Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently the pro-Communist League of Korean Residents in Japan announced that 117,000 of Japan's Koreans had signed a petition saying they wanted to go to Communist North Korea. Though Japanese police believe that only 43,000 actually signed their names (and most of these signatures were bought by the league at $15 apiece from Koreans who needed the cash), Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama seized upon the idea...
...been trying to patch up Seoul's quarrels with Tokyo, so that the nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
...Spirit of Democracy." Blandly, Foreign Minister Fujiyama last month announced that "on humanitarian grounds, all Koreans in Japan wishing to go to North Korea will be allowed to do so.'' The Red Cross would be invited to find out how many really wanted to go to North Korea, and to take charge of transporting them. "All we are doing." said Tokyo, "is acting in accordance with the true spirit of democracy...
Rhee was furious. He ordered his emissaries to break off negotiations with Tokyo. Crowds chanting "Down with Japanese Imperialism" shouldered through Seoul's streets. Opposition Democrats, dropping their fight against Rhee's harsh new police law, proclaimed their solidarity with the government against "Japan's unilateral and inhuman plan to send Koreans to Red slavery...
...State Department expressed its concern lest "the situation degenerate to the point where hostilities will break out." And just as the situation seemed to be degenerating further, Syngman Rhee's government belatedly offered, after all, to "accept all Koreans in Japan-provided the Japanese government gives them suitable compensation...