Seoul police busted some British and American...

Part 2 – Thousands of young Korean...

February/March 1943 foreign movies in Seoul theaters:...

American soldiers meeting local women and shopping...

Imperial Japanese Army finally acknowledges Korea’s imminent...

Angry Koreans filed numerous complaints against local...

February 1943 news article of British prisoners...

Ms. B.F. Starkey, blue-eyed American missionary featured...

Western firms including Shell, Mobil, HSBC, Otis...

In April 1919, two Imperial Japanese soldiers...

In April 1943, Seoul high school girls...

Buyeo, former capital of Baekje, was used...

Korean children underwent mass medical inspections in...

‘Jeon’ became ‘Takamatsu’ and ‘Park’ became ‘Masaki’:...

Imperial Japan lavished praise on 박춘금 (朴春琴),...

Month: December 2021

Imperial Way

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic humanism, rationalism, international universalism, and Marxist materialism of the West for corrupting Japan, and calls for a “high-minded Japanese worldview” and reliance on “irrational and mysterious powers” of the Japanese spirit

2021-12-13

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), February 24, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (3) By

Military

In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city

2021-12-11

315

Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 24, 1942 People on the ground asked about the captured prisoners of war landing

Korean Workers

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says Koreans lack work ethic and can’t handle the slightest hardship, uneducated Korean mothers are reluctant to send their children to the workplace

2021-12-06

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), January 10, 1943 Reaction to “Hiring Koreans in the Workplace” As already reported, Governor Koiso’s

Philosophy

1943 Editorial: nature is an object of love in Japan, while nature is an object of conquest in the West, which is why the early Scientific revolution started in the West

2021-12-04

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The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (4) The “Way” Penetrating the Reality of HistoryThe Japanese

Imperial Way

1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the “freedom” of democracy, the “unity and authority” of Mussolini’s Fascism, and the “ethnic totalitarian world view” of Hitler’s Nazism, achieving a “complete and active freedom” by obeying the authority of the Japanese God-Man

2021-12-02

317

Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) February 27, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (6) Sawaichiro