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Briefing with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Announcements, Media
12. September 20204. October 2020

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.

Prof. Saaler meets Prime Minister Hatoyama

Announcements
2. April 201012. September 2020

Prof. Saaler discusses questions of East Asian regionalism with Prime Minister Hatoyama, April 2010. A few years later, Mr. Hatoyama invited Prof. Saaler to his internet TV channel to discuss the book Pan-Asianism. A Documentary History.

A Monumental Crisis: transnational perspectives on public memorialisation

Allgemein, Announcements
6. October 202028. November 2020

An online roundtable event on public monuments with experts from within Cardiff University and beyond,.

Podcast “Japan on the Record” about The Politics of Public Statues and Monuments

Announcements, Media
13. September 202021. September 2020

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!

Interview with Swiss TV on Japan’s surrender 1945

Media
12. September 202012. September 2020

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!

My comments on the resignation of PM Abe (in German)

Media
31. August 202028. November 2020

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/

New book on Pan-Asianism

Publications
27. April 20116. September 2020

New publication on Pan-Asianism just came out. It is a collection of sources relating to ideas and movements of Asian regionalism and Asian solidarity. Very helpful as a reader, or as a guide for research. Details here: http://www.rowman.com/isbn/1442206020

Prof. Saaler meets parliamentarians Abe Tomoko and Johannes Pflug

Announcements
4. June 201012. September 2020

Prof. Saaler meets Abe Tomoko (member of the Lower House of Japan, SDPJ) and Johannes Pflug (member of the German Bundestag, SPD) in Tokyo on 3 June 2010.