Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations

Introduction: Confrontation and Cooperation in Japan-Korea Relations, 1868 to the Present

Mark E. Caprio and Robert Winstanley-Chesters

Part 1: Precolonial Issues

1. On the Front Line: Establishment and Activities of the Chosŏn Legation in Tokyo

Daria Grishina

2. Japan’s Colonialist Policy in the Sino-Korean Borderland of Jiandao, 1904–1909

Andrew De Lisle

Part 2: Colonial Period, 1905–1945

3. The Influence of the Korean 1919 March First Independence Movement on Japanese Colonial Policy

Mark E. Caprio

4. Reforms in Japanese-run Colonial Education in Korea, 1919–1925

Andrew Hall

5. Modernity in a Distorted Mirror: Kim Naesŏng, Edogawa Rampo, and Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea

Jooyeon Rhee

6. JODK: Transculturation of Music in Music Programs

Kim Jiesun

7. The History and Character of Language Movements in Colonial Korea: Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s

Mitsui Takashi

8. Japanese Suiheisha, Korean Hyongpyongsa, and Their Solidarity

Joong-Seop Kim

9. Myth and Nation-Building in Japan and Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu and Tan’gun

David Weiss

10. Korea, Japan, and the Role of Manchuria in the 1930s: A Prelude to War?

Ku Daeyeol and Mark E. Caprio

11. Soshikaimei: The Dichotomy between Assimilation and Differentiation under Japanese Colonial Rule of Korea

Mizuno Naoki

Part 3: Postwar Period, 1945–1965

12. A Reconsideration of the Ch’inilp’a (Pro-Japanese Collaborators) Criteria: Formal and Informal Discussions Surrounding the 1947 and 1948 Legislations

AhRan Ellie Bae

13. Money at the End of Empire: Deportation, Repatriation, Smuggling, and Currency Problems in Occupied Korea and Japan, 1945–1952

Simon James Bytheway

14. The Dilemma of Delayed Repatriation: Wartime Forced Migration of Koreans to Sakhalin and Their Repatriation to the Republic of Korea

Igor Saveliev

15. American Occupiers and the Abandonment of Decolonization in Korea and Japan

Matthew R. Augustine

16. The Hidden History of the 3.1 Infantry Regiment: Zainichi Volunteers in the Korean War

Minami Yuki

17. The 1965 South Korea-Japan Basic Treaty in the Context of Colonialism and the Cold War

Ōta Osamu

18. Japan and North Korea in the Cold War and Beyond: Remembering the Forgotten Connections

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

19. Before the Wave, the Ripples: North Korea’s Music Diplomacy with Japan from the 1970s to the 1990s

Peter Moody

Part 4: Modern Era, 1965 to the Present

20. Japanese Grassroot Efforts to Assist South Korean Hibakusha to Gain Treatment and Other Benefits

Ágota Duró

21. Letters from South Korea by T.K. Sei: A Transnational Advocacy Network and the Struggle for South Korean Democracy

Younghye Seo Whitney

22. Skeleton Crews and Sensitive Shores: Cultural Geographies Produced by Unwanted North Korean Bodies during the Ghost Ships Phenomenon, 2011–2020

Robert Winstanley-Chesters

23. Women in the Post-1965 Japan-South Korea Diplomatic Relationship

Caroline Norma

24. Regional Influences and Unique Trajectories Within the Hybrid Chosŏn School Network in Japan

Susan Menadue-Chun

25. Echoes of the Famine: The Resettlement of North Koreans in Japan

Markus Bell

26. The Right-Wing Backlash and Historical Revisionism: Parallels and Differences in Japan and South Korea

Patrick Vierthaler

27. Bones to Pick: Nationalism Beyond the Grave

Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka

28. The Postnational Cinema by Sai Yoichi (Choi Yang-il): The Zainichi Family Chronicles, All Under the Moon (1993) and Blood and Bones (2004)

Hyangjin Lee

Biography

Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. Currently he is serving as the Kim Ku Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Robert Winstanley-Chesters has been an AKS Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and in 2025 a Kyujanggak Fellow at SNU’s Kyujanggak ICKS.