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Beginning on September 18, the Japanese government arrested 735 participants in the massacre, but they were reportedly given light sentences. The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out 200 Japanese yen in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths.
Japan encouraged an inflow of Japanese capital to Korea's less developed economy. [154]: 24 A large majority of major firms in Korea became Japanese owned and operated as a result, with key positions reserved for Japanese. [154]: 24 Koreans were permitted to work in menial roles under harsh labor conditions.
The Jeamni Massacre (Korean: 제암리 학살 사건; lit. Jeamni Massacre Incident) was a mass murder of 20 to 30 unarmed Korean civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army on April 15, 1919, in Jeamni, Suwon, Korea, Empire of Japan.
Thus, North and South Korea both refer to "Japanese war crimes" as events which occurred during the period of Korea under Japanese rule. [ 33 ] By comparison, the Western Allies did not come into a military conflict with Japan until 1941, and North Americans , Australians, South East Asians and Europeans may consider "Japanese war crimes" to be ...
The Gando massacre was a mass murder committed by the Japanese military against the Korean residents of Gando (present-day Jiandao, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China), after the Hunchun incident.
Imperial Japanese Army 29 Killing of Korean civilians inside a church in Hwaseong October 1920: Gando massacre: Jiandao: Imperial Japanese Army 5,000+ [9] July 1922: Shinano River incident: Shinano River: Okura zaibatsu: 100+ [10] Massacre of up to 100 Korean laborers who tried to escape the construction site by the Plant foremen [11] [12 ...
[4] [9] [11] The Bodo League was created by Korean jurists who had collaborated with the Japanese colonial government. [12] Non-communist sympathizers and others were also forced into the Bodo League to fill enlistment quotas. [8] [11] In June 1949, the South Korean government accused independence activists of being members of the Bodo League. [9]
August 26, 1982: Chief Cabinet Secretary Kiichi Miyazawa said to the people of the Republic of Korea: "I. The Japanese Government and the Japanese people are deeply aware of the fact that acts by our country in the past caused tremendous suffering and damage to the peoples of Asian countries, including the Republic of Korea (ROK) and China, and ...