Sōshi-kaimei
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s-shi-kaimei-182-15024194
title:
Sōshi-kaimei
text:
Sōshi-kaimei was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The Sōshi-kaimei has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories. It consisted of two parts. The first was the 1939 Ordinance No. 19, which required sōshi, literally "cr
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1939, 1940 Japanese regulations on names in Korea
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dshi-kaimei
date created:
2006-11-25T13:55:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T14:12:52Z
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