Danke an Felix Lill für das Gespräch und den schönen Artikel mit wichtigen historischen Einblicken in die schlimmen Folgen des Großen Kanto-Erdbebens 1923, inkl. Massaker an Koreanern

Very impressive collection of photos and information by ⁦⁦毎日新聞⁩ Newspaper on the Great Kanto Earthquake which happened #otd 100 years ago and its aftermath 関東大震災100年 写真アーカイブでよみがえる100年前の記憶 | 毎日新聞 mainichi.jp/shinsai0901/sp…

Today is Ienaga Saburo‘s (d. 2002) 110th birthday. An eminent scholar of the Asia-Pacific War & Japanese war responsibility, he is also well-known for his lawsuits against the Japanese government which had censored his textbooks. His opus magnum in English penguinrandomhouse.com/books/85001/th…

Mainichi Journalist Yoshii Riki’s 吉井理記 latest article discusses how many victims it takes before historical revisionists will accept the term ‘massacre’ for the murder of Koreans after the Great Kanto Earthquake 歴史修正国家の誕生＝吉井理記 | 毎日新聞 mainichi.jp/articles/20230…

This book on postwar German attitudes towards the legacies of WW 2 by Watanabe Masanao looks like an important contribution to tackle the widespread myth of Germany’s perfect dealing with its wartime past 歴史論争から見た戦後ドイツ | 株式会社 共同文化社 kyodo-bunkasha.net/items/78437488

“Memory politics is instrumentalised for different political stances”, says ⁦⁦Jürgen Zimmerer⁩. Hard to believe but sadly true this view still is no consensus in the German public. Erinnerungskultur: "Es geht eben wirklich um etwas" | ZEIT ONLINE zeit.de/zeit-geschicht…

My Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China is now online: bdoc.enpchina.eu For a presentation of the project: enepchina.hypotheses.org/5304

Okakura Tenshin, Anarchismus, Geschichtserziehung in Japan: drei spannende Vorträge von Christoph Völker, Julia Glöckl & Juljan Biontino in der Fachgruppe Geschichte der #VSJF2023. Samstag, 4. November, 14-16 Uhr MEZ online & am JDZB. Programm: vsjf.net/wp-content/upl…

Professor Viren Murthy’s new book, Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution, was just published with UChicagoPress. The book is an intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the twentieth century. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Impressions from the University of Tokyo‘s Komaba campus today

Shocked to read of Maik Hendrik Sprotte‘s Maik Hendrik Sprotte sudden death. He was a very knowledgeable & generous scholar & a nice person with a fine sense of humor. Historians of Japan will miss his service to the community, his scholarly interventions & warmth geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanolo…

It’s 2024 in Japan. All the best wishes for a peaceful and happy new year!

Some may have already seen this elsewhere, but I'm very excited to announce, thanks to the hard work of Josh Fogel, the launch of the Japanese Sinology in Translation series with Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

【いよいよ来週となりました！】 2024年3月25日（月）本学にて当文庫資料展示を開催いたします。 「近代日本の新聞・雑誌を見る ― 明治新聞雑誌文庫の世界」 meiji.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/exhibition_202… 開催時間：12：30～15：30 会場：法学部1号館内 学生ラウンジ 事前申込み不要です。どなたでもご見学頂けます。→

Claiming 5000 years of civilization, rewriting Qing history is just not enough for China. And if it’s entitled to all territories of Qing, what to explain “loss” of lands to Russia and Mongolia? Should the Japanese, Koreans and others take note, too? wsj.com/world/china/xi…

Finally had the chance to visit the Ichigaya Memorial Hall, the site of the postwar Tokyo Trial of Japanese war crimes. It’s reconstructed but pretty close to the original as far as I can tell.

An English translation of Park Yuha's book "Comfort Women of the Empire" is now out with Routledge. This book was the subject of protracted criminal defamation prosecution in South Korea-which eventually saw her exonerated this year. routledge.com/Comfort-Women-…

Shocked and saddened to hear of the unexpected passing of sinologist Prof. Dr. Stefan Landsberger this week. If you’re not familiar with his name, you might have come across his work if you’ve ever read anything about Chinese propaganda. Landsberger was a leading authority on

Fascinating new research by Qiang Zhang (Nottingham, UoN History) on how the Chinese Communist Party interprets and reinterprets history during China's Republican era. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Yomihon, Hassenstein, „Trostfrauen“: drei spannende Vorträge in der Fachgruppe Geschichte der #VSJF2024 am Samstag, 16. November, 14:30-16:30 Uhr am JDZB in Berlin und online mit Morgaine Setzer-Mori, Patrick Müller, Dorothea Mladenova. Details: vsjf.net/wp-content/upl…