Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF), November 26 – 28, 2010 in Frankfurt / Main, Germany)
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The 2009 VSJF annual meeting
has addressed the topic "Risk and East Asia". It has taken place from Friday, November 20 to Sunday, November 23, 2009 at the Japanese German Center Berlin. For more information, please refer to the report on the conference: more ››

The 2008 VSJF annual meeting
has addressed the topic "Demographic Change in Japan and the EU – Comparative Perspectives". It has taken place from Friday, November 28 to Sunday, November 30, 2008 at the Mutterhaus, Düsseldorf (Kaiserswerth). For more information, please refer to the report on the conference: more ››

As a result of the conference "Social Science Matters" in Hamburg in November 2006 the special issue of Social Science Japan Journal "SOCIAL SCIENCE MATTERS: INQUIRIES INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN JAPAN” has just been published (Volume 11, Number 1, Summer 2008; guest editors: Wolfram Manzenreiter und Iris Wieczorek).

The following articles are included (see also http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/ content/vol11/issue1/index.dtl)
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The 2007 VSJF annual meeting has focused on "Security and Insecurity: New Challenges for Japan in the Beginning of the 21st Century". It has taken place from Friday, November 23 to Sunday, November 25, 2007 at the JDZB, Saargemuender Str. 2, 14195 Berlin. more ››