Studying Japan: The impact of transnationalization and technological innovation on methods, fieldwork and research ethicsIsabel Schreiber und and Marie Ulrich

ASIEN – Nr. 152/153 (2019) pp. 151–52

Freie Universität Berlin, July 23–24, 2019

The international conference “Studying Japan” took place at Freie Universität Berlin on July 23– 24, 2019. It was kindly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft (ERG) and Freie Universität Berlin. Organizers Cornelia Reiher (FU Berlin) and Nora Kottmann (DIJ Tokyo) welcomed an interdisciplinary group of Japan scholars to discuss methodological trends in times of transnationalization and technological innovations and to talk about ways to make methods educa- tion more accessible for students and junior researchers. The conference consisted of five panels that encompassed the whole research process from finding a research topic to publishing one’s results…