Korea in Japanese Pop Culture & Politics

[Aaron Gerow]

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAPAN
Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies Lecture Series

Presents
"Boom or Bust: Korea in Japanese Pop Culture & Politics"
A panel discussion addressing Japan-Korea relations

Date: Thursday, March 31
Time: 7:30 p.m. at TUJ rooms #206/7

Korea is in the news in ways unimaginable just a few years ago, with 
Japan
experiencing a cultural "boom" in Korean culture, cuisine, consumerism 
and
mass media. In addition to the refreshing shift in Japanese popular
perceptions of Korea ?V long the country ??so near but far away?? ?V there 
is
ongoing concern about the more troubling aspects of abductions from 
Japan
and security considerations on the peninsula, particularly the Six-Party
Talks and an avowedly nuclear North Korea.

Helping shed light on this interesting juxtaposition of booming popular
culture and alarming security considerations is a panel session of 
Korea experts
hosted by Temple University Japan's Institute of Contemporary Japanese 
Studies.

Following a discussion on how these parallel developments may evolve in 
the months ahead,
the expert panel will facilitate a dialogue in an open forum discussion.

PANELISTS
DAVID SATTERWHITE (Moderator)
Dr. Satterwhite is the Executive Director of The Japan-United States
Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan), now in its 53rd year in Japan 
as an important
bi-national funding source for academic scholarships between the two 
countries.
The Fulbright Program operates in 180 countries worldwide. In his 
previous position he was
Managing Director Japan of The Economist Conferences, in which capacity 
he
oversaw the Economist Corporate Network-Japan -- The Economist Group's
exclusive membership program for senior managers in Japan and the 
Asia-Pacific region.

After an upbringing and undergraduate studies in Japan, Satterwhite 
pursued
graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle, earning 
an MA
in Korean Regional Studies (1979) and a Ph.D. in Political Science, 
with a
concentration in Comparative, IR, International Political Economy, and 
the
Politics of Korea (1994).  The latter studies were assisted by a 
year-long
Fulbright grant spent at Korea University in Seoul (1986-87).

His professional careers include: university-level instruction for eight
years, including courses in Korean Politics; a commitment to work on 
human
rights and democratization issues, including an interim directorship of 
the
North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea.  As managing 
director of
The Economist Group-Japan, he organized Roundtables with the Government 
of
Korea, in Seoul, in which the Prime Minister and President Kim Dae-Jung
participated.  He has held his current position since 2004, and 
continues to
follow developments in NE Asia and on the Korean peninsula closely.

GAVAN MCCORMACK
Gavan McCormack is professor of Japanese History in the Research School 
of
Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and 
(2003 to
2005) visiting professor at International Christian University in Tokyo.
His most recent book is Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea
to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe (Nation Books, 2004),
(published by Heibonsha in 2004 as 'Kita Chosen wa do Kangaeru no ka').

Dr. McCormack was educated at Melbourne and London universities, with a
Ph.D. in History from London University in 1974. He has taught at the
Universities of Leeds (UK), La Trobe (Melbourne), and Adelaide, and
has been a visiting professor at Kobe University, Kyoto University,
Ritsumeikan University, and Tsukuba University.

Professor McCormack has lived and worked in Japan since first visiting 
as a
student in 1962, and is the author of a dozen books on various aspects 
of
modern Japanese, Korean, and Chinese history. His recent works include
Multicultural Japan: Paleolithic to Postmodern (edited with Donald 
Denoon,
Mark Hudson, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Cambridge University Press, 2002);
Japan??s Contested Constitution (edited with Glenn Hook, London, 2001);
and  The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (M. E. Sharpe, 2001), 
(published
by Misuzu shobo in 1998 as 'Kuukyo na rakuen'.

SAKATA YASUO
Yasuyo Sakata is Associate Professor of International Communication at 
Kanda
University's Department of International Studies. Professor Sakata has 
also
lectured at Keio University, the University of Tokyo (Institute of 
Oriental
Studies), the United Nations University (Tokyo), and the National 
Defense
Academy (Yokosuka) (Graduate Security Studies Program). She was a 
member of
the Defense and Diplomacy Study Group (Japan Defense Agency), 2001-2003,
Japan Institute of International Affairs, "Northeast Asia Security
and Japan" Project, 2003-2005.

Professor Sakata received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from 
Keio
University and was a security studies program scholar at the Research
Institute for Peace and Security ?]Heiwa Anzen Hoshou Kenkyujo, Tokyo) 
from
1992-94. She is the co-author of 'Heiki no Kakusan Bousi to Yushutsu 
Kanri
(Export Control: A Strategy for Preventing Weapons Proliferatoin)'; 
'9.11
igo no Amerika to Sekai (America and the World after 9.11)'; 'Chousen
Sensou- Kyusen 50 shuunen no Kenshou (Korean War)' and co-translator of
works such as John Lewis Gaddis's ??'The Long Peace'. Professor Sakata 
is a
frequent commentator on Japan-Korea security issues for media such as 
the
Asahi Shimbun, NHK/BS news, CNN, and ABC Radio (Australia).