アジア太平洋戦争期朝鮮総督府における 満洲移民宣伝活動

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Korean immigration policy of Manchuria, which was promoted with the aim of increasing the production of food from “Manchukuo” and the rural population problem of Korea in the background of the relocation of Japan’s labor force during the Asia Pacific War. In detail, we will consider the process of immigration promotion that is part of this policy, the truth of the content of the promotion, and the problems and solutions that have emerged from the immigration plan. The Government-General of Chosen has begun to actively emphasize the “good image of Manchuria” for immigrants by introducing the lives of immigrants in Manchuria and holding lectures and roundtable discussions in order to change their awareness of the Manchurian region. In addition, by comparing the propaganda of Korean Manchurian immigrant activities with the real life after immigration, it can be confirmed that there is a big difference from propaganda in terms of cultivated land area, agricultural income, and medical hygiene. Korean farmers moved to Manchuria through immigration propaganda by the Government-General of Chosen were deprived of their livelihoods as the tenant farmer of SenMan Development Company and their lives continued to be poor. This shows that the immigration promotion of the Government-General of Chosen was “over-promotion” and was a discriminatory response. As mentioned above, it was clarified in this study that the immigration policy of the Government-General of Chosen had a character as a labor plunder in rural Korea as part of the labor relocation within the Japanese.