2024 : ÉVÉNEMENTS PASSÉS

12 juillet 2024 [Organisé par la Maison Franco-Japonaise]

Poèmes chinois et japonais : les langues de Nara

Conférence du lauréat 2023 du Prix Shibusawa-Claudel (volet français)

L'époque de Nara est l'époque où naît le premier grand recueil de poésie japonaise, le Man'yо̄shū, et le premier recueil de poésie chinoise, le Kaifūsо̄. Nous voulons tâcher de les comprendre dans un système plus général, celui de l'espace des langues parlées et écrites dans le monde de Nara et poser la question de la sociologie de ces langues et de leur symbolique. Arthur DEFRANCE, lauréat 2023 du prix Shibusawa-Claudel (volet français), est docteur en études japonaises (EPHE 2022) et ATER à l'Inalco. Ses recherches portent sur la période de Nara, la poésie japonaise et la littérature dite « sino-japonaise » (écrite en chinois classique par des japonais).

12 juillet 2024 | 18.00-20.00 (Tokyo time)
Onsite at EHESS: 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris, room AS1_08
En français
Participant : Arthur DEFRANCE (EPHE, CRCAO)
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24 juin 2024

From Europe to Asia: Investigating the Limits to Urban Mobility

FFJ/Movin'On lab event

As cities continue to grow, now encompassing more than 50% of the world's urban population, the challenges of urban transportation systems become increasingly complex (Agarwal, O. P, 2019). In this context, this round table aims to bring together urban planners, mobility experts, and professionals to explore the limits to urban mobility. The goal is to examine both the constraints in analyzing mobility and the practical, technical, and political barriers encountered by researchers and specialists in their respective fields. With multi-sited case studies from Europe and Asia, this event will shed light on diverse strategies and innovations aimed at decongestion, security, inclusion, and health that have been implemented across these regions to enhance urban mobility. By discussing different cultural and infrastructural contexts, this round table will inform on contemporary mobility practices.

24 June 2024 | 10.00-12.30 (Paris time)
Onsite at EHESS: 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris, room AS1_08
In English
Participants: Manon ESKENAZI (École des Ponts ParisTech), Beatriz FERNANDEZ (EHESS), Higashi HIDETADA (Yamanaguchi Gakuin), Soichiro MINAMI (MLIT), Suzanne PEYRARD (FFJ-EHESS), Haruki SAWAMURA (MLIT)
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1 juillet 2024 [ANNULÉ]

Recherche d’innovation et des voies d’amélioration de la cohabitation des modes dans l’espace public

Webinaire FFJ/Movin'On

Cette session du webinaire organisé en collaboration avec Movin'On, dans le cadre de la communauté d'intérêt sur les mobilités contraintes, sera l'occasion de présenter les travaux de recherche de Manon Eskenazi, chargée de recherche au Laboratoire Ville, Mobilité, Transport (LVMT) de l'Ecole des ponts ParisTech (ENPC), dans lequel elle est en charge de l’évaluation de la gouvernance et des modèles économiques. Elle a fait une thèse en Urbanisme et Aménagement intitulée « Voir, faire et vivre la ville pour le vélo. Pratiques du vélo et politiques de mobilité dans deux métropoles européennes » sous la direction de Marie-Hélène Massot (UPEM).

1 juillet 2024 | 17h00-18h00 (Paris time)
En ligne (lien à venir)
Intervenant : Manon ESKENAZI (École des Ponts ParisTech)
En français

14 juin 2024

Economics of Ageing

FFJ/Banque de France lab event

Many developed countries have been facing population ageing as the most dominant demographic trend of the 21^st century. Japan has been impacted more severely by the issues in economic, financial performance and public policy effectiveness (such as the long-term solvency of public pension, health care, and long-term care systems). The experience of Japan could be regarded as providing lessons for the key macroeconomic and financial outcomes of the ageing economy. Thus, the BdF-FFJ joint lab aims at bringing together leading researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to the importance of including demographic change and ageing in the decision-making of the central banks’ policies. The two major topics that will be discussed are the following: Fiscal sustainability and price dynamics in an ageing economy, and Innovation and human capital in an ageing economy

