Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan-Korea Relations

By: Rumi Sakamoto (Editor), Stephen Epstein (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 July 2020

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216 Pages

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This collection examines the diverse ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan-Korea relations and offers insight into the extent to which popular culture offers avenues for reconciliation between two powerful Northeast Asian nations with a fraught colonial and post-colonial relationship. It considers questions such as how are historical memories of Japanese-Korean interactions reinscribed, consumed and contested via popular culture? How do the contemporary Japanese and South Korean states use and manipulate popular culture, and how does popular culture support or challenge state ideology and patriotism? What consequences do digital technology and the rise of the prosumer hold for Japan-South Korea relations? How do the popular culture of Japan and South Korea engage with the division of the Korean Peninsula, the presence of North Korea, and the triangulated relationship between the three?

The contributions to this book span recent decades, during which Japan-Korea relations changed significantly, from the colonial period through the division of North and South Korea, ROK-Japan normalisation, the rise of Japan and South Korea as global economic powers, the United States' post-9/11 pivot to Asia, and the shift in the Asian regional order with China's rise. The book offers detailed case studies in which the authors highlight how popular culture has created spaces within which Japan-Korea relations are conceived, negotiated and transformed, and examine ways in which Japan-Korea relations are addressed in popular culture, ranging from the grossly simplistic to the nuanced and thoughtful. As such, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian cultural studies and Japan-Korea relations.

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