Hollywood movies and Western cosmetic brands were...

Korean farming family weaving straw bags known...

Spotlight on 1943 Seoul: A Glimpse into...

In June 1944, the Japanese military gave...

Five Korean singers, including future pop stars...

Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings...

In 1938, an Imperial Japanese ideologue took...

1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the...

In 1941, Tokyo officials forcibly settled 1,400...

Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943...

A look into the foreign films showing...

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean...

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Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee featured in...

Korean comfort women in a “performing arts...

Month: July 2023

Daily Life

Bilingual Korean-Japanese propaganda posters started to be used in Korea starting October 1944

2023-07-31

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For the past two years, I’ve been studying the pages of Keijo Nippo (Gyeonseong Ilbo), the official propaganda mouthpiece newspaper

Foreign Residents

The Sulemans were a Russian Tatar refugee family in Seoul who gained acceptance as assimilated Imperial Japanese people while holding strong to their Muslim faith, and left for Turkey amid warm farewells in 1939

2023-07-18

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This article from 1939 features the remarkable story of a Tatar family in Imperial Japan. This particular article bids a

Korean Royal Family

Wartime news coverage of Prince Yi Un (이은, 李垠) and Princess Yi Bangja (이방자, 李方子) fulfilling their royal ceremonial duties on behalf of Imperial Japan as they meet the public, accompanied by an entourage of the top elites of colonial Korean society (July 1943)

2023-07-09

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In this post, I will focus on some newspaper clippings from July 1943 featuring the Korean royal family, specifically Prince

Entertainment

“The New Age Has Arrived”: Imperial Japanese Propaganda Manga from Occupied China, 1942

2023-07-04

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Just sharing a fascinating piece of historical artifact – a comic strip, or more accurately, a manga, published in the

Korean Workers

Imperial Japan had postwar plans to quadruple Japanese settlers in Korea to dominate the most technologically intensive industries, and suppress Korean access to higher education to quell ‘dissatisfaction’ (June 1943)

2023-07-01

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I recently came across two intriguing news articles from the Japanese colonial period of Korean history that shed light on