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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear Colleagues</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cricket was played in Korea by Koreans before
independence. I cannot now find the reference but there was a report in one of
the early journals of a match played in Seoul in which Philip Jaisohn (So
Chae-p'il) played - and got a respectable score, I seem to
remember.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And let us put on record the Pyongyang Cricket Club, which
existed - flourished would be too strong a word - in 2002, and may still do so,
although its onlie begetter, then head of ECHO, the EU aid office, has since
left for the more cricket-oriented India. In traditional style, there was a milk
churn wicket, and the rules had to be simplified to make it easier for the
various nationalities. But it had good quality Australian bats, brought in by
the contractor working on the British Embassy. It met out near the airport at
the Oun Revolutionary Site (where Kim Jong Il did his military service) on
Sundays. The star scorer was, I think, from Serbia. Koreans picnicking nearby
watched with amazement, and none of us thought to tell them about Philip
Jaisohn.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jim Hoare (a non-player)</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Afostercarter@aol.com
href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
href="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=ms44@cornell.edu
href="mailto:ms44@cornell.edu">ms44@cornell.edu</A> ; <A
title=gkl1@columbia.edu href="mailto:gkl1@columbia.edu">gkl1@columbia.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 23, 2005 7:07 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] Japan, Korea and the
Asia-Pacific</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
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PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff">Esteemed colleagues:<BR><BR>1. Mark's first
sentence was surely ironic:<BR>a gentle nod to current sad ructions<BR>across
the Sea of No Agreed Name.<BR><BR>Japan Focus is indeed indispensable. And
free!<BR>To cite just one recent Korea-related example,<BR>Gavan McCormack has
an excellent piece on <BR>a macabre but vital matter: <BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">Disputed Bones: Japan, North
Korea and the 'Nature' Controversy<BR><B>by Gavan
McCormack</B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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BACK="#ffffff"><A
href="http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=258">http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=258</A><BR><BR><BR>2.
Gari's suggestion of a similar organ for Korea is an excellent one. <BR>But
the name <I>Korea Focus</I> is already taken, by another fine
publication:<BR>the Korea Foundation's bi-monthly roundup of the Seoul press,
plus<BR>longer essays on topics of current concern. There is also a handy
chronology. <BR>Your local ROK embassy or consulate will send it to you,
courtesy of the <BR>Korean taxpayer. Or it's online (both as text and PDF; the
latter slow-loading), <BR>with a useful search facility, at
http://www.koreafocus.or.kr/<BR><BR><BR>3. I hope Gari is right that the
underlying trend is towards better Japan-ROK relations; <BR>and that this
year's row is merely some kind of evanescent spring squall.<BR>I'm more
pessimistic: fearing the bile runs deeper than that - mainly on the Korean
side -<BR>and that real harm has been done. Whatever the trends in culture,
peninsula politics seem <BR>to be becoming more insular; which bodes ill in
the age of <I>segyehwa.<BR><BR></I>Koreans are of course free (south of the
DMZ) to chart whatever course they choose.<BR>But what is one to make of
opinion polls which cite either the US or Japan as the <BR>main threat to
South Korea, ahead of North Korea or China? See
eg<BR>http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200504/17/200504172206552209900090309031.html<BR>As
John McEnroe used to say: you cannot be serious!<BR><BR><BR>4. Gari's final
paragraph alludes to arcane rituals beyond my ken.<BR>If Koreans ever take up
cricket, you'll hear it here first ....<BR><BR>Yours at silly mid
off,<BR>Aidan<BR><BR>AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in
Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>Home address: 17 Birklands
Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>tel: +44(0) 1274
588586 (alt) +44(0) 1264
737434 mobile:
+44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>fax: +44(0) 1274
773663 ISDN:
+44(0) 1274 589280<BR>Email:
afostercarter@aol.com (alt)
afostercarter@yahoo.com website:
www.aidanfc.net<BR>[Please use @aol; but if any problems, please try @yahoo
too - and let me know, so I can chide AOL]<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>In a message
dated 23/05/2005 01:54:11 GMT Standard Time, gkl1@columbia.edu
writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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TYPE="CITE">Subj:<B>Re: [KS] Japan, Korea and the Asia-Pacific
</B><BR>Date:23/05/2005 01:54:11 GMT Standard Time<BR>From:<A
href="mailto:gkl1@columbia.edu">gkl1@columbia.edu</A><BR>Reply-to:<A
href="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>To:<A
href="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>CC:<A
href="mailto:ms44@cornell.edu">ms44@cornell.edu</A><BR><I>Sent from the
Internet </I><BR><BR><BR><BR>I quite agree with its owner and chief
operator, Mark Selden, that<BR>Japan Focus is well worth following for any
Korea specialist,<BR>especially modern Korea specialists. As he justly says
in his<BR>posting and self-advertisement, the Focus has lots of stuff
on<BR>Korea, and in spite of its name is really focused on
Northeast<BR>Asia, although I think it's fair to say that it's focused
from<BR>Japan. That's no disadvantage. Lest people think that somehow
the<BR>Korea angles come with a Japanese slant, I have found him
often<BR>featuring Japanese writers who have very objective spins
on<BR>Korea-Japan issues.<BR> The only thing in his posting that I
might differ with is Mark's<BR>surmise that "a Koreanist, in good
conscience," might<BR>understandably lean away from anything with a Japanese
label. But<BR>if one has a good conscience, one will also be fair-minded.
