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We make this declaration on the strength of five thousand years of history as an expression of the devotion and loyalty of twenty million people. We claim independence in the interest of the eternal and free development of our people, and in accordance with the great movement for world reform based on the awakening conscience of mankind.

–Document 8: Declaration of Independence,
1919

List one way the effects of the policies of Japan and Great Britain in their territories were similar, and one way they were different.

Answer 1

Similarity: Both Japan and Great Britain denied political self‑rule and used their colonies for the metropole’s benefit, suppressing nationalist movements and exploiting local economies (e.g., Korea’s 1919 Declaration protests Japanese political/economic domination; Indian nationalists protested British rule for similar reasons).

Difference: Japan tended to rule its colonies directly and assimilationistly—suppressing local language/culture and imposing Japanese institutions (as in Korea)—whereas Britain more often relied on indirect rule and cooperation with local elites and retained some local institutions while exercising political/economic control.