Faculty Information - SPANG Christian W.

SPANG Christian W.

Department Daito Bunka University Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language

Job Professor

Books and Papers
1.	Books	The History of the German East Asiatic Society 1873 - 1979 (Co-authored) 2024/05
2.	Books	Karl Haushofer and the OAG. German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century (Sole-authored) 2018/03
3.	Books	Karl Haushofer and Japan. The reception of his geopolitical theories in German and Japanese politics (Sole-authored) 2013/06
4.	Books	Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Basingstoke / New York: Palgrave Macmillan) (Co-authored) 2016/01
5.	Books	Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945. War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (London / New York: Routledge) Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945. War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (Co-authored) 2006/03
6.	Papers	Revisiting Karl Haushofer at 150: A critical look at the most recent biography Electronic Notebook of Geography and Geopolitics (CE-GyG) 8,pp.168-186 (Sole-authored) 2024/08
7.	Papers	How reliable is Wikipedia 18 years after its establishment? A comparative look at various language entries on Karl Haushofer Electronic Notebook of Geography and Geopolitics (CE-GyG) 8,pp.148-167 (Sole-authored) 2024/08
8.	Papers	Freya Eckhardt, Ruth Eckhardts Plauderbriefe aus Japan (1930/1931), edited byn Rainer Falkenberg, Talkau, 2023, EUR 13,00, in: OAG Notizen, May 2024, pp. 41-46. (Review) OAG Notizen 2024 (5),pp.41-46 (Sole-authored) 2024/05
9.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Shanghai, 1931-45,in: Kevin Ostoyich, Yun Xia (eds.), The History of the Shanghai Jews. New Pathways of Research.-43-73 (Sole-authored) 2022/11
10.	Papers	Dietrich Seckel, Berichte aus Japan: Briefe an seine Mutter. Hiroshima 1936 bis Tokyo/Urawa 1941, edited by Hans-Joachim Bieber, Munich: Iudicium, 2020 (ISBN 978-3-86205-052-9) (book review) The Journal of the Institute for Language and Education Research 38,pp.217-221 (Sole-authored) 2021/03
11.	Papers	Ricky W. Law, Transnational Nazism. Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936, Cambridge: UP, 2019. ISBN-13: 9781108474634. American Historical Review 126 (2),pp.765-766 (Sole-authored) 2021
12.	Papers	The Founders of Geopolitics. The Continental Block and the Greater East Asiatic Co-prosperity Sphere Concept; Haushofer, in Shoji Junichiro, Ishizu Tomoyuki (eds.), The Principles of Geopolitics, Tokyo, 2020. (Sole-authored) 2020/07
13.	Papers	Ruth Nathanson, Zwischenstation - Ueberleben in Shanghai 1939-1947, Buehl: seitenweise Verlag, 2016. 96 Seiten, mit etwa 20 Abbildungen ISBN-13: 978-3943874174, in: OAG Notizen, May 2020, pp. 44-50 (Review) OAG Notizen 2020 (5),pp.44-50 (Sole-authored) 2020/05
14.	Papers	"Karl E. Haushofer", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Sole-authored) 2020/01
15.	Papers	"Geopolitics of Germany", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Sole-authored) 2020/01
16.	Papers	"Zeitschrift fuer Geopolitik", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Sole-authored) 2020/01
17.	Papers	"Panideen", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Sole-authored) 2020/01
18.	Papers	How reliable is Wikipedia 18 years after its establishment? A comparative look at various language entries on Karl Haushofer Outside the Box. A Multi-Lingual Forum 9 (1),pp.35-47 (Sole-authored) 2019/09
19.	Papers	Revisiting Karl Haushofer at 150. A critical look at the most recent biography Outside the Box. The Multilingual Forum 9 (1),pp.23-34 (Sole-authored) 2019/09
20.	Papers	The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer 'Educated' Hitler and Hess. By Holger H. Herwig. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Pp. xvii + 273. Cloth $92.00. ISBN 978-1442261136 (book review) Central European History 52 (3),pp.542-544 (Sole-authored) 2019/09
21.	Papers	Karl Haushofer and German Geopolitics Space, Society and Geographical Thought (22),pp.29-43 (Sole-authored) 2019/03
