著者
松下 佳弘
出版者
教育史学会
雑誌
日本の教育史学 (ISSN:03868982)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, pp.84-96, 2011-10-01 (Released:2017-06-01)

This paper examines the measures taken by the Ministry of Education and local governments to close Korean schools in Kyoto City from 1948 to 1950. It utilizes official documents, mainly those of the Kyoto Prefectural government, in order to examine the actual state of Korean schools at the time as reflected especially in the meanings of memoranda concluded with Korean groups. Previous research focuses on the process over a one year period from the "Hanshin education battle" of April 1948 to the closure of Korean schools in October 1949, during which measures were systematically restrictive, beginning with temporary closure to outright suppression. In the case of Kyoto City, however, one can regard this period as one during which both the Korean groups and the government consistently compromised with one another while attempting to determine the place and position of Korean schools. In Kyoto, as a result of negotiations between Kyoto Prefectural Government and Korean groups, two agreements in May 1948, regarding approval of the establishment Korean schools and of a "special class" within public schools, were attempts to reach a temporary settlement between the two sides. As a result of this "Kyoto Memorandum," Korean schools were recognized as either private Korean schools or a "Special Class of City Elementary Schools," and classes continued as before. The following year, however, the Kyoto Military Government deemed this "special class" of schools to be a violation of education laws, and Kyoto Prefecture, which received direct instructions to this effect, revoked the "Kyoto Memorandum" in April 1949. Moreover, Kyoto city temporarily closed the "special class" of schools, and in September it ordered the compulsory closure of a schoolhouse. In October, all private Korean schools in Kyoto City that had been recognized one year earlier in the "Kyoto Memorandum" were also closed by a national government measure to close all Korean schools nationwide.