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JOURNAL OF EXERCISE REHABILITATION
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 160-167Publisher
KOREAN SOC EXERCISE REHABILITATION
DOI: 10.12965/jer.1836130.065
Keywords
Japanese colonial period; Health; Hygiene; Martial arts
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- National Research Foundation of Korea Grant - Korean Government [NRF-2017S1A5B4055939]
- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies research fund
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017S1A5B4055939] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This study intended to examine the process of development and intensification of martial arts education in schools of Chosun as courses of health, hygiene, and physical education implemented by the Japanese colonial government that ruled Chosun during the period of 'Second Sino- Japanese War' from 1937 to 1945. During this period, the Japanese colonial government established the 'Imperial Subjects' Gymnastics,' elaborated on the education of health and hygiene in order to lay the foundations for the strengthening of war potential, and intensified the theoretical education and practice of martial arts as an effective means therefore. The education of health, hygiene, and martial arts, implemented by the Japanese colonial power with the catchphrase of con-structing robust body, was nothing but a means to construct and control the body of colonial people at its discretion. The thoughts of health, hygiene, and martial arts, which were presented to students, were rather intended for the cultivation of the subjects devoted to Japanese Empire than for the promotion of health and psychosomatic development of individuals. In particular, along with contemporary society fell into the turmoil of war, the amusable aspects of martial arts were lost in the education of martial arts and were replaced with the spirit of Japanese Samurai.
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