GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON JAPAN [VSJF]
JAPANESE-GERMAN CENTER BERLIN [JDZB]
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
for the
VSJF Annual Conference 2014
on
Trust and Mistrust in Contemporary Japan
from Friday, November 21 - Sunday, November 23, 2014
at the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB),
Saargemuender Str. 2, 14195 Berlin
as of October 22, 2014 – Wo/KL/AS
(20.+21. November
21. Gender-Workshop: Vertrauen und Vertrauensverlust in Japan)
(22.+23. November
Treffen der “Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung”)
Friday, November 21
14.30 – 15.00
Registration
15.00 – 15.30
Welcome, Opening Remarks and Introduction to the Conference
15.30 – 16.30
Keynote Speech
Trust and Japanese Society
Toshio YAMAGISHI (Hitotsubashi University)
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break
17.00 – 19.00
Panel 1 – Social Developments and the Concept of Trust
Chair: John Campbell (University of Michigan/University of Tokyo)
Japan’s Social Security System and Trust
Steffen HEINRICH (DIJ Tokyo)
Precarious Employment, Family Politics, and Demography
Yuji GENDA (The University of Tokyo)
Migration and (Mis-)trust: A Japanese Perspective
Gabriele VOGT (Hamburg University)
Reciprocity Networks in the Japanese Labor Policy-Making System: Trust, Confidence or
Enclosure (takotsubo)?
Jeffrey BROADBENT (University of Minnesota)
19.00 – 20.30
Dinner
-/-
JDZB
-2-
10/22/14
Ref: P1575@Pg
Saturday, November 22
09.30 – 11.00
Panel 2 – Political Developments and the Concept of Trust
Chair: Klaus VOLLMER (LMU München)
Party Politics, Elections and (Mis-)Trust in Japan
Robert PEKKANEN (University of Washington)
Ellis KRAUSS (University of California, San Diego)
Kuniaki NEMOTO (Waseda University)
Trust and Mistrust in Japan’s International Relations with the United States, Korea, and
China
Jitsuo TSUCHIYAMA (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Japan’s Regional Relations: Trust, Mistrust and the Politics of Memory
Thomas BERGER (Boston University)
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Panel 3 – Economic Developments and the Concept of Trust
Chair: Hanns Günther HILPERT (SWP)
Japanese Company Structures, the Supply Chain and Relations of Trust
Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ Tokyo / LMU München)
Abenomics and Trust
Richard KATZ (The Oriental Economist)
The Global Financial Crisis, Insecurity, and Japan’s Role
Saori KATADA (University of Southern California)
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 17.30
VSJF Section Meetings (Sitzungen der Fachgruppen)
Fachgruppe "Bildung und Erziehung"
Fachgruppe "Kultur und Medien"
Fachgruppe "Politik"
Fachgruppe "Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie"
Fachgruppe "Stadt- und Regionalforschung"
Fachgruppe "Wirtschaft"
17.30
General Meeting of the VSJF
19.00 – 20.30
Buffet Dinner
JDZB
-3-
10/22/14
Ref: P1575@Pg
Sunday, November 23
09.30 – 11.30
Panel 4 – Trust in Japan after the Triple Catastrophe of March 11, 2011
Chair: Verena BLECHINGER-TALCOTT (Freie Universität Berlin)
Food Safety and Consumer Trust in Japan
Cornelia REIHER (Freie Universität Berlin)
Japanese Communities, Social Capital, and the Rebuilding of Tohoku
Daniel ALDRICH (Purdue University)
Trust and Subjective Well-Being after the Triple Disaster
Carola HOMMERICH (DIJ Tokyo)
Government Oversight of the Nuclear Energy Sector: Rebuilding Public Trust?
Alexandra SAKAKI (SWP) and Kerstin LUKNER (University of Duisburg-Essen)
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 12.45
Wrap-Up and Concluding Remarks
Toshio YAMAGISHI (Hitotsubashi University)
Alexandra SAKAKI (SWP) and Kerstin LUKNER (University of Duisburg-Essen)
12.45
End of Conference
supported by
JDZB
-4-
10/22/14
Ref: P1575@Pg