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NHK Lecture
Series titled “Peace Today” by Director Mogami
Director Mogami will be lecturer in the NHK Lecture Series on
NHK Channel 3, titled
Peace Today ― Thoughts in the “Age of
New Wars” (in Japanese). The broadcasting schedule is from
October 5 to November 30, 10:25-10:50 pm, every Tuesday. The
series will re-broadcast several times.
ICU Peace Research
Institute International Symposium
Weaving
Resistance: The Days of the Report from South Korea
Date & Time: February 21, 2004 (Saturday),
14:00-17:00
Venue: Diffendorfer Memorial Hall Auditorium,
International Christian University
Lectures:
【Introduction】
For
fifteen years from 1973 to 1988, a series of articles titled “Report
from Korea” appeared in the monthly magazine Sekai. It was an
underground report conveying the voices of the Korean citizens who
were resisting military rule. The author was anonymously known only
by the initial “T.K.-sei”
Since
the day it started, the series gave the readers of Sekai and
the Japanese people in general much to think about. It reported
vividly the anguish and courage of the Korean people under the
military rule. Also, it gave Japanese citizens an opportunity to
recognize that only by constructing solidarity with those resisting
Koreans and by supporting the democratization movement would they be
able to accomplish a genuine reconciliation between the two nations.
Last year, it was revealed that “T.K.-sei” was Professor Chi Myong-Kwan
(now professor at Hallym University in Korea), who was then residing
in Japan.
Upon
reflection we are seized with a strong feeling of the immense
contribution of the series toward bringing the Japan-Korea relations
into more maturity. We cannot help but recall the courage and
resistance of the people, in both Japan and Korea, who secretly
maintained the flow of documents despite the dangers, and thereby
made the series possible.
When
the series was being accomplished, not only was the democratization
of Korea at issue, but so also was democracy in Japan and
Japan-Korea relations. Thus in this symposium we will trace the
history of the resistance, review the intellectual situation of the
time, and search for the conditions of democratization and
reconciliation of the two countries and nations.
Professor CHI Myong-Kwan
(Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University)
On the Report from South Korea
Professor
SAKAMOTO Yoshikazu
(Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University; Advisor, ICU Peace Research
Institute)
Japan and South Korea: Two Democratizations
Commentator: Mr. Atsushi Okamoto (Editor, the monthly Sekai
magazine)
Chair: Professor MOGAMI Toshiki
(Director ICU Peace Research Institute, Professor
for International Law, ICU)
Biography:
Professor CHI Myong-Kwan
Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym
University; Chairman, Advisory committee of Korea-Japan cultural
exchange policy; President, KBS. Born in 1924, he came to Japan in
1972 after leading the management of “Sasangge Monthly (Idea
World)”. Until 1993, he was professor at Tokyo Woman’s Christian
University. He has written many books including “Report from South
Korea” (Iwanami, 3 volumes), “South Korea: the Road to
Democratization” (Iwanami). Furthermore, he continues to express his
conscientious statements concerning current affairs.
Professor SAKAMOTO Yoshikazu
Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University; Advisor,
ICU Peace Research Institute. Born in 1927, he has majored in
international politics. At the same time, he has been the forerunner
of peace research in Japan and still plays the leading role in this
field. He is known for having shed light on the significance of the
Korean Peninsula problems early on. His primary works are
“International Politics in the Global Age”(former title:
“International Politics in the Nuclear Age”), “Peace: The Reality
and Recognition”, “Politics of Disarmament”, “The Age of
Relativization”, and many others.
Contact
International Christian University Peace
Research Institute (ICUPRI)
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8585
Tel：0422-33-3187／Fax：0422-34-6985
E-mail：icupri@icu.ac.jp）
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