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events that took place in China during the second Shino-Japanese war. The massacre was a series of war crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers upon taking over the city, Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, and looted the Chinese citizens that were left abandoned by the Chinese military forces. The figure of the atrocities ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 that is claimed by China and 25,000 to 50,000 people that is claimed by the Japanese. Therefore, this massacre became a weapon, in…

Doka, Kominka, and Colonial Identity The year 1919 witnessed a turning point in the Japanese colonial policies on its formal colonies, Korea and Taiwan. It was at the apex of Woodrow Wilson’s call for national self-determination that several national independence movements were seen in colonies around the world, among which the March 1 Independent movement in Korea was one of the most fierce and brutal. Although the nature of colonialism in Korea remained the same, the propaganda was indeed…

by the loss in the Sino-Japanese War shook all of China. The people were confused with the results and management of these events and wanted to know what would happen next. China’s search for security and superiority led it to study the very same people who humiliated and defeated them, all for the hope of never losing to anyone again. The nature of how Western and Japanese Imperialism affected China happened after China was defeated by both the Westerners and Japanese. The loss of the…

During the decades of Japanese colonial rule, Korean self image underwent significant changes. Due to the rapid modernization brought about by the Japanese takeover, Korean culture became significantly more nationalistic. Nationalism refers to the process of desiring a nation’s well-being and autonomy as though it were your personal interest. The Korean self-image of scholars and politicians during the time of colonial rule was one which desired power, autonomy, and held a fierce sense of…

When the Holocaust is mentioned, one immediately thinks of the Jewish genocide in Europe. However, a few years prior to World War II, Japan invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized.…

The economy of Japan grew rapidly in 1972 until 1989. It was known as the Japanese asset price bubble or Bubble Economy, which was represented high economic dominance of Japan. During the Bubble Economy, Japan was considered as rising force in the world of economy. Japan’s economic power was growing high to the point the whole world was paying attention to economy movement of Japan. However, it all went downhill in 1989, when the economic bubble disappeared. Then Japan entered whole era in 1989…

In the reading The Clan Records, why did Sol Chin-yong refuse to change his name? What were the consequences of his refusal? Sol Chin-Yong was an out and out pro-Japanese and had even helped the Japanese army out by giving them rice. Despite his pro-Japanese values he was reluctant to change his name because of his long and illustrious lineage, which led him to believe that by changing his name he would be disrespecting his ancestors and ending the Sol clan. As he was an influential member of…

change in their thoughts of growth. “The Manchurian Incident”, happening in September 1931 and through which Japan set up Manchuria as a puppet state, revealed how the contained resentment through years of oppression, inevitably resulted in a rise of Japanese nationalism combined with an economic and military power. Such rise would soon…

the colonial reality of Korea under the Japanese rule. Although its controversial aspects focus on the Korean culture instead of the Japanese, the author treads a line between propriety and realism. The story highlights the tragicomedy of materialistic greed, ambition, sensual decadence, and egoism of the protagonist, Master Yun; however, the author also portrays him as a pathetic human being through his past experiences and interactions with other people. With the use of absurd sardonic…

comfort women were few of the most major crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Nanjing Massacre involved the mass murder of 300,000 people and the rape of around 20,000 women. During this duration of time, the comfort women were also introduced, which involved the forced prostitution of Asian women from the Philippines, Korea and China to “pleasure” the needs of the Japanese soldiers. Although heinous, the Japanese history textbooks has been found to deliberately downplay their…