Research Experience
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2025.04-Now
Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics Research Associate
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2020.04-2022.09
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (DC2)
Affiliation
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, School of Political Science and Economics
Job title
Research Associate
Degree
M.A. (Political Science) ( 2018.03 Waseda University )
B.A. (Political Science) ( 2015.09 Waseda University )
B.A. (Political Science) ( 2015.09 Waseda University )
Education Background
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2018.04-Now
Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science Doctoral Program
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2015.09-2018.03
Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science M.A. Program
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2011.04-2015.09
Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics B.A. Program in Political Science
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2012.08-2013.08
Korea University Exchange Student
Committee Memberships
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2025.03-Now
Center for Chinese Studies, Dongseo University Overseas Editorial Committee, 동아시아와 시민
Professional Memberships
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日本平和学会
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日本国際政治学会
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アジア政経学会
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国際高麗学会日本支部
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現代韓国朝鮮学会
Research Areas
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History of Asia and Africa East Asian History / History of Asia and Africa Korean Modern History / Area studies Area Studies / History of thought History of Korean Political Thought / Politics Political Science
Research Interests
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ROK-US Relations
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History of Korean Political Thought
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Gender
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Liquidation of the Past
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Transitional Justice
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Gwangju Democratic Uprising
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Cold War
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Human Rights
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South Korea
Awards
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The 4th Asia Future Conference Best Presentation Awards
2018.08 Sekiguchi Global Research Association, Atsumi International Foundation The Gwangju Uprising and Transitional Justice
Papers
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Gender, Political Conflicts, and Korean MZ Generation: A Key to Overcome the Dichotomy of "Misogyny vs. Misandry" (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Korean Studies ( 11 ) 19 - 30 2023.06
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Realization of a Democratic Society and the “Sense of Injustice”: Potential of Gender Education for the “Education for Democratic Citizenship” Through a Comparison Between South Korea and Japan (in Korean)
Yukie Sato
East Asia and Citizen ( 1 ) 151 - 188 2022.04 [Refereed] [Invited]
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South Korean #MeToo Movement and Japan-Korea Relations: “Language” to Speak Unspeakable Things (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Hang-ro ( 9 ) 18 - 26 2022.01 [Refereed] [Invited]
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The Introduction of the Human Rights/Civil Liberties Concept to South Korea under the U.S. Army Military Government: Focusing on the Activities of Roger Nash Baldwin (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
The Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies ( 19 ) 51 - 64 2019.11 [Refereed]
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[Research Note] The Gwangju Uprising and Victims' Memory : Transformation from Individual Memory to Collective Memory Through the "Minjung" Concept (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Korean Studies ( 7 ) 17 - 30 2019.06 [Refereed]
Books and Other Publications
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The May 18 and the Aftermath: Occurrence, Response, and Expansion (in Korean)
The May 18 Institute CNU ed.( Part： Joint author, The Response and Actions of the Embassy of Japan in Korea toward the Gwangju Uprising: Focusing on Sengo Gaiko-Kiroku of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (in Korean))
Chonnam National University Press 2020.12
Presentations
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Facing the Past, Building the Future: Shared Value as a Bridge Between Japan and ROK
Yukie Sato [Invited]
2025 U.S.-ROK-Japan Young Trilateral Leaders Summit Virtual Session
Presentation date： 2025.05
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How Can Justice Between South Korea and Japan Be Realized?: The Possibility of a Gender Perspective
Yukie Sato [Invited]
2022 Korean Political Science Association Annual Conference
Presentation date： 2022.12
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Resistance, Violence, and the US Human Rights Diplomacy in Cold War East Asia: Comparing the Gwangju Uprising and the Kaohsiung Incident
Yukie Sato [Invited]
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2022 Summer International Symposium "An Anarchist Turn?: Imperial Rule and Resistance in the Long Twentieth Century"
Presentation date： 2022.07
Event date：2022.07 -
The Role of Gender Education for a Democratic Society: Lessons from a Comparison of the #MeToo Movement in South Korea and Japan
Yukie Sato [Invited]
2021 Busan Network for Democratic Citizenship Education International Forum "Democracy in East Asia and Democratic Citizenship Education: Past, Present, and Future"
Presentation date： 2021.11
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British Opinion and South Korean Politics: The Gwangju Uprising (1980) through the Lens of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Yukie Sato
14th Research Showcase
Presentation date： 2021.11
Event date：2021.11 -
