Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University

The Second Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies

The International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies at Tohoku University, Japan, is pleased to announce a call for presentations for the Second Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies. The conference aims to provide, for scholars and graduate students of Japan from a range of ages, nationalities and disciplines, an opportunity to exchange ideas, thus fostering the possibility of further collaboration.
This Second Conference will, first of all, celebrate the first anniversary of the partnership agreement between University of East Anglia and Tohoku University.

Conference Topic

Aging and Maturing of Japan and the World

In demographic dynamics in global level, Japanese society faces a variety of challenges of aging. As a matter of course, some age-related diseases like dementia, for example, are anticipated to be cured by a specific medicine. For taking care of elderly people, however, not only medical treatment, but social system for elderly care is also necessary, which includes the hardware of medical and nursing facilities as well as the software of pension and health insurance, and that of life ending and religion. An aging society, on the other hand, sometimes suffers a shortage of labor to sustain even a moderate economic growth, which is called “population onus”. While the Western developed societies have accepted immigrant workers for years, the Japanese government is now introducing the new immigrant policy to recruit skilled workers from foreign countries. For this purpose, however, the Japanese society has to take on a difficult task to improve its tolerance and openness to different cultures as well as its communication capacity in Japanese and foreign languages.
In the Second Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies, we will discuss this wide range of issues from hard sciences, via social ones, to humanities.

Discussions are, however, not limited to the above-mentioned conference topic. There will be provided sessions for special working groups concerning broader issues related to Japan and the world in various fields of humanities and social sciences.

Young scholars and graduate students are especially welcome to the conference as presenters. They are expected to bring new findings in their research for discussion.

Conference Dates and Venue

Dec. 14 (Sat) -15 (Sun), 2019

Kawauchi Campus, Tohoku University: Kawauchi 27-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan

C19 Lecture Rooms

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Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Naoko Kishita (School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia)
  Prof. Arasu Ganesan (School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia)
• Prof. NAGAI Akira (Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University)
• Prof. Tomioka, Yoshihisa (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University)

Conference Language

English or Japanese

Poster

Program

Call for Presentations