japanese-imperial

Updated: May 26, 2025

That superfluity of naughtiness that has given character to the current German Imperial policy in Belgium, e.g., or that similarly has characterised the dealings of Imperial Japan in Korea during the late "benevolent assimilation" of that people into Japanese-Imperial usufruct, is not fairly to be taken to indicate what such an Imperial establishment may be expected to do with a subject people on a footing of settled and long-term exploitation.

Thorstein Veblen - An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation