Abstract

During the wartime regime (1937~1945), the Japanese Empire forcibly mobilized Koreans in various forms, including laborers, soldiers, Civilian in Military Employment, and Japanese Military Sexual Slaverys, to carry out the invasion war. The registers is an important data to inform the fact, and one of them is The Register of the Sailor in Employment in Military Seas Transportation Head Office. The Register is a one-page card that records individual personal information. The personal information of the forced Korean crew, their company and unit, the name of the ship on board, the timing of mobilization, and salary are described in this statement, and whether the ship on board the crew was sunk and whether the crew died. The purpose of this paper is to understand the status of forced mobilization of Korean sailors, which is not yet known. As a result of this study, it was found that Korean sailors who were forcibly mobilized could be classified into two main types: those of large merchant ships and those of small fishing boats. First of all, they differed from the items listed on The Register, and it was found that the sailors of the large merchant ship worked as “military sailors” no later than July 1943. On the other hand, it was not known through The Register how the sailors of the small fishing boat were treated. In the case of sailors of small fishing boats, the reality of forced mobilization can be grasped through oral work on the testimony of survivors. I want to leave this part as a after task.

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