재조일본인의 추이와 존재형태 - 수량적 검토를 중심으로 -

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the various demographical statistics in order to grasp the macroscopic existing forms of Japanese Residents in Chosun. While tracking the quantitative aspects of population change Japanese Residents in Chosun, I explain the characteristics of the population, such as different hometowns, industries, regions, and I examine the life and culture of Japanese Residents society. The presence of Japanese Residents in Chosun provides a clue to demonstrate that colonial aggression and deprivation was collide with the overall civilians who received the support of the state power and empirical power. Japanese colonial regime has beeb maintained and enhanced through the various social stratum of Japanese Residents. Japanese Residents in Chosun is a space which relates the Korea-Japan history. Japanese Residents in Chosun in opened ports worked as vanguards of the Empire. They were heterogeneous and had a great impact on the traditions and culture of Korea. In Korea, in order to ensure their own vested interests, they formed a political and economic autonomous organizations like the Chamber of Commerce. In the future, by clarifying various existing aspects of Japanese Residents, we must study the structure and the mechanism of the Korean society in Japanese colonial rule. Also taking into account the characteristics of immigration areas like “colonial” and “non-colonial block”, we need to typify the Japanese emigration. Through understanding the overall number of immigrants, settling regions and the birthplaces of Japanese immigrants, we must grasp clearly the whole picture of Japanese immigrants those who have occupied the Korea.