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Wie denken junge Deutsche? Was koennen wir ihnen ueber die japanische Gesellschaft mitteilen? Was moechten wir ueber Deutschland wissen?
In diesem Seminar sprechen wir ueber gesellschaftliche Trends in Japan und Deutschland, wie immer gemeinsam mit einer Partnergruppe an der Martin Luther-Universitaet in Halle. In gemischten Kleingruppen (SFC-Uni Halle) werden per Video-Chat Themen zur Praesentation vorbereitet. Bei der Aufbereitung der Themen werden wir die Instrumente Medienrecherche, Umfragen und Interviews nutzen. Die Ergebnisse werden im Plenum besprochen und in Video-Konferenzen vorgestellt. Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch und Japanisch.
Deutsche Literatur und Bibel
Kennen Sie deutsche Literatur? Haben Sie deutsche Bibel gelesen? Haben Sie Ihre Lieblingsliteratur?
In diesem Contentskurs lesen wir biblischen Text und Literatur gemeinsam und diskutieren wir auch dabei über Symbole, Metapher oder auch Allegorien, die im Text auftauchen. Das Ziel von diesem Kurs ist es, literarische Formulierungen sowie Wortschätze zu verstehen und literarische Texte aus dem wissenschaftlichen Aspekt zu analysieren und interpretieren.
In this course we will discuss current social issues in Japan and Germany with Japanese studies students at the University of Trier.
Participants in this bilingual project (working languages are German and Japanese) deal with topics that they and their partners choose at the beginning of the course, both in class and in several video conferences.
At the end of the project, bilingual Power Point presentations will be created and all participants will discuss the project topics together.
What it means being a ‟stranger”? Is it living in a different country from the one where we were born? If that is the case, how did we embodying the way of life and thinking of our native country? How this country, where we are originary from, is defining our cultural identity?
Furthermore, being a ‟stranger”, is it living in a very different social environment from the one where we have been educated? In other words, being a ‟stranger” is it likewise having the feeling to be different than everyone else and feeling incomfortable with people who are meeting each day (metro, work place, amusement places, etc.)? If that he case, how these interactions are weakening our social identity?
In brief, we can tell being a ‟stranger” is the embodiment of our native culture and social environment which both are expressing through our interaction with people. This interaction is defining our stranger’s identity same as an alterated and deforming mirror which is reflecting our alterity or worse our exoticism.
We will answer to those questions.
｢今｣の中国を知るためには、「歴史」を踏まえることが重要である。本授業では、中国の文学作品を通じ、近代の中国を深く理解することを目的とする。老舎の《茶館》を閲読し、《茶館》の主人公と共に、戊戌変法から軍閥戦争を経て、新中国成立前までの半世紀に及ぶ、長く変動的な時代を体験する。
文字を通して、変動する時代の波に呑まれる小人物の苦闘や葛藤及び、当時の北京の社会と各階層の人物の生活の変化を垣間見ることができるだろう。
The Nikkei Communities
In this course we will explore the Nikkei communities from a social, cultural and educational perspectives.
We will examine the current Nikkei communities in different societies in the Americas, in addition to the so-called “return migration” to Japan.
Along the course we will examine the main causes and effects of migration, and the main cultural and social characteristics of the migrants and their families. Additionally, we will study the effects of the settlement on the education and the maintenance and/or loss of the heritage language in the young generations.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of international environmental studies, and will elaborate with case studies on disaster risk reduction frameworks, climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Examples from developing countries in Asia will be presented. Group discussion among students will be made.
International Public Law is the legal norm to adjust and settle various problems among nations.
It is very important way of thinking for Japan to construct her foreign relations in accordance
with Rule of Law in the international society. International Public Law as legal norm has
technical terms, fundamental concepts and general theories, they have been put in order in
the part of Introduction or General Theory of study on the international public law. They will be
lectured on, including case studies, in this course, and then students will obtain its legal
knowledge and viewpoint to consider the international problems.
The goal of this class is to view problems surrounding contemporary Japan from various angles and to consider possible policy options and solutions. The class will focus "what is happening in Japan now" and acquire views form Japan to deepen our understanding of Japan. At the end of the semester, the participants will organize into groups and make presentations on Japan's policy issues.
They say China is a typical centralized country on its political power, but you will find a lot of phenomena unlike a centralized country in the bottom sphere of its society. It is an ironical paradox that the strongly centralized one--party system there cause many deviant behaviors by local authorities. It seems that since the beginning of Chinese economic reform, such a paradox is getting more and more serious. In this course, we will analyse such a paradox from the viewpoints of ethnicity, history, culture and system and so on, and study on the relationship between state and society in China.
The aim of this course is to understand the 'trajectory' of China's foreign policy and the influence of China’s conduct on the international politics.
Fallen into disrepair in the World War II, the Europe restarted from the repentance of its own historical faults, and is now back in full force. Europeans have various advantages: historical importance of Nation-states, international network such as EU, diverse human resources, well-arranged education system, coexistence of multilingual-multicultural societies and communication between them. Significantly, this Europe is now pursuing social and regional integration with articulation of diversity and universality. Its current situation shows us how we should live together in a globalized age. In this course, we will focus on German and French societies in the context of developing and deepening European integration as an answer to issues that challenge all humans and also of its moments of crisis such as Brexit and populisms.
