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The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 16 (2005)

American Missionaries in Korea
and U.S.-Japan Relations 1910–1920

Akifumi NAGATA*INTRODUCTION
Korea became the pivotal point of the East Asian regional area in thelate nineteenth century when pressure from Japan, Europe, and theUnited States in the 1870s and 80s ﬁnally forced the nation’s closed
doors open. Compelled by Japan to enter into diplomatic relations in themodern sense in 1876, Korea next entered into diplomatic relations with
the United States in 1882. With rivalry over Korea sharpening in the
1880s and 90s between Japan and China on the one hand, and Japan andRussia on the other, Korea’s reliance on the United States increased,
appeals for help being made repeatedly as Korea struggled to maintainher independence. These appeals were based on the 1882 Treaty ofAmity and Commerce between the United States of America and Corea[sic], one article of which stated that “[i]f other Powers deal unjustly or
oppressively with either Government, the other will exert their goodofﬁces, on being informed of the case, thus showing their friendly feelings.” Nonetheless, the United States government continued to reject the
Korean appeals.
In 1904–5, at the end of the Russo-Japanese war, Theodore Roosevelt’s
administration strongly supported Japanese suzerainty over Korea by
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*Professor, Sophia University

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recognizing the so-called “Taft-Katsura Agreement” which related toAmerican rule over the Philippines, Anglo-American-Japanese triangular cooperation for peace in the Far East, and Japanese suzerainty over
Korea and the withdrawal of the American Legation in Seoul before thatof the European nations in November 1905.1 Under these circumstances,
society and culture in Korea received a strong impact from American
Christianity. Originally, the Korean Dynasty, with its state religion ofConfucianism, had outlawed Christianity. But King (later Emperor)
Kojong abandoned this traditional policy and in fact made it possible for
American missionaries to preach in Korea, in order to modernize Korea
and to secure American assistance in case of any emergency threatening
Korean independence. For this reason, the number of American missionaries, especially Presbyterians, not only increased in Korea but theyalso came to enjoy the fullest conﬁdence of the Korean Dynasty and also
the people because of their contributions to the modernization of Korea(for example, their building of missionary schools and hospitals).
In this period, the number of Korean Christians increased as the political situation in Korea was becoming increasingly strained and people
turned to Christianity in their search for salvation and refuge.2 In August
1910, Japan annexed Korea with the conclusion of the Treaty of Annexation between the two nations, unopposed by the United States. But
U.S.-Japan relations were growing strained after the Russo-JapaneseWar, because of the Manchurian problem, the problem of Japanese immigration to the U.S. West Coast, and the problem of a build-up of naval
power on both sides. So Japan began to take a cautious attitude toward
the United States in regards to the Korean problem after the annexationof Korea. Under these circumstances, American missionaries living andpreaching in Korea became unwillingly involved in the tensions of thepolitical situation brought about by the Korean Independence Movement. The reactions of the Japanese authorities and the conditions underwhich American missionaries lived in Korea had a considerable impact
on U.S.-Japan relations. I would like to make clear the issues theAmerican missionaries in Korea had to face.
THE JAPANESE ANNEXATION OF KOREA, THE KOREAN CONSPIRACY
CASE, AND THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN KOREA
After the Japanese annexed Korea in August 1910, Huntington
Wilson, the acting Secretary of State, instructed Thomas J. O’Brien, the7-Akifumi Nagata(p159)6/9 05.7.12 6:46 PM ページ 161

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American Ambassador in Japan, to ask the Japanese Government about
its policy toward missionary schools in Korea.3 Jutaro Komura, theJapanese Foreign Minister, replied that there would be no change regarding their protection and promotion by the Japanese authorities, a stancewhich Komura said reﬂected established policy toward missionary education in Korea.4 But in spite of this initial posture, a serious incident
involving American missionaries in Korea soon took place. In 1911, apparently as a result of several Korean attempts in 1910 to assassinate
Masatake Terauchi, the Governor-General of Korea (Chôsen Sôtoku),
the Government-General of Korea (Chôsen Sôtokufu) arrested over 700
Koreans, many of whom were Christians. In 1912, the Governor-General
sent 122 of those arrested to the Court of Justice, and 105 of them weresentenced to imprisonment with hard labor. In the end, only six Koreans
had their sentences imposed, but even they were released in 1915 after
being granted amnesty.
This incident was said at the time to have been fabricated by theJapanese authorities because they wanted to suppress anti-Japanese
Korean nationalism. In the course of the incident, however, Japanese
authorities developed doubts about the relations between the arrested
Koreans and American missionaries in Korea, especially Presbyterian
missionaries, the biggest group in Korea at the time. In response,
American Presbyterian missionaries in Korea and in the United States
as well as the United States government and Congress, all denied any
such relations and raised the question of whether the Japanese authorities had tortured the arrested Koreans in order to secure confessions.5
Presbyterian missionaries in Korea and the United States reacted tothe so-called “Korean Conspiracy Case” in a variety of ways. In Korea,
O.R. Avison, the director of the Presbyterian Severance Hospital in
Seoul, Samuel A. Moffett, a Presbyterian missionary in Pyongyang, andNorman C. Whittemore, a Presbyterian missionary in Seoncheon, North
Pyong-an Province, met with Terauchi on 23 January 1912. They told
him that it was inconceivable that the arrested Koreans, who were among
the most respected people in Korean society, should have legitimately
fallen under suspicion. But Terauchi refuted their position and told themthat the fact that so many Korean Christians had been involved in theplot had surprised him.6 Meanwhile, the key person among the Presbyterian missionaries, Arthur J. Brown, took a different line. Brown wasat the time secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
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ﬁrst, Brown showed some sympathy toward the Japanese protectorate
and the Japanese annexation of Korea, because he thought that Japaneseintervention into the Korean situation had been necessary. So he was ina dilemma, divided between his pro-Japanese stand and the U.S.Japanese frictions generated by the Korean Conspiracy Case.7 In
February 1912, Brown met with Masanao Hanihara, the Japanese chargéd’affaires in Washington, D.C., and asked him to take proper measuresagainst the arrested Koreans.8 After that, he made a trip to Washington,
D.C., on 28 July 1912, with several other Presbyterian missionaries, inorder to request involved ofﬁcials to strive for a breakthrough in the difﬁcult situation. They met with Sutemi Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador,
with President William H. Taft, and also with Secretary of State
Philander C. Knox and with William Sulzer, Chairman of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs.9 At ﬁrst, Sulzer showed considerable
sympathy toward the arrested Koreans but his pro-Korean attitudechanged after he met with Chinda.10 Brown also wrote a 27-page booklet outlining the details of the Case in 1912.11
Brown felt some relief when most of the arrested Koreans were released by the Japanese authorities as a result of their assessment of theimportance of the U.S.-Japan relationship. Only six key members of thegroup were not released. But he continued to work toward a breakthrough in the difﬁcult situation in Korea12 and as a result the Japanese
authorities felt some dissatisfaction with the fact that his reactions to theCase were not in line with his previous pro-Japanese stance.13 This dissatisfaction became clear to him when he was forced to explain to theJapanese authorities in 1912 that neither he himself nor the Presbyterian
Church had any connection to the reports about the Case that had appeared in many American newspapers and magazines.14 In this sense, itcannot be said that his anticipated goal was achieved.
