Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war

The first volume of Sustainable Building design manual focuses on policy and regulatory mechanisms

Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, based on close historical examination and a wide-ranging theoretical foundation that look at both western and Korean language sources

This book aims introducing the most notable among Seoul's architecture tio visitors and readers from around the world

Like the high-speed train that travels down the corridor between Seoul and Busan, Korea’s economy has managed to supercharge its economic development by leveraging its science and technology policies, or S&T policy. While construction did not begin until the early 1990s, plans for the development of the train system began in the 1970s with proposals from France and Japan

This book was developed from a coference hosted at Christ Church, Oxford, in september 2009. This collection of essays is the product of their mental maps, writing this project into a book and to Ruth heland Ireland for seeing it through the production process

In The Naval Air War in Korea, Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feeling, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, including the highly significant facets of the transition from piston to jet-propelled combat aircraft

Between 1910 and 1945 Korea was subjected to Japanese colonial rule. Monuments, Memory, and Identity investigates ways how postcolonial South Korea commemorated this difficult past in light of changing political and social conditions, and against the background of the divided nation. By analyzing museums, memorial halls, parks and monuments, the author deciphers and maps the South Korean commemorative landscape

Panmunjom is the site where the Armistice was signed which ended the fighting of the Korean War. Today North meets South to resolve military, economic, and political problems at Panmunjom in an attempt to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula. This book captures the atmosphere at Panmunjom as well as gives a history of Korea and this important area to include a report on the Panmunjom Axe Murder Incident

Even as its rise as a nuclear power unfolds on the nightly news, North Korea remains arguably the most mysterious country in the world. A virtual blackout of statistical information coming from the reclusive regime has shrouded the day-to-day lives of its inhabitants in secrecy. This groundbreaking study—which relies on rare U.N.–assisted household data and carefully scrutinized propaganda materials—offers the first comprehensive examination of the social and economic history of North Korea from its founding in 1948 to the present day