This paper examines how the so-called “postwar compensation trial” since liberation has defined historical facts, how historical facts have been adopted and re-defined as judicial logic, and how it affected civil society's perception of public his...
This paper examines how the so-called “postwar compensation trial” since liberation has defined historical facts, how historical facts have been adopted and re-defined as judicial logic, and how it affected civil society's perception of public history. Although it deals with trials, rather than analyzing them at the judicial level, the focus was on how the judicial judgment was understood by the civil society and perceived as public history.
The post-war trial determined the categories of historical facts and their responsibilities in the process. Although the Japanese court did not recognize the damage of the atomic bomb, forced mobilization, and damage of the Japanese military's “Japanese Military Sexual Slavery” as a national crime, legal measures were proposed to be taken for relief. In Japan, the category of relief was limited to war damage, and the Koreans defined it as damage caused by colonial rule. The Japanese government made a law as a remedy and proceeded by excluding colonial residents from the subject of relief. During the course of the trial, it can be said that the difference was more pronounced than the perception of history narrowed