When Japanese talks about colonization of Korea ,the first thought should be what damage you have made and how many innocent Korea people you have killed and feel guilty about that and say sorry but not the so called silly modernization of Korea if you are real peaceful people.
Remember how Abe yells out about innocent Japan people suffer the nuke at the ceremony of Nagasaki and Hiroshima ?
Abe should say thanks to nuke bombs for ending the war in your logic.
My premise , all along in this thread, my friend, is that there are two sides to every analysis. The old proverbial adage comes to mind, "There are two sides of a coin".
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Nihonjin1051
When Japanese talks about colonization of Korea ,the first thought should be what damage you have made and how many innocent Korea people you have killed and feel guilty about that and say sorry but not the so called silly modernization of Korea if you are real peaceful people.
Sure, I don't think I've denied that there were violations seen in the Japanese Colonial Era in Korea, an era that spans over 50 years. However, there were pros and cons to that period, the "Japanification" of the Koreans was seen as a negative for the Korean people, sure, and the suppression of indigenous identity can be seen in modern days as a consequence of Tokyo's Mandate. Be that as it may, one should not forgot some of the positives Japanese colonial rule brought to Korea, which included the infusion of empirical based education in the country, the rise of literacy, the improvement of agriculture, the development of infrastructure, industry, the rise of Korean population (doubled) in a span of just 40 years, improvements in health care reform and health care provision, improvements in jurisprudence and the rule of modern law, the establishment of western educational system , the outlawing of slavery, etc.
My view is that tho Korea was incorporated into the Japanese Empire , there were many undeniable positives that Korea experienced. That's just historical fact.