Japanese Koreans Research Articles

National identification and intergroup attitudes of Chinese youth towards Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans

ABSTRACTThe study explored the strength of national identification and intergroup attitudes of Chinese youth (n = 591, aged 12–15) toward the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, and the South Koreans. The participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire and write down reasons why they ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ the four groups. The results showed a consistency in in-group favoritism. Gender and age were both related to Chinese youths’ national identifications and their national intergroup attitudes. Confucian ethics, media influence and historical complex were identified as main factors that may contribute to their attitudes toward the four groups.

Japanese teachers and Koreans Japanese Language Learners’The difference of Evaluation of Presentation of Koreans Japanese Language Learners : Based on the Exploratory Factor Analysis and confirmatory factor analysis

Japanese teachers and Koreans Japanese Language Learners’The difference of Evaluation of Presentation of Koreans Japanese Language Learners : Based on the Exploratory Factor Analysis and confirmatory factor analysis

Cross-National Analysis on Sensitivity to Environmental Quality and Its Change in East Asia

This paper aims to compare people’s sensitivity to environmental change in China, Japan and South Korea across spatial and temporal dimensions by analysing the data derived from a cross-national survey. Based on the analytical results derived from 3907 samples, the consistency of people’s environmental sensitivity on the temporal dimension and the gap on the spatial dimension are clarified. The analysis on the temporal dimension indicates that people are inclined to hold a consistent evaluation toward environmental change, while the analysis on the spatial dimension of environmental sensitivity indicates that people are more sensitive to the deterioration of global rather than domestic environmental change. Data analysis also indicates that Japanese and South Koreans are pessimistic regarding the change of the environment while the Chinese are optimistic. In addition, the attributive features of individuals who are more sensitive to the environmental change are clarified within each country, and the results show that under different social backgrounds, the influence of demographic factors is somewhat dissimilar.

How Considerations for the Other Person are Demonstrated in the Situations of re-invitation -From Data on Native Japanese and Korean Speakers and Koreans Learners of Japanese-

How Considerations for the Other Person are Demonstrated in the Situations of re-invitation -From Data on Native Japanese and Korean Speakers and Koreans Learners of Japanese-

The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War

The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United States unify their efforts. This condition referenced squabbles among Korean groups in general, with the most transparent being those between Syngman Rhee and Haan Kilsoo. While Korean combatants on the Asian mainland managed to gain some U.S. support for their cause, recognition of their potential came too late in the war for them to help liberate their country. Ultimately, the United States turned to the Japanese and Japanese-trained Koreans to assist in this occupation. Reviewing the history of both Korean lobbying and U.S. response to it provides the opportunity to ask whether better handling of the Korean issue during World War II could have provided U.S. occupation forces with better circumstances to prepare southern Korea for a swift, and unified, independence.

The function and the image of Korean language in movies on Japanese Koreans

The function and the image of Korean language in movies on Japanese Koreans

한국문화의 전파매개자로서 코리아타운 연구

The aim of this study was to investigate the role Korean Town played in spreading Korean Culture as Hallyu Culture hub or mediator of Korean Culture. In order to find the mediator role of the Korean Town, this study conducted a survey on the Japanese who visited Shin-Okubo Korean Town. The result of the analysis is as follow. First, the result showed that there was great change in Korean language learning for Japanese who had been to the Korean Town. Through the Hallyu Culture, Japanese began to concern Korean language learning more, the Japanese people who knew Korean language became more and the proficiency of Korean language was also improved. Second, under the effect of Hallyu Culture of Korean Town, Koreans made more Japanese acquaintances in Japan and Korea. According to the survey, the acquaintances of Japan were mainly friends, families, relatives, and fellow workers, but the acquaintances of Korea were fellow workers, friends, families and relatives in the order of people’s number. Third, by the influence of Hallyu culture, more and more the Japanese who had been to Korean Town moved to the residences of Japanese Koreans. Fourth, Japanese showed more interest on the Korea with the effect of the Hallyu culture of Korean Town. It was seemed that the time for Japanese visiting Korea became longer, and the number of times that Japanese visited Korea increased. This study revealed that Korean Town played an important role in spreading Hallyu Culture. In addition, Korean Town functioned as a Hallyu Culture Hub spreading Hallyu Culture to the Japanese and as a mark of Korean culture. In this situation, the status of Korean Town was strengthened.

