Dr Harald Conrad
School of East Asian Studies
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
- Profile
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Harald Conrad is Sasakawa Lecturer in Japan鈥檚 Economy and Management at the University of 葫芦影业鈥檚 School of East Asian Studies. From 2000 to 2008 he worked in Japan as Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies and Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. From 2005 to 2008 he was concurrently Japan Representative of the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tokyo.
Harald鈥檚 research focuses on Japanese and comparative social policy, industrial relations, human resource management, economic issues related to demographic change and cross-cultural negotiation behaviour. He is Director of Research of the 鈥淏usiness, Political Economy and Development鈥 cluster at the White Rose East Asia Centre, a member of the International Advisory Board of Asia Pacific World and member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Japan and Japan Forum. From 2005 to 2011 he was elected Council Member of the European Association of Japanese Studies.
- Research interests
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Recent and Ongoing Research Projects
Harald鈥檚 recent and ongoing research has focused on:
- Building an International Human Resource Base: Japanese Multinationals and the Recruitment of Fresh Foreign Graduates (FFGs) for Tokyo
- Managing (Un)certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade - How Economic and Social Factors Shape a Market
- Changes in Japanese human resource management practices which are related to the aging workforce.
- The relationship between occupational pension and pay system reforms in Japan.
- The role of Japanese labour unions in changes of company benefit systems since the 1990s.
- UK institutional investors鈥 attitudes towards Japanese equities.
- Economic sociology perspectives on the Japanese antique art trade.
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters