著者

伊藤 虎丸 田代 安見子 樋口 容子

出版者

東京女子大学

雑誌

東京女子大学紀要論集 (ISSN:04934350)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.2, pp.93-110, 1995-03-08

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Professor Chi Myong-kwan (1924-), as chief editor of The Realms of Ideology and college teacher, was one of the major leaders of democratization movement in Korea in the 1960's. Being exhausted by the conflicts in North Korea, he left his country and became a research fellow of the Department of Politics at the graduate school of Tokyo University in October, 1972. However, after he moved to Tokyo, he was requested to commit himself to the Korean democratization movement in Japan. After the former President of South Korea, Kim Tezong was kidnapped in Japan, Mr. Chi had to protect himself from dangers. As a result, he has been obliged himself to be an exile for over twenty years. Being supported by WCC and NCC, he was invited to be a visiting professor of philosophy at Tokyo Woman's Christian University in April, 1974. Later he became an exchange professor of the Institute of Comparative Studies at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, and a professor of the Junior College of the University. After retiring from the College of Communication and Culture of the University in March, 1993, he returned to Korea. This paper is written by Yasumiko Tashiro and Yoko Higuchi, his ex-students: They researched Mr. Chi's biography and publications which are written in Japanese. The introduction by Toramaru Ito, one of Mr. Chi's colleagues discusses mainly Mr. Chi's ideology and actions as an expresson of his preparation of a new bridge that may allow Japan, Korea and other Asian countries to be associated more closely with each other in the future. It is made clear how the relationship between the churches in Japan and those outside of Japan was affected by the issue of Mr. Chi's immigration into Japan; his association with Japanese intellectuals, and especially the role of Tokyo Woman's Christian University, which played an important part for him, are also discussed. Moreover, the introduction explains his new ideology which seems to have developed out of his own experience in Japan. One aspect of his thinking about comparative culture is discussed here from this viewpoint.