And it<BR>should be said that Koreans nowadays, especially the younger
ones<BR>and especially in the cultural area, are much more balanced
and<BR>open than they used to be with respect to Japan, and more and
more<BR>this is met by equal attention to Korea on the part of
Japanese.<BR>"Yonsama" may be a fad, but it's one with an increasingly
deep<BR>understructure. It's true that when the big-buzz issues pop
up<BR>periodically, such as Tokto and the history textbooks, one
can<BR>count on peninsular passions to come into play for a couple
of<BR>weeks. That is to be understood and taken in stride.<BR>
Someone in the modern Korean field might well consider building<BR>an
internet feature like Mark's, maybe called Korea Focus, and aim<BR>for the
same kind of broad, outreaching coverage. Between North<BR>Korea's nuclear
specialists and diplomats that routinely flummox<BR>the rest of the world,
and South Korean pop culture and stem cell<BR>technology that are state of
the art, Korea is a world force. I<BR>thought of this this morning, reading
in the sports section about<BR>an exploit of Dae Sung Koo, a relief pitcher
for the NY Mets who<BR>played four seasons with the Orix Blue Wave in the
Japanese<BR>leagues. He put four straight Yankees down with a handful
of<BR>pitches, then came to the plate in the bottom of the 7th
and<BR>promptly hit a Randy Johnson pitch to the center field wall for
a<BR>double. Then right away he scored from second on a sacrifice
bunt<BR>with a slide that took your breath away. OK, as he claimed,
maybe<BR>he hadn't had a hit since high school, or slid since junior
high,<BR>but can anyone doubt the "Korean Wave"? Why not put that into
an<BR>intellectually broad internet format that comes to you every
week<BR>with something new and interesting?<BR><BR>Gari Ledyard<BR>Quoting
mark selden <ms44@cornell.edu>:<BR><BR>> Can a Koreanist, in good
conscience subscribe to Japan Focus?<BR>> True, the name of our
electronic journal is<BR>> something of an affront, and it is to be
hoped<BR>> that it changes in due time to reflect the<BR>>
Asia-Pacific thrust of the work that appears<BR>> there, notably
reportage and scholarship on<BR>> Japan, China, Korea and the
Asia-Pacific.<BR>> In fact a great deal is being published that
is<BR>> central to Korea and to Northeast Asia: on the<BR>> two
Koreas, on Japan-Korea relations, on US-NK-6<BR>> nation nuclear
negotiations, on the future of a<BR>> Northeast Asia community, on
China-Japan-Korea<BR>> conflicts over territorial issues and war
memory.<BR>><BR>> We invite Koreanists to subscribe and contribute to
the journal.<BR>><BR>> Japan Focus is an electronic journal
chronicling<BR>> Japan and the Asia-Pacific in global
perspective,<BR>> encompassing politics, economics, society,<BR>>
history, culture, international relations, war<BR>> and peace, and
historical memory. In addition to<BR>> Japan Focus exclusives, it
presents translations<BR>> from Japanese and other languages as well
as<BR>> reprints of important texts. Japan Focus draws on<BR>> the
writings of researchers, journalists, policy<BR>> analysts and writers
throughout Asia and the<BR>> Pacific, North America, Europe and
Australia. Its<BR>> fully indexed website provides a permanent<BR>>
resource for researchers on the Asia-Pacific.<BR>><BR>> Subscribers
receive a weekly announcement of the<BR>> latest posts and a link to
each. Here are the<BR>> articles posted during the last two
weeks.<BR>> Articles of particular reference to Korea are<BR>>
asterisked (*).<BR>><BR>> Japan
Focus Newsletter<BR>> New Articles Posted May 11,
2005<BR>><BR>> in this issue<BR>>
<#feature>Robert S. McNamara, Apocalypse Soon<BR>>
<#article1>*Utsumi Aiko, Japanese World War II<BR>> POW Policy:
Indifference and Irresponsibility<BR>> <#article2>*Jess
Bravin, Prisoner Rights<BR>> and International Law:
Japanese and American<BR>> Responsibility >From World War II to
Guantanamo<BR>> <#article3>Geremie Barmé, Mirrors of History:
On<BR>> a Sino-Japanese Moment and Some Antecedents<BR>>
<#article4>Mark Selden, Remembering 'The
Good<BR>> War': The Atomic Bombing and the Internment of<BR>>
Japanese-Americans in U.S. History Textbooks<BR>> <#article5>*Asahi
Shimbun, Korean Slave Laborers:<BR>> Repatriating and Burying the
Dead<BR>> <#article6>*Jin Hyung-joo, Textbook Nationalism:<BR>>
Perspetives on China, Japan and Korea<BR>> <#article7>*Kaneko
Masaru, Lost Horizons: The<BR>> Flawed 'Nationalism' of the Koizumi
Regime<BR>><BR>> New Articles Posted May 19,
2005<BR>><BR>> in this issue<BR>> <#feature>Yuki
Tanaka, Firebombing and Atom<BR>> Bombing: an historical perspective
on<BR>> indiscriminate bombing<BR>> <#article1>Andrew DeWit,
Scientific Stereotypes East and West<BR>> <#article2>Tony de Brum,
BRAVO and Today: US<BR>> Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands<BR>>
*<#article3>Karasaki Taro, Why Japanese Wartime<BR>> Apologies
Fail: A German perspective<BR>> <#article4>Greg Mitchell, Incribing
Hiroshima:<BR>> The Photography of Matsushige
Yoshito<BR>><BR>><BR>> For access to all Japan Focus
articles, or to<BR>> subscribe, go to
http://japanfocus.org/<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> mark selden<BR>>
ms44@cornell.edu<BR>> coordinator, japan
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