Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

In the 1910s the Japanese colonial officials worked to legitimize their recently acquired rule of Korea through providing public elementary education, gradually expanding from an initially limited offering. Their public schools existed in tension with Korean-run private schools that the Japanese barely tolerated. There was also a tension within the Japanese camp over the proper curriculum for the public elementary schools. The Korean Education Ordinance of August 1911 was a compromise between Japanese officials in Korea, who generally favored a gradual approach to colonial rule, and Japanese educators and officials in Japan, who generally were optimistic about Japan’s ability to assimilate the Koreans through education. The paper expands our understanding of the process of drafting the ordinance, which resulted in an eclectic compromise between the two camps. The article goes on to examine the Japanese “National Language” and “Korean and Literary Sinitic” textbooks published by the government during the 1910s, and finds that this compromise resulted in messages of thankfulness and obedience, as well as messages of Japanese superiority and Korean backwardness. Finally, it reviews the Japanese attempts to control Korean-run private schools. This article explicates the creation and implementation of colonial education policy by examining internal and extremal documents published by the Korea Government-General and its employees, the textbooks the government published, and Japanese education journals.

DOI： 10.1215/07311613-7932272

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

Colonial rule in Manchukuo was a chaotic mix of interests and ideologies. Kwantung Army officers, the local Japanese settler community, experienced bureaucrats recently arrived from Japan, and collaborating Chinese all took part in the administration of the state. Although for many years scholars have noted the generative role military officers in the field played in Japanese foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s, recently they have come to appreciate that the administration of the empire was also disjointed and ad-hoc, rather than centralized and monolithic. The Governors-General of both Taiwan and Korea were both appointed directly by the emperor, and thus enjoyed considerable authority to plan and carry out policies without approval from the Japanese cabinet. Although the Army leadership in Tokyo regained control over the Kwantung Army and won oversight over the puppet state by 1934, day-to-day administration of Manchukuo remained in the hands of the Kwantung Army and its hand-chosen civilian officials. As long as the military retained firm control of the colonies, the Japanese Army allowed the colonial authorities to govern as they saw fit, and even helped to minimize pressures from the civilian segments of the Tokyo government.
This paper introduces the nature of the Manchukuo government, and summarizes the history of the state’s education bureaucracy and school structure.
Although this chapter focuses on the Japanese policy makers who created the Manchukuo education system, there were also many non-Japanese, particularly Chinese, officials within the education bureaucracy. Unlike in Korea and Taiwan, Manchukuo was established on the premise that the local non-Japanese population created the state and were at the center of its rule. In reality, of course, the Japanese tightly held on to the reigns of power.

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

During the Protectorate era of 1905–1910 Japanese officials in Korea used education as a tool in their attempt to transform the Korean population into a people both friendly and cooperative towards Japan. As Korea was still formally an independent country, these officials could not openly call for assimilation. Yet they systematically worked to leverage the Koreans’ growing passion for education to achieve their goals, through taking over the largely moribund Korean public school system. The public school system had languished with little public or popular support since its creation in 1895, and the Japanese turned it into a well-funded, planned, and staffed elementary school system, with assurance of job placement upon graduation. Many Korean elites, however, feared the loss of sovereignty and the impact on patriotism a Japanese-run system could cause, and a wave of private “patriotic” and Christian school openings resulted. The annexation of Korea in 1910 made Japanese control over public education complete, and increased the pressure on private schools to conform. This article will examine the internal and public writings of the leading Japanese officials in Korea in this period, such as Itō Hirobumi, Shidehara Taira, Tawara Magoichi, Mitsuchi Chūzō to understand their goals and explicate the system they created, including curriculum requirements, the expansion of elementary education, the hiring of Japanese teachers, as well as the suppression of secondary schooling, and the suppression of modern private schools. In particular it will analyze the content of the language textbooks they published.

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： 10.1017/S002191180999009X

Responsible for pages：Signature Books   Language：English   Book type：General book, introductory book for general audience

Other Link： https://www.signaturebooks.com/books/p/the-path-and-the-gate

CiNii Books

Responsible for pages：ISBN: 9789004515369, 9004515364 OCLC: 1351625811   Language：English   Book type：General book, introductory book for general audience

Education, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle—sometimes overlapping, at other times competing—resulting in a shift from a focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W. Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.

