« Economic Philosophy in France and in Japan: A Twofold Tradition«
Gilles CAMPAGNOLO (FRIJ-MFJ)
Friday June 3rd, 2022 12:30-14:00 (JST) Online
The literature utilizes various formulas to designate the field where philosophy and economics interact. Among these, it is relevant to discuss some and say ‘economic philosophy’ is to be preferred. It is key that economic philosophers may be able to follow the process of economic science and business in the making, in Japan as in the rest of the world. The field can actually boast a long tradition in France (from the 18th century) and in Japan (since the 1920s) with big names like Sugimura Kozo or Soda Kiichiro at its start and Shionoya Yuichi more recently (deceased 2015). From strictly ‘mainstream economics’ to heterodox approaches to all fields of economics and adjacent social sciences as well, economic philosophy would pervade it all and this presentation will display its key features and make the field easy to understand despite a label that could otherwise sound intimidating and should rather be a source of comparative cultural differences.
La constitutionnalité de la peine de mort au Japon. Une comparaison avec la France quarante ans après son abolition
par Haruna IKEDA, professeure de droit constitutionnel à l’Université Kindaï (Osaka, Japon)
Conférence organisée par la Section Japon Société de législation comparée.
Date : Mardi 24 mai 2022 à 14h
Lieu : Société de législation comparée, Amphithéâtre (1er étage) 28 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris
La conférence est gratuite et accessible à tous, avec inscription préalable obligatoire auprès de Madame Emmanuelle Bouvier avant le 23 mai : emmanuelle.bouvier[at]legiscompare.com Un lien de connexion sera transmis après inscription.
La Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris vous invite à assister à la conférence « Être journaliste au Japon », organisée demain, samedi 14 mai à 14h, qui donnera l’occasion à César Castellvi de présenter son ouvrage Le dernier empire de la presse – Une Sociologie du journalisme au Japon, paru chez CNRS Éditions en début d’année, avant de discuter avec la journaliste Leiko Sakurada, directrice du bureau parisien de l’agence Jiji Press, de ce que signifie faire carrière dans les médias nippons, de la condition des femmes dans les rédactions et de l’avenir d’une industrie qui fait face à de nombreux défis.
La discussion sera animée par Hitoshi Suzuki, président de la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, qui a consacré sa carrière au journalisme au sein de la chaîne nationale japonaise, la NHK. L’entrée est gratuite. Vous pouvez réserver votre place sur la page suivante : https://www.mcjp.fr/fr/agenda/etre-journaliste-au-japon
(Institut français de recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est, Inalco / Université de Paris-Cité / CNRS, F-75013 Paris)
Samedi 28 mai 2022, vidéoconférences sur Zoom
14h – 14h45 suivie de discussion d’une demie heure
Frédéric GIRARD (EFFEO)
« Expérience pure de NISHIDA et expérience directe de MOTORA : la structure double de la psychè héritée de la Talité du Traité sur l’acte de foi dans le Grand Véhicule.»
15h20 – 16h05 suivie de discussion d’une demie heure
Raphaël PIERRES (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne )
« Décentrer la première personne : WATSUJI Tetsurô, ÔMORI Shôzô et SAKABE Megumi ».
16H40 : la fin de séance
Pour le lien Zoom, prière de contacter : takako.saito[at]inalco.fr à partir du 24 mai 22
Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS
KYOTO LECTURES 2022
Monday,May 16th, 18:00 JST
co-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Between Collective Security and “Old Diplomacy”: Japanese-French Relations during the Manchurian Crisis, 1931–1933
Speaker:Seung-young Kim
After establishing Manchukuo in March 1932, Japan made strenuous efforts to persuade France to conclude an alliance by revitalizing the French-Japanese entente of 1907. In particular, Japan wished to overcome its diplomatic isolation before the Lytton Report was discussed in the League of Nations during autumn 1932. To this effect, Japanese diplomats and military attaches suggested favorable investment conditions for the French companies in Manchukuo. However, France declined these offers to prioritize collective security, despite substantial sympathy toward Japan in the French Foreign Ministry over concerns to protect French imperial interests in China and Southeast Asia.
Drawing on records from both sides, this talk will show the aims, details, and process of Japanese diplomatic initiatives along with the French response. After briefly reviewing the initial division within the French Foreign Ministry over its response to the Mukden Incident, it will examine Japanese diplomatic maneuvers toward France from the spring of 1932, as well as the reasons why they were declined by the French cabinet led respectively by André Tardieu and Édouard Herriot. The talk will also explore why the French government internally defined Japan’s military actions and assertive diplomacy as posing a “problem of aggression.”
