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¥5,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000)
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Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The contemporary historical problems concerning Koreans derive from pre-war Japanese empire. Different from German and Jewish relation in those days, Koreans had been regarded as Japanese when mobilized to the WW2, which had made the issues of reparations to mobilized Koreans closely related with other reparations to Japanese repatriates who had lived in Korea before the WW2 ended. Japanese residents in Korea had lost private properties such as real estates and houses when they were forced to be evacuated from Korea. Japanese national and public assets, including their private properties were regarded as substitute for Japanese government's coming reparation when a Peace treaty would be ratified. US army forces in Korea, standing on such position, confiscated or ordered to sell Japanese private assets very cheap.
After returned to post-war Japan repatriates organized several pressure groups, the main aims of which was to get their lost private external assets compensated by Japanese gov
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ernments. Their properties were regarded as some precious goods which symbolized their own and their ancestors' first founding colonial lives in Korea.. For them the most important plead to Japanese government was to get the whole Japanese national community to confirm repatriates' political character as the first founding fathers who believed in causes of Asianism, revitalization of Asian countries, not as collaborators of Japanese imperialism at all. These aims were supposed to have been prior to their natural and indispensable demands, such as getting unknown siblings returned soon or getting the government to support their re-settlement in proper Japan.
Their demands were so influential as to get political conservative parties to respect them. Japanese government called for a reparation for the lost private properties from Korean government. It was made legitimate based on Hague international treaties for war in 1907, which affirmed the respect for private properties. However, from Korean side, the Japanese private assets had been regarded as nothing but being accomplished by colonial exploitation, with 80% of social and public assets occupied by Japanese. South Korean government also advocated that international norm had already changed when a new principle of national self-determination appeared, and that even Japanese government recognized this principle, when Potsdam declaration was accepted. The fundamental problem for Korean government was Japanese national reparations for mobilized Koreans and Korean assets in Japan. Not being able to agree anything, the final political treaty between two countries did not mention these problems, only agreed upon Japanese economic corporation to Korea, with Japanese free loan donated to Korea. The claims of both Japanese repatriates and mobilized Koreans were obscured by these treaties, which became one of roots of contemporary historical issues. Less
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