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Japanologie der Universität Wien The Facebook Site for (potential) Japanese studies' students or friends of the Japanese department at the University of Vienna!

Die Seite für (potentielle) Japanologie-Studenten und Freunde der Japanologie am Institut für OAW an der Universität Wien!

ウィーン大学東アジア研究所日本学科のフェイスブック・サイトです。ようこそ！

28/05/2026

>>> 11. Forum für literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung

📆 05.-06. Juni 2026
📍 Campus der Universität Wien

Das jährliche Forum für literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung bietet den zahlreichen japanologischen Fachbereichen an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum eine regelmäßige Gelegenheit für akademischen Austausch sowie für Einblicke in gegenseitige Forschungsprojekte.

Die Japanologie der Universität Wien freut sich sehr, dieses Jahr das 11. Forum für literaturwissenschaftliche Japanforschung auszutragen. Wir dürfen Sie ganz herzlich am 05. und 06. Juni 2026 bei uns am Campus der Universität Wien mit einem spannenden Programm willkommen heißen. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten.

Mehr Informationen:

https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/literaturforum2026/

https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/einzelnews/news/11-forum-fuer-literaturwissenschaftliche-japanforschung/

25/05/2026

In the Shadow of a Mountain: A Community School Coordinator and the Politics of Survival in Rural Japan

🏢🌐 A hybrid u:japan lecture by Greg Poole (Doshisha University, Japan) 🌐🏢

📅 28.05.2026 (Thursday)
🕛 18:00 – 19:30 CET
💬 English language
📍Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (2.4), Seminarraum 1
🌐 and online over ZOOM (link on our website)

24/05/2026

>>> Board Game Insights presents:

u:japan culture board game series: Go workshop, 22nd May 2026

- with Go7 (), a club in Vienna dedicated to teaching and playing Go. Find out more about them on their website https://go7.at/
- organized by Tim Heißenberger, Japanologie Uni Wien

For our final workshop in the u:japan board game series, we were visited by a team from the Go7 Vienna club. The workshop focused largely on the history, rules and famous players of Go, but of course that wasn’t all: all participants were invited to try their hand at the game themselves under the supervision of Go7.

Go is one of the oldest and most complex games in the world, originating in China and now widely played across East Asia. However, the workshop participants were not only able to play against each other, but also to compete against a Go robot, which independently analyses the board and places stones on it using an arm.

We would like to extend our warmest thanks to the team at the Go7 club for the workshop and presentation! We would also like to thank Tim Heißenberger, the organizer of the u:japan culture board game series, and the Akademischer Arbeitskreis Japan (AAJ) for sponsoring the snacks.

20/05/2026

Engaged Aging: Longer Working Lives in Japan

🏢🌐 A hybrid u:japan lecture by Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge, UK) 🌐🏢

📅 21.05.2026 (Thursday)
🕛 18:00 – 19:30 CET
💬 English language
📍Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (2.4), Seminarraum 1
🌐 and online over ZOOM (link on our website)

09/05/2026

>>> Board Game Insights presents:

u:japan culture board game series: Riichi Mahjong workshop, 8th May 2026

- with KASU, a club for playing traditional Japanese board games like Mahjong, Shōgi or Hanafuda. Find out more about them on their website https://kasu.at/

- organized by Tim Heißenberger, Japanologie Uni Wien

After a short introduction on the history of Mahjong and explanations on how to play the Riichi Mahjong event, participants of the workshop gathered around the square Mahjong tables provided by KASU. Each table had four participants and one KASU member, who explained the rules and helped the players get into the game by starting with fewer tiles before increasing the difficulty.

The result was an enjoyable afternoon with a relaxed atmosphere, snacks, and conversations around the tables. By the end, all participants had learned the basic rules and could play Riichi Mahjong with little assistance from the instructors. To conclude the workshop, four KASU members demonstrated how fast-paced games with experienced players can be in a show game.

We would like to thank KASU for patiently sharing their valuable experience and for providing all the necessary equipment for playing Riichi Mahjong. We would especially like to thank Tim Heißenberger for organising and hosting the event.

The next and final workshop in this series, on 8th May, will focus on the board game Go.

05/05/2026

Lost in Dystopia? Practices of Resistance in Japanese Speculative Fiction: Murata Sayaka’s “Vanishing World” and Li Kotomi’s “Celebration of Life”

🏢🌐 A hybrid u:japan lecture by Anna Specchio (University of Torino, Italy) 🌐🏢

📅 07.05.2026 (Thursday)
🕛 18:00 – 19:30 CET
💬 English language
📍Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (2.4), Seminarraum 1
🌐 and online over ZOOM (link on our website)

30/04/2026

>>> Workshop zu Riichi Mahjong am 8. Mai 2026

Der Workshop mit dem Spieleverein KASU führt in die Geschichte und Kultur des Riichi Mahjong ein. Anschließend werden die Spielregeln erklärt und die Anwesenden können selbst eine Partie spielen.

