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Sven Saaler

サーラ スヴェン | Sven Saaler
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Other affiliations (1):
Homepage URL  (1): http://www.japanesehistory.de
Research field  (2): International relations ,  History - Japan
Research keywords  (18): 近現代日本史 ,  黒龍会 ,  記憶 ,  ドイツ ,  Pan-Asianism ,  Asianism ,  歴史認識 ,  ソ連 ,  銅像 ,  東亜同文会 ,  戦間期日本 ,  歴史教科書問題 ,  儀式的教育 ,  歴史記憶 ,  日独関係史 ,  デモクラシー運動 ,  日本 ,  文化
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (4):
  • 2012 - 2018 Postwar Memorialization Discourses in Defeated Communities: An International Comparative Study
  • 2012 - 2016 Summary research on the Japanese war memorial from a contemporary and world history point of view
  • 2008 - 2010 Mutual Perceptions in Japanese-German Relations : Images, Imaginings, and Stereotypes
  • 2006 - 2009 The general study about the memorial services for the war victims in Modern Japan
Papers (44):
  • Sven Saaler, Yano Hideki, Kim Yeong-hwan. Japanese and Korean Perspectives on the Issue of Forced Labor in the Asia-Pacific War. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 2023. 21. 10:6
  • Sven Saaler. Abe Shinzo’s Historical Revisionism. The Abe Legacy: A Compendium. 2022
  • Sven Saaler. Demolition Man: The Unmaking of a Memorial Commemorating Forced Laborers in Gunma (Japan). The Asia-Pacific Journal/Japan Focus. 2022. 20. 17/10
  • Saaler Sven (with Imai Takako). 21世紀の西欧デモクラシーの命運 (The Fate of Western European Democracy in the Twenty-first Century). Gendai no riron 『現代の理論』. 2019. 20
  • Sven Saaler. Aufstieg zur Kolonialmacht. Das imperiale Japan. Damals. 2019. p. 16-21
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MISC (53):
  • Im freien Fall. IPG. 2023
  • サーラ・スヴェン. 日本は本当に「核共有」に向かうの か? 覚悟すべき“最悪の事態”. Shūeisha Online (集英社オンライン). 2022
  • Sven Saaler. Brisantes Erbe (Shinzo Abes Political Legacy Lives On). IPG - Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 2022
  • Sven Saaler. Book review. "Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess (eds): The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation". Journal of Japanese Studies. 2022
  • Sven Saaler. Book review. "Mark Mullins: Yasukuni Fundamentalism. Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration". Social Science Japan Journal. 2022
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Books (64):
  • Chapter 7: Overcoming Trauma at Chidorigafuchi (Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia)
    Routledge 2023
  • Reflection 6: The role of public statuary in the global circulation of ideas
    Routledge 2023 ISBN:9780367653279
  • OAG. Die Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1873-1972 (OAG. The History of the German East Asiatic Society, 1873-1972).
    Munich: Iudicium / OAG - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens 2023
  • Chapter Title: "Heisei Historiography: Academic History and Public Commemoration in Japan, 1990-2020." In: Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Noriko Murai, Jeff Kingston, and Tina Burrett.
    London and New York: Routledge 2022
  • Chapter Title: "Japan‘s Soft Power and the 'History Problem.'" In: Remembrance - Responsibility - Reconciliation. Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan, eds. Lothar Wigger and Marie Dirnberger.
    Berlin: J.B. Metzler 2022
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Lectures and oral presentations  (109):
  • ドイツから見た日本の「反日」、旧植民地とパレスチナに問われるドイツ (Debates about war responsibility, legacies of colonialism, and the Middle East conflict in Japan and Germany)
    (Japanese-Korean Platform for Reconciliation and Peace 2024)
  • Men in Metal: Public Statuary in Modern Japan
    (Getting to Know Japan Webinar 2024)
  • From Hometown Hero to National Hero: Statues of “Great Men” in Modern Japan’
    (Town and Monument 2024)
  • Men in Metal. Public Statuary in Modern Japan
    (2023)
  • From historical revisionism to "post truth": History and Memory in Heisei Japan
    (2023)
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Education (6):
  • 1995 - 1999 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Philosophische Fakultät Japanologisches Seminar
  • 1999 - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Philosophische Fakultät Japanologisches Seminar
  • 1990 - 1995 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Philosophische Fakultät Japanologisches Seminar
  • 1994 - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Philosophische Fakultät Japanologisches Seminar
  • 1989 - 1990 Universität zu Köln Philosophische Fakultät Historisches Seminar
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Professional career (1):
  • DR. Phil.(Ph.D.) (Univ. of BONN)
Work history (7):
  • 2017/04 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts Professor
  • 2008/09 - 2017/03 Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts
  • 2005/04 - 2008/09 The University of Tokyo Associate Professor
  • 2004/01 - 2005/03 German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Head of Humanities Section
  • 2000/11 - 2003/12 German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Senior Researcher
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Committee career (2):
  • 2019/04 - 現在 Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Member of the Steering Committee
  • 2008/05 - 現在 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Japan Representative
Association Membership(s) (1):
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
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