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Policy of the Japanese Government for the Korean Residing in Japan and Korea - Japan Talks －from Suzuki Hajime to Sakanaka Hidenori－
JAPAN SPACE
2016, (20),
pp.119-150
DOI :10.35506/jspace.2016..20.002
Publisher : The Institute of Japanese Studies
Research Area : Area Studies
DOI :10.35506/jspace.2016..20.002
Publisher : The Institute of Japanese Studies
Research Area : Area Studies
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After the defeat, the Japanese government did not have a Korean policy in Japan from a long-term perspective. The Japanese government who was only watching Korean residents in Japan as a cumbersome existence was concerned only with their management and crackdown. However, in the mid-1950's when the legal status negotiations at the Japan-South Korea talks were difficult, the Japanese government established a basic policy to solve the problem by naturalization of Koreans in Japan to Japan. It was suzuki hajime, the chief of the immigration bureau who participated in legal position negotiations to have led the establishment of such a policy. He insisted that Koreans who have totally settled in Japanese society should be given a stable status of residence as much as possible and that conditions of naturalization should be relaxed so that Japanese nationality can be easily acquired. In the 1970s, sakanaka, a staff member of the immigration bureau, asserted that Korean residents in Japan would become more established if they gave a stable status of residence, which in turn would lead to an increase in naturalization. It can be said that sakanaka's assertion inherits and embodies suzuki' s argument.
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