> The irony is that out of all colonized countries the Japanese colonies were the one that net benefited from colonization. This is a completely inaccurate rep

> The irony is that out of all colonized countries the Japanese colonies were the one that net benefited from colonization. This is a completely inaccurate representation of the various Japanese colonial projects. While some historians might refer to what became Taiwan in these terms, very few would say the same of Korea or the territories in China the Japanese occupied. In fact, the viciousness and extractive nature of the Japanese colonial projects are what justified to many the corollary anti-colonial violence that eventually escalated into civil war in the Korean peninsula. For example,An Jung-geun, who assassinated the Japanese colonial administrator Ito Hirobumi, is still considered a national hero in both the north and the south.