著者

佐藤 正夫

雑誌

東洋文化研究 (ISSN:13449850)

巻号頁・発行日

no.13, pp.177-197, 2011-03-31

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This year marks the centennial of the annexation of Korea by Japan and the 91st anniversary of the incipience of the March First Movement. Nonetheless, there is a relative paucity of research in Japan into Japanese-Korean relations during this era. More specifically, so far there has been little comprehensive research into the Korean Declaration of Independence Using primary sources in the context of the March First Movement. The present paper focuses oll the Declaration itself against the backdrop of the March First Movement, and explores how it came to be drafted and spread throughout the country. The significance of the Declaration is explored by examining how one Japanese person obtained and stored it in Pyongyang. It is the author’s opinion that this examination of the Declaration of Independence as a historical document provides a new perspective on the March First Movement. Needless to say, this study in itself does not make a case for a major change in views of the March First Movement or of the Declaration’s signatories as‘‘traitors”, but it does pose questions worthy of further examination.