Japanese Rule Research Articles

The Violence Called Public Interest: Relocation and Land Expropriation of Gyeongseong Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Rule

The Violence Called Public Interest: Relocation and Land Expropriation of Gyeongseong Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Rule

A Study of the August Revolution of 1945 and its Impact on Colonial French and Japanese Rule in Vietnam

The August Revolution of 1945 posed a significant challenge to colonial French and Japanese rule in Vietnam. This paper aims to examine the extent of this challenge and its impact on the dynamics of power in the region. Through an analysis of historical events and primary sources, the paper seeks to shed light on the revolutionary forces at play and their role in shaping the trajectory of Vietnam's struggle for independence. The August Revolution of 1945 challenged French and Japanese colonial rule through long-term planning, internal support, OSS influence, and the establishment of an independent government by the Viet Minh guerrilla troops. The Vietnamese people took advantage of the power vacuum left by the Japanese coup d'état against French officials in Indochina. This, combined with the determination and anticolonial spirit of the Vietnamese people, led to the success of the August Revolution. The Viet Minh further consolidated their power by garnering support from the rural population and receiving military aid and training from the United States OSS.

Transnational networks of human resources and knowledge in East Asia: a case study of Taiwan merchant Wang Xuenong (1870–1915) and his trading company

Abstract Taiwan is an island and trade has always been the locomotive of its economic development. From the 1620s to the 1960s, cane sugar was Taiwan's most representative export commodity. Yet little attention has been paid to the business strategies of sugar traders and the changes in their thinking. How did the Takow (Kaohsiung) merchants who first went to Japan and Hong Kong to conduct cross-border trade in person learn about international trade and build a network of human resources that crossed borders, especially after the 1870s? And how did they face the great changes of an era in which tradition and modernity were intertwined, so that, following the regime transfer in the 1890s from the Qing Dynasty to the Japanese empire, they were able to expand their business territory and become major sugar merchants in southern Taiwan? This article examines the career of Wang Xuenong—a well-known sugar merchant in Taiwan during the Meiji period (1868–1912). It attempts to explain, from the perspective of cross-cultural knowledge transfer and human resource strategies, why and how sugar merchants such as Wang, who had gone to Japan in the early years of the Meiji Restoration for purposes of cross-border trade, introduced a trading company system that incorporated a mixture of East Asian and Western elements. It further investigates how they expanded their business from the sugar trade into a wider commercial domain that included mechanical rice milling and steamship transport. Finally, it looks at how their actions affected a transformation of Taiwan's commercial culture from the late Qing Dynasty to the early days of Japanese rule, and the historical significance of these changes in Taiwan's transitions towards industrialisation and modernisation.

In-between Institutional Religion and Folk Faith during the Transition into a Modern Political System – The Case of Giam Temples in Taiwan

“Giam” 巖 is a popular type of temple in Taiwan, also called “Giam-a”, referring to religious architecture related the concept of “mountains”. This type of temple was initially recorded as a geographical landscape or scenic attraction and was subsequently extended to indicate a specific form of worship space. This study explores the Giam architecture under the intervention of state power. The intervention process could be divided into two stages. The first stage involved the Investigation of Traditional Customs during the Japanese rule. The second stage involved interventions by the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China (BAROC) after World War II. This study depicts three significant Giam temple cases in Taiwan. From the perspective of spatial layout, architectural form, and ritual, discusses the development results of the Giam temple after the modern state system intervenes in religious affairs. Some Giam temples have made their choice between the folk beliefs and Buddhist beliefs as an adjustment, and others have still coexisted with both religious by separated them with spatial layout and different architectural style. The diverse sociocultural characteristic of the mountains makes the religious in it become the nexus of local power. So, as the state system and policy change, those religious spaces also need to change in some way, adjusting to balance the state and local power.

Shifting narratives: A critical discourse analysis of racial bias in the tale of Wu Feng’s indigenous representation

Heroic tales can support a nation’s mainstream ideology, but for minority groups, such as indigenous peoples, they can also be a detrimental oppositional force. This study explores the evolving discourse surrounding the tale of Wu Feng, arguably the most widespread and prominent narrative responsible for traumatizing indigenous peoples in Taiwan. Employing a critical discourse analysis of three texts from significant historical eras (Taiwan under Japanese rule, the martial-law era under the Nationalist Kuomintang’s rule, and the beginning of Taiwan’s indigenous rights movements), the study reveals the shifting portrayal of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples over time. Additionally, by incorporating data obtained by interviewing key stakeholders, it discusses the enduring ramifications of the tale for Taiwan’s indigenous communities. In conclusion, this paper urges that increased attention be directed toward recognizing the voices and experiences of minorities as represented in historical tales, to ensure greater inclusivity and balance.

