Asian Studies Centre invites to a lecture Impact and challenges of bullying (ijime) in Japanese education and society, which will be delivered by Dr. Toshio Ohsako. Lecture will be held on April 25 (Wednesday) at the Centre for Asian Studies (Vaižganto 30), 13:00-14:30. The lecture is part of the MA course “Postwar Japan’s Society and Politics”, but everybody is invited to participate.

The lecture will focus on the nature of Japanese ijime (bullying) prevailing in Japanese schools with a particular emphasis on its conceptual issues, three historical phases of Ijime since 1980s, orientation of intervention programs and policies, and individual, educational and social impacts and challenges. The results of cross-national research on bullying will also be discussed.

Students are asked to prepare for this lecture in advance. It is compulsory to read a short overview of Japan’s education development (You can download it here), and it is recommended to read prof. Morita’s article on the bullying in Japan (starts from p. 311, at the downloadable file).

Dr. T. Ohsako defended his PhD in Educational Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. For a long time he worked at several UNESCO institutes in Hamburg, Paris, Geneva. He was a visiting professor at several universities, including University of Stokholm. His research interests concentrate on the educational problems, especially bullying. His representative books, written or edited by him are: Violence at school: Global Issues and Interventions (1998), Sekai no Ijime: So no Genjo to Torikumi (Bullying Around the World: Main Issue and Coping Strategies) (1998), Media Literacy as a Tool for Lifelong Learning (2008), etc.

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