14 June 2024 | 9.00-17.50 (Paris time)
Onsite at Campus Condorcet: Centre des colloques, Place du front populaire 93300 Aubervilliers, room 50
In English
Participants: Makita SHIMOKAWA (Ambassador of Japan in France), Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS), Laurent CLERC (Banque de France), Raphaël KELLER (French Embassy in Japan), Brieuc MONFORT (Sophia University, FFJ-EHESS), Urszula SZCZERBOWICZ (Banque de France), Noëmie LISACK (European Central Bank), Charles HORIOKA (University of Kobe), Hiroshi INOKUMA (Bank of Japan), R. Anton BRAUN (GRIPS, CIGS), Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ), Hugh WHITTAKER (Oxford University), Takeo HOSHI (The University of Tokyo), Daniele ANGELINI (The University of Konstanz), Tomohiko MORIYAMA (JILPT), Hippolyte d'ALBIS (Paris School of Economics), Yuki TADA (FFJ-EHESS), Shruti SINGH (OECD), Junko UENO (Embassy of Japan in France), Arthur SOGNO-PEES (Banque de France, French Embassy in Japan)
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13 juin 2024

Reforming Japanese capitalism

FFJ/Banque de France lab - Roundtable

This roundtable aims to discuss the special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review coordinated by Yoshifumi NAKATA (Doshisha University) and Hugh WHITTAKER (Oxford University, 2022 FFJ/Banque de France Fellow).

Special Issue Abstract: Is Japan creating a new economic model through digital and green transformation which will overcome its ‘lost decades’ lethargy and demographic challenges? Do Society 5.0, DX, GX, ‘new/sustainable capitalism’, Digital Garden City Nation and other initiatives represent a well-intentioned mish-mash, or something new and potentially coherent which other countries should take notice of? These questions animated a conference held in Oxford in February 2023, and subsequently informed the 11 articles in this special issue by European and Japanese academics and policy makers. The collection identifies tensions and contradictions but also significant changes in in corporate governance, innovation, public policy and human resources, which may point to a new direction for Japanese capitalism.

13 June 2024 | 9.00-12.00 (Paris time)
Onsite at Campus Condorcet: Bâtiment Recherche Sud, 5 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers, room 0.018 ; or online (choose upon registration)
Speakers: Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS), Brieuc MONFORT (Sophia University, FFJ-EHESS associate researcher), Saori SHIBATA (The University of Sheffield), Franz WALDENBERGER (DIJ), Hugh WHITTAKER (University of Oxford), Fangmiao ZOU (University of Oxford)
In English
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12 juin 2024

Building a New Economy - Japan's Digital and Green Transformation

FFJ/Banque de France lab - Roundtable

This roundtable aims to discuss the latest book by Hugh WHITTAKER (Oxford University, 2022 FFJ/Banque de France Fellow).

Book Abstract: Japan is attempting to build a new economy. It goes by various names, such as 'Society 5.0', 'sustainable capitalism', and 'new form of capitalism'. It is to be constructed through digital and green transformation, and a 'virtuous cycle of growth and distribution'. The effort faces strong headwinds, including demographic decline and ageing, Japan's external energy dependence and geopolitical turbulence, and the legacies of Japan's 'lost decades'. Nonetheless, since 2015 a path has been identified that steers between Big Tech market oligopoly on the one hand, and an overbearing state on the other. For others facing the same post-neoliberal, sustainability transformation challenges as Japan, this public-private coordinated building effort is noteworthy.

Building a New Economy uses an evolutionary conceptual framework of states-and-markets, organizations-and-technology, and institutional change. It shows how the institutional coherence of the manufacturing-centred postwar model broke down, and was followed by the ideological and institutional dissonance of the 'lost decades'. However, new institutional building blocks have been identified and (partially) assembled which could lead Japan towards a new model which is more open and adaptive. These blocks include a reconfigured developmental state, and new forms of coordination with and within the corporate sector, at times encompassing civil society.