Nation-Building in Korea: Role of Christianity During Japanese Colonization

Religion plays a valuable role as an essential institution in Nation-Building. Studies of Nation-Building movements throughout the world recognize religion as a major driving force of Nation-Building. In the history of Korea, the colonial period of Japan (1910-1945) has been marked as one of the darkest periods, and this disaster has become a backbone to growing-up Christianity in Korea.Different people and groups approached nation-building in distinct ways resulting in a variety of nationalistic moments. Christianity as a Korean institution played an integral role in shaping the view of Christians and the church and their actions toward nationalism. Under the Japanese colonial era, the people of Korea had to face phycological injuries, injustices, inequalities, and impoverishment, and it has also flourished the existence of Christianity and its political environment in Korea. Christianity started to gain popularity and became identified as a reliance with which the people of Korea hoped to liberate themselves from the dark period of Japanese Colonial rule.The presence of Christianity was pronounced at every level of anti-Japanese organizations, and they started to participate actively in the independence movement against Japanese rule. On the way to nation-building, Korea needed to adopt elements of Western culture to strengthen the nation.This article provides insights into the nation-building carried out by Christianity in Korea during the colonization period of Japan. Although it is not a depth study of Christianity in Korea, it’s role in nation-building. It will also try to find the links between Christianity and nation-building in Korea.

From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the significance of the preservation of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing Complex in Samneung, Korea by examining its landscape and historical context as a legacy of colonial power during the Japanese rule of Korea. Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing is the only remaining living quarters in Korea used by the workers of the Mitsubishi Military Factory, many of whom were forcibly mobilized, where human rights abuses and labor exploitation were a daily routine. It remains a symbol of poverty to this day and has been neglected on the periphery of urban development. Through field visits and interviews, this paper argues the importance of the site, which is historical evidence of forced labor mobilization, as a place of modern cultural heritage and a dark tourism site, so that it may be reborn as a place for historical awareness and education to prevent historical tragedies from repeating themselves.

The Genealogy of Confucian Modernity and the Reconstruction of Confucian Traditions in Post-Liberation Korea

Abstract: This article aims to trace the genealogy of Confucian modernity after Korea's liberation from Japanese rule and analyze how the historical context in which Confucian traditions were reconstructed. It seeks to analyze the process through which the disparate concepts of modernity and Confucianism were combined, moving beyond the perspective of denigration and development of Confucian traditions found in existing studies and approaching it from the perspective of postcolonial studies and traditions as invented practices. From the post-liberation period to the early 1960s, two arguments competed: one viewed Confucianism as having ruined the country, while the other claimed that it had sprouted modern times. While the former view still persisted, Confucianism was being used for political purposes, and scholars including Ch'ŏn Kwanu made efforts to find the sprout of modernism from Confucianism. The turning point came with the fervor of "modernization" that swept the country and the world in the 1960s. Influenced by domestic and foreign modernization theories, including Rostow's modernization theory, which began in the United States, the Park Chung Hee regime embraced the "modernization of the motherland" as its slogan. At the academic level, this trend was reinforced by the United States' support for Korean studies. In this process, discussions linking traditional Confucianism with modernization became more sophisticated in the intellectual community. By the late 1960s, these discussions went beyond explaining the connection between Confucianism and modernity through the concept of sprouting and reached a level of directly mentioning their connection. In the 1970s, this trend intensified further, leading to the conclusion that sirhak (practical learning) in Confucianism had pioneered its own modernization theory before the adoption of Western modernity. Through these analyses, this study aims to delineate the genealogy of discussions about Confucianism, such as that it is the cause of underdevelopment represented by stagnation or that it is the basis of East Asian modernity. Ultimately, by analyzing the contexts in which Confucian traditions are reconceptualized, this study aims to critically reconstruct the notions of tradition, nationalism, and modernity.

