1920년대 두 번의 조선인학살 - ‘나카츠카와 사건, 기모토 사건’－의 실태와 관동대지진 때 학살과의 비교 분석

Abstract

The commonalities of two slaughters before and after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the reconstructed Nakatsugawa case in 1922 and the Kimoto case in 1926, are compared and analyzed for the commonalities with the massacres during the Great Kanto Earthquake. The Nakatsugawa case was a case in which at least twelve Korean workers who were working at the construction of a hydroelectric power plant upstream of the Nakatsugawa River in Niigata Prefecture were died or injured of being forced into severe hard work and ethnic discrimination, in 1922. The Kimoto case was an incident in which armed local people raided 200 Korean workers who worked at the tunnel construction site in Kimoto, Mie Prefecture. They killed two and injured dozens of Koreans in 1926. The summary of these two cases, the response of the Koreans, and the commonalities with the massacre during the Great Kanto Earthquake fixed images that were depicted in rumors and various negative expressions, violence and the justification of the offender, the fact that armed civilians, including local governments, attacked and killed Koreans, joining, coordinating, and acquiring local police for abuse, cover-up or reducing the cases of the authorities, and the inherent contradictions of colonial Koreans, These six issues have been confirmed in common. However, the massacre was a tragedy that inevitably occurred because the person was a colonial Korean. This continued afterwards with the fear of the Koreans in Japan regarding the massacre. The history and memory of the slaughter are currently being distorted, deleted, or erased, and the rumors of the time of the massacre and the negative image or expressions still remain in Japanese society. In order to be aware of the reality, we must face the memory of the massacre.