Mehr Infos zum KASU auf ihrer Homepage:
https://kasu.at/

Zeit & Ort
📆 Freitag, 8. Mai 2026, um 15:00 – 18:00 Uhr
📍 Im Studierraum der Japanologie (1. Stock links)

Formlose Voranmeldung per E-Mail bis 05.05.2026 an [email protected]

Alle Infos auf der Japanologie-Homepage:
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/einzelnews/news/einfuehrung-in-riichi-mahjong/

29/04/2026

LECTURE INSIGHTS PRESENTS:

>>> “Discourses on School Attendance Problems in Japan: A Comparative Perspective” by Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg (Stockholm University, Sweden), 23th April 2026

Prof. Dr. Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg is an Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education at Stockholm University. She is currently working with a team of researchers on a project that explores long-term school absence from a comparative perspective. The project examines how the topic is approached and discussed in different contexts.

Prof. Kreitz-Sandberg began her lecture by discussing the difficulty of defining school attendance problems (SAPs), and by distinguishing between school refusal (which includes an inability to attend school), truancy, school withdrawal, and school exclusion. However, the question of who defines whether a child is sick or instead refusing to go to school remains.

Prof. Kreitz-Sandberg then presented some of the data and statistics that she and her team had used in their analysis and explained them. The numbers suggest that, while long-term absence is rising in Japan, this is certainly not a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. According to PISA data, the number of Japanese students who reported skipping a school day in the last two weeks was low compared to students in other countries. Apart from Japan, the project also seeks to compare statistics, analyse organisational dimensions, and explore students’ perspectives in Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Thank you to Prof. Dr. Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg for providing a glimpse into her research and for answering questions from those who attended the u:japan lecture!

28/04/2026

Politicization of Immigration in Japan: On the Intersection of Conservative and Right-wing Politics

🏢🌐 A hybrid u:japan lecture by Higuchi Naoto (Waseda University, Japan)🌐🏢

📅 30.04.2026 (Thursday)
🕛 18:00 – 19:30 CET
💬 English language
📍Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies (2.4), Seminarraum 1
🌐 and online over ZOOM (link on our website)

Japan’s immigration policy has undergone a rapid transformation since the late 2010s. Facing severe labor shortages driven by demographic decline, the government introduced the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) visa in 2019, initiating a series of reforms completed in 2024 that expanded pathways for blue-collar migrants and introduced a more merit-based system for settlement and advancement. However, following the 2025 Upper House election, immigration became highly politicized as far-right actors framed it as a “foreigner problem,” prompting the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to adopt more restrictive rhetoric.

How have such changes occurred over a relatively short period? This study examines the politicization of immigration by focusing on shifts within the policy mainstream. While the 2018 revision of the Immigration Law was driven by clientelistic ties between the business community and the LDP, it can also be interpreted as a leftward shift in immigration policy. This shift, however, generated a backlash: from 2023 onward, a growing faction within the LDP began to prioritize law and order over rights. Although far-right actors such as Sanseito contributed to the politicization of immigration, the ruling LDP had already undergone a process of internal radicalization, as its right-wing faction became increasingly mainstream.

27/04/2026

>>> MEXT-Stipendium für graduierte Akademiker*innen

Eine Information der Japanischen Botschaft in Österreich (.in.austria) :

Österreichischen Staatsangehörigen wird die Möglichkeit geboten, an einer Universität in Japan zu studieren.

Bewerbungsleitfaden: https://www.studyinjapan.go.jp/en/smap-stopj-applications-research.html

Bedingungen:
• Österreichische Staatsbürgerschaft
• Alter: geboren am oder nach dem 2. April 1992
• Graduierte Akademiker*innen und Studierende, welche bis spätestens zur Ankunft in Japan graduieren
• 6 Monate Sprachkurs in Japan (kann bei englischsprachigen Studiengängen oder ausreichenden Japanischkenntnissen entfallen)

Bewerbung:
Einreichung der Bewerbungsunterlagen im Japanischen Informations- und Kulturzentrum per Post oder persönlich.

Bewerbungsfrist: 10. Juni 2026

Vorauswahl erfolgt durch:
1. Dokumentenprüfung
2. Erstes Screening (Prüfung / Interview):
• Überprüfung der Fremdsprachenkenntnisse (Englisch und Japanisch) mittels eines schriftlichen Tests.
• Durch eine österreichisch-japanische Kommission im Rahmen eines persönlichen Interviews.

Prüfungstermin: 7. Juli 2026

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Wien
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Telefon

+43 (0)1 - 4277 - 43801

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