What were the effects of Japanese imperialism on Korea?
To a certain degree, i agree with Paul that Japan believed that they were destined to rule Asia under their hands. However, Japan as an Asian super power needed more resources, money, and slaves to keep their country in power. If you look at Japan’s occupations in Asia during imperialism, you can pinpoint on the map that most of them populated around the regions of heavy resources such as gold, copper, coals, etc. Just like ‘Manifest Destiny’ in the US, most pioneers migrated westward to seek wealth, not because they were destined to or GOD told them to. If that was the case, why didn’t upper-class protestant/bapists group migrate earlier? (except Mormons). Christopher Columbus didn’t discover North America, because he was destined to, he accidently ran into N. America during his search for a quicker route to India, so European nations could make trades cost/time efficent. Most of the pioneers who participated in Manifest Destiny sought that American dream, and that is how Japan felt d
