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South Korea refused diplomatic and trade relations with Japan, using tensions with Japan to rally support for the South Korean government. The early ROK (Republic of Korea; South Korea) government derived its legitimacy from its opposition to Japan and North Korea, portraying South Korea as under threat from the North and South.
Japan-Korea Cooperative Unity, World Leader. – The notion of racial and imperial unity of Korea and Japan gained widespread following among the literate minority of the middle and upper classes. [89] Kuniaki Koiso, Governor-General of Chōsen from 1942 to 1944, implemented a draft of Koreans for wartime labor.
The Japanese established the Korean capital city of Hansŏng (Seoul) as the colonial capital of Japanese Korea, renaming it to Keijō in Japanese and Kyŏngsŏng in Korean. In 1911, the Japanese decided to erect a new building in Seoul to house the new colonial administration under the governor-general of Korea. [1]
Buildings and structures that are significantly associated with the 1910–1945 Japanese colonial period in Korea. Generally should include buildings that were built during this period. If the building still exists in either North or South Korea, apply both this category and categories for North or South Korea.
With the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, Japan decided to expand their initial settlements and acquired an enclave in Busan.In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, Japan defeated the Qing dynasty, and had released Korea from the tributary system of Qing China by concluding the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which compelled the Qing to acknowledge Yi Dynasty Korea as an independent country.
The June 3 resistance movement, also known as 6.3 resistance or the movement against the Korea-Japan negotiations (Korean: 한일협상 반대 운동, 6.3시위 or 6.3 항쟁) was initiated in June 1964 by students and citizens against the Park Chung Hee administration effort to negotiate the normalization of South Korea and Japan diplomatic relations.
The Treaty was the fruit of the "Korea–Japan Talks," a series of bilateral talks held between South Korea and Japan from October 1951 to June 1965 [citation needed] to normalize diplomatic relations. Over that period of 14 years, a total of seven talks were held.
The Taft–Katsura Agreement (桂・タフト協定, Katsura-Tafuto Kyōtei), also known as the Taft-Katsura Memorandum, was a 1905 discussion between senior leaders of Japan and the United States regarding the positions of the two nations in greater East Asian affairs, especially regarding the status of Korea and the Philippines in the aftermath of Japan's victory during the Russo-Japanese War.