The Japanese occupation of Korea began with the Ganghwa Treaty (1876), in which a group of authorities from the Japanese Empire gathered in order to annex the Korean territory to Japan. In 1905, they signed the Eulsa Treaty, when the Korean Empire became a Japanese protectorate. Formally, the Korean annexation was establish by the Japan-Korea Treaty, from 1910. Japanese government imposed a regime of terror upon the Korean Peninsula. Thousands of people were sent to forced labor camps, and a series of laws were created in order to erase Korean culture and induce Korean people to integrate Japanese culture. Korean language and literature were banned, and Korean families were obligated to baptize their children with Japanese names.