A collection of 27 farewell letters to...

Imperial Japanese colonial regime instilled intense fear...

Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor...

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says...

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

Angry Koreans filed numerous complaints against local...

In 1938, an Imperial Japanese ideologue took...

In November 1943, colonial authorities implemented a...

Imperial Japan published propaganda science fiction during...

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic...

Imperial Japan called Seoul residents the laziest...

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

Young female employees lining up to receive...

In October 1943, Seoul high school girls...

Governor Koiso likened Korea to a disabled...

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

130

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

114

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

Imperial Way

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

106

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

151

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

98

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