U.S. soldiers guard the Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo...

Park Deuk-hyeon (박득현/朴得鉉) became a communist activist...

In October 1922, a hit squad of...

Seoul police busted some British and American...

Korean director of Straits of Chosun (1943)...

Imperial Japan purged Korean schools of ‘pro-American’...

Converted Korean ‘ideological criminals’ (a.k.a. independence activists)...

Koreans in Seoul streetcar observing mandatory daily...

The Lim Family portrayed as happy, model...

A look into the foreign films showing...

In 1938, an Imperial Japanese ideologue took...

Editorial says the unity of god and...

A mere 3 days after surrender, liberated...

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

Imperial Japanese penal officials brag about brainwashing...

Month: October 2022

Everyone in Korea was required to immediately stop exactly at 7 am for the Kyūjō Yōhai prayer vowing loyalty to the Emperor and at noon for the moment of silence honoring Imperial soldiers, even cars and trains had to immediately stop in the middle of traffic at the same time for prayers (Aug. 1943)

Moment of Silence

Everyone in Korea was required to immediately stop exactly at 7 am for the Kyūjō Yōhai prayer vowing loyalty to the Emperor and at noon for the moment of silence honoring Imperial soldiers, even cars and trains had to immediately stop in the middle of traffic at the same time for prayers (Aug. 1943)

2022-10-29

352

In Japan-colonized Korea, everyone was required to perform the daily 7 am and 12 noon prayers. These 7 am and

A back-to-school article telling Korean parents what their children would expect on their first day at Imperial Japanese elementary school: Shinto prayers to the Emperor, a free piece of bread for lunch, students were encouraged to earn their own money to buy some school supplies (April 1944, Seoul)

Imperial Way

A back-to-school article telling Korean parents what their children would expect on their first day at Imperial Japanese elementary school: Shinto prayers to the Emperor, a free piece of bread for lunch, students were encouraged to earn their own money to buy some school supplies (April 1944, Seoul)

2022-10-25

315

Imagine you are parent in 1944 Seoul and it is April, the beginning of the new school year. You are

School

Young Korean teachers teach children the ‘will to fight and destroy the U.S. and Britain’ and the Imperial Way of Labor where ‘every stalk of grass and every tree’ is connected to the Japanese nation and everything in the villages is ‘all solely dedicated to the Emperor’ (Sosa, 1943)

2022-10-10

323

This is a ‘feel-good, heartwarming’ story of a novice teacher who gradually gets used to teaching her fourth grade students

Uncategorized

Imperial Japan built Shinto shrines all over Korea in every eup and myeon, enlisting Patriotic Groups to “cultivate the worship of gods and faith in the Emperor” among Koreans and realize “the fusion of the Japanese-Korean family based on divine will”

2022-10-06

453

It is April 1944, over two years into total war against the United States and Britain, and it is not

Imperial Japanese security chief broadcast a speech to all patriotic groups in Korea, sternly warning Koreans against spreading fake news, including a bizarre rumor about a newly born baby cow with a human head which prophesied that Japan would win the war by September 1944, and then promptly died

Uncategorized

Imperial Japanese security chief broadcast a speech to all patriotic groups in Korea, sternly warning Koreans against spreading fake news, including a bizarre rumor about a newly born baby cow with a human head which prophesied that Japan would win the war by September 1944, and then promptly died

2022-10-02

346

This article is a speech that the Imperial Japanese colonial security chief broadcast in 1944 to all the patriotic groups