일제시기 中村健太郞의 언론활동과 내선융화운동

Abstract

Nakamura Kentaro was born in 1881 in Kumamotoken, Japan. And learned Korean language at the Joseonhoe in Kokkento, the ultraright political party. He was dispatched to korea as a Korean language student from Kumamotoken in 1899. After working as a Japanese language school teacher, he joined 『Hansungshinbo』 and published a Korean newspaper. He also served as an interpreter for a police advisor who from his hometown. And led the newspaper censorship in Korea. In the 1910s, he worked for Gyeongseong Ilbo and Maeil Sinbo. Those were the organ of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. After resigning from the newspaper office in 1922, he became the part-time employee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea owing to a relationship with Saito Makoto. And since 1923, he has played an important role in organizing the Dongminhoe, which consists of Korean and Japanese leaders. In 1925, he organized the Joseon Bulgyodan to make korean buddhist a pro-Japanese. And established ‘The Joseon Bulgyosa’ to publish a magazine called 『Joseon Bulgyo』. The Dongminhoe and the Joseon Bulgyodan were the representative groups of Japanese-Korean Reconciliation Movement that established in the 1920s. Until now, we couldn't find common ground between the two groups, other than that they campaigned for Japanese-Korean Reconciliation at the same time. However, if you look at Nakamura who the working-level official, you can see that there were a lot of similarities in intentions of establishment. Nakamura was well aware of Korea and fluent in Korean because he lived in Korea for 50 years until 1945. Whenever he tried to get a job or change his positions, he had helped a lot from his acquaintances in Korea like his hometown seniors. these gave him a great advantage in leading the Japanese-Korean Reconciliation Movement. Although he was familiar with Korea, he despised the Korean ethnicity and actively advocated the necessity of assimilation into Japan. He also warned against the spreading of socialism and national movements among Koreans in the 1920s, pointed out that the main reason was a crisis of youth thought, and suggested the spirit of Japanese Buddhism as a solution.