Emperor Hirohito
Japanese took over Korea because Japan is an island and they have risk of being drawn and they also have many natural disasters, while Korea is a land with three sides next to ocean, and one connected to large country China. Natural disasters didn't happen often and Korea had good environmental condition.
Nobody South Korea is a inpendent country
Japan took over total control of Korea.
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Koguryu
Japan never took Liancourt Rocks, also known as Dokdo or Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese. The island is administered by South Korea and has been since 1954, though there continues to be contention between Japan and Korea over which country Laincort Rocks belongs to.
During the first part of 1945 Korea was occupied by Japanese forces. The Soviet Union took power from the Japanese however and finally American forces got involved.
Portuguese, British, Dutch, and Japanese.
In 1910, the Japanese took over Korea and occupied it until the defeat in WW2, therefore the involvement of Korea would have been resources to the Japanese War Machine. Part of the Allies. Some would argue that they didn't declare war and they remained neutral, because Korea was controlled by Japan and didn't have any form of government until 1919 it meant that once Japan went to war, any provinces under Japanese rule effectively went to war, just like the British Empire.
Queen Victoria was the queen when the British took over Kenya.
A new king took over.
No, theU.S. took control of South Korea. It's the Soviets who took control of North Korea.