[May 21] The 3rd Future Seminar - After the Expansion : Memory Landscape of Tokyo

Thirty years have passed since the end of the Cold War and globalization, and the "region" is in the midst of a drastic change in redistricting. Accordingly, the knowledge system that looks at the "region," that is, the content and method of "regional research," is being newly constructed across boundaries.The era of "post-regional research" is now opening. Meanwhile, Seoul National University's Institute for Japanese Studies, which celebrated its 20th anniversary, invited experts from the front lines of each field to prepare eight lecture series to explore the future of Japan and the future of Japanese research.

 

As the third lecture, we will invite Professor Yoshimi of Tourism and Urban Creation at Kokugakuin University /  Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University to give a lecture as follows, so we look forward to your participation 

  

Date：2024.5.21 (Tues) 12:30-14:00

 

Venue： Zoom 

ID: 583 289 8745

*Anyone can participate online without a reservation

 

Lecturer：Yoshimi Shunya （Professor of Tourism and Urban Creation at Kokugakuin University /  Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University ）

 

Title：After the Expansion: Memory Landscape of Tokyo

 

Language: English  

 

Summary：

Currently, 36 million people live in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, about one-third of Japan's total population. The Japanese economy has been stagnant since the mid-1990s, and the population has been decreasing since the 2000s. Nevertheless, the population of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area continued to grow and the gap between the area and impoverished local areas continued to widen. The excessive expansion of Tokyo is now the biggest risk to Japan's future. Instead of seeking further growth and expansion, we need to look for a future for Tokyo that accepts maturation and contraction. Therefore, I would like to suggest rediscovering the layers of the past in this city. In fact, Tokyo was occupied three times in 1590, 1868, and 1945. However, the city retains pre-occupation memory landscapes. In this lecture, I would like to discuss how to rediscover such memory landscapes of Tokyo. Needless to say, the same applies to Seoul, where about half of Korea's total population lives in the Seoul area. Like Tokyo, this is an excessive concentration. And, of course, Seoul has experienced a number of harsh occupations in the past, including violent aggression and occupation by Japanese imperialism. What does it mean to rediscover the landscapes of memory in Seoul? I hope to discuss the above while comparing Tokyo and Seoul.

 

 

Inquiry：SNU-IJS (880-8503 / ijs@snu.ac.kr)