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This study observes the prominent politics on the discourse of the Koreans in Japan from 1945 to 1960. There are four subjects of analysis; 1) the issue of historical portrait and the memory of the solidarity among the Koreans in Japan and Japanese Communist Party; 2) the magazines published by the Zainichi, “Minju Choseon” and “Jindalrae”; 3) anti-American movements, and the community of the Choseonjin-Chinese-Japanese; 4) the memory of poet Kim Shijong and the ‘self-representation’ of novelist Kim Sukbum. After the war, the Koreans in Japan formed the politics of ‘self-governance’ through practical writing. They narrated their ‘political life’, represented by their experiences to have had to leave their divided homeland. Their linguistic representation formed the ‘bio-politics’ for the norms of life. By writing in Japanese, the Koreans in Japan engraved the ideas of ‘national unification’ and ‘national liberation’ into the biological principle norms and formed their historical identity.