Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents

Bull, Jonathan; Ivings, Steven


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Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents

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Title:	Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents
Authors:	Bull, Jonathan Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Authors:	Ivings, Steven Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Keywords:	repatriation
	postwar Japan
	SCAP
	Koreans in Japan
	Maizuru
	Aomori
	forced labour
	Ukishima-maru
Issue Date:	1-Oct-2021
Publisher:	Japan Focus
Journal Title:	Japan Focus: The Asia Pacific Journal
Volume:	19
Issue:	19
Start Page:	5638
Abstract:	This article reproduces documents related to an aborted SCAP war crime investigation into the Ukishima-maru incident conducted during the Allied occupation of Japan. The incident involved the sinking of a repatriation vessel (the Ukishima-maru) on 24 August 1945 after it apparently struck a mine in Maizuru Bay, causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths among the Korean forced laborers aboard the vessel. The documents include the testimonies of Korean survivors (submitted in Japanese and translated into English by SCAP officers) which supported the claim that the incident was planned by the Japanese authorities. Though the investigation was eventually terminated by SCAP which dismissed the testimonies as "hearsay account[s]", the documents are a useful window into the tense situation faced by Koreans in Japan during the immediate postwar years and cast light on the nature and quality of SCAP efforts to pursue justice in its investigation.
Publisher URI:	https://apjjf.org/2021/19/Bull-Ivings.html
Type:	article
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2115/83374
Appears in Collections:	国際広報メディア・観光学院，メディア・コミュニケーション研究院 (Graduate School of International Media, Communication and Tourism Studies / Research Faculty of Media and Communication) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)

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