Dr Harald Conrad

School of East Asian Studies

Honorary Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies

Profile

Harald Conrad is Sasakawa Lecturer in Japan鈥檚 Economy and Management at the University of 91直播鈥檚 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

Recent and Ongoing Research Projects

Harald鈥檚 recent and ongoing research has focused on:

Publications

Books

  • Conrad H (2001) The Japanese Social Security System in Transition 鈥 An Evaluation of the Current Pension Reforms. M眉nchen: iudicium Verlag. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2000) Reformen und Problembereiche der 枚ffentlichen Rentenversicherung in Japan [Reforms and Problem Areas in the Public Pension System in Japan]. Marburg: Tectum Verlag. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2008) . BRILL. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kroker R (Ed.) (2003) Deutschland und Japan 鈥 Mit Reformen zu neuer Dynamik. K枚ln: Deutscher Institutsverlag. RIS download Bibtex download
  • L眉tzeler R (Ed.) (2002) Aging and Social Policy 鈥 A German-Japanese Comparison. Iudicium Verlag: Munich. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Saaler S (Ed.) (2001) Japanstudien 13 鈥 Wohnen in Japan. Munich: Iudicium Verlag. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Conrad H & Meyer-Ohle H (2018) . International Migration. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Meyer-Ohle H (2018) . Social Science Japan Journal, 21(1), 67-88. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Meyer-Ohle H (2017) . International Journal of Human Resource Management. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2017) . Japanese Studies, 37(1), 1-22. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2015) . Japan Forum, 28(2), 233-254. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Mccafferty J (2012) United Kingdom Fund Managers and Institutional Investors鈥 Attitudes Toward Japanese Equities. The Japanese Economy, 39(1), 105-130. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2012) . Journal of Social Policy, 41(1), 119-140. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2011) . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22(15), 3051-3067. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2010) . SOC SCI JPN J, 13(1), 115-135. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2009) Die Besch盲ftigung 盲lterer Menschen in Japan 鈥 Ursachen und Rahmenbedingungen einer hohen Alterserwerbsquote. [The employment of older persons in Japan - motives and institutional factors behind the high labour force participation]. Nova Acta Leopoldina NF (Journal of the German Academy of Sciences), 101(365), 111-142. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2006) Doitsu ni okeru r艒d艒shij艒 kaikaku no mondaiten [Problems of Recent Labor Market Reforms in Germany]. Doitsu ni okeru r艒d艒 shij艒 kaikaku 鈥 sono hy艒ka to tenb艒. R艒d艒 Seisaku Kenky奴 H艒kokusho, 69, 63-73. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2005) Kinnen no doitsu ni okeru kigy艒 nenkin seido no tenkai [Recent Developments in Germany鈥檚 Corporate Pension System. Kaigai Shakai Hosh艒 Kenky奴 (The Review of Comparative Social Security Research), 151(Summer), 98-109. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2003) Sustaining Old Age Security in Japan 鈥 Toward a New Public-Private Pension Mix. Journal of Japanese Law, 8(15), 199-230. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2003) Sustaining Old Age Security in Japan 鈥 Toward a New Public-Private Pension Mix. Journal of Japanese Law, 8(15), 199-230. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Tetsuo F (2003) The 2000/2001 Pension Reform in Germany 鈥 Implications and Possible Lessons for Japan. The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 2(2), 1-12. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Tetsuo F (2003) The 2000/2001 Pension Reform in Germany 鈥 Implications and Possible Lessons for Japan. The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 2(2), 1-12. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2002) J眉ngste Rentenreformen in Japan 鈥 Zur Neubestimmung des Verh盲ltnisses von 枚ffentlicher und privater Alterssicherung. [Recent Pension Reforms in Japan 鈥 A New Public-Private Balance]. Zeitschrift f眉r ausl盲ndisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, 2, 97-119. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Arimori M (2002) Senshinkoku ni okeru shakai hosh艒 nenkin e no kakutei kyoshutsu kojin kanj艒 d艒ny奴 ni tsuite 鈥 doitsu no baai. [The Introduction of Individual Retirement Accounts in the Public Pension Systems of Industrialized Nations: The Case of Germany]. Nenkin reby奴 (Pension Review), 7, 3-3. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2002) Doitsu in okeru 2000-nen nenkin kaikaku no genj艒 to kadai [German Pension Reform in 2000: Current Issues and Problems]. Akuchuari j膩naru (Actuary Journal), 13, 40-52. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Conrad H (2017) The 'Varieties-of-Capitalism' (VOC) and the 'Japanese Model' during Globalisation: Change and Continuity in Japanese Human Resource Management and Corporate Governance Practices since the 2000s In K盲hler J & Revelas K (Ed.), Issues of the European and International Economy in the Era of Globalization (pp. 253-283). Erlangen: FAU University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2016) , Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation (pp. 121-133). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2016) In Haghirian P (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Japanese Business and Management (pp. 174-184). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2016) In Haghirian P (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Japanese Business and Management (pp. 185-195). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2014) Continuity and Change in Asian Employment Systems 鈥 A Comparison of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations Comparative Employment Systems (pp. 334-358). Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2014) Converging to a New Type of Human Resource Management? 鈥 Compensation System Reforms in Japan since the 1990s In Kushida K, Shimizu K & Oi JC (Ed.), The Politics of Economic Restructuring and System Reform in Japan (pp. 173-197). Stanford: Brookings/APARC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2013) Sozialversicherungsrechtliche Aspekte der Personalpolitik in Japan. [Aspects of Social Security Law in Human Resource Management in Japan], Personalwirtschaftlicher Wandel in Japan Gesellschaftlicher Wertewandel und Folgen f眉r die Unternehmungskultur und Mitarbeiterf眉hrung (pp. 269-284). Springer-Verlag RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H, Heindorf V & Waldenberger F (2008) , Human Resource Management in Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Japan and Germany (pp. 1-12). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2008) In Coulmas F, Conrad H, Schad-Seifert A & Vogt G (Ed.), The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (pp. 815-820). Brill RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H (2008) , The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (pp. 979-997). BRILL RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H & Heindorf V (2006) Recent changes in compensation practices of large Japanese companies: wages, bonuses and corporate pensions., Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan (pp. 79-97). Palgrave Macmillan RIS download Bibtex download
  • Conrad H () Japanese Multinational Companies and the Control of Overseas Investments 鈥 The Role of Expatriates, Young Foreign Employees and Japan鈥檚 Soft Power In Aulakh P & Kelly PF (Ed.), Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia: Spatialities, Institutions, and Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download