Yujin Han is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, and a visiting lecturer at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Sophia University. She earned her Master's degree with high honors in East Asia Area Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. She worked for the Institute for Japanese Studies at SNU as an assistant. Her current research interests include the effects of international relations in migration, North Korean defectors, and the Korean immigrants in Japan.