On August 10, students participating in the Campus Asia Joint Intensive Program will give presentations on the final product of their group work, which is a page of a joint history book describing the month of August 1945.

Differences in history recognition have long caused conflict among Japan, China, and Korea. The Campus Asia Joint Intensive Program is a summer course examining what history is by taking post-war narratives in East Asia. Participating students from Waseda, Peking, and Korea University will have spent eight days together to explore how history is publicly, collectively, and individually constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed again through a set of highly interactive and participatory learning methods employed in the program, including facilitated discussions and group work. Furthermore, the students have gone on fieldwork to Nagasaki, where they have visited Gunkanjima, the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and the National Peace Memorial Hall, as well as have met students from Nagasaki University and a hibakusha, an atomic bomb survivor. The presentations on the final day of the program will be an opportunity for students to present their joint product: a page of a fictious history textbook describing the month of August, 1945.

We invite all interested journalists and media to attend the presentations.

About Campus Asia

CAMPUS Asia is a groundbreaking program established between three of the leading schools in East Asia (Waseda University, Peking University, and Korea University) to cultivate awareness, passion and practical skills related to international conflict resolution and social innovation in the next generation of Asian leaders.

Event information

Date & Time: August 10, 2017 (Thurs) 9:00 – 12:00

*Journalists and media are invited to ask questions, etc. after 13:00

Venue: Classroom 401, Building 1, Waseda Campus, Waseda University

Title: Possibility of Common Understanding on East Asian History

Language: English

Open to Waseda University students, faculty and staff

Organized by Waseda University, Co-sponsored by Peking University and Korea University

Event schedule

Opening speech by Yuji Uesugi, Professor, Faculty of International Research and Education

Group presentations by students from Waseda, Peking, and Korea University

Q&A session

Closing speech by Naoyuki Umemori, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics