Japanese rule generated pervasive distrust through opaque collaboration

Evidence

The policy nevertheless had a price. The changes in the society, the moving of peasants from the land, the emergence of an industrial working class and the consequent and rapid urbanization generated tensions which came to the surface in a series of outbursts between 1945 and the start of the war on the peninsula in 1950. The nature of the Japanese administration also produced a pervasive distrust. No one knew who had been colluding and collaborating with whom. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1634

Categorization

• XREF: The collapse of mutual knowledge about who collaborated resembles the monitoring failure in Saramago’s blindness — where invisible complicity corrodes trust.