The three bi-lateral relationships included in this study — Japanese/Korean, Japanese/American and American/Korean — shaped by specific areas of tension. These are evident in the places students visit, as are attempts being made in all three countries to mitigate the tensions. Photos of the different sites help illuminate these legacies. These in no way represent […]
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Japan and Korea
March 11th, 2011 · Comments Off on Japan and Korea · 5. Images symbolizing political relationships, Japan and Korea
2010 marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Japan’s official colonization of Korea. The colonization lasted until 1945 and Japan’s defeat in World War II. In the two countries, the key sites for this research mark the relationship in quite different ways. In Korea, at Seodaemun Prison and at the Cheonan Independence Hall, […]
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Korea and the United States
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Korea and US
The relationship between South Korea and the United States is framed both by stories of the Korean War in the early 1950s and by current manifestations of intra-Korean tensions, most evident in the harsh and dangerous confrontation between North and South in the. US and Koreans work side by side in the DMZ. […]
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United States and Japan
March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · US and Japan
Students in Japan are so likely to have visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki that a special section of this study has been devoted to the ways that experience is described in the US and in Japan. On this page the focus is on other aspects of the suffering imposed by World War II and museums and memorials […]
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