In our fourth review of 2013, we look at some of the North Korea related news, and stories which put the peninsula in a wider East Asian context. DPRK Google chairman Eric Schmidt, together with a former governer of New Mexico, had a four day trip to North Korea in January. “I’m still spinning my … [Read More]
Place: Japan (page 2)
Selected publications
- Yu Miri: The End of August tr Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis 2023
- Joshua Pilzer: Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima”, Oxford University Press 2022
- Elisa Shua Dusapin: The Pachinko Parlour tr Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Daunt 2022
- David Weiss: The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire, Bloomsbury 2022
- Markus Bell: Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea, Berghahn Books 2021
- Nobuko Yamasaki: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History, Routledge 2021
- Erik Ropers: Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan: Histories Against the Grain, Routledge 2020
- David Fedman: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea, University of Washington Press 2020
- Sujung Kim: Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean”, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Yu Miri: Tokyo Ueno Station tr Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis 2019
- Kan Kimura: The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations tr Marie Speed, University of Michigan Press 2019
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea-Japan Interactions, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Christina Yi: Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press 2018
- Anthology: The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History ed Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Rowman + Littlefield 2018
- Mary Lynn Bracht: White Chrysanthemum, Penguin 2018
- Min Jin Lee: Pachinko, Apollo 2017
- Kim Myung Ja: The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan: Geopolitics, Identity and Nation-Building, I.B. Tauris 2017
- Oliver Dew: Zainichi Cinema: Korean-in-Japan Film Culture, Palgrave 2016
- Anthology: Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan ed Clark W. Sorensen and Andrea Gevurtz Arai, University of Washington Press 2016
- Jun Kimura: Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding, University Press of Florida 2016
- Celeste L Arrington: Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea, Cornell East Asia Series 2016
- Vladimir Tikhonov: Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity, Routledge 2015
- Nayoung Aimee Kwon: Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan, Duke University Press 2015
- Jun Uchida: Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945, Harvard University Press 2014
- Peter D Shapinsky: Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan, University of Michigan Press 2014
- JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kang Hang, Kenneth Robinson: A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang tr JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kenneth R Robinson, Columbia University Press 2013
- Masuda Hiroshi: MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea tr Yamamoto Reiko, Cornell East Asia Series 2012
- Anthology: Into the Light: An Anthology of Literature by Koreans in Japan ed Melissa L. Wender, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Charlotte von Verschuer: Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries tr Kristen Lee Hunter, Cornell East Asia Series 2010
- Ken C Kawashima: The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan, Duke University Press 2009
- Anthology: Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan ed Sonia Ryang and John Lie, University of California Press 2009
- Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War, Rowman + Littlefield 2007
- Melissa Wender: Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000, Stanford University Press 2005
- Jackie J Kim: Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan, Rowman + Littlefield 2004
- Burglind Jungmann: Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga, Princeton University Press 2004
- James B Lewis: Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan, Routledge 2003
- Anthology: Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin ed Sonia Ryang, Routledge 2000
- Chong Ki-Sheok: Black Flower in the Sky: Poems of a Korean Bridegroom in Hiroshima tr Elizabeth Ogata, Naoshi Koriyama, University of Hawai'i Press 2000
- Chin Sung Chung, Etsuro Totsuka, Keith Howard, Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan: True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women tr Young Joo Lee, Continuum 1995
- Peter Duus: The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910, University of California Press 1995
- Anthology: Women of Japan and Korea: Continuity and Change ed Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, Temple University Press 1994
- Alan Carter Covell, Jon Carter Covell: Korean Impact on Japanese Culture: Japan’s Hidden History, Hollym 1983
The Japanese YouTube campaign on Dokdo
Wisely, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has disabled comments on their Dokdo propaganda video uploaded to YouTube a few days ago. Because otherwise they’d be deluged with some pretty hostile feedback. And not just from angry Koreans. The map they provide is downright misleading. To a viewer who knows nothing, it seems perfectly reasonable … [Read More]
