In 19 ten, japan officially annexes korea. They had acquired the sphere of influence rights, officially in a treaty when the japanese war with russia ended. Five years later, boom, they just take it out, right? It's the first real colony of japan. Of course, they've had tiwan for a while now too. So japan goes from a country writing about joining the colonial great powers to of them. And they don't act a whole lot differently then the countries that they wanted to be like. The brutalities sometimes are horrid. I mean, this is not the kind of thing that goes on the greater east asia co prosperity