History is written by winners and often they are distorted propaganda. Around 1600,England was falling behind others in east asia and probably helped tokugawa win thus trying to get influence in japan. It worked somewhat, but after going to thailand tokugawa realized danger of west and expelled whites and killed Japanese christians and closed the door. Japan avoided colonization due to very smart move of isolation. “nineteen bronze cannons, 5,000 cannonballs, 500 muskets, 300 chain-shot”
Japan was forced open by imperialistic usa which is sort of expanded manifest destiny. West (freemason) help finance overthrow of tokugawa. Overthrow was successful but perhaps conspiracies was discovered. Anyway with west’s investment and learn from west, japan modernized super rapidly. “In 1873, the Imperial government enacted the conscription law….democracy.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Japan
Qing did not really care too much about not too valuable taiwan and korea until french in vietnam and opium wars etc. Japan was convinced(with some west adviser influence) that japan’s safety depends on strong korea. So japan sided with korean that wanted to modernize. And japan won taiwan plus independence of korea from china etc. China and korea know they cannot win senkaku and takeshima in international court so they try brute force. South korea is occupying japanese takeshima island, but dokdo is not takeshima. Dokdo is alternate name for ulleung or name of tiny rock 1 mile from ulleung on ancient korean maps.
“Russia, Germany and France forced Japan to return the territory won in Liaodong ” Of course japan was pissed when russia got liaodong after. And make it worse, korean rulers were drifting toward russia. I think only reason japan won against russia was fact that jews were mad at russia for fabricating “protocal of zion.” with a modification of 1864 political satire by Maurice Joly. It is remarkable and if you read the outline, it seems to predict world today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
“Conversely, Japan’s pre-war gold reserves were a modest $11.7 million; a major portion of the total cost of the war was covered by money borrowed from the United Kingdom and the United States. During his canvassing expedition in London, the Japanese Vice-Governor of the Bank of Japan met Jacob Schiff, a Jewish-American banker and head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Schiff was sympathetic to Japan’s cause, and extended a critical series of loans to the Empire of Japan, in the amount of $200 million” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#Financing Japan modernized/educated/provided law to taiwan/korea/manch which were better than western colonization. Chinese/north korean suffered way more from fake oppressive communist than japan. Of course communists in soviet and china killed tens of millions. Japan modernized/educated korea, taiwan, and manchu. Chinese communist was somewhat smart and let ROC and japan fight. Of course ROC lost mainland to fake communist and went to taiwan. ROC leader Chiang Kai-shek got education in Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Irony is japan fought ROC and USA but they are close friend, mean while fake communists and koreans make lots noise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan Right after the war, mao did not complain much about nankin because it was fabricated/exaggerate by west and communist spies. Like today, usa had huge spying and espionage agencies and reporters were spies too. As for military prostitute they were a NORMAL part of war and they recruited by korean traffickers and were paid. Back then even poor starving japanese sold their kids and korean did so much more. Of course some were tricked, not by japanese government, but mostly from korean traffickers. There were some rape etc., but probably less than usa after ww2. Fair perspective on comfort women http://real7777.blog.com/japan-2/comfort/
Elite korean/taiwanese had japanese name and learned japanese. Most of police in korea were koreans too. I would say blacks in usa were more discriminated. Koreans were not treated that much worse than northern japanese, okinawan, hokkaido etc. In fact korean president park chung-hee was a lieutenant in Japan’s elite Kwantung Army.Korea’s first president Rhee Syngman recorded his nationality as Japanese. Park Chung-hee was born poor, but became officer in JAPANESE elite Kwantung army and became south korean leader 1961-1979. In 1965, he ask japan for help and japan provided over us$800 million in settlement and aid which was about twice south korean budget(today us$1 trillion). By his choice, he used it for modernized rather than compensate people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea
Also Anti-Chinese riots of 1931 by koreans who killed chinese in korea is one another proof that koreans weren’t treated that bad.
Right after ww2, some koreans illegally migrated to japan and LIED to get papers. This is sort of proof that some koreans loved opportunity in japan. 80% of pachinko gambling parlors are own by korean ethnicity, softbank leader too. Taiwan contributed $200m to fukushima and very friendly to japan. Between qing, west, roc, prc, and japan, top choice is japan.
The lessons Yoichi Hatta taught taiwan. taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives
I think churchill intentionally let japanese spy have technology to build aircarft carrier/bomber so that japan will able to attack US navy. Semple was not punished for repeatedly leaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forbes-Sempill,_19th_Lord_Sempill
Usa froze japanese asset and embargoed. I am sure that usa will consider that as act of war if north korea had power to freeze usa asset and embargoed us ships in pacific. West also helped china. Hull Note Written by a Soviet Spy “The American counter-proposal of 26 November required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers.” People knew this demand was essentially forcing war declaration. http://www.urlcase.com/case/article1/01/011.html
Of course japan did not want to fight usa, but japan had to. Japan hope that hurting us navy will give it enough time to secure oil. Japan wanted to liberate asia from racist western colonization though it also had imperial intent too. West illegally overthrew hawaiian constitutional monarchy and hawaii became usa territory(like colony). By then 99% of natives died and whites owned lots of land and imported lots japanese/chinese/portugees(not owners)/etc. labors. Hawaii became a state in 1959, so pearl harbor was japan attacking occupying forces of usa. Racist usa illegally sent amerian citizens of japanese descent to internment camps and caused them to lose lots of land and opportunity. If it was not for this, I would say vast majority of usa farms would have been owned by fugal smart japanese americans with great farming and business skills. History is written by winners and GHQ(usa force occupying japan) influenced koreans and japanese to teach distorted history to make it easier for usa to control using divide and conquer technique. Distorted theme was bad japanese enslaved koreans who were saved by americans. Media was also controlled in japan and nothing negative about allies(and korea) was to be taught or reported. It was similar to communist media control of china today. Mean while rape,atrocity etc. of usa/korea/china were not taught. Even today, japanese media is somewhat anti-japanese. GHQ gave koreans allied status which gave them immunity from japanese law. Lawlessness occurred (worse than mexican gang situation today.) Organized koreans killed, raped, looted, and even raided police station. Part of reason japanese yakuza still have power is due to fact japanese yakuza fought these korean criminals thus became hero to some towns. Some korean or descent(even 2-4 th generation)love keeping non-japanese citizenship partly because they get special privilege(more than japanese in japan). Billions of people want japanese citizenship but not them. Unfortunately for japan though, crime rate by korean descent is high and even compare to other minority. Plus many are probably spies of N/S korea. They probably import lots drugs and guns. Of course there’s 50,000 south korean visitor prostitute in japan. Koreans and americans have high rate of rape and violence in their own country though only korean standout in japan. To put things in proper perspective, I am listing web pages with atrocities of others. Google:
Kill ’em All’: The American Military in Korea
mao loved virgins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_South_Korea_during_the_Vietnam_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitutes_in_South_Korea_for_the_U.S._military www.jiyuushikan.org/e/database3.html
Usa did lots experiment on citizens and others. Even atomic bombs. Doctors were sent, but they were told specifically told not to treat japanese. After the ww2 in pacific, they specifically wanted to test fallout on people. Biological and chemical weapons on various cities in usa. etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_State