Kang Deok-sang

Kang Deok-sang (姜德相, 26 June 1931 – 12 June 2021) was a South Korean historian. His main research field was modern and contemporary Korean history, and he produced research on the Korean massacre during the Great Kantō earthquake and on Lyuh Woon-hyung.

Life

He was born in Hamyang¹, Gyeongsangnam-do, in 1931. Three years later, in 1934, he moved to Japan, graduated from the Department of History of the Faculty of Letters at Waseda University, and completed the doctoral course in Asian history at the Graduate School of Letters at Meiji University. After serving as a professor at Hitotsubashi University, he became professor emeritus at Waseda University and University of Shiga Prefecture. In 2005, he became the first director of the Korean Historical Materials Center in Japan, established under the leadership of Mindan, and served in that position until 2017. He also served as a member of the steering committee for the compilation of the ''Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators'', published in 2009.

On 12 June 2021, he died in Tokyo, Japan, of lymphoma, a chronic illness.

Works

• ''学殺の記憶. 関東大震災'' (The Memory of Massacre: The Great Kantō Earthquake), 2005.
• ''近現代日韓関係と在日同胞'' (Modern and Contemporary Korea–Japan Relations and Koreans in Japan), 1999.
• ''呂運亨評傳'' (Lyuh Woon-hyung biography) <1> Korean March First Independence Movement, 2002.
• ''呂運亨評傳'' (Lyuh Woon-hyung biography) <2> Shanghai Provisional Government, 2005.