Korean Peninsula Marks 100th Anniversary of Annexation by Japan -- Voice of America
The annexation completed a years-long process by the Japanese effectively making the Korean peninsula a colony. In Seoul people still harbor strong resentment about their one-time colonial masters a century after the event.
A brass band played martial tunes under a tent in pouring rain at a civic event marking the date 100 years ago that Korea formally came under Japanese rule.
Many Asian historians say that was the result of an unfair treaty forced upon the Korean kingdom.
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My Comment: My Godfather is Korean, and he still remembers the brutality of the Japanese, and their disregard for Korean lives.
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