Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

Abstract

The award-winning book from Professor David Fedman, a historian at the University of California Irvine, is a thoroughly researched journey through the fascinat-ing history of a perhaps less familiar aspect of colonial Korea. The book begins with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter (University of Colorado Boulder) that informs readers of the many complexities of the historical developments related to forest management, policy, research, and economics during Korea ’ s colonial period. The Japanese occupiers were not merely concerned with enlarging business opportunities and pro fi t from the extensive forests on the Korean peninsula