EJKS 25.1 – Vladimir Tikhonov – Cho Seung-bog: An Academic Life in Overlapping Contact Zones and the Meanings of Reversed Nihonjinron

Abstract
This article reconstructs the transnational life and academic career of Cho Seung-bog (1922-2012)—a pioneering founder of Japanese and Korean studies in post-war Scandinavia—through a biographical and intellectual-historical lens. Tracing Cho’s trajectory from pre-war Manchuria and wartime Japan to Cold War America and neutral Sweden, it examines how his overlapping positionalities shaped...