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• Research Exchange Seminar #4: 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』（慶應義塾大学出版会、2021年）を語る ("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites")

  • When
    June 10, 2025
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    9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  

  Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 9:00-10:30 PM JST | 8:00-9:30 AM ET | 1:00 AM-2:30 PM BST
  
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  Research Exchange Seminar #4 

  『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』（慶應義塾大学出版会、2021年）を語る

  A Discussion of Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites (Keio University Press, 2021)

  
  

  Presenters:

  鄭鍾賢（仁荷大学校副教授）Jeong Jong-Hyun, Associate Professor, Inha University (author)

  渡辺直紀（日本女子大学名誉教授）Watanabe Naoki, Professor, Musashi University (translator)

  Moderator:

  茶谷さやか（シンガポール国立大学准教授）Sayaka Chatani, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

  
  

  『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』の著者、鄭鍾賢さんと翻訳者の渡辺直紀さんをお迎えし、本の紹介や韓国での読者の反応などをお聞きします。渡辺先生のご厚意でMJHA初の日韓通訳つきで行います！

  「제국대학의 조센징: 대한민국 엘리트의 기원, 그들은 돌아 와서 무엇을 하였나?』 의 저자 정종현 씨와 번역자 와타나 베 나오키 씨를 모시고 책 소개와 한국 독자들의 반응 등을 들어봅니다. 한일 통역이 있음.

  We are pleased to welcome Mr. Jeong Jong-hyeon, author of Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korea's Elite (Keio University Press, 2021), along with the book’s translator, Mr. Naoki Watanabe. They will introduce the book and share insights on readers’ responses in South Korea. Thanks to the kind support of Mr. Watanabe, this will be the first MJHA event to feature Japanese–Korean interpretation.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• New Books from Japan #9: "The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan"

  • When
    July 01, 2025
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    8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 AM ET | 8:00-9:30 PM JST
  
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  New Books from Japan #9:

  朝鮮映画の時代: 帝国日本が創造した植民地表象

  The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan

  
  

  Presenter: 梁仁實 (Yang Insil, Iwate University)

  Discussant: Jonathan Glade (University of Melbourne)

  
  

  In Imperial Japan, many filmmakers, cinema works, and information traversed across the empire. Korean films were screened and “Chosen mono” was produced in the "inner territories." Who watched these Korean films and Korean productions, and how were they perceived? As the war intensified, Korean dialogue was replaced by Japanese, and “respectable imperial subjects” began to appear on the screen. How did the thoughts of directors, actors, cinema operators, and audiences overlap and differ between Koreans and Japanese?

  帝国日本では多くの映画人や作品、情報が往来し、内地でも朝鮮映画が上映され「朝鮮物」が作られた。こうした朝鮮映画や朝鮮物は誰に観られ、いかに考えられていたのか。戦時色が強まるにつれ、セリフは日本語に、スクリーンには「立派な皇国臣民」が登場するようになる。監督や俳優などの製作者、映画館経営者、観客の思いは、朝鮮人と日本人でいかに重なり、異なったのか。

  
  

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• 2025 Distinguished Annual Lecture: Andrew Gordon

  • When
    September 15, 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Monday, September 15, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET
  Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 AM JST
  
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  "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Revising History"

  The third annual MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture, titled "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Revising History, will be given in September 2025 by Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

  
  

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• New Books from Japan #10: "Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria"

  • When
    October 14, 2025
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    8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET
  Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 8:00-9:30 PM JST
  
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  New Books from Japan #10:

  帝国と観光―「満州」ツーリズムの近代

  Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria

  
  

  Presenter: 高媛 (Ko En/Gao Yuan, Komazawa University))

  Discussants: Ken Ruoff (Portland State University) and 蘭信三 (Araragi Shinzo, Sophia University)

  Moderator: Tadashi Ishikawa (University of Central Florida)

  
  

  Empire and Tourism explores the history of tourism in Manchuria over approximately a century, from 1906 to the mid-2000s. This study examines how desires, memories, and political intentions were embedded beneath the glamorous surfaces of tourism. Focusing on tourism as a modern practice, it investigates how imperial narratives were constructed in Manchuria and how nostalgia for a “lost empire” was fostered after the collapse of Manchukuo. By analyzing the complex interplay between individuals and the state—alongside intermediaries such as the South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu), the Japan Tourist Bureau (JTB), and the zaiman kenjinkai (prefectural hometown associations of Japanese settlers in Manchuria)—the book sheds light on the layered and often contradictory forces that shaped imperial tourism in the region.

  『帝国と観光――「満洲」ツーリズムの近代』は、1906年から2000年代半ばにかけて、約一世紀にわたる満洲観光の歴史をたどりながら、その華やかな表層の背後にひそむ欲望、記憶、そして政治的意図を読み解こうとする試みである。観光という近代的営為を通じて、満洲において「帝国の物語」はいかに構築され、また満洲国崩壊後に「失われた帝国」への郷愁がいかに醸成されたのかを問い直す。本書は、個人と国家、さらにそのあいだに介在する南満洲鉄道株式会社（満鉄）、JTB、在満県人会といった多様な主体の思惑が交錯する複雑な構造に光をあて、満洲観光をめぐる重層的でときに矛盾する力学を明らかにする。。

  
  

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