Month: January 2022

Philosophy

Editorial says the unity of god and man realized by the Japanese Imperial Way cannot be found anywhere else in the world, so Imperial Japan must ‘turn the world into a single realm, let all nations take their places, and let all people rest in peace’ starting with the colonization of Korea

2022-01-30

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) March 6, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula By

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As a child, one Korean father was tormented by Japanese teachers who berated him as ‘an idiot who can’t understand Japanese’, so he and his wife imposed the Japanese language on their six children to make sure they did not suffer the same trauma that he did (Seoul, 1942)

2022-01-28

351

Notes: (Top row right-to-left): father Kametsuru (41), mother Su-in (37), daughter Ranhime/Ran-hee (4). (Bottom row right-to-left): daughter Eihime/Young-hee (14),

Military

Part 1 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, and guards were told to teach the POWs to “recognize the superiority of the Japanese people and to make them respect the Japanese Empire from the bottom of their hearts”

2022-01-24

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Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard

Prisoners of War

Part 2 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, who were called “masses of materialism with little spiritual cultivation” and “mentally retarded people” whom the guards had to “splendidly guide and subdue”

2022-01-24

339

Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard

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1943 editorial calls for Korean language to be wiped out, says Korean comfort women were touched by the noble appearance and hearts of the Imperial Japanese soldiers, and the women offered heartfelt comfort in response as their chests filled with excitement, their sincere hearts touching each other

2022-01-18

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Notes: This editorial article from 1943 explicitly and blatantly calls for the Korean language to be “wiped out”. Here

Model Korean Family

In 1942, one pro-Imperial Japan Korean family went to great lengths to force Japanese on their children, scolding a son for informally learning some basic Korean at school, making sure their Korean-speaking grandmother visiting them in Seoul from Kaesong did not influence them too much

2022-01-14

318

Notes: I think the family may have provided an older photo of themselves, because the children look much younger

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In 1942, Matsumoto Chitei reportedly became the first Korean woman ever to earn a Medical Ph.D., all while raising three children; she discovered at Seoul University that the midbrain of the toad had a cardiovascular center which regulated heart rate

2022-01-11

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Notes: This article says that Dr. Matsumoto Chitei became the first Korean woman to earn a Medical Ph.D. degree.

Military

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill crying over the Fall of Singapore in 1942, “If we had only listened to Japan during last fall’s negotiations, we wouldn’t be in such grief”

2022-01-10

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Notes: The sign on the right says “New version of Sankatsu and Hanshichi at the Bar”. This refers to an

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In 1942, pro-Imperial Japanese Korean parents boasted that their six children born and raised in Korea could not understand a word of Korean, because they ‘bit to death’ any Korean words which might accidentally slip out of their mouths, for which they were laughed at by other Koreans

2022-01-06

270

Mr. Minami, who is mentioned in this article as the Governor and the Father of the Korean peninsula, refers