Torsten Weber

Torsten Weber is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo. He studied Modern History and Media Studies as well as Chinese and Japanese in Mainz, Shanghai, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University where he completed a dissertation on transnational Asia discourse in the interwar period. His research in the fields of modern and contemporary East Asian history focuses on Asianism, history politics, historical reconciliation, and regional integration in East Asia. His current project studies socio-political discourse on happiness in Imperial Japan.

Adresse: https://www.dijtokyo.org/people/torsten-weber/?affiliation=senior_research_fellows