22.	Papers	Japanisches Kulturinstitut Koeln (Hg.): Vortraege und Aufsaetze zum 150. Jubilaeum der deutsch-japanischen Freundschaft, Muenchen 2012, Iudicium, 186 S., ISBN: 978-3-86205-073-4 (book review) Yearbook for European Overseas History 19,pp.298-301 (Sole-authored) 2019
23.	Papers	Stephan Koehn, Chantal Weber und Volker Elis (Hrsg.), Tokyo in den zwanziger Jahren. Experimentierfeld einer anderen Moderne? Kulturwissenschaftliche Japanstudien 9, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2017, 274 Seiten, ISBN: 978-3-447-10774-7, 48 Euro (book review) Yearbook for European Overseas History 18,pp.311-315 (Sole-authored) 2019
24.	Papers	Johannes Goerbert, Mario Kumekawa, Thomas Schwarz (Hrsg.), Pazifikismus: Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans, Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen u. Neumann. 2017. ISBN-13: 978-3826061691 (568 S.) (Rezension) Neue Beitraege zur Germanistik (Internationale Ausgabe von Doitsu Bungaku) 17 (1),pp.180-184 (Sole-authored) 2018
25.	Papers	Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations 1860 - 2010, by Sven Saaler, Kudo Akira and Tajima Nobuo (eds). London, Brill, 2017. ISBN: 978-90-04-34542-3 (book review) Contemporary Japan 30 (2),pp.253-258 (Sole-authored) 2018
26.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society and East Asia in the first half of the 20th century Kudo Akira, Tajima Nobuo (Hrsg.), Doitsu to Higashi Ajia (Germany and East Asia), Tokyo: Tokyo University Press,pp.699-731 (Co-authored) 2017/02
27.	Papers	Yoshiko Watanabe-Roegner, Bildwoerterbuch zur Einfuehrung in die japanische Kultur. Traditionelle Theaterkuenste, Zen und die Kuenste, Postwesen, Verkehrsmittel und Handel, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-87548-725-1, 244 Seiten, 48 Euro (gebunden) (Rezension) OAG Notizen 2017 (1),pp.52-57 (Sole-authored) 2017/01
28.	Papers	Nakai, Akio, Preussen, die Schweiz und Deutschland aus japanischer Sicht. Modernisierung, Politik, Krieg und Frieden, Muenchen: Iudicum, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86205-395-7, 167 S., kt. EUR 19,80 (Rezension) OAG Notizen 2016 (12),pp.53-59 (Sole-authored) 2016/12
29.	Papers	German Geopolitik and Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Euro Narasia Q 6,pp.39-49 (Sole-authored) 2016/12
30.	Papers	Lexikon zur Ueberseegeschichte. Herausgegeben von Hermann Hiery im Auftrag der Gesellschaft fuer Ueberseegeschichte, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. 992 Seiten (ISBN: 978-3-515-10000-7) (book review) OAG Notizen (3),pp.38-42 (Sole-authored) 2016/03
31.	Papers	Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two academic bridge builders between Germany and Japan Transnational Encounters between Germany & Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and 20th Centuries,pp.107-126 (Co-authored) 2016/01
32.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era Transnational Encounters between Germany & Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and 20th Centuries,pp.127-145 (Sole-authored) 2016/01
33.	Papers	Japanese Military Dictionaries of the Meiji Era OAG Notizen 2015 (6),pp.10-29 (Sole-authored) 2015/06
34.	Papers	The first German-Japanese/Japanese-German Military Dictionaries Wayne Finke & Hikaru Kitabayashi et al. (eds), Multilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics, International Conference of the American Society of Geolinguistics in Honor of its 50th Anniversary, Daito Bunka University, 11 April 2015. Conference Proceedings, edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi et al.,pp.290-300 (Sole-authored) 2015/06
35.	Papers	Recollections of a Jewish-German Businessman in Early Showa Japan Outside the Box: A Multi-Lingual Forum 7 (1),pp.14-30 (Sole-authored) 2015/03
36.	Papers	German geopolitics and wartime Japan's idea of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Narasia Committee for the Harmonious Future of Asia, Nara Prefecture (ed.), Deliberation and Discussion for the Future of Japan and Asia 2012-2014 2,pp.673-700 (Sole-authored) 2015/03
