Mitgliedschaften
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo.
- Member of the German-Japanese Study Group, Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg.
- Co-President of the Gesellschaft für Japanforschung (GJF) [German Association of Japanese Studies]
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO), Goethe University Frankfurt