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.What the daily presses report as themalign acts of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms mer-chants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations. In1910, without official exception, the international arena applauded Japan fortaking up what it perceived and with all the racist implications intended forhow it was perceived as the yellow man s burden, in a whitish sort of way.Along with renaming the country (Kankoku became Chösen in the kanji worldbut usefully remained Korea in other international documents), the Japa-nese renamed their presence there to the elevated stature of Governor Gen-eral (Sötokufu).In international terms, a Governor Generalship (extant inIndia, Algeria, and the Philippines at the time, for example) declared full col-onization.On 1 September 1910, Terauchi sponsored elaborate ceremonies inSeoul for de-emperoring Sunjong and remaking him into a king.Althoughthe Ministry of Finance in Tokyo continued to reckon Japanese trade with and 120 Japan s Colonization of Koreainvestment in Korea as foreign, the Governor General changed the Koreancalendar to accord with Japanese imperial reign-years.On 1 January 1912,Japan even aligned Korea to its time zone, where it remains today.After August 1910, Japanese and Koreans were theoretically ruled by thesame laws in Korea with useful giant loopholes, of course but in orderfor Japan to be recognized as the legal ruler of Korea, Japan needed to incor-porate the other foreigners there into their terms of law.71 In the early yearsof the annexation, the Japanese press and popular literature often referred toKoreans as cousins and half-siblings (lit., children of a different womb).The Japanese in Korea remained Japanese or mainlanders. Japanese werenot foreigners, but foreign foreigners still were.On 29 August 1910, a week after Terauchi Masatake and Yi Wanyong sealedthe Treaty of Annexation between Japan and Korea, the Japanese governmentissued a full explanation of the treaty s provisions.72 The physical space of thepeninsula was now a part of Japan, and any agreements that Korea had madewith the Powers were invalid (mukö).Moreover, all foreigners residing inKorea [were now] subject to Japanese jurisdiction. Although the Koreans werenot redefined as Japanese, legally the Japanese were no longer foreign. TheAmerican ambassador to Japan, Thomas J.O Brien, requested a more detailedexplanation concerning the meaning of the note generated by the 29 Augustmeeting.On 6 October 1910, Foreign Minister Komura Jutarö wrote theambassador a lengthy response, emphasizing that the modern judiciary sys-tem of Japan has been put into actual operation in Korea to the extent that inall cases in which foreigners are interested as plaintiffs, defendants, or accused,the organization of the competent Courts and the qualifications of the sittingJudges, are essentially the same as in Japan Proper. 73 At this, no foreign Powerformally approved of Japan s assertion of legal control over foreign subjectsor citizens, but none issued any protest.The ultimate decision to recognize Japanese law as legal in Korea wastightly interwoven with international perceptions of criminal due process andthe eradication of the practice of torture, true to Boissonade s ultimatum inthe 1870s.The so-called conspiracy to assassinate Governor General Terau-chi known in Korean history as the 105 Persons Incident forced thequestion of extraterritoriality onto center and world stage.In the autumn of 1911, the Governor General began an all-out effort to round up the usual suspects, investigating an alleged (or wholly fabricated)attempt to kill him the previous December.At the time, Terauchi was on tourof the northern area of Korea to display himself as the new ruler of Korea
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