The Gwangju Democratic Uprising and the U.S. Foreign Policy toward Korea: Focusing on the Trilateral Relations between the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Congress and ROK’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Section Meeting of International Exchange, The 2021 Annual Convention of the Japan Association of International Relations
Presentation date： 2021.10
Event date：2021.10 -
Promoting Reconciliation in Unfinished Transition: Possibility of Transitional Justice in East Asia through the Lens of South Korean Experience
Yukie Sato [Invited]
2021-2022 The 2nd PKU-WASEDA Workshop
Presentation date： 2021.10
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Development of the Propaganda Activities Related to the Gwangju Uprising by Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Focusing on the Activities toward the U.S., May 1980 ~ July 1980 (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
The 26th Regular Research Meeting of the Japan Association for Asian Studies
Presentation date： 2021.03
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Transitional Justice in Unfinished Transition: Contending with the Past in South Korea
Yukie Sato [Invited]
The Development of Reconciliation Studies in East Asia
Presentation date： 2021.03
Event date：2021.03 -
Reconciliation for the Gwangju Uprising and Its Im/possibility: Between Transitional Justice and Injustice (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
February Monthly Research Meeting of Chosenshi Kenkyukai Kanto Division
Presentation date： 2021.02
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The Response and Actions of the Embassy of Japan in Korea toward the Gwangju Uprising: Focusing on Sengo Gaiko-Kiroku of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (in Korean)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
Imagination after the May 18: Beyond Gwangju, Beyond the Generation
Presentation date： 2020.08
Event date：2020.08 -
Who Are the Victims?: Struggling for Reconciliation for the May 18
Yukie Sato
Waseda-Yonsei Seminar
Presentation date： 2020.08
Event date：2020.08 -
Park Chung-Hee Administration and Human Rights: With a Clue of the Korean League for the Rights of Man and Its Organ, The International Human Rights News (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
The 135th Meeting of the Institute of 20th Century Media
Presentation date： 2020.04
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State Violence in Cold War East Asia: The Gwangju Uprising and the United Sates (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
The 4th Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Democracy by Violence in the Twentieth Century: A Transnational History”
Presentation date： 2020.02
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Cold War and Human Rights: Transitional Justice for the Gwangju Uprising and Its Limitations (in Korean)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
Symposium of Ritsumeikan Center for Korean Studies "Significances of The May 18 Gwangju People’s Struggle and Peace for Today: Pre-Symposium for 40th Anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju People’s Struggle"
Presentation date： 2019.11
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The Origin of Current Concept of “Human Rights (Inkwon)” in South Korea: Focusing on the Activities of Roger Nash Baldwin
Yukie Sato
Japan-Korea Young Researchers’ Workshop on Memory Studies: Global Memory in East Asia
Presentation date： 2019.09
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The Gwangju Uprising and Victims’ Memory: Transformation from Individual Memory to Collective Memory through the ‘Minjung’ Concept (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Symposium “East Asia as a Global Memory Space Ver.2: Memory Regime/Memory Activism”
Presentation date： 2018.09
Event date：2018.09 -
The Gwangju Uprising and Transitional Justice
Yukie Sato
The 4th Asia Future Conference
Presentation date： 2018.08
Event date：2018.08 -
“Overcoming the Past” Led by the Peoples in South Korea and Transitional Justice (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato [Invited]
Symposium of the 20th Annual Convention of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Social Science “Transitional Justice, Historical Memory, and Reconciliation"
Presentation date： 2018.07
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The Gwangju Uprising and Transitional Justice: Transformation of Historical Reconciliation among Democratization Movement
Yukie Sato
The Asian Century: Emerging Stories, SPAS Graduate Student Conference
Presentation date： 2018.03
Event date：2018.03 -
Possibility of Historical Reconciliation in East Asia: Lessons from the Korean Experience of the Gwangju Uprising
Trump’s America, Asia’s Contested Order and the Prospects of China-Japan-Korea Cooperation: Expert Meetings and Young Leaders’ Forum
Presentation date： 2017.05
Event date：2017.05 -
Democratization and Re-Definition of History in Korea: With a Focus on Gwangju Democratization Movement
Yukie Sato
Seminar for Academic Exchange Between Seoul National University Institute for Japanese Studies and Waseda University Korean Studies Seminar
Presentation date： 2016.03
Research Projects
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1980年代韓国女性運動における「過去清算」の政治思想史：対米認識の変容に着目して
The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation
Project Year :
2024.05-2024.09 -
Violence in Cold War East Asia and the U.S.: Focusing on the Carter Administration’s Human Rights Diplomacy Toward South Korea and Taiwan
Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers
Project Year :
2023.04-2023.11 -
冷戦期東アジアにおける分断と暴力：光州事件へのアメリカの関与に関する実証的研究
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Project Year :
2020.04-2022.09 -
冷戦期東アジアにおける国家暴力：韓国・光州事件とアメリカ
Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation Academic Research Grants (Humanities Division Research Support)
Project Year :
2019.07-2020.06
Misc
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Reviving the Memory of 'Gwangju': Reflections Prompted by the December 3 Emergency Martial Law (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Sekai ( 992 ) 170 - 180 2025.03
Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)
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Gazing the 'Past' in/through the Everyday Life (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
日韓文化交流基金NEWS ( 101 ) 19 2025.02 [Invited]
Other
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Beyond Security: Human Rights as the Foundation of Japan-ROK Cooperation
Yukie Sato
Asia Policy 20 ( 1 ) 19 - 23 2025.01 [Invited]
Other
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Diversifying Narrative of the May 18: A Consideration on Impossibility of ‘Not being Dangsaja’ (in Korean)
Yukie Sato (Author/Translation Supervisor), Sang-hae Kwon (Translator)
Flou 2 7 - 19 2023.12 [Invited]
Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)
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Resistance, Violence, and the US Human Rights Diplomacy in Cold War East Asia: Comparing the Gwangju Uprising with the Kaohsiung Incident
Yukie Sato
Proceedings paper for the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2022 Summer International Symposium "An Anarchist Turn?: Imperial Rule and Resistance in the Long Twentieth Century" 1 - 21 2022.07 [Invited]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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The Role of Gender Education for a Democratic Society: Lessons from a Comparison of #MeToo Movement in South Korea and Japan
Yukie Sato
Proceedings for 2021 Busan Network for Democratic Citizenship Education International Forum "Democracy in East Asia and Democratic Citizenship Education: Past, Present, and Future" 119 - 127 2021.11 [Invited]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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The Gwangju Democratic Uprising and the U.S. Foreign Policy toward Korea: Focusing on the Trilateral Relations between the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Congress and ROK’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Full Paper for Section Meeting of International Exchange, The 2021 Annual Convention of the Japan Association of International Relations 1 - 28 2021.10
Research paper, summary (national, other academic conference)
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The Response and Actions of the Embassy of Japan in Korea toward the Gwangju Uprising: Focusing on Sengo Gaiko-Kiroku of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (in Korean)
Yukie Sato
Proceedings for the International Symposium "Imagination after the May 18: Beyond Gwangju, Beyond the Generation" 59 - 77 2020.08 [Invited]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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State Violence in Cold War East Asia: The Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and and the United States (in Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Research Reports: Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation ed. 57 1 - 3 2020
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Cold War and Human Rights: Transitional Justice for the Gwangju Uprising and Its Limitations (in Korean and Japanese)
Yukie Sato
Proceedings for Symposium of Ritsumeikan Center for Korean Studies "Significances of The May 18 Gwangju People’s Struggle and Peace for Today: Pre-Symposium for 40th Anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju People’s Struggle" 43 - 66 2019.11 [Invited]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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Collective Memory, Space, and the Dangsaja Coming (in Korean)
Yukie Sato
Moon-hak-deul ( 54 ) 24 - 45 2018.12 [Invited]
Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)
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(Translation from Korean to Japanese) 「散華」と「難死」：戦後日本社会における特攻の記憶と再現
Yung-jin Lee (Author), Yukie Sato (Translator)
Proceedings for Symposium “East Asia as a Global Memory Space Ver.2: Memory Regime/Memory Activism” 176 - 192 2018.09
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(Translation from Korean to Japanese) 韓国における地域新聞の危機と競争力強化戦略に関する研究
Dae-young Oh and Hee-gak Yoon (Joint Author), Yukie Sato (Translator)
Proceedings for the 24th Japan-Korea International Symposium "'Public Opinion' in the Digital/Cyber Space" 6 - 22 2018.08
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The Gwangju Uprising and Transitional Justice
Yukie Sato
Proceedings of the 4th Asia Future Conference: Peace, Prosperity, and Dynamic Future 1496 - 1501 2018.08 [Refereed]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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(Translation from English to Japanese) 資料解題 日本におけるジャーナリズム教育
Somei Kobayashi (Translation Supervisor), Xinhui Zhang and Yukie Sato (Joint Translator)
Journalism & Media ( 11 ) 53 - 75 2018.03
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Possibility of Historical Reconciliation in East Asia: Lessons from the Korean Experience of the Gwangju Uprising
Yukie Sato
Proceedings of Trump's America, Asia's Contested Order and the Prospects of China-Japan-Korea Cooperation: Young Leaders' Forum 117 - 119 2017.05 [Refereed]
Research paper, summary (international conference)
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(Translation from Korean to Japanese) 討論：「東アジアにおける移行期正義と歴史和解」
Yung-jin Lee (Author), Yukie Sato (Translator)
Proceedings for 20th Anniversary Academic Conference on the Supreme Court Verdicts of Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo 93 - 98 2017.04
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（Translation from Japanese to Korean）東アジアの移行期正義と歴史和解 ― ‘5・18’と‘大逆事件’のあいだ ―
Naoyuki Umemori (Author), Yukie Sato (Translator)
Proceedings for 20th Anniversary Academic Conference on the Supreme Court Verdicts of Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo 79 - 92 2017.04
Research paper, summary (international conference)
Teaching Experience
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政治分析入門（TA Session）
School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
2025.04-Now -
政治分析入門（TA Session)
School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
2019.09-2020.08
Social Activities
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2020 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Nomination Committee of Japan
The May 18 Memorial Foundation
2019- -
2019 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Onsite Verification Committee of Japan
The May 18 Memorial Foundation
2019-
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