Original sentence: The Japanese wished hat they themselves were to be treated equally as a nation and be considered a great power
Edited sentence: Fair and equal treatment applied only to civilized nations and league member states and not their colonies or subject peoples.Its policies towards Koreans especially after the 1910 annexation left much to be desired.Japanese motives were not overly altruistic.The Japanese wished only that they themselves were to be treated equally as a nation and be considered a great power.The Koreans were subjected to forced assimilation, and discrimination against Koreans was justified on the grounds that they were not yet ready for equal treatment as a result of their low degree of civilization.The proposal also masked Japan's own sense of racial superiority and racial discrimination towards other Asians that existed in the Japanese Empire