Importantly, for a country that has favoured social stability over creative destruction, and has struggled with change, the path forward may require 'controlled dis-equilibrium' of institutions rather than tight coherence. 'Society 5.0' and the 'new form of capitalism' claim to be people-centred; making them so will be the crucial challenge.

12 June 2024 | 10.00-12.00 (Paris time)
Onsite at Maison Suger: 16-18 rue Suger 75006 PARIS ; or online (choose upon registration)
Speakers: Robert BOYER (Institut des Amériques), Sebastian MASLOW (The University of Tokyo), Saori SHIBATA (The University of Sheffield), Franz WALDENBERGER (German Institute for Japanese Studies), Hugh WHITTAKER (Oxford University)
In English
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4 juin 2024 [ANNULÉ]

Mobilités résidentielles dans le Grand Paris

Webinaire FFJ/Movin'On

Cette session du webinaire organisé en collaboration avec Movin'On, dans le cadre de la communauté d'intérêt sur les mobilités contraintes, sera l'occasion de présenter les travaux de recherche de Giovanni Castre, doctorant à l'université de Turin, il réalise un séjour de recherche à l'EHESS depuis le 1er semestre 2024. Sociologue de formation, il s'intéresse dans le cadre de sa thèse aux mobilités résidentielles dans le Grand Paris en exploitant la base de données FIDELI.

4 juin 2024 | 17h00-18h00 (Paris time)
En ligne (lien à venir)
Intervenant : Giovanni CASTRE (Université de Turin)
En français

30 mai 2024

2^nd Expert Group meeting on “economics of ageing”

FFJ/Banque de France lab

This year, the FFJ-Banque de France lab will concentrate its activities on the relationship between demography and economics. Due to the nature of the topic, which is quite broad, it is proposed to narrow it down and focus on the economics of ageing, with two primary directions:

Fiscal sustainability and price dynamics in an ageing economy
Innovation and human capital in an ageing economy

Besides the regular conferences on June 14 (in Paris) and December 2 (in Tokyo), we decided to launch a Japanese-French expert group to facilitate a knowledge exchange opportunity and promote research coordination that allows the researchers to work collaboratively to produce new knowledge. We provide the opportunity for mid-career and junior researchers to present their research, which allows senior researchers to comment on their works.

For this 2^nd expert group, we will focus on two presentation about “Why Ageing Induces Deflation and Secular Stagnation?” and “Health capacity to work among older persons in Asia: Key findings from a regional comparative study”.

30 May 2024 | 16:00 - 17:30 (Tokyo time)
By invitation only
Speakers: R.Anton BRAUN (Research economist and senior advisor, The National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), CIGS), Takashi OSHIO (Emeritus professor, Hitotsubashi University)
In English
Programme

13-22 mai 2024

Seminar Series with Naonori KODATE (University College Dublin) in France

INNOVCARE Project

The role of incident reporting systems for improving patient safety in Japanese and European hospitals: policy, regulation and practice

13 May 2024 - 14:30-16:30 (Paris Time) at Campus Condorcet: room 2.023, Recherche sud building, 5 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
In English | Organised in the framework of the Iris theme 3 on Health

The aging ‘care crisis’ in Japan: is there a role for robotics-based solutions?

17 May 2024 - 10:00-12:00 (Paris Time) at Campus Condorcet: room 2.023, Recherche sud building, 5 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
In English | Organised in the framework of the seminar Cermes3/Iris

Care systems in transition: welfare technologies, professional ethics and organizational culture

21 May 2024 - 10:00-12:00 (Paris Time) at Campus Condorcet: room 2.023, Recherche sud building, 5 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
In English | Organised in the framework of an INNOVCARE seminar

Care, health, and technology: a research agenda

22 May 2024 - 14:00-16:00 (Paris Time) at Campus Condorcet: room 1.023, Recherche sud building, 5 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
In English | Organised in the framework of the Iris PhD student seminar

21 mai 2024

Innovation forum

Co-organised with the University of Toyo (Tokyo)

