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The New Horizons of Colonial Policy Studies and Recognition of Manchurian Problems - Focusing on Tadao Yanaihara’s Arguments -

Park Yang Shin 1

1한림대학교 일본학연구소

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This article reviews the recognition of a series of situations that unfolded around Manchuria after the Manchurian Incident of 1931, and is based on the arguments of Tadao Yanaihara, a colonial policy scholar. Yanaihara started to study Manchurian problems primarily motivated by the Manchurian Incident. He viewed the Manchurian Incident as the result of the collision between Japanese imperialism and Chinese nationalism, leading to the production of Manchukuo. He argued that Manchukuo was a state having colonial interests for Japan, and at most only a “quasi-protectorate” rather than the independent state that the Japanese government claimed. As for immigration policy to Manchuria, Yanaihara took the position that Manchuria is not suitable for the settlement of the Japanese. His position contrasted other colonial policy scholars of the time including Miono Yamamoto, who had emphasized the need for immigration and colonization as a solution to overpopulation. Yanaihara was critical to Japan/Manchuria block economic theory and to the planned economy in Manchuria. He argued that the economic block cannot maintain a self-sufficient economy both in Japan and Manchuria, and that it is important to boost the economic development of Manchuria independently. He also criticized the Manchurian controlled economy, arguing that joint national companies are not appropriate in light of Manchuria’s economic level, and industrial control from a military point of view is not common economic practice.

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