06/12/2023
News Archives
27/11/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum |The Marriage of Politics and Economy: Elite Fusion in the Age of Modernization
21/11/2023
TCJS Symposium | International Symposium on Gender Gap in Economic Empowerment Female Leaders in Global Era
14/11/2023
TCJS Book Talk Series | “Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan”（Japanese Title:万葉集と帝国的想像）
20/10/2023
CANCELLED |TCJS Seminar Series | Economic Security versus Japan’s Regional Integration Strategy: Assessing Private Sector Responses to Changing Incentives
Thursday, 16 November 2023 | 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. (JST)
17/10/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Under what conditions do mothers use kindergartens in the metropolitan area in Japan?
27/09/2023
TCJS Book Talk Series | Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance: Why Japan Struggles to Revive Nuclear Power
20/09/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Gender and Health in Japan: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data
04/09/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Social Science after the Digital Revolution: Contrasting Developments in Artificial Intelligence in Australia and Japan
22/08/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | The contradictions of Japan’s pre-war economy and the problem of peasant reproduction
09/08/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Governance Reform in Japan
09/08/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Under Pressure & Voicing Up: Japanese Youth Tackling Gender Issues
04/08/2023
Early Career Scholar Forum | Japan’s Foreign Policy and International Organizations in the Interwar Period: Attitudes toward International Adjudication, Treatment of Foreigners, and International Humanitarian Law
03/08/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Children of divorce and stepfamilies in Japan: Why they are left behind after all these years
23/06/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Japan and “Buddhist Heritage”: Constructing Transnational Communities of Memory?
23/06/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Childlessness in the U.S. and Japan
23/06/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Assassination and Public Opinion Dynamics: Evidence from Japan
21/06/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Social exclusion and health inequalities: a gender comparison
16/06/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Olympic Games in Paris : What sort of urban transformation for whom ?
12/06/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Making the Coast Capitalist: Seaweed and sea labor in the development of Japanese capitalism
01/06/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Electoral Cooperation in Japanese Elections: The Role of Individual Legislator’s Policy Preferences
26/05/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | The Long Shadow of the Secretary: Gendered Job Segregation and Attitudes towards Women
23/05/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “A Breakthrough for People and Planet: The UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board Report on Effective Multilateralism”
22/05/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Practice and dilemma in the support for “back to school” -Ethnography of a public educational facility for children of futôkô –
22/05/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | The Effect of Private Junior High School Enrollment on Students’ Academic and Social Outcomes: A Case in Japan
17/04/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Wedge Issue Politics in Japan: Why Not Revising the Constitution Helps the Pro-Revision Ruling Party
12/04/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Design the Science – Science the Design
31/03/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Low-carbon and crack-resistant concrete: towards a sustainable and durable building structures
29/03/2023
Collaborative Research with the United Nations University “Preventing HIV in Women: Addressing Gender Inequities with Science”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim
28/02/2023
TCJS Book Talk Series | Fifty-year-journey of the “Napalm Girl”: Why did the iconic subject of the most impactful Vietnam War photo flee from her country?
28/02/2023
CANCELLED | TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Childlessness in the U.S. and Japan: A Qualitative Study
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 | 9:00 - 9:45 (JST)
10/02/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | 「世界のコミックス — 江戸時代の草双紙 の視点から」
10/02/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Leveraging Collective Intelligence for a Sustainable Future: Human and Machine Intelligence”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Dr Jingbo Huang
09/02/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Global Nuclear Order and Japan
09/02/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Learn from ‘experts’? Covid-19 and Policy learning, a case from Japan
08/02/2023
TCJS Book Talk Series | The Universality and Originality of the Japanese Constitution in Quantitative Perspective
07/02/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | How do Firms Learn the Impact of Trade Liberalization?
