Minami Jirō

Where they went

3 related events

1. 1
   1937 – 1945Policy of Making Koreans Imperial Subjectsleader

   Having launched the war with China, Japan proclaimed "Japan and Korea as one body" and tried to turn Koreans into loyal imperial subjects, forcing them to recite the Oath of Imperial Subjects, worship at Shinto shrines and bow toward the imperial palace.

2. 2
   1938 – 1945National Mobilization Law and Wartime Exploitationrelated figure

   Japan enacted the National Mobilization Law and drew Korea’s people and materials into its wars of aggression at will, taking rice and even brassware and sending young people to battlefields and factories.

3. 3
   1940Name-Change Order (Sōshi-kaimei)leader

   Japan made Koreans adopt Japanese-style family and given names. Those who refused faced penalties such as their children being barred from school and exclusion from food rations.

Themes this person appears in

• World War II and Korea1937 – 1945

  Wartime mobilization and exploitation, independence armies, from the Cairo Declaration to liberation

• Educational Institutions Through the AgesAD 372 – 1943

  From the Taehak and Gukhak to the Gukjagam and Seonggyungwan, modern schools and the colonial education ordinances — state schools that trained officials and the private schools that filled the gaps

• Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949

  The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle