Korea Japan (China) fact of the day

…the most significant destruction on the Korean Peninsula was wrought by the Japanese invasions of the late sixteenth century.  Nearly two million Koreans, a staggering 20 percent of the population, perished during the Imjin Wars, Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaigns of 1592-1598 to subjugate the Korean Peninsula.  Hideyoshi’s object was the conquest of Ming China (1368-1644) but the result was to turn Korea into a ruined land.

That is from the new and interesting The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, by Sheila Miyoshi Jager.