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contempt for Japan have used the foundations that Japan laid during

the colonial period to further industrialization. Japan's colonization

of Korea is critical in underezding what enabled Korea to

industrialize in the period since 1961.

Japan's program of colonial industrialization is unique in

the world. Japan was the only colonizer to locate various heavy

industry is in its colonies. By 1945 the industrial plants in Korea

accounted for about a quarter of Japan's industrial base. Japan's

colonization of Korea was therefore much more comparable to the

relationship between England and Ireland then that of European

colonization of Asia or Africa. Japan's push to create colonial

industry lead Japan to build a vast network of railroads, ports, and a

system of hydro-electric dams and heavy industrial plants around the

Yalu River in what is now North Korea. The Japanese to facilitate and

manage the industrialization of a colony also put in place a strong

infrastructure, urbanized the nation, educated much of the populace,

of them were educated in Japanese schools, and became either involved

of the heavy industrial plants were either located in North Korea or

rates of the communist countries, and its cities were on par with

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