비/국민의 차별과 배제－재일한센인의 수기와 한일 요양소 기행

Abstract

The study focuses on the daily notes written by Korean Hansen's Disease patient[HDP] residing in Japan, and the travel essays to the leprosarium, which are in Korea and Japan. Those were included in the ‘Leprosy Enlightenment magazine’ THE VISION. The subjects who recorded the notes and the articles were people in different positions. The memoirs of the daily notes are autobiographical records left by Korean HDPs residing in Japan. On the other hand, the travel reports to a leprosarium in Korea and Japan are that were written by Korean and Japanese people involved Hansen’s disease who added impressions after visiting organizations in both countries. In the June 1965 issue of the magazine THE VISION published an article titled Appeal of Korean Japanese by the Nagashima-Aiseien Korean Friend Association(1965.4.22), which reported the reality of the Korean people who discriminated against for being Korean. The magazine also introduced the lives of Koreans living in Japan, including Nagashima-Aiseien[長島愛生園] and Oku-Komyoen[邑久光明園]. The daily records describe the survival of HDPs who moved to Japan from colonial Korea, and the life of fighting the disease, some of which reprinted the writings of The Lonely Island(1961). In the record life of Korean Japanese with Hansen’s disease, we first pay attention to the following two points: The record is a detailed report of the experience of discrimination and exclusion as a Korean and HDP in Japan. The autobiographical records of the Korean Japanese raise a more sensitive point because they spoke from the position as the Non[非]/people, which is the boundary of the people, not the people, or the people, who are not the people. One paragraph can read in A half-life of hardship[荊棘의 半生記](1973.2∼1974.10) by Kawano Jun[川野順]. Next, Hansen’s disease patient self-description shows pre/post disease occurrence experiences with disasters such as earthquakes and food shortages, the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, liberation, and the Korean War. They cross-narrated the process of the deterioration of a disease with the suffering caused by disasters. In this regard, in Hansen's disease patient autobiography, disasters are not just a metaphor, but another term referring to the sick body. Since the publication of the magazine THE VISION, exchanges between Hansen's disease officials in Korea and Japan have been more brisk. A trip to a nursing home by Hansen's disease officials in Korea and Japan provided an opportunity to experience the situation at care facilities for HDPs in Korea and Japan. Yoo Jun[柳駿] and Shin Jeong Ha[辛定夏], they toured sanitarium and recorded conversations with officials in Japan. Meanwhile, Hamano Kikuo[濱野規矩雄] and Yamazaki Sotaro[山崎宗太郞] refer to leprosy management policy and settlement projects in Korea. How was the view of leprosarium in Korea and Japan from the perspective of the outside? What difference did the scenes of leprosarium in Korea and Japan recorded in the eyes of a foreigner differ from a realistic situation? The question expects to be answered through progressing researches on Hansen’s disease/HDP in both countries. This consideration leaves for a further task.