Sōshi-kaimei
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Sōshi-kaimei was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with
Announcement of the sōshi-kaimei policy issued by the Taikyu court, written bilingually in Japanese and Korean, in a special parallel style in which hanja/kanji were printed only once and were "shared" by the hangul and kana texts
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa
Kim Suk-won (general)
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Kim Suk-won was a Korean officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Kim was one of the highest-ranking ethnic Koreans in the Japanese Army during the Second World War. He later became
Sōshi-kaimei
…after the Red Army liberated South Sakhalin, and up to the present day have been unable to revert their legal names to their original Korean ones. Kim Suk-won (金錫源), a.k.a. Kaneyama Shakugen (金山錫源), Major General in the Imperial Japanese Army Park Chung-hee (朴正熙), a.k.a. Takagi Masao (高木正雄), Lieutenant in the…
Kim Suk-won in 1955