The 10. Meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences in Osnabrueck
will be held on August 28th -31 2008
Here is a provisional program of the 10. Meeting.
The 9. Meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences, in Kanazawa
The meeting was held between October 12 and October 15. 2006 at the University
of Kanazawa. The Band of the Documentations was already published. If you
want to have this book, please send me e-mail: info@nichidoku.org
Shigekazu KUSUNE
Preface
and Acknowledgements
This book is the
documentation of the 9th Meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social
Sciences 2006 in Kanazawa/ Japan, held from October 12. to October 15. 2006 at the University
of Kanazawa. This unique meeting of Social Sciences, which deals with special problems
existing between Japan and Germany, is held every second year and changes its venue
regularly, alternating between Japan and Germany. At the last meeting in
Hildesheim in 2004 in Germany, Kanazawa was selected as the site for the next
meeting, for the first time in a provincial city like Kanazawa in Japan. I
promised that I would do my best to host the meeting. Then I organized the
implementing committee in Kanazawa to prepare the meeting.
The members of this
implementing committee were: Shigekazu Kusune (chief of the committee),
Yoshinori Nishijima, Masaki Nakamasa, Hidehiko Adachi (all members of University
of Kanazawa) and Akira Hoshino (University of Hokuriku). The members of the Organizing
Committee in Japan for the Meeting 2006, Makoto Kobayashi (University of Tamagawa.) Akira Tokuyasu (University of
Hosei) and Shigekazu Kusune met twice in Tokyo and once in Kanazawa. The
president of the German-Japanese Society for
Social Sciences, Hans-Joachim Kornadt and the vice-president and treasurer of
the Society, Gisela Trommsdorff also visited Japan twice (Kanazawa and Tokyo),
to support the conference in Kanazawa. To host such a four days international
meeting and symposium we needed to find symposium partners, who would support
the conference. In the name of the organizers and the members of the
German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences I would like to quote the organizations
which have supported this meeting morally and financially: University of Kanazawa,
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Osaka-Kobe, Ono Group Washimayer
Co. (Mr. Kohtaro Ono, President of Washimayer is the Honorary Consulate of the
Federal Republic of Germany in Fukui), Management Wisdom Partners Japan in
Tokyo, Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Japanese-German Society. In
those four days of meeting under the main theme of gSocio-Cultural
Transformation in the 21st Century? Risks and Challenges of Social Changesh we
selected four sub-themes:
1.
Session:
Multiculturalism
in Europe and East Asia. New Horizons of Intercultural Understanding
2. Session:
European
Union and East Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational Identity in Cross-Cultural
Comparison
3.
Session:
Life-long
Development in the 21st Century. Transdisciplinary Approaches
4.
Session:
Historical
Analyses and New Life Style in the 21st Century
The order of the
contributors of the conference program is not exactly the same as the order of
this documentation, because at the conference there were some colleagues who
could not attend the conference from the beginning, so I had to put their names
in other sessions. I have reinstated the names of the contributors in the right
sessions. There is another difference: Some scholars who gave presentations at
the conference, but failed to submit their final printing manuscript within
time, must be excluded from this documentation, because of the time limit of
the publication. I have decided to publish this book before the end of March 2007
at the latest. I must apologize for my rigorous and unfriendly manner. For
those whose contributions cannot be included in this book, I will present here
the original program, to show the readers at least who has given presentations:
October
12:
Venue: Satellite Plaza of
the University of Kanazawa (Nishimachi Kenshukan)
13 - 18 o'clock:
1.
Session: Multiculturalism in Europe and East Asia. New Horizons of
Intercultural Understanding
Moderator:
Akira Hoshino/Gisela Trommsdorff
Shigekazu
Kusune:
Understanding of
Information in Socio-cultural Differences, Mechanism of Misunderstanding and
Understanding (Faculty of Law, University of Kanazawa, Japan)
Christiane
Grosch & Ernst A. Hany:
Assessment of Intercultural
Understanding: Results of Two Method Studies (Department of Psychology,
University of Erfurt, Germany)
Ernst A. Hany &
Christiane Grosch:
Cultural and Intercultural
Understanding: Which Experiences Contribute to its Development? (Department of
Psychology, University of Erfurt, Germany)
Preface 19
Moderator: Gyorgy Szell /
Akira Tokuyasu
Karl-Heinz
Reuband:
Attitudes Towards
Foreigners in East and West Germany (Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut,
University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
Hidehiko Adachi:
Hermann Kantorowicz and
Legal Reform in Japan (University of Kanazawa, Faculty of Law)
From 18:30 on: Welcome
Party in Hotel Tokyu, Greeting by organizer and Prof. Isamu Hayase, President
of Seiryo-University and the vice president of Ishikawa Japanese-German Society.