Other missionaries besides Brown also became involved in the fallout from the Case. Alfred M. Sharrocks in Seoncheon reacted to the ﬁrst
reports by asking for conﬁrmation of the details from the Japanese
authorities.15 Robert E. Speer received a report from Seoul that the “confessions” made by the arrested Koreans about the Case had been extracted from them by force, and in turn reported this to the Presbyterian
Church in New York.16 Having it reported to him that Lieutenant General
Motojirô Akashi had ordered the torture in order to extract “confessions,” J.G. Dunlop passed on this report to the Presbyterian Church in
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Corps, who built the system of military police in Korea which supported
the so-called “Rule by Bayonet [Budan Tôchi]”.17 It was generally
reported that many of the arrested Koreans were asserting their innocence.18 It was also reported that the tortured Koreans prisoners had beentaken to Severance Hospital in an extremely bad condition.19 Judging
from these missionary reactions, it seems evident that many of themthought negatively of the measures taken by the Japanese authorities
even while they were searching for the truth about the Case with as muchobjectivity as they could.
On the other hand, there were also pro-Japanese missionaries in Korea.
The Rev. James G. Gale for example, a Canadian Presbyterian missionary in Seoul, demonstrated his sympathy for Terauchi with the statementthat he had “succeeded to the difﬁcult task of governing an alien peopleof Korea after the Japanese annexation of Korea.” He further wrote that
Korea had prospered or been improved by the Japanese intervention, andwould continue to do so under the rule of Terauchi, a “Governor of goodmanner and so kindly disposed to every one.” He argued that Korea wasunder military rule at the time when the Case occurred, and that it had
happened during “the period of change,” thereby implying the necessityof overlooking faults in Japan’s governing of Korea.20 Bishop Merriman
C. Harris, an American Presbyterian missionary in Seoul, met with
Chinda twice in Washington, D.C., the two clearly sharing the same
opinion of the Case and also of Yun Chiho, one of the leaders of thearrested Koreans, who had studied in the United States in his youth andhad a large circle of American acquaintances.21
In line with this view of the Case, the journalist George Kennan published an article in The Outlook of December 1912 in which he asserted
that there was little concrete evidence of torture, that the issue of torture
was essentially a Korean fabrication, that the accused Koreans were
given the same kind of treatment as accused Japanese in Japan, that theJapanese authorities had no hostile feelings towards Christianity in
Korea because they thought of it as contributing to the modernization of
Korea, and that while American missionaries in Korea had sometimes
been involved in politics before the Japanese annexation of Korea,
involvement could not be tolerated under the present conditions.22
Yasutarô Numano, the acting Consul General in New York, responded
to the article with an expression of Japanese gratitude, but in a letter to
Kennan Moffett asserted that he was simply supporting Japan and that
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before making those kinds of statements.23 In fact, Kennan’s article hadvery little impact on most American missionaries because while they had
considerable evidence of torture, Kennan was not writing from any ﬁrsthand observation or knowledge of the situation in Korea.24 Many
American missionaries in Korea actively publicized the true facts of theCase both within Korea and beyond, and even approached the Japanese
authorities directly as mentioned above, because they thought that they
could not rely on George H. Scidmore, the American Consul General in
Seoul, who simply said there was nothing he could do about the Case.25
In response to these various American reactions to the Case, Kentarô
Kaneko, a Privy Council advisor, argued that Terauchi had to preventthe inﬂuence of the resolution of the American National Mission Association on the trial of the arrested Koreans. But he also received anotherrecommendation from Shinpei Gotô, then the Minister of Posts and theformer civil administrator of Taiwan, that he had better adopt Inazô
Nitobe, who had a large circle of American acquaintances, as a special
envoy to the United States in order to neutralize the accusations madeby American missionaries in Korea in the period 1912–13.26 The Government-General of Korea declared the six key arrested Koreans guilty in
1913, but then had their sentences reduced in 1914. Terauchi gave themamnesty in February 1915, after receiving permission from the Prime
Minister, Shigenobu Ôkuma.27 On receiving news of these developments, Chinda informed the representatives of the main Christian bodies
in the U.S., including Brown, and they responded to Chinda’s communication positively.28 The Japanese authorities resolved the Case in thismanner because they felt that they had already successfully demonstrated their power over Koreans and because they felt that for the sake ofstabilizing the Japanese rule of Korea it was important to avoid creating
American missionary hostility towards Japan whether inside Korea or
elsewhere. So the Case was settled in a way that was sensitive to theopinions of the American missionaries.29 But as it turned out, the Korean
Conspiracy Case was only the prelude to a much larger incident, theMarch First Independence Movement of 1919.
