Bad Blood of War:
Japan Vs. Neighboring Asian countries
In korea:
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1895 Japan invades Korea
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take over peninsula parts of manchuri and Taiwan
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take away from china
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Bad for china to lose territory but way worse for korea
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1895-1945 Korea is in essence a slave state
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No nice way.
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Population is put to work in the salt mines, steel mines and coal mines
all in effort to pop up and supply the Japanese war machine,
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Japan military crushes Korean culture as much as possible. Border on
genocide
China:
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1900 Japan helps suppress Chinese Boxer Rebellion
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1937 when Japan is fully prepared to invade and take over china
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1937-1945 Japan invades and occupies China
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absolutely horrific and destructive for chinese
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launch of Japanese campaign started with the Rape of Nanking in
1937
millions in China
10/30 thousand troops
The Japanese answer was just kill everybody
6 week campaign, death, destruction, raping, looting, pelleging,
lining up city blocks of men and boys and beheading them
(organized by military) 200 thousand to 250 thousand chinese
civilians dead in 6 weeks
Warcrimes: Ilk, forced labor, random killings, civilian
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- Spring '08
- SXiao
- World War II, japan, Japanese war crimes, japan invades, Japan military crushes
