1950년대 일본 고유영토설의 정치적 분쟁화 모순점에 대한고찰

Abstract

The inherent territory theory is a political term created by the Japanese government. This is a term referring to territorial disputes with other countries and is a claim to deny historical authority. Therefore, we analyzed the contrariety of the inherent territory theory by focusing on the problem of territorial disputes in Japan in the 1950s. Since the 1950s, the Japanese government has claimed that the Kuril Islands, the Senkaku Islands, and Dokdo are inherent territories, indicating that these islands are not Japanese territory that was acquired at any point in history, but were not previously Japanese territory. Recently, the Japanese government claims that territories that have not been occupied by other nations belong to their own territory, so that the terra nullius theory establishes the inherent territory. This logic came from the study of Japanese foreign ministry in the 1950s and the Japanese government used the first Japanese territory in the Japanese Government Views(4) in January 1959. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan combined the inherent territory theory and the terra nullius theory from this time, and began to use the inherent territory from the 1960s. The concept of the territory of Japan comes from the Sinocentrism and there are contrarieties when applied to the logic of European international law, and the expression ‘reaffirming the sovereignty of Dokdo’ is a denial of the meaning of Japan’s own territory. This logic of the Japanese government can refute the inherent territory with the Japanese ordinances such as the legislations of the finance ministry’s notice of 1946~1954. These laws also exclude the Kuril Islands and Dokdo from Japan’s attached islands, succeeding SCAPIN 677 before and after the San francisco Peace Treaty. This proves that the Kuril Islands and Dokdo are not Japanese territories, and these laws prove that Dokdo was fully returned from Japan to Korea under international law. In addition, Japan’s inherent territory theory on Dokdo is a political term developed after 1959, and it is a logic created together in the Kuril Islands dispute with Russia in the 1950s. This logic is created by Japan’s right-wing and political and diplomatic needs.