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This study examines the structural characteristics of postwar Japan’s alien policy, focusing on the activities and discourse of Suzuki Hajime, who served as the head of postwar Japanese immigration administration and later as president of the Japan-Korea Amity Association (Nikkan Shinwakai, 日韓親和会). Appointed as the first Director-General of the Immigration Agency coming from a background as an agricultural and Imperial Household Agency bureaucrat, Suzuki defined the Zainichi Korean issue not as a secondary matter tied to diplomatic negotiations, but as an internal domestic challenge for Japan, grounded in bureaucratic rationalism. Moving away from the conventional paradigm of exclusion and one-sided assimilation, he envisioned a “minority politics of inclusion” centered on “management and protection” through relaxed naturalization and the granting of permanent residency. However, triggered by the inspection of U.S. immigration administration by Suzuki’s delegation, the fingerprinting system under the Alien Registration Act operated as a public-safety-oriented coercive mechanism centered on criminal penalties targeting Zainichi Koreans. Furthermore, even within the naturalization application procedure—which lacked explicit statutory grounds—ten-print fingerprinting was enforced through the administrative discretion of the Ministry of Justice. Consequently, even the procedural path chosen by Zainichi Koreans to escape status insecurity and daily surveillance ultimately required undergoing state public-safety verification and physical control. Ultimately, Suzuki’s paternalistic discourse of inclusion revealed a stark gap with the realities of administrative control, standing in contrast to his human rights rhetoric and the historical fact of his being awarded an Order of Diplomatic Service Merit by the South Korean government. As a result, by placing fingerprinting at the core intersection where the state's administrative and public-safety management mechanisms collide with fundamental individual human rights regarding the settlement of Zainichi Koreans, his vision demonstrates the dual structure of inclusion and control inherent in postwar Japan's alien policy.

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• 간행물명

  동북아 문화연구 [Journal of North-east Asian Cultures]

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• pISSN

  1598-3692

• 수록기간

  2001~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950