Hans Martin Krämer
Project leader
History
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Hans Martin Krämer (born 1972) studied History, Japanese Studies, and Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf, Germany), Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), and Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany). After research stays at the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto, Japan), he was assistant professor for Japanese Studies in Bochum. Since 2012, he is professor for Japanese Studies (History/Society) at Heidelberg University in Germany. His work has appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Social Science Japan Journal, and a number of other German-, Japanese-, and English-language venues.
Research Interest
History of the allied occupation following World War II, social and welfare policy, comparative fascism, problems of modernity and modernization, man and nature (especially animals), food studies, higher education, and the Japanese left.
Publications
-
(2006) “The Prewar Roots of ‘Equality of Opportunity’: Japanese Educational Ideals in the Twentieth Centuryâ€. In: Monumenta Nipponica 61 (4), pp. 521–549.
-
(2006) New beginning under US occupation? University reform in Japan between continuity and discontinuity, 1919-1952 (= edition bildung und wissenschaft , vol. 11). Berlin: Academy publishing house. ISBN: 978-3-05-004278-8; 317 pages; 54,80 Euro
-
(2008) “‘Not Befitting Our Divine Country’: Eating Meat in Japanese Discourses of Self and Other from the Seventeenth Century to the Presentâ€. In: Food and Foodways 16 (1), pp. 33–62.
