Credit to Kawata Masahiro’s PhD dissertation (Otemae University, 2016) which provides a detailed reception history of Italian fascism in Japan: https://t.co/MiT4Mzx79y
He was the one who found these first mentions, I just checked his sources on Kikuzô, the Asahi Shimbun database
That is, Yamamoto Miono thought that the ideal future everyone had in mind for Korea was that it’ll be allowed to become a dominion like the British did for Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Source: 山本美越乃『植民政策研究』(弘文堂書房、1920年)、223頁 https://t.co/Hk9IIjcRCH
In this speech from 1914, Goto Shinpei opines that the Japanese rule of Taiwan was initially a failure because his predecessors had emulated the way the French ruled Algeria, whereas he and Kodama had created a policy tailored to their specific situation: https://t.co/dBv5JANduL https://t.co/UJ4S3EKL61