[KS] Monday, March 3 at UC Berkeley: Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923

Fri Feb 21 19:45:03 EST 2014

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium*

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*Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to
Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923*

Film - Documentary: Center for Korean Studies | *March 3 | 4 p.m.* |  Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?b2223>

Speaker: *Jinhee Lee*<http://www.eiu.edu/include12/global/profile.php?id=jlee>,
Associate Professor of History, Eastern Illinois
University<http://www.eiu.edu/include12/global/profile.php?id=jlee>

Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>

In 1923, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and Yokohoma, essentially
leveling Japan's two largest cities and causing more than 100,000 deaths.
The subsequent aftershocks, fires, and ensuing panic bred rumors that
"malcontent Koreans" living in Japan were setting the fires, poisoning
water wells, and plotting a revolution. To prevent this alleged uprising,
vigilantes along with police and the military massacred more than 6,000
Koreans.

Partly to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the massacre, two unreleased
rare documentaries from Japan have been touring the United States since
last September. The films feature interviews with Japanese and Korean
survivors, and the first of the two sequel films "Hidden Scars: The
Massacre of Koreans From the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo,
1923" will be shown. The movie was directed by Choonkong Oh, a Korean
resident of Japan, and is in Japanese and Korean with English subtitles.

The documentary is under an hour long, and will be followed by a discussion
featuring Jinhee Lee, a history professor at Eastern Illinois University
whose research focuses on the competing narratives of collective violence
in the Japanese empire.

Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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 *And other upcoming events...*

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 *Prospects for Korean Reunification: Opportunities and Challenges for
Neighboring Countries*

Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian
Studies | *March 7 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.* |  The David Brower
Center<http://www.browercenter.org/>

Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>,
Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, Center for
Korean Studies

Panel 1) Opportunities and Challenges of Reunification: Politics after the
Purge

Panel 2) Inside Kim Jong Un's North Korea: Society and Economy

Panel 3) U.S. and its Allies: Roles for Reunification

Speakers:

Charles Armstrong, Columbia University
Stephen Bosworth, Former Ambassador to South Korea and former U.S. Special
Representative for North Korea Policy
Jerome Cohen, New York University
John DeLury, Yonsei University
Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley
Stephen Haggard, UC San Diego
Jean Lee, Associated Press, North Korea
Sunny Lee, Stanford
Jonathan Pollack, Brookings Institution
Matthew Reichel, Pyongyang Project,
Orville Schell, Asia Society of New York
Gi-wook Shin, Stanford University
Kathleen Stephens, Former Ambassador to South Korea

Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

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*Expanding Networks of Cooperation in East Asia*

Lecture: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Center for
Japanese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | *March 17 | 4 p.m.* |
 Institute of East Asian Studies

 Location: 2223 Fulton St, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-2318

Speaker: *T. J. Pempel*, Professor, Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley

Moderator: *Taeku Lee*, Professor, Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>
, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/>, Center
for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>, Center for
Japanese Studies (CJS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/>

 It may seem bizarre to talk of 'expanding networks of cooperation in East
Asia' at a time when Japanese Prime Minister Abe is telling the Davos World
Forum that relations between China and Japan are analogous to those between
Britain and Germany in 1914--the outbreak of World War I. Certainly, in
recent years, unresolved and increasingly tense maritime; expanding defense
budgets; contrasting 'historical memories;' and the American
'repositioning' in East Asia are but a few of the headline grabbers
suggesting that East Asia is 'ripe for rivalry.'

Yet, financial, trade and regional production linkages across East Asia
have never been deeper, nor expanding more quickly. Equally, formal
regional organizations such as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN plus
Three, are exploding in number and influence.

This talk will examine this apparent disjuncture. Much of the explanation,
Pempel will argue, lies in how countries answer the question 'who is my
enemy?' In Northeast Asia particularly, on issues of hard security and
military matters, the leaders of China, Japan and both Koreas uniformly
point fingers are one another. That is far less true in Southeast Asia. And
on matters of finance and economics, most East Asian leaders are less
skeptical of one another and more likely to identify external finance and
bodies such as the International Monetary Fund as their largest threat,
leading them to greater cooperation with one another.

 Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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