Torsten Weber

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…

高市氏の「WLB捨てる」発言　過労死遺族は驚き「影響力考えて」
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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。

YouTube video by Modern Japan History Association 2025 Annual Lecture: Andrew Gordon, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History"

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

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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.

Excellent work by colleagues at the University of Berne.
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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

Poster Annual Conference 2025

📢 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.
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“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus […]

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

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...

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...

Ostasien: Wo der Zweite Weltkrieg nicht endet In Ostasien gibt es kein gemeinsames Verständnis davon, was im Zweiten Weltkrieg geschehen ist.

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

Nanjing: How the massacre still haunts China-Japan relations Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

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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

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

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...

🕊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

Every August in Japan, many WW2-related stories run in the media. This one tells the story of a former child soldier who still has nightmares about what he saw in Unit 731. His apologies to China are greeted in Japan with abuse and slander. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Must-see exhibition on Japanese imperialism and wartime atrocities, including Nanjing Massacre, forced labour, human experiments, sexual exploitation #戦後80年
🏢Kanagawa Kenmin Center Yokohama
🗓️August 8-15

Unexpected new contestant in the Nanking massacre debate: former Japanese football professional&national team captain @kskgroup2017.bsky.social endorses denialist views by Ishihara Shintaro & Kawamura Takashi but corrects his mistake 2 days later & even posts a list of recommended readings. Respect!

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.

“If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen.” One of the world’s leading experts on famine discusses the starvation in Gaza.

For folks with an interest in wartime politics who happen to be in Tokyo tonight (which unfortunately doesn't include me).

Palestinians are prisoners of geography, but statehood is possible France, Canada and the UK will recognise Palestine. But it is unclear if this will revive the stalled two-state solution

1/3 It’s a strange thing to say that anyone is a prisoner of geography. People are imprisoned by other people. Prisons are not natural, geographical features. We have to ask who created them and why. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

For yet unknown reasons, Chinese authorities seem to have stopped the release of a Chinese film on the notorious Japanese Unit 731 that had conducted biochemical experiments on living humans in Manchuria 1936 to 1945. The film was originally advertised to be released on the symbolic date July 31

Lisbon street art
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide #NeverAgain

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

2025 ASCJ Conference Program The final version of the schedule for this year’s conference at Sophia University. 2025 ASCJ Program v. 1Download

The program for this year's Asian Studies Conference Japan at Sophia University in Tokyo is now available online.

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✨ The 100th edition of The Newsletter has been published! 💫

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Fascinating #AASinAsia2025 panel offering new perspectives on the Japanese treatment of military and civilian prisoners in the Pacific War with Danny Orbach, @paultaucher.bsky.social , Sandra Wilson, Sarah Kovner and Nissim Otmazgin @asianstudies.org

A large function room is filled with seated people. At the front of the room, a screen shows the AAS-in-Asia 2025 logo.

Welcome to #AASInAsia2025! The Opening Ceremony is getting underway right now—it's great to see so many #AsianStudies scholars together in Kathmandu!

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

Für Folge 3 der Podcastserie #TheEndsOfWar hat Host @janinefunke.bsky.social mit Thomas Würtz über die Schlacht von El Alamein gesprochen und wie heute in Ägypten daran erinnert wird.
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