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

Imperial Japan’s manhunt for the “Communist Bandit...

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry...

Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943...

Imperial Army general describes crowded movie theaters...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister...

This Japanese teacher devoted a decade of...

In a 1928 news editorial, a colonial...

In 1917, an 11-year-old Korean girl in...

‘We’re going to Washington!’ – a 1944...

“Koreans need to assimilate with the Japanese...

In 1935, Pyongyang Girls’ High School made...

Propaganda article contrasting the ‘Bad Korean Retailer’...

Korean economic crimes suspects interrogated by Seoul...

Editorial says the unity of god and...

Month: January 2024

Colonial regime made impassioned case for Japanese-Korean Unification in ranting mythological and historical narrative invoking the story of Yeonorang and Seonyeo, Shinto god Susanoo who settled in Silla, Prince Go Yak’gwang and Goguryeo refugees who settled in Musashi, Japan in 717 (April 1944)

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Colonial regime made impassioned case for Japanese-Korean Unification in ranting mythological and historical narrative invoking the story of Yeonorang and Seonyeo, Shinto god Susanoo who settled in Silla, Prince Go Yak’gwang and Goguryeo refugees who settled in Musashi, Japan in 717 (April 1944)

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A supporter sent me a copy of an extremely interesting wartime propaganda book published in April 1944 by the Imperial

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Imperial Japanese news staff departing Korea wrote last words celebrating the ‘Young Korea’ as a ‘joyous uprising’, praising Kimchi, saying goodbyes to Korean collaborator writers, baring ‘a heart full of desolation’, mourning a daughter’s death, criticizing war leaders… (Nov. 1, 1945)

2024-01-23

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This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is posted here. The following is content from

Post-Liberation

Japanese news staff wrote sad and internally conflicted farewell essays to the Korean people in the very last page of Keijo Nippo (colonial propaganda newspaper) published under Japanese control before takeover by Korean activists on Nov. 2, 1945

2024-01-17

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The following is content from a Seoul newspaper published on November 1, 1945, two and a half months after Japan’s

Post-Liberation

‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each other in cutthroat battles to lay claim to empty houses vacated by the Japanese in Seoul in immediate post-war period

2024-01-09

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean ‘national traitors’ who helped Japanese residents liquidate their assets into cash to take back to Japan, even public shaming one man by name

2024-01-06

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting with communist leader Park Heon-young in ‘national unity’ talks, nationwide expansion of People’s Republic of Korea, militant opposition to US-Soviet trusteeship (Nov. 2, 1945)

2024-01-01

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National