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Japanese Colonialism

North and South Korea are nations that while filled with
contempt for Japan have used the foundations that Japan laid during
the colonial period to further industrialization. Japan's colonization
of Korea is critical in understanding what enabled Korea to
industrialize in the period since 1961.
Japan's program of colonial industrialization is unique in
the world. Japan was the only colonizer to locate various heavy
industry is in its colonies. By 1945 the industrial plants in Korea
accounted for about a quarter of Japan's industrial base. Japan's
colonization of Korea was therefore much more comparable to the
relationship between England and Ireland then that of European
colonization of Asia or Africa. Japan's push to create colonial
industry lead Japan to build a vast network of railroads, ports, and a
system of hydro-electric dams and heavy industrial plants around the
Yalu River in what is now North Korea. The......

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