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5 Japanese Cultures That Look Different When You Know Them

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Through private exchanges between Korea and Japan
Empathy and understanding

The fifth installment of "Japanese Culture: A Different Perspective When You Know It," a steady seller in the field of Japanese cultural studies that has been beloved by readers since its first volume was published in 2021, has been published.
The series "Japanese Culture: A Different Perspective When You Know It" is praised for approaching Japanese culture from diverse and three-dimensional perspectives without bias or distortion, with both Korean and Japanese authors participating.
This book introduces interesting Japanese culture that was not covered in the previous series, such as Tottori Prefecture, famous for its unique natural landscape of coastal sand dunes; Miyazaki's San Messe Nichinan, where you can see replicas of the Moai statues from Chile's Easter Island, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Tokyo's "Antenna Shop", where you can travel all over Japan in one place; and Japan's "social baseball" and city team competitions, which drew attention at the 2006 Doha Asian Games in Qatar.
This dark tour explores the dark history shared between Korea and Japan, including the five palaces that endured all kinds of hardships during the Japanese colonial period and the Korean youths who volunteered as prisoner guards (military personnel) in the war waged by Japan and ended up as Class B and C war criminals. However, it also emphasizes that in future Korea-Japan relations, it is most important to empathize and understand each other's cultures through civilian exchanges.

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· Enter 4
· 14 major Japanese place names from the series "Japanese Culture: A Different Perspective When You Know It"

Chapter 1: Korean Studies and Japanese Studies in Daily Life… 15

Coffee and the Humanities _ Lee Kyung-soo (Professor Emeritus, Department of Japanese Studies, Korea National Open University, Director of the Specialty Coffee & Tea Research Institute) … 16
· Smart Life in Korea, Smart Life in Japan _ Koichi Kosaka (Director of Kosaka Eye Clinic in front of Nishi-Nippori Station) … 29
· Growing Elderly Care and Senior Jobs _ Kang Chang-hee (Director, Happy 100-Year-Old Asset Management Research Group) … 36
A New Beginning for Dementia Patients _Shin Mi-hwa (Professor, Ibaraki Christian University) … 43
· Dolls, Flowers, and Hennako - A collaboration with Japanese artists _Im Dong-ah (doll artist), Matsuda Ayako (artist), Fujimoto Chikako (cartoonist, character designer) … 50
· Will Japan's demise if things continue this way? _Kim Kyung-hoe (CEO of Encore Career, former CEO of Handeok Development) … 61
· Korea and Japan: Very Similar, Yet Different _ Hajime Takei (Digital Creator) … 68
· The horrors and lessons of Japan's earthquake and tsunami _Lee Jung-hoon (Intex CEO) … 80
· Korean Schools and Entrance Examinations: A Look at Life in a Japanese School _Lee Seo-hyun (Daifu-Korea Co., Ltd.) … 88
· Getting along with Japanese friends _ Jeon So-hee (Visiting Professor, Japan Pharmaceutical University) … 99
· The Korean Wave and K-Dramas in Japan _ Lee Ga-hyeon (Research Professor, Institute of Asian Culture, Gachon University) … 106
· The Frontier of Fish _Seo Kyung-soon (HK Research Professor, Pukyung National University) … 116
· Japanese Social Baseball and Intercity Competitions _ Hong Chan-seon (Japanese Baseball History Expert) … 128

