Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations

Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. Currently he is serving as the Kim Koo 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.

• List of Figures and TablesList of Contributors Acknowledgments AbbreviationsIntroduction: Confrontation and Cooperation in Japan-Korea Relations, 1868 to the Present Mark E. Caprio and Robert Winstanley-ChestersPART IPrecolonial Issues 1 On the Front Line: Establishment and Activities of the Chosŏn Legation in Tokyo Daria Grishina2 Japan’s Colonialist Policy in the Sino-Korean Borderland of Jiandao, 1904–1909 Andrew De LislePART IIColonial Period, 1905–1945 533 The Influence of the Korean 1919 March First Independence Movement on Japanese Colonial Policy Mark E. Caprio4 Reforms in Japanese-run Colonial Education in Korea, 1919–1925 Andrew Hall5 Modernity in a Distorted Mirror: Kim Naesŏng, Edogawa Rampo, and Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea Jooyeon Rhee6 JODK: Musical Transculturation on JODK Radio in Colonial Korea Kim Jiesun7 The History and Character of Language Movements in Colonial Korea: Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s Takashi Mitsui8 Japanese Suiheisha, Korean Hyongpyongsa, and Their Solidarity Joong-Seop Kim9 Myth and Nation-Building in Japan and Korea: The Cases of Amaterasu and Tan’gun David Weiss10 Korea, Japan, and the Role of Manchuria in the 1930s: A Prelude to War? Ku Daeyeol and Mark E. Caprio11 Sōshikaimei: The Dichotomy between Assimilation and Differentiation under Japanese Colonial Rule of Korea Mizuno NaokiPART IIIPostwar Period, 1945–196512 A Reconsideration of the Ch’inilp’a (Pro-Japanese Collaborators) Criteria: Formal and Informal Discussions Surrounding the 1947 and 1948 Legislations AhRan Ellie Bae13 Money at the End of Empire: Deportation, Repatriation, Smuggling, and Currency Problems in Occupied Korea and Japan, 1945–1952 Simon James Bytheway14 The Dilemma of Delayed Repatriation: Wartime Forced Migration of Koreans to Sakhalin and Their Repatriation to the Republic of Korea Igor Saveliev15 American Occupiers and the Abandonment of Decolonization in Korea and Japan Matthew R. Augustine16 The Hidden History of the 3.1 Infantry Regiment: Zainichi Student Volunteers in the Korean War Minami Yuki17 The 1965 South Korea-Japan Treaty in the Context of Colonialism and the Cold War Ōta Osamu18 Japan and North Korea in the Cold War and Beyond: Remembering the Forgotten Connections Tessa Morris-Suzuki19 Before the Wave, the Ripples: North Korea’s Music Diplomacy with Japan from the 1970s to the 1990s Peter MoodyPART IVModern Era, 1965 to the Present 20 Japanese Grassroot Efforts to Assist South Korean Hibakusha Gain Treatment and Other Benefits Ágota Duró21 Letters from South Korea by T.K. Sei: A Transnational Advocacy Network and the Struggle for South Korean Democracy Younghye Seo Whitney22 Skeleton Crews and Sensitive Shores: Cultural Geographies Produced by Unwanted North Korean Bodies during the Ghost Ships Phenomenon, 2011–2020 Robert Winstanley-Chesters23 Women in the Post-1965 Japan-South Korea Diplomatic Relationship Caroline Norma24 Regional Influences and Unique Trajectories Within the Hybrid Chosŏn School Network in Japan Susan Menadue-Chun25 Echoes of the Famine: The Resettlement of North Koreans in Japan Markus Bell26 The Right-Wing Backlash and Historical Revisionism: Parallels and Differences in Japan and South Korea Patrick Vierthaler27 Bones to Pick: Nationalism Beyond the Grave Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka28 The Post-National Cinema by Sai Yoichi (Choi Yang-il): The Zainichi Family Chronicles, All Under the Moon (1993) and Blood and Bones (2004) Hyangjin LeeAppendix: Kantō Ni Kansuru Ni-Shin Kyōyaku 間島に関する日清協約[The Japan-Qing Agreement Concerning Jiandao], Signed September 4, 1909 Index