Assessing areas suitable for offshore wind energy considering potential risk to breeding seabirds in northern Japan

Offshore wind energy is expected to play a major role in realizing carbon neutrality. However, the installation of offshore wind turbines is of concern for breeding seabirds. Identifying areas with low potential risk for breeding seabirds in Japan is urgently needed. This study identified technically and legally potential areas for wind energy development that are suitable for breeding seabirds by integrating risk assessment models through a spatial approach using Geographic Information System (GIS). While many studies and the government have assessed the potential areas for offshore wind energy in northern Japan, this study shows that most of these legally potential areas overlap with major concern areas for breeding seabirds. Currently, Japanese rules do not sufficiently consider the risk to seabirds when zoning areas for installing offshore wind energy system. The results imply that the risk to breeding seabirds should be carefully examined when zoning areas for local offshore wind energy installations. The approach developed in this study is expected to aid in clearly identifying areas suitable for the installation of offshore wind turbines and minimize the impacts on breeding seabirds. It provides a balance between the expansion of offshore wind energy and conservation biology.

An Analysis of the Formation and Solidification of Group Concepts in Taiwan During the Japanese Rule and Postwar Periods

This paper presents a comparative analysis on Taiwans behavior under different colonizers during distinct historical periods: Japanese rule (1895-1945) and the post-war era (1945-present). The objective is to examine and compare the formation and solidification of group concepts in these two situations. An intriguing finding is Taiwans decision to relinquish its Chinese identity and instead refer to Japan as its mother country in high school history textbooks. This shift raises questions about the underlying psychological phenomena driving Taiwans reaction. The study hypothesizes that such behavior can be attributed to the influential power wielded by social leaders, who shape the environment to align with their desires and mold the perception of Japan as a country rather than a colonizer. Encounters with diverse individuals stimulate different levels of identity, leading to the solidification of group concepts. This distinction between cultural influences and national favoritism is particularly notable during the two periods of rule under consideration. While the Japanese rule played a significant role in Taiwans development, the passage of time has contributed to a growing societal awakening of consciousness. Consequently, a favorable view of Japan has emerged, accompanied by an increased sense of subjectivity within Taiwan. In conclusion, this analysis suggests that Taiwans response to different colonizers can be best understood as a psychological phenomenon inherent in human behavior. It is heavily influenced by the manipulation of social leaders, who shape the environment, as well as the solidification of group concepts through encounters with diverse individuals.

Collaborating on Sustainable Interflow Water Collection: The Erfeng Irrigation Canal System from the Period of Japanese Rule in Taiwan

While the world struggles with limited water resources, interflow water is a hidden gem of a solution. Interflow is an important water source contributing to river flow. It is the movable water in the unsaturated zone, or vadose zone, which may return to the stream or go into the riverbed. The collection of interflow water was included in the design of the Erfeng Irrigation Canal System (EICS) during the Japanese period in Taiwan (1895–1945), and it is still used in the EICS in Pingtung in southern Taiwan. Today, urbanization and changes in land usage have reduced the EICS’s irrigation function. At the same time, intensive habitation has introduced pollution to the canal area. Furthermore, new extensions and rebuilt facilities of the irrigation infrastructure have minimized historic values. We are involved in working to maintain the canal in a way that safeguards cultural heritage values and to expand other functions of EICS, such as by installing micro-hydro facilities over the canal to preserve its importance to local communities.

Growing Together: Yang Shuangzi's Queer Adaptation of Taiwan's Colonial Fiction

Readings of Taiwan's Japanophone colonial-era fiction are typically influenced by politicised interpretations of Japanese rule (1895–1945) on the island and its significance to contemporary Taiwanese identity. Till recently, these discussions often marginalised colonial-era texts by Taiwanese women, initially due to limited translation during Taiwan's period of martial law (1945–1987), and later due to the fragmentary nature of these short stories. This article explores how millennial author Yang Shuangzi (1984-) overcomes the anticipatory politics of reception surrounding colonial-era fiction by adapting a short story by Yang Qianhe (1921–2011) through the lens of ‘Girls’ Love’ (GL), a predominantly online subculture made up of media (fanfiction, manga, fanart) portraying queer relationships between women and girls. By understanding the text as an adaptation, it is possible to explore how contemporary Taiwanese authors read and relate to colonial fiction, breathing new life into such texts through interpretations grounded in contemporary culture. In Yang Shuangzi's case, I argue that she not only emphasises Yang Qianhe's importance to Taiwanese women's fiction through adaptation, but that she also creates space for literary play and creativity. The article focuses on the process of adaptation to develop an argument about literary connection between generations of Taiwanese women, whilst also outlining how online subcultures can revitalise literatures caught in the back-and-forth of nation-state politics by establishing their own practices of language and form.

