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The Japanese colonial authority issued the new forestry policy at the beginning of colonial rule by suggesting the principles of Sustained Yield Management, which means maintaining sustainable development. Japanese Governor-General of Chosun carried out that policy in an irregular manner that marked schematic role division between national forests as cutover zone and civil-owned forest as planting area. Under this policy, Governor-General of Chosun forced forest owners to plant trees, while logging national forests aggressively. In 1930’ Japan's forestry policy for civil owned forest switched off from the principles of Sustained Management to promoting forest production as arising the ambition to invade the chinese continent. In accordance with the policy change, the amounts of timber that produced in private forests had soared dramatically. Meanwhile, timber productive capacity of national forests had also continuously expanded. At late 1930’ Japanese colonial authority built the system of consignment production by establishing Chosun forestry Development Company which was civil corporation operating under the authorities supervising. As Forestry authority produced a glut of timber, vast tracts of forests had devastated. Forest denudation under the japanese colonial rule was triggered by policy-based indiscriminate felling of trees.