Looking back at 2012: DPRK and regional news
In the third of four round-ups of things that caught our eye in 2012, we look back at some of the stories from the DPRK and Seoul’s external relations. DPRK The leadership transition proceeded smoothly, contrary to many observers’ expectations. Kim Jong-un showed that he had inherited his father’s expensive tastes, with a story that … [Read More]
Looking back at 2012: Hallyu and entertainment news
In the second of four round-ups of links to news which caught our eye in 2012, we focus on hallyu-related stories from around the world, some of the local entertainment industry stories plus a quick look at the film industry. UK. The Guardian put together an entertaining photoshop when London Mayor Boris Johnson claimed he … [Read More]
2012 Travel Diary #22: The Burial Grounds of the Royal Joseon Placentas, and why underfloor heating is not always good for you
Sancheong Town, Gyeongsangnam-do, Sunday 1 April 2012. Yes, it’s 1 April, and no, this article is not an April Fool’s joke. Sunday in Sancheong town, and the National Assembly election campaign is in full swing. All along the main street, the ppongtchak trucks are parked nose to tail, probably about eight of them. All of … [Read More]
Book review: Yoko Kawashima Watkins — So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Yoko Kawashima Watkins: So Far from the Bamboo Grove Harper Collins, 1986 Reprinted with letter from the author, 2008 183pp This time last year, Wikileaks revealed that when Mitt Romney, then Governor of Massachussetts, visited Korea in December 2006, one of the topics raised by the Korean Acting Foreign Minister Cho Jung-pyo was this short … [Read More]
2012 Travel Diary #19: Beopgyesa Temple and those Japanese feng-shui stakes
Beopgyesa Temple (법게사) is the highest in Sancheong County and at least the third-highest in Korea. The good people of Sancheong believe that Beopgyesa is the highest temple in South Korea, a claim which is supported by Beopgyesa’s entry on the Cultural Heritage Administration website, where the following text is to be found: “It is … [Read More]
Dokdo, Historical Awareness, and Korea-Japan Relations
I do like a good argument. I remember a couple of years ago a Japanese diplomat gave a very informative talk at Chatham House about Korea-Japan relations. But there was a Korean in the audience with strong views and the Q&A degenerated into a heated debate about Dokdo. There’s been rather too much in the … [Read More]
Guilt, Nostalgia, and Victimhood: Korea in the Japanese Theatrical Imagination
Looks like a very interesting talk at the Japan Foundation on 1 December. Of course, it has to clash with something equally as compelling: a rare screening of Kim Ki-young’s Insect Woman at the KCC. The Japan Foundation hosts: Guilt, Nostalgia, and Victimhood: Korea in the Japanese Theatrical Imagination Speaker: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (UCLA) How … [Read More]
How Korean Pop Conquered Japan
How Korean Pop Conquered Japan: K-Pop groups look and act like real adults, whereas J-Pop outfits often emphasize adolescent cuteness, says Patrick St. Michel in The Atlantic. [Read More]
Korea and the tsunami
Some links relating to Korea’s response to the Japanese tsunami Korean Entertainers Step Up to Help Japan (Chosun Ilbo) http://bit.ly/dTcArk Even anti-Japan groups join the aid bandwagon – (JoongAng Daily) http://bit.ly/eraCyA Putting aside negative feelings toward Japan – A former comfort woman calls for philanthropic aid to neighbor http://bit.ly/eMcpW3 Quake moves Japan further away from … [Read More]
Film review: Sona, the other myself
The third Asia House Pan-Asian Film Festival offered the opportunity to see an unusual documentary. Yang Yonghi’s Sona, the other myself is a simple portrait of three generations of a family – an elderly ethnic Korean couple living with their daughter (Yang herself) in Osaka, and Yang’s three elder brothers and their children who live … [Read More]
Murakami dominates Korean bestsellers list
Another story demonstrating the popularity of Japanese fiction in Korea: Murakami’s 1Q84 occupies the number one slot in the Korean bestseller list for 19 weeks – finally dislodged by historical novel about Princess Deokhye, the last Princess of Korea. http://bit.ly/cqOrVm # [Read More]
Bae Doo-na named Best Actress
Bae Doo-na has been named Best Actress twice over in Japan for her role in Air Doll, which showed at the London Film Festival last year. Bae will pick up her trophy at the 23rd Takasaki Film Festival on March 28, after claiming her honor at the 33rd Japan Academy Awards on March 5. Source: … [Read More]
Henry’s War – an illustrated talk on early 20th Century Korea
A talk on Korean History in the early 20th century by Mr Patrick Cockburn of the Independent Newspaper Tuesday 10 March 2009 18:00-19:00 at the KCCUK Links: Henry’s war: One man’s fight against rendition, Patrick Cockburn, Independent, Thursday 6 December 2007 [Read More]
The Japanese counter-wave
March’s edition of Seoul magazine has an interesting article discussing how cultural waves do not travel in just one direction. Supporters of Korean culture are keen to point out the unstoppability of the hallyu: Rain in the Philippines, BoA in Japan, Super Junior in China, TV Dramas everywhere (except the UK it seems). Back home, … [Read More]