“The New Age Has Arrived”: Imperial Japanese...

Imperial Japanese penal officials brag about brainwashing...

Tourist groups visiting the historical sites of...

As food shortages deepened in Korea by...

Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee featured in...

Propaganda articles say Koreans men are cowards...

In June 1944, the Japanese military gave...

Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps”...

Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to...

Spotlight on 1943 Seoul: A Glimpse into...

This Japanese teacher devoted a decade of...

Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...

‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each...

Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean...

A look into the foreign films showing...

Month: March 2022

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Korean family of radio broadcasting official lived under the Samurai code, spoke only Japanese, and taught their children kenshibu (interpretive dance with katana sword performed to poetry) (Gye-dong Seoul 1942)

2022-03-28

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(Notes) Back row, left-to-right: mother Keiko (38), son Kenkichi, daughters Eiko (18), Akiko (15), father Shōsei/Changseong (창성) (45) Front

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Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp at Songdo, Incheon in the summer of 1943, learning to become “healthy mothers of Japan the Oceanic Nation”

2022-03-20

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(Notes) Duksung Women’s Vocational School was also featured in two other articles previously featured in this blog: this one from August 22,

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A Korean father spent 8 years looking for the right prospective husband who only spoke Japanese and was a “true Imperial subject” to marry his eldest daughter, who was the only child who could speak Korean, while her 3 younger sisters spoke only Japanese (Yeongdeungpo, 1942)

2022-03-11

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Notes: Back row left-to-right: father Manjirō (~42), mother Taeko (~35), daughter Hatsuko (~14). Front row left-to-right: daughters Sadako (~5),

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In April 1919, two Imperial Japanese soldiers were disarmed and knocked unconscious in a village in Pyeongsan-gun by 100 protestors, who tied them up for families of deceased protestors to kill, then freed by the ward leader who feared retaliation, only for reinforcements to arrest 20 protestors

2022-03-03

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Notes: The events in this article take place in Pyeongsan-gun in what is now North Korea. The incident happened on April 8,