Japanese Public Sentiment on South Korea

Popular Opinion and International Relations

Tetsuro Kobayashi, Atsushi Tago, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Atsushi Tago

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000539684
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Regional Studies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The contributors to this book demonstrate empirically how Japanese public opinion is formed amid strained Japan–South Korea relations.

Studying public opinion in Japan and South Korea is critically important for exploring the causes and consequences of the deterioration of the relationship between the two countries. Japan–South Korea relations are at their worst level since World War II. Faced with North Korea's nuclear threat and China's regional and global advances, Japan and South Korea are each allied with the US and function as key stabilizers within the Asia–Pacific "Pax Americana." These relations play a decisive role in East Asia's international security.

The contributors explore a variety of social scientific methodologies—both conventional quantitative surveys and experiments, as well as quantitative text analyses of published books and computational analyses of social media data—to disentangle the dynamic relationship between Japanese public opinion and Japan–South Korea relations.

An invaluable resource for scholars of East Asian regional security issues.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors' Biographies
• 1 Bringing people's voices back in Japan–South Korea relations
• 2 South Korea–Japan FCR crisis and public opinion: Gathering survey data in real-time crisis development
• 3 When will Japan's apology lead to reconciliation with South Korea?
• 4 Analyzing “anti-Korean” hate books in Japan
• 5 Network analysis of the tweets on South Korea–Japan conflict: A case of the trade dispute in 2019
• 6 Semantic structure of the comfort women issue in Japanese and South Korean newspapers
• 7 The influence of anti-Korean sentiment on communications with political parties
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Index