History 1995-1999

1999: November 3-4

EJEA Conference in Athens, Greece

Conference topics:

  • Physics and engineering,
  • Technologies for monitoring, prevention, prediction and
    warning
  • Impact, protection, rehabilitation
  • Social, economic, psychological and other consequences
  • International cooperation between Europe and Japan

Publications:

  • Japan and the Mediterranean World, Naples (Italy), 16.-18.10.1997, edited by Francesco Paolo Cerase, Franco Mazzei, Corrado Molteni. Facoltà di Sociologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, Naples 1999
  • Perspectives for EU-Japan Relations, Berlin (Germany), 25/26 September 1998 (Volume 3, 1999, edited by Wolfgang Brenn, Gesine Foljanty-Jost)
  • Title: Advance on Natural Hazard Mitigation – European and Japanese Perspectives

1998: September 25-26

EJEA Conference in Berlin, Germany

Publications:

  • European-Japanese Summer School 1997 – Ecology and Economy – Strategies for Sustainable Development, Wittenberg (Germany), 4-17 August 1997 (Volume 2, 1998, edited by Gesine Foljanty-Jost)
  • Title: Perspectives for EU-Japan Relations

1997: October 16-18

EJEA Conference in Naples, Italy

This conference was organized by the University of Naples “Federico II” (Faculty of Sociology), The University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Bocconi University Milan (Institute of Economic and Social Studies) and EJEA. It was structured in one Opening Session and four Working Sessions about the Formation of Modern Japan and Scientific-Technological Cooperation.

Publications:

  • Ecology and Economy – Strategies for Sustainable Growth, Brussels (Belgium), 29/30 November 1996 (Volume 1, 1997, edited by Wolfgang Brenn, Gesine Foljanty-Jost)
  • Title: Japan and the Mediterranean World
  • Title: Ecology and Economy – Strategies for Sustainable Growth

1997: August 4-17

European-Japanese Summer School

“In the end, thirty participants were enrolled(…). They represented disciplines such as physics, economics, political sciences, medicine, and geology.”

Siebenhüner, Bernd, and Annette Erbe. “European-Japanese Summer School on “Ecology and Economy – Strategies for Sustainable Development”, Wittenberg, August 1997.” Internationales Asienforum, vol. 29, no. 1-2, 1998, pp. 203–206, hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/637, Accessed 4 Aug. 2023.
  • EJEA hosts the Summer School in Wittenberg, Germany.
  • it bears the same title as the workshop in 1996.

1996: November 29-30

first workshop

EJEA members gather in Brussels, Belgium. Their goal: preparing a 1997 Summer School for Japanese and European students. The event was fully funded by the European Commission.

1995: November 4

foundation of EJEA

It was strongly felt that such an association would help generate and disseminate knowledge concerning Japan; the country being the most important partner and competitor in Asia. A European organization of this kind is essential because it can cover trade issuses as well as fields of European politics.

  • Japan experts from 11 European countries and from the European Commission assemble at the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JGCB).
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