Abstract
This paper analyzed how Japanese married immigrant women in South Korea handle the political and historical issues between Japan and South Korea when these issues intervene in their lives. In this paper, I analyzed two types of data. The first is a narrative in which they discuss political and historical issues with their Korean husbands, and the other is a narrative in which they do not discuss those issues with their husbands. The analysis focused on the small stories that appeared in their interviews and analyzed them based on Bamberg's positioning analysis method for the purpose of investigating how they were involved in political and historical issues between Japan and South Korea while they are talking with their husbands.
As a result, in the case of the couples who did not discuss, it was found that political and historical issues between Japan and South Korea are recognized as a factor which made the couple's relationships worse. And it became clear that they were trying to separate those topics from their conversations to protect their peace. In the case of the couples who discussed these issues, I found they also noticed that these issues made the couple relationship worse. Even realizing this point, they didn't stop talking about these issues. However, when talking about that topic, the couple were careful not to be confused by the national strategies of Japan and South Korea, and they tried to talk based on information from countries other than Japan and South Korea.