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SPANG Christian W. Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language Professor

■ Present specialized field

Western history, History of Japan, International relationship theory, Foreign language education (Key Word：German-Japanese Relations, Geopolitics, Karl Haushofer, German East Asiatic Society (OAG))

■ Main Subject

German language classes (all levels), Culture & Society of the German Speaking Area, Seminar: An Overview of All European Countries

■ Academic background

1.	1990/10～1991/02	Friedrich-Alexander-Unviversity Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) Faculty of Letters (Philosphische Fakultaet) Unfinished
2.	1991/03～1991/06	Kings' School, Bournemouth (England) Graduated Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
3.	1991/10～1993/06	Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) Faculty of Letters (Philosphische Fakultaet) Graduated Zwischenpruefung (B.A. equivalent)
4.	1993/07～1993/08	University of Burgundy, Dijon (France) Studying abroad
5.	1993/10～1994/07	Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Faculty of Letters Studying abroad
6.	1994/10～1997/06	Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) History Department (Neuere und Neueste Geschichte)〔Master degree program〕 Completed Master of Arts (M.A.)
7.	1997/10～2009/03	Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) Contemporary History〔Doctoral course〕 Completed
8.	1998/10～2000/09	The University of Tokyo Graduate School, Division of Letters Studying abroad
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■ Business career

1.	2000/10～2006/03	International Christian University (ICU) Institute of Asian Cultural Studies (IACS) Research Assistant (10/2000-3/2002), Research Associate (4/2003-3/2006)
2.	2001/03～2004/03	International Christian University ICU High School Adjunct Lecturer
3.	2001/09～2005/03	Hosei University Faculty of Sociology, Faculty of Economics Adjunct Lecturer
4.	2004/04～2009/03	Sophia University: Faculty of Foreign Languages: German Department; Faculty of Letters: Department of German Literature, Center for the Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education Adjunct Lecturer
5.	2005/04～2009/03	Dokkyo University: Faculty of Foreign Languages, German Department, Adjunct Lecturer
6.	2007/04～2009/03	Waseda University School of Human Sciences Adjunct Lecturer
7.	2009/04～2012/03	Keio University: Faculty of Law, Adjunct Lecturer
8.	2009/04～2010/03	The Universtiy of Tokyo College of Arts & Sciences Adjunct Lecturer
9.	2009/04～2012/03	The Universty of Tsukuba: Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Foreign Language Center, Associate Professor
10.	2011/04～2013/09	Sophia University: Faculty of Liberal Arts, Adjunct Lecturer
11.	2012/04～2016/03	Daito Bunka University Faculty of Foreign Languages; Graduate School of Foreign Studies Associate Professor
12.	2012/09～2018/03	The University of Tsukuba (Graduate School) Graduate School of Area Studies (Master's Program) Adjunct Professor
13.	2013/09～2013/11	International Christian University (ICU) College of Liberal Arts Part-time lecturer
14.	2016/03～	Daito Bunka University Faculty of Foreign Languages; Graduate School of Foreign Studies Professor
15.	2018/04～2019/03	Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Institute of Languages and Culture of the Middle East and East Asia, Japanese Department Visiting Professor
16.	2019/04～2021/03	Daito Bunka University Institute for Research in Language Teaching Chair
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■ Committee and society

1.	2012/04～2014/03	Insititute for Research in Language Teaching
2.	2014/04～2016/03	Insititute for Research in Language Teaching
3.	2016/04～	member
4.	2019/04/01～2021/03	Insititute for Research in Language Teaching Chair

■ Belonging society

1.	1998/11～	German East Asiatic Society
2.	2001/05～2004/12	∟ Board Member
3.	2003/05～	∟ Chair: OAG history committee
4.	2007/05～	∟ Member of the Publications Committee
5.	2019/05～	∟ board member
6.	1999～	(Japanese) Society for the Study of Modern History
7.	2006	Japanische Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik
8.	2006	Japanischer Deutschlehrerverband
9.	2007	Japanische Gesellschaft fuer Deutschstudien
10.	2009	German Studies Association (GSA)
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■ Winning science prize

2009/10

Gerhard-Ritter-Award, Albert-Ludwigs-Universtity Freiburg im Breisgau (URL: http://www.uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/portrait/ehrungen-und-preise/preise/preis/280/Gerhard-Ritter-Preis?set_language=de)

