The Downward Spiral of Japan's Relations with China since 2012
Dr Taku Tamaki, Loughborough University, gives a talk for the Nissan Centre for Japanese Studies seminar series.
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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Japan. The Nissan Institute, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Japan in the social sciences. Alongside vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc and MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies, inaugurated in 2008, are recognized as among Europe's most prestigious and successful training programmes. The Nissan Institute seminar runs each week during the teaching terms alongside the Graduate research seminar.
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Episodes (39)
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Talk given by Dr Sharon Kinsella, University of Manchester as part of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies seminar series
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession
Joint seminar with the Department of Sociology and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Productive Motherhood: Women's Labour and Japan's Lowest-Low Fertility
Professor Mary Brinton, Harvard University, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
The Geography of Ageing and Population Decline in Japan
Professor Ralph Lützeler, University of Bonn, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea
Professor Kazuo Yamaguchi, University of Chicago, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and Other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagnose and Cure this 'Disease'?
Leonard Schoppa, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
The Political Arena of Low Fertility - Comparing Japan and Germany
Professor Axel Klein gives a talk for the Nissan Centre for Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men
Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Nissan Seminar: Population reproduction: a new fertility regime (with remarks on the role of migration)
Professor Francesco Billari, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies
Cultural Diversity and the law: From the Perspective of Cultural Policy
Mr Ryu Kojima , Kyushu University. gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
Britain and Japan; Reflections on the bilateral relationship
Sir David Warren , Chair man, The Japan Society, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
Transnational History and Japan
Professor Garon, Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies , Department of History, Princeton University, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
After Cool Japan: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
Professor Adrian Favell, (Professor of Sociology, Centre d'études européennes Sciences Po, France) gives a talk for the Nissan Japan Studies seminar series.
Sarin no ato: Tracing the Aftermath of the Tokyo Subway Gassing
Dr Mark Pendleton, (Lecturer in Japanese Studies, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield) gives a talk for the Nissan Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
Motivations for marriage and marital (un)happiness: Discourses in Japanese women's magazines
Dr Barbara Holthus (Senior Research Fellow, Social Science Section, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo) gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies on Thursday 16th February 2012.
Japan's Immigration Policy, 1999-2008: Discrepancy between Comprehensive Debate and Partial Reforms
David Chiavacci (University of Zurich) gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan
This talk investigates the story of the development of the first automatic electric rice cooker in Japan. With Helen MacNaughtan (SOAS). In doing so it places this product within a broader historical context of Japanese home appliances as well as within the context of consumption and specifically the role of Japanese women as consumers.
What does the anthropology of Japan tell us about Japan - and about anthropology?
An excurse into the history of Japanese studies with William Kelly (Yale).