the oriental development company (run by katsura taros oriental society), which is supposed to be encouraging japanese farmers to move to korea, is actually replacing yakuza groups as the main japanese landlord, in taking over family-owned korean farms. less than 50% of koreans own their own land at this point. this is an example of business practices moving from the yakuza/underworld to becoming official japanese colonial policy. 1919  world war one is over. japanese big pharma companies,who have made a mint off of selling morphine to european armies, now dump their excess supplies in the japanese colonies, serving the dual purpose of pacifying and incapacitating the colonized while making huge profits for the colonizers. in korea, japanese government outlaws opium, and legalizes morphine. in a few short years, 100,000koreans were addicted. flooding manchuria with cheap dope also pays dividends when japan finally decides to conquer manchuria in 1931. koreans again attempt to overthrow the japanese colonial government. the army suppresses them, killing around 7,000. kitano hiromi starts another sexology monthly journal: sex research (sei no kenkyuu) 1920s : modernism hits japan! movies! magazines! western fashions! cafes! flappers! jazz! many new leisure time pursuits. but all this stuff is made possible by three things: opium, karayuki, and coolie labor. in other words, semi-illegal totally exploitative industries in the colonies. the profits from which finance the modernization of japan. so even though modernism is often seen as something that filtered out from tokyo, actually it filtered into tokyo from the colonies. after all, leisure time is something you do if you have money left over to spend on fun. and that money has to come from somewhere.
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