Two evaluations on Ontology-style relation annotations

In this paper, we propose an Ontology-Style Relation (OSR) annotation approach. In conventional Relation Extraction (RE) datasets, relations are annotated as a link between two entity mentions. In contrast, in our OSR annotation, a relation is annotated as a relation mention (i.e., not a link but a node) and rdfs:domain and rdfs:range links are annotated from the relation mention to its argument entity mentions. This approach has the following benefits: (1) the relation annotations can be easily converted to Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples to populate an Ontology, (2) some part of conventional RE tasks can be tackled as Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks, and the relation classes are limited to several RDF properties, and (3) OSR annotations can be used for clear documentations of Ontology contents. We conducted two kinds of evaluation to investigate effects of OSR annotation. We converted (1) an in-house corpus of Japanese Rules of the Road (RoR) in conventional annotations into the OSR annotations and built a novel OSR-RoR corpus and (2) SemEval-2010 Task 8 dataset into the OSR annotations (called OSR-SemEval corpus). We compared the NER and RE performance using neural NER/RE tool DyGIE++ on the conventional and OSR annotations. The experimental results show that the OSR annotations make the RE task easier while introducing slight complexity into the NER task.

향파 이주홍 書畵의 미학적 고찰

Lee Juhong(1906-1987) was a writer, educator, and artist, born in Hapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, and worked in Busan. This paper is a study of his calligraphy, poetry, and painting. He experienced various hardships during his life of 80 years, including Japanese rule and the Korean War. Therefore, he expressed human agony and the fundamental essence of his difficult life through various genres of art, including literature. He led students to culture and art during his entire life as a professor of the Department of Korean Language and Literature at the National Fisheries University of Busan, integrated by Pukyong National University in Busan afterward. In addition, he was a comprehensive artist who engaged in artistic activities in a variety of genres, including poetry, novels, essays, plays, and criticism, as well as children's poems, fairy tales, juvenile fiction, calligraphy and painting, folk paintings, comics, book designing and binding, and theater directing. He also wrote collections of literary works and translations that amount to about 300 volumes.
 I analyzed and examined Hyangpa Lee Juhong’s calligraphy and painting by classifying them into literary communication aesthetics of calligraphy and painting and authentic East Asian aesthetics of calligraphy. The simple beauty, humorous beauty, and natural beauty abstracted from the literary communication aesthetics of calligraphy and painting help the aesthetic emotions organically linked in Hyangpa’s poetry, painting, and calligraphy to communicate through the integrated empathy of creation and appreciation. Therefore, I confirmed that simple, humorous, and nature-friendly works become communication aesthetics that heals complex minds.
 I summarized the authentic East Asian aesthetics of calligraphy into five beauties.: The first is the simple and gentle beauty that looks smiling. The second is the beauty that to have and to lack generate each other, and the third is the beauty that expresses a neat yet majestic aura with flowing strokes. The next is the beauty that is plain but not sick of, and the last is the magnanimous beauty while remaining faithful to nature without restraint. He used diverse genres of literature and various fields of art. He attempted many experimental things in calligraphy, so we could evaluate that he created a new style and method of calligraphy. In addition, the humanistic, literary, and aesthetic sentiments accompanying Confucius's humanism and Zhuangzi's vital freedom at the bottom of Hyangpa art formed his view of literature, art, and life. Thus, they elaborately emerged in Hyangpa’s calligraphy and painting.

한국과 대만의 일제 통치기 관련 초등 사회과 교육과정 비교 연구

[Purpose]This study finds that despite the historical similarities between Korea and Taiwan, which were under Japanese rule at a similar time, there is a difference in the majority's feelings toward Japan. The reason for this discrepancy was discovered in the composition of curricula and methods of textbook technology. Therefore, a study was conducted to examine the functional relationship between education and society through comparative analysis. [Methods]To achieve the objectives of this study, a literature review was conducted. As a theoretical framework for the analysis, the study examined the structural and functional aspects of both countries, taking into account their respective historical backgrounds. In addition, a comparative analysis was conducted to examine the relationships between social conditions, curriculum, textbooks, and classroom management. [Results] The main findings are as follows. First, the social-structural discourse influences the criteria for selecting educational content. Second, the difference in technology method of related content in textbook, according to historical and social context. Third, the emphasis on curriculum and technological methods may also vary depending on the changes in social discourse. [Conclusion]In summary, the comparative analysis of the historical backgrounds and contexts of the two countries, together with the study of the curricula, confirmed the complementary relationship between national and social discourse and the curriculum. Especially in Korea, where accredited social textbooks for 5th-6th grade will be introduced from 2023, this study is significant as it highlights the influence of curriculum and textbook presentation on students and social discourse. It also provides recommendations for improving curriculum and textbooks.

