일본 殖民協會의 식민 활동과 해외이주론

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The Japanese Colonial Association, the extend of the Continent of Asia, was established in 1893 by Enomoto Takeaki who was foreign minister in oder to secure foothold for colonial enterprise putting up state policy of colonial emigration. The operation of association was conducted by 28 councils involving deputies, bureaucrats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, businessmen, scholars, journalists. Its activities was to establish a emigration company and extend the sea routs, to dispatch an expedition and hold lecture and skull session, to introduce immigration theory in daily newspaper and submit a proposition, to propagate colonial thought and education and enlighten the public to recognize the importance of moving overseas through publishing a magazine. In the Report on Japanese Colonial Association and Colonial Time Signal published by Japanese Colonial Association, there were several issues of Japanese immigration. The first was ‘the theory of colonial matter requiring immediate attention’. The reason for that they regarded the immigration as burning problem was to solve the problems of population growth and a food shortage and carry forward a plan of expansionism for the post-war management after the Sino-Japanese War and of state enterprise of struggle for existence in the situation of competing powers. Secondly, it was ‘the theory of colonial political strategy’. The Japanese Colonial Association recognized that Japanese has strong patriotism but apathy towards businesses abroad. Most importantly, as a colonial political strategy, it was the order and direction of emigration and the problem of selection of settlement. To aim at emigration as an eternal objective and compete against powers, Japan had to rule the sea and gain commercial supremacy, and claimed that the colonial strategy of Japan was to seize colonise from English and controled the Five Continents under the Japanese will. Thirdly, it was ‘the theory of emigration to Korea’. Tsuneya Seihuku claimed that “the race of two nations is not only historically same but the life-style such as language and custom is similar” is the reason for the need for Japanese emigration into Korea. Moreover, Japanese merchants strove for internal peddling in Korea not sailing trade. What it need most for colonial emigration, he argued, is to establish ‘Land Arranging Company’ to guide emigration, and to make quantity of land purchases through publishing a guidebook. After the Sino-Japanese War, the concern of Japanese press, as well as Japanese Colonial Association, with emigration to Korean arose from keeping their eye on the movement of powers or Russia. To achieve this, it became important to transplant a great number of Japanese to Korea and to engage in the productive industry to develop a source of wealth.

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