Japanese Colonial Period Research Articles

Contributors

Thomas Chen is an assistant professor of Chinese at Lehigh University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. He is the author of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.Xiuying Cheng is an associate professor with the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. Her research area includes social theory, political sociology, and China studies.Erica Kanesaka is a postdoctoral research associate in gender studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She will be starting as an assistant professor of Asian American literature and culture at Emory University in 2022. Her research has appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Oxford Literary Review, and Victorian Studies.Wenqing Kang is an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University. He is author of Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900–1950 (2009).Jihoon Kim is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016). He is currently finalizing Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st Century, the first English-written scholarly monograph on the subject.Chungjae Lee is an assistant professor of military studies at the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy. He has published articles in European Journal of Political Theory, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Korean Aesthetics. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the discourse of democratic transformation in early twentieth-century Imperial Japan and colonial Korea with an emphasis on the political thought of Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948) and Cho Soang (1887–1958).Jerry Won Lee is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as faculty affiliate in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies as well as core faculty in the Culture and Theory PhD program.Malcolm Thompson is a historian of China based in Vancouver, Canada.Max Ward is an associate professor of Japanese history at Middlebury College. He is the author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019) and coeditor of Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960 (2022) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017). He is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Police Power in Modern Japan, 1870–1970.

Dental education and special dental practitioner-cultivating system in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period

Background/purposeDuring the Japanese colonial period, Taiwan had no dental school but had a medical school. This study explored the dental education and research activities in the medical school and special dentist qualification system in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Materials and methodsThis study analyzed the “related incidents and documents of dental education and research and dentist qualification system in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period” and explored the dental education and research activities in the medical school and special dentist qualification system in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. ResultsIn 1914, Taiwan Government Medical School hired Dr. Kaname Ansawa, the earliest dental teacher in Taiwan, to teach dental courses in the medical school. In 1918, the “Theory of Dentistry” was considered to be the first independent “Dentistry” subject in the medical school. In 1936, the Faculty of Medicine of Taipei Imperial University listed “Dentistry & Oral Surgery” as an independent graduation examination subject. For dentist qualification system, a qualified physician who had finished dental courses and training could apply for a dental specialty license to work as a dentist. Taiwan Government Medical School (Dentistry) Research Department was the earliest department involved in the teaching and research of dentistry in the medical school and was also an educational institution for cultivating dental practitioners in Taiwan. ConclusionIn the Japanese colonial period, although no dental school was established in Taiwan, there were rich dental education and research activities in the medical school and a special dentist qualification system.

A Deep Learning Model Development to Predict Safety Accidents for Sustainable Construction: A Case Study of Fall Accidents in South Korea

So far, studies for predicting construction safety accidents have mostly been conducted by statistical analysis methods that assume linear models, such as regression and time series analysis. However, it is difficult for this statistical analysis method to reflect the nonlinear characteristics of construction safety accidents determined by complex influencing factors. In general, deep learning techniques are used to analyze the nonlinear characteristics of complex influencing factors. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to propose a framework for developing a deep learning model for predicting safety accidents for sustainable construction. For this study, 1766 cases of actual accidents were collected by the Korea Occupational Safety Authority (KOSHA) over the 10-year period from 2010 to 2019. Eight factors influencing accident prediction such as medical day, progress rate, and construction scale were selected. Subsequently, the predictive power between deep learning models and conventional multi-regression models was compared using actual accident data at construction sites. As a result, a deep neural network (DNN) improved predictive power by 9.3% in mean absolute error (MAE) and 10.6% in root mean square error (RMSE) compared to a conventional multi-regression model. The results of this study provide guidelines for the introduction of deep learning technology to construction safety management.

Development of dental education for medical students in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period

Background/purposeDuring the Japanese colonial period, Taiwan had a medical school education system for cultivating physicians, but did not have a dental school education system for cultivating “real” dentists. In this investigation, we collected and analyzed the historical documents related to dental education to study the development of dental education for medical students in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Materials and methodsThis study mainly analyzed the changes in the development of dental education for medical students in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period through the collection and sorting of relevant historical materials. ResultsDuring each stage of Taiwan's medical education system in the Japanese colonial period, the medical school offered compulsory dental courses for medical students, including theory and clinical practice of dentistry. Although there was no specific dental subject included in the graduation examination, evidence showed that the content of dentistry was covered by the subject of Surgery in the examination. Moreover, Taipei Imperial University established the Medical Faculty in 1936. Its curriculum increased the weight of dentistry and added the “Dentistry & Oral Surgery” as a graduation examination subject, indicating the importance of dental education for medical students in that period. ConclusionIn the Japanese colonial period, although there was no dental school for cultivating dentists in Taiwan, there was still dental education for medical students to let them understand the Dentistry and to enable them to become dental practitioners. This can be regarded as a workaround in the medical and healthcare policy.

