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The Government-General of Chōsen Building ( Korean : 조선총독부 청사 ; RR : Joseon-chongdokbu Cheongsa ), also known as the Japanese General Government Building and the Seoul Capitol, was a building located in Jongno District of Seoul, South Korea, from 1926 to 1996. The Government-General Building was constructed by the Empire of Japan ...
The Japanese government had hoped emigration to its colonies would mitigate the population boom in the naichi(内地), [65] but had largely failed to accomplish this by 1936. [66] According to figures from 1934, Japanese in Chōsen numbered approximately 561,000 out of a total population of over 21 million, less than 3%.
When the Empire of Japan annexed the Korean Empire, it made Seoul the colonial capital. While under colonial rule (1910–1945), the city was called Keijō (京城); (Korean: 경성, romanized: Gyeongseong or Kyongsong, literally meaning "capital city" in Hanja.). [25]
The KPG was founded in Shanghai on 11 April 1919. A provisional constitution providing for a democratic republic named the "Republic of Korea" was enacted. It introduced a presidential system and three branches (legislative, administrative and judicial) of government. The KPG inherited the territory of the former Korean Empire.
The Empire of Japan, [ c] also referred to as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [ d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947. [ 8] From 29 August 1910 until 2 September 1945, it administered the naichi (the Japanese archipelago, Kuril ...
Government-General of Chōsen. Technical details. Floor count. 6. The Government-General of Chōsen Library ( Japanese: 朝鮮総督府図書館, Korean : 조선총독부 도서관) was a library in Sogong-dong, Keijō ( Seoul ), Keiki-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan from 1923 to 1945. [1] [2] It was succeeded by the South Korean National Library ...
The Korean Empire's military was forcibly disbanded in 1907, and it was not until 1938 that the Japanese allowed Koreans to join the Japanese military. So, it is questionable whether there was a Korean unit in Seoul in 1931, unless it was an anti-Japanese independence army in Manchuria.
Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands —the established colonial powers in Asia—added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration; the ...