I had the pleasure to talk to Tristan R. Grunow about my new book Men in Metal. A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2020). Listen to the podcast HERE!
During the visits of German Federal President Steinmeier to Japan in 2018 and 2019, I had the pleasure of briefing the President and his wife on Japanese politics. Photo (above): German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife ElkeBuedenbender visit the imperial gardens with Sven Saaler, professor atSophia University in Tokyo, 2018 (Credit: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo). More photos from President Steinmeier’s 2018 visit on the website www.bundespraesident.de.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in East Asia, I talked to Swiss TV SRF. Watch the whole progam here!
No prime minister of Japan had a longer tenure than Shinzo Abe. But many of his ambitious goals remained unfulfilled, partly because of the anti-intellectual approaches Abe pursued. Read more here: https://www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/asien/artikel/detail/abtritt-eines-unvollendeten-4605/ or here for the English version “A Trump-like anti-intellectual”: https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/asia/a-trump-like-anti-intellectual-4615/