Fine arts activities were important measures for the Japanese to maintain its colonial rule in Machuria.

开展于伪满期间的美术活动，即是其进行殖民思想文化统治的重要手段之一。

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There would not have been "modern Korea" if there had not been the colonial rule by Japanese in the past hundred years.

没有日本过去上百年的殖民**，就没有今天的所谓“现代韩国”。

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Decades ago this was where freedom fighters opposed to Japanese colonial rule read out a charter of independence.

ECONOMIST: Old, down and out in South Korea

During the Japanese colonial rule over Korea (1910-45), many Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army and munitions factories in Japan, and a considerable number of them remained there after liberation.

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