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'한일병합 100년'을 일본의 역사인식전환의 계기로
Turning the Centenary of Japan's Annexation of Korea Into an Opportunity to Bring About Change in Japan's Historical Perception The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of Korea. As widely known, Japan has never expressed a genuine remorse on its past occupation of the Korean peninsula since Korea gained independence in 1945, fueling the so-called historical disputes. Japan is now at a crossroads of decision: whether to usher in the next century without resolving this matter or to change its attitude and settle the historical conflict. In this context, in an effort to take the centenary of Japan's annexation of Korea as an opportunity to urge Japan to sincerely reconsider its annexation and establish a new Korea-Japan relation, we are planning to produce a special issue of the Iwanami Shoten' monthly magazine "Sisou" (Ideology) in January 2010. Dozens of Japanese and foreign researchers will write papers on topics like Japan's historical perception and its annexation of Korea, modern Korea-Japan relation and Japan's rule over Korea and post-war Japanese perception of Korea.
평화와 번영의 문을 열자!
Open the Door for Peace and Prosperity! This year marks the 3rd International NGO History Forum whose aim is to promote global peace and co-prosperity through historical reconciliation. Under the theme of "history education," the event served as an opportunity to take a leap towards historical reconciliation in East Asia via history and peace education. On August 11 when the preparation for the Forum was in full swing, this writer met with lawyer PARK Wonchul, the co-chairman of the Forum. Q. The 3rd International NGO History Forum is held this year. How do you feel?
LEE Yun-jeong Photos: KIM Hyo-sul
Love Your Neighbor? It seems easier to fall in love with a stranger than a person you know well. This is probably because love for a person you are close to wears off over time. I think the relation between Korea and Japan is little different from this kind of relationship. It was Japan's annexation of Korea that caused two countries' good relationship to turn sour and their mistrust in each other to deepen. Then, what's needed for Korea to re-embrace Japan as the saint said, even though the nation inflicted a painful memory and deep wound in the modern Korean history? The process should start from academic reconsideration of Japan's annexation of Korea and conclude with Japan's apology and remorse for it.
CHOI Deok-gyu Research Department II, the Northeast Asian History Foundation
'위령'을 넘어 '평화'를 향한 출발점
Going Beyond Comforting the Souls of Victims Toward Peace International Conference on "Northeast Asian Peace Belt" The international conference on "Northeast Asian Peace Belt" was held under the theme of "Japanese Memories of War in Modern East Asia" at Kagoshima, Kushu, Japan from July 24 through 26. As professor ISHIKAWA of Kurume University pointed out on the first day of the conference, Kushu is closely related with the war waged by Japan in East Asia. Nagoya, Saga Prefecture became a stronghold for TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi's invasion of Joseon in the pre-modern era, and many potters who were forcibly pulled from Joseon settled here. Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture was a base to dispatch troops for Japan's invasion of the continent and Southeast Asia in the modern times while the southern parts of Kushu provided an air base for Kamikaje commandos in the final days of Asia-Pacific War.
Jeong Young-sin Ph.D. candidate in sociology Seoul National University
Citizens Learn and Protect History Together The Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities (President: KIM Byeong-sang, Director: IM Hyeon-young) was founded in 1991 under the name of the Institute for Research on Anti-national Activities in honor of the wish of late Im Jong-guk who dedicated his whole life to research on pro-Japanese activities and the spirit of the Special Investigation Committee of Anti-national Activities that was dismantled by the pro-Japanese collaborators in 1949. As implied in its name, the institute selected distorted modern history and pro-Japanese activities in particular as its top research subject and is carrying out its major project of publishing the "directory of pro-Japanese collaborators."
BANG Hak-jin Secretary general of Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities
International Precedent Studies Association of the Dokdo Research Institute Enhancing competence for research on Dokdo through exchanges with global experts The International Precedent Studies Association held its 7th presentation meeting at the conference hall of the Northeast Asian History Foundation on July 23 where KIM Du-young, assistant director general of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), gave a presentation entitled "International Maritime Law and Islands Matter." The forum started at 10 a.m. where presentations lasted nearly half an hour and researchers from the Dokdo Research Institute engaged in heated debates for almost two hours.
YU Ha-young Research fellow Dokdo Research Institute
China's Appointment and Tributary System Question: Some Chinese scholars maintain that kings of Koguryeo and Balhae were appointed by China and rendered tribute to it, so Koguryeo was a regional government of the ancient Chinese dynasty. Is this argument well-grounded? Answer: Was it a way for the Chinese dynasty to govern foreign tribes?
Lee Seong-je Research fellow
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