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On December 5, 1997, Hudson Institute and the East Asian Security Study Group held a conference on Japan and Korea's future. The focus of the conference was to survey the state of Japanese-Korean relations and analyze how they would evolve in the future. In the two and a half years since the symposium took place the pace of the improvement of Korean-Japanese relations has been dramatic. Very few observers in late 1997, even the most optimistic ones, would have predicted that relations between the two nations would improve as rapidly as they did. Though much remains to be done, the trend line has been very impressive.Funded by the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, these essays will help scholars and policy makers gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding ties between Japan and Korea.Contributors include Gary L.Geipel (Hudson Institute) Han Taejoon and Kim Taehyun (Chung-Ang University, Seoul), Hattori Tamio (Doshisha University, Kyoto), Kohari Sususmu (University of Shizuoka), Lee Sook-Jong (Sejong Institute, Sungnam City), Murooka Tetsuo (National Institute of Defense Studies, Tokyo), Nagashima Akihisa, (Council on Foreign Relations and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Otsuka Umio (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces), and Yamaguchi Noboru, (Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces and current military attaché in Washington, DC).