Sebastian Polak-Rottmann
Sebastian Polak-Rottmann is senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ). He received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna in 2022. His dissertation on well-being in rural Japan was funded by a DOC-team grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on resilience in rural Japan, including community-based integrated care and political participation. Together with Hanno Jentzsch, he organized the Aso Winter Field School 2022, an online field school for undergraduate and graduate students on the impacts of the pandemic in rural Japan.
Volume 22 | Issue 3 | Number 5