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Japan was not colonized by the West. But it was itself a colonial power.
by pnako 7y ago
Japan was not colonized by the West. But it was itself a colonial power.
- coldtea 7y agoI didn't say it was. I said the two countries changed "after (different) traumatic war, occupation and colonization events". Japan was traumatized by its encounter with westerners, by being forced to open its borders for commerce (through force), and later by WWII defeat and subsequent nuclear obliteration of two of its cities, and occupation and supervision by the allies (or, well, the GIs).\ For South Korea, ironically, it was Japan itself who at some point was the colonizer and occupation force...