37.	Papers	Japanese-German Relations Revisited. An Overview from Meiji to Early Showa Period Toyo Kenkyu (195),pp.93-133 (Sole-authored) 2015/01
38.	Papers	Ruprecht Vondran (Hg.), Gelebte Partnerschaft. Deutschland und Japan, Duesseldorf, Droste Verlag, 2014 (book review) OAG Notizen 2014 (11),pp.43-49 (Sole-authored) 2014/11
39.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) Original (German, 2011): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)" Original (2011): Ferne Gefaehrten. 150 Jahre deutsch-japanische Beziehungen,pp.85-87 (Co-authored) 2013/10
40.	Papers	Prologue to the Special Section "Gebrauchsanweisung Japan - A Japan Manual" Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum (http://www.otbforum.net/otb_forum_5-1/japan_manual_2012_otb_forum_5-1.pdf) 5 (1),pp.19-20 (Sole-authored) 2012/12
41.	Papers	Review of Gerhard Krebs, Das moderne Japan 1868-1952 (book review) 5 (1),pp.83-85 (Sole-authored) 2012/12
42.	Papers	Gerhard Krebs, Das moderne Japan 1868-1952. Oldenbourg Grundriss Geschichte. Muenchen: Oldenbourg, 2009" (bookd review) Nachrichten der Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens / Hamburg (NOAG) 185/186,pp.208-213 (Sole-authored) 2012
43.	Papers	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part I. Prologue: The Origins of Geopolitical Thinking Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum (http://otbforum.net/otb_forum_4-1/otb_forum_4-1.pdf) 4 (1),pp.7 (Sole-authored) 2011/12
44.	Papers	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part II. An Introduction to Early 20th Century Geopolitics Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum (http://otbforum.net/otb_forum_4-1/otb_forum_4-1.pdf) 4 (1),pp.8-17 (Co-authored) 2011/12
45.	Papers	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part III. The Pivot Moves Eastward: Mackinder and the Okinawa Problem Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum (http://otbforum.net/otb_forum_4-1/otb_forum_4-1.pdf) 4 (1),pp.18-23 (Co-authored) 2011/12
46.	Papers	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part IV. Civilizations in International Relations: Huntington's Theory of Conflict Outside the Box: The Tsukuba Multi-Lingual Forum (http://otbforum.net/otb_forum_4-1/otb_forum_4-1.pdf) 4 (1),pp.24-31 (Co-authored) 2011/12
47.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) - Original (German): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)" Ferne Gefaehrten. 150 Jahre deutsch-japanische Beziehungen,pp.85-87 (Co-authored) 2011/11
48.	Papers	The role of the German East Asiatic Society within Japanese-German Relations (Dai-ichi-ji Sekaitaisen no Nichi-Doku kankei ni okeru Doitsu Toyo Bunka Kenkyu Kyokai [OAG] no yakuwari),pp.87-122頁 (Co-authored) 2011/03
49.	Papers	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) between both World Wars - Original (German): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) zwischen den Weltkriegen",pp.65-90 (Sole-authored) 2011
50.	Papers	Idolization or Coming to Terms with the Past? 1970s Terrrorism in Japanese and German Cinemas: Background and Comments - Original (German): "Heldenverehrung oder Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung? Der Inlands-Terror der 1970er Jahre im japanischen und deutschen Kino: Hintergruende und Anmerkungen" Studies in Foreign Language Teaching 32,pp.69-90 (Sole-authored) 2010/03
51.	Papers	Sabine Schmidt u. Karin Schmidt (eds.), Erinnerungsorte. Deutsche Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht, Berlin: Cornelsen, 2007 (book review) Lektorenrundbrief 36,pp.11-13 (Sole-authored) 2009/12
52.	Papers	Yoshiko Watanabe-Roegner, Bildwoerterbuch zur Einfuehrung in die japanische Kultur. Architektur und Religion, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2008 (book review) OAG Notizen 2009 (12),pp.44-47 (Sole-authored) 2009/12
