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Initially, Hideyoshi felt he had nothing to fear whatsoever from the Koreans and would go as far as saying armies of the Ming “resembled helpless women in their spirit and fighting ability”. The Ming were very confident against the Japanese and following the Siege of Pyongyang, they had a healthy respect for Ming military technology (Swope). Some sources suggest that the initial reason for the invasion had to do with Japanese-Chinese relations. The Japanese were “formally expelled from the tributary system” of China following “violent altercations between Japanese trade embassies and locals” at a Chinese port. The desire to resume this trade via tributary system was one of Hideyoshi’s major reasons for starting the war (Swope). Other sources suggest that the Japanese invasion of Korea was an attempt to eventually conquer Ming dynasty China itself rather than simply establish trade relations of the past (Hwang). The main point of difficulty that the Japanese faced was the overall technological superiority of the Chinese and the Koreans which shaped the outcome of the war. Military …show more content…

Due to the resistance to the Choson leadership ,which brought the heavy taxes and excessively severe penalties upon the lower class, the commoners retaliated ferociously against the government by joining the Japanese and killing numbers of the yangban class. “As the new king comes, we are saved! We are willing to welcome the enemy forces,” emphasizes the resistance even before the Japanese invaded. Some sources claim that the violence against yangban class from the people of Korea was “far more intense and cruel than the Japanese action against the yangban had been” (Woo). Other sources mention the righteous armies which were comprised of Korean common people who came to fight the against the Japanese when the royal family was unable to protect the citizens

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