05/10/2022 Seminar Series An Enlightened Society Full of Stereotypes: A Case of Early Modern England, c. 1550-1750
04/11/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum The development and future of functional foods in Japan: what we eat defines our lifespan
22/09/2022 Seminar Series A study of the regulation of individual behavior during a pandemic crisis in Japan
22/09/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum Patient Cost Sharing and Prescription Drug Trends: Evidence from Japan
11/07/2022 Graduate Student Forum Paying It Forward: How a Non-Monetary System of Training Saved the World of Rakugo Storytelling in 21st Century Japan
14/07/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum Mediatized Language and the Reification of Everyday Stereotypes in Fiction: Katakana Transformation and “Foreigner” Characters
12/07/2022 Graduate Student Forum Youth Welfare Policies in Korea and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies
01/07/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum Cultural Encounters in Pandemics: What Happened When Traditional Medicine Met Biomedicine in Japanese Colonial Taiwan
20/06/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum “Japaneseness” of Ozu Yasujiro’s Films in Critical Discourses from the Late 1950s to the Early 1960s
15/06/2022 Graduate Student Forum Mobilisation of Nostalgia and Heritage-making in Tokyo and Singapore
13/06/2022 Seminar Series Adoption and Reproduction in Tokugawa Japan: Family strategies in a society of low fertility
08/06/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum Producing Japaneseness in everyday life: Japanese women migrants in southeast London
08/06/2022 Seminar Series Do Gendered Expectations Help or Hinder the Evaluations of Women Politicians?
07/06/2022 Graduate Student Forum How ensured land property affects marriage: Evidence from land reforms in postwar Japan
24/05/2022 Seminar Series How Incumbent Politicians Respond to the Enactment of a Programmatic Policy: Evidence from Snow Subsidies
17/05/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum “Workplace-making” for inclusion of social minorities in farm settings: findings from Canada and Japan
07/06/2022 Graduate Student Forum Where the Grass Is Greener: Social Infrastructure and Resilience to COVID-19
26/05/2022 Seminar Series How to manage Sovereignty Restriction: Japan’s experience of the 19th century “Unequal Treaty” and postwar Japan-US Security Treaty
17/05/2022 Graduate Student Forum The Problem of Naturalization: Dilemmas of Taiwanese Citizenship in the Ryukyu Islands, 1945-1972
13/05/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum Leaning to the Left? Party Attitudes Toward Welfare Economics in Response to the 2008 Great Recession
04/04/2022 Graduate Student Forum “Peaceful Coexistence, or Peace Offense?” Sino-Japanese Competition and the Making of Economic Landscape in Southeast Asia, 1950-1959
12/02/2022 Graduate Student Forum Disseminating Western Thought and Reexamining Japan: The Role of Chinese Students Who Studied in Modern Japan
11/02/2022 Early-Career Scholar Forum The Merits and Demerits of Ambiguous Objectives: Japanese Troops Withdrawal from Iraq and South Sudan
10/02/2022 Events Democratizing AI for End Users: Designing Machine Learning Models Using Interactive Applications
30/01/2022 Seminar Series Convention, Protest, or Violence? Explaining Tactical Choices in Contentious Political Events around the World
26/12/2021 Graduate Student Forum The Incompatible Incentives of Opposition Coordination in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Systems: Evidence from Japan
20/12/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Intertwined Relations between Communication in Cyberspace and Economic and Political Situations in the Physical World
18/12/2021 Seminar Series Current Japanese Sovereign Debt Situation and Policies to Mitigate a Crisis Triggered by Its Debt
16/12/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Creative Data Visualization Applied to Various Domains, a Showcase of Japan-related Projects
01/12/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ Across National Contexts
30/11/2021 Graduate Student Forum Preparation for Business Requirement on Prior User Rights in Patent Law
14/10/2021 Graduate Student Forum Loneliness at Older Ages in Japan: Variation in Lonely Life Expectancy and the Role of Social Isolation
13/10/2021 Seminar Series Property Regimes, Religious Power, and State Formation: Modern Transformation of the East Asian Region
12/10/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Merit-Based Reward Systems and Gender Wage Inequality in Large Japanese Firms
08/10/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Improving Local Food Brands – Domestic Wheats for Japanese Udon Noodles –
07/10/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Getting Women to Ask for More: Designing for Gender Equity in Negotiation in Online Freelancing
22/09/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Ryukyuan Embassies to Edo on Parade: Reading Procession as a Ritual Form
09/09/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Reexamining Ruling Party Leadership Elections in Japan: A Historical Case
09/09/2021 Graduate Student Forum “Katakana is a Commodity”: An Economic History of Japanese Script Reform Movements, 1920–45
09/09/2021 Graduate Student Forum Identity and Ambition in the Drafting of Japan’s Deep Sea Geographies
09/09/2021 Conferences Gender in Japan Series Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap: Workgroup Gender Composition Matters
07/09/2021 Graduate Student Forum The History of Theological Education in the Japanese Orthodox Church
01/09/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan: Determinants, Reasons, and a Potential Solution
25/08/2021 Seminar Series THE FUTURE OF UNPAID WORK: How Could Automation Transform Time Spent on Housework and Care Work in the UK and Japan?