■ Books and Papers

1.	Book	Karl Haushofer and the OAG. German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century (Single) 2018/03
2.	Book	Karl Haushofer and Japan. The reception of his geopolitical theories in German and Japanese politics (Single) 2013/06
3.	Book	Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Basingstoke / New York: Palgrave Macmillan) (Collaboration) 2016/01
4.	Book	Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945. War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (London / New York: Routledge) (Collaboration) 2006/03
5.	Book	Ricky W. Law, Transnational Nazism. Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919-1936, Cambridge: UP, 2019. ISBN-13: 9781108474634. (Single) 2021
6.	Book	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. (Single) 2020/07
7.	Book	"Zeitschrift fuer Geopolitik", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Single) 2020/01
8.	Book	"Karl E. Haushofer", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Single) 2020/01
9.	Book	"Geopolitics of Germany", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Single) 2020/01
10.	Book	"Panideen", in: The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics (Single) 2020/01
11.	Paper	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. (Single) 2022/11
12.	Paper	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) (Single) 2021/03
13.	Paper	How reliable is Wikipedia 18 years after its establishment? A comparative look at various language entries on Karl Haushofer (Single) 2019/09
14.	Paper	Revisiting Karl Haushofer at 150. A critical look at the most recent biography (Single) 2019/09
15.	Paper	Karl Haushofer and German Geopolitics (Single) 2019/03
16.	Paper	The German East Asiatic Society and East Asia in the first half of the 20th century (Collaboration) 2017/02
17.	Paper	German Geopolitik and Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Single) 2016/12
18.	Paper	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era (Single) 2016/01
19.	Paper	Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two academic bridge builders between Germany and Japan (Collaboration) 2016/01
20.	Paper	Japanese Military Dictionaries of the Meiji Era (Single) 2015/06
21.	Paper	The first German-Japanese/Japanese-German Military Dictionaries (Single) 2015/06
22.	Paper	Recollections of a Jewish-German Businessman in Early Showa Japan (Single) 2015/03
23.	Paper	German geopolitics and wartime Japan's idea of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere (Single) 2015/03
24.	Paper	Japanese-German Relations Revisited. An Overview from Meiji to Early Showa Period (Single) 2015/01
25.	Paper	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) Original (German, 2011): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)" (Collaboration) 2013/10
26.	Paper	Prologue to the Special Section "Gebrauchsanweisung Japan - A Japan Manual" (Single) 2012/12
27.	Paper	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part II. An Introduction to Early 20th Century Geopolitics (Collaboration) 2011/12
28.	Paper	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part I. Prologue: The Origins of Geopolitical Thinking (Single) 2011/12
29.	Paper	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part IV. Civilizations in International Relations: Huntington's Theory of Conflict (Collaboration) 2011/12
30.	Paper	Special Section "Discussing Geopolitics" - Part III. The Pivot Moves Eastward: Mackinder and the Okinawa Problem (Collaboration) 2011/12
31.	Paper	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) - Original (German): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG)" (Collaboration) 2011/11
32.	Paper	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) (Collaboration) 2011/03
33.	Paper	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) between both World Wars - Original (German): "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) zwischen den Weltkriegen" (Single) 2011
34.	Paper	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" (Single) 2010/03
35.	Paper	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" (Single) 2008/12
36.	Paper	Dealing with Word-endings in German Classes - Original (German): "Wortendungen im Deutschunterricht" (Single) 2008/07
37.	Paper	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" (Single) 2008/03
38.	Paper	The German Vocabulary in Reverse - Original (German): "Der deutsche Wortschatz - rueckwaerts betrachtet" (Single) 2008/03
39.	Paper	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" (Single) 2006/07
40.	Paper	Karl Haushofer Re-examined - Geopolitics as a Factor within Japanese-German Rapprochement in the Inter-War Years? (Single) 2006/03
41.	Paper	From "German Measles" to "Honorary Aryans": An Overview of Japanese-German Relations until 1945 (Collaboration) 2006/03
42.	Paper	The Cancelled [OAG-] Anniversary - Original (German): "Das ausgefallene Jubilaeum" (Single) 2006/01
43.	Paper	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)" (Single) 2006
44.	Paper	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" (Single) 2006
45.	Paper	The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Asien (1930-45) - Original (German): "Die Expansion der OAG in Asien (1930-45)" (Single) 2005/09
46.	Paper	The Failed Museum, Leipzig and the "[OAG-] Section Berlin" - Original (German): "Das gescheiterte Museumsprojekt, Leipzig und die Sektion Berlin" (Single) 2005/02
47.	Paper	The "Nachrichten der OAG (NOAG)": Reluctantly becoming a Journal - Original (German): "Die Nachrichten der OAG (NOAG): Eine Zeitschrift wider Willen" (Single) 2004/10
48.	Paper	Who were Hitler's East Asia Experts? (Part 2) - Original (German): "Wer waren Hitlers Ostasienexperten? (Teil 2)" (Single) 2003/05
49.	Paper	Who were Hitler's East Asia Experts? (Part 1) - Original (German): "Wer waren Hitlers Ostasienexperten? (Teil 1)" (Single) 2003/04
50.	Paper	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" (Single) 2001/03
51.	Paper	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 (Single) 2001
52.	Paper	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" (Single) 2000/12
53.	Paper	"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. (Single) 2000
