A document containing records of the imprisonment of approximately 1,000 Koreans, including poet Yun Dong-ju and teacher Song Mong-gyu, who died in prison during the Japanese colonial period, as well as independence activists who were imprisoned in Japanese prisons in the 1940s, was made public to mark the 79th anniversary of Liberation Day.
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs released documents such as the “Public Security Report” and the “Public Security Exclusion Report” discovered at the National Archives of Japan on the 15th. The two documents are believed to have been written by police belonging to the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs explained that the Public Security Report is a document that records prisoners convicted of violating the Public Security Preservation Act, and the Public Security Exclusion Report is a document that records prisoners convicted of violating laws other than the Public Security Preservation Act (disrespect, spreading rumors, etc.).
The Peace Preservation Law was a law enacted by the Japanese in 1925 to maintain the imperial system and prevent the spread of the socialist movement. It was used as a representative means of suppressing the independence movement in colonial Korea.
The two documents contain the names of detention centers and prisons where approximately 1,000 Koreans, including independence activists, were imprisoned from 1940 to 1945, along with their dates of admission, start and end of sentences, etc.
Also included are the poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945, awarded the Independence Medal in 1990), who was a poet of national resistance and died in prison while studying in Japan, and his cousin Song Mong-gyu (1917-1945, awarded the Patriotic Medal in 1995), who took the lead in promoting national consciousness while attending Yonhui College and also died in a Japanese prison. The National Security Report records state that Yun Dong-ju was arrested in 1943 on charges of the “Kyoto Korean Student Nationalist Group Incident” while studying in Japan, and Song Mong-gyu was admitted to the Kyoto Detention Center on December 6 of the same year and held as a pretrial detainee.
In addition to these, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs reported that it was possible to confirm that various classes of Koreans living in Japan, including Japanese immigrant workers at the time, were imprisoned for resisting the Japanese colonial rule. This includes Kim Geun-do (awarded the Order of Patriotic Merit in 1995) and Kim Du-man (awarded the Order of Patriotic Merit in 2003), who worked at Japanese ironworks and participated in the independence movement against Japanese discrimination against their own people.
The report on the exclusion from public security includes the imprisonment records of Mr. Yoo Jae-woo (awarded the Order of Patriotic Merit in 1990), who was arrested and imprisoned for disrespecting the Japanese Empire and the Emperor, and Mr. Jeong Hyeok-mo (awarded the Presidential Citation in 2009), who was sentenced to prison for spreading current affairs news such as, “An American plane bombed Hokkaido” and “This time, Japan is finished.”
Professor Jang Shin of the Academy of Korean Studies evaluated the book as “a document that records the imprisonment of Koreans in Japan that could not be confirmed in existing sources, and thus can play a major role in discovering and rewarding independence activists who were active in Japan from 1940 until Japan’s defeat.”
Military expert reporter Yoon Sang-ho [email protected]
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