식민사학자 오다 쇼고(小田省吾)의 경성제대 교수 활동과 조선사 인식

초록

Oda Shogo (小田省吾) came to Chosun in 1908 and lived there for 37 years. He was a person that supported the Japanese Government General of Korea to compile textbooks and found Keijō Imperial University, participated initiatively in organizing Japanese’s Chosun research groups, and contributed to creating the colonial view of history by laying the grounds for colonial education. First, Oda regarded that the mission of Keijō Imperial University should be studying Oriental culture, cultivating colonial officials, and completing the project of harmonizing and unifying the two races. He insisted that the mission should be promoted by ‘Japan’s mind’ as the driving force. He devoted his whole life to etching the ‘Japan’s mind’ into Chosun. Second, the professors of history in Keijō Imperial University took the lead in distorting history in the name of studying Chosun’s culture and history. Oda deemed that investigating and understanding Chosun history should be the most essential thing in ‘harmony and union between Japan and Chosun’. As a professor of Keijō Imperial University, the goal was to insert distorted Chosun history to students and justify Japan’s rule over Chosun. Third, Oda wrote history of Chosun, which came from the necessity to reorganize Chosun history grounded on the colonial view of history to fight against Chosun’s resistance to Japan after the 3.1 Movement. Distorting the history of Dangun in Chosun that is up to 2,000 years ahead of Japan’s history, he negated Dangun. He produced Ilseondongjo-ron saying Amaterasu’s brother, Susanoo, crossed into Chosun and also Tayulseong-ron saying the south of Chosun in the ancient times was Japan’s colony. Fourth, being engaged in Cheongguhakhoe, Oda strived to study the history of party strife by extending the research on the dismantlement of Chosun history, persecution on Catholicism, and Hong Gyeong-rae’s Revolt. He supported Dangpaseong-ron saying the cause of Chosun’s collapse was from not Japan’s invasion but its own party strife. Later, Ilseondongjo-ron stressing intimacy between Chosun and Japan and Tayulseong-ron saying Chosun had been ruled by Japan from the ancient times in the history were established. Oda spread the origin of colonial rule and the theory for justification by doing the teachings at Keijō Imperial University and activities in Cheongguhakhoe.

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