Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945

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240 INDEX Africa: European recruitment in, 23, 31–36, 185, 187–88; World War I, 34–37; World War II, 38–39 assimilation, 21–22, 45, 54, 56, 78, 94, 161; kōminka, 22, 46, 103, 185; naisen ittai, 21, 45, 118; in Taiwan, 40–41 blood pledges, 80, 82, 94, 100, 115 Britain, 6, 31–32 British East India Company, 31 Buddhism, 69 Chang Hyŏk–chu, 61 China, Japan’s war in, 17, 27, 46, 54, 60, 92, 173 Ch’oe Chŏng–hŭi, 25, 101 Ch’oe Nam–sŏn, 24, 66, 67, 102 Ch’oe Rin, 101 Chŏng Kir–hong, 155, 175 Chōsen League, 18, 22, 68, 115 Christian churches, 69, 206n96 citizenship, 5 comfort women, 8, 10, 157 communism, 5, 84, 161 company-directed recruitment, 141–42, 149 Confucianism, 22, 27, 85, 100, 102 cultural nexus of power, 5, 17 desertion: labor 150, 173–74, 176–78; military , 131–33 discrimination, 20–21, 48–49, 55, 95, Japanese distrust of Koreans, 98, 111, 127; in military, 129–30; at workplace,163 Dutch VOC, 31 Eckert, Carter J., 10 education system, 23; attendance, 26, 28; compulsory education, 26, 94; and draft, 104–6; indoctrination, 45; reforms, 56, 57, 104; shortcomings, 26, 28, 56, 95, 104; and volunteer soldier system, 82, 86–87. See also students employment introduction offices, 26, 143 enfranchisement, 5, 30, 49–50, 110 family registries, 87, 107–10, 112, 115, 120, 150, 212n58 fascism, 7 France, 6, 23, 30 Germany, 36, 39–40 government-directed recruitment, 141–45, 149 Government-General of Korea, powers, 15, 18–19, 81, 151; relation with central government, 15, 50, 93–95, 140, 144; vulnerabilities, 6, 12–13, 19, 99, 185 Green Flag League, 68, 96 Higuchi Yūichi, 9, 123 Hirohito, 64, 110 Hong Sa-ik, 130, 167 hwarang, 55, 102, 199n43 Im Kwang-ho, 74 Imai Tadashi, 103 Imperial Japanese Army, 16, 46–47, 130 INDEX | 241 Imperial Japanese Navy, 51 impersonators, 121, 172 India, 12, 31, 33, 197n10; World War I, 29–30, 36–37; World War II, 38–39 Japanese language, 26, 53, 70, 114, 128; and assimilation, 23; comprehension levels, 28, 49, 105 Kajiyama Toshiyuki, 48 Kamata Sawaichirō, 155 kamikaze, 127 Kang Tŏk-sang, 53 Keijo nippō, 66 kidnapping, 117, 155–56, Kim Hwal-lan (Helen Kim), 100 Kim Il-sŏng, 64 Kim P’al-bong, 65 Kim Sŏg-wŏn, 24, 64 Kim Sŏng-su, 24, 25, 206n89 Kim To-hyŏng, 9 Kim Yŏn-su, 67 Koiso Kuniaki: as governor-general, 64, 76, 81–82, 104, 111; as Korean Army commander , 45, 50, 52 Korean Army, 44, 49, 50, 57, 70, 73, 111, 113, 116 Korean nationalism, 16, 18; Japanese concerns , 53, 25, 185; and resistance, 79, 132, 179–80 Koreans in Japan, 72, 112, 150, 176 Kwangbok Army, 132 labor conscription, 141, 145–47, 158, 160 labor mobilization, 139–82. See also labor conscription; Labor Mobilization Plan; military civilian contractors Labor Mobilization Plan, 147–51, 177–78 lecture circuits, 63–65 Maeil sinbo, 66 Malay Regiment, 37 March First Movement, 16–17, 18, 99, 185 military civilian contractors, 153–54, 164–68, 174–75, 180 military conscription, 92–138, 160 Military Service Law, 28, 50, 57, 94, 106 Minami Jirō, 44, 50, 57, 85, 93–97 (passim), 110, 168 mining industry, 148–49, 162, 163 Mo Yun-suk, 65 movies, 61–62, 103, 161 Mutual Assistance Society (Kyōwakai), 72, 102, 150 naisen ittai, 45 name-change policy, 19, 41, 108 National General Mobilization Law, 140–50, 184 National Service Corps, 156–57 National Spiritual Mobilization Movement, 21–22 nationalist historical paradigm, 7–8, 18, 29, 74, 139, 147, 167, 183 O Haeng-sŏk, 153, 171 Ōmura Kenzō, 63 Ōno Rokuichirō, 79 Pak Ch’un-gŭm, 24, 44, 67 Pak Chung-hee, 80 Pak Kyŏng-sik, 7–8, 57 pan-Asianism, 21, 54, 55, 78, 121 Pang Han-jun, 103 patriotic labor corps, 119 patriotic units, 22–23, 59, 68, 101 Patriotic Wives Association, 157 Philippines, 38, 192 police, 17, 48, 84, 142, 171, 173, 178–79; high, 48, 76–77, 79; labor enforcement, 142; military, 44; size, 19 prisoner of war, 98, 133 prisoner of war guards, 166–67 propaganda: and draft, 96, 99–104; | INDEX 242 propaganda (continued) and labor, 159–61, 168; and volunteer system, 53–58, 60, 68, 79 Pyŏngyang incident, 132...