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Modern Japan hist 211: Essay question 5: The Japanese state used doka (assimilation) and kominka (imperalization) to facilitate its colonial project in Korea. The two policies employed by Japan were not effective in the colonisation of Korea. To facilitate the two policies Japan used military forces, complete government domination and the elimination of the Korean culture. These tactics led to extensive social unrest amongst the Koreans and consequently numerous riots and protests were actioned against the Japanese state as well as the assassination of a Japanese general and the destruction of a number of Japanese infrastructures. These demonstrations emphasis that Japan’s attempts to colonise Korea were ineffective. Japan employed both doka and kominka on Korea as an attempt to exert itself as a world power and to provide personal security. After the humiliating triple intervention in 1876 the Japanese government wanted to become a strong nation-state equal to the Western powers. The Meiji government felt that in order for Japan to become a great nation it need to accumulate an empire. Korea was strategically important to Japan because of its proximity. Korea had been viewed as the ‘dagger pointing out from Chi