie Japan sein Rentensystem umgebaut hat und ob das Altersarmut verhindert www.fr.de/wirtschaft/j...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 03/07/2026

Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "Independent Bookstores and Zine Communities as Third Spaces in Post-Corona Japan" 🎤 Simone Decker (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo) 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 / 6:00pm (JST) 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/indepe...

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Contemporary Japan @cj-jrnl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Please do pop by the Contemporary Japan booth and have a chat with our managing editor, Isaac Gagné, if you’re attending the #ASCJ2026 @asianstudies.org this weekend. Isaac will be happy to advise you on publication opportunities in our journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social ascjapan.org/conference/

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 02/07/2026

Zum 1.2.2027 suchen wir wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiterinnen (w/m/d) mit herausragender Promotion, sehr guten Japanischkenntnissen & Forschungserfahrung in Japan für das Forschungsprogramm „Kulturen der Transformation – Japan im Vergleich“ Details karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/1...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 30/06/2026

«Au Japon, il est socialement admis qu’un chien doit être habillé, toiletté…humanisé en quelque sorte. C’est la preuve que l’on est un bon maître, une impression que le marché a largement contribué à forger», souligne Barbara Holthus, directrice adjointe de l’Institut allemand des études japonaises.

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 29/06/2026

Wer ist der Kopf hinter Japans neuer Nummer 1? Im Focus-Gespräch mit @alexandrek.bsky.social erklärt DIJ-Direktor Franz Waldenberger, wie Softbanks Masayoshi Son tickt und warum er konsequent auf KI setzt. Son sei ein „Stratege, sehr eigen und risikofreudig“. www.focusplus.de/finanzen/sof...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 29/06/2026

Colonial peripheries, imagining empire, Nō theatre: meet DIJ researchers @merlekar.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @torweber.bsky.social & Francesca Lerz and their research at the #ASCJ2026 Annual Conference @asianstudies.org this weekend at Sophia University Tokyo ascjapan.org/conference/2...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 26/06/2026

NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Telling the Story of the Future: Perspectives and Impulses for Rural Areas" by Claudia Neu & Marc Weiland @uni-goettingen.de examines how future narratives impact the social reality of life in the countryside ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2643

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 25/06/2026

#CfA Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant @maxweberstiftung.de for early-career researchers in the humanities & social sciences 👉 conduct your own research project 👉 stay in 2-3 designated countries, incl Japan 👉 max. 1 month per country 📅 deadline 4 Oct 2026 ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/5...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 25/06/2026

Registration is open for the next #DIJStudyGroup "Transnational Right-Wing Movements and Discourses in Japan and South Korea" 🎤 Jaein Seol, Leipzig University / DIJ Tokyo 📅 July 15, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/transn...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 16/06/2026

Tomorrow onsite and online!

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 08/06/2026

TOMORROW Join us for Tuesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" with @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 05/06/2026

Thank you for joining Wednesday's session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series at the DIJ and for a lively discussion of "Tokyo – how can this possibly turn out well?" with Franz Waldenberger & @barbtokyo.bsky.social We have uploaded photos on our website ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/tokyo-...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 04/06/2026

NEW on our YouTube channel: #DIJForum "Japanese Labor Imaginaries: From Postwar Working Class Womanhood to Cultural Mediation of Corporate Identity" and 'Working Japan' keynotes @jppinfo.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social by @chelseaszendi.bsky.social & Hiromichi Hasebe ▶️ youtu.be/nuPIBZJ8qoM

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 03/06/2026

Save the date! Registration is now open for the #DIJStudyGroup "Application of Generative AI inside Japanese Companies" 📅 Wed 17 June 2026, 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST) 🏚️💻 DIJ Tokyo & online 🎤 Alissa Kacs, Bonn University / DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/applic...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 02/06/2026

Ein "innovativer, sorgfältig komponierter und theoretisch ambitionierter Sammelband, der das Feld kulturellen Übersetzens in der Japanologie substanziell bereichert." Vielen Dank an Alexandra Ludewig für die schöne Rezension in Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur 80 www.dijtokyo.org/publication/...

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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 01/06/2026

Thanks very much to @dijtokyo.org for hosting a lively and intellectually stimulating book launch event for the #OpenAccess book 'Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way: Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China.' bit.ly/4x1ALBa 💙📚 #RersearchPublishing

A screen displays "The research team on ecosystems in East Asia" and the book cover "Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way."

Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way
Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 02/06/2026

REMINDER You can still sign up for tomorrow's session of the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series "Tokyo – how can this possibly turn out well?" 📅 Wed 3 June 2026, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ DIJ Tokyo (onsite only) 🎤 Franz Waldenberger (DIJ), moderated by @barbtokyo.bsky.social ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/tokyo-...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 01/06/2026

Jetzt bewerben für #Praktika ab Januar '27 und spannende Einblicke in den Arbeitsalltag des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien in Tokyo gewinnen 🎌 Möglich sind freiwillige & Pflichtpraktika für max 11 Wochen in 🗼 Wissenschaft ⛩️ Wissenschaftskommunikation 🗻 Verwaltung ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/praktikum/

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 01/06/2026

Thank you to all participants in Friday's book launch "Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China" @springernature.com with the authors' team and Glen S. Fukushima as commentator Photos of the event are now online ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/book-l...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 01/06/2026

TOMORROW #DIJForum "Japanese Labor Imaginaries: From Postwar Working Class Womanhood to Cultural Mediation of Corporate Identity" 📅 Tue 2 June, 18:30-20:00 🏚️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo 🎤 @chelseaszendi.bsky.social (Aoyama Gakuin U) & Hiromichi Hasebe (Nihon U) ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/japane...

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 28/05/2026

It was a great pleasure to host the student workshop "Russia and Japan: Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific", led & organized by Anke Scherer & Sören Urbansky @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, with presentations on Hokkaido as a frontier, indigenous cultures, economic exploitation & Russo-Japanese relations

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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 27/05/2026

Join us this Friday for the book launch "Unleashing Innovation the East Asian Way. Startup Ecosystems in Japan, South Korea and China" @springernature.com with the authors' team and Glen Fukushima (Stanford) as commentator 📅 May 29 / 5-8pm 🏚️ onsite only @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/book-l...

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