53.	Papers	The Wandering Years of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) up to the "Oyatoi-heydays" - Original (German): Die Wanderjahre der OAG bis zur "Oyatoi-Bluete" Reinold Ophuels-Kashima et al. (eds.), Tokyo: Konstruktion einer Metropole - sozial, politisch, kulturell, historisch,pp.261-289 (Sole-authored) 2008/12
54.	Papers	Dealing with Word-endings in German Classes - Original (German): "Wortendungen im Deutschunterricht" Lektorenrundbrief (34),pp.7-9 (Sole-authored) 2008/07
55.	Papers	The German Vocabulary in Reverse - Original (German): "Der deutsche Wortschatz - rueckwaerts betrachtet" Dokkyo Daigaku Doitsugaku Kenkyu (58),pp.61-78 (Sole-authored) 2008/03
56.	Papers	The G8 Summit in Heiligendamm (Germany): Claims and Reality on both Sides of the Security Fence - Original (German): "Der G8-Gipfel von Heiligendamm: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit dies- und jenseits des Sicherheitszaunes" Deutschstudien 42,pp.138-155 (Sole-authored) 2008/03
57.	Papers	Bill Maltarich, Samurai and Supermen. National Socialist Views of Japan, Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005 (book review) 20,pp.369-376 (Sole-authored) 2008
58.	Papers	Inge Hoppner and Sekikawa Fujiko (eds.), Brueckenbauer: Pioniere des japanisch-deutschen Kulturaustausches, Munich: Iudicium, 2005 (book review),pp.256-260 (Sole-authored) 2007
59.	Papers	Writing and Speaking in German Classes: Individual Topics for Compulsory Writing Assignments - Original (German): "Schreiben und Sprechen im DaF-Unterricht: Selbst gewaehlte Themen als Spezialhausaufgabe" Lektorenrundbrief (28),pp.11-13 (Sole-authored) 2006/07
60.	Papers	From "German Measles" to "Honorary Aryans": An Overview of Japanese-German Relations until 1945 Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945. War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion,pp.139-157 (Co-authored) 2006/03
61.	Papers	Karl Haushofer Re-examined - Geopolitics as a Factor within Japanese-German Rapprochement in the Inter-War Years? Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945. War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion,pp.139-157 (Sole-authored) 2006/03
62.	Papers	The Cancelled [OAG-] Anniversary - Original (German): "Das ausgefallene Jubilaeum" OAG Notizen 2006 (1),pp.26-33 (Sole-authored) 2006/01
63.	Papers	Comments on the Early History of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) until its Recognition as Japanese Society (shadan hojin) in 1904 - Original (German): "Anmerkungen zur fruehen OAG-Geschichte bis zur Eintragung als "japanischer Verein" (1904)" Nachrichten der Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens / Hamburg (NOAG) 179/180,pp.67-91 (Sole-authored) 2006
64.	Papers	The Early Phase of the NOAG [journal] 1926-1945: From mere Newsletter to Chronology of the German East Asiatic Society - Original (German): "Die Fruehzeit der NOAG 1926-1945: Vom Mitteilungsblatt zur Chronik der OAG-Geschichte" Nachrichten der Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens / Hamburg (NOAG) 179/180,pp.55-65 (Sole-authored) 2006
65.	Papers	The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Asien (1930-45) - Original (German): "Die Expansion der OAG in Asien (1930-45)" OAG Notizen 2005 (9),pp.35-44 (Sole-authored) 2005/09
66.	Papers	The Failed Museum, Leipzig and the "[OAG-] Section Berlin" - Original (German): "Das gescheiterte Museumsprojekt, Leipzig und die Sektion Berlin" OAG Notizen 2005 (2),pp.32-39 (Sole-authored) 2005/02
67.	Papers	The "Nachrichten der OAG (NOAG)": Reluctantly becoming a Journal - Original (German): "Die Nachrichten der OAG (NOAG): Eine Zeitschrift wider Willen" OAG Notizen 2004 (10),pp.35-41 (Sole-authored) 2004/10
68.	Papers	Arai Satoshi, Ueda Koji, Senjika Nihon no doitsujintachi, Tokyo: Shueisha, 2003 (book review) Asian Cultural Studies 30,pp.197-200 (Sole-authored) 2004/03
69.	Papers	Franziska Ehmcke, Peter Pantzer (eds.), Gelebte Zeitgeschichte - Alltag von Deutschen in Japan 1923-47, Munich: Iudicium, 2000 (book review) OAG Notizen 2004 (2),pp.27-32 (Sole-authored) 2004/02
