Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

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The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Japan. The Nissan Institute, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Japan in the social sciences. Alongside vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc and MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies, inaugurated in 2008, are recognized as among Europe's most prestigious and successful training programmes. The Nissan Institute seminar runs each week during the teaching terms alongside the Graduate research seminar.

Episode Date
Towards Synthesis of the Youth’s Counter-urbanisation Movement and the Governmental-led Measures for Shrinking Communities in Japan
Apr 07, 2016
Achieving an Asia-Pacific Depopulation Dividend: Evidence and Experience from Shrinking Regions in Japan and New Zealand
Apr 07, 2016
The Degradation and Regeneration of Rural Areas in Japan
Apr 07, 2016
The Slow City Approach and the Resilience of Japanese Shrinking Communities
Apr 07, 2016
Cittaslow Experiences against the Social Desertification and to Promote Local Micro-economies on Resilient Way
Apr 07, 2016
From Growth to Shrinkage: Managing Population Decline in Western-Europe
Apr 07, 2016
Abenomics: Past, Present, and Future
Mar 10, 2016
The Double Responsibility of Care: Balancing childcare, elderly care and work.
Mar 10, 2016
A History of the IUD in Japan: Birth control policy and Cold War diplomacy
Mar 10, 2016
The Social Life of the Solitary Death: Aging, housing, and the limits of dwelling
Mar 10, 2016
Redefining the community firm? The unionization of part-time workers in the retail industry
Feb 26, 2016
Lessons from Studying the Japanese Economy
Jul 09, 2015
An International Comparison in Hope and Happiness between Japan, United Kingdom, and United States
Jul 09, 2015
Introduction to the Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick
Jul 09, 2015
The Greece of the East: Writing the History of Music in Meiji Japan
Jun 22, 2015
Japan's New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions
Jun 22, 2015
Engineering the Empire: "Comprehensive Development" in Japan's Colonial Borderlands
Jun 22, 2015
Take jellyfish for headaches: language, print and presentation in early 17th-century medical manuals
Dec 01, 2014
The Downward Spiral of Japan's Relations with China since 2012
Dec 01, 2014
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Jun 27, 2014
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession
May 19, 2014
Productive Motherhood: Women's Labour and Japan's Lowest-Low Fertility
Apr 01, 2014
The Geography of Ageing and Population Decline in Japan
Apr 01, 2014
A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea
Mar 31, 2014
Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and Other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagnose and Cure this 'Disease'?
Mar 31, 2014
The Political Arena of Low Fertility - Comparing Japan and Germany
Mar 31, 2014
Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men
Feb 25, 2014
Nissan Seminar: Population reproduction: a new fertility regime (with remarks on the role of migration)
Jan 27, 2014
Cultural Diversity and the law: From the Perspective of Cultural Policy
Jan 22, 2014
Britain and Japan; Reflections on the bilateral relationship
Jan 22, 2014
Transnational History and Japan
Jan 22, 2014
After Cool Japan: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
Nov 05, 2012
Sarin no ato: Tracing the Aftermath of the Tokyo Subway Gassing
Nov 05, 2012
Motivations for marriage and marital (un)happiness: Discourses in Japanese women's magazines
Mar 12, 2012
Japan's Immigration Policy, 1999-2008: Discrepancy between Comprehensive Debate and Partial Reforms
Mar 09, 2012
Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan
Mar 09, 2012
What does the anthropology of Japan tell us about Japan - and about anthropology?
Mar 09, 2012