일본 여행안내서와 기행문으로 본 일제강점기 인천의 관광지 연구

After Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese regime encouraged its people’s trip to colonies, leading to a boom of overseas trip to Manchuria and Joseon in Japan.
 The Japanese regime established tourism policies as suppliers of tourism and actively created tourist attractions. Meanwhile, Incheon was urbanized as a port city that served as the entrance to Seoul after the opening of the port, but its image as a tourist city has also been established since the 1920s. The purpose of this study was to first review tourist guidebooks to examine tourist attractions in Incheon created and recommended by tourism suppliers in Japanese colonial era, and second, to analyze travel writings to examine how Japanese, who were the main tourists of Incheon at the time, toured Incheon's tourist attractions. In this analysis, we attempted to capture changes over time. As a result, Most of the tourist attractions in Incheon recommended by tourism suppliers were created after Japanese colonial era, and most of them recommended by suppliers of tourism were mostly places justifying the Japanese rule and showing the superiority of imperial Japan. Japanese who visited Incheon did not deviate much from the tourist attractions and tour schedules proposed to tourism suppliers. Therefore, it can be evaluated that Incheon's tourism in a Japanese colonial era has properly realized the intention of the tourism supplier.

A Journey through Colonial Sakhalin ：Iwaya Sazanami’s Experience in Sakhalin

Iwaya Sazanami(1870-1933) was a prominent figure in modern Japanese children’s literature. He traveled to the colonial Sakhalin one time in his life, the main purpose of this journey being to give oral presentations of fairy tales to children in Sakhalin. He energetically traveled the colony, including Toyohara (currently Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Ōdomari (Korsakov), Shirutoru (Makarov), Noda (Chekhov) and Maoka (Kholmsk).However, regarding Sazanami’s visit to Sakhalin, as far as I know, there is no previous research. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to clarify what kind of experience Sazanami had in Sakhalin under Japanese rule, and the essence of the literature(Haiku), political ideology(His view of Sakhalin and the Ainu people) he formed there.In conclusion, Sazanami was a hardcore imperialist, colonialist and nationalist who was delighted to have won the territorial struggle with Russia, the enemy country, and made Sakhalin his own. And he strongly hoped that Sakhalin and the Ainu would be included and integrated as part of the Japanese nation and people, and that Sakhalin would achieve further civilizational development in the future.

조선종두령(1923)의 시행과 식민지 조선의 두창 통제

This paper examines changes made to the smallpox vaccination policy implemented by the Japanese Government-General of Korea to control the smallpox epidemic in colonial Korea, and analyzes the operation and effectiveness of the policy. To this end, I look into the background of the enactment of the smallpox vaccination regulation promulgated in 1923 and what the Japanese Government-General of Korea recognized as essential in revising the regulation.
 In 1923, the Japanese Government-General of Korea enacted a regulation called Joseon Jongduryeong to emphasize the necessity of smallpox vaccination and to actively implement vaccination by presenting scientific grounds. It was a revision of the existing regulation and based on the Japanese rule (Shutorei) enacted in 1909. The revision changed the period, subject, and number of doses for vaccination. It reflected the analysis of vaccination results and immunity conducted in Japan, and the geographical conditions of colonial Korea. In addition, due to the shortage of doctors and traditional medical practitioners, Vaccination Practitioners (Jongdusisulsaeng) played a significant role in implementing public smallpox vaccination. This inherited a part of the previous system (Jongduinheowon).
 Vaccination Practitioners were the main agents to implement temporary and special smallpox vaccinations, as well as regular ones. However, their vaccination techniques were difficult to trust because becoming a vaccination practitioner did not require any special skills, and they were trained only for a short time in learning to vaccinate for smallpox. As the smallpox epidemic re-emerged in the 1930s and 1940s, their role expanded inevitably. Therefore, it might be possible that management after smallpox vaccination was not strictly carried out.
 The Japanese Government-General of Korea was aware that vaccination practitioners were not ideal agents to implement smallpox vaccination, but had no choice but to use them amid a lack of medical personnel. However, it trusted the effectiveness of smallpox vaccines developed in Japan. Therefore, rather than focusing on securing a positive reaction (善感), it aimed to prevent the spread of the epidemic by vaccinating more people, more often.

