Cultural Politics… Karl Haushofer and Japan (1): Geographers and Intellectual Links into the Fascist Period 6 Mar 20186 Mar 2018 This is the first in a multi-post project on German geographers and intellectuals and their interaction with Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, with a nominal focus on Manchuria and…
China… Report on Opium in China from the German Embassy in Tokyo, 1944 2 Mar 2016 On June 8, 1944, the German Embassy in Tokyo sent a report back to the Auswärtiges Amt, or Foreign Ministry. Unlike so many other files dealing with foreign affairs, at…
EU-East Asia relations… Angela Merkel and Japan’s Wartime Past 11 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 The German Chancellor was in Tokyo for a couple of eventful days. Although Merkel sees Abe Shinzo regularly, she noted before leaving that she has not been to Japan, the country that…
German-Japanese Relations… Nanking Film Trailers 22 Oct 2012 Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, "Nanking," 2007, a documentary interspersing authentic historical footage with reenacted readings of journals, diaries, and letters by Westerners who were in the Chinese capital city…
Cultural Politics… Notions of Incompleteness and Hope: Fragments for Future Appropriation 1 Dec 2011 In his compact yet epic collection of short stories entitled Men Without Women, American writer Ernest Hemingway describes an Italian major who, bereft of a limb and then his wife,…
German-Japanese Relations… From the Print World 26 May 2011 Suggested Readings in Sino-North Korean Relations: Alisa Jones, "Nationalizing the Past: Korea in Chinese History," Journal of Northeast Asian History, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 2009): 103-140. [full text here…
German-Japanese Relations… Berlin Archives Walk 11 Apr 201111 Apr 2011 A walk to the Bundesarchiv in the Lichterfelde area of Berlin.
Cultural Politics… Viewing Japan and China, circa 1937-38, via Nazi Archives 7 Apr 20117 Apr 2011 Among other things, I've spent a couple of days back in the Bundesarchiv here in Berlin, and found a new trove of materials in the R55 section, which is the…
Cultural Politics… On Potsdam’s “Hiroshima Plaza” 7 Aug 20107 Aug 2010 In describing German responses to the Hiroshima commemoration yesterday, I made reference to an editorial which appeared in a major Berlin daily paper last June 30: ...probably the most interesting…
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