Soviet Union. This led to two results: while funding and the commitment of corporations to the area decreased, oversight also decreased; researchers in the West were free to pursue most avenues of interest without the objection of their sponsors. In East Asia In Japan, Southeast Asian studies became a more concrete field of study in the period after Japanese colonization of the region during the Pacific War. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University was founded in 1963, and The Japan Society for Southeast Asian History was founded in 1966 In the United States, the rise of communism in Vietnam and Laos brought Southeast Asian studies to the forefront of academia and politics. In Korea, academics began forming groups focusing on the region of Southeast Asia in the 1990s. In 1991, the Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies (KASEAS). Southeast Asian studies in South Korea focuses mainly on Southeast Asia's relationship with other regions in Asia, trans-border migration within and outside Southeast Asia, and the spread of Korean Wave in the region. Publication Southeast Asian Studies is also the English name of the Japanese scholarly journal Tonan Ajia Kenkyu. The journal has been published since 1963 by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. Programs by country Universities that offer studies of Southeast Asia are listed by region: Southeast Asia Ateneo de Manila University De la Salle University Chulalongkorn University Gadjah Mada University Mahidol University International College National University of Singapore Silliman University Thammasat University University of Indonesia University of Malaya University of Asia and the Pacific University of the Philippines Diliman Walailak University Kasetsart University Chiang Mai University Naresuan University Khon Kaen University Ho Chi Minh City Open University East Asia Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing International Studies University City University of Hong Kong Jinan University Kyoto University National Chi Nan University National Sun Yat-sen University Sogang University Sophia University Sun Yat-sen University Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Xiamen University North America Arizona State University Columbia University Cornell University Indiana University Bloomington Johns Hopkins University Northern Illinois University Ohio University University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Riverside University of Hawai'i at Manoa University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh University of Toronto University of Washington, Seattle University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University Europe Lund University, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies Università