そうしかいめい

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Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of そうしかいめい – see the following entry.
創氏改名
[proper noun] (historical) A 1939 Japanese government policy applied to then Korean colony which forced Koreans to change their surnames to Japanese-style surnames; abolished in 1945.
(This term, そうしかいめい (sōshikaimei), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)