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Japanese Colonialism, National Memory and Korean Football

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Guy Podoler
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In February and in June 2005 the national football teams of Japan and North Korea met in World Cup qualifiers. These highly emotionally and politically charged matches have highlighted the familiar global issue of the nexus between sport and politics, and have provided a rich arena with which to explore political aspects of postcolonial Korean football and Korea-Japan conflict, as well as to reflect on the uses of the past in present South and North Korea.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , February 2006 , e25
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Available in Korean translation: https://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=274265&rel_no=1&character_article_code=01

References

Endnotes

[1] Park Song-wu, “Football History: From Archrivals to World Cup Co-hosts,” Korea Times (Online; 14 April 2003).

[2] For a good collection of articles on political, economical, and societal aspects of the KoreaJapan World Cup, see John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter (eds.), Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).

[3] John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter, “Accounting for Mega-Events: Forecast and Actual Impacts of the 2002 Football World Cup Finals on the Host Countries Japan/Korea,” International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 39, no. 2 (June 2004), p. 195.

[4] For this communist model see James Riordan, “The Impact of Communism on Sport,” in The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Century, eds. James Riordan and Arnd Krüger (London and New York: E and FN Spon, 1999), pp. 48-66. Although Riordan does not focus on North Korea, the model nevertheless fits the North as well.

[5] See most Japan-related news items produced by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

[6] For an illuminating discussion on this issue see Patricia G. Steinhoff, “Kidnapped Japanese in North Korea: The New Left Connection,” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 30, no. 1 (2004), pp. 123-142

[7] Japan Times (Online; 10 February 2005).

[8] Aidan Foster Carter contends that “at most 150,000 now have any link to Chongryun” (in “‘North Koreans’ in Japan: a dying breed?” Asia Times Online; 17 March 2001). (Chongryon is the pro-North General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.)

[9] J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares, North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretative Guide (Kent, UK: Global Oriental, 2005), p. 134.

[10] KCNA (Online; 19 June 2001).

[11] See Kangdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig, who draw from a variety of sources, in North Korea through the Looking Glass (Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 2000), pp. 179-180.

[12] See report by Hans Greimel, “Japan's North Korean schools find ‘workers’ paradise’ doesn't add up,” Chicago Tribune (Online; 30 December 2005).