In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign...

Korean residents of Seoul once spoke their...

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic...

Imperial Japanese PSA ordering residents to avoid...

Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic...

A Japanese author took a Busan-Seoul train...

Another part of a propaganda interview of...

Amid severe wartime food shortages in 1943,...

1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the...

Bilingual Korean-Japanese propaganda posters started to be...

Korean forced laborers worked the Gyeongsan cobalt...

In a 1928 news editorial, a colonial...

In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often mixed their...

Master Imaizumi Teisuke, the spiritual leader of...

Korean rice farmers barely survived eating grass...

Month: November 2023

Military

Imperial Japanese Army finally acknowledges Korea’s imminent independence just over a week after liberation (Aug. 23, 1945) with a jumbled announcement full of desperate denials, threats, and unconvincing reassurances to fend off Korean armed resistance

2023-11-28

344

This is another fascinating historical article that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National Library of Korea a

Post-Liberation

A mere 3 days after surrender, liberated Koreans were already attempting to overthrow the colonial regime in Korea, alarming the Imperial Japanese Army who made this radio broadcast on August 18, 1945 to threaten military action against ‘individuals harboring evil thoughts’

2023-11-24

367

This is another fascinating historical article that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National Library of Korea a

Annie Ellers Bunker, American missionary who went from personal physician to Empress Myeongseong to thriving philanthropist in Colonial Korea, was praised in this 1938 Keijo Nippo obituary for endorsing the Imperial Japanese Army

Christianity

Annie Ellers Bunker, American missionary who went from personal physician to Empress Myeongseong to thriving philanthropist in Colonial Korea, was praised in this 1938 Keijo Nippo obituary for endorsing the Imperial Japanese Army

2023-11-14

355

This obituary from October 1938, published in Keijo Nippo newspaper, an organ of the Imperial Japanese colonial regime which ruled

Foreign Residents

Ms. B.F. Starkey, blue-eyed American missionary featured in 1938 Keijo Nippo as a pro-Imperial model foreigner inspired by Japanese-Korean Unification policy to join the Patriotic Women’s Association in Seoul

2023-11-11

304

This 1938 article is a historical account in a colonial propaganda newspaper about Ms. B.F. Starkey, an American missionary in

Military

A tour of Sinuiju Yamato Imperial Boarding School in 1942, where Korean nationalism was considered a moral defect to be ‘purified’ away so that Korean ‘thought criminals’ become ‘completely Japanese’

2023-11-07

449

In June 1942, a magazine called “Chōsen” (Korea) published an article that offers a stark window into a grim chapter