
World War Civ 18: Japan annexes Korea 1910
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
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The Greatest Naval Feat of All Time
Japan created a pro-Japanese Korean group called the Il-Chin-ho. The leaders of this were Song Piong-jun and Yi Yonggu. They served as auxiliaries to the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War. Hachiro: In July 1905, Theodore Roosevelt sent his Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, to Tokyo,. To sign the Taft Katsura Agreement in which Russia concedes Korea to the Japanese.
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