Thank you @mental-exract for your insightful comment. It was a miserable time. I look around the streets of affluence and relative peace one century later and see that history can be easily forgotten or covered up. Korea bore this pain or oppression. You are right the young imperial soldiers were also manipulated and taken advantage and used to terrorize others. And the answer cannot be fighting. The answer is not within the lines a ruler draws out. The answer comes in reconciliation. The 70 years were given as a time of healing but we still have a long way to go to welcome brothers and sisters.