@article{3910ebde5f4d4b298893036a8781931f,
title = "The impact of symbolic boundaries on perceptions of relations between Japan and South Korea",
abstract = "This paper argues the perceptions of relations between two nations involve not only the institutionalized national-boundary but also the perspectives of multiple symbolic boundaries. Based on a qualitative study, this paper aims to explain how different symbolic boundaries impact Japanese experts{\textquoteright} perception of interrelations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The paper includes an analysis of opinion surveys, 20 semi-structured interviews with experts, and three focus group interviews with university students of Peace Studies Departments conducted throughout June and July of 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. These results advance existing scholarship by showing that Japanese experts use the following four symbolic boundaries to comprehend relations between Japan and South Korea: boundaries between (1) victims and perpetrators; (2) {\textquoteleft}the West{\textquoteright} and the Asian cultural and political space; (3) nationalistic and peaceful countries; and (4) a state and people.",
keywords = "Japan, Social identity, South Korea, conflict, social boundary",
author = "Korostelina, {Karina V.} and Yuji Uesugi",
note = "Funding Information: Karina V. Korostelina is a Professor and Director of the Program on Prevention of Mass Violence and the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, GMU. Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and dynamics of identity and power in protracted social conflicts. Dr. Korostelina has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, fellow at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Writing Fellow. She also has been awarded a number of residential fellowships, including Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship at the University of Singapore, East-West Center, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Waseda University, the Northeast Asia History Foundation, the Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, and the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University. She has received 40 grants supporting her research. She is an author or editor of 16 books and over 90 articles. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1080/14608944.2020.1723513",
language = "English",
volume = "23",
pages = "185--204",
journal = "National Identities",
issn = "1460-8944",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "2",
}