02/02/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Gender Politics in Japan
31/01/2023
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Routes Going Back to Roots: Transnational Experiences among Shin-Nisei Raised in Guam on Returning to Japan
25/01/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series
「持続可能な未来を実現するシナジーの重要性」
山口しのぶUNU-IAS所長との対談
24/01/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Will History Survive in the Digital Age?: The Challenges of Long-term Digital Preservation
18/01/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Resilience of Agroecosystems and Continuity in Landscape Practice: A Perspective from Historical Ecology
17/01/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “The Crucial Value of Approaching SDG Targets through a Nexus Lens”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Professor Edeltraud Guenther
17/01/2023
TCJS Gender in Japan | Design and Technology to fix the unbalanced world
14/01/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Digital Governance as a Propeller for More Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions: Trends and Challenges”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Dr. Delfina Soares
13/01/2023
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Likable and Not So Much: How Japanese school values affect immigrant students
11/01/2023
TCJS Seminar Series | Pets in Pandemic
10/01/2023
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series
複雑化する世界における保健医療の新たな課題」
茅野龍馬WHO神戸センター医官との対談
15/12/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | ①多元的デジタルアーカイブズ・シリーズと「ウクライナ衛星画像マップ」②「出征兵士の足どり ー新潟県長岡市からー」デジタルアーカイブ
14/12/2022
TCJS Book Talk Series | The Second Generation Immigrants in Japan: Cross-Ethnic Comparison of “Newcomer” Children Today
13/12/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | A Neuroscientific Method for Understanding the Legal Mind: from the Perspective of Expertise
02/12/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Self-portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army: Focusing on the response to the Lytton Commission
24/11/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Internal Displacement at a Crossroads: Quo Vadis”, A BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Atty. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary
24/11/2022
TCJS Gender in Japan Series | Data Feminism
22/11/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Apologies for My Ese-Kansai Dialect: Language Ideologies and Language Ownership of the Kansai Dialect
21/11/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | The politics of immigration in the wake of the “specified skills visa”
18/11/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Conspiracy theory communities on social media in Japan
17/11/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | An Enlightened Society Full of Stereotypes: A Case of Early Modern England, c. 1550-1750
01/11/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | How Gender Stereotypes Violate the Principle of Gender Equality in the Legal Context
05/10/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | The development and future of functional foods in Japan: what we eat defines our lifespan
03/10/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Japan: The Harbinger State
02/10/2022
Symposium (on campus) COVID-19 and Population: Family, Fertility, Migration, Health, and Mortality
01/10/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「SDGsの世界観と社会共創のための思考方法」by Kazuo Tase, President and CEO, SDG Partners, Inc.
30/09/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | A study of the regulation of individual behavior during a pandemic crisis in Japan
26/09/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Policymaking for Sustainable Development in a Multiplex World”, A BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Philippe De Lombaerde
22/09/2022
TSCJ Early-Career Scholar Forum | Patient Cost Sharing and Prescription Drug Trends: Evidence from Japan
20/09/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Interconnected Disaster Risks and Solutions: Crafting Hope for Actions”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Prof. Dr Shen Xiaomeng
11/08/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Paying It Forward: How a Non-Monetary System of Training Saved the World of Rakugo Storytelling in 21st Century Japan
08/08/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “Comprehensive Innovation for Sustainable Development”, a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Dr Bartel Van de Walle
26/07/2022
TSCJ Early-Career Scholar Forum | Mediatized Language and the Reification of Everyday Stereotypes in Fiction: Katakana Transformation and “Foreigner” Characters
26/07/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Youth Welfare Policies in Korea and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies
20/07/2022
TSCJ Early-Career Scholar Forum | Cultural Encounters in Pandemics: What Happened When Traditional Medicine Met Biomedicine in Japanese Colonial Taiwan
17/07/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “The Good Jobs Challenge in Developing Countries” by Kunal Sen, Director, UNU-WIDER
15/07/2022
TSCJ Early-Career Scholar Forum | “Japaneseness” of Ozu Yasujiro’s Films in Critical Discourses from the Late 1950s to the Early 1960s
14/07/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「人間の安全保障への脅威に挑む世界と日本、そして私たち」by Tetsuo Kondo, Director, UNDP Representation Office in Tokyo
07/07/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Time to Be a Child: Everyday Life in Japanese Foster Care
01/07/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「世界を変革するコミュニケーション」by Kaoru Nemoto, Director of United Nations Information Center (UNIC)
29/06/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Eastern Europe Through the Eyes of Visiting Japanese Writers
29/06/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Mobilisation of Nostalgia and Heritage-making in Tokyo and Singapore
29/06/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Adoption and Reproduction in Tokugawa Japan: Family strategies in a society of low fertility
28/06/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「ビジネスモデルの大転換：利潤と社会的課題解決の同時追求」by Shinichi Takasaki, Director, International Labour Organization(ILO) Office for Japan
24/06/2022
TSCJ Early-Career Scholar Forum | Producing Japaneseness in everyday life: Japanese women migrants in southeast London
24/06/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Do Gendered Expectations Help or Hinder the Evaluations of Women Politicians?
