Governor-General of Korea

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Japanese imperial office colonial administrative office

The Governor-General of Korea was the top Japanese colonial authority that exercised military, political, and administrative control over Korea during its occupation from 1910 to 1945.

Aliases (2)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese imperial office → colonial administrative office →
appliesToJurisdiction	Korea → Korean Peninsula →
appointedBy	Emperor of Japan → Japanese government →
buildingDemolished	Government-General Building in Seoul →
controls	Korean economic policy → Korean education system → Korean judicial system → Korean police system → censorship in Korea →
country	Empire of Japan →
dissolvedAsConsequenceOf	Japan’s defeat in World War II →
endTime	1945-09-09 →
enforcedPolicy	Japanization of Korea → compulsory labor mobilization → land surveys and land reform favoring Japanese interests → militarization of Korean society → suppression of Korean independence movements →
establishedBy	Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty →
firstHolder	Terauchi Masatake →
followed	Resident-General of Korea →
hasAuthorityOver	administrative affairs in Korea → military affairs in Korea → political affairs in Korea →
hasJurisdictionOver	Korean people →
headquartersLocation	Government-General Building →
historicalPeriod	Japanese rule over Korea →
lastHolder	Abe Nobuyuki →
legalBasis	Imperial Ordinances of Japan →
location	Keijō → Seoul →
officeHolder	Abe Nobuyuki → Hasegawa Yoshimichi → Koiso Kuniaki → Minami Jirō → Saitō Makoto → Terauchi Masatake → Ugaki Kazushige → Yamanashi Hanzō →
officialLanguage	Japanese → Korean →
partOf	Japanese colonial empire →
replacedBy	Soviet Civil Administration (North) → United States Army Military Government in Korea (South) →
significantEvent	March 1st Movement repression → implementation of wartime mobilization policies in the late 1930s →
startTime	1910-10-01 →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jirō Minami → Koiso Kuniaki → Minami Jirō → Saitō Makoto → Terauchi Masatake → Yamanashi Hanzō →	positionHeld
Korea under Japanese rule →	administeredBy
United States Army Military Government in Korea ("Government-General of Korea") →	followed
Military Governor of Korea ("Japanese Governor-General of Korea") →	follows
Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty →	implementedBy
Government-General Building →	occupant
Resident-General of Korea →	relatedOffice
Imperial Ordinances of Japan →	relatedTo
Resident-General of Korea →	replacedBy