[KS] Colonization vs occupation

[Henny Savenije]

When Koreans and also Korean scholars refer to the Japanese period, 
they refer to the colonization period. When Europeans refer to the 
German period they refer to the occupation period.

Can someone enlighten me why we speak about the Japanese colonization 
and not about the Japanese occupation??

When I speak of colonization I think of the Dutch, Spanish, British 
and Portuguese and even the French, but never of the Japanese, mainly 
because the time the Japanese occupied many countries is in my 
opinion too short to justify the term colonization.

Even though the Japanese exploited in many ways the local population 
as the colonizers above mentioned, the Germans did the same thing, so 
I am really interested why we don't speak about the German 
colonization, but we do speak about the Japanese colonization

Any idea is appreciated.




Henny (Lee Hae Kang)
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