JPRI at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim (USFCPR) is engaged in a multi-year research project on "Divided Memories and Reconciliation" in the Pacific Rim, in cooperation with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at Stanford University.

During the 2008-2009 academic year, JPRI/USFCPR co-sponsored a film series entitled "Divided Lenses: Film and War Memories in the Asia Pacific" and a corresponding academic conference that analyzed representations of twentieth-century war and colonialism in the films of China, Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, and the United States. The film series culminated with a public event with director Clint Eastwood, who discussed his innovative war films Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers, and the conference, which brought together scholars from various countries of the Pacific Rim.

More information on the film series and conference can be found on the Stanford APARC site.

JPRI director, Dr. Chiho Sawada, and Dr. Michael Berry (associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies, University of California Santa Barbara) are currently co-editing the conference proceedings for publication in book form.