Governor-General of Korea
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During the period between 1910 and 1945 there were Governors-General of Korea, who represented the Japanese government.
According to Korean legal thought, de jure sovereignty was not transferred to the Emperor of Japan with the forced end of the Joseon dynasty, such that the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea became the de jure government of the Korean people from 1919 to 1948, and the foreign governors merely exercised de facto rule for the period.
After the Japanese defeat in World War II Korea came under US and Soviet control. After 1948, power passed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
Residents-General in Korea
From 1905 to 1910 Korea was a protectorate of Japan and Japan was represented by a Resident-General.
- Prince Ito Hirobumi (1905–1909)
- Viscount Sone (1909)
- Count Terauchi Masatake (1909–1910)
Governors-General of Korea
- Count Terauchi Masatake (1910–1916)
- Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa (1916–1919)
- Viscount Makoto Saito (1919–1927)
- General Kazushige Ugaki (1927)
- General Hanzo Yamanashi (1927–1929)
- Viscount Saito (second time 1929–1931)
- General Kazushige Ugaki (second time 1931–1936)
- General Jiro Minami (1936–1942)
- Kuniaki Koiso (1942–1944)
- Nobuyuki Abe (1944–1945)
See also
- Governor-General of Taiwan
- Rulers of Korea
- List of Korea-related topics
- Governor-General of Karafuto
- Governor-General of Kwantung
- Governor-General of South Pacific Mandate
External links
- [Rulers]
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