Erich Pauer

Erich Pauer, born in 1943, is Austrian and studied Japanese studies, ethnology and social and economic history at the University of Vienna.

After completing his doctorate, he spent two years at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo as a scholarship holder of the Japanese government. He then worked at the universities of Vienna, Bonn, Freiburg and Trier.

In 1987 he took over the professorship for Japanese studies at the University of Marburg and was responsible for setting up the Japan Centre there with an extensive library. Short and long research stays in Japan followed (including at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo). He retired in 2008.

In 2010 he and Regine Mathias donated their extensive collection of books and other materials to CEEJA. Since then he has been working on a voluntary basis to establish and expand the CEEJA library. Her served as CEEJA vice-president for Japanese Studies from $$$ to 2022.

        • Publications

           Publications (selection)  


              (2020) Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (hrsg. gem. m. Ruselle Meade), Folkestone: Renaissance Books, 2020.

              (2012) "The search for (Social-) Identity: Japanese Engineers, 1910-1940", ICON, Nr. 18, S. 86-103.

              (2010) “Roboter in Japan”, in Technikgeschichte Band 77, Heft 4, S. 295–319.

              (2010) “Japanische Automaten (karakuri ningyō). Vorläufer der modernen Roboter?”, in Technikgeschichte, Band 77, Heft 4, S. 321–351.

              (2010) “Der industrielle Aufstieg Japans und die Rolle des Imperial College of Engineering (1873¬–1885) für die Humankapitalbildung im technischen Bereich”, in Ferrum – Nachrichten aus der Eisenbibliothek (Wissens- und Technologietransfer Asien-Europa), Nr. 82, S. 25–40. 

              (2009) Japan and Germany. Two Latecomers to the World Stage, 1890–1945, (hrsg. gem. mit Kudo Akira und Tajima Nobuo), 3 Bde., Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.

              (2004) “Die Mobilisierung der Ingenieure in der Zwischenkriegszeit: Von der Technokratie zum ‘wissenschafts-geleiteten Industrialismus’ (kagakushugi kōgyō)”, in Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens/Hamburg, Bd. 175–176, S. 93–128, Hamburg.

              (1999) Japan’s War Economy, (Hrsg.), London/New York: Routledge.

              (1995) Papers on the History of Industry and Technology in Japan, (Vol. I: From the Ritsuryô-system to the Early Meiji-Period; Vol. II: From the Meiji-Period to Postwar Japan (Hrsg.), Vol. III (hrsg. gem. m. Sakata Hironobu): History of Glass in Japan), Marburger Japan-Reihe Bd. 14/1 – 14/3, Marburg.

              (1993) “Menschen, Muster und Motoren”, in B. Martin & G. Krebs (Hrsg.): Formierung und Fall der Achse Berlin-Tōkyō (Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung, Band 8), iudicium-Verlag, München, S. 95–125.

              (1993) Nachbarschaftsgruppen und Versorgung in den japanischen Städten während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Marburger Japan-Reihe Bd. 9, Marburg.

              (1992) Technologietransfer Deutschland – Japan von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart (Hrsg.), in Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Monographien 2, iudicium-Verlag, München.

              (1991) Schwarzes Gold in Japan, Beiträge zur Geschichte des japanischen Steinkohlebergbaus & Katalog (hrsg. gem. m. Regine Mathias), Marburger Japan-Reihe Bd. 5, 199 S. + 38 S., Marburg.

              (1990) “Deutsche Ingenieure in Japan, japanische Ingenieure in Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit”. in J. Kreiner & R. Mathias (Hrsg.): Deutschland-Japan in der Zwischenkriegszeit, S. 289–324, Bouvier Verlag, Bonn.

              (1987) “Japanischer Geist – westliche Technik: Zur Rezeption westlicher Technologie in Japan”, in SAECULUM XXXVIII, Heft 1, S. 19–51, Freiburg.

              (1983) Japans industrielle Lehrzeit (Habilitationsschrift), Bonner Zeitschrift für Japanologie Bd. 4/1 u. 4/2: Bonn. 

              (1976) Der landwirtschaftliche Gerätebestand des Aso-Gebietes (Aso - Vergangenheit und Gegenwart eines ländlichen Raumes in Süd-Japan, Band II), Beiträge zur Japanologie, Band 13, Wien.

              (1973) Technik-Wirtschaft-Gesellschaft. Der Einfluß wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen auf die Entwicklung der landwirtschaftlichen Geräte in der vor-industriellen Epoche Japans ab dem 17. Jahrhundert (Dissertation), Beiträge zur Japanologie, Band 10; Wien.




