Area and social historical study on the Japanese troops for suppressing the second Donghak Peasant War

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520733
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: INOUE KATSUO 北海道大学, -, 名誉教授 (90044726)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本近代史 / 日清戦争 / 朝鮮史 / 植民地 / 農民戦争

Outline of Final Research Achievements

While the Sino・Japanese War, the Donghak peasant army rose in rebellion against Japan in almost all Korean areas,leading to the crushing of the rebellion by the Japanese troops. This study clarified the historical fact about the uprisings and crushes of the Donghak peasant army.
This research project,mainly in Shikoku and Toukai provinces where the Japanese forces were organized , war correspondences, war diaries, epigraphs for the died the war, articles of local press. At the Library of the National Institute for Defense Studies, found two huge maps, Korean Atlas, south and north,printed by the General Staff Office just before the Sino・Japanese War, And explored the battlefields to reconstruct the images of their resistances and crushes spread all over Korean territories. This study concludes that the operating forces for annihilation were harsh with the Donghak peasant army, leading to a kind of "genocide" in its true sense of the word.

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日本史