A hanging scroll with calligraphy believed to have been brushed by Hirobumi Ito, Japan's first prime minister and the architect of its colonization of the Korean Peninsula, has surfaced in South Korea after being kept for decades by an owner who feared making it public could see him branded a collaborator with colonial rule.A former South Korean lawmaker who recently obtained the scroll from the family of the late owner disclosed its existence to Kyodo News, saying Japanese and South Korean specialists have concluded the kanji characters on the scroll were almost certainly brushed by Ito (1…READ FULL ARTICLE