Chapter 2: Coexistence and Diverging Perspectives between Korea and Japan… 139

· The Revenge of the 47 Samurai and the Modern Invention of the Japanese Spirit _Kang Sang-gyu (Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, Korea National Open University) … 140
Between Plum Blossoms and Cherry Blossoms, a Dark Tour of Our Palace _ Go Seong-uk (Palace Guide, Children's Literature Writer) … 151
· Is there a law even in bombing? - The Chongqing Bombing and the Tokyo Air Raid as Seen Through the Post-War Compensation Tribunal _ Park Gyu-hoon (Attorney, Gwanghwamun Law Firm) … 170
· The Nameplate and Silence of a Latecomer to Modernization _ Yu Bul-lan (Professor of Japanese Studies, Korea National Open University) … 183
· Responsibility for History, the Individual's Share - Korean Youth Who Became Class B and C War Criminals _ Kim Na-jeong (Author) … 193
· Understanding Japan's Factional Politics _ Yoo Min-young (Ph.D., Kyoto University, Postdoctoral Researcher, Survey Research Center, Sungkyunkwan University)
… 210
What the Nagasaki Human Rights and Peace Museum Can Tell Us _Kim Kyung-ok (Humanities and Social Sciences Education Research Institute, Korea National University of Education) … 219
· Is East Asian Peace Possible in the 21st Century? _Cho Ju-ho (Retired Army Colonel) … 229

Chapter 3: A Journey to Discover Japanese Sensibility… 241

· A once-in-a-lifetime cruise train ride _Akiko Yamagishi (Professor, Pohang University) … 242
· Antenna Shop, Enjoy a Miniature Japanese Journey in Tokyo _ Lee Ju-young (Translator, Japonism Researcher) … 253
A Tottori Journey with Myths, Sand Dunes, and Ajisai _ Kim Young-hee (Former Tottori Prefecture International Exchange Officer) … 266
· Beauty and Joy in a Small Town _ Kim Jeong-ok (former high school teacher) … 275
Another Land of God, Okinawa _Jin Gil-ja (Church of Love, Bible Study Leader) … 285
The Charm of Yamanashi Prefecture _ An In-sook (Yamanashi Prefectural University / Prefectural High School Instructor) … 294
A Journey Blending History and Scenery - Shimonoseki, Kitakyushu, Hagi, Hiroshima _Jo Yong-ja (Culture and Arts Professional), Park Seung-gyu (Tax Accountant) … 306
· Japan's Footsteps in Tourism and Travel _ Hong Yu-seon (translator) … 315

Chapter 4: The Current State of Japanese Business… 327

Why Toyota Chose Hybrid Vehicles _ Park Oh-young (CEO of Asung Trading) … 328
The Rise and Fall of Japan's Semiconductor Industry _ Seungwoo Lee (Head of Eugene Investment & Securities Research Center) … 343
· Japan's Startup Ecosystem and Korean-Japanese Startup Cooperation _ Wonju Yoon (Professor, College of Business Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) … 352
· Who are Japan's leading companies and entrepreneurs in the 2020s? _Choi In-han (Director of the Current Affairs Japan Research Institute, former Tokyo correspondent for the Korea Economic Daily) … 362
· Business Trip to Japan _ Ji Gye-moon (CEO of a Korea-Japan Business Consulting Firm) … 379
· A Perfect Professionalism: A Prerequisite for Doing Business with Japan _Kim Jeong-suk (Advisor, Strategy Planning Office, YE Corporation) … 389
· A Successful Case of Urban Regeneration Using Software - "Kurokabe," a Town Creation Project in Nagahama, Japan_Chae-Jeong Ahn (Director of the Experience-Based Tour Research Institute) … 399
· The Future of Japan's Low-Wage Strategy _ Kim Myeong-jung (Senior Researcher, Nissei Institute of Basic Research, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Department of Urban Innovation, Asia University) … 407

Chapter 5: Korea and Japan: Connected by Language and History… 417

· Joseon Tongsinsa, The Path to Peace _ Lee Cheol-min (Local Creator) … 418
· Why did jjambbongmal emerge? - On the Mixture of Korean and Japanese _Kwak Eun-sim (Professor, Chung-Ang University) … 427
· The rewards of being a teacher in Japan _ Nobuki Fujii (Teacher at Tamagawa Seigakuin High School) … 436
A Korean-Japanese who loved education and culture _Kim Kyung-ho (Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Mejiro University) … 440
· How much should we purify Japanese in our daily lives? _Lee Jeong-yeon (Professor, Kangnam University) … 450
· Learn Familiar Japanese Expressions in Korean _ Chae-Hyeon Oh (Instructor, Department of Japanese Studies, Dongguk University) … 461
· Hearing about Japanese culture through high school students _ Lee Woo-jin (Japanese language teacher, Gwacheon Foreign Language High School) … 468

