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[3rd EAI ACADEMY Lecture 5] Yeol Yo “Japan’s Present and Future, and Strategy Toward Japan”
Editor's Note
The East Asia Institute (EAI) hosted the 3rd EAI Academy seminar series, “The Future of Korean Diplomacy.” The 3rd Academy is a seminar composed of seven leading scholars in international politics, aiming to foster future public policy experts. It seeks to teach the core contents of the future Asia-Pacific order, ROK-US relations, ROK-Japan relations, ROK-China relations, North Korean issues, and multilateral diplomacy, looking ahead to the international relations landscape of the next 20-30 years. On August 16, 2022, the fifth lecture featured Yeol Yo, President of EAI and Professor at Yonsei University, speaking on the topic “Japan’s Present and Future, and Strategy Toward Japan.”
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLW07Sw8mto
- Date: August 16, 2022, 6:30 PM
- Speaker: Yeol Yo, President of EAI, Professor at Yonsei University
Reading Materials
5-1. The LDP under Abe
5-2. [EAI Issue Brief] Intensifying US-China Conflict Demands Improvement in ROK-Japan Relations.
5-3. Lee Yong-hee. 1970. “The Spiritual Historical Problems of ROK-Japan Relations.” Shin Dong-A, August 1970, pp. 291-333.
Speaker Introduction:
■ Yeol Yo: President of EAI, Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He has served as Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies and Head of the Underwood International College at Yonsei University, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development, and Director of the Institute for International Studies. He has also been a specially appointed visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and the University of California (Berkeley). He served as President of the Korean Political Science Association (2019) and President of the Association for Japanese Studies (2012). He has been a Fulbright, MacArthur, and Japan Foundation Senior Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at the Waseda University Institute for Advanced Study. He has served as a consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the Northeast Asian History Foundation, and the Korea Foundation, and as a specialist member of the Committee for Northeast Asian Cooperation. He is currently a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Self-Evaluation Committee. His areas of expertise include Japanese foreign policy, international political economy, East Asian international politics, and public diplomacy. His recent publications include Japan and Asia’s Contested Order (2019, with T. J. Pempel), Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia (2016, with Jan Melissen), “South Korea under US-China Rivalry: the Dynamics of the Economic-Security Nexus in the Trade Policymaking,” The Pacific Review (2019), 32, 6, and Middle Power Diplomacy of Korea (2017, co-edited).
Video Transcript
Following the LDP, there is also a rightward shift. However, Japanese society, and particularly Japanese voters, cannot be seen as having shifted to the right. Thirdly, the LDP's own political base is not that solid. Therefore, we do not need to assume that this hardline stance toward Korea is politically supported. From an international perspective, outside of Japan, the US's strategic interests necessitate the improvement of ROK-Japan relations, as the current state of relations between these two allies in Asia cannot continue.
There are such challenges. Therefore, ROK-Japan relations cannot be seen as an insurmountable difficulty, contrary to what might be thought.
*This text is an AI translation of an original written in Korean. Some translations or nuances may be inaccurate.