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Critisism on South Korea Gaya history university academia
- biased and subordinated into Tsuda Sokichi’s ‘History of Ancient Relations between

Korea and Japan of Tsuda’s view’ -

Kim, Soo-Ji(Soonchunhyan Graduate School.Ph.D. in progress)

The aim of this paper is to criticize that ‘South Korea acient-Gaya history uiniversity
academia’ explain ‘acient-Gaya history’ totally with subordinated into ‘History of Ancient

Relations between Korea and Japan of Tsuda’s view’. Tsuda insisted ‘Japnese is monoethnic’.
According to Tsuda’s view, Tsuda interpreted that the history of the divine age(神代史) of
Nihon shoki (日本書紀) and Kojiki(古事記) is fictional story unrelated to historical facts. The

contents of the history of the divine age(神代史) have been loaded with myth symbolized the
acient inhabitants of Korean peninsular countries migrated to the Japanese archipelago.

As a result of research conducted by modern human geneticists that the genes of Koreans
and Japanese are the most similar compared to other genetic groups around the world, these
myths are revealed as historical facts. In other words, geneticists have proven that the myths

are historical facts, not fiction. The theory that best accepted the research results of geneticists
and the records of the history of the divine age is the ‘Bun Kuk theory’ advocated by Kim

Seok-hyeong, a North Korean academic. The theory of Bun kuk is that the inhabitants of
ancient Korean countries on the Korean Peninsula migrated to the Japanese archipelago and
founded the branches of each ancient country.

But according to ‘History of Ancient Relations between Korea and Japan of Tsuda’s view’,
the Japanese people and the Japanese emperor had nothing to do with the immigrants from

outside and consisted only of indigenous residents. Based on this ‘History of Ancient
Relations between Korea and Japan of Tsuda’s view’, ‘Ancient History of Korea-Japan
Relations’ have been limited the designated A.D. 4 and ‘kinai area(機内地域)’ of the Japanese

archipelago by Tsuda. It is called Historical perspective focused on the Kinai region
Yamato-Wa regime.

Therefore, it cannot be acknowledged that the ancient Korean states mentioned in the
Nihon Shoki existed on the Japanese archipelago based on Tsuda’s view. The result leads to
claims that the Yamato Japanese regime, which was in the Kinai Region in AD the 4th

century, came all the way to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and exerted political
and military influence. The academic community of South Korea’s ancient history, Gaya

history including the archaeological community is following the Tsuda Historical view.

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