Join us at the Innovation Forum Programme in Tokyo on May 21, 2024, hosted at Toyo University Hakusan Campus. The event aims to delve into the dynamics of innovation, highlighting French-Japanese collaborations and the evolving landscape of Society 5.0. Kicking off with opening remarks from esteemed figures including Shinji FUKUKAWA, Chancellor of Toyo University, and Didier MARTY-DESSUS, Counsellor for Science and Technology at the French embassy, the event sets the stage for insightful discussions. Sessions throughout the day will showcase exemplary collaborations, such as the Institut Pasteur Japon and Valeo, illustrating the intersection of innovation and industry. A roundtable featuring distinguished scholars will explore different models of innovation tailored to Society 5.0. Delving deeper, experts will examine the case of care robotics, discussing its implications on healthcare and society. The INNOVCARE project, presented by Sébastien LECHEVALIER, will offer a glimpse into cutting-edge research initiatives. Keynote speaker Naonori KODATE will address the transition of care systems, touching upon welfare technologies, professional ethics, and organizational culture. The event will culminate in closing remarks and an engaging discussion, fostering collaboration and idea exchange at the forefront of innovation.

21 May 2024 | 13:00-18:30 (Tokyo time)
Onsite: Toyo university Hakusan campus, 5-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8606, Room 5404, 5th floor of the building 5
Speakers: Shinji FUKUKAWA (Toyo University), Didier MARTY-DESSUS (Ambassade de France au Japon), Anavaj SAKUNTABHAI (Institut Pasteur Japon), Ali ORDOOBADI (Valeo), Kevann ESMAEILI (Valeo), Miyashita KAZUYUKI (Valeo), Yukio HONDA (Osaka Institute of Technology), Hajime IMAMURA (Toyo University), Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS), Dr. SATO (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan), Jun-Ichiro FURUKAWA (RIKEN), Takamasa IIO (Doshisha University), Taro SUGIHARA (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Mohamed CHETOUANI (Sorbonne University), Rachid ALAMI (CNRS), Naonori KODATE (UCD-JaST)
In English
Programme

21 mai 2024

Why Use Statistics? Objectivity and Justification in Science

Co-organised with the CAMS-EHESS

In contemporary science, statistics plays a privileged role as a method for deriving scientific conclusions from observed data. However, as Hume pointed out, inductive inferences from the observed to the unobserved have intrinsic difficulties. Statistics aims to circumvent these metaphysical aporia by introducing ontological (what exists?) and epistemological (how can hypotheses be justifiably supported?) assumptions. In my recent publication, Thinking About Statistics (Routledge, 2023), I examined the philosophical assumptions underlying various statistical techniques, including frequentist hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics, model selection, deep learning, and causal inference. This talk will introduce some of these topics and explore the intersection between statistics and philosophy.

21 May 2024 | 15:00-17:00 (Paris time)
Onsite: Campus Condorcet, building Recherche Sud, room 2.023 (2nd floor)
Speaker: Jun OTSUKA (Kyoto University, RIKEN AIP)
In English
Programme of the seminar

13 mai 2024

Trajectoires résidentielles et infrastructures métropolitaines de mobilité : restructuration(s) de l'État et effets structurants du Grand Paris Express dans les quartiers desservis

Webinaire FFJ/Movin'On

Cette session du webinaire organisé en collaboration avec Movin'On, dans le cadre de la communauté d'intérêt sur les mobilités contraintes, sera l'occasion de présenter les travaux de recherche d'Antoine Gosnet, attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Géographie à l'Université Paris Nanterre, membre de l'UMR LAVUE ainsi que doctorant EHESS - Membre de l'UMR Géographie-cités sous la direction de Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier et de Beatriz Fernandez. Sa thèse porte sur les Politiques du logement au sein des quartiers desservis par le Grand Paris Express, mutations institutionnelles et stratégies locales dans la production du logement.

