[PEN-L:101] Korea and Japan

[Rosser Jr, John Barkley]

     "In 1910 Japan annexed Korea resulting in the bitter 
hostility between Koreans and Japanese that persists today.
     Economic growth accelerated and modernizing reforms 
were carried out to integrate Korea into the Japanese 
empire in a subordinate position.  Among these were the 
abolition of slavery, the institution of a civil code, 
introduction of a modern financial system, expansion of the 
school system, the building of infrastructure in 
transportation and hydroelectric power, and the initial 
development of the textile industry.
     Koreans revolted in a nonviolent independence movement 
in 1919, which was suppressed by the Japanese after 
thousands of Koreans were killed.  Koreans opposed teh the 
attempt to suppress their language and culture, the 
takeover of a majority of the fertile land by Japanese 
landlords, and the increasing export of food and natural 
resources to Japan, especially after Japan invaded China in 
the 1930s.  Per capita rice consumption in Korea declined 
by nearly 50 percent between 1915 and 1938."
(a certain "bourgeois textbook")
Barkley Rosser

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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