tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post7923622614702545632..comments2023-12-31T15:40:06.675-08:00Comments on Peace Philosophy Centre: Kan Statement to Mark the Centennial Anniversary of Japan's Annexation of Korea 菅談話 내각총리대신 담화Peace Philosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-25454519929923739262010-09-07T20:54:32.812-07:002010-09-07T20:54:32.812-07:00この前韓国のウェブNewsでいろいろ菅首相の談話に関した記事が載っていましていくつも読みました。
そ...この前韓国のウェブNewsでいろいろ菅首相の談話に関した記事が載っていましていくつも読みました。<br />そして聡子さんのBlogの韓国語翻訳版は私がNewsで呼んだ翻訳版とは違いました。<br />韓国でその菅首相の談話の翻訳のことでいろんな違う意見があったことは聡子さんもご存知だと思います。<br />その韓国でぎろんになったことは「お渡しする」を返還することを意味する「반환합니다」と訳したことです。二つの単語はおんなじ「あげる」の意味ですけど正確にはその意味の差が大きいということもご存知ですよね。そしてもうひとつ議論になった言葉「併合」でした。「併合」という言葉は倉知鐵吉が新しく作った言葉だという記事がありまして、興味深く読みました。<br />(その倉知鐵吉の話は韓國倂合ノ經緯という本がSourceだと書いていました。)<br />英語版で使われたのはannexationで、これと倂合、または合倂の持つ意味は結構差がありますね。<br />いつか聡子さんがおっしゃったこともあるんですけど、日本の学生たちは日本の歴史についてあまり知らないということと、今度のような言葉の美化と何関係があるんじゃないかなと思いました。<br /><br />まして友達間にも過ちがあったらちゃんと話してから同じことが起こらないようにするのが常識なのに国家間の将来百年を話すところでこういうことがあって残念に思います。<br /><br /><br />そして聡子さんに乗せられた韓国語翻訳版は日本語版に書いたように充実に翻訳されているとおもいます。今週のイベント楽しみにしています。kimjunghoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-55018385343886011382010-08-30T00:29:59.177-07:002010-08-30T00:29:59.177-07:00For example, if Japanese remember Hirofumi Ito onl...For example, if Japanese remember Hirofumi Ito only as Japan's first prime minister, they are being forgetful. He also served as the first Japanese resident general in the protectorate Korea. Japanese should know that Koreans regard An Chung Gun, who assassinated Ito in Harbin on Oct. 26, 1909, as a person who carried out a "noble undertaking."<br /><br />As one would expect, Koreans resisted Japan's strengthening its authority over Korea. The most conspicuous form of resistance was armed struggle. A Japanese military record, for example, indicates more than 2,800 incidents of armed struggle from August 1907 to the end of 1910. Nearly 17,700 Korean participants in the struggle were killed. <br /><br />Japan carried out a comprehensive land survey of Korea from 1910 to 1918 to establish property rights. Many farmers were forced to become tenant farmers because they could not produce documented proof that they owned their land.<br /><br />Although rice production increased, a sizable portion of the rice was shipped to Japan. A South Korean book says that during the Pacific War, 40 to 60 percent of Korea's total cereal crops were "plundered by Japanese imperialism."<br /><br />Perhaps the most thoughtless thing Japan did in Korea, which caused strong resentment among Koreans, was its attempt, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, to assimilate Koreans as true subjects of the Japanese empire. Schoolchildren were forced to make a pledge of allegiance to the Japanese empire and the emperor every morning. The same Japanese textbooks used in Japan — compiled by Japan's education ministry — came to be used also in Korea.<br /><br />In October 1942, the government-general of Korea suppressed an attempt by Korean intellectuals to compile a large Korean language dictionary with hangul (Korean alphabet). They were arrested on suspicion of violating the Peace Preservation Law — a notorious thought-control law for punishing those who had formed an organization to change Japanese polity and abolish private property. In 1940, Japan started pushing the use of Japanized names among Koreans. Local administrators applied various pressure, as the use of such names was regarded as the mark of being true subjects of the Japanese empire.<br /><br />Japan started accepting Korean volunteers into its army in 1938 and began conscription in 1944. It also carried out a large-scale mobilization of Koreans as wartime workers. Many Korean women also suffered as military sex slaves. <br /><br />Those who try to justify the annexation of Korea must not forget that Koreans have their own ethnic identity, history and culture. The nature of Japanese rule over Korea is symbolized by the fact that the government general of Korea in 1925 built the Chosen (Korean) Shrine — to enshrine Japan's Sun Goddess and the Emperor Meiji — in the Korean colonial capital Keijo (today's Seoul). The government general strived to build a shrine in every village and force worship there. Japan also failed to implement any laws in colonial Korea to protect people at the workplace even though such laws existed in Japan.<br /><br />If the Japanese are interested only in pop culture or in the tourist spots of South Korea, their understanding of Korea will be too narrow. By the same token, if Korean people fail to objectively look at how Japan has changed (or has not changed) since the prewar and wartime period, they will miss the opportunity to fully understand today's Japan.Peace Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-47437649293764628262010-08-30T00:29:48.574-07:002010-08-30T00:29:48.574-07:00http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100829a...http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100829a1.html<br /><br />Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010<br /><br />EDITORIAL<br />The annexation of Korea<br />On Aug. 29, 100 years ago, the treaty annexing Korea to Japan was promulgated, a week after its signing. It was not a treaty between equal partners. The 1905 Korea-Japan Convention had already made Korea a protectorate of Japan. Under the annexation treaty, the Korean emperor handed sovereign power over his country to the Japanese emperor "completely and forever." Thus Korea became a colony of Japan.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />The government general of Korea, set up to rule colonial Korea, was an unusual entity. Its head (governor general) was a Japanese general or admiral under the direct control of the Japanese emperor — the sovereign of the Japanese empire. <br /><br />An unfortunate fact about the Japan-Korea relationship after the Meiji Restoration is that Japan emulated the United States' "black ship diplomacy." To open Korea for trade with Japan, Japan sent seven naval and nonmilitary vessels in 1876 and forced an unequal treaty on Korea — as the U.S. and other Western powers had done to Japan — to make that country open two ports, with extraterritorial jurisdiction provided for Japanese.<br /><br />There is the view that Japan's 35 years of colonial rule improved Korea's infrastructure, education, agriculture, other industries and economic institutions, and thus helped Korea modernize. But one should not forget the discrimination and sufferings that the Korean people experienced under colonial rule. These days many Japanese visit South Korea as tourists, and economic ties between that country and Japan are strong. But unless Japanese learn some basic facts of modern history involving the two countries, solid future-oriented bilateral relations are unlikely.Peace Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-27693615769832453952010-08-30T00:27:24.788-07:002010-08-30T00:27:24.788-07:00http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/s...http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/s-koreans-rally-on-japanese-colonial-anniversary<br /><br />S Koreans rally on Japanese colonial anniversary <br />Monday 30th August, 07:39 AM JST<br /><br />SEOUL — <br />Hundreds of South Koreans rallied against Japan on Sunday, the 100th anniversary of its annexation of the Korean peninsula, calling for a more sincere apology and compensation for past wrongdoing.<br /> <br />About 1,000 activists and citizens gathered at a Seoul park to mark the day with songs and speeches. Later, about 200 protesters braved heavy rains to rally in front of the Japanese Embassy, waving the South Korean flag and chanting “Apologize! Apologize!”<br /> <br />Some of the protesters scuffled with police, who blocked them from approaching the embassy, but there were no reports of injuries.<br /> <br />The colonial period began on Aug 29, 1910, and ended with Japan’s defeat in World War II in 1945. The peninsula was later divided into separately governed regions, resulting in the communist North and capitalist South.<br /> <br />“We urge Japan to comprehensively address the unfortunate history between South Korea and Japan within this year,” said Yang Soon-im, a leader of the activists.<br /> <br />At the rally in the Seoul park, Kim Young-il, president of an association of former independence fighters and their descendants, said in a speech that Japan should apologize more sincerely for the annexation and compensate its victims.<br /> <br />Many older Koreans still harbor strong resentment against Japan over the colonization. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced to fight as front-line soldiers, work in slave-labor conditions or serve as prostitutes in brothels operated by the Japanese military.<br /> <br />Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan offered a renewed apology for the suffering caused by the colonization. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak later said that Seoul and Tokyo should never forget history but should also work together to develop a new future.<br /> <br />North Korea issued a lengthy statement Sunday demanding Japan not attempt to whitewash its colonial wrongdoing, return all Korean cultural artifacts it took in the past and abandon its “hostile” policy against Pyongyang.<br /> <br />Japan has a long history of discord with North Korea, which has admitted kidnapping Japanese citizens in the past and has conducted long-range rocket tests over the main Japanese island. Japan and North Korea have no diplomatic ties.Peace Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884294048618803206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-49136541894769363352010-08-29T09:07:37.189-07:002010-08-29T09:07:37.189-07:00but there was something in the JT the other day wh...but there was something in the JT the other day where he defended the "legality" of the annexation, if I recall, or at least the gov's position. The Japan Times had an article today, or editorial, criticizing that stance but not mentioning Kan or the gov specifically. Very confusing. Just like the Justice Minsiter not blocking <br />an execution the other day yet claiming to be anti death penalty, when even an LDP JUSTICE Minister did not sign any death orders during his tenure. Lots of contradictions, not unlike the fact that Kan supports the AMPO treaty despite being a so-called former peace activist.<br /><br />Screw all pseudo progressive politicians is what I think.Paul arensonhttp://tokyoprogresive.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35894930.post-45199432641084231722010-08-29T09:06:02.170-07:002010-08-29T09:06:02.170-07:00but there was something in the JT the other day wh...but there was something in the JT the other day where he defended the "legality" of the annexation, if I recall, or at least the gov's position. The Japan Times had an article today, or editorial, criticizing that stance but not mentioning Kan or the gov specifically. Very confusing. Just like the Justice Minsiter not blocking <br />an execution the other day yet claiming to be anti death penalty, when even an LDP JUSTICE Minister did not sign any death orders during his tenure. Lots of contradictions, not unlike the fact that Kan supports the AMPO treaty despite being a so-called former peace activist.<br /><br />Screw all pseudo progressive politicians is what I think.Paul arensonhttp://tokyoprogresive.orgnoreply@blogger.com