Abstract
Abstract Chapter 3 explains why, despite the anti-Japanese immigration movements in the United States, Americans maintained a cordial inter-imperial relationship with Japan in Korea. American policymakers, diplomats, and academics believed that Koreans were not capable of self-government and needed to be under Japan’s control. So did American missionaries and Woodrow Wilson, the “missionary president” who reshaped US foreign policy based on his faith. When Koreans attempted to reclaim their national independence by appealing to American missionaries and Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, their strategy proved unsuccessful. In contrast to Europe, Asia did not witness the rise of new nation-states after World War I. While the United States continued to rule over Filipinos, Japan subdued the anticolonial movement in Korea and deployed stories of white-on-Black violence from the United States to discourage Koreans from looking up to the United States as their savior.
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