The open member meeting of the project “Comparative Research of the Reception of Japanese and Korean Popular Culture in Europe” (sponsored by Suntory Foundation) will take place in Paris on December 13, 2011. The project is coordinated by Vytautas Magnus University Centre for Asian Studies. During the meeting its members will present and discuss the course of their individual research, as well as discuss on general problem and hyphothesis issues and prepare for the publication to be released next year.

The members of the meeting are kindly invited by Assoc. prof., Dr. Jean-Michel Butel from Institute National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO). He is the head of academic claster in research on Japan. The members of the joint research are  prof. S. Formanek (Vienna university), prof. T. Kitamura (Osaka university, Japan), prof. S. Li (Pusan National university, Korea), assoc. prof. N. Onohara (Hyogo university, Japan), assoc.prof. J. Hyun (Sogang university, Korea), dr. K. Koma (VMU), dr. A. Zykas (VMU).

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