Japanization of Korea

If Japan were to maintain its hold over Korea until, say, 1995, such as by averting a war with China or the United States that would draw it into any potential world war, to what extent would she be able to fully assimilate and Japanize Korea?

I recently read a striking statement by a Korean author about how, after liberation after WWII, signs proclaiming the news were printed in both Korean and Japanese because "had they only been printed in Korean, not enough people would have been able to read them." AFAIK, Korean was still the lingua franca for the vast majority of Koreans, but because of Japanese control of the educational system, and different writing systems, the extent to which most Koreans could write in their own language was very limited (a problem exacerbated by low literacy among most Koreans).

So, if Japan retained control over Korea for several decades more, and was reasonably stable, would Korea effectively have been "Japanized through education?"
 
Japanization would have taken effective control over Korea if they didn't lose it, but there will always be a Korean analogue to the Polish Underground State where all forms of Korean culture are preserved covertly.
 
Japanization would have taken effective control over Korea if they didn't lose it, but there will always be a Korean analogue to the Polish Underground State where all forms of Korean culture are preserved covertly.

The example of Poland is rather telling.

The problem is the Soviets at least allowed it to labor under the veneer of being an independent state, and Japan's presence in Korea made no serious effort to disguise its colonial intentions.

Korea is a large, populous piece of land with a treacherous landscape that could easily support a guerrilla resistance. Japan's presence in Korea was pretty much an entirely exploitative one: a resource-deficient state extracted the coal and labor of a comparatively well-off area and it all went for Japanese benefit. That really isn't a recipe for a long-lasting presence.
 
The example of Poland is rather telling.

The problem is the Soviets at least allowed it to labor under the veneer of being an independent state, and Japan's presence in Korea made no serious effort to disguise its colonial intentions.

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I think he was refering to the pre 1914 Polish territories of the Russian, German, and Austrian empires. There were various programs pr policies among those three to replace or marginalize Polish culture.

Another anology might be efforts in the southwestern US to replace Hispanic culture, or the native American cultures across the US. English efforts to marginalize Welsh, Irish, or other Celtic derived cultures is yet another anology.
 
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