The Chosun Ilbo provides some interesting alternative takes on Independence Day. It’s not just the day that Koizumi visited the Yasukuni shrine again, or when Koreans held anti-American demonstrations. First, the event was marked in Japan, as it has for the past 16 years, by a “Concert for Peace” given by the Tokyo Phil, this … [Read More]
Place: Japan (page 3)
Selected publications
- Joshua Pilzer: Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima”, Oxford University Press 2023
- Yu Miri: The End of August tr Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
DPRK: Japan and the abduction issue
It’s been a while since I last received a copy of the DPRK e-bulletin. Here’s the latest one. The related BBC story is here. DPRK FM Spokesman Exposes Japan’s Moves to Internationalize “Abduction Issue” Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on June 13 as regards the … [Read More]
Christ’s tomb maintained by Japanese yoghurt profits
An off-topic post, but this story is too good to pass up. Today’s (London) Times is a bit of a mess. Its leader column, trying to say something witty about our comedy deputy prime minister having an afternoon playing croquet with his aides (why that’s a resignation issue is beyond me – it’s not as … [Read More]
Book Review: Admiral Yi Sun-sin
Admiral Yi Sun-sin: A brief overview of his life and achievements Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project, 2006 A quick and easy read setting out the achievements of Admiral Yi in the Imjin war against Japan. As well as telling Yi’s story (sometimes using Yi’s own war diary and memorials to the throne), the book … [Read More]
Admiral Yi enters cyberspace in history book fightback
The Admiral who gave the Japanese a bloody nose in the Imjin War has no fewer than three websites to his name: www.koreanischerheld.com exclusively for German readership, www.koreanpatriot.net for a multilingual audience (including English), and www.koreanhero.net which is an html version of a glossy book on his achievements. He himself can be contacted, through some timewarp … [Read More]
Conspiracy theories
Tom Coyner has a mischievous speculation in one of his recent email news updates. I sometimes wonder if Pres Roh and PM Koizumi have these gentleman agreements, off the record of course, that allow each of them to act ridiculous so as to pander to local politics while knowing that the other politician is giving … [Read More]
Stephen Turnbull: Samurai Invasion – Japan’s Korean War 1592-98
Cassell, 2002, 256pp Shows how factionalism in the Korean court, complacency and incompetence led to the easy conquest of Korea by Japan in 1592. Well illustrated, with maps and photographs, this book plots the course of the 6-year occupation of Korea at the end of the 16th century, and the brutal modes of warfare (Korea’s … [Read More]
Keith Howard (ed): True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women.
(Cassell, 1995). Does what it says on the tin. Testimonies by former comfort women. Don’t read this all at once. It’s overwhelming. Update 9 July 2011. In an email to the members of the British Association for Korean Studies, Keith Howard gave the following background to the publication: ‘True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women’ … [Read More]
DPRK embassy e-bulletin 7 April 2006: Dokdo
The text of a release circulated by the DPRK Embassy in London yesterday: DPRK Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Slams Japan’s Claim to Tok Islet Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement issued on April 6 accused the Japanese authorities of recently allowing the description of Tok Islet as … [Read More]
Pyongyang declaration
PYONGYANG, Sept. 17 Kyodo The following is the full text of the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration issued Tuesday after a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chairman Kim Jong Il of the DPRK National … [Read More]