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Imperial Economy as Anti-peace: Flux of the Japanese Empire’s Economic Sphere and Colonial Developmentalism

  • 인문논총
  • 2023, 62(), pp.133-162
  • DOI : 10.33638/JHS.62.6
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : August 30, 2023
  • Accepted : October 3, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

CHO JUNG WOO 1

1경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explain the nature of the colonial Korean economy in relation to the Japanese imperial economy. In particular, it will analyze the relationship between the empire and its colonies, noting that the economic sphere of the Japanese empire fluctuated according to historical phases. These phases are as follows: ① the early stage of colonization when Japan established Korea as a military colony, ② the phase when the the Governor-General of Korea tried to reorganize colonial Korea into a rice-centered raw material colony. ③ a phase in which relations between Korea and Japan were cut off amid a series of panic since 1927. ④ the marginalization of colonial Korea in the construction of the Japan-Manchuria bloc economy after the Manchurian Incident. The economic sphere of the Japanese Empire fluctuated along these four phases, within which imperial-colonial relations were complex and layered. The point that I tried to explain in this article is that the specific nature of the colonial economy is revealed in this aspect of the relationship.

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