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History-conflict and dialog between South Korea and Japan - Toward Recognition of Reconciliation and Coexistence -

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2007, (88), pp.1157-1193
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Jae-Jeong Chung 1

1서울시립대학교

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ABSTRACT

Recently for five years, there has been a long-standing feud concerning the recognition of history between Korea and Japan. Japanese Government apologized officially for the invasion on Korea and the domination of Korea in modern times and it kept a straight posture of reconsideration, but on the other hand, the Prime Minister actually offered worship at the ancestral shrine 'Yasukuni' and the Ministry of Education gave official approval to the history textbook tinctured with nationalism. The Korean Government made a strong protest against it that there is no authenticity in the Japanese history- understanding and demanded that the Prime Minister stop the worship of the ancestral shrine 'Yasukuni' and amend the history textbook. Meanwhile, there has been briskly developed a solidarity movement for the reconciliation of history and for overcoming the history conflict on the civil level between Korea and Japan. The researchers and educators of history proceeded a joint-work in order to close the gap of history-understanding and developed common teaching materials for the students of the two countries. The severer the history-conflict is getting on the governmental level, the more vivant is becoming the history-dialogue on the civil level for surmounting the history-conflict. It is needless to say that the history-dialogue should be strengthened in order to make a reconciliation of history between Korea and Japan. Furthermore, we should build the control system for stopping the high government officials' speech and behavior which could instigate history- conflicts.

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