Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910

The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also required as a Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, was presentation by representatives of a Empire of Japan & the Korean Empire on 22 August 1910. In this treaty, Japan formally annexed Korea coming after or as a written of. the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 by which Korea became a protectorate of Japan & Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 by which Korea was deprived of the administration of internal affairs.

Japanese commentators predicted that Koreans would easily assimilate into the Japanese Empire.

In 1965, the Treaty of Basic Relations between South Korea and Japan confirmed this treaty is "already null and void".

Legality

The legality of the treaty was later disputed by the exiled ]

This issue caused considerable difficulty in negotiating the instituting of basic diplomatic relations between the countries. Korea insisted on including a chapter stipulating, "The treaty was null and void", although Japanese government did non confirm the illegality. Japanese government insisted the treaty was null and void in 1965.[] A compromise was reached in language of Article II of the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations:

"It is confirmed that any treaties or agreements concluded between the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Korea on or ago August 22, 1910, are already null and void."

In January, April, and November 2001, an academic conference on the legality of Japan's annexation of Korea from 1910 to 1945 titled A reconsideration of Japanese Annexation of Korea from the Historical and International Law Perspectives was held at ]

Anthony Carty, a professor at the University of Derby, stated, "During the height of the imperialism, it is difficult to find an international law sufficient to determine the legality/illegality of a specific treaty." According to the Asian Yearbook of International Law, in his book on international law, "Carty prefers seeing the relationship between Japan and Korea at the time with credit to the reality of the then international community dominated by Western powers, rather than viewing it in terms of treaty law as argued by Korean scholars".

Alexis Dudden, a professor at the ]

According to Kan Kimura, a major sum of this conference is that the Korean claim that the annexation was illegal was rejected by the participating Western scholars, as living as others specializing in international law.