CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE International Conference.
Free University of Berlin, December 5th-7th, 1995 Organized by the East Asian
Institute, Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Institute of Social
Science, University of Tokyo and the Nissan Institute, University of Oxford.

Venue: Free University of Berlin, Clubhaus, Goethestr. 49, 14163 Berlin.

Contact: Prof. Sung-Jo Park
Ostasiatisches Seminar, Freie Universitat Berlin Podbielskiallee 42, D-14195
Berlin GERMANY Fax: [49]-30-831-4411

PLEASE NOTE Spaces are extremely limited, so anyone interested in attending
should contact Prof. Park as soon as possible [NB Please do NOT contact
SSJ-Forum about the conference].

*December 5th*
9.00 Opening Speech: FUB President J. Gerlach 9.15 Opening Lecture: J. Galtung
(Honolulu/Geneva/Oslo)
"Rise of the East - Rise of the West"

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Moderation: P. Kevenhoerster (Muenster)
Discussants: P.Duus (Stanford)
E. Kato (Shinshu)
G. Lehmbruch (Konstanz)

10.00
J. Banno (Tokyo) "Aspects of the prewar democracy"
A. Stockwin (Oxford) "Aspects of the postwar democracy"

14.00
E. Harari (Jerusalem) "Aspects of the political decision-making process:
expertocracy and technocracy"
G. Foljanty-Jost (Halle) "The "lean state" concept and conditions
for its efficiency in Japan"

*December 6th*
LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS
Moderation: J. Stam (Rotterdam)
Discussants: M.Juvanovic (Belgrad)
H. v. Lanzenauer (Berlin)
K. Shibata (Shinshu)

9.00
I. Lenz (Bochum) "Technology, employment and gender"
M. Osawa (Tokyo) "Foreign workers and illegal workers"

14.00
M. Nitta (Tokyo) "New forms of labor-management relations"
W. Seifert (Heidelberg) "Exploitation of research results on problems of
Japanese working patterns"

*December 7th*

ECONOMY AND MANAGEMENT - DEBATES ON THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM Moderation: S.J. Park
(Berlin)
Discussants: J. Dahlgaard (Arhus)
A. Hernadi (Budapest)
A. Holzhausen (Berlin)
U. Jurgens (Berlin)

9.00
M. Ikeda (Tokyo) "On the subcontracting system"
T. Abo (Tokyo) "Diffusion of the production system"

14.00
M.Kenney (Davis, Calif.) "Beyond Toyotism"
R. Boyer (Paris) "Regulation theory's view"