尹奉吉의 上海義擧에 대한 日本언론의 보도

Abstract

Bong-Gil Yoon’s heroic deed in Shanghai must have given a shock to the whole nation of Japan. The Japanese press reported that his heroic deed exasperated Japan, and intensively carried reports of the conditions of the party concerned including an army commander, Sarikawa and their family, and expressed their maximum sympathy. Moreover, as they carried reports of consolation of representatives of various countries including the minister of foreign affairs of Great Britain and propagated that Japan was supported by its allies, they made Japan a victim. On the contrary, they criticized that Bong-Gil Yoon’s heroic deed was a simple frenzied act. There are lots of the description of Bong-Gil Yoon’s face in the Japanese newspapers. Putting various description together, it seems that Bong-Gil Yoon wore a light-brown suit, a grey topcoat and a dark grey soft hat. This answers the description of Bong-Gil Yoon who was being taken to the police in the front page of an extra edition, “Osaka Asahi Shimbun” dated April 29. He was beaten so much by the masses right after his arrest that he lost his consciousness for a little while. However, his face and clothes in the picture in the front page of the extra edition, “Osaka Asahi Sihimbun” were pretty clean. Therefore there is an claim that the person in the newspaper is not Bong-Gil Yoon. But his face in the picture in the second page of the newspaper on the same day was bloodstained and different from that of the extra edition. Also his face in the picture appeared in “The China Weekly Review” was dark and his topcoat was stained with something like mud, and he had a figure as if he ran a mile from something. Therefore I think that the picture appeared in the extra edition of “Osaka Asahi Shimbun” might be amended because it worried about violent anti-Japanese feelings after Shanghai Incident. There is a record that Bong-Gil Yoon was beaten and lost his consciousness, and he was carried by the car. Also there is a claim that the person being taken to a police station in the newspaper was not Bong-Gil Yoon. But according to an article, though he got it from all sides and got seriously wounded enough that his blood flowed under the sleeve, his face was full of a cold smile. The article says that he did not completely lose his consciousness.