Other Link： https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/61859

Responsible for pages：By Common Consent Press ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948218368 496 pages.   Language：English   Book type：General book, introductory book for general audience

Maurine Whipple (1903-1992) was one of the Lost Generation of Mormon writers, a group working in the mid-20th century who critically examined Mormonism. Her masterpiece, The Giant Joshua, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1941, is a classic American novel of colonization and community building. A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple consists of the editors’ introduction and twenty-seven individual works Whipple wrote, including short stories, essays, magazine articles, and two unfinished novels. The stories are divided into six sections: Autobiographical and Family History Sketches, The Maturing Artist, Narratives of Faith, War Stories, Magazine Articles, and The Unfinished Novels. This last section includes five chapters and a synopsis of Cleave the Wood, the planned sequel for Whipple’s masterpiece, The Giant Joshua. Cleave the Wood is the centerpiece of the collection, taking up approximately 30% of the total manuscript.

Other Link： https://www.amazon.com/Craving-Beauty-Collected-Writings-Maurine/dp/1948218364#customerReviews

Language：Japanese   Book type：General book, introductory book for general audience

Education history in Manchuria and Korea: An international approach

Event date： 2025.2

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto   Country：Japan  

While far from the center of attention in Tokyo, the actions of students and laborers in Kyushu played key roles in the development of citizen social movements in the two decades after the end of the war. This paper, using archival materials and extensive interviews with former participants and witnesses, examines several parts of that history, including:
a. How Kyushu University’s Economics Department became a training ground for many leftist leaders, particularly due to the presence of Sakisaka Itsurō, a prominent ideologue in the Socialist Party, whose students went on to lead student and labor protests all over the country.
b. How Kyushu University students, most notably Shinohara Kōichiro, were called on to help lead the national Bund student group in 1960, at the height of the Anpo Treaty protests.
c. How the strikes at the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine, in Ōmuta, Fukuoka, became the center of the national labor struggle in 1960, with Kyushu activists taking on some of the key roles.
d. How the presence of an American air force base in Fukuoka and a naval base in Sasebo became
focuses of activist attention through the 1950s and 1960s, culminating in the creation of a vibrant Fukuoka branches of the Anti-War Youth Committee and Beheiren, anti-Vietnam War organizations. These two organizations became central to the later anti-war and anti-establishment protests of 1968-1969, which would draw activists from all over the country, and envelope Kyushu University and other major universities in the region.

Event date： 2024.8

Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：University of East Anglia   Country：United Kingdom  

Event date： 2014.3

Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：Philidelphia Marriot   Country：United States  

An examination of the internal workings and attitudes of the Japanese in the Korean Ministry of Education. I will examine their education policies, and analyze the curriculum they created focusing on language policy and national consciousness, including an analysis of the Ministry of Education textbooks.

Event date： 2013.6

Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Venue：桜美林大学、町田   Country：Japan  

Discussant of a panel of four papers, written by Ulrich Flick, Jiaru Sun, Issei Yamamoto, and Masakazu Matsuoka.

Event date： 2006.4

Venue：San Francisco, CA   Country：United States  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

The Manchukuo Imperial Education Association’s journal Kenkoku Kyōiku: Commentary and tables of contents (1)

Language：English  

Studies of modern Korean history usually focus on the historical break of the Japanese annexation of 1910. But as we have seen from other discourses of dis- ruption, they often conceal trends and continuities that traverse the historical divide. This special journal issue seeks to elucidate the broader trends of the 1876 to 1945 period, when the desire for “modern” education and culture collided with concerns over ethnic authenticity and cultural identity. The authors approach these problems from a variety of perspectives by examining the public and private spheres, modernizing and traditional influences, and considering the interplay of Korean, Japanese, and Western contexts.
The authors of this issue’s special theme hope to contribute to the already existing body of research on modern education and language in early modern Korean history. Scholars in Korea, Japan, and English-speaking parts of the world have shown great interest in the establishment and development of modern education in late nineteenth-century, early twentieth-century Korea. Unfortunately, the diverse views produced from these different parts of the world often do not engage with each other. Ours is an attempt to promote scholarly exchange across borders and to create a broader dialogue amongst all historians of Korea.

Language：English   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

Language：English   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

Type：Peer review 

Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals：2

Type：Academic society, research group, etc. 

Type：Peer review 

Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals：1

Type：Peer review 

Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals：1

Number of peer-reviewed articles in Japanese journals：1

Type：Peer review 

Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals：1

Number of peer-reviewed articles in Japanese journals：1

Audience：General,　Scientific,　Company,　Civic organization,　Governmental agency

Type：Lecture

第164回芥川賞、いよいよ20日選考会　識者が描く展望は：アンドリュー・ホールさんと茶園梨加さんが対談

満州国についてインタビューをしました。『偽満州国の真相』は２０１５年夏に放送されました。私は５分ぐらいの話が入りました。