東アジア冷戦と植民地主義批判 : 日本朝鮮研究所の日朝友好運動論をめぐる対立を中心に

Abstract

This paper focuses on a latent ideological conflict over the evaluation of Japanese colonialism between The Japanese Institute of Korean Studies and Japanese Communist Party, which occurred from the ratification of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea and the expansion of Vietnam War. This is a good illustration of the difficulty that the Japanese attempting to criticize colonialism during the Cold War in East Asia had to face. Japanese Communist Party, which gave top priority to the opposition to Vietnam War, severely criticized Goro Terao’s theory of the Japan-Korea Friendship Movement and claimed that he persisted in the history of Japan’s invasion of Asia and ignored the ferocity of the current American imperialism. However, Terao’s assertion that there could be no Japan-North Korea friendship movement without criticism of colonialism became more and more persuasive because the Japanese government oppressed ethnic education soon after the ratification of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea. In the end, Terao was expelled from the Japanese Communist Party and left The Japanese Institute of Korean Studies, which was supported by the branch members of the Japan-Korea Society and the teachers of the Japan Teachers’ Union, who were actively involved in the movement to protect national education.