Dr. Aaron Moore, Arizona State University, “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea”

Aaron S. Moore is Associate Professor of modern Japanese history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013). In this talk, he examines the history of Korean developmentalism as a transnational process of dynamic exchange, negotiation, and conflict between Japanese and Korean experts.

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