Handbook of Japan-Korea Relations

Mark E. Caprio, Robert Winstanley-Chesters

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781041278856
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040968468
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from 1850 to the present.

Analysing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into four periods: precolonial relations (1850–1905); colonial rule; (1905–1945) postwar/post-liberation (1945–1965); and the modern period (1965–present). With contributions from an international team of experts, the themes of confrontation and cooperation run throughout the book, with chapters focusing on key aspects such as influences from international powers, the era of Japanese colonization, Japan's relations with the two Koreas and nationalism and historical revisionism.

As a comprehensive overview of diplomatic and cultural conflicts and co-operations between Japan and Korea in the modern era, this Handbook will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Korean and Japanese history, politics, culture and international relations.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Confrontation and Cooperation in Japan-Korea Relations, 1868 to the Present
• Part I Precolonial Issues
• Part II Colonial Period, 1905–1945
• Part III Postwar Period, 1945–1965
• Part IV Modern Era, 1965 to the Present
• Appendix I: Kantō Ni Kansuru Ni-Shin Kyōyaku 間島に関する日清協約 [The Japan-Qing Agreement Concerning Jiandao], Signed September 4, 1909
• Appendix II: “The Special Law on Pro-Japanese, National Traitors and Profiteers July 2nd, 1947” (Puil hyŏmnyŏkcha, minjok panyŏkcha, kansangbae e taehan t'ŭkpyŏl chorye)
• Appendix III: “Panminjok’aengwi ch’ŏbŏlbŏp” (the National Traitor Law), (August 7th, 1948)
• Appendix IV: A Group of Pro-Japanese (Ch’inilp’a Kunsang), (Ch’inilp’a Kunsang 1948, 27)
• Index