In particular, they forced the Korean people to change their names into Japanese ones. The aim was to exterminate the national consciousness of the Korean people. In November 1939, they established a legal foundation for it and began to compel the Koreans to use Japanese names from February in the next year.

They mobilized the police affairs department of the government-general in Korea and the police forces to compel the Koreans to put up Japanese nameplates at every house and threaten disobeyers by arms and employed all means at their disposal including "sanctions".

Those, who refused to change their names, were denied employment for any job and blamed as "recalcitrant Koreans" to come under observation by the police and gendarme or agents. And they were taken first for compulsory labor and conscription, whereas their children were not allowed to enter any school. They couldn't even buy train tickets or send goods by transport means.

Moreover, sub-county chiefs and substation policemen arbitrarily changed the names of Koreans in a bid to show "high results" in the "name-change movement".

History has witnessed lots of crimes against humanitarianism perpetrated by the imperialists in their colonies, but never such an instance as compelling even a name change.

This is, in fact, an unprecedentedly atrocious violation of human rights and the culmination of the policy of obliteration of nation without precedent in history.