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Dilemma of Interpretation on Different Ethnics and National Reappearance in Japan

Jun SungKon 1

1고려대학교

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The study aims to illustrate that even a democratic country’s nationalism features 'exclusivism' though the two are intrinsically incompatible. To that end, the study shows contrasting views on “localism” and “person of different nationality” suggested by Yanagita Kunio and Kita Sadakichi. Even though the two commonly provides the study focus on “persons of different nationality,” tacitly regarded as the others in the community, Kita extends his perspective from central to local, while Yanagita chooses to do the opposite. Kita suggests the holistic historical view which illustrates the history of coexistence of Yamato and other nations from the perspective of incorporation and integration. His view serves as a theoretical model which reestablishes boundaries in the concept of community and at the same time disintegrates Japanese conceptual boundaries to recreate unified community beyond the boundaries of colonized Choseon Dynasty and Japan. Both Yanagita Kunio and Kita Sadakichi failed to free themselves from the dilemma caused by inclusive and exclusive attitudes towards the others in the Japanese community despite the fact that the two scholars were capable of simultaneously employing internal and external perspectives. In particular, the two committed errors by deleting differences between the central and the local, failing to identify the difference between the imperial and colonial states, universally applying objectivity of the other and instilling stereotyped traditional views with the people. In doing so, the two scholars are emerged as internal orientalists.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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