시선집 『靑丘詩鈔』의 편찬과 문학사적 의미

The main purpose of the present study is to elucidate the background and process in the compilation of selected poems, Cheonggusicho published by the Japanese Government-General of Joseon and its meaning in Korean Chinese literature history. Because Kim, Taejun made a diachronic study of Korean Chinese literature history to describe ancient parts of Joseon Chinese Literature History by using a lot of Cheonggusicho.
 The Competitive Exhibition of Local Products for the Fifth Anniversary of New Politics’ held by the Japanese Government-General of Joseon provided an occasion to publish Cheonggusicho. It was held to commemorate the fifth year of Japanese rule of Joseon and to make Joseon merged as a colony of Japan.
 Though Cheonggusicho was published to commemorate the fifth year of Japanese rule of Joseon, it was not a local product. It seems that its aim was for some Japanese to enjoy Korean folk culture, due to the words in the preface, “to give the books printed by the typographic culture of Joseon to the ‘persons interested in the same subject’”. It is doubtful why Cheonggusicho was taken to Joseon Chinese Literature History.
 Cheonggusicho consists of 176 poems stemmed from Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom, to the Goryeo dynasty. Over 130 poems in it were recorded on Dongmunseon. The poems representing each historical era are arranged in chronological order with a poem a poet. It is different from other anthologies. So the origin of Joseon poetry dates back to the earlier era.
 According to the preface of Joseon Chinese Literature History, it does not belong to Chinese Literature because it is the translated Chinese character version of native Korean words. At that time when Kim, Taejun wrote Joseon Chinese Literature History, Samgukyusa(Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) began to spread and the literary approach to Hyangga(old Korean folk songs), Korean myths and folktales emerged in the academy. That Chinese Literature in Korea should belong to Joseon Chinese Literature History was under discussion.
 In conclusion, though Cheonggusicho was published for some Japanese to enjoy Korean folk culture, it is a clue to spread the origin of old Korean literature by Kim, Taejun at that time when the concept of literature began to change.

일송 김동삼의 역사인식과 독립투쟁

Born in Andong in Gyeonsangbuk-do in Korea, Kim Dong-sam (pen name: Ilsong) participated in Hyeoksin Yurim (referring to the innovative Confucians in Korean) with Yi Sang-ryong and Yu Insik among others. He also established the Hyepdong School and struggled against the tyranny of Japanese rule by serving as a member of the Andong Branch of Daehan Association, and the Daedong Young Man Group. After the fall of the Korean Empire, he sought asylum in Manchuria for the Korean armed independence movement. He engaged in many of the resolving struggles between Koreans who migrated earlier than 1910 and those who did so after 1910 in the organizations, including Gyeonghaksa, Gongrihoe, Bumindan, and Hanjokhoe, and made every effort to support their settlement and education.
 He also devoted himself to solving and settling conflicts with the Chinese. As the person recognized for his the military authority in the military organizations, including the Military School of the New Rising, Baekseo Nongjang, Sero Gunjeongseo, Daehan Tonguibu, he is highly thought of as an independent activist, who integrated and coordinated independence movement associations throughout Manchuria.
 It can be deemed that his consistent and tireless struggle was based on his strong will for liberation and was highly influenced by Daejongism.
 Yi Sang-ryong, Yu Insik, Shin Chae-ho, Yun Se-bok, who interacted with Kim Dong-sam, were closely related to Daejongism. Yun Se-bok recorded that Kim was the most important person in Daejongism and it can be also ascertained in the report written by the Empire of Japan.
 Before moving to Manchuria, Kim Dong-san was already aware of the historic view of Shin Chae-ho and of Dangunist (with Dangun referring to “the divine progenitor”) nationalism, which had transcended to attaining independence by armed independence struggles after entering asylum in the region.
 His belief in the armed independence movement had a great influence on the Korean National Party led by Kim Gu, which engaged in the independence movement inside of China and the Korean National Revolutionary Party by Kim Won-bong, which can be demonstrated by the memorial ceremony held by the two parties on a large scale after his death.