Research on the Process of Forming the Idea of Assimilating the Korean People into Japanese by Means of Japanese Language Education

本研究的目的在于揭示以日语教育手段对朝鲜民族进行日本化观念的形成过程，并揭示明治时期日本教育工作者产生这种观念的原因。结果如下：(1)在甲午战争时期，日语被教育工作者认为是日本人的“精神血液”，因此它永远不会成为另一个国家的母语。但是，他们也认为这是最适合朝鲜民族现代化的外语。(2)在甲午战争后朝鲜成为日本保护国之前的时期（1895-1905），这些教育工作者提出，日语教育除了能提高朝鲜人对现代生活的认识外，还能真正帮助朝鲜人与日本人交流，帮助他们找到工作。(3)在日本保护国时期（1905-1910），通过日语教育同化朝鲜人的想法开始出现，尽管日语教育的主要目的是非常实用的：日本人想要实现朝鲜社会的现代化。(4)朝鲜被日本吞并后，几乎所有的日本教育工作者都坚持将日语教育作为同化朝鲜人的主要手段；如果日语成为朝鲜的国语，它也将成为朝鲜的统一原则。这种观点的基础是，日本人和韩国人来自同一种族，由于日语是两国人民的国语，因此日语是同化韩国人的潜在手段。造成这种情况的其他一些因素是，日本人同化了阿伊努斯和琉球人，尊敬天皇，真正鄙视朝鲜人。

The purpose of this research is to reveal the process of forming the idea of Japanizing the Korean people by means of Japanese language education, and to reveal the reasons for this idea among Japanese educators in the Meiji era.The results are as follows :(1) At the time of the Sino-Japan War (1894-1895), the Japanese language was thought by educators to be "the spiritual blood" of the Japanese people and so it could never become the mother tongue of another nation. However, they also thought that it was the most suitable foreign language for modernizing the Korean people.(2) During the period after the Sino-Japanese War before Korea became a protectorate of Japan (1895-1905), these educators proposed that Japanese language education would really help the Korean people communicating with the Japanese people and help them get jobs, in addition to giving them greater awareness about modern life.(3) During the period of Japanese protectorate (1905-1910), the idea of assimilating the Korean people through Japanese language education began to appear, though the chief purpose of Japanese language education was quite practical : the Japanese wanted to modernize Korean society.(4) After the Annexation of Korea by Japan, almost all of the Japanese educators insisted that Japanese language education was the principle means for assimilating the Korean people ; if Japanese were to become the national language of Korea, it would also become its unifying principle. This opinion was based on the idea that the Japanese and Koreans stemmed from the same race, and that since the Japanese language was the national language of both people, was a potential means of assimilating the Koreans. Some other factors involved in this situation were the fact that the Japanese assimilated the Ainus and Ryukyus, revered the Emperor and really despised the Koreans.