October
13:
Venue: Kakumanosato on the
Kakuma Campus (University of Kanazawa)
9 - 12 o'clock:
Official Greeting from
Yujiro Hayashi, President of University of Kanazawa
Moderator: Shigekazu Kusune
1. Keynote
speech:
Hans-Joachim
Kornadt:
Social Change. Chances and
Risks (Professor for psychology, Philosophical Faculty 3, University of
Saarland, Germany, President of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences)
2. Keynote
speech:
Kenfichi Tominaga:
Getting worse of the Social
Environment in Recent Japan (former Vice President of the German-Japanese
Society for Social Sciences, professor emeritus at Tokyo University, Japan)
Moderator:
Stefan Buchenberger
3.
Keynote speech:
Masaki Nakamasa:
Civil society in Postwar
Japan, seen from Political Ideas of Masao Maruyama (Professor for history of
political thought, Faculty of Law, University of Kanazawa, Japan)
Those keynote speeches are
open for everybody, students and citizens.
14-18 o'clock:
2.
Session: European Union and East Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational
Identity
in Cross-Cultural Comparison
Moderator: Makoto
Kobayashi/ Hede Helfrich
Helmut Loiskandl:
Supranational Identity and
the Appresentation to Fact and hFactumh of History (University of Tokiwa,
Japan, Queensland University Brisbane, Australia & University of Osnabruck,
Germany)
Michiko Mae:
The Paradigm Change from
Culturality to Transculturality (University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
Shigeki Sato:
The Eastern Territories and
National Identity in Postwar Germany (University of Hosei, Japan)
Paul G
Schmitz:
The Cognitive
Representation of Europe: Findings from Intercultural Comparative Studies (Institute
of Psychology, University of Bonn, Germany)
Moderator: Helmut Gross/
Akira Hoshino
Gyorgy Szell:
European Union and East
Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational Identity in Cross-Cultural
Comparison (Department of Social Sciences, University of Osnabruck, Germany
& EU Institute in Japan, Tokyo Consortium)
Akira Tokuyasu:
Plurality and
Poly-Contexturality: A Theoretical Framework for the Process of Globalization (Faculty
of Social Science, University of Hosei, Japan)
Stefan Buchenberger:
The German-Turkish
Discourse in Contemporary German literature. Jakob Arjounifs Mystery Novels and
Their Turkish-German Protagonist Kemal Kayankaya. Integration Problems and Cultural
Stereotypes as Story Background in Crime fiction (Womenfs University of Nara, Japan)
18:30 ofclock
Official Party in Shugetsu.
Greeting by Masayoshi Shibata, Dean of Graduate School of Human and
Socio-environmental Studies, University of Kanazawa
October
14:
Venue: Satellite Plaza of
the University of Kanazawa (Nishimachi Kenshukan)
9-13 o'clock
3.
Session: Life-long Development in the 21st Century. Transdisciplinary Approaches
Moderator:
Akira Tokuyasu/ Stefan Buchenberger
Mikiko
Eswein:
Development of the
(Vocational) Education Systems of Japan and Germany in the 21st Century
(Ostasien-Institut University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
Friedrich
Furstenberg:
Aging in Japan and Germany.
