NAGASAWA, Yuko

 

    position

　　　

        Seoul National University Asia Center, Visiting Researcher

  Waseda University Institute of International Reconciliation Studies, Adjunct Researcher

 

    Feild of Study

    

Research on the diplomatic history among Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Korea.

 

Research on Germans and Japanese in Wonsan, DPRK, after World War II.

 

 

    Research Interest

      

Research on the history of Japan's normalization with the DPRK and ROK, focusing on cultural property restitution and historical recognition.

Research on the division of the Korean Peninsula, focusing on the collection and repatriation of the remains of communist soldiers during the Korean War, as well as the repatriation and forced mobilization of Japanese and Germans in the DPRK after World War II.

 

 

Recent Works

 

YUKO NAGASAWA Welcome to the Korean Studies-the DPRK and the ROK, Kyoto: Showado,2026

 

YUKO NAGASAWA Restitution of Korean Cultural Heritage: The Removal and Repatriation by the Imperial University of Tokyo and Japan–ROK Normalization, Mariko Tanigaki, Masaru Tonomura and Takashi Mitsui co-ed., Intertwined Asia, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press,2026

 

 

 

YUKO NAGASAWA, Building Bridges through Negative Legacies: between Korea and Japan with Korean Cultural Property in Japan,Tokyo：Korocolor, 2024

 

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