Yes
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China
Influence on the government, language, writing, and art.
China influenced Japan through alphabet and i believe religion. The original Japanese people (The Ainu people) migrated from Korea.
Influence on the government, language, writing, and art.
Japan was already seperated from China from the start, and Korea became seperated from mainland China by Japanese influence expanding in Korea after Sino-Japanese war in 1895.
Due to it's close proximity and influence by China, Japan (who was at this point an emerging regional power) saw the Chinese-influenced Korea as a threat to Japan's Imperial expansion.
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Korea is a buffer state between China and Japan. It has historically played a strategic role in balancing the influence of these two neighboring countries in the region.
China
Japan broadened it's sphere of influence to include to Korea
Japan gained control of Korea in 1910, following the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, which formally annexed Korea as a Japanese colony. This followed a period of increasing Japanese influence over Korea, particularly after the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Japan's rule over Korea lasted until the end of World War II in 1945.