Developments and
Perspectives (Soziologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn,
Germany)
Stefan
Hochstadt:
Aging Society: Impact on
Spatial Organization and Urban Planning (University of Applied Sciences
Dortmund, Germany)
Moderator: Hans-Joachim
Kornadt/ Bernhard Nauck:
Hiroshi Namiki:
Construct Validity in a
Theory-based Neuro-psychological Diagnostic Test for Senile Dementia: A
Mutually Compensatory Method of Construct Validation (University of Waseda, Japan)
Bernhard
Nauck & Daniela Klaus:
One or Two Pathways to
Family Modernity? A Systematic Comparison of Kagitcibasifs 'Model of Family
Change' and the 'Model of the Second Demographic Transition' (Department of
Sociology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Annette
Schad-Seifert:
Japanfs Low Fertility
Society and the Problem of Gender (German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
(DIJ), Japan)
Moderator: Helmut
Gross/Michiko Mae
Gisela Trommsdorff:
Socio-Demographic Changes
and Its Social and Psychological Consequences (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Makoto Kobayashi, Naosuke
Itoigawa, Yoshiharu Tachibana, Tomoko Fujitani and Yuko Yato:
The Value of Children in
Relation to the Family Concept: A Preliminary Study in Japan (University of
Tamagawa, Japan)
Yoshinori Nishijima:
A Contrastive Study of
Routine Formulas for Controlling Communicative Behaviours in German and
Japanese (University of Kanazawa, Faculty of Economics)
From 13:00 to 14:30 ofclock
Meeting of General Assembly
Sightseeing in Kanazawa,
Kenrokuen, Castle Kanazawa, Geisha and Samurai district, 21st Century Museum,
accompanied by students
October
15:
Venue: Satellite Plaza of
the University of Kanazawa (Nishimachi Kenshukan)
9-13 O'clock
4.
Session: Historical Analyses and New Life Style in the 21st Century.
Moderator:
Bernhard Nauck/ Gyorgy Szell
Helmut
Gross:
Aktuelle
Erziehungsirrtumer in Deutschland und Japan aus Soziologischer Sicht
(Sociology, University of Vechta, Germany)
Hede Helfrich:
Individualism-Collectivism
Revisited (Institute for Psychology, University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Carola Hommerich:
Changing Attitudes Towards
Working Life, Outcomes of Interviews with Young People in Germany and Japan
(Institute of applied social sciences, University of Cologne, Germany)
Moderator: Makoto
Kobayashi/Gisela Trommsdorff:
Kunihiro Kamiya:
Zur
klimatischen bzw. Okologischen Betrachtung uber die Entstehungsbedingungen des Feudalismus?
Ein Vergleichender Ansatz des Feudalismus in Deutschland und Japan? (University of Kansai, Japan)
Ulrich Lohmann:
Most Recent Developments in
Professional Ethics and Medical Law in Germany? A Change in the Perception of
Man? (Berlin State School of Social Work, Berlin, Germany)
Mototaka Mori:
Who votes for Mr. Ishihara?
- Generations and Apt Feelings (University of Waseda, Japan)
14-15 O'clock Closing
Discussion
In this book I have chosen
keynote speeches as a special part, suitable for the description of the outline
of the symposium. Hans-Joachim Kornadt and Kenfichi Tominaga then provided an
overview of the entire field of societyfs problems in the 21st century. In
part II:
Multiculturalism in Europe
and East Asia. New Horizons of Intercultural Understanding, we discussed
globalization and the problems related with this process. How we can live peacefully
together, is a necessary strategy, which we desperately need. In part III:
European Union and East Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational Identity in
Cross-Cultural Comparison, we dealt with the problems of the European Union and
the possibility of an East
Asian Union. Even though
there is a process to overcome the wounds of the past in Europe, in East Asian,
it seems to be difficult to do so. In the part IV: Life-long Development in the
21st century. Transdisciplinary Approaches, we
discussed the problems of the aging society, the fewer number of children being
born and the problems of urbanization, which Japan and Germany must tackle, and
how we can sustain the society in the 21st century. In part V: Historical Analyses and
New Life Style in the 21st century, we discussed new life styles of the 21st century in the
context of their historical background.
I wish to thank all
implementing members in Kanazawa like Yoshinori Nishijima, Hidehiko Adachi,
Akira Hoshino, Masaki Nakamasa and the students of the University of Kanazawa. They
have done the organizational work. Without the help of those people I could not
have realized such an international conference. Retrospectively I am very happy
to have finished the symposium with success.
Shigekazu Kusune
21.3.2007 Meanwhile I 've received your positive reaction. Thank you for
your acknowledgements!
30.3.2007 The Documentation Band of our society is published and I will
send it to you as soon as possible. The rule of sending is: contirbutors
of the book, in other words, those who sent their manuscripts, get 10 copies,
and those who made a speech at the conferenc but failed to sent manuscript,
get one copy. Those who live abroad, are requested to have more patience,
because the shipment will be made by ship. Ten copies are very heavy to
be sent by airmail.
