Passing on this announcement of the February DIJ presentation:<\/p>\n
DIJ History & Humanities Study Group\u00a0<\/a> This month’s speaker will be “Japan\u2019s Conservatives and the Quest for Constitutional Reform”<\/p>\n Everybody is welcome to attend, but registration at backhaus at dijtokyo.org\u00a0would be helpful.\u00a0<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/p>\n Constitutional Reform had been in the news for more than a decade since the early\u00a0 1990s. Many thought the discourse about the issue would eventually culminate in the\u00a0 realization of Constitutional Reform under the government of Shinzo Abe. With Abe\u00a0 resigning as PM in summer 2007 after a mere year in office, his pet project quickly\u00a0 vanished from magazine front pages and talk shows, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead of focusing on these recent events, my paper examines the issue of\u00a0 Constitutional Reform as a symbol for Japan\u2019s conservatives since the early 1980s.\u00a0 After looking at conservatism and how it has manifested itself in postwar Japan, I\u00a0 would like to try and explain what a revised Constitution stands for in the eyes of\u00a0 Japanese conservatives. Therefore, this research is not limited to the analysis of\u00a0 constitutional reform drafts, but also connects these drafts to a wider framework of\u00a0 conservative criticism targeting postwar Japan as well as conservative visions of a\u00a0 future Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chris Winkler is a doctoral candidate at the University of Munich\u2019s Department of\u00a0 Japanese Studies. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Keio University.<\/p>\n German Institute for Japanese Studies Passing on this announcement of the February DIJ presentation: DIJ History & Humanities Study Group\u00a0 Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 18:30\u00a0 at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo\u00a0 (http:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org)\u00a0 This month’s speaker will be Chris Winkler (University of Munich) who will give a presentation on\u00a0 “Japan\u2019s Conservatives and the Quest for Constitutional Reform” Everybody…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1pa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday, 6 February 2008, 18:30\u00a0
\nat the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo\u00a0
\n(http:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nChris Winkler (University of Munich)
\nwho will give a presentation on\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nJochi Kioizaka Bldg, 7-1 Kioicho
\nChiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094\u00a0
\nTel. +81-(0)3-3222-5077
\nFax. +81-(0)3-3222-5420
\nhttp:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"