전후 일본의 혼혈 담론-GHQ 점령기를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the level of consecutive and non-consecutive perceptions of Japan's mixed blood theory, which was accompanied by the claims of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity. Through this, we were able to look deeply into the characteristics of the fundamental mechanisms that act on Japanese theology. And this will be used as a basis for tracking the changes of racist vision of modern Japan in the future. In the 1940's, the theory of mixed blood is used as a logical basis while Japanese dominance spreads domestically by the cultivation of eugenics and by the advocacy of 'the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity'. As the US military occupation continues, the theory of mixed blood, which has been complexly thought out on biological basis, sociological awareness, (state spirit) culturalism, becomes more and more publicized unfortunately. Discussions about mixed blood became active when the peace treaty was signed. The half-blood problem started with 'monetary' accountability and gradually spread to areas of discourse such as 'pure blood' and 'national chastity'. This was the result of the mass exposure of mixed-race children to the school year, provoking national disgrace with the visibility of Japan's sense of defeat. In the process, the notion of mixed-bloods, which is defined in terms of the U.S.-Japan relationship, was becoming a "public epic" subject to discrimination and prejudice in Japanese society. Lastly, I considered the unique values of the Japanese society's view that the issue of mixed-race children is incidental to war. It is related to the main 'values' of the Japanese during Meiji period, which had a strong longing for white race, and the Japanese power of Western racism. In other words, thorough prejudice and discrimination against the mixed blood between black and Japanese strengthened in postwar Japanese society is in accord with Japanese racialism that has followed Western racist views. On the other hand, it shows the phenomenon that black people replace the position of the Asian as the inferior existence of the war. Apart from the sense of defeat, the problem of mixed blood has a mixed meaning in terms of power structure, such as political dynamics.