54.	Other	"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) (Single) 2020/05
55.	Other	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) (Single) 2019/09
56.	Other	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) (Single) 2019
57.	Other	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) (Single) 2019
58.	Other	Johannes Goerbert, Mario Kumekawa, Thomas Schwarz (Hrsg.), Pazifikismus: Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans, Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen u. Neumann. 2017. ISBN-13: 978-3826061691 (568 S.) (Rezension) (Single) 2018
59.	Other	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) (Single) 2018
60.	Other	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) (Single) 2017/01
61.	Other	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) (Single) 2016/12
62.	Other	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) (Single) 2016/03
63.	Other	Ruprecht Vondran (Hg.), Gelebte Partnerschaft. Deutschland und Japan, Duesseldorf, Droste Verlag, 2014 (book review) (Single) 2014/11
64.	Other	Lesson 9.0. March 11, 2011 in Tsukuba and the consequences (Single) 2014/01
65.	Other	Review of Gerhard Krebs, Das moderne Japan 1868-1952 (book review) (Single) 2012/12
66.	Other	Gerhard Krebs, Das moderne Japan 1868-1952. Oldenbourg Grundriss Geschichte. Muenchen: Oldenbourg, 2009" (bookd review) (Single) 2012
67.	Other	Sabine Schmidt u. Karin Schmidt (eds.), Erinnerungsorte. Deutsche Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht, Berlin: Cornelsen, 2007 (book review) (Single) 2009/12
68.	Other	Yoshiko Watanabe-Roegner, Bildwoerterbuch zur Einfuehrung in die japanische Kultur. Architektur und Religion, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2008 (book review) (Single) 2009/12
69.	Other	Baadaa-Mainhofu risou no hatte ni (The limits of the Baader-Meinhof ideals [roundtable discussion]) (Collaboration) 2009/08
70.	Other	Bill Maltarich, Samurai and Supermen. National Socialist Views of Japan, Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005 (book review) (Single) 2008
71.	Other	Inge Hoppner and Sekikawa Fujiko (eds.), Brueckenbauer: Pioniere des japanisch-deutschen Kulturaustausches, Munich: Iudicium, 2005 (book review) (Single) 2007
72.	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)" (Single) 2006/07
73.	Other	Arai Satoshi, Ueda Koji, Senjika Nihon no doitsujintachi, Tokyo: Shueisha, 2003 (book review) (Single) 2004/03
74.	Other	Franziska Ehmcke, Peter Pantzer (eds.), Gelebte Zeitgeschichte - Alltag von Deutschen in Japan 1923-47, Munich: Iudicium, 2000 (book review) (Single) 2004/02
75.	Other	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)" (Single) 2004
76.	Other	Wolfgang Bauer, Tsingtau 1914 bis 1931: Japanische Herrschaft, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Rueckkehr der deutschen Kaufleute, Munich: Iudicium, 2000 (book review) (Single) 2003/06
77.	Other	Made in Japan: An Introduction to Recent Tokyo-Based German Historical Research on Modern Japan 1853-1945 (Collaboration) 2003/03
78.	Other	Electronic Dictionaries and Translation Pages on the Internet (Part 2) - Original (German): "Elektronische Japanisch-Woerterbuecher und Uebersetzungshilfen im Internet (Teil 2)" (Single) 2001/09
79.	Other	Electronic Dictionaries and Translation Pages on the Internet (Part 1) - Original (German): "Elektronische Japanisch-Woerterbuecher und Uebersetzungshilfen im Internet (Teil 1)" (Single) 2001/05
80.	Other	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) (Single) 1999/11
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2021/11/30	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in Shanghai (Symposium on the Outbreak of the Pacific War and the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai)
2.	2021/10/22	(Fleeing the Nazis: the Blessed Exiles of Asia?)
3.	2021/09/30	The Japanese Members of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) (45th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
4.	2021/08/24	Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in Karl Haushofer's writings and in the Zeitschrift fuer Geopolitik (Villa Geo- and Biopolitical Concepts of Order in the Age of the World Wars: On the International Reception of Friedrich Ratzels Theories)
5.	2021/07/27	India within Karl Haushofer's writing and thinking (26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS))
6.	2019/10/05	The Role of German High School Teachers in Japan before 1945 (43rd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
7.	2019/07/01	The German East Asiatic Society in Shanghai. Local leaders, Nazi pressure (23rd Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
8.	2018/09/29	Nazi Racism and its Influence on Japanese-German Couples (42nd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
9.	2018/08/30	National-Socialist Racism and its Effects on Japanese-German Couples in Japan (17th Gathering of German-speaking Japanologists)
10.	2018/07/01	Anti-Nazis and Nazis among German Teachers at Japanese High Schools before 1945 (22nd Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
11.	2017/10/06	The Activities of the German East Asiatic Society in Shanghai (41st German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
12.	2017/07/09	Nazi Racism and Japanese-German Marriages (21st Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
13.	2015/10/04	The internment of Germans in Dutch East India and the Japanese sinking of the "Van Imhoff" (39th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
14.	2015/08/25	Die Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Natur- und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens (OAG) in Tokyo als Bindeglied zwischen Asien und Deutschland (Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Germanistik (IVG))
15.	2015/06/20	Japanese Geopoliticians after 1945 (19th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
16.	2015/04/11	The first German-Japanese / Japanese-German Military Dictionaries (International Conference on MULTILINGUAL PERSPECTIVES IN GEOLINGUISTICS)
17.	2014/09/21	Experiences of a Jewish-German Businessman in Kobe (Japan) between 1926 and 1946 (38th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
