Protagonists Discussion

Against Japanese Colonial Government in Korea

Making the opening sentence by the remarks of what Stewart Lone said, "Korean history was littered with Japanese aggression, whether from Wako pirates of the Middle Ages, Hideyoshi in the sixteenth or recently gunboat diplomacy contract Kanghwa (1876) making it necessary for the Koreans to fight this repression, leading to a permanent hatred against the Japanese, which, for some, continues to the present day.2 Indeed most of the arguments of the DPRK-Japan relations is devoted to illustrating the "eternal hatred" were found among these countries. As Stewart Lone said, "Korean history was littered with Japanese aggression, whether from Wako pirates of the Middle Ages, Hideyoshi in the sixteenth or recently gunboat diplomacy contract Kanghwa (1876). (Kenneth M. Wells Pp. 56)

Considered as a whole, Japan appears as a constant aggressor. However, Wako pirates ("Japanese" pirates who continuously attacked and looted the Korean Peninsula from 13 to 16 century), were not "official" representatives of Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598), who followed Oda Nobunaga, the leader of the union movement in Japan under the same ruling, was one of the few Japanese leaders to the official attack on the Korean peninsula, first in 1592 and then in 1597. Contract Kanghwa occurred in the late nineteenth century, after Japan launched its Navy in the Korean peninsula to force open trade with Korea. It is easy to see that these incidents are sporadic with long periods of peaceful relations between the two countries, however, as the Lone, these periods of aggression, which emphasized. (Kenneth Pp. 56)

In Favour of Japanese colonial government in Korea

The dominant position of Japan as the oppressor does not mean that Japan only wanted to harm the Koreans as the conflict was only due to the power Japan had to show over the Koreans. Once the Koreans accept the Japanese colonial leadership Japan would then calm down and would develop the whole nation and solve many problems the country was facing.(Robinson, 29)

The subject of cooperation have been thoroughly studied in recent discussions. The majority of Koreans were resisting Japanese colonialism which was becoming the reason for Japanese aggression.(It should be noted that this work will focus on the South Korean and North Korean historiography historiography, which shows some major differences). In Colonial Modernity in Korea, the authors Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson noted that "Koreans who have been successful in the colonial government, economy, society, ...