日本は何故、反省しないのか②
投稿者： ne_ko_ri_ko 投稿日時： 2005/02/04 17:36 投稿番号： [43143 / 60270]
When King Kojong tried to show to the world Japan's aggressive policy toward Korea, at the Peace Conference at The Hague, in 1907, Japan responded by forcing King Kojong to abdicate the throne.
Korea was one step closer to not existing as a sovereign nation (and it really only had sovereignty then, in name only).
From that time on, Korea had no chance at all of showing to the world its true history. Japan now controlled the country, so it also controlled its history.
The Japanese completely rewrote Korean history, and even Koreans themselves were forced to learn a very distorted version.
Fortunately, for Korea and the world, Koreans would not so easily give up the truth.
Though many records were lost or destroyed, many others survived.Still, it is an uphill battle to change the world's perception of Korea and its history.
Even though Japan lost World War Two militarily, it won the war economically and scholastically. Japan was quickly rebuilt with Western help, while Korea was, for the most part, forced to pull itself up by its own bootstraps.
Korea was perceived by the rest of the world as a backward cesspool, while Japan, once the darling of Asia, was welcomed back into the fold of Westernized nations
The fratricidal war on the peninsula five years after WWII did not help the West's perception.
As Japan was seen as cultured and scholarly, and the histories written about Korea by Japanese sources were really the only ones in English, they continued to be accepted as factual.
Korean historians had not yet had the chance to publish works about Korea in English and, when they finally did, the Japanese versions had become firmly entrenched in Western societies.
To this day, the Japanese version of history is taught as fact in many Western institutions of higher learning.
I have personally sparred with Western Japanists over Korean history.
Fortunately, many scholars have taken on the task of educating the world about Korea's true history.
One organization I have recently come to know is VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea). They are dedicated to, as they say on their web site, "enhancing the image of Korea in cyberspace". Hopefully, through the efforts of VANK and interested world scholars, Korea's true history will fully be known.
Duvernay
Korea was one step closer to not existing as a sovereign nation (and it really only had sovereignty then, in name only).
From that time on, Korea had no chance at all of showing to the world its true history. Japan now controlled the country, so it also controlled its history.
The Japanese completely rewrote Korean history, and even Koreans themselves were forced to learn a very distorted version.
Fortunately, for Korea and the world, Koreans would not so easily give up the truth.
Though many records were lost or destroyed, many others survived.Still, it is an uphill battle to change the world's perception of Korea and its history.
Even though Japan lost World War Two militarily, it won the war economically and scholastically. Japan was quickly rebuilt with Western help, while Korea was, for the most part, forced to pull itself up by its own bootstraps.
Korea was perceived by the rest of the world as a backward cesspool, while Japan, once the darling of Asia, was welcomed back into the fold of Westernized nations
The fratricidal war on the peninsula five years after WWII did not help the West's perception.
As Japan was seen as cultured and scholarly, and the histories written about Korea by Japanese sources were really the only ones in English, they continued to be accepted as factual.
Korean historians had not yet had the chance to publish works about Korea in English and, when they finally did, the Japanese versions had become firmly entrenched in Western societies.
To this day, the Japanese version of history is taught as fact in many Western institutions of higher learning.
I have personally sparred with Western Japanists over Korean history.
Fortunately, many scholars have taken on the task of educating the world about Korea's true history.
One organization I have recently come to know is VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea). They are dedicated to, as they say on their web site, "enhancing the image of Korea in cyberspace". Hopefully, through the efforts of VANK and interested world scholars, Korea's true history will fully be known.
Duvernay
これは メッセージ 43142 (ne_ko_ri_ko さん)への返信です．