日本通史殖民-Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie: The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1987)

Western nations," the politician and journalist Takekoshi Yosaburo (竹越與三郎)declared, "have long believed that on their shoulders alone rested the responsibility of colonizing the yet-unopened portions of the globe and extending to the inhabitants the benefits of civilization; but now we Japanese, rising from the ocean in the extreme Orient, which as a nation to take part in this great and glorious work." 【p83】他说，长期以来西方国家总认为开拓世界的任务只落在他们肩上，而如今我们日本从极东之地崛起，也能够加入他们，开始这项伟大的征程。

The new Japanese expertise on colonial matters flourished within a growing confidence in imperial success following the nation's victory over Russia which not only augmented the territorial limits of the empire (with acquisition of southern Sakhalin and the Liaotung peninsula) but, in terms of status, raised Japan to the ranks of the major colonial powers. 【p87】从事殖民事业的日本新专家从战胜沙俄之后获得了许多民族自信，得到库页岛和辽东半岛后日本帝国的领土扩张了，同时使日本得以跻身于主要的殖民国家。

With the outbreak of Japan's war in China, Korea was increasingly pressed into the role of a logistical base for Japanese military operations on the continent and its industrial plants converted to the task of keeping Japan's armies in China supplied with the sinews of war.[p33] 中日开战后，韩国就成了日本在大陆上的供给，同时工厂的工作重心也转向支持日本对华作战。