JP 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: February 26 Incident
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Korean-japanese convection of november 7, 1905 (the protectorate. 1910: annexation treaty; korea becomes a japanese colony. Japan looked to china for food and colonized them. In 1919 22% of the rice produced in korean was shipped to japan, but in 1939 55% of it was shipped to japan. August 1911: japanese was made the primary language in korean schools. 1929: korean schools were forced to use japanese textbooks and the language. 1938: koreans were encouraged to take japanese names. February (cid:883)94(cid:882): (cid:498)name creation order;(cid:499) all koreans were forced to assume japanese names. During ww1 japan began to shift from democracy to fascism. The japanese began to become disenchanted with their government, as the civil government could not get them out of their depression. March 1932: manchuria was proclaimed as an independent state. Japan runs manchuria fabricates a reason to control it; the. Japanese government put their military in manchuria to protect its resources and the interests of the japanese people.