13 mai 2024 | 17h00-18h00 (Paris time)
En ligne : lien
Intervenant : Antoine GOSNET (Paris Nanterre, EHESS)
En français

27 avril 2024 [organisé par la MCJP]

La longévité au Japon - Perspectives

Avec plus de 90 000 centenaires, le Japon est actuellement le pays où le taux de personnes de plus de cent ans est le plus élevé. Pourtant, la proportion de personnes qui disent vouloir vivre jusqu’à 100 ans est moins grande au Japon que dans d’autres pays. Comment expliquer ce phénomène ? Selon Yasuyuki GONDO, professeur du département des sciences humaines de l’Université d’Osaka, ne pas lutter contre le vieillissement pourrait être, paradoxalement, le moyen de vivre une vieillesse heureuse. Il débattra de ce sujet avec Jean-Marie ROBINE, directeur de recherche émérite à l’Inserm et à l’EPHE, rattaché au laboratoire MMDN de l'Université de Montpellier.

27 avril 2024 | 14h00 - 16h00 (Paris time)
Sur place à la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris : 101 Bis quai Jacques Chirac, 75015 Paris
Intervenants associés à la FFJ: Yasuyuki GONDO (Université d'Osaka), Jean-Marie ROBINE (Inserm)
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12 avril 2024

1^st Expert Group meeting on “economics of ageing”

FFJ/Banque de France lab

Fiscal sustainability and price dynamics in an ageing economy
Innovation and human capital in an ageing economy

Besides the regular conferences on June 14 (in Paris) and December 2 (in Tokyo), we decided to launch a Japanese-French expert group to facilitate a knowledge exchange opportunity and promote research coordination that allows the researchers to work collaboratively to produce new knowledge. We provide the opportunity for mid-career and junior researchers to present their research, which allows senior researchers to comment on their works.

For this 1^st expert group, we will focus on two presentation about “Population aging and the real interest rate in the last and next 50 years: a tale told by an overlapping generations model” and “Ageing Population and Technology Adoption”.

12 April 2024 | 17:00 - 18:30 (Tokyo time)
By invitation only
Speakers: Daniele ANGELINI (Post-doctoral Researcher, the University of Konstanz), Nao SUDOU (Director and Senior Economist, Bank of Japan)
In English
Programme

9 avril 2024

Paris 2024 : galère olympique ou galère politique dans les transports ?

Webinaire FFJ/Movin'On

Cette session du webinaire organisé en collaboration avec Movin'On, dans le cadre de la communauté d'intérêt sur les mobilités contraintes, sera l'occasion de présenter les travaux de recherche d'Alexandre Faure, docteur en études urbaines à l'EHESS, actuellement secrétaire délégué du Conseil de développement de la Métropole du Grand Paris et Chercheur associé à la Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS. Ses principaux travaux portent sur les temporalités politiques et urbanistiques, dans le contexte des candidatures des villes mondiales aux Jeux Olympiques, mais aussi sur les politiques de transport public et d'électromobilité.

9 avril 2024 | 17h00-18h00 (Paris time)
En ligne : Lien Microsoft Teams
Intervenant : Alexandre FAURE (FFJ-EHESS)
En français

26 mars 2024

Disasters and Volunteers in Japan; How does disaster volunteering contribute to the reestablishment of routines for affected people in Japan?

The purpose of this presentation is to clarify how volunteering in disaster revitalization in Japan interacts with disaster victims from an action research perspective. In doing so, we will address the question of how the daily routines of disaster-affected people are re-established. Japan has experienced many natural disasters, including earthquakes. Volunteering for disaster relief has focused on the period from post-disaster relief to the recovery period when the infrastructure of daily life is restored. However, research on the revitalization phase is important, considering the catastrophic impact of disasters on the routines of daily life. Volunteering in disaster revitalization is dependent on the individuality and specificity of the victims and the affected people, making it difficult to determine what should be done. This report will capture the work of volunteers involved in the revitalization process from the perspective of the collaborative production of new needs and the restoration of routine.