Chapter 6: Still Amazing Japanese Culture… 473

· On Aesthetics - Aesthetics is the study of beauty _Masafumi Aoyama (Professor Emeritus, Nippon Open University) … 474
· In Search of Japan's Original Landscapes - The Secret of Iya, the Deep and High Places _ Miho Doi (Professor, Hansung University) … 479
· A 3-Hour Journey Before Departing Narita Airport, Guided by a Chiba Local _ Sumiyo Ogura (Lecturer, Korea National Open University) … 492
· A Bond Between Japan's Unique Culture and Forests _ Noh Jeon-seon (Palace Interpreter, Forest Interpreter) … 505
· Primitive Shintoism in the Film Spirited Away _ Han Jeong-mi (Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo) … 516
· Japanese People Through Their Reciprocal Culture _ Cho Young-nam (Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Korea University) … 526
· Japanese bathing is a uniquely Japanese culture _Nam Deuk-hyeon (Professor, Myongji College) … 534
· Tokyo's 'Kanto' vs. Osaka's 'Kansai' _ Oh Young-sang (News Fim reporter) … 539
· Japan's 100 Most Famous Mountains _ Uzebung (Cable Mountain TV Japan Mountain Host) … 546
Moai, Friendship Across the Pacific _Lee Young-mi (Author, Humanities Instructor, Publishing Consultant) … 553

Chapter 7: Japan Through Time Travel… 567

· Japanese New Banknotes _ Park Kyung-ae (Lecturer, Konkuk University) … 568
· A Pilgrimage to the Tokyo Literature Museum _ Lee Hye-young (Lecturer, Korea National Open University, Japanese Language and Culture Researcher) … 576
· Is she the queen of the world? Is she the villainess of her time? _Choi Gap-su (Financial Investment Association) … 588
· Ino Tadataka's Passion - Traveling All Over Japan on Foot to Create Japan's First Scientifically Measured Map _Lee Yong-hwa (Japanese Culture Translator) … 597
· Japan's intellectual elite writers and pioneering transformational content - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Atsushi Nakajima _Jo Seong-mi (former lecturer at Korea National Open University, Japanese-Korean translator) … 605
· Following in the Footsteps of Natsume Soseki - The University of Tokyo, Kudabū-an, Sendagi House, and the Soseki Birthplace Memorial Hall _ Hwang Seong-ja (Korea University Ph.D. Candidate) … 618

supplement
· Interview with cartoonist Youngchan Koo of "Liezon - Children's Mind Clinic" _Cartoonist Youngchan Koo, Kyungsoo Lee (Professor Emeritus, Department of Japanese Studies, Korea National Open University, Director of the Specialty Coffee & Tea Research Institute) … 625
· Reference 635

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Into the book

The characteristic of Volume 5 seems to be that it is appropriate to say that it thinks about our culture through Japanese culture.
As one of the main authors and a professor who has taught students in the Department of Japanese Studies at Korea National Open University for a long time, I have always wanted to introduce Japan to Koreans so that they can properly understand it, and to naturally show Japanese people the true charm of Korea.
I thought that if Koreans and Japanese people participated as writers together, we would be able to look at Japan from different perspectives.
To achieve this, we created an academic society called the East Asia Love Room Forum, and based on the research and discussions conducted at that society, we published the book “Japanese Culture: A Different Perspective When You Know It.”
This book contains academic and professional content, but it also includes many articles on everyday life and culture, and we have received a lot of feedback that it was helpful in learning about various aspects of Japan.
---From "Enter"

