■Research Activities Team Research 2010

The Rule and the Local Society in the Japanese Colonial Empire

Category Third research sphere Comparison of Cultures

This study, succeeding to "Study of Bureaucracy of the Japanese Colonial empire" organized from 2004 to 2007, intends to give an deeper insight to the Korean and Taiwanese Society under the Japanese colonial rule. The previous study mentioned above has focused on the bureaucrats of particular departments of Korean or Taiwan Government General and the colonial policy they designed. Considerable numbers of facts were found from this survey concerning what plan colonial bureaucrats had made and how they were reflected to the real colonial policies, in such areas as judicial affairs, financial affairs, public engineering, postal and telegraph, police affairs, railroad, religion. Meanwhile the reaction from the colonial society to the policies introduced by the colonial bureaucrats remains as a matter to be discussed further. Considering this problem, "The Rule and the Local Society in the Japanese Colonial Empire" will concentrate on the resistance, disinterest, or collaboration of local Korean, Taiwanese (and Japanese residents in the colonies). The theme of this study has much to do with many theories proposed in recent colonial studies. For example, the influential theory of "Colonial Modernity" (by Chong Gun-sik and Takenori Matsumoto), which is based on the M. Foucaut's Discipline and the theory of "Bureaucrats - Yuji Ruling System" (by Chi Su-gol), which attempts to regard local "Yuji" as a mediator of the bureaucratic colonial policy and the Korean society, are both paying attention to the relation between the colonial authority and the native societies. Though much attention will be paid to these theories in this study, it does not attempt to grasp history based on a particular theory but takes the position that historical studies should demonstratively pick out events and facts that could escape from abstract theories. The purpose of this study is thus, complementing "Study of Bureaucracy of the Japanese Colonial empire", to understand the multi-facets of the colonial society and discover the various relationship in the political sphere between the colonial policy and the local society.

Research Representative 松田 利彦 国際日本文化研究センター・准教授
Organizer Markus RÜTTERMANN 国際日本文化研究センター・准教授
Team Researcher 青野 正明 桃山学院大学国際教養学部・教授
庵逧 由香 立命館大学文学部・准教授
李 鐘旼 中央大学総合政策学部・兼任講師
李 昇燁 京都大学人文科学研究所・助教
板垣 竜太 同志社大学社会学部・准教授
梅森 直之 早稲田大学政治経済学術院・教授
大浜 郁子 琉球大学法文学部・講師
小川原 宏幸 明治大学文学部・兼任講師
金 貞蘭 神戸大学大学院人文学研究科・博士課程
胎中 千鶴 目白大学外国語学部・教授
崔 眞善 滋賀県立大学大学院人間文化研究科・博士後期課程
陳 宛妤 京都大学大学院法学研究科・博士後期課程
長沢 一恵 奈良大学・非常勤講師
永島 広紀 佐賀大学文化教育学部・准教授
野口 真広 早稲田大学アジア研究機構アジア研究所・客員研究員
James C. BAXTER 桜美林大学国際戦略本部国際交流センター・教授
春山 明哲 早稲田大学台湾研究所・客員上級研究員
樋口 雄一 特定非営利活動法人高麗博物館・館長
藤永 壯 大阪産業大学人間環境学部・教授
水野 直樹 京都大学人文科学研究所・教授
宮崎 聖子 福岡女子大学文学部・准教授
瀧井 一博 国際日本文化研究センター・准教授
劉 建輝 国際日本文化研究センター・准教授
李 相燦 国際日本文化研究センター・外国人研究員
Team Researcher Overseas 田中 隆一 東亜大学校・招へい教授
福井 譲 仁済大学校人文社会科学大学日語文学科・専任講師
李 炯植 国民大学日本学研究所・専任研究員
陳 姃湲 中央研究院台湾史研究所・副研究員