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Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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August 28, 1945: Colonial regime announces a...
February 1943, Seoul high school girls perform...
A Japanese author took a Busan-Seoul train...
In 1942, pro-Imperial Japanese Korean parents boasted...
In February 1943, a massive network of...
In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese...
Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...
American soldiers meeting local women and shopping...
A Korean father spent 8 years looking...
Part 1 – Thousands of young Korean...
Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic...
In October 1922, a hit squad of...
Korean family of radio broadcasting official lived...
In January 1943, the CEO of a...
Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean...

Month: November 2021

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In October 1943, Seoul high school girls make “comfort books” filled with pictures, poetry, songs, and cute dolls for Imperial Japanese soldiers fighting in the Pacific front

2021-11-30

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  Gyeongseong Ilbo, October 29, 1943 Comfort books to the front lineNew Opportunity for Seoul No. 2 High School Girls

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Korean Workers

In January 1943, the CEO of a telephone company talks frankly about the problems associated with hiring Koreans in Japan-occupied Korea

2021-11-29

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  Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) January 13, 1943 The Growing Response to the “Employment of Koreans in the Workplace” The

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Imperial Way

March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea focusing on Korean girls in assimilation campaigns to “penetrate them with the Japanese spirit and be aggressive”

2021-11-28

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  (my translation) Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) March 31, 1943 Focus on the girlsThe Governor explains the results of his

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Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents in Kishi Nobusuke’s legacy in postwar Japan, in Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan’s legacy in South Korea, and why access to wartime newspapers of Japan-occupied Korea is important to combat historical misinformation by the far-right in both countries

2021-11-25

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In a previous post, I explained in detail the intractable movement of historical denialism and revisionism that is prevalent in

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Military

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry speech by Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea called for the “Anglo-Saxon utilitarian worldview” to be shattered and Hakko Ichiu thought to be spread across the world; his rally celebrated the war path of martyrdom and “Banzai to Holy War”

2021-11-22

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  Kuniaki Koiso was the Governor of Japan-occupied Korea from June 1942 to July 1944. He was arguably the most

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In April 1943, Seoul high school girls went to an Imperial Japanese military camp to plant a flower garden, then entertained Japanese soldiers at a “comfort party” by dancing, singing Japanese imperial military songs, and acting in Kabuki plays

2021-11-22

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  This article describes some school girls from Seoul No. 2 Girls’ High School taking a day trip to an

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In June 1944, the Japanese military gave a Burmese delegation a VIP tour of Seoul, including the local schools Japanizing Korean children (photo: Susong School in Jongno-gu, Seoul)

2021-11-22

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 In June 1944, the Japanese military gave their Burmese visitors a VIP tour of Seoul, including the local schools that

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Japanese Language

Imperial Japan waged an aggressive Japanese language campaign on Korean villages in the ’30s and ’40s, entering homes to attach Japanese labels on household objects, putting residents under 55 in mandatory classes, applying an “unyielding whip” to “break down their customs and stray dreams”

2021-11-22

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  This article from Japan-occupied Korea in 1943 describes an aggressive Japanese language campaign that was conducted in Korean villages

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Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in the Imperial Japanese military during WWII? Partly due to ominous Japanese government edicts like this one in 1943 threatening Korean students with worse treatment under punitive conscription for missing the deadline to voluntarily enlist

2021-11-22

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  On October 20, 1943, the government of Japan-occupied Korea selected certain groups of male students in Korea, like liberal

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Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps” learn Japanese tea etiquette at a naval weaponry factory in Toyama Japan, June 1944

2021-11-22

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  So this article shows an example of a Korean “women’s volunteer corps” (joshiteishintai, 女子挺身隊), one of many that were

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  • In 1945, Imperial Japan trained almost every able-bodied Korean man, woman, and child to stab Americans to death with bamboo spears in suicide combat militias under direct Imperial Army command
  • Imperial Japan banned passengers wearing chima skirts from boarding trains, escalating its campaign against traditional Korean garments in May 1945
  • “If Japan loses, Koreans will fight each other, divided by foreign powers”: June 1945 warning by Korean collaborator (박춘금, 朴春琴) who urged authorities to redirect Korean nationalism into support for Imperial Japan
  • Imperial Japan called Korean women in chima dresses ‘the most filthy and ugly sight’ and shamed them with posters captioned ‘there are still women like these’ (April 1945)
  • Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to theaters instead of preparing for invasion (March 1945)

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