The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910.(Twentieth Century Japan: The emergence of a world power
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An examination of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of itscolonial possessions. The book shows how Japan's drive for empire waspart of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic and strategicequal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treatysettlement on it.