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JAPAN FOCUS

Newsletter No. 15. 2014     April 14, 2014     New Articles Posted
Quick Links Home About Japan Focus Top 10 Articles RSS Feeds In This Issue Scott North Limited Regular Employment and the Reform of Japan's Division of Labor Jung-Sun Han  Japan in the public culture of South Korea, 1945-2000s: The making and remaking of colonial sites and memories	Greetings!  The debate over Abenomics has focused on issues of economic growth. Scott North makes clear the implications for worker rights and social inequality through analysis of contemporary debates over plans for transforming worker rights through a program of limited regular employment designed to eliminate Japan's controversial 'lifetime employment system'. Korea's Japanese colonial rulers established their presence, among other things by destroying a primary symbol of the Korean monarchy and building the central colonial administrative building on its site. As Jung-Sun Han demonstrates, the site would be the crux of subsequent political struggles over the decades, eventually resulting in reclamation of the royal site by Korean nationalists. The struggles reveal much about the politics and historical memory of colonial and postcolonial Korea. Please try the new pdf feature at the top of each article, particularly if you wish to print it. It can also be copied and pasted into a Word file to adjust type size and font. Let us know if you encounter problems. info.japanfocus@gmail.com. Thanks to  the generous support of our readers, we succeeded in raising more than $12,000 to fund the Journal for 2014. The Journal will remain free. You can still support the journal at our home page with your 501 (C) tax-deductible gift.
Scott North Limited Regular Employment and the Reform of Japan's Division of Labor Responses to Japanese Prime Minister Abe's proposed labor reforms, which are associated with the economic stimulus plan hyped as "Abenomics," offer a window on the major debates over Japan's future. North summarizes and analyzes six responses to new rules that would encourage expansion of "limited regular employment," an employment status between Japan's famous "lifetime employment" and the burgeoning number of non-regular often part-time workers. Proponents in the business community and government tout limited regular employment (gentei seiki koyou) as a way to introduce flexibility and mobility in the labor market, boosting productivity, and helping stem the bifurcation of Japanese society into winners, with regular employment, and losers, with non-regular jobs. Opponents, however, see the proposed reforms as an ominous step toward dismantling Japan's already weak worker protections. They argue that limited regular employment is a poison pill containing inherent contradictions that threaten the hopes of women and younger workers for stable careers, while loosening long-standing social and legal constraints on employers' right to dismiss workers. Parliamentary debate on this legislation is set for the summer of 2014.       Scott North is Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Sciences at Osaka University. He is the author of The Work-Family Dilemmas of Japan's Salarymen, in Men, Wage Work and Family, edited by Paula McDonald and Emma Jeanes (Routledge, 2012) and other papers on work and family life in Japan.     Read More. . . Jung-Sun Han Japan in the public culture of South Korea, 1945-2000s: The making and remaking of colonial sites and memories    This article examines public memory of Japanese colonial rule in South Korea by focusing on the site of the former Japanese Government-General Building (GGB) in Seoul.  Completed in 1926, the GGB, built on the site of one of the most important royal palaces of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910), the Kyŏngbok, bore witness both to the colonial and postcolonial periods of modern Korean history. The colonial administration began  construction of the GGB in 1916 and completed it in 1926. For nearly two decades, until 1945, the building housed offices of the colonial government. The building then survived a further five decades of Korea's turbulent post-liberation history before its demolition in the early 1990s. In exploring these questions, the author briefly summarizes the history of the GGB before analysing the political context for the official decision to demolish the GGB in the early 1990s, reflected in the media, at two levels: reaction from 'specialists' of various kinds (architects, city planners, and so forth), and the general public. Han uses the history of the GGB as a template for revealing changing attitudes and memories in contemporary Korean society with respect to Japan and the colonial past. Dr. Jung-Sun Han is an Associate Professor in the Division of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul. Han has worked on the interwar and wartime Japanese political thought and Japan-Korea relations through the lens of visual culture of modern Japan.       Read More. . .

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JOBS

JOBS Job Guide, 4/1-4/14

by Charles Muller

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from  7 April
2014 to 14 April 2014. These job postings are included here based on
the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the
H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more
information.
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
University of California - Berkeley - Lecturers - Various Fields of
History - Department of History


University of Hong Kong - Assistant Professor in History in the
School of Humanities (History) (Ref.: 201400293)

EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Dickinson College - Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian History

Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Breve historia del CEAO

El Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (CEAO) de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid fue aprobado en Junta de Gobierno el 9 de octubre de 1992. Se trata de la primera y única institución en su género creada en la Comunidad de Madrid, y en España, con objeto de promover la investigación y la docencia en torno a las diferentes facetas sociales, culturales, económicas y políticas que caracterizan a los países de Asia Oriental, con especial referencia a China, Japón y Corea.

Estudios EN VIGENCIA

      Grado en Estudios de Asia y África: Árabe, Chino y Japonés

      Curso de Formación Continua de Lengua china: nivel inicial (Nuevo)

      Curso de Formación Continua de Lengua china intermedia (Nuevo)

Estudios REALIZADOS Y NO OFERTADOS ACTUALMENTE

      Licenciatura en Estudios de Asia Oriental

      Diploma de Pregrado de Lengua y Cultura China

      Diploma de Pregrado de Lengua y Cultura Japonesa

      CFC en Enseñanza de Chino como Lengua Extranjera para Hispanohablantes

      Asignaturas de libre configuración

 

Investigación

Una de las actividades fundamentales del Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental es la investigación y la creación de equipos conjuntos, determinando el Consejo Directivo en sus programas anuales las áreas prioritarias de atención.

Biblioteca

La biblioteca del CEAO está situada en el Módulo III, despacho 206 (entrada por Secretaría - despacho 205).

En ella se pueden encontrar referencias bibliográficas sobre China y Japón, tanto en español como en otras lenguas: francés, inglés, chino, japonés...

La biblioteca de Humanidades de la UAM cuenta con fondos bibliográficos en lengua española, inglesa y francesa sobre Asia Oriental.

Exámenes

Información sobre las convocatorias de los exámenes oficiales de Lengua China (HSK) y Lengua Japonesa (Japanese Language Proficiency Test - Nihongo Nouryouku Shiken).

Becas

Para estudiar en:

• España
• China
• Japón
• En la UAM
• En otros países

Enlaces

El Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental forma parte de las siguientes redes académicas:

European Alliance of Asian Studies	Europe-China Academic Network	European League of Non-Western Studies
EastAsiaNet European Research School Network of Contemporary East Asian Studies