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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?"
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