In June 1945, Imperial Japan announced a...

Japanese abductee escaped Korean Communist guerrillas in...

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry...

Rationing sugar and sweets in 1943 Seoul:...

Young female employees lining up to receive...

Korean father and sushi chef boasts that...

Imperial Japan’s railway system in Korea was...

In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese...

Master Imaizumi Teisuke, the spiritual leader of...

In October 1922, a hit squad of...

Shamseinoor Berikova, 19-year-old blue-eyed Russian Tatar refugee...

Propaganda ‘feel good story’ praises Korean grandfather...

In January 1943, the CEO of a...

Japanese teacher in Japan-colonized Korea punished her...

In November 1943, colonial authorities implemented a...

Month: September 2023

Saiga Shichirō (斎賀七郎), an Imperial Japanese Ideological Police officer responsible for the torture, false imprisonment, and deaths of countless Korean patriots, was assassinated in Seoul on Nov. 2, 1945 (reported by newly liberated Keijo Nippo)

Police

Saiga Shichirō (斎賀七郎), an Imperial Japanese Ideological Police officer responsible for the torture, false imprisonment, and deaths of countless Korean patriots, was assassinated in Seoul on Nov. 2, 1945 (reported by newly liberated Keijo Nippo)

2023-09-28

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For my fourth post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I am sharing a Keijo Nippo news

Korean staff at the newly liberated Keijo Nippo Newspaper published this editorial and illustration in December 1945 denouncing the atrocities of Japanese Imperialism and repudiating the myth of ‘Japanese-Korean Unification’

Imperial Way

Korean staff at the newly liberated Keijo Nippo Newspaper published this editorial and illustration in December 1945 denouncing the atrocities of Japanese Imperialism and repudiating the myth of ‘Japanese-Korean Unification’

2023-09-26

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For my third post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I thought it would only be fitting

Korean staff at Keijo Nippo took over news operations from their former Japanese bosses in Nov 1945 and then sent this message to Korean readers announcing continued publication in Japanese for the time being until Korean typefaces are ready for use

Press

Korean staff at Keijo Nippo took over news operations from their former Japanese bosses in Nov 1945 and then sent this message to Korean readers announcing continued publication in Japanese for the time being until Korean typefaces are ready for use

2023-09-25

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For my second post that I am making during my stay in Korea, I thought it would only be fitting

I finally accessed the 1945 Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) archives in-person at the National Library of Korea – Korean employees apparently rebelled against their Japanese bosses in Nov. 1945 and took over news operations until the last issue published on Dec. 11, 1945

Uncategorized

I finally accessed the 1945 Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) archives in-person at the National Library of Korea – Korean employees apparently rebelled against their Japanese bosses in Nov. 1945 and took over news operations until the last issue published on Dec. 11, 1945

2023-09-24

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For over two years, I have been passionately posting about Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo), a newspaper from the Japanese colonial

Military

Imperial Japan’s manhunt for the “Communist Bandit Kim Il-Sung” in the late 1930’s was sensationalized in news headlines all over Korea, capturing the imagination of the Korean public under colonial rule

2023-09-03

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Continuing my exploration of Korean colonial-era newspapers from the 1930s and 1940s, available on the Internet Archive since 2021, I