Person1858 – 1936
Saitō Makoto
Third and fifth Governor-General of Korea, who proclaimed "cultural rule" after the March First Movement
Where they went
5 related events
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After the March First Movement the new Governor-General Saitō Makoto proclaimed "cultural rule". The military police gave way to a civil police and Korean newspapers were allowed, but the real aim was to cultivate collaborators and divide the nation.
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Japan changed company founding from permission to simple reporting (1920) and abolished most tariffs on Japanese goods (1923). Japanese capital and goods poured in and Korean firms struggled.
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After the March First Movement Japan issued the second Joseon Education Ordinance, extending common schools to six years, making Korean a required subject and providing for universities.
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On 15 May 1932 young naval officers stormed the prime minister’s residence and killed Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, bringing the era of party cabinets to an end.
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On 26 February 1936 young officers of the army’s Imperial Way faction seized central Tokyo with about 1,400 troops and murdered senior ministers in an attempted coup. After its suppression the rival Control faction took over and military dominance of politics was entrenched.
People who appear alongside
- Gang U-gyu1855 – 1920
Threw a bomb at the incoming Governor-General Saitō Makoto at Namdaemun Station, Seoul, in 1919; executed in Seodaemun Prison
- Inukai Tsuyoshi1855 – 1932
Party politician who led the movement to protect constitutional government and became prime minister (1931–1932) as Seiyūkai president; murdered in his residence by young naval officers in the May 15 Incident
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)1901 – 1989
Emperor of Japan (r. 1926–1989), sovereign during the war with China and the Pacific War, who announced the surrender by radio on 15 August 1945
Themes this person appears in
- 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