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Cultural heritage in Korea – from a Japanese perspective
Chapter from: Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia
- Name
- Toshio Asakura
- Institution
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Country
- Japan
- Biography
- Toshio Asakura is a Professor at Ritsumeikan University and Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan. He has published extensively on social structures in East Asia, in particular Korea and Japan. He has been undertaking a long-term comparative research project on culinary culture in Korea and was awarded the Ok-gwan (Jewelled Crown) Order of Cultural Merit of the Republic of Korea in 2013.
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- Shaping Japan’s disaster heritageMegan Good