70.	Papers	Die verpasste Chance. Anmerkungen zu zwei neuen Buechern zum deutschen Alltag im Japan der fruehen Showazeit (review article) - Original (German): "Die verpasste Chance - Anmerkungen zu zwei neuen Buechern zum deutschen Alltag im Japan der fruehen Showazeit (Rezensionsartikel)" Nachrichten der Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens / Hamburg (NOAG) 175/176,pp.271-278 (Sole-authored) 2004
71.	Papers	Wolfgang Bauer, Tsingtau 1914 bis 1931: Japanische Herrschaft, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Rueckkehr der deutschen Kaufleute, Munich: Iudicium, 2000 (book review) OAG Notizen 2003 (6),pp.38-43 (Sole-authored) 2003/06
72.	Papers	Who were Hitler's East Asia Experts? (Part 2) - Original (German): "Wer waren Hitlers Ostasienexperten? (Teil 2)" OAG Notizen 2003 (5),pp.12-25 (Sole-authored) 2003/05
73.	Papers	Who were Hitler's East Asia Experts? (Part 1) - Original (German): "Wer waren Hitlers Ostasienexperten? (Teil 1)" OAG Notizen 2003 (4),pp.10-21 (Sole-authored) 2003/04
74.	Papers	Made in Japan: An Introduction to Recent Tokyo-Based German Historical Research on Modern Japan 1853-1945 Asian Cultural Studies 29,pp.75-89 (Co-authored) 2003/03
75.	Papers	Electronic Dictionaries and Translation Pages on the Internet (Part 2) - Original (German): "Elektronische Japanisch-Woerterbuecher und Uebersetzungshilfen im Internet (Teil 2)" OAG Notizen 2001 (9),pp.28-33 (Sole-authored) 2001/09
76.	Papers	Electronic Dictionaries and Translation Pages on the Internet (Part 1) - Original (German): "Elektronische Japanisch-Woerterbuecher und Uebersetzungshilfen im Internet (Teil 1)" OAG Notizen 2001 (5),pp.21-24 (Sole-authored) 2001/05
77.	Papers	Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics. On Haushofer's Role within German-Japanese Relations between both World Wars - Original(Japanese): "Karu Hausuhofa to Nihon no chiseigaku. Dai-ichi-ji sekaitaisen no Nichi-Doku kankei no naka de Hausuhofa no motsu igi ni tsuite" Space, Society and Geographica Thougt 6,pp.2-21 (Sole-authored) 2001/03
78.	Papers	Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics. On Haushofer's Role within German-Japanese Relations between both World Wars - Original (German): "Karl Haushofer und Japan. Der Einfluss der Kontinentalblocktheorie auf die Japanpolitik des Dritten Reiches Hilaria Goessmann et al. (eds.), 11. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag in Trier 1999 1,pp.121-134 (Sole-authored) 2001
79.	Papers	On the Influence of Karl Haushofer's Geopolitical Theories and Personal Contacts on German-Japanese Relations 1909-1945 - Original (German): "Nichi-Doku kankei ni okeru Karu Hausuhofa no gakusetsu to jinmyaku" Journal of Modern and Contemporary History 46,pp.35-52 (Sole-authored) 2000/12
80.	Papers	"Karl Haushofer und die Geopolitik in Japan. Zur Bedeutung Haushofers innerhalb der deutsch-japanischen Beziehungen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg", in: Irene Diekmann et al. (ed), Geopolitik. Grenzgaenge im Zeitgeist, Vol. 2, Potsdam, 2000, pp. 591 - 629. 2,pp.591-629 (Sole-authored) 2000
81.	Papers	Rudolf Gottschlich, Der Stellenwert Japans und Chinas in Politischer Geographie und Geopolitik vor dem Hintergrund der Ostasienpolitik des Deutschen Reiches (1919 - 1945), Frankfurt: Verlag Neue Wissenschaft, 1998 (book review) OAG Notizen 1999 (11),pp.31-37 (Sole-authored) 1999/11
82.	Other	Lesson 9.0. March 11, 2011 in Tsukuba and the consequences Japan at that day. Eyewittnesses of March 11, 2011,pp.56-67 (Sole-authored) 2014/01
83.	Other	Baadaa-Mainhofu risou no hatte ni (The limits of the Baader-Meinhof ideals [roundtable discussion]) Eiga Geijutsu (428),pp.134-140 (Co-authored) 2009/08
84.	Other	The (West) German Victories at the Football World Cups in 1954, 1974 und 1990 in Comparison (Layout for a Series of Advanced German Classes) - Original (German): "Die deutschen WM-Erfolge 1954, 1974 und 1990 im Vergleich (Unterrichtsentwurf fuer Fortgeschrittene)" www.deutsch-in-japan.de/lektorenfachseminar-2005/showdetail.php?user=16 (Sole-authored) 2006/07