THE MARCH FIRST INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT OF 1919 AND
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN KOREA
After the Japanese annexation of Korea, the Governors-General of
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Yoshimichi Hasegawa, who succeeded Terauchi as Governor-Generalwhen Terauchi became the Prime Minister of Japan in 1916, simply
extended Terauchi’s policy. But all the time the dissatisfaction of many
Koreans toward the Japanese rule of Korea was steadily increasing. Thisdissatisfaction was fed by a wide range of world events. In 1917, forexample, the socialistic regime in Russia came into being as a result of
the Russian Revolution. Other events included the end of the ﬁrst World
War and the resulting independence of subjugated nations in Europe in
1918, and the assertion of “a fair solution of the colonial problem” in“the Fourteen Points Address” by President Woodrow Wilson in January
1918. Shortly after the development of the Korean Independence Movement outside Korea in 1918, events inside Korea started to take a decisive turn. The sudden death of the former Korean Emperor Kojong inJanuary 1919 provoked widespread doubts about the cause of his death,and with the gathering of many Koreans in Seoul to attend his funeral,
the March First Movement started there in 1919. The Movement thenspread throughout Korea, taking especially strong root in the north
Korean areas where Christianity was more strongly promoted than in thesouth Korean area.30
The March First Movement was a fundamental expression of the dissatisfaction many Koreans felt toward the “Rule by Bayonet” and wasin fact a protest against it. But the Japanese Government, the Government-General of Korea, the Japanese public, and many Japanese newspapers did not see it in that light but instead looked for other factors as
the ‘real’ causes. They identiﬁed two “American Factors”: Korean misunderstanding of the so-called statement about “Self-Determination”
made by President Wilson, and the inﬂuence on Koreans by Korea-based
American missionaries.31 For this reason, American Presbyterian missionaries in Korea, Japan, and China and the Presbyterian Church in the
United States had no choice but to become involved in the developmentof the March First Movement. How did the Japanese side behave toward
them and how did they react to the situation?
Becoming aware of the fact that some Koreans outside Korea werestarting to work toward Korean independence, Leo A. Bergholz, theAmerican Consul General in Seoul, made a request to all of the American
missionaries in Korea that they refrain from intervening in Korean domestic issues, especially political issues.32 The only foreign missionary
who knew of the independence movement before it really broke out was
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Schoﬁeld received a visit from two of the Koreans involved in planning
the independence movement before it broke out, but he advised them toabandon their plans because in his view there was little chance of success.33 Many American missionaries in Korea at the time had a general
feeling that something might happen but were nonetheless very surprisedby the actual outbreak of the March First Movement.34 After the MarchFirst Movement started, many Japanese newspapers published articles
suggesting that American missionaries in Korea had incited the resistance. At the same time, however, Roland S. Morris, the American ambassador in Japan, reported to the Department of State that the MarchFirst Movement was directly rooted in Korean nationalism.35
The Government-General of Korea had to take into account the effectwhich any attacks against American missionaries in Korea would have,and in fact Sangai Kokubu, the Judiciary Director of the GovernmentGeneral of Korea, issued a statement to the effect that the Japanese
authorities had investigated rumors of American missionaries inciting
Korean resistance but had found no traces of evidence, and that ﬁxing
suspicion on innocent foreigners should be avoided because it would
cause bad feelings toward Japan.36 In spite of this statement by Kokubu,
the American missionaries became more and more involved in the MarchFirst Movement. It was in Pyongyang that the March First Movement
developed most ﬁercely. Moffett reported that the military police werechasing Koreans and using bayonets immediately after the beginning of
the Movement.37 Sadie N. Welbon, the wife of a Presbyterian missionary there, wrote to her friends in the United States in late March 1919
that there had been no change in the development of the Movement andthe reaction of the military police toward it.38 In April, Moffett reported
to Bergholz that the situation there had not calmed down.39
On 4 April, Eli M. Mowry, a Presbyterian missionary in Pyongyang,
was arrested by the police on the charge of sheltering ﬁve Korean participants in the Movement.40 Moffett and C.F. Bernheisel, the American
Presbyterian missionary there, reported to Bergholz in Seoul and Brown
in New York on the court hearing in which Mowry asserted his innocence on 15 April 1919.41 On receiving the report, Bergholz met with
Saburô Hisamizu, the Chief of the Foreign Affairs Section of the Government-General of Korea, and learned that Mowry had been arrested
on evidence provided in confessions made by Koreans under severe torture, so he asked Hisamizu to endeavor to treat Mowry with respect.42
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convinced of Mowry’s innocence.43 Mowry was subsequently sentenced
to six months imprisonment with hard labor on 19 April, but he wasreleased after appeal to a higher court.44 In the end, Mowry was given astay of execution in August 1919, and he was ﬁnally ﬁned 100 Yen in
December 1919.45
The reason why the Government-General of Korea arrested Mowry inthe ﬁrst place, and in the end did not ﬁnd him innocent in the courts,
might be that it ﬁrstly wanted to demonstrate to Koreans the meaninglessness of their reliance on American missionaries in Korea, and secondly wanted to show to the missionaries their determination not to
condone any participation in the Korean independence movement. On
the other hand, the reason why the Government-General of Korea gradually commuted Mowry’s sentence step by step might be that it did notwant to induce hostile feelings among the American missionaries in
Korea and in public opinion in the United States toward the GovernmentGeneral of Korea and Japan. In fact, many American newspapers reported the process of the so-called “Mowry Incident” stage by stage, andsome of them reported Mowry’s arrest by the Japanese authorities in a
critical tone.46
In Seoul, many of the participants in the Movement who had been
injured by the military police were transferred to Severance Hospital on
10 April. Viewing the Hospital as a refuge for the participants, a military police corps came to the Hospital and demanded to be allowed totake some of the injured Koreans to their headquarters. Avison and otherdoctors objected at ﬁrst, but ﬁnally agreed in the face of the high-handed
attitude of the corps toward the Hospital. The Hospital then reported thisincident to Bergholz, and Bergholz sent Raymond Curtis, the American
Consul in Seoul, to the corps headquarters. Curtis made a protest, but theanswer from the corps was inconclusive. The turmoil in the Hospital did
not stop after this incident.47 And shortly afterwards, in Cheam-ri(Cheam Village), about sixty kilometers south of Seoul, the military
police corps conﬁned about thirty Koreans to a church and then set ﬁreto it. On 15 April, the trapped Koreans lost their lives. Hearing that many
villages in that area were being reduced to ruins, Curtis, along with
Horace H. Underwood, a Presbyterian missionary in Seoul, and A.W.
Taylor, a correspondent of the Associated Press (A.P.) News Agency inSeoul, traveled to the region and investigated the actual conditions there.
