Japanese Occupation Of Koreans

The Japanese occupation of Korea remains controversial; for most Koreans it was a time of national subjugation shame and betrayal, political authoritarianism and violence, and profound human suffering (Schoppa 269). Japanese colonizers in Korea operate different technique to make Koreans more like Japanese by forcing them speak Japanese, take away their identity, and help them in the war against western powers. Japanese want to unify all East Asian countries under their empire. But all this method and others was really effective to make Koreans like Japanese until World War II. First, Japanese force Korean to speak Japanese language. In the early 1934, the educational circulation was revised to include more hours of Japanese language instructions, as well as the teaching of ethics and history from the Japanese point of view; speaking the Korean language was forbidden in all public places (Schoppa 275). If they found speaking Koreans, they get punished. On the first day of school for narrator, he asked by his teacher to sing a song for his class as all new students do on their first day of class. Narrator sing his favorite song in English …show more content…
They force Koreans to join the army, if they cannot join the army they have to contribute to something else that help them. Narrator uncle was in military because this obligation in Manchuria. Narrator also spends most of his second year of junior high in Pyongyang working on the airfield with his classmates. It used for Kamikaze planes that are being flown from Manchuria to the mainland. While they are doing airfield they suffer from dysentery and diarrhea. Most people working on the airfield like working there, because they get three meals a day, which most of them can only afford one or two meals a day if they are not working for Japanese (Kim 143-45). This indicate how Koreans poor and mentally damaged from suffering under the