Sōshi-kaimei
Sign in to savewas a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.
Key facts
- Korean name/auto.image
- Japanese_Name_Change_Bulletin_of_Taikyu_Court.jpg
- Korean name/auto.caption
- Announcement of the policy issued by the Taikyu court, written bilingually in Japanese and Korean, in a special parallel style in which hanja/kanji were printed only once and were "shared" by the hangul and kana texts
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- ^조선 성명 복구령
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 朝鮮姓名復舊令
- Korean name/auto.lk
- Create a surname () and change (your) given name
- Korean name/auto.title
- Name Restoration Order
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cultural assimilation
- Subclass of
- name change
- Part of
- Japanization
- Country
- Korea under Japanese rule
- Image
- Japanese Name Change Bulletin of Taikyu Court.jpg
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- native label
- 일본식 성명 강요
- start time
- 1940-02-11
- end time
- 1945-08-15
- Commons category
- Sōshi-kaimei
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Order No. 124
- Ordinances No. 19 and 20
- Disadvantages if refused/opted out
- Employment
- Education
- Healthcare and public services
- Restoration of original names
- Name registration of prominent individuals
- Those who took or were given a Japanese-style name
- Those who retained their Korean-style name
- Timeline of family registration procedures in Korea
- See also
- Notes
- References
was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.
It consisted of two parts. The first was the 1939 Ordinance No. 19, which required , literally "creation of a ; see bon-gwan. The second was the 1940 Ordinance No. 20, which permitted (change of one's given name). These ordinances, issued by Governor-General Jirō Minami, effectively reversed an earlier government order which forbade Koreans to take up Japanese names.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sōshi-kaimei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.