Christian Hess – författare

With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries.The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world. Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages, this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries, and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the story on Japan’s East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers, corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization.

With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries.The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world. Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages, this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries, and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the story on Japan’s East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers, corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization.

Die h.M. zum maßgeblichen Beurteilungszeitpunkt der Wirksamkeit von AGB stellt im Individualprozess ohne Differenzierung zwischen punktuellen Verträgen und Dauerschuldverhältnissen im Grundsatz auf den Zeitpunkt des Vertragsschlusses ab. Für Dauerschuldverhältnisse passt dieser Ausgangspunkt aufgrund ihrer besonderen Eigenschaften jedoch nicht, weil er die dauerhafte Verantwortlichkeit des Verwenders für seine AGB vernachlässigt. Maßgeblicher Zeitpunkt muss bei diesen deshalb auch der heutige sein, weil sich die Parteien einem von künftigen Unwägbarkeiten geprägten System revolvierender Rechte und Pflichten unterworfen haben. Diesem ist eine statische Beurteilung grundsätzlich fremd, sodass vielmehr eine dynamische Kontrolle angezeigt ist.

Das Werk untersucht unter dem Gesichtspunkt juristischer Zulässigkeit das sowohl wissenschaftlich interessante wie auch praktisch in hohem Maße relevante Thema der geplanten Obsoleszenz, also der vom Hersteller herbeigeführten Lebensdauerverkürzung bei technischen Gebrauchsgütern. Hier existieren für die beteiligten Akteure (Käufer, Verkäufer und Hersteller) beträchtliche Ungewissheiten.Der Autor geht der Frage nach, welche rechtlichen Grenzen bei der Lebensdauerplanung und -verkürzung gesetzt sind und inwieweit die geplante Lebensdauer offenzulegen ist. Zugleich werden Möglichkeiten ausgelotet, wie Käufer von "Murksprodukten" sich effizient wehren können. Durch die entwickelten Lösungsvorschläge werden vorhandene Graubereiche aufgelöst.Den Gegenstand der Untersuchung bilden das Kaufvertragsrecht, das Lauterkeitsrecht, das Recht der Produzentenhaftung, allgemeine zivilrechtliche Rechtsgrundlagen sowie das Kartellrecht. Das Werk eignet sich für Wissenschaft und Praxis gleichermaßen.