When the national team, which consisted of a star-studded lineup of professional players including Lee Dae-ho, Ryu Hyun-jin, and Oh Seung-hwan, lost to a Japanese team comprised mostly of amateur players in the semifinals of the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar, the media unanimously reported it as the "Doha Disaster," and some even called it the greatest humiliating incident in Korean baseball history.
There was even a lot of fake news circulating on the Internet that the Japanese player who hit the game-winning home run was an 'oden fish cake vendor' and that the team members' occupations were rickshaw pullers and truck drivers. However, few people knew that later, eight of these Japanese national team players wore professional uniforms and that the 'oden vendor' joined the prestigious Yomiuri Giants, won Rookie of the Year that year and went on to win the league batting title the following year.
At that time, he was a college student, but later he played for the Honda Motor Company's social team for three years, and his name was Hisayoshi Jono (played for the Yomiuri Giants and Hiroshima Toyo Carp for 15 seasons from 2010 to 2024, and played in 1,634 games, had 1,509 hits, 163 home runs, and had a batting average of .280).
---From "Japanese Social Baseball and Intercity Competitions"

On August 15, 1945, Korea was liberated.
But the young men who became war criminals did not return.
The novel "The Narrow Road to the Far North" features Choi Chang-min, a Korean man sentenced to death.
Nicknamed 'The Lizard', he stood before the executioner, burdened with the crime of cruelly treating Allied prisoners.
As he faces death, he asks himself why he must die.
The Japanese officer shouts "Long live His Majesty the Emperor" and falls to the scaffold.
On the other hand, he has neither given nor received anything from his country.
There is no homeland to shout out for.
My heart aches when I think of parents who will learn of their child's death.
He thinks he might be dying because of the 50 yen salary he gets every month.
Why did he, a non-Japanese colonial subject, have to die as a war criminal in a war waged by Japan?
---From "Responsibility for History, the Individual's Share - Korean Youth Who Became Class B and C War Criminals"

One of the most popular places to visit in Tottori is undoubtedly the sand dunes.
I lived in Tottori Prefecture for four years and have been there countless times. In fact, every time I visited, I was so impressed by the sand dunes that I found myself wondering if I was really in Japan.
If you brave the slight pain of sinking in and climb to the top of the sand dunes, you'll be rewarded with a sense of freedom and even a moment of reflection as you gaze out across the boundless East Sea. The sand dunes of Tottori Prefecture are a place where you can indulge in a little meditation.

Tottori Prefecture's sand dunes stretch 2.4 kilometers from north to south and 16 kilometers from east to west, making them the largest in Japan. While in Japan, you can experience a foreign country for a brief moment, and even experience camel riding.
But the most exciting experience for both adults and children is sandboarding, which involves sledding down a sand dune.
---From "Tottori Travel with Myths, Sand Dunes, and Ajisai"

'Four people and a dog' is an expression of an hour-long observation of the downtown area of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture on a Sunday in 1970.
How deserted must a city be for it to have declined to the point where only four people and a dog can walk an hour? It's astonishing that Nagahama, once so deserted that such remarks were made, has become a successful example of urban regeneration, attracting benchmarking from other cities and even overseas.
What changes took place in Nagahama that led to its emergence as a city visited by 2 million people annually?
---From "Successful Cases of Urban Regeneration Using Software"

Easter Island is a national park in Chile and is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In particular, because the Moai statues played such an important role in being designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Chilean government does not officially allow other countries to make copies.
When I told him that there was no way there could be copies in other countries, he showed me a pamphlet as proof.
The pamphlet contained a photo of a perfect replica.
Seven life-size Moai statues from Easter Island were officially licensed by the Chilean government to be located in San Messe Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.
The Chilean guide to Easter Island never mentioned it, and even when I asked the Japanese people living in Miyazaki Prefecture, they had no idea.
What is the connection between these two countries, whose connection doesn't immediately come to mind?

---From "Moai, Friendship Across the Pacific"

GOODS SPECIFICS

- Date of issue: March 4, 2025

- Page count, weight, size: 640 pages | 934g | 153*225*28mm

- ISBN13: 9788920052378

- ISBN10: 8920052379