July 23 and 24, 2019
Freie Universität Berlin
Fabeckstraße 23-25
14195 Berlin
Holzlaube Room 2.2058
and 2.2059

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Reiher
Institute of Japanese Studies/Graduate Schoolof East Asian Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Phone: +49-(0)30-83871465
E-Mail: cornelia.reiher@fu-berlin.deDr. Nora Kottmann
German Institute for Japanese Studies
Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F
7-1 Kioichi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094
Phone: +81-(0)3-3222-5941
E-Mail: kottmann@dijtokyo.org

German Research Foundation

Graphic design: Andreas Steinbrecher

International Conference
Studying Japan:
The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation on methods, fieldwork andresearch ethics

International Conference
Studying Japan : The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation
on methods, fieldwork and research ethics
July 23 and 24, 2019 • Freie Universität Berlin

Conference Program
Tuesday, July 23

Wednesday, July 24

14.30 – 15.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.30 Input

15.00 – 15.15 Welcome
Nora Kottmann (German Institute for JapaneseStudies, Tokyo) and Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)
15.15 – 16.30 Panel I: Methods and fieldwork in thearea studies and global flows of knowledge
Chair: Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin)

Nora Kottmann (German Institute for JapaneseStudies, Tokyo) and Cornelia Reiher (FreieUni-versität Berlin)
9.30 – 11.00 Panel II: Studying Japan. Crossing
disciplinary, methodological and territorialboundaries
Chair: Annette Schad-Seifert (Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf)• Keeping up with multigenerational research:
Methodological­lessons from following Soka
Gakkai in Japan over two decades
Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)• The diversity of Japanese Studies
Rodger Goodman (University of Oxford)• Asking without asking … Getting your ‘enchanted
listener’ to talk ! Interviewing single women inJapan
Akiko Yoshida (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)• Reviewing the literature
Urs Matthias Zachmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30 Roundtable ‘Methods in Japanese Studies: New trends and challenges’
Chair: Verena Blechinger-Talcott (Freie Universität Berlin)• Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University)• Chris McMorran (National University ofSingapore)• Karen Shire (University of Duisburg-Essen)• Celia Spoden (Hannover Medical School)• Marie Weishaupt (Freie Universität Berlin)
18.30 Dinner• Research designs
Kaori Okano (La Trobe University)(via Skype)• Stydying Japan in and out of Japan
Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel III: Collecting data in social
science research on Japan
Chair: Kai Schulze (Freie Universität Berlin)• Qualitative social science methods
Akiko Yoshida (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)• Qualitative interviews
Nora Kottmann (German Institute for JapaneseStudies, Tokyo) and Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)• (Participant) observation
Christian Tagsold (Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf) and Katrin Ullmann (University ofApplied Sciences Düsseldorf)• Digital transformations in archives, libraries
and databases
Theresia Peucker and Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Student panel: What should a methods
handbook look like?
Japanese Studies Students (Freie Universität Berlin)
14.30 – 16.00 Panel IV: Analyzing qualitative datain social science research on Japan
Chair: Hannes Mosler (Freie Universität Berlin)• Mixed methods designs
Carola Hommerich (Hokkaido University/SophiaUniversity) (via Skype) and Nora Kottmann (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)• Methods of data analysis
David Chiavacci (University of Zürich)• Qualitative content and frame analysis
Celeste Arrington (George Washington University)• Qualitative discourse analysis
Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 Panel V: Presenting research on Japan.
Writing and publishing on- and offline
Chair: Elisabeth Scherer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)• Coding and theorizing
Caitlin Meagher (University of Oxford)• The challenges of writing and putting it all
together
Chris McMorran (National University of Singapore)• Good research practice and ethics
Cornelia Reiher and Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin)• Presenting and publishing
James Farrer (Sophia University) and Gracia
Liu-Farrer (Waseda University)
18.00 – 18.30 Wrap up
Nora Kottmann (German Institute for JapaneseStudies, Tokyo) and Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)