戦前期日本農村における朝鮮人農民と戦後の変容
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After the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, the number of the Korean migrants to the mainland of Imperial Japan increased rapidly. Many of them lived in cities or near coal mines, but only a few lived in villages. The purpose of this paper is to examine how Korean farmers lived in Japanese villages and how their situation changed in the postwar era. On the one hand, there are many historical studies that examine the agricultural labor problem, but they do not focus on the ethnic problem. On the other hand, studies concerning Korean residents have not yet focused on the agriculture problem. Since 1920 agricultural labor wages in Japan rose sharply. As a result, Japanese land owners were eager to use cheap-labor Korean agriculture workers in order to keep their management costs low. This was particularly observed in the north Kyushu area, where there were many coal mines. After 1937, even in the south area of Kyoto Prefecture, a progressive agriculture area, more and more Korean people begun to work as tenants. Such was the situation in Terada village(寺田村). However, the agriculture administration found a very serious national problem in those days. The agriculture administration secretly made an effort to restrain the Korean people's transition, a reaction from their nationalistic agrarianism. However, some of the Korean farmers obtained their land ownership. Korean farmers in Terada village were excluded from the Community Agricultural Association (部落実行組合), but they were organized in Kyowakai (協和会). Although the integration policy of the Korean people denied their traditions, they continued to do "Pumasi"(プマシ); a traditional labor exchange system of the Korean agriculture. This paper analyzes/describes these events and their evolution to the present.
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