AS AM 100DD Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Koreans In Japan, Kwantung Army, Korean Diaspora
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** midterm will cover the period before the 1950 ** Many koreans willfully join the army/navy, and many were fighting in china and manchuria. Japanese colonial state relied on mostly koreans to spy on other. After 1935, japan would rely on korean labor. Prior to 1900, the majority of koreans were functionally literate. After japan abolished slavery, it invested heavily in korean education. The education was in japanese; oriented in japan. During japanese colonialism new opportunities opened up for women. They could work as laborers, get an education, etc. Japan took control of the press and suppressed all mass meetings. A lot of the torture was done by koreans torturing koreans. Japanese engaged in public executions of koreans accused of nationalist activities. Manchuria was essential to japan"s economic development and energy means due to its giant abundance of resources (coal, timber, precious metals) Koreans who disobeyed japanese modernity were treated as wild animals.
