Study on the Festivals among the Koreans in Japan and the Reconstruction of their Ethnic Identity

这个项目的目的是分析新创建的节日如何给在日本的韩国人带来社会、文化和心理上的影响。在日本的韩国人一直受到社会歧视，没有任何合理的理由。今天，大多数在日本的韩国人是第二代、第三代或第四代。他们和日本人一起在学校上学，并在日本人居住的地区长大。虽然大多数年轻一代认为日本是他们的祖国，但由于持续的歧视，他们被迫对韩国文化遗产和自己有负面印象。然而，通过在日本设立自己的节日，他们逐渐重建了与韩国人和日本人略有不同的新的民族认同--“在日韩国人[在日]”。与此同时，他们也逐渐恢复了自己的自豪感和积极的自我形象。他们的节日被无意识和有意识地用作他们新身份的基础，并作为自己的文化传承给他们的孩子。此外，很明显，它们之间不仅有许多共同的特征，而且有许多不同之处，反映了每个地区的历史和社会文化条件。本研究人员计划开展研究，研究日本人和韩国人自己是如何形成朝鲜半岛的民族形象的。

The aim of this project is to analyze how the newly created festivals have given impact to the Koreans in Japan socioculurally and psychlogically. Koreans in Japan have been socially discriminated without any rational reasons. Today, most of the Koreans in Japan are the 2nd, 3rd or 4th generation. They have attended at schools with the Japanese and have been raised in areas where the Japanese also reside. While most of the young generation identify Japan as thier homeland, they were forced to have negative images on thier Korean cultural heritage and themselves through the persistent discrimination. However, through the creation of their own festivals in Japan, they have gradually reconstructed new ethnic identity as "Koreans in Japan[Zainichi]" which is slightly different from Koreans and Japanese. At the same time, they have gradually restored their own pride and positive self-image. Their festivals are both unconsciouslly and consciouslly utilized as a basis for their new identity and handed down to their children as their own culture. Also, it became clear that there are not only many common features but differences among them, reflecting historic and socioculural conditions in each area.The present researcher is planning to carry out research on how the Koreas'ethnic images have been formed both by the Japanese and the KOreans themselves.