        Regine Mathias

        Regine Mathias-Pauer, born in 1950, is a German citizen. After studying Japanese history at the Ruhr University Bochum, she moved to the University of Vienna in 1972, where she studied Japanese studies and social and economic history.

        After a one-year stay at Kyūshū University in Fukuoka, she completed her studies with a doctorate in 1977. After several years at the University of Bonn, Regine Mathias-Pauer was appointed professor at the University of Duisburg in 1992.

        In 1996 she took over the professorship for Japanese History at the Faculty of East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Research stays in Japan, for example at the Keio University in Tokyo, followed.

        As part of her long-term work as an expert and consultant, she was involved in a number of public committees (DFG, Max Weber Foundation, JaDe). She retired in 2016. Since then, she has been working on a voluntary basis at CEEJA and is helping to set up the library.

        In 2020, she received the Eugen and Ilse Seiboldt Prize for the promotion of science and understanding between Germany and Japan.

        Since 2022, she has been vice-president for Japanese Studies at CEEJA.

          • Publications

             Publications (selection)  

                (2020) “Knowledge on mining and smelting and its dissemination in the Edo period”, in E. Pauer and R. Meade (Hrsg.), Technical knowledge in early modern Japan, Folkstone: Renaissance Books, pp. 69-95.  

                (2018) “Regional identy in the making? Industrial heritage and regional identity in the coal region of Northern Kyūshū in Japan”, in C. Wicke, S. Berger, J. Golombek (Hrsg.), Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities, Abington: Routlege, pp. 136-167.

                (2019) “Gold und Silber für den Shōgun: Japanische Bergleute: zum Profil einer sozialen Randgruppe in der Edo-Zeit“, in S. Köhn und C. Weber (Hrsg.), Outcasts in Japans Vormoderne. Mechanismen der Segregation in der Edo-Zeit, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, S. 177-200.

                (2014) “The Nation at work: gendered working patterns in the Taishô- and Shôwa periods”, in Andrea Germer et. al (Hrsg.), Gender, nation and state in modern Japan, London and New York: Routledge, S. 141-163.

                (2011) Japanische Bergleute im Ruhrgebiet, (hg. gemeinsam mit A. Kataoka, P.-T. Meid, W. Pascha und S. Shimada), Essen: Klartext Verlag.

                (2009) “Picture scrolls as a historical source on Japanese mining”, in Nanny Kim, Keiko Nagase-Reimer, Anke Scherer (Hrsg.), Mining, Monies and Culture in Early Modern Societies: 

                East Asian and Global Perspectives, (Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia

                Volume 2), Leiden: Brill, S. 291-311.

                (2006) „Alltagsgeschichtliche Ansätze in der japanischen Geschichtswissenschaft“, in Hans Martin Krämer; Tino Schölz; Sebastian Conrad (Hrsg.), Geschichtswissenschaft in Japan. Themen, Ansätze und Theorien, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, S. 189-212.

                (2009) “Fritz Kummer – A German worker in Japan before the First World War”, in Kudo Akira, Tajima Nobuo, Erich Pauer (Hrsg.), Japan and Germany. Two late comers to the world stage 1890-1945, Vol III, Folkestone: Global Oriental, S. 406-430.

                (1999) “Women and the war economy in Japan”, in Erich Pauer (Hrsg.), Japan’s War Economy, London, New York: Routledge, S. 65-84

                Japanische Frauengeschichte(n), Erich Pauer & Regine Mathias (Hrsg.), Marburger Japan-Reihe Bd. 12, Marburg 1995.

                (1993) “Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry”, in Janet Hunter (Hrsg.), Japanese Women Working - Past and Presence, London, New York: Routledge, S.98-121.

                (1992) “Reclam in Japan. Universal-Bibliothek und Iwanami-Bunko“,  in: D. Bode (Hrsg.) Reclam: 125 Jahre Universal Bibliothek 1867-1992, Ditzingen: Reclam, S. 258-281

                (1978) Industrialisierung und Lohnarbeit - Der Kohlenbergbau in Nord-Kyûshû und sein Einfluß auf die Herausbildung einer Lohnarbeiterschaft, Beiträge zur Japanologie Bd.15, Wien.

          Junko Tokue

          Junko Tokue holds a Master's degree in Japanese classical literature from Waseda University, Japan, and has worked as a research assistant at the university. She has also taught logic at the College of Medicine and worked as a Japanese teacher at the Alsace Lycée Seijo, accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Since 2006, she has worked at the CEEJA in the research and education sector, teaching at Strasbourg University and supervising master's students at L'EM Strasbourg. Since 2017, she has been responsible for educational and research projects, promoting exchanges between researchers and students from Europe and Japan, as well as supporting the library work.