26 March 2024 | 10.00-11.30 (Paris time)
Onsite on Campus Condorcet: Centre des colloques, Place du front populaire 93300 Aubervilliers, room 3.03
Speaker: Yoshihiro SEKI (Associate professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Discussant: Masatoshi INOUE (PhD Student, EHESS)
In English
Poster

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25-26 mars 2024 [organisé par l'Université Paris Cité]

Health and Diseases in Modern and Contemporary East Asia. A Dialogical Perspective

International symposium « Health and Diseases in Modern and Contemporary East Asia. A Dialogical Perspective » In honor of Susan L. Burns, visiting professor at Université Paris Cité

Organized by Florence Bretelle-Establet (CNRS, SPHERE), Ken Daimaru (Université Paris Cité, CRCAO), Anne-Lise Mithout (Université Paris Cité, CRCAO) and Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (Université Paris Cité, CCJ)

This event is funded by Université Paris Cité, the Institute of Humanities, Sciences and Societies, the GIS Asie and the CRCAO (UMR 8155) research center, in collaboration with the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of Université Paris Cité, the Center for a History of Philosophy and Science seen from Asia, Africa and so on of the SPHERE (UMR 7219), the CCJ (UMR 8173) research center, and the France-Japan Foundation of the EHESS.

25-26 March 2024
Onsite/ Université Paris Cité, Room Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4th floor, C wing, Grands Moulins Building, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013, Paris)
FFJ Associate Speaker: Naho TANIMOTO (Kansai University) - “The Reality of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan” (17:00 - 17:45)
In English
Programme

7 mars 2024

From Abenomics to New Capitalism: Tracing the Origins of Economic Policy Ideas in Japan

To explain variations in policy outcomes, scholars in comparative political economy have focused on the institutional composition within Anglo-American and Western European liberal, statist and neo-corporatist regimes. In a recent addition to this literature, new analyses have focused on knowledge regimes as mechanisms through which ideas are produced and transmitted within political regimes. In particular, the role of think tanks and policy experts as mobile carriers of ideas has attracted attention. However, this literature has not taken into account the specific institutional arrangements of (post-)developmental states, where governments play a dominant role in policy-making. Therefore, in this presentation, Sebastian Maslow attempts to contribute to the literature that examines variation in policy outcomes and the role of political expertise by adding the developmental state to the set of political regime types. He will do this by focusing on Japan as a classic representation of the developmental state.

Governments in Japan have become increasingly interested in policy-relevant ideas on how to revitalize the national economy. This focus has created opportunities for policy entrepreneurs in academia and beyond to promote new economic policy programs. In this presentation, Sebastian Maslow focus on two programs, Abe Shinzo's post-2012 “Abenomics” and Kishida Fumio’s “new form of capitalism” introduced in 2021. Specifically, he asks whether advisors outside the formal government and/or ruling party apparatus contributed to the policy ideas that shaped Japanese economic policy. Sebastien Maslow argues that a change of government in Japan created a window of opportunity for policy entrepreneurs, including think tanks, to ideologically influence the development of a new signature economic policy in Japan. Moreover, he shows that think tanks are now playing a more prominent role in Japanese economic policymaking. He argues that this is the result of institutional changes in Japan, particularly since the collapse of the DPJ government in 2009, which highlighted the need for alternative sources of policy ideas to the dominant bureaucracy that provided expertise to LDP governments. In this sense, Sebastian Maslow suggest that Japan’s marketplace of economic policy ideas has become more competitive.

7 March 2024 | 10.00-12.00 (Paris time)
Online and onsite at EHESS building : 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers, room A427
Speaker: Sebastian Maslow (Sendai Shirayuri Women's College, Social Science Japan Journal)
In English
Poster

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12 février 2024

‘Cool Japan’—Concrete Policy or Illusion?

Japanese popular culture, in the form of anime, manga, and other cultural products, has become popular around the world. The Japanese government has made efforts to profit economically from this phenomenon by adopting the term ‘Cool Japan’. Cool Japan ‘policy’, however, has been patchy, disjointed and confusing. In this seminar Nobuko Kawashima will examine the background and emergence of the policy, its stated aims, its implemented programs and its gradual transformation since the early 2000s. This period corresponds with the changing political structure and administrative reform, whereby the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has come to assume a central role at the Cabinet Office in making cross-departmental policies, of which Cool Japan is one. However, despite the ambition of METI, Cool Japan lacked substance as a policy: clear aims, evidence of needs, concrete programs to address specific needs, and resources needed for implementation; hence, it is better understood as a campaign than as a policy.

