Educational supervisor declares that ‘old ways of...

In June 1945, Imperial Japan announced a...

Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents...

Bilingual Korean-Japanese propaganda posters started to be...

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

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism collapsed...

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

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says...

In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese...

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...

Korean writers in the ‘Korean Literary Association’...

Japanese Keijo Nippo reporters interviewed Korean abductee...

In January 1943, Hollywood films were banned...

Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in...

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

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

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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

School

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

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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,