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.

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Recent Episodes
  • Towards Synthesis of the Youth’s Counter-urbanisation Movement and the Governmental-led Measures for Shrinking Communities in Japan
    Apr 7, 2016 – 23:42
  • Achieving an Asia-Pacific Depopulation Dividend: Evidence and Experience from Shrinking Regions in Japan and New Zealand
    Apr 7, 2016 – 34:45
  • The Degradation and Regeneration of Rural Areas in Japan
    Apr 7, 2016 – 30:45
  • The Slow City Approach and the Resilience of Japanese Shrinking Communities
    Apr 7, 2016 – 31:07
  • Cittaslow Experiences against the Social Desertification and to Promote Local Micro-economies on Resilient Way
    Apr 7, 2016 – 37:36
  • From Growth to Shrinkage: Managing Population Decline in Western-Europe
    Apr 7, 2016 – 31:07
  • Abenomics: Past, Present, and Future
    Mar 10, 2016 – 01:08:24
  • The Double Responsibility of Care: Balancing childcare, elderly care and work.
    Mar 10, 2016 – 46:57
  • The Double Responsibility of Care: Balancing childcare, elderly care and work. (Slides)
    Mar 10, 2016 –
  • A History of the IUD in Japan: Birth control policy and Cold War diplomacy
    Mar 10, 2016 – 01:02:30
  • A History of the IUD in Japan: Birth control policy and Cold War diplomacy (Slides)
    Mar 10, 2016 –
  • The Social Life of the Solitary Death: Aging, housing, and the limits of dwelling
    Mar 10, 2016 – 34:41
  • Redefining the community firm? The unionization of part-time workers in the retail industry
    Feb 26, 2016 – 56:20
  • Lessons from Studying the Japanese Economy
    Jul 9, 2015 – 24:36
  • An International Comparison in Hope and Happiness between Japan, United Kingdom, and United States
    Jul 9, 2015 – 44:22
  • Introduction to the Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick
    Jul 9, 2015 – 09:17
  • The Greece of the East: Writing the History of Music in Meiji Japan
    Jun 22, 2015 – 56:39
  • Japan's New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions
    Jun 22, 2015 – 58:29
  • Engineering the Empire: "Comprehensive Development" in Japan's Colonial Borderlands
    Jun 22, 2015 – 52:54
  • Take jellyfish for headaches: language, print and presentation in early 17th-century medical manuals
    Dec 1, 2014 – 48:10
  • The Downward Spiral of Japan's Relations with China since 2012
    Dec 1, 2014 – 01:00:53
  • Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
    Jun 27, 2014 – 01:01:51
  • Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession
    May 19, 2014 – 48:43
  • Productive Motherhood: Women's Labour and Japan's Lowest-Low Fertility
    Apr 1, 2014 – 39:03
  • The Geography of Ageing and Population Decline in Japan
    Apr 1, 2014 – 57:57
  • A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea
    Mar 31, 2014 – 54:06
  • Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and Other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagnose and Cure this 'Disease'?
    Mar 31, 2014 – 56:00
  • The Political Arena of Low Fertility - Comparing Japan and Germany
    Mar 31, 2014 – 01:01:20
  • Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men
    Feb 25, 2014 – 49:16
  • Nissan Seminar: Population reproduction: a new fertility regime (with remarks on the role of migration)
    Jan 27, 2014 – 59:54
  • Cultural Diversity and the law: From the Perspective of Cultural Policy
    Jan 22, 2014 – 01:04:33
  • Britain and Japan; Reflections on the bilateral relationship
    Jan 22, 2014 – 01:04:48
  • Transnational History and Japan
    Jan 22, 2014 – 47:14
  • After Cool Japan: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
    Nov 5, 2012 – 01:09:15
  • Sarin no ato: Tracing the Aftermath of the Tokyo Subway Gassing
    Nov 5, 2012 – 47:39
  • Motivations for marriage and marital (un)happiness: Discourses in Japanese women's magazines
    Mar 12, 2012 – 01:04:43
  • Japan's Immigration Policy, 1999-2008: Discrepancy between Comprehensive Debate and Partial Reforms
    Mar 9, 2012 – 01:04:06
  • Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan
    Mar 9, 2012 – 50:44
  • What does the anthropology of Japan tell us about Japan - and about anthropology?
    Mar 9, 2012 – 57:47
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