Underwood wrote a report on “the Cheam-ri Incident” and the Incident
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American missionary W.A. Noble went to Cheam-ri a few days later toinvestigate the situation there, along with William M. Royds, the acting
British Consul General in Seoul. After this, a delegation of Christian missionaries including Noble met with Governor-General Hasegawa, andNoble informed Hasegawa of the things he had seen and heard at Cheamri. Hasegawa expressed his regret and told the delegation that not only
would the persons in charge of the incident be punished, but also thatsuch an atrocity would never happen again. He insisted that no order tomassacre the inhabitants of Cheam-ri and destroy the village had been
given to the military police. But the delegation was not greatly persuaded by Hasegawa’s explanation, because by that point a further eighteen
villages besides Cheam-ri had been destroyed.49
In addition to noting activities in Pyongyang, Seoul, and Cheam-ri,
Presbyterian missionaries reported the development of the March First
Movement in other areas, as well as suppression by the Japanese authorities.50 So the missionaries felt a need to react more assertively to the situation in Korea. Some of them tried to contact the Japanese authorities
in both Korea and Japan. Firstly, nine missionaries, including Avisonand Gale, visited the Government-General of Korea on 9 March, andreported that the real cause of Koreans’ harsh feelings toward Japan was
the many inconveniences Koreans had to endure.51 After that, ten
American missionaries, including Moffett, Avison and Gale, held meetings with the ofﬁcials of the Government-General twice, on 22 and 24
March, and insisted that such things as Japan’s disregard for the original culture of Korea and discriminatory treatment toward Koreans, thecauses of the March First Movement, must be remedied. But, at the sametime, the missionaries declared that they had no intention of intervening
in political issues between Japan and Korea.52
On the other side, two American missionaries in Korea visited Japanin April 1919, and another three American missionaries in Korea visited Japan the following month. Each of them met with Japanese Prime
Minister Takashi Hara and requested that he take steps toward the reformof Japanese rule in Korea. Hara promised that he would.53 At the sametime, U.S.-Japanese relations became strained as a result of various
international events and incidents: for example, the treatment of theJapanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast of the UnitedStates, Germany’s transfer to Japan of interests in Shandong Province,
China, Japan’s demand for the insertion of the so-called “Racial Equality
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Versailles Peace Conference, the Japanese expedition to Siberia, andAmerican newspapers’ criticism of Japan for their cruel suppression of
the March First Movement.54
As a result of the criticism toward Japan, some Japanese turned theirbacks on the United States concerning Korea and the American missionaries there. For example, an army ofﬁcer in Vladivostok, part of theJapanese expedition to Siberia, reported to the Ministry of the Army inTokyo that the Jews were forming secret societies in order to overthrow
governments all over the world to make way for a reign of the Jews. He
reported that the United States and the Bolsheviks in Russia were under
their rule and that they were aiming at Germany and Austria, and hespeculated that a riot in Korea (the March First Movement) might be apart of such intrigue by the Jews, recommending that the Jewish
American missionaries in Korea had to be closely watched.55 Of course,
there was no evidence of Jewish participation in the March First Movement and the report was only an expression of prejudice against the Jews
and the United States rooted in anti-American feeling.
Under these circumstances, the American missionaries in Korea could
not ignore the brutality of the Japanese authorities evident in their suppression of the March First Movement, and “No Neutrality for Brutality”
became a common slogan among them.56 It was the Commission on Relations with the Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in
America that paid the most attention to the development of the MarchFirst Movement. It decided to send A.E. Armstrong, the Secretary of theBoard of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, toKorea in March 1919, to let him investigate the situation there. Traveling in East Asia for more than ten months, Armstrong arrived in Korea
on 16 March 1919, consulted with many groups there, and collected agreat deal of information. Arriving in New York in April, Armstrong met
with Brown, Frank M. North, the Secretary of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Methodist Church in the United States of America, andWilliam I. Haven, the Secretary of the Bible Society of the United Statesof America, and they decided to deal with the Korean situation at theFederal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.57 The Commission held over ten meetings between 16 April and the end of July
1919 to discuss the issue of Korea. And it was Sidney L. Gulick whoplayed a leading part in the meetings. Having taught at Dôshisha University in Kyôto and being pro-Japanese, Gulick met with Chônosuke
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of the Commission and asked Yada to improve Japan’s policy of “Ruleby Bayonet” in Korea. Yada thought that Gulick’s attitude did not reﬂect
his long-time pro-Japanese position. And about ten prominent Japanese
including Yada were to be invited to a meeting of the commission held
on 19 April 1919.58
The Commission refrained from publicly releasing the information
about the Korean situation because it thought that it would instigate antiJapanese feeling. Receiving news of this restraint, the Japanese Foreign
Minister Yasuya Uchida instructed Yada to inform the Commission of
the Japanese hope that the Commission would continue to act cautiously,
because Prime Minister Hara intended to improve Japan’s rule of Korea
in May 1919.59 Receiving the message through Yada, the Commission
held a meeting on 24 May, after which Gulick sent a letter to Yada on
29 May, stressing that Japan had to offer evidence to disprove the Commission’s information. Further, the Commission feared that American
distrust of Japan would increase if the information were true and the situation in Korea were not remedied, hinting at over-optimism in theJapanese assessment of the situation in Korea and implying the Commission’s irritation.60 In the meantime, the Commission was receiving
more pieces of information about the real situation in Korea one by one,and newspapers had already reported some of them. So the Commission
could not delay releasing the information any longer.61 Realizing that thelong-time pro-Japanese stance of members such as Brown and Gulick
had led the Japanese to assume that they would adopt the attitude of indifferent bystanders toward the situation in Korea, the Commission decided to publish the information it received as a booklet in July 1919. The
Commission sent a telegraph to Hara on 26 June, stating that the atrocities in Korea had weakened their goodwill toward Japan to the verge ofa crisis, that the facts could not be concealed forever, and that it was very
important for Japan to issue an ofﬁcial statement stating that the atrocities would end and that a reform of the Japanese rule of Korea would
be undertaken.62 Receiving the telegraph, which was a kind of ultimatum, Hara sent an answering telegraph to the effect that he fully understood the request, that the Japanese rule of Korea after the annexation of
Korea had to be remedied in 1919, that a plan amending the system ofrule could not be carried out immediately because of the March First
Movement, but that the plan would be carried out before long.63
In July 1919, the Commission published a 125-page booklet entitled
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have added up to 1000 pages if they had published all of it. They included thirty-four points in the booklet and the Commission wrote thatthe criterion used for selecting them was whether they were veriﬁable.64
But the one thing that must be pointed out is a section called “TheJapanese-Korean Situation,” which said that there were two parties inJapan, the reactionary militaristic party and the liberal progressive party,
and that Hara belonged to the latter party, which had to be supported forthe sake of future reform of the Japanese rule of Korea and for liberty
and human rights all over the world.65 This view is widely supposed tohave been written under the inﬂuence of Gulick, because it reﬂected
Gulick’s pro-Japanese stance. But this stated line of argument was questionable, because it was Hara who had ordered the army in Tokyo andthe military police in Korea to suppress the March First Movement.
