戦後在日朝鮮人のメディア活動とその展開について ‒ 朝鮮文化教育会と「文教新聞」を中心に ‒

Abstract

This article focuses on the Bunkyo Shimbun, a newspaper published as an organ of the Association of Chosun Culture and Education on September 15th 1947. Zainichi Koreans in postwar Japan published many newspapers and magazines. In this situation, the Bunkyo Shimbun carried many articles on education of Zainichi Koreans in Japan, with using two slogans; “prosperity of our country” or “happiness of Korean countrymen.” In previous studies, the political stance of the Bunkyo Shimbun and its president was viewed as “anti-Soviet, anti-communism, and anti-America.” Hence, the political diversity of articles and their authors were forgotten. But the fact was that Choi Sun, a president of this newspaper, insisted on such education as not categorized into a certain ideology by using this newspaper. He asserted the necessity of “a powerful unified organization” which integrate Cho-ren(Association for Korean people in Japan)with Mindan(Korean Residents Union in Japan)politically. This newspaper insisted on a political stance, which is not reduced to one ideology based on a bilateral opposition of right/left against Cho-ren or Mindan. When the 57th volume of the Bunkyo Shimbun was published on April 11th, this newspaper discontinued after two years of its foundation. The Bunkyo Shimbun shows not only its possibility but also its limit as a cultural organization of Zainichi Koreans in post-war Japan.