Its guiding principle is to "reinforce rather than override local ecological character,“ with homeowners serving as long-term stewards. Despite its limitations, Sarah Stark argues that the initiative demonstrates how the construction industry can deliver ecological interventions at scale. (3/3)

Introduced by Japanese home-builder Sekisui House in 2001, the initiative builds on the model of planting five native plant species around each newly built home. Since 2001, the initiative has resulted in more than 20 million plants across suburban and urban residential areas. (2/3)

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...

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...

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

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

During her fieldwork at the Japanese industry conference in February 2026, Nicole M. Müller attended a presentation titled “A future in which the Sustainable Development Goals are created by the metaverse“. Surprisingly, the talk was more about a personal project than tech firms’ SGDs. (3/4)

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)

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

#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...

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...

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-...

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

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...

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/...

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/

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...

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

NEW article by Sébastien Lechevalier on the 'Sustainability in Japan and Beyond' blog introduces the approach of “care-led innovation” and shows how it contributes to the discourse on sustainability in the Japanese context and beyond @agencerecherche.bsky.social ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2580

Dank an die Deutsche Botschaft in Tokyo für die Einladung zum Austausch mit den Kulturreferenten in Ost- und Südasien, weiteren deutschen Kulturmittlern in Tokyo und der Abteilungsleiterin Kultur & Kommunikation @diplo.de, Christina Beinhoff (im Foto neben DIJ-Vizedirektorin @barbtokyo.bsky.social)

Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" 🎤 @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...

Welcome to Francesca Lerz who has joined our team in May as a PhD student. She researches the influence of esoteric and Zen Buddhist traditions in Noh and will do archival work, network with performing arts & religious studies scholars & professional Noh performers ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/people/franc...

Lesetipp, Neues und Forschungsporträt: das DIJ ist gleich viermal in der neuen Ausgabe von Weltweit vor Ort @maxweberstiftung.de vertreten. Entdecken Sie unsere Forschung, Publikationen und Events im aktuellen Heft ▶️ publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor... ▶️ www.maxweberstiftung.de/magazin.html

“Korea’s educational system embodies multiple ingrained traditions and reveals distinct yet interconnected strategies of decentring.” New “De-centering Academia” blog article 📖 “Beyond Binaries: Decentring Foreign Knowledge in 20th Century Korea” @daneuhaus.bsky.social ▶️ trafo.hypotheses.org/65491