Under these circumstances, Hara, prioritizing U.S.-Japan relations,began to take steps to reform the rule of Korea by Japan. Feeling “pressure” from American Christian groups and thinking that the Government-General of Korea was within the sphere of inﬂuence of Aritomo
Yamagata, the strongest elder statesman (Genrô) then in Japan, Hara
consulted with Yamagata many times through the Army Minister Giichi
Tanaka who was trying to bring Yamagata and Hara together. Tanaka
was one of the “Yamagata Faction” and had ambitions of his own to become prime minister. So Hara’s wish to transform the “Rule by Bayonet”
into “Cultural Administration (Bunka Seiji)” was realized by introducing a System of military-civil ofﬁcer into the new post of GovernorGeneral of Korea (Chôsen Sôtoku Bunbu Ryôkansei) and naming theformer Naval Minister Makoto Saitô to the post.66
INTRODUCTION OF “THE CULTURAL ADMINISTRATION” INTO KOREABY MAKOTO SAITÔ AND THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN KOREA
When Saitô arrived at Seoul’s central train station, Namdaemun(Nandaimon, or South Gate) Station, on 2 September 1919, a bomb wasthrown at his coach. Twenty-nine people were injured, but Saitô wasunhurt. Some Koreans cheered the incident.67 Afterwards, Saitô went to
the ofﬁcial residence of the Governor-General of Korea and told the press
that he would not change his plans for reform.68 Hearing the news, manyof the American missionaries in Korea criticized the incident because
two of the twenty-nine injured persons were Americans: William P.
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Harrison, and his wife.69 Saitô announced his intention to carry out hisplan for reform of the rule of Korea by Japan on 3 September 1919, andin fact began to carry out measures to support the new “Cultural Administration,” by transforming the military police force into ordinary police,
for example (although the number of ordinary policemen was greaterthan the number of military policemen had been), allowing the publication of Korean national newspapers (the present Chosun Ilbo andDong-a Ilbo were ﬁrst published in March and April 1920, respectively) and abolishing the practice of ﬂogging arrested and accused
Koreans.70
The introduction of the “Cultural Administration” into Korean politics was ultimately aimed at preventing any recurrence of the March First
Movement. Taking steps to introduce the “Cultural Administration” into
Korea, Saitô tried to appease the American missionaries in Korea who
might become the strongest obstacle for Japan’s rule of Korea. At ﬁrst,
he did not agree with former Governor-General Hasegawa that theJapanese should protect Koreans’ right to free religious worship.71 For apolitician or military ofﬁcer of the time, Saitô had a gentle nature, andcould speak English well because he had worked as a military attaché atthe Japanese Legation in Washington, D.C., from 1884 to 1888. So hefelt he should let the American missionaries in Korea think that he intended to carry out a freer policy in Korea and that he had no intentionof intervening in their religious activities; he met with Schoﬁeld in Japanon 29 August 1919, before departing for Korea. After meeting with Saitô,Schoﬁeld thought that Saitô would be a warm-hearted Governor-Generalof Korea.72
Arriving in Seoul, Saitô set about appeasing the American missionaries in Korea. He asked the Federal Council of Presbyterian Evangelical
Missions in Korea to advise him on the governing of Korea in September.73 In a letter dated 29 September 1919, the Federal Council gave Saitômany concrete suggestions concerning Christianity, stating that the serious issue at hand was not political and criticizing the loss of the freedomof religion and the brutal suppression of the March First Movement.74
Receiving reports from Korea, the Commission on Relations with the
Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
published Part Two of The Korean Situation in early 1920, in which it
expressed its appreciation of Saitô’s measures.75 Saitô met several times
with American missionaries over dinner in 1919.76 So the American missionaries in Korea had to change their views. Originally they had had no7-Akifumi Nagata(p159)6/9 05.7.12 6:46 PM ページ 173

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intention of intervening in political issues in Korea (especially the issueof Korean independence). Knowing that measures were being taken toreform the rule of Korea by Japan (especially regarding the issue of
religion) and the new Government-General of Korea was reacting severely against the participation of Christian groups with Korean nationalist movements, the American missionaries in Korea sought a way tocooperate with the new Governor-General. Some missionaries warned
Korean church leaders not to take part in Korean nationalist movements
and to keep aloof from Korean politics.77 Furthermore, some missionaries showed pro-Japanese feelings concerning Korea during and after the
peak of the March First Movement. For example, E.D. Soper, a professor at Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey, traveled in
East Asia, including Korea, for seven months and asserted that theJapanese rule of Korea was inevitable because Koreans could not govern themselves.78 And Frank H. Smith in Seoul, the most pro-Japaneseamong the American missionaries in Korea, claimed that Japan had torule Korea and that there were many lies in the assertions made by the
Koreans in October 1919.79 He reiterated his assertion in 1920.80
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES IN KOREA IN 1920
AND THE HUNCHUN INCIDENT
The rule of Korea by Japan seemed to stabilize after the Japanese
authorities forcefully suppressed the March First Movement and introduced the Cultural Administration. But in fact, Korean nationalist
uprisings in and near Korea continued to occur sporadically and theJapanese authorities did not relax their vigilance regarding Koreans andthe American missionaries in and near Korea. The American Consul
General in Seoul and the American missionaries in Korea witnessed
uprisings again and again after the introduction of the Cultural Administration and reported them to the United States.81 On the other hand, theJapanese authorities received a great deal of information about theallegedly close relationship in the uprisings between the Korean nationalists and some of the American missionaries in Korea, although almost
all of the information was untrue.82 The Japanese authorities pressured
the Baejae Missionary School in Pyongyang to remove the principal,
Henry D. Appenzeller, from his position in March 1920, because they
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school and the mass refusal to go to school by the students. Finally
Appenzeller was removed from his position, albeit temporarily.83 In
1920, the Korean independence movement intensiﬁed in the border areas
between Korea and China, especially in the Chientao (Kantô) region of
