In 1906 the Japanese imperialists drafted "regulations on certification of lands and dwellings" to freely plunder Korea of its lands and establish a legal order.

On this basis they worked out "regulations on certification of land and real estate" in defence of the landownership of the Japanese residents, thus helping them own lands by law.

The Japanese imperialists also promulgated "regulations on land and real estate" in November 1906 and "regulations on mortgage execution of land and real estate" in 1907 with an aim to exercise the exclusive right to the transfer of the landownership in Korea. This provided a legal condition for the Japanese usurers and bankers to gain even the landownership through usury.

The land pillage was intensified under the pretext of "land investigation" entering in the 1910s.

The Japanese promulgated the "Land Survey Act" in August 1912 in which the land tenure relations previously recognized by the Korean feudal government were declared null and void and only those "approved" by them after being "declared" were pronounced as "legally valid".

The Japanese imperialists resorted to not only public ways but also various deceptive means to plunder lands.

The lands they usurped from Korean peasants through the investigation totaled over million hectares.

In 1921 Japanese landowners accounted for 54 percent among big landowners with more than 100 hectares, an increase from 20 percent in 1911.

The massive land pillage by the Japanese imperialists through all kinds of colonial evil laws forced the Korean peasants to suffer from severe hunger and poverty.

The Japanese imperialists should be made to pay to the Korean people for all the generations to come for those hideous crimes.