Imperial Army general describes crowded movie theaters...

Dehumanization in Colonial Korea, 1943: Branding Koreans...

The Korean people were allegedly descendants of...

A Japanese author took a Busan-Seoul train...

As food shortages deepened in Korea by...

Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean...

This Korean father made sure his family...

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

Koreans generally used to make their own...

Propaganda editorials about Shinto shrines built in...

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’...

Onerous regulations prescribing long lists of permissible...

This Korean family donated their metallic tableware...

In 1935, Pyongyang Girls’ High School made...

Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to...

Month: April 2022

Comfort Women

Korean comfort women in a “performing arts comfort team” embark on whirlwind July-August 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers

2022-04-26

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There was a “performing arts comfort team” of 14 Korean comfort women who went to Japan in July and

Uncategorized

In 1943, Japanese company bosses discussed how to ‘train’ Korean workers to work even harder – one punished workers who suffered heat exhaustion by making them run, pushed them to work until they collapsed, strictly reprimanded them for consuming a 10-day food supply in only 3 days

2022-04-21

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Notes: It is July 1943. Imperial Japan, including Japan-colonized Korea, has been mobilized in total war against the United

Japanese Language

Japanese teacher in Japan-colonized Korea punished her Korean students for speaking Korean and imposed Imperial Way ideology on them during WWII; in 1976 at a school reunion in Daegu, she apologized and they forgave her; former teacher (now 100 years old) and students still keep in touch as of 2021

2022-04-09

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Blogger Note: Although the English version of this article is available here at the Asahi website, it is a very

Philosophy

Tracing the origins of the myth that the Korean people invited Imperial Japan to colonize Korea, comparing anti-Korean comments on online Japanese forum, 2channel, and 1943 propaganda article defending the colonization of Korea

2022-04-02

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(Notes) This propaganda editorial from 1943 spreads the myth that the Korean people invited Imperial Japan to colonize Korea,