Sorry for late notice, but the ISS PhD social science workshop will meet at noon on Thursday, Feb 27.* Presenting is Inger Bachmann, a political scientist working on a PhD at Hamburg University. She is winding up her fieldwork as a fellow at DIJ. Inger is researching what Tokyo wards (ku) are doing to encourage social participation by their older residents. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's official policy is to create "an environment where senior citizens can participate in the community in many ways," but implementation is left up to municipalities. Does the recent trend toward decentralization mean that programs increasingly reflect the characteristics of the elderly population of each locality? How can evidence from a limited number of case studies shed light on the dynamics of local government policy development and implementation?

All are welcome. If convenient let me know if you will be coming, at jccamp@umich.edu

John Campbell

*Meetings of the Shaken Social Science Dissertation Workshop start at
12 pm on Thursdays and go to 1:30 and sometimes beyond.
The Institute
of Social Science provides coffee and tea and you are welcome to bring lunch. The location is room 533 on the 5th floor in the Akamon General Research (Sougou Kenkyuu) Building. The building is off to the right after you come through Akamon, or you can cut through the grounds of Ito Hall off Hongou Doori. It is Bldg 38 on this map:

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/documents/Hongo_Campu
sMap_E.pdf

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