After independence, South Korean Government started to solve the liquidation problems which derived from the colonial relationships in the form of ‘reparation.’ But after all, Korean government came to negotiate the same problems with Japan as the...
After independence, South Korean Government started to solve the liquidation problems which derived from the colonial relationships in the form of ‘reparation.’ But after all, Korean government came to negotiate the same problems with Japan as the ‘claims,’ because she lost the status of Allied powers in the Peace Treaty with Japan. As the results, no attention was paid on the changes of reparation demands because that has been regarded as the single concept contrasted with claims, while there came out a great difference between the reparation and claims in coping with the liquidation problems between South Korea and Japan.
Of Course, some studies have analysed the reparation demands of South Korea against Japan. But, those studies have only fixed the focus on the process in which the “The Protocol on the Reparation against Japan” has been completed in 1949, rather than studied the change of the character of reparations coming out in the process.
This paper elucidates that the Korean reparation demands has been converged into the claims which simply means the return, through the linkage with the change of the post-war reparation policy of US against Japan.
Korean Government has presented the next tree kinds of demands as the reparation. one is the belligerency reparation, the next is the reparations for the damages which derived from the compulsory mobilization into the war, the final is the reparation against the colonial rule. In spite that those demands founded on the different grounds, it has been recognized that those demands were different from the claims, because those all take on the political character.
But Korean Government has carried out the drastic amendment on the reparation against Japan, because she ought to harmonize the next two incompatible conditions at the same time. The first was to block the influences which came into being from the change of US reparation policy which transformed the aim of the restriction of Japanese productive ability into no-reparation principle, and another was to cope with the liquidation problems in the outline of US policy.
This article verifies Korean reparation demands have converged into the claims about 1949, which came to be proposed after the beginning of the South Korea-Japan normalization talks which started in 1951.