Japanese Influence Quotes
He was Governor-General of Korea when he made this statement. “Squeeze” was the word for bribes literally translated then from Korean. In most instances of racial discrimination “laziness” is almost always attributed to the so called “inferior” people, like the British with the Arabs, and the American Southerners with the Negroes.
This is a classic example of an agreement of two colonial powers on the fate of a third, weaker nation—in this case Korea. Essentially, the English agree that Japan will control Korea so long as they maintain English commercial opportunities and rights there. Korea, of course, was not even consulted.
In the 1920s and 1930s China was in chaos. Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalists were officially the government but there was extensive corruption and local “leaders” who fought for control of territories and resources. Chinese were slaughtering each other daily not unlike Bosnia in the 1990s. The Japanese had moved into Manchuria using the pretext that they were saving China by bringing order and security. (In reality they were trying to control additional territory to populate with their rapidly expanding population.) The U.S. opposed the Japanese aggression but privately warned the Chinese Nationalists that they had better get control of the nation. The Nationalists never did. The Japanese expanded into much more of China beginning WWII in Asia. The Nationalists and the communists joined forces to fight the Japanese and after the war, the communists won the allegiance of most of the people. The Chinese government was finally unified, but under the communists.