12 February 2024 | 12.00 - 13.00 (Paris time)
Speaker: Nobuko Kawashima (Doshisha University, FFJ Visiting researcher)
In English
At Campus Condorcet, EHESS building, Room A427 (4th floor): 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers or online
Poster
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18 janvier 2024

What does the future hold for work in the 5.0 society?

IAA+Soc 2024 - Side event

Since 2015, Japan has been proposing a society of the future, the 5.0 society, in which digital technologies (artificial intelligence, for example) will be generalised and applied to solve social problems, in an environment where the real and virtual worlds coexist. In particular, this should lead to a profound transformation in the nature and conditions of work. On the one hand, certain arduous tasks will no longer be carried out by humans; on the other hand, this could lead to massive job losses and the destabilisation of our societies.

What are the risks and opportunities for work in the 5.0 society? How can we limit the former and seize the latter? What can Europe learn from this vision? Speakers from Japan, France and Germany will attempt to answer these questions at this round table.

18 January 2024 | 18.30 - 20.30
In English
On-site at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris: 101 Quai Branly, 75015 Paris
Speakers: Satoshi KURIHARA (Keio University), Sébastien LECHEVALIER (FFJ-EHESS), Thomas LEFEVRE (Sorbonne Paris Nord, IRIS), Satoru SATAKE (ATR | Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International)

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16-18 janvier 2024

International Forum Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification plus Society 2024

IAA+Soc 2024 Forum

IAA+Soc 2024 is an initiative organised by the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

This event provides a forum for innovative dialogue to explore novel research issues and methodology for a future symbiotic society with Artificial Intelligence. The intensive dialogue is planned between junior and senior researchers in the field of social sciences and humanity (SSH) and of computer/engineering sciences (CS/ES), revolving around artificial intelligence, with researchers from Japan, France and Germany.

Participants from Japan, such as Kurihara Satoshi (Keio Univ.), Emura Katsumi (AIP Network lab.), Mase Kenji (Nagoya Univ.), Kuzuoka Hideaki (Univ. of Tokyo), Izumi Kiyoshi (Univ. of Tokyo), Kameda Tatsuya (Univ. of Tokyo), Endo Kaoru (Faculty of Law, Gakushuin Univ.) and so on, and participants from France such as Valérie Beaudouin (EHESS), Jean Lassègue (CNRS), Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Jean-Pierre Nadal (EHESS), Winston Maxwell (Télécom Paris), Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), Tiphaine Viard (Télécom Paris) and so on, will have the opportunity to present the current state of their research and to debate in the following panels:

Panel 1: Working in a Cyber-Physical AI world: which interactions between human beings and machines?
Panel 2: AI ethics: how to envisage fair and explicable uses of AI? The impact of generative AI on child development and the transformation of educational models.
Panel 3: The Influence of AI and information technologies on human communication, consensus building.

A side event will also be organized on January 18th evening at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris on the topic “What future for work in the 5.0 society?”.

16-18 January 2024
In English
Program
On-site:
16 January (9am-5.30pm): IEA de Paris, 17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris - Registration
17 and 18 January: Campus Condorcet, Place du Front Populaire, 93300 Aubervilliers - Private sessions
18 January evening (6.30pm - 8.30pm): Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, 101 bis, quai Jacques Chirac, 75015 Paris - Registration

15 janvier 2024

Comprendre le piéton et son avenir dans l'espace public

FFJ/Movin'On lab

Le piéton peine à trouver sa place dans un espace public qui s’est organisé, depuis des décennies, autour de la centralité de la voiture. Pourtant les choses évoluent et il est temps aujourd’hui de faire évoluer cet espace public pour laisser toute leur place aux mobilités alternatives. Mathieu ALAPETITE (Fondation Jean-Jaurès) viendra nous présenter les grands enseignements de son travail en s’intéressant plus particulièrement à la question des contraintes et empêchements qui pèsent sur le piéton et aux solutions à imaginer pour promouvoir la marche et faciliter la cohabitation des différents modes. Cette présentation entre dans le cadre de la Communauté d'Intérêts Movin'On-FFJ sur les Mobilités Contraintes.

15 janvier 2024 | 17.00 - 18.00
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