I am very proud to have published such a nice book. If you need more copies, please take contact with us!: info@nichidoku.org
Shigekazu Kusune, Yoshinori Nishijima and Hidehiko Adach (ed.): Socio-Cultural
Transformation in the 21st Century? Risks and Challenges of Social Changes,
published by Kanazawa Electric POublishing Company, Kanazawa/ Japan, Printed
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Table of
Contents
List of
contributors
Preface
and acknowledgements
Part I
Socio-Cultural
Transformation in the 21st Century? Risks and Challenges of Social
Changes
Chapter 1:
Social
Change in the 21st Century - Chances and Risks in Global
Perspective
Hans-Joachim
Kornadt
Chapter
2:
Worsening
of the Social Environment in Recent Japan
Kenfichi
Tominaga
Part
II
Multiculturalism
in Europe and East Asia, New Horizons of Intercultural Understanding
Chapter 3:
Understanding
of Information in Socio-cultural Differences, Mechanism of Misunderstanding
and Understanding
Shigekazu
Kusune
Chapter 4:
Assessment
of Intercultural Understanding: Results of Two Method Studies
Ernst A.
Hany & Christiane Grosch
Chapter 5:
Factors
Contributing to the Development of Intercultural Understanding
Christiane
Grosch & Ernst A. Hany
Chapter 6:
Attitudes
Towards Foreigners in East and West Germany, A Case Study on Cognitive Differentiation,
Social Background Factors, and the Specific Standing of the Japanese Attitudes
Towards Foreigners in East and West Germany
Karl-Heinz
Reuband
Chapter 7:
Plurality
and Poly-Contexturality: A Theoretical Framework for the Process of Globalization
Akira
Tokuyasu
Part III
European
Union and East Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational Identity
in Cross-Cultural Comparison
Chapter 8:
The
Cognitive Representation of Europe: Findings from Intercultural Comparative Studies
Paul
G. Schmitz
Chapter 9:
European
Union and East Asian Union. Perspectives of Supranational Identity in Cross-Cultural
Comparison
Gyorgy
Szell
Chapter
10:
The German-Turkish Discourse in Contemporary German Literature. Jakob Arjounifs
Mystery Novels and their Turkish-German Protagonist Kemal Kayankaya. Integration
Problems and Cultural Stereotypes as Story Background in Crime Fiction
Stefan
Buchenberger
Part
IV
Life-long
Development in the 21st Century. Transdisciplinary Approaches
Chapter
11:
Die
Entwicklung bezuglich der (Berufs-)Bildungssysteme Japans und Deutschlands im
21. Jahrhundert
Mikiko
Eswein
Chapter
12:
Aging in
Japan and Germany. Developments and Perspectives
Friedrich
Furstenberg
Chapter
13:
Spaces
Drifting Apart. How Important is the Demographic Change?
Stefan
Hochstadt
Chapter
14:
Construct Validity in a Theory-based Neuro-psychological Diagnostic Test
for Senile Dementia:
A Mutually Compensatory Method of Construct Validation
Hiroshi
Namiki
Chapter
15:
Socio-Demographic
Changes in Japan and Germany and Cross-Cultural Comparisons
of the Value of Children
Gisela
Trommsdorff
Chapter
16:
The Value
of Children in Relation to the Family Concept: A Preliminary Study in Japan
Makoto
Kobayashi, Naosuke Itoigawa, Yoshiharu Tachibana, Tomoko Fujitani and Yuko Yato
Part V
Historical
Analyses and New Life Style in the 21st Century.
Chapter
17:
On Current
Errors in Educational Matters in Germany
Helmut
Gross
Chapter
18:
Individualism-Collectivism
Revisited
Hede
Helfrich
Chapter
19:
Furita and Generation Internship: A cultural Mirror Image
Carola
Hommerich
Chapter
20:
Zur
Klimatischen bzw. Okologischen Betrachtung uber die Entstehungsbedingungen des
Feudalismus - Ein vergleichender Ansatz des Feudalismus in Deutschland und Japan
Kunihiro
Kamiya
Chapter
21:
Who Votes
for Mr. Ishihara? Two Analytical Considerations on the Populism in Tokyo
Mototaka
Mori
Chapter
22:
For a
Contrastive Study of Routine Formulas for Controlling Communicative Behaviors
in German and Japanese: a Pilot Investigation
Yoshinori
Nishijima
Chapter
23:
Hermann
Kantorowicz and Legal Reform in Japan
Hidehiko
Adachi