Efektivitas Mekanisme Penyelesaian Sengketa Pulau Takeshima/Dokdo Melalui Jalur Non-Yuridis

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the Takeshima/Dokdo Island dispute resolution mechanism between Japan and South Korea through non-juridical channels. The dispute has been started since the Japanese occupation in South Korea, so in this paper the author wants to examine the dispute resolution mechanism that has been carried out by Japan and South Korea in their efforts to resolve the Takeshima/Dokdo Island dispute. This type of research is normative legal research that emphasizes the approach to legislation. The results of this study indicate that the settlement mechanism carried out by Japan and South Korea using non-judicial channels is still not effective. The two countries have negotiated twice, namely in 1998 and 2006. In the same year as the second negotiation, South Korea decided to free itself from the UNCLOS dispute resolution. Then in 2018 Japan established a permanent connection to the island of Takeshima/Dokdo. South Korea's refusal to take the dispute to the International Court of Justice and the failure of negotiations, have left ambiguity over the ownership status of Takeshima/Dokdo islands.

Dental technology of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period

Background/purposeDuring the Japanese colonial period, the Taipei Hospital had already provided complete dental services with a fixed price per treatment. This study tried to compare the differences in the prices of various dental treatments between the Japanese colonial period and today. Materials and methodsThis study used the “Dental Treatment Fees in the 27th Annual Report of Taipei Hospital (Taisho 12)” as the study materials to compare the differences in the prices of various dental treatments between the Japanese colonial period and today using the monthly salary of a novice elementary school teacher as an income benchmark. ResultsA hundred years ago, the Taipei Hospital had already provided the dental treatments such as scaling and endodontic, operative dentistry, prosthodontic, and orthodontic treatments. Of these treatment items, the prices for prosthodontic and orthodontic treatments were more expensive. After a century of development, the costs of scaling and operative dentistry treatments dropped, while the costs of endodontic, prosthodontic, and orthodontic treatments increased. ConclusionDuring the Japanese colonial period, Taiwan's dental treatment technology had already had the forms of modern dentistry with several dental specialties. At that time, the costs of dental treatments are quite expensive. Today's dental treatment items are more detailed and diverse. The health insurance system provides Taiwanese people with convenient and cheap general dental treatments such as scaling and treatments related to operative dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, and oral surgery. However, the costs of prosthodontic and orthodontic treatments increase and have to be paid by the patients themselves.

A Thorn in Imperial Japan's Side: The Shifting Politics of Protestant Christianity in Colonial Korea

Historians have highlighted the deep connection between imperial ideologies and Christian evangelism that undergirded Western colonialism. This intimate relationship between church and state was far more complicated in colonial Korea because Japan maintained non‐Christian religious traditions, yet Japanese colonial authorities still needed the collaboration of Korean Protestant communities to meet the material and ideological demands of Japan's imperial enterprise. This article examines how Western missionaries and Korean evangelicals engaged with colonial rule — that engagement reflected the fluid nature of religious culture in colonial Korea and changed as imperial Japan faced internal and external challenges. Initially, many Protestant churches remained politically neutral to appease the Japanese regime but some supported anti‐Japanese activities, prompting the Government‐General of Korea (GGK) to try to prevent Protestant churches from becoming loci for rebellion against its rule. The GGK switched from “military rule” to a less harsh “cultural rule” in the 1920s, which motivated Protestants to adopt an uneasy coexistence with colonial authorities. In the 1930s–1940s, the GGK hardened its stance on religion and insisted on peninsula‐wide observance of State Shintō; some Protestants acquiesced to the authorities, but others bravely refused to worship Shintō deities, a ritual that contravened Christian strictures against idolatry.

