Japanese annexation of Korea

Quality:

Japanese annexation of Korea - forced acquisition and appropriation of Korea and its sovereignty by Japan from 1910 to 1945. Article “Japanese annexation of Korea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Japanese annexation of Korea”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 356 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1749 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1893 in July 2019
• Global: #7335 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5412 in March 2025
• Global: #12200 in August 2019

There are 5 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 韓国併合		50.8554
2	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản sáp nhập Đại Hàn		38.4388
3	Chinese (zh) 日韓合併		24.2359
4	Simple English (simple) Japanese annexation of Korea		23.056
5	Korean (ko) 한일병합		7.4064

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 韓国併合		4 045 205
2	Chinese (zh) 日韓合併		412 263
3	Korean (ko) 한일병합		155 049
4	Simple English (simple) Japanese annexation of Korea		3 963
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản sáp nhập Đại Hàn		487

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 韓国併合		10 157
2	Chinese (zh) 日韓合併		2 136
3	Korean (ko) 한일병합		802
4	Simple English (simple) Japanese annexation of Korea		88
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản sáp nhập Đại Hàn		19

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 韓国併合		261
2	Chinese (zh) 日韓合併		62
3	Korean (ko) 한일병합		26
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản sáp nhập Đại Hàn		4
5	Simple English (simple) Japanese annexation of Korea		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 韓国併合		2
2	Korean (ko) 한일병합		0
3	Simple English (simple) Japanese annexation of Korea		0
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản sáp nhập Đại Hàn		0
5	Chinese (zh) 日韓合併		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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