Dr. Sven Kramer
@kuramasuben.bsky.social
Associate professor at Aichi Prefectural University. Historian. Municipal mergers in modern Japan and more.
愛知県立大学日本文化学部准教授。専門は日本近現代史です。
https://researchmap.jp/Kurama83?lang=en
愛知県立大学日本文化学部准教授。専門は日本近現代史です。
https://researchmap.jp/Kurama83?lang=en
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Dr. Sven Kramer
@kuramasuben.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hello to all my new followers. Since my follower count has doubled during the last 48 hours I thought that it's time for a new and more elaborate #introduction.
I am Sven Kramer, a historian of modern Japanese history at Aichi Prefectural University in Nagakute, a suburb of Nagoya, Japan.
I am Sven Kramer, a historian of modern Japanese history at Aichi Prefectural University in Nagakute, a suburb of Nagoya, Japan.
明日名古屋歴史科学研究会11例会で報告を行います。会場は名古屋大学とZoomです。お知らせが短いのですが、関心のある方はぜひどうぞ！
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
明日名古屋歴史科学研究会11例会で報告を行います。会場は名古屋大学とZoomです。お知らせが短いのですが、関心のある方はぜひどうぞ！
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We're honored to have @jppinfo.bsky.social featured in the NDL's Current Awareness Portal! We hope many more colleagues based in Japan will sign up for Japan Scholar Search, our project opportunities, and more! 🥰
国立国会図書館の『カレントアウェアネス』最新号で、「ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント」を紹介する文章を掲載させていただきました。JPP の概要や、研究者・図書館員・学生の皆さまへの活用については、ぜひ下記の記事をご覧ください。 current.ndl.go.jp/e2838
E2838 – 日本の人文学のためのハブ構築の試み：ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（Japan Past & Present）
カレントアウェアネス-ENo.512 2025.11.06E2838日本の人文学のためのハブ構築の試み：ジャパン・パスト＆プレゼント（Japan Past & Present）柳井イニシアティブ UCLA、早稲田大学・マイケル・エメリック柳...
current.ndl.go.jp
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We're honored to have @jppinfo.bsky.social featured in the NDL's Current Awareness Portal! We hope many more colleagues based in Japan will sign up for Japan Scholar Search, our project opportunities, and more! 🥰
I'll be visiting this conference next month in Fukuoka. They're celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Japanese history department at Kyushu University and I'm really looking forward to seeing many old friends and mentors again.
#skystorians
kyushushigakkai.org/index.html
#skystorians
kyushushigakkai.org/index.html
九州史学会
kyushushigakkai.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I'll be visiting this conference next month in Fukuoka. They're celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Japanese history department at Kyushu University and I'm really looking forward to seeing many old friends and mentors again.
#skystorians
kyushushigakkai.org/index.html
#skystorians
kyushushigakkai.org/index.html
News article about a public lecture I recently gave:
www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1159...
www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1159...
時代映す新聞を保存活用へ 半田・国重要文化財「小栗家住宅」に保管：中日新聞Web
半田市中村町の国重要文化財「小栗家住宅」に保管されている膨大な過去の新聞を、県立大（長久手市）が整理する試みが始まっている。日本近現代...
www.chunichi.co.jp
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
News article about a public lecture I recently gave:
www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1159...
www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1159...
I spent a wonderful weekend at the EAJS Japan Conference in Sendai. It was a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues I had met before and form some new connections.
September 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I spent a wonderful weekend at the EAJS Japan Conference in Sendai. It was a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues I had met before and form some new connections.
Greetings from Sendai 👋🏻
September 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Greetings from Sendai 👋🏻
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
Finally out now 🥳🎉 -- and in OA! 🙏
Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/
Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/
Japan in the Early Modern World
This open access contributed volume examines the transnational relations between Japan and (Counter) Reformation Europe through the lens of translation.
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Finally out now 🥳🎉 -- and in OA! 🙏
Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/
Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/
Greetings from Kanazawa 👋🏻
September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Greetings from Kanazawa 👋🏻
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
I’ve been pleased to find my new book on Russian espionage in Japan in several bookshops in the UK. This is in Foyles in London.
“Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, From Peter the Great to Richard Sorge,” (Hurst 2025).
“Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, From Peter the Great to Richard Sorge,” (Hurst 2025).
July 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I’ve been pleased to find my new book on Russian espionage in Japan in several bookshops in the UK. This is in Foyles in London.
“Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, From Peter the Great to Richard Sorge,” (Hurst 2025).
“Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, From Peter the Great to Richard Sorge,” (Hurst 2025).