24/08/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Judicialization of Occupational Health Political Process: The Case of Karôshi-karôjisatsu and the Articulation of Multiple Temporalities
24/08/2021 Graduate Student Forum Why Do Few Women Apply to Selective Colleges in Japan?: Explaining Horizontal Gender Stratification in Higher Education
24/08/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Comparative Politics of Tax Reform: The Role of Experts in Japan and NZ
03/08/2021 Conferences HMC-TCJS Joint Seminar Series Facing the Shadow of Death – Management and Literature in Modern Japan
02/08/2021 Graduate Student Forum Risk Management of General Trading Company, the Case of Survivor & Failure in World War I and Aftermath
30/07/2021 Graduate Student Forum TCJS-HMC Joint Seminar Series Anti-Emperor Organ Theory Movement in Colonial Taiwan
30/07/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Economic Consequences of Manipulation of Social Insurance Benefits
29/07/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum ‘Dr Rocket’: Itokawa Hideo and the Reconstitution of Masculinity
27/07/2021 Graduate Student Forum The School Life and Future Prospect of Kurdish Female Migrant Youth from Turkey: Role of Night-Time High School during Their Asylum Seeking
21/07/2021 Graduate Student Forum Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan: Pro-Rural Migration and New Entry in Agriculture
02/07/2021 Seminar Series Transnational Migration and Ethnic Business Involution: the Case of Indian-Nepali Restaurants in Japan
02/07/2021 Conferences Gender in Japan Series “Women’s Empowerment” Policy Trends & Remaining Issues: Lessons from the Little Women Project
02/07/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Japanese University Students’ Critique on the Hiring Process of Firms
28/06/2021 Seminar Series Contested Skill Regime and Divergent Migration Infrastructure: Comparing the Recruitment of Foreign Care Workers in Japan and Taiwan
25/06/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Mental Health Effects of Long Work Hours, Night & Weekend Work, and Short Rest Periods
22/06/2021 Graduate Student Forum Diverging Destinies in Japan: Educational Differences in the Long-term Effects of Maternal Employment on Development of Japanese Children
18/06/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Of Text and Bronze: Courtiers, Casters, and Social Status in Medieval Japan
15/06/2021 Graduate Student Forum Description Requirements in Patent Law Especially in Biopharmaceutical Industry
11/06/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum The Switch to Cashless Payments: Evidence from Japan’s Point Reward Program
28/05/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Why Does Non-regular Work Delay Marriage? A Role of Income and Job Characteristics across Relationship Status in Japan
29/04/2021 Graduate Student Forum Gender Inequality among Japan’s Elderly as Seen through Household Labor Division in Elderly Married Households
29/04/2021 Seminar Series Infectious Diseases & Management: A Retrospective Look at Japanese Society before World War II
20/04/2021 Graduate Student Forum The Secret to Making Japanese Food More Delicious: Japan’s National Mold, Koji Kin
14/04/2021 Seminar Series Moving Towards Vaccine Confidence for HPV Vaccine in Japan Analysis and Proposals
02/04/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Ageing and Population Decline Implications for Sustainability in the Urban Century in Japan & Globally
24/03/2021 Conferences Gender in Japan Series Married Japanese Salarywomen’s Strategies for Maintaining Careers and Well-Being in the 2000s
17/03/2021 Conferences UTokyo x Princeton Demography & Inequality in East Asia Series Should We Discuss East Asian Demographics using a Social-Stratification Framework?
16/03/2021 Graduate Student Forum The Empowerment of 2nd Gen Zainichi Brazilian Immigrants through Non-Formal Learning
12/03/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum How Elastic is Capacity Choice in Welfare Facilities?Evidence from Notches in Japan’s Childcare Subsidy Scheme
11/03/2021 Seminar Series Contemporary Japanese Lookism What Underlies “World’s Three Beauties” Discourse
09/03/2021 Graduate Student Forum Theorizing Social Inclusion of Immigrants and Persons with Disabilities Through Urban/Peri-urban Agriculture: Implications from Canada and Japan
05/03/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Time and Space in Japanese Concepts of Mental Lexicon and Strategies of Description
05/03/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Cluster, Capital, Community of Practice Re-examining the Relationship between Art Networks and Place
02/03/2021 Graduate Student Forum Ruikatsu Activities in Tokyo: Exploring the Link between Crying and Mental Health
19/02/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum Wild Boar Chase Half-Life Politics of Nuclear Things, and a Multispecies Collaboration of Contamination & Containment in Coastal Fukushima
18/02/2021 Graduate Student Forum Transition to Broader-Based Politics: The Role of Suffrage Extension in Early 20th Century Japan
09/02/2021 Graduate Student Forum Civic Groups and Japanese Local Assemblies’ Foreign Policies: A Panel Data Analysis of Resolutions Regarding North Korea (1993~2018)
05/02/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum A Quest for Equality International Connections in Japan’s Space Program, 1950 – 2003
29/01/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum The Formation and Development of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives
26/01/2021 Graduate Student Forum The Market and the Red Carpet: Value Transforming Platforms Social Networks, and the Transnational Film Industry Circuit in Asia and Beyond
20/01/2021 Seminar Series Gimmicks, Politics, and Narrative: Japan’s Thwarted Commemorations, Celebrations, and Comebacks
19/01/2021 Graduate Student Forum Establishment Dynamics in Post-War Japan: Disappearing Startups and Shrinking Size
12/01/2021 Graduate Student Forum Japan’s Path to Multiculturalism: What We Can See from Early Childhood Education and Care Centers
15/01/2021 Early-Career Scholar Forum The Emergence of Modern Humanitarian Activities: The Evolution of Japanese Red Cross Movement from Local to Global
05/01/2021 Graduate Student Forum Quiet Acquisition: The Politics of Justification in Japan’s Military Capability Trajectory
16/12/2020 Conferences Japanese Politics in the 21st Century: UTokyo x Waseda Political Science Colloquium
10/11/2020 Graduate Student Forum Effect of Minimum Wages on Formal and Informal Employment in Japan & Thailand
05/11/2020 Early-Career Scholar Forum Diverse Paths into First Childbirth and Socio-Economic Differentials in Japan
09/10/2020 Seminar Series The Historian’s Craft in Contemporary Japanese Studies: A Discussion with Prof. Yoshimi Shunya and Prof. Okazaki Tetsuji
