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Topic: digital journalism, media, and politics in Japan. How has the globalization of information, as a result of social media, digital media, and other non-print or non-traditional ways of gathering information, impacted how the news is shared in Japan? Has this trend made an impact on contemporary culture and society in Japan? What could this mean for other areas in the world, like the US?
Immanuel Kim is Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies. Prior to working at the George Washington University, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He is an authority on North Korean literature and film and is the author of a recent book on North Korean literature, Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction (University of Hawaii Press, 2018).
Nobuyuki Okumura is currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He is also a professor at Musashi University in Tokyo. He was originally a news producer/reporter at TV Asahi mainly covering politics and diplomacy. He has been actively covering various issues in journalism since he started his academic career as a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto in 2005. His research topics range from journalism storytelling to telecommunication policy and he has been contributing various web news sites. He holds an M.A. degree from Sophia University in International Relations. He was also awarded the Fulbright Journalist Program award in 2002-03 and conducted research at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.