Some recent activities:
- Holding a lecture for interested citizens of Kasugai titled "Meiji Ishin to shichōson gappei"
- Attending the 20th anniversary conference of the kingendaishi kenkyūkai
- Holding a lecture for interested citizens of Kasugai titled "Meiji Ishin to shichōson gappei"
- Attending the 20th anniversary conference of the kingendaishi kenkyūkai
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Some recent activities:
- Holding a lecture for interested citizens of Kasugai titled "Meiji Ishin to shichōson gappei"
- Attending the 20th anniversary conference of the kingendaishi kenkyūkai
- Holding a lecture for interested citizens of Kasugai titled "Meiji Ishin to shichōson gappei"
- Attending the 20th anniversary conference of the kingendaishi kenkyūkai
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
Just got back from Hokkaidō, which inspired me to look up Ainu manuscripts for #ManuscriptMonday. Here's Stepan Krasheninnikov's 1738 "A Glossary: Latine-Ainu-Chukchi-Koryak-Itelmen," an early record of the Ainu language.
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
July 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just got back from Hokkaidō, which inspired me to look up Ainu manuscripts for #ManuscriptMonday. Here's Stepan Krasheninnikov's 1738 "A Glossary: Latine-Ainu-Chukchi-Koryak-Itelmen," an early record of the Ainu language.
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
July 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
『九州史学』第200号刊行、おめでとうございます！
July 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
『九州史学』第200号刊行、おめでとうございます！
I just spent an inspiring weekend of conferences.
June 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I just spent an inspiring weekend of conferences.
In Japanese the German word for "bomb" is used to refer to gas bottles, and here is why it's fitting:
May 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In Japanese the German word for "bomb" is used to refer to gas bottles, and here is why it's fitting:
Congratulations for the publication to all colleagues involved in this vital work, a comprehensive history of the ministry of internal affairs of Imperial Japan (内務省), and thanks to those who gifted me a copy.
May 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Congratulations for the publication to all colleagues involved in this vital work, a comprehensive history of the ministry of internal affairs of Imperial Japan (内務省), and thanks to those who gifted me a copy.
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
The 4 stages of academic writing illustrated in 1616 with the help of the Evangelists. #skystorians #academicchatter #academicsky
October 31, 2024 at 7:50 AM
The 4 stages of academic writing illustrated in 1616 with the help of the Evangelists. #skystorians #academicchatter #academicsky
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
A collaboration between the V&A; Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; and the Sainsbury Institute has allowed nearly 2000 old Japanese books to be digitized and catalogued.
Caroline Gill has been working to translate the Japanese cataloguing info into English.
www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
Caroline Gill has been working to translate the Japanese cataloguing info into English.
www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
Revealing the V&A’s Japanese Illustrated Book Collection • V&A Blog
Interest in objects from East Asia has been prevalent at the V&A since its establishment in 1852. Seen as a vital design resource, the arts of Japan became an area of particular interest for the...
www.vam.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A collaboration between the V&A; Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; and the Sainsbury Institute has allowed nearly 2000 old Japanese books to be digitized and catalogued.
Caroline Gill has been working to translate the Japanese cataloguing info into English.
www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
Caroline Gill has been working to translate the Japanese cataloguing info into English.
www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
同僚から立派な本をいただきました。ありがとうございました。
April 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
同僚から立派な本をいただきました。ありがとうございました。
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).
March 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).
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Giving a paper on the pre-1968 history of Kyushu University's student movement, at the "Re-examining Japan's Cold War" conference at Ritsumeikan U. in Kyoto.
February 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Giving a paper on the pre-1968 history of Kyushu University's student movement, at the "Re-examining Japan's Cold War" conference at Ritsumeikan U. in Kyoto.
Today I learned that Aichi Prefecture had a local "great merger" in 1906, that slashed its number of municipalities roughly in half. This flew completely under my radar until now.
February 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Today I learned that Aichi Prefecture had a local "great merger" in 1906, that slashed its number of municipalities roughly in half. This flew completely under my radar until now.
Reposted by Dr. Sven Kramer
My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media
This article examines the metapragmatics of ‘Mock Foreigner’ speech and its associated characterological figure in a Japanese popular media context. M…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Quick reminder that quite anything can be appropriated by jingoism...
February 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Quick reminder that quite anything can be appropriated by jingoism...
I got myself all modern history (近現代史) related volumes of the "History of Aichi Prefecture" (愛知県史) 😃
#skystorians
#academicsky
#skystorians
#academicsky
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I got myself all modern history (近現代史) related volumes of the "History of Aichi Prefecture" (愛知県史) 😃
#skystorians
#academicsky
#skystorians
#academicsky