In the context of Japanese colonialism, this article examines the discourse of colonial criminality that came to epistemologically position the Korean colonial subject as criminal and therefore necessitating domination, surveillance and punishment. The discourse of colonial criminality stemmed from Japan’s late nineteenth century epistemological commitment to imperialism and concomitant knowledge of law and the legality of colonial subjects. Through an analysis that historicizes the “criminal Korean” (futei senjin) epithet in the prewar and the emergence of yami as a signifier of Korean economic criminality throughout the 1940s, this article illustrates how the racialization of Koreans in Japan was both framed in terms of crime and subversion, and how that criminality functioned as a justification for postcolonial legalized exclusion and discrimination.

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将“韩国犯罪”历史化：20 世纪日本的殖民犯罪*

在日本殖民主义的背景下，本文考察了殖民犯罪的话语，这些话语在认识论上将韩国殖民主体定位为犯罪，因此需要统治、监视和惩罚。关于殖民犯罪的话语源于 19 世纪后期日本对帝国主义的认识论承诺以及随之而来的法律知识和殖民臣民的合法性。本文通过对战前“朝鲜人犯罪”（futei senjin）加词的历史化分析以及 yami 作为整个 1940 年代韩国经济犯罪的象征的出现，说明了日本韩国人的种族化是如何被框定的犯罪和颠覆，