Tokio's Conquest of Korea

Tokio had to use an ugly trick, he says, to force the abdication of korea's king ko chung. But it was probably no worse than what the united states had done in 18 93 to overthrow queen lalinokani and rat hawaii into the american empire. In fewer than forty years Japan had transformed itself from a weak, tottering polity into one of the pre eminent nation state of asia.