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

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Korean high school student uses anonymous tip...
March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of...
Koiso’s 1943 ‘Great Leader’ Strongman Tours: Surprise...
Shamseinoor Berikova, 19-year-old blue-eyed Russian Tatar refugee...
Governor Koiso told Korean conscripts in Imperial...
Korean rice farmers barely survived eating grass...
Dehumanization in Colonial Korea, 1943: Branding Koreans...
Korean candidate defiantly ran for office in...
Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...
Park Deuk-hyeon (박득현/朴得鉉) became a communist activist...
Korea in November 1945 was beset by...
Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents...
Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps”...
Onerous regulations prescribing long lists of permissible...
Korean children underwent mass medical inspections in...

Month: July 2022

Food Shortages

Colonial authorities discussed how to reduce prenatal/infant mortality rates in the midst of severe 1943 wartime food shortages, declaring that the Korean children belong to Imperial Japan and not to the mother, who must raise them into future soldiers and leaders of the Co-prosperity Sphere

2022-07-24

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

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Internment Camp

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’ at militaristic farmers’ dōjō (Imperial Japanese training indoctrination camp) to cultivate the next generation of rural Korean leaders who would spread the Imperial Way of farming throughout the Korean countryside (Daejeon, 1943)

2022-07-18

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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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Uncategorized

Book review of Anti-Japan Tribalism (반일종족주의, 反日種族主義), co-author Lee Woo-yeon (이우연) of the fringe ‘End Comfort Women Fraud’ group – a hit piece written by far-right Korean conservatives to attack anti-Japanese attitudes of their political opponents, distorts the historical narrative for this purpose

2022-07-11

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As some of you may know, in late June, a small fringe group of 3 Korean far-right activists Joo Ok-soon

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Military

Governor Koiso told Korean conscripts in Imperial Army in 1944 address that the onus was on them to reduce anti-Korean discrimination by ‘cleansing away’ the ‘vestiges of the Yi Dynasty within themselves’ to become less dishonest, and be ‘penetrated in the true meaning of national identity’

2022-07-07

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The following address is a remarkable admission by the Governor-General of Korea that Korean conscripts had filed complaints about being

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Uncategorized

Educational supervisor declares that ‘old ways of thought of the Korean women must first be corrected’, and mocks Korean mothers for being worried for their conscripted sons’ lives while they aren’t afraid of death when it comes to shopping

2022-07-06

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This 1943 article describes 200 Korean women packed in an auditorium as Mr. Kondo the colonial educational supervisor delivers a

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Uncategorized

Governor-General Koiso blamed excessive chili peppers for ‘stimulating’ Koreans and making them ‘mentally foggy’, and ordered Koreans to ‘improve’ their diets by eating more salt and less chili peppers in his desperate 1944 push to revitalize the war effort

2022-07-03

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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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Recent Posts

  • “Demonic Americans”: How Imperial Japan Tried to Turn Koreans Against U.S. Missionaries in 1944
  • A Rare 1944 Korean–Japanese Bilingual Propaganda Poster Promoting Forced Labor Conscription
  • Terrified by rumors of forced labor conscription under the Imperial Army, young Korean women rushed into marriages to escape, prompting officials to hold April 1944 press conference to deny and deflect
  • Koreans tried to bribe their way out of Imperial Japan’s forced labor conscription, but patriotic student informants turned them in (June 1945)
  • In 1944, Imperial Japan launched an “all-out campaign” to erase Hangul from public life, mobilizing teachers and Korean youth to destroy Korean signs, books, and even phonograph records

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  • vong quay on Imperial officials fanned out across rural Korea visiting townships one by one to indoctrinate villagers in Imperialist ideology in ‘Grassroots Penetration’ Campaign (March 1944)
  • act-two on Koiso’s 1943 ‘Great Leader’ Strongman Tours: Surprise village inspections to intimidate local leaders and impose Japanese language and culture all over the Korean countryside
  • laser marking machine on Koiso’s 1943 ‘Great Leader’ Strongman Tours: Surprise village inspections to intimidate local leaders and impose Japanese language and culture all over the Korean countryside
  • zorse on April 1945 Seoul dining: the public endured price-gouging and scraps, while privileged Japanese and Korean collaborator elites drank and feasted behind closed doors

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  • Imperial Japanese penal official said Korean 'ideological criminals' (independence activists) were 'not well made as human beings', but 'if only their thoughts could be corrected, then they will get better' so they can be 'used' for wartime labor, but 'this is not the case with ordinary criminals'
  • Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents in Kishi Nobusuke's legacy in postwar Japan, in Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan's legacy in South Korea, and why access to wartime newspapers of Japan-occupied Korea is important to combat historical misinformation by the far-right in both countries
  • Simon Young Kim (김영근), a South Korean violin virtuoso and disciple of famous violinist Jascha Heifetz, Simon was once my teacher and mentor, and his son was my best friend in elementary school
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