Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations

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.

• Introduction: Confrontation and Cooperation in Japan-Korea Relations, 1868 to the PresentPart 1: Precolonial Issues1. On the Front Line: Establishment and Activities of the Chosŏn Legation in Tokyo2. Japan’s Colonialist Policy in the Sino-Korean Borderland of Jiandao, 1904–1909Part 2: Colonial Period, 1905–19453. The Influence of the Korean 1919 March First Independence Movement on Japanese Colonial Policy4. Reforms in Japanese-run Colonial Education in Korea, 1919–19255. Modernity in a Distorted Mirror: Kim Naesŏng, Edogawa Rampo, and Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea6. JODK: Transculturation of Music in Music Programs7. The History and Character of Language Movements in Colonial Korea: Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s8. Japanese Suiheisha, Korean Hyongpyongsa, and Their Solidarity9. Myth and Nation-Building in Japan and Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu and Tan’gun10. Korea, Japan, and the Role of Manchuria in the 1930s: A Prelude to War?11. Soshikaimei: The Dichotomy between Assimilation and Differentiation under Japanese Colonial Rule of KoreaPart 3: Postwar Period, 1945–196512. A Reconsideration of the Ch’inilp’a (Pro-Japanese Collaborators) Criteria: Formal and Informal Discussions Surrounding the 1947 and 1948 Legislations13. Money at the End of Empire: Deportation, Repatriation, Smuggling, and Currency Problems in Occupied Korea and Japan, 1945–195214. The Dilemma of Delayed Repatriation: Wartime Forced Migration of Koreans to Sakhalin and Their Repatriation to the Republic of Korea15. American Occupiers and the Abandonment of Decolonization in Korea and Japan16. The Hidden History of the 3.1 Infantry Regiment: Zainichi Volunteers in the Korean War17. The 1965 South Korea-Japan Basic Treaty in the Context of Colonialism and the Cold War18. Japan and North Korea in the Cold War and Beyond: Remembering the Forgotten Connections19. Before the Wave, the Ripples: North Korea’s Music Diplomacy with Japan from the 1970s to the 1990sPart 4: Modern Era, 1965 to the Present20. Japanese Grassroot Efforts to Assist South Korean Hibakusha to Gain Treatment and Other Benefits21. Letters from South Korea by T.K. Sei: A Transnational Advocacy Network and the Struggle for South Korean Democracy22. Skeleton Crews and Sensitive Shores: Cultural Geographies Produced by Unwanted North Korean Bodies during the Ghost Ships Phenomenon, 2011–202023. Women in the Post-1965 Japan-South Korea Diplomatic Relationship24. Regional Influences and Unique Trajectories Within the Hybrid Chosŏn School Network in Japan25. Echoes of the Famine: The Resettlement of North Koreans in Japan26. The Right-Wing Backlash and Historical Revisionism: Parallels and Differences in Japan and South Korea27. Bones to Pick: Nationalism Beyond the Grave28. The Postnational Cinema by Sai Yoichi (Choi Yang-il): The Zainichi Family Chronicles, All Under the Moon (1993) and Blood and Bones (2004)