일본인 귀환자 단체 同和協會, 中央日韓協會의 한반도 인식: 기관지 『同和』를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines to pay attention to the perception on the Korean Peninsula of Japanese repatriate, who had a lasting interest in the liberation space of colonial Joseon and more than anyone else in Japanese society after defeat in the Second World War. It also analyzes the bulletin of the Dōwa Association, which played a central role in solving pending issues and related organizations among Japanese repatriate. Through this, their perception on the Korean Peninsula was created in the process of forced repatriation by the U.S. military government to Japan, two governments established on the Korean Peninsula after liberation, the Korean War, the Treaty of Peace with Japan, the South Korea-Japan normalization negotiations and the North Korea-Japan negotiations regarding the issue of detainee. In addition, this paper aims to present the view that the Japanese, who returned after the defeat, moved between South Korea and North Korea in line with the international situation and recognized the Korean Peninsula arbitrarily and conveniently. From this perspective, the paper focuses on the activities of the Dōwa Association and the Central Japan-Korea Association, which are key organizations formed by Japanese repatriate, and among them, the perception on the Korean Peninsula, is refracted according to the inflection point by time. Accordingly, this paper have two significance. First, Japanese repatriates recognized South Korea as a space to recreate it as a postwar edition of the Japanese colonialism that the two countries should accept and cooperate with geographical, historical and cultural specificities. Second, the repatriates have identified aspects of North Korea that Japan's human rights were infringed.