22/06/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「不確実な時代だからこそ必要なSDGsの推進」 by Asako Okai, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Director of UNDP’s Crisis Bureau
17/06/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | How ensured land property affects marriage: Evidence from land reforms in postwar Japan
15/06/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Bank Resolution Regime after the Global Financial Crisis
07/06/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | How Incumbent Politicians Respond to the Enactment of a Programmatic Policy: Evidence from Snow Subsidies
03/06/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「国連で働く毎日とは？」by Mihoko Kumamoto, UNITAR Hiroshima
25/05/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | “Workplace-making” for inclusion of social minorities in farm settings: findings from Canada and Japan
25/05/2022
TCJS Gender in Japan Series | Innovation theme for Japanese economy and society
24/05/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series 「SDGs をCSRでなく『本業のゴール』にするために：世界の課題をビジネスで解決する」by Yuko Yasunaga, Head of UNIDO ITPO Tokyo
17/05/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Where the Grass Is Greener: Social Infrastructure and Resilience to COVID-19
14/05/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | How to manage Sovereignty Restriction: Japan’s experience of the 19th century “Unequal Treaty” and postwar Japan-US Security Treaty
13/05/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “No Child Left Behind: UNICEF’s Activities for Linking Humanitarian, Development and Peace” by Mr. Mio Nemoto, Senior Advisor of UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) Tokyo Office
28/04/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Effect of Japanese local petition adoption to their realization
26/04/2022
Collaboration with the United Nations University｜Big IDEAS: SDGs Dialogue Series “The World is Connected-What we can do today for a gender-equal society-” with Ms. Kae Ishikawa, Director, UN Women Japan Liaison Office
22/04/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | The Problem of Naturalization: Dilemmas of Taiwanese Citizenship in the Ryukyu Islands, 1945-1972
18/04/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Leaning to the Left? Party Attitudes Toward Welfare Economics in Response to the 2008 Great Recession
18/04/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Welfare Reform and Life Satisfaction in Japan
04/04/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | “Peaceful Coexistence, or Peace Offense?” Sino-Japanese Competition and the Making of Economic Landscape in Southeast Asia, 1950-1959
01/04/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Towards an Inclusive Society: A History of Physical Disability in Contemporary Japan
18/03/2022
TCJS Gender in Japan Series | Women in business ~ the case of L’Oréal Japan
08/03/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Gender Gaps in the Labor Market in Japan
04/03/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Disseminating Western Thought and Reexamining Japan: The Role of Chinese Students Who Studied in Modern Japan
04/03/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | The Merits and Demerits of Ambiguous Objectives: Japanese Troops Withdrawal from Iraq and South Sudan
28/02/2022
East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts UTokyo (EAA) Joint Symposium of the Liaison Conference of Humanities and Social Sciences Organizations | 「人文社会科学の構想力」
24/02/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Democratizing AI for End Users: Designing Machine Learning Models Using Interactive Applications
20/02/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Emerging Challenges of Unoccupied Houses in Japan
19/02/2022
TCJS Seminar Series (Collaboration with Humanities) | On Dogen’s philosophy
08/02/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Convention, Protest, or Violence? Explaining Tactical Choices in Contentious Political Events around the World
08/02/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Precarious Work, Gender, and Marriage in Contemporary Japan
08/02/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Leaning to the Left: Political Consequences of the Financial Crisis
01/02/2022
Gender in Japan Series | Challenges and Hardships as a Young Female Mayor
31/01/2022
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | The Incompatible Incentives of Opposition Coordination in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Systems: Evidence from Japan
31/01/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Intertwined Relations between Communication in Cyberspace and Economic and Political Situations in the Physical World
18/01/2022
TCJS Seminar Series | Current Japanese Sovereign Debt Situation and Policies to Mitigate a Crisis Triggered by Its Debt
14/01/2022
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Creative Data Visualization Applied to Various Domains, a Showcase of Japan-Related Projects
17/12/2021
Gender in Japan Series | Diversity Management as Business Strategy
12/12/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ Across National Contexts
10/12/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Preparation for Business Requirement on Prior User Rights in Patent Law
10/12/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Merit-Based Reward Systems and Gender Wage Inequality in Large Japanese Firms
10/12/2021
TCJS Seminar Series | Retirement Transition and its Outcome in Japan
07/12/2021