Seung-young Kim is a Professor of International History and Politics at Kansai Gaidai University. Before joining Kansai Gaidai in 2018, from 2003 he taught at the University of Sheffield and the University of Aberdeen. He has published widely on U.S.-East Asian relations in the twentieth century. Since 2019, he has been working on a JSPS research project entitled “Japanese-French Diplomatic Relations from 1900 to 1933.” He was a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo from 2008–2010 and worked as the UN correspondent for The Chosun Ilbo until 1995. His publications include “The Diplomacy of the Japanese-French Entente and Fukien Question, 1905–1907,” in International History Review (2019).
This lecture will be held on site (limited space: send us an email in advance) and via Zoom.
The meeting link will remain posted on the ISEAS website or the EFEO blog from May 14.
Le Groupe d’Étude sur le Politique au Japon organise une nouvelle séance de son séminaire qui aura lieu jeudi 28 avril 2022, de 10h à 12h, autour de la présentation suivante :
“Du populisme au Japon : quoi de neuf ?” par Tōru YOSHIDA (professeur à l’université Dōshisha)
Le séminaire est ouvert à toutes et à tous.
Attention, cette séance se tiendra uniquement en ligne (via ZOOM).
Veuillez contacter Xavier Mellet (mellet[at]aoni.waseda.jp) pour le lien d’accès.
Les enregistrements vidéos des séances précédentes sont accessibles en ligne :
La prochaine manifestation du cycle de conférences 2021-2022 organisé par l’Axe travail du groupe de recherche Populations Japonaises (CRCAO-IFRAE) aura lieu en ligne le mardi 10 mai 2022, de 10h à 12h (heure de Paris).
FUTAGAMI Shiho (Université de Yokohama)
– Current situation and future challenges of diversity and inclusion in Japan –
Mardi 10 mai 2022, 10h-12h (en ligne)
Pour y participer, merci de contacter les organisateurs.
The study discusses current situation and future challenges of diversity and inclusion in Japan. Diversity represents all the ways people are unlike and alike; differences and similarities in age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, capabilities, and socioeconomic background. Gardenswartz and Rowe (2003) develop the concept of diversity and identify a ‘diversity wheel’. It includes dimensions that exist as internal, external and organizational layers around personality. Shore et al. (2011) define inclusion as the degree to which an employee perceives that he or she is an esteemed member of the work group through experiencing treatment that satisfies his or her needs for belongingness and uniqueness.
First, the study focuses on female researchers in Japan from the perspective of diversity and inclusion. The ratio of female researchers in Japan, at 16.9%, is the lowest among OECD countries and the ratio of female professors, at 17.8%, is also very low. Based on the analysis of the data obtained through the survey, the study discusses the reasons for the low ratio of female researchers and the low ratio of female researchers in leading positions in Japanese academia. It then considers what remedial action should be taken to improve the situation. The study suggests that academia should be able to introduce more creative perspectives, increase flexibility, and achieve inclusive growth leading to more sustainable development by promoting female researcher advancement from the perspective of diversity and inclusion.
Second, the study focuses on employment of people with disabilities in Japan from the perspective of diversity and inclusion. The number of people with disabilities in Japan is 9,635,000, which is 7.6% of the population. However, the number of people with disabilities in regular employment who are working in regular firms in Japan is only 597,786 in 2021, which means that their actual employment rate is 2.2 %. The number with physical disabilities in regular employment is 359,067.5, the number of with intellectual disabilities is 140,665 and the number with mental disabilities is 98,053.5. As such, only 47.0 % of regular firms in Japan attained the 2.3 % disabled employment quota required by law in 2021. Therefore, the employment challenges of the disabled are very severe, even though a quota system for the employment of people with disabilities exists in Japan.
Finally, current situation and future challenges of diversity and inclusion in Japan are examined and considered. To conclude, best practices of the collaboration among companies, university and government are suggested in order to actualize diversity and inclusion in Japan.
Dr. Shiho Futagami is a Professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences of Yokohama National University. She holds the degree of Doctor of Economics from Kyoto University. She is a Member of Science Council of Japan. She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Zurich, the International Labour Organization (ILO), Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU), Bordeaux École de Management (BEM) and the Kedge Business School. Her research topics include strategic human resource management, diversity management, disability management, career development and women in management. Prof. Dr. Futagami has had many books and articles published in Japan, the United States and Europe.
