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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- Korean Treasures in Belgium (re)discovered: Celadons, Folding Screens, and Diplomatic Archives(2022)
Authors: Adrien Carbonnet
Number of pages: 64 - ベルギー陪審制度の課題と改革過程-裁判員制度理解のために (The Reform Process and Issues in the Belgian Jury System: with an eye on the Japanese Lay Assessor System)(2012)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 337 - 353 - Exporting the Rule of Law in East Asia: Japan’s Experiences from the 1990s to Present(2014)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 364 - 381 - Dispute Resolution in Asia and Beyond: Formalization and Flexibilisation in Dispute Resolution(2017)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 482 - 484 - Introduction to the Special Issue(2011)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 1 - 4 - Japanese Studies in Belgium in the 21st Century: Framing the Impact of Popular Culture(2014)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 1 - 8 - The Process of Modernization of Justice in Modern Japan and Osatake Takeki's Research on Legal Culture (nihon no shiho kindaika purosesu to osatake takeki no meiji bunka kenkyu)(2009)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Pages: 181 - 196 - Discussing ‘Inclusion’ in Shrinking Societies: The Case of Japan(2018)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Narufumi Kadomatsu
Pages: 1 - 4 - Public policy perspective on judicial reform in Japan(2009)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Jeroen Maesschalck
Pages: 11 - 38 - Introduction to the special issue on judicial reform in Japan(2009)
Authors: Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Jeroen Maesschalck, Stephan Parmentier
Pages: 3 - 6