The formation of policy on Hansen’s disease in Korea, and the history of patients’ self-expression

ABSTRACT Previous studies of Hansen’s disease policy in Korea and the lives of patients with the disease have mainly focused on the history of suffering, dealing with the double discrimination the patients suffered in the colony under Japanese colonial rule. As such, there has been a lack of studies on how the voices of leprosy patients in Korea have engaged in society. The fact that leprosy patients have long been the victims of discrimination and exclusion remains unchanged. But they have struggled for survival by internalizing the norms of socially constructed elimination, even before the policy of Japanese imperialists on Hansen’s disease was launched. In the modern era, Hansen’s disease patients cooperated more actively with influential non-patients and campaigned through various media for policies that would support their survival and the establishment of facilities. These demands were not fulfilled during the Japanese occupation of Korea, because the Japanese rulers turned it into a means to justify their colonial administration. Only after liberation from Japan was the framework of the policy on Hansen’s disease established in Korea. Today, Hansen’s disease policy is shifting from disease control to a cultural project. This study explores the history of self-expression of patients with Hansen’s disease in Korea through an examination of the activities of the patients before the modern era, the activities of patient organizations during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, and Korea’s policy on the disease after independence from Japan.

The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea

The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea Yang-Hee Hong In 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea, the practice of purchasing and publishing chokpo, the genealogical record of family lieange, became widespread. This trend was considered a strange phenomenon to reform-minded Korean intellectuals, since chokpo was seen as a symbol of past morality—a product of obsolete familism that contributed to Chosŏn Korea’s collapse. Korea’s familism, symbolized by chokpo, was hence recognized as an obstacle to the formation of nationhood necessary for rebuilding Korea: familism precluded the creation of a “one nation” identity. Despite the criticism, the Korean people’s desire for chokpo did not abate but was strengthened by publishing companies and their brokers. The most fundamental reason for the increase in the desire for chokpo was the family system implemented by the Japanese colonial authority. The patrilineal succession of the household and the surname system, universally enforced to all Koreans under the colonial family system, were similar to the traditional family culture of upper class yangban. The colonial family system thus gave rise to the spread and enjoyment of yangban culture, which, in turn, resulted in the chokpo publishing surge. Eventually, the family system established by the Japanese colonial authority led to the universal acceptance of the patrilineal system by all Koreans. This acceptance strengthened the cultural identity of Koreans based on patrilineage, which served as the foundation of Korea’s cultural nationalism Korean Studies © 2022 by University of Hawai‘i Press. All rights reserved. 1 Keywords: colonial Korea, chokpo, family law, familism, patrilineage, surname system, Japanese colonialism Introduction: The Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea A unique phenomenon in colonial Korea (1910–1945) was the popularization of chokpo. This category of books was at the top of the list of publication license applications that the Japanese GovernmentGeneral of Korea announced each year. The publication of chokpo began to increase in the 1920s and enjoyed its golden age in the 1930s.1 There were seven volumes of chokpo published in 1912, but by 1921, the total number of publication increased eleven fold. There were 243 volumes in 1925, 290 in 1926, and many more in the 1930s.2 According to the repository of chokpo stored in the National Library of Korea, 1,152 volumes of chokpo were published in the 1930s, which is 46% of all chokpo archived in the library.3 Chokpo is a genealogical record of a patrilineal lineage based on the same surname and the surname lineage seat (pon’gwan or pon)—the original place of the progenitor. Compiling chokpo was an exclusive practice among the yangban aristocracy in Chosŏn Korea. In colonial Korea, the social status system had ostensibly been abolished, but chokpo, the quintessential yangban publication, gained immense popularity. An article in Tong-A Ilbo in 1926 reported this phenomenon as “strange.”4 Zenshō Eisuke, a Japanese official of the Government-General of Korea, invented the term tongjok-purak (blood-relative village 同族部落) to characterize Korean society. Zenshō argued that same-surname villages were a unique feature of Korean society and that there was a close relationship between these vollages and the Korean people’s attachment to patrilineal ties. Zenshō thus explained the publication boom of chokpo in colonial Korea by using the notion of blood-relative group sharing the same patrilineal lineage. He argued that Koreans considered chokpo important, because Koreans had “a tendency to respect the genealogical clarification of their blood relations, as Asian people worship ancestors and follow the history or tradition of a family.”5 He went on to say: There are many downsides in the publishing of chokpo. In Korean society, in which the people worship their ancestors and value their own clans, where homogeneity of blood-relative group is strong, chokpo is being excessively esteemed at the moment. Of all the various annual publications in Korea, chokpo 2 Korean Studies 2022 is actually the number one publication. . . . Science does not advance and knowledge does not grow in Korea because of Korea’s inability to free its legs and escape the old muddy fields of chokpo and famous families. . . . . one should not take lightly...

