Dear colleagues,

I would just like to draw your attention to a newly published book on Japan-South Korea relations: Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia: Implications for Relations between Japan and South Korea (Routledge 2011). It was edited by Professor Marie Söderberg of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, and contributing authors come from various disciplines and parts of the world. The result is an interdisciplinary and very original approach to the bilateral relationship. Most of all, the book examines how the relationship is affected by changing power relations in Northeast Asia and it suggests the existence of a very complex pattern of interactions. Below I attach a table of contents.

1 Introduction, Marie Soderberg
2 Why the History issue between Japan and South Korea is likely to Persist, Kan Kimura
3 Increasing Cooperation in the Midst of Recurring Frictions, Cheol Hee Park
4 Resurgence of the Hard Liners: Japan and the two Koreas, T.J. Pempel
5 Historical Memory Versus Democratic Reassurance, Paul Midford
6 Substituting Multilateralism, Guiding Trilateralism, Yoichiro Sato
7 Ambivalence and Resistance, Mikyoung Kim
8 Toward a Post-Cold War and Post-industrial Harmony between Japan and Korea, Ingyu Oh
9 The struggle for a decent life in Japan, Marie Soderberg 10 Conclusion, Marie Söderberg

I hope that you will find the book equally interesting as I did. Thanks for your attention!

Yours sincerely,
Linus Hagstrom

Dr Linus Hagstrom
Senior Research Fellow
Swedish Institute of International Affairs Box 27 035, 102 51 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: hagstrom@ui.se • Internet:
http://www.linushagstrom.org or http://www.ui.se