North and South Korea are nations that while filled with .
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 .
central government. .
Although Japan's colonial industrialism in Korea was aimed at .
advancing Japanese policies and goals and not those of the Korean .
populace; colonization left Korea with distinct advantages over other .
developing countries at the end of World War Two. Korea was left with .
a base for industrializing, a high level of literacy, experience with .
modern commerce, and close ties to Japan. Japan's colonial heavy .
industrial plants were located primarily around the Yalu River in .
North Korea. Because of this the North had an edge in .
industrialization. For many years the North had the fastest growth .
rates of the communist countries, and its cities were on par with .
those of Eastern Europe. It was not until the early 1970's that the .
South surpassed the North in levels of industrialization. Because most .
of the heavy industrial plants were either located in North Korea or .
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