18.	2014/06/21	Comparing Wakamatsu Koji's 'United Red Army' and Uli Edel's 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' (18th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
19.	2014/02/14	Karl Haushofer's views on Pacific affairs (International Conference (Hawaii): Asia and the Pacific in German Culture)
20.	2013/10/06	Albrecht Haushofer and his 1937 mission to Japan (37th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
21.	2013/08/06	Karl Haushofer's Theories and German-Japanese Relations (Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union (Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future))
22.	2012/12/08	Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges between Japan and Germany until 1945 (Singapore) (International conference: Asia-Europe Encounters. Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950)
23.	2012/10/06	German Japan-experts during the Nazi era (36th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
24.	2011/08/26	From Boom to Taboo and Back? Japanese Geopolitics before and after 1945 (13th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Tallinn)
25.	2011/06/26	The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in East Asia (1930-45) (15th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
26.	2010/10/09	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) and National Socialism (34th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
27.	2010/09/18	The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) 1933-45: Expansion and Adaptation (Conference "Exil in East Asia (1933-1945)")
28.	2010/05/30	Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex. Buch - Film - Realitaet (Fruehjahrstagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
29.	2009/10/09	Karl Haushofer's Role in German-Japanese Relations (33rd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference)
30.	2008/06/22	The Reception of Karl Haushofer's Ideas within Japanese Geopolitics (12th Asian Studies Conference Japan, ASCJ)
31.	2008/04/06	Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics (Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Annual Meeting 2008)
32.	2007/10/07	Creative Writing in German Classes (Herbsttagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
33.	2007/06/09	The German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a topic in Advanced German Classes (Fruehjahrstagung der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germanistik (JGG))
34.	2005/05/14	Tokyo's Role within the History of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) (Symposium "Global Tokyo", German East Asiatic Society (OAG))
35.	2004/05/22	German Geopolitics and the Idea of a Japanese-German-Soviet Transcontinental Bloc (Doitsu no chiseigaku to Nichi-Doku-So tairiku-burokku riron) (54th Concerence of the Japanese Society of Western History)
36.	2004/03/02	Japan's Role in Karl Haushofer's Foreign Policy Concept (National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS))
37.	2001/08/20	Karl Haushofer's Influence on Japanese and German Strategic Thinking (27th International Congress of Military History, Athens (Greece))
38.	2001/06/23	German Academics as Part-time Diplomats: Biographical Notes on Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Hack, Prof. Dr. Karl Haushofer and Dr. Hermann von Raumer (5th Asian Studies Conference Japan)
39.	1999/11/13	Geopolitics and Diplomacy. Academic Theories and Personal Contacts as Basis for Karl Haushofer's Influence on German-Japanese Relations 1909-1945 (377th lecture meeting of the Japanese Society for Contemporary History)
40.	1999/09/16	Karl Haushofer and Japan (11th Convention of German-speaking Japanologists)
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■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	1999/06	Karl Haushofer (1869-1946) and Japan. His influence on German-Japanese relations in the inter-war period (DIJ Tokyo) (Tokyo, Japan)
2.	2001/06	The Unification of Germany and the Integration of Europe (Saitama Prefecture, Kazo City)
3.	2002/01	Karl Haushofer and Japanese Geopolitics. His influence on Post World War I Japanese-German Relations (Tokyo, Mitaka)
4.	2002/07	Germany and Japan - Similarities and Differences (Saitama Prefecture, Kazo City)
5.	2002/11	Geopolitis and Alliance Policy - Karl Haushofer's Influence on Pre-War German-Japanese Relations (Kyoto)
6.	2002/11	Who were Hitler's East Asia Experts? (Kobe, Japan)
7.	2003/03	Misunderstanding Geopolitics. The World War II Axis and Contemporary Ideas of a Transcontinental Bloc Between Germany, the USSR and Japan (Singapore)
8.	2006/02	Tokyo's Role within the History of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) (Tokyo)
9.	2009/06	The Limits of the Baader-Meinhof Ideals (Tokyo)
10.	2012/09	Japanese History. An Introduction (Tokyo)
11.	2015/01	Karl Haushofer's influence in Germany and Japan (Tokyo)
12.	2015/02	Haushofer's Geopolitics and the Japanese Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere (Tokyo)
13.	2018/06	Nazi Racism and Japanese-German Intermarriages. How Foreign and Racial Policy clashed during the Nazi Era (Sophia University, Tokyo)
14.	2018/09	Nazi Racism and Interracial Marriages. How the Nazis Treated Jewish and Japanese Spouses (William Paterson University, New Jersey)
15.	2018/09	Karl Haushofer's Geopolitical Ideas and their Reception in Germany and Beyond (New York City University)
16.	2018/10	Nazi Racism towards Jews and Japanese (Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana) (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)
17.	2019/02	The Reception of Karl Haushofer's Geopolitical Ideas in Germany and Beyond (Leeds University, UK)
18.	2019/10	German Lecturers at Japanese Old-Style High Schools (Tokyo)
19.	2020/02	German-Japanese Relations - An Overview (1861-1945) (Erlangen University, Germany)
20.	2020/02	German-Japanese Relations - An Overview (1861-1945) (Bayreuth University, Germany)
21.	2022/06	German Lecturers at Japanese Old-Style High Schools (Tokyo)
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■ Exhibition, concert, and athletic meet

