iudicium verlag

iudicium verlag is a German academic publishing house based in Munich. Its catalogue is unusually focused for a small independent press: the core list covers Japan and East Asia across politics, economics, society, law, history, philosophy, religious studies, language, literature, art, music and theatre, alongside intercultural titles, bibliographies, belles-lettres, journals and yearbooks. A second major cluster is Germanistik / Deutsch als Fremdsprache (German studies and German as a foreign language), again spanning language, literature and intercultural topics. The publisher also issues the Kulinaristik yearbook and monographs, and lists in cultural studies, theology, philosophy, sociology, history, art and photography. The house is closely associated with the German-language academic discourse on Japan. Its backlist includes monographs and edited volumes on Japanese constitutional history, Russo-Japanese relations, the German presence in Qingdao/Tsingtau, Zen Buddhism and National Socialism, Bushidō, and East Asian board games, as well as series such as the Erfurter Universitätsreden. The publisher's output is aimed at scholars, university libraries and specialist readers rather than the general trade market. iudicium operates from Dauthendeystraße 2 in Munich and maintains a bilingual-facing but German-language website with a searchable book list. It is an independent private company; no parent group or stock listing is indicated in the available evidence. The press remains active, with its website carrying a 2024 copyright notice.

iudicium verlag is a Munich-based academic publisher whose identity is built around a specialist, German-language list on Japan and East Asia. The available evidence does not record a founding date, founder or corporate ownership history, so the following account is limited to what the publisher's own catalogue and website establish. The house is located at Dauthendeystraße 2 in Munich and presents itself through a German-language website with a searchable book list. Its catalogue is organized into clearly defined subject areas: Japan and East Asia (politics, economics, society, law, history, philosophy, religious studies, language, literature, art, music, theatre); intercultural studies; bibliographies; belles-lettres; journals and yearbooks; Germanistik / Deutsch als Fremdsprache (language, literature, intercultural studies, journals and yearbooks); Kulinaristik (yearbook and monographs); cultural studies; theology and philosophy; sociology and history; and art and photography. The Japan and East Asia list is the most distinctive part of the programme. Titles documented in the publisher's own book list include Norbert R. Adami's study of the history of Russo-Japanese relations, a volume on self-assertion discourses in Asia (China – Japan – Korea), Junko Ando's work on the origins of the Meiji Constitution and the role of German constitutionalism in the modern Japanese state, a translation of Anrakuan Sakuden's Seisuishô, Peter Banaschak's study of East Asian board games (Xiangqi, Changgi, Shogi) up to 1640, Wolfgang Bauer's book on Qingdao/Tsingtau from 1914 to 1931, a volume of letters, diary notes and documents of Georg Michaelis in Meiji Japan, Hans-Joachim Bieber's works on National Socialism and Zen Buddhism and on the SS and samurai, and Gerhard Bierwirth's books on Bushidō and on makoto and sincerity. This list shows a sustained engagement with Japanese history, religion, law and cultural history, often through primary-source editions and translations. A second cluster is German studies and German as a foreign language, together with intercultural and European themes. Documented titles include Gerd Ulrich Bauer on foreign cultural policy, Rainer Bendel on expellees, the Catholic Church and society in Bavaria from 1945 to 1975, Wolfgang Bergsdorf's edited Erfurter Universitätsreden volumes, and edited volumes by Wolfgang Boeckh on European ideas, German-French relations and travel. The publisher also lists the Kulinaristik yearbook and monographs, extending its profile into food culture studies. The website carries a 2024 copyright notice, indicating that the press is active in the present. No parent company, stock listing or executive leadership is disclosed in the available evidence, and the publisher appears to operate as an independent private academic house.

Independent German-language academic publisher with a specialist focus on Japan and East Asia, German studies and cultural studies, serving scholars and research libraries.

• Norbert R. Adami, Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft: Die Geschichte der russisch-japanischen Beziehungen

• Iwo Amelung et al. (eds.), Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse in Asien: China – Japan – Korea

• Junko Ando, Die Entstehung der Meiji-Verfassung

• Anrakuan Sakuden, Seisuishô. Lachen, das den Schlaf vertreibt

• Peter Banaschak, Schachspiele in Ostasien: Xiangqi, Changgi, Shogi

• Wolfgang Bauer, Tsingtau 1914 bis 1931

• Bert Becker (ed.), Georg Michaelis: Ein preußischer Jurist im Japan der Meiji-Zeit

• Hans-Joachim Bieber, Nationalsozialismus und Zen-Buddhismus

• Hans-Joachim Bieber, SS und Samurai

• Gerhard Bierwirth, Bushidô. Der Weg des Kriegers ist ambivalent

• Gerhard Bierwirth, Makoto und Aufrichtigkeit

• Wolfgang Bergsdorf (ed.), Erfurter Universitätsreden (multiple volumes)

• Kulinaristik yearbook and monographs

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