Sōshi-kaimei

Sōshi-kaimei
	Announcement of the Sōshi-kaimei policy issued by the Taikyu court, written bilingually in Japanese and Korean, in a special parallel style in which hanja/kanji were printed only once and were "shared" by the hangul and kana texts
Korean name
Hangul	창씨개명
Hanja	創氏改名
Revised Romanization	Changssigaemyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'angssigaemyŏng
	Literal meaning: "Create a surname (shi) and change (your) given name).

Sōshi-kaimei (Japanese: 創氏改名, Korean: 일본식 성명 강요) was a policy of pressuring Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names and identify as such. The primary reason for the policy was to forcibly assimilate Koreans, as was done with the Ainu and the Ryukyuans. The Sōshi-kaimei has been deemed by historians as one of the many aspects of cultural genocide that the Japanese attempted to impose on their non-Japanese territories.

It consisted of two parts. The first was the 1939 Ordinance No. 19, which required sōshi, literally "creation of a family name" (氏, shi); see bon-gwan. The second was the 1940 Ordinance No. 20, which permitted kaimei (change of one's given name). These ordinances, issued by Governor-General Jirō Minami, effectively reversed an earlier government order which forbade Koreans to take up Japanese names.

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