Japan

Organized Panel Session

(3) - Protesting War under the Peace Constitution: Ethnic Korean Circles in Early Postwar Japan

In this presentation, I analyze the 1950s circle magazine Chindare, published by Koreans and ethnic Koreans in Japan during the early postwar period. I consider how the circle movement embraced critiques of ethnicity and Japanese imperialism, as well as aspiring to contribute to early postwar democratic movements. I will also attempt to connect this example of a 1950s circle cultural circle and others to contemporary post 3-11 art activism and study group, that similarly carves out a space of transnational citizen engagement and employs expressive arts and scholarship as means to advocate for social justice and to protest oppression and exploitation. 

Speaker(s)

• SU

  Shoya Unoda

  Osaka University, Japan