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  2. Korea under Japanese rule - Wikipedia

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    Japan sent anthropologists to Korea who took photos of the traditional state of Korean villages, serving as evidence that Korea was "backwards" and needed to be modernized. [ 70 ] In 1925, the Japanese government established the Korean History Compilation Committee , and it was administered by the Governor-General and engaged in collecting ...

  3. History of Japan–Korea relations - Wikipedia

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    Japan took control of Korea with the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910. When Japan was defeated in World War II, Soviet forces took control of the North, and American forces took control of the South, with the 38th parallel as the agreed-upon dividing. South Korea was independent as of August 15, 1945, and North Korea as of September 9, 1945.

  4. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    During the war, Japan brought as many as 670,000 Korean conscripts to Japan to work as forced labor. [312] About 5,000–8,000 Koreans were killed in Hiroshima and 1,500–2,000 in Nagasaki. [ 313 ] Korean survivors had a difficult time fighting for the same recognition as Hibakusha as afforded to all Japanese survivors, a situation which ...

  5. List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Korea, Taiwan, and Karafuto (South Sakhalin) were integral parts of Japan. Maximum extent of the Japanese empire. This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan.

  6. Kim Suk-won (general) - Wikipedia

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    Kim Suk-won (29 September 1893 – 6 August 1978) was a Korean officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Kim was one of the highest-ranking ethnic Koreans in the Japanese Army during the Second World War. He later became a general in the Republic of Korea Army during the Korean War.

  7. Japan–Korea disputes - Wikipedia

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    However, the power balance in domestic Japan grew in favor of the annexation, in part because of Itō's assassination in 1909 by An Jung-Geun. On August 22, 1910, Japan had formally annexed Korea through the JapanKorea Annexation Treaty. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea. The legality of the annexation and the subsequent 35-years of occupation of ...

  8. National Memorial Service for War Dead - Wikipedia

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    The National Memorial Service for War Dead (全国戦没者追悼式, Zenkoku Senbotsusha Tsuitōshiki') is an official, secular ceremony conducted annually on August 15 by the Japanese government at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. The ceremony is held to commemorate the victims of World War II. The first memorial ceremony was held on May 2 ...

  9. Division of Korea - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the Allied leaders had already been considering the question of Korea's future following Japan's eventual surrender in the war. The leaders reached an understanding that Korea would be liberated from Japan but would be placed under an international trusteeship until the Koreans would be deemed ready for self-rule. [1]