the Chinese side where many Koreans were living after ﬂeeing from
Korea. The Japanese Consulate in Hunchun, one of the central areas in
the Chientao region, was attacked twice, in September and October 1920,
by Chinese bandits hired by the Japanese authorities. Using this as a pretext, the Japanese government sent Japanese troops in to the area on 14
October 1920, with the pretext of defending the lives and property of theJapanese there. The Japanese troops attacked sixty-six villages andtowns and killed about 2300 Koreans.84 Many of them were Christians,
so the American missionaries both in China and Korea criticized theatrocities.85 But an army colonel, Takezô Mizumachi, whom theJapanese government sent to Chientao to investigate the situation there,
told Japanese newspapers in December that the unrest in the Chientao
region had in fact been caused by American and British missionaries
there.86 Although the Japanese government declared that the so-called“Mizumachi Statement” was not the ofﬁcial opinion but Mizumachi’sown, the statement showed what strong suspicions the Japanese authorities had of foreign missionaries, especially American missionaries.87
Meanwhile the distrust of the American missionaries in Korea toward
the Japanese rule of Korea did not disappear fully, of course.88
CONCLUSIONAs demonstrated in the Korean Conspiracy Case, the March First
Movement, and the Hunchun Incident, American missionaries in Korea
refused on the grounds of their beliefs and humanitarianism to tolerate
the harsh treatment of Koreans by the Japanese authorities. So they
showed a kind of sympathy toward Koreans and reacted positively to theunsettled situation in Korea. And as the arrest of Mowry in the MarchFirst Movement was mostly symbolic, they reacted positively in orderto prove their innocence as a matter of course when the Japanese authorities demonstrated any suspicion about the relations between the Korean
independence movement and the American missionaries in Korea (orwhen they laid the guilt on the missionaries in order to avoid their own
responsibilities). But on the other hand, not only the American missionaries in Korea but also the United States government judged that the7-Akifumi Nagata(p159)6/9 05.7.12 6:46 PM ページ 175

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Korean problem had been settled by the Japanese annexation of Korea
in 1910. The United States had no intention of overthrowing Japaneserule in Korea, nor did they want a deterioration of U.S.-Japanese relations due to the Korean problem. So American missionaries in Korea
restrained themselves from reacting to the political situation in Korea.
If we think of their position in Korea as under pressure from theJapanese authorities, their reactions could be said to be reasonable. But
their limitations can also be understood from the preceding discussion.
From Japan’s perspective, the presence of American missionaries in
Korea, which Japan annexed after paying a heavy price, might becomea serious obstacle because Christians could aid Korean nationalists (infact, churches in Korea sometimes did become refuges for Korean nationalists) and the Japanese authorities could not treat the missionaries
as roughly as they could the Koreans, because of the importance of the
U.S.-Japan relations. But neither the Japanese authorities nor theJapanese newspapers were able to dispel their doubts about the missionaries and their intentions. So as U.S.-Japan relations worsened in thelatter half of the 1930s, Japanese authorities continued to put pressure
on the American missionaries in Korea because Japan thought that theymight become spies and could become obstacles in the way of the policy of letting Koreans become subjects of the Empire of Japan (Kôminka
Seisaku), carried out until 1945. And under these conditions, theAmerican missionaries in Korea had to withstand every possible inconvenience from Japanese authorities; for example, missionaries wereclosely watched, roughly arrested, severely tortured, and deported from
Korea with empty pockets.89 In a sense, the situations in which theAmerican missionaries found themselves from 1910 to 1920 preﬁgured
their later fate accurately. But in spite of this historical experience,
Christianity in Korea continued to ﬂourish, through the end of Japaneserule of Korea in 1945 and on into the subsequent increase of Americaninﬂuence on the Republic of Korea.90
NOTES
1

See Akifumi Nagata, Seodoa Ruzuberuto to Kankoku [Theodore Roosevelt andKorea] (Tokyo: Miraisha, 1992).
2
Ibid.
3
Wilson to O’Brien, 17 September 1910, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1911
(Government Printing Ofﬁce, 1915), 320–21.
4
Komura to O’Brien, 6 October 1910, Nihon Gaikô Bunsho [Documents of Japanese
Diplomacy], vol. 43, no.1, 711–14.

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See Yun Kyong-no, 105 In Sagon kwa Shinminhoe Yongu [A Study of the 105
Persons Incident and the New People’s Society] (Seoul: Iljisa, 1990).
6
Gaimusho Chousabu [Investigation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs],
ed., Nichibei Gaikôshi [The History of Diplomacy between Japan and the United States](Tokyo, 1939), 128–32.
7
See Brown, The Mastery of the Far East (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919),
109–207.
8
Brown to Hanihara, 16 and 17 February 1912 in Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.,
Board of Foreign Missions, Korea, Conspiracy Case, Japanese Colonial Government,
1912, Selected correspondence, reports and miscellaneous papers, microﬁlm (Philadelphia:
Department of History and Presbyterian Historical Society, 1972).
9
Representative of Mission Boards in Washington, The Korean Situation, 29 July
1912, ibid.
10
Minister of Foreign Affairs Yasuya Uchida to the Ambassador to the United States
Sutemi Chinda, 31 July 1912, Nihon Gaikô Bunsho, vol. 45, no.1, 517–19.
11
Brown, The Korean Conspiracy Case (Massachusetts: Northﬁeld Press, 1912).
12
Brown, The Korean Conspiracy Case-Supplement Statement, 1 April 1913, Korea,
Conspiracy Case, microﬁlm.
13Henry Loomis to Brown, 5 November 1913, ibid.
14
For example, “Japan Explains Actions in the Corean Trouble,” New York Sun, 28
February 1912; “Gag Law of Japan Upset by Herald Disclosures,” New York Herald,
20 March 1912; “Japanese Torture Korean Christians,” New York Times, 6 June 1912;“Torture by Japanese, Presbyterians Assert,” New York Sun, 6 June 1912; “Tells of
Terauchi Plot,” New York Tribune, 13 June 1912; “The Persecution in Korea,” Continent,
13 June 1912, 824–43. William T. Ellis, “Christianity’s Fiery Trial in Korea” in ibid.,
27 June 1912, 896–99. Brown to Chinda, 26 June 1912, Korea, Conspiracy Case, microﬁlm.
15
Sharrocks to Midori Komatsu, 16 December 1911, ibid.
16
Speer to the Members of the Board, 12 July 1912, ibid.
17
Dunlop, “General Akashi and the Charge of Torture,” 15 January 1913, ibid.
18
Union Theological Methodist Seminary to the Missionary Secretaries, 25 June 1912,
ibid.
19
Severance Hospital, 18 March 1912, ibid.
