Popular Culture and the Transformation of JapanKorea Relations - 9780367024444

Taylor & Francis

Popular Culture and the Transformation of JapanKorea RelationsAuthor(s): Rumi Sakamoto, Stephen Epstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367024444, 978-0367024444\nSynopsis\nThis book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in JapanKorea relations.\n\nThrough 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.\n\nTaking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpower.