Rumi Sakamoto (editor) - Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in JapanKorea relations.

Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the books chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.

Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the popular are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely.

Rumi Sakamoto is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, the University of Auckland, and is convenor of Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese and Korean programmes. She has published widely on Japanese popular culture, nationalism and war memory. She is a co-editor of Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Routledge, 2006) and Japanese Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014). Her current research looks at cultural representations of kamikaze pilots and self-defence forces in post-war Japan.

Stephen Epstein is the Director of the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and served as the 201314 President of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society. He has published widely on contemporary Korean society, literature and popular culture and translated numerous pieces of Korean and Indonesian fiction, including the novels Who Ate Up All the Shinga? by Park Wan-suh (2009) and The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha (2020). He has co-produced two documentaries on the Korean indie music scene, Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-pop World (2014) and Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community (2002).

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Edited by Rumi Sakamoto and Stephen Epstein

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Names: Sakamoto, Rumi, editor. | Epstein, Stephen J., 1962 editor.

Title: Popular culture and the transformation of Japan-Korea relations / edited by Rumi Sakamoto and Stephen Epstein.

Description: London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. | Series: Asias transformations | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2020011402 | ISBN 9780367024444 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367520250 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429399558 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Korea (South)RelationsJapan. | JapanRelationsKorea (South) | Popular cultureJapan. | Popular cultureKorea (South)

Classification: LCC DS849.K6 P66 2020 | DDC 303.48/45195052dc23

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Markus Bell is a migration and social inclusion expert who has published broadly on politics and social change in East Asia. He has lectured at the Australian National University, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the University of Sheffield. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University and consults for Rapid Asia.

Yoojin Choi recently graduated with a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from the University of Auckland. Her research interests include public history, war memory, and nationalism in post-war East Asia. She is currently studying Chinese at Peking University.

Kukhee Choo is Affiliate Faculty at Hosei University, and her research focuses on globalization and cultural policies, Trans-Asian media flows, and media representations of bodies. She has published work in Women: A Cultural Review