Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda
In April 1938, a 22-member Italian Fascist delegation visited Korea from the afternoon of April 23 until the evening of
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In November 1935, three American missionaries defied Imperial Japan’s order to worship at a Shinto Shrine in Pyongyang. George McCune
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These two photos from 1943 and 1944 capture scenes inside Seoul streetcars during the Japanese colonial period, as passengers bow
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This article illustrates an example of the brutal “summary trials” carried out in connection with mass police sweeps against black-market
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By early 1944, months before Japan formally promulgated the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps Ordinance in August 1944, reports from colonial
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On August 23, 1944, Imperial Japan promulgated the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps Ordinance. This ordinance gave the state a formal
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During World War II, Imperial Japan banned the use of shortwave radios, which tech savvy Koreans were apparently using to
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The thirteen members of the German newspaper delegation, who had arrived in Seoul on the Akatsuki at 1:35 p.m. on
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On this day, General Nakamura, accompanied by Chief of Staff Kitano, Director of the Press Department Katsuo, and other staff
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In May 1939, Imperial authorities selected 29 of the best and brightest elementary schoolchildren from across Korea and “rewarded” them
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