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Organisation
Japanese Studies, Leuven
Research Group
Main organisation:East Asian and Arabic Studies Research Unit, Leuven
Lifecycle:4 Jan 2000 → Today
Organisation profile:
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")
Keywords:Japanology
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies
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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- Interpreter training in Japanese higher education: An innovative method for the promotion of linguistic instrumentalism?(2020)
Authors: Deborah Giustini
- Le rôle des organisations non gouvernementales japonaises dans la prise en charge des transfuges de Corée du Nord (1994-2014). Le cas des anciens rapatriés coréens et de leurs femmes japonaises(2017)
Authors: Adrien Carbonnet, David-Antoine Malinas, Julien Martine
Pages: 61 - 69 - Riben hushi yu zhongguo 'kuli', shuzhongshuqing(2015)
Authors: Jan Schmidt
Pages: 106 - 124 - Japan und das Jahr 1917 - Erwartungen und die Vorbereitung der Nachkriegszeit(2017)
Authors: Jan Schmidt
Pages: 180 - 186 - The Global First World War. African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators(2021)
Authors: Jan Schmidt
- Nach dem Krieg ist vor dem Krieg. Medialisierte Erfahrungen des Ersten Weltkriegs und Nachkriegsdiskurse in Japan (1914-1919)(2021)
Authors: Jan Schmidt
- The East Asian Dimension of the First World War. Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919(2020)
Authors: Jan Schmidt
- An Empire of the Mid-Tier: The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the New Mass Public-Focused Diplomacy of the Early Twentieth Century(2022)
Authors: Lieven Sommen
Pages: 32 - 39Number of pages: 8 - On the response (or lack thereof) of Japanese fans to criticism that "yaoi" is antigay discrimination(2013)
Authors: Nele Noppe
- The possibilities of research on fujoshi in Japan(2013)
Authors: Nele Noppe