A Raindrop in a Raging Fire? Soft Power as a Tool for Japan-South Korea Reconciliation

Japan and South Korea have experienced rising tensions for generations. Beginning with the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, contemporary relations are shaped by mutual mistrust. Nevertheless, both countries face common security threats, namely North Korean and China; and both are pushed by the United States to cooperate on an international level. It is increasingly important for Japan and South Korea to take steps toward reconciliation. Analyzing the significant barriers to rapprochement, this article explores soft power as a potential method for improving relations between the two countries.

Architectural Research and Reutilization of Lvshun Public High School Site

Public high school in Lvshun is a typical example of modern school architecture in Dalian during the Japanese colonial period. This paper summarises the historical background, development and current situation of the old site of public high school in Lvshun by approaches such as historical literature research and present situation surveying. Then, it analyses the characteristics of public high schools in Lvshun in four aspects: architectural scale, plane function, architectural style and material structure. After that, the school is judged to have four dimensions of value: historical, technological, and cultural and use value. In the end, this paper explores the protection and reuse of the building from the aspects of authenticity, suitability and integrity. It is intended to provide a theoretical basis for the protection and reutilization of modern architectural heritage.

Book Review: Motokazu Matsutani, Church over Nation: Christianity and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (in Japanese)

Book Review: Motokazu Matsutani, <i>Church over Nation: Christianity and Nationalism in Colonial Korea</i> (in Japanese)

The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea

The Paradox of Genealogy: Family Politics and the Publishing Surge of Chokpo in Colonial Korea

Folktales in “Japanese” Textbooks Common to the Colonies: “Jade in the Water” (Suichu no Tama) in Colonial Korea, Manchuria, and Micronesia

Folktales in “Japanese” Textbooks Common to the Colonies: “Jade in the Water” (<i>Suichu no Tama</i>) in Colonial Korea, Manchuria, and Micronesia

Dual Homeland: Cho Myŏng-hŭi and the Origins of Koryŏ Saram Literature

This article constitutes a first step toward filling a crucial gap in English-language studies of Koryŏ saram literature. I focus on the early formative period, which began in the 1920s in tandem with the establishment of Soviet power in the Russian Far East. Its protagonists are Cho Myŏng-hŭi, the proletarian writer from colonial Korea who crossed the border to the Soviet Union in 1928, in addition to the first generation of Soviet-Korean writers centered on the Korean-language newspaper Sŏnbong. This first, Far East, phase of Koryŏ saram literature was violently terminated during the Stalinist purges with the deportation of the population to Central Asia in 1937, which was in turn preceded by the execution of thousands of Koryŏ saram intellectuals and writers, including Cho. The rise of proletarian literature was one of the major developments of Korean literature of the early twentieth century. Among proletarian KAPF (Korean Proletarian Artists' Federation) writers, Cho stands out from this group as the only writer who migrated—and so soon after writing "Naktong River" (1927), a landmark work of Korean proletarian literature—to the Soviet Union, the source and center of world socialism. Aside from his ideological commitment, what little has been known of Cho's migration and Soviet period (1928–1938) has been understood within the dominant image of Cho as a fierce anti-colonial nationalist writer. But Cho's efforts to lay the foundations of a Soviet Korean literature during his decade in the Russian Far East complicate the traditional notion of the exiled or diasporan writer longing for the homeland.

