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Exposing Imperial Japan

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

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Imperial Japanese Army finally acknowledges Korea’s imminent...
Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in...
Part 1 – Thousands of young Korean...
Spotlight on 1943 Seoul: A Glimpse into...
In 1917, an 11-year-old Korean girl in...
A Korean father spent 8 years looking...
Rationing sugar and sweets in 1943 Seoul:...
Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop...
Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...
Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’...
Colonial authorities discussed how to reduce prenatal/infant...
Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor...
Japanese abductee escaped Korean Communist guerrillas in...
Forgotten Korean Suicide Attacker ‘Hero’ celebrated by...
In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  • Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies
  • Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

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