2018, Vol., No.24

JAPAN SPACE 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.29

pISSN : 1976-1481
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This study aims to examine how the Edo government(江戶幕府) received and treated the delegations of Chosen and Ryukyu(琉球) in comparison with the Dutchman through the analysis on Kyohosenyoruisyu a compilation of precedents and ordinances in relation to the visits of Chosen and Ryukyu delegations and a Dutchman to Edo during the time of Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune(徳川吉宗) who was the eighth shogun of Edo Shogunate; this kind of studies have rarely been carried out in the research of delegations to date. The findings verified through the analysis are as follows: First, the Edo receptions of the Chosen delegation in 1719 and the Ryukyu delegation in 1718 were simplified compared to previous delegations in receptions and ceremonial matters as they were treated on the same line of the policies executed by Tokugawa Yoshimune such as in Kyoho reforms. Second, at the time of the Edo visit of Ryukyu delegation in 1718, Tokugawa Yoshimune treated Ryukyu as a ‘subject state’ which was under the influence of Japan, not as a ‘foreign country’, and even if a lord of Satsuma

Ariyoshi Sawako(1931~1984) is one of Japan's most prominent and prolific postwar women writers; however, her provocative literary works have yet to be critically examined. This paper undertakes a thorough re-reading of Ariyoshi's novel Hishoku (1964) and explores how her re-writing of history provokes far-reaching insights into how nationalism and gender correlate in representations of postwar American-Japanese relations. Ariyoshi wrote Hishoku after spending one year stay in New York (1959) at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation. The novel recounts the story of a war bride, Emiko, who married an African American GI. By presenting this first-person narration of a war bride, a voice that has been historically ignored, Ariyoshi pluralizes and re-writes “History”; in other words, she writes “Herstory.” This paper elucidates how Hishoku offers a counter-narrative to previous representations of the Occupation, thereby calling Japan’s national memory into question. Furthermore, this paper also examines how Hishoku, which was written in response to the Cultural Cold War, reflects on racial discrimination.

This research analyzes the transformation of East Asia’s international order and the masses of Joseon as the victims of the era from the perspectives of international relations and historical studies. While conducting an interdisciplinary analysis to achieve cross-fertilization between the two academic disciplines, this research aims to undertake the collection of historical data and the conceptualization of historical facts. This research illustrates the Sino-Japanese War and the Donghak Peasants War from the international, national and popular movement levels by using the concept of “state failure” and the methods for analyzing the Holocaust of Jews. This approach sheds light on the international and domestic environment that made possible the genocide of the Donghak peasant armies and villagers whose victim count ranges from 30,000 to 300,000 to 400,000. It argues that the Sino-Japanese War and the Holocaust of the Donghak peasant armies and villagers were caused by a trio of a modern state(Japan), a failed state(Joseon) and a failed hegemony(Qing), with the former exhibiting aggressiveness and brutality and the latter two producing governance crises.