Event News Symposium „Active Ageing in the Digital Age. How can Digitalization and Connectivity enhance Social Participation and Inclusion?” Japan and Germany are confronting fast ageing populations. Supporting the social participation and inclusion of a growing number of elderly people constitutes a major challenge for both societies. Digitalization and connectivity offer...
Event News Conference “Diversity and Inclusiveness: Divergent Treatment of Neglected Minorities” How do countries in Asia and Europe deal with ethnic, religious and sexual minorities? Why, in some countries, those minorities are legally protected, while in others negative public attitudes and policies of willful neglect still do...
Event News Workshop “Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation. New Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan” With the worldwide rise of populist movements, the increase of nationalist tendencies and young people knowing less and less about recent history, maintaining the memory of the past is more important today than ever. In this workshop,...
Event News Symposium „LegalTech: Artificial Intelligence in the legal system – benefits and risks“ Digitalization and Artificial intelligence (AI) have a fundamental impact on working processes – for legal professionals, but possibly even for the legal system itself. The symposium discusses the benefits and risks of AI technologies in...
Event News Workshop „Hate Speech as a School Topic – Teaching Democracy in Japan and Germany“ Hate speech has become a concerning phenomenon in our society, particularly on the internet where minorities such as immigrants or the LGBTQ community increasingly face hatred, verbal violence and discrimination. Children are exposed to...
Event News EPRIE 2019 - Overcoming the challenges posed by social media: How to make it work for social change? EPRIE aims to share and exchange perspectives and experiences between East Asia and Europe. In 2018, we examined the challenges posed to the media sector by populism and post-truth politics. This year, together with media practitioners,...
Event News C20 Summit "Promoting Peace, Human Rights and Democratic Governance through the SDG 16+" Growing inequality, humanitarian crisis and violation of fundamental human rights threaten the international community. As conditions and space for civic society to find solutions to these challenges remain restricted, protecting human...
Event News Lecture "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Middle Powers Amidst Global Power Shifts" Less wars, more prosperity—that is a global trend since the end of the Cold War. Yet, illiberalism is increasingly spreading, even in democratic countries, and nationalist populism has come to define the policies of some of the great...
Event News International Conference "Coexisting with Foreigners in an Era of Mass Migration; opportunities and challenges for Europe and Japan" Are nation states with strong ethnic identities capable of integrating large numbers of people of diverse cultures, many of whom may wish to stay and form new ethnic minority communities? Of all host nations, Japan, with a less than two...
Event News Symposium "Future of the automotive industry in Japan and Germany" In both Germany and Japan, the automotive industry is one of the key industries. However, the sector is at a crossroads due to current developments (such as digitization). The question arises to which extend the challenges faced by the...
Aus Fehlern gelernt Faus, Jana ; Knaup, Horand | Tokyo : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, [2021] [der Erfolg der SPD bei der Bundestagswahl war kein Zufall] Download publication
Analyse zur Bundestagswahl 2021 Schläger, Catrina ; Güttler, Martin ; Engels, Jan Niklas | Tokyo : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, [2021] eine historische Bundestagswahl mit einem roten Comeback Download publication