20
Gale, “Count Terauchi, Governor of Chosen,” New York Independent, 29 February
1912, and The Christian Question in Korea, 2 March 1912.
21
Uchida to Chinda, 12 August 1912, Nihon Gaikô Bunsho, vol. 45, no. 1, 521–23.
22
Kennan, “Is Japan Persecuting Christians in Korea?” Outlook, 14 December 1912,
804–10.
23
Numano to Kennan, 26 and 31 December 1912 and Moffett to Kennan, 12 February
1913 in George Kennan Papers (Library of Congress), Container 3.
24
See Akifumi Nagata, “Joji Kenan to Nichibei Kankei [George Kennan and U.S.Japanese Relations]” 1–2, Jochi Shigaku [Sophia Historical Studies], no. 40–41(1995–96).
25
Whittemore to Brown, 6 January 1912, Korea, Conspiracy Case, microﬁlm.
26
Kaneko to Terauchi, 10 December 1912, Terauchi Masatake Kankei Bunsho [Papers
Relating to Masatake Terauchi] (Tokyo: The National Diet Library),vol. 9, 100–4,
151–54. Gotô to Terauchi, 16 January 1913, ibid., vol. 4, 27–24, 170–79.
27
Terauchi to Foreign Minister Takaaki Katô, 16 February 1915, Nihon Gaikô Bunsho,
1915, vol. 1, 352–53.
28
Chinda to Katô, 31 March 1915, ibid., 357–59.

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Korea Mission, “Minutes,” 15 February 1915; Chinda to Brown, 20 February 1915;
Brown to Chinda, 2 March 1915; Komatsu to Brown, 12 April 1915, Korea, Conspiracy
Case, microﬁlm; “Amnesty For Koreans,” New York Times, 16 February 1915.
30
See Akifumi Nagata, Nihon no Chôsen tochi to Kokusai Kankei [The Rule of Korea
by Japan and the International Relations] (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2005).
31
Morris to Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 8 March 1915, 895.00/587 and Morristo Lansing, 21 March 1919, 895.00/586, Records of the Department of State Relating toInternal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm (National Archives, 1962), no. 426, roll2.
32
Bergholz to the Secretaries of the American Mission Stations in Korea, 24 January
1919, Foreign Affairs of the United States, 1919, vol. II (Government Printing Ofﬁce,1934), 458–59.
33
Schoﬁeld, “What Happened on Samil Day, March 1, 1919,” in The Feel of Korea,
ed. In Hah Jung (Seoul: Hollym Co., 1966), 277–79.
34
C.F. Bernheisel, Forty-One Years in Korea (unpublished manuscript), 74–86. L.E.
Monroe to Loretta Parkinson, 15 April 1919, 895.00/611, Records of the Department ofState Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 2.
35
Morris to Lansing, 21 March 1919, 895.00/586, ibid.
36“No Foreigners Implicated in Korean Uprising,” Seoul Press, 14 March 1919.
37
Moffett to William Blair, 5 March 1919, in Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Boardof Foreign Mission, Korea, March 1st Independence Movement, 1919: Selected Correspondence, Reports and Miscellaneous Papers, microﬁlm (Philadelphia: Department ofHistory and Presbyterian Historical Society, 1972).
38
Sadie to her friends, 20 March 1919, ibid.
39
Moffett to Bergholz, 7 April 1919, ibid.
40
Uchida to Hasegawa, 5 April 1919, in Kang Doksang, ed., Gendaishi Shiryo [Modern Historical Materials], vol. 25 (Chôsen [Korea] 1), (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1966),
257.
41
Bernheisel to Bergholz, 8 April 1919, 895.00/628 and Report on the Trial of Mowry
by Moffett, 15 April 1919, 895.00/623, Records of the Department of State Relating toInternal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 2–3.
42
Bergholz to Morris, 11 April 1919, ibid.
43
Brown to the Relatives and Friends of the Rev. and Mrs. E.M. Mowry, 15 April
1919, Korea, March 1st Independence Movement, 1919, microﬁlm.
44
Hasegawa to Renzô Koga, Director-General of the Bureau of Colonization(Takushoku Kyoku), 21 April 1919, Gendaishi Shiryô vol. 25, 269.
45
Koga to Makoto Saitô, 6 December 1919, in Kang Doksang, ed., Gendaishi Shiryô,vol. 27 (Chôsen 3), (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1970), 587.
46
“Japanese Hold U.S. Missionary in Korea Plot,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 April
1919; “American Missionary is Arrested in Korea,” New York Times, 11 April 1919;“Japanese Arrest Americans in Korea” in ibid., 14 April 1919; “U.S. Act in Korea,”
Washington Post, 15 April 1919. “Asks Sentence of Mowry,” New York Times, 20 April
1919; “Admits Aiding Koreans,” ibid, 21 April 1919; “Mowry is Sentenced,” ibid., 22
April 1919; “Mowry Sentence Appeal,” ibid., 19 May 1919; “Mowry Trial End,” ibid.,
25 August 1919; “New Trial For Rev. Mowry,” ibid., 29 August 1919; “Jail or Fine for
Mowry,” ibid., 8 December 1919.
47
Report of O.R. Avison, 11 April 1919, 895.00/628; Morris to Lansing, 11 April
1919, 895.00/595; Memorandum of Interview between Curtis and Sojirô Kojima, 11
April 1919, 895.00/624; Bergholz to Morris, 12 April 1919, 895.00/628; Bergholz toLansing, 14 April 1919, 895.00/624; Bergholz to Lansing, 17 April 1919, 895.00/622;

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and Bergholz to Morris, 17 April 1919, 895.00/628, Records of the Department of State
Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 2–3.
48
Report of H.H. Underwood, April 16, 1919, 895.00/625, ibid., roll 3.
49
Bergholz to Lansing, 12 May 1919, 895.00/642, ibid.
50
For example, about the movement in Seoncheon, North Pyong-an Province, see “A
Brief Account from Syunchun Territory of the ‘Agitation’ as it has Touched the workof the Church and the Christians,” Blanche I. Stevens to Brown, 11 March 1919, Korea,
March 1st Independence Movement, 1919, microﬁlm. About the movement in Hamheung,South Hamgyong Province, see Rev. D.M. McRae, “Statement by D.M. McRae ofEvents in Hamheung, Korea,” 20 March 1919, ibid. About the situation in Kang-gae,
North Pyong-an Province, see Rev. C.S. Hoffman to Brown, 4 April 1919, ibid. On thesituation in Wonsan, then South Hamgyong (Now Gangwon) Province, see Norman C.
