解放 後 日本人의 歸還과 中央日韓協會

Japanese Repatriation and 'The Central Japanese-Korean Association after the Liberation of Korea

The purpose of this paper is to examine a course of changes of Japanese repatriates groups who returned from Chosun after the liberation, particularly the Central Japanese-Korean Association. Japanese who lived in Chosun under the rule of Japanese imperialism organized various groups in order to adapt themselves to Japanese society after they returned to Japan. The Gyeongseong Japanese Care Association carried out a relief work for Japanese repatriates with Chosun government-general's and American government-general's immediately after the liberation. As Japanese return was almost done, the Care Association for Japanese Repatriates from Chosun which organized in Tokyo in 1946 succeeded to the work. This group carried out a relief work for Japanese repatriates with the Old friends Club and the Chosun Businessman Association. After the Care Associaton for Japanese Repatriates from Chosun unified the Old friends Club, It was reorganized into the Assimilating Association in 1947. When the Korean-Japanese Conference began in 1952, the Assimilating Association and reorganized themselves into the Central Japanese-Korean Association and declared that it would act as mediators between Japan and Korea. But the rupture of the Korean-Japanese Conference in 1953 frustrated its plan. The effort of Japanese repatriated groups to take a role improving relations between Japan and Korea was intented to overcome discrimination and criticism against them at home and to be revalued their identity.