Harald Conrad
Harald Conrad ハ ラ ル ト ・ コ ン ラ ッ ト (* 1966 in Monschau ) is a German economist and Japan researcher. Since 2019 he has been a professor at Heinrich Heine University , Düsseldorf, where he holds Chair III at the Institute for Modern Japan .
biography
Harald Conrad was born in Monschau in 1966 and completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller with M. Jacobi's successor in Aachen from 1988 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1996 he studied economics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cologne , where he also received his doctorate summa cum laude in 2000.
From 1994 to 1995 he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ) at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and from 1996 to 1998 he was a scholarship holder of the Japanese Ministry of Culture at Keiō University in Tokyo.
From 2000 to 2005 Conrad worked as a research assistant and from 2005 to 2007 as deputy director at the German Institute for Japanese Research (DIJ) in Tokyo .
From 2007 to 2008 he was Associate Professor at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu , Japan. From 2008 to 2019 he was a Sasakawa and later Senior Lecturer in Japan's Economy and Management at the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield , England. Since 2019 Conrad has been Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield and Chair III at the Institute for Modern Japan at Heinrich Heine University , Düsseldorf. From 2012 to 2017 Conrad held several visiting professorships at the Ruhr University in Bochum and the Dōshisha University in Kyoto. He is a Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the editorial board of the journals "Japan Forum" and "Contemporary Japan".
Appreciations
In 2000 Conrad received the Erhardt Imelmann Prize from the University of Cologne for his dissertation on the Japanese pension system. In 1991 he was honored for his exams as a book trade apprentice by the Association of Publishers and Bookshops in NRW eV.
Publications
Books
- The Japanese Social Security System in Transition - An Evaluation of the Current Pension Reforms . Munich 2001: iudicium Verlag.
- Reforms and Problem Areas of Public Pension Insurance in Japan . Marburg 2000: Tectum Verlag.
Editorships
- With: Heindorf, Viktoria; Waldenberger, Franz: Human Resource Management in Aging Societies-Perspectives from Japan and Germany . Basingstoke 2008: Palgrave Macmillan.
- With: Coulmas, Florian; Schad-Seifert, Annette and Gabrielle Vogt: The Demographic Challenge - a Handbook about Japan . Leiden 2008: Brill Academic Publishers.
- With: Kroker, Rolf: Germany and Japan - With reforms to new dynamism . Cologne 2003: Deutscher Institutverlag.
- With: Lützeler, Ralph: Aging and Social Policy - A German-Japanese Comparison . Munich 2002: iudicium Verlag.
- With: Saaler, Sven: Japan Studies 13 - Living in Japan . Munich 2001: iudicium Verlag.
- 亀 田 鵬 斎 印譜 集 [Kameda Bōsai]. 東京 2000: 芸 林 逍遥 木 曜 会.
Essays
- With: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle: Overcoming the Ethnocentric Firm? - Foreign Fresh University Graduate Employment in Japan as a New International Human Resource Development Method , International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30 (17): 2525-2543.
- With: Kenta Koyama and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle: 外 国籍 新 卒 社員 の 採用 と 活躍 [Three-part series of articles on: The Employment and Activities of Young Foreign Graduates] , Rōsei Jihō.
- With: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle: Transnationalization of a Recruitment Regime: Skilled Migration to Japan , International Migration, 57 (3): 250–265.
- With: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle: Brokers and the Organization of Recruitment of 'Global Talent' by Japanese Firms - A Migration Perspective , Social Science Japan Journal, 21 (1): 67-88.
- With: Sonja Bobrowska: Discourses of Female Entrepreneurship in the Japanese Business Press - 25 Years and Little Progress , Japanese Studies, 37 (1): 1–22.
- Managing (Un) certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade - How Economic and Social Factors Shape a Market , Japan Forum, 28 (2): 233-254.
- With: Jim McCafferty: United Kingdom Fund Managers and Institutional Investors' - Attitudes Toward Japanese Equities , The Japanese Economy, 39 (1): 105–130.
- National System of Production and Welfare Regime Dynamics in Japan since the Early 2000s , Journal of Social Policy, 41 (1): 119–140.
- ド イ ツ に お け る 労 働 市場 改革 の 問題 点[The problems of recent labor market reforms in Germany] . In: 労 働 政策 研究 ・ 研修 機構 (Japanese Institute for Labor Policy and Training - JILPT) (Ed.): ド イ ツ に お け る 労 働 市場 改革 ー そ の 評 価 と 展望. Tokyo 2006: JILPT. Pp. 63-73.
- 近年 の ド イ ツ に お け る 企業 年金 制度 の 展開[Latest developments in company pension schemes in Germany] , 海外 社会 保障 研究 (The Review of Comparative Social Security Research), 2015 (151): 98-109.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Conrad, Sven Saaler: Japan Studies. Volume 13/2001: Living in Japan . IUDICIUM Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89129-376-8 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2020]).
- ^ University of Düsseldorf: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Conrad. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
- ^ Japan Forum Editorial Board. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ^ Contemporary Japan Editorial Board. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
Web links
- Harald Conrad on the website of the Institute for Modern Japan
- Harald Conrad on the website of the School of East Asian Studies
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Conrad, Harald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and Japan researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Monschau |