Japanese colonialism

Interestingly, only some political economists have stressed that Korea's Japanese colonialism plays an important role in the development of a high growth economy. In both readings, I found that Japanese colonialism is very different from European colonialism. In a sense, this is because European colonialism rarely brings heavy industries to the economy, and even the economy is even heavier. Likewise, Japan left Korea with a relatively high degree of industrialization. This is not common in European colonialism.

In this article, we examined the economic influence of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan, North Korea, Manchuria between 1910 and 1945 and compared the policy of Japan and the policies implemented in other colonial countries in Southeast Asia Compare. In particular, the work of a group of influential American scholars who have published articles on Japanese colonial policy over the past 50 years is involved. Their research was used to support the assertion that Japanese colonial policy is developing more than other colonial countries, laying the foundation for economic performance in Taiwan and the Republic of Korea in the decades since 1950 It was. This paper challenges this viewpoint. By comparing some economic and social indicators of South Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria with indicators from other Asian colonies and Thailand. The main conclusion is that Japanese colonies, especially Taiwan, earned higher scores with some indicators, but they did not work well with other indicators.

The consolidation of Taiwan into the Japanese colonial empire can be seen as the first step in the implementation of "Southern expansionism" in the second half of the 19th century. As Taiwan is the first overseas colony in Japan, the intention of Japan is to transform the island into a typical "model colony". Therefore, before Japan surrenders, in order to improve the majority of the need for Japanese military attack warfare in the Asia-Pacific region, improve the economy, industry and public works of the island and change its culture many Efforts were made.

In the Japanese colonial period from 1895 to 1945, the term "Japan" was used not only to the inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago but also to refer to settlers with Japanese nationality such as Taiwanese and Koreans It was. On the other hand, the official term used to refer to Japanese is "inland people" (inland people naichijin). This language difference encouraged the single Japanese empire to enforce colonized racial identity. Many Nivkh and Orok people who came from the southern part of Sakhalin after the end of World War II had Japanese nationality in the karaft area and were forced to return to Hokkaido as a member of the Japanese. On the other hand, many Sakhalin Koreans who retained Japanese nationality before the end of the war were stateless because of the Soviet occupation.