관동대지진 조선인 학살 전후 ‘불령선인’을 둘러싼 언설과 시책

Abstract

This paper is a reconsideration of the whole story of the massacre of the Korean people in the Great Kanto Earthquake by examining the discourse and policies of the Japanese government before and after the incident. The Japanese government used this catastrophe to annihilate Korean anti-Japanese nationalists.This paper looked at how the word 'Criminal Korean' was made and circulated and how it was used to represent certain images in the Japanese society. A thorough examination of the documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an exhaustive inspection of the imposition of the Japanese martial law led to the reconstruction of the story of the massacre of the Korean people in the Great Kanto Earthquake. It was confirmed that the majority of 'criminal Koreans' were nationalists, independent activists, and officers of the provisional government. A comprehensive review of the content and the process of dispersal of groundless rumors right after the Great Earthquake, the content and purpose of the martial law, army and police movements after the imposition of the martial law, and the slaughter in the Narasino prison camp revealed that the policies and measures of the Japanese government were all focused on the annihilation of 'criminal Koreans'.