Японская ассимиляционная политика в колониальной Корее в 1910-1945 гг. на примере образовательных реформ

The aim of this study is to analyze the transformation of Japan's assimilation policy in occupied Korea in the period from 1910 to 1945 on the example of educational reforms. This topic is considered in studies of numerous researchers, Russian ones include works of D.A. Yakimova, T.F. Tertitsky, V.A. Gaikin, et al. Among foreign authors, the most famous researcher who deals with the issues of the colonial heritage of Korea is Mark E. Caprio. The article deals with the choice of the assimilation policy in the educational sphere, highlights the main directions and stages of its implementation. Japan was faced with a choice between the French and British style of conducting a colonial policy. These two styles differ in their attitude to subordinate territories. The British style of government involves intervention in the management of the colony only at the highest level; the French style involves the “equalization” of the colonies with the mother country. The choice of Japan fell on the French style of management, due to the common cultural heritage. The entire period of the occupation of Korea is conditionally divided into three periods, in accordance with the colonial policy pursued by the Governor-General at the direction of the mother country. Each of the three periods had its own management features, which can be clearly traced in the educational sphere. The first period was quite tough, it practically created the education system. A school system was created in accordance with the Japanese one, which assumed the study of Japanese as the state language, and the system itself was aimed at creating subjects of the emperor. The second period is characterized by its liberality in the ongoing educational reforms. The first university was founded, and the study of the Korean language and Korean culture was allowed. The third period can be called the most radical. During this period, the Japanese government made an attempt to completely replace Korean culture with Japanese, again it was forbidden to study the Korean language, the day of schoolchildren began with the recitation of the oath to the Emperor of Japan, and Korean names were to be replaced with Japanese. As a result, we can distinguish several main points. Firstly, the Japanese government quite successfully chose the option of assimilation colonization, a kind of incorporation of Korean culture into Japanese culture and further carrying out a course to replace it, given their common roots and similar cultural basis, which allowed a safe combination of the two cultures. Secondly, the policy of assimilation could have had more successful results if the colonial government had not sought to completely destroy ethnicity, but to preserve and multiply it through the fusion of Japanese and Korean cultures. Thirdly, the reform of the education system in accordance with modern standards made it possible to increase the level of literacy of the population.

ВРЕМЕННОЕ ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВО РЕСПУБЛИКИ КОРЕЯ В ПОИСКАХ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА С СОВЕТСКОЙ РОССИЕЙ: 1920–1922 ГОДЫ

As a result of the March 1st uprising, which swept colonial Korea in the spring of 1919, Korean nationalists established the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai. One of the main tasks of the Provisional Government was to achieve international recognition and receive financial assistance for the implementation of anti-Japanese resistance. To this end, it tried to establish contacts with the Soviet government, which expressed support for the national liberation movement of Koreans against Japanese imperialism. Based on the documents from the Archive of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and published sources of the Russian Archive of Socio-Political History, the article analyzes diplomatic correspondence between the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the government of the RSFSR, and identifies the key stages and problems of bilateral relations in 1920–1922. Initially, the relations between two sides were developing on a friendly basis. The Soviet government was interested in deepening cooperation with all groups of the Korean anti-Japanese resistance. But, as the situation on the Far Eastern Front changed and contradictions between different groups within the Korean left movement in Russia and abroad intensified, the Soviet position towards the Korean nationalists was rethought. However, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was still interested in recognition and financial assistance from the Bolsheviks. The dispatch of two emissaries of the Provisional Government to Russia over only two years testifies to serious contradictions within the national liberation movement, which directly affected the government’s image in the international arena. Finally, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs decided that the power of the Provisional Government was not legitimate and that it could not be fully considered a representative of the Korean people.

A proposal of spirometry reference equations for Korean workers.

BackgroundAlthough spirometry results can be interpreted differently depending on the reference equation used, there are no established criteria for selecting reference equations as part of the special health examinations for Korean workers. Thus, it is essential to examine the current use of reference equations in Korea, quantify their impact on result interpretation, and propose reference equations suitable for Korean workers, while also considering the environmental conditions of special health examination facilities.MethodsThe 213,640 results from the special health examination database were analyzed to identify changes in the ratio of measured values to reference values of lung capacity in Korean workers with changes in age or height, and changes in the agreement of interpretations with the reference equation used. Data from 238 organizations that participated in the 2018–2019 quality control assessment by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency were used to identify the spirometer model and reference equations used in each special health examination facility.ResultsKorean special health examination facilities used six reference equations, and the rate of normal or abnormal ventilatory diagnoses varied with the reference equation used. The prediction curve of the Global Lung Function Initiative 2012-Northeast Asian (GLI2012) equation most resembled that of the normal group, but the spirometry model most commonly used by examination facilities was not compliant with the GLI2012 equation. With a scaling factor of 0.95 applied to the Dr. Choi equation, the agreement with the GLI2012 equation was > 0.81 for men and women.ConclusionsWe propose the GLI2012 equation as reference equation for spirometry in Korean workers. The GLI2012 equation exhibited the most suitable prediction curve against the normal lung function group. For devices that cannot use the GLI2012 equation, we recommend applying a scaling factor of 0.95 to the Dr. Choi equation.

