PRESENTER: Ken Ruoff (History, Portland State University)
TOPIC: Japanese Tourism to Korea Circa 1940: The Tension between Assimilation and Tourism Promotion Policies
DATE: November 11, 2011
DATE: November 11, 2011
TIME: 12:00p.m.-1:15p.m.
LOCATION: Ballantine Hall 004
LOCATION: Ballantine Hall 004
(Light refreshments will be served. You are also welcome to bring your own lunch.)
At the same time in 1940 that Japanese representatives of the Government Railways of Korea, an integral part of the Government-General of Korea, were endeavoring to promote tourism, officials in the same colonial bureaucracy were strengthening assimilation policies designed to Japanize Koreans. But why would a Japanese tourist from the mother country want to visit Korea if it had been rendered into no more than a replica of Japan? Tourism and assimilation are concepts that do not necessarily go together. This lecture examines how individuals endeavoring to promote tourism represented an undercurrent, both inside and outside of officialdom, working against assimilation.
Ken Ruoff is professor of History and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University. He is the author of the The People's Emperor (Harvard East Asia Monographs, 2001) the Japanese translation of which was awarded the Osaragi Jiro Prize for Commentary (Japan's Pulitzer Prize) in 2004. In the fall of 2010, his new monograph, Imperial Japan at its Zenith (Cornell University Press, 2010) was published simultaneously in English and in Japanese translation.
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