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The Study on the Repatriation of Japanese in Korea and the Response of United States Army Military Government in Korea(USAMGIK) from 1945 to 1946.

Shin, Jaejoon 1

1서울대학교

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This article examines how the US army military government in Korea(USAMGIK) responded to the process of returning to Japan from 1945 to 1946. The repatriation of the Japanese in Korea or the Koreans in Japan was a huge social phenomenon in terms of the termination and liberation of colonial period and massive movement of millions of people. In the course of filling up the vacancies of these movements and clearing up the remnants in the past colonial period, a prototype of later history of each society was embodied. Especially, this article makes an effort to focus on how the situation of the return of the Japanese influenced the response of the USAMGIK as the subject of 'execution' of repatriation. First, USAMGIK had insufficient proper manuals or capability with which implement repatriation. There had been communication problems with Seoul and the provinces of USAMGIK itself as well as with GHQ/SCAP. This point caused a confusion in the process of repatriation. Second, USAMGIK was the subordinate body of the GHQ/SCAP, which are in charge of oversees repatriations in East Asia, and at the same time was the subject of occupation administration under the jurisdiction of Korea. Even the same command system could have different interests depending on which of the direct jurisdictions were different, and this difference in opinion was mainly revealed by the problem of transportation of returnees.

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