How many years did Japan colonize Korea?

1, Japan colonized Korea for 35 years.

2. The process of Japanese colonization of Korea:

From 65438 to 0868, Emperor Meiji of Japan promulgated a series of reform measures, implemented the Meiji Restoration, and led Japan from a feudal society to an industrialized world power. South Korea is still under the feudal rule of the Korean dynasty. At that time, Japan's desire for expansion was very strong, and it was ready to annex Korea and March into China with the Korean Peninsula as a springboard, which was the so-called "mainland policy" in later generations.

On 1876, Japan formally implemented its plan to invade Korea. Japan opened the door to North Korea by force and forced it to sign the Jianghua Treaty. From 1894 to 1895, Japan defeated the former suzerain of North Korea in the Sino-Japanese War, expelled China's forces in North Korea, and tightened its control over North Korea. 1897, the Korean dynasty was renamed as the "Korean Empire" and South Korea was renamed as South Korea.

At this time, Japan is gradually transitioning to the stage of imperialism, and the demand for turning South Korea into its colony is even stronger. 1904 to 1905, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War and drove Russian troops out of the Korean Peninsula. So far, Japan has become the only foreign power to rule South Korea, paving the way for its eventual annexation of South Korea.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan forced the Korean Imperial Government to sign the "Japan-South Korea Protocol" with it on February 23, 1904, stipulating that South Korea would assist Japan in fighting against Russia, thus pulling South Korea into the Japanese camp. On August 22 of the same year, Japan forced South Korea to sign a new Japan-South Korea agreement (the first Japan-South Korea agreement) and placed Japanese in the Korean government as financial advisers and diplomatic advisers.

After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan coerced South Korea to conclude the Japan-South Korea Protection Agreement (the second Japan-South Korea Agreement) on June 1905 65438+ 10/7, depriving South Korea of its diplomatic rights, setting up the South Korean Governor's Office to control South Korea, and Ito Bowen became the first governor's office of South Korea, thus making South Korea a protectorate of Japan.

1On July 24th, 907, Japan and South Korea concluded the Seven-Clause Treaty (the third Japan-South Korea Agreement), deprived South Korea of judicial power and dissolved the Korean Imperial Army.

After signing a series of unequal treaties in this short period of three years, the Korean Empire has existed in name only and has become a de facto colony of Japan. It is only a matter of time before it is annexed by Japan. Japan's annexation of South Korea was naturally supported by other capitalist powers.

At that time, the relationship between Japan and Britain was good, and the two sides reached the "anglo-japanese alliance", so Britain strongly supported Japan. On the surface, the United States expressed sympathy for South Korea, but in fact it was for Japan.

Within South Korea, there are also a large number of pro-Japanese factions who feel uneasy. In the government headed by Li Wanyong, Park Ji-chun and others, they are called "five B-Si thieves" and "seven D-Wei thieves" by the Korean people. Folk is a "meeting" composed of Song Bingyou and Li Rongjiu, which actively promotes Japan's annexation of South Korea.

However, more Koreans don't want to be slaves of the Japanese. A group of civil and military officials with national integrity repeatedly demanded the killing of traitors, and ministers such as Min Yonghuan and Zhao committed suicide. The picture shows some Japanese officials.

Ordinary people even took up arms and organized vigilante groups to resist Japanese aggression and set off a massive anti-Japanese vigilante movement. The volunteer movement began in 1905 after the signing of the Treaty on the Protection of Isis, and reached its climax when Japan dissolved the Korean army in 1907, and the volunteer struggle broke out almost all over the country. Militia besieged Seoul (now Seoul), the capital of South Korea, in February 1908, posing a great threat to Japanese rule.

Japan quickly reinforced two brigades from home, mobilized the army, police and constitutional forces to suppress the volunteer movement and carried out bloody slaughter of the Korean people. After suppressing the resistance of the Korean people, Japan, after 30 years' efforts, succeeded in crowding out China and Russia, deprived South Korea of a series of sovereignty, and was recognized by foreign powers and supported by pro-Japanese factions in South Korea. Japan believed that the time was ripe to annex South Korea and decided to formally turn South Korea into a colony.

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The harm caused by Japan's colonial rule on Korea to the Korean people

1, Japanese imperialism completely annexed Korea in August of 19 10 by concluding the Japan-Korea merger treaty. In North Korea, they "combined all the latest technological inventions with pure Asian criminal law and plundered North Korea in an unprecedented cruel way" and carried out arbitrary and brutal politics against North Korea.

2. Japanese imperialism set up the military bureaucratic governor's office in North Korea. The Governor-General is led by Japanese warlords and directly subordinate to the Emperor, and has all administrative, judicial and legislative powers.

The Japanese colonial authorities have enacted many brutal laws, such as security law, newspaper censorship law and criminal order, and brutally suppressed Koreans who violated the law, and a large number of Koreans were arrested and imprisoned.

Japanese colonialists also plundered and exploited Korea crazily. A quarter of North Korea's fertile land and four-fifths of its forests were occupied by Japan. Three-quarters of farmers in rural areas make a living by renting land, and many farmers are bankrupt. Many farmers fled abroad, or fled to the mountains to open up wasteland. The Japanese colonial authorities, known as the "fire people", tried their best to limit and stifle North Korea's national industry by promulgating the Company Law.

5. 19 17 North Korea's capital accounts for only 14.6%, and the Korean economy has become a vassal of the Japanese economy. In order to make the Korean people tame slaves, Japan implemented the policy of obscurantism and colonial culture and education in Korea, forbidding the Korean people to use their own language and using Japanese as the national language. It is forbidden to teach Korean history and geography in schools.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Korean Japanese Occupation Period