On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia, DIJ historian Torsten Weber was interviewed by several German media. For German radio Deutschlandfunk, he explained why the day of Japan’s official surrender, September 2, only plays a minor role in Japan’s commemoration of World War Two. In articles published by Deutsche Welle and German newspaper taz on the occasion of the emperor’s declaration of defeat on August 15, he commented on differences in addressing war guilt between postwar Germany and Japan. An article published by science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft introduced Torsten’s research on historical revisionism in Japan and history politics in East Asia. Also in August, an article co-authored with Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus on the impact of Japan’s defeat on postwar and contemporary East Asia (“Divided States, Divisive Memories”) was published on the Max Weber Foundation’s The Ends of War blog. It had first appeared in German in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “Beschönigung der Kriegsverbrechen”.