Marie Söderberg is Professor and Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Sweden.

"...a volume filled with insight and sensitivity to a most complex relationship." - Robert Bedeski, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012

• 1. Introduction: Japan–South Korea relations at a crossroads, Marie Söderberg 2. How can we cope with historical disputes? The Japanese and South Korean experience, Kan Kimura 3. A whirlpool of historical controversies in widening waters of cooperation, Cheol Hee Park 4. Japan and the two Koreas: the foreign policy power of domestic politics, T. J. Pempel 5. Historical memory versus democratic reassurance: the security relationship between Japan and South Korea, Paul Midford 6. Hallyu: new politico-cultural discourse in East Asia? Ingyu Oh 7. Lingering memory problems: compromising hearts and resentful resistance, Mikyoung Kim 8. Substituting multilateralism, guiding trilateralism: the Japan–ROK Investment Agreement in the growing East Asian regionalism, Yoichiro Sato 9. The struggle for a decent life in Japan: the Korean minority adapting to changing legal and political conditions, Marie Söderberg 10. A multilayered analysis of Japan–South Korea relations, Marie Söderberg

Marie Söderberg is Professor and Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Sweden.

"...a volume filled with insight and sensitivity to a most complex relationship." - Robert Bedeski, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012

• 1. Introduction: Japan–South Korea relations at a crossroads, Marie Söderberg 2. How can we cope with historical disputes? The Japanese and South Korean experience, Kan Kimura 3. A whirlpool of historical controversies in widening waters of cooperation, Cheol Hee Park 4. Japan and the two Koreas: the foreign policy power of domestic politics, T. J. Pempel 5. Historical memory versus democratic reassurance: the security relationship between Japan and South Korea, Paul Midford 6. Hallyu: new politico-cultural discourse in East Asia? Ingyu Oh 7. Lingering memory problems: compromising hearts and resentful resistance, Mikyoung Kim 8. Substituting multilateralism, guiding trilateralism: the Japan–ROK Investment Agreement in the growing East Asian regionalism, Yoichiro Sato 9. The struggle for a decent life in Japan: the Korean minority adapting to changing legal and political conditions, Marie Söderberg 10. A multilayered analysis of Japan–South Korea relations, Marie Söderberg

Marie Söderberg is Professor and Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Sweden.

"...a volume filled with insight and sensitivity to a most complex relationship." - Robert Bedeski, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012

• 1. Introduction: Japan–South Korea relations at a crossroads, Marie Söderberg 2. How can we cope with historical disputes? The Japanese and South Korean experience, Kan Kimura 3. A whirlpool of historical controversies in widening waters of cooperation, Cheol Hee Park 4. Japan and the two Koreas: the foreign policy power of domestic politics, T. J. Pempel 5. Historical memory versus democratic reassurance: the security relationship between Japan and South Korea, Paul Midford 6. Hallyu: new politico-cultural discourse in East Asia? Ingyu Oh 7. Lingering memory problems: compromising hearts and resentful resistance, Mikyoung Kim 8. Substituting multilateralism, guiding trilateralism: the Japan–ROK Investment Agreement in the growing East Asian regionalism, Yoichiro Sato 9. The struggle for a decent life in Japan: the Korean minority adapting to changing legal and political conditions, Marie Söderberg 10. A multilayered analysis of Japan–South Korea relations, Marie Söderberg