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Torsten Weber
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Historian in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Japan-China relations • Pan-Asianism • memory politics & historical memory • 'Embracing Asia in China & Japan' http://palgrave.com/book/9783319651538 • research blog http://rabediaries.hypotheses.org • #scicom ⚽️ M05❤️🤍
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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As the Monroe Doctrine resurfaces through US military action in Venezuela, Craig Smith looks back to the 20th century to show how, in periods of imperial expansion, Pan-American and Asianist discourses flowed in both directions across the Pacific, not only echoing but also reinforcing one another.
Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan | Made in China Journal
The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation—one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and b...
madeinchinajournal.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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According to the National Archives, this is the very first image of Santa Claus to appear in Japan in 1900.

His name name was too foreign sounding so the author called him 三太九郎 (さんたくろう)

dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1168287/...
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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📖Out now: "Historical Authenticity. A transdisciplinary compendium", ed. by Martin Sabrow & Achim Saupe (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social), published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. The book was published in German first in 2022 by @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social and now has been revised and translated 🎉
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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ドイツ日本研究所(DIJ Tokyo🇩🇪🇯🇵)のチームメンバーになりませんか?
💻 事務職員1~2名募集 (正規職員))、フルタイム(週40時間)
📁 業務内容:イベントマネジメント、秘書業務等
👉 日本語ネイティブで、 ドイツ語・英語ビジネスレベル、類似業務経験者歓迎
勤務開始は2026年4月1日からの予定です。
📅 応募締切日:2026年1月8日
詳細 ➡️ www.dijtokyo.org/job-openings/
➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/9...
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The call for papers and panels to the 18th International EAJS conference is now open! The conference will be a hybrid event hosted in Poznań, Poland from 27-30 August 2026.

Please read the rules and instructions below before you submit your panel or paper.

#EAJS2026

eajs.eu/2026-call-fo...
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
MITI, Sumiyoshi, Japanese Empire: Join us later today for the online meeting of the #VSJF2025 History Section with three exciting papers by Jonathan Krautter (Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study), Sai Kiet Niki Lau (Heidelberg Univ) & Aya Hino (Ruhr Univ Bochum). Details in the attached files
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs.

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nocontractnocoffee.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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高市氏の「WLB捨てる」発言 過労死遺族は驚き「影響力考えて」
www.asahi.com/articles/AST...

高市氏の「私自身もワーク・ライフ・バランスという言葉を捨てる」と発言したことに対し、夫を過労死で亡くし、日本の状況を変えようと取り組んできた女性 は「国のトップに立とうとする人の発言とは思えない」と驚きます。
高市氏の「WLB捨てる」発言 過労死遺族は驚き「影響力考えて」:朝日新聞
高市早苗氏は自民党の新総裁に選ばれた後、党所属の国会議員を前にしたあいさつで「私自身もワーク・ライフ・バランス(WLB)という言葉を捨てる。働いて、働いて、働いて、働いて、働いていく」と述べた。 こ…
www.asahi.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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A video of this year's Distinguished Lecture, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History," given by Andrew Gordon is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel.

Please have a look, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested

youtu.be/EN8tx8J8KzA
2025 Annual Lecture: Andrew Gordon, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History"
YouTube video by Modern Japan History Association
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The debate about Israeli genocide in Gaza turns in large measure on the genocide-Holocaust relationship. I try to tease them out in this chapter in Cambridge History of the Holocaust cambridge.org/core/books/abs… Here are the first two pages.
September 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Excellent work by colleagues at the University of Berne.
www.anthro.unibe.ch/about_us/lec...
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🚨 Registration still open! Come to Vienna and discuss (un)democratic futures with/through the Japanese experience. All details here: vsjf2025.univie.ac.at
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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📢 Register until September 10 for our Annual Conference “Colonial Pasts and Contemporary Search for Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Restitution and Redress for Colonial Violence”! With @trace-center.de & @valuepast.bsky.social, Sep. 25–26.
👉 www.prif.org/veranstaltun...
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.

apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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apjjf.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Heute vor 80 Jahren kapitulierte das Japanische Kaiserreich & der 2. Weltkrieg endete. Warum spielt der 2. September in Japan heute im Vergleich zu den Jahrestagen der Atombombenabwürfe kaum eine Rolle? DLF-Kalenderblatt mit DIJ-Historiker @torweber.bsky.social www.deutschlandfunk.de/japan-zweite...
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series!

China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
China’s Date Debate
China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937-–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the...
press.umich.edu
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Am 15. August 1945 erklärte der japanische Kaiser die bedingungslose Kapitulation Japans. 80 Jahre danach sind sich Japan und seine Nachbarn immer noch spinnefeind – wenn es um die Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg geht. #repost
Ostasien: Wo der Zweite Weltkrieg nicht endet
In Ostasien gibt es kein gemeinsames Verständnis davon, was im Zweiten Weltkrieg geschehen ist.
www.spektrum.de
August 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thanks to my collaborator @daneuhaus.bsky.social, to our colleagues @kpo.bsky.social & @jfinger.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr for initiating the original publication in German @faznet.bsky.social and to our colleagues @maxweberstiftung.de for the timely publication on today's 80th anniversary #EndsOfWar
80 years ago today the Japanese Emperor publicly announced Japan's surrender. DIJ historians @daneuhaus.bsky.social & @torweber.bsky.social explain the significance of Japan's defeat &the end of its empire in postwar East Asia &for historical memory endsofwar.hypotheses.org/6326 @maxweberstiftung.de
August 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Nice collection of books on different aspects of war and peace, including Okinawa, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, historical consciousness and memory culture, Nazism, the Asia-Pacific War, the Cold War, colonialism, Tennoism etc, published by Iwanami during the past decades
今日は終戦記念日。
敗戦から80年を迎える2025年、戦争を実体験として知る人たちが減っています。いまこの国で語られる「戦争」は、現実とずれつつあるかもしれません。だからこそ、私たちは戦後を引き受けなければなりません。

#戦後80年 「その基点を確かめる」特設ページ
www.iwanami.co.jp/news/n114218...
August 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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In a dusty box, a Nagano man finds proof his father served in Nanjing, China, with Unit 1644, part of Japan’s covert biological weapons network during World War II. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...
August 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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🕊In Memoriam: Wulf Kansteiner

With great sadness, the MSA shares the news that Wulf Kansteiner passed away on 8 August.

Read the full tribute on our website: bit.ly/3UZB0Lb
August 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM