This 1924 report on the ‘Korean Labourer Issue’ from the Research Office of Social Bureau of Osaka City contains much data on imperial labour dyanmics. Note how the max. wage for a Korean workman is still below the min. wage for his Japanese counterpart: https://t.co/dDa43SD6W2 https://t.co/6b9SB8pUt2
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