2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study of the Controversy on history between Japan and Korea

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14510056
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	History of thought
Research Institution	TOKAI UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	OGURA Kizo Tokai University, Foreign Language Center, Associate Professor, 外国語教育センター, 助教授 (80287036)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Keywords	Controversy on History / Japan and Korea / ideology / soul / memory / ethnocentrism / Confucianism / postwar compensation
Research Abstract	Through this study, I could broaden my viewpoint about the controversy on history between Japan and Korea, on two points. 1.The problem of the traditional thoughts like Confucianism etc. 2.The problem of the ideological influences in postwar period. In other words, I studied about Confucian or ideological factors in East Asian "subject" and "anti-Japan thought" in Korea. Reinterpreting the "subject" which is the term of modern West, over the point of the Confucian tradition, we could reinterpret the meaning of the "act" in the history. And then we can distinguish the particularity and universality in the controversy on history between Japan and Korea. So then we could construct the philosophical foundation of East Asia.