Editing March First Movement (section)

=== Japanese statistics ===
One Japanese police report claimed that there were 1,214 protests with 1.1 million participants; South Korean historian Kwon Tae-eok argued that Japanese sources were incentivized to artificially lower these numbers, and evaluated Park's estimate as plausible.{{Sfn|Kwon|2018|pp=115–116}}

From March 1 to April 11, Japanese officials reported 553 people killed, and more than 12,000 arrested. They said that 8 policemen and military were killed, and 158 wounded.<ref>{{Cite book |title=East Asia : a cultural, social, and political history |year=1947 |author=Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Walthall, Anne|isbn=9781133606475|edition=Third|location=Boston |oclc=811729581}}</ref> Japanese soldiers were harmed during the protests, with a number of deaths and over a hundred wounded.<ref name="Japan Focus" />