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Korean President Park Chung Hee signs treaty with Japan in 1965

When the United States endeavored to build a new world order in the Pacific after World War II it did so assuming a close, cooperative rapport between American allies South Korea and Japan. What…

Danielle Pyun

Danielle Pyun, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Korean Studies (IKS), beginning September 1, 2020…

Naomi Fukumori

Naomi Fukumori, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), beginning January 1, 2021…

Etsuyo Yuasa

After completing seven years of service as the director of the East Asian Studies Center (EASC), Etsuyo Yuasa, associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures, has announced that she…

Malcolm X and Mao Zedong in China

From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. OSU Department of History PhD candidate Melvin…

Meow Hui Goh

The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to announce Prof. Meow Hui Goh as our first recipient for the COVID-19 mini-grant. Prof. Goh’s proposal, titled “Talk Back to the Pandemic: Innovations in…

Plastic Greenhouses in China

Karen Mancl (professor, food, agricultural and biological engineering) published four policy articles this Spring for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program blog, …

Zhiguo Xie and Cindy Xinquan Jiang

Zhiguo Xie, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, pored over news accounts surrounding COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. He was…

Prof. Hajime Miyazaki

After five and a half years at the helm of the Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), Hajime Miyazaki, professor of economics, will end his term on June 30, 2020 upon his retirement from Ohio State…