そうしかいめい

Japanese

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.)