Abstract P303: Differential Association of Carotid-femoral, Brachial-ankle, and Femoral Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) With Lipoprotein Distributions From The Era Jump Study

Objectives: We have previously reported that brachial-ankle PWV (baPWV) is more strongly related to lipoprotein subclasses than carotid-femoral PWV (cfPWV) among middle-aged white men. The current study examined the associations of baPWV, cfPWV and femoral ankle PWV (faPWV) with lipoprotein subclasses in Japanese Americans, Koreans, and Whites. Methods: The ERA JUMP Study is an international population-based study of subclinical atherosclerosis in men aged 40-49 without clinical CVD in the US, Korea, Hawaii and Japan. Participants for the current study were 310 whites, 303 Japanese Americans and 302 Koreans. PWV was assessed using an automated waveform analyzer (VP2000, Omron, Japan). Lipoprotein subclasses were assessed by NMR lipoproteins. Multiple linear regressions were performed to analyze the association of each PWV with NMR lipoprotein distributions after adjusting for age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, and other potential confounders. Results: Both baPWV and faPWV had significant association with total, large, and small LDL-P after adjusting for race and other confounders, and across three racial groups except for faPWV in whites ( Table ). cfPWV had also significant associations with total and small LDL-P after adjusting for race and other confounders but these associations were weaker than those with baPWV and faPWV. Similarly, both baPWV and faPWV had significant associations with VLDL-P (total, large and small VLDL-P) and HDL-P (total, large, medium, and small HDL-P) but the associations of cfPWV with these lipoproteins were weaker and mostly non-significant. Conclusions: As compared to cfPWV, both baPWV and faPWV had stronger associations with lipoprotein distributions across three racial groups with very different lifestyle. Our results suggest that baPWV and faPWV are more related to atherosclerosis than cfPWV whereas cfPWV may represent arteriosclerosis. Table 1. Association between LDL subclasses(LDL-P) and carotid-femoral, brachial-ankle and femoral-ankle pulse wave velocities among young men in Korea, Hawaii and North America: Multiple linear regression derived beta (β) values (SE) @ Large LDL Small LDL Total LDL Particles cfPWV All participants $ −0.074 (.050) 0.405 (.204) * 0.152 (.072) * Whites −0.045 (.081) 0.442 (.309) 0.197 (.094) * Koreans −0.179 (.084) * 1.143 (.375) ** 0.337 (.140) * Japanese Americans 0.060 (.98) 0.064 (.361) 0.016 (.151) faPWV All participants $ −0.252 (.067) *** 1.201 (.264) *** 0.331 (.099) *** Whites 0.007 (.100) 0.368 (.389) 0.165 (.122) Koreans −0.252 (.113) * 1.609 (.502) ** 0.472 (.189) * Japanese Americans −0.501 (.152) ** 2.266 (.552) *** 0.698 (.225) ** baPWV All participants $ −0.310 (.053) *** 1.334 (.210) *** 0.404 (.075) *** Whites −0.212 (.108) * 1.220 (.415) ** 0.425 (.131) ** Koreans −0.245 (.079) ** 1.398 (.351) *** 0.493 (.126) *** Japanese Americans −0.194 (.098) * 1.132 (.357) ** 0.392 (.143) ** * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001 # After excluding participants with diabetes mellitus, and those taking medicines for diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, number of participants were 248 Whites, 262 Koreans and 192 Japanese Americans. @ Adjusted for age, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, fasting glucose, pack-years smoking, alcohol intake and LDL cholesterol. $ Additionally adjusting for race.

A Study on errors of 「ta」 「te-i-ta」 made by advanced Japanese learning Koreans

A Study on errors of 「ta」 「te-i-ta」 made by advanced Japanese learning Koreans

"Ten Million Families": Statistic or Metaphor?

This article assesses the number of surviving first-generation divided family members in Korea. The estimates of scholars and government agencies of population movement in the two periods in which the majority of families are compared: the liberation period (August 15, 1945, to June 25, 1950) and the Korean War (June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953). In this way, an estimate is made of the number of surviving first-generation divided-family members and of the veracity of the oft-used concept of "ten million families." The article also examines another less frequently mentioned group of divided-family members: Japanese Koreans "repatriated" to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea between 1959 and 1984.