The Truth Of Japan’s Annexation Of The Korean Peninsula

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South Korean Professor Che Keiho gives a talk on the history behind Japan’s annexation of Korea, presenting a very harsh image of pre-annexation Korea as a brutal and backwards kingdom that needed Japanese imperialism to modernize.



via Japan Probe

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