TCJS Gender in Japan Series | Gender, Partnership and Preferences for Work-Family Reconciliation Policies
05/12/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Risk Management of General Trading Company: Lessons from History
12/11/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Elite Mobility and Continuity during a Regime Change
11/11/2021
Joint Session with the Global Asia Research Center (GARC), National Taiwan University (NTU) | “Social Impacts of COVID-19 in Japan and Taiwan”
11/11/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Loneliness at Older Ages in Japan: Variation in Lonely Life Expectancy and the Role of Social Isolation
13/10/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Improving Local Food Brands – Domestic Wheats for Japanese Udon Noodles –
13/10/2021
TCJS Seminar Series | Property Regimes, Religious Power, and State Formation: Modern Transformation of the East Asian Region
13/10/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Getting Women to Ask for More: Designing for Gender Equity in Negotiation in Online Freelancing
06/10/2021
TCJS Seminar Series | Social Consequences of the New Educational Assortative Mating in Japan
05/10/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Oka Yoshisato and Political Science in Post-war Japan
04/10/2021
TCJS Seminar Series | The Politics of the Pandemic in Asia
03/10/2021
You Tube Video オンライン対談 ｜ UTokyo Future TV ～東大と世界のミライが見える～ Vol.2ゲスト 白波瀬 佐和子教授
01/10/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Unveiling Valence: Explaining LDP Dominance in Japan
28/09/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | “Katakana is a Commodity”: An Economic History of Japanese Script Reform Movements, 1920–45
24/09/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Ryukyuan Embassies to Edo on Parade: Reading Procession as a Ritual Form
22/09/2021
YouTube Video 公開シンポジウム「コロナ禍における社会の分断：ジェンダー格差に着目して」
22/09/2021
TCJS Seminar Series | Clusters: Locations, Ecosystems, and Opportunity
19/09/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Reexamining Ruling Party Leadership Elections in Japan: A Historical Case
19/09/2021
Gender in Japan Series | Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap: Workgroup Gender Composition Matters
09/09/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Identity and Ambition in the Drafting of Japan’s Deep Sea Geographies
09/09/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Urban Redevelopment Program and Shopping Externality
07/09/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | The History of Theological Education in the Japanese Orthodox Church
01/09/2021
Zoom Webinar 公開シンポジウム「コロナ禍における社会の分断：ジェンダー格差に着目して」
Sunday, 19 September 2021｜13:30 - 17:00 (JST)
主催：日本学術会議社会学委員会ジェンダー研究分科会、 日本学術会議経済学委員会、日本学術会議政治学委員会、社会学委員会・経済学委員会合同包摂的社会政策に関する多角的検討分科会
後援：東京大学現代日本研究センター
01/09/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan: Determinants, Reasons, and a Potential Solution
25/08/2021
TCJS 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
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Judicialization of Occupational Health Political Process: The Case of Karôshi-karôjisatsu and the Articulation of Multiple Temporalities
24/08/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Why Do Few Women Apply to Selective Colleges in Japan?: Explaining Horizontal Gender Stratification in Higher Education
24/08/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Comparative Politics of Tax Reform: The Role of Experts in Japan and NZ
03/08/2021
HMC-TCJS Joint Seminar Series | Facing the Shadow of Death – Management and Literature in Modern Japan
02/08/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | How to Reconstruct Historical Weather by Old Diary?
02/08/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Risk Management of General Trading Company, the Case of Survivor & Failure in World War I and Aftermath
30/07/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | Economic Consequences of Manipulation of Social Insurance Benefits
30/07/2021
TCJS-HMC Joint Seminar Series: TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Anti-Emperor Organ Theory Movement in Colonial Taiwan
30/07/2021
TCJS Early-Career Scholar Forum | ‘Dr Rocket’: Itokawa Hideo and the Reconstitution of Masculinity in Postwar Japan, 1954–1999
27/07/2021
TCJS 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
30/06/2021
TCJS Graduate Student Forum | Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan: Pro-Rural Migration and New Entry in Agriculture
Friday, 30 July 2021 | 12:15 - 13:00 (JST)
16/04/2021
Message from UTokyo President FUJII Teruo
05/03/2021
忘れない 震災遺族10年の軌跡
05/03/2021
Zoom Webinar: Envisioning a Far More Female Future of Japan 2021
09/02/2021
Zoom Webinar: Japanese Foreign Policy in the Abe Era & Beyond
Thursday, 25 Feb. 2021, 9:00-10:30 (JST)
University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Global Japan
20/09/2020
(For UTokyo members) Tips for Publishing Books in English
Friday, 23 Oct. 2020, 15:00-17:00 (JST)
Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo
01/09/2020
Assessing Abenomics: Evidence from Inflation-Indexed Japanese Government Bonds
Thursday, 1 Oct. 2020, 10:25-12:10
Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo
26/08/2020
Online International Symposium via Zoom “Digital in early childhood education:its role and potentiality.”
Saturday, 26 Sep. 2020, 16:00-19:00
The Center for Early Childhood Develpoment, Education, and Policy Research at the University of Tokyo, Early Childhood Care and Education Research Institution of the Japanese Private Kindergarten Federation