Basic Study on the Language of Korean in Japan and its' Inheritance in Early Postwar Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370487
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: CHI Jong Hi 愛媛大学, 法文学部, 教授 (60294782)
• Research Collaborator: ITO Hideto 明治大学, 非常勤講師 ; MAKISE Akiko 現代語学塾, 講師 ; TAKAHASHI Azusa 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 戦後初期 / 在日朝鮮人 / 朝鮮人学校 / 教科書 / 朝鮮語 / 正書法 / 民族教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through the textbooks and supplementary readers for Korean pupils in early postwar Japan, (1) we collected the related materials and made them into electronic data, (2) we analyzed various types of notation and vocabulary, (3) we researched origins of included works, and also (4) we interviewed the people concerned with ethnic education.As a conclusion, we could find the facts that Koreans in Japan became more proactive in Korean language education in the era of historical change, though included works and notations in materials were partly influenced by the occupation of Japanese colonization.We made presentations on our research results at the academic conferences. In the final year, we conducted research exchages actively at our open study meeting and vestige visit by inviting a scholar from Korea.

Free Research Field

朝鮮語学