1.	2009/03/10～2009/03/29	Der europaeische Blick auf Japan III (Nara Prefectural Library and Information Center)
2.	2021/07/27～	160 Jahre Deutsch-Japanische Freundschaft (online)

■ Educational ability

● Practice example of education method
1.	2012/11/27	Organisation of a special lecture for the Institute for Research in Language Teaching: Assistant Professor Jeroen Bode (Tsukuba University): "Translation: Communication Between Languages"
2.	2012/12/12	Special lecture by Ralf Degen (Hitotsubashi University): The background and the current state of the German decision to stop using nuclear power stations
3.	2013/04/18	Siegfried Berliner (1884 - 1961) A German Professor in Japan
4.	2013/11/17	Organisation of a special lecture for the Institute for Research in Language Teaching: Dr. Michael Wachutka (Tuebingen Center for Japanese Studies): "About the German Translations of the Kojiki"
5.	2014/06/20	Organisation of a special lecture for the Institute for Research in Language Teaching: Professor Emerita Keiko Nakagome: "The drama "There is no light over Fukushima" by Nobel Prize winner Hertha Mueller"
6.	2014/10/30	Lecture by Frank Riesner about "Every Day Life behind the [Berlin] Wall, i.e. in East Germany"
7.	2015/06/03	Dr. Volker Stanzel, "Security Conflicts in East Asia. A Stumbling Block in the Path of Asia's Rise?"
8.	2016/12/20	Lecture by Frank Riesner about "East Germany before and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
9.	2019/04/17	Oranisation of a special lecture for the Institute for Research in Language Teaching: Dr. Volker Stanzel (retired ambassador): Why Britain does not follow the example of German-French cooperation
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■ Department laboratory expense researcher number

70547108

■ ReaD Researcher code

■ Abroad career

1.	2001/12～2002/09	German Institute for Japanese Studies Ph.D. research
2.	2018/04/01～2019/03/31	Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Japanese Department Research (Sabbatical)

■ E-Mail Address

■ Home Page

Academia.edu: Christian W. Spang (Daito Bunka University)