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Study of Korea in the Colonial Period |
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A thought that "Being ruled by other nation is immediately unhappy" is wrong. There are many people who insists that Japanese should apologize to Korean at first today. They think that Japan had governed Korea, made a Korean unhappy by itself. In 1918, Wilson proposed the principle of self-determination of the nation. After then, there are few parsons to deny this thought. As a result, ethnic battle such as Kosovo, or East Timor continue everywhere in the world. In land such as Kosovo where many nations coexist, is it really unhappy what is ruled by another nation? Meiji era, Tokichi Tarui wrote "Daito union theory" and got a heart of a lot of people. The basis of this thought is, "Japan and Korea must be union and put power together with China, to have to prevent European and American aggression" and he told as an example of union, such as Britain, America, or Germany. Britain was surely the union of three countries, England, Wales, and Scotland. USA is a union of many states. Germany became alliance kingdom led by Prussia in 1871. In addition, two or three nations becomes one country in Belgium, or Switzerland. The thought "It is impossible to become union because we were another nation or another country for a long time" is wrong. We Japanese ware governed by USA after defeat. USA assisted food and made efforts to spread consideration of a personal right or the democratic system. There were neglect of moral education problems, but it may be said that it was good government. Therefore many Japanese feel doubt in the use of military power to keep a country, and a constitution of the war abandonment is not yet revised. In addition, which ware happy the Chinese in mainland or the Chinese in Hong Kong?It is said that 20,000,000 victims ware killed in Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in mainland. Millions of nation suffers on starvation line in North Korea as every year. Tens of millions of people were enforced discipline in the Soviet Union under Stalin rule. As for the North Korean and the Soviet Union person, were they really happy because they were ruled by same nation? But Stalin
was Georgian instead of Russian in fact. The Soviet Union is a multiracial
nation, and it is a Union of a lot of nation republics. By idealism of
Lenin, each republic had an equal right and formed the Soviet Union. Therefore
Stalin of Georgian took office as the President. Marx said "A capitalist was the person who exploited a worker, and the enemy of a worker", and also that "The suzerain is the existence to exploit a colony likewise". However, current business administration teach that "it is the most important to draw the worker's will to work, for pursuit of maximum profit". In addition, a capitalist, a manager and a worker are fellow soldiers of the same team, to fight successfully through war between intensifying companies. It is most important for development of a country to match power not exploits a colony. This relation is similar to a capitalist, a manager and a worker. If independence exercise is frequent, burdens of a suzerain increase. Therefore the greatest defect of argument up to this time is a lack of a military viewpoint. The greatest reason why Japan annexed Korea, was to prepare for the revenge by the Russia or Soviet Union. When Japan fought against the Soviet Union, a trend of Korean people is extremely important. It become great war potential, if Korean fight with Japan. However, it become serious decreases of war potential adversely, when Koreans stand in the Soviet Union side and Koreans caused independence exercise. Kazushige Ugaki who took office as governor-general of Korea in 1931, did the following speech at a dinner in Club of Tokyo Bank. "In the first Great War, Poland which became one state of German and Russia, and were seen unified to German and Russia,outwardly, came to betray a mother country when war continued long time, and war became painful". Even if they were appeared to unify to German or Russia, they were not unify to them from mind side, or from a material side. When I think about Korea, it becomes bad for a global panic, seeing from mind side, or seeing from a material side, compared to four years ago when I worked as the substitution governor-general of Saito, who was away on business in Geneva meeting. As these measures, we must pass some works to Koreans from Japanese, we must develop industry and business, and must give Koreans works more. Then what industry you should start in Korea? At first it is mining industry, exploitation of abundant resources such as gold, iron ore, or coal. Furthermore there are many business which we should develop more, such as forest resources in north Korean , the uncultivated wilderness, utilization of a shoreline, waterpower resources, rich and cheap labors. But an insufficient thing is wisdom and a fund. I ask for cooperation of all of you. Judging from a military viewpoint, most important matters are stability of the Korean domestic administration, improvement of a life level and one feeling with Japan as a result. When I thought about Korea merger, I feel commonalty with allying of today's global company, or a company war. There are many examples that a new company grows up into a big business, by a business tie-up (send an adviser into it), capital participation / the purchase (to a protected state), and a procedure of merger (merger). It is same as a road reaching Korea to merger. In this case, war potential increases only after it become one feeling with a merged company. When the company opposed to the company which was merged, the war potential will decrease instead of increase by it.
I think "Evaluation of a ruler must be decided whether the ruler made that life of the nation become stabilized, discrimination become less and people get the chance of self-realization. But it is thought generally that same nation's ruler is preferable to another nation's ruler from wishful thinking with a little discrimination and many opportunities of self-realization. It is connected in which you will be happy that you work at a good foreign-affiliated company or a bad Japanese company. I think that you will work better at a Japanese company generally. If salary is very good, when you will discriminated, you will never be happy. However, when foreign-affiliated company evaluates you and treat you fairly, it will be good than you work at the Japanese company which does not permit what you want to do. At Paris peace conference after World War I, USA insisted on self-determination, and Japan insisted on abolition of nation discrimination. Today, USA demands the loyalty for USA as an American regardless of a color of skin or a difference of a word. Nation discrimination has been broken as principle. Concord of five tribes which Japan insisted on in those days is coming true in USA. I put together my opinion last. 1. There are two meanings in a nation which is an origin of nationalism, tribe and state. Nationalism in a meaning of state is necessary for the degree that does not exceed. However, as for the nationalism in a meaning of a tribe, it is harmful in the today's society, in which many tribes do a mixture. American Christianity who insist on self-determination drove 3 .1 independence exercise in Korea and fanned anti-Japan exercise in China and led Roosevelt to anti-Japan, pro-Communist policy and made a cause of Pacific War. There is a lot of ethnic battle today in the world. The tribe who are discriminated demands self-determination from this solution, and it is carried out. However, as a result, a ruled tribe who lived in the district falls to new tribe who are discriminated. Therefore, solution of ethnic battle must be concord instead of self-determination. A necessary thing is mind of the harmony, and "the God's country in which people is tolerant and pious of all religion " that ex-Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori insists on. When I think so, self-determination was one of two very wrong ideas which influenced the 20th century as same as communism. 2. In any kind of politics, there is a good point and bad point. The good politics for a poor person is dissatisfaction to a rich person. If viewpoints are different, the evaluation reverses. The evaluation changes whether you take freedom of speech or you take stability of life. 3. The required society is "the society
where life is stable, and there is not discrimination, and a chance of
self-realization is given". Nationality of a ruler is not concern. We
should abandon the prejudice, that the rule by another people is unhappy.
It is important that we think about what kind of policy was succeeds,
and any kind of policy was wrong. There are many countries which need
help of a developed nation for escape from poverty or solution of ethnic
battle. |