Organisation
Japanese Studies, Leuven
Research Group
Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")
Current researchers
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- Jan Schmidt (Responsible)
- Aurel Baele (Member)
- Deborah Giustini (Member)
- Maj Hartmann (Member)
- Jan Schmidt (Member)
- Lieven Sommen (Member)
- Freya Terryn (Member)
- Willy Vande Walle (Member)
- Dimitri Vanoverbeke (Member)
- Jorinde Wels (Member)
Projects
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- The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization–'Deadly Germs' in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958From1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958From7 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Sabbatical Jan Schmidt: Chambers of Power and Imperial Knowledge in Transition – Japanese Chambers of Commerce and Industry as Political and Cultural Actors connecting local, (trans)national, regional and global dimensions, 1910s-1970sFrom1 Sep 2021 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: BOF - mobility
- Historical revisionism, revision history and alternative online media eco-systems in Japan—a socio-political analysis of nationalist contestation and political propaganda in the digital ageFrom13 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- A Mediatized Military in its Historical Dimension – Army Maneuvers, Fleet Reviews and Warfare in the Japanese Mass Media as Political Tools, 1890-1937From2 Oct 2019 → 21 Sep 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The European Commission’s Internal and External Strategies in International Trade Negotiations - An Empirical Analysis of the European Community’s Negotiations of Voluntary Export Restraints with Japan from the 1980s to the Early 1990sFrom17 Apr 2019 → 17 Apr 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- An East-Asian “Sonic Empire”: the record company Nippon Victorand its role in global jazz history, 1927-1954From7 Jan 2019 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Modelling a new economic, environmental and political connectivity: the dynamics of Japan - EU tradeFrom10 Oct 2018 → 19 Oct 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The Japanese Emperor Hirohito (r.1926-1989) as a Lieu de Mémoire in the Age of MediatizationFrom4 Oct 2018 → 28 Sep 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Human rights in Japanese healthcareFrom3 Oct 2018 → 26 Nov 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
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- Are We Talking the Same Language? The SociohistoricalContext of Global Constitutionalism in East Asia as Seenfrom Japan’s Experiences(2020)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 203 - 224 - EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012: From Confrontation to Global Partnership(2013)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Number of pages: 356 - Matsumoto Gaku: A Bureaucrat between Culture and Politics in the Beginning of the 1930s(2017)
Authors: Maj Hartmann
Pages: 1 - 10 - Terao Gorō au nord du 38e parallèle. Une analyse de ses récits de voyage en Corée du Nord(2017)
Authors: Adrien Carbonnet
Pages: 177 - 209 - Yasunari Kawabata: Over schoonheid en droefheid(2009)
Authors: Willy Vande Walle
Pages: 49 - 54 - Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes: The Art and Writings of Yoshio Markino, 1897-1915(2014)
Authors: Willy Vande Walle
Pages: 114 - 115 - The Jury System and Legal Thought as seen through Osatake Takeki's Writings(2010)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 95 - 109 - 選挙制を疑う (vertaling naar het Japans van "Tegen Verkiezingen")(2019)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
- Korean studies collection at the East-Asian Library of the University of Leuven(2014)
Authors: Arjan van der Werf
Pages: 55 - 66 - The changing role of law in Japan: Empirical studies in culture, society and policy making(2014)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Jeroen Maesschalck, D Nelken, Stephan Parmentier, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Stephan Parmentier, David Nelken