Fall Prevention From Ladders Utilizing a Deep Learning-Based Height Assessment Method

According to the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) and the Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (KOSHA), falls from ladders are a leading cause of fatalities. The current safety inspection process to enforce height-related rules is manual and time-consuming. It requires the physical presence of a safety manager, for whom it is sometimes impossible to monitor an entire area in which ladders are being used. Deep learning-based computer vision technology has the potential to capture a large amount of useful information from a digital image. Therefore, this paper presents a deep learning-based height assessment method using a single known value in an image to measure working height, monitor compliance to safety rules, and ensure worker safety. The proposed method comprises (1) extraction of safety rules from the KOSHA database related to the A-type ladder; (2) object detection (Single Shot Multibox Detector SSD) (3) a height-computing module (HCM) to estimate the working height of the worker (how high a worker is from the ground); and (4) classification of worker behavior (using the developed SSD-based HCM) based on the best practices derived from the KOSHA database. The developed algorithm has been tested on four different scenarios based on KOSHA safety rules, with heights ranging from under 1.2 m to over 2 m. Additionally, the proposed method was evaluated on 300 images for binary classification (safe and unsafe) and achieved an overall accuracy of 85.33%, verifying its feasibility for intelligent height estimation and compliance monitoring.

Analysis of the lyrics of popular music during the Japanese colonial period - Through the Analysis of Forbidden Songs by the Japanese Government General of Korea -

본 연구는 일제강점기 대중음악 중 한국어 제목과 가사로 나타난 금지곡의 가사의 내용을 분석하여 금지곡이 된 연유를 당시의 시대상에 반영해 재검토하고 음원으로 나타난 금지곡의 경우 가사의 채록을 통해 그 내용을 고찰하였다. 일제강점기의 경우 음악적인 요소보다는 가사 내용의 검열로 인한 음악 통제가 대다수였다. 하지만 가사 내용에서 금지곡이 될 만한 요소가 보이지 않는 곡들은 그 당시 시대상의 어떠한 특징이 있었으며 음악적인 특징에는 문제가 없었는지를 살펴보 았다. 분석은 금지곡이 된 곡 중 가사자료가 나타난 곡들과 음원이 있는 곡들의 경우 금지사유별로 먼저 분류하고 가사에 나타난 주제를 몇 가지로 분류하여 그 주제의 나타난 내용과 표현 등을 살펴보았다. 가사자료가 나타난 곡들의 경우 분석의 큰 문제가 없었지만, 가사자료가 없고 음원만 있는 경우에는 다소 정확하지는 않지만, 채록을 통해서 내용을 분석하였다. 먼저 금지사유별 분류는 3가지로 분류할 수 있었는데 첫째, 국가와 사회의 안녕과 질서를 방해하는 치안방해와 둘째, 세상의 풍속과 풍습을 무너트리고 어지럽히는 풍속괴란 셋째, 금지 사유를 확인할 수 없는 기타로 분류하였다. 치안방해의 경우 주제의 분류를 통해 ‘향수’, ‘역사의식과 민족 정서 고취’, ‘풍자’, ‘한과 서러움’, ‘현실수긍’, ‘특징 없음’의 주제로 나타내었고, 풍속괴란의 경우 ‘풍자’, ‘풍자와 향수’, ‘특징 없음’의 주제로 나타내었다. 마지막으로 금지 사유를 확인할 수 없는 기타의 사유가 있었는데 이 음반들의 경우 가사가 나타난 곡들은 분석을 통해서 어떠한 사유를 받았는지 유추할 수 있었고 가사나 음원이 없는 경우에는 분석을 진행하지 못하였다. 이러한 연구를 통해 음악 통제의 오류와 왜곡을 식민지 시대의 피해의식에서 벗어나 보다 객관적이고 냉철한 시선의 비판을 통하여 당시 대중음악의 검열제도에 대한 고찰을 연구하고자 한다.