1970년대 ‘조선반도 연구자’의 한국론

Abstract

Current Korea-Japan Relations reach the worst state since Normalization of diplomatic relations in 1965. The confrontation between Japan and South Korea over the sovereignty of Dokdo, Japan's comfort women, and forced mobilization has expanded to all the aspects such as historical conflicts, economic sanctions, and diplomatic clashes. At the root of the pride of Korea which has achieved the economic growth and democracy since 1980s, Strong nationalism is in place, and this is the nourishment of ‘anti-Japanese’.
 In Japan which has become smaller since Peak Japan in 1980s, the Discomfort with Korea, which has emerged as a competitor, so-called ‘anti-Korea’ has became the major political agenda, and expanded to public society. While experiencing the risk of neoliberalism since post-cold war, the civil society in South Korea and Japan has been besieged by internal and external nationalism and has fallen victim to hostilities that have been reduced to factional logic.
 This study reviews the original form of the theory of anti-Korea of Japanese society now based on the case of Akira Tanaka, who was evaluated as a pro-Korean in Japan in the 1970s. This is also a work that reviews the reason why the evaluation on Tanaka between Korean intellectuals Kim Yoon Sik and Jeong Gyung Mo is so different. Through this study, we examined how Japanese intellectuals' “Korean studies” were related to and interconnected with Korean intellectuals' perceptions of Japan through the Hyunhaetan.
 As shown in the intellectual exchange With Seonwoo Hui, it was communism and liberal conservatism premised on Japanese (Japanese) consciousness of atonement. However, when the issue of Japanese history textbook in 1982 is recognized as infringement of sovereignty of Japan, Japanese intellectual Tanaka declared that he would no longer be a “good Japanese” on the premise of atonement, and such a recognition by Tanaka became the basic theory that forms the original form of anti-Korea in current Japanese society.