"One Country, One Founding Myth Policy" by the Kiki, and the Dangun Myth

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  • 記紀による「一国一神話化」と檀君神話
  • キキ ニ ヨル 「 イッコク イチ シンワカ 」 ト ダンクン シンワ

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This article sets the term "one country, one founding myth policy" as expressing the importance of a founding myth that contributes to the formation of a nation or state and the logic of excluding others. Based on this term, I examined the phase of the founding myths of colonial Korea and Japan. The first part of the article confirms that the Japanese at the end of the Edo period had no consciousness of being a nation-state and that there was little sense of awe regarding the Emperor. To my understanding, the constitution of the Empire of Japan needed a myth of Japanese origin to make these people Japanese subjects. From the above, I clarified the actual situation of "one country, one founding myth policy" by the Kiki that became a spiritual pillar of the constitution of the Empire of Japan. The second part of the article reveals the impact on colonial Korea of "one country, one founding myth policy" that was brought about by the inseparability of the nation-state and the founding myth, and the phase of colonial Korea and Japanese myths. From the above, the sharp arguments of Japanese and colonial Korean researchers are in fact homogeneous in terms of the inseparability of the nation-state and the founding myth. Therefore, it can be said that the impact of "one country, one founding myth policy" by the Kiki brought by Japan directly led to the desire to seek a "one country, one founding myth policy" by the Dangun myth of the Koreans.

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