著者

松本 邦彦

出版者

北東アジア学会

雑誌

北東アジア地域研究 (ISSN:1882692X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.18, pp.23-34, 2012

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In recent Japan, "multicultural community building" has become an official ideology. For instance, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has created a promotion plan for multicultural community building and has been promoting such policy practices to all local government entities. On the other hand, starting from "Hate Korea Wave, A Comic (Manga Kenkanryu)," there are louder voices who insist on xenophobia against Korean living in Japan. This paper focuses on the recognition of the history of Japan's colonial occupation in which anti-Korean arguments are based in order to analyze Japanese policies on multicultural community building. The study has led to the following conclusion: In Japan, multicultural community building has been promoted by ignoring the issues of the recognition of history. As foreign workers increase in Japan, xenophobia such as the "Hate Korea" movement will be a threat to such multicultural community building policy practices. People who are attracted to the "Hate Korea Wave" support the concept of Japan's colonial occupation on the ground of a theory of self-responsibility.