Whittemore to Brown, 5 August 1919, ibid.
51“Missionaries and Ofﬁcials,” North China Herald, 5 April 1919.
52
Kang Doksang, ed., Gendaishi Shiryô vol. 26 (Chôsen 2), (Tokyo: Misuzu-shobô,1967), 425–30. “Report of First Session of Unofﬁcial Conference,” 22 March 1919, and“Report of Second Session of Unofﬁcial Conference,” 24 March 1919, Korea, March
1st Independence Movement, 1919, microﬁlm.
53“Report on Trip to Japan,” April 1919, ibid.; Hara Takashi Nikki [Diary of TakashiHara], vol. 8 (Tokyo: Kangen-sha, 1950), 15 and 16 May 1919, 216; 219.
54
“How about Korean Democracy Being Made Safe in the World,” New York
American, 20 March 1919; “Imperial Japan is Rapidly Throwing off all Disguises,” ibid.,
1 April 1919; “Our Government Should Talk Very Plainly to Both Mexico and Japan,”
ibid., 2 April 1919.
55
Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 26, 124.
56
Frank P. Baldwin, Jr., “Missionaries and March First Movement: Can Moral Men
be Neutral?” in Korea Under Japanese Colonial Rule, ed. Andrew C. Nahm (Kalamazoo:Western Michigan University Press, 1973), 200; “The Present Movement for Korean
Independence” (1919), 47, enclosed in Bergholz to Lansing, 22 May 1919, 895.00/639,
Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29,
microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 3.
57
Commission on Relations with the Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches ofChrist in America, The Korean Situation, (New York: 1919), 5.
58
Yada to Uchida, 19 April 1919, Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 26, 441–42.
59
Uchida to Yada, 15 May 1919, ibid., 442–43. The Korean Situation, 4.
60
Gulick to Yada, 29 May 1919, 895.00/633, Records of the Department of State
Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 3.
61
Baldwin, op. cit., 205.
62
The Korean Situation, 3–4.
63
Ibid., 3.
64
Ibid., 6.
65
Ibid., 6–7.
66
Akifumi Nagata, “Chosen San-ichi Dokurutsu Undo to Nihon Seikai [The Korean
March First Independence Movement and Japanese Politics in 1919],” Jochi Shigaku,
no. 44 (1999).
67
Zaidan Hojin Saitô Shishaku Kinenkai [Incorporated Foundation Memorial Societyof Viscount Saitô], ed., Shishaku Saitô Makoto Den [Biography of Viscount Makoto
Saitô], vol. 2 (Tokyo: 1941), 380–81.
68
Ibid., 382.
69
Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 25, 516–21, 524–28.

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Saitô, “Chôsen shisei no Kaizen [Improvement of the Rule of Korea]”, Saitô Makoto
Kankei Bunsho [Papers Relating to Makoto Saitô] (Tokyo: National Diet Library),
71–12, microﬁlm, reel 73, 1–20.
71
Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 25, 500.
72
Hara Takashi Nikki, vol. 8, 29 August 1919, 310. Baldwin, op. cit., 207–08, 219.
73
Elizabeth A. McCully, “Notes from the Federal Council” in The Korea Mission Field(Federal Council of Evangelical Missions in Korea), November 1919, 234.
74
Kondô Kin-ichi, ed., Banzai Sojô Jiken [The Cheer Riot Incident], vol. 3 (Tokyo:
Gannando Shoten, 1964), 11–28.
75
Commission on Relations with the Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches ofChrist in America, The Korean Situation, no. 2 (New York: 1920), 15–17.
76
Shishaku Saitô Makoto Den, vol. 2, 562–69.
77
The Korean Situation, no. 2, 10; Baldwin, op. cit., 208–10.
78“Says Korea Needs Japan,” New York Times, 20 March 1919.
79
Smith to J.R. Joy, 5 October 1919 and Smith to Gulick, 7, 15 and 16 October 1919,
Korea, March 1st Independence Movement, 1919, microﬁlm.
80
Smith to Gulick, 19 January 1920, ibid. Smith, Chôsen Mondai no Sokumenkan [ASide View of the Korean Problem] and Chôsen Mondai no Shinsou [The Truth about
the Korean Problem] (Seoul: Seoul Press, 1920).
81
Bergholz to Lansing, 27 October and 14 November 1919, 895.00/667 and 669,
Records of the Department of State Relation to Internal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29,
microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 3.
82
Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 25, 536–37, 544–46, 551–52, 557–58, 572–73, 579–80,
591–92, 610–14, 624–28, 641–42.
83
Ransford S. Miller to Bainbridge Colby, 6 March 1920, 895.00/676 and Morris toMiller, 18 March 1920, 895.00/677, Records of the Department of State Relating toInternal Affairs of Korea, 1910–29, microﬁlm, no. 426, roll 3.
84
Kang Doksang, ed., Gendaishi Shiryô, vol. 28 (Chôsen 4), (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobô,1972), 350–669. Edward Bell to Colby, 8, 12, 14, 15, and 26 October 1920,
793.94/1102–1105, 1110, Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between China and other States, 1910–29, microﬁlm (National Archives, 1960),
no. 341, roll 29.
85“Bei Senkyoshi Kitsumon [Cross-examining by an American missionary],” Tokyo
Asahi Shimbun, 5 December 1920; A.B. Ruddock to Colby, 28 October 1920,
793.94/1130, Bell to Colby, 18 November 1920, 793.94/1121, ibid.
86“Tai Senkyoshi Sotsû [Toward the Understanding of Missionaries],” Tokyo Asahi
Shimbun, 3 December 1920; Bell to Colby, 7 December 1920, 793.94/1133, ibid.
87“Gaimu Tokyoku Dan [A Talk by the Diplomatic Authorities]” and “Mizumachi
Taisa Kataru [Colonel Mizumachi is Saying],” Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, 12 and 27 December 1920; Bell to Colby, 22 December 1920, and 7 January 1921, 793.94/1156, 1166,
ibid.
88
Ruddock to Colby, 18 October 1920, 793.94/1132 and Bell to Colby, 3 December
1920, 793.94/1146, ibid.
89
Min Gyong-bae, Hanguk Kidok-kyohoe Sa [A History of Korean Christian
Churches], (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1972), 451–511.
90
Ibid., 512–67.