The purpose of this course is to learn CIS region comprehensively. This course would be consisted by lecturers, group work and presentations, and individual term report.
"Regional study" is needed to deal with many aspects such as politics, economics, international relations, history, ethnicity, society, religion, conflicts, environmental problems, energy problems, etc. In particular, the former Soviet Union states are young and they have many problems to be solved, and such problems are complicated and to be needed the comprehensive knowledge and considering the international relations.
In order to think about the current world, it is essential to understand the former Soviet space. Therefore, we aim to deepen the understanding of the region.
This course is designed for undergraduate students as an introduction to the history of Chinese politics and society in the 19th and 20th century. What’s the relationship of the state and society? How did the forming of modern state change the society and how did the characteristics of society shape the ways of national construction? Focusing on such questions, this course introduces the major 4 parts of modern and contemporary Chinese history(Imperial China, Republic of China, China in the Mao era, and China after Mao). For each part, the general trend of history, new research perspectives, and the latest research will be introduced.
This course is an introduction to the area studies of Indonesia. Indonesian societies, especially the Javanese society which is the center of Indonesia, are considered to consist of two strata, namely the ruling stratum and the ruled stratum. If viewed from a historical perspective, unlike Western societies, land has not been a source of social wealth or a basis for accumulating wealth. It can be said that in Indonesia the social relations and the morals/values that support these social relations have been playing an important role. Based on the above views, through this course you can understand the system of morals/values that unite the societies/strata, by taking account of the characteristics of Southeast Asian societies, the raison d'etre of area studies, and the social structure of Indonesia.
Since this course focuses on investigating the relationship between the hierarchical structure of Indonesian society and the consciousness structure of the people who live there, I would like to develop useful lectures for students who are interested in "the relationship between the dominant and controlled classes" and “the political ideologies” (politics, sociology, cultural anthropology) in non-Western societies such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
(This course will be taught in Japanese for the academic year 2022, and in the following year in English as a GIGA course.)
Since the end of the Second World War, and with the independence of a great number of countries, the so-called "development" project was enacted globally to improve the living standards of the so-called "developing countries." This process was accompanied by expansion of academic knowledge of these regions, and made way for interdisciplinary and problem-solving oriented social science. In this lecture, we will explore this process from the point of view of anthropology, and with a regional focus on Latin America.
This course is designed to introduce students to the main theoretical and conceptual issues in the field of Comparative Politics. It offers students a broad view of the selected themes, concepts and approaches that characterize the field, as well as an appreciation of how the field has evolved over time.
Students will share essential themes involving the mind, obtained through the theory and practice of clinical psychology, and deepen their understanding of the “movement of the heart” that occur when a person interacts with other people. Interactions that students actually experience inside the classroom are expected to bring about further awareness of their inner self.
This course aims to give students an overview of main issues discussed in modern political and moral philosophy. It emphasizes fundamental questions concerning rights, state, freedom, obligation, and happiness.
International politics around Japan and in the world is changing. Especially in East Asia including the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are heightened tensions. Therefore, it is crucial to revise Japan's defense policies. National Defense Program Outline of the Japanese government was published in 1971 for the first time, and was not revised until 1995. However, after that, it was revised in 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2018. Intervals have become shorter. In this class we will compare and analyze defense policies of Japan and other countries, and review the change and the expansion of operational domains including land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. Non-traditional security issues in the environment, the Arctic Ocean and newly developed technologies are also considered. The goal of this class is to think of defense policies to achieve peace in international relations.
This course is to explore the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, looking at history, strategy, regional situations in Asia and Europe, as well as nuclear arms control and the relationship with ballistic missile defence. Nuclear weapons have affected our life and international politics since the weapon was first used in Hiroshima. Understanding nuclear weapons is therefore central in understanding the nature of international politics and security.
This course is for investigating General Provisions and Real Rights in the Civil Code of Japan.
The course will deal with Family Law (Civil Code Part IV Relatives and Part V Inheritance).
It is necessary for us to understand laws about “Family”, because families are changing and diversified in the modern society. The course will explain the basic framework concerning Family Law including marriage, divorce, parent-child relationship, inheritance and so on. And we will also consider new contemporary issues and problems regarding Family Law.
Instability that emanates from West Asia/Middle East and North Africa has become one of the major challenges for the international community. This course will examine the root causes of this condition from various view points, such as history, politics, society, economy, religion, security, et al.
The purpose of the course is to approach human (in)security by examining the role of the state in its services to the people, the services that the state can provide, and the extent to which the state services can reach out for its people. Examining risks presented to the individuals due to the lack of services and/or the limited coverage of existing services are also another focus of the course. The role of the government (acting in the name of the state), theoretically speaking, is to design policies and offer services to its people and in return, people pay taxes in order to enjoy the services provided, that is, public goods. Depending on the extension of services it can provide can one state be considered either a night watchman state or a welfare state. How do the people carry out their daily life given the presence/absence of the protection from its state in a certain area? Even where the state is involved, there is no assurance that such policies and/or services are comprehensive enough to cover everyone, or even effective for many. Furthermore, even with these problems, these policies and services may either give so little autonomy to their beneficiaries (people). The course will use examples of health, police, education, etc as illustrations to examine how different types of states deal with each issue and how their approach influences the living of its people.