敗戰 直後 天皇制 存續과 在日朝鮮人

The Survival of the Emperor System and Koreans in Japan

This paper explores the origin of discrimination against Koreans in Japan. It emphasized the Japanese consciousness and activities under the symbolic Emperor System after World War II. The Conclusion is that the emperor system helped the ordinary people's repressive attitude toward the minorities to be justified. As the Japanese nation reorganized as a racially homogeneous nation after the war, Japanese people easily accepted the logics of discrimination. The Japanese authorities desperately tried to continue the Emperor System in the negotiation with the U.S. because, through the emperor and the emperor system, they could evade the controversy on the emperor's war responsibility and could turn the Japanese grudge from the whole process of war and defeat toward the potential enemies living in Japan-Koreans. As a result of that, Koreans were put under the administrative oppression and the Japanese prejudice against them. In order to strengthen the unity of the Japanese nation and reorganize racially homogeneous Japan, in the center, there was the symbolic Emperor System acquitted from the war responsibility and endorsed by the new constitution. As they needed to exclude someone else from the Japanese nation, Koreans were victimized as the outcast 'others'.