原创力文档The Manufactured Contingency - Sōaikai and the Korean Laborers in Japan in the 1920s-30s.docx
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The Manufactured Contingency - Sōaikai and the Korean Laborers in Japan in the 1920s-30s
Siqi ShiKorean ModernityProfessor KwonFinal PaperThe Manufactured Contingency: Sōaikai and the Korean Laborers in Japan in the 1920s-30sKoreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 30s. Largely isolated in the host society, Korean laborers endured discriminatory treatments and the constant uncertainty in their labor market. In this paper, I intend to focus on these laborers who migrated to the Japanese metropole from the Korean colony in during the 1920s and 30s, and want to ask and answer the following questions: What were the factors behind Korean mass migration to Japan during the 1920s? How were the working and living conditions of the Korean settlers? How did their Korean ethnicity influence these conditions, their class status and relation with the Japanese? In what way had the Japanese-Korean assimilationist organization Sōaikai (Mutual Love Association) improved or worsened these conditions? The ultimate purpose of this project is to better understand Japanese state’s highly mediated exploitations of Korean laborers behind the promoted advancement of assimilation. Before the annexation of Korea in 1910, the Korean community in Japan was composed primarily of students, political exiles and consular officials. After the annexation, Korean migration to the Japanese metropole started to gain official encouragement and the migrant population exponentially increased in the 1920s. The principal reasons behind this phenomenon were twofold. The push factors of the migration were the agricultural destitution and its resulted economic crisis in the 1920s. The agriculture-based economies of Korea suffered tremendously when the Japanese authorities implemented a series of colonial landholding policies described by Peter Duus as “the Korean land grab”, which allowed Japanese colonists to take over cultivated land from Korean farmers and monopolize the development of uncultivated land in Korea. As a result, large numbers of
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