ABSTRACT
JUDICIAL OPPRESSION AFTER the country was formally annexed, all the impediments which had hitherto stood in the way of Japanese administrative policy were swept aside. Extraterritoriality was abolished, and foreign residents, who had enjoyed the protection of their own Governments, were placed along with the Koreans under Japanese laws. General Seiki Terauchi, the former Minister of War of Japan, came to Korea to assume the title of the GovernorGeneral of Korea. He is a professional militarist by training and experience and an ardent believer in the policy of carrying out the will of Dai Nippon by sword and fire. He was given unlimited power by the Japanese Government to accomplish this end. He was made responsible neither to the Cabinet nor to the Diet, but only to the Emperor of Japan. Nominally, important measures adopted by him in his administration of Korea had to be approved by the Emperor before they became permanent, but not a single act of his was ever vetoed
by the Emperor. Thus, he was, in practice, the lawgiver, the chief executive, the commanderin-chief of army and navy, and the highest tribunal.
