State, Society, and Covid-19 in East Asia

Taisuke Fujita is Associate Professor at Nagasaki University, Japan.Hidehiro Yamamoto is Professor in the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.Youngho Cho is Professor in Political Science at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.Sang-Jin Han is Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, South Korea.Yida Zhai is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

• 1. Introduction Part 1: Focus on Changes in State-Society Relations in Japan, South Korea, and China 2. Review of Japan’s Corona Policy: Interaction between the Government and Citizens 3. The Paradox of Successful Government Responses to COVID-19 in South Korea 4. Chinese Citizens’ Voices in the Shadow of COVID-19 Part 2: Comparative Perspectives on State-Society Relations in East Asia 5. Asian Values and Restrictions on Freedom 6. Do Values Prioritizing the Group over the Individual Influence East Asian People’s Thought about the Role of the State during the Pandemic? 7. Does Rawls’ Perspective Influence East Asian People’s Thinking about the Role of the State during the Pandemic? Part 3: Beyond the National Boundaries 8. A Comparative Study of the Citizen Assessments of COVID-19 Governance in Japan, South Korea, and China 9. Access to Information and Approval of Domestic and Neighboring Countries’ Pandemic Responses