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Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Japanese Keijo Nippo reporters interviewed Korean abductee...
The Korean people were allegedly liars, slackers,...
Editorial says the unity of god and...
American soldiers meeting local women and shopping...
Spotlight on 1943 Seoul: A Glimpse into...
August 28, 1945: Colonial regime announces a...
Governor Koiso likened Korea to a disabled...
Korean forced laborers worked the Gyeongsan cobalt...
By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere...
As Seoul froze in the winter of...
Model Korean mother left baby and bedridden...
Severe 1940s wartime housing crisis in urban...
1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the...
Angry Koreans filed numerous complaints against local...
Not content with merely banning U.S. and...

Month: June 2022

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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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Imperial Way

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

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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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School

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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Military

‘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

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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

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