A look into the foreign films showing...

Governor Koiso likened Korea to a disabled...

Korean kindergartners holding rising sun flags shouting...

Koreans in Seoul streetcar observing mandatory daily...

In 1942, one pro-Imperial Japan Korean family...

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

In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign...

February 1943 news article of British prisoners...

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism collapsed...

Koreans needed Imperial police-issued ‘travel purpose certificates’...

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

A tour of Sinuiju Yamato Imperial Boarding...

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry...

Japanese Keijo Nippo reporters interviewed Korean abductee...

Elderly Korean farmer Kim Chi-gu (김치구, 金致龜),...

Month: June 2022

Korean Workers

Propaganda article contrasting the ‘Bad Korean Retailer’ who is greedy, mean, dishonest, and lawless with the ‘Good Korean Retailer’ who is selfless, kind, honest, law-abiding, and committed to Japanese-Korean unification (Seoul, 1942)

2022-06-29

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Five Korean singers, including future pop stars of postwar South Korea, performed at a 1943 Imperial Japanese Army music party and sang a newly released song with lyrics ‘the spirit of the Empire, which is a burning fire, we’re at the Emperor’s command, we’re in awe, we of Japan harden our resolve’

2022-06-25

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Propaganda editorials about Shinto shrines built in every township in Korea so Koreans don’t feel so ‘lonely and empty in their hearts’ and Korea can become a ‘paradise truly in accordance with the Imperial Way’ where every Korean is required to perform the Jingu Taima exorcism ceremony at home

2022-06-20

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This is my translation and transcription of two news editorials from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Small community of ~100 Russian Tatars in Seoul featured in 1942-1944 propaganda articles: a young 19-year-old Tatar girl is praised for filling out immigration forms for her neighbors, a Tatar woman is commended for scolding her friends with red fingernails for wearing ‘British-American’ cosmetics

Foreign Residents

Small community of ~100 Russian Tatars in Seoul featured in 1942-1944 propaganda articles: a young 19-year-old Tatar girl is praised for filling out immigration forms for her neighbors, a Tatar woman is commended for scolding her friends with red fingernails for wearing ‘British-American’ cosmetics

2022-06-15

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This is my translation and transcription of four news articles from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Propaganda articles say Koreans men are cowards because of ‘literary effeminacy’ and too much filial piety toward Korean parents who ‘just play around and live off their children’s income’ after age 50, and resolves to ‘reshape’ Korean Confucianism by ‘beating it’ into a Japanese form (1943)

2022-06-09

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This is my translation and transcription of two news articles from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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‘We’re going to Washington!’ – a 1944 statue of an Imperial Japanese Army soldier ‘glaring with glistening eyes at the U.S. burning with an attacking, fighting spirit’ saying, ‘I will stand firm with my heroes and march on the U.S. mainland!’

2022-06-06

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) March 17, 1944 Wartime Art Exhibition “We’re Going to Washington!” Information Section Chief Prize By

Korean Workers

Angry Koreans filed numerous complaints against local Imperial Japanese party officials for abuse of power, only to be told publicly by General Secretary Hada to stop complaining and obey their patriotic group leaders with harmony and gratitude for their leaders’ hard work (Chungcheongnam-do, 1943)

2022-06-05

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the