2024 : ÉVÉNEMENTS PASSÉS

12 avril 2024

1^st 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 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

• Registration

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

• Registration

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
• Registration

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)

• Registration on MCJP website

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:

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
• In French
• Online

• >> Accès au webinaire <<