스즈키 타케오의 조선통치론, 전전과 전후적 맥락

Abstract

This article focuses on the context of the prewar and the postwar on governance of Colonial Korea which was advocated by Suzuki Takeo. Criticising the criticism of colonial rule, Suzuki insisted that there was few act of Japan’s economic activities in the colonial Korea. It was the resistance to reparations policy of the United States. According to the context of Suzuki, Japan didn’t exploit Korea for the colonial excess profits and Koreans had just misunderstood the ‘good governance’ of the Japanese Empire. In Suzuki’s development theory, Japanese capital had just developed the colonial Korea voluntarily. Being bound organically to Japan, colonial Korea has become a local economy of Japan. Colonial economic structure became a prerequisite of economic partnership between Korea and Japan which Suzuki proposed after World War II. Suzuki admitted that there was also something to regret the governance of Japan to Korea. Emphasizing more the ‘ideal part’ of Japan’s governance than imperialistic exploitation, he showed a hopeful prospect that Korea and Japan should be ‘re-partnering’ under the new condition of decolonization. While defending the best interest of Japan to the U.S. reparation policy, Suzuki thought that there was a need to protect the Japanese self-legitimacy in order to lead the negotiations with Korea. For pursuing to lead the diplomatic interest, Japan also recognized the need to show ‘regretting’ the colonial rule of Korea to the extent allowed by U.S. policy, however, Japan had blocked herself the room for subjective ‘regret’ for the peace in the Asian region.