The NAJS 2008 Conference was held on March 27-28 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sponsors:
› Swedish Institute of International Affairs
› Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)
› Embassy of Japan
Papers presented:
Edström, Bert: “Human Security and Cooperation between the Japanese Government and Japanese NGOs”
Gaens, Bart: “Salaryman Masculinity and the Transformation of Corporate Japan as Depicted in the Manga ‘Shima Kôsaku’ (1983-present)”
Hagström, Linus : “A Wind of Change? Assessing Japanese Foreign Policy Transformation in the Heisei Era”
Kasai, Hirotaka: “Democracy and Knowledge: Masakazu Nakai’s ‘Logic of Committee'”
Konttinen, Annamari: “The Political and Cultural Determinants of Civil Society – a Comparative Study”
Korhonen, Pekka: “Children for the Nation! Debate on the National Obligations of Japanese Women”
Kreitz-Sandberg, Susanne: “Educational Policy: Framework and Challanges”
Moberg, Pia: “The training methods at Matsushita Institute of Government and Management analyzed from the perspective of Complexity Leadership Theory”
Nobuoka, Jakob: “Akihabara: User Innovation and Creative Consumption in Japanese Culture Industries”
Nordeborg, Martin et al.: “Men and Nation in Contemporary Japanese Society”
Ogawa, Akihiro: “Strategies of a Neoliberal State: Institutionalizing ‘Civil Society’ in Japan”
Söderberg, Marie: “Challenges for the West Is there an alternative ‘Asian’ model of aid emerging?”
Sørensen, Lars-M.: “The Bestseller Recipe: A Natural Explanation of the Global Success of Anime”
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