The Japanese in Korea mostly lived inside their own communities which were separate from Korean residences. Their blood ties, regionalism, and old school ties were important when they tried to settle in Korea, a strange land. The Japanese in Korea promoted friendship with each other by forming meetings of hometown friends and establishing statues of influential Japanese people. They also tried to find or reproduce a Japanese-like landscape in Korea in order to deal with homesickness or promote friendship with other Japanese. For example, they called one mountain in the Korean border region the “Fuji Mountain of Kando”, saying that it resembled Fuji mountain in Tokyo. They also planted thousands of cherry blossom trees in Jeonju and called the area “Yoshinoyama” (Mount Yoshino, Nara), which was considered as the most famous place for cherry blossom trees in Japan. In sum, these Japanese viewed Korea as their base, a part of Japan, rather than a base for Korean people.