미군정하 검열과 천황제의 존속 -다나카 히데미쓰의 소설분석을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study explores the Japanese emperor, who was the supreme commander of war, and the discussion on the governing system of Japan after Japan's defeat in World War Ⅱ through the expressions in Japanese literature and cultural contents under the occupying Allied Forces. This study also examines the response and attitude of Allied Forces occupying government on such expressions by way of the censorship pattern and attitude at the time. During the occupation period, when Japan got out of the oppression during war footing, various opinions and stories began to be expressed in novels, essays and films. Among such expressions, the discussion on the continuation of emperor and emperor system is a good indicator in learning how the willpower of old Japanese governing system to extend the pre-war authority was sympathized with or contended by general Japanese people. In addition, the responses of occupying government on such discussion gives the insight on the political desire of new governing power at the time, who wanted to efficiently govern the occupied country and rebuild post-war Japan in accordance with the intention of occupying entity. This study searched people's view on emperor and pre-war system, which continued on everyday living level without change after defeat, by way of incomplete novel of Tanaka Hidemitsu. Nakano Sigeharu said that ‘the dependence psychology on lawless authority, which became a habitual routine’ can be summarized as the ‘Japanese-like of Japanese’ and the novel of Tanaka Hidemitsu is a good expression of this viewpoint. However, it is a well-known fact that the Japanese emperor system, which articulated pre-war and post-war by adding the word ‘symbolic’, was not kept by Japanese internal logic but it was the result of acute tug-of-war and close negotiation between Japan and the occupying entity, which was the United States. This study explicitly clarified that the censorship cooperated in making post-war Japan, which was an ‘incomplete post-empire’, by its censorship standard and detail censorship cases on the emperor(system) and the emperor(system) clearly tells the ambiguous and equivocal censorship attitude of occupying government at the time.