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03/07/2023 - 03/07/2023 | Tokyo

Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan

Similar to Germany, Japan’s semi-urban peripheries are confronted with demographic shifts, structural change, and climate change.
Since 2015, the German Institute for Japanese Studies has studied these challenges in the research cluster “The Future of Local Communities in Japan”.
The conference “Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan” presents the multidisciplinary projects of this research cluster, complemented with presentations by prominent Japanese scholars.

Similar to Germany, Japan’s rural and semi-urban peripheries are confronted with numerous challenges: demographic shifts and depopulation, structural change due to globalization and technical development, climate change and the promotion of renewable energy sources. They all have particularly grave implications in the economically less prosperous, non-metropolitan regions. These socio-economic challenges have been receiving a high political priority since the former Abe administration, as evidenced by the various economic and political initiatives bundled under the slogan “regional revitalization”.
Since 2015, the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo) has studied numerous challenges confronted by Japan’s rural and semi-urban peripheries as well as government policies implemented to support local initiatives facing these challenges in the research cluster “The Future of Local Communities in Japan – Risks and Opportunities in the Face of Multiple Challenges”.
The conference “Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan” will present the multidisciplinary projects conducted within the research cluster. They will be complemented with presentations by prominent Japanese scholars in the field.
The DIJ will continue to study these and related issues in the new research cluster Sustainability and resilience.

Information on participating / attending:
free of charge; registration required

Date:

03/07/2023 09:00 - 03/07/2023 18:30

Event venue:

German Institute for Japanese Studies
Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F
7-1 Kioicho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094
Japan
Tokyo
Japan

Target group:

all interested persons

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Economics / business administration, Environment / ecology, Politics, Social studies

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

03/02/2023

Sender/author:

Dr. Torsten Weber

Department:

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event73707

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