@article{oai:kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00051886,
 author = {IKEDA, Seishi and 池田, 誠司},
 journal = {日本海域研究, Japan sea research},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {During Japan’s occupation of the Korean Peninsula, the various Governor-Generals gave
instructions to make the local school children learn honorific Japanese language phrases at elementary
schools. The local children used Japanese language textbooks. A very limited number of, but helpful for
governing, honorific phrases in the textbooks were learned for four years at elementary schools during
the thirty-five years of Japan’s rule. The honorific phrases were necessary at every aspect of their lives
such as when talking to parents, classmates, and teachers. The relevant Japanese Educational
Department published the elementary school textbooks in the Japanese language. What they aimed at
was to make the school children behave politely and obediently in Japanese to their elders as well as the
Japanese rulers. Moreover, they were expected to be respectful not only to their elders but also to their
classmates or even people younger than them.
As the international situation became more tense and conflict broke out between Japan and China
(as well as other powers), the importance of the Korean Peninsula as the supply base for Japanese
military materials and manpower became more apparent. The escalation in tensions also caused the
Japanese rulers to deprioritize education by reducing government spending and granting less attention to
the teaching of honorific Japanese. The number of Japanese language lessons (including honorific
Japanese lessons) was reduced. By doing this, the initial objective of teaching honorific phrases to local
school children was sidelined. The opportunity to comprehensively teach respect to others including all
people, young and old, men and women, was arguably lost.},
 pages = {39--55},
 title = {日本統治下朝鮮の『普